# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001674101
**File Stem:** 0000950142-25-001652
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
**Character Count:** 6824
**Document Hash:** 793364bbd693556b59127c18f71a18bb
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0000950142-25-001652.hdr.sgml**: 20250620

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0000950142-25-001652

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250618

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250620

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250620

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Vertiv Holdings Co
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001674101
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS, NEC [3679]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 04 Manufacturing
- **EIN:** 812376902
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-38518
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251061657

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 505 N. CLEVELAND AVE.
- **CITY:** WESTERVILLE
- **STATE:** OH
- **ZIP:** 43082
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (614) 888-0246

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 505 N. CLEVELAND AVE.
- **CITY:** WESTERVILLE
- **STATE:** OH
- **ZIP:** 43082

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** GS Acquisition Holdings Corp
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20160510

?xml version='1.0' encoding='ASCII'? FORM 8-K

**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**Washington, D.C. 20549**

**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT**

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE** 

**SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

**Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 18, 2025**

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|:---|:---|:---|
| **VERTIV HOLDINGS CO** | **VERTIV HOLDINGS CO** | **VERTIV HOLDINGS CO** |
| **Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter** | **Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter** | **Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter** |
| **Delaware** | **001-38518** | **81-2376902** |
| **(State or other Jurisdiction of**<br> **incorporation)** | **(Commission**<br> **File Number)** | **(IRS Employer**<br> **Identification Number)** |
| **505 N. Cleveland Ave., Westerville, Ohio 43082** | **505 N. Cleveland Ave., Westerville, Ohio 43082** | **505 N. Cleveland Ave., Westerville, Ohio 43082** |
| **(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)** | **(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)** | **(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)** |
| **Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 614-888-0246** | **Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 614-888-0246** | **Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 614-888-0246** |

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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|:---|:---|:---|
| **Title of each class** | **Trading**<br> **Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| **Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value per share** | **VRT** | **New York Stock Exchange** |

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Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the Registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

**Item 5.07. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.** 

On June 18, 2025, Vertiv Holdings Co (the "<u>Company</u>") held its 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "<u>Annual Meeting</u>") in a virtual-only format via live webcast. Of the 381,105,178 shares of the Company's Class A common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting, 318,096,879 shares (or 83.46%), constituting a quorum, were represented in person (online) or by proxy at the Annual Meeting.

Set forth below are the final voting results for the three proposals submitted to a vote of the stockholders at the Annual Meeting. The proposals are described in detail in the Company's definitive proxy materials which were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and first made available to stockholders on April 25, 2025.

<u>Proposal 1</u>: Stockholders elected ten directors to the Company's Board of Directors, each for a term of one year expiring at the Company's 2026 annual meeting of stockholders and until such director's successor has been duly elected and qualified, based on the following votes:

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| **Director Nominee** | **For** | **Withhold** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
| David M. Cote | 255953121 | 24364137 | 37779621 |
| Giordano Albertazzi | 276264051 | 4053207 | 37779621 |
| Joseph J. DeAngelo | 264326601 | 15990657 | 37779621 |
| Joseph van Dokkum | 150399045 | 129918213 | 37779621 |
| Roger Fradin | 256147078 | 24170180 | 37779621 |
| Jakki L. Haussler | 272165032 | 8152226 | 37779621 |
| Jacob Kotzubei | 129422220 | 150895038 | 37779621 |
| Matthew Louie | 272968226 | 7349032 | 37779621 |
| Edward L. Monser | 263609761 | 16707497 | 37779621 |
| Steven S. Reinemund | 269145080 | 11172178 | 37779621 |

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<u>Proposal 2</u>: Stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers, based on the following votes:

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| **For** | **Against** | **Abstentions** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
| 244385386 | 35308326 | 623546 | 37779621 |

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<u>Proposal 3</u>: Stockholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, based on the following votes:

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|:---|:---|:---|:---|
| **For** | **Against** | **Abstentions** | **Broker Non-Votes** |
| 301240902 | 16336962 | 519015 | 0 |

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**SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|:---|:---|
| Date: June 20, 2025 | **Vertiv Holdings Co** |
|  | /s/ Stephanie Gill |
|  | Name: Stephanie Gill |
|  | Title: Chief Legal Counsel and Corporate Secretary |

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