---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-080567"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZBH"
cik: "0001136869"
company_name: "ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T00:56:04.949455+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ZBH shareholders approve 10M share increase to stock plan and officer exculpation

## Summary
- Shareholders approved amendment to 2009 Stock Incentive Plan: 10M share increase, term to 2035, independent contractors eligible.
- Shareholders approved officer exculpation amendment to charter, limiting liability for breach of duty of care.
- Votes: Plan 154.4M for (89.7% of votes cast); exculpation 149.2M for (88.7%); all directors elected with >96% support.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-080567
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZBH
- cik: 0001136869
- company_name: ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-06-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136869/000095017025080567/0000950170-25-080567-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136869/000095017025080567/zbh-20250529.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-080567.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC.: Amended Restated Certificate of Incorporation to limit personal liability of certain officers for monetary damages for breach of duty of care as permitted under Delaware law (effective 2025-05-29).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-29
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s shareholders approved an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Charter”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1136869/000095017025080567/0000950170-25-080567-index.htm

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