---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-118697"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYRX"
cik: "0001124524"
company_name: "Cryoport, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-11-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T01:58:22.417055+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cryoport amends bylaws to comply with SEC universal proxy rules

## Summary
- Bylaw amendments effective Nov 9, 2023, update director nomination procedures.
- Stockholders must provide representations and evidence of compliance with Rule 14a-19.
- White proxy card reserved for Board; other solicitations require different color.
- Failure to comply with Rule 14a-19 renders nominee ineligible; votes disregarded.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-118697
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYRX
- cik: 0001124524
- company_name: Cryoport, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-11-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1124524/000110465923118697/0001104659-23-118697-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1124524/000110465923118697/tm2330805d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-118697.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Cryoport, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to update director nomination procedures, proxy card color requirements, and compliance with Rule 14a-19 under the Exchange Act (effective 2023-11-09).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-11-09
  source text: On November 9, 2023, as part of its periodic review of corporate governance matters and in connection with the universal proxy rules adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Cryoport, Inc. (the "Company") adopted an amendment and restatement of the Company's Amended and Restated Bylaws (as so amended and restated, the "Amended and Restated Bylaws"), effective as h, in order to, among other things: · update the procedural and disclosure requirements for the nomination for directors, including, among other things, requiring that any stockholder seeking to nominate director(s) at a stockholder's meeting provide the Company with certain representations, information and evidence regarding compliance with Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act, as amended (the "Exchange Act"); · implement a requirement that any stockholder directly or indirectly soliciting proxies from other stockholders must use a proxy card color other than white, wi
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1124524/000110465923118697/0001104659-23-118697-index.htm

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