---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-062099"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WAT"
cik: "0001000697"
company_name: "WATERS CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2023-03-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T09:12:48.508885+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.45
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Waters Corp increases revolving credit facility by $200M to $2.0B, transitions to Term SOFR

## Summary
- Revolving facility increased by $200 million to aggregate $2.0 billion.
- LIBOR replaced with Term SOFR as benchmark rate under the amended credit agreement.
- Amendment effective March 3, 2023; 14 lenders provided incremental commitments.
- Existing credit agreement terms otherwise unchanged; subsidiary guarantees reaffirmed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-062099
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WAT
- cik: 0001000697
- company_name: WATERS CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2023-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.45
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.45
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000697/000119312523062099/0001193125-23-062099-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000697/000119312523062099/d640177d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  WATERS CORP /DE/ amended credit facility of $200.0 million increase to the existing revolving facility for an aggregate principal amount of $2.0 billion with lenders and issuing banks party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent at replaces LIBOR with Term SOFR.
  - Instrument: credit facility
  - Principal: $200.0 million increase to the existing revolving facility for an aggregate principal amount of $2.0 billion
  - Counterparty: lenders and issuing banks party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent
  - Rate: replaces LIBOR with Term SOFR
  - Event: amendment
  source text: agent. The Amendment amends the Existing Credit Agreement (as so amended by the Amendment, the “Amended Credit Agreement”), and, among other things, provides for a $200.0 million increase to the existing revolving facility for an aggregate principal amount of $2.0 billion. Additionally, the Amendment replaces LIBOR with Term SOFR as the benchmark rate for
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000697/000119312523062099/0001193125-23-062099-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  WATERS CORP /DE/ amended Amendment and Incremental Commitment Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent valued at $200.0 million (effective 2023-03-03).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: credit facility
  - Counterparty: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent
  - Value: $200.0 million
  - Effective: 2023-03-03
  source text: On March 3, 2023, Waters Corporation (the “Company”) and certain of its subsidiaries, as guarantors, entered into an Amendment and Incremental Commitment Agreement (the “Amendment”) in respect of that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 17, 2021 (the “Existing Credit Agreement”), with the lenders and issuing banks party thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1000697/000119312523062099/0001193125-23-062099-index.htm

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