Constellation Energy Completes $2.29 Billion Debt Exchange for Calpine Notes, Stripping Covenants

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Constellation Energy Corporation successfully completed exchange offers for $2.29 billion of Calpine notes, integrating the debt into its structure and removing restrictive covenants, enhancing financial flexibility post-acquisition.

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• Debt Exchange Completed

  Constellation Energy Generation, LLC completed private exchange offers for $2.29 billion aggregate principal amount of Calpine Notes.

• Covenant Stripping

  The exchange offers included a consent solicitation to amend the Calpine Notes and related indentures, eliminating most restrictive covenants and events of default.

• Acquisition Integration

  This debt restructuring follows the completion of Constellation's acquisition of Calpine Corporation on January 7, 2026, streamlining the financial integration of the acquired entity.

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This 8-K filing details the successful completion of exchange offers for approximately $2.29 billion in outstanding notes of Calpine Corporation, which recently became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Constellation. The transaction effectively transfers the debt obligations to Constellation's structure and, crucially, eliminates substantially all restrictive covenants and events of default associated with the original Calpine notes. This move significantly streamlines the financial integration of Calpine and provides Constellation with greater operational and financial flexibility over its newly acquired asset. The successful execution of this large-scale debt restructuring is a positive step in optimizing the combined entity's capital structure.