Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;


          Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
          Officers.

Laredo Petroleum, Inc. (the "Company") held its 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting") on Thursday, May 26, 2022. As previously disclosed in the Company's proxy statement for the Annual Meeting, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 7, 2022 (as supplemented, the "proxy statement"), director Pamela S. Pierce departed the Board upon the expiration of her term at the Annual Meeting.

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


          Year.

At the Annual Meeting, upon the recommendation of Company's Board of Directors (the "Board"), the Company's stockholders approved an amendment (the "Amendment") to the Laredo Petroleum, Inc. Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the "Certificate of Incorporation") to increase the number of authorized shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Common Stock"), from 22,500,000 shares to 40,000,000 shares.

The Amendment became effective upon the filing of a Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation (the "Certificate of Amendment") with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 26, 2022. A copy of the Certificate of Amendment is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

At the Annual Meeting, the Company's stockholders were requested to: (1) elect William E. Albrecht and Frances Powell Hawes to serve on the Board for terms of office expiring at the Company's 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and thereafter until each of their successors is elected and qualified or his or her earlier resignation or removal; (2) ratify the selection of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2022; (3) approve an advisory (non-binding) resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive officers; and (4) approve the Amendment.

As of March 29, 2022, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were 17,302,320 shares of Common Stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting and a total of 13,267,253 shares (approximately 77%) were represented in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting, constituting a quorum. The following are the final voting results on proposals considered and voted upon at the Annual Meeting, each of which is more fully described in the Company's proxy statement:

1. Each of the following directors were elected to the Board to serve until the


   expiration of their respective term at the Company's 2025 Annual Meeting of
   Stockholders and thereafter until each of their successors is elected and
   qualified or his or her earlier resignation or removal. Votes regarding the
   election of these directors were as follows:



                                                                                      BROKER NON-
      NOMINEE          CLASS   YEAR   VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   VOTES ABSTAINED       VOTES
William E. Albrecht     III    2025   10,523,979         206,762            53,932       2,482,580
Frances Powell Hawes    III    2025    8,551,849       2,178,695            54,129       2,482,580

2. Grant Thornton LLP was ratified as the Company's independent registered public


   accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2022. The voting results were
   as follows:



VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   VOTES ABSTAINED   BROKER NON-VOTES
13,153,009         106,585             7,659                  0

3. The voting results for the advisory (non-binding) resolution regarding the

compensation of the Company's named executive officers were as follows:





VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   VOTES ABSTAINED   BROKER NON-VOTES
10,207,897         485,450            91,326          2,482,580




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4. The voting results for the amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation to


   increase the number of authorized shares of the Company's Common Stock from
   22,500,000 shares to 40,000,000 shares were as follows:



VOTES FOR    VOTES AGAINST   VOTES ABSTAINED   BROKER NON-VOTES
12,367,998         891,699             7,556                  0

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.






(d) Exhibits.



Exhibit Number                                 Description
         3.1       Certificate of Amendment to the Laredo Petroleum, Inc. Amended and
                 Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated May 26, 2022.
           104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL).




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