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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-069110"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PEPG"
cik: "0001835597"
company_name: "PepGen Inc."
filed_at: "2024-03-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T17:49:47.252005+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "low"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# PepGen amends bylaws to update proxy rules and stockholder meeting procedures

## Summary
- Board adopted Second Amended and Restated By-laws effective March 15, 2024.
- Updates include universal proxy rule compliance, mandatory white proxy card for non-Board solicitations.
- Eliminates requirement to make stockholder list available at meetings per DGCL amendments.
- Clarifies exclusive forum for certain legal proceedings in Delaware courts.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-069110
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PEPG
- cik: 0001835597
- company_name: PepGen Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-03-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: low
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835597/000119312524069110/0001193125-24-069110-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835597/000119312524069110/d810119d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  PepGen Inc.: Adopted second amended and restated bylaws to revise advance notice provisions, address universal proxy rules, update technical changes, and clarify meeting procedures and exclusive jurisdiction (effective 2024-03-15).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-03-15
  source text: On March 15, 2024, the board of directors (the “Board”) of PepGen Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted the second amended and restated by-laws (the “Second Amended and Restated By-laws”) of the Company, effective immediately. The Second Amended and Restated By-laws amend certain of the provisions of Article I, Sections 2, 6, 8, and 9, and Article VI, Sections 8 and 9. Among other things, the amendments set forth in the Second Amended and Restated By-laws: (1) revise the procedures and disclosure requirements set forth in the advance notice by-law provisions; (2) address the universal proxy rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, by clarifying that no person may solicit proxies in support of a director nominee other than the Board’s nominees unless such person has complied with Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (“Rule 14a-19”), including applicable notice and solicitation requirements; (3) require that a stockholder directly or
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1835597/000119312524069110/0001193125-24-069110-index.htm

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