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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001596532-23-000349"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ANET"
cik: "0001596532"
company_name: "Arista Networks, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-12-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T09:50:09.438925+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Arista Networks adopts proxy-access bylaw for 3% holders with 3-year holding period

## Summary
- Amended bylaws effective Dec 18, 2023 include proxy access provision.
- Stockholder or group of up to 20 with ≥3% ownership for ≥3 years may nominate directors.
- Maximum nominees: greater of 2 or 20% of board seats.
- Amendment also includes clarifying and ministerial changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001596532-23-000349
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ANET
- cik: 0001596532
- company_name: Arista Networks, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-12-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1596532/000159653223000349/0001596532-23-000349-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1596532/000159653223000349/anet-20231218.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Arista Networks, Inc.: Adopted amended and restated bylaws adding proxy access provision for stockholders to include director nominees in proxy materials (effective 2023-12-18).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-12-18
  source text: On December 18, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Arista Networks, Inc. (the “Company”), acting upon the recommendation of the Board’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, adopted amended and restated bylaws (the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which became effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1596532/000159653223000349/0001596532-23-000349-index.htm

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