---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001654954-24-000016"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "VIASP"
cik: "0001606268"
company_name: "Via Renewables, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-01-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-07T05:17:53.777543+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Via Renewables to be taken private at $11.00/shr by CEO Maxwell's entity Retailco

## Summary
- Retailco, owned by CEO/Chairman Maxwell, will acquire all VIA Class A common not held by Maxwell for $11.00 cash per share.
- Consideration represents a 17.0% premium to Dec 29, 2023 close, 19.7% premium to 30-day VWAP, 36.5% to 60-day VWAP.
- Maxwell currently owns ~65.7% of Via Renewables common stock; his shares will remain outstanding.
- Class B common and Series A preferred stock (VIASP) will remain outstanding and continue trading on Nasdaq.
- Special Committee of independent directors approved deal; stockholder vote required (majority of minority non-insider shares).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001654954-24-000016
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: VIASP
- cik: 0001606268
- company_name: Via Renewables, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-01-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606268/000165495424000016/0001654954-24-000016-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606268/000165495424000016/via_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001654954-24-000016.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Via Renewables, Inc. entered into Agreement and Plan of Merger with Retailco, LLC; NuRetailco LLC valued at $11.00 per share in cash (effective 2023-12-29).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Retailco, LLC; NuRetailco LLC
  - Value: $11.00 per share in cash
  - Effective: 2023-12-29
  source text: On December 29, 2023, Via Renewables, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), Retailco, LLC, a Texas limited liability company (“ Parent ”), and NuRetailco LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“ Merger Sub ”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Agreement ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1606268/000165495424000016/0001654954-24-000016-index.htm

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