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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
U.S. Dollar-Denominated Notes Offering
On March 2, 2026, Omnicom Group Inc. (the “Company”) closed its public offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 4.200% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes”), $700 million aggregate principal amount of 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033 (the “2033 Notes”) and $600 million aggregate principal amount of 5.300% Senior Notes due 2036 (the “2036 Notes,” and together with the 2029 Notes and the 2033 Notes, the “U.S. Notes”), pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, dated February 25, 2026 (the “U.S. Notes Underwriting Agreement”), with Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters. The U.S. Notes have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-282748) (the “Registration Statement”), which became effective upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 21, 2024.
The net proceeds received by the Company, after deducting the underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, were approximately $1.68 billion. The Company intends to use such net proceeds to fund the repayment of the Company’s 3.600% Senior Notes due 2026, which mature on April 15, 2026, of which $1.4 billion aggregate principal amount was outstanding as of December 31, 2025, and any remaining proceeds for general corporate purposes, which could include the Company’s working capital expenditures, fixed asset expenditures, acquisitions, repayment of commercial paper and short-term debt, refinancing of other debt, repurchases of the Company’s common stock or other capital transactions.
The U.S. Notes were issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2026 (the “U.S. Notes Base Indenture”), between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2026 (the “First Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the U.S. Notes Base Indenture, the “U.S. Notes Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee. The 2029 Notes will bear interest from March 2, 2026, at a rate equal to 4.200% per year, payable semi-annually in arrears on March 2 and September 2 of each year, commencing on September 2, 2026. The 2033 Notes and the 2036 Notes will bear interest from March 2, 2026, at a rate equal to 5.000% and 5.300% per year, respectively, payable semi-annually in arrears on June 2 and December 2 of each year, commencing on June 2, 2026. The 2029 Notes, the 2033 Notes and the 2036 Notes will mature on March 2, 2029, June 2, 2033 and June 2, 2036, respectively.
Subject to certain exceptions, the U.S. Notes Indenture contains covenants limiting (i) the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ ability to create certain liens; and (ii) the Company’s ability to consolidate or merge with, or convey, transfer or lease substantially all its assets to, another person. The U.S. Notes Indenture does not contain any provision that would limit the Company’s ability to incur unsecured indebtedness or that would afford holders of the U.S. Notes protection in the event of a sudden and significant decline in the credit quality or rating of the Company or a takeover, recapitalization or highly leveraged or similar transaction involving the Company.
The U.S. Notes are the unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Company and rank equal in right of payment with all existing and any future unsecured senior and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company. The U.S. Notes Indenture contains customary event of default provisions.
Prior to February 2, 2029 for the 2029 Notes, April 2, 2033 for the 2033 Notes and March 2, 2036 for the 2036 Notes, the Company may redeem the 2029 Notes, the 2033 Notes and the 2036 Notes, as applicable, at a make whole call at comparable government bond rate plus 15 basis points for the 2029 Notes and 20 basis points for each of the 2033 Notes and the 2036 Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date. On or after February 2, 2029, April 2, 2033 and March 2, 2036, the Company may redeem the 2029 Notes, the 2033 Notes and the 2036 Notes, respectively, at par, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date.
Upon the occurrence of a “change of control triggering event,” as defined in the U.S. Notes Indenture, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the U.S. Notes, the Company will be required to make an offer to repurchase the U.S. Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of their principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase.
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The foregoing description of the terms of the U.S. Notes Underwriting Agreement, the U.S. Notes, the U.S. Notes Base Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the U.S. Notes Underwriting Agreement, the U.S. Notes, the U.S. Notes Base Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture. The U.S. Notes Underwriting Agreement, the U.S. Notes Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture, and the form of the global U.S. Notes are attached hereto as Exhibit 1.1, Exhibit 4.1, Exhibit 4.2, Exhibit 4.4, Exhibit 4.5 and Exhibit 4.6, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.
Euro-Denominated Notes Offering
Also on March 2, 2026, Omnicom Finance Holdings plc (the “Euro Notes Issuer”), a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of the Company, closed its public offering of €600 million aggregate principal amount of 3.850% Senior Notes due 2034 (the “Euro Notes,” and together with the U.S. Notes, the “Notes”), pursuant to an Underwriting Agreement, dated February 25, 2026 (the “Euro Notes Underwriting Agreement”), with Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, BNP PARIBAS, HSBC Bank plc, Danske Bank A/S and ING Bank N.V., Belgian Branch. The Euro Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Company and have been registered under the Securities Act pursuant to the Registration Statement.
The net proceeds received by the Euro Notes Issuer, after deducting the underwriting discount and estimated offering expenses, were approximately €594.5 million. The Euro Notes Issuer intends to use such net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which could include the Company’s working capital expenditures, fixed asset expenditures, acquisitions, repayment of commercial paper and short-term debt, refinancing of other debt, repurchases of the Company’s common stock or other capital transactions. Pending the application of the net proceeds, the Euro Notes Issuer may invest such net proceeds in short-term investment grade obligations.
The Euro Notes were issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of March 6, 2024 (the “Euro Notes Base Indenture”), between the Euro Notes Issuer, the Company, and the Trustee, as amended and supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2026 (the “Second Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Euro Notes Base Indenture, the “Euro Notes Indenture”), between the Euro Notes Issuer, the Company, and the Trustee. The Euro Notes will bear interest from March 2, 2026, at a rate equal to 3.850% per year, payable annually in arrears on May 2 of each year, commencing on May 2, 2026. The Euro Notes will mature on May 2, 2034.
Subject to certain exceptions, the Euro Notes Indenture contains covenants limiting the Euro Notes Issuer’s, the Company’s and their subsidiaries’ ability to (i) create certain liens; and (ii) consolidate or merge with, or convey, transfer or lease substantially all their assets to, another person. The Euro Notes Indenture does not contain any provision that would limit the Euro Notes Issuer’s or the Company’s ability to incur indebtedness or that would afford holders of the Euro Notes protection in the event of a sudden and significant decline in the credit quality or rating of the Company or a takeover, recapitalization or highly leveraged or similar transaction involving the Company.
The Euro Notes and the related guarantee are the unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of the Euro Notes Issuer and the Company, respectively, and rank equal in right of payment with all existing and any future unsecured senior and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Euro Notes Issuer and the Company, respectively. The Euro Notes Indenture contains customary event of default provisions.
Prior to February 2, 2034, the Euro Notes Issuer may redeem the Euro Notes at a make whole call at comparable government bond rate plus 20 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date. On or after February 2, 2034, the Euro Notes Issuer may redeem the Euro Notes at par, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date.
Upon the occurrence of a “change of control triggering event,” as defined in the Euro Notes Indenture, with respect to the Euro Notes, unless the Euro Notes Issuer has exercised its option to redeem the Euro Notes, the Euro Notes Issuer will be required to make an offer to repurchase the Euro Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of their principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase.
The Company and the Euro Notes Issuer have applied to list the Euro Notes on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”). The listing application has been approved by the NYSE.
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The foregoing description of the terms of the Euro Notes Underwriting Agreement, the Euro Notes, the Euro Notes Base Indenture and the Second Supplemental Indenture does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Euro Notes Underwriting Agreement, the Euro Notes, the Euro Notes Base Indenture and the Second Supplemental Indenture entered into in connection therewith. The Euro Notes Underwriting Agreement, the Second Supplemental Indenture, and the form of the global Euro Note are attached hereto as Exhibit 1.2, Exhibit 4.3 and Exhibit 4.7, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.
In connection with the offering of the Notes, the Company is filing certain other exhibits to this Current Report on Form 8-K for the purpose of incorporating them as exhibits to the Registration Statement and they are also incorporated therein by reference.
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.
The information contained in Item 1.01 is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits:
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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.
