---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-22-025402"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KKR"
cik: "0001404912"
company_name: "KKR & Co. Inc."
filed_at: "2022-07-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-24T19:18:51.611082+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# KKR appoints Katie Sudol as General Counsel; David Sorkin becomes Chief Legal Officer

## Summary
- Katie Sudol joins from Simpson Thacher as Global Co-Head of M&A.
- Effective Sept 6, 2022: Sudol becomes General Counsel, Sorkin becomes Chief Legal Officer.
- End of Q1 2023: Sudol assumes CLO role; Sorkin becomes Advisory Partner.
- Sorkin had been General Counsel since 2007, helped lead KKR's public listing and expansion.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-22-025402
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KKR
- cik: 0001404912
- company_name: KKR & Co. Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-07-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1404912/000114036122025402/0001140361-22-025402-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1404912/000114036122025402/brhc10039467_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-22-025402.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  David Sorkin changed role as Chief Legal Officer at KKR & Co. Inc..
  - Action: become
  - Role: Chief Legal Officer
  source text: He will succeed David Sorkin who has served as General Counsel since 2007 and will become the Chief Legal Offer of KKR.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1404912/000114036122025402/0001140361-22-025402-index.htm
- Executive change
  David Sorkin changed role as Advisory Partner at KKR & Co. Inc..
  - Action: become
  - Role: Advisory Partner
  source text: At the end of the first quarter of 2023, Ms. Sudol will assume the role of Chief Legal Officer, and Mr. Sorkin will become an Advisory Partner of KKR.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1404912/000114036122025402/0001140361-22-025402-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kathryn King Sudol changed role as Chief Legal Officer at KKR & Co. Inc..
  - Action: assume
  - Role: Chief Legal Officer
  source text: At the end of the first quarter of 2023, Ms. Sudol will assume the role of Chief Legal Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1404912/000114036122025402/0001140361-22-025402-index.htm
- Executive change
  Kathryn King Sudol was appointed as General Counsel at KKR & Co. Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: General Counsel
  source text: On July 7, 2022, KKR & Co. Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, “KKR”) announced the appointment of Kathryn King Sudol as General Counsel of KKR.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1404912/000114036122025402/0001140361-22-025402-index.htm

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