Company: DVAX
Filing Date: 2025-06-17
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001193125-25-141755
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Company: DYNAVAX TECHNOLOGIES CORP
Filing Date: 2025-06-17
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.03
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Item 5.03.      Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year  

Amendments to Certificate of Incorporation

As described in Item 5.07 below, at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of Dynavax Technologies Corporation (the “ Company”) held on June 11, 2025, pursuant to notice duly given (the “ Annual Meeting”), the stockholders of the Company approved the amendment and restatement of the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation, in the form of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “ Restated Certificate”) included as an appendix to the definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 17, 2025 (the “ Proxy Statement”), to declassify the board of directors of the Company (the “ Board”) on a phased basis over a three-year period starting in 2026, thereby providing for the annual election of all directors beginning at the 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company, and to make certain conforming and technical changes to the Company’s certificate of incorporation.

On June 16, 2025, the Company filed the Restated Certificate with the Secretary of the State of Delaware.

Amendments to Bylaws

Concurrent with the filing of the Restated Certificate, Section 5(d) and Section 17 of the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws were amended to conform to the changes reflected in the Restated Certificate, to read as follows:

Section 5(d):

“(d)Notwithstanding anything in Section 5(b)(iii)to the contrary, in the event that, prior to the corporation’s annual meeting of stockholders held in calendar year 2027, the number of directors in an Expiring Class is increased and there is no public announcement of the appointment of a director to such class, or, if no appointment was made, of the vacancy in such class, made by the corporation at least ten (10) days before the last day a stockholder may deliver a notice of nomination in accordance withSection 5(b)(iii), a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 5 and which complies with the requirements in Section 5(b)(i), other than the timing requirements in Section 5(b)(iii), shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions in such Expiring Class created by such increase, if it shall be received by the Secretary at the principal