---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-167126"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GTLS"
cik: "0000892553"
company_name: "CHART INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T23:56:44.659477+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 1.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Baker Hughes to acquire Chart Industries for $210/share cash, $13.6B EV

## Summary
- All-cash deal: $210 per share; total enterprise value $13.6B; $4.2B revenue & $1.0B adj. EBITDA in 2024.
- Baker Hughes pays $258M of $266M Flowserve termination fee on Chart's behalf; Chart pays remaining $8M.
- Expected cost synergies: $325M annualized by end of third year; deal accretive to growth, margins, EPS, cash flow.
- Chart Board determined Baker Hughes proposal a 'Superior Proposal' under prior Flowserve merger agreement.
- Transaction subject to Chart stockholder approval, HSR and foreign regulatory clearances, and other customary conditions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-167126
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GTLS
- cik: 0000892553
- company_name: CHART INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 1.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 1.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312525167126/0001193125-25-167126-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312525167126/d89051d8k.htm

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