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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-155179"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "APLS"
cik: "0001492422"
company_name: "Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T06:14:40.702224+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Apellis stockholders elect directors, ratify auditor, approve executive pay at 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- Paul Fonteyne elected with 98,837,712 votes for and 5,320,270 withheld; Stephanie Monaghan O'Brien elected with 80,481,023 for and 23,672,152 withheld.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as auditor passed with 109,564,727 for, 56,762 against, and 42,951 abstain.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 93,573,357 for, 10,540,010 against, and 44,708 abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-155179
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: APLS
- cik: 0001492422
- company_name: Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1492422/000119312524155179/0001193125-24-155179-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1492422/000119312524155179/d816010d8k.htm

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