---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000921082-25-000026"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HIW"
cik: "0000921082"
company_name: "HIGHWOODS PROPERTIES, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T20:02:14.070208+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Highwoods stockholders approve 2025 equity incentive plan; authorize 1.25M shares

## Summary
- Plan approved with 91.7M for, 3.8M against, 0.2M abstain, 4.2M broker non-votes.
- Authorizes up to 1,250,000 shares of restricted stock or RSUs; no liberal share recycling.
- No stock options; minimum three-year vesting for officer/employee time-based grants.
- All eight director nominees elected (e.g., Anderson 95.3M for, Hartzell 90.6M for).
- Advisory say-on-pay passed with 91.0M for; Deloitte ratified as auditor for 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000921082-25-000026
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HIW
- cik: 0000921082
- company_name: HIGHWOODS PROPERTIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/921082/000092108225000026/0000921082-25-000026-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/921082/000092108225000026/hiw-20250513.htm

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