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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-086054"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001049782"
company_name: "BROOKLINE BANCORP INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T08:42:55.418261+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Brookline Bancorp completes merger of equals with Beacon Financial; 0.42x exchange ratio; delisting from Nasdaq

## Summary
- On Sept 1, 2025, Brookline merged with Beacon Financial (fka Berkshire Hills Bancorp) in a stock-for-stock deal; 0.42 Beacon shares per Brookline share.
- Brookline Common Stock delisted from Nasdaq effective Sept 2, 2025; trading suspended.
- All Brookline directors and officers resigned upon closing; surviving entity is Beacon Financial Corporation.
- Beacon Financial ticker changed from BHLB to BBT; total shares outstanding ~84.3M.
- Bank subsidiaries merged into Brookline Bank, renamed Beacon Bank & Trust.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-086054
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001049782
- company_name: BROOKLINE BANCORP INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049782/000110465925086054/0001104659-25-086054-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049782/000110465925086054/tm2524567d2_8k.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 1923a656130828f2fefa2a7818cd9623b4438a47
  claim: BROOKLINE BANCORP INC: Amended and Restated Bylaws ceased to be in effect upon closing of the Transaction.
  evidence_excerpt: the Amended and Restated Bylaws of Brookline ceased to be in effect.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049782/000110465925086054/0001104659-25-086054-index.htm
- claim_id: a081184c6c61b7bc1bc9758668c776799403d2b6
  claim: BROOKLINE BANCORP INC: Certificate of Incorporation ceased to be in effect upon closing of the Transaction.
  evidence_excerpt: Effective upon the closing of the Transaction, the Certificate of Incorporation
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049782/000110465925086054/0001104659-25-086054-index.htm
- claim_id: ea48be90b161acd2d830e1092083c42cee4774ca
  claim: BROOKLINE BANCORP INC underwent a change of control involving Beacon Financial Corporation, Inc. for 0.42 shares of Beacon Financial Common Stock per share of Brookline Common Stock (closed 2025-09-01).
  evidence_excerpt: of the closing of the Holdco Merger, each share of Brookline common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Brookline Common Stock”), was converted into the right to receive 0.42 shares of Beacon Financial Common Stock, with cash to be paid in lieu of fractional shares (the “Merger Consideration”). Immediately following the Holdco Merger, Berkshire Bank, a
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1049782/000110465925086054/0001104659-25-086054-index.htm

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