Verisk shares fell more than 6.5% in premarket trading after a Delaware judge ruled Friday that the company must complete its $2.35 billion acquisition of AccuLynx.
The order reverses Verisk’s attempt to walk away from the deal after it terminated the merger in December, saying an FTC review had not been finished by the agreement’s termination date.
The ruling forces Verisk back into a transaction it had argued was no longer executable, turning a regulatory-delay dispute into an immediate financial overhang for the stock.