---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-088192"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001929017"
company_name: "Sealy Industrial Partners IV, LP"
filed_at: "2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T01:58:49.462012+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sealy & Company names James Gilligan as CFO, succeeding retiring James Cook

## Summary
- James Gilligan appointed CFO of Sealy & Company effective June 16, 2025.
- James Cook retires after 24 years; Sealy has over $3 billion assets under management.
- Gilligan previously CFO of Farmland Partners (NYSE: FPI) from 2021 to 2024.
- Transition includes two-month overlap for knowledge transfer; Gilligan not compensated directly by the Partnership.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-088192
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001929017
- company_name: Sealy Industrial Partners IV, LP
- filed_at: 2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1929017/000095017025088192/0000950170-25-088192-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1929017/000095017025088192/ck0001929017-20250616.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  James R. Cook, Jr. retired as Chief Financial Officer at Sealy Industrial Partners IV, LP.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Mr. Gilligan succeeds James R. Cook, Jr., Sealy's Chief Financial Officer since 2001, whose previously announced retirement from Sealy will become effective on June 30, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1929017/000095017025088192/0000950170-25-088192-index.htm
- Executive change
  James Gilligan was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Sealy Industrial Partners IV, LP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On June 16, 2025, the appointment of James Gilligan as Chief Financial Officer of Sealy & Company, LLC (“Sealy”), the sponsor of Sealy Industrial Partners IV, LP (the “Partnership”), became effective.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1929017/000095017025088192/0000950170-25-088192-index.htm

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