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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15 (d) OF
THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 14, 2022

SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware
0-23047
13-3864870
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
(Commission file number)
(I.R.S. employer identification no.)

31 East 62nd Street
New York, New York
   10065
(Address of principal executive offices)
  
(Zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  (212) 672-9100

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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

Title of each class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
common stock, $.0001 par value
SIGA
The Nasdaq Global 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).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Item 5.03.
Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of SIGA Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) previously approved, subject to stockholder approval, amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Amended and Restated Charter”) to remove provisions (the “Bankruptcy Provisions”) related to the Company’s Plan of Reorganization, effective as of April 12, 2016 (the “Plan”), filed with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, and to make additional ministerial, clarifying and conforming changes.  The Bankruptcy Provisions are no longer applicable or operative under their terms since the Plan terminated in accordance with its terms.  On June 14, 2022, at the Company’s 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2022 Annual Meeting”), the Company’s stockholders approved the adoption of the amendments to the Amended and Restated Charter.

The Amended and Restated Charter became effective as of June 14, 2022.  The foregoing is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Amended and Restated Charter, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 3.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

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

At the 2022 Annual Meeting, stockholders representing 64,996,748 shares of common stock, or 89.8% of the shares of common stock outstanding as of the April 18, 2022 record date, attended or were represented by proxy.  The items listed below were submitted to a vote of the stockholders who attended or were represented by proxy, and were entitled to vote at, the 2022 Annual Meeting.  Final voting results are shown below.

At the 2022 Annual Meeting, the stockholders of the Company (i) elected nine director nominees to hold office until the earlier of the 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company and their successors are elected and qualified and until their earlier resignation or removal, (ii) ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022, and (iii) approved the Amended and Restated Charter eliminating provisions that are no longer applicable.  Set forth below are the final voting results for the three proposals submitted to a vote of the stockholders.

(1)          Election of the following individuals to hold office as directors of the Company for terms of one year.

Number of Shares Voted
     
Name
For
Withheld
     
James J. Antal
42,503,552
4,508,032
     
Jaymie A. Durnan
44,902,004
2,109,580
     
Phillip L. Gomez, Ph.D.
45,233,394
1,778,190
     
Julie M. Kane
45,547,050
1,464,534
     
Joseph W. Marshall, III
41,742,960
5,268,624
     
Gary J. Nabel, M.D., Ph.D.
45,557,437
1,454,147
     
Julian Nemirovsky
41,805,975
5,205,609
     
Holly L. Phillips, M.D.
45,561,314
1,450,270
     
Michael C. Plansky
45,384,223
1,627,361

With respect to each director nominee there were 17,985,164 broker “non-votes.”

(2)          Ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022.
 
Number of Shares Voted
     
For
Against
Abstain
63,586,135
1,298,477
112,136
 
(3)          Approval of the Amended and Restated Charter eliminating provisions that are no longer applicable.

Number of Shares Voted
     
For
Against
Abstain
Broker Non-Votes
46,860,945
98,088
52,551
17,985,164

Item 9.01.
Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) The following exhibits are included in this report:

Exhibit
No.
Description
   
Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of SIGA Technologies, 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, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 
SIGA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
 
 
By:
  
/s/ Daniel J. Luckshire
  
 
Name:
  
Daniel J. Luckshire
  
 
Title:
  
Chief Financial Officer
  
         
Date: June 16, 2022