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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-23-000806"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WH"
cik: "0001722684"
company_name: "WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-01-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T18:52:20.980665+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Wyndham Hotels adopts proxy access and other bylaw amendments effective January 4, 2023

## Summary
- Proxy access allows stockholders owning 3% for 3 years to nominate up to the greater of 2 directors or 20% of board.
- Revised procedures for director nominations and proposals, including Rule 14a-19 compliance requirement.
- Adopted exclusive forum for Securities Act claims in U.S. federal district courts.
- Updated gender-neutral terms (Chair) and made administrative, modernizing changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-23-000806
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WH
- cik: 0001722684
- company_name: WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-01-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1722684/000114036123000806/0001140361-23-000806-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1722684/000114036123000806/brhc10046323_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS, INC.: Amended and restated by-laws to add proxy access, revise director nomination procedures, clarify majority voting, adopt forum selection, and make other changes (effective 2023-01-04).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-04
  source text: On January 4, 2023, the Board of Directors of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (the “Company”) approved an amendment and restatement of the Company’s by-laws (as amended and restated, the “Third Amended and Restated By-Laws”), effective as of such date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1722684/000114036123000806/0001140361-23-000806-index.htm

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