---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-165497"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000813828"
company_name: "Paramount Global"
filed_at: "2025-07-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T01:44:33.678379+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Paramount/Skydance merger set to close Aug 7; election deadlines & blackout announced

## Summary
- Transaction expected to close on Aug 7, 2025, subject to customary conditions.
- Stockholder election deadlines: record holders July 31; Morgan Stanley/401(k) July 28.
- Blackout period for directors/officers starts week of July 27 through week of Aug 10.
- Newco Class B common to trade as 'PSKY' on Nasdaq; PARA and PARAA delisted at close.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-165497
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000813828
- company_name: Paramount Global
- filed_at: 2025-07-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.04, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/813828/000119312525165497/0001193125-25-165497-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/813828/000119312525165497/d51931d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-165497.txt

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