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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001590714-20-000140
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20201215
FILED AS OF DATE:		20201228
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20201228

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Goralski Michael
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001837971

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		3
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-36272
		FILM NUMBER:		201418558

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		383 MAIN AVENUE, 6TH FLOOR
		CITY:			NORWALK
		STATE:			CT
		ZIP:			06851

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Element Solutions Inc
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001590714
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS [2890]
		IRS NUMBER:				371744899
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		500 EAST BROWARD BOULEVARD
		STREET 2:		SUITE 1860
		CITY:			FORT LAUDERDALE
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			33394
		BUSINESS PHONE:		561-207-9600

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		500 EAST BROWARD BOULEVARD
		STREET 2:		SUITE 1860
		CITY:			FORT LAUDERDALE
		STATE:			FL
		ZIP:			33394

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Platform Specialty Products Corp
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20131031
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        <footnote id="F1">The vesting of these performance restricted stock units (&quot;PRSU&quot;), granted on 7/14/2020, is subject to the achievement by the Issuer of the performance target in any fiscal year ending on or before 12/31/2022. Each PRSU represents a contingent right to receive one share of the Issuer's common stock.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Each of these PRSUs, granted on 2/19/2020, represents a contingent right to receive up to 1.5 shares of the Issuer's common stock, subject to the achievement of certain adjusted EBITDA compound annual growth and adjusted earnings per share goals for the performance period ending 12/31/2022. The number of shares reported in Column 3 will range from zero to 16,611 shares.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Each of these restricted stock units (&quot;RSU&quot;), granted on 2/19/2020, represents a contingent right to receive one share of the Issuer's common stock. This grant vests in 1/3 annual increments, subject to continuous service.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Each of these PRSUs, granted on 2/20/2019, represents a contingent right to receive up to 1.5 shares of the Issuer's common stock, subject to the achievement of certain adjusted EBITDA compound annual growth and adjusted earnings per share goals for the performance period ending 12/31/2021. The number of shares reported in Column 3 will range from zero to 13,227 shares.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Each of these RSUs, granted on 2/20/2019, represents a contingent right to receive one share of the Issuer's common stock. This grant has been vesting in 1/3 annual increments, subject to continuous service, since its grant date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">Each of these PRSUs, granted on 2/19/2018, represents a contingent right to receive up to 1.5 share of the Issuer's common stock and will vest on 2/19/ 2021, subject to the achievement by the Issuer of certain adjusted EBITDA goals. The number of shares reported in column 3 will range from zero to a maximum number of 7,317 shares.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">Each of these RSUs, granted on 2/19/2018, represents a contingent right to receive one share of the Issuer's common stock. This grant has been vesting in 1/3 annual increments, subject to continuous service, since its grant date.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F8">Each of these PRSUs, granted on 6/12/2014, represents a contingent right to receive shares of the Issuer's common stock, subject to the achievement by the Issuer of (i) certain share price targets and (ii) adjusted EBITDA goals, each for the performance period ending 12/31/2020. The number of shares reported in column 3 will range from zero to a maximum number of shares not exceeding $907,854 in aggregate fair market value for the 30 days preceding the vesting date.</footnote>
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    <remarks>VP, Head of Industrial &amp; Specialty and Global Supply Chain</remarks>

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EXHIBIT 24.1

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know by all those present that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Benjamin Gliklich and John E. Capps, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

1.    execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as a reporting person of Element Solutions Inc (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5, and any other forms or reports the undersigned may be required to file in connection with the undersigned's ownership, acquisition, or disposition of securities of the Company in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and the rules thereunder;

2.    do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, or other form or report, and timely file such form or report with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

3.    take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney- in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by any of such attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in the discretion of any of such attorneys in fact.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 22nd day of December, 2020.

/s/ Michael Goralski
Michael Goralski
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