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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-056030"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECL"
cik: "0000031462"
company_name: "ECOLAB INC."
filed_at: "2023-05-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T23:10:58.687633+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ecolab adopts amended bylaws to align with Delaware law and universal proxy rules

## Summary
- Amendments include updates for DGCL adjournment, stockholder list, and consent without meeting.
- Revised advance notice provisions for director nominations and other business, including universal proxy card compliance.
- Majority voting standard clarified for director elections unless contested.
- Indemnification provisions expanded to advance expenses and allow suits for unpaid claims.
- Description of securities updated to reflect bylaw changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-056030
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECL
- cik: 0000031462
- company_name: ECOLAB INC.
- filed_at: 2023-05-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000110465923056030/0001104659-23-056030-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000110465923056030/tm2314173d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-056030.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ECOLAB INC.: Amended and Restated By-Laws approved and adopted by the Board (effective 2023-05-04).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-05-04
  source text: On May 4, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ecolab Inc. (“Ecolab” or the “Company”) approved and adopted Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (as so amended and restated, the “By-Laws”), that became immediately effective.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000110465923056030/0001104659-23-056030-index.htm

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