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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001860742-25-000019"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BLCO"
cik: "0001860742"
company_name: "Bausch & Lomb Corp"
filed_at: "2025-08-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T12:03:13.413829+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bausch+Lomb's Icahn directors resign after agreement terminates

## Summary
- Brett Icahn and Gary Hu resigned from BLCO board effective August 14, 2025.
- Resignations triggered by Icahn group's net long position in Bausch Health falling below threshold in the 2022 Director Appointment Agreement.
- The Amended and Restated Director Appointment and Nomination Agreement terminated automatically on that date.
- Resignations not due to any disagreement with Bausch+Lomb, per filing.
- Chairman and CEO Brent Saunders thanked the departing directors for their service.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001860742-25-000019
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BLCO
- cik: 0001860742
- company_name: Bausch & Lomb Corp
- filed_at: 2025-08-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.02, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860742/000186074225000019/0001860742-25-000019-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1860742/000186074225000019/blco-20250814.htm

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