---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-092900"
form_type: "8-K12B"
ticker: "WELL"
cik: "0000766704"
company_name: "WELLTOWER INC."
filed_at: "2022-04-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T11:16:01.505902+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Welltower completes UPREIT reorganization, New Welltower becomes successor issuer

## Summary
- Merger effective April 1, 2022; Old Welltower becomes wholly owned subsidiary, renamed Welltower OP Inc.
- New Welltower common stock continues trading on NYSE under symbol 'WELL' with same CUSIP.
- Management and board remain identical; no change in leadership.
- New Welltower adopts 2022 LTIP (10M shares) and 2022 ESPP (873,567 shares).
- Supplemental indenture executed; New Welltower guarantees existing senior notes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-092900
- form_type: 8-K12B
- ticker: WELL
- cik: 0000766704
- company_name: WELLTOWER INC.
- filed_at: 2022-04-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766704/000119312522092900/0001193125-22-092900-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/766704/000119312522092900/d295886d8k12b.htm

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