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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-185785"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000707388"
company_name: "STAR EQUITY HOLDINGS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-08-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T10:42:20.567607+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Star Equity Holdings completes merger with Hudson Global; stock delisted

## Summary
- Star stockholders received 0.23 HSON common shares per STRR share and 1 HSON Series A preferred per STRRP share.
- Combined company has pro-forma annualized revenues of ~$210M; Hudson carries $240M in federal NOLs.
- Star's common and preferred stock suspended from Nasdaq trading effective August 22, 2025.
- Hudson plans to rename to Star Equity Holdings and change tickers to STRR/STRRP in coming weeks.
- Star's directors and officers resigned at the effective time of the merger.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-185785
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000707388
- company_name: STAR EQUITY HOLDINGS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-08-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/707388/000119312525185785/0001193125-25-185785-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/707388/000119312525185785/d931826d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-185785.txt

## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  STAR EQUITY HOLDINGS, INC. underwent a change of control involving Hudson Global, Inc. (closed 2025-08-22).
  - Action: change of control
  - Counterparty: Hudson Global, Inc.
  - Closing: 2025-08-22
  source text: On August 22, 2025, Hudson Global, Inc. (“Hudson”), completed its previously announced acquisition of Star Equity Holdings, Inc. (“Star”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 21, 2025
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/707388/000119312525185785/0001193125-25-185785-index.htm

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