---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-001527"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OFIX"
cik: "0000884624"
company_name: "Orthofix Medical Inc."
filed_at: "2023-01-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T20:38:32.260127+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Orthofix shareholders approve stock issuance for SeaSpine merger

## Summary
- 17.1M votes for (97.7% of votes cast); 264k against, 131k abstain.
- Issuance of Orthofix common stock to SeaSpine stockholders as part of Oct 10, 2022 merger agreement.
- Special meeting quorum achieved with 87.54% of 20.0M outstanding shares represented.
- Proposal to adjourn meeting not needed because sufficient votes were cast.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-001527
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OFIX
- cik: 0000884624
- company_name: Orthofix Medical Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-01-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/884624/000119312523001527/0001193125-23-001527-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/884624/000119312523001527/d436684d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-001527.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Orthofix Medical Inc. shareholders approved Approval of issuance of Orthofix common stock to SeaSpine stockholders in connection with the merger. at the 2023-01-04 meeting.
  - Proposal: merger approval
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-01-04
  source text: Proposal 1: Orthofix Share Issuance. To approve the issuance of Orthofix common stock, par value $0.10 per share, to SeaSpine stockholders in connection with the merger, as contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 10, 2022, by and among Orthofix Medical Inc., Orca Merger Sub Inc. and SeaSpine Holdings Corporation. For Against Abstain 17,121,777 264,278 131,200
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/884624/000119312523001527/0001193125-23-001527-index.htm

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