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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001389050-23-000030"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AROC"
cik: "0001389050"
company_name: "Archrock, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T22:54:07.268356+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Archrock amends bylaws to address universal proxy rules and enhance shareholder nomination procedures

## Summary
- Board adopted Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws effective July 27, 2023.
- Amendments require compliance with SEC Rule 14a-19 for proxy solicitations supporting non-Board nominees.
- Stockholders soliciting proxies from others must use a non-white proxy card, reserving white for the Board.
- Enhanced disclosure requirements for stockholder nominations, including background info, questionnaires, and updates.
- Includes technical and modernizing changes to the bylaws.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001389050-23-000030
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AROC
- cik: 0001389050
- company_name: Archrock, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-07-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1389050/000138905023000030/0001389050-23-000030-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1389050/000138905023000030/aroc-20230727x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001389050-23-000030.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Archrock, Inc.: Adopted Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws addressing universal proxy rules, proxy card color requirements, and enhanced procedural mechanics for stockholder nominations and proposals (effective 2023-07-27).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-07-27
  source text: On July 27, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Archrock, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) approved and adopted amended and restated bylaws (the “Fourth Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which became effective the same day.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1389050/000138905023000030/0001389050-23-000030-index.htm

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