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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-23-000500"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "ACCS"
cik: "0000843006"
company_name: "ACCESS Newswire Inc."
filed_at: "2023-01-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T15:04:29.098121+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Issuer Direct completes acquisition of iNewsWire.com; reports revenue $10.0M (2021), $7.1M (2020)

## Summary
- Acquired iNewsWire.com LLC for undisclosed cash consideration; deal closed Nov 1, 2022.
- iNewsWire revenue: $10.03M in FY2021, $7.13M in FY2020; net income $1.17M and $1.13M respectively.
- As of Dec 31, 2021, iNewsWire had cash $56k, total assets $892k, and a members' deficit of $2.23M.
- Pro forma financials for Issuer Direct for nine months ended Sep 30, 2022 and year ended Dec 31, 2021 filed as Exhibit 99.3.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-23-000500
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: ACCS
- cik: 0000843006
- company_name: ACCESS Newswire Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-01-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495423000500/0001654954-23-000500-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495423000500/isdr_8ka.htm

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## Key facts
- M&A Transactions
  ACCESS Newswire Inc. completed an acquisition involving Lead Capital, LLC (closed 2022-11-01).
  - Action: acquisition
  - Counterparty: Lead Capital, LLC
  - Closing: 2022-11-01
  source text: On November 1, 2022, Issuer Direct Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement with Lead Capital, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, whereby the Company purchased all the issued and outstanding membership interests of iNewsWire.com LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Newswire”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/843006/000165495423000500/0001654954-23-000500-index.htm

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