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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · EPAM Systems (EPAM)

EPAM Systems shareholders approve board declassification and new 2025 incentive plan

Neutral Impact 3 of 5 shareholder Written later

At its May 22, 2025 annual meeting, EPAM stockholders approved a new 2025 Long Term Incentive Plan reserving up to 2,500,000 shares, replacing the 2015 plan, and approved charter and bylaw amendments that declassify the board and reduce supermajority voting requirements to a majority vote. The changes took effect May 22, 2025, and change how the board is elected and how shareholders can amend governing documents.

Key points

  • 2025 Long Term Incentive Plan reserves up to 2,500,000 shares of common stock and replaces the 2015 plan; effective May 22, 2025
  • Charter amendments declassify the board and reduce supermajority requirements to a majority vote; effective May 22, 2025
  • Advisory simple-majority proposal passed with 24,205,827 votes for and 22,062,289 against; the board will examine the results
  • Richard Michael Mayoras, Karl Robb and Helen Shan were elected as Class I directors for terms ending at the 2028 annual meeting

The filing

CompanyEPAM Systems (EPAM)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECMay 27, 2025, 4:32 PM ET
Accession number0001352010-25-000021

Items reported: 5.02 Director / Officer Change5.03 Bylaw / Charter Amendment5.07 Shareholder Vote Results

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:17 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on May 27, 2025.

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