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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001075531-24-000020"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKNG"
cik: "0001075531"
company_name: "Booking Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2024-04-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T13:26:41.323029+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Booking Holdings amends By-Laws to adopt exclusive forum provision and update proxy rules

## Summary
- Adopts exclusive forum for internal corporate claims in Delaware Chancery Court and federal court for Securities Act claims.
- Updates disclosure and procedural requirements for stockholder nominations to align with SEC universal proxy rules.
- Clarifies remote meeting and adjournment procedures under Delaware General Corporation Law.
- Adds advance notice requirements including interview and questionnaire for director nominations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001075531-24-000020
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKNG
- cik: 0001075531
- company_name: Booking Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-04-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553124000020/0001075531-24-000020-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553124000020/bkng-20240418.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001075531-24-000020
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001075531-24-000020.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Booking Holdings Inc.: Amended and restated By-Laws effective April 18, 2024, including revisions to director nomination disclosure and procedural requirements, universal proxy rules, advance notice requirements, exclusive forum provisions, and other technical changes (effective 2024-04-18).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-04-18
  source text: On April 18, 2024, the Board of Directors of Booking Holdings Inc. (the "Company") approved the amendment and restatement of the Company's By-Laws (the “Amended and Restated By-Laws”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1075531/000107553124000020/0001075531-24-000020-index.htm

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