---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-131525"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001085869"
company_name: "PERFICIENT INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T21:41:00.529182+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.95
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Perficient to be acquired by EQT Asia affiliate for $76.00 per share in cash

## Summary
- All-cash consideration of $76.00 per share; premium to recent trading price.
- Equity commitments of ~$2.23B from EQT Asia/Wallbrook; debt financing of $935M term loan + $200M revolver.
- Unanimous board approval; requires stockholder vote, HSR and CFIUS clearances.
- Company termination fee ~$81.3M; parent termination fee ~$162.6M.
- Closing no earlier than July 5, 2024; drop-dead Feb 5, 2025 (extendable to May 5, 2025).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-131525
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001085869
- company_name: PERFICIENT INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.95
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085869/000119312524131525/0001193125-24-131525-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085869/000119312524131525/d801285d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  PERFICIENT INC entered into Agreement and Plan of Merger with Plano HoldCo, Inc. and Plano BidCo, Inc. valued at $76.00 (effective 2024-05-05).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Plano HoldCo, Inc. and Plano BidCo, Inc.
  - Value: $76.00
  - Effective: 2024-05-05
  source text: On May 5, 2024, Perficient, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ” or “ Perficient ”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Merger Agreement ”) with Plano HoldCo, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Parent ”), and Plano BidCo, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“ Merger Sub ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1085869/000119312524131525/0001193125-24-131525-index.htm

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