---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001612630-25-000074"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "JYNT"
cik: "0001612630"
company_name: "JOINT Corp"
filed_at: "2025-12-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:30:24.003048+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Joint Corp signs $1.5M APA for 22 SE clinics, terminates $4.5M APA for 45 CA clinics

## Summary
- Sold 22 clinics in VA, NC, SC for aggregate purchase price of $1,482,800; buyers are existing franchisees/operators.
- Buyers will pay $100K down payment; remaining balance via promissory notes; lease assignments required for closing.
- Delivered termination notice on Dec 11 for prior APA to sell 45 Southern California clinics for $4.5M due to buyer's failure to meet conditions.
- No penalties for termination; company reiterates belief in franchise community expansion.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001612630-25-000074
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: JYNT
- cik: 0001612630
- company_name: JOINT Corp
- filed_at: 2025-12-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 1.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612630/000161263025000074/0001612630-25-000074-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612630/000161263025000074/jynt-20251205.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001612630-25-000074.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  JOINT Corp entered into Southeast Purchase Agreement with Addisco Value, LLC, Triangle Chiropractic Associates P.C., Bluffton TJ, LLC, Alex Klaus, Todd Wegerski, DC, Lisa Ezell, Andrew Michael Evec, Susan Ruth Train valued at $1,482,800 (effective 2025-12-05).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: asset purchase
  - Counterparty: Addisco Value, LLC, Triangle Chiropractic Associates P.C., Bluffton TJ, LLC, Alex Klaus, Todd Wegerski, DC, Lisa Ezell, Andrew Michael Evec, Susan Ruth Train
  - Value: $1,482,800
  - Effective: 2025-12-05
  source text: On December 5, 2025, we entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (as amended, the “Southeast Purchase Agreement”) with Addisco Value, LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company, Triangle Chiropractic Associates P.C., a North Carolina professional corporation, and Bluffton TJ, LLC, a South Carolina limited liability company (collectively, the “Buyers”), and Alex Klaus, an individual, Todd Wegerski, DC, an individual, Lisa Ezell, an individual, Andrew Michael Evec, an individual, and Susan Ruth Train, an individual (collectively, the “Guarantors”), pursuant to which we will sell to the Buyers the assets of, and grant franchise rights to, 22 company-owned or managed clinics located in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina (the “Southeast Transaction”) for an aggregate purchase price of $1,482,800, subject to certain adjustments (the “Purchase Price”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612630/000161263025000074/0001612630-25-000074-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  JOINT Corp terminated Elite Chiro Group Purchase Agreement with Elite Chiro Group, Gadi Emein valued at $4.5 million (effective 2025-12-11).
  - Action: termination
  - Agreement: asset purchase
  - Counterparty: Elite Chiro Group, Gadi Emein
  - Value: $4.5 million
  - Effective: 2025-12-11
  source text: On December 11, 2025, we delivered a notice of termination (the “Elite Chiro Group Termination Notice”) to terminate the Asset Purchase Agreement, dated November 2, 2025 (the “Elite Chiro Group Purchase Agreement”), between us, Elite Chiro Group, a California corporation (“Elite Chiro Group”), as buyer, and Gadi Emein, an individual, as guarantor, pursuant to which we would have sold to Elite Chiro Group the assets of, and granted franchise rights to, 45 company-owned or managed clinics located in Southern California for an aggregate purchase price of $4.5 million, subject to certain adjustments.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1612630/000161263025000074/0001612630-25-000074-index.htm

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