Company: BOLT
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-058632
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Company: Bolt Biotherapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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orum if you submit a valid proxy or vote online at the Annual Meeting. Abstentions and broker non-votes will also be counted toward the quorum requirement. If there is no quorum, the chairman of the Annual Meeting or a majority of the votes present at the Annual Meeting may adjourn the Annual Meeting to another date.

What if I return a proxy card but do not make specific choices?

If you are a stockholder of record and you return a proxy card without marking any voting selections, your shares will be voted:

Proposal 1: “For” election of both two nominees for director.

Proposal 2: “For” the ratification of the audit committee’s selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2025.

Proposal 3: “For” the approval of an amendment to our certificate of incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of our issued and outstanding common stock in the range of between 1-for-10 and 1-for-25.

If any other matter is properly presented at the meeting, your proxy (one of the individuals named on your proxy card) will vote your shares using their best judgment.

If you are a beneficial owner of shares registered in the name of your broker, bank or other agent, your shares are held by your broker, bank or other agent as your nominee, or in “street name,” and you will need to obtain a proxy form from the organization that holds your shares and follow the instructions included on that form regarding how to instruct the organization to vote your shares. If you do not give instructions to your broker, bank or other agent, they can vote your shares with respect to “discretionary” items but not with respect to “non-discretionary” items. Discretionary items are proposals considered routine under the rules of various national securities exchanges, and, in the absence of your voting instructions, your broker, bank or other agent may vote your shares held in street name on such proposals. Non-discretionary items are proposals considered non-routine under the rules of various national securities exchanges, and, in the absence of your voting instructions, your broker, bank or other agent may not vote your shares held in street name on such proposals and the shares will be treated as broker non-votes.

Which ballot measures are considered “routine” or “non-routine”?

Proposal 1 (the election of directors) is considered non-routine under applicable rules. A broker or other nominee cannot vote