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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-019688"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHTR"
cik: "0001091667"
company_name: "CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, INC. /MO/"
filed_at: "2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T01:09:00.627132+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Charter to acquire Cox's fiber ($3.5B cash) and cable ops; issues $6B convertible pref; Cox gets 23% stake

## Summary
- Charter pays $3.5B cash for Cox's commercial fiber and managed IT/cloud businesses.
- For Cox's residential cable unit, Charter pays $500M cash + issues $6B 6.875% convertible preferred units + ~33.6M common units at $353.64.
- Cox Parent will own ~23% of combined company on as-exchanged basis; combined entity assumes ~$12B Cox debt.
- Cox Parent gets 3 board seats; Cox CEO Alexander Taylor to be Charter Chairman for 3 years; company to rename 'Cox Communications'.
- Closing requires stockholder and regulatory approvals; Liberty and A/N committed votes; deal must close by May 16, 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-019688
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHTR
- cik: 0001091667
- company_name: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS, INC. /MO/
- filed_at: 2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1091667/000114036125019688/0001140361-25-019688-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1091667/000114036125019688/ef20049261_8k.htm

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