Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am Dominic Casserley, Chief Executive Officer of Willis and a member of the board of directors. I will be chairman of the meeting. I hereby call this meeting to order. Our preliminary count shows that a quorum is present in person or by proxy, representing a majority of the outstanding ordinary shares entitled to vote. In light of the announced amendment to the merger agreement with Towers Watson, the board considers that it is not in the best interest of shareholders to proceed to vote on resolutions one through three before the meeting at this time. Accordingly, I propose that the meeting be adjourned. The meeting will be reconvened on Friday, December the 11th, 2015, at a time and location to be publicly announced at a later date.
In order to consider and vote on the strategic combination of Willis and Towers Watson and other related proposals. Accordingly, I move for adoption of this resolution. Resolved, as an ordinary resolution that the chairman of the meeting be and is hereby authorized to adjourn the meeting to another time and place if, in the discretion of the chairman, it is necessary or appropriate to, among other things, solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient votes received by way of proxy at the time of the meeting to approve the Willis Share Issuance Proposal, the Willis Name Change Proposal, and or the Willis Consolidation Proposal. Is there a second?
I, Alison Groth, second the resolution.
The polls are now open on proposal four only. Those voting by ballot should mark their ballots. Now please pass your ballot to our collectors. Seeing that all ballots have been collected, the polls are now closed. Inspector of election, please report the results of this meeting.
I report that the preliminary results on the matter brought before the meeting is as follows. The vote to approve adjournment of this meeting received 151,702,499 votes in favor, 9,824,442 votes against, and 2,264,111 votes abstained. That concludes the report of the inspector of election.
I declare the meeting adjourned. Thank you.