# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001733294
**File Stem:** 0001558370-25-008432
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001558370-25-008432.hdr.sgml**: 20250605

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001558370-25-008432

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 13

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250604

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250605

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250605

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Generation Bio Co.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001733294
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 03 Life Sciences
- **EIN:** 814301281
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-39319
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251027138

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 301 BINNEY STREET
- **CITY:** CAMBRIDGE
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02142
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 857-529-5908

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 301 BINNEY STREET
- **CITY:** CAMBRIDGE
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02142

?xml version='1.0' encoding='ASCII'? Generation Bio Co._June 4, 2025

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT**

**Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)**

**of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934**

**Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): June 4, 2025**

## Generation Bio Co.
**(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)**

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| **Delaware** |  | **001-39319** |  | **81-4301284** |
| **(State or Other Jurisdiction**<br>**of Incorporation)** |  | **(Commission**<br>**File Number)** |  | **(IRS Employer**<br>**Identification No.)** |

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| **301 Binney Street**<br>**Cambridge, MA** |  | **02142**  |
| **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** |  | **(Zip Code)** |

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**Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (617) 655-7500**

**Not applicable**

**(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)**

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (*see* General Instruction A.2. below):

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| **Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share** | **GBIO** | **Nasdaq Global Select Market** |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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| **Item 5.07** | **Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.** |

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On June 4, 2025, Generation Bio Co. (the "Company") held its 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the "Annual Meeting"). A total of 67,013,359 shares of common stock were entitled to vote as of April 7, 2025, the record date for the Annual Meeting. There were 50,636,214 shares of common stock present virtually or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting, constituting a quorum to conduct business.

The following proposals were voted upon at the Annual Meeting:

Proposal 1 Election of Ron Cooper, Anthony Quinn, M.B. Ch.B., Ph.D., and Jason Rhodes, as Class II directors to the Company's board of directors, each to serve until the 2028 annual meeting of stockholders;

Proposal 2 Ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025;

Proposal 3 Approval, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, of the compensation of the Company's named executive officers; and

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| Proposal 4 | Adoption and approval of an amendment to the Company's restated certificate of incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of the Company's issued shares of common stock at a ratio within the range of not less than 1-for-10 and not greater than 1-for-30, without reducing the authorized number of shares of the Company's common stock, with the exact ratio within such range and the implementation and timing of such reverse stock split to be determined at the sole discretion of the Company's board of directors, without further approval or authorization of the Company's stockholders. |

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On June 5, 2025, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., the independent inspector of election for the Annual Meeting, delivered its final report as to the voting results for each of these proposals. The following are the final voting results for each of the items voted on at the Annual Meeting:

**Proposal 1. Election of Class II Directors.**

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| **Nominee** | **Votes For** | **Votes Withheld** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
| Ron Cooper | 31328687 | 7135729 | 12171798 |
| Anthony Quinn, M.B. Ch.B., Ph.D. | 38100685 | 363731 | 12171798 |
| Jason Rhodes | 30123306 | 8341110 | 12171798 |

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Based on the votes set forth above, the stockholders of the Company elected Ron Cooper, Anthony Quinn, M.B. Ch.B., Ph.D., and Jason Rhodes, as Class II directors to the Company's board of directors, each to serve until the 2028 annual meeting of stockholders.

**Proposal No. 2. Ratification of Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP.**

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| **Votes For** | **Votes Against** | **Abstentions** |
| 50,507,873 | 113,314 | 15,027 |

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Based on the votes set forth above, the stockholders of the Company ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm to serve for the year ending December 31, 2025.

**Proposal No. 3. Advisory (Non-Binding) Vote on Executive Compensation.**

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| **Votes For** | **Votes Against** | **Abstentions** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
| 38,082,392 | 359,912 | 22,112 | 12,171,798 |

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Based on the votes set forth above, the stockholders of the Company approved, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, of the compensation of its named executive officers.

**Proposal No. 4. Adoption and approval of an amendment to the Company's restated certificate of incorporation to effect a reverse stock split.**

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| **Votes For** | **Votes Against** | **Abstentions** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
| 49,670,638 | 837,631 | 127,945 | 12,171,798 |

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Based on the votes set forth above, the stockholders of the Company approved the adoption and approval of an amendment to the Company's restated certificate of incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of the Company's issued shares of common stock at a ratio within the range of not less than 1-for-10 and not greater than 1-for-30, without reducing the authorized number of shares of the Company's common stock, with the exact ratio within such range and the implementation and timing of such reverse stock split to be determined at the sole discretion of the Company's board of directors, without further approval or authorization of the Company's stockholders.

#### SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|  | GENERATION BIO CO. | GENERATION BIO CO. |
| Date: June 5, 2025 | By: | /s/ Geoff McDonough |
|  |  | Name: Geoff McDonough, M.D. |
|  |  | Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |

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