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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000885590-26-000057"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BHC"
cik: "0000885590"
company_name: "Bausch Health Companies Inc."
filed_at: "2026-05-19T20:18:10+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T20:20:12.341056+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bausch Health elects Eiry W. Roberts as new director; say-on-pay passes at annual meeting

## Summary
- Eiry W. Roberts elected to board with 196,972,752 votes for, 2,585,679 withheld; broker non-votes 79,859,606.
- All other incumbent directors re-elected; vote tallies range from 183.9M to 196.8M for.
- Say-on-pay advisory vote passed: 189,432,400 for, 9,588,417 against, 537,614 abstain.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP appointed as auditor for 2027 fiscal year with 276,774,936 for, 2,643,100 withheld.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000885590-26-000057
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BHC
- cik: 0000885590
- company_name: Bausch Health Companies Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-05-19T20:18:10+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885590/000088559026000057/0000885590-26-000057-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885590/000088559026000057/bhc-20260519.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  Bausch Health Companies Inc. shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2026-05-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-19
  source text: The shareholders elected the following individuals to the Company’s Board of Directors, including Eiry W. Roberts, M.D., who was elected as a new director, to serve until the close of the Company’s 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, until their successors are duly elected or appointed, or until such director’s earlier resignation or removal:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885590/000088559026000057/0000885590-26-000057-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Bausch Health Companies Inc. shareholders approved Appointment of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2026-05-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-19
  source text: The shareholders appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the auditors for the Company to hold office until the close of the 2027 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and authorized the Company’s Board of Directors to fix the auditors’ remuneration.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885590/000088559026000057/0000885590-26-000057-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  Bausch Health Companies Inc. shareholders approved Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation at the 2026-05-19 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-19
  source text: The shareholders approved, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers as disclosed in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis section, executive compensation tables and accompanying narrative discussions contained in the Management Proxy Circular and Proxy Statement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885590/000088559026000057/0000885590-26-000057-index.htm

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