---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001370637-22-000084"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ETSY"
cik: "0001370637"
company_name: "ETSY INC"
filed_at: "2022-12-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T10:08:50.806211+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Etsy amends bylaws to add proxy access for 3% holders for 3+ years

## Summary
- Proxy access allows a stockholder or group of up to 20 to nominate up to 2 directors or 20% of board (greater).
- Owners must hold at least 3% of outstanding voting power continuously for at least 3 years.
- Bylaws also update director nomination procedures and conform to recent Delaware law changes.
- Effective November 30, 2022; full text in Exhibit 3.1.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001370637-22-000084
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ETSY
- cik: 0001370637
- company_name: ETSY INC
- filed_at: 2022-12-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000137063722000084/0001370637-22-000084-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000137063722000084/etsy-20221130.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ETSY INC: Amended and restated bylaws to add a proxy access provision, allowing a stockholder or group of up to 20 stockholders owning at least 3% of voting power for at least 3 years to nominate director nominees constituting up to the greater of two directors or 20% of directors to be elected, with certain (effective 2022-11-30).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2022-11-30
  source text: On and effective as of November 30, 2022, the Board of Directors of Etsy, Inc. (“Etsy”) amended and restated Etsy’s Bylaws (as amended, the “Bylaws”) to add a proxy access provision, among other amendments.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000137063722000084/0001370637-22-000084-index.htm

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