OMNICOM GROUP INC. | ||
| Date: March 2, 2026 | By: | /s/ Louis F. Januzzi |
| Name: | Louis F. Januzzi | |
| Title: | Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | |
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Exhibit 1.1
Execution Version
Omnicom Group Inc.
4.200% Senior Notes due 2029
5.000% Senior Notes due 2033
5.300% Senior Notes due 2036
Underwriting Agreement
February 25, 2026
| To | the Representatives named in Schedule I hereto of the several Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Omnicom Group Inc., a New York corporation, (the “Company”), proposes to sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you (the “Representatives”) are acting as representatives, the principal amount of its 4.200% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes”), its 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033 (the “2033 Notes”) and its 5.300% Senior Notes due 2036 (the “2036 Notes” and, together with the 2029 Notes and the 2033 Notes, the “Securities”) identified in Schedule II hereto, to be issued under an indenture dated as of the Closing Date (as defined herein) (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture to be dated as of the Closing Date, between the Company and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture”). The Supplemental Indenture together with the Base Indenture are herein collectively referred to as the “Indenture.”
To the extent there are no additional Underwriters listed on Schedule II other than you, the term Representatives as used herein shall mean you, as Underwriters, and the terms Representatives and Underwriters shall mean either the singular or plural as the context requires. Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3, which were filed under the Exchange Act on or before the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein by reference. Certain terms used herein are defined in Section 24 hereof.
1. Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter as set forth below in this Section 1 that (it being understood that any representations and warranties with respect to IPG (as defined below) and its subsidiaries are made to the knowledge of the Company):
(a) The Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Act and has prepared and filed with the Commission an automatic shelf registration statement, as defined in Rule 405 (the file number of which is set forth in Schedule I hereto) on Form S-3, including a related Base Prospectus, for registration under the Act of the offering and sale of the Securities. Such Registration Statement, including any amendments thereto filed prior to the Execution Time, became effective upon filing and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such registration statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Act has been received by the Company. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued by the Commission and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Act against the Company or related to the offering has been initiated or threatened by the Commission. The Company may have filed with the Commission, as part of an amendment to the Registration Statement or pursuant to Rule 424(b), one or more preliminary prospectus supplements relating to the Securities, each of which has previously been furnished to you. The Company will file with the Commission a final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities in accordance with Rule 424(b). As filed, such final prospectus supplement shall contain, in all material respects, all information required by the Act and the rules thereunder, and, except to the extent the Representatives shall agree to a modification, shall be in all substantive respects in the form furnished to you prior to the Execution Time or, to the extent not completed at the Execution Time, shall contain only such specific additional information and other changes (beyond that contained in the Base Prospectus and any Preliminary Prospectus) as the Company has advised you, prior to the Execution Time, will be included or made therein. The Registration Statement, at the Execution Time, meets the requirements set forth in Rule 415(a)(1)(x). The initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement was not earlier than the date three years before the Execution Time.
(b) On each Effective Date, the Registration Statement did, at the time of filing of each Preliminary Prospectus, such Preliminary Prospectus did, and when the Final Prospectus is first filed in accordance with Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus (and any supplement thereto) will, comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act, the Exchange Act and the Trust Indenture Act and the respective rules thereunder; on each Effective Date and at the Execution Time, the Registration Statement did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; on the Effective Date and on the Closing Date, the Indenture did or will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and the rules thereunder; at the time of filing of each Preliminary Prospectus, such Preliminary Prospectus did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and on the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the Company does not make any representations or warranties as to (i) those parts of the Registration Statement which shall constitute the Statements of Eligibility (Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of the Trustee or (ii) the information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriters consists of the information described as such in Section 8 hereof.
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(c) The documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, when they were filed with the Commission, conformed in all material respects with the applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(d) (i) The Disclosure Package and (ii) each electronic roadshow identified on Schedule V hereto, when taken together as a whole with the Disclosure Package, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8 hereof.
(e) (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), (iii) at the time the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c)) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption in Rule 163, and (iv) at the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (iv)), the Company was or is (as the case may be) a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405. The Company agrees to pay the fees required by the Commission relating to the Securities within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r).
(f) (i) At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2)) of the Securities and (ii) as of the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (ii)), the Company was not and is not an Ineligible Issuer (as defined in Rule 405), without taking account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary that the Company be considered an Ineligible Issuer.
(g) Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereof, does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any document incorporated therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8 hereof.
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(h) (i) KPMG LLP, whose report accompanies the audited financial statements and supporting schedule included in or incorporated by reference into the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries within the meaning of the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”) and (ii) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, whose report accompanies the audited financial statements of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (“IPG”) and its consolidated subsidiaries included in or incorporated by reference into the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm of IPG and its consolidated subsidiaries within the meaning of the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB.
(i) The financial statements of the Company, together with the related schedules and notes, included in or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates indicated and consolidated balance sheets and statements of income, equity and comprehensive income and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods specified and said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved. The financial statements of IPG and its consolidated subsidiaries, together with the related schedules and notes, included in or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of IPG and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates indicated and consolidated balance sheets and statements of income, equity and comprehensive income and cash flows of IPG and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods specified and said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved. The supporting schedule, if any, included in or incorporated by reference into the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement presents fairly, in all material respects, in accordance with U.S. GAAP the information required to be stated therein. The pro forma financial statements incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement include assumptions that provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects directly attributable to the transactions and events described therein, the related pro forma adjustments give appropriate effect to those assumptions, and the pro forma adjustments reflect the proper application of those adjustments to the historical financial statement amounts in the pro forma financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement. The pro forma financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of Regulation S-X under the Act. Except as included or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, no other financial statements, pro forma financial information or supporting schedules are required to be included or incorporated in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement under the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission.
(j) The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation and has the requisite corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities; and the Company is not required to qualify as a foreign corporation to transact business in any other jurisdiction, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing (i) would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the performance of this Agreement or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or (ii) would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries (as defined below), taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business (a “Material Adverse Effect”).
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(k) The authorized, issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company is as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus in the column entitled “Actual” under the caption “Capitalization” (except for subsequent repurchases by the Company, issuances pursuant to reservations, agreements, incentive stock option plans referred to in the Disclosure Package or Final Prospectus or pursuant to the exercise of convertible securities or options referred to in the Disclosure Package or Final Prospectus). The shares of issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; none of the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company was issued in violation of the preemptive or other similar rights of any securityholder of the Company.
(l) The Company is a holding company that conducts its business through over 1,000 separate subsidiary entities (each, a “Subsidiary,” and together, the “Subsidiaries”). There is no matter arising out of the organization, existence, capitalization, compliance with laws or contractual or other construction of any agreement of or relating to any such Subsidiary or all of such Subsidiaries in the aggregate that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(m) Except for such of the following as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, there are no consensual encumbrances or restrictions on the ability of any Subsidiary (i) to pay any dividends or make any distributions on such Subsidiary’s capital stock or to pay any indebtedness owed to the Company or any of its other Subsidiaries, (ii) to make any loans or advances to, or investments in, the Company or any of its other Subsidiaries, or (iii) to transfer any of its property or assets to the Company or any of its other Subsidiaries.
(n) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
(o) The Base Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustee, will constitute a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (including, without limitation, good faith, fair dealing and reasonableness, equitable defenses, the exercise of judicial discretion and limits on the enforceability of equitable remedies, whether such principles are considered in a proceeding at law or in equity); the Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and, when executed and delivered by the Company and the Trustee, will constitute a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (including, without limitation, good faith, fair dealing and reasonableness, equitable defenses, the exercise of judicial discretion and limits on the enforceability of equitable remedies, whether such principles are considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).
(p) The Securities have been duly authorized and, at the Closing Date, will have been duly executed by the Company and, when authenticated, issued and delivered in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor as provided in this Agreement, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (including, without limitation, good faith, fair dealing and reasonableness, equitable defenses, the exercise of judicial discretion and limits on the enforceability of equitable remedies, whether such principles are considered in a proceeding at law or in equity), and will be in the form contemplated by, and entitled to the benefits of, the Indenture.
