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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-022316"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SIGA"
cik: "0001010086"
company_name: "SIGA TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T10:02:30.659530+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SIGA shareholders elect board, ratify auditor, approve officer liability amendment at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected; highest vote total 52.1M for John M. Keane; lowest 47.8M for Joseph W. Marshall.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor: 62.4M for, 1.6M against, 22.8K abstain.
- Amendment to limit officer liability approved: 48.7M for, 4.3M against, 18.5K abstain.
- Bylaws amended to designate Delaware Chancery Court as exclusive forum for state law claims and federal district courts for Securities Act claims.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-022316
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SIGA
- cik: 0001010086
- company_name: SIGA TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1010086/000114036125022316/0001140361-25-022316-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1010086/000114036125022316/ef20050546_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SIGA TECHNOLOGIES INC: Amended and restated bylaws to include exclusive forum provisions for Delaware and federal securities claims (effective 2025-06-10).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-10
  source text: On June 10, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of SIGA Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”), upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated By-laws (as so amended and restated, the “By-laws”), effective as of such date. The amendments provide that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for certain state corporate law or shareholder derivative claims, and that the federal district courts of the United States are the exclusive forum for any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1010086/000114036125022316/0001140361-25-022316-index.htm

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