---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-110253"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEO"
cik: "0000923796"
company_name: "GEO GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2024-04-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T11:03:02.683359+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GEO closes $1.275B senior notes offering and new $760M credit facility

## Summary
- $650M of 8.625% senior secured notes due 2029; $625M of 10.25% unsecured notes due 2031.
- New $310M revolver (incl. $175M LC subfacility) and $450M term loan, both maturing April 2029.
- Proceeds to refinance ~$1.5B of existing debt, including prior term loans and second-lien notes.
- Plans to retire up to $177.1M of 6.50% exchangeable notes via stock and cash.
- Entered into a first-lien senior secured credit facility with $760M total commitments.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-110253
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEO
- cik: 0000923796
- company_name: GEO GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2024-04-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312524110253/0001193125-24-110253-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312524110253/d764760d8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-110253
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-24-110253.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  GEO GROUP INC incurred senior notes of $650.0 million with qualified institutional buyers and non-U.S. persons at 8.625% per year maturing April 15, 2029.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $650.0 million
  - Counterparty: qualified institutional buyers and non-U.S. persons
  - Rate: 8.625% per year
  - Maturity: April 15, 2029
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: $650.0 million aggregate principal amount of 8.625% senior secured notes due 2029
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312524110253/0001193125-24-110253-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  GEO GROUP INC entered into 2031 Indenture with Ankura Trust Company, LLC valued at $625.0 million aggregate principal amount of 10.25% senior notes due 2031 (effective 2024-04-18).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: Ankura Trust Company, LLC
  - Value: $625.0 million aggregate principal amount of 10.25% senior notes due 2031
  - Effective: 2024-04-18
  source text: $625.0 million aggregate principal amount of 10.25% senior notes due 2031 (the “Unsecured Notes” and, together with the Secured Notes, the “Notes”), issued under the Indenture, dated as of April 18, 2024 (the “2031 Indenture” and, together with the 2029 Indenture, the “Indentures”), among GEO, the Guarantors and Ankura Trust Company, LLC as Trustee
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312524110253/0001193125-24-110253-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  GEO GROUP INC entered into 2029 Indenture with Ankura Trust Company, LLC valued at $650.0 million aggregate principal amount of 8.625% senior secured notes due 2029 (effective 2024-04-18).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Counterparty: Ankura Trust Company, LLC
  - Value: $650.0 million aggregate principal amount of 8.625% senior secured notes due 2029
  - Effective: 2024-04-18
  source text: On April 18, 2024, The GEO Group, Inc. (“GEO” or the “Company”) announced the closing of its previously announced private offering of $1.275 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes (the “Senior Notes Offering”), comprised of $650.0 million aggregate principal amount of 8.625% senior secured notes due 2029 (the “Secured Notes”), issued under the Indenture, dated as of April 18, 2024 (the “2029 Indenture”), among GEO, the Guarantors (defined below) and Ankura Trust Company, LLC, as trustee and collateral agent
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312524110253/0001193125-24-110253-index.htm

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