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accession: "0001574540-23-000152"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001574540"
company_name: "Physicians Realty Trust"
filed_at: "2023-08-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-12T08:15:51.031368+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Physicians Realty Trust adopts proxy access and updates shareholder nomination rules in bylaws

## Summary
- Proxy access added: shareholders owning 3%+ for 3 years can nominate up to 2 or 20% of board.
- Advance notice provisions updated to require compliance with Rule 14a-19 and solicitation of 67% of voting shares.
- Shareholder nominations limited to number of trustees to be elected; substitution of nominees restricted.
- Meetings may be held partially or solely by remote communication; chair powers clarified.
- Additional information, representations, and undertakings required from shareholders and nominees.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001574540-23-000152
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001574540
- company_name: Physicians Realty Trust
- filed_at: 2023-08-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1574540/000157454023000152/0001574540-23-000152-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1574540/000157454023000152/doc-20230801.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001574540-23-000152.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Physicians Realty Trust: Amended bylaws to implement proxy access and revise shareholder nomination provisions, effective August 1, 2023 (effective 2023-08-01).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-08-01
  source text: On August 1, 2023, the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) of Physicians Realty Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (the “Company”), approved amendments to the Company’s bylaws (as so amended and restated, the “Bylaws”), effective as of such date, to implement proxy access and to add or revise various provisions related to shareholder nominations of trustees, among other changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1574540/000157454023000152/0001574540-23-000152-index.htm

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