---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001408100-23-000050"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KW"
cik: "0001408100"
company_name: "Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-02-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T06:44:53.928117+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kennedy-Wilson adopts amended bylaws to comply with SEC universal proxy rules

## Summary
- Board adopted Third Amended and Restated Bylaws effective February 21, 2023.
- Adds explicit references to Rule 14a-19 (Universal Proxy Rules) for nominations.
- Requires evidence of compliance with Rule 14a-19 at least five business days before annual meeting.
- Company may disregard nominations failing to comply; non-compliance renders nomination null and void.
- Reserves white proxy card for Company use; others must use a different color.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001408100-23-000050
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KW
- cik: 0001408100
- company_name: Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-02-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000140810023000050/0001408100-23-000050-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000140810023000050/kw-20230221.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001408100-23-000050.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to adopt universal proxy rules and related changes (effective 2023-02-21).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-21
  source text: On February 21, 2023, in connection with the universal proxy rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and related requirements and a periodic review of the bylaws of Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. (the Company”), the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company adopted the Third Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which became immediately effective upon the Board’s approval.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408100/000140810023000050/0001408100-23-000050-index.htm

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