Six Flags Entertainment Corporation 8-K, filed Jan 24, 2025
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (FUN)
About this 8-K
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation filed this 8-K on January 24, 2025.
Items reported
- Item 5.08: Shareholder director nominations
- Item 8.01: Other events
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| Item 5.08. | Shareholder Director Nominations. |
To the extent applicable, the information contained in Item 8.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 5.08.
| Item 8.01. | Other Events. |
The Board of Directors of Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (“Company”) has determined that the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held on June 25, 2025. Deadlines for submission of nominations and stockholder proposals are set out below for clarity given that this is the Company’s first Annual Meeting. Any stockholder proposal or director nomination also must comply with the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (“Bylaws”), the requirements of Delaware law and the rules and regulations promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), as applicable. A copy of the Company’s Bylaws is filed as Exhibit 3.2 to the Form 8-K filed by the Company with the SEC on July 1, 2024.
| • | To be considered timely under the Bylaws, stockholder notice of general nominations and stockholder proposals must be delivered to, or mailed to and received by, the Company’s Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company no earlier than February 25, 2025, and not later than March 27, 2025. |
| • | To be considered timely under the Bylaws, stockholder notice of proxy access nominations must be delivered to the Company’s Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company no earlier than January 26, 2025, and not later than February 25, 2025. |
| • | To be considered timely under Rule 14a-8 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, stockholder proposals eligible to be included in the Company’s annual meeting proxy materials must be received at the Company’s principal executive offices a reasonable time before the Company begins to print and mail its proxy materials, which the Company has determined to be not later than February 14, 2025. If a proposal is not received by such date, the appointed proxies may exercise discretionary voting authority on the proposal. |
| • | To be considered timely under Rule 14a-19 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, stockholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Company’s nominees must provide notice to the Company at the Company’s principal executive offices not later than April 26, 2025. |
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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.
| SIX FLAGS ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION | ||||||
| (Registrant) | ||||||
| Date: January 24, 2025 |
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By: | /s/ Brian C. Witherow | |||
| Brian C. Witherow Chief Financial Officer | ||||||