---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001000694-23-000011"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NVAX"
cik: "0001000694"
company_name: "NOVAVAX INC"
filed_at: "2023-04-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T06:11:40.731572+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Novavax amends bylaws to align with Delaware law on meeting adjournment and stockholder list

## Summary
- Board adopted Amended and Restated By-Laws effective March 30, 2023.
- Changes reflect 2022 DGCL amendments: allow adjournment as permitted, remove stockholder list requirement at meetings.
- Stock certificates may now be signed by any two authorized officers instead of specific officers.
- Amendments are procedural; no immediate financial or operational impact.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001000694-23-000011
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NVAX
- cik: 0001000694
- company_name: NOVAVAX INC
- filed_at: 2023-04-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000694/000100069423000011/0001000694-23-000011-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000694/000100069423000011/nvax-20230330.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001000694-23-000011.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  NOVAVAX INC: Amended and restated bylaws to reflect changes in DGCL regarding adjourned meetings, stockholder list, and stock certificate signing (effective 2023-03-30).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-03-30
  source text: Effective March 30, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Novavax, Inc. (the “Company”) adopted the Amended and Restated By-Laws of Novavax, Inc. (the “Amended and Restated By-Laws”) to reflect amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) regarding notice of adjourned stockholder meetings and eliminating the requirement of having a stockholder list available at a stockholder meeting, which amendments became effective in August 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000694/000100069423000011/0001000694-23-000011-index.htm

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