---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-237626"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "COTY"
cik: "0001024305"
company_name: "COTY INC."
filed_at: "2023-09-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T12:57:56.165817+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Coty issues €500M 5.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2028

## Summary
- Aggregate principal €500M, interest 5.75% per annum, maturity September 15, 2028.
- Notes are senior secured, pari passu with existing senior secured debt; secured by first priority liens on collateral.
- Issuers can redeem on or after September 15, 2025 at specified prices; change of control offer at 101%.
- Indenture includes customary covenants that will be suspended upon investment grade ratings from two of three agencies.
- Guarantees from subsidiaries that also guarantee existing senior secured credit facilities and notes.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-237626
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: COTY
- cik: 0001024305
- company_name: COTY INC.
- filed_at: 2023-09-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024305/000119312523237626/0001193125-23-237626-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024305/000119312523237626/d546694d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  COTY INC. incurred senior notes of €500 million with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas at 5.750% maturing September 15, 2028.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: €500 million
  - Counterparty: Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas
  - Rate: 5.750%
  - Maturity: September 15, 2028
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: completed its previously announced offering of 5.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2028 in an aggregate principal amount of €500 million
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024305/000119312523237626/0001193125-23-237626-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  COTY INC. entered into Indenture with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee, registrar and collateral agent and Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, as paying agent valued at aggregate principal amount of €500 million (effective 2023-09-19).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee, registrar and collateral agent and Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, as paying agent
  - Value: aggregate principal amount of €500 million
  - Effective: 2023-09-19
  source text: The Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of September 19, 2023 (the “Indenture”), among the Issuers, the Guarantors, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Trustee”), registrar and collateral agent and Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, as paying agent.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1024305/000119312523237626/0001193125-23-237626-index.htm

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