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accession: "0001084961-22-000130"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECPG"
cik: "0001084961"
company_name: "ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2022-12-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T03:07:12.380201+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Encore Capital amends bylaws to adopt universal proxy rules and enhance stockholder meeting procedures

## Summary
- Board approved amended bylaws effective Dec 13, 2022, aligning with SEC universal proxy rules under Rule 14a-19.
- Enhanced disclosure requirements for stockholder director nominations and proposals, including background and ownership info.
- New notice procedures for special meetings and written consent, requiring prior Board request to fix record date.
- Designated Delaware Court of Chancery as exclusive forum for internal claims and federal courts for Securities Act claims.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001084961-22-000130
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECPG
- cik: 0001084961
- company_name: ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2022-12-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084961/000108496122000130/0001084961-22-000130-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084961/000108496122000130/ecpg-20221213.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001084961-22-000130.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC: Adopted amended and restated bylaws addressing universal proxy rules, stockholder nomination and proposal procedures, special meetings and written consent requirements, and exclusive forum provisions (effective 2022-12-13).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-12-13
  source text: On December 13, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Encore Capital Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), acting upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, approved and adopted amended and restated bylaws (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which became effective the same day.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084961/000108496122000130/0001084961-22-000130-index.htm

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