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Issuer:     Alkermes plc. (ALKS)
CIK:        0001520262
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-07-06T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000950170-23-031901
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.45
Item codes: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Alkermes shareholders approve 6.5M share increase to equity plan; Sarissa votes against own recommendations
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- Shareholders approved 2018 Stock Option and Incentive Plan amendment, adding 6,500,000 shares.
- All 6 management director nominees re-elected; dissident Sarissa withheld votes despite prior recommendation.
- All company proposals passed: say-on-pay (115.9M for), auditor (142.6M for), share issuance authority.
- Sarissa cast over 13 million votes contrary to its stated voting intent on plan, issuance, and pre-emption items.
- Equity plan approval received 125.4M votes for and 21.3M against, including Sarissa's 13M+ no votes.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1520262/000095017023031901/0000950170-23-031901-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1520262/000095017023031901/alks-20230629.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-23-031901

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