CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORPORATION (NYSE:CHK) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORPORATION (NYSE:CHK) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

As previously announced, on March 5, 2019, Chesapeake Energy Corporation (the “Company”) commenced private offers to eligible holders to exchange (the “Exchange Offers”) its newly issued 8.00% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “New Notes”) for its outstanding (i) 6.625% senior notes due 2020, (ii) 6.875% senior notes due 2020, (iii) 6.125% senior notes due 2021 and (iv) 5.375% senior notes due 2021 (collectively, the “Existing Notes”). The settlement date for Existing Notes validly tendered and accepted in the Exchange Offers occurred on April 3, 2019. At settlement, the Company issued $918,514,000 aggregate principal amount of New Notes.

The New Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any state securities law and, unless so registered, may not be offered or sold in the United States except to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. The New Notes were offered only to persons who are (i) “qualified institutional buyers” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act or (ii) outside the United States and persons other than “U.S. persons” as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act in offshore transactions in compliance with Regulation S under the Securities Act. This Current Report does not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

The New Notes were issued to the Indenture, dated as of April 24, 2014 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company, the subsidiary guarantors named therein (the “Guarantors”) and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Tenth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of April 3, 2019, between the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee (the “Tenth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”) establishing the terms of the New Notes.

The New Notes are jointly and severally, fully and unconditionally, guaranteed on a senior, unsecured basis by all of the Company’s subsidiaries that guarantee its revolving credit facility and certain other unsecured senior notes. The New Notes bear interest at a rate of 8.00% per year, payable semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 of each year, beginning on September 15, 2019. The New Notes will mature on March 15, 2026. The Company may redeem some or all of the New Notes at any time prior to March 15, 2022, at a price equal to 50% of the principal amount of the New Notes to be redeemed plus a “make-whole” premium. At any time prior to March 15, 2022, the Company also may, under certain circumstances, redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of the New Notes with an amount of cash not greater than the net cash proceeds of certain equity offerings at a specified redemption price. In addition, the Company may redeem some or all of the New Notes at any time on or after March 15, 2022, at the redemption prices set forth in the Indenture. If the Company or certain of its subsidiaries enter into certain sale-leaseback transactions and do not reinvest the proceeds or repay certain senior debt, the Company must offer to repurchase the New Notes. The Indenture contains customary events of default.

The foregoing descriptions of the New Notes and the Indenture do not purport to be complete and each is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the applicable agreement. A copy of the Base Indenture and the Tenth Supplemental Indenture (including the form of New Note) have been filed as Exhibits 4.1 and 4.2, respectively, to this report and are incorporated by reference herein.

In connection with the issuance of the New Notes, the Company and the several dealer managers party thereto, entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with respect to the New Notes, dated as of April 3, 2019 (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), which gives holders of the New Notes certain exchange and registration rights. to the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors have agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to file an exchange offer registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, to have the registration statement declared effective and to complete the exchange offer on or prior to April 2, 2020 with respect to the New Notes. Further, under certain circumstances, in lieu of, or in addition to, a registered exchange offer, the Company and the Guarantors are required to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause to become effective a shelf registration statement relating to the resale of the New Notes. The Company and the

Guarantors are required to pay additional interest if they fail to comply with their obligations to register the New Notes within the specified time periods.

The foregoing description of the Registration Rights Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Registration Rights Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 4.4 hereto.

Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

The information set forth in Item 1.01 above with respect to the New Notes and the Indenture is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03, insofar as it relates to the creation of a direct financial obligation.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

The exhibits listed below are filed herewith.

Agreements and forms of agreements included as exhibits are included only to provide information to investors regarding their terms. Agreements and forms of agreements listed below may contain representations, warranties and other provisions that were made, among other things, to provide the parties thereto with specified rights and obligations and to allocate risk among them, and no such agreement or form of agreement should be relied upon as constituting or providing any factual disclosures about the Company, any other persons, any state of affairs or other matters.

(d)Exhibits.

CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORP Exhibit
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About CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORPORATION (NYSE:CHK)

Chesapeake Energy Corporation (Chesapeake) is a producer of natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids (NGL) in the United States. The Company operates in two segments: Exploration and Production, and Marketing, Gathering and Compression. The exploration and production segment is responsible for finding and producing oil, natural gas and NGL. The marketing, gathering and compression segment is responsible for marketing, gathering and compression of oil, natural gas and NGL. It has positions in resource plays of the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas; the Utica Shale in Ohio and Pennsylvania; the Anadarko Basin in northwestern Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, and the Niobrara Shale in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Its natural gas resource plays are the Haynesville/Bossier Shales in northwestern Louisiana and East Texas; the Marcellus Shale in the northern Appalachian Basin in Pennsylvania, and the Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth Basin of north-central Texas.