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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-046217"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001162461"
company_name: "CUTERA INC"
filed_at: "2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T09:31:49.567514+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 1.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cutera files Chapter 11; plans to equitize $429M in senior notes, cancel equity

## Summary
- Filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions on March 5, 2025; existing common stock expected to be cancelled.
- Entered RSA with noteholders holding ~74% of $429.1M senior notes; plan equitizes that debt.
- $25M DIP facility ($15M initial + $10M delayed draw) backstopped by noteholders; also $30M equity rights offering.
- Plan milestones: confirmation by day 50, effective date by day 65; stock to be delisted from Nasdaq.
- Filing triggered acceleration of 2.25% notes due 2026/2028 and 4.00% notes due 2029; collection stayed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-046217
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001162461
- company_name: CUTERA INC
- filed_at: 2025-03-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 1.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 1.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 1.03, 2.03, 2.04, 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1162461/000119312525046217/0001193125-25-046217-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1162461/000119312525046217/d878024d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  CUTERA INC faced acceleration on senior notes with U.S. Bank National Association at 4.00% maturing due 2029.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank National Association
  - Rate: 4.00%
  - Maturity: due 2029
  - Event: acceleration
  source text: that certain Indenture, dated as of December 12, 2022, among Cutera as the issuer and Crystal as a guarantor and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the requirements thereof, governing Cutera's 4.00% Senior Notes due 2029
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1162461/000119312525046217/0001193125-25-046217-index.htm
- Debt Financings
  CUTERA INC faced acceleration on senior notes with U.S. Bank National Association at 2.25% maturing due 2028.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank National Association
  - Rate: 2.25%
  - Maturity: due 2028
  - Event: acceleration
  source text: that certain Indenture, dated as of May 27, 2022, among Cutera as the issuer and Crystal as a guarantor and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, as amended, restated, amended and restated supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the requirements thereof, governing Cutera's 2.25% Senior Notes due 2028
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1162461/000119312525046217/0001193125-25-046217-index.htm
- Debt Financings
  CUTERA INC faced acceleration on senior notes with U.S. Bank National Association at 2.25% maturing due 2026.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Counterparty: U.S. Bank National Association
  - Rate: 2.25%
  - Maturity: due 2026
  - Event: acceleration
  source text: that certain Indenture, dated as of March 9, 2021, among Cutera as the issuer and Crystal as a guarantor and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the requirements thereof, governing Cutera's 2.25% Senior Notes due 2026
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1162461/000119312525046217/0001193125-25-046217-index.htm
- Distress & Bankruptcy
  CUTERA INC entered chapter 11 in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (petition 2025-03-05).
  - Proceeding: chapter 11
  - Court: United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas
  - Petition: 2025-03-05
  source text: On March 5, 2025 (the “ Petition Date ”), Cutera, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ Cutera ”) and Crystal Sub, LLC, a Texas limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of Cutera (“ Crystal ” and together with Cutera, the “ Debtors ” and, the Debtors together with certain affiliates, the “ Company ”) filed voluntary petitions in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas (the “ Bankruptcy Court ”), commencing cases (collectively, the “ Chapter 11 Cases ”) under chapter 11 of title 11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 101–1532 (the “ Bankruptcy Code ”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1162461/000119312525046217/0001193125-25-046217-index.htm

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