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| Item 5.07 | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. |
Antero Resources Corporation (the “Company”) held its 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on June 16, 2021. At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s stockholders were requested to (i) elect two Class II members of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) to serve until the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders; (ii) ratify the appointment of KPMG LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2021; and (iii) approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers. Each of these items is more fully described in the Company’s definitive proxy statement, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 28, 2021.
The results of the matters voted upon at the Annual Meeting are as follows:
Proposal No. 1 — Election of Class II Directors: Votes regarding the persons elected as Class II directors were as follows:
| Nominee | For | Withheld | Broker Non-Votes | |||||||||
| W. Howard Keenan, Jr. | 150,920,223 | 37,183,437 | 43,926,178 | |||||||||
| Jacqueline C. Mutschler | 182,162,281 | 5,941,379 | 43,926,178 | |||||||||
Proposal No. 2 — Ratification of the Appointment of KPMG LLP: The voting results were as follows:
| For | Against | Abstain | ||||||||
| 230,910,879 | 333,326 | 785,633 | ||||||||
Proposal No. 3 — Approval of the Compensation, on an Advisory Basis, of the Company’s Named Executive Officers: The voting results were as follows:
| For | Against | Abstain | Broker Non-Votes | |||||||||||
| 182,299,286 | 4,140,580 | 1,663,794 | 43,926,178 | |||||||||||
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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.
| ANTERO RESOURCES CORPORATION | ||
| By: | /s/ Michael N. Kennedy | |
| Michael N. Kennedy | ||
| Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President –Finance | ||
Dated: June 22, 2021
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