---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000062709-23-000040"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MRSH"
cik: "0000062709"
company_name: "MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES, INC."
filed_at: "2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T18:44:56.258712+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Marsh & McLennan shareholders approve all proposals at annual meeting

## Summary
- All 14 director nominees elected; Morton Schapiro received most votes against (46.3M).
- Say-on-pay approved with 276.4M votes for (65.6% of votes cast).
- Advisory vote on executive compensation will be held annually per shareholder recommendation.
- Deloitte & Touche LLP ratified as independent auditor for FY2023 with 425.3M votes for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000062709-23-000040
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MRSH
- cik: 0000062709
- company_name: MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/62709/000006270923000040/0000062709-23-000040-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/62709/000006270923000040/mmc-20230518.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES, INC. shareholders approved Advisory vote to approve executive compensation at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The Company’s stockholders approved, by nonbinding vote, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company’s 2023 Proxy Statement, with the following vote:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/62709/000006270923000040/0000062709-23-000040-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES, INC. shareholders approved Recommendation on frequency of advisory say-on-pay vote at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay frequency
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The Company’s stockholders recommended, by nonbinding vote, that a stockholder vote to approve the compensation of the Company's named executive officers should occur every year, with the following vote: 2 Number of Shares Voted 1 YEAR Number of Shares Voted 2 YEARS Number of Shares Voted 3 YEARS Number of Shares Abstained Broker Non-Votes 419,245,267 303,547 4,167,737 526,866 27,150,150
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/62709/000006270923000040/0000062709-23-000040-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES, INC. shareholders approved Election of 14 director nominees at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The Company’s stockholders elected the fourteen (14) director nominees named below to a one-year term expiring at the 2024 annual meeting or until their successors are elected and qualified, with each receiving the following votes:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/62709/000006270923000040/0000062709-23-000040-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  MARSH & MCLENNAN COMPANIES, INC. shareholders approved Ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent auditor at the 2023-05-18 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-18
  source text: The Company’s stockholders ratified the selection of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023, with the following vote:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/62709/000006270923000040/0000062709-23-000040-index.htm

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