---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001796022-25-000068"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STEP"
cik: "0001796022"
company_name: "StepStone Group Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:53:41.170970+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# StepStone stockholders approve officer exculpation amendment and elect directors at annual meeting

## Summary
- Stockholders approved Exculpation Amendment limiting officer liability under Delaware law; effective Sept 10, 2025.
- All nine director nominees elected with >96% of votes cast (excluding broker non-votes) for each.
- Clean-Up Amendments removing obsolete provisions and making technical changes also approved.
- Say-on-pay approved on non-binding basis with 255M for vs 8.7M against; Ernst & Young ratified as auditor.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001796022-25-000068
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STEP
- cik: 0001796022
- company_name: StepStone Group Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1796022/000179602225000068/0001796022-25-000068-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1796022/000179602225000068/step-20250909.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001796022-25-000068.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  StepStone Group Inc.: Stockholders approved amendment (Exculpation Amendment) to limit liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law, filed on September 10, 2025 (effective 2025-09-10).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-09-10
  source text: On September 9, 2025, as described below, upon the recommendation of the Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of StepStone Group Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), the Company’s stockholders approved amendments to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “ Certificate of Incorporation ”) to limit the liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law (the “ Exculpation Amendment ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1796022/000179602225000068/0001796022-25-000068-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.