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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001561550-25-000162"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DDOG"
cik: "0001561550"
company_name: "Datadog, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T21:50:53.833589+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Datadog shareholders approve officer exculpation charter amendment at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- Shareholders approved charter amendment to limit officer monetary liability for fiduciary duty breaches as permitted by Delaware law.
- Three Class III directors elected: Titi Cole, Matthew Jacobson, Julie Richardson.
- Non-binding advisory vote approved executive compensation (469M for, 18M against).
- Ratified Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor for FY2025.
- Charter amendment effective June 4, 2025 upon filing with Delaware Secretary of State.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001561550-25-000162
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DDOG
- cik: 0001561550
- company_name: Datadog, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1561550/000156155025000162/0001561550-25-000162-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1561550/000156155025000162/ddog-20250603.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001561550-25-000162.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Datadog, Inc.: Amended and restated certificate of incorporation to limit officer liability for breach of fiduciary duty of care and make non-substantive clarifying changes (effective 2025-06-04).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-04
  source text: the stockholders of the Company approved the amendment and restatement of the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (as amended and restated. the “Restated Charter”) to limit the liability of certain officers for monetary liability for breach of the fiduciary duty of care to the extent permitted by Delaware law and to make additional non-substantive and clarifying changes. Following approval by the Company’s stockholders, the Restated Charter became effective upon its filing with the Delaware Secretary of State on June 4, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1561550/000156155025000162/0001561550-25-000162-index.htm

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