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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001370637-23-000087"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ETSY"
cik: "0001370637"
company_name: "ETSY INC"
filed_at: "2023-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T14:04:46.764938+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Etsy amends bylaws to adopt majority voting for director elections

## Summary
- Board changed voting standard from plurality to majority for uncontested director elections.
- Plurality voting retained for contested elections where number of nominees exceeds seats.
- Change effective December 12, 2023; Corporate Governance Guidelines also updated.
- Majority voting requires directors to receive more 'for' than 'against' votes to be elected.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001370637-23-000087
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ETSY
- cik: 0001370637
- company_name: ETSY INC
- filed_at: 2023-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- 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/1370637/000137063723000087/0001370637-23-000087-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000137063723000087/etsy-20231212.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001370637-23-000087
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001370637-23-000087.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ETSY INC: Amended and restated Bylaws to change voting standard for director elections from plurality to majority in uncontested elections; retained plurality for contested elections (effective 2023-12-12).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-12
  source text: amended and restated Etsy’s Bylaws (as amended, the “Bylaws”) to change the voting standard for the election of directors in uncontested elections from a plurality to a majority voting standard.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370637/000137063723000087/0001370637-23-000087-index.htm

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