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(q) The Securities and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the respective statements relating thereto contained in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.
(r) The Company is not in violation of its charter or by-laws; and no Subsidiary of the Company is in violation of its charter, by-laws or other organizational documents except for such violations that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it may be bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may be subject (collectively, “Agreements and Instruments”), except for such defaults or violations that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities and any other agreement or instrument entered into or issued or to be entered into or issued by the Company in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (including the issuance and sale of the Securities and the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”) and compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and do not and will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or a Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to, the Agreements and Instruments except for such conflicts, breaches or defaults or Repayment Events, liens, charges or encumbrances that, individually or in the aggregate, would not result in a Material Adverse Effect, nor will such action result in any violation of (x) the provisions of the charter or by-laws of the Company; (y) the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Subsidiaries of the Company or (z) any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, government instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their assets, properties or operations except (in the case of (y) and (z) only) as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. As used herein, a “Repayment Event” means any event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
(s) No labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is imminent, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or any of its Subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, customers or contractors, which, in any such case, may reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(t) Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which might reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or which might reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the properties or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder. The aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or of which any of their respective property or assets is the subject which are not described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(u) The Company and its Subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms adequate patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) trademarks, service marks, trade names or other intellectual property (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) necessary to continue to carry on the business now operated by them in all material respects, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice or is otherwise aware of any infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any Intellectual Property or of any facts or circumstances which would render any Intellectual Property invalid or inadequate to protect the interest of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries therein except for such of the foregoing as would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(v) No filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any court or governmental authority or agency is necessary or required for the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder in connection with the offering, issuance or sale of the Securities hereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or for the due execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement, the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture by the Company, except (i) such as have been already obtained or (ii) such as may be required by the securities or blue sky laws of the various states in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters in the manner contemplated herein and in the Final Prospectus.
(w) The Company and its Subsidiaries possess such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively, “Governmental Licenses”) issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to continue to conduct the business now operated by them in all material aspects; the Company and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Governmental Licenses, except where the failure to have such Governmental Licenses or to so comply would not, either individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; all of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except where the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Governmental Licenses which, individually or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(x) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all real property owned by the Company and such Subsidiary and good title to all other properties owned by them, in each case, free and clear of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests, claims, restrictions or encumbrances of any kind except such as (a) are described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus or (b) would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, and all of the leases and subleases material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, and under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries holds properties described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, are in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has any notice of any material claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease, except for such of the foregoing as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(y) The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(z) The Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, maintain an effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that is designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, have carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.
(aa) Except as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and except such matters as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect, (A) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (B) the Company and its Subsidiaries have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws and are each in compliance with their requirements, (C) there are no pending, or to the knowledge of the Company, threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings relating to any Environmental Law against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and (D) to the knowledge of the Company, there are no events or circumstances that might reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or governmental body or agency, against or affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries relating to Hazardous Materials or Environmental Laws.
(bb) The Company is not, and upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus will not be, an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(cc) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, directors or officers nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director or officer of any of its Subsidiaries nor any agent, employee, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has (i) used any funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity in contravention of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”) or the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom, as amended (the “UKBA”); (ii) made or taken an act in furtherance of an offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government or regulatory official or employee, including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office in contravention of the FCPA or the UKBA; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the FCPA or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the UKBA or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws (collectively, the “Anti-Corruption Laws”) or (iv) made, offered, agreed, requested or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including, without limitation, any unlawful rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful or improper payment or benefit. The Company has implemented and maintained in effect policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote compliance by the Company and its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, agents, employees and affiliates with all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws.
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(dd) The operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company or any of its Subsidiaries conducts business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental or regulatory agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.
(ee) Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries, directors or officers nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director or officer of any of its Subsidiaries nor any agent, employee, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government, (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”) or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”), the European Union, the United Kingdom (including His Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”) and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company or any of its Subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or the target of Sanctions (each such country or territory, a “Sanctioned Country”), including, without limitation, on the date hereof, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic or so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, Crimea region, the non-government controlled areas of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Regions and the other “Covered Regions” (as defined in Executive Order 14065 of the President of the United States), Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela, to the extent prohibited for an individual or entity required to comply with Sanctions; and the Company will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any person or entity in violation of the Anti-Corruption Laws or any additional anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Company and its Subsidiaries, (ii) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person (or, to the knowledge of any officer, director or employee of the Company who is engaged in or has approved a transaction with such person, any person in which a Sanctioned Person owns, directly or indirectly, a 50 percent or greater interest) or in any Sanctioned Country, or (iii) in any other manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto.
“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any person or entity listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated persons maintained by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State or HMT, or (b) any person or entity located, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country.
(ff) No holders of securities of the Company have rights to the registration of such securities under the Registration Statement.
(gg) There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply in all material respects with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith, including Section 402 relating to loans and Sections 302 and 906 relating to certifications.
(hh) Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there has been no Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
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Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.
2. Purchase and Sale. Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the purchase price set forth in Schedule I hereto the principal amount of the Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name in Schedule II hereto.
3. Delivery and Payment. Delivery of and payment for the Securities shall be made on the date and at the time specified in Schedule I hereto or at such time on such later date not more than three Business Days after the foregoing date as the Representatives shall designate, which date and time may be postponed by agreement between the Representatives and the Company or as provided in Section 9 hereof (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Securities being herein called the “Closing Date”). Delivery of the Securities shall be made to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against payment by the several Underwriters through the Representatives of the purchase price thereof to or upon the order of the Company by wire transfer payable in same-day funds to an account specified by the Company. Delivery of the Securities shall be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company unless the Representatives shall otherwise instruct.
4. Offering by Underwriters. It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Securities for sale to the public as set forth in the Final Prospectus.
5. Agreements. The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that:
(a) Prior to the termination of the offering of the Securities, the Company will not file any amendment of the Registration Statement or supplement (including the Final Prospectus or any Preliminary Prospectus) to the Base Prospectus unless the Company has furnished you a copy for your review prior to filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object. The Company will cause the Final Prospectus, properly completed, and any supplement thereto to be filed in a form approved by the Representatives with the Commission pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed and will provide evidence satisfactory to the Representatives of such timely filing. The Company will promptly advise the Representatives: (1) when the Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed (if required) with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), (2) when, prior to termination of the offering of the Securities, any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have been filed or become effective, (3) of any request by the Commission or its staff for any amendment of the Registration Statement or for any supplement to the Final Prospectus or for any additional information, (4) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any notice objecting to its use or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose and (5) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the occurrence of any such suspension or objection to the use of the Registration Statement and, upon such issuance, occurrence or notice of objection, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal of such stop order or relief from such occurrence or objection, including, if necessary, by filing an amendment to the Registration Statement or a new registration statement and using its reasonable best efforts to have such amendment or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable.
(b) To prepare a final term sheet, containing solely a description of final terms the Securities, in the form attached as Schedule IV hereto, and to file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such Rule.
(c) If, at any time prior to the filing of a final prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b), any event occurs as a result of which the Disclosure Package would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made at such time, not misleading, the Company will (i) notify promptly the Representatives so that any use of the Disclosure Package may cease until it is amended or supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement the Disclosure Package to correct such statement or omission; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.
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(d) If, at any time when the Final Prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), any event occurs as a result of which the Final Prospectus, as then supplemented, would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made at such time, not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement, file a new registration statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply with the Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder, including in connection with use or delivery of the Final Prospectus, the Company promptly will (i) notify the Representatives of such event, (ii) prepare and file with the Commission, subject to the second sentence of paragraph (a) of this Section 5, an amendment or supplement or new registration statement which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance, (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to have any amendment to the Registration Statement or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable in order to avoid any disruption in use of the Final Prospectus and (iv) supply any supplemented Final Prospectus to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.
