Big Sky Growth Partners Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year, Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders, Financial Statements and Exhibits
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| Item 5.03. | Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws. |
The information included in Item 5.07 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference in this Item 5.03 to the extent required herein. A copy of the certificate of amendment to the Charter (as defined below) of Big Sky Growth Partners, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) is filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 3.1 and is incorporated herein by reference, and the foregoing description of such certificate of amendment is qualified in its entirety by reference thereto.
| Item 5.07. | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. |
On December 12, 2022, the Company held a Special Meeting of Stockholders (the “Special Meeting”). Holders of 31,098,707 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, par value 0.0001 per share, which represented approximately 82.9% of the shares of the Company’s Common Stock outstanding and entitled to vote as of the record date of November 18, 2022, were represented in person or by proxy at the Special Meeting.
At the Special Meeting, stockholders voted on the following proposals, which are described in detail in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 28, 2022. The number of votes cast for and against, as well as the number of abstentions with respect to, the proposals voted upon at the Special Meeting are set forth below.
Proposal 1 - The Charter Amendment Proposal - to amend the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter”) pursuant to an amendment to the Charter in the form set forth in Annex A of the accompanying proxy statement (the “Charter Amendment”) to amend the date by which the Company must cease its operations except for the purpose of winding up if it fails to complete a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses, and redeem all of the shares of Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share of the Company included as part of the units sold in the Company’s initial public offering that was completed on May 3, 2021 (the “IPO”), from May 3, 2023 to December 12, 2022 or such later date as the Company’s board of directors may determine (the “Amended Termination Date”). Stockholders voted as follows:
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31,098,707 | |
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0 | |
| Abstain: |
0 |
Accordingly, the Charter Amendment was approved.
Proposal 2 - The Trust Amendment Proposal - to amend the Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated April 28, 2021 (the “Trust Agreement”), by and between the Company and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York limited purpose trust company, as trustee (“Continental”), pursuant to an amendment to the Trust Agreement in the form set forth in Annex B of the accompanying Proxy Statement (the “Trust Amendment”), to change the date on which Continental must commence liquidation of the trust account established in connection with the IPO to the Amended Termination Date . Stockholders voted as follows:
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31,098,707 | |
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0 | |
| Abstain: |
0 |
Accordingly, the Trust Amendment was approved.
Proposal 3 - The Adjournment Proposal - to approve the adjournment of the Special Meeting, if necessary, from time to time to solicit additional proxies in favor of Proposals 1 and 2 or if otherwise determined by the chairperson of the Special Meeting to be necessary or appropriate. Because there was no need to adjourn the Special Meeting, Proposal 3 was not voted upon.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
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| 3.1 | Certificate of Amendment of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Big Sky Growth Partners, Inc. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | |
SIGNATURE
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.
Dated: December 14, 2022
| Big Sky Growth Partners, Inc. | ||
| By: | /s/ Lauren Neiswender | |
| Name: | Lauren Neiswender | |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |