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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001496963-24-000038"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001496963"
company_name: "Squarespace, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T02:12:55.526553+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Squarespace agrees to be acquired by Permira affiliates for $44.00 per share in cash

## Summary
- All-cash deal valued at $44.00 per share; expected to close by May 2025 subject to approvals.
- Major stockholders Casalena, General Atlantic, and Accel signed support agreements to vote in favor and roll over equity.
- Company board and special committee unanimously approved; no-shop clause with fiduciary out.
- Termination fee: $198.7M payable by Squarespace under certain conditions; $231.8M payable by buyer.
- Financing committed via equity and debt commitment letters from Permira and lenders.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001496963-24-000038
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001496963
- company_name: Squarespace, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1496963/000149696324000038/0001496963-24-000038-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1496963/000149696324000038/sqsp-20240513.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001496963-24-000038.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Squarespace, Inc. entered into Merger Agreement with Spaceship Purchaser, Inc. and Spaceship Group MergerCo, Inc. valued at $44.00 (effective 2024-05-13).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Spaceship Purchaser, Inc. and Spaceship Group MergerCo, Inc.
  - Value: $44.00
  - Effective: 2024-05-13
  source text: On May 13, 2024, Squarespace, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Merger Agreement ”) with Spaceship Purchaser, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Parent ”), and Spaceship Group MergerCo, Inc., a Delaware corporation and wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“ Merger Sub ”, and together with Parent, the “ Buyer Parties ”), providing for the merger of Merger Sub with and into the Company, with the Company continuing as the surviving corporation (the “ Merger ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1496963/000149696324000038/0001496963-24-000038-index.htm

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