Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

On December 13, 2022, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Encore Capital Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), acting upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board, approved and adopted amended and restated bylaws (the "Amended and Restated Bylaws"), which became effective the same day. Among other things, the amendments effected by the Amended and Restated Bylaws:

•address the universal proxy rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, by clarifying that no person may solicit proxies in support of a director nominee other than the Board's nominees unless such person has complied with Rule 14a-19 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including applicable notice and solicitation requirements;

•enhance procedural mechanics and disclosure requirements in connection with stockholder nominations of directors and submissions of proposals regarding other business at stockholder meetings, including requiring additional background information and disclosures regarding proposing stockholders, proposed nominees and business, and other persons related to a stockholder's solicitation of proxies, such as additional information about the ownership of securities and material litigation, relationships and interests in material agreements with or involving the Company;

•provide additional notice and disclosure requirements regarding special meetings and action by written consent, including, without limitation, that stockholders may make a demand to call a special meeting or act by written consent only after first submitting a request that the Board fix a record date for the purpose of determining the stockholders entitled to, as appropriate, demand that the Secretary of the Company call a special meeting or to take such action by written consent; and

•provide that, unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if Court of Chancery does not have jurisdiction, a federal district court for the District of Delaware or other state courts of the State of Delaware) shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the sole and exclusive forum for certain actions, and further provides that the U.S. federal district courts shall be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause or causes of action arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, including all causes of action asserted against any defendant to such complaint;

The Amended and Restated Bylaws also include certain technical, modernizing and clarifying changes, including related to the use of proxy cards by stockholders.

The foregoing description of the Amended and Restated Bylaws does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Amended and Restated Bylaws attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 (clean version) and Exhibit 3.2 (marked version), which are incorporated herein by reference.




Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Exhibit Number            Description
  3.1                     Amended and Restated Bylaws, as amended December 13, 2022 (clean version)
  3.2                     Amended and Restated Bylaws (marked version)
104                       Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL
                          document)

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