---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001552781-26-000198"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SWKHL"
cik: "0001089907"
company_name: "SWK Holdings Corp"
filed_at: "2026-04-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T07:13:51.548917+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.9
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# SWK Holdings acquired by Runway Growth Finance; stockholders get 1.7264 RWAY shares or $20.59 cash per share

## Summary
- Merger completed April 6, 2026; each SWKH share converted into either 1.7264 RWAY shares or $20.59 cash plus $0.74 guaranteed cash payment.
- SWKH notified Nasdaq to suspend trading and delist its common stock; plans to file Form 15 to suspend SEC reporting.
- All pre-merger officers and directors of SWKH resigned; RWAY appointees now serve as directors and officers.
- SWKH's First Horizon Bank credit facility terminated and all outstanding obligations repaid in full.
- SWKH became a wholly-owned subsidiary of RWAY; certificate of incorporation and bylaws replaced with RWAY's.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001552781-26-000198
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SWKHL
- cik: 0001089907
- company_name: SWK Holdings Corp
- filed_at: 2026-04-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.9
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.9
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 1.02, 2.01, 3.01, 3.03, 5.03, 5.01, 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089907/000155278126000198/0001552781-26-000198-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089907/000155278126000198/e26171_swkh-8k.htm

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## Source-grounded claims
- claim_id: cecb795a68a8cdf4992d3e6d60bc17a90906e440
  claim: SWK Holdings Corp underwent a change of control involving Runway Growth Finance Corp. for either 1.7264 shares of RWAY Common Stock or $20.59 in cash, plus $0.74 in cash per share (closed 2026-04-06).
  evidence_excerpt: Time”), each outstanding share of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company (“Company Common Stock”) was converted into the right to receive (i) either (A) 1.7264 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of RWAY (“RWAY Common Stock” and such consideration, the “Per Share Stock Consideration”) or (B) $20.59 in cash (the “Per Share
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089907/000155278126000198/0001552781-26-000198-index.htm
- claim_id: 067c7b422ade41500859fb6b1a5bd67c636a40c5
  claim: SWK Holdings Corp terminated Credit Agreement with First Horizon Bank (effective 2026-04-06).
  evidence_excerpt: on April 6, 2026, the Company and its subsidiaries terminated all outstanding lender commitments, under that certain Credit Agreement, dated June 28, 2023, by and among the Company, SWK Funding LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and First Horizon Bank (as amended, modified or otherwise supplemented from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089907/000155278126000198/0001552781-26-000198-index.htm
- claim_id: 58f8360c3f76454b2895c7e341da4248a1380ede
  claim: SWK Holdings Corp amended Second Supplemental Indenture with Wilmington Trust, National Association valued at $30.0 million aggregate principal amount (effective 2026-04-06).
  evidence_excerpt: on April 6, 2026, the Company entered into the Second Supplemental Indenture (the “Second Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), to the Indenture, dated as of October 3, 2023, between the Company and the Trustee (as amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 3, 2023, the “Base Indenture”), under which the Company issued $30.0 million aggregate principal amount of its 9.00% Senior Notes due 2027 (the “2027 Notes”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1089907/000155278126000198/0001552781-26-000198-index.htm

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