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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-048666"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VTR"
cik: "0000740260"
company_name: "Ventas, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T06:33:49.533652+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ventas shareholders approve doubling authorized shares and officer exculpation at annual meeting

## Summary
- Authorized common shares increased from 600M to 1.2B via Charter Amendment; filed May 14, 2025.
- Shareholders approved exculpation amendment limiting officer liability as permitted by Delaware law.
- All 12 director nominees elected; Debra Cafaro received 350.8M for, 20M against, 12.8M abstain.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation passed with 337.7M for (87.7% of votes cast).
- KPMG LLP ratified as auditor for 2025 with 396.0M for, 5.5M against.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-048666
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VTR
- cik: 0000740260
- company_name: Ventas, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/740260/000110465925048666/0001104659-25-048666-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/740260/000110465925048666/tm2515009d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Ventas, Inc.: Amendment to increase authorized common stock from 600M to 1.2B shares and eliminate monetary liability of certain officers under DGCL (effective 2025-05-14).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-14
  source text: At the Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of Ventas, Inc. (the “Company”) held on May 13, 2025, the Company’s stockholders approved amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (i) to increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.25 per share, from 600,000,000 shares to 1,200,000,000 shares and to make a corresponding change to the aggregate number of authorized shares of the Company’s capital stock (the “Authorized Share Amendment”) and (ii) to provide for the elimination of monetary liability of certain of the Company’s officers in certain circumstances as provided under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (the “DGCL”) (the “Exculpation Amendment” and, together with the Authorized Share Amendment, the “Charter Amendments”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/740260/000110465925048666/0001104659-25-048666-index.htm

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