---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-132211"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MAT"
cik: "0000063276"
company_name: "MATTEL INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-05-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T05:11:11.685099+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Mattel shareholders approve officer exculpation, elect board, ratify auditor

## Summary
- Amendment to certificate of incorporation to extend officer exculpation approved (257.2M for, 28.1M against).
- All 10 director nominees elected; Adriana Cisneros, Diana Ferguson, Ynon Kreiz among those receiving majority votes.
- Ratification of PwC as independent auditor for FY2025 passed with 295.8M votes for, 3.9M against.
- Non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation approved (274.5M for, 10.8M against).
- Stockholder proposal on climate change contribution plan rejected (17.0M for, 266.4M against).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-132211
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MAT
- cik: 0000063276
- company_name: MATTEL INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-05-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63276/000119312525132211/0001193125-25-132211-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63276/000119312525132211/d140462d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-132211.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  MATTEL INC /DE/: Extended officer exculpation to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law (effective 2025-05-29).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-29
  source text: On May 29, 2025, to effect the Amendment, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (the “Certificate of Amendment”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, which became effective immediately upon its filing.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63276/000119312525132211/0001193125-25-132211-index.htm

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