secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Service Properties Trust (SVC)
CIK:        0000945394
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-06-14T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001104659-23-071026
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.50
Item codes: 5.0, 5.07, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Service Properties Trust elects new trustee, amends bylaws, reports annual meeting results
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- Rajan C. Penkar elected as independent trustee effective June 13, 2023; board expands to eight.
- Board approved Second Amended and Restated Bylaws to address universal proxy rules (Rule 14a-19).
- All seven trustee nominees elected; Adam Portnoy received 37.2M against votes out of ~119M cast.
- Say-on-pay approved with 109.6M for, 9.1M against; advisory vote frequency set to every year.
- Deloitte & Touche ratified as auditor for 2023 with 133.9M votes in favor.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465923071026/0001104659-23-071026-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/945394/000110465923071026/tm2317995d1_8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-071026

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