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September 6, 2023
Anat Ashkenazi
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Eli Lilly and Company
Lilly Corporate Center
Indianapolis, IN 46285
Re: Eli Lilly and
Company
Form 10-K for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
Filed February 22,
2023
File No. 001-06351
Dear Anat Ashkenazi:
We have reviewed your filing and have the following comments. In
some of our
comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better
understand your
disclosure.
Please respond to these comments within ten business days by
providing the requested
information or advise us as soon as possible when you will respond. If
you do not believe our
comments apply to your facts and circumstances, please tell us why in
your response.
After reviewing your
response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022
General
1. We note that you
provided more expansive disclosure in your 2022 ESG Report, CDP
2022 Climate response
and 2022 CDP Water Security response than you provided in your
SEC filings. Please
advise us what consideration you gave to providing the same type of
climate-related
disclosure in your SEC filings as you provided in such reports and on your
website.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Results of Operations and
Financial Condition, page
37
2. We note your disclosure
on page 33 that you are subject to increased negative attention
from the media,
stockholders, activists, and other stakeholders on climate change, social
and sustainability
matters, which could negatively affect your business and reputation.
Please expand your
disclosure to discuss the potential response from investors, lenders
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and customers. In addition, we note you indicate in your CDP 2022
Climate response that
climate-related risks are identified and assessed through your risk
management process.
To the extent material, discuss the indirect consequences of
climate-related regulation or
business trends, such as the following:
decreased demand for goods or services that produce significant
greenhouse gas
emissions or are related to carbon-based energy sources;
increased demand for goods that result in lower emissions than
competing products;
increased competition to develop innovative new products that
result in lower
emissions; and
increased demand for generation and transmission of energy from
alternative energy
sources.
3. We note your disclosure on page 29 indicating that you may experience
manufacturing,
quality, or supply chain difficulties, disruptions, or shortages in
part due to "natural
disasters (including increased instances of natural disasters or other
events that may be
due to climate change)." Discuss the physical effects of climate
change on your
operations and results. This disclosure may include the following:
severity of weather, such as floods, hurricanes, sea levels,
arability of farmland,
extreme fires, and water availability and quality;
quantification of material weather-related damages to your
property or operations;
potential for indirect weather-related impacts that have affected
or may affect your
major customers or suppliers; and
any weather-related impacts on the cost or availability of
insurance.
Your response should include quantitative information for each of the
periods for which
financial statements are presented in your Form 10-K and explain
whether changes are
expected in future periods.
4. If material, please discuss any purchase or sale of carbon credits or
offsets and the effects
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on your business, financial condition, and results of operations. To the
extent applicable,
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ensure Lilly and
you provide Companyinformation with your response for each
of the periods for
quantitative
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We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for
the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action
or absence of
action by the staff.
Please contact Anuja A. Majmudar, Attorney-Adviser, at (202) 551-3844 or
Karina
Dorin, Attorney-Adviser, at (202) 551-3763 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of
Corporation Finance
Office of Life
Sciences
cc: Donald A. Zakrowski, Senior VP Finance & CAO