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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-157612"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BHC"
cik: "0000885590"
company_name: "Bausch Health Companies Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T08:49:34.732038+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bausch Health appoints Steven Lee as SVP, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

## Summary
- Effective July 14, 2025; Lee will oversee financial reporting and corporate controllership.
- Annual base salary of $450,000; target cash bonus 50% of salary; sign-on equity $175,000 in RSUs.
- Previously VP/CFO at BrandSafway and VP, Corporate Controller/CAO at Mohawk Industries.
- Sign-on bonus must be repaid if Lee resigns within first year; without-cause termination provides one-year salary.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-157612
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BHC
- cik: 0000885590
- company_name: Bausch Health Companies Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885590/000119312525157612/0001193125-25-157612-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/885590/000119312525157612/d884372d8k.htm

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