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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-165735"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BVS"
cik: "0001665988"
company_name: "Bioventus Inc."
filed_at: "2024-06-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T02:52:34.705981+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bioventus amends stockholders agreement to phase out classified board structure

## Summary
- Amendment to Stockholders Agreement moves to annual director elections after 2024 annual meeting.
- Existing three-year terms for current directors continue until expiration; successors will serve one-year terms.
- Company authorized to amend charter and bylaws to reflect declassification of the Board.
- Change applies to director designees of Essex and S+N principal stockholders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-165735
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BVS
- cik: 0001665988
- company_name: Bioventus Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-06-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1665988/000119312524165735/0001193125-24-165735-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1665988/000119312524165735/d821942d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-165735.txt

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