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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 Inc. 2023 Omnibus Incentive Plan, or the proposal to approve an amendment to the Precigen, Inc. 2019 Incentive Plan for Non-Employee Service Providers. These matters are not considered routine matters. However, the proposal to approve the amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and the ratification of the appointment by the Audit Committee of Deloitte & Touche LLP are routine matters for which brokerage firms may vote on behalf of their clients if no voting instructions are provided. Therefore, if you are a street name shareholder whose shares of common stock are held with a bank, broker, or other nominee and you do not return your voting instructions, your bank, broker, or other nominee may vote your shares on the proposal to approve the amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and on the ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm. Please return your proxy so your vote can be counted.

| 14. | How are abstentions and broker non-votes counted? |

Only votes cast “for” or “against” are included in determining the votes cast with respect to any matter presented for consideration at the Annual Meeting. As described above, when brokers do not have discretion to vote or do not exercise such discretion, the inability or failure to vote is referred to as a “broker non-vote.” Proxies marked as abstaining, and any proxies returned by brokers as “non-votes” on behalf of shares held in street name because beneficial owners did not vote on one or more matters to be acted upon at the Annual Meeting, will be treated as present for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the Annual Meeting. Broker non-votes and abstentions will not be included in the vote total for the proposal to elect the nominees for director and will not affect the outcome of the vote for the proposal. In addition, under Virginia corporate law, abstentions are not counted as votes cast on a proposal. Therefore, abstentions and broker non-votes (except with respect to (ii) and (iv) below, as to which there will not be any broker non-votes as such matters are considered routine) will not count either in favor of or against (i) the election of directors, (ii) the approval of an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation to increase authorized shares of common stock by 300 million, (iii)