Meade Christopher J. 4

What Happened

• Christopher J. Meade, General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of BlackRock, was granted 2,500 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) on 2026-01-16. The grant is reported at $0.00 per share because it is an award (transaction code A). The award was approved by the Management Development and Compensation Committee on 2026-01-13 and reflects an approved award value of $2,925,000, which was converted to 2,500 RSUs using the $1,170.18 average share price on 2026-01-16. The RSUs vest in equal installments on 01/31/27, 01/31/28 and 01/31/29.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-01-16; reported acquisition price: $0.00 (award).
• Award value: $2,925,000 converted to 2,500 RSUs using $1,170.18 (average of high and low on 1/16/26) (Footnote F1).
• Vesting: equal installments 1/31/2027, 1/31/2028, 1/31/2029 (F1).
• Footnote F2: filing notes holdings include Common Stock and RSUs that vest over 1–3 years; each RSU is payable solely by delivery of an equal number of shares.
• Shares owned after the transaction are not disclosed in the filing.
• Filing date: 2026-01-21. The Form 4 was filed five days after the transaction (2026-01-16), i.e., later than the typical 2-business-day filing window for Form 4s.

Context

• RSU grants are compensation awards that convert to shares only at vesting (no immediate sale or cash proceeds). This is not an open-market purchase or sale and should be read as part of executive compensation rather than a direct trading signal.