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OCALA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sep 19, 2022--
The Board of Directors (“Board”) of AIM ImmunoTech Inc. (NYSE: American AIM) (“AIM” or the “Company”), today announced that the Company has filed its Definitive Proxy Statement in connection with AIM’s upcoming 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”), to be held on November 3, 2022, and has mailed this statement, along with a letter, to shareholders.
The full text of the letter follows.
September 19, 2022
Dear fellow shareholders:
Thank you for your investment and your trust in AIM ImmunoTech (“AIM” or the “Company”). Now is an exciting time for us as we continue to strive to bring new life-saving oncology therapies to market to benefit patients and create value for you, our shareholders. As we will describe in more detail below, we have made significant progress in recent years – and especially over the past 18 months – in repurposing our lead drug, Ampligen, into oncology. We also have strong momentum building upon the positive interim results in published data from preeminent cancer centers that we are now seeing from our clinical trials.
Our 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) will be held on November 3, 2022 and we are writing to ask for your support of our mission to bring life-saving therapies to market.
This year your vote is especially important because Jonathan Jorgl, an AIM shareholder who first purchased 1,000 AIM shares on June 27, 2022, has nominated two director candidates (together with Mr. Jorgl, the “Jorgl Activist Group”) for election to the Board at the upcoming Annual Meeting. If these two individuals were elected, they would control the Board.
Alarmingly, as they disclosed for the first time only last week, the Jorgl Activist Group’s proxy campaign is being funded by an individual whose role and identity the Jorgl Activist Group previously concealed, most likely because he recently pled guilty to criminal charges of wire fraud relating to fraudulent securities trading, material misrepresentations to investors and misuse of funds. As a result, he was recently sentenced by a federal court to three years of probation and ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution.
Additionally, the Board believes that the Jorgl Activist Group has an undisclosed arrangement with another individual who pled guilty to insider trading criminal charges brought by the Department of Justice, and settled insider trading civil charges brought by the SEC. More details about the Jorgl Activist Group are contained in the enclosed proxy materials.
The Board has unanimously determined that Mr. Jorgl’s director nominations did not comply with AIM’s bylaws and are invalid. Mr. Jorgl is attempting to fight this determination in a case currently pending before a court, but the critical point is this: we strongly urge you to ignore any proxy materials you receive from the Jorgl Activist Group and vote on the Company’s WHITE proxy card for your current highly qualified directors to protect your investment.
In contemplating your vote, we ask that you consider the following:
The Current Management Team and Board is Successfully Executing on the Company’s Business and Capital Allocation Strategy
An Experienced, Well-Qualified Board
Your Board has the right experience, skill sets and deep knowledge of the Company and its drug candidates to continue overseeing the successful execution of our strategy to deliver therapies for patients and value for our shareholders. More detailed biographies of our directors are contained in the enclosed proxy materials.
We encourage you, as an AIM shareholder, to support the Board – and ensure the Company has the leadership to protect investors – by voting online, by phone or by mail, using the WHITE proxy card.
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WE URGE YOU TO COMPLETE, DATE, AND SIGN THE ENCLOSED WHITE PROXY CARD AND MAIL IT PROMPTLY IN THE POSTAGE-PAID ENVELOPE PROVIDED, OR VOTE BY TELEPHONE OR THE INTERNET AS INSTRUCTED ON THE WHITE PROXY CARD, WHETHER OR NOT YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING.
THE BOARD RECOMMENDS A VOTE “ FOR ALL ” OF OUR BOARD’S NOMINEES(STEWART L. APPELROUTH, THOMAS K. EQUELS AND WILLIAM M. MITCHELL)ON PROPOSAL 1 USING THE ENCLOSED WHITE PROXY CARD.
Sincerely,
The AIM ImmunoTech Board of Directors
If you have any questions or need assistance voting, please contact the Company’s proxy solicitor Morrow Sodali LLC (“Morrow Sodali”) using the below information.
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About AIM ImmunoTech Inc.
AIM ImmunoTech Inc. is an immuno-pharma company focused on the research and development of therapeutics to treat multiple types of cancers, immune disorders, and viral diseases, including COVID-19. The Company’s lead product, Ampligen® (rintatolimod) is an immuno-modulator with broad spectrum activity being developed for globally important cancers, viral diseases and disorders of the immune system.
Ampligen is currently being used as a monotherapy to treat pancreatic cancer patients in an Early Access Program (EAP) approved by the Inspectorate of Healthcare in the Netherlands at Erasmus Medical Center and AIM plans to initiate a Phase 2 clinical study in 2022. The Company also has multiple ongoing clinical trials to evaluate Ampligen as a combinational therapy for the treatment of a variety of solid tumor types both underway and planned at major cancer research centers. Additionally, Ampligen is approved in Argentina for the treatment of severe chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and is currently being evaluated in many aspects of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Post COVID Conditions.
For more information, please visit aimimmuno.com and connect with the Company on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Words and expressions reflecting optimism, satisfaction or disappointment with current prospects, as well as words such as “believes,” “hopes,” “intends,” “estimates,” “expects,” “projects,” “plans,” “anticipates” and variations thereof, or the use of future tense, identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The Company’s forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance, and actual results could vary materially from those contained in or expressed by such statements due to risks, uncertainties and other factors. The Company urges investors to consider specifically the various risk factors identified in its most recent Form 10-K, and any risk factors or cautionary statements included in any subsequent Form 10-Q or Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any responsibility to update any forward-looking statements to take into account events or circumstances that occur after the date of this press release.
Important Information
The Company has filed a definitive proxy statement and associated WHITE proxy card with the SEC in connection with the solicitation of proxies for the Company’s Annual Meeting. Details concerning the nominees of the Company’s Board of Directors for election at the Annual Meeting are included in the proxy statement. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING DECISION, INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS OF THE COMPANY ARE URGED TO READ ALL RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH OR FURNISHED TO THE SEC, INCLUDING THE COMPANY’S PROXY STATEMENT AND ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO, WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
Investors and stockholders will be able to obtain a copy of the definitive proxy statement, any amendments or supplements thereto and other documents filed by the Company free of charge from the SEC’s website, www.sec.gov. Copies of these materials will also be available free of charge on AIM’s Investor Relations website at https://aimimmuno.com/sec-filings/.
Participants in the Solicitation
The Company, its directors and certain of its executive officers are participants in the solicitation of proxies from stockholders in respect of the Annual Meeting. Information regarding the names of the Company’s directors and executive officers and their respective interests in the Company by security holdings or otherwise is set forth in the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement, filed with the SEC on September 19, 2022. To the extent holdings of such participants in the Company’s securities have changed since the amounts described in the Definitive Proxy Statement, such changes have been or will be reflected on Initial Statements of Beneficial Ownership on Form 3 or Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 filed with the SEC. These documents can be obtained free of charge from the sources indicated above.
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KEYWORD: FLORIDA UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: ONCOLOGY HEALTH INFECTIOUS DISEASES CLINICAL TRIALS PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
SOURCE: AIM ImmunoTech Inc.
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