secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC. (DLR)
CIK:        0001297996
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001558370-25-011812
Event type: other_material
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.45
Item codes: 5.02
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Digital Realty adopts 2025 Carried Interest Plan; CEO Power gets 4.5%, CFO Mercier 1.5% carry
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- Plan adopted Aug 27, 2025; awards are carried interest or promote percentages in strategic capital ventures.
- CEO Andrew Power awarded 4.5%; CFO Matthew Mercier awarded 1.5% carried interest/promote percentage.
- Awards vest upon combined service (4-year annual tranches) and performance condition (first Carried Interest Payment Date meeting hurdles).
- Accelerated vesting on termination without cause, for good reason, retirement, death, or disability; forfeiture for cause or voluntary quit.
- Individual annual payout capped at 3x (base salary + target bonus + target equity); plan subject to clawback and change-in-control provisions.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1297996/000155837025011812/0001558370-25-011812-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1297996/000155837025011812/dlr-20250827x8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-011812

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