---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001037976-21-000050"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JLL"
cik: "0001037976"
company_name: "JONES LANG LASALLE INC"
filed_at: "2021-12-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T03:22:49.079997+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# JLL appoints Benjamin Hawke as Chief Accounting Officer effective March 1, 2022

## Summary
- Benjamin Hawke, Assistant Global Controller, named Chief Accounting Officer effective March 1, 2022; succeeds Louis Bowers.
- Louis Bowers will serve as Global Controller and principal accounting officer through Feb 28, 2022, then become Global Head of Financial Planning & Analysis.
- Hawke has been with JLL since Jan 2016; previously at CNA Insurance and Ernst & Young.
- No family relationships or material plans/arrangements disclosed in connection with appointment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001037976-21-000050
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JLL
- cik: 0001037976
- company_name: JONES LANG LASALLE INC
- filed_at: 2021-12-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037976/000103797621000050/0001037976-21-000050-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037976/000103797621000050/jll-20211201.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Louis Bowers was appointed as Global Head of Financial Planning & Analysis at JONES LANG LASALLE INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Global Head of Financial Planning & Analysis
  source text: Effective December 1, 2021, Mr. Bowers will serve in his new role as the Company’s Global Head of Financial Planning & Analysis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037976/000103797621000050/0001037976-21-000050-index.htm
- Executive change
  Benjamin Hawke was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at JONES LANG LASALLE INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On December 1, 2021 , Benjamin Hawke, the Assistant Global Controller of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated (the “Company”), was appointed as the Company’s Chief Accounting Officer, effective effective March 1, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1037976/000103797621000050/0001037976-21-000050-index.htm

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