---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-058135"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BW"
cik: "0001630805"
company_name: "Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T15:46:00.701972+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Babcock & Wilcox shareholders reject board declassification and supermajority removal

## Summary
- Proposal to declassify board needed 80% of outstanding shares; got 52.7M for, failed.
- Proposal to remove supermajority vote requirements also failed with 52.0M votes for.
- Directors Joseph Tato and Kenneth Young elected as Class I directors for three-year terms.
- Ratification of BDO USA as auditor approved (73.2M for, 0.2M against).
- Non-binding say-on-pay passed with 44.8M votes for.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-058135
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BW
- cik: 0001630805
- company_name: Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630805/000110465925058135/0001104659-25-058135-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1630805/000110465925058135/tm2517543d1_8k.htm

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