---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950103-22-018776"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VRSK"
cik: "0001442145"
company_name: "Verisk Analytics, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T21:33:34.708741+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Verisk sells Wood Mackenzie to Veritas for $3.1B cash plus up to $200M contingent

## Summary
- Sale of Wood Mackenzie for $3.1B cash at closing plus up to $200M in contingent payments.
- Transaction expected to close in Q1 2023, subject to regulatory approvals and customary conditions.
- Verisk intends to use after-tax proceeds to pay down debt and return value to shareholders via share repurchases.
- After sale, Verisk will focus on being a strategic data and technology partner to the global insurance industry.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950103-22-018776
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VRSK
- cik: 0001442145
- company_name: Verisk Analytics, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1442145/000095010322018776/0000950103-22-018776-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1442145/000095010322018776/dp183401_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Verisk Analytics, Inc. entered into Purchase Agreement with Planet Jersey Buyer Ltd valued at $3,100,000,000 of cash consideration (effective 2022-10-28).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: asset purchase
  - Counterparty: Planet Jersey Buyer Ltd
  - Value: $3,100,000,000 of cash consideration
  - Effective: 2022-10-28
  source text: On October 28, 2022, Verisk Analytics, Inc. (“ Verisk ”) entered into an Equity Purchase Agreement (the “ Purchase Agreement ”) by and between Verisk and Planet Jersey Buyer Ltd (“ Buyer ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1442145/000095010322018776/0000950103-22-018776-index.htm

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