Chesapeake Energy Corporation · Bankruptcy · 2020 · 7.50% Senior Notes due 2026
Is the instrument Not Contingent (principal not reducible for a reason other than payment)?
Verified answer
Basis. No clause making principal contingent on an event other than payment was found in the documents.
Source clauses
Decided by absence: no clause making principal contingent was found.How it was checked · 2 checks
- Rule re-applied. The Not Contingent rule (v1.0), re-applied to the stored facts, gives the same result as the Mastermind v3 run of 2026-09-26.
- Absence confirmed. The record contains no clause making principal contingent on an event other than payment; a separate heuristic extractor finds no such clause either.
Not Contingent
Principal must not be reducible by reason of contingencies other than payment. This is a CDSBench check: under the 2014 ISDA Definitions contingency is handled through the Outstanding Principal Balance rather than as a separate characteristic.
These checks are CDSBench's provisional reading of the 2014 ISDA Credit Derivatives Definitions, not legal advice.
Instrument: 7.50% Senior Notes due 2026
Source documents
The case record. Sections behind the verified answer are marked.
- DOC-1 Chesapeake 8-K filed 2020-06-29, Item 1.03 Bankruptcy (and Item 2.04), petition 2020-06-28excerpts
- DOC-2 Ninth Supplemental Indenture dated September 27, 2018, $400,000,000 7.50% Senior Notes due 2026 (EX-4.3)excerpts
- DOC-3 Base Indenture dated April 24, 2014 (EX-4.1)excerpts
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