---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001273685-22-000102"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ADAM"
cik: "0001273685"
company_name: "ADAMAS TRUST, INC."
filed_at: "2022-11-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T13:52:23.347445+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# New York Mortgage Trust amends bylaws to comply with SEC proxy rules effective Nov 21, 2022

## Summary
- Effective Nov 21, 2022; Board adopted Third Amended and Restated Bylaws to align with Rule 14a-19.
- Stockholder proxy solicitations must use a non-white proxy card; white card reserved for Board.
- Director nominees by stockholders require written undertaking to solicit holders of at least 67% voting power.
- Company will disregard proxy authority for Board-nominated directors if stockholder fails to comply with Rule 14a-19.
- Updated info requirements for stockholder notices of director nominations and other business at meetings.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001273685-22-000102
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ADAM
- cik: 0001273685
- company_name: ADAMAS TRUST, INC.
- filed_at: 2022-11-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1273685/000127368522000102/0001273685-22-000102-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1273685/000127368522000102/nymt-20221121.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ADAMAS TRUST, INC.: Approved and adopted the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws to update provisions relating to stockholder meetings for compliance with federal proxy rules, including Rule 14a-19 (effective 2022-11-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-11-21
  source text: On November 21, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted the Company’s Third Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Third Amended and Restated Bylaws”) to update provisions relating to stockholder meetings to ensure compliance with federal proxy rules, including Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Third Amended and Restated Bylaws became effective upon adoption by the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1273685/000127368522000102/0001273685-22-000102-index.htm

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