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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-232544"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DNOW"
cik: "0001599617"
company_name: "DNOW Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T04:26:22.346403+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# DNOW clears HSR waiting period for MRC Global acquisition

## Summary
- Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period expired October 6, 2025.
- Merger agreement with MRC Global was entered June 26, 2025.
- Transaction still subject to other customary closing conditions and approvals.
- Merger involves two-step process: MRC Global first merges into a sub, then into LLC Sub.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-232544
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DNOW
- cik: 0001599617
- company_name: DNOW Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1599617/000119312525232544/0001193125-25-232544-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1599617/000119312525232544/d847603d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-232544.txt

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