secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     SmartKem, Inc. (SMTK)
CIK:        0001817760
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-23-095544
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

SmartKem shareholders approve 21.6M share equity plan increase and 1:30–1:60 reverse split; board declassification fails
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- Stockholders approved amendment to 2021 Equity Plan, increasing authorized shares from 4,376,571 to 26,008,708.
- Reverse stock split approved at ratio of 1:30 to 1:60, with Board discretion to set exact ratio within one year.
- Proposal to declassify Board and elect all directors annually was not approved (19.5M for, 338K against, 20K abstain).
- Class II directors Klaas de Boer and Sri Peruvemba elected to three-year terms through 2026 annual meeting.
- Marcum LLP ratified as independent auditor for FY2023 with 21.4M votes in favor.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817760/000110465923095544/0001104659-23-095544-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1817760/000110465923095544/tm2324875d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-095544

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