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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-162669"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BVS"
cik: "0001665988"
company_name: "Bioventus Inc."
filed_at: "2024-06-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T04:07:39.332419+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bioventus stockholders approve board declassification, annual director elections by 2026

## Summary
- Declassification Charter Amendment approved: 61,439,110 for, 135,200 against, 22,572 abstain.
- Board will shift to annual elections; entire board elected yearly starting 2026 annual meeting.
- Class III directors elected: Robert E. Claypoole, Philip G. Cowdy, Martin P. Sutter.
- Ratification of Grant Thornton as auditor for FY 2024: 71,179,096 for, 14,660 against.
- Amendment effective upon filing certificate of amendment with Delaware Secretary of State.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-162669
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BVS
- cik: 0001665988
- company_name: Bioventus Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-06-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1665988/000119312524162669/0001193125-24-162669-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1665988/000119312524162669/d775079d8k.htm

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