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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-100912"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GETY"
cik: "0001898496"
company_name: "Getty Images Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-10-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:05:31.974592+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Getty Images exchanges $294.7M in notes and issues $628.4M senior secured notes for Shutterstock merger

## Summary
- Getty Images subsidiary exchanged $294,686,000 of 9.750% Senior Notes due 2027 for new 14.000% Senior Notes due 2028.
- Issued $628,400,000 of 10.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2030, with proceeds placed in escrow for the Shutterstock merger.
- Proceeds from secured notes will fund approximately $350M cash consideration to Shutterstock common stockholders and refinance Shutterstock debt.
- Shutterstock and its subsidiaries will guarantee the new senior notes and the senior secured notes within 20 business days after merger closing.
- The exchange offer received tenders for 98.23% of outstanding Old Notes, with $5,314,000 remaining outstanding.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-100912
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GETY
- cik: 0001898496
- company_name: Getty Images Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-10-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898496/000121390025100912/0001213900-25-100912-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898496/000121390025100912/ea0261900-8k_getty.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  Getty Images Holdings, Inc. incurred senior notes of $294,686,000 with Wilmington Trust, National Association at 14.000% per year maturing March 1, 2028.
  - Instrument: senior notes
  - Principal: $294,686,000
  - Counterparty: Wilmington Trust, National Association
  - Rate: 14.000% per year
  - Maturity: March 1, 2028
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: the Issuer (i) accepted for exchange $294,686,000 aggregate principal amount of Old Notes validly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) by the holders thereof and (ii) issued New Notes in an aggregate principal amount of $294,686,000 pursuant to an indenture (the "Base Indenture"), as supplemented by the first supplemental indenture thereto (the "First Supplemental Indenture, and together with the Base Indenture, the "New Notes Indenture"), each dated as of October 21, 2025, and each by and among the Issuer, the guarantors party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1898496/000121390025100912/0001213900-25-100912-index.htm

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