---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000714310-25-000010"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VLY"
cik: "0000714310"
company_name: "VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP"
filed_at: "2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T08:41:51.124445+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Valley National Bancorp director Avner Mendelson resigns; Bank Leumi to appoint successor

## Summary
- Avner Mendelson resigned from Valley National Bancorp board effective January 24, 2025.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement with Company, Valley National Bank, or management.
- Mendelson was Bank Leumi's designee under the April 2022 Investor Rights Agreement.
- Bank Leumi intends to appoint a new designee to fill the vacancy.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000714310-25-000010
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VLY
- cik: 0000714310
- company_name: VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP
- filed_at: 2025-01-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714310/000071431025000010/0000714310-25-000010-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714310/000071431025000010/vly-20250124.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000714310-25-000010
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000714310-25-000010.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Avner Mendelson resigned as Director at VALLEY NATIONAL BANCORP.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Director
  source text: On January 24, 2025, Avner Mendelson, a non-employee director on the board of directors (the “Board”) of Valley National Bancorp (the “Company”), notified the Company of his intention to resign from the Board effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/714310/000071431025000010/0000714310-25-000010-index.htm

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