Item 5.07Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Protalix Biotherapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) convened its 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Meeting”) at 8:30 A.M. EDT on June 28, 2023 at the offices of LifeSci Advisors, 250 W. 55th Street, Suite 3401, New York, NY 10019. At the Meeting, the Company’s stockholders: (1) elected the seven persons nominated by the Company’s Board of Directors to serve as directors of the Company; (2) approved, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers; (3) approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, one year as the frequency that stockholders of the Company will have a non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers; (4) adopted amendments to the Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. 2006 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended, to increase the number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), available under such plan from 8,475,171 shares to 12,475,171 shares and adopted certain other terms of said plan; and (5) ratified the appointment of Kesselman & Kesselman, Certified Public Accountant (Isr.), a Member of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023. The Meeting was then adjourned to July 13, 2023 at 1:00 p.m., Israel time, at the offices of its Israeli counsel, Horn & Co., Law Offices, Amot Investments Tower, 2 Weizmann Street, 24th Floor, Tel Aviv 6423902, Israel, to provide the Company with additional time to solicit proxies from its stockholders to approve an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, to increase the number of shares of Common Stock authorized for issuance from 144,000,000 to 185,000,000, as described in the notice of meeting that was sent to each stockholder of record as of the close of business on May 15, 2023. The adjournment was approved by a vote of 39,819,471 shares of Common Stock, with no shares voting against the adjournment or abstaining, thus constituting approval by more than a majority of the shares of Common Stock represented in person or by proxy at the Meeting and entitled to vote on the adjournment. The record date for the Meeting remains May 15, 2023.
Set forth below, with respect to each proposal adopted at the Meeting, are the number of votes cast for or against or withheld, as applicable, the number of abstentions and the number of broker non-votes, and the number of votes cast, on an advisory basis, for the frequency that stockholders of the Company will have a non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers (every one, two or three years).
(1)Election of Directors
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| For | Withheld | Broker Non-Votes |
Zeev Bronfeld | 30,118,208 | 2,723,267 | 8,872,021 |
Dror Bashan | 30,175,739 | 2,665,736 | 8,872,021 |
Amos Bar Shalev | 30,118,524 | 2,722,951 | 8,872,021 |
Shmuel “Muli” Ben Zvi, Ph.D. | 30,614,690 | 2,226,785 | 8,872,021 |
Pol F. Boudes, M.D. | 30,619,760 | 2,221,715 | 8,872,021 |
Gwen A. Melincoff | 30,517,556 | 2,323,919 | 8,872,021 |
Aharon Schwartz, Ph.D. | 30,659,904 | 2,181,571 | 8,872,021 |
(2)Approval, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers
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For | Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes |
26,186,630 | 4,269,510 | 491,310 | 8,872,021 |
(3)Approval, on a non-binding advisory basis, the frequency (every one, two or three years) that stockholders of the Company will have a non-binding, advisory vote on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers
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One Year | Two Years | Three Years | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes |
30,261,982 | 600,162 | 825,319 | 1,154,012 | 8,872,021 |