---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000764065-24-000139"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CLF"
cik: "0000764065"
company_name: "CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC."
filed_at: "2024-05-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T13:45:57.670642+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cleveland-Cliffs shareholders reelect directors, approve say-on-pay, ratify auditor at 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- All 9 director nominees elected; Lourenco Goncalves received 281.5M votes for, 18.4M withheld.
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation passed with 220.5M for, 75.3M against.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for 2024 approved with 368.4M for, 8.4M against.
- Meeting held May 16, 2024; 379.8M shares represented (79.9% of outstanding) constituting a quorum.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000764065-24-000139
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CLF
- cik: 0000764065
- company_name: CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC.
- filed_at: 2024-05-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764065/000076406524000139/0000764065-24-000139-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764065/000076406524000139/clf-20240516.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000764065-24-000139.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 1f46e3d1043770a5a0b87e0f786fcefccd2ba1d5
  claim: CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC. shareholders approved Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for 2024 at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal No. 3: Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for 2024 This proposal received an affirmative vote of more than a majority of the shares present, in person or represented by proxy, at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote. The voting results were as follows: FOR 368,365,867 AGAINST 8,395,943 ABSTAIN 3,050,637
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764065/000076406524000139/0000764065-24-000139-index.htm
- claim_id: 9ea4864784e7dcd085f8b937b9f50430f22da78a
  claim: CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC. shareholders approved Approval, on an Advisory Basis, of our Named Executive Officers' Compensation at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal No. 2: Approval, on an Advisory Basis, of our Named Executive Officers' Compensation This proposal received an affirmative vote of more than a majority of the shares present, in person or represented by proxy, at the Annual Meeting and entitled to vote. The voting results were as follows: FOR 220,508,328 AGAINST 75,276,815 ABSTAIN 4,114,345 BROKER NON-VOTES 79,912,959
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764065/000076406524000139/0000764065-24-000139-index.htm
- claim_id: d03cdd9033a45ad424458f77a27be3f6890e6062
  claim: CLEVELAND-CLIFFS INC. shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: All of the Company's nominees were elected as directors by the votes indicated below for a term that will expire on the date of the Company's 2025 annual meeting of shareholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/764065/000076406524000139/0000764065-24-000139-index.htm

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