Regulatory Filings • Dec 12, 2025
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Washington, D.C. 20549
CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 10, 2025
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
(State or other jurisdiction of Incorporation)
Title of each class
American Depositary Shares, each representing one
Ordinary Share
chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
(Commission File Number)
Israel 001-16174 Not Applicable (IRS Employer Identification Number)
on which registered
TEVA New York Stock Exchange
124 Dvora Hanevi'a Street Tel Aviv 6944020, Israel (Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)
+972- 3-914-8213 (Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code)
Not Applicable (Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
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| Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: | |||
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| Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) | |||
| Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) | |||
| Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions: |
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this
Symbol(s)
Emerging growth company ☐
On December 10, 2025, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (the "Company") obtained the consent of each of the lenders (the "Lenders") party to its Revolving Facility Agreement (as defined below) to extend the stated maturity date of the commitments and loans thereunder from April 29, 2027 to April 29, 2028, and to amend certain terms of the financial covenants contained in the Revolving Facility Agreement pursuant to the Third Amendment to the Senior Unsecured Sustainability-Linked Revolving Credit Agreement (the "Amendment").
Pursuant to the Senior Unsecured Sustainability-Linked Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of April 29, 2022 (the "Revolving Facility Agreement"), between, amongst others, the Company, the Lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, the Company may request two one-year extensions of the Maturity Date, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions. The extension referred to above is the second such extension.
The Amendment provides, among other things, that (i) the Company's maximum permitted leverage ratio for Q4 2025 and thereafter is 4.25x, subject to certain increases if the Company consummates or commences certain material transactions, (ii) if at any time the Company obtains Investment Grade Status (as defined in the Amendment) and no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Revolving Facility Agreement, then the Company and its subsidiaries will not be subject to the maximum leverage ratio or to the minimum interest cover ratio covenants contained in the Revolving Facility Agreement, and (iii) if at any time thereafter, the Company ceases to have such Investment Grade Status or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Revolving Facility Agreement, the maximum leverage ratio and minimum interest cover ratio covenants contained in the Revolving Facility Agreement will be reinstated and will apply to future testing dates.
The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Amendment were made only for purposes of such agreement and as of the dates specified therein, were solely for the benefit of the parties thereto and may be subject to qualifications agreed by the contracting parties and standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the Company and its subsidiaries.
The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amendment, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.
The information set forth in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference herein.
(d) Exhibits
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| 10.1 | Third Amendment to the Senior Unsecured Sustainability-Linked Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of December 10, 2025, between, amongst others, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited, the lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent. |
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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.
Date: December 11, 2025 By: /s/ Eli Kalif
Eli Kalif
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
This AMENDMENT to the Senior Unsecured Sustainability-Linked Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of December 10, 2025 (this "Amendment"), is made and entered into by and among TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED, an Israeli company registered under no 52-0013-954, the registered address of which is at Dvora HaNevia St. 124, Tel Aviv, Israel (the "Company" or "Parent"), TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC., a Delaware corporation, the principal office of which is at 400 Interpace Parkway, Building A, Parsippany, New Jersey 07054, United States of America ("Teva USA" or the "US Borrower"), TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS II B.V., a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands, with its official seat (statutaire zetel) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, having its office at Piet Heinkade 107, 1019GM Amsterdam, the Netherlands and registered with the Dutch trade register under number 59012161 (the "Dutch II Borrower") and TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL FINANCE NETHERLANDS III B.V., a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid) incorporated under the laws of the Netherlands, with its official seat (statutaire zetel) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, having its office at Piet Heinkade 107, 1019GM Amsterdam, the Netherlands and registered with the Dutch trade register under number 64156729 (the "Dutch III Borrower" and together with the Dutch II Borrower, "Dutch Borrowers" and each a "Dutch Borrower" and, together with the Parent and Teva USA, the "Borrowers") and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., (the "Administrative Agent").
Reference is made to the Senior Unsecured Sustainability-Linked Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of April 29, 2022 (as amended by that certain Amendment, dated February 6, 2023 and by that certain Second Amendment, dated May 3, 2024, and as may be further amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the "Existing Credit Agreement" and as amended by this Amendment, the "Credit Agreement"), between, amongst others, the Parent, the Borrowers, the Lenders named therein and the Administrative Agent.
WHEREAS, the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Lenders in accordance with the Existing Credit Agreement) have agreed to amend certain provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement as provided for herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual conditions and agreements set forth herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Section 1.1 Defined Terms. Each capitalized term used in this Amendment, unless otherwise defined herein, shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Credit Agreement.
Section 2.1 Amendments. Subject to the occurrence of the Third Amendment Effective Date:
(a) Section 1.01 of the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended by adding the following definitions in the appropriate alphabetical order:
""Covenant Suspension Date" has the meaning specified in Section 6.04(d)(i)."
