---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-24-008781"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SNWV"
cik: "0001417663"
company_name: "SANUWAVE Health, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-02-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T21:53:44.627064+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SANUWAVE Health shareholders approve merger with SEP Acquisition Corp.

## Summary
- Proposal 1 (merger agreement) approved with 798,379,869 For, 5,221,765 Against, 71,525 Abstain.
- Proposal 2 (adjournment) also approved but not needed due to sufficient votes for Proposal 1.
- Merger will result in SANUWAVE becoming a subsidiary of SEP Acquisition Corp.
- Closing conditions include SEPA having at least $12.0M from non-redeemed shares and private placement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-24-008781
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SNWV
- cik: 0001417663
- company_name: SANUWAVE Health, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-02-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417663/000114036124008781/0001140361-24-008781-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417663/000114036124008781/ef20022117_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  SANUWAVE Health, Inc. shareholders approved Approval of Agreement and Plan of Merger (Business Combination Proposal) at the 2024-02-21 meeting.
  - Proposal: merger approval
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-02-21
  source text: Proposal 1 — To consider and vote upon a proposal to approve the Agreement and Plan of Merger (as it may be further amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”) among the Company, SEP Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“SEPA”), and SEP Acquisition Holdings Inc., a Nevada corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of SEPA (“Merger Sub”), for the purposes set forth in the Merger Agreement (all of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, including the issuances of securities thereunder, are collectively referred to as the “Business Combination”), and the transactions contemplated thereby, including the Business Combination, pursuant to which Merger Sub will merge with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving entity of the Business Combination and becoming a subsidiary of SEPA (the “Business Combination Proposal”). For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 798,379,869 5,221,765 71,525 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417663/000114036124008781/0001140361-24-008781-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  SANUWAVE Health, Inc. shareholders approved Adjournment proposal to permit further solicitation of proxies if necessary at the 2024-02-21 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-02-21
  source text: Proposal 2 — To adjourn the Special Meeting to a later date or dates, if necessary, to permit further solicitation and vote of proxies if it is determined by the Company’s board of directors that more time is necessary or appropriate to approve the Business Combination Proposal at the Special Meeting. For Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes 797,802,452 5,792,907 77,800 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1417663/000114036124008781/0001140361-24-008781-index.htm

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