---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001157523-21-001405"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "CVSA"
cik: "0000730464"
company_name: "Covista Inc."
filed_at: "2021-11-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-28T08:48:06.745384+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Adtalem appoints Robert Phelan as CFO with $480K base salary and $500K RSU grant

## Summary
- Robert Phelan appointed CFO effective Oct 18, 2021; base salary $480,000, bonus target 80% of base, annual equity awards.
- One-time RSU grant of $500,000 awarded Nov 10, 2021, vesting one-fourth per year over four years.
- Bylaws amended to include exclusive federal forum for Securities Act claims (Article VII, Section 7).
- Shareholders elected 9 directors, ratified PwC as auditor (43.6M for), and approved say-on-pay (40.3M for).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001157523-21-001405
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: CVSA
- cik: 0000730464
- company_name: Covista Inc.
- filed_at: 2021-11-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/730464/000115752321001405/0001157523-21-001405-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/730464/000115752321001405/a52530064.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001157523-21-001405.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert J. Phelan was appointed as Chief Financial Officer at Covista Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On October 18, 2021, Adtalem Global Education Inc. (“ATGE” or “the Company”) filed a Current Report on Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission reporting that effective October 18, 2021, Mr. Robert J. Phelan, who had been serving as ATGE’s interim chief financial officer since April 2021, had been appointed ATGE’s chief financial officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/730464/000115752321001405/0001157523-21-001405-index.htm

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