---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-153550"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001318568"
company_name: "Everi Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T09:54:47.456867+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 1.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Apollo Funds complete $6.3B acquisition of Everi and IGT Gaming & Digital; shareholders get $14.25

## Summary
- All-cash transaction valued at approx $6.3B; Everi shareholders receive $14.25 per share in cash.
- IGT receives $4.05B gross cash proceeds; combined enterprise to operate under IGT name with three business units.
- Everi common stock delisted from NYSE effective July 1, 2025; company becomes wholly owned by Apollo Funds.
- Nick Khin appointed Interim CEO of combined IGT; Hector Fernandez expected to become CEO in Q4 2025.
- Existing Everi credit agreement and 2029 notes redeemed; all obligations discharged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-153550
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001318568
- company_name: Everi Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 1.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.02, 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318568/000119312525153550/0001193125-25-153550-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318568/000119312525153550/d159300d8k.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 3b71ff9eba35fb63d1656662b0e65fb885416372
  claim: Everi Holdings Inc.: Bylaws amended and restated in their entirety at Merger Effective Time.
  evidence_excerpt: at the Merger Effective Time, the bylaws of the Company were amended and restated in their entirety.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318568/000119312525153550/0001193125-25-153550-index.htm
- claim_id: 7a40e9c06e587f18a8a18b4fd9dfdbc54e1667f6
  claim: Everi Holdings Inc.: Certificate of incorporation amended and restated in its entirety at Merger Effective Time.
  evidence_excerpt: at the Merger Effective Time, the certificate of incorporation of the Company was amended and restated in its entirety.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318568/000119312525153550/0001193125-25-153550-index.htm
- claim_id: dec8c5bd3e262210c02280a335845ed80b33326f
  claim: Everi Holdings Inc. completed an acquisition involving Everi Holdings Inc. (closed 2025-07-01).
  evidence_excerpt: On July 1, 2025, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the previously disclosed definitive agreements
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318568/000119312525153550/0001193125-25-153550-index.htm
- claim_id: e10f0026b4a0cc907e781fe25c0cf2a65d4185f1
  claim: Everi Holdings Inc. underwent a change of control involving Voyager Parent, LLC (an entity owned by funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc.) for $14.25 in cash per share of Company common stock (closed 2025-07-01).
  evidence_excerpt: Buyer (the “Merger”); • All outstanding shares of the common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company (“Company common stock”) were converted into the right to receive $14.25 in cash per share of Company common stock, without interest (the “Per Share Price”), subject to adjustment in accordance with the Delaware General Corporation Law, and • All
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318568/000119312525153550/0001193125-25-153550-index.htm

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