---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001641172-25-013609"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BENF"
cik: "0001775734"
company_name: "Beneficient"
filed_at: "2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T00:05:27.032655+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Beneficient holds 2025 annual meeting; elects seven directors and ratifies auditor

## Summary
- Votes represented 5,509,937 shares (~51% of total voting power) as of Feb 28, 2025 record date.
- Class B directors (Heppner, Fletcher, Hicks, Schnitzer) elected with 2,392,570 votes each, no withhold.
- Class A directors (Cangany, Donegan, Wendel) elected with over 4.2M votes for; broker non-votes 814,300.
- Weaver and Tidwell, LLP ratified as auditor for FY ending Mar 31, 2025: 4,971,981 for, 223,639 against, 314,317 abstain.
- Both proposals approved; no other matters voted on.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001641172-25-013609
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BENF
- cik: 0001775734
- company_name: Beneficient
- filed_at: 2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1775734/000164117225013609/0001641172-25-013609-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1775734/000164117225013609/form8-k.htm

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