---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-305971"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHRW"
cik: "0001043277"
company_name: "C. H. ROBINSON WORLDWIDE, INC."
filed_at: "2023-12-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T05:43:24.044726+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# C.H. Robinson settles with Ancora: will renominate Winship and Maier, averts proxy fight

## Summary
- Board commits to renominate incumbent directors Henry W. Winship and Henry J. Maier at 2024 annual meeting.
- Ancora agrees not to nominate any other candidates, make proposals, or solicit proxies at that meeting.
- If Board fails to renominate, it must take measures (e.g. amend bylaws, postpone meeting) to allow Ancora to nominate.
- Letter agreement is not a standstill; Ancora retains rights outside the 2024 meeting nomination restrictions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-305971
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHRW
- cik: 0001043277
- company_name: C. H. ROBINSON WORLDWIDE, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-12-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043277/000119312523305971/0001193125-23-305971-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043277/000119312523305971/d346619d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-305971.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  C. H. ROBINSON WORLDWIDE, INC. entered into Letter Agreement with Ancora Catalyst Institutional, LP (effective 2023-12-29).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: settlement
  - Counterparty: Ancora Catalyst Institutional, LP
  - Effective: 2023-12-29
  source text: On December 29, 2023, C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a letter agreement (the “Letter Agreement”) with Ancora Catalyst Institutional, LP and its affiliates party thereto.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1043277/000119312523305971/0001193125-23-305971-index.htm

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