# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001764046
**File Stem:** 0001764046-26-000043
**Filing Date:** 2026-3
**Character Count:** 7245
**Document Hash:** 01a001ef284c593930aa024657567f9f
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001764046-26-000043.hdr.sgml**: 20260326

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001764046-26-000043

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20260323

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20260326

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20260326

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** CLARIVATE PLC
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001764046
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** SERVICES-COMPUTER PROCESSING & DATA PREPARATION [7374]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 06 Technology
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** Y9
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-38911
- **FILM NUMBER:** 26798400

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 4TH FLOOR, ST. PAUL'S GATE
- **STREET 2:** 22-24 NEW STREET
- **CITY:** ST. HELIER
- **STATE:** Y9
- **ZIP:** JE14TR
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (207) 433-4000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 70 ST. MARY AXE
- **CITY:** LONDON
- **STATE:** X0
- **ZIP:** EC3A 8BE

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** CLARIVATE Plc
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20200507

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Clarivate Analytics PLC
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20190108

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

**FORM 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT**

**Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934**

**Date of Report (date of earliest event reported):** 

March 23, 2026

**CLARIVATE PLC**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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|:---|:---|
| **Jersey, Channel Islands** | **Jersey, Channel Islands** |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
| **001-38911** | **001-38911** |
| (Commission File Number) | (Commission File Number) |
| **N/A** | **N/A** |
| (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
| **70 St. Mary Axe** | **70 St. Mary Axe** |
| **London** | **EC3A 8BE** |
| **United Kingdom** | **United Kingdom** |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Address of Principal Executive Offices) |

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**(44) 207-433-4000**

Registrant's telephone number, including area code

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange on which registered** |
| Ordinary Shares, no par value | CLVT | New York Stock Exchange |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933

(§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for

complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

**Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of** 

**Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.**

(e) On March 23, 2026, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Clarivate Plc (the "Company"), upon the recommendation of

the Human Resources and Compensation Committee of the Board (the "HRCC"), approved the adoption of the Amended and

Restated Executive Severance Plan of Clarivate Plc (the "A&R Executive Severance Plan"), effective March 23, 2026. The

Executive Severance Plan of Clarivate Plc was originally adopted by the Board on June 30, 2021 (the "Original ESP"), and the

A&R Executive Severance Plan maintains substantially similar terms and conditions, except as described below. Generally, the

A&R Executive Severance Plan provides for severance payments to members of the Company's Executive Leadership Team

(other than the Executive Chairman), including each of the Company's named executive officers, and other employees selected

by the HRCC (such individuals, "ESP Participants") upon a termination of their employment under circumstances specified in

the A&R Executive Severance Plan (such terminations, a "Qualifying Termination").

The material changes effected in the A&R Executive Severance Plan from those in the Original ESP are as follows:

• The CEO is an eligible ESP Participant.

• ESP Participants will be eligible for severance payments upon a termination of their employment for "good reason" in

connection with a "change in control" (each as defined in the A&R Executive Severance Plan).

• Upon a Qualifying Termination of an ESP Participant not in connection with a "change in control" (as defined in the

A&R Executive Severance Plan):

◦ Outstanding and unvested restricted stock units that vest on the basis of the ESP Participant's continued

service ("RSUs") which were granted prior to April 1, 2027 and which would have vested over the 18-month

period following such Qualifying Termination will vest in full; and

◦ Outstanding RSUs held by the ESP Participant which were granted on or after April 1, 2027 will vest on a

prorated basis.

• Upon a Qualifying Termination of an ESP Participant in connection with a "change in control":

◦ All outstanding RSUs will vest in full; and

◦ All outstanding and unvested restricted stock units that vest on the basis of the satisfaction of performance

metrics will vest as if all performance metrics had been met at a performance level to be determined by the

HRCC.

The foregoing description is only a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the A&R Executive

Severance Plan, a copy of which is filed hereto as Exhibit 10.1.

**Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.**

(d) Exhibits.

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|:---|:---|
| **<u>No.</u>** | **<u>Description</u>** |
| **10.1** | <u>[Amended and Restated Executive Severance Plan of Clarivate Plc](ex101arexecutiveseverancep.htm)</u> |
| **104** | The cover page from the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 26, 2026, formatted in Inline <br>XBRL<br>|

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**SIGNATURE**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on

its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|:---|:---|
|  | **CLARIVATE PLC** |
| Date: March 26, 2026 | By: /s/ John Doulamis |
|  | Name: John Doulamis |
|  | Title: Senior Vice President and General Counsel |

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