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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-23-041388"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000842183"
company_name: "RPT Realty"
filed_at: "2023-08-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T03:13:04.845032+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# RPT Realty to be acquired by Kimco Realty; shareholders get 0.6049 Kimco shares each

## Summary
- Each RPT common share exchanged for 0.6049 shares of Kimco common stock; preferred shares convert to new Kimco preferred series.
- Transaction unanimously approved by both boards; RPT board recommends shareholder vote in favor.
- Closing conditions include RPT shareholder approval, SEC Form S-4 effectiveness, NYSE listing, and no legal prohibitions.
- Termination fee of $33,642,370 payable by RPT under certain circumstances if deal does not close.
- RPT amended bylaws to designate Maryland circuit court as exclusive forum for state law claims.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-23-041388
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000842183
- company_name: RPT Realty
- filed_at: 2023-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842183/000114036123041388/0001140361-23-041388-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842183/000114036123041388/brhc20058068_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  RPT Realty: Adopted exclusive forum provisions for state and federal securities law claims in the bylaws (effective 2023-08-27).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2023-08-27
  source text: On August 27, 2023, RPT’s board of trustees approved an amendment (the “ Fourth Amendment ”) to RPT’s Amended and Restated Bylaws, as amended, to explicitly provide that the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland, or, if that Court does not have jurisdiction, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Northern Division, shall be the sole and exclusive forum for state law claims for (a) any Internal Corporate Claim
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842183/000114036123041388/0001140361-23-041388-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  RPT Realty entered into Agreement and Plan of Merger with Kimco Realty Corporation, Kimco Realty OP, LLC, Tarpon Acquisition Sub, LLC, Tarpon OP Acquisition Sub, LLC (effective 2023-08-28).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Kimco Realty Corporation, Kimco Realty OP, LLC, Tarpon Acquisition Sub, LLC, Tarpon OP Acquisition Sub, LLC
  - Effective: 2023-08-28
  source text: On August 28, 2023, RPT Realty, a Maryland real estate investment trust (“ RPT ” or the “ Company ”) and RPT Realty, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“ RPT OP ”, and together with RPT, the “ RPT Parties ”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Merger Agreement ”) with Kimco Realty Corporation, a Maryland corporation (“ Kimco ”), Kimco Realty OP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of Kimco (“ Kimco OP ”), Tarpon Acquisition Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct wholly owned subsidiary of Kimco (“ Merger Sub ”), Tarpon OP Acquisition Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and direct wholly owned subsidiary of Kimco OP (“ OP Merger Sub ” and, together with Kimco, Kimco OP and Merger Sub, the “ Kimco Parties ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/842183/000114036123041388/0001140361-23-041388-index.htm

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