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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;"> February </font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">3</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">, 201</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;">6</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">Item&nbsp;5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.</font><font style="display: inline;font-weight:bold;">&nbsp;</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">On December 21, 2015, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued an opinion in </font><font style="display: inline;font-style:italic;">In re VAALCO Energy, Inc. Stockholder Litigation</font><font style="display: inline;">, Consol. C.A. No. 11775-VCL, invalidating as a matter of law provisions of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of VAALCO Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation</font><font style="display: inline;">, that</font><font style="display: inline;"> permitted the removal of VAALCO&#x2019;s directors by its stockholders only for cause.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Court of Chancery held that, in the absence of a classified board or cumulative voting, VAALCO&#x2019;s &#x201C;only for cause&#x201D; director removal provisions conflicted with Section 141(k) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">DGCL</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) and were therefore invalid.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;">Article VIII, Paragraph (1) of </font><font style="display: inline;">the </font><font style="display: inline;">Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Charter</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) </font><font style="display: inline;">of AtriCure, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Company</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D; or &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">we</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;), </font><font style="display: inline;">and Article III, Section 3.11 of Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;text-decoration:underline;">Bylaws</font><font style="display: inline;">&#x201D;) </font><font style="display: inline;">of the Company </font><font style="display: inline;">contain similar &#x201C;only for cause&#x201D; director removal provisions, and we do not have a classified board of directors or cumulative voting.&nbsp;&nbsp;In light of the recent </font><font style="display: inline;font-style:italic;">VAALCO </font><font style="display: inline;">decision, we will not attempt to enforce the foregoing director removal provisions to the extent that they purport to limit removal of directors by stockholders only for cause.&nbsp;&nbsp;Consistent with these developments, our Board of Directors has adopted amendments to the Charter to delete provisions specifying that directors are removable only for cause.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Charter amendment will not be effective unless it is approved by stockholders at our 2016 annual meeting of stockholders.</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">Effective as of February 3, 2016, we revised certain provisions of our Bylaws, including deleting Article III, Section 3.11.&nbsp;&nbsp;In amending and restating our Bylaws (as amended and restated, the &#x201C;</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;text-decoration:underline;">Third Amended and Restated Bylaws</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">&#x201D;) to delete Section 3.11, we made certain other revisions and clarifications in the Third Amended </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">and Restated Bylaws, including:</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">-</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 29.4pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">clarifying the authority of the chairperson of meetings of stockholders regarding the conduct and procedures of such meetings (Article II, Section 2.8);</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">-</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 29.4pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">clarifying that a director resignation may be effective at a future effective date in accordance with the DGCL (Article III, Section 3.4);</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">-</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;;font-size: 12pt;font-family:Times New Roman;text-indent:0pt;margin-left:0pt;padding:0pt 29.4pt 0pt 0pt;"></font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">clarifying that a director consent may be effective at a future effective date in accordance with the requirements of the DGCL (Article III, Section 3.4); and</font>
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			<font style="display: inline;color:#000000;">The foregoing summary of the revisions in the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws, copies of which are filed as </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;text-decoration:underline;">Exhibit 3.1</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> and </font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;text-decoration:underline;">Exhibit 3.2</font><font style="display: inline;color:#000000;"> hereto.</font>
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						<font style="display: inline;">Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of AtriCure, Inc. (marked against Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of AtriCure, Inc.)</font></p>
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			<font style="display: inline;">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.</font>
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						<font style="display: inline;">ATRICURE,</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">INC.</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;">February&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">8</font><font style="display: inline;">,&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">201</font><font style="display: inline;">6</font></p>
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					<p style="margin:0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size: 12pt">
						<font style="display: inline;">M.&nbsp;Andrew&nbsp;Wade</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;">M.</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">Andrew</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">Wade</font><font style="display: inline;">,</font></p>
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						<font style="display: inline;">Senior&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">Vice</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">President</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">and</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">Chief</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">Financial</font><font style="display: inline;">&nbsp;</font><font style="display: inline;">Officer</font></p>
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8-K
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):
February
3
, 201
6
ATRICURE, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
Delaware
000-51470
34-1940305
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
(Commission
File Number)
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
7555 Innovation Way
Mason, Ohio
45040
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (513) 755-4100
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
☐
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
☐
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
☐
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
☐
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On December 21, 2015, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued an opinion in
In re VAALCO Energy, Inc. Stockholder Litigation
, Consol. C.A. No. 11775-VCL, invalidating as a matter of law provisions of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of VAALCO Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation
, that
permitted the removal of VAALCO's directors by its stockholders only for cause.  The Court of Chancery held that, in the absence of a classified board or cumulative voting, VAALCO's "only for cause" director removal provisions conflicted with Section 141(k) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the "
DGCL
") and were therefore invalid.
Article VIII, Paragraph (1) of
the
Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the "
Charter
")
of AtriCure, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "
Company
" or "
we
"),
and Article III, Section 3.11 of Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (the "
Bylaws
")
of the Company
contain similar "only for cause" director removal provisions, and we do not have a classified board of directors or cumulative voting.  In light of the recent
VAALCO
decision, we will not attempt to enforce the foregoing director removal provisions to the extent that they purport to limit removal of directors by stockholders only for cause.  Consistent with these developments, our Board of Directors has adopted amendments to the Charter to delete provisions specifying that directors are removable only for cause.  The Charter amendment will not be effective unless it is approved by stockholders at our 2016 annual meeting of stockholders.
Effective as of February 3, 2016, we revised certain provisions of our Bylaws, including deleting Article III, Section 3.11.  In amending and restating our Bylaws (as amended and restated, the "
Third Amended and Restated Bylaws
") to delete Section 3.11, we made certain other revisions and clarifications in the Third Amended
and Restated Bylaws, including:
-
clarifying the authority of the chairperson of meetings of stockholders regarding the conduct and procedures of such meetings (Article II, Section 2.8);
-
expressly permitting written proxies to be in the form of electronic transmission (Article II, Section 2.12);
-
clarifying that a director resignation may be effective at a future effective date in accordance with the DGCL (Article III, Section 3.4);
-
clarifying that a director consent may be effective at a future effective date in accordance with the requirements of the DGCL (Article III, Section 3.4); and
-
specifying the types of expenses we must or may, as the case may be, pay in connection with our indemnification obligations (Article IX, Sections 9.1 and 9.2).
The foregoing summary of the revisions in the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws, copies of which are filed as
Exhibit 3.1
and
Exhibit 3.2
hereto.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
.
(d)
Exhibits
3.1
Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of AtriCure, Inc. (marked against Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of AtriCure, Inc.)
3.2
Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of AtriCure, Inc. (unmarked)
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.
ATRICURE,
INC.
Dated:
February
8
,
201
6
By:
/s/
M. Andrew Wade
M.
Andrew
Wade
,
Senior
Vice
President
and
Chief
Financial
Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)