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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-23-007702"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EQIX"
cik: "0001101239"
company_name: "EQUINIX INC"
filed_at: "2023-03-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T04:12:23.093116+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Equinix amends bylaws to update advance notice provisions and universal proxy compliance

## Summary
- Board approved amendments to Bylaws effective March 9, 2023.
- Updates include stockholder nomination procedural requirements and Rule 14a-19 universal proxy rules.
- Stockholders submitting nominations must represent compliance with Rule 14a-19.
- Stockholders soliciting proxies must use proxy card color other than white.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-23-007702
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EQIX
- cik: 0001101239
- company_name: EQUINIX INC
- filed_at: 2023-03-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1101239/000162828023007702/0001628280-23-007702-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1101239/000162828023007702/eqix-20230309.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-23-007702.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  EQUINIX INC: Amended Bylaws to update advance notice provisions and add meeting conduct rules, including universal proxy rule compliance requirements (effective 2023-03-09).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-03-09
  source text: On March 9, 2023, the Board of Directors of Equinix, Inc. (the “Company”) approved amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”), effective as of such date, to update certain aspects of the advance notice provisions and to add certain provisions regulating the conduct of meetings of stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1101239/000162828023007702/0001628280-23-007702-index.htm

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