---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-23-001056"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GBTG"
cik: "0001820872"
company_name: "Global Business Travel Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-01-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T18:10:17.676925+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stockholders approve stock option exchange program at special meeting

## Summary
- Special meeting held January 6, 2023; proposal to exchange outstanding stock options for RSUs approved.
- Vote results: 422,660,040 for, 1,547,747 against, 8,217,358 abstained; no broker non-votes.
- Program covers certain eligible employees including executive officers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-23-001056
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GBTG
- cik: 0001820872
- company_name: Global Business Travel Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-01-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820872/000114036123001056/0001140361-23-001056-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820872/000114036123001056/brhc10046386_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-23-001056.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Global Business Travel Group, Inc. shareholders approved To approve a stock option exchange program for certain eligible employees, including certain of the Company’s executive officers, to exchange certain outstanding stock options for new restricted stock units at the 2023-01-06 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-01-06
  source text: The results of the voting included 422,660,040 votes for, 1,547,747 votes against and 8,217,358 votes abstained.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1820872/000114036123001056/0001140361-23-001056-index.htm

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