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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-308360"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AP"
cik: "0000006176"
company_name: "AMPCO PITTSBURGH CORP"
filed_at: "2022-12-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T02:54:23.502549+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ampco-Pittsburgh amends bylaws on director nominations and adds federal forum clause

## Summary
- Updated shareholder nomination procedures and disclosure requirements to comply with SEC universal proxy card rules.
- Added exclusive federal forum for Securities Act claims unless company consents in writing to alternative forum.
- Amendments effective immediately; universal proxy rules apply to annual meetings after 2023 meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-308360
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AP
- cik: 0000006176
- company_name: AMPCO PITTSBURGH CORP
- filed_at: 2022-12-19T23:59:59+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/6176/000119312522308360/0001193125-22-308360-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6176/000119312522308360/d433456d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-308360.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  AMPCO PITTSBURGH CORP: Amended and restated bylaws to update director nomination procedures, require compliance with universal proxy card rules, and add federal forum selection clause for Securities Act claims, with various conforming changes (effective 2022-12-14).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-12-14
  source text: On December 14, 2022, the Board of Directors of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corporation (the “Corporation”) approved an amendment and restatement of the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/6176/000119312522308360/0001193125-22-308360-index.htm

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