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accession: "0001193125-23-110532"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SLB"
cik: "0000087347"
company_name: "SLB LIMITED/NV"
filed_at: "2023-04-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-16T21:59:54.650428+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SLB adopts amended bylaws addressing universal proxy rules and enhanced nomination procedures

## Summary
- New universal proxy rule compliance: only Board nominees may be supported unless Rule 14a-19 notice given.
- Stockholder nominations must be submitted 120-90 days before prior year's annual meeting anniversary.
- Disclosures updated as of record date and 10 business days before meeting; nominees must be available for interviews.
- Proxy card color white reserved for Board exclusive use; other solicitors must use different color.
- Board also adopted revised code of conduct titled 'Together with Integrity — Our Code of Conduct'.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-110532
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SLB
- cik: 0000087347
- company_name: SLB LIMITED/NV
- filed_at: 2023-04-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87347/000119312523110532/0001193125-23-110532-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87347/000119312523110532/d470769d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  SLB LIMITED/NV: Approved and adopted a revised code of business conduct and ethics titled 'Together with Integrity — Our Code of Conduct' to expand and re-emphasize the expectation for integrity, improve readability, and add Integrity in Action guidance (effective 2023-04-20).
  - Change: code of ethics
  - Effective: 2023-04-20
  source text: On April 20, 2023, the Board approved and adopted a revised code of business conduct and ethics titled “Together with Integrity — Our Code of Conduct” (“Code”). The revised Code expands and re-emphasizes the Company’s core expectation for its officers, directors, and employees to act with integrity in an evolving world.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87347/000119312523110532/0001193125-23-110532-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  SLB LIMITED/NV: Amended and restated by-laws to address universal proxy rules, enhance procedural mechanics for stockholder nominations and proposals, and require use of a proxy card color other than white (effective 2023-04-20).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-04-20
  source text: On April 20, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Schlumberger Limited (“SLB”) adopted amended and restated by-laws to, among other things: • Address the universal proxy rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, by clarifying that no person may solicit proxies in support of a director nominee other than the Board’s nominees unless such person has complied with Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), including applicable notice and solicitation requirements;
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/87347/000119312523110532/0001193125-23-110532-index.htm

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