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accession: "0001193125-23-041110"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DOV"
cik: "0000029905"
company_name: "DOVER Corp"
filed_at: "2023-02-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T09:48:43.327115+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dover amends bylaws for director nomination procedures and stockholder list rules

## Summary
- Amendments adopted Feb 10, 2023, effective immediately.
- Updates director nomination disclosure requirements to comply with SEC Rule 14a-19.
- Updates stockholder list procedures consistent with recent Delaware General Corporation Law amendments.
- Includes conforming, clarifying, and non-substantive changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-041110
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DOV
- cik: 0000029905
- company_name: DOVER Corp
- filed_at: 2023-02-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- 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/29905/000119312523041110/0001193125-23-041110-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29905/000119312523041110/d409855d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-041110.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  DOVER Corp: Amended and Restated By-laws to update director nomination procedures and stockholder list requirements, including compliance with Rule 14a-19 and recent DGCL amendments (effective 2023-02-10).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-10
  source text: On February 10, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Dover Corporation (the “Company”) adopted amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated By-laws (as so further amended, the “By-laws”), effective as of such date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29905/000119312523041110/0001193125-23-041110-index.htm

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