---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-23-123231"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ARE"
cik: "0001035443"
company_name: "ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC."
filed_at: "2023-12-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T18:31:41.129990+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Elects former Evercore senior MD Sheila McGrath as independent director

## Summary
- Elected December 1, 2023; term until 2024 annual meeting of stockholders.
- Appointed to Life Science, Agtech & Advanced Technologies Committee; deemed independent per NYSE and SEC rules.
- Received 1,000 restricted shares vesting on the second anniversary of grant.
- McGrath was a senior managing director at Evercore ISI covering REITs from 2012 to 2022.
- Also serves on the board of Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-23-123231
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ARE
- cik: 0001035443
- company_name: ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-12-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035443/000110465923123231/0001104659-23-123231-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035443/000110465923123231/tm2331858d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-123231
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-123231.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-23-123231.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sheila K. McGrath was elected as Director at ALEXANDRIA REAL ESTATE EQUITIES, INC..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On December 1, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (the “Company”) elected Sheila K. McGrath as a director of the Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035443/000110465923123231/0001104659-23-123231-index.htm

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