SMITH & NEPHEW PLC 6-K filed 2026-09-10

Smith & Nephew PLC furnished a Form 6-K to the SEC on 2026-09-10 under accession number 0000950103-26-013772. The company is registered under CIK 845982, is classified as a Large accelerated filer, and carries SIC code 3842, described as Orthopedic, Prosthetic & Surgical Appliances & Supplies. Its shares trade under the tickers SNN and SNNUF on the NYSE and OTC, and its business address is Building 5, Croxley Park, Hatters Lane, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD18 8YE. The excerpt from the filing is contract language from a securities underwriting arrangement rather than an earnings or operational update. It refers to Item 6 of Form F-3, to a Basic Prospectus, Preliminary Prospectus and Prospectus filed under Rule 424(b), to a Registration Statement and its Effective Date, to a Pricing Agreement with Schedules III and IV, to Designated Securities, to Underwriters acting through Representatives, and to a Statement of Eligibility and Qualification on Form T-1 under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. The reference to a Form T-1 and the Trust Indenture Act points to a debt instrument rather than an equity sale. The substance of the excerpt is a set of representations and warranties by the company. It states that no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and that no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or threatened by the Commission, and that no order preventing or suspending use of the prospectuses or the Pricing Disclosure Package has been issued. It also states that documents incorporated by reference conformed in all material respects to the Securities Act and Exchange Act requirements and contained no untrue statement of a material fact or omission of a material fact necessary to make the statements not misleading, with a carve-out for information furnished in writing by an Underwriter through the Representatives for use in the disclosure documents. For an analyst or journalist, the reason to open the source document is that the excerpt establishes the existence of a takedown off a shelf registration but not its terms. The size of the offering, the coupon, the maturity, the currency, the names of the underwriters, the pricing date and the use of proceeds are not in the filing as provided here, and neither is any financial statement or table. The full index and text are available at the SEC Archives links in the record.