---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000880266-22-000039"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AGCO"
cik: "0000880266"
company_name: "AGCO CORP /DE"
filed_at: "2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T22:10:53.769192+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AGCO amends bylaws to align with SEC universal proxy rules and Delaware law

## Summary
- Board approved bylaw amendments on October 27, 2022, to incorporate SEC's universal proxy framework and recent Delaware law changes.
- Amendments also address virtual stockholder meetings and other minor governance updates.
- Full text of amended bylaws attached as Exhibit 3.1 to the 8-K filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000880266-22-000039
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AGCO
- cik: 0000880266
- company_name: AGCO CORP /DE
- filed_at: 2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/880266/000088026622000039/0000880266-22-000039-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/880266/000088026622000039/agco-20221027.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000880266-22-000039
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000880266-22-000039.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000880266-22-000039.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AGCO CORP /DE: Amended bylaws to incorporate universal proxy rules, update Delaware law provisions, and address virtual stockholder meetings and other minor matters (effective 2022-10-27).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-10-27
  source text: On October 27, 2022, the Company's Board of Directors approved amendments to the Company’s bylaws designed to dovetail the notice and other provisions governing the nomination of director candidates with the framework contained in the SEC’s recent “universal proxy” rules. The amendments also address recent changes in Delaware law, virtual stockholder meetings and various other minor matters.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/880266/000088026622000039/0000880266-22-000039-index.htm

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