---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000930413-22-001930"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GE"
cik: "0000040545"
company_name: "GENERAL ELECTRIC CO"
filed_at: "2022-11-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T04:41:38.125914+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.85
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GE launches up to $7B debt tender offer, signs separation agreement for GE HealthCare spin-off

## Summary
- GE announces tender offer to purchase up to $7B aggregate purchase price of 38 series of debt securities; early participation deadline Nov 22.
- GE HealthCare spin-off on track for first week of Jan 2023; separation and distribution agreement signed Nov 7.
- GEHC entered $5.5B in credit facilities: $2.5B 5-year revolver, $1B 364-day revolver, $2B 3-year term loan, effective Nov 4.
- Tender offer proceeds from GEHC debt issuance expected to reduce GE leverage; accepted securities retired and cancelled.
- GE has option to guarantee term loan until spin-off; credit facilities include customary covenants.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000930413-22-001930
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GE
- cik: 0000040545
- company_name: GENERAL ELECTRIC CO
- filed_at: 2022-11-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.85
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.85
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40545/000093041322001930/0000930413-22-001930-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40545/000093041322001930/c104817_8k-ixbrl.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  GENERAL ELECTRIC CO incurred term loan of $2.0 billion with Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent at an alternate base rate or an adjusted term SOFR rate for a one-, three- or six-m maturing three years after its Effective Date.
  - Instrument: term loan
  - Principal: $2.0 billion
  - Counterparty: Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent
  - Rate: an alternate base rate or an adjusted term SOFR rate for a one-, three- or six-m
  - Maturity: three years after its Effective Date
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: a three-year senior unsecured term loan credit facility (the “Term Loan Facility” and, together with the Revolving Credit Facilities, the “Credit Facilities”), in an aggregate principal amount of $2.0 billion
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40545/000093041322001930/0000930413-22-001930-index.htm
- Debt Financings
  GENERAL ELECTRIC CO incurred revolving credit of $1.0 billion with Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent at an alternate base rate or an adjusted term SOFR rate for a one-, three- or six-m maturing 364 days after its Effective Date.
  - Instrument: revolving credit
  - Principal: $1.0 billion
  - Counterparty: Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent
  - Rate: an alternate base rate or an adjusted term SOFR rate for a one-, three- or six-m
  - Maturity: 364 days after its Effective Date
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: a 364-day senior unsecured revolving facility (the “364-Day Revolving Credit Facility” and, together with the 5-Year Revolving Credit Facility, the “Revolving Credit Facilities”) in an aggregate committed amount of $1.0 billion
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40545/000093041322001930/0000930413-22-001930-index.htm
- Debt Financings
  GENERAL ELECTRIC CO incurred revolving credit of $2.5 billion with Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent at an alternate base rate or an adjusted term SOFR rate for a one-, three- or six-m maturing five years after its Effective Date.
  - Instrument: revolving credit
  - Principal: $2.5 billion
  - Counterparty: Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent
  - Rate: an alternate base rate or an adjusted term SOFR rate for a one-, three- or six-m
  - Maturity: five years after its Effective Date
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: a five-year senior unsecured revolving credit facility (the “5-Year Revolving Credit Facility”) in an aggregate committed amount of $2.5 billion
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40545/000093041322001930/0000930413-22-001930-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  GENERAL ELECTRIC CO entered into Separation and Distribution Agreement with GE Healthcare Holding LLC (effective 2022-11-07).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: supply
  - Counterparty: GE Healthcare Holding LLC
  - Effective: 2022-11-07
  source text: On November 7, 2022, General Electric Company (“GE”) and GE Healthcare Holding LLC (“GEHC”), a wholly owned subsidiary of GE, entered into a Separation and Distribution Agreement (the “Separation and Distribution Agreement”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/40545/000093041322001930/0000930413-22-001930-index.htm

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