---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-242520"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWK"
cik: "0000093556"
company_name: "STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC."
filed_at: "2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:29:29.962781+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Stanley Black & Decker General Counsel Janet Link to depart Nov. 30, 2025

## Summary
- Janet M. Link will step down as SVP, General Counsel and Secretary effective Nov. 30, 2025.
- She is leaving to pursue a professional opportunity outside the company.
- No successor or interim appointment has been announced.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-242520
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWK
- cik: 0000093556
- company_name: STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-10-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312525242520/0001193125-25-242520-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93556/000119312525242520/d929827d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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