---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-143743"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RIVN"
cik: "0001874178"
company_name: "Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE"
filed_at: "2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T01:55:29.142616+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rivian shareholders authorize Class A share increase and approve VW issuance

## Summary
- Authorized Class A common stock increased from 3.5B to 5.25B shares.
- Approval granted for future issuance of Class A shares to Volkswagen International America, Inc.
- All three director nominees (Scaringe, Krawiec, Schwartz) elected with majority support.
- Non-binding say-on-pay passed; KPMG ratified as auditor for FY2025.
- Charter amendments also include officer exculpation and voting-clarification provisions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-143743
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RIVN
- cik: 0001874178
- company_name: Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE
- filed_at: 2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000119312525143743/0001193125-25-143743-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000119312525143743/d79590d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE: Amendment increased authorized Class A common stock from 3,500,000,000 to 5,250,000,000 shares, added officer exculpation provision, and clarified voting standard for amending authorized shares under DGCL Section 242(d)(2) (effective 2025-06-20).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-20
  source text: On June 18, 2025, at Rivian Automotive, Inc.’s (the “Company”) Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”), the Company’s stockholders approved the following amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (collectively, the “Amendments”), each of which were described in the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2025 (the “Proxy Statement”): • an increase in the number of authorized shares of Class A common stock from 3,500,000,000 to 5,250,000,000 shares, which in turn increased the total number of authorized shares of common stock from 3,507,825,000 to 5,257,825,000; • a provision exculpating certain corporate officers from liability for breach of the fiduciary duty of care in certain circumstances; and • clarifications that the voting standard found in Section 242(d)(2) of the Delaware General Corporation Law would apply to any amendment to increase the number of authorized shares o
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000119312525143743/0001193125-25-143743-index.htm

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