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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-24-002618"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EVLV"
cik: "0001805385"
company_name: "Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-06T13:55:51.046405+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Evolv Technologies amends bylaws to address universal proxy rules and enhance stockholder proposal procedures

## Summary
- Adopted amendments to Amended and Restated Bylaws regarding universal proxy rules, requiring compliance with Rule 14a-19.
- Enhanced disclosure requirements for stockholder nominations and proposals, including background info on proposing stockholders.
- Requires stockholder soliciting proxies to use a non-white proxy card color.
- Amendments also include technical, conforming, and clarifying changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-24-002618
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EVLV
- cik: 0001805385
- company_name: Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805385/000162828024002618/0001628280-24-002618-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805385/000162828024002618/nhic-20240129.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc.: Adopted amendments to the Amended and Restated Bylaws to address universal proxy rules, enhance procedural mechanics and disclosure requirements for stockholder nominations and proposals, require a non-white proxy card for stockholder solicitations, and make technical changes (effective 2024-01-29).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2024-01-29
  source text: On January 29, 2024, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Evolv Technologies Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”) adopted amendments to the Company’s amended and restated bylaws (as amended, the “Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which became effective the same day.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1805385/000162828024002618/0001628280-24-002618-index.htm

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