Affiliated Managers Group Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
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| ITEM 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On December 11, 2025, Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (the “Company”) completed the issuance and sale of $425,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.500% Senior Notes due 2036 (the “Securities”).
The Securities were issued pursuant to a senior notes indenture, dated as of June 5, 2020 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the third supplemental indenture thereto, dated as of December 11, 2025 (the “Third Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, respectively, in each case as trustee. The Securities have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, by a shelf registration statement on Form S-3ASR (Registration No. 333-285434) which became effective February 28, 2025 (the “Registration Statement”).
On December 8, 2025, the Company also entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the underwriters named therein.
The terms of the Securities are described in the Company’s prospectus dated February 28, 2025, as supplemented by the final prospectus supplement dated December 8, 2025, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 10, 2025 (the “Prospectus Supplement”); the prospectus as so supplemented forms part of the Registration Statement.
The Securities, which are unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Company, will mature on February 15, 2036, and will bear interest at a rate of 5.500% per year, with interest payable on February 15 and August 15 of each year, beginning on August 15, 2026. The Company may redeem the Securities at any time, in whole or in part, at a make-whole redemption price plus accrued and unpaid interest. In addition to customary event of default provisions, the Indenture limits the Company’s ability to consolidate, merge or sell all or substantially all of its assets and requires the Company to make an offer to repurchase the Securities upon certain change of control triggering events.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the issuance and sale of the Securities to redeem in full and otherwise settle its obligations with respect to the 5.15% Convertible Trust Preferred Securities due 2037 of AMG Capital Trust II in cash, with any remaining net proceeds expected to be used for general corporate purposes. See “Use of Proceeds” in the Prospectus Supplement.
A copy of the Base Indenture is incorporated by reference as Exhibit 4.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and copies of the Underwriting Agreement, the Third Supplemental Indenture, the form of 5.500% Senior Note due 2036, and the opinion of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP are attached hereto as Exhibits 1.1, 4.2, 4.3, and 5.1, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing descriptions of the Underwriting Agreement, the Indenture, and the Securities are summaries only and are qualified in their entirety by the complete text of such documents attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K.
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The information contained in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP, INC. | ||||||
| Date: December 11, 2025 | By: | /s/ Kavita Padiyar | ||||
| Name: | Kavita Padiyar | |||||
| Title: | General Counsel and Corporate Secretary | |||||