---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-092750"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "QURE"
cik: "0001590560"
company_name: "uniQure N.V."
filed_at: "2025-09-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:47:22.952010+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# uniQure secures $175M loan facility from Hercules Capital; draws $50M to refinance debt

## Summary
- $175M 2025 Term Loan from Hercules Capital; $50M drawn on Sept 22, 2025 to refinance existing $50M outstanding.
- Additional $100M available upon raising >$150M and BLA approval for AMT-130 by mid-2027; another $25M subject to Hercules committee approval.
- Interest rate at greater of 9.45% or prime+2.45%; maturity Oct 1, 2030; amortization starts Oct 2028 (or Oct 2029 if milestone met).
- Prepayment penalty 1.50% within first 30 months, 0.75% thereafter.
- No amortization if revenue targets for AMT-130 met before Dec 31, 2028.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-092750
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: QURE
- cik: 0001590560
- company_name: uniQure N.V.
- filed_at: 2025-09-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590560/000110465925092750/0001104659-25-092750-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590560/000110465925092750/tm2526684d1_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  uniQure N.V. incurred term loan of maximum aggregate amount of $175 million with Hercules Capital, Inc. at greater of (i) 9.45% and (ii) the sum of the prime rate and 2.45% maturing October 1, 2030.
  - Instrument: term loan
  - Principal: maximum aggregate amount of $175 million
  - Counterparty: Hercules Capital, Inc.
  - Rate: greater of (i) 9.45% and (ii) the sum of the prime rate and 2.45%
  - Maturity: October 1, 2030
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On September 22, 2025 (the “ Closing Date ”), uniQure N.V. (the “ Company ”) and certain of its affiliates entered into Amendment No. 3 to the Third Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement (the “ Amendment ”) with Hercules Capital, Inc. (“ Hercules ”), which amended certain terms of the Third Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement, dated December 15, 2021, by and among the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company, and Hercules, as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1 to Third Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of May 12, 2023 and Consent and Amendment No. 2 to Third Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of June 28, 2024 (the “ Existing Loan Agreement ,” and the Existing Loan Agreement as amended by the Amendment, the “ Loan Agreement ”). Pursuant to the Amendment, Hercules agreed to make additional term loans in the maximum aggregate amount of $175 million (the “ 2025 Term Loan ”) to refinance the existing term loan
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1590560/000110465925092750/0001104659-25-092750-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.