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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-302886"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ATH-PA"
cik: "0001527469"
company_name: "Athene Holding Ltd."
filed_at: "2022-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T06:06:51.996146+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Athene Holding completes $500M preferred share offering at 7.750% fixed rate

## Summary
- Issued 20M depositary shares representing 7.750% Fixed-Rate Reset Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preference Shares, Series E.
- Liquidation preference of $25,000 per preference share ($25 per depositary share); dividends non-cumulative.
- Dividends at 7.750% annually until Dec 30, 2027, then reset to 5-Year U.S. Treasury Rate plus 3.962%.
- New Series E ranks senior to common shares and pari passu with existing Series A, B, C, and D preferred.
- Offering closed on Dec 12, 2022; underwriters included Wells Fargo, BofA, Morgan Stanley, and RBC.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-302886
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ATH-PA
- cik: 0001527469
- company_name: Athene Holding Ltd.
- filed_at: 2022-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527469/000119312522302886/0001193125-22-302886-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527469/000119312522302886/d477716d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Athene Holding Ltd.: Adopted Certificate of Designations for 7.750% Fixed-Rate Reset Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preference Shares, Series E (effective 2022-12-12).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2022-12-12
  source text: In connection with such transaction, the Company adopted a Certificate of Designations (the " Certificate of Designations ") with respect to the Preference Shares.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1527469/000119312522302886/0001193125-22-302886-index.htm

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