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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-056622"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001599489"
company_name: "Veritiv Corp"
filed_at: "2023-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T16:50:54.745323+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Veritiv shareholders approve officer exculpation amendment, elect nine directors

## Summary
- Shareholders approved amendment to exculpate officers (10,919,963 for, 797,136 against).
- Elected nine director nominees; Autumn Bayles had highest against votes (304,629).
- Ratified Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for 2023 with 12,520,934 votes for.
- Advisory approval of executive compensation (11,453,639 for, 264,499 against).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-056622
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001599489
- company_name: Veritiv Corp
- filed_at: 2023-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1599489/000110465923056622/0001104659-23-056622-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1599489/000110465923056622/tm2314594d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-056622.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Veritiv Corp: Amended certificate of incorporation to provide for exculpation of officers as permitted by Delaware law (effective 2023-05-05).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-05-05
  source text: the shareholders approved an amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Veritiv (the “Charter”) providing for an amendment to the Charter to provide for the exculpation of officers as permitted by Delaware law
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1599489/000110465923056622/0001104659-23-056622-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Veritiv Corp shareholders approved Ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for 2023.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: Veritiv shareholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as Veritiv’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1599489/000110465923056622/0001104659-23-056622-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Veritiv Corp shareholders approved Election of nine directors.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: Veritiv shareholders elected as directors the nine nominees named in the Proxy Statement
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1599489/000110465923056622/0001104659-23-056622-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Veritiv Corp shareholders approved Advisory approval of executive compensation.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: Veritiv shareholders approved, on an advisory basis, Veritiv’s executive compensation
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1599489/000110465923056622/0001104659-23-056622-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Veritiv Corp shareholders approved Amendment to Company’s Charter for exculpation of officers as permitted by Delaware law.
  - Proposal: charter amendment
  - Outcome: passed
  source text: Veritiv shareholders approved the Amendment to the Company’s Charter to provide for the exculpation of officers as permitted by Delaware law
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1599489/000110465923056622/0001104659-23-056622-index.htm

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