---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000059478-25-000138"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LLY"
cik: "0000059478"
company_name: "ELI LILLY & Co"
filed_at: "2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T05:58:25.919214+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lilly annual meeting: directors reelected, classified board and supermajority amendments fail

## Summary
- Four directors elected to three-year terms: Alvarez, Hedley, Johnson, Luciano, each with >726M votes for.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved: 731.4M for, 28.0M against, 1.8M abstentions.
- Ernst & Young ratified as auditor for 2025: 805.1M for, 40.8M against.
- Classified board elimination failed: 658.8M for (69.5% of outstanding), below 80% threshold.
- Supermajority voting elimination failed: 655.8M for (69.2% of outstanding), below 80% threshold.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000059478-25-000138
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LLY
- cik: 0000059478
- company_name: ELI LILLY & Co
- filed_at: 2025-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59478/000005947825000138/0000059478-25-000138-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59478/000005947825000138/lly-20250505.htm

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