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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001206774-23-000127"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001959472"
company_name: "Kimco Realty OP, LLC"
filed_at: "2023-02-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T02:46:17.029491+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kimco Realty adopts proxy access bylaw allowing 3% holders to nominate directors

## Summary
- Amended bylaws effective Jan 31, 2023 to add proxy access provision.
- Shareholders (or group of up to 20) owning 3%+ for 3 years can nominate up to 20% of board.
- Other non-substantive ministerial and clarifying changes included.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001206774-23-000127
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001959472
- company_name: Kimco Realty OP, LLC
- filed_at: 2023-02-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1959472/000120677423000127/0001206774-23-000127-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/879101/000120677423000127/kimcorealty4159181-8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Kimco Realty OP, LLC: Amended bylaws to add proxy access provision allowing stockholders owning 3% or more common stock for at least three years to nominate director candidates for up to 20% of the board (effective 2023-01-31).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-31
  source text: On January 31, 2023, the Board of Directors of Kimco Realty Corporation, a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), amended and restated the company’s bylaws (the “Bylaws”) to implement proxy access by adding Article II, Section 14 of the Bylaws to permit a stockholder (or group of up to 20 stockholders), owning 3% or more of the Company’s common stock continuously for at least three years, to nominate and include in the Company’s proxy materials for an annual meeting of stockholders, director candidates constituting up to 20% of the Board elected by holders of the Company’s common stock, provided that the stockholder (or group) and each nominee satisfy the requirements specified in the Bylaws.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1959472/000120677423000127/0001206774-23-000127-index.htm

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