---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001025835-26-000116"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EFSC"
cik: "0001025835"
company_name: "ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP"
filed_at: "2026-05-15T20:04:26+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T20:08:34.409874+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Enterprise Financial Services Corp shareholders elect all 12 directors, ratify Deloitte, approve exec compensation

## Summary
- All 12 director nominees elected; Michael A. DeCola had highest withheld at 1,363,893 votes.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as auditor for FY2026: 31,543,824 for, 379,765 against, 10,850 abstain.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 28,136,971 for, 890,165 against, 120,752 abstain; broker non-votes 2,786,551.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001025835-26-000116
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EFSC
- cik: 0001025835
- company_name: ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP
- filed_at: 2026-05-15T20:04:26+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025835/000102583526000116/0001025835-26-000116-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025835/000102583526000116/efsc-20260513.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP shareholders approved Election of the twelve nominees named in the Company's proxy statement to serve a one-year term at the 2026-05-13 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-13
  source text: The twelve nominees named in the Company’s proxy statement for the 2026 Annual Meeting (the “Proxy Statement”) were elected to serve a one-year term expiring in 2027 or until their successors are duly elected and qualified, based upon the following votes:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025835/000102583526000116/0001025835-26-000116-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP shareholders approved Ratification of the Appointment of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2026-05-13 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-13
  source text: The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP to serve as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2026 was ratified as follows:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025835/000102583526000116/0001025835-26-000116-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL SERVICES CORP shareholders approved Advisory (Non-Binding) Vote to Approve Executive Compensation at the 2026-05-13 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-13
  source text: The proposal to approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers, as described in the Proxy Statement, was approved by the following votes:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1025835/000102583526000116/0001025835-26-000116-index.htm

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