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accession: "0001059556-25-000193"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MCO"
cik: "0001059556"
company_name: "MOODYS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:20:56.041385+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Moody's board amends by-laws tightening advance notice requirements for shareholder proposals

## Summary
- Board approved by-law amendments on Oct 14, 2025, updating procedural and disclosure rules for director nominations and other shareholder proposals.
- Advance notice window narrowed: submission must be 90 to 120 days before the anniversary of the prior annual meeting.
- New disclosure mandates include Schedule 13D-type information, performance fee arrangements, and compensation agreements.
- Deadline for 2026 annual meeting proposals (non-Rule 14a-8) is Dec 16, 2025 to Jan 15, 2026.
- Amendments do not affect Rule 14a-8 or proxy access deadlines already disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001059556-25-000193
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MCO
- cik: 0001059556
- company_name: MOODYS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1059556/000105955625000193/0001059556-25-000193-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1059556/000105955625000193/mco-20251014.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  MOODYS CORP /DE/: Amended advance notice provisions for director nominations and other stockholder proposals, with updated procedural and disclosure requirements, and other administrative changes (effective 2025-10-14).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-10-14
  source text: On October 14, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Moody’s Corporation (the “Company”) approved an amendment of the Company’s Amended and Restated By-Laws (the “By-Laws”) to update certain procedural and disclosure requirements for director nominations and/or other business proposals by stockholders for consideration at stockholder meetings under the advance notice provisions of the By-Laws.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1059556/000105955625000193/0001059556-25-000193-index.htm

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