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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001086222-25-000238"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AKAM"
cik: "0001086222"
company_name: "AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:43:00.851040+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Akamai reduces voting thresholds for director removal and bylaw amendments

## Summary
- Board adopted amended bylaws effective September 10, 2025.
- Voting threshold to remove directors reduced from 2/3 to a majority of shares outstanding.
- Voting threshold to amend bylaws reduced from 75% to a majority of shares outstanding.
- Amendments also include ministerial and conforming changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001086222-25-000238
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AKAM
- cik: 0001086222
- company_name: AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1086222/000108622225000238/0001086222-25-000238-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1086222/000108622225000238/akam-20250910.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001086222-25-000238.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC: Reduced voting threshold for stockholders to remove directors from two-thirds to majority (effective 2025-09-10).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-10
  source text: Reduce the existing voting threshold for stockholders to remove directors (with or without cause) from two-thirds (2/3s) to a majority of the shares of the Company's capital stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at an election of directors;
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1086222/000108622225000238/0001086222-25-000238-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES INC: Reduced voting threshold for stockholders to amend the bylaws from seventy-five percent to majority (effective 2025-09-10).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-10
  source text: Reduce the existing voting threshold for stockholders to amend the bylaws from seventy-five percent (75%) to a majority of the shares of the Company's capital stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereon;
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1086222/000108622225000238/0001086222-25-000238-index.htm

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