---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001000694-24-000013"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NVAX"
cik: "0001000694"
company_name: "NOVAVAX INC"
filed_at: "2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T06:08:07.366648+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Novavax reduces stockholder meeting quorum from majority to one-third

## Summary
- Board adopted Amended and Restated By-Laws effective April 22, 2024.
- Quorum reduced from majority of outstanding shares to one-third (33 1/3%) of shares entitled to vote.
- Change aimed at mitigating past quorum failures caused by dispersed stockholder base and broker non-voting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001000694-24-000013
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NVAX
- cik: 0001000694
- company_name: NOVAVAX INC
- filed_at: 2024-04-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000694/000100069424000013/0001000694-24-000013-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000694/000100069424000013/nvax-20240422.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001000694-24-000013.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  NOVAVAX INC: Reduced quorum requirement for stockholder meetings from a majority to one-third (33 1/3%) of shares entitled to vote (effective 2024-04-22).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-04-22
  source text: Effective April 22, 2024, the Board of Directors of Novavax, Inc. (the “Company”) adopted the Amended and Restated By-Laws of Novavax, Inc. (the “Amended and Restated By-Laws”), which reduced the quorum required for the transaction of business at stockholder meetings from the holders of a majority of the shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”), issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at a meeting to holders of one-third (33 1/3%) of the shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at such meeting (the “Quorum Requirement”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000694/000100069424000013/0001000694-24-000013-index.htm

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