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Item 5.07 — Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
On November 30, 2022, OpGen, Inc. (the “Company”) held a special meeting of stockholders (the “Special Meeting”). The Company’s stockholders voted on the proposals listed below, each of which was described in the Company’s proxy statement for the Special Meeting dated October 17, 2022 (the “Proxy Statement”). At the Special Meeting, a total of 26,652,495 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, out of a total of 53,698,500 shares of common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote, and a total of 33,810 shares of the Company’s Series C Mirroring Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock”), representing all of the issued and outstanding shares of Preferred Stock entitled to vote at the Special Meeting, each as of October 3, 2022, the record date for the Special Meeting, were represented in person or by proxy at the Special Meeting. As previously described in the Proxy Statement, each share of Preferred Stock entitled the holder to 100,000 votes on Proposal 1 at the Special Meeting.
The following is a summary of the voting results for the proposals voted upon at the Special Meeting:
1. Proposal 1 – Proposed Reverse Stock Split. At the Special Meeting, the Company’s stockholders voted upon and approved the amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Charter”), to effect a reverse stock split at a ratio not less than five-to-one and not more than twenty-to-one, or the “Reverse Stock Split,” such ratio and the implementation and timing of such Reverse Stock Split to be determined in the discretion of our Board of Directors. The votes cast on this proposal were as follows:
2,272,904,153 votes | FOR the proposal | |
1,117,675,862 votes | AGAINST the proposal | |
17,106,289 votes | ABSTAIN | |
Not applicable | Broker Non-Votes |
2. Proposal 2 – Adjournment. At the Special Meeting, the Company’s stockholders voted upon and approved of an adjournment of the Special Meeting to a later date, if necessary or appropriate, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies in the event that there are insufficient votes for, or otherwise in connection with, Proposal 1. Although the proposal was rendered moot because Proposal 1 was approved, the votes cast on this proposal were as follows:
2,217,223,118 votes | FOR the proposal | |
1,167,870,545 votes | AGAINST the proposal | |
22,592,642 votes | ABSTAIN | |
Not applicable | Broker Non-Votes |
Item 9.01 — Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
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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, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: November 30, 2022 | OpGen, Inc. | |||||
By: |
/s/ Oliver Schacht | |||||
Name: | Oliver Schacht | |||||
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |