Company: ANTX
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-052852
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Company: AN2 Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: DEF 14A
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 a beneficial owner of shares held in street name and I do not provide my bank or broker with voting instructions, what happens?

If you are a beneficial owner of shares held in street name, your bank, broker or other nominee may under certain circumstances vote your shares if you do not timely instruct your bank, broker or other nominee how to vote your shares. Under the rules of the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), banks, brokers and other nominees that are subject to NYSE rules can vote your “uninstructed” shares with respect to any matters considered to be routine matters under NYSE rules, but cannot vote such shares on non-routine matters. If you do not timely provide voting instructions to your bank, broker or other nominee to vote your shares, your bank, broker or other nominee may, on routine matters, either vote your shares or leave your shares unvoted. The election of directors (Proposal No. 1) is a non-routine matter. The ratification of the selection of our independent registered public accounting firm (Proposal No. 2) is a routine matter. We encourage you to provide voting instructions to your bank, broker or other nominee. This ensures that your shares will be voted at the Annual Meeting according to your instructions. You should receive directions from your bank, broker or other nominee about how to submit your proxy to them at the time you receive this proxy statement.

If you are a beneficial owner of shares held in street name, in order to ensure your shares are voted in the way you would prefer, you must provide voting instructions to your broker, bank or other agent by the deadline provided in the materials you receive from your broker, bank or other nominee.

How will abstentions and broker non-votes be treated at the Annual Meeting?

An abstention represents a stockholder’s affirmative choice to decline to vote on a proposal. If a stockholder indicates on its proxy card that it wishes to abstain from voting its shares, or if a broker, bank or other nominee holding its customers’ shares of record causes abstentions to be recorded for shares, these shares will be considered present and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. As a result, abstentions will be counted for purposes of determining the presence or absence of a quorum and will also count as votes against a proposal in cases where approval of the proposal requires the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares present and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting (Proposal No. 2).

A broker non-vote occurs when a broker, bank or other