<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001127602-18-001641.txt : 20180111
<SEC-HEADER>0001127602-18-001641.hdr.sgml : 20180111
<ACCEPTANCE-DATETIME>20180111171159
ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001127602-18-001641
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20180101
FILED AS OF DATE:		20180111
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20180111

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Hurtado Juan Jose
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001725152

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		3
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-38002
		FILM NUMBER:		18524244

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		650 SOUTH EXETER STREET
		CITY:			BALTIMORE
		STATE:			MD
		ZIP:			21202

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			LAUREATE EDUCATION, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000912766
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-EDUCATIONAL SERVICES [8200]
		IRS NUMBER:				521492296
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		650 S. EXETER STREET
		CITY:			BALTIMORE
		STATE:			MD
		ZIP:			21202
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4108436100

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		650 S. EXETER STREET
		CITY:			BALTIMORE
		STATE:			MD
		ZIP:			21202

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	SYLVAN LEARNING SYSTEMS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19930929
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    <periodOfReport>2018-01-01</periodOfReport>

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    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000912766</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>LAUREATE EDUCATION, INC.</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>LAUR</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

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            <rptOwnerCik>0001725152</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>Hurtado Juan Jose</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>650 S. EXETER STREET</rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>12TH FLOOR</rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>BALTIMORE</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>MD</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>21202</rptOwnerZipCode>
            <rptOwnerStateDescription></rptOwnerStateDescription>
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        <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <officerTitle>SVP Operations</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
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            <securityTitle>
                <value>Class B Common Stock</value>
            </securityTitle>
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                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Class A Common Stock</value>
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                <value>Restricted Stock Units</value>
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            <exerciseDate>
                <value>2018-06-17</value>
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                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Class B Common Stock</value>
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                <underlyingSecurityShares>
                    <value>8875</value>
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        <derivativeHolding>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)</value>
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                <value>31.20</value>
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                <footnoteId id="F3"/>
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                <value>2022-06-07</value>
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                <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                    <value>Class B Common Stock</value>
                </underlyingSecurityTitle>
                <underlyingSecurityShares>
                    <value>42500</value>
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                    <value>D</value>
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            <securityTitle>
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        <derivativeHolding>
            <securityTitle>
                <value>Performance Share Units</value>
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                <footnoteId id="F4"/>
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    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Each share of Class B Common Stock of Laureate Education, Inc. (the &quot;Company&quot;) is convertible into one share of Class A Common Stock of the Company upon the election of the holder or upon transfer, subject to the terms of the Company's Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Each Restricted Stock Unit (&quot;RSU&quot;) represents the right to receive one share of Class B Common Stock.  On the vesting date, the reporting person will be issued a corresponding number of shares of Class B Common Stock.  Subject to the reporting person's continued employment, all of these RSUs will vest on June 17, 2018.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">These options are fully vested and exercisable immediately.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Subject to the reporting person's continued employment by the Company, Performance Share Units (PSUs) will vest in one-third annual tranches on each of December 31, 2018, December 31, 2019, and December 31, 2020, provided that the average closing price per share of the Company's Class A Common Stock as reported on the NASDAQ Global Select Market over the thirty (30) day period preceding those dates is equal to or greater than (i) $20 for those PSUs vesting on December 31, 2018, (ii) $22.50 for those PSUs vesting on December 31, 2019, and (iii) $25 for those PSUs vesting on December 31, 2020.  Should the thirty day trailing average fall short of these targets for either December 31, 2018, December 31, 2019, or both, the PSUs for the year(s) in which the target is missed may vest if the trailing average target is achieved in the succeeding year.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>/s/ Sean P. Mulcahy, Attorney-in-Fact</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2018-01-11</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
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<TYPE>EX-24
<SEQUENCE>2
<FILENAME>doc1.txt
<DESCRIPTION>POWER OF ATTORNEY (PUBLIC): HURTADO POA
<TEXT>
LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

	KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that
the undersigned hereby makes, constitutes and appoints Victoria
Silbey, Thomas J. Plotz and Sean P. Mulcahy, and each of them,
as the undersigned?s true and lawful attorney-in-fact (the
?Attorney-in Fact?), with full power of substitution and
resubstitution, each with the power to act alone for the
undersigned and in the undersigned?s name, place and stead, in
any and all capacities to:

	1.	prepare, execute and acknowledge in the
undersigned?s name and on the undersigned?s behalf, and file
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (?SEC?) a Form
ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents
necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling
the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of
reports required or considered advisable under Section 16(a) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the ?Exchange Act?) or any
rule or regulation of the SEC;

	2.	prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file
with the SEC, any national securities exchange or securities
quotation system and Laureate Education, Inc. (the ?Company?)
any and all reports (including any amendment thereto) of the
undersigned required or considered advisable under Section 16(a)
of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder,
with respect to the equity securities of the Company, including
Forms?3, 4 and 5;

	3.	seek or obtain, as the undersigned?s representative
and on the undersigned?s behalf, information regarding transactions
in the Company?s equity securities from any third party, including
he Company and any brokers, dealers, employee benefit plan
administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes
any such third party to release any such information
to the Attorney-in-Fact;

	4.	perform any and all other acts which in the discretion
of such Attorney-in-Fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf
of the undersigned in connection with the foregoing.

	The undersigned acknowledges that:

	(a)	this Limited Power of Attorney authorizes, but does
not require, the Attorney-in-Fact to act at his or her discretion on
information provided to such Attorney-in-Fact without independent
verification of such information;

	(b)	any documents prepared or executed by the Attorney
-in-Fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Limited
Power of Attorney will be in such form and will contain such
information as the Attorney-in-Fact, in his or her discretion,
deems necessary or desirable;

	(c)	neither the Company nor the Attorney-in-Fact
assumes any liability for the undersigned?s responsibility to
comply with the requirements of Section 16 of the Exchange
Act, any liability of the undersigned for any failure to comply
with such requirements, or any liability of the undersigned for
disgorgement of profits under Section 16(b) of the Exchange
Act; and

	(d)	this Limited Power of Attorney does not relieve
the undersigned from responsibility for compliance with the
undersigned?s obligations under Section 16 of the Exchange
Act, including, without limitation, the reporting requirements
under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act.

	The undersigned hereby grants to the Attorney-in-Fact
full power and authority to do and perform each and every act
and thing requisite, necessary or convenient to be done in
connection with the foregoing, as fully, to all intents and
purposes, as the undersigned might or could do in person,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that the Attorney-in-Fact,
or his or her substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause
to be done by authority of this Limited Power of Attorney.

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

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed
this Limited Power of Attorney as of December 6, 2017.


Signature: /s/ Juan Jose Hurtado
Print Name: Juan Jos? Hurtado



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