Aveanna holders complete 15M-share $11.75 offering
Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (AVAH) reports that certain existing stockholders completed a secondary public offering of its common stock.
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Aveanna Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (AVAH) reports that certain existing stockholders completed a secondary public offering of its common stock. On August 20, 2026, the company and the selling stockholders entered into an Underwriting Agreement with RBC Capital Markets, LLC for the sale by those stockholders of 15,000,000 shares of Aveanna common stock at a public offering price of $11.75 per share. The selling stockholders also granted the underwriter a 30‑day option to purchase up to an additional 2,250,000 shares. The secondary offering closed on August 24, 2026. Aveanna did not issue any new shares and did not receive any proceeds from this offering; all proceeds went to the selling stockholders.
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Item 8.01 Other Events.
On August 20, 2026, Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) by and among the Company, certain selling stockholders (the “Selling Stockholders”), including affiliates of J.H. Whitney Equity Partners VII, LLC and certain current and former directors and officers of the Company, and RBC Capital Markets, LLC (the “Underwriter”) with respect to the offer and sale by the Selling Stockholders (the “Secondary Offering”) of 15,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) at a public offering price of $11.75 per share. In addition, the Selling Stockholders granted the Underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,250,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock. The Secondary Offering closed on August 24, 2026. The Company did not issue or sell any Common Stock in the Secondary Offering and did not receive any proceeds from the Secondary Offering.
The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement is qualified in its entirety by the terms of such agreement, which is incorporated herein by reference and attached to this report as Exhibit 1.1.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
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| 1.1 | Underwriting Agreement, dated August 20, 2026, by and among Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc., the selling stockholders named therein, and RBC Capital Markets, LLC | |
| 5.1 | Opinion of King & Spalding LLP | |
| 23.1 | Consent of King & Spalding LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 above) | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| AVEANNA HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS INC. | ||||||
| Date: August 24, 2026 | By: | /s/ Matthew Buckhalter | ||||
| Matthew Buckhalter Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) | ||||||