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Item 8.01.         Other Events.

 

As previously disclosed in public filings made by Vaxart, Inc. (the “Company”), including the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2022, on September 8, 2020, a purported shareholder derivative complaint was filed in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (the “Court”), entitled Galjour v. Floroiu, et al. On October 20, 2020, a purported shareholder derivative and class action complaint, entitled Jaquith v. Vaxart, Inc., was filed in the Court. On November 12, 2020, the two actions were consolidated under the caption In re Vaxart, Inc. Stockholder Litigation, and the complaint filed in the Jaquith action was deemed the operative pleading. The operative complaint named certain current and former directors of the Company as defendants, asserting claims against them for breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment and seeking, among other things, an award of unspecified damages, certain equitable relief, and attorneys’ fees and costs. The complaint also asserted claims for unjust enrichment and breach of fiduciary duty, or alternatively aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty, against Armistice Capital, LLC (“Armistice”). The complaint challenged certain stock options granted to certain of the Company’s officers and directors between March 24, 2020 and June 15, 2020 (the “2020 Stock Option Grants”); certain alleged statements and omissions made in the Company’s proxy statement, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 24, 2020 (the “Proxy Statement”); and certain amendments to two warrants (the “Warrant Amendments”) held by Armistice, as disclosed in a Schedule 13D filed by Armistice on June 9, 2020. The complaint purported to bring all but one of the claims derivatively on behalf of and for the benefit of the Company. It also purported to bring one claim, for breach of fiduciary duty based on alleged statements and omissions in the Proxy Statement, directly on behalf of a class of the Company’s stockholders. The complaint named the Company as a “nominal defendant,” against which no damages were sought.

 

On January 4, 2021, all defendants filed motions to dismiss. In a decision dated November 30, 2021, and corrected on December 1, 2021, the Court dismissed the claims relating to the Warrant Amendments. On June 3, 2022, the Court granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss in its entirety, dismissing the remainder of the claims in the operative complaint. In the decision, the Court dismissed the claims relating to the 2020 Stock Option Grants, namely (i) the claim alleging that the Company’s directors failed to disclose material information in the Proxy Statement prior to the stockholders’ vote on the amendment to the Company’s 2019 Equity Incentive Plan on June 8, 2020; and (ii) the claim alleging that the stock option recipients were unjustly enriched through their receipt of options. In the opinion, the court ordered the derivative case to be dismissed with prejudice.

 

 

 

 

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