UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 13, 2018
CIDARA THERAPEUTICS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
Delaware
 
001-36912
 
46-1537286
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
 
(Commission
File Number)
 
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
 
6310 Nancy Ridge Drive, Suite 101
San Diego, California 92121
 
 
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
 
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (858) 752-6170 

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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

On June 13, 2018, Cidara Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a First Amendment (the “Amendment”) to its Loan and Security Agreement with Pacific Western Bank dated as of October 3, 2016.  The Agreement included a covenant that the Company would achieve positive results from Part A of the STRIVE Phase 2 clinical trial (“the “STRIVE Trial”) by March 31, 2018, with such covenant to be reset during 2018 and each year thereafter. The Amendment resets the covenant to require the Company to achieve positive data from Part B of the STRIVE Trial on or prior to July 31, 2019.

The foregoing description is a summary of certain terms of the Amendment and is qualified in its entirety by the text of the Amendment, a copy of which will be filed with the Company’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2018.

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

On June 13, 2018, Cidara Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) held its 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”). As of April 18, 2018, the record date for the Annual Meeting, 21,395,077 shares of the Company’s common stock were outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. A summary of the matters voted upon by stockholders at the Annual Meeting is set forth below.

A total of 16,659,615 shares of the Company's common stock were present at the meeting in person or by proxy, which represents approximately 77.9% of the shares of common stock outstanding as of the record date for the Annual Meeting.

Proposal 1. Election of Directors

The Company’s stockholders elected the two persons listed below as Class III Directors, each to serve until the Company’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The final voting results are as follows:

Name
 
Votes For

 
Votes Withheld

 
Broker Non-Votes

Timothy Franson, M.D.
 
11,093,994

 
769,303

 
4,796,318

Chrysa Mineo
 
11,673,581

 
189,716

 
4,796,318



Proposal 2. Ratification of the Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Company’s stockholders ratified the selection of Ernst & Young LLP by the Audit Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018. The final voting results are as follows:


Votes For

 
Votes Against
 
Abstention
 
Broker Non-Votes
16,551,009

 
106,174
 
2,432
 





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.


 
CIDARA THERAPEUTICS, INC.
Dated: June 18, 2018
By:
/s/ Jeffrey Stein, Ph.D.
 
Name:
Jeffrey Stein, Ph.D.
 
Title:
President and Chief Executive Officer