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accession: "0001193125-23-085762"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SVRA"
cik: "0001160308"
company_name: "Savara Inc"
filed_at: "2023-03-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T08:56:03.665746+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Savara amends bylaws to update stockholder proposal and director nomination procedures

## Summary
- Added updated procedures for stockholder proposals and director nominations, including additional information requirements.
- Requires nominating stockholders to comply with Rule 14a-19 universal proxy rules and use a proxy card color other than white.
- Revised director removal provision: directors may be removed with or without cause by majority vote.
- Added emergency bylaw provision for board quorum during emergencies; updated electronic transmission notice provisions.
- Amendments also reflect name change from Mast Therapeutics to Savara Inc. and conform to recent DGCL changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-085762
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SVRA
- cik: 0001160308
- company_name: Savara Inc
- filed_at: 2023-03-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- 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/1160308/000119312523085762/0001193125-23-085762-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1160308/000119312523085762/d802113d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Savara Inc: Adopted Amended and Restated Bylaws with updates including stockholder proposal procedures, director nomination requirements, universal proxy rules, electronic notice, name change, written consent, director removal, adjournment procedures, and emergency bylaws (effective 2023-03-28).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-03-28
  source text: On March 28, 2023, in connection with a periodic review of the Composite Amended and Restated Bylaws, as amended, of Savara Inc. (“Savara”), the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Savara adopted and approved Savara’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Amended Bylaws”), which became immediately effective.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1160308/000119312523085762/0001193125-23-085762-index.htm

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