108 0 Kommentare Akerna Announces Results of Annual Meeting of Stockholders

All director nominees elected and all matters before the Stockholders approved

DENVER, May 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akerna Corp. (Nasdaq: KERN) (“Akerna”) announced today the results of its reconvened 2022 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) held Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at 9 a.m. Mountain Time with respect to all proposals described in Akerna’s definitive proxy statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 19, 2022 (the “Proxy Statement”).

A total of 23,353,671 shares of common stock of the Company were represented at the Annual Meeting being approximately 67% of the outstanding voting securities of the Company as of the record date for the Annual Meeting on March 31, 2022 and representing a quorum for the conduct of business at the Annual Meeting.

At the Annual Meeting, each director nominee was elected to serve as a director of the Company. Further, the Stockholders approved each of the following matters before the Stockholders:

(i)		the ratification of the appointment of Marcum LLP as the Company’s independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022;

(ii)		approval, for purposes of complying with Section 5635(d) of the Listing Rules (the “Nasdaq Listing Rules”) of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”), of the issuance of shares of the Company’s common stock underlying senior secured convertible notes in an amount that may be equal to or exceed 20% of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the issuance of such senior secured convertible notes;

(iii)		approval, for the purposes of complying with Section 5635(a) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules, of the issuance of shares of our common stock payable as the earn-out payment pursuant to the Stock Purchase Agreement between the Company and The Nav People, Inc., dba 365 Cannabis (the “365 SPA”) in an amount to be equal to or exceed 20% of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to entry into the 365 SPA;

(iv)		approval to amend the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock from 75,000,000 to 150,000,000; and

(v)		approval of an amendment to the Company’s 2019 Long Term Incentive Plan (the “Incentive Plan”) to increase the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the Incentive Plan by 2,934,962 shares, resulting in an aggregate of 4,500,000 shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the Incentive Plan.