---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-387972"
form_type: "8-K12B"
ticker: "OKE"
cik: "0001039684"
company_name: "ONEOK INC /NEW/"
filed_at: "2026-09-10T20:47:16+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-09-10T20:48:18.818787+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# ONEOK closes $9B Apollo minority equity investment; completes holding company reorganization

## Summary
- Apollo invested $9B for nonvoting Class B interest in ONEOK Holdings, structurally subordinate to debt.
- Proceeds to fund Brazos Midland acquisition and extinguish $5B of outstanding indebtedness.
- ONEOK reorganized into holding company structure; shares continue on NYSE as OKE with new CUSIP 30609A 109.
- Credit rating agencies view transaction as credit-enhancing; ONEOK contributed OpCo equity for 6.02B Class A units.
- Directors and officers unchanged; Pierce Norton remains CEO, Walter Hulse CFO.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-387972
- form_type: 8-K12B
- ticker: OKE
- cik: 0001039684
- company_name: ONEOK INC /NEW/
- filed_at: 2026-09-10T20:47:16+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 3.01, 3.03, 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1039684/000119312526387972/0001193125-26-387972-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1039684/000119312526387972/d81803d8k12b.htm

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