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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-126348"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NTRA"
cik: "0001604821"
company_name: "Natera, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-12-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T06:33:20.096898+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Natera amends employment agreement for Executive Chairman Matthew Rabinowitz

## Summary
- Rabinowitz's base salary set at 50% of CEO's base salary, with annual cash bonus up to 85% of base salary.
- Annual equity awards valued at 80% of CEO's annual equity grants, split between time-based and performance-based vesting.
- Severance includes lump-sum cash of 12 months' base salary (18 months if within 12 months of change in control) plus COBRA premiums for 12 months (18 months for CIC).
- Time-based equity accelerates upon involuntary termination: greater of 50% of unvested shares or 12 months forward vesting; full acceleration upon CIC.
- Performance-based equity awards granted after effective date vest based on actual performance multiplied by service fraction plus 12 months; CIC triggers greater of actual or 100% achievement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-126348
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NTRA
- cik: 0001604821
- company_name: Natera, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-12-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1604821/000110465924126348/0001104659-24-126348-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1604821/000110465924126348/tm2430337d1_8k.htm

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