UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 2, 2024

 

 

Huntington Bancshares Incorporated

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

Maryland		1-34073		31-0724920
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)		(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

Registrant’s address: 41 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio 43287

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (614) 480-2265

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of class		Trading Symbol(s)		Name of exchange on which registered
Depositary Shares (each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of 4.500% Series H Non-Cumulative, perpetual preferred stock)		HBANP		NASDAQ
Depositary Shares (each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of 5.70% Series I Non-Cumulative, perpetual preferred stock)		HBANM		NASDAQ
Depositary Shares (each representing a 1/40th interest in a share of 6.875% Series J Non-Cumulative, perpetual preferred stock)		HBANL		NASDAQ
Common Stock-Par Value $0.01 per Share		HBAN		NASDAQ

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) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§24012b-2).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 

Item 8.01.

Other Events.

On February 2, 2024, Huntington Bancshares Incorporated (the “Company”) issued and sold $1,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.709% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2035 (the “Notes”). The Notes were issued pursuant to a Senior Debt Indenture, dated as of December 29, 2005, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “Trustee”), as amended and supplemented by a Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 21, 2023, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”) and by a Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 2, 2024, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Seventh Supplemental Indenture”). The Notes were sold pursuant to an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”), dated as of January 26, 2024, by and among the Company and, on behalf of themselves and the several underwriters named therein, BofA Securities, Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Huntington Securities, Inc. and RBC Capital Markets, LLC.

The Fifth Supplemental Indenture, Seventh Supplemental Indenture and form of the Notes are attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 4.1, Exhibit 4.2 and Exhibit 4.3, respectively, and are incorporated into this Item 8.01 by reference. The Underwriting Agreement, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture and the Notes are more fully described in a prospectus supplement, dated January 26, 2024, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on January 30, 2024, to the accompanying prospectus filed with the Commission on March 14, 2022, as part of the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3ASR (File No. 333-263546).

The foregoing descriptions of the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the Seventh Supplemental Indenture and the Notes do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to Exhibit 4.1, Exhibit 4.2 and Exhibit 4.3, respectively.

This Current Report on Form 8-K is being filed, in part, for the purpose of filing the documents in connection with the issuance of the Notes and such exhibits are hereby incorporated into the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3ASR (File No. 333-263546).

 

Item 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.		Description
4.1		Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated August 21, 2023, between Huntington Bancshares Incorporated and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to Huntington Bancshares Incorporated’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 21, 2023)
4.2		Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated February 2, 2024, between Huntington Bancshares Incorporated and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee
4.3		Form of 5.709% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2035 (included in exhibit 4.2)
5.1		Opinion of Venable LLP
5.2		Opinion of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
23.1		Consent of Venable LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
23.2		Consent of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (included in Exhibit 5.2)
104		Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

 

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SIGNATURE

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.

 

				HUNTINGTON BANCSHARES INCORPORATED
Date: February 2, 2024				By:		/s/ Marcy Hingst
						Marcy Hingst
						General Counsel

 

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