Last checked at 23 May 2022 17:00
23 May 2022
DIGITAL 9 INFRASTRUCTURE PLC
("D9", the "Company" or, together with its subsidiaries, the "Group")
RESULT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Board of Digital 9 Infrastructure plc is pleased to announce that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held today, all resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and were passed by shareholders.
Resolutions 1 to 10 (inclusive) were proposed as ordinary resolutions and resolution 11 was proposed as a special resolution. The results of the poll were as follows:
Resolution | Votes For | % | Votes Against | % | Total votes validly cast | Total votes cast as % of issued share capital | Votes Withheld* | |
1 | To receive and adopt the Annual Report and Accounts of the Company for the period from incorporation to 31 December 2021. | 416,216,833 | 100.00 | 12,167 | 0.00 | 416,229,000 | 51.35 | 917 |
2 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report (excluding the part containing the Directors' Remuneration Policy). | 406,139,939 | 97.58 | 10,058,772 | 2.42 | 416,198,711 | 51.34 | 31,206 |
3 | To approve the Directors' Remuneration Policy. | 406,133,493 | 97.58 | 10,068,075 | 2.42 | 416,201,568 | 51.34 | 28,349 |
4 | To re-elect Keith Mansfield as a Director of the Company. | 416,178,050 | 99.99 | 41,647 | 0.01 | 416,219,697 | 51.35 | 10,220 |
5 | To re-elect Charlotte Valeur as a Director of the Company. | 416,203,625 | 100.00 | 16,072 | 0.00 | 416,219,697 | 51.35 | 10,220 |
6 | To re-elect Lisa Harrington as a Director of the Company. | 391,491,105 | 94.06 | 24,728,592 | 5.94 | 416,219,697 | 51.35 | 10,220 |
7 | To re-elect Aaron Le Cornu as a Director of the Company. | 416,192,450 | 99.99 | 27,247 | 0.01 | 416,219,697 | 51.35 | 10,220 |
8 | To appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors of the Company. | 416,186,198 | 99.99 | 42,802 | 0.01 | 416,229,000 | 51.35 | 917 |
9 | To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the Auditors' remuneration. | 416,214,982 | 100.00 | 14,018 | 0.00 | 416,229,000 | 51.35 | 917 |
10 | To authorise the Directors to declare and pay all dividends of the Company as interim dividends. | 416,203,230 | 99.99 | 25,770 | 0.01 | 416,229,000 | 51.35 | 917 |
11 | To authorise the Company to purchase its own shares. | 416,140,058 | 99.99 | 48,455 | 0.01 | 416,188,513 | 51.34 | 41,404 |
*A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.
Every shareholder has one vote for every Ordinary Share held. As at 23 May 2022, the issued share capital of the Company consisted of 810,629,500 Ordinary Shares with voting rights. The Company does not hold any shares in Treasury.
The full text of all the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting dated 17 March 2022, a copy of which is available on the Company's website at www.d9infrastructure.com
In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2 copies of all the resolutions passed, other than ordinary business, will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY, PLEASE CONTACT
Triple Point Investment Management LLP (Investment Manager) Thor Johnsen Andre Karihaloo | +44 (0) 20 7201 8989 |
J.P. Morgan Cazenove (Corporate Broker) William Simmonds Jérémie Birnbaum | +44 (0) 20 7742 4000 |
Akur Capital (Financial Adviser) Tom Frost Anthony Richardson Siobhan Sergeant | +44 (0) 20 7493 3631 |
LEI: 213800OQLX64UNS38U92
NOTES:
Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9) is an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange with ticker DGI9. The Company invests in the infrastructure of the internet that underpins the world's digital economy: digital infrastructure.
The number 9 in Digital 9 Infrastructure comes from the UN Sustainable Development Goal 9, which focuses the fund on investments that increase connectivity globally and improve the sustainability of digital infrastructure. The assets D9 invest in typically comprise scalable platforms and technologies including (but not limited to) subsea fibre, data centres, terrestrial fibre, and wireless networks.
With its IPO in March 2021 and three subsequent placings, D9 has raised total equity of £845 million and a revolving credit facility of £300 million and invested into data centres, subsea fibre and wireless networks:
· Aqua Comms, a leading owner and operator of 20,000km of the most modern subsea fibre systems - the backbone of the internet - with a customer base comprising global tech and global telecommunications carriers (April 2021);
· Verne Global, the leading Icelandic data centre platform, with 40MW of high intensity computing solutions in operation or development, powered by 100% baseload renewable power (September 2021);
· EMIC-1, a partnership with Meta on a 10,000km fibre system from Europe to India (July 2021);
· SeaEdge UK1, a data centre and landing station for the North Sea Connect subsea cable, part of the North Atlantic Loop subsea network, improving connectivity between the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and North America (December 2021);
· Host Ireland, a leading enterprise broadband provider that owns and operates Fixed Wireless Access networks (April 2022); and
· Volta, a premier data centre based in central London, providing 6 MW retail co-location services (April 2022); and
· Ficolo, a leading Finnish data centre and cloud infrastructure platform, with c.23MW of data centre capacity, powered by 100% renewable power and distributing surplus heat to district heating networks (April 2022).
The Investment Manager is Triple Point Investment Management LLP ("Triple Point") which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, with extensive experience in infrastructure, real estate and private credit, while keeping ESG principles central to its business mission. Triple Point's Digital Infrastructure team has over US$ 300 billion in digital infrastructure transaction experience and in-depth relationships across global tech and global telecoms companies. For more information, please visit www.triplepoint.co.uk.
The Company's Ordinary Shares were admitted to trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange on 31 March 2021.
For more information, please visit www.d9infrastructure.com.