Valneva SE (VALN)

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Valneva Announces Availability of Documentation for its Shareholder Meeting and Provides Corporate Update
https://valneva.com/press-release/valneva-announces-availability-of-documentation-for-its-shareholder-meeting-and-provides-corporate-update/

Saint-Herblain (France), June 5, 2024 – Valneva SE (Nasdaq: VALN; Euronext Paris: VLA), a specialty vaccine company (“the Company”), today announced the availability of documentation for its Combined General Meeting (“the Meeting”) to be held on June 26, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. CEST at the Sofitel Lyon Bellecour Hotel, 20 quai du Docteur Gailleton, 69002 Lyon (France).

The Preliminary Notice of Meeting – including the agenda, the draft resolutions proposed by the Board of Directors, and instructions for participation and voting – was published in the Bulletin des Annonces Légales Obligatoires (BALO) on May 22, 2024.

The information and preparatory documents related to this Meeting are available on Valneva’s website at https://valneva.com/2024-combined-general-meeting/.

Any shareholder wishing to receive, by mail or e-mail, Meeting documents referred to in Article R. 22-10-23 of the French Commercial Code, may make a request until the fifth day inclusive before the Meeting date, by contacting the Company at [e-mail]. Holders of bearer shares may exercise this right on the condition that they provide a shareholding certificate certifying the registration of the shares in a bearer securities account managed by an authorized financial intermediary.

Shareholders may also access the Meeting documentation at the Company’s registered office.

The Company also announced that after ten years at Valneva, Mr. Frédéric Jacotot, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, will leave the Company at the end of July, as agreed with Valneva’s Board of Directors.

The Company has appointed Kendra Wergin, currently VP Legal and Associate General Counsel at Valneva, as its next General Counsel & Corporate Secretary and member of the Company’s Executive Committee, effective August 1, 2024. Ms. Wergin is a U.S.-qualified lawyer with expertise in corporate and international law. Prior to joining Valneva in 2020, Ms. Wergin practiced in the corporate group of a major international law firm and the in-house legal team of a Fortune 500 company. During the past four years, she played a key role in executing on the Company’s strategy, including its Nasdaq listing and subsequent global offerings. She earned law degrees in the U.S. and France following prior professional experience in the public interest sector.

Thomas Lingelbach, Chief Executive Officer of Valneva, said, “I would like to personally thank Frédéric for his great contributions to the Company over the past 10 years and welcome Kendra into this role. We are delighted to be able to elevate one of our own to this well-deserved position.”