(e) As soon as practicable, the Company will make generally available to its security holders and to the Representatives, an earnings statement or statements (which need not be audited) of the Company and its Subsidiaries which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act and Rule 158.
(f) The Company will furnish to each of the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, one signed copy of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto) and to each other Underwriter a copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), as many copies of each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any supplement thereto as the Representatives may reasonably request.
(g) The Company will arrange, if necessary, for the qualification of the Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate, will maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities and will pay any fee of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in connection with its review of the offering; provided that in no event shall the Company be obligated to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified or to take any action that (i) would subject it to service of process in suits, other than those arising out of the offering or sale of the Securities, or (ii) would subject it to payment of taxes, in any jurisdiction where it is not now so subject.
(h) The Company agrees that, unless it has obtained or will obtain the prior written consent of the Representatives, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees with the Company that, unless each of them has obtained or will obtain, as the case may be, the prior written consent of the Company, each of them has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405) required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433, other than a free writing prospectus containing the information contained in the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereof; provided that the prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Free Writing Prospectuses included in Schedule III and Schedule V hereto. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representatives or the Company is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company agrees that (x) it has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and (y) it has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping.
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(i) The Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, or otherwise dispose of (or enter into any transaction which is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the Company or any affiliate of the Company or any person in privity with the Company or any affiliate of the Company), directly or indirectly, including the filing (or participation in the filing) of a registration statement with the Commission in respect of, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act, any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company (other than the Securities) or publicly announce an intention to effect any such transaction, until the Business Day set forth on Schedule I hereto.
(j) The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities. The Company has not issued nor will issue, without the prior consent of the Underwriters, any stabilization announcement referring to the proposed issue of Securities. The Company authorizes the Underwriters to make such public disclosure of information relating to stabilization of the Securities as is required by applicable law, regulation and guidance.
(k) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company will pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder, including without limitation, (i) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Securities and any taxes payable in that connection; (ii) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and filing under the Act of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (including all exhibits, amendments and supplements thereto) and the distribution thereof; (iii) the costs of reproducing and distributing this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities; (iv) the fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and independent accountants; (v) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the registration or qualification and determination of eligibility for investment of the Securities under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate and the preparation, printing and distribution of a Blue Sky Memorandum (including the reasonable related fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters); (vi) any fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Securities; (vii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and any paying agent (including related fees and expenses of any counsel to such parties); (viii) all expenses and application fees incurred in connection with any filing with, and clearance of the offering by, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority; and (ix) all expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors.
6. Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Securities shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained herein as of the Execution Time and the Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any certificate pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
(a) The Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, has been filed in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); the final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(b) hereto, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened.
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(b) The Company shall have requested and caused Jones Day, counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Representatives their opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(c) The Company shall have requested and caused Louis F. Januzzi, general counsel for the Company, to have furnished to the Representatives his opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(d) The Representatives shall have received from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities, the Indenture, the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(e) The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate of the Company, signed by an Executive Vice President, and the principal financial or accounting officer of the Company dated the Closing Date, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus, the Disclosure Package and any supplements or amendments thereto, as well as each electronic roadshow used to offer the Securities identified on Schedule V and this Agreement and that:
(i) the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened; and
(iii) since the date of the most recent financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(f) The Company shall have requested and caused each of KPMG LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to have furnished to the Representatives, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, letters (which may refer to letters previously delivered to one or more of the Representatives), dated respectively as of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, confirming that they are independent accountants within the meaning of the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB and containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three business days prior to the Closing Date.
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(g) Subsequent to the Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), there shall not have been (i) any change or decrease specified in the letter or letters referred to in paragraph (g) of this Section 6 or (ii) any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any case referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above, is, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).
(h) Subsequent to the Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.
(i) At the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, the Representatives shall have received from the chief financial officer of the Company a certificate with respect to certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(j) Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives such further information, certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request.
If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as provided in this Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, this Agreement and, subject to Section 11 hereof, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the Closing Date by the Representatives. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing.
The documents required to be delivered by this Section 6 shall be delivered at the office of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, at 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022 on the Closing Date.
7. Reimbursement of Underwriters’ Expenses. If the sale of the Securities provided for herein is not consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Underwriters set forth in Section 6 hereof is not satisfied, because of any termination pursuant to Section 10 hereof or because of any refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or comply with any provision hereof other than by reason of a default by any of the Underwriters, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters severally through Citigroup Global Markets Inc. on demand for all out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) that shall have been incurred by them in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Securities.
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8. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) The Company agrees, to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the directors, officers, employees, affiliates and agents of each Underwriter and each person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Act, the Exchange Act or other Federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement as originally filed or in any amendment thereof, or in the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or any other preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Securities, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the information contained in the final term sheet required to be prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereto, or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion therein. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have.
(b) Each Underwriter severally and not jointly agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, each of its officers who signs the Registration Statement, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to each Underwriter, but only with reference to written information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which any Underwriter may otherwise have. The Company acknowledges that the statements set forth in the last paragraph of the cover page regarding delivery of the Securities and, under the heading “Underwriting,” (i) in the first paragraph, the list of Underwriters and their respective participation in the sale of the Securities, and (ii) the fifth paragraph related to stabilization in any Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus constitute the only information furnished in writing by or on behalf of the several Underwriters for inclusion in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve it from liability under paragraph (a) or (b) above unless and to the extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above. The indemnifying party shall be entitled to appoint counsel of the indemnifying party’s choice at the indemnifying party’s expense to represent the indemnified party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the indemnifying party shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate counsel retained by the indemnified party or parties except as set forth below); provided, however, that such counsel shall be satisfactory to the indemnified party. Notwithstanding the indemnifying party’s election to appoint counsel to represent the indemnified party in an action, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel), and the indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party to represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest, (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action or (iv) the indemnifying party shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party. In no event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in addition to any local counsel) separate from their own counsel in connection with any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding and does not include an admission of fault.
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(d) In the event that the indemnity provided in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 8 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, the Company and the Underwriters severally agree to contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending same) (collectively “Losses”) to which the Company and one or more of the Underwriters may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and by the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities; provided, however, that in no case shall (i) any Underwriter (except as may be provided in any agreement among underwriters relating to the offering of the Securities) be responsible for any amount in excess of the underwriting discount or commission applicable to the Securities purchased by such Underwriter hereunder. If the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is unavailable for any reason, the Company and the Underwriters severally shall contribute in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. Benefits received by the Company shall be deemed to be equal to the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by them and benefits received by the Underwriters shall be deemed to be equal to the total underwriting discounts and commissions, in each case as set forth on the cover page of the Final Prospectus. Relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or any alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information provided by the Company on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (d), no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 8, each person who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act and each director, officer, employee and agent of an Underwriter shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, each officer of the Company who shall have signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Company shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this paragraph (d).
9. Default by an Underwriter. If any one or more Underwriters shall fail to purchase and pay for any of the Securities agreed to be purchased by such Underwriter or Underwriters hereunder and such failure to purchase shall constitute a default in the performance of its or their obligations under this Agreement, the remaining Underwriters shall be obligated severally to take up and pay for (in the respective proportions which the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their names in Schedule II hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the names of all the remaining Underwriters) the Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase; provided, however, that in the event that the aggregate principal amount of Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase shall exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth in Schedule II hereto, the remaining Underwriters shall have the right to purchase all, but shall not be under any obligation to purchase any, of the Securities, and if such nondefaulting Underwriters do not purchase all the Securities, this Agreement will terminate without liability to any nondefaulting Underwriter or the Company. In the event of a default by any Underwriter as set forth in this Section 9, the Closing Date shall be postponed for such period, not exceeding five Business Days, as the Representatives shall determine in order that the required changes in the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to the Company and any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages occasioned by its default hereunder.
