---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-103189"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARE"
cik: "0001035443"
company_name: "ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC."
filed_at: "2023-09-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T09:28:25.699533+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Alexandria RE amends bylaws to comply with universal proxy rules

## Summary
- Amendments require parties proposing director nominees to comply with SEC universal proxy rules (Rule 14a-19).
- Enhanced advance notice provisions require representations on solicitation intentions and nominee willingness to serve.
- Stockholder cannot nominate more individuals than directors to be elected; no substitution without compliance.
- Proxy authority granted for a nominee will be disregarded if the proposing stockholder abandons solicitation or fails Rule 14a-19.
- Conforming updates to virtual meeting provisions to align with Maryland General Corporation Law.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-103189
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARE
- cik: 0001035443
- company_name: ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-09-22T23:59:59+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/1035443/000110465923103189/0001104659-23-103189-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035443/000110465923103189/tm2326383d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-103189.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC.: Amended bylaws to comply with universal proxy rules, update proxy and advance notice provisions, and make conforming changes (effective 2023-09-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-09-21
  source text: On September 21, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted certain amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws dated July 27, 2018 (the “Bylaws” and, as amended, the “Amended Bylaws”), which became effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035443/000110465923103189/0001104659-23-103189-index.htm

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