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Stockholder Meeting to
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APTEVO THERAPEUTICS INC.
APTEVOTM THERAPEUTICS
APTEVO THERAPEUTICS INC.
C/O BROADRIDGE
P.O. BOX 1342
BRENTWOOD, NY 11717
Meeting Information
Meeting Type: Annual Meeting
For holders as of: March 31, 2017
Date: May 31, 2017 Time: 9:00 AM PDT
Location: World Trade Center Seattle 2200 Alaskan Way Seattle, WA 98121
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Voting items
The Board of
Directors recommends you vote FOR the following:
1. To elect the Board’s nominees to the Board of Directors to hold office for a term expiring at our 2020
annual meeting of stockholders.
Nominees
01 Zsolt Harsanyi, Ph. D 02 Barbara
Lopez Kunz
2. To approve the amendment and restatement of the Company’s 2016 Stock Incentive Plan to, among other things increase the aggregate number of
shares of common stock authorized for issuance by 1,275,000 shares.
3. To ratify 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 of the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017.
NOTE: Such other business as may
properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof.
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