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| Item 5.03 | Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year. |
On June 14, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of 4D Molecular Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s current amended and restated bylaws (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”). The Amended and Restated Bylaws were amended to, among other revisions, include language making reference to the recently updated universal proxy rules with respect to the nomination of directors for election, and to amend the forum selection provision to provide that the U.S. federal district courts shall be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause or causes of action arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including all causes of action asserted against any defendant to such complaint, and to clarify the intended beneficiaries of such provision.
The foregoing summary and description of the Amended and Restated Bylaws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Amended and Restated Bylaws, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 with this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
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| 3.1 | Amended and Restated Bylaws. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). | |
SIGNATURES
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.
| 4D MOLECULAR THERAPEUTICS, INC. | ||||||
| Date: June 17, 2022 | By: | /s/ August J. Moretti | ||||
| August J. Moretti | ||||||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||||||