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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-24-015549"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVPT"
cik: "0001777921"
company_name: "AvePoint, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T06:39:10.008379+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AvePoint shareholders approve charter amendment for officer exculpation at 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- Approved Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation adding Delaware-law officer exculpation provisions.
- Re-elected directors Xunkai Gong and Jeff Teper as Class III directors until 2027.
- Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation passed with 147.95M for, 0.42M against.
- Advisory vote on frequency: annual selected (147.70M votes); company will hold annual say-on-pay votes.
- Ratified Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for fiscal 2024 with 159.87M for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-24-015549
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVPT
- cik: 0001777921
- company_name: AvePoint, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777921/000143774924015549/0001437749-24-015549-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777921/000143774924015549/avpt20240506_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AvePoint, Inc.: Adoption of the Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to add new Delaware law provisions regarding exculpation of officers (effective 2024-05-07).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2024-05-07
  source text: The Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (the “ Certificate of Incorporation ”), which became effective upon filling with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 7, 2024, includes the amendment proposed in the Charter Proposal.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777921/000143774924015549/0001437749-24-015549-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  AvePoint, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent auditor at the 2024-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-07
  source text: ratified the selection by the Board's audit committee of Deloitte & Touche LLP to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the 2024 fiscal year
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777921/000143774924015549/0001437749-24-015549-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  AvePoint, Inc. shareholders approved Election of Class III directors at the 2024-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-07
  source text: stockholders (i) re-elected two directors, Xunkai Gong and Jeff Teper, to serve as Class III directors on the Company’s board of directors
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777921/000143774924015549/0001437749-24-015549-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  AvePoint, Inc. shareholders approved Adoption of Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation at the 2024-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: charter amendment
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-07
  source text: approved the adoption of the Third Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777921/000143774924015549/0001437749-24-015549-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  AvePoint, Inc. shareholders approved Frequency of future advisory votes on executive compensation at the 2024-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-07
  source text: voted for future votes on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers to occur annually
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777921/000143774924015549/0001437749-24-015549-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  AvePoint, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory vote on the compensation of named executive officers at the 2024-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-07
  source text: approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1777921/000143774924015549/0001437749-24-015549-index.htm

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