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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-119332"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IP"
cik: "0000051434"
company_name: "INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO /NEW/"
filed_at: "2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T11:23:20.957370+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# IP amends pension plan for GCF employees, allows continued vesting via acquirer; all directors elected at annual meeting

## Summary
- Amendment No. 9 to Pension Restoration Plan lets GCF employees continue earning service time and qualify for early retirement while employed by acquiring company.
- Benefits named executive officer Clayton R. Ellis, SVP – global cellulose fibers, and other GCF participants.
- All 11 director nominees elected, with each receiving between 384M and 428M votes for; Deloitte ratified as auditor (450.8M for, 11M against).
- Non-binding say-on-pay approved (417.3M for, 12M against); shareholder proposal on LGBTQIA+ report rejected (27.9M for, 398.8M against).
- Amendment effective May 12, 2025; planned GCF divestiture announced October 31, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-119332
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IP
- cik: 0000051434
- company_name: INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO /NEW/
- filed_at: 2025-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51434/000119312525119332/0001193125-25-119332-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51434/000119312525119332/d945649d8k.htm

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