---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-156187"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BNED"
cik: "0001634117"
company_name: "Barnes & Noble Education, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-06-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-01T05:55:05.412847+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.95
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# BNED shareholders approve $95M equity recapitalization; rights offering 71% subscribed

## Summary
- Shareholders approved all proposals: share issuance, authorized increase to 10B shares, 1-for-100 reverse split, and new directors.
- BNED to receive $95M new equity: $50M private investment from Immersion plus $45M fully backstopped rights offering.
- Rights offering: 71% of 900M shares subscribed at $0.05; standby purchasers to buy remaining 258M shares for ~$12.9M.
- Second lien lenders converting ~$34M debt to equity; ABL facility refinanced to $325M maturing in 2028.
- Board overhaul: 5 new directors (including Immersion CEO Eric Singer) appointed; 7 incumbents stepping down at closing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-156187
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BNED
- cik: 0001634117
- company_name: Barnes & Noble Education, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-06-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.95
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.95
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1634117/000119312524156187/0001193125-24-156187-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1634117/000119312524156187/d768790d8k.htm

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