---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-153472"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MC"
cik: "0001596967"
company_name: "Moelis & Co"
filed_at: "2025-07-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T09:59:39.678748+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Moelis appoints Thorold Barker as independent director, effective July 1, 2025

## Summary
- Thorold Barker, former Wall Street Journal editor for EMEA, joins Moelis board as independent director.
- Barker will serve on all board committees; annual compensation: $200K ($100K cash/shares option plus $100K RSUs).
- Barker brings 30+ years in journalism, finance, and geopolitics; also senior adviser at AlixPartners.
- Current independent directors: Louise Mirrer, Kenneth Shropshire, Laila Worrell; Barker fills fourth seat.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-153472
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MC
- cik: 0001596967
- company_name: Moelis & Co
- filed_at: 2025-07-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1596967/000119312525153472/0001193125-25-153472-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1596967/000119312525153472/d68846d8k.htm

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