---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001562528-22-000018"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FBRT"
cik: "0001562528"
company_name: "Franklin BSP Realty Trust, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-07-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T21:41:43.100935+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Franklin BSP Realty Trust stockholders elect seven directors and ratify Ernst & Young as auditor

## Summary
- Stockholders elected all seven director nominees at the June 29, 2022 annual meeting; votes in favor ranged from 27,252,714 (Handwerker) to 33,629,312 (Keiser).
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor approved with 51,916,834 votes for, 364,863 against, and 248,774 abstentions.
- Total shares voted included 17,945,648 broker non-votes for the director election.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001562528-22-000018
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FBRT
- cik: 0001562528
- company_name: Franklin BSP Realty Trust, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-07-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1562528/000156252822000018/0001562528-22-000018-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1562528/000156252822000018/fbrt-20220629.htm

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