UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 16, 2018

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

17021 Aldine Westfield Road

Houston, Texas 77073

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (713) 439-8600

(former name or former address, if changed since last report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ¨

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On November 14, 2018, Baker Hughes, a GE company (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with General Electric Company (“GE” or the “Selling Stockholder”) and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters listed in Schedule II thereto (the “Underwriters”), relating to an underwritten secondary public offering of 92,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Class A common stock”), of the Company being sold by the Selling Stockholder (the “Offering”). The Offering closed on November 16, 2018. Under the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Underwriters have a 30-day option period to purchase up to 9,200,000 additional shares of Class A common stock from the Selling Stockholder.

The Underwriting Agreement contains customary representations, warranties, and covenants of the Company and the Selling Stockholder and also provides for customary indemnification by each of the Company, the Selling Stockholder and the Underwriters against certain liabilities.

The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Underwriting Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

Signature

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.