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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-286263"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WELL"
cik: "0000766704"
company_name: "WELLTOWER INC."
filed_at: "2023-11-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T20:08:54.278967+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Welltower amends bylaws to update stockholder proposal mechanics and universal proxy rules

## Summary
- Amendments require additional background info on proposing stockholders and nominees.
- Stockholder directly soliciting proxies must use proxy card color other than white.
- Eliminated requirement for stockholder list inspection at meetings; opted out of DGCL Section 116 for written notices.
- Added emergency conduct provisions (DGCL Section 110) and clarified officer stock ownership and chair designation.
- Updated indemnification, insurance, electronic signature, and gender-neutral language provisions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-286263
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WELL
- cik: 0000766704
- company_name: WELLTOWER INC.
- filed_at: 2023-11-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766704/000119312523286263/0001193125-23-286263-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766704/000119312523286263/d610035d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WELLTOWER INC.: Amended and Restated By-Laws approved and adopted effective November 28, 2023, including changes related to stockholder proposals, universal proxy rules, meeting mechanics, emergency powers, officer provisions, electronic signatures, and indemnification (effective 2023-11-28).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-11-28
  source text: On November 28, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Welltower Inc. (the “Corporation”) approved and adopted the Corporation’s Amended and Restated By-Laws (as amended and restated, the “By-Laws”), effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766704/000119312523286263/0001193125-23-286263-index.htm

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