May 29, 2024: MaaT Pharma Presents the Results of its Annual Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting

Date : May 29, 2024

MaaT Pharma Presents the Results of its Annual Ordinary and Extraordinary General Meeting

Lyon, France, May 29 2024 –6:00 pm CET – MaaT Pharma (EURONEXT: MAAT – the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotech company and a leader in the development of Microbiome Ecosystem TherapiesTM (MET) dedicated to improving survival outcomes for patients with cancer, today presents the results of its Annual and Extraordinary General Meeting held on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. at the Company’s offices. The quorum reached by the shareholders present, representing, or voting remotely, was around 65% of voting shares.

Shareholders overwhelmingly approved most of the resolutions put forward by the Board of Directors by a majority of over 98% (only 31st resolution was approved by almost 68%). In particular, they approved the renewal of the terms of office for current directors Mr. Jean-Marie Lefebvre, Mr. Karim Dabbagh, Mrs. Dorothée Burkel, Mrs. Nadia Kamal, Mr. Claude Bertrand, Mr. Hervé Affagard, Mr. Jean Volatier, Seventure Partners, and the appointment of a representative from Bpifrance Investissement as a director, along with the following resolutions:

  • Approval of the financial statements for fiscal year 2023;
  • The compensation policy for corporate officers (Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Directors) and the compensation paid or awarded during 2023 fiscal year – details of the votes on the said resolution is available on the Company’s website here;
  • Financial resolutions, notably delegations of authority to the Board of Directors to carry out capital increases in various situations;
  • Delegation of authority to the Board of Directors to decide on any merger, demerger or partial contribution of assets (31st resolution).

Only one resolution was rejected:

  • Delegation of authority to the Board of Directors to carry out a capital increase through the issue of shares or securities giving access to the capital, reserved for members of a company savings plan, with the cancellation of preferential subscription rights in their favor (38th resolution).

Following the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors renewed Mr. Karim Dabbagh as Chairman for the remainder of his term as director. Committee membership remains unchanged.

In accordance with the approval of resolutions 20 and 21, the Company also announces that the Board of Directors has decided to maintain the liquidity contract signed with Kepler Cheuvreux for the liquidity of the Company’s shares listed on Euronext Paris. Information on this contract is available in the Company’s Universal Registration Document.

The full minutes of the Annual General Meeting and the results of the votes, resolution by resolution, will be available shortly on the Company’s website www.maatpharma.com in the Investors/ General Meetings’ section.

About MaaT Pharma

MaaT Pharma, a clinical stage biotechnology company, has established a complete approach to restoring patient-microbiome symbiosis in oncology. Committed to treating cancer and graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), a serious complication of allogeneic stem cell transplantation, MaaT Pharma has launched, in March 2022, an open-label, single arm Phase 3 clinical trial in patients with acute GvHD, following the achievement of its proof of concept in a Phase 2 trial. Its powerful discovery and analysis platform, gutPrint®, enables the identification of novel disease targets, evaluation of drug candidates, and identification of biomarkers for microbiome-related conditions. The company’s Microbiome Ecosystem Therapies are produced through a standardized cGMP manufacturing and quality control process to safely deliver the full diversity of the microbiome, in liquid and oral formulations. MaaT Pharma benefits from the commitment of world-leading scientists and established relationships with regulators to support the integration of the use of microbiome therapies in clinical practice. MaaT Pharma is listed on Euronext Paris (ticker: MAAT).

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Acting Chief Scientific Officer

Sheri Simmons

Sheri Simmons, Ph.D., is Acting Chief Scientific Officer at MaaT Pharma. Sheri brings extensive experience in biotechnology, particularly in the microbiome field, having held scientific leadership positions at Seres Therapeutics, Johnson & Johnson’s Microbiome Solutions team, and most recently at Seed Health, a leading probiotics company. In her role, she strengthens the Company’s scientific leadership, overseeing preclinical research, AI/data initiatives, and supporting efforts toward the Marketing Authorization Application of Xervyteg® in aGvHD.

Sheri holds a PhD in Biological Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and completed an A.B. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and as a Phi Beta Kappa member, receiving one of six awards for the best senior thesis in the sciences. Sheri holds a PhD in Biological Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and completed an A.B. in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude and as a Phi Beta Kappa member, receiving one of six awards for the best senior thesis in the sciences.

CEO and co-founder

Hervé Affagard

Hervé Affagard is the CEO and co-founder of MaaT Pharma. For the past 15 years, Hervé has been an intra/entrepreneur in the healthcare industry, after starting his career in IT in the steel industry. In late 2014, Hervé co-founded the company alongside Dr. Joël Doré, author of nearly 500 publications, and
one of the world’s most cited authors in the microbiome sphere today, after a professional career that spanned multiple industries. Hervé has led MaaT Pharma’s development from its early concept in 2013 and has been at the forefront of the development of the microbiome healthcare ecosystem in France and Europe. In January 2022, Hervé has been elected President of Allliance Promotion Microbiote, an organization founded in 2021 to support the microbiome sector development in France.

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