---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-155860"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AVO"
cik: "0001802974"
company_name: "Mission Produce, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-04-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T06:08:54.061487+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Mission Produce caps potential Mexican transfer tax from Calavo merger at $5M

## Summary
- Previously uncertain Mexican tax liability from pending Calavo merger now estimated not to exceed $5M.
- Tax is a one-time post-closing transfer tax payable by Mission Produce, based on analysis to date.
- Supplemental disclosure updates risk factor that warned taxes could be "significant" if unmitigated.
- Merger remains subject to stockholder and regulatory approvals.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-155860
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AVO
- cik: 0001802974
- company_name: Mission Produce, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-04-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802974/000119312526155860/0001193125-26-155860-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1802974/000119312526155860/d110139d8k.htm

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