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Issuer:     EQUITY RESIDENTIAL (EQR)
CIK:        0000906107
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001193125-23-148424
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 8.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Equity Residential founder Samuel Zell dies; David Neithercut appointed chairman
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- Samuel Zell, founder and chairman of Equity Residential, passed away at age 81 on May 18, 2023.
- David J. Neithercut, former CEO (2006-2018) and board member since 2006, has been appointed as chairman effective immediately.
- Zell founded the predecessor company while a student at Michigan and took it public in 1993, building EQR into a $31B S&P 500 apartment owner.
- The company cited its long-standing succession planning and commitment to continuing Zell's focus on shareholder value creation.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906107/000119312523148424/0001193125-23-148424-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906107/000119312523148424/d505438d8k.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-148424

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