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| Item 5.07. | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Stockholders |
(a) On October 27, 2020, the Spero Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) held its 2020 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”). Of the 25,970,105 shares of common stock issued and outstanding and eligible to vote as of the record date of September 15, 2020, a quorum of 17,853,783 shares, or 68.75% of the outstanding shares, were present in person or by proxy.
(b) The following actions were taken at the Annual Meeting:
1. The following nominees were reelected to serve on the Company’s board of directors as Class III directors until the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of stockholders, based on the following votes:
| Name |
Votes For | Votes Withheld | Broker Non-Votes | |||||||||
| Milind Deshpande, Ph.D. |
8,303,201 | 1,341,441 | 8,209,141 | |||||||||
| Jean-François Formela, M.D. |
8,304,029 | 1,340,613 | 8,209,141 | |||||||||
| Ankit Mahadevia, M.D. |
8,933,743 | 710,899 | 8,209,141 | |||||||||
2. The selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2020 was ratified, based on the following votes:
| Votes For |
Votes Against |
Votes Abstained |
Broker Non-Votes | |||
| 17,675,631 | 163,741 | 14,411 | 0 |
SIGNATURE
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.
| Date: October 28, 2020 | SPERO THERAPEUTICS, INC. | |||||
| By: | /s/ Ankit Mahadevia, M.D. | |||||
| Ankit Mahadevia, M.D. | ||||||
| President and Chief Executive Officer | ||||||