---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-091469"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000701288"
company_name: "ATRION CORP"
filed_at: "2024-08-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T08:20:55.346113+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 1.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Atrion completes merger with Nordson; shareholders receive $460/share

## Summary
- Merger closed August 21, 2024; each share converted to $460 cash, no interest.
- Company becomes wholly owned subsidiary of Nordson Corporation.
- Shares to be delisted from Nasdaq; Form 25 and Form 15 to be filed with SEC.
- All prior directors and officers (Preston G. Athey, Emile A. Battat, etc.) resigned; replaced by Nordson appointees Stephen Lovass, Jennifer McDonough, Anand Patel.
- Credit agreement with Wells Fargo terminated and all outstanding indebtedness repaid.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-091469
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000701288
- company_name: ATRION CORP
- filed_at: 2024-08-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 1.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.02, 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/701288/000110465924091469/0001104659-24-091469-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/701288/000110465924091469/tm2421866d8_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-091469.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  ATRION CORP underwent a change of control involving Nordson Corporation for $460 in cash (closed 2024-08-21).
  - Action: change of control
  - Counterparty: Nordson Corporation
  - Consideration: $460 in cash
  - Closing: 2024-08-21
  source text: nor lost their rights to such appraisal and payment under the DGCL (such Shares, “ Dissenting Shares ”), was automatically canceled and converted into the right to receive $460 in cash, without interest (the “ Merger Consideration ”); and (ii) each outstanding restricted stock unit award granted to an employee or non-employee service provider, whether
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/701288/000110465924091469/0001104659-24-091469-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.