Edgar Filing: CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT Corp

CAESARS ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION

Date: January 3, 2019

/s/ MICHELLE BUSHORE

Michelle Bushore

Senior Vice President and Chief Governance and Transactional Officer

Form 8-K

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): January 3, 2019 (December 27, 2018)

Caesars Entertainment Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware	001-10410	62-1411755
(State of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer
		Identification Number)

	One Caesars Palace Drive
	Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
	(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(702) 407-6000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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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.

Supplementing the cash retention awards granted on December 12, 2018, on December 27, 2018 the Compensation and Management Development Committee (the “Committee”) of the Board of Directors of Caesars Entertainment Corporation (the “Company”) approved a cash award agreement for Tom Jenkin under the Caesars Entertainment Corporation 2017 Performance Incentive Plan in the amount of $900,000, also vesting on February 1, 2020. The Committee further has provided that the cash retention awards granted in December 2018 will automatically vest in full upon the applicable participant’s termination of employment or service with the Company or one of its subsidiaries resulting from a termination by the Company without cause, a resignation by the participant for good reason or the participant’s death or disability.

SIGNATURES

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.