---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000931148-24-000127"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EAF"
cik: "0000931148"
company_name: "GRAFTECH INTERNATIONAL LTD"
filed_at: "2024-11-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T20:17:06.823253+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GrafTech launches exchange offers for $950M notes due 2028; seeks covenant removal

## Summary
- Exchange offers to swap $500M 4.625% notes and $450M 9.875% notes due 2028 for new second lien notes due 2029.
- Consent solicitations to eliminate substantially all restrictive covenants and release collateral; requires 50% and 66.7% thresholds.
- Supporting Noteholders holding ~89% of 4.625% notes and ~72% of 9.875% notes have agreed to tender and consent.
- Exchange offers expire Dec 20, 2024; acceptance conditioned on at least 80% aggregate tender of existing notes.
- New notes rank pari passu with senior debt and are secured by a second-priority lien on company assets.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000931148-24-000127
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EAF
- cik: 0000931148
- company_name: GRAFTECH INTERNATIONAL LTD
- filed_at: 2024-11-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/931148/000093114824000127/0000931148-24-000127-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/931148/000093114824000127/gti-20241121.htm

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