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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-094764"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SNPS"
cik: "0000883241"
company_name: "SYNOPSYS INC"
filed_at: "2024-04-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T23:46:26.898743+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Synopsys shareholders approve 3.4M share increase to equity plan; reject independent chair proposal

## Summary
- Stockholders approved amendment to 2006 Employee Equity Incentive Plan, increasing share pool by 3,400,000 shares.
- Amended plan eliminates term; ISOs may be granted without further stockholder approval for 10 years.
- All 11 director nominees elected; stockholder proposal for independent board chair defeated (40.2M for, 82.6M against).
- Advisory say-on-pay passed (113.9M for, 9.0M against) and KPMG ratified as auditor for FY2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-094764
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SNPS
- cik: 0000883241
- company_name: SYNOPSYS INC
- filed_at: 2024-04-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/883241/000119312524094764/0001193125-24-094764-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/883241/000119312524094764/d824566d8k.htm

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