---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-26-009460"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KW"
cik: "0001408100"
company_name: "Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-03-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T11:30:00.043104+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kennedy-Wilson amends merger voting to require 2/3 supermajority excluding certain large holders

## Summary
- Amendment requires 2/3 vote of all voting stock (common + preferred on as-converted) to adopt merger, excluding shares owned by CEO McMorrow, Windisch, Lee, and Fairfax affiliates.
- Original majority-vote requirement remains, but supermajority condition reduces influence of excluded holders.
- Deal structure triggers Section 203 DGCL; amendment confirms no other anti-takeover laws apply.
- Change may increase difficulty of obtaining stockholder approval for the pending acquisition by Kona Bidco.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-26-009460
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KW
- cik: 0001408100
- company_name: Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-03-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000114036126009460/0001140361-26-009460-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000114036126009460/ny20065855x2_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-26-009460.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. amended Agreement and Plan of Merger with Kona Bidco, LLC and Kona Merger Subsidiary, Inc. valued at Amendment requiring two-thirds vote of Company Voting Stock as defined (effective 2026-03-15).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Kona Bidco, LLC and Kona Merger Subsidiary, Inc.
  - Value: Amendment requiring two-thirds vote of Company Voting Stock as defined
  - Effective: 2026-03-15
  source text: On March 15, 2026, Kennedy Wilson entered into an Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement Amendment”, and the Original Merger Agreement, as amended, supplemented and otherwise modified by the Merger Agreement Amendment, the “Merger Agreement”) with Parent and Merger Sub.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000114036126009460/0001140361-26-009460-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.