---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-099320"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GNL"
cik: "0001526113"
company_name: "Global Net Lease, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-09-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T22:08:23.757939+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GNL stockholders approve stock issuance for RTL merger and internalization

## Summary
- Approved issuance of up to 29.6M GNL shares to Advisor Parent and 0.670 GNL shares per each RTL share.
- Vote: 44.1M for, 32.3M against, 0.6M abstentions on common stock proposal; quorum was 76.9M shares.
- Adjournment proposal also approved but not needed after common stock proposal passed.
- Merger will combine GNL and RTL and internalize advisory and property management functions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-099320
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GNL
- cik: 0001526113
- company_name: Global Net Lease, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-09-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1526113/000110465923099320/0001104659-23-099320-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1526113/000110465923099320/tm2325748d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-099320.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Global Net Lease, Inc. shareholders approved Approval of adjournment of the Special Meeting if necessary at the 2023-09-08 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-09-08
  source text: Proposal 2. Adjournment Proposal. Votes For Votes Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 45,785,536 30,597,671 558,426 -
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1526113/000110465923099320/0001104659-23-099320-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Global Net Lease, Inc. shareholders approved Approval of issuance of shares in connection with the REIT Merger and Internalization Merger at the 2023-09-08 meeting.
  - Proposal: merger approval
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-09-08
  source text: Proposal 1. GNL Common Stock Proposal. Votes For Votes Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 44,106,496 32,250,774 584,363 -
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1526113/000110465923099320/0001104659-23-099320-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.