---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-043609"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WSTRF"
cik: "0001621906"
company_name: "Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp."
filed_at: "2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T13:04:46.275473+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Western Uranium & Vanadium adopts shareholder rights plan with 20% trigger

## Summary
- Plan effective immediately; subject to shareholder ratification at June 29, 2023 AGM.
- One right per common share; exercisable if any acquirer holds 20%+ without complying with permitted bid provisions.
- Initial term of three years; not adopted in response to any specific takeover proposal.
- Rights agent is Capital Transfer Agency ULC; plan similar to other Canadian issuer rights plans.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-043609
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WSTRF
- cik: 0001621906
- company_name: Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp.
- filed_at: 2023-05-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621906/000121390023043609/0001213900-23-043609-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621906/000121390023043609/ea179409-8k_westernuran.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-23-043609
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-23-043609.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-23-043609.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. entered into Shareholder Rights Plan Agreement with Capital Transfer Agency ULC valued at Issuance of one Right per common share under a shareholder rights plan (effective 2023-05-24).
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: Capital Transfer Agency ULC
  - Value: Issuance of one Right per common share under a shareholder rights plan
  - Effective: 2023-05-24
  source text: Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. On May 24, 2023, Western Uranium & Vanadium Corp. (“ Western ” or the “ Company ”) adopted a shareholder rights plan (the “ Plan ”) by entering into a shareholder rights plan agreement (the “ Agreement ”) on that date with Capital Transfer Agency ULC as rights agent.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621906/000121390023043609/0001213900-23-043609-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.