---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-043541"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DEC"
cik: "0001922446"
company_name: "Diversified Energy Co"
filed_at: "2025-11-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T16:38:09.243573+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Diversified Energy closes $495M cash-plus-stock acquisition of Canvas Energy

## Summary
- Acquisition completed November 24, 2025; total cash consideration ~$495M.
- Issued 3,720,125 shares of DEC common stock to Canvas former owners.
- Diversified became ultimate parent of DEC PLC on November 21, 2025.
- Consideration shares issued under Section 4(a)(2) exemption from registration.
- Financial statements and pro forma info to be filed within 71 days.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-043541
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DEC
- cik: 0001922446
- company_name: Diversified Energy Co
- filed_at: 2025-11-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 3.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1922446/000114036125043541/0001140361-25-043541-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1922446/000114036125043541/ef20060110_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-25-043541.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: b9836bec08db1aff911f05612e86e5675864c989
  claim: Diversified Energy Co completed an acquisition involving Canvas Energy Inc. for approximately $495,000,000 and 3,720,125 shares of the Company’s common stock (closed 2025-11-24).
  evidence_excerpt: acquired all of the issued and outstanding common stock of Canvas from the former owners of Canvas in exchange for, in the aggregate, (i) cash consideration of approximately $495,000,000 and (ii) 3,720,125 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Consideration Shares”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1922446/000114036125043541/0001140361-25-043541-index.htm

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