---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001309402-24-000020"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPRE"
cik: "0001309402"
company_name: "Green Plains Inc."
filed_at: "2024-02-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T06:49:02.362766+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Green Plains enters cooperation agreement with Ancora, will initiate strategic review

## Summary
- Green Plains will announce formal strategic alternatives review with Q4 2023 earnings release to maximize shareholder value.
- Ancora, beneficially owning 4,151,058 shares, agrees to vote with board recommendations and is subject to 9.9% ownership cap.
- Mutual non-disparagement and releases of claims; ongoing litigation against former employees Hakmiller, Crotteau, Chandler excluded.
- Cooperation agreement terminates before 2025 annual meeting notice deadline or 100 days before first anniversary of 2024 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001309402-24-000020
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPRE
- cik: 0001309402
- company_name: Green Plains Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-02-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940224000020/0001309402-24-000020-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1309402/000130940224000020/gpre-20240206.htm

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