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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001065696-23-000050"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LKQ"
cik: "0001065696"
company_name: "LKQ CORP"
filed_at: "2023-05-16T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T23:09:18.573606+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# LKQ prices $1.4B senior unsecured notes to fund Uni-Select acquisition

## Summary
- Offering: $800M of 5.75% senior notes due 2028 and $600M of 6.25% senior notes due 2033.
- Expected close on or about May 24, 2023, subject to customary conditions.
- Net proceeds, plus a CAD 700M term loan, will finance the previously announced acquisition of Uni-Select Inc.
- If the acquisition is not consummated by November 27, 2023, the 2033 notes must be redeemed at 101% plus accrued interest.
- The offering is not contingent on closing the acquisition; notes will be offered under Rule 144A and Regulation S.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001065696-23-000050
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LKQ
- cik: 0001065696
- company_name: LKQ CORP
- filed_at: 2023-05-16T23:59:59+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/1065696/000106569623000050/0001065696-23-000050-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065696/000106569623000050/lkq-20230515.htm

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