---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-017743"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECVT"
cik: "0001708035"
company_name: "Ecovyst Inc."
filed_at: "2025-01-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T04:45:05.153891+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ecovyst amends credit agreement to reduce SOFR loan rate to SOFR+2.00%, base rate to ABR+1.00%

## Summary
- Interest rate on SOFR term loans reduced from max 2.25% to 2.00% per annum.
- Interest rate on base rate term loans reduced from max 1.25% to 1.00% per annum.
- Non-consenting lenders replaced by Citibank as replacement lender; Citibank to syndicate repriced loans.
- Amendment effective January 30, 2025; no material default and representations true.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-017743
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECVT
- cik: 0001708035
- company_name: Ecovyst Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-01-31T23:59:59+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/1708035/000119312525017743/0001193125-25-017743-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1708035/000119312525017743/d907398d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-25-017743.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Ecovyst Inc. amended term loan with UBS AG, Stamford Branch at term SOFR plus 2.00% per annum for SOFR loans; alternate base rate plus 1.00% pe.
  - Instrument: term loan
  - Counterparty: UBS AG, Stamford Branch
  - Rate: term SOFR plus 2.00% per annum for SOFR loans; alternate base rate plus 1.00% pe
  - Event: amendment
  source text: The Amendment amended the Existing Credit Agreement to, among other things, (a) reduce the interest rate applicable to all outstanding SOFR term loans to term SOFR plus 2.00% per annum from a maximum of adjusted term SOFR plus 2.25% per annum, and (b) reduce the interest rate applicable to all outstanding base rate term loans to the alternate base rate plus 1.00% per annum from a maximum of the alternate base rate plus 1.25% per annum.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1708035/000119312525017743/0001193125-25-017743-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.