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accession: "0001628280-26-000795"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHH"
cik: "0001046311"
company_name: "CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE"
filed_at: "2026-01-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T11:29:24.398918+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
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source: SEC EDGAR
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# Choice Hotels updates severance agreements; new 2025 SBA form adopted

## Summary
- Entered updated Non-Competition, Non-Solicitation and Severance Benefit Agreement (2025 SBA) with Chief Segment Officer Raul Ramirez.
- 2025 SBA provides single lump-sum severance and health-care continuation payment, replaces installment payouts.
- Amended existing agreements for Dominic Dragisich, David Pepper, Scott Oaksmith, and Simone Wu to align change-in-control severance with Section 409A.
- Amendments add cooperation, protected rights, and tax-withholding clarifications consistent with 2025 SBA.
- 2025 SBA expected to be used with future executive officers, subject to committee approval.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-26-000795
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHH
- cik: 0001046311
- company_name: CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DE
- filed_at: 2026-01-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046311/000162828026000795/0001628280-26-000795-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1046311/000162828026000795/chh-20251231.htm

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