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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-23-011834"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WLDN"
cik: "0001370450"
company_name: "Willdan Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-07-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T09:20:06.721737+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Willdan Group adopts amended bylaws with enhanced proxy, forum, and disclosure rules

## Summary
- Board approved Second Amended and Restated Bylaws on July 7, 2023, effective immediately.
- Advance notice requirements expanded: stockholders must disclose additional info on proposals/nominees and update disclosures five business days before meeting.
- Universal proxy rules added: nominating stockholders must comply with Rule 14a-19; Board's white proxy card reserved for Board use.
- Exclusive forum provision designates Delaware Chancery for corporate claims and U.S. federal courts for Securities Act claims.
- Other updates: DGCL-compliant adjournment, removed stockholder list inspection requirement, modernized indemnification, default uncertificated shares.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-23-011834
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WLDN
- cik: 0001370450
- company_name: Willdan Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-07-12T23:59:59+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/1370450/000155837023011834/0001558370-23-011834-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370450/000155837023011834/wldn-20230707x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Willdan Group, Inc.: Amended and restated bylaws to update advance notice requirements, add exclusive forum provision, and make other updates (effective 2023-07-07).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-07-07
  source text: On July 7, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of Willdan Group, Inc. (the “ Company ”) approved and adopted an amendment and restatement of the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (as so amended and restated, the “ Second Amended and Restated Bylaws ”), which became effective immediately upon approval.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1370450/000155837023011834/0001558370-23-011834-index.htm

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