UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
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CURRENT REPORT
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| Item 5.03. | Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year |
Article FOURTH of Wells Fargo & Company’s (the “Company”) Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, authorizes the issuance from time to time of shares of Preferred Stock, without par value. On July 20, 2023, the Company filed with the Delaware Secretary of State a Certificate of Designation which, effective upon filing, designated a series of such Preferred Stock as “7.625% Fixed Rate Reset Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series EE,” authorized 69,000 shares of Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series EE, without par value and with a liquidation preference amount of $25,000 per share (referred to herein as the “Series EE Preferred Stock”), and set forth the voting powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, and qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the Series EE Preferred Stock which are not fixed by the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation. A copy of the Certificate of Designation is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits |
On July 24, 2023, the Company sold 1,725,000 Depositary Shares (the “Depositary Shares”), each Depositary Share representing a 1/25th interest in a share of the Company’s Series EE Preferred Stock. Exhibits are filed herewith in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended (File No. 333-269514) filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The following documents are being filed with this report on Form 8-K: (i) Underwriting Agreement, dated July 17, 2023, among the Company and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representative of the several underwriters named therein; (ii) Certificate of Designation of the Company dated July 20, 2023; (iii) Deposit Agreement dated as of July 24, 2023 among the Company, Equiniti Trust Company, LLC, as depositary, and the holders from time to time of Depositary Receipts; (iv) form of Depositary Receipt; and (v) opinions with respect the Series EE Preferred Stock, Deposit Agreement, and Depositary Receipts.
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| 23.2 | Included as part of Exhibit 5.2 | |||
| 104 | The cover page from this Current Report on Form 8-K, formatted in Inline XBRL. |
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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.
| WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | ||||||
| DATED: July 24, 2023 | /s/ Bryant Owens | |||||
| Bryant Owens | ||||||
| Senior Vice President and Assistant Treasurer | ||||||