Company: PGEN
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001140361-25-019470
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Company: PRECIGEN, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-16
Form: DEF 14A
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 duly executed and not revoked, will be voted and, if it contains any specific instructions, will be voted in accordance with those instructions.

| 2. | Who is entitled to vote? |

Only holders of record of outstanding shares of our common stock at the close of business on April 25, 2025, are entitled to notice of and to vote at the Annual Meeting. At the close of business on April 25, 2025, there were 295,165,060 outstanding shares of common stock. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote on each matter properly brought before the Annual Meeting.

| 3. | What is a proxy? |

A proxy is your legal designation of another person to vote the stock you own. If you designate someone as your proxy or proxy holder in a written document, that document is called a proxy or a proxy card. Dr. Helen Sabzevari and Mr. Donald P. Lehr, or each of them, each with the power to appoint his or her substitute, have been designated as proxies or proxy holders for the Annual Meeting. A proxy properly executed and received by our Corporate Secretary by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on June 25, 2025 and not revoked will be voted in accordance with the terms thereof.

| 4. | What is a voting instruction? |

A voting instruction is the instruction form you receive from your bank, broker, or its nominee if you hold your shares of common stock in street name. The instruction form instructs you how to direct your bank, broker, or its nominee, as record holder, to vote your shares of common stock.

| 5. | What am I voting on? |

Shareholders are being asked to vote on each of the following items of business:

| • | the election to the Board of the nine nominees named in this Proxy Statement, each to serve a one-year term expiring at the earlier of the next Annual Meeting or until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified; |

| • | the approval of an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to increase the authorized shares of common stock thereunder by 300 million; |

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| • | the approval, in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5625(c), of the issuance of the Company’s shares of Series A Preferred Stock and Warrants to Randal J. Kirk as PIK dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock, in order for Mr. Kirk to