---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-270813"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BKR"
cik: "0001701605"
company_name: "Baker Hughes Co"
filed_at: "2025-11-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T23:05:47.339850+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HSR waiting period expires for Baker Hughes' acquisition of Chart Industries; closing expected mid-2026

## Summary
- Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period expired at 11:59 p.m. ET on November 6, 2025.
- Parties expect merger to close in mid-2026, subject to other regulatory approvals and customary conditions.
- Merger announced July 28, 2025; Chart will survive as indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Baker Hughes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-270813
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BKR
- cik: 0001701605
- company_name: Baker Hughes Co
- filed_at: 2025-11-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701605/000119312525270813/0001193125-25-270813-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701605/000119312525270813/d928145d8k.htm

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