---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001616862-24-000027"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AXTA"
cik: "0001616862"
company_name: "Axalta Coating Systems Ltd."
filed_at: "2024-03-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T09:54:19.230713+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Axalta director Robert McLaughlin to retire, not stand for re-election at 2024 AGM

## Summary
- McLaughlin informed board March 19, 2024; term ends at 2024 Annual General Meeting.
- He served as director since 2014 and chaired Audit Committee; retirement not due to any disagreement.
- Board appointed Jan Bertsch as new Audit Committee Chair, effective June 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001616862-24-000027
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AXTA
- cik: 0001616862
- company_name: Axalta Coating Systems Ltd.
- filed_at: 2024-03-21T23:59:59+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/1616862/000161686224000027/0001616862-24-000027-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1616862/000161686224000027/axta-20240319.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001616862-24-000027
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001616862-24-000027.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001616862-24-000027.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert M. McLaughlin departed as Director at Axalta Coating Systems Ltd..
  - Action: retiring
  - Role: Director
  source text: Director Robert M. McLaughlin to Retire On March 19, 2024, current director Robert M. McLaughlin informed the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (the “Company”) that he does not intend to stand for re-election to the Board at the 2024 Annual General Meeting of Members (the "2024 AGM") and that he is retiring from the Board when his term as a director expires at the 2024 AGM.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1616862/000161686224000027/0001616862-24-000027-index.htm

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