UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
May 13, 2021
Commission File Number 001-35203
THERATECHNOLOGIES INC.
(Translation of registrants name into English)
2015 Peel Street, Suite 1100
Montréal, Québec, Canada
H3A 1T8
(Address of principal executive offices)
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Indicate by check mark whether by furnishing the information contained in this Form, the registrant is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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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, thereunto duly authorized.
THERATECHNOLOGIES INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Jocelyn Lafond | |
Name: | Jocelyn Lafond | |
Title: | Vice President, Legal Affairs |
Date: May 13, 2021
Exhibit 99.1
ANNOUNCEMENTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH
THERATECHNOLOGIES ANNUAL MEETING
Montreal, Canada May 13, 2021Theratechnologies Inc. (Theratechnologies, or Company) (TSX: TH) (NASDAQ: THTX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies, today held its annual meeting of shareholders.
As part of the meeting, shareholders proceeded to elect the below candidates to the Companys Board of Directors for a one-year term and elected KPMG LLP, as the Companys auditors for the current fiscal year.
All candidates proposed for the position of directors were elected in the following proportion:
# IN FAVOUR |
% IN FAVOUR |
# ABSTENTION |
% ABSTENTION |
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Joseph Arena |
36,236,725 | 94.13 | 2,259,788 | 5.87 | ||||||||||||
Gérald A. Lacoste |
29,952,972 | 77.81 | 8,543,541 | 22.19 | ||||||||||||
Paul Lévesque |
36,788,358 | 95.56 | 1,708,155 | 4.44 | ||||||||||||
Gary Littlejohn |
29,029,970 | 75.41 | 9,466,543 | 24.59 | ||||||||||||
Andrew Molson |
33,682,560 | 87.50 | 4,813,953 | 12.50 | ||||||||||||
Alain Trudeau |
33,722,300 | 87.60 | 4,774,213 | 12.40 | ||||||||||||
Dawn Svoronos |
34,243,837 | 88.95 | 4,252,676 | 11.05 | ||||||||||||
Dale MacCandlish-Weil |
33,663,747 | 87.45 | 4,832,766 | 12.55 |
Dawn Svoronos, Chair of the Board and Paul Lévesque, President and CEO of Theratechnologies, addressed people who attended the virtual meeting.
I would like to congratulate Alain Trudeau and Andrew Molson on their election to the board of directors of Theratechnologies. Both Alain and Andrew are well-recognized and respected business leaders with the expertise and vision to support the Company through its next stage of development and growth. I also want to welcome Joseph Arena as a new member of the board of directors of Theratechnologies. Joseph has had an illustrious career holding various strategic leadership roles in the pharmaceutical industry, including head of regulatory affairs across lines of business with Merck and Pfizer, respectively. He brings a strong scientific acumen that will be invaluable to the Company as we continue to advance the R&D pipeline in Oncology, NASH and HIV, said Dawn Svoronos, Chair of the Board, Theratechnologies.
I would also like to give a sincere and special thank you to Paul Pommier and Sheila Frame as they step down from the Board. Paul, as many of you may know, served on the Board for nearly 20 years including as Chair from 2007 to 2013. We wish to thank both of our colleagues for their invaluable contributions to Theratechnologies, added Ms. Svoronos.
We exited 2020 as a stronger, more focused and aligned organization with a determination to develop our R&D pipeline while continuing to enhance our commercial HIV franchise. I am pleased that the momentum and progress that we built in 2020 has carried over with us into the new year, said Paul Lévesque, President and CEO, Theratechnologies.
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About Theratechnologies
Theratechnologies (TSX: TH) (NASDAQ: THTX) is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies addressing unmet medical needs. Further information about Theratechnologies is available on the Companys website at www.theratech.com, on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov.
Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information, or, collectively, forward-looking statements, within the meaning of applicable securities laws, that are based on our managements beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. You can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as may, will, should, could, would, outlook, believe, plan, envisage, anticipate, expect and estimate, or the negatives of these terms, or variations of them. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding Theratechnologies growth and the development of Theratechnologies pipeline.
Forward-looking statements are based upon a number of assumptions and include, but are not limited to, the following: demand for EGRIFTA SV® and Trogarzo® will grow in the United States and in Europe, no untoward side effects will be discovered from the long-term use of EGRIFTA SV® and Trogarzo®, none of those products will be subject to a recall, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will approve our final protocol to initiate our Phase 3 clinical trial in NASH, we will be able to recruit patients for our Phase 3 clinical trial in NASH, we will be able to continue the recruitment of patients for our Phase 1 clinical trial in oncology and results obtained from the conduct of our pre-clinical studies in oncology will be replicated into human subjects.
Forward-looking statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those that are disclosed in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, the risk that demand for our products decrease over time, that Trogarzo® is not approved for reimbursement in key European countries, that competition erodes our market share, that our Phase 3 clinical trail in NASH and our Phase 1 clinical trial in oncology do not yield positive results, the effect of which would be to delay or cancel any of those clinical trials, that untoward side effects resulting from the long-term use of our products are discovered, that our intellectual property on tesamorelin is challenged and found to be unenforceable, and that we face product liability litigations.
We refer current and potential investors to the Risk Factors section of our Annual Information Form dated February 24, 2021 available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on EDGAR at www.sec.gov as an exhibit to our report on Form 40-F dated February 25, 2021 under Theratechnologies public filings. The reader is cautioned to consider these and other risks and uncertainties carefully and not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements reflect current expectations regarding future events and speak only as of the date of this press release and represent our expectations as of that date.
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Denis Boucher
Vice President, Communications and Corporate Affairs
514-336-7800
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Leah Gibson
Senior Director, Investor Relations
617-356-1009
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