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Item 5.03 – Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year
On April 13, 2021, the board of directors of Advantage Solutions Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (as amended, the “Third Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which updated a cross reference contained in Article XIII to that certain Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement, dated October 27, 2020, by and among the Company and the other parties named therein, as amended and/or restated from time to time.
The foregoing description of the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 with this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5.08 – Shareholder Director Nominations
To the extent applicable, the information in Item 8.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.08.
Item 8.01 – Other Events
The board of directors of the Company has established May 26, 2021 as the date of the Company’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”). The time and location of the Annual Meeting will be as set forth in the Company’s proxy statement for the Annual Meeting to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Pursuant to the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Bylaws, stockholders seeking to bring business before the Annual Meeting or to nominate candidates for election as directors at the Annual Meeting must deliver notice of such proposals or nominations to the principal executive offices of the Company, at 18100 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 1000, Irvine, California 92612, Attention: Corporate Secretary not later than the close of business on April 29, 2021. The notice must include all of the information required by the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws.
Item 9.01 – Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 3.1 | Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of Advantage Solutions Inc., effective as of April 13, 2021. | |
| 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: April 19, 2021
| ADVANTAGE SOLUTIONS INC. | |||
| By: | /s/ Brian Stevens | ||
| Name: | Brian Stevens | ||
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer | ||