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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000916789-22-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HELE"
cik: "0000916789"
company_name: "HELEN OF TROY LTD"
filed_at: "2022-05-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T08:59:18.346593+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Helen of Troy enters severance agreements with CLO Tessa Judge and COO Noel Geoffroy

## Summary
- Severance agreements dated May 17, 2022 with CLO Tessa Judge and COO Noel Geoffroy.
- Non-change-of-control: 1x base salary, 100% target bonus, pro rata equity, COBRA 12 months.
- Change-of-control: 1.5x base salary plus target bonus, full equity vesting, COBRA 18 months.
- Retirement eligibility: age+service >=65 and 10 years tenure; continued RSA vesting.
- Benefits require signing general release and include non-disparagement covenants.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000916789-22-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HELE
- cik: 0000916789
- company_name: HELEN OF TROY LTD
- filed_at: 2022-05-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916789/000091678922000035/0000916789-22-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916789/000091678922000035/hele-20220517.htm

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