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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-046161"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OFIX"
cik: "0000884624"
company_name: "Orthofix Medical Inc."
filed_at: "2024-04-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T15:01:29.771304+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Orthofix amends cooperation pact with Engine Capital over fiduciary duty carve-outs

## Summary
- Amendment to Dec 2023 cooperation agreement with Engine Capital clarifies Board fiduciary duties override certain obligations.
- Board may decline to recommend/support Specified Directors (Bazaar, Finegan, Kummeth) without breaching agreement.
- If Board exercises fiduciary duty, Engine Group can solicit proxies for those directors and standstill provisions lift.
- Amendment also subjects other company obligations (e.g., committee appointments, board size) to fiduciary duty.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-046161
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OFIX
- cik: 0000884624
- company_name: Orthofix Medical Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-04-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/884624/000095017024046161/0000950170-24-046161-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/884624/000095017024046161/ofix-20240419.htm

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