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10. Termination. This Agreement shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, by notice given to the Company prior to delivery of and payment for the Securities, if at any time prior to such time (i) trading in the Company’s common stock shall have been suspended by the Commission or the New York Stock Exchange or trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such Exchange, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by U.S. Federal, New York State or Delaware State authorities, (iii) there shall have occurred a material disruption in securities settlement or clearance services in the United States or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities nationally or internationally involving the United States, declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war, or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the United States or international financial markets is such as to make it, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).
11. Representations and Indemnities to Survive. The respective agreements, representations, warranties, indemnities and other statements of the Company or its officers and of the Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or the Company or any of the officers, directors, employees, agents or controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities. The provisions of Sections 5(k), 7, 8 and 16 hereof shall survive the termination or cancellation of this Agreement.
12. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and effective only on receipt, and, if sent to the Representatives, will be mailed, delivered or telefaxed to BofA Securities, Inc. at 114 West 47th Street, NY8-114-07-01, New York, New York 10036, fax: 212-901-7881, attention: High Grade Debt Capital Markets Transaction Management/Legal; Citigroup Global Markets Inc. at 388 Greenwich Street, New York, New York 10013, fax: 646-291-1469, attention: General Counsel; Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., at 1 Columbus Circle, New York, New York 10019, attention: Debt Capital Markets Syndicate with a copy to the same address to General Counsel, email: [email protected]; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC at 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, fax: (212) 834-6081, attention: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC at 550 South Tryon Street, 5th Floor, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202, attention: Transaction Management, email: [email protected] or, if sent to the Company, will be mailed or delivered to 280 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017 (tel: +1 212-415-3600), attention of the Legal Department, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to Jones Day, 250 Vesey Street, New York, New York 10281 (tel: +1 212-326-3939), Attention: Rory T. Hood.
13. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers, directors, employees, agents and controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.
14. No Fiduciary Duty. The Company hereby acknowledges that (a) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and any affiliate through which it may be acting, on the other, (b) the Underwriters are acting as principal and not as an agent or fiduciary of the Company and (c) the Company’s engagement of the Underwriters in connection with the offering and the process leading up to the offering is as independent contractors and not in any other capacity. Furthermore, the Company agrees that it is solely responsible for making its own judgment in connection with the offering (irrespective of whether any of the Underwriters has advised or is currently advising the Company on related or other matters). The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Underwriters have rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owe an agency, fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.
15. Integration. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.
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16. Applicable Law. This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts made and to be performed within the State of New York.
17. Waiver of Jury Trial. The Company hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
18. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement or any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means.
19. Contractual Recognition of UK Bail-In. Notwithstanding and to the exclusion of any other term of this Agreement or any other agreements, arrangements, or understanding between any UK Bail-in Party and any other party to this Agreement, each party to this Agreement acknowledges and accepts that a UK Bail-in Liability arising under this Agreement may be subject to the exercise of UK Bail-in Powers by the relevant UK resolution authority, and acknowledges, accepts, and agrees to be bound by:
(a) the effect of the exercise of UK Bail-in Powers by the relevant UK resolution authority in relation to any UK Bail-in Liability of a UK Bail-in Party to any other party under this Agreement, that (without limitation) may include and result in any of the following, or some combination thereof:
(i) the reduction of all, or a portion, of the UK Bail-in Liability or outstanding amounts due thereon;
(ii) the conversion of all, or a portion, of the UK Bail-in Liability into shares, other securities or other obligations of the UK Bail-in Party or another person, and the issue to or conferral on the other parties to this Agreement of such shares, securities or obligations;
(iii) the cancellation of the UK Bail-in Liability;
(iv) the amendment or alteration of any interest, if applicable, thereon, the maturity or the dates on which any payments are due, including by suspending payment for a temporary period;
(b) the variation of the terms of this Agreement, as deemed necessary by the relevant UK resolution authority, to give effect to the exercise of UK Bail-in Powers by the relevant UK resolution authority.
For the purposes of this provision:
“UK Bail-in Legislation” means Part I of the UK Banking Act 2009 and any other law or regulation applicable in the UK relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (otherwise than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“UK Bail-in Liability” means a liability in respect of which the UK Bail-in Powers may be exercised.
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“UK Bail-in Party” means any party to this Agreement which is subject to UK Bail-in Legislation.
“UK Bail-in Powers” means the powers under the UK Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or affiliate of a bank or investment firm, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability.
20. Compliance with USA Patriot Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), certain of the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.
21. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes. (a) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
(b) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
(c) As used in this Section 21:
“BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k).
“Covered Entity” means any of the following:
(i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);
(ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or
(iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
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“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
22. Authority of the Representatives. Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may be taken by the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such action taken by the Representatives shall be binding upon the Underwriters.
23. Headings. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
24. Definitions. The terms which follow, when used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated.
“Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
“Base Prospectus” shall mean the base prospectus dated October 21, 2024 referred to in Section 1(a) above contained in the Registration Statement to be used in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities.
“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City, United States.
“Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Disclosure Package” shall mean (i) the Base Prospectus, (ii) the Preliminary Prospectus used most recently prior to the Execution Time, (iii) the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule III hereto (including the final term sheet, identified in Schedule III hereto) and (iv) any other Free Writing Prospectus that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the Disclosure Package and which are identified in Schedule III hereto.
“Effective Date” shall mean each date and time that the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto became or become effective.
“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
“Execution Time” shall mean 3:45 p.m. New York City time on February 25, 2026.
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“Final Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that was first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time, together with the Base Prospectus.
“Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean a free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405 used in connection with the offering of the Securities.
“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433 used in connection with the offering of the Securities.
“Preliminary Prospectus” shall mean any preliminary prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus referred to in Section 1(a) above which is used prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus, together with the Base Prospectus.
“Registration Statement” shall mean the registration statement referred to in Section 1(a) above, including exhibits and financial statements and any prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and deemed part of such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430A, 430B and 430C, as amended on each Effective Date and at the Execution Time and, in the event any post-effective amendment thereto becomes effective prior to the Closing Date, shall also mean such registration statement as so amended.
“Rule 158,” “Rule 163,” “Rule 164,” “Rule 172,” “Rule 405,” “Rule 415,” “Rule 424,” “Rule 430A,” “Rule 430B,” “Rule 430C” and “Rule 433” refer to such rules under the Act.
“Trust Indenture Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
“Well-Known Seasoned Issuer” shall mean a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to us the enclosed duplicate hereof, whereupon this letter and your acceptance shall represent a binding agreement among the Company and the several Underwriters.
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| Very truly yours, | |||
| Omnicom Group Inc. | |||
| By: | /s/ Philip J. Angelastro | ||
| Name: | Philip J. Angelastro | ||
| Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]
| Accepted as of the date hereof: | |||
| BofA Securities, Inc. | |||
| By: | /s/ Kevin Wehler | ||
| Name: | Kevin Wehler | ||
| Title: | Managing Director | ||
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]
| Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | |||
| By: | /s/ Adam D. Bordner | ||
| Name: | Adam D. Bordner | ||
| Title: | Managing Director | ||
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]
| Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. | |||
| By: | /s/ Ritu Ketkar | ||
| Name: | Ritu Ketkar | ||
| Title: | Managing Director | ||
| By: | /s/ John Han | ||
| Name: | John Han | ||
| Title: | Managing Director | ||
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]
| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC | |||
| By: | /s/ Robert Bottamedi | ||
| Name: | Robert Bottamedi | ||
| Title: | Executive Director | ||
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]
| Wells Fargo Securities, LLC | |||
| By: | /s/ Carolyn Hurley | ||
| Name: | Carolyn Hurley | ||
| Title: | Managing Director | ||
[Signature Page to Underwriting Agreement]
SCHEDULE I
Underwriting Agreement dated February 25, 2026
Registration Statement No. 333-282748
| Representatives: | BofA Securities, Inc. |
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
Title, Principal Amount, Purchase Price and Description of the 2029 Notes:
Title: 4.200% Senior Notes due 2029
Principal amount: $400,000,000
Purchase price (include accrued interest or amortization, if any): 99.491% per 4.200% Senior Notes due 2029.
