---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-122027"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MRK"
cik: "0000310158"
company_name: "Merck & Co., Inc."
filed_at: "2024-11-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T20:10:28.349281+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lal Karsanbhai (Emerson CEO) elected to Merck board; effective Jan 1, 2025

## Summary
- Lal Karsanbhai, president and CEO of Emerson Electric, elected to Merck board effective January 1, 2025.
- He will serve on Audit and Governance committees and stand for election at May 2025 shareholder meeting.
- Merck board expands to 13 members with addition; compensation per non-employee director practices.
- Board also adopted amended by-laws updating indemnification provisions; other non-substantive changes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-122027
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MRK
- cik: 0000310158
- company_name: Merck & Co., Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-11-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310158/000110465924122027/0001104659-24-122027-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310158/000110465924122027/tm2429161d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-122027
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-122027.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-122027.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Surendralal L. “Lal” Karsanbhai was elected as Director at Merck & Co., Inc..
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: announcing the election of Surendralal L. “Lal” Karsanbhai to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), effective January 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/310158/000110465924122027/0001104659-24-122027-index.htm

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