Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On May 2, 2023, the shareholders of Albemarle Corporation (the "Company") approved the 2023 Stock Compensation and Deferral Election Plan for Non-Employee Directors (the "2023 Directors Plan"). A description of the terms and conditions of the 2023 Directors Plan is set forth in the Company's Proxy Statement for the 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 21, 2023 (the "Proxy Statement"), under the heading "Proposal 5 - Approval of 2023 Stock Compensation and Deferral Election Plan for Non-Employee Directors", which such description is incorporated by reference herein. This summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the 2023 Directors Plan, a copy of which is included as Appendix A to the Proxy Statement and is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.02.

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

On May 2, 2023, the Company held its 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Annual Meeting"). At the Annual Meeting, the proposals listed below were submitted to a vote of the shareholders through the solicitation of proxies. The proposals are described in the Proxy Statement. The voting results for each proposal are set forth below.

As of the record date for the Annual Meeting, March 7, 2023, there were 117,299,392 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote, of which the holders of 101,561,135 shares of common stock were represented in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting.




Proposal 1. Election of directors. The shareholders elected all of the nominees
for director to serve for a term expiring at the annual meeting of shareholders
in 2024, by the votes set forth in the table below.
Nominees                    Voted For        Voted Against        Abstain        Broker Non-Votes
M. Lauren Brlas             87,349,454         3,681,646          70,743            10,459,292
Ralf H. Cramer              89,974,567         1,051,104          76,172            10,459,292
J. Kent Masters, Jr.        87,027,649         4,000,788          73,406            10,459,292
Glenda J. Minor             89,487,591         1,541,908          72,344            10,459,292
James J. O'Brien            87,168,233         3,856,539          77,071            10,459,292
Diarmuid B. O'Connell       88,848,884         2,175,572          77,387            10,459,292
Dean L. Seavers             88,545,434         2,478,357          78,052            10,459,292
Gerald A. Steiner           89,347,622         1,674,900          79,321            10,459,292
Holly A. Van Deursen        89,667,909         1,362,024          71,910            10,459,292
Alejandro D. Wolff          86,995,363         4,028,263          78,217            10,459,292

Proposal 2. Advisory vote on executive compensation. The shareholders approved, on a non-binding, advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers, by the votes set forth in the table below.


 Voted For        Voted Against        Abstain        Broker Non-Votes
 83,616,589         5,332,694         2,152,560          10,459,292

Proposal 3. Frequency of periodic advisory votes on executive compensation. The shareholders recommended, on a non-binding, advisory basis, annual frequency of future advisory votes on the compensation of our named executive officers, by the votes set forth in the table below.


   1 Year        2 Year        3 Year         Abstain        Broker Non-Votes
 89,272,772      120,361      1,610,822       97,888            10,459,292

Based on these results, the Company's Board of Directors has determined to hold an advisory vote on the compensation of named executive officers annually until the next frequency vote. A frequency vote is required to be held at least once every six years.

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Proposal 4. Ratification of appointment of independent registered public accounting firm. The shareholders ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, by the votes set forth in the table below.


 Voted For        Voted Against        Abstain        Broker Non-Votes
 95,541,169         5,951,315          68,651               N/A

Proposal 5. Approval of the 2023 Stock Compensation and Deferral Election Plan for Non-Employee Directors. The shareholders approved the 2023 Stock Compensation and Deferral Election Plan for Non-Employee Directors, by the votes set forth in the table below.

Voted For Voted Against Abstain Broker Non-Votes


 89,290,093         1,668,896          142,854           10,459,292

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.



(d) Exhibits.
   Exhibit
   Number            Exhibit
    10.1               Albemarle Corporation 2023 Stock Compensation and Deferral Election Plan
                     for Non-Employee Directors [filed as Appendix A to the Company's Definitive
                     Proxy Statement filed on March 21, 2023, and incorporated herein by
                     reference].
     104             Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

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