---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-039178"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001834494"
company_name: "MeridianLink, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:21:49.901913+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Centerbridge completes $1.6B acquisition of MeridianLink; stockholders get $20/share cash

## Summary
- Merger closed Oct 24, 2025; total purchase price approx $1.6B funded by Centerbridge equity and third-party debt.
- Stockholders receive $20 cash per share of common stock; trading halted and shares to be delisted from NYSE.
- All pre-merger directors resigned; Benjamin Jaffe and Jared Hendricks appointed as directors of surviving corporation.
- CFO Elias Olmeta received $750,000 transaction bonus contingent on closing and continued employment.
- Silversmith Capital Partners makes minority investment to support growth alongside Centerbridge.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-039178
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001834494
- company_name: MeridianLink, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.02, 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834494/000114036125039178/0001140361-25-039178-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834494/000114036125039178/ef20057538_8k.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 18783b0d2aa3b805a15e3de0ab857efd88dad4f8
  claim: MeridianLink, Inc.: Amended and restated by-laws in connection with merger.
  evidence_excerpt: Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, at the Effective Time, the Company’s certificate of incorporation and by-laws were amended and restated in their entirety.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834494/000114036125039178/0001140361-25-039178-index.htm
- claim_id: ed8166fd1d3d3fbf5bfa0cdb78c4c8cf7ce9ce66
  claim: MeridianLink, Inc.: Amended and restated certificate of incorporation in connection with merger.
  evidence_excerpt: Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, at the Effective Time, the Company’s certificate of incorporation and by-laws were amended and restated in their entirety.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834494/000114036125039178/0001140361-25-039178-index.htm
- claim_id: 7c7bf969dba7a62768c4d321f0ec09c3d25c8e77
  claim: MeridianLink, Inc. underwent a change of control involving ML Holdco, Inc. (as successor to ML Holdco, LLC) for $20.00 (closed 2025-10-24).
  evidence_excerpt: pursuant to, and who complies in all respects with, Section 262 of the DGCL) was automatically cancelled and converted into the right to receive an amount in cash equal to $20.00 (the “Merger Consideration”), without interest, (b) each Excluded Share was cancelled without payment of any consideration therefor and ceased to exist and (c) each share of
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1834494/000114036125039178/0001140361-25-039178-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.