# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001390777
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-138504
**Filing Date:** 2025-6
**Character Count:** 9497
**Document Hash:** 2225bf3506e3100fe1d190bd4bd2d125
**Contains OCR:** False
**Source Format:** 

## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-138504.hdr.sgml**: 20250610

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-138504

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 14

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250610

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Other Events

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Financial Statements and Exhibits

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250610

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250610

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Bank of New York Mellon Corp
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001390777
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** STATE COMMERCIAL BANKS [6022]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 02 Finance
- **EIN:** 132614959
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-35651
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251037853

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 240 GREENWICH STREET
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10286
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 212-495-1784

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 240 GREENWICH STREET
- **CITY:** NEW YORK
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10286

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Bank of New York Mellon CORP
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20070221

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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): June 10, 2025

## THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORPORATION

#### (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Delaware** | **001-35651** | **13-2614959** |
| **(State or other Jurisdiction<br>of Incorporation)** | **(Commission<br>File Number)** | **(IRS Employer<br>Identification No.)** |

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|:---|:---|
| **240 Greenwich Street<br>New York, New York** | **10286** |
| **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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#### Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (212) 495-1784

#### Not Applicable

#### (Former name or former address if changed since last report.)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

☐ 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<br>Symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange**<br> **on which registered** |
| Common Stock, $0.01 par value | BK | New York Stock Exchange |
| 6.244% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Normal Preferred Capital Securities of Mellon Capital IV (fully and unconditionally guaranteed by The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation) | BK/P | New York Stock Exchange |
| Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/4,000th interest in a share of Series K Noncumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock | BK PRK | 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. ☐

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| **ITEM 8.01.** | **OTHER EVENTS.**  |

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On June 10, 2025, The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation issued $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.441% Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Callable Senior Medium-Term Notes Series J due 2028 (the "2028 Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Notes"), $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Floating Rate Callable Senior Medium-Term Notes Series J due 2028 (the "2028 Floating Rate Notes") and $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.316% Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Callable Senior Medium-Term Notes Series J due 2036 (the "2036 Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Notes" and, together with the 2028 Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Notes and the 2028 Floating Rate Notes, the "Notes"). The Notes were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-282710) (as amended, the "Registration Statement"). In connection with this issuance, Exhibits 5.1 and 23.1 are filed as part of this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement.

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| **ITEM 9.01.** | **FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.**  |

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(d) EXHIBITS

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| Exhibit<br>Number | Description |
| 5.1 | [Opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP](d64225dex51.htm) |
| 23.1 | [Consent of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)](d64225dex51.htm) |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File – the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document |

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#### SIGNATURES
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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|  | **The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation**<br> (Registrant) | **The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation**<br> (Registrant) |
| Date: June 10, 2025 | By: | /s/ Jean Weng |
|  | Name: | Jean Weng |
|  | Title: | Secretary |

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## Exhibit 5.1

**Exhibit 5.1** 

[Letterhead of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP]

June 10, 2025

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation,

240 Greenwich Street,

New York, NY 10286.

Ladies and Gentlemen:

In connection with the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), of $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.441% Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Callable Senior Medium-Term Notes Series J due 2028 (the "2028 Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Notes"), $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Floating Rate Callable Senior Medium-Term Notes Series J due 2028 (the "2028 Floating Rate Notes") and $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.316% Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Callable Senior Medium-Term Notes Series J due 2036 (the "2036 Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Notes" and, together with the 2028 Fixed Rate / Floating Rate Notes and the 2028 Floating Rate Notes, the "Securities") of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), issued pursuant to the Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of February 9, 2016 (the "Base Indenture"), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of January 30, 2017 (together with the Base Indenture, the "Indenture"), each between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the "Trustee"), we, as your counsel, have examined such corporate records, certificates and other documents, and such questions of law, as we have considered necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion. Upon the basis of such examination, it is our opinion that the Securities constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity principles.

In rendering the foregoing opinion, we are not passing upon, and assume no responsibility for, any disclosure in any registration statement or any related prospectus or other offering material relating to the offer and sale of the Securities.

The foregoing opinion is limited to the Federal laws of the United States and the laws of the State of New York, and we are expressing no opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction.

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The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation -2-

We have relied as to certain factual matters on information obtained from public officials, officers of the Company and other sources believed by us to be responsible, and we have assumed that the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Trustee, that the Securities conform to the specimens thereof examined by us, that the certificates of authentication of the Securities of The Bank of New York Mellon, as authenticating agent (the "Authenticating Agent"), have been manually signed by one of the Authenticating Agent's authorized officers, and that the signatures on all documents examined by us are genuine, assumptions which we have not independently verified.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on the date hereof, and its incorporation by reference into the Registration Statement relating to the Securities (File No. 333-282710). In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Sullivan & Cromwell LLP