---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000072971-25-000193"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WFC"
cik: "0000072971"
company_name: "WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN"
filed_at: "2025-07-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T22:34:12.809931+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wells Fargo intends to appoint CEO Charlie Scharf as Chairman; awards $30M in special equity

## Summary
- Board awarded CEO Charlie Scharf $30M in Restricted Share Rights and 1.046M stock options on July 29, 2025.
- Award vests pro-rata after 4th, 5th, and 6th anniversaries; forfeited if Scharf resigns or retires.
- Bylaws amended to remove independent chairman requirement; Board intends to appoint Scharf as Chairman and a Lead Independent Director.
- HRC eliminated target total compensation structure for NEOs effective 2025; will use holistic performance assessment.
- CEO's successful leadership cited: 13 consent orders terminated, asset growth limit lifted by Fed in June 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000072971-25-000193
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WFC
- cik: 0000072971
- company_name: WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN
- filed_at: 2025-07-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72971/000007297125000193/0000072971-25-000193-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72971/000007297125000193/wfc-20250729.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000072971-25-000193.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN: The Board amended the By-Laws to remove the requirement that the Chairman be an independent director and to update shareholder nomination procedures and other technical changes (effective 2025-07-29).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-07-29
  source text: On July 29, 2025, the Board approved and adopted the Company’s By-Laws (as amended and restated, the “By-Laws”), effective immediately. Among other things, the amendments remove the requirement that the Chairman of the Board be an independent director.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/72971/000007297125000193/0000072971-25-000193-index.htm

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