Beazley : 2024 Annual General Meeting Results

Beazley plc

London, 25 April 2024

Beazley plc - 2024 Annual General Meeting Results

Beazley plc held its annual general meeting for shareholders at 2.30pm today and announces that all the resolutions were duly passed.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.3, full details of the resolutions passed as special business will be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection.

For information, the results of the AGM are set out below. The total number of votes received for each resolution is set out below. The number of 5p ordinary shares in issue and the number of voting rights on 23 April 2024 was 667,416,392.

Resolution	Description	Votes in	Votes Against	Votes
No.		Favour and		Withheld
		discretionary
1	To receive the
	accounts for the
	financial year ended
	31 December 2023,
	together with the
	Directors' report and
	Auditor's report	497,523,015	3,422	3,456,755
	thereon
2	To approve the
	Directors'
	Remuneration report
	for the financial year
	ended 31 December	491,842,606	9,093,854	46,732
	2023
3	To approve the
	payment of an interim
	dividend of 14.2	500,971,145	3,422	8,625
	pence per ordinary
	share
4	To re-elect Rajesh
	Agrawal as a Director	499,325,332	6,502	1,651,358
	of the Company

5To re-elect Clive

Bannister as a
Director of the	492,107,308	8,836,589	39,294
Company

6To re-elect Adrian Cox as a Director of the

	Company	500,968,145	6,422	8,625
7	To re-elect Pierre-
	Olivier Desaulle as a
	Director of the	495,944,618	5,029,621	8,952
	Company
8	To re-elect Nicola
	Hodson as a Director
	of the Company	494,598,755	6,345,142	39,295
9	To re-elect Sally Lake
	as a Director of the
	Company	499,433,942	1,509,958	39,292
10	To re-elect Fiona
	Muldoon as a Director
	of the Company	499,886,727	1,057,173	39,292
11	To re-elect John
	Reizenstein as a
	Director of the	495,914,276	5,029,621	39,294
	Company
12	To re-elect Cecilia
	Reyes Leuzinger as a
	Director of the
	Company	495,903,343	5,040,554	39,294
13	To re-elect Robert
	Stuchbery as a
	Director of the
	Company	500,936,942	6,422	39,828
14	To elect Carolyn
	Johnson as a new
	Director of the
	Company	500,937,478	6,422	39,292
15	To re-appoint EY as
	Auditors of the
	Company
		498,532,147	2,439,420	11,625
16	To authorise the Audit
	Committee to
	determine EY's	500,869,097	76,010	38,085
	remuneration
17	To authorise the
	Directors to allot
	shares
		479,312,154	21,631,743	39,295

18*	To authorise the
	disapplication of pre-
	emption rights	500,808,598	126,302	48,292
19*	To authorise the
	Company to make	499,123,382	1,634,203	225,607
	market purchases of
	Ordinary Shares
20*	To allow the Company
	to hold general
	meetings (other than
	annual general
	meetings) on not less	483,930,441	17,004,779	47,972
	than 14 clear days'
	notice

* Special resolution

For further information please contact:

Beazley plc

Christine Oldridge

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Note to editors:

Beazley plc (BEZ.L), is the parent company of specialist insurance businesses with operations in Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia. Beazley manages six Lloyd's syndicates and, in 2023, underwrote gross premiums worldwide of $5,601.4million. All Lloyd's syndicates are rated A by A.M. Best.

Beazley's underwriters in the United States focus on writing a range of specialist insurance products. In the admitted market, coverage is provided by Beazley Insurance Company, Inc., an A.M. Best A rated carrier licensed in all 50 states and its subsidiary, Beazley America Insurance Company, Inc. In the surplus lines market, coverage is provided by the Beazley syndicates at Lloyd's, and from 1 January 2024, also from Beazley Excess and Surplus Insurance, Inc.

Beazley's European insurance company, Beazley Insurance dac, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland and is A rated by A.M. Best and A+ by Fitch.

Beazley is a market leader in many of its chosen lines, which include Professional Indemnity, Cyber Liability, Property, Marine, Reinsurance, Accident and Life, and Political Risks and Contingency business.

For more information please go to: www.beazley.com