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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000096943-22-000065"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TFX"
cik: "0000096943"
company_name: "TELEFLEX INC"
filed_at: "2022-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T00:17:27.883561+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Teleflex shareholders approve phased-in board declassification starting 2023

## Summary
- A&R Bylaws and Certificate of Incorporation effective May 2, 2022, declassifying board over three years.
- Vote: 39.4M for (99.8% of votes cast) on declassification proposals; broker non-votes 1.8M.
- All three director nominees elected: Heinmiller (38.99M for), Krakauer (33.28M for), Patil (39.44M for).
- Advisory say-on-pay approved: 36.45M for, 3.04M against; ratification of PwC passed with 39.64M for.
- Stockholder proposal on limited voting requirements also passed with 37.58M for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000096943-22-000065
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TFX
- cik: 0000096943
- company_name: TELEFLEX INC
- filed_at: 2022-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96943/000009694322000065/0000096943-22-000065-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/96943/000009694322000065/tfx-20220429.htm

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