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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-059907"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OCGN"
cik: "0001372299"
company_name: "Ocugen, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T03:28:36.702124+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ocugen issues super-voting Series C Preferred dividend to secure passage of charter amendments

## Summary
- Each common share receives 1/1,000th share of Series C Preferred; record date May 20, 2024.
- Each Series C share carries 1,000,000 votes, giving common holders 1,000 extra votes per share on three proposals.
- Series C votes mirror common stock votes on share increase, voting standard, and adjournment proposals.
- Shares of Series C automatically redeemed after stockholder meeting; minimal liquidation preference of $0.01 per share.
- Dividend aims to ensure stockholder approval of charter amendments to increase authorized shares and adjust voting requirements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-059907
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OCGN
- cik: 0001372299
- company_name: Ocugen, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372299/000110465924059907/0001104659-24-059907-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372299/000110465924059907/tm2413925d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Ocugen, Inc.: Creation of Series C Preferred Stock with voting rights linked to Common Stock and redemption provisions (effective 2024-05-20).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2024-05-20
  source text: Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year. Series C Preferred Stock The board of directors (the “ Board ”) of Ocugen, Inc. (the “ Company ”) declared a dividend of one one-thousandth (1/1,000th) of a share of Series C Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (“ Series C Preferred Stock ”), for each outstanding share of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“ Common Stock ”) to stockholders of record at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on May 20, 2024 (the “ Record Date ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1372299/000110465924059907/0001104659-24-059907-index.htm

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