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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000110471-22-000065"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WWW"
cik: "0000110471"
company_name: "WOLVERINE WORLD WIDE INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2022-11-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T05:00:03.968643+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wolverine World Wide adopts amended bylaws for universal proxy and DGCL changes

## Summary
- Enhanced disclosure requirements for stockholder nominations under Rule 14a-19.
- Establishes Delaware Chancery Court as exclusive forum for certain disputes.
- Authorizes board to designate date of annual meeting; permits remote-only meetings.
- Modifies voting standard for contested director elections; clarifies meeting adjournment procedures.
- Various ministerial updates to reflect recent amendments to Delaware law.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000110471-22-000065
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WWW
- cik: 0000110471
- company_name: WOLVERINE WORLD WIDE INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2022-11-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/110471/000011047122000065/0000110471-22-000065-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/110471/000011047122000065/www-20221102.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000110471-22-000065.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WOLVERINE WORLD WIDE INC /DE/: Amended and restated by-laws to adopt universal proxy rules, DGCL updates, and administrative enhancements (effective 2022-11-02).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-11-02
  source text: On November 2, 2022, in connection with the new Securities and Exchange Commission rules regarding universal proxy cards, certain recent changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”), and a periodic review of the by-laws of Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (the “Company”), the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) unanimously adopted Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (the by-laws, as so amended and restated, the “Amended and Restated By-Laws”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/110471/000011047122000065/0000110471-22-000065-index.htm

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