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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-213338"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KFY"
cik: "0000056679"
company_name: "KORN FERRY"
filed_at: "2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:54:59.400882+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Korn Ferry stockholders approve officer liability limitation amendment at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected; Gary D. Burnison received 46,271,670 votes for, 177,846 against.
- Advisory say-on-pay resolution passed with 39,860,719 for (86.3% of votes cast excluding broker non-votes).
- Certificate amendment to limit officer liability approved with 41,847,749 for, 3,605,185 against.
- Ernst & Young ratified as FY2026 auditor; 47,120,682 votes for, 1,507,714 against.
- Amended certificate filed with Delaware Secretary of State on September 18, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-213338
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KFY
- cik: 0000056679
- company_name: KORN FERRY
- filed_at: 2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56679/000119312525213338/0001193125-25-213338-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56679/000119312525213338/d95534d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  KORN FERRY: Stockholders approved amendments to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation to limit the liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law (effective 2025-09-18).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-18
  source text: the Company’s stockholders approved amendments to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate”) to limit the liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law (the “Certificate Amendments”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/56679/000119312525213338/0001193125-25-213338-index.htm

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