---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-134449"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FLS"
cik: "0000030625"
company_name: "FLOWSERVE CORP"
filed_at: "2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T00:28:23.854513+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Flowserve and Chart Industries sign merger of equals; exchange ratio 3.165 FLS shares per GTLS share

## Summary
- Each Chart common share converts into 3.165 Flowserve shares; Chart preferred converts to equivalent Flowserve preferred.
- Combined company HQ in Dallas; CEO Scott Rowe (Flowserve), non-executive chair Jillian Evanko (Chart), lead independent director John Garrison.
- Termination fees: Chart pays $250M, Flowserve pays $215M if deal fails under certain conditions.
- Approvals needed: Chart and Flowserve shareholders, HSR/foreign antitrust, SEC Form S-4 effectiveness, NYSE listing.
- Boards of both companies unanimously approved; transaction expected to close within one year of June 3, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-134449
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FLS
- cik: 0000030625
- company_name: FLOWSERVE CORP
- filed_at: 2025-06-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/30625/000119312525134449/0001193125-25-134449-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/30625/000119312525134449/d935765d8k.htm

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