Sinking fund provisions: None
Redemption provisions: Make-Whole Spread: + 15 basis points
Title, Principal Amount, Purchase Price and Description of the 2033 Notes:
Title: 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033
Principal amount: $700,000,000
Purchase price (include accrued interest or amortization, if any): 99.304% per 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033.
Sinking fund provisions: None
Redemption provisions: Make-Whole Spread: + 20 basis points
Title, Principal Amount, Purchase Price and Description of the 2036 Notes:
Title: 5.300% Senior Notes due 2036
Principal amount: $600,000,000
Purchase price (include accrued interest or amortization, if any): 98.968% per 5.300% Senior Notes due 2036.
Sinking fund provisions: None
Redemption provisions: Make-Whole Spread: + 20 basis points
Closing Date and Time: March 2, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. New York time
Type of Offering: Non-delayed
Date referred to in Section 5(i) after which the Company may offer or sell debt securities issued by the Company without the consent of the Representatives: March 2, 2026
Schedule I-1
SCHEDULE II
| Underwriters | Principal Amount of the 2029 Notes to be Purchased | Principal Amount of the 2033 Notes to be Purchased | Principal Amount of the 2036 Notes to be Purchased | |||||||||
| BofA Securities, Inc. | $ | 48,000,000 | $ | 84,000,000 | $ | 72,000,000 | ||||||
| Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | $ | 48,000,000 | $ | 84,000,000 | $ | 72,000,000 | ||||||
| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC | $ | 48,000,000 | $ | 84,000,000 | $ | 72,000,000 | ||||||
| Wells Fargo Securities, LLC | $ | 48,000,000 | $ | 84,000,000 | $ | 72,000,000 | ||||||
| Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. | $ | 33,000,000 | $ | 57,750,000 | $ | 49,500,000 | ||||||
| Mizuho Securities USA LLC | $ | 25,000,000 | $ | 43,750,000 | $ | 37,500,000 | ||||||
| SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. | $ | 25,000,000 | $ | 43,750,000 | $ | 37,500,000 | ||||||
| TD Securities (USA) LLC | $ | 25,000,000 | $ | 43,750,000 | $ | 37,500,000 | ||||||
| U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. | $ | 25,000,000 | $ | 43,750,000 | $ | 37,500,000 | ||||||
| BBVA Securities Inc. | $ | 20,000,000 | $ | 35,000,000 | $ | 30,000,000 | ||||||
| Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. | $ | 20,000,000 | $ | 35,000,000 | $ | 30,000,000 | ||||||
| ANZ Securities, Inc. | $ | 7,000,000 | $ | 12,250,000 | $ | 10,500,000 | ||||||
| BNP Paribas Securities Corp. | $ | 7,000,000 | $ | 12,250,000 | $ | 10,500,000 | ||||||
| HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. | $ | 7,000,000 | $ | 12,250,000 | $ | 10,500,000 | ||||||
| Loop Capital Markets LLC | $ | 7,000,000 | $ | 12,250,000 | $ | 10,500,000 | ||||||
| Standard Chartered Bank | $ | 7,000,000 | $ | 12,250,000 | $ | 10,500,000 | ||||||
| TOTAL | $ | 400,000,000 | $ | 700,000,000 | $ | 600,000,000 | ||||||
Schedule II-1
SCHEDULE III
Schedule of Free Writing Prospectuses included in the Disclosure Package:
Final Pricing Term Sheet dated February 25, 2026, for $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.200% Senior Notes due 2029, $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033 and $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.300% Senior Notes due 2036, filed on February 25, 2026 with the Commission by the Company pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act.
Schedule III-1
SCHEDULE IV
FORM OF PRICING TERM SHEET
Omnicom Group Inc.
$400,000,000 4.200% Senior Notes due 2029
$700,000,000 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033
$600,000,000 5.300% Senior Notes due 2036
Pricing Term Sheet
February 25, 2026
| Issuer: | Omnicom Group Inc. |
| Expected Ratings (Moody’s / S&P)*: | [***] / [***] |
| Title of Securities: |
4.200% Senior Notes due 2029 (“2029 Notes”) 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033 (“2033 Notes”) 5.300% Senior Notes due 2036 (“2036 Notes”) |
| Principal Amount: |
2029 Notes: $400,000,000 2033 Notes: $700,000,000 2036 Notes: $600,000,000 |
| Coupon: |
2029 Notes: 4.200% per annum 2033 Notes: 5.000% per annum 2036 Notes: 5.300% per annum |
| Interest Payment Dates: |
2029 Notes: Semi-annually on each March 2 and September 2 2033 Notes: Semi-annually on each June 2 and December 2 2036 Notes: Semi-annually on each June 2 and December 2 |
| Initial Interest Payment Date: |
2029 Notes: September 2, 2026 2033 Notes: June 2, 2026 2036 Notes: June 2, 2026 |
| Maturity Date: |
2029 Notes: March 2, 2029 2033 Notes: June 2, 2033 2036 Notes: June 2, 2036 |
| Benchmark Treasury: |
2029 Notes: 3.500% UST due February 15, 2029 2033 Notes: 4.000% UST due January 31, 2033 2036 Notes: 4.125% UST due February 15, 2036 |
| Benchmark Treasury Price / Yield: |
2029 Notes: 100-01 / 3.489% 2033 Notes: 101-04 / 3.813% 2036 Notes: 100-19+ / 4.050% |
| Spread to Benchmark Treasury: |
2029 Notes: T + 75 basis points 2033 Notes: T + 120 basis points 2036 Notes: T + 130 basis points |
| Yield to Maturity: |
2029 Notes: 4.239% 2033 Notes: 5.013% 2036 Notes: 5.350% |
| Price to Public (Issue Price): |
2029 Notes: 99.891% of the principal amount 2033 Notes: 99.929% of the principal amount 2036 Notes: 99.618% of the principal amount |
| All-In Price (after deducting underwriting discount): |
2029 Notes: 99.491% of the principal amount 2033 Notes: 99.304% of the principal amount 2036 Notes: 98.968% of the principal amount |
Schedule IV-1
| Make-Whole Call: |
2029 Notes: Prior to February 2, 2029 at T+15 bps 2033 Notes: Prior to April 2, 2033 at T+20 bps 2036 Notes: Prior to March 2, 2036 at T+20 bps |
| Par Call: |
2029 Notes: On or after February 2, 2029 2033 Notes: On or after April 2, 2033 2036 Notes: On or after March 2, 2036 |
| Trade Date: | February 25, 2026 |
| Settlement Date**: | March 2, 2026 (T+3) |
| CUSIP: |
2029 Notes: 681919 BV7 2033 Notes: 681919 BW5 2036 Notes: 681919 BX3 |
| ISIN: |
2029 Notes: US681919BV74 2033 Notes: US681919BW57 2036 Notes: US681919BX31 |
| Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Book-Running Managers: | Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. |
| Joint Book-Running Managers: |
BofA Securities, Inc. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC BBVA Securities Inc. Mizuho Securities USA LLC Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. TD Securities (USA) LLC U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. |
| Co-Managers: |
ANZ Securities, Inc. BNP Paribas Securities Corp. HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. Loop Capital Markets LLC Standard Chartered Bank |
| Concurrent Offering: | Earlier today, Omnicom Finance Holdings plc, our wholly owned subsidiary, priced €600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.850% Senior Notes due 2034 (the “concurrent offering”). The concurrent offering is being made by means of a separate prospectus supplement and not by means of the prospectus supplement to which this pricing term sheet relates. This communication is not an offer of any securities other than the notes to which this pricing term sheet relates. The concurrent offering may not be completed, and the completion of the concurrent offering is not a condition to the completion of the offering of the notes to which this pricing term sheet relates. |
| * | An explanation of the significance of ratings may be obtained from the ratings agencies. Generally, ratings agencies base their ratings on such material and information, and such of their own investigations, studies and assumptions, as they deem appropriate. The security ratings above are not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold the securities offered hereby. The ratings may be subject to review, revision, supervision, reduction or withdrawal at any time by Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s. Each of the security ratings above should be evaluated independently of any other security rating. |
| ** | We currently expect to deliver the notes on or about March 2, 2026, which will be the third business day following the date of pricing of the notes (such settlement cycle being referred to as “T+3”). Under Rule 15c6-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in one business day (as such term is used for purposes of Rule 15c6-1 of the Exchange Act) unless the parties to any such trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers who wish to trade the notes on any date prior to the business day before delivery of the notes will be required, by virtue of the fact that the notes will settle in T+3, to specify an alternative settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement; such purchasers should consult their own advisors in this regard. |
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Schedule IV-2
SCHEDULE V
Electronic road show of the Company dated February 24, 2026
Schedule V-1
Exhibit 1.2
Execution Version
Omnicom Finance Holdings plc
3.850% Senior Notes due 2034
Underwriting Agreement
February 25, 2026
To the Representatives named in Schedule I
hereto of the several Underwriters
named in Schedule II hereto
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Omnicom Finance Holdings plc, a public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales (the “Issuer”), proposes to sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you (the “Representatives”) are acting as representatives, the principal amount of its 3.850% Senior Notes due 2034 (the “Notes”) identified in Schedule II hereto, to be issued under an indenture dated as of March 6, 2024 (as defined herein) (the “Base Indenture”), among the Issuer, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “Trustee”), Omnicom Group Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of New York (“OGI” or the “Guarantor”; and the Issuer together with the Guarantor, the “Companies,” and each, a “Company”), as supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture to be dated as of the Closing Date, among the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture”). The Supplemental Indenture together with the Base Indenture are herein collectively referred to as the “Indenture.” Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed (the “Guarantee”) on a senior unsecured basis by the Guarantor. The Notes and the Guarantee are herein collectively referred to as the “Securities.”
