Company: QXO-PB
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001140361-25-014209
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Company: QXO, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-16
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 8.01
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 as of December 31, 2024, giving effect
to the Acquisition as if it had occurred on December 31, 2024, together with the notes thereto, are filed as Exhibit 99.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

The consent of Ernst & Young LLP is filed as Exhibit 23.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.

Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements. Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about
beliefs, expectations, targets or goals, the expected timing of the closing of the proposed Acquisition, the anticipated benefits of the proposed Acquisition and expected future financial position and results of operations, are forward-looking
statements. These statements are based on plans, estimates, expectations and/or goals at the time the statements are made, and readers should not place undue reliance on them. In some cases, readers can identify forward-looking statements by the use
of forward-looking terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “opportunity,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “target,” “goal,” or “continue,” or the negative of these terms or other comparable
terms. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties and readers are cautioned that a number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any such forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described herein include, among others: (i) the risk that QXO’s proposed Acquisition may not be completed on the anticipated terms in a timely manner or at all; (ii) the failure
to satisfy any of the conditions to the consummation of the proposed Acquisition, including uncertainties as to how many of Beacon’s stockholders will tender their shares in the outstanding tender offer by QXO and Queen MergerCo, Inc. to acquire the
outstanding shares of Beacon’s common stock; (iii) the effect of the pendency of the proposed Acquisition on each of QXO’s and Beacon’s business relationships with employees, customers or suppliers, operating results and business generally; (iv) the
occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance or condition that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement, including circumstances that require Beacon to pay a termination fee; (v) the possibility that the proposed