UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K/A

 

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 1, 2021

 

SOLENO THERAPEUTICS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware		001-36593		77-0523891
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		(Commission File No.)		(IRS Employer Identification Number)

 

203 Redwood Shores Pkwy, Suite 500

Redwood City, CA 94065

(Address of principal executive offices)

(650) 213-8444

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class		Trading symbols		Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.001 par value		SLNO		NASDAQ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 

Explanatory Note

This Current Report on Form 8-K/A (the “Amendment”) is being filed as an amendment to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Soleno Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) on June 3, 2021 (the “Original Report”). The Original Report was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to report the results of the matters submitted to a vote by the Company’s stockholders at the Company’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on June 1, 2021 (the “2021 Annual Meeting”). The sole purpose of this Amendment is to disclose, in accordance with Item 5.07(d) of Form 8-K, the Company’s decision as to how frequently the Company will conduct future stockholder advisory votes regarding named executive compensation.

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

As previously reported in the Original Report, in a non-binding advisory vote on the frequency of holding non-binding stockholder advisory votes on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers held at the 2021 Annual Meeting, 23,303,391 shares voted for one year, 164,959 shares voted for two years, 22,807,101 shares voted for three years, 169,906 shares abstained and there were 16,409,685 broker non-votes.

The Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) has considered the outcome of this non-binding advisory vote, including the small majority of the votes of the Company’s stockholders that were cast at the 2021 Annual Meeting in favor of holding an annual non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation; however, more than 49.1% of the votes cast on the “say on pay frequency” proposal voted in favor of holding the “say on pay” vote every three years. The Board has accepted the stockholders’ non-binding advisory vote on the one-year frequency of say-on-pay votes and will place a non-binding advisory vote on the Company’s executive compensation on the agenda for the 2022 annual stockholders meeting.

Notwithstanding the forgoing, the Board expects to again place the frequency of such non-binding say-on-pay votes on the agenda for the 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. The Board considered the advantage of a longer term perspective that a triennial vote would bring, in light of the significant equity component of the Company’s compensation program with vesting over three or more years, the value of which is directly linked to share performance. In addition, a vote every three years provides a longer term compensation history and business performance track record against which to measure management’s strategic long-term business decisions and more frequent votes may focus undue attention on the particular year being reported as opposed to the longer term focus the Company is seeking to achieve through its compensation policies. The strong support for the Company’s compensation program evidenced by the stockholders’ 2021 non-binding advisory say on pay vote on compensation in which approximately 79.4% of the shares voting on the proposal approved the executive compensation reflected in the Company’s 2021 proxy statement.

SIGNATURES

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.

 

				SOLENO THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Date: June 16, 2021
				By:		/s/ Anish Bhatnagar
						Anish Bhatnagar
						Chief Executive Officer