To the extent there are no additional Underwriters listed on Schedule II other than you, the term Representatives as used herein shall mean you, as Underwriters, and the terms Representatives and Underwriters shall mean either the singular or plural as the context requires. Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3, which were filed under the Exchange Act on or before the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein by reference. Certain terms used herein are defined in Section 30 hereof.
1. Representations and Warranties. The Issuer and the Guarantor, where applicable, represent and warrant to, and agree with, each Underwriter as set forth below in this Section 1 ((x) save that the representation, warranty and undertaking given in clause (gg) below shall not be made in so far as it would result in a violation of, or conflict with, (i) Council Regulation (EC) 2271/96 of 22 November 1996 (as amended, the “Blocking Regulation”) or any laws or regulations implementing the Blocking Regulation in any member state of the European Union, or any similar blocking or anti-boycott law in the European Union, (ii) the Blocking Regulation as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 or any similar blocking or anti-boycott law in the United Kingdom) or (iii) with respect to Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch only, Section 7 of the German Foreign Trade Regulation (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung); and (y) it being understood that any representations and warranties with respect to IPG (as defined below) and its subsidiaries are made to the knowledge of the Companies).
(a) The Companies meet the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Act and have prepared and filed with the Commission an automatic shelf registration statement, as defined in Rule 405 (the file number of which is set forth in Schedule I hereto) on Form S-3, including a related Base Prospectus, for registration under the Act of the offering and sale of the Securities. Such Registration Statement, including any amendments thereto filed prior to the Execution Time, became effective upon filing and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such registration statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Act has been received by any Company. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued by the Commission and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Act against any of the Companies or related to the offering has been initiated or threatened by the Commission. The Companies may have filed with the Commission, as part of an amendment to the Registration Statement or pursuant to Rule 424(b), one or more preliminary prospectus supplements relating to the Securities, each of which has previously been furnished to you. The Companies will file with the Commission a final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities in accordance with Rule 424(b). As filed, such final prospectus supplement shall contain, in all material respects, all information required by the Act and the rules thereunder, and, except to the extent the Representatives shall agree to a modification, shall be in all substantive respects in the form furnished to you prior to the Execution Time or, to the extent not completed at the Execution Time, shall contain only such specific additional information and other changes (beyond that contained in the Base Prospectus and any Preliminary Prospectus) as OGI has advised you, prior to the Execution Time, will be included or made therein. The Registration Statement, at the Execution Time, meets the requirements set forth in Rule 415(a)(1)(x). The initial Effective Date of the Registration Statement was not earlier than the date three years before the Execution Time.
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(b) On each Effective Date, the Registration Statement did, at the time of filing of each Preliminary Prospectus, such Preliminary Prospectus did, and when the Final Prospectus is first filed in accordance with Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus (and any supplement thereto) will, comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act, the Exchange Act and the Trust Indenture Act and the respective rules thereunder; on each Effective Date and at the Execution Time, the Registration Statement did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; on the Effective Date and on the Closing Date, the Indenture did or will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and the rules thereunder; at the time of filing of each Preliminary Prospectus, such Preliminary Prospectus did not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and on the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that none of the Companies makes any representations or warranties as to (i) those parts of the Registration Statement which shall constitute the Statements of Eligibility (Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of the Trustee or (ii) the information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Companies by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriters consists of the information described as such in Section 8 hereof.
(c) The documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, when they were filed with the Commission, conformed in all material respects with the applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus or the Disclosure Package, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(d) (i) The Disclosure Package and (ii) each electronic roadshow identified on Schedule V hereto, when taken together as a whole with the Disclosure Package, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Companies by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8 hereof.
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(e) (i) At the time of filing the Registration Statement, (ii) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), (iii) at the time any Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c)) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption in Rule 163, and (iv) at the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (iv)), each Company was or is (as the case may be) a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405. The Companies agree to pay the fees required by the Commission relating to the Securities within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r).
(f) (i) At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Issuer or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2)) of the Securities and (ii) as of the Execution Time (with such date being used as the determination date for purposes of this clause (ii)), each of the Companies was not and is not an Ineligible Issuer (as defined in Rule 405), without taking account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary that any such Company be considered an Ineligible Issuer.
(g) Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereof, does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any document incorporated therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified. The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Companies by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 8 hereof.
(h) (i) KPMG LLP, whose report accompanies the audited financial statements and supporting schedule included in or incorporated by reference into the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to OGI and its consolidated subsidiaries within the meaning of the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”) and (ii) PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, whose report accompanies the audited financial statements of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (“IPG”) and its consolidated subsidiaries included in or incorporated by reference into the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm of IPG and its consolidated subsidiaries within the meaning of the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB.
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(i) The financial statements of the Company, together with the related schedules and notes, included in or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates indicated and consolidated balance sheets and statements of income, equity and comprehensive income and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods specified and said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved. The financial statements of IPG and its consolidated subsidiaries, together with the related schedules and notes, included in or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of IPG and its consolidated subsidiaries at the dates indicated and consolidated balance sheets and statements of income, equity and comprehensive income and cash flows of IPG and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods specified and said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved. The supporting schedules, if any, included in or incorporated by reference into the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly, in all material respects, in accordance with U.S. GAAP the information required to be stated therein. The pro forma financial statements incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement include assumptions that provide a reasonable basis for presenting the significant effects directly attributable to the transactions and events described therein, the related pro forma adjustments give appropriate effect to those assumptions, and the pro forma adjustments reflect the proper application of those adjustments to the historical financial statement amounts in the pro forma financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement. The pro forma financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of Regulation S-X under the Act. Except as included or incorporated by reference in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, no other financial statements, pro forma financial information or supporting schedules are required to be included or incorporated in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement under the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission.
