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accession: "0001645590-23-000097"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HPE"
cik: "0001645590"
company_name: "Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co"
filed_at: "2023-09-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T07:39:27.900173+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HPE adopts amended bylaws with updated proxy access and exclusive forum provisions

## Summary
- Stockholder proposal and director nomination procedures updated to align with SEC universal proxy rules (Rule 14a-19).
- Proxy access nomination notice, content, and ownership requirements revised.
- Exclusive forum provisions: Delaware Chancery for internal corporate claims, federal courts for Securities Act claims.
- Indemnification extended to directors/officers of subsidiaries serving at HPE's request.
- Other changes include proxy card color (non-white for soliciting stockholders), emergency procedures, and gender-neutral terms.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001645590-23-000097
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HPE
- cik: 0001645590
- company_name: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co
- filed_at: 2023-09-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000164559023000097/0001645590-23-000097-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000164559023000097/hpe-20230927.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co: Board adopted Second Amended and Restated Bylaws to update procedural mechanics for stockholder proposals and director nominations, proxy access, indemnification, exclusive forum, and other administrative changes (effective 2023-09-27).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-09-27
  source text: On September 27, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, a Delaware corporation (“HPE”, “Hewlett Packard Enterprise”, or the “Company”), approved and adopted the Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (the “Second Amended and Restated Bylaws”), which became effective as of such date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1645590/000164559023000097/0001645590-23-000097-index.htm

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