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RNS Number : 0577C  European Assets Trust PLC  03 October 2025

3 October 2025

Legal Entity Identifier:  213800N61H8P3Z4I8726

European Assets Trust plc (the "Company")

Result of First General Meeting

In connection with the proposals for the combination of European Assets Trust
plc with The European Smaller Companies Trust plc by way of a scheme of
reconstruction and voluntary winding up of the Company under section 110 of
the Insolvency Act 1986 (the "Scheme"), the Board of the Company is pleased to
announce the result of the First General Meeting.

The Company announces the special resolutions, which were put forward at the
First General Meeting held today, have been approved by Shareholders. Details
of the number of votes for, against and withheld in respect of the
resolutions, which were held on a poll, are set out below and will also be
published on the Company's website at www.europeanassets.co.uk
(http://www.europeanassets.co.uk) .

 First General Meeting Special Resolutions                                       Votes For (including Discretionary)  %      Votes Against  %     Votes Total  % of total voting rights(1)  Votes Withheld(2)
 1. To approve the reclassification of the shares in the capital of the Company  94,283,844                           96.55  3,369,200      3.45  97,653,044   27.12                        1,002,547
 as shares with "A" rights and shares with "B" rights and to approve changes
 required to the Company's articles of association.
 2. To approve the Scheme and further amend the articles of association of the   94,441,839                           96.54  3,384,972      3.46  97,826,811   27.17                        828,780
 Company, subject to certain conditions being satisfied.

 

1.         The number of Ordinary Shares in issue as at the voting
record time of 6.30 p.m. (London Time) on 1 October 2025 (the "Voting Record
Time") was 360,069,279. As at that date no Ordinary Shares were held in
treasury. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company as at
the Voting Record Time was 360,069,279.

 

2.         A 'vote withheld' is not a vote in law and will not be
counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against the
resolutions.

The Ordinary Shares will be disabled for settlement in CREST from 6.00 p.m. on
8 October 2025 and trading will be suspended from 7.30 a.m. on 9 October 2025.
Following the reclassification of the Ordinary Shares at 8.00 a.m. on 14
October 2025, the Reclassified Shares will be suspended from listing at 7.30
a.m. on 15 October 2025.

The full text of the special resolutions of the First General Meeting are set
out in the Notice of First General Meeting, contained in the Company's
Circular to Shareholders dated 9 September 2025 (the "Circular").

The Circular is available for viewing on the Company's website,
www.europeanassets.co.uk (http://www.europeanassets.co.uk) and at the National
Storage Mechanism at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) . A copy of the
resolutions will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will
shortly be available for viewing at
https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
(https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism) .

Unless otherwise defined, all capitalised terms used but not defined in this
announcement shall have the meaning as given to them in the Circular.

 

For more information please use the contact details below.

 

European Assets Trust PLC

Contact via Panmure Liberum Limited

 

Panmure Liberum Limited

Alex Collins / Ashwin Kohli (Corporate Advisory)

Tom Scrivens (Corporate Broking)

+44 (0)20 3100 2000

 

Corporate Secretary to European Assets Trust PLC

Columbia Threadneedle Investment Business Limited

+44 (0)131 573 8300

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