---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001600626-23-000104"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PKST"
cik: "0001600626"
company_name: "Peakstone Realty Trust"
filed_at: "2023-06-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-13T20:02:04.450632+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peakstone Realty Trust shareholders elect trustees, ratify EY, approve exec pay

## Summary
- Five trustee nominees elected: Escalante, Cazel, DeWees, Tang, Wold all received >6.3M votes for.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor for FY2023: 20.08M for, 408k against.
- Advisory vote on NEO compensation approved: 5.26M for, 1.42M against, 13.5M broker non-votes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001600626-23-000104
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PKST
- cik: 0001600626
- company_name: Peakstone Realty Trust
- filed_at: 2023-06-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1600626/000160062623000104/0001600626-23-000104-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1600626/000160062623000104/gcnl-20230620.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001600626-23-000104
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001600626-23-000104.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001600626-23-000104.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Peakstone Realty Trust shareholders approved Election of Trustees at the 2023-06-20 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-20
  source text: Proposal 1 – Election of Trustees The Company’s shareholders elected the five nominated trustees identified below, each to serve and to hold office for a one-year term until the close of the Company’s next annual meeting of shareholders in 2024 and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, with the votes case as follows: Nominees Votes For Votes Withheld Broker Non-Vote Michael J. Escalante 6,363,704 989,878 13,501,184 Gregory M. Cazel 6,399,641 953,941 13,501,184 Carrie DeWees 6,428,788 924,794 13,501,184 Samuel Tang 6,399,700 953,882 13,501,184 Casey Wold 6,390,915 962,667 13,501,184
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1600626/000160062623000104/0001600626-23-000104-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Peakstone Realty Trust shareholders approved Advisory (Non-Binding) Vote on the Compensation Paid to the Company's Named Executive Officers at the 2023-06-20 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-06-20
  source text: Proposal 3 – Advisory (Non-Binding) Vote on the Compensation Paid to the Company’s Named Executive Officers The Company’s shareholders approved, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, the compensation paid to the Company’s named executive officers, with the votes cast as follows: Votes For Votes Against Abstain Broker Non-Vote 5,263,441 1,418,007 672,134 13,501,184
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1600626/000160062623000104/0001600626-23-000104-index.htm

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