Bicycle Therapeutics plc filed SEC Form 8-K: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
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Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Bicycle Therapeutics plc (the “Company”) held its annual general meeting of shareholders (the “AGM”) on May 16, 2024. Each of the proposals set forth below were voted on and duly passed on a poll at the AGM. Detailed descriptions of these proposals and of the voting procedures applied at the AGM are contained in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2024.
There were 37,398,107 ordinary shares of the Company represented in person or by proxy at the AGM, constituting approximately 98.19% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares on May 16, 2024. Proxy appointments which gave the Chairman of the meeting discretion have been included in the “For” total. In accordance with the terms of the deposit agreement by and among the Company, Citibank, N.A. as depositary and holders and beneficial owners of American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) dated May 28, 2019, holders of ADSs who did not provide the depositary bank with voting instructions on or before the specified deadline were deemed to have instructed the depositary to give a discretionary proxy to a person designated by the Company to vote the underlying ordinary shares at the AGM and the voting results below reflect that designation. A vote withheld/abstain is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of votes for or against a resolution.
Ordinary Resolutions
Proposal 1 – To re-elect as a director Kevin Lee.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 36,413,260 | 977,286 | 7,561 | ||||||||
Proposal 2 – To re-elect as a director Jose-Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 35,019,069 | 2,371,385 | 7,653 | ||||||||
Proposal 3 – To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company’s definitive proxy statement.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 36,186,115 | 1,202,477 | 9,515 | ||||||||
Proposal 4 – To ratify the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a limited liability partnership organized under the laws of England, as the Company’s U.S. independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 37,376,526 | 14,076 | 7,505 | ||||||||
Proposal 5 – To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a limited liability partnership organized under the laws of England, as the Company’s U.K. statutory auditors, to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of shareholders.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 37,376,531 | 14,071 | 7,505 | ||||||||
Proposal 6 – To authorize the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) to determine the Company’s U.K. statutory auditors’ remuneration for the year ending December 31, 2024.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 37,376,455 | 14,150 | 7,502 | ||||||||
Proposal 7 – To receive and adopt the Company’s U.K. statutory annual accounts and reports for the year ended December 31, 2023.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 36,494,043 | 896,166 | 7,898 | ||||||||
Proposal 8 – To approve the directors’ remuneration report for the year ended December 31, 2023.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 36,200,790 | 1,188,057 | 9,260 | ||||||||
Proposal 9 – To authorize the Board to allot shares in the Company or to grant rights to subscribe for or to convert any security into shares in the Company up to a maximum aggregate nominal amount of £1,000,000.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 33,241,556 | 4,146,578 | 9,973 | ||||||||
Special Resolutions
Proposal 10 – To authorize the Board to allot equity securities for cash up to a maximum aggregate nominal amount of £1,000,000 pursuant to the authorization in Resolution 9 as if U.K. statutory pre-emption rights did not apply.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 32,350,797 | 4,154,715 | 892,595 | ||||||||
Proposal 11 – To adopt the new articles of association in substitution for, and to the exclusion of, the Company’s existing articles of association.
| For | Against | Vote Withheld/Abstain | ||||||||
| 37,371,711 | 15,138 | 11,258 | ||||||||
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: May 16, 2024 | BICYCLE THERAPEUTICS PLC | |
| By: | /s/ Alethia Young | |
| Name: | Alethia Young | |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |