---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-26-024819"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KW"
cik: "0001408100"
company_name: "Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-06-11T00:15:45+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T10:06:32.097146+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kennedy-Wilson stockholders approve merger; closing expected June 16, 2026

## Summary
- Merger proposal passed with 148,957,598 votes for, 535,978 against, 58,600 abstentions.
- Merger with Kona Bidco expected to close on or about June 16, 2026, subject to conditions.
- Company to pay $0.12 per share dividend on closing date to common stockholders of record June 11.
- Stockholders also approved non-binding advisory compensation proposal and adjournment proposal (adjournment not needed).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-26-024819
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KW
- cik: 0001408100
- company_name: Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-06-11T00:15:45+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000114036126024819/0001140361-26-024819-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000114036126024819/ef20075910_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. shareholders approved Advisory compensation proposal to approve compensation payable to named executive officers in connection with the Merger Agreement at the 2026-06-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-10
  source text: The Company’s stockholders approved, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the Advisory Compensation Proposal as follows: Votes For Votes Against Abstentions 139,504,118 9,411,306 636,752
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000114036126024819/0001140361-26-024819-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. shareholders approved Adjournment proposal at the 2026-06-10 meeting.
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-10
  source text: The Company’s stockholders approved the Adjournment Proposal, as follows: Votes For Votes Against Abstentions 143,306,344 6,169,767 76,065
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000114036126024819/0001140361-26-024819-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. shareholders approved Proposal to adopt the Merger Agreement at the 2026-06-10 meeting.
  - Proposal: merger approval
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-06-10
  source text: The Company’s stockholders approved the Merger Proposal, as follows: Majority Approval: Votes For Votes Against Abstentions 148,957,598 535,978 58,600
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000114036126024819/0001140361-26-024819-index.htm

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