---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001478242-23-000025"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "IQV"
cik: "0001478242"
company_name: "IQVIA HOLDINGS INC."
filed_at: "2023-02-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T15:54:14.663350+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# IQVIA amends bylaws to adopt majority voting standard for director elections

## Summary
- Board adopted majority voting in uncontested director elections, aligned with ~99% of S&P 500.
- Advance notice provisions updated to comply with SEC universal proxy rules.
- Amendments reflect recent Delaware General Corporation Law changes regarding stockholder meetings.
- Technical and conforming revisions also included; effective February 13, 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001478242-23-000025
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: IQV
- cik: 0001478242
- company_name: IQVIA HOLDINGS INC.
- filed_at: 2023-02-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1478242/000147824223000025/0001478242-23-000025-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1478242/000147824223000025/iqv-20230213.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001478242-23-000025
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001478242-23-000025.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  IQVIA HOLDINGS INC.: Amended Bylaws to implement majority voting standard in uncontested elections, update advance notice provisions for universal proxies, and reflect DGCL amendments (effective 2023-02-13).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-02-13
  source text: On February 13, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of IQVIA Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws, effective February 13, 2023 (the “Bylaws”) to (i) implement a majority voting standard in uncontested director elections based on feedback received from our stockholders, and in a form consistent with approximately 99% of S&P 500 companies that have adopted a majority voting standard, (ii) update our advance notice provisions to take into account recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding usage of universal proxies and (iii) reflect recent amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) regarding information provided at stockholder meetings.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1478242/000147824223000025/0001478242-23-000025-index.htm

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