5E Advanced Materials filings document the company’s boron-focused development business, capital structure, governance, and securities activity. Recent 8-K reports cover board appointments, investor-rights arrangements, warrant issuances, equity financing, securities listing matters, and mineral-resource disclosures for the 5E Boron Americas Fort Cady Complex.
Registration statements and related reports describe common stock offerings and intended uses of proceeds for the small-scale boron facility, wellfield development, mine planning, FEED engineering, and general corporate purposes. Proxy materials address annual meeting procedures, director elections, stockholder voting matters, CDI holder participation, and governance provisions for the Delaware issuer.
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. (FEAM) is asking stockholders to vote at its December 7, 2026 annual meeting on Graham van’t Hoff, Curtis Hébert, Barry Dick, Bryn Jones and Jonathan Siegler for five director seats, plus ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP for fiscal 2027, an amendment to increase shares authorized under the 2022 Equity Compensation Plan, and adjournment if needed to solicit additional proxies if Proposal Three lacks sufficient votes. The Board recommends FOR each nominee and proposal.
The meeting will be held only by live webcast at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time. Only holders of record on October 14, 2026, are entitled to vote; 49,634,871 common shares were outstanding on that date. Fiscal 2026 total compensation was $697,622 for Chief Executive Officer Paul Weibel and $482,689 for Chief Financial Officer Joshua Malm.
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. (FEAM) reports that Karnavati Holdings, Inc. (KHI), a ten-percent owner, directly held 6,144,182 common shares issued October 1, 2026 under the Asset Purchase Agreement dated September 14, 2026. The reported shares include 3,072,091 received in partial payment of DIP obligations and 3,072,091 received as designee of HSBC Bank USA, National Association. The amount excludes 312,500 shares held back pending delivery of executed deeds and Tranche 2 Funding, and 1,843,318 shares held in escrow pending resolution of a mechanic's lien claim. Nirma Ltd and Karsanbhai K. Patel report indirect ownership through KHI; Patel disclaims beneficial ownership except to the extent of his pecuniary interest.
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. director Hoff Graham vant purchased 60,000 shares of common stock on October 8, 2026, at a weighted-average price of $3.59 per share. The purchases were made in multiple transactions at prices from $3.45 to $3.65 per share, inclusive. Direct holdings following the purchase were 102,997 shares. No Rule 10b5-1 plan is reported.
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. (FEAM) Chief Executive Officer Paul Wesley Weibel III reported an open-market purchase of 7,176 shares on October 8, 2026, at a weighted-average price of $3.48 per share. The purchases were made at prices ranging from $3.39 to $3.49, inclusive. He held 29,292 shares directly following the transaction; no Rule 10b5-1 plan is reported.
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. issued 6,144,182 common shares to Karnavati Holdings, Inc. (KHI) on October 1, 2026, as partial satisfaction of secured obligations owed by Searles Valley Minerals Inc. KHI received 3,072,091 shares in partial payment of the DIP Obligations and 3,072,091 as designee of HSBC Bank USA, National Association. KHI directly holds the shares. Nirma Limited and its chairman, Dr. Karsanbhai K. Patel, may also be deemed to beneficially own them through their ownership relationships; Dr. Patel disclaims beneficial ownership except to the extent of his pecuniary interest.
The reported approximately 12.4% ownership is based on 49,634,871 shares outstanding: 41,647,371 as of September 16, 2026, plus 7,987,500 issued October 1, 2026. KHI may receive up to an additional 2,155,818 shares, comprising 312,500 held back pending delivery of executed deeds and Tranche 2 Funding and any residual of 1,843,318 shares held in escrow pending resolution of a mechanic's lien claim. The issuer agreed to file a resale registration statement within 105 days after closing and use commercially reasonable efforts to keep it effective until the shares cease to be Registrable Shares, no later than two years after closing, subject to permitted suspensions.
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. reported a grant of 7,634 restricted stock units on September 30, 2026, associated with director Jonathan Siegler’s board-service compensation. Siegler irrevocably assigned the rights in the underlying shares to Bluescape Energy Partners LLC, and the award was reported as indirectly owned. Each unit represents a contingent right to receive one common share; the reported post-transaction position was 7,634 restricted stock units. C. John Wilder, a director and ten-percent owner, is also a reporting person; the reporting persons disclaim beneficial ownership except to the extent of their pecuniary interests.
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. (FEAM), through its wholly owned subsidiary 5E SVM, completed the purchase of real property, production facilities, brine resources and other assets from Searles Valley Minerals Inc., Trona Railway Company LLC and Searles Domestic Water Company LLC on October 1, 2026. Consideration included approximately $3.4 million in cash, 8.3 million common shares and an approximately $6.2 million senior unsecured Promissory Note issued for distribution to certain lenders of the sellers. Another 312,500 shares are to be issued later upon specified conditions, including delivery of deeds.
The Promissory Note bears 14.5% annual interest, payable in kind and capitalized quarterly; it requires an approximately $1.2 million cash payment on the 24-month anniversary and otherwise matures on the fifth anniversary. 5E SVM also entered a $10.0 million senior secured Bridge Facility with Karnavati Holdings, Inc.; $7.0 million was funded at closing, with the balance subject to conditions. The bridge bears 8.00% annual interest, payable in kind and capitalized quarterly, matures 270 days after closing and includes a $1.0 million fee payable at maturity. It is secured by substantially all of 5E SVM's assets and guaranteed by 5E Advanced Materials. The company expected to report preliminary cash and cash equivalents of $15.7 million as of September 30, 2026; period-end accounting procedures and auditor review were ongoing.
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. reported a grant of 13,740 restricted stock units to director Curtis L. Hebert Jr. on September 30, 2026. Each unit represents a contingent right to receive one share of common stock. The units vest on July 1, 2027, subject to his continuing service on the board through that date, under the Amended and Restated 2022 Equity Compensation Plan. They have no expiration date.
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. (FEAM) director Bryn Llywelyn Jones acquired 13,740 restricted stock units through an award on September 30, 2026. The RSUs were granted under the issuer’s Amended and Restated 2022 Equity Compensation Plan, and each represents a contingent right to receive one common share.
5E Advanced Materials, Inc. (FEAM) director Dick Barry received a grant of 16,030 restricted stock units on September 30, 2026. His reported position following the grant was 16,030 RSUs. Each RSU represents a contingent right to receive one share of common stock. The RSUs vest on July 1, 2027, subject to Dick Barry’s continuing service on the issuer’s Board through the applicable vesting date.