---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-001710"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CWK"
cik: "0001628369"
company_name: "Cushman & Wakefield Ltd."
filed_at: "2022-01-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T21:00:42.742021+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brett White's CEO resignation confirmed as Qualifying Resignation; equity vests, covenants extended through June 2025

## Summary
- Resignation effective Dec 31, 2021; accelerates vesting of certain equity awards per employment agreement.
- No additional salary or bonus beyond 2021 annual bonus eligibility; no severance benefits.
- Restrictive covenants extended through June 30, 2025; White may engage in non-competitive activities with non-public entities.
- White continues as Executive Chairman; restrictive covenants survive board service.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-001710
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CWK
- cik: 0001628369
- company_name: Cushman & Wakefield Ltd.
- filed_at: 2022-01-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1628369/000119312522001710/0001193125-22-001710-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1628369/000119312522001710/d270781d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-001710
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-001710.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-001710.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Brett White resigned as Chief Executive Officer at Cushman & Wakefield Ltd..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On December 31, 2021, Cushman & Wakefield plc (the “Company”) and Cushman & Wakefield Global, Inc. entered into a side letter agreement (the “Side Letter”) with Brett White, the Executive Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), in connection with Mr. White’s previously announced resignation as Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1628369/000119312522001710/0001193125-22-001710-index.htm

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