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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001722482-25-000143"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVTR"
cik: "0001722482"
company_name: "Avantor, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T23:57:58.163930+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Avantor adopts executive severance policy and grants retention RSUs to CFO and other executives

## Summary
- Severance policy for CFO Jones, EVP Gourdier, CLO Sokenu: 12-month salary+target bonus on non-cause termination; 24-month on change-in-control.
- Retention RSU awards: 162,866 RSUs each to Jones and Gourdier, 122,149 to Sokenu, vesting on 2nd anniversary.
- Annual meeting: all ten directors elected, Deloitte ratified as auditor, say-on-pay approved.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001722482-25-000143
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVTR
- cik: 0001722482
- company_name: Avantor, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-05-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1722482/000172248225000143/0001722482-25-000143-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1722482/000172248225000143/avtr-20250508.htm

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