15 May 2018

 

 

Starwood European Real Estate Finance Limited

 

Results of Fifth Annual General Meeting

 

The Board of Starwood European Real Estate Finance Limited announces that, at the Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Company held on Tuesday, 15 May 2018, the resolutions put to the meeting were approved by shareholders on a show of hands.

 

Details of the proxy votes lodged are set out below:

 

Ordinary Resolution	For*	Against	Withheld**
To receive the Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements for the period ended 31 December 2017.	208,691,046	1,144,178	0
To approve the Directors' Remuneration Report for the period ended 31 December 2017.	208,666,046	1,144,178	25,000
To re-elect as a Director of the Company, John Whittle.	200,237,661	9,597,563	0
To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditors of the Company.	206,843,687	2,991,537	0
To authorise the Directors to agree the remuneration of the Auditors.	200,274,380	9,525,844	25,000
Special Resolution	For*	Against	Withheld**
To authorise the Directors to allot shares (equal to 10% of the Ordinary shares )	208,500,225	1,335,000	0
To authorise the Directors to disapply Pre-Emption Rights (up to a maximum of 10% of the Ordinary Shares)	209,800,225	35,000	0
To authorise the Company to make market purchases of its own shares.	209,821,874	13,351	0
To authorise the Company to make changes to the Articles of Incorporation	209,810,225	25,000	0

 

 

The full text of the resolutions may be found in the Notice of Fifth Annual General Meeting contained in the Shareholder Document dated 26 March 2018, copies of which are available on both the Company's website www.starwoodeuropeanfinance.com and on the National Storage Mechanism www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM***

 

 

*  Includes discretionary votes received

**  A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the proportion of votes 'for' or 'against' a resolution

*** Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement

 

 

Enquiries:

 

Ipes (Guernsey) Limited

Lucy Brehaut

01481 755143

 

 

Notes:

 

Starwood European Real Estate Finance Limited is an investment company listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange with an investment objective to provide Shareholders with regular dividends and an attractive total return while limiting downside risk, through the origination, execution, acquisition and servicing of a diversified portfolio of real estate debt investments in the UK and the wider European Union's internal market. www.starwoodeuropeanfinance.com.

 

The Group is the largest London-listed vehicle to provide investors with pure play exposure to real estate lending.

 

The Group's assets are managed by Starwood European Finance Partners Limited, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Starwood Capital Group.