(j) Each of the Companies has been duly incorporated or organized and is validly existing as a corporation or public limited company, as applicable, in good standing (or the foreign equivalent, if any) under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, as applicable, and has the requisite corporate or public limited company power and authority to own, lease and operate its respective properties and to conduct its respective business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities; and none of them are required to qualify as a foreign corporation to transact business in any other jurisdiction, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing (i) would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the performance of this Agreement or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated hereby or (ii) would not reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, earnings, business or properties of OGI and its Subsidiaries (as defined below), taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business (a “Material Adverse Effect”).
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(k) The authorized, issued and outstanding capital stock of OGI is as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus in the column entitled “Actual” under the caption “Capitalization” (except for subsequent repurchases by OGI, issuances pursuant to reservations, agreements, incentive stock option plans referred to in the Disclosure Package or Final Prospectus or pursuant to the exercise of convertible securities or options referred to in the Disclosure Package or Final Prospectus). The shares of issued and outstanding capital stock of OGI have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; none of the outstanding shares of capital stock of OGI was issued in violation of the preemptive or other similar rights of any securityholder of OGI.
(l) OGI is a holding company that conducts its business through over 1,000 separate subsidiary entities (each, a “Subsidiary,” and together, the “Subsidiaries”). There is no matter arising out of the organization, existence, capitalization, compliance with laws or contractual or other construction of any agreement of or relating to any such Subsidiary or all of such Subsidiaries in the aggregate that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(m) Except for such of the following as would not have a Material Adverse Effect, there are no consensual encumbrances or restrictions on the ability of any Subsidiary (i) to pay any dividends or make any distributions on such Subsidiary’s capital stock or to pay any indebtedness owed to OGI or any of its other Subsidiaries, (ii) to make any loans or advances to, or investments in, OGI or any of its other Subsidiaries, or (iii) to transfer any of its property or assets to OGI or any of its other Subsidiaries.
(n) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Companies.
(o) The Base Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Companies and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Companies, enforceable against the Companies in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (including, without limitation, good faith, fair dealing and reasonableness, equitable defenses, the exercise of judicial discretion and limits on the enforceability of equitable remedies, whether such principles are considered in a proceeding at law or in equity); the Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized by the Companies and, when executed and delivered by the Companies and the Trustee, will constitute a valid and binding agreement of the Companies, enforceable against the Companies in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (including, without limitation, good faith, fair dealing and reasonableness, equitable defenses, the exercise of judicial discretion and limits on the enforceability of equitable remedies, whether such principles are considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).
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(p) The Notes have been duly authorized and, at the Closing Date, will have been duly executed by the Issuer and, when authenticated, issued and delivered in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor as provided in this Agreement, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Issuer, enforceable against the Issuer in accordance with their terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (including, without limitation, good faith, fair dealing and reasonableness, equitable defenses, the exercise of judicial discretion and limits on the enforceability of equitable remedies, whether such principles are considered in a proceeding at law or in equity), and will be in the form contemplated by, and entitled to the benefits of, the Indenture.
(q) The Guarantee has been duly authorized and, at the Closing Date, will have been duly executed by the Guarantor and, when the Notes have been authenticated, issued and delivered in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor as provided in this Agreement, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Guarantor, enforceable against the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (including, without limitation, good faith, fair dealing and reasonableness, equitable defenses, the exercise of judicial discretion and limits on the enforceability of equitable remedies, whether such principles are considered in a proceeding at law or in equity), and will be in the form contemplated by, and entitled to the benefits of, the Indenture.
(r) The Securities and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the respective statements relating thereto contained in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.
(s) No Company is in violation of its charter, by-laws or other organizational documents; and no Subsidiary of OGI is in violation of its charter, by-laws or other organizational documents except for such violations that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Neither OGI nor any of its Subsidiaries is in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which OGI or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it may be bound or to which any of the property or assets of OGI or any of its Subsidiaries may be subject (collectively, “Agreements and Instruments”), except for such defaults or violations that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities and any other agreement or instrument entered into or issued or to be entered into or issued by the Companies in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (including the issuance and sale of the Securities and the use of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus under the caption “Use of Proceeds”) and compliance by the Companies with their respective obligations hereunder have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and do not and will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or a Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of OGI or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to, the Agreements and Instruments except for such conflicts, breaches or defaults or Repayment Events, liens, charges or encumbrances that, individually or in the aggregate, would not result in a Material Adverse Effect, nor will such action result in any violation of (x) the provisions of the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Companies; (y) the charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Subsidiaries of OGI or (z) any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, government instrumentality or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over OGI or any of its Subsidiaries or any of their assets, properties or operations except (in the case of (y) and (z) only) as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. As used herein, a “Repayment Event” means any event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by OGI or any of its Subsidiaries.
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(t) No labor dispute with the employees of OGI or any of its Subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of OGI, is imminent, and OGI is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of its or any of its Subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, customers or contractors, which, in any such case, may reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(u) Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending or, to the knowledge of OGI, threatened against or affecting OGI or any of its Subsidiaries which might reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, or which might reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the properties or assets of OGI or any of its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the performance by OGI of its obligations hereunder. The aggregate of all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which OGI or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or of which any of their respective property or assets is the subject which are not described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(v) OGI and its Subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms adequate patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) trademarks, service marks, trade names or other intellectual property (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) necessary to continue to carry on the business now operated by them in all material respects, and neither OGI nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice or is otherwise aware of any infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any Intellectual Property or of any facts or circumstances which would render any Intellectual Property invalid or inadequate to protect the interest of OGI or any of its Subsidiaries therein except for such of the foregoing as would not result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(w) No filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any court or governmental authority or agency is necessary or required for the performance by the Companies of their respective obligations hereunder in connection with the offering, issuance or sale of the Securities hereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or for the due execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement, the Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture by the Companies, except (i) such as have been already obtained or (ii) such as may be required by the securities or blue sky laws of the various states in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters in the manner contemplated herein and in the Final Prospectus.
(x) OGI and its Subsidiaries possess such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively, “Governmental Licenses”) issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to continue to conduct the business now operated by them in all material aspects; OGI and its Subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Governmental Licenses, except where the failure to have such Governmental Licenses or to so comply would not, either individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; all of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except where the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and neither OGI nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such Governmental Licenses which, individually or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would result in a Material Adverse Effect.
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(y) OGI and each of its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all real property owned by OGI and such Subsidiary and good title to all other properties owned by them, in each case, free and clear of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests, claims, restrictions or encumbrances of any kind except such as (a) are described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus or (b) would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, and all of the leases and subleases material to the business of OGI and its Subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, and under which OGI or any of its Subsidiaries holds properties described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, are in full force and effect, and neither OGI nor any of its Subsidiaries has any notice of any material claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of OGI or any of its Subsidiaries under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of OGI or any of its Subsidiaries to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease, except for such of the foregoing as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(z) OGI maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.
(aa) OGI and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, maintain an effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that is designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by OGI in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to OGI’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. OGI and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, have carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.
(bb) Except as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and except such matters as would not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect, (A) neither OGI nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (B) OGI and its Subsidiaries have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws and are each in compliance with their requirements, (C) there are no pending, or to the knowledge of OGI, threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings relating to any Environmental Law against OGI or any of its Subsidiaries and (D) to the knowledge of OGI, there are no events or circumstances that might reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or governmental body or agency, against or affecting OGI or any of its Subsidiaries relating to Hazardous Materials or Environmental Laws.
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(cc) The Companies are not, and upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus will not be, an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
(dd) The Issuer is a wholly owned subsidiary of OGI.
(ee) Neither OGI nor any of its Subsidiaries, directors or officers nor, to the knowledge of OGI, