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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950103-23-017426"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MTCH"
cik: "0000891103"
company_name: "Match Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T14:31:54.839452+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Match Group amends bylaws to tighten stockholder nomination and proposal rules

## Summary
- Board approved Fourth Amended and Restated By-Laws effective Dec 7, 2023.
- Amendments enhance disclosure requirements for nominating stockholders, nominees, and their associates.
- New requirement for stockholders to represent intent to solicit 67% voting power under Rule 14a-19.
- Majority voting standard for director elections updated; board composition and compensation sections revised.
- Changes include ministerial updates and conforming edits to Delaware General Corporation Law.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950103-23-017426
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MTCH
- cik: 0000891103
- company_name: Match Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000095010323017426/0000950103-23-017426-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000095010323017426/dp203937_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Match Group, Inc.: Amended and restated third amended and restated by-laws (Fourth Amended and Restated By-Laws) to revise and clarify procedural and disclosure requirements for stockholder proposals and director nominations, update majority voting standard for director elections, and make conforming updates to Delawa (effective 2023-12-07).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-07
  source text: On December 7, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board of Directors”) of Match Group, Inc. (the “Company”) approved an amendment and restatement of the Company’s third amended and restated by-laws (the “Fourth Amended and Restated By-Laws”), which became effective as of December 7, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/891103/000095010323017426/0000950103-23-017426-index.htm

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