Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On November 9, 2021, Silgan Holdings Inc. ("we," "us" or "our") and certain of our wholly owned subsidiaries entered into a Third Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement with the Lenders (as defined therein) and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as Administrative Agent (the "Third Amendment"). The Third Amendment amends our existing amended and restated credit agreement, dated as of March 24, 2017, as amended by the First Amendment thereto (the "First Amendment") dated as of May 30, 2018 and the Second Amendment thereto (the "Second Amendment") dated as of February 1, 2021 (as so amended by the First Amendment, the Second Amendment and the Third Amendment, the "Credit Facility").

The Third Amendment provided us with $1.0 billion of new term loans which were used to refinance $400.0 million of outstanding term loans used to fund our acquisition of the dispensing operations of the Albéa Group in 2020 and $600.0 million of outstanding revolving loans used to fund our three recent acquisitions completed in 2021. Under the Third Amendment, the multicurrency revolving loan facility, which can be used for working capital and other general corporate purposes, including acquisitions, stock repurchases and repayments of other debt, was increased to $1.5 billion from $1.2 billion.

Pursuant to the Third Amendment, the maturity dates for revolving loans and term loans under the Credit Facility were extended by more than three years. The maturity date for revolving loans and the date until which revolving loans generally may be borrowed, repaid or reborrowed from time to time was extended by the Third Amendment to November 9, 2026 from May 30, 2023. The Third Amendment also extended the maturity date of the term loans to November 9, 2027 from May 30, 2024 and provides that the term loans are payable in installments as follows (expressed as a percentage of the original principal amount of the term loans outstanding on the date that they were borrowed), with the remaining outstanding principal amounts to be repaid on the maturity date of the term loans:





Date                 Percentage
September 30, 2023    5.0%
December 31, 2024    10.0%
December 31, 2025    10.0%
December 31, 2026    10.0%

In addition, pursuant to the Third Amendment, the definition of applicable margin was amended to provide separate margin schedules for term loans, on the one hand, and revolving loans and swingline loans, on the other hand. The applicable margins for term loans and for revolving loans and swingline loans are reset quarterly using the applicable margin schedule based on our Total Net Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Credit Facility). Pursuant to the Third Amendment, the range for the applicable margin for term loans is 0.25% to 0.75% for Base Rate Loans and 1.25% to 1.75% for Eurocurrency Rate Loans and Transitioned RFR Loans (each as defined in the Credit Facility), and the range for the applicable margin for revolving loans and swingline loans is 0.00% to 0.50% for U.S. dollar-denominated Base Rate Loans and Canadian dollar-denominated Canadian Prime Rate Loans, 1.00% to 1.50% for Eurocurrency Rate Loans, Transitioned RFR Loans or CDOR Rate Loans (each as defined in the Credit Facility) and 1.0326% to 1.5326% for revolving loans maintained as Initial RFR Loans (as defined in the Credit Facility).

The Third Amendment also terminated the separate Cdn $15.0 million revolving loan facility under the Credit Facility and released Silgan Plastics Canada Inc. as a borrower under and party to the Credit Facility, released all Canadian guarantors from the Credit Facility and terminated the Canadian Pledge Agreement and Canadian Borrowers/Subsidiaries Guarantee (as defined in the Credit Facility).

Additionally, the Third Amendment includes other changes to the Credit Facility, including certain changes which provide us with additional flexibility to pursue our strategic initiatives.

The foregoing description of the Third Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Third Amendment, which is attached as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.





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Item 8.01 Other Events.

On November 9, 2021, we issued a press release, attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference, announcing the completion of the Third Amendment.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.






(d) Exhibits




Exhibit No.                                  Description

10.1                Third Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated
                  as of November 9, 2021, among Silgan Holdings Inc., Silgan
                  Containers LLC, Silgan Plastics LLC, Silgan Containers
                  Manufacturing Corporation, the other Guarantors party thereto,
                  the Lenders party thereto and Wells Fargo Bank, National
                  Association, as Administrative Agent.*

99.1                Press Release dated November 9, 2021 announcing completion of
                  an amendment to our senior secured credit facility.

104               Cover Page Interactive File (the cover page tags are embedded
                  within the Inline XBRL document).

* Certain schedules to this exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Item

601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K.






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