Roche has provided notice to Illumina Inc. that it will nominate a slate of highly qualified, independent candidates for election to Illumina’s Board of Directors and propose certain other matters for the consideration of Illumina’s shareholders at Illumina’s 2012 annual meeting, which, if adopted, would result in Roche-nominated directors comprising a majority of the Illumina board. Roche also named five alternate nominees for election to Illumina’s board.
In addition to the nomination of independent directors to fill the seats of the four directors whose terms of office are scheduled to expire at Illumina’s 2012 annual meeting, Roche will also propose increasing the size of Illumina’s board from nine directors to eleven directors with the resulting vacancies on the board to be filled by candidates nominated by Roche. This approach allows shareholders to elect Roche-nominated directors comprising a majority of Illumina’s board....
