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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000930413-23-002140"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HXL"
cik: "0000717605"
company_name: "HEXCEL CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2023-09-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T16:54:58.804860+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hexcel amends bylaws to adopt universal proxy rules and update nomination deadlines

## Summary
- Board amended and restated bylaws effective September 12, 2023.
- Advance notice provision updated to comply with SEC universal proxy rules.
- Stockholder nomination deadline changed to 120–150 days before last annual meeting anniversary.
- Non-board proxy solicitors must use a proxy card color other than white (reserved for board).
- Other ministerial and conforming changes included.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000930413-23-002140
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HXL
- cik: 0000717605
- company_name: HEXCEL CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2023-09-15T23:59:59+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/717605/000093041323002140/0000930413-23-002140-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717605/000093041323002140/c107034_8k-ixbrl.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000930413-23-002140.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  HEXCEL CORP /DE/: Amended and restated bylaws to update advance notice provisions for universal proxy rules, adjust stockholder nomination deadline to 120-150 days before anniversary of last annual meeting, require non-white proxy cards for non-board solicitations, and make ministerial changes (effective 2023-09-12).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-09-12
  source text: On September 12, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Hexcel Corporation (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”), effective immediately, primarily to: (i) update the advance notice provision for stockholder nominations and proposals to address the adoption by the Securities and Exchange Commission of “universal proxy” rules, (ii) update the deadline for stockholders to submit notice to the Company of nominations and proposals (other than a shareholder proposal submitted under Rule 14a-8 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) to be not less than 120 days nor more than 150 days prior to the anniversary date of the last annual meeting of stockholders, (iii) require any stockholder directly or indirectly soliciting proxies from other stockholders to use a proxy card color other than white, which shall be reserved for the exclusive use of the Board, and (iv) make other ministerial and conforming changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/717605/000093041323002140/0000930413-23-002140-index.htm

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