NYSE Euronext Announces 2011 Annual Meeting Shareholder Vote Results and Names Dominique Cerutti to Its Board of Directors

NEW YORK - Wednesday, May 4th 2011 [ME NewsWire]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- At the Company’s annual stockholders’ meeting held on April 28, 2011, NYSE Euronext (NYX) shareholders:

* Elected the full slate of 16 director nominees to the Company’s Board of Directors, with an average approval rate of 80% of votes cast,
* Ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2011,
* Did not approve a Company proposal to adopt a simple majority vote requirement to amend or repeal certain provisions in the Company’s charter,
* Approved on an advisory, non-binding basis, the Company’s executive compensation,
* Approved on an advisory, non-binding basis, a frequency of every one year for holding the non-binding, advisory vote on executive compensation,
* Approved a stockholder proposal regarding the power of stockholders to call special meetings, and
* Approved a stockholder proposal regarding stockholder action by written consent.

To be approved, the proposal to adopt a simple majority vote requirement to amend or repeal certain provisions in the Company’s charter required the affirmative vote of at least 80% of the shares of our outstanding stock entitled to be voted at the meeting. The proposal received the support of 94.66% of the shares of our outstanding stock actually voted but only 75.45% the shares of our outstanding stock entitled to be voted, and therefore the proposal was not approved.

Among the 16 elected directors is Dominique Cerutti, the Company’s president and deputy chief executive officer and head of Global Technology, who is a newly elected member of the Board. Mr. Cerutti has considerable experience in leading the business operations of a global technology company, where he served in several senior leadership roles. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Mr. Cerutti served as general manager of IBM Southwest Europe from 2005 until 2009. For more details click here: http://www.nyse.com/corpgovernance/1261133696939.html

The Company’s Inspector of Elections, MacKenzie Partners, Inc., informed the Company of the following shareholder vote results:

* The shareholders elected the following persons to the Board of Directors:

Director


For


Against


Abstain

Jan-Michiel Hessels (Chairman)


133,851,068


28,845,125


706,663

Marshall N. Carter (Deputy Chairman)


135,322,647


27,441,975


638,234

Duncan L. Niederauer (Chief Executive Officer)


134,981,604


27,783,480


637,772

Dominique Cerutti (President & Deputy Chief Executive Officer)


135,452,710


27,234,068


716,078

André Bergen


134,728,875


27,895,192


778,789

Ellyn L. Brown


134,821,425


27,872,308


709,123

Patricia M. Cloherty


134,730,990


27,934,712


737,154

Sir George Cox


134,668,398


28,016,805


717,653

Sylvain Hefes


134,832,508


27,856,717


713,631

Duncan M. McFarland


131,308,762


31,382,834


711,260

James J. McNulty


123,603,472


39,083,243


716,141

Ricardo Salgado


131,064,187


31,617,031


721,638

Robert G. Scott


134,913,723


27,766,088


723,045

Jackson P. Tai


135,090,669


27,573,253


738,934

Rijnhard van Tets


134,593,133


28,088,299


721,424

Sir Brian Williamson


130,923,333


31,766,376


713,147

* The following table lists the vote results for the remaining proposals, other than the proposal to determine the frequency of the advisory vote on executive compensation:

Proposal


For


Against


Abstain

Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2011


202,018,332


4,963,590


1,217,298

Company proposal to adopt a simple majority vote requirement to amend or repeal certain provisions in the Company’s charter.


197,088,940


10,309,853


800,427

Non-binding advisory vote on a Company proposal to approve executive compensation


135,777,181


26,248,587


1,377,088

Stockholder proposal regarding the power of stockholders to call special meetings


119,834,600


42,955,869


612,387

Stockholder proposal regarding stockholder action by written consent


129,280,999


33,137,009


984,848

* The following table lists the vote results of the non-binding, advisory vote on a Company proposal to determine the frequency of the advisory vote on executive compensation:

Every 1 year


Every 2 years


Every 3 years


Abstain

126,809,533


2,015,090


22,411,816


2,688,242

About NYSE Euronext

NYSE Euronext (NYX) is a leading global operator of financial markets and provider of innovative trading technologies. The company's exchanges in Europe and the United States trade equities, futures, options, fixed-income and exchange-traded products. With approximately 8,000 listed issues (excluding European Structured Products), NYSE Euronext's equities markets – the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Euronext, NYSE Amex, NYSE Alternext and NYSE Arca – represent one-third of the world's equities trading, the most liquidity of any global exchange group. NYSE Euronext also operates NYSE Liffe, one of the leading European derivatives businesses and the world's second-largest derivatives business by value of trading. The company offers comprehensive commercial technology, connectivity and market data products and services through NYSE Technologies. NYSE Euronext is in the S&P 500 index, and is the only exchange operator in the Fortune 500. For more information, please visit: http://www.nyx.com.

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