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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001445546-23-004079"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001494530"
company_name: "FIRST TRUST HIGH INCOME LONG/SHORT FUND"
filed_at: "2023-06-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T17:58:23.248304+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Trust High Income Long/Short Fund rescinds control share by-law; voting limits on large acquisitions removed

## Summary
- Board rescinded control share by-law provisions effective June 22, 2023.
- All prior and future share acquisitions will no longer be subject to voting limitations.
- Conforming amendments to Amended and Restated By-Laws adopted by the Fund.
- Change applies to 14 First Trust closed-end funds, including FSD.
- Non-interested shareholders previously determined voting rights of control share acquirers.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001445546-23-004079
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001494530
- company_name: FIRST TRUST HIGH INCOME LONG/SHORT FUND
- filed_at: 2023-06-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1494530/000144554623004079/0001445546-23-004079-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1494530/000144554623004079/fsd_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  FIRST TRUST HIGH INCOME LONG/SHORT FUND: Rescinded Article XII control share provisions and made conforming amendments to Amended and Restated By-Laws (effective 2023-06-22).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-06-22
  source text: On June 22, 2023, the Board of Trustees of First Trust High Income Long/Short Fund amended and restated its existing Amended and Restated By-Laws (and as so amended and restated, the “By-Laws”), effective immediately. The By-Laws were revised to rescind Article XII and its accompanying control share provisions, along with other conforming amendments.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1494530/000144554623004079/0001445546-23-004079-index.htm

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