---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-125221"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DBRG"
cik: "0001679688"
company_name: "DigitalBridge Group, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T11:59:58.926751+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# DigitalBridge to be acquired by SoftBank affiliate for $16.00 per share in cash

## Summary
- Common stockholders receive $16.00 per share in cash; preferred stock remains outstanding.
- Termination fee of $96M payable by Company in certain circumstances; $154M payable by Parent.
- Conditions include stockholder approval, CFIUS, HSR, FCC, FERC, and client consents for 85% base date revenue run rate.
- Outside date March 29, 2027, extendable by 90 days if regulatory conditions unmet.
- SoftBank affiliate committed equity financing to fund the transaction.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-125221
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DBRG
- cik: 0001679688
- company_name: DigitalBridge Group, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679688/000110465925125221/0001104659-25-125221-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679688/000110465925125221/tm2534410d3_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  DigitalBridge Group, Inc. entered into Agreement and Plan of Merger with Duncan Holdco LLC (effective 2025-12-29).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Duncan Holdco LLC
  - Effective: 2025-12-29
  source text: On December 29, 2025 (the “Signing Date”), DigitalBridge Group, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “Company”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Duncan Holdco LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Parent”), Duncan Sub I Inc., a Maryland corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub I”), Duncan Sub II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of Merger Sub I (“Merger Sub II”), and DigitalBridge Operating Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Company OP”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679688/000110465925125221/0001104659-25-125221-index.htm

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