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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-110493"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BXMT"
cik: "0001061630"
company_name: "BLACKSTONE MORTGAGE TRUST, INC."
filed_at: "2023-04-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T21:03:32.271694+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blackstone Mortgage Trust adopts Seventh Amended and Restated Bylaws enhancing stockholder nomination procedures

## Summary
- Amendments enhance disclosure and procedural requirements for stockholder nominations, including compliance with Rule 14a-19.
- Stockholders soliciting proxies must use a proxy card color other than white; nominees limited to number of directors to be elected.
- Proposed nominees and proposing stockholders must provide background information and consent to serve on the Board.
- Updates to virtual meeting provisions to align with amendments to the Maryland General Corporation Law.
- Changes also include various conforming and technical amendments effective April 19, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-110493
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BXMT
- cik: 0001061630
- company_name: BLACKSTONE MORTGAGE TRUST, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-04-21T23:59:59+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/1061630/000119312523110493/0001193125-23-110493-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1061630/000119312523110493/d409116d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  BLACKSTONE MORTGAGE TRUST, INC.: Adopted Seventh Amended and Restated Bylaws, enhancing stockholder nomination and proposal procedures, including compliance with Rule 14a-19, and making other updates (effective 2023-04-19).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-04-19
  source text: On April 19, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Blackstone Mortgage Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) adopted resolutions amending and restating the Company’s bylaws (as amended and restated, the “Seventh Amended and Restated Bylaws”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1061630/000119312523110493/0001193125-23-110493-index.htm

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