---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-161240"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WCC"
cik: "0000929008"
company_name: "WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T05:53:32.242767+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# WESCO amends charter to grant stockholders right to request special meetings

## Summary
- Certificate of Amendment filed July 16, 2025, provides stockholders with the right to request a special meeting.
- Amendment approved by stockholders at 2025 annual meeting; procedural and disclosure requirements added to by-laws.
- Restated Certificate of Incorporation filed same day to integrate amendments without further changes.
- Amended and Restated By-Laws effective July 16, 2025, implement rules for exercising special meeting right.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-161240
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WCC
- cik: 0000929008
- company_name: WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/929008/000119312525161240/0001193125-25-161240-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/929008/000119312525161240/d94104d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-161240.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC: Amended bylaws to implement procedural and disclosure requirements for special meeting requests and other clarifying changes (effective 2025-07-16).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-07-16
  source text: The Company’s Board of Directors also approved and adopted certain amendments to the Company’s By-Laws (as so amended and restated, the “Amended and Restated By-Laws”), effective July 16, 2025, to implement procedural and disclosure requirements relating to the exercise of the right to request a special meeting of stockholders, and to incorporate other conforming or clarifying changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/929008/000119312525161240/0001193125-25-161240-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  WESCO INTERNATIONAL INC: Amended certificate of incorporation to grant stockholders the right to request a special meeting (effective 2025-07-16).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-07-16
  source text: On July 16, 2025, WESCO International, Inc. (the “Company”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware a Certificate of Amendment to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Amendment”) to effect an amendment to provide stockholders with the right to request a special meeting of stockholders
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/929008/000119312525161240/0001193125-25-161240-index.htm

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