ICON Shareholders Vote In Favour Of All Resolutions At Its Annual General Meeting

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ICON plc (NASDAQ: ICLR), a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced that all resolutions at the Annual General Meeting of the Company (AGM) held on July 24, 2015 (which resolutions had all been recommended by the Board) were all duly passed by shareholders. These resolutions were set out in the Notice of the AGM sent to shareholders dated June 12, 2015 and are available on the ICON plc website.

The resolutions were all passed and the final results of proxy voting were:

RESOLUTION NUMBER RESOLUTION TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES VOTE FOR VOTE AGAINST VOTE WITHHELD
1.1

To re-elect Mr. Ciaran

Murray

50,029,986 49,567,723 247,632 214,631
1.2

To re-elect Dr. Ronan

Lambe

50,029,986 47,186,311 2,628,744 214,931
1.3

To re-elect Mr. Declan

McKeon

50,029,986 48,645,702 1,169,472 214,812
2

To receive accounts

and reports

50,029,986 49,641,405 3,516 385,065
3

To authorise the

fixing of the auditors’

remuneration

50,029,986 45,084,310 4,796,085 149,591
4**

To authorise the

Company to allot

shares

50,029,986 48,491,411 1,379,197 159,378
5**

To disapply

pre-emption rights

50,029,986 49,701,576 154,711 173,699
6**

To authorise the

Company to make

market purchases of

shares

50,029,986 49,004,400 149,069 876,517
7**

To authorise the price

range at which the

Company can

reissue shares it

holds as treasury

shares

50,029,986 49,842,211 27,891 159,884

** Special Resolution. All resolutions are ordinary resolutions unless otherwise stated.

This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements are based on management’s current expectations and information currently available, including current economic and industry conditions. These statements are not guarantees of future performance or actual results, and actual results, developments and business decisions may differ from those stated in this press release. The forward-looking statements are subject to future events, risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the statements, including, but not limited to, the ability to enter into new contracts, maintain client relationships, manage the opening of new offices and offering of new services, the integration of new business mergers and acquisitions, as well as economic and global market conditions and other risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in SEC reports filed by ICON, all of which are difficult to predict and some of which are beyond our control. For these reasons, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements when making investment decisions. The word “expected” and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are only as of the date they are made and we do not undertake any obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement, either as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. More information about the risks and uncertainties relating to these forward-looking statements may be found in SEC reports filed by ICON, including its Form 20-F, F-1, S-8 and F-3, which are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov.

ICON plc is a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The company specialises in the strategic development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development - from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies. With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, ICON currently, operates from 81 locations in 37 countries and has approximately 11,300 employees. Further information is available at www.iconplc.com.

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Contacts

All at ICON
Investor Relations, 1-888-381-7923
or
Brendan Brennan, + 353 –1-291-2000
Chief Financial Officer
or
Simon Holmes, + 353 –1-291-2000
EVP Investor Relations and Corporate Development

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