---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-008685"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BHB"
cik: "0000743367"
company_name: "BAR HARBOR BANKSHARES"
filed_at: "2025-06-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T05:34:54.150746+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Bar Harbor Bankshares gets Guaranty shareholder approval; merger on track for summer 2025

## Summary
- Guaranty shareholders voted to approve merger with Bar Harbor Bankshares on June 12, 2025.
- Transaction expected to close in summer 2025, pending regulatory approvals and conditions.
- Combined bank will strengthen Bar Harbor's presence in New Hampshire with over 50 locations.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-008685
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BHB
- cik: 0000743367
- company_name: BAR HARBOR BANKSHARES
- filed_at: 2025-06-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/743367/000155837025008685/0001558370-25-008685-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/743367/000155837025008685/bhb-20250617x8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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