---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-028149"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SVCO"
cik: "0001943289"
company_name: "Silvaco Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T08:54:10.519311+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Silvaco shareholders approve director removal without cause; all 9 director nominees elected

## Summary
- Stockholders approved amendment to certificate of incorporation to allow removal of directors without cause; effective May 28, 2025.
- Board also adopted amended bylaws to eliminate 'for cause' requirement for director removal.
- All nine Class 1 director nominees elected, including Babak Taheri, Anita Ganti, and Dr. Walden Rhines.
- Vote: 24,057,623 for, 15,386 against on charter amendment; 83.61% of shares represented.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-028149
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SVCO
- cik: 0001943289
- company_name: Silvaco Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- 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/1943289/000162828025028149/0001628280-25-028149-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1943289/000162828025028149/svco-20250522.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Silvaco Group, Inc.: Amended and Restated Bylaws to eliminate the 'for cause' requirement for removal of directors (effective 2025-05-22).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-22
  source text: the Board of Directors of the Company approved Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company on May 22, 2025, to eliminate the “for cause” requirement for the removal of directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1943289/000162828025028149/0001628280-25-028149-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Silvaco Group, Inc.: Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to allow removal of directors without cause (effective 2025-05-28).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-28
  source text: our stockholders approved an Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Amended and Restated Certificate”) to allow for the removal of directors by stockholders without cause. The Amended and Restated Certificate was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and became effective on May 28, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1943289/000162828025028149/0001628280-25-028149-index.htm

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