---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-056914"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LAUR"
cik: "0000912766"
company_name: "LAUREATE EDUCATION, INC."
filed_at: "2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T05:12:40.022749+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chief Legal Officer Richard Sinkfield to depart June 30; Leslie Brush named successor

## Summary
- Richard H. Sinkfield III, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, to leave on or about June 30, 2024.
- Mutual separation agreement provides separation payments per company severance policy and prorated FY2024 bonus.
- Leslie S. Brush, current Deputy General Counsel and Secretary, appointed Chief Legal Officer effective April 1, 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-056914
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LAUR
- cik: 0000912766
- company_name: LAUREATE EDUCATION, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912766/000119312524056914/0001193125-24-056914-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912766/000119312524056914/d803021d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Leslie S. Brush was appointed as Chief Legal Officer at LAUREATE EDUCATION, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Legal Officer
  source text: Leslie S. Brush will succeed Mr. Sinkfield in the role of Chief Legal Officer effective as of April 1, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912766/000119312524056914/0001193125-24-056914-index.htm
- Executive change
  Richard H. Sinkfield III departed as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer at LAUREATE EDUCATION, INC..
  - Action: will leave
  - Role: Chief Legal Officer and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer
  source text: Richard H. Sinkfield III, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer, will leave the Company on or about June 30, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/912766/000119312524056914/0001193125-24-056914-index.htm

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