UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): June 14, 2016

 

 

SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

Delaware

(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)

 

000-30171		68-0359556
(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)
501 Canal Blvd		Richmond, California 94804
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

(510) 970-6000

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

As previously disclosed on a Form 8-K filed by Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (the “Company”), on June 1, 2016 (the “June 2, 2016 Form 8-K”), the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company appointed Dr. Alexander (Sandy) Macrae to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective as of June 1, 2016. On June 14, 2016, the Board appointed Dr. Macrae to serve as a director of the Board until he is duly elected at the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Additional information regarding Dr. Macrae, including his biography, is set forth in the June 2, 2016 Form 8-K, which incorporated herein by reference to this Item 5.02.

Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws.

On June 14, 2016, Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (the “Company”) held its 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders in which the stockholders approved, among other things, an amendment to Article V of the Company’s Seventh Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) to remove a provision stating that a director or the entire Board of Directors of the Company may be removed only for cause by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of voting stock of the Company entitled to vote in an election of directors (the “Charter Amendment”). The Charter Amendment became effective on June 14, 2016. As previously disclosed in a Form 8-K filed on March 18, 2016, which is incorporated herein by reference, in connection with the Charter Amendment, the Board of Directors also approved Amendment No. 1 to the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaw Amendment”) to provide that any and all of the directors may be removed from office at any time, with or without cause, if such removal is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company then entitled to vote in the election of directors. The Bylaw Amendment also became effective on June 14, 2016.

The foregoing description of the Charter Amendment is qualified in its entirety by the text of the Certificate of Amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this Form 8-K.

Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

The Company’s Annual Meeting was held on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 for the purposes of (i) electing eight directors to serve on the Board for a one-year term; (ii) approving an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws to eliminate the provisions prohibiting removal of directors without cause; and (iii) ratifying the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016. There were present at the meeting, in person or represented by proxy, the holders of 61,457,044 shares of common stock, constituting a quorum. Stockholders approved all three proposals.

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The final votes on the proposals were recorded as follows:

Proposal No. 1: Election of Directors

Each nominee for director listed in the proxy statement for the Annual Meeting was elected by the votes set forth in the table below:

 

Director Nominees		Votes For				Votes Against				Abstentions				Broker Non-Votes
Edward O. Lanphier			36,775,218				794,484				407,764				23,479,578
Robert F. Carey			36,867,171				675,883				434,412				23,479,578
Paul B. Cleveland			36,685,097				924,252				368,117				23,479,578
Stephen G. Dilly, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.			37,008,188				586,028				383,250				23,479,578
Steven J. Mento, Ph.D.			35,330,528				2,255,538				391,400				23,479,578
H. Stewart Parker			35,462,752				2,113,549				401,165				23,479,578
Saira Ramasastry			37,031,496				544,141				401,829				23,479,578
William R. Ringo			32,522,517				5,064,849				390,100				23,479,578

Proposal No. 2: Approval of an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws to eliminate the provisions prohibiting removal of directors without cause.

The amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws was approved by the votes set forth in the table below:

 

		Votes For				Votes Against				Abstentions				Broker Non-Votes
Approval of amendment to Sangamo’s Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws			57,463,125				3,521,078				472,841				0

Proposal No. 3: Ratification of Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP

The appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016 was ratified by the votes set forth in the table below:

 

		Votes For				Votes Against				Abstentions				Broker Non-Votes
Ratification of Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP			59,458,000				1,453,881				545,163				0

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Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)

Exhibits.

 

Exhibit		Description
3.1		Certificate of Amendment dated June 14, 2016.
3.2		Amendment No. 1 to the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Dated: June 15, 2016

Exhibit 3.1

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

OF

SEVENTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF

SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC.

Sangamo BioSciences, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”), hereby certifies as follows:

1. The Board of Directors of the Corporation duly adopted the following resolutions in accordance with the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, Section 242:

RESOLVED, that Article V, Paragraph 4 of the Seventh Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended from time to time, is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

Vacancies occurring on the Board of Directors for any reason may be filled by vote of a majority of the remaining members of the Board of Directors, even if less than a quorum, at any meeting of the Board of Directors. A person so elected by the Board of Directors to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the remainder of the full term of the director for which the vacancy was created or occurred and until such director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified.

2. This amendment to the Seventh Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation has been duly adopted by the holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of the Corporation’s common stock in accordance with the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, Section 242, such holders being all of the holders of the Corporation’s capital stock entitled to vote thereon.

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The Corporation has caused this Certificate of Amendment of the Seventh Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to be signed by the Corporation’s President, its authorized officer, on this 14th day of June, 2016.

 

 

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Exhibit 3.2

AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

OF

SANGAMO BIOSCIENCES, INC.

Article IV, Section 13 of the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of Sangamo Biosciences, Inc. (the “Corporation”) shall be amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

“Any and all of the directors may be removed from office at any time, with or without cause, if such removal is approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least a majority of the voting power of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Corporation then entitled to vote in the election of directors.”

The Corporation has caused this Amendment No. 1 to be signed by the Corporation’s President, its authorized officer, on this 14th day of June, 2016.