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Traded company definition

What does Traded company mean? In practice, a traded company is a company whose voting shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market (for example, the London Stock Exchange Main Market), so that it is subject to enhanced shareholder rights and disclosure rules around general meetings and voting. In the UK (England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland), the term is defined in the Companies Act 2006, s 360C: a company any of whose shares carry rights to vote at general meetings and are admitted to trading on a uk regulated market or on a regulated market in an EEA state,...

UK Companies Act 2006 members’ rights at general meetings and AGMs: requisitions, statements, AGM business, questions, information rights, audit concerns and independent poll reports (public, traded and quoted companies)

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Practice notes

This Practice Note outlines members’ entitlements concerning general meetings (including annual general meetings (AGMs)). It explains members’ rights to:

call a general meeting
require the company to circulate a statement about business to be considered at a general meeting
propose resolutions or other business for the AGM of a public or Traded company
ask questions at meetings and nominate someone to receive specified information (traded companies only)
require audit information to be posted on a website before an Accounts meeting, and to require the Directors to arrange an independent report on any Poll Vote taken (quoted companies only)

Other members’ rights are addressed too, including the right to be elected chair, and the position of indirect investors.

Right to request (or call) a general meeting

In most cases, the directors will call a general meeting. However, members also hold the power to require the directors to call one. This power overrides anything to the contrary in the articles of association. The directors are then obliged to convene a general meeting...

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