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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-319188"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001528129"
company_name: "Vital Energy, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-12-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:12:36.087593+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vital Energy completes merger with Crescent; shareholders receive 1.9062 Crescent shares per Vital share

## Summary
- Merger closed Dec 15, 2025; each Vital share converted into 1.9062 Crescent Class A common shares.
- Vital's credit agreement repaid in full, all commitments terminated; guarantees released.
- Vital common stock delisted from NYSE; Form 25 filed; deregistration planned.
- All Vital directors and named officers (CEO, CFO, GC, COO) resigned effective close.
- Vital's 7.75% 2029 and 9.75% 2030 notes amended via supplemental indentures eliminating covenants and change-of-control puts.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-319188
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001528129
- company_name: Vital Energy, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 1.02, 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528129/000119312525319188/0001193125-25-319188-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528129/000119312525319188/d64234d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-319188.txt

## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: 7200107a8c767810268bf267a335cd56051867bb
  claim: Vital Energy, Inc. underwent a change of control involving Crescent Energy Company (closed 2025-12-15).
  evidence_excerpt: On December 15, 2025 (the “Closing Date”), Vital Energy, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Vital”), completed its previously announced transaction with Crescent Energy Company, a Delaware corporation (“Crescent”), pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”)
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1528129/000119312525319188/0001193125-25-319188-index.htm

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