---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-011812"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TERN"
cik: "0001831363"
company_name: "Terns Pharmaceuticals, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-06-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T00:59:49.191416+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Terns Pharma stockholders elect three Class I directors and ratify E&Y as auditor

## Summary
- Carl Gordon, Hongbo Lu, and Ann Taylor elected as Class I directors, each with majority votes.
- Gordon received 18,623,269 votes for (2,386,359 withheld); Lu received 16,687,573 for (4,322,055 withheld).
- Taylor received 20,998,888 votes for (10,740 withheld); broker non-votes of 1,626,573 on all director elections.
- Ernst & Young ratified as auditor for FY2022 with 22,635,538 votes for, 363 against, 300 abstentions.
- Meeting held June 16, 2022; record date April 22, 2022 with 25,269,271 shares entitled to vote.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-011812
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TERN
- cik: 0001831363
- company_name: Terns Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-06-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1831363/000095017022011812/0000950170-22-011812-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1831363/000095017022011812/tern-20220616.htm

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