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materiality 0.70
Amarin shareholders reject four proposals at AGM, limiting equity grants and forcing cash compensation
AMARIN CORP PLCUK
- Issuance Proposal (authority to issue shares up to £37.75M) failed with 75M for, 96M against.
- 2020 Stock Incentive Plan amendment to add 15M ordinary shares failed with 71M for, 95M against.
- Pre-emption Proposal and Amended Articles Proposal also failed; Say-on-Pay passed but 81M votes against.
- Board expects future incentive compensation to be cash-only due to inability to grant equity; cash position impacted.
- Company will continue paper delivery of proxy materials, incurring needless printing and mailing costs.
item 5.07