---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001373715-25-000208"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NOW"
cik: "0001373715"
company_name: "ServiceNow, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T10:23:11.028437+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ServiceNow shareholders approve charter amendments, elect directors at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Directors elected with majority support; highest against votes were Anita M. Sands (21.1M against) and William R. McDermott (11.4M against).
- Say-on-pay approved (146.6M for, 18.4M against).
- Charter amendments approved: officer exculpation (143.0M for) and eliminate supermajority (164.3M for).
- Shareholder proposals on nomination defects and special meeting right both defeated (over 160M against each).
- PricewaterhouseCoopers ratified as auditor for FY2025 (179.0M for, 4.1M against).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001373715-25-000208
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NOW
- cik: 0001373715
- company_name: ServiceNow, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1373715/000137371525000208/0001373715-25-000208-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1373715/000137371525000208/now-20250522.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  ServiceNow, Inc.: Shareholders approved amendments to the Certificate of Incorporation to add officer exculpation, eliminate supermajority voting, and make immaterial updates (effective 2025-05-23).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-23
  source text: At the 2025 annual meeting of shareholders on May 22, 2025 (the “Annual Meeting”), the shareholders of ServiceNow, Inc. (the “Company”) approved amendments to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation (i) reflecting Delaware law provisions regarding officer exculpation under Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law, (ii) eliminating supermajority voting provisions in the Certificate of Incorporation and (iii) reflecting certain immaterial changes to streamline and update the Certificate of Incorporation. Such amendments, described in more detail in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed on April 4, 2025, became effective May 23, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1373715/000137371525000208/0001373715-25-000208-index.htm

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