---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-045118"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NMRK"
cik: "0001690680"
company_name: "NEWMARK GROUP, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T01:49:44.047090+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Newmark repurchases ~11M shares from Howard Lutnick for $127M; control shifts to son Brandon Lutnick

## Summary
- Repurchased 10,969,523 shares at $11.58/share, aggregate $127M; remaining buyback capacity $244.9M.
- Howard Lutnick transfers CFGM voting control to trusts controlled by son Brandon Lutnick; CFGM controls ~58.5% voting power.
- Sale of 10,839,674 shares closes May 19; 129,849 retirement shares close after Cantor Fitzgerald transactions expected Q3 2025.
- Howard Lutnick divests all economic and voting interests in Newmark per U.S. government ethics agreement.
- Cantor Fitzgerald remains largest and controlling shareholder, now under Brandon Lutnick's control.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-045118
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NMRK
- cik: 0001690680
- company_name: NEWMARK GROUP, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1690680/000121390025045118/0001213900-25-045118-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1690680/000121390025045118/ea0242684-8k_newmark.htm

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