8-K: Current report filing
Published on December 12, 2023
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| Item 2.03 | Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant. |
The information required by Item 2.03 contained in Item 8.01 below is incorporated by reference herein.
| Item 8.01 | Other Events. |
On December 7, 2023, Athene Holding Ltd. (the “Company”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement by and among the Company and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), relating to the issuance and sale by the Company of $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.875% Senior Notes due 2034 (the “Notes”). The Notes were issued on December 12, 2023 pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of January 12, 2018, by and between the Company and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 12, 2023, by and between the Company and the Trustee. The Notes have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-261531), previously filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Act.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits.
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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 thereunto duly authorized.
| ATHENE HOLDING LTD. | ||||||
| Date: December 12, 2023 | By: | /s/ Joseph B. Cohen |
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| Joseph B. Cohen | ||||||
| Executive Vice President and General Counsel | ||||||
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