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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001411342-23-000003"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EFC"
cik: "0001411342"
company_name: "Ellington Financial Inc."
filed_at: "2023-01-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T19:29:53.116887+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ellington Financial adopts amended bylaws to comply with Rule 14a-19

## Summary
- Board approved amended bylaws effective Jan 5, 2023, updating stockholder meeting and proxy rules.
- Stockholder proposals must be received no earlier than 150 days and no later than 120 days before the prior year's proxy statement anniversary.
- Direct nominations require written undertaking to solicit at least 67% of voting power in support.
- White proxy cards reserved for Board; other solicitors must use different color.
- Company will disregard proxy authority for nominees if solicitor abandons or fails to comply with Rule 14a-19.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001411342-23-000003
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EFC
- cik: 0001411342
- company_name: Ellington Financial Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-01-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000141134223000003/0001411342-23-000003-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000141134223000003/efc-20230105.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001411342-23-000003.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Ellington Financial Inc.: Amended and Restated Bylaws to update stockholder meeting and proxy rules, including compliance with Rule 14a-19 (effective 2023-01-05).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-01-05
  source text: On January 5, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Ellington Financial Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”) to, among other things, update provisions relating to stockholder meetings to ensure compliance with federal proxy rules, including Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411342/000141134223000003/0001411342-23-000003-index.htm

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