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accession: "0001437749-25-020318"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AQMS"
cik: "0001621832"
company_name: "Aqua Metals, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T08:26:39.863333+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Aqua Metals lowers shareholder quorum threshold to one-third of outstanding shares

## Summary
- Board approved amendment to Bylaws on June 9, 2025, effective immediately.
- Quorum reduced from majority to at least one-third (33.33%) of outstanding shares entitled to vote.
- Change applies to all stockholder meetings for transaction of business.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-25-020318
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AQMS
- cik: 0001621832
- company_name: Aqua Metals, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774925020318/0001437749-25-020318-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774925020318/aqms20250610_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-25-020318.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Aqua Metals, Inc.: Reduced quorum requirement for stockholder meetings from majority to one-third (effective 2025-06-09).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-09
  source text: June 9, 2025, the Board of Directors of Aqua Metals, Inc. (the “Company”) approved an amendment to the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”), effective immediately. The amendment modified the provisions for determining the presence of a quorum at all meetings of stockholders to provide that the presence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of at least one-third (33.33%) of all issued and outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at the meeting will constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the transaction of business. Prior to the amendment, the presence, in person or by proxy, of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock entitled to vote would constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1621832/000143774925020318/0001437749-25-020318-index.htm

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