---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-008936"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HNVR"
cik: "0001828588"
company_name: "Hanover Bancorp, Inc. /MD"
filed_at: "2025-06-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T16:27:04.365084+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Hanover Bancorp completes reincorporation from New York to Maryland effective June 25, 2025

## Summary
- Merger of NY corp into wholly owned MD subsidiary completed June 25; shares convert 1-for-1.
- Directors, officers unchanged; stock continues trading on Nasdaq under HNVR.
- Authorized capital remains 17M common + 15M preferred; 7.23M common shares outstanding.
- Reincorporation aims to reduce compliance costs and provide governance flexibility under Maryland law.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-008936
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HNVR
- cik: 0001828588
- company_name: Hanover Bancorp, Inc. /MD
- filed_at: 2025-06-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.01, 3.03, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828588/000155837025008936/0001558370-25-008936-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828588/000155837025008936/hnvr-20250625x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-008936.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Hanover Bancorp, Inc. /MD: Adoption of Maryland Bylaws governing surviving corporation on effective date (effective 2025-06-25).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-25
  source text: the rights of the registrant’s stockholders began to be governed by statutory corporate laws of Maryland, governed by the MGCL, the Articles of Incorporation and the Maryland Bylaws, adopted pursuant to the Merger Agreement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828588/000155837025008936/0001558370-25-008936-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  Hanover Bancorp, Inc. /MD: Reincorporation merger from New York to Maryland, adopting new Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws under MGCL as of the effective date (effective 2025-06-25).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-25
  source text: Effective as of June 25, 2025 (the “Effective Day”), Parent merged with and into the Company, with the Company being the surviving corporation and successor in interest to Parent.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828588/000155837025008936/0001558370-25-008936-index.htm
- M&A Transactions
  Hanover Bancorp, Inc. /MD underwent a change of control (closed 2025-06-25).
  - Action: change of control
  - Closing: 2025-06-25
  source text: On June 25, 2025, Hanover Bancorp, Inc., a New York corporation (“Parent”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) with Hanover Bancorp, Inc., a Maryland corporation and Parent’s wholly owned subsidiary (the “Surviving Corporation” or the “Company”), pursuant to which, on the same date, Parent merged with and into the Surviving Corporation (the “Reincorporation Merger”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1828588/000155837025008936/0001558370-25-008936-index.htm

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