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accession: "0001064728-23-000175"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BTU"
cik: "0001064728"
company_name: "PEABODY ENERGY CORP"
filed_at: "2023-12-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T15:23:01.976494+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peabody Energy amends By-Laws for universal proxy rules and DGCL updates

## Summary
- Board approved Second Amended and Restated By-Laws effective December 4, 2023.
- Requires universal proxy nominators to provide compliance evidence 10 days before meeting.
- Mandates that stockholders soliciting proxies use a non-white proxy card.
- Adopts DGCL revisions on stockholder meeting adjournment provisions.
- Includes administrative and conforming changes; full text filed as Exhibit 3.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001064728-23-000175
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BTU
- cik: 0001064728
- company_name: PEABODY ENERGY CORP
- filed_at: 2023-12-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1064728/000106472823000175/0001064728-23-000175-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1064728/000106472823000175/btu-20231204.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  PEABODY ENERGY CORP: Amended by-laws to clarify director nominations, universal proxy rules, stockholder meeting adjournment, and make administrative changes (effective 2023-12-04).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-04
  source text: On December 4, 2023, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Peabody Energy Corporation (the "Company") approved and adopted the Company’s Second Amended and Restated By-Laws (the "By-Laws"), which became effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1064728/000106472823000175/0001064728-23-000175-index.htm

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