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Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
The 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) was held on May 18, 2021. As of March 29, 2021, the record date for the Annual Meeting, 117,320,127 shares of the Company’s common stock were issued and outstanding. A summary of the matters voted upon by stockholders at the Annual Meeting is set forth below.
1. The Company’s stockholders re-elected the four persons listed below as Class II directors, each to serve until the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders or until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified. The voting results were as follows:
| Votes For | Votes Against |
Abstentions | Broker Non-Votes | |||||
| Dennis A. Ausiello, M.D. |
100,520,054 | 1,188,272 | 6,497 | 3,978,315 | ||||
| Olivier Brandicourt, M.D. |
99,910,483 | 1,793,713 | 10,627 | 3,978,315 | ||||
| Marsha H. Fanucci |
95,079,032 | 6,627,461 | 8,330 | 3,978,315 | ||||
| David E.I. Pyott |
95,819,592 | 5,887,341 | 7,890 | 3,978,315 |
The terms of office of the following directors continued after the Annual Meeting:
Michael W. Bonney
Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.
John M. Maraganore, Ph.D.
Steven M. Paul, M.D.
Colleen F. Reitan
Amy W. Schulman
Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D.
2. The Company’s stockholders approved, in a non-binding advisory vote, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers. The voting results were as follows:
| Votes For |
Votes Against |
Abstentions |
Broker Non-Votes | |||
| 81,382,437 |
20,146,079 | 186,307 | 3,978,315 |
3. The Company’s stockholders ratified the appointment by the Company’s Board of Directors of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company’s independent auditors for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021. The voting results were as follows:
| Votes For |
Votes Against |
Abstentions |
Broker Non-Votes | |||
| 105,476,472 |
206,905 | 9,761 | 0 |
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits:
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |
SIGNATURE
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.
| ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. | ||||||
| Date: May 21, 2021 | ||||||
| By: | /s/ Laurie B. Keating | |||||
| Laurie B. Keating Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer | ||||||