HUTCHISON CHINA MED. London: Friday, April 27, 2018: Hutchison China MediTech Limited ('Chi-Med') (AIM/Nasdaq: HCM) today announces that all ordinary resolutions and special resolutions put to its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held on April 27, 2018 were duly passed. The poll results of the resolutions were as follows:
| Number of Votes (%)* | ||||||
Resolutions | For | Against | Withheld# | |||
| 1 | To consider and adopt the audited financial statements and the reports of the directors and independent auditor for the year ended 31 December 2017. | 43,747,211 (99.99947%) | 230 (0.00053%) | 0 | ||
| 2 | To re-elect Mr Simon To as a director. | 43,207,556 (99.18903%) | 353,263 (0.81097%) | 186,622 | ||
| 3 | To re-elect Mr Christian Hogg as a director. | 43,742,340 (99.98880%) | 4,901 (0.01120%) | 200 | ||
| 4 | To re-elect Professor Tony Mok as a director. | 43,747,241 (100.00000%) | 0 (0.00000%) | 200 | ||
| 5 | To re-elect Ms Edith Shih as a director. | 43,742,310 (99.98873%) | 4,931 (0.01127%) | 200 | ||
| 6 | To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers as the auditor of the Company and authorise the board of directors to fix the auditor's remuneration. | 43,747,211 (99.99947%) | 230 (0.00053%) | 0 | ||
| 7 | Ordinary Resolution No. 7(A) | : | To grant a general mandate to the directors of the Company to issue additional shares. | 43,746,866 (99.99869%) | 575 (0.00131%) | 0 |
| Special Resolution No. 7(B) | : | To disapply pre-emption rights (general power). | 42,520,006 (98.71637%) | 552,895 (1.28363%) | 674,540 | |
| Special Resolution No. 7(C) | : | To disapply pre-emption rights (in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment). | 41,723,007 (96.86602%) | 1,349,894 (3.13398%) | 674,540 | |
| Ordinary Resolution No. 7(D) | : | To grant a general mandate to the directors of the Company to repurchase shares of the Company. | 43,746,636 (99.99816%) | 805 (0.00184%) | 0 | |
* Percentages rounded to 5 decimal places
# A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the proportion of the votes for and against a resolution.
As at the date of the AGM, the number of issued shares of Chi-Med was 66,484,620, which was the total number of shares entitling the holders to attend and vote on the ordinary resolutions and special resolutions proposed at the AGM.
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