---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-019445"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RPM"
cik: "0000110621"
company_name: "RPM INTERNATIONAL INC/DE/"
filed_at: "2024-01-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T14:39:21.699670+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RPM adopts proxy access bylaw allowing 3%-owners to nominate directors

## Summary
- 3% ownership threshold; group of up to 20 stockholders, held continuously for 3 years.
- Maximum nominees: greater of 2 directors or 20% of board size.
- Bylaw amendment approved by Board on Jan 24, 2024, effective same date.
- Proxy access rights added via new Article XV of Amended and Restated By-Laws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-019445
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RPM
- cik: 0000110621
- company_name: RPM INTERNATIONAL INC/DE/
- filed_at: 2024-01-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/110621/000119312524019445/0001193125-24-019445-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/110621/000119312524019445/d617296d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  RPM INTERNATIONAL INC/DE/: Amendment to By-Laws adding a proxy access provision (Article XV) for stockholder nominations (effective 2024-01-24).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-01-24
  source text: On January 24, 2024, the Board of Directors of RPM International Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated By-Laws (the “By-Laws”) to add a proxy access by-law (the “Amendment”). The Amendment became effective on January 24, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/110621/000119312524019445/0001193125-24-019445-index.htm

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