---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-065248"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VRE"
cik: "0000924901"
company_name: "Veris Residential, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-05-21T21:14:23+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T21:19:52.638030+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Veris Residential stockholders approved merger with AC Residential Acquisition at special meeting

## Summary
- 81.99% of shares voted; merger approved with 76,820,975 FOR, 18,230 AGAINST, 102,465 abstentions.
- Merger-related non-binding compensation proposal failed: 34,475,130 FOR, 42,329,272 AGAINST, 137,268 abstentions.
- Adjournment proposal not presented due to sufficient votes to approve the merger.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-065248
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VRE
- cik: 0000924901
- company_name: Veris Residential, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-05-21T21:14:23+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924901/000110465926065248/0001104659-26-065248-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924901/000110465926065248/tm2615332d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-065248.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Veris Residential, Inc. shareholders rejected Proposal to approve, by a non-binding vote, the compensation that may be paid or become payable to the Company's named executive officers that is based on or otherwise relates to the Transactions, including the Mergers at the 2026-05-21 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: failed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-21
  source text: The final votes on the Merger-Related Compensation Proposal were as follows: FOR AGAINST ABSTENTIONS 34,475,130 42,329,272 137,268
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924901/000110465926065248/0001104659-26-065248-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Veris Residential, Inc. shareholders approved Proposal to approve the Mergers and the other Transactions at the 2026-05-21 meeting.
  - Proposal: merger approval
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-21
  source text: was approved, having received "for" votes from holders of a majority of the outstanding Shares entitled to vote on the Merger Proposal. The final votes on the Merger Proposal were as follows: FOR AGAINST ABSTENTIONS 76,820,975 18,230 102,465
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/924901/000110465926065248/0001104659-26-065248-index.htm

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