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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001717547-24-000046"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BRSP"
cik: "0001717547"
company_name: "BrightSpire Capital, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T21:29:44.216382+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BrightSpire Capital 2024 annual meeting results: directors elected, comp approved, EY ratified

## Summary
- All six director nominees elected: Catherine D. Rice (71.3M for), Kim S. Diamond (70.6M), Catherine Long (70.4M), Vernon B. Schwartz (71.1M), John E. Westerfield (65.0M), Michael J. Mazzei (71.2M).
- Advisory vote on named executive officer compensation approved: 69.4M for, 2.2M against, 0.9M abstentions, 25.4M broker non-votes.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditor for 2024: 96.8M for, 0.8M against, 0.2M abstentions.
- Annual meeting held May 16, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001717547-24-000046
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BRSP
- cik: 0001717547
- company_name: BrightSpire Capital, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-16T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1717547/000171754724000046/0001717547-24-000046-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1717547/000171754724000046/brsp-20240516.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 0974536409240738b642044099b6cf3344588a68
  claim: BrightSpire Capital, Inc. shareholders approved Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 3 — Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The Company’s stockholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, by the following vote: For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 96,821,072 810,429 188,362 0
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1717547/000171754724000046/0001717547-24-000046-index.htm
- claim_id: 1088f09585cdb50c96b11d0b3f35dfeb0eac42ca
  claim: BrightSpire Capital, Inc. shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 1 — Election of Directors The following persons comprising the entire Board of Directors of the Company were duly elected as directors of the Company to serve until the Company’s 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified, by the following vote: Nominee For Withheld Abstentions Broker Non-Votes Catherine D. Rice 71,335,167 956,423 175,465 25,352,808
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1717547/000171754724000046/0001717547-24-000046-index.htm
- claim_id: 7817718d9a942752cc91725ea6be596e1ab81ca0
  claim: BrightSpire Capital, Inc. shareholders approved Approval (on an advisory, non-binding basis) of Executive Compensation at the 2024-05-16 meeting.
  evidence_excerpt: Proposal 2 — Approval (on an advisory, non-binding basis) of Executive Compensation The Company’s stockholders approved (on an advisory, non-binding basis) the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as of December 31, 2023 as described in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis and executive compensation tables of the proxy statement for the Annual Meeting. The table below sets forth the voting results for this proposal: For Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes 69,370,153 2,207,450 889,452 25,352,808
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1717547/000171754724000046/0001717547-24-000046-index.htm

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