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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): September 23, 2021

DOLPHIN ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Florida 001-38331 86-0787790
(State or other jurisdiction (Commission (IRS Employer
of incorporation) File Number) Identification No.)

 

150 Alhambra Circle, Suite 1200, Coral Gables, Florida 33134
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code (305) 774 -0407

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):

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class   Trading symbol(s)   Name of each exchange on which
registered
Common Stock, $0.015 par value   DLPN   The Nasdaq Capital Market

  

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).

 

Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

 
 
 

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

 

On September 24, 2021, Dolphin Entertainment, Inc., a Florida corporation (the “Company”), filed Articles of Amendment (the “Articles of Amendment”) to its Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Florida effecting an amendment to increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.015 per share (“Common Stock”), from 40,000,000 shares to 200,000,000 shares. The Articles of Amendment were approved by the Company’s shareholders at the annual meeting of shareholders (the “Annual Meeting”), as discussed below in Item 5.07.

 

The foregoing description of the Articles of Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Articles of Amendment, a copy of which is filed herewith as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.07 Submission of matters to a vote of security holders.

 

On September 23, 2021, the Company held its Annual Meeting. A total of 17,348,088 votes of the Company’s voting capital stock were present or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting, representing approximately seventy-nine percent (79%) of the votes entitled to be cast by the Company’s shareholders as of July 28, 2021, the record date for the Annual Meeting.

 

At the Annual Meeting, three (3) proposals were submitted for a vote of the Company’s shareholders and the related results are as follows:

 

Proposal No. 1: The election of William O’Dowd, IV, Mirta Negrini, Michael Espensen, Nelson Famadas, Anthony Leo, Nicholas Stanham and Claudia Grillo for terms until the next succeeding annual meeting of shareholders or until such directors’ successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. The shareholders elected the seven (7) directors by the following votes:

 

Name For Withheld Broker Non-Votes
William O’Dowd, IV 14,906,731 73,686 2,367,671
Mirta Negrini 14,887,791 92,626 2,367,671
Michael Espensen 14,829,573 150,844 2,367,671
Nelson Famadas 14,866,911 113,506 2,367,671
Anthony Leo 14,956,233 24,184 2,367,671
Nicholas Stanham 14,866,672 113,745 2,367,671
Claudia Grillo 14,962,663 17,754 2,367,671

 

 

Proposal No. 2: The shareholders ratified BDO USA, LLP as the Company’s independent registered accounting firm by the following votes:

 

Votes For 17,296,777
Votes Against 44,148
Abstentions 7,163

 

 

Proposal No. 3: The shareholders voted to approve the adoption of the Articles of Amendment that would increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 40,000,000 to 200,000,000 and such amendment was approved by the following votes:

 

Votes For 16,708,974
Votes Against 599,859
Abstentions 39,255

 

 

 
 
 

 

  Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits

 

3.1 Articles of Amendment to Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of Dolphin Entertainment, Inc.
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

 

 

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.

  DOLPHIN ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
   
   
  /s/ Mirta Negrini
  Name: Mirta Negrini
  Title: Chief Financial and Operating Officer
   
Date: September 24, 2021