---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001597672-24-000017"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RYAM"
cik: "0001597672"
company_name: "RAYONIER ADVANCED MATERIALS INC."
filed_at: "2024-05-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T12:43:57.693420+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RYAM shareholders reject board declassification and supermajority removal; approve exculpation and say-on-pay

## Summary
- All three director nominees (Adair, Dill, Kirsch) elected with 41-44M votes for; ~8M broker non-votes.
- Proposal to declassify board failed: 44.5M for, 0.9M against (required supermajority not met).
- Proposal to eliminate supermajority voting also failed: 44.4M for, 0.9M against.
- Amendment to allow officer exculpation passed: 42.4M for, 3.0M against, 8M broker non-votes.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved (44.1M for) and auditor Grant Thornton ratified (53.1M for).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001597672-24-000017
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RYAM
- cik: 0001597672
- company_name: RAYONIER ADVANCED MATERIALS INC.
- filed_at: 2024-05-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1597672/000159767224000017/0001597672-24-000017-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1597672/000159767224000017/ryam-20240515.htm

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