secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Amerant Bancorp Inc. (AMTB)
CIK:        0001734342
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-05-07T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001734342-25-000037
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.40
Item codes: 5.07, 8.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Amerant Bancorp re-elects all 9 directors, appoints Almeida as Lead Independent Director
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- All 9 director nominees elected at May 7 annual meeting; Dana and Marturet received ~16% votes against.
- Say-on-Pay advisory proposal approved with ~82% of votes cast in favor, excluding broker non-votes.
- Shareholders ratified RSM US LLP as auditor for FY2025 with 32.4M votes for (99.5% support).
- Board reappointed Gerald Plush as Chairman; independent directors appointed Odilon Almeida as Lead Independent Director.
- Almeida, former ACI Worldwide (ACIW) CEO, joined board in Jan 2025; Dana remains a director.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1734342/000173434225000037/0001734342-25-000037-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1734342/000173434225000037/amtb-20250507.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001734342-25-000037

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