---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001097149-26-000010"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALGN"
cik: "0001097149"
company_name: "ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC"
filed_at: "2026-02-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T23:23:39.458841+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Align Technology amends bylaws to allow 25%+ stockholders to call special meetings

## Summary
- Amended bylaws effective Feb 24, 2026; require 25% continuous ownership for 1 year to request special meeting.
- Stockholders must comply with informational, timing, and other requirements per the amended bylaws.
- Other amendments are clarifying, conforming, technical, or ministerial changes.
- Bylaws filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the 8-K.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001097149-26-000010
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALGN
- cik: 0001097149
- company_name: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
- filed_at: 2026-02-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714926000010/0001097149-26-000010-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714926000010/algn-20260224.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001097149-26-000010.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 5431530f3a2ab6c7c66965bb510d3cc59e58a023
  claim: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC: Amended and Restated Bylaws provide that the Board shall call a special meeting of stockholders if properly requested by one or more stockholders who have continuously held at least 25% of the Company’s outstanding common stock for at least one year prior to the date the request is mailed, and have (effective 2026-02-24).
  evidence_excerpt: On February 24, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Align Technology, Inc. (the “Company”) 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/1097149/000109714926000010/0001097149-26-000010-index.htm

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