Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. (NASDAQ:EGLE) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. (NASDAQ:EGLE) Files An 8-K Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
Item 5.07

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Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

On June 8, 2018, Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc., a Republic of the Marshall Islands corporation (the “Company”) held its 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”). There were a total of 73,041,548 shares of Common Stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. A total of 52,842,579 shares of Common Stock, constituting a majority of the outstanding shares of Common Stock entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, were represented at the Annual Meeting either in person or by proxy, and accordingly a quorum was present. At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s shareholders voted on the following matters and cast their votes as described below.

1. The following persons were elected as directors of the Company to serve until the Company’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until his or her respective successor is elected and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal, by the following number of votes:

Nominee

Votes For

Votes Withheld

Broker Non-Votes

Paul M. Leand, Jr.

Randee E. Day

48,930,643

52,513,856

3,911,936

328,723

Justin A. Knowles

52,516,573

326,006

Bart Veldhuizen

50,948,141

1,894,438

Gary Vogel

51,725,101

1,117,478

Gary Weston

50,951,679

1,890,900

2. The ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm to audit the financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2018 was approved by the following number of votes:

Votes For

Votes Against

Abstentions

52,818,393

19,729

4,457

3. The compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed in the proxy statement for the Annual Meeting, was approved, on an advisory, non-binding basis, by the following number of votes:

Votes For

Votes Against

Abstentions

Broker Non-Votes

41,745,811

9,795,890

1,300,878

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