Cboe amends bylaws: special meetings require 25% stockholder ownership

Cboe Global Markets, Inc.

Only board or stockholders owning at least 25% of outstanding common stock can call a special meeting.
New procedural and disclosure requirements for stockholder special meeting requests, including record date standing.
Amendments address universal proxy rules (Rule 14a-19) and add compliance remedies for non-conforming stockholders.
Lead director (if any) now authorized to call a special meeting of the board; ministerial and conforming updates also adopted.

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Governance Changes SEC 8-K Item 5.03/5.05/5.06 confidence 0.9

Cboe Global Markets, Inc.: Amended bylaws to, among other things, increase threshold for calling special stockholder meetings to 25%, add procedural requirements, modify stockholder nomination and proposal procedures, address Universal Proxy Rules, modify proxy procedures, and permit lead director to call special board meetin (effective 2024-11-29).

Change: bylaw amendment
Effective: 2024-11-29

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The Bylaws were amended to, among other things: • Provide that only the board of directors or stockholders that own at least 25% of the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock can call a special meeting of stockholders;

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