---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001639691-22-000058"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LIVN"
cik: "0001639691"
company_name: "LivaNova PLC"
filed_at: "2022-06-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T02:01:29.354199+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# LivaNova GC Keyna Skeffington to retire by June 2023; AGM approves new equity plan

## Summary
- General Counsel Keyna Skeffington to retire; will stay until successor assumes role or June 30, 2023.
- Retirement agreement provides up to £50,000 relocation costs, tax services; unvested equity continues to vest.
- Shareholders approved 2022 Incentive Award Plan authorizing 3.1M new shares (1.9M options/SARs, 1.2M other awards).
- All 9 director nominees elected; advisory say-on-pay approved with 39.6M for vs 4.3M against (~89% support).
- Ratification of PwC as auditor and other routine resolutions passed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001639691-22-000058
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LIVN
- cik: 0001639691
- company_name: LivaNova PLC
- filed_at: 2022-06-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639691/000163969122000058/0001639691-22-000058-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639691/000163969122000058/livn-20220613.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001639691-22-000058
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001639691-22-000058.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001639691-22-000058.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Keyna Skeffington departed as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at LivaNova PLC.
  - Action: retire
  - Role: General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
  source text: On June 13, 2022, LivaNova PLC (the “Company”) announced that Keyna Skeffington, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, has announced her intent to retire.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639691/000163969122000058/0001639691-22-000058-index.htm

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