Ciena amends bylaws to tighten stockholder nomination and proposal rules

CIENA CORP

Amended bylaws require nominating stockholders to disclose stock ownership, voting commitments, and litigation ties.
Stockholders must represent intent to solicit proxies from 67% voting power; failure to comply voids nomination.
Number of nominees limited to number of directors to be elected at meeting.
Bylaws updated to reflect recent DGCL changes on adjournment and stockholder list requirements.
Amendments effective January 26, 2023, filed as Exhibit 3.1.

Key facts

Extracted from this filing and checked against the source text.

Governance Changes SEC 8-K Item 5.03/5.05/5.06 confidence 0.9

CIENA CORP: Amended and restated bylaws to enhance procedural mechanics and disclosure requirements for stockholder nominations, comply with Rule 14a-19, and make other administrative updates (effective 2023-01-26).

Change: bylaw amendment
Effective: 2023-01-26

Exact text from the filing

On January 26, 2023, in connection with a periodic review of the bylaws of Ciena Corporation (“Ciena”) the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ciena adopted and approved Ciena’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Amended Bylaws”).

View on SEC.gov

89 governance changes filed in the last 30 days. Browse all governance changes →

CIENA CORP filing history →

Source: SEC EDGAR

accession 0001193125-23-017784

view filing index on sec.gov

view primary document

Machine-readable: JSON · Markdown · Plain text

This headline and bullets were generated automatically by deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2 from the public filing. Read the source on SEC.gov before relying on any specific claim. Not investment advice. See methodology for how this pipeline works.