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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-19-110857
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20190417
ITEM INFORMATION:		Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
FILED AS OF DATE:		20190418
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20190418

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			COOPER COMPANIES INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000711404
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	OPHTHALMIC GOODS [3851]
		IRS NUMBER:				942657368
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1031

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-08597
		FILM NUMBER:		19755888

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6140 STONERIDGE MALL RD
		STREET 2:		STE 590
		CITY:			PLEASANTON
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94588
		BUSINESS PHONE:		9254603600

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		6140 STONERIDGE MALL ROAD
		STREET 2:		SUITE 590
		CITY:			PLEASANTON
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94588

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	COOPERVISION INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19870701
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<P STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>UNITED STATES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Washington, DC 20549 </B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center>
<P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM 8-K
</B></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P><center> <P STYLE="line-height:6.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000;width:21%">&nbsp;</P></center>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>CURRENT REPORT </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Pursuant
to Section&nbsp;13 or 15(d) </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): April&nbsp;17, 2019 </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:24pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC. </B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B>94-2657368</B></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(State or other jurisdiction</B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(IRS Employer</B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Identification No.)</B></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>6140 Stoneridge Mall Road, Suite 590, Pleasanton, California 94588 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Address of principal executive offices) </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(925) 460-3600 </B></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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</P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933
(&#167;230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (&#167;240.12b-2 of this chapter). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Emerging growth
company&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">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&nbsp;13(a) of the Exchange Act.&nbsp;&nbsp;&#9744; </P> <P STYLE="font-size:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="8%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><B>ITEM&nbsp;5.02.</B></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers;
Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">On April&nbsp;17, 2019, The Cooper Companies, Inc. (the
&#147;<U>Company</U>&#148;) entered into executive employment agreements with each of Albert G. White III, President and Chief Executive Officer, Brian G. Andrews, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Daniel G. McBride,
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and President of CooperVision, Inc., Holly R. Sheffield, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, and Robert D. Auerbach, M.D., President of CooperSurgical, Inc., each of which is
effective as of November&nbsp;1, 2018 and supersedes in their entirety any prior employment, severance or change in control arrangement with the Company. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Each executive employment agreement sets forth the applicable executive&#146;s current title and reporting relationship, and provides for an
annual base salary, an annual performance bonus with a target level determined pursuant to the Company&#146;s Incentive Payment Plan, eligibility in all employee benefit plans maintained by the Company for the benefit of its executives generally and
severance benefits upon certain qualifying terminations of employment, as described in more detail below. Each executive&#146;s annual base salary under his or her executive employment agreement is as follows: Mr.&nbsp;White: $925,000;
Mr.&nbsp;Andrews: $425,000; Mr.&nbsp;McBride: $700,000; Ms.&nbsp;Sheffield: $525,000; and Dr.&nbsp;Auerbach: $425,000. Each executive will be eligible to receive a true-up payment to reflect such base salaries being in effect as of November&nbsp;1,
2018. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to the executive employment agreements, in the event the executive is terminated by the Company without &#147;cause&#148;
or resigns for &#147;good reason&#148; (each, as defined in the executive employment agreements), in each case, other than during the period beginning three months prior to and ending 12 months after a change in control, the executive will be
eligible to receive: (i)&nbsp;severance equal to 24 months of executive&#146;s base salary paid in the form of continuing installments on the Company&#146;s ordinary payroll schedule; (ii)&nbsp;a lump sum payment equal to his or her target bonus for
the year of termination; (iii)&nbsp;12 (or 24 for Messrs. White and McBride) months&#146; acceleration of the executive&#146;s time-based equity awards, unless otherwise provided in any equity award granted after November&nbsp;1, 2018, and provided
that any time-based equity awards that are subject to &#147;cliff&#148; vesting are converted to monthly vesting in order to effect such acceleration; (iv)&nbsp;extended exercisability of outstanding equity awards until at least the first
anniversary of the termination date (but in no event beyond the original expiration date); and (v)&nbsp;reimbursement of monthly COBRA premiums for up to 24 months following the termination date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the event the executive is terminated by the Company without cause or resigns for good reason during the period beginning three months
prior to and ending 12 months after a change in control, he or she will be eligible to receive: (i)&nbsp;severance equal to 36 months of executive&#146;s base salary paid in the form of continuing installments on the Company&#146;s ordinary payroll
schedule; (ii)&nbsp;a lump sum payment equal to his or her target bonus for the year of termination; (iii)&nbsp;full accelerated vesting of outstanding equity awards, with performance-based equity awards vesting based on the target level of
achievement; (iv)&nbsp;extended exercisability of outstanding equity awards until at least the first anniversary of the termination date (but in no event beyond the original expiration date); and (v)&nbsp;reimbursement of monthly COBRA premiums for
up to 36 months following the termination date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In the event the executive is terminated due to death or disability, he or she will be
eligible to receive: (i)&nbsp;a lump sum payment equal to his or her target bonus for the year of termination, prorated based on the termination date; (ii)&nbsp;accelerated vesting of outstanding performance-based equity awards, prorated as set
forth in the applicable award agreements; (iii)&nbsp;monthly prorated accelerated vesting of time-based equity awards; and (iv)&nbsp;extended exercisability of outstanding equity awards until at least the first anniversary of the termination date
(but in no event beyond the original expiration date). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The receipt of all of the foregoing severance payment and benefits is subject to
the executive&#146;s continued compliance with all of his or her obligations to the Company, including under each executive&#146;s confidential information agreement with the Company, and the executive&#146;s execution and delivery of a release of
claims against the Company. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In addition, the executive employment agreements include an Internal Revenue Code (&#147;Code&#148;)
Section&nbsp;280G &#147;best pay&#148; provision pursuant to which in the event any payments or benefits received by the executive would be subject to an excise tax under Code Section&nbsp;4999, the executive will receive either the full amount of
such payments or a reduced amount such that no portion of the payments is subject to the excise tax, whichever results in the greater after-tax benefit to the executive. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">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
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3">THE COOPER COMPANIES, INC.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; border-bottom:1px solid #000000; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&nbsp;/s/ Randal L. Golden</P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;Randal L. Golden</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&nbsp;Vice President, Secretary&nbsp;&amp; General</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&nbsp;Counsel</P></TD></TR>
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