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accession: "0001628280-25-001918"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001750153"
company_name: "Canoo Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T22:16:43.556335+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 1.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Canoo files Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation; board and management authority terminated

## Summary
- Filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in Delaware Bankruptcy Court on January 17, 2025.
- A Chapter 7 trustee will take control of assets; board and executive officer authority eliminated.
- Certain subsidiaries including Canoo Technologies, EV US Holdco, and Canoo Manufacturing also filed.
- Company assets will be liquidated and claims paid in accordance with the Bankruptcy Code.
- This effectively removes the Board of Directors and executive officers from management of the company.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-001918
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001750153
- company_name: Canoo Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 1.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.03, 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1750153/000162828025001918/0001628280-25-001918-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1750153/000162828025001918/goev-20250117.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-001918.txt

## Key facts
- Distress & Bankruptcy
  Canoo Inc. entered chapter 7 in United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (petition 2025-01-17).
  - Proceeding: chapter 7
  - Court: United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware
  - Petition: 2025-01-17
  source text: On January 17, 2025, Canoo, Inc. (the “Company”) and certain of its subsidiaries, including Canoo Technologies Inc., EV US Holdco Inc., EV Global Holdco LLC, Canoo Sales, LLC and Canoo Manufacturing, LLC (collectively, the “Filing Subsidiaries” and, together with the Company, the “Debtors”), filed for liquidation under Chapter 7 of Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy Code”) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Bankruptcy Court”), located in Wilmington, Delaware.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1750153/000162828025001918/0001628280-25-001918-index.htm

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