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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-018641"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PIPR"
cik: "0001230245"
company_name: "PIPER SANDLER COMPANIES"
filed_at: "2023-02-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T17:36:09.625280+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Piper Sandler amends bylaws for universal proxy rules and advance notice provisions

## Summary
- Effective Feb 9, 2023, Board approved amended and restated bylaws.
- Updates advance notice requirements for director nominations and stockholder proposals.
- Clarifies compliance with SEC Rule 14a-19 universal proxy rules.
- Requires stockholders soliciting proxies to use a proxy card color other than white.
- Includes technical, modernizing, and clarifying changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-018641
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PIPR
- cik: 0001230245
- company_name: PIPER SANDLER COMPANIES
- filed_at: 2023-02-10T23:59:59+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/1230245/000110465923018641/0001104659-23-018641-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1230245/000110465923018641/tm235681d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  PIPER SANDLER COMPANIES: Amended and restated bylaws to update advance notice provisions, address universal proxy rules, update conduct of stockholder meetings, require proxy card color, and make conforming changes (effective 2023-02-09).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-09
  source text: On February 9, 2023 (the “Effective Date”), in connection with the effectiveness of new Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) rules regarding universal proxy cards and a periodic review of the bylaws of Piper Sandler Companies (“PSC”), the Board of Directors of PSC (the “Board”) approved and adopted PSC’s amended and restated bylaws (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), effective as of the Effective Date, to, among other things: • update and revise the advance notice provisions for the nomination of directors or the proposal of other business at meetings of stockholders, including requiring additional disclosures regarding proposing stockholders and proposed nominees and business, and other persons related to a stockholder’s solicitation of proxies; • address the universal proxy rules adopted by the SEC by clarifying that no person may solicit proxies in support of a director nominee other than the Board’s nominees unless such person has complied with Rule 14a-19 under the Secu
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1230245/000110465923018641/0001104659-23-018641-index.htm

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