Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
On June 12, 2025, Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc., (the "Company") held its 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting"). At the Annual Meeting, the Company's stockholders voted on three proposals, each of which is described in more detail in the Company's definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2025. Only stockholders of record as of the close of business on April 15, 2025, the record date for the Annual Meeting, were entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. As of the record date, 119,199,222 shares of the Company's common stock were outstanding, and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. All matters voted on at the Annual Meeting were approved. The tabulation of the stockholder votes on each proposal brought before the Annual Meeting is as follows:
Proposal 1. The election of three Class II directors to hold office until the 2028 annual meeting of stockholders or until their respective successor is elected:
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Nominee
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Votes for
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Votes withheld
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Broker Non-Votes
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Bhaskar Chaudhuri, Ph.D.
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69,994,307
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19,137,532
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14,767,325
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Sue-Jean Lin
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75,774,723
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13,357,116
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14,767,325
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Howard G. Welgus, M.D.
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66,289,952
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22,841,887
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14,767,325
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Proposal 2. The ratification of the selection, by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, of Ernst & Young LLP, as the independent registered public accounting firm of the Company for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025:
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Votes for
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Votes against
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Abstentions
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103,482,807
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47,951
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368,406
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Proposal 3. Approval, on a non-binding advisory basis of the compensation of the Company's named executive officers:
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Votes for
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Votes against
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Abstentions
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Broker Non-Votes
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74,469,060
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13,477,586
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1,185,193
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14,767,325
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Item 8.01 Other Events
As part of a regular review of the corporate governance practices of the Company and in an effort to continue to attract and retain qualified members of the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board"), which includes compensating eligible non-employee directors appropriately for their services, the Compensation Committee of the Board recommended to the Board, and the Board approved, revisions to the Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. Non-Employee Director Compensation Plan (the "Amended Program"), which provides annual cash and equity compensation on the terms and conditions contained therein. The Amended Program became effective as of the Annual Meeting.
The foregoing description of the Amended Program is only a summary and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Amended Program, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.