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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-25-014978"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "REED"
cik: "0001140215"
company_name: "REED'S, INC."
filed_at: "2025-09-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:38:37.912484+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Reed's adopts exclusive forum bylaw for derivative and Securities Act claims

## Summary
- Board approved amendment designating Delaware Court of Chancery as exclusive forum for derivative actions, fiduciary duty, and other internal corporate claims.
- Also designates federal district courts as exclusive forum for claims arising under the Securities Act of 1933.
- Bylaw amendment effective September 25, 2025; stockholder consent required to select alternative forum.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-25-014978
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: REED
- cik: 0001140215
- company_name: REED'S, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-09-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- 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/1140215/000149315225014978/0001493152-25-014978-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1140215/000149315225014978/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-25-014978.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  REED'S, INC.: Adopted exclusive forum provisions for certain stockholder actions in Delaware Chancery Court and federal district courts for Securities Act claims (effective 2025-09-25).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-25
  source text: On September 25, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Reed’s, Inc. (the “Company”) approved and adopted an amendment (the “Bylaws Amendment”) to the bylaws of the Company, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1140215/000149315225014978/0001493152-25-014978-index.htm

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