---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000014693-24-000005"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BF-A"
cik: "0000014693"
company_name: "BROWN FORMAN CORP"
filed_at: "2024-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T00:54:27.303657+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brown-Forman GC Matt Hamel to retire May 1; Mike Carr named successor

## Summary
- Matthew Hamel, EVP General Counsel & Secretary, retiring effective May 1, 2024.
- Michael Carr, current VP & Associate General Counsel, appointed as GC & Secretary effective May 1.
- Hamel had been with Brown-Forman since 2007, leading legal, compliance, risk, and public affairs.
- Carr was instrumental in acquisitions of Gin Mare and Diplomático and the Jack Daniel's-Coca-Cola RTD deal.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000014693-24-000005
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BF-A
- cik: 0000014693
- company_name: BROWN FORMAN CORP
- filed_at: 2024-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469324000005/0000014693-24-000005-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469324000005/bfb-20240108.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014693-24-000005
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014693-24-000005.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000014693-24-000005.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Michael E. Carr, Jr. was appointed as General Counsel and Secretary at BROWN FORMAN CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: General Counsel and Secretary
  source text: Following Mr. Hamel’s retirement, Michael E. Carr, Jr., who currently serves as the Company’s Vice President, Associate General Counsel – Regional & Corporate Development, will become General Counsel and Secretary of the Company effective May 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469324000005/0000014693-24-000005-index.htm
- Executive change
  Matthew E. Hamel departed as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at BROWN FORMAN CORP.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
  source text: On January 8, 2024, Matthew E. Hamel, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Brown-Forman Corporation (the “Company”), informed the Company of his intention to retire effective May 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/14693/000001469324000005/0000014693-24-000005-index.htm

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