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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-063847"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BW"
cik: "0001630805"
company_name: "Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T11:01:52.625323+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Babcock & Wilcox shareholders reject board declassification and supermajority removal

## Summary
- Proposal to declassify Board failed: 55.3M votes for, 470K against, but not 80% of outstanding shares.
- Henry E. Bartoli, Naomi L. Boness, Philip D. Moeller elected as Class III directors (three-year terms).
- Proposal to remove 80% supermajority requirement for charter/bylaw amendments also failed.
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche as auditor for FY2024 approved: 63,995,387 votes in favor.
- Advisory say-on-pay for named executive officers passed: 53.8M votes in favor, 1.9M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-063847
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BW
- cik: 0001630805
- company_name: Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630805/000110465924063847/0001104659-24-063847-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630805/000110465924063847/tm2413747d1_8k.htm

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