---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-246536"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NWL"
cik: "0000814453"
company_name: "NEWELL BRANDS INC."
filed_at: "2023-09-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T07:15:26.489947+00:00"
event_type: "regulatory"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Newell Brands settles SEC investigation for $12.5M, admits no wrongdoing

## Summary
- Agreed to pay $12.5M civil penalty to SEC over sales practices and accounting issues from Q3 2016 to Q2 2017.
- Settlement concludes SEC investigation; company neither admits nor denies findings.
- No current executive officers named in settlement; SEC noted significant cooperation and control improvements.
- Penalty resolves previously disclosed probe; no financial restatement or ongoing investigation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-246536
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NWL
- cik: 0000814453
- company_name: NEWELL BRANDS INC.
- filed_at: 2023-09-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: regulatory
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814453/000119312523246536/0001193125-23-246536-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/814453/000119312523246536/d541013d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-246536
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-246536.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-246536.txt

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