Avenue Therapeutics Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Shareholder Director Nominations, Other Events

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Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): November 14, 2025

 

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To the extent applicable, the information in Item 8.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference into Item 5.08.

 

 

 

Avenue Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) has set December 30, 2025, as the date for its 2025 annual meeting of stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”). The time and location of the Annual Meeting will be set forth in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A (the “Proxy Statement”) for the Annual Meeting to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

 

Stockholders intending to submit proposals for inclusion in the Proxy Statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), must ensure that such proposals are received by the Company no later than November 28, 2025, which the Company has determined to be a reasonable time before it expects to begin to send its proxy materials for the Annual Meeting, and must comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”) to be eligible for inclusion in the Proxy Statement. Any proposal submitted after the above deadline will not be considered timely and will be excluded from the Proxy Statement.

 

Stockholders intending to submit a proposal outside the processes of Rule 14a-8 of the Exchange Act or a nominee for director, in each case in connection with the Annual Meeting, must provide notice of such proposals or nominees to the Company no later than the close of business on November 28, 2025, which is the 10th day following the first public announcement of the date of the Annual Meeting. In addition to satisfying the foregoing requirements under the Company’s Bylaws, to comply with the universal proxy rules, stockholders who intend to solicit proxies in support of director nominees other than the Company’s nominees at the Annual Meeting must provide notice to the Company’s Corporate Secretary no later than November 28, 2025.

 

All proposals and notices must be in writing and received by the Company’s Corporate Secretary at 1111 Kane Concourse, Suite 301, Bay Harbor Islands, FL 33154, and must also comply with the applicable requirements set forth in the rules and regulations of the Exchange Act and the form and information requirements specified in the Bylaws.

 

 

 

 

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.