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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-031939"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GNL"
cik: "0001526113"
company_name: "Global Net Lease, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T20:57:57.936395+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Global Net Lease amends bylaws to give stockholders power to amend bylaws by majority vote

## Summary
- Board approved Third Amended and Restated Bylaws on April 2, 2025.
- Stockholders can now alter, amend, or repeal bylaws via majority vote at annual or special meetings.
- Board retains exclusive authority over Article XII (Indemnification) and Article XV (Amendments).
- Previously, only the Board had exclusive power to amend bylaws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-031939
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GNL
- cik: 0001526113
- company_name: Global Net Lease, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1526113/000110465925031939/0001104659-25-031939-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1526113/000110465925031939/tm2510320d3_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Global Net Lease, Inc.: Amended Article XV to grant stockholders, in addition to the Board, the power to alter, amend, or repeal bylaws by majority vote, subject to certain limitations requiring Board approval for changes to Articles XII and XV (effective 2025-04-02).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-04-02
  source text: April 2, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Global Net Lease, Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Existing Bylaws,” and as amended and restated, the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”) to amend Article XV of the Existing Bylaws to give the Company’s stockholders, in addition to the Board, the power to alter, amend or repeal the Amended and Restated Bylaws or to make new bylaws by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company entitled to vote on the matter pursuant to a binding proposal submitted for approval at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1526113/000110465925031939/0001104659-25-031939-index.htm

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