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AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Brighthouse Financial (BHF)

Brighthouse Financial agrees to $70-per-share cash sale to Aquarian Capital

Positive Impact 5 of 5 m&a Written later

On November 6, 2025, Brighthouse Financial agreed to be acquired by an affiliate of Aquarian Capital for $70.00 per common share in cash, a transaction valued at about $4.1 billion. The price is a 37.0% premium to the unaffected share price of $51.09 on January 27, 2025, and the closing is expected in 2026, subject to stockholder approval, antitrust clearance and insurance regulatory approvals.

Key points

  • Merger consideration of $70.00 per share in cash, about $4.1 billion in total value
  • Price is a 37.0% premium to the unaffected share price of $51.09 on January 27, 2025
  • Company would pay a termination fee of about $143.5 million in specified circumstances; Parent would pay about $225.5 million in specified circumstances
  • Merger may be terminated if not closed by September 6, 2026, extendable to December 6, 2026 in certain cases; the company also cancelled its Q3 2025 earnings call and gave preliminary metrics, including $5.4 billion of statutory total adjus

The filing

CompanyBrighthouse Financial (BHF)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECNov 6, 2025, 8:00 AM ET
Accession number0001685040-25-000065

Items reported: 1.01 Material Definitive Agreement2.02 Results of Operations7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI on Nov 8, 2026, 6:56 AM ET, from this filing only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on November 06, 2025.

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