---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-22-025610"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SSNC"
cik: "0001402436"
company_name: "SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc"
filed_at: "2022-11-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T14:00:03.815485+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SS&C Technologies adopts majority voting and proxy access in bylaw amendments

## Summary
- Uncontested director elections will now use majority of votes cast; contested elections remain plurality.
- Proxy access permits up to 20 stockholders owning 3%+ for 3+ years to nominate up to 2 directors or 20% of board.
- Advance notice bylaws updated to comply with Rule 14a-19 and enhance information requirements.
- Code of Business Conduct amended to add standards on data security, diversity, and health/safety; no waivers granted.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-22-025610
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SSNC
- cik: 0001402436
- company_name: SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc
- filed_at: 2022-11-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1402436/000095017022025610/0000950170-22-025610-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1402436/000095017022025610/ssnc-20221116.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc: Adopted second amended and restated bylaws to implement majority voting standard in uncontested director elections, update advance notice provisions, and implement proxy access (effective 2022-11-16).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-11-16
  source text: On November 16, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) adopted the second amended and restated bylaws (the “Second Amended and Restated Bylaws”), effective November 16, 2022, to implement a majority voting standard in uncontested director elections, update certain aspects of the advance notice bylaws, and implement proxy access.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1402436/000095017022025610/0000950170-22-025610-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc: Amended Code of Business Conduct and Ethics to include additional standards relating to data security and privacy, protection and proper use of corporate assets, diversity, equity and inclusion, and workplace health and safety (effective 2022-11-16).
  - Change: code of ethics
  - Effective: 2022-11-16
  source text: On November 16, 2022, the Board amended the Company’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Revised Code”), effective November 16, 2022, to include additional standards of conduct relating to data security and privacy, protection and proper use of corporate assets, diversity, equity and inclusion, and workplace health and safety, and to make certain non-substantive amendments.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1402436/000095017022025610/0000950170-22-025610-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.