619 material Form 8-K filings that 507 companies we cover made with the SEC in December 2025, each read and summarized by AI: what happened, the key figures, whether it reads positive or negative for shareholders, and how big a deal it is (impact 1-5). All of them were written later, when past filings were added: a selection, not every 8-K of the month (see the note below).
Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp. II, a blank check company, completed its initial public offering of 34,500,000 units at $10.00 per unit on December 17, 2025, including the full exercise of the underwriters' over-allotment option, for gross proceeds of $345 million. The filing says $345 million of the net proceeds from the IPO and private placement was placed in a trust account for public shareholders, and the company will not generate operating revenue until it completes a business combination.
34,500,000 units sold at $10.00 per unit, including 4,500,000 units from the full over-allotment option, for $345,000,000 in gross proceeds
Private placement of 900,000 units at $10.00 per unit for $9,000,000, bought by Cohen & Company Capital Markets, JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC and the sponsor, Crane Harbor Sponsor II, LLC
$345,000,000 placed in a trust account with Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company as trustee; deferred underwriting fee payable is $14,700,000
Company has 24 months from the IPO closing to complete a business combination, per Note 1 of the filed balance sheet
Edison International entered into a $900 million term loan agreement with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent, on December 23, 2025. The loan matures December 22, 2026, can be prepaid without premium or penalty, and the company expects to use proceeds for general corporate and working capital purposes, which may include debt repayment. The filing discloses no earnings or guidance figures, so the event is a new borrowing rather than an operating result.
$900 million term loan matures December 22, 2026; prepayable at any time without premium or penalty
Interest at adjusted term SOFR plus 1.25%, or base rate plus 0.25%
One financial covenant: ratio of consolidated total recourse indebtedness to consolidated capital not to exceed 0.70 to 1.0 at each quarter end
Lenders are existing lenders under Edison International's $1.5 billion revolving credit facility and Southern California Edison's $3.35 billion revolving credit facility
Steel Dynamics redeemed and repaid all $400 million of its 5.000% Senior Notes due 2026, ahead of their maturity, at 100% of principal plus accrued interest. The filing says the company has paid all sums due and terminated its obligations under the indenture, which removes this debt from its balance sheet.
Notes redeemed and repaid effective December 21, 2025, at 100.000% of the $400,000,000 principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest
Notes were originally issued under an indenture dated December 6, 2016, with Computershare Trust Company, N.A. as trustee
Company terminated its indenture obligations under Section 8.01 after delivering all notes for cancellation
Filing signed December 23, 2025 by Theresa E. Wagler, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
CDW LLC entered a new five-year senior unsecured credit facility totaling $2,884.5 million, dated December 17, 2025, which consolidates, refinances and replaces its prior term and revolving loan agreements from December 1, 2021. The filing says loan proceeds will be used for working capital, general corporate purposes and refinancing the prior loans, and it does not report any financial results. Separately, four named executives' compensation protection agreements were extended three years to January 1, 2029.
Term loan of $634.5 million, fully funded on December 17, 2025, plus a revolving loan facility of $2,250.0 million
Replaces the prior term and revolving loan agreements dated December 1, 2021, with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as administrative agent
Maximum leverage ratio covenant of 4.00:1.00; revolver can be extended by up to two 1-year periods
Christine A. Leahy, Albert J. Miralles, Frederick J. Kulevich and Katherine E. Sanderson had agreements extended from January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2029
Henry Schein amended four private placement shelf and note facilities with Prudential, New York Life, MetLife and Corebridge on December 19, 2025. The amendments extend the scheduled facility termination dates to December 19, 2028 and modify certain financial definitions and covenants.
Amendments dated December 19, 2025 cover four facilities originally dated October 20, 2021
Scheduled facility termination dates extended to December 19, 2028
Financial definitions and covenants modified; filing does not state dollar amounts of borrowings
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Briefs marked “Written later” were written in November 2026 for filings that were by then more than three weeks old, so months before mid-October 2026 hold a selection: every material 8-K of the past year for the 100 largest companies we cover and the last 15 important 8-Ks of every other one. Briefs the number check holds back are not shown or counted. Also: the last 45 days, briefs by company, A–Z and the live SEC filings wire.