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accession: "0001193125-23-088804"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DLR"
cik: "0001297996"
company_name: "DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC."
filed_at: "2023-04-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-17T06:49:16.196505+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Digital Realty amends bylaws to update stockholder nomination and proxy rules

## Summary
- Board adopted Ninth Amended and Restated Bylaws effective March 30, 2023.
- New requirements for director nominations: representation on Rule 14a-19 compliance and evidence of compliance.
- Stockholders soliciting proxies must use a proxy card color other than white.
- Removed ownership thresholds for stockholder proposals to amend bylaws; majority vote now sufficient.
- Clarified provisions on conduct of meetings and made ministerial changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-088804
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DLR
- cik: 0001297996
- company_name: DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-04-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1297996/000119312523088804/0001193125-23-088804-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1297996/000119312523088804/d477117d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC.: Ninth Amended and Restated Bylaws approved, updating stockholder nomination requirements, adding universal proxy rule compliance, proxy card color requirement, and removing ownership threshold for bylaw amendments (effective 2023-03-30).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-03-30
  source text: On March 30, 2023, the Board of Directors of the company approved the company’s Ninth Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), effective as of such date
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1297996/000119312523088804/0001193125-23-088804-index.htm

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