---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001025378-23-000086"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WPC"
cik: "0001025378"
company_name: "W. P. Carey Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T20:30:56.223927+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# W. P. Carey annual meeting results: all 11 directors elected, say-on-pay and auditor ratified

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected with >95% support among votes cast; broker non-votes 40.2M.
- Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation passed with 115.0M for vs 9.6M against.
- Ratification of PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditor for FY2023 approved with 158.5M for vs 7.5M against.
- Meeting held June 15, 2023; 213.9M shares outstanding and entitled to vote.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001025378-23-000086
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WPC
- cik: 0001025378
- company_name: W. P. Carey Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025378/000102537823000086/0001025378-23-000086-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025378/000102537823000086/wpc-20230615.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  W. P. Carey Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of the appointment of PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023 at the 2023-06-15 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-15
  source text: The ratification of the appointment of PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025378/000102537823000086/0001025378-23-000086-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  W. P. Carey Inc. shareholders approved Election of the eleven nominees listed in the Company's Proxy Statement to the Board of Directors at the 2023-06-15 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-15
  source text: The election of the eleven nominees listed in the Company's Proxy Statement and set forth below to the Board of Directors of the Company, each to serve until the next annual meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025378/000102537823000086/0001025378-23-000086-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  W. P. Carey Inc. shareholders approved Approval, on a non-binding, advisory basis, of the compensation of the Company's named executive officers at the 2023-06-15 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-15
  source text: The approval, on a non-binding, advisory basis, of the compensation of the Company's named executive officers.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025378/000102537823000086/0001025378-23-000086-index.htm

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