---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-249021"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GTLS"
cik: "0000892553"
company_name: "CHART INDUSTRIES INC"
filed_at: "2023-10-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-10T06:42:58.257915+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Chart Industries reduces term loan interest margins by 50 bps in $1.78B refinancing

## Summary
- Amendment No. 5 cuts base rate margin to 2.25% and SOFR margin to 3.25%, each down 50 bps.
- New $1.781B Amendment No. 5 Term Loans refinance existing Amendment No. 3 and No. 4 term loans.
- JPMorgan Chase acted as lead arranger; amendment effective October 2, 2023.
- Refinancing achieved through a cashless roll for consenting lenders and new lenders for the balance.
- All other terms of the credit agreement remain unchanged.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-249021
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GTLS
- cik: 0000892553
- company_name: CHART INDUSTRIES INC
- filed_at: 2023-10-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312523249021/0001193125-23-249021-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312523249021/d533402d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  CHART INDUSTRIES INC amended credit facility with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent at reduces the interest rate margins applicable to the term loan facility by 50 bas.
  - Instrument: credit facility
  - Counterparty: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent
  - Rate: reduces the interest rate margins applicable to the term loan facility by 50 bas
  - Event: amendment
  source text: Amendment No. 5 reduces the interest rate margins applicable to the term loan facility by 50 basis points from 2.75% to 2.25%, in the case of base rate loans, and from 3.75% to 3.25%, in the case of Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) loans.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312523249021/0001193125-23-249021-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  CHART INDUSTRIES INC amended Amendment No. 5 with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the lenders party thereto (effective 2023-10-02).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: credit facility
  - Counterparty: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the lenders party thereto
  - Effective: 2023-10-02
  source text: On October 2, 2023, Chart Industries, Inc. (the “ Company ”) entered into an amendment (“ Amendment No. 5 ”), by and among the Company, the other loan parties party thereto, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and the lenders party thereto, which amends its fifth amended and restated credit agreement, dated as of October 18, 2021
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/892553/000119312523249021/0001193125-23-249021-index.htm

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