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Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On September 20, 2019, Qurate Retail, Inc. (the “Company”) announced the following management changes.
Richard N. Baer has resigned as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Administrative Officer, effective September 23, 2019.
Effective September 23, 2019, Renee L. Wilm has assumed the role of Chief Legal Officer of the Company and will oversee all legal functions at the Company. Ms. Wilm has also assumed the role of Chief Legal Officer of Liberty Media Corporation, Liberty Broadband Corporation, Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings, Inc. and GCI Liberty, Inc., effective September 23, 2019. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Wilm was a Senior Partner with the law firm Baker Botts L.L.P., where she represented the Company and its predecessors for over twenty years, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, complex capital structures and shareholder arrangements, as well as securities offerings and matters of corporate governance and securities law compliance. At Baker Botts, Ms. Wilm was a member of the Executive Committee, the East Coast Corporate Department Chair and Partner-in-Charge of the New York office.
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: September 24, 2019
QURATE RETAIL, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Wade Haufschild | |
Name: Wade Haufschild | ||
Title: Vice President |
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