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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001232582-25-000034"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AHT"
cik: "0001232582"
company_name: "ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T03:23:45.069579+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ashford Hospitality reduces quorum for 2025 annual meeting to one-third from majority

## Summary
- Board adopted Amendment No. 8 to Bylaws on Feb 25, 2025, effective same day.
- Quorum reduced from majority to at least one-third for the 2025 annual meeting only.
- Change addresses increasing retail shareholder base and broker policies limiting discretionary votes.
- Amendment ensures sufficient quorum to hold the 2025 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001232582-25-000034
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AHT
- cik: 0001232582
- company_name: ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1232582/000123258225000034/0001232582-25-000034-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1232582/000123258225000034/aht-20250225.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ASHFORD HOSPITALITY TRUST INC: Reduced quorum required solely for the 2025 annual meeting from a majority to at least one-third of all votes entitled to be cast (effective 2025-02-25).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-02-25
  source text: On February 25, 2025, Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (the “Company”), by resolution of its board of directors (the “Board”), adopted Amendment No. 8 to the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “Bylaw Amendment”). The Bylaw Amendment reduced the quorum required solely for the 2025 annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders from a majority to at least one-third of all votes entitled to be cast at such meeting, as permitted under the Maryland General Corporation Law.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1232582/000123258225000034/0001232582-25-000034-index.htm

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