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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-24-045758"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ABAT"
cik: "0001576873"
company_name: "AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co"
filed_at: "2024-11-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-30T00:28:17.704217+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Shareholders approve increase in authorized shares from 80M to 250M and 2024 ESPP

## Summary
- Authorized common shares increased to 250M from 80M; vote 69.68M for, 31.08M against.
- 2024 Employee Stock Purchase Plan approved; 14.51M for, 3.51M against, 25.11M broker non-votes.
- All five director nominees elected; Ryan Melsert, Elizabeth Lowery, Susan Yun Lee, Rick Fezell, Sherif Marakby.
- KPMG ratified as auditor for FY2025 with 41.00M for, 2.35M against.
- Non-binding say-on-pay approved (13.06M for); one-year frequency adopted.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-24-045758
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ABAT
- cik: 0001576873
- company_name: AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co
- filed_at: 2024-11-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315224045758/0001493152-24-045758-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315224045758/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AMERICAN BATTERY TECHNOLOGY Co: Amendment to Articles of Incorporation to increase authorized shares of common stock from 80,000,000 to 250,000,000 (effective 2024-11-14).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2024-11-14
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, upon the recommendation of the Board, the Company’s shareholders approved an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, as amended (the “Articles of Incorporation”), to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 80,000,000 to 250,000,000. On November 14, 2024, the Company filed the Amendment with the Secretary of State of Nevada, which integrates the amendment to the Articles of Incorporation approved by the Company’s shareholders at the Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1576873/000149315224045758/0001493152-24-045758-index.htm

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