Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-022149
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: DEF 14A
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. Unless required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect new information or future events or developments. TABLE OF CONTENTS APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC. 13139 Jess Pirtle Blvd., Sugar Land, TX 77478 PROXY STATEMENT FOR SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS TO BE HELD ON APRIL 10, 2025 The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (the “Company”) is soliciting your proxy for a special meeting of stockholders (including any adjournments or postponements thereof, the “Special Meeting”), to be held on April 10, 2025, for the purposes set forth in the accompanying Notice of Special Meeting of Stockholders. This Proxy Statement and related materials are first being mailed to stockholders beginning on or about March 10, 2025. References in this Proxy Statement to the “Company,” “we,” “our,” “us,” “AOI” and “Applied Optoelectronics” are to Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries, and references to the “Special Meeting” are to this Special Meeting of Stockholders, including any adjournments or postponements thereof. THE SPECIAL MEETING Record Date Only stockholders of record of common stock at the close of business on March 5, 2025 (the “Record Date”) will be entitled to notice of and to vote at the Special Meeting. As of the close of business on the Record Date, there were approximately 49,851,482 shares of our common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Special Meeting. Quorum A majority of the shares of common stock entitled to vote as of the close of business on the Record Date, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at the Special Meeting. Your shares will be counted towards the quorum if you submit a valid proxy (or one is submitted on your behalf by your bank, broker or other nominee) or if you vote in person at the meeting. In addition, shares present in person, but not voting; shares for which we receive signed proxies, but for which holders have abstained from voting; and shares represented by proxies for which voting instructions were provided and returned by a bank, broker or other nominee holding shares will each be counted as present for purposes of determining the presence of a quorum. Since both of the proposals at the Special Meeting are