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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-001732"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GETY"
cik: "0001898496"
company_name: "Getty Images Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T09:16:11.482659+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Getty Images to acquire Shutterstock for $9.50 cash + 9.17 GETY shares per SSTK share

## Summary
- Consideration per share: Mixed Election $9.50 cash + 9.17 GETY shares; Cash Election $28.85; Stock Election 13.67 GETY shares; proration applies.
- Closing conditions: SSTK shareholder approval, HSR clearance, Getty debt modifications to extend maturities past Feb 2028, tax opinion.
- Termination fees: $32.7M from SSTK to GETY in certain cases; $32.7M or $40M from GETY to SSTK depending on circumstance.
- Post-close board: 11 members (4 from Shutterstock); CEO Craig Peters and Chairman Mark Getty to remain in roles.
- Getty Family Stockholders and Koch Investor (~66% of GETY shares) already approved stock issuance; no further GETY vote needed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-001732
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GETY
- cik: 0001898496
- company_name: Getty Images Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898496/000110465925001732/0001104659-25-001732-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898496/000110465925001732/tm2415646d1_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-001732.txt

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