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| Four-quarter Test Period ending with such quarter below: | |
| Q1 2022 | No greater than 4.50x |
| Q2 2022 | No greater than 4.50x |
| Q3 2022 | No greater than 4.50x |
| Q4 2022 | No greater than 4.25x |
| Q1 2023 | No greater than 4.25x |
| Q2 2023 | No greater than 4.25x |
| Q3 2023 | No greater than 4.25x |
| Q4 2023 | No greater than 4.00x |
| Q1 2024 | No greater than 4.00x |
| Q2 2024 | No greater than 4.00x |
| Q3 2024 | No greater than 4.00x |
| Q4 2024 | No greater than 4.00x |
| Q1 2025 | No greater than 4.00x |
| Q2 2025 | No greater than 4.00x |
| Q3 2025 | No greater than 4.00x |
| Q4 2025 and thereafter | No greater than 4.25x |
(ii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if, at any time the Company and/or one of its Subsidiaries consummates or commences a Specified Material Transaction at a time when no Default is then continuing, the Company may elect, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, to increase the maximum Leverage Ratio permitted by this Section 6.04(a) above by 0.5x (retroactive to the first day of the Test Period in which such Specified Material Transaction is consummated or commenced) (such election, a "Leverage Spike Election"); provided, however;
For purposes hereof, a "Specified Material Transaction" means (a) an acquisition of a business or an asset (or group of related businesses and/or assets and whether directly of assets or of equity or similar ownership interests of the direct or indirect owner thereof) (a "Target") provided that the Target itself becomes, or is acquired by, a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company, (b) a substantial expansion, substantial development, substantial refurbishment or substantial modernization of a business or an asset by the Company or any Subsidiary (in each case, with "substantiality" to be determined by the Company in good faith) and (c) the making of investment, capital expenditures or other cash costs in connection with a research or development initiative, the launch of a new product line or asset, licensing agreements, joint ventures and partnerships related to any of the foregoing business development activities or the launch of any existing product line or asset by the Company or any Subsidiary into a new market or consumer base or through a new distribution method or channel, in each case, for aggregate cash consideration or expenditure of not less than US\$250,000,000, or, in the case of clauses (b) and (c), projected to be of at least such amount (as certified by a Responsible Officer of the Company), in any four consecutive fiscal quarters."
"(d) (i) If on any date following the Third Amendment Effective Date (i) the Parent obtains Investment Grade Status, and (ii) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Credit Agreement, then, beginning on that date (the "Covenant Suspension Date") and continuing until the Reversion Date (as defined below), the Parent and its Subsidiaries will not be subject to the provisions of Sections 6.04(a) or 6.04(b).
(iii) The Parent will furnish (or cause to be furnished) to the Administrative Agent written notice of such Covenant Suspension Date or Reversion Date, which notice shall be provided to the Administrative Agent no later than three (3) Business Days after any officer of such Person becomes aware or should have become aware of the same and substantially in the form of Exhibit M to the Credit Agreement (a "Covenant Suspension/Reversion Notice"). In the absence of the delivery of a Covenant Suspension/Reversion Notice, the Administrative Agent and Lenders shall assume that no such Covenant Suspension Date or Reversion Date (as applicable) has occurred."
Section 3.1 Representations and Warranties to the Third Amendment Effective Date. Each Loan Party hereby represents and warrants as of the Third Amendment Effective Date as follows:
Section 4.1 Effective Date. This Amendment shall become effective on the date (the "Third Amendment Effective Date") on which:
(c) the Parent shall have paid to the Administrative Agent (for the account of each Lender consenting to the Leverage Ratio Adjustment amendments a consent fee of 0.08% of its total Commitments (as at the date of this Amendment). Such consent fee shall be payable within two (2) Business Days of the Third Amendment Effective Date.
Section 4.2 Notification. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Loan Parties and the Lenders of the Third Amendment Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding.
meanings assigned to them, respectively, by 15 USC §7006, as it may be amended from time to time. This Amendment may be executed by one or more parties to this Amendment on any number of separate counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Amendment by facsimile transmission or electronic mail (in ".pdf" or similar format) shall be effective as of delivery a manually executed counterpart hereof.
the Process Agent's above address, and such Person hereby irrevocably authorizes and directs the Process Agent to accept such service on its behalf. As an alternative method of service, each Loan Party irrevocably consents to the service of any and all process in any such action or proceeding by the mailing (by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid) of copies of such process to the Process Agent or such Person at its address specified in Section 11.01 of the Credit Agreement. Nothing in this Amendment will affect the right of any party to this Amendment to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.
Section 5.9 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AMENDMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AMENDMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed and delivered by their respective duly authorized officers as of the date first above written.
Name: /s/ Eli Kalif
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Name: /s/ Amit Hazan
Title: Vice President, Head of Corporate Finance and FRM
Name: /s/ Sharon Barber-Lui
Title: Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President
Name: /s/ Brian Shanahan
Title: VP General Counsel, Transactions
Name: /s/ Amit Hazan Title: Managing Director
Name: /s/ David Vrhovec Title: Managing Director
[Signature Page to 2025 RCF Amendment]
Name: /s/ Amit Hazan
Title: Managing Director
Name: /s/ David Vrhovec Title: Managing Director
[Signature Page to 2025 RCF Amendment]
Name: /s/ David J. Smith
Title: Vice President
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| Bank of America, N.A. |
as Administrative Agent
GATEWAY VILLAGE-900 BUILDING 900 W TRADE ST CHARLOTTE, NC, 28255-0001 Attention: Brittany Sheppard
This Notice of [Covenant Suspension]/[Covenant Reversion] (the "Notice") is delivered you under Section 6.04(d)(iii) of the Senior Unsecured Sustainability-Linked Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of April 29, 2022 (as amended by that certain Amendment, dated February 6, 2023, by that certain Second Amendment, dated May 3, 2024, and by that Third Amendment, dated as of December 10, 2025, and as may be further amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), between, amongst others, TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED (the "Company" or "Parent"), the Lenders party thereto and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., (the "Administrative Agent").
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1 To be dated and delivered to the Administrative Agent no later than ten (10) Business Days after any officer of the Parent becomes aware or should have become aware of the Covenant Suspension Date or Reversion Date.
2 To be included in connection with a Notice of Covenant Suspension.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Notice.
| TEVA PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED |
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| Name: Title: |
| Name: Title: |
[Signature Page to [Covenant Suspension]/[Reversion Notice]]
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