---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-044301"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DAKT"
cik: "0000915779"
company_name: "DAKTRONICS INC /SD/"
filed_at: "2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T22:27:54.048661+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Daktronics settles with Alta Fox, appoints Peter Feigin to board, ends poison pill

## Summary
- Appoints Peter Feigin (President of Milwaukee Bucks) to board, effective March 5, 2025, term through 2027 annual meeting.
- Board expanded from eight to nine directors; Feigin joins Transformation Committee.
- Rights Agreement terminated as of March 3, 2025—poison pill expires immediately.
- Alta Fox withdraws litigation with prejudice, supports reincorporation to Delaware, and enters standstill until 2027.
- Company commits to investor day by Dec 31, 2025; will solicit Alta Fox input on CFO search.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-044301
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DAKT
- cik: 0000915779
- company_name: DAKTRONICS INC /SD/
- filed_at: 2025-03-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 3.03, 5.02, 5.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915779/000119312525044301/0001193125-25-044301-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915779/000119312525044301/d874207d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-044301.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Peter Feigin was appointed as Director at DAKTRONICS INC /SD/.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On March 3, 2025, the Board appointed Peter Feigin to serve as a member of the Board, effective March 5, 2025, with a term expiring at the 2027 Annual Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915779/000119312525044301/0001193125-25-044301-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  DAKTRONICS INC /SD/: Amended bylaws to require a Lead Independent Director if the Board Chair is not an independent director (effective 2025-03-03).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-03-03
  source text: The Amended Bylaws codify the Company’s existing practice, as contemplated by the Company’s Board of Directors Corporate Governance Guidelines, by amending the Bylaws to require the directors to select a Lead Independent Director in the event that the Chairperson of the Board is not an Independent Director.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915779/000119312525044301/0001193125-25-044301-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.