BrightSpring sells 15 million shares for KKR and management; company buys back 1.5 million
BrightSpring Health Services agreed on October 20, 2025 to an underwritten secondary offering of 15,000,000 common shares sold by KKR Phoenix Aggregator L.P. and management stockholders, closing October 22, 2025. The company received no proceeds, but it separately repurchased 1,500,000 shares from the underwriter, BofA Securities, with no underwriting fee.
Key points
- Selling stockholders sold all 15,000,000 shares of common stock in the offering, led by KKR Phoenix Aggregator L.P. and management sellers.
- BrightSpring bought back 1,500,000 shares from BofA Securities as part of the offering; the underwriter received no fee on those shares.
- The company received no offering proceeds, apart from cash from management stock option exercises.
- The offering was made under an automatic shelf registration filed June 10, 2025; the underwriting agreement is filed as Exhibit 1.1.
The filing
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