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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001731122-25-000878"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVXL"
cik: "0001314052"
company_name: "ANAVEX LIFE SCIENCES CORP."
filed_at: "2025-06-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T07:40:12.765255+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Anavex shareholders OK plan amendment to add 4M shares, enforce one-year vesting

## Summary
- Amendment to 2022 Omnibus Incentive Plan increases authorized shares from 10M to 14M.
- New awards subject to minimum one-year vesting; exceptions for substitutions, cash awards, 5% pool, change in control, death/disability.
- Liberal share recycling prohibited: shares used for exercise price or tax withholding cannot be re-added to plan reserve.
- All six director nominees elected (Missling, Ma, van der Velden, Skarpelos, Thomas, Donhauser) with >85% of votes cast.
- Ratification of Grant Thornton LLP as independent auditor received 49.6M for vs 1.9M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001731122-25-000878
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVXL
- cik: 0001314052
- company_name: ANAVEX LIFE SCIENCES CORP.
- filed_at: 2025-06-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1314052/000173112225000878/0001731122-25-000878-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1314052/000173112225000878/e6659_8k.htm

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