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At SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC.'s shareholder meeting held September 7, 2023, in the 2023-2024 proxy season, 48 asset managers reported how they voted in their SEC Form N-PX filings, covering 99 separate fund positions. Their filings are grouped here into 3 reported items; because filers word the same ballot item differently, that can be more than the number of items on the ballot. On the most widely held item on that ballot — TO APPROVE, ON AN ADVISORY (NON-BINDING) BASIS, THE COMPENSATION THAT WILL OR MAY BE PAID TO… — SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC.'s filing reports the proposal as approved, with 72% support of the votes cast (FOR divided by FOR plus AGAINST, the conventional basis for proxy support; abstentions, broker non-votes and unvoted shares are excluded because none of them took a side). Source: SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC.'s Form 8-K, Item 5.07, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 8, 2023.
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Compiled from SEC Form N-PX filings and SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC.’s Form 8-K, filed September 8, 2023 (Item 5.07 on EDGAR). Page generated November 8, 2026.
Meeting of September 7, 2023: 2 items on SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC.’s Form 8-K, filed September 8, 2023: 2 approved.
Material dissent: a director nominee under 80% of the votes cast, say-on-pay under 70%, any other item the board put forward under 80%, or a shareholder proposal with more than 50%, on the company’s own Form 8-K tally. How this is decided
Proxy season: 2023-2024
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These tallies are SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC.’s own, as disclosed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Form 8-K, filed September 8, 2023 (Item 5.07, “Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders”). They cover every share voted at the meeting, not just the funds that file Form N-PX.
| Ballot item | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Broker non-votes | Support (of votes cast) | Reported outcome | Voting standard |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merger Proposal | 40,908,190 | 683,979 | 66,868 | -- | 0 | 98% | Approved | — |
| Non-Binding Compensation Proposal | 26,592,107 | 10,199,559 | 4,867,371 | -- | 0 | 72% | Approved | — |
This meeting is also recorded here as September 8, 2023; both records come from the same filing, so the date should be checked against it.
Source: SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC., Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on September 8, 2023 — read the filing on EDGAR.
Each item below shows how the 48 asset managers that disclosed a SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC. vote in their SEC Form N-PX filings actually voted. Share totals are the shares those managers' funds voted, summed across every fund they report. These are reported items, not a count of the ballot: fund filings describe one ballot item in different words. Two descriptions are shown as one item only on evidence — the same text (or one cut short of the other), the same director nominee, or a match to the same row of SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC.’s own Form 8-K tally — never because they merely read alike. A description that could not be joined that way is listed on its own, so one ballot item can appear more than once.
100% of fund votes cast · no official result
Description as filed by funds: To adopt the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated June 15, 2023 (as it may amended from time to time, the Merger Agreement"), by and among Coherus BioSciences, Inc., ("Coherus"), Crimson Merger Sub I, Inc., ("Merger Sub I"), Crimson Merger Sub II, LLC ("Merger Sub II") and Surface Oncology, Inc. ("Surface"), pursuant to which Merger Sub I will merge with and into Surface, with Surface surviving that merger and becoming a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of Coherus (the "First Merger"), and, as part of the same overall transaction, promptly after the First Merger, the surviving corporation of the First Merger will merge with and into Merger Sub II, with Merger Sub II surviving such merger (the "Second Merger" and together with the First Merger, the "Mergers").
The 9 asset managers below reported 3,497,519 for. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | 2,290,442 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 730,738 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Delaware/Macquarie | 350,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BlackRock | 58,721 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Legg Mason | 54,947 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Victory Capital | 5,635 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| MASTER INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO | 4,415 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| AIG/SunAmerica | 2,413 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Guggenheim | 208 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
82% of fund votes cast · no official result
Description as filed by funds: To approve the adjournment or postponement of the Surface special meeting to solicit additional proxies if there are not sufficient votes cast at the Surface special meeting to approve the Surface merger proposal or to ensure that any supplemental or amended disclosure, including any supplement or amendment to the proxy statement/prospectus, is timely provided to Surface stockholders.
The 11 asset managers below reported 2,909,863 for, 637,511 against. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | 2,290,442 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Fidelity | 93,227 | 637,511 | 0 | 0 | Mixed |
| Delaware/Macquarie | 350,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| BlackRock | 58,721 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Legg Mason | 54,947 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Charles Schwab | 44,721 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Victory Capital | 5,635 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| ARK ETF Trust | 5,134 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| MASTER INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO | 4,415 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| AIG/SunAmerica | 2,413 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Guggenheim | 208 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
Combines 7 wordings of this item as funds reported it.
72% Approved · of votes cast
Description as filed by funds: TO APPROVE, ON AN ADVISORY (NON-BINDING) BASIS, THE COMPENSATION THAT WILL OR MAY BE PAID TO SURFACE'S NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS IN CONNECTION WITH THE MERGERS.
SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC.’s own tally for this item (“Non-Binding Compensation Proposal”): 26,592,107 for, 10,199,559 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed September 8, 2023 (Item 5.07).
Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Approval of the Advisory, Non-Binding Compensation Proposal The Company's stockholders approved, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, the compensation that will or may be paid to the Company's named executive officers in connection with the Mergers (the " Advisory Compensation Proposal ").”
Support: 72% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.
Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice).
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | 0 | 2,290,442 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Fidelity | 93,227 | 637,511 | 0 | 0 | Mixed |
| Delaware/Macquarie | 0 | 350,000 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| BlackRock | 0 | 58,721 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Legg Mason | 0 | 54,947 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Charles Schwab | 0 | 44,721 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Victory Capital | 0 | 5,635 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| ARK ETF Trust | 0 | 5,134 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| MASTER INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO | 0 | 4,415 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| AIG/SunAmerica | 0 | 2,413 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Guggenheim | 0 | 208 | 0 | 0 | Against |
Fund voting reports, all 11 managers: 93,227 for, 3,454,147 against.
| Asset manager | For | Against | Abstain | Withheld | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARMISTICE CAPITAL, LLC | 5,295,345 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| DAFNA Capital Management LLC | 1,100,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Yakira Capital Management, Inc. | 788,081 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | 0 | 667,418 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Laurion Capital Management LP | 0 | 665,400 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Renaissance | 0 | 585,215 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| BlackRock | 0 | 445,085 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| ACADIAN ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC | 0 | 351,763 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc | 319,962 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| STIFEL NICOLAUS & CO INC \MO\ | 0 | 298,292 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| State Street | 0 | 171,566 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Knights of Columbus Asset Advisors LLC | 157,369 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| Newton Investment Management North America, LLC | 0 | 121,350 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Fidelity | 95,751 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| FRANKLIN ADVISERS INC | 0 | 54,947 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Charles Schwab | 0 | 44,721 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION/OH | 0 | 26,455 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| COMMERCE BANK | 0 | 20,000 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Vanguard | 0 | 18,844 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Two Sigma | 0 | 14,976 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| CSS LLC/IL | 10,740 | 0 | 0 | 0 | For |
| OPPENHEIMER & CO INC | 0 | 9,891 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Janney Montgomery Scott LLC | 0 | 7,600 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| MELLON INVESTMENTS Corp | 0 | 6,312 | 0 | 0 | Against |
| Victory Capital | 0 | 5,635 | 0 | 0 | Against |
Institutional-manager reports, all 40 managers: 7,767,815 for, 3,526,950 against. Showing the 25 largest; every one is in the interactive database (link above).
Ranked separately for each type of Form N-PX report. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two tables can list the same shares and are never added together. Each is ranked by the shares voted on the item that the most managers of that type reported, shown as a share of the 60,824,474 shares outstanding at the time of that meeting.
| # | Asset manager | % of shares outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanguard | 3.77% |
| 2 | Fidelity | 1.20% |
| 3 | Delaware/Macquarie | 0.58% |
| 4 | BlackRock | 0.10% |
| 5 | Legg Mason | 0.09% |
| 6 | Charles Schwab | 0.07% |
| 7 | Victory Capital | <0.01% |
| 8 | ARK ETF Trust | <0.01% |
| 9 | MASTER INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO | <0.01% |
| 10 | AIG/SunAmerica | <0.01% |
| # | Asset manager | % of shares outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ARMISTICE CAPITAL, LLC | 8.71% |
| 2 | DAFNA Capital Management LLC | 1.81% |
| 3 | Yakira Capital Management, Inc. | 1.30% |
| 4 | GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC | 1.10% |
| 5 | Laurion Capital Management LP | 1.09% |
| 6 | Renaissance | 0.96% |
| 7 | BlackRock | 0.73% |
| 8 | ACADIAN ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC | 0.58% |
| 9 | Ensign Peak Advisors, Inc | 0.53% |
| 10 | STIFEL NICOLAUS & CO INC \MO\ | 0.49% |
Percentages above are of 60,824,474 shares outstanding, as reported by SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC. on its Form 10-Q dated July 31, 2023 (see the filing on EDGAR). This is the count contemporaneous with the 2023-2024 meeting, not today’s. Each holding is as of its own filing, which may be dated before or after the meeting.
Every figure above is derived from filings made with the US Securities and Exchange Commission: Form N-PX, in which registered funds disclose how they voted every proxy and institutional managers disclose their votes on executive pay (say-on-pay, say-on-frequency and golden parachutes), and Form 8-K Item 5.07, in which the company reports its own meeting results. Shares outstanding are taken from SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC.’s 10-Q dated July 31, 2023. This page is a static snapshot rebuilt weekly on November 8, 2026; a live search always shows the current data.
SURFACE ONCOLOGY INC. proxy season coverage: 2023-2024 (this page).
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