---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-207549"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SHC"
cik: "0001822479"
company_name: "Sotera Health Co"
filed_at: "2025-09-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:16:56.139391+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sotera Health refinances $1.423B term loans, cuts interest margin by 0.50%

## Summary
- Amendment No. 6 reduces term loan interest spread by 0.50% to SOFR + 2.50% (0.00% floor).
- Applied $75M cash to repay existing borrowings; new term loan principal is $1,423,029,875.
- Repriced term loans amortize at 1.00% per annum and mature May 30, 2031.
- Soft call premium of 1.00% applies for certain repricing transactions within six months.
- Proceeds from new loans and cash on hand fully refinanced existing term loans.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-207549
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SHC
- cik: 0001822479
- company_name: Sotera Health Co
- filed_at: 2025-09-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822479/000119312525207549/0001193125-25-207549-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822479/000119312525207549/d45811d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Sotera Health Co amended term loan of $1,423,029,875 with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. at Adjusted Term SOFR plus 2.50% maturing May 30, 2031.
  - Instrument: term loan
  - Principal: $1,423,029,875
  - Counterparty: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
  - Rate: Adjusted Term SOFR plus 2.50%
  - Maturity: May 30, 2031
  - Event: amendment
  source text: the Amendment provides that the Refinancing Lenders will provide term loans (the “Repriced Term Loans”) to SHH in an aggregate principal amount of $1,423,029,875
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822479/000119312525207549/0001193125-25-207549-index.htm

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