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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-023607"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MC"
cik: "0001596967"
company_name: "Moelis & Co"
filed_at: "2025-02-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T00:02:30.697594+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Moelis & Co awards CEO Ken Moelis $25M retention grant, cliff vests Feb 2029

## Summary
- $25M in profits interest LP units granted to Chairman/CEO Ken Moelis.
- 100% cliff vesting on February 13, 2029, contingent on continued employment.
- Units cannot be sold until one year after vesting; not retirement eligible.
- Award determined using 5-day average stock price from Feb 6-12, 2025.
- Retention award is separate from annual 2024 compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-023607
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MC
- cik: 0001596967
- company_name: Moelis & Co
- filed_at: 2025-02-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1596967/000119312525023607/0001193125-25-023607-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1596967/000119312525023607/d916544d8k.htm

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