Sherritt Announces New Chairman of the Board and Voting Results of its 2019 Annual General Meeting
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Sherritt Announces New Chairman of the Board and
Voting Results of its 2019 Annual General Meeting
TORONTO, June 26, 2019 – Sherritt International Corporation (“Sherritt” or the “Corp oration”)
(TSX:S) today announced that Sir Richard Lapthorne CBE has been named Chairman of the
Company’s Board of Directors effective today.
Sir Richard has served as a Sherritt Director since September 2011, and has also served as a
Finance Director or as Chairman of various FTSE 100 and non -quoted companies in the United
Kingdom since 1986. Among his previous roles, Sir Richard was Chairman of Cable & Wireless
Communications plc and Cable & Wireless plc until 2016. From 1996 to May 2003 he was
Chairman of Amersham International plc (now GE Healthcare) having joined its board as a non-
executive Director in 1989. Sir Richard was Finance Director of British Aerospace plc from July
1992 and Vice Chairman from April 1998 until his retirement in 1999. Sir Richard is a fellow of
each of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, Chartered Institute of Certified
Accountants and the Institute of Corporate Treasurers in the United Kingdom.
AGM Voting Results
Sherritt also announced voting results of its 2019 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held
in Toronto, Ontario on June 24, 2019.
A total of 121,358,588 common shares or 30.55% of Sherritt’s issued and outstanding common
shares were represented in person or by proxy at the meeting. Shareholders voted in favour of
all items of business put forth at the meeting, including the re-appointment of Deloitte LLP as
external auditors and the non-binding advisory resolution known as “Say on Pay.”
Proxy advisors, Glass Lewis and ISS, had recommended that shareholders vote in favor of all
resolutions presented to Sherritt’s shareholders.
Election of Directors
On a vote by ballot, each of the seven director nominees listed in the information circular for the
2019 AGM were elected as directors of Sherritt to serve until the next annual general meeting of
the company:
Nominee
Total Votes
For % for
Total Votes
Withheld
% Withheld
Timothy Baker 92,284,308 83.77% 17,875,130 16.23%
Maryse
Belanger 91,367,756 82.94% 18,791,682 17.06%
Sir Richard
Lapthorne 92,043,023 83.55% 18,116,415 16.45%
Adrian Loader 92,329,334 83.81% 17,830,104 16.19%
Lisa Pankratz 92,442,704 83.92% 17,716,734 16.08%
David Pathe1 59,949,449 54.42% 50,209,989 45.58%
John Warwick 93,244,937 84.65% 16,914,501 15.35%
The full Report of Voting Results has been filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
About Sherritt
Sherritt is a world leader in the mining and refining of nickel and cobalt from lateritic ores with
projects and operations in Canada, Cuba and Madagascar. The Corporation is the largest
independent energy producer in Cuba, with extensive oil and power operations across the island.
Sherritt licenses its proprietary technologies and provides metallurgical services to mining and
refining operations worldwide. The Corporation’s common shares are listed on the Toronto Stock
Exchange under the symbol “S”.
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For more information, please contact:
Joe Racanelli, Director of Investor Relations
Telephone: 416-935-2457
Toll-Free: 1-800-704-6698
Email: [email protected]
www.sherritt.com
1 Sherritt believes that the percentage of votes withheld for David Pathe was negatively impacted by a
practice known as “empty voting” whereby shareholders exercise their legal right to vote after selling their
positions. More specifically, Sherritt believes that one of its largest institutional investors disposed of
much, if not all, of its position subsequent to the record date of the meeting, and nevertheless withheld its
vote against Mr. Pathe. Mr. Pathe would have received 74.54% votes in favor without the impact of this
“empty voting” had this shareholder’s votes not been so withheld. Sherritt experienced a turnover of
112,082,964 shares, or 28% of its outstanding shares, during the five-day period following the record date
of April 25, 2019. The Canadian Coalition for Good Governance has categorically rejected empty voting
as a practice because it undermines the tenets of majority voting.