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Legal & General Group Plc

17 May 2018

Legal & general group plc

RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 17 MAY 2018

Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The Honourable Artillery Company, Armoury House, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ, all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.

The votes cast were as follows:

 
Resolution                       For (1)                   Against         Votes Withheld 
                                                                                 (2) 
----------------------  --------------------------  ---------------------  -------------- 
                        No. of shares(1)     %         No. of        % 
                                                        shares 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 1 
 Receipt of financial 
 statements for 
 the year ended 
 31 December 
 2017                     4,249,186,406     99.98       996,802      0.02     1,344,366 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 2 
 Declaration 
 of a final dividend 
 of 11.05p per 
 ordinary share           4,249,559,123     100.00      134,439      0.00     1,828,647 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 3 
 Re-election 
 of Carolyn Bradley 
 as a Director            4,229,396,599     99.49     21,516,009     0.51      609,601 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 4 
 Election of 
 Philip Broadley 
 as a Director            4,229,786,953     99.50     21,114,858     0.50      620,398 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 5 
 Election of 
 Jeff Davies 
 as a Director            4,199,212,372     98.78     51,679,766     1.22      630,071 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 6 
 Election of 
 Sir John Kingman 
 as a Director            4,211,993,538     99.09     38,671,324     0.91      859,495 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 7 
 Election of 
 Lesley Knox 
 as a Director            4,214,770,637     99.15     36,103,400     0.85      648,172 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 8 
 Election of 
 Kerrigan Procter 
 as a Director            4,218,157,504     99.23     32,780,259     0.77      584,446 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 9 
 Election of 
 Toby Strauss 
 as a Director            4,230,285,889     99.52     20,604,496     0.48      631,824 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 10 
 Re-election 
 of Julia Wilson 
 as a Director            4,226,355,913     99.42     24,560,495     0.58      607,949 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 11 
 Re-election 
 of Nigel Wilson 
 as a Director            4,222,652,248     99.33     28,399,188     0.67      472,921 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 12 
 Re-election 
 of Mark Zinkula 
 as a Director            4,218,330,346     99.23     32,671,605     0.77      520,258 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 13 
 Appointment 
 of KPMG LLP 
 as auditors              4,243,155,722     99.81      7,955,444     0.19      411,168 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 14 
 To authorise 
 the Director's 
 to fix the Auditors' 
 remuneration             4,243,473,215     99.82      7,764,867     0.18      281,263 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 15 
 Approval of 
 Remuneration 
 Report                   4,169,081,055     98.17     77,681,315     1.83     4,760,192 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 16 
 Authority to 
 allot equity 
 securities               4,230,237,001     99.51     20,645,256     0.49      634,940 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 17 
 Authority to 
 allot contingent 
 convertible 
 securities               4,187,149,375     98.50     63,634,225     1.50      733,597 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 18 
 Authority to 
 make political 
 donations                4,101,892,403     96.96     128,775,939    3.04     20,852,867 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 19* 
 Disapplication 
 of pre-emption 
 rights                   4,197,195,828     98.74     53,532,893     1.26      788,476 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 20* 
 Additional authority 
 to disapply 
 pre-emption 
 rights                   4,092,521,494     96.28     158,218,401    3.72      777,302 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 21* 
 Additional authority 
 to diappply 
 pre-emption 
 rights in connection 
 with CCS                 4,155,213,040     97.75     95,482,287     2.25      821,070 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 22* 
 Authority to 
 purchase own 
 shares                   4,184,256,494     98.48     64,725,528     1.52     2,535,175 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
Resolution 23* 
 Authority to 
 call general 
 meetings (other 
 than an AGM) 
 on not less 
 than 14 clear 
 days' notice             4,026,885,921     95.16     204,719,052    4.84     19,916,434 
----------------------  ----------------  --------  -------------  ------  -------------- 
 

Notes:

   1          The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion. 

2 A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.

   3          Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received. 
   4          Voting was conducted by poll. 

5 The total number of proxy votes cast was 4,241,121,352 representing 71.1% of voting capital as at 15 May 2018. At the close of business on 15 May 2018, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,958,825,817 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).

   *           Denotes a Special Resolution. 

The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and also on the Company's website at https://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/investors/investor-news/rns

In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do

 
 Name of person making    Olaitan Popoola 
  notification: 
 Contact number:          020 3124 2108 
 Date of notification:    17 May 2018 
 

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