---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-161621"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000917491"
company_name: "FARO TECHNOLOGIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T05:31:08.034243+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 1.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# AMETEK completes acquisition of FARO Technologies for $44.00/share in cash, ~$933M total equity value

## Summary
- Shareholders receive $44.00 per share cash; aggregate consideration approx $933M.
- Common stock delisted from Nasdaq; trading halted prior to closing.
- Board of directors replaced by AMETEK designees; executive officers remain.
- Convertible notes convert into cash based on merger consideration.
- FARO joins AMETEK's Ultra Precision Technologies Division; annual sales ~$340M.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-161621
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000917491
- company_name: FARO TECHNOLOGIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 1.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.03, 5.01, 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/917491/000119312525161621/0001193125-25-161621-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/917491/000119312525161621/d97014d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-161621.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  FARO TECHNOLOGIES INC: Amended and restated the Company's Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation in their entirety, effective at the Effective Time.
  - Change: charter amendment
  source text: the Company’s Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time were amended and restated in their entirety
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/917491/000119312525161621/0001193125-25-161621-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  FARO TECHNOLOGIES INC: Amended and restated the Company's Amended and Restated Bylaws in their entirety, effective at the Effective Time.
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  source text: the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws, as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Time, were amended and restated in their entirety
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/917491/000119312525161621/0001193125-25-161621-index.htm
- M&A Transactions
  FARO TECHNOLOGIES INC underwent a change of control involving AMETEK, Inc. for $933 million (closed 2025-07-21).
  - Action: change of control
  - Counterparty: AMETEK, Inc.
  - Consideration: $933 million
  - Closing: 2025-07-21
  source text: consideration paid by Parent to the Company’s equityholders (which does not include the payments to the holders of the Convertible Notes) in the Merger was approximately $933 million. The funds used by Parent to consummate the Merger came from cash on hand and borrowings under its already established credit facility.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/917491/000119312525161621/0001193125-25-161621-index.htm

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