DURECT Corporation filed SEC Form 8-K: Leadership Update, Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders, Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Form 8-K

 

Current Report

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

September 25, 2024

Date of Report

(Date of earliest event reported)

 

DURECT CORPORATION

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware		000-31615		94-3297098
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

10240 Bubb Road

Cupertino, CA 95014

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

(408) 777-1417

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of Each Class	Trading Symbol	Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Common Stock $0.0001 par value per share	DRRX	The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (The Nasdaq Capital Market)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

At the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of DURECT Corporation (the “Company”), held online via live audio webcast on September 25, 2024, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment and restatement of the Company’s 2000 Stock Plan (as amended and restated, the “Amended Stock Plan”) to increase the number of shares of the Company’s common stock available for issuance by 2,000,000 shares and to extend the term so that the Amended Stock Plan will terminate on the date that is ten years following stockholder approval of the Amended Stock Plan (i.e., September 25, 2034).

A more complete summary of the material terms of the Amended Stock Plan is set forth in “Proposal No. 4 - Approval of the Amendment and Restatement of the 2000 Stock Plan” in the Company’s definitive proxy statement for the Annual Meeting filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 12, 2024 (the “Proxy Statement”), which description is incorporated by reference herein. The summary in the Proxy Statement and above description of the amendment of the Amended Stock Plan do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by the full text of the Amended Stock Plan, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

 

At the Annual Meeting of the Company held online via live audio webcast on September 25, 2024, there were 22,163,186 shares represented to vote either in person or by proxy, or 71.4% of the outstanding shares, which represented a quorum. The final results of voting for each matter submitted to a vote of stockholders at the Annual Meeting were as follows:

Proposal 1: Election of Directors

Mohammad Azab, James E. Brown and Gail M. Farfel were elected as Class III directors to serve until the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders of the Company or until their successors have been duly elected and qualified or, if sooner, until their earlier deaths, resignations, or removals. The voting for each director was as follows:

		For		Withheld		Broker Non-Votes
Mohammad Azab		6,505,722		538,023		15,119,441
James E. Brown		6,281,190		762,555		15,119,441
Gail M. Farfel		6,448,037		595,708		15,119,441

Proposal 2: Approval of an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock from 150,000,000 to 350,000,000

The Charter Amendment was approved based upon the following votes:

 

For		Against		Abstain		Broker Non-Votes
19,164,468		2,608,324		390,394		–

 

Proposal 3: Approval of an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to provide for exculpation of officers to the extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law

The amendment to our Certificate of Incorporation to provide for exculpation of officers to the extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law was not approved based upon the following votes:

For		Against		Abstain		Broker Non-Votes
5,798,260		1,176,929		68,556		15,119,441

 

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Proposal 4: Approval of an amendment and restatement of the Company’s 2000 Stock Plan to increase the number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock available for issuance pursuant to the plan by 2,000,000 shares and to extend the plan’s term for ten years from the date of the 2024 Annual Meeting

 

The Amended Stock Plan was approved based upon the following votes:

For		Against		Abstain		Broker Non-Votes
5,794,670		1,016,548		232,527		15,119,441

 

Proposal 5: Say on Pay – A non-binding, advisory vote on the approval of executive compensation

The compensation of the Company’s named executive officers was approved on a non-binding, advisory basis based upon the following votes:

For		Against		Abstain		Broker Non-Votes
5,895,423		913,798		234,524		15,119,441

 

Proposal 6: Ratification of Appointment of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Company for the Current Fiscal Year

The appointment of WithumSmith+Brown, PC as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2024 was ratified based upon the following votes:

For		Against		Abstain		Broker Non-Votes
21,429,526		664,616		69,044		–

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits

 

	Exhibit No.	Description
	10.1	DURECT Corporation 2000 Stock Plan, as amended
	104	Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

 

 

 

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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.

 

		DURECT Corporation
Date: September 26, 2024		By:		/s/ James E. Brown
				James E. Brown     President and Chief Executive Officer

 

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