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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-288600"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TENX"
cik: "0000034956"
company_name: "TENAX THERAPEUTICS, INC."
filed_at: "2026-06-29T20:40:44+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T20:42:10.461923+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tenax adopts CIC/Severance Plans; amends CEO Giordano's agreement

## Summary
- Board adopted double-trigger Change in Control Plan and Severance Plan on June 26, 2026.
- CEO Giordano: 18 months' base salary + target bonus + accelerated vesting on CIC termination.
- Executives Staab and Rich: 12 months' base salary + COBRA on CIC; non-CIC severance includes 12-month base plus extra base per year of service up to 12 additional months.
- Benefits under plans and amendments conditioned on execution of release of claims.
- Executive officers excluded from new plans; covered via individual amended agreements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-288600
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TENX
- cik: 0000034956
- company_name: TENAX THERAPEUTICS, INC.
- filed_at: 2026-06-29T20:40:44+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34956/000119312526288600/0001193125-26-288600-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34956/000119312526288600/d251626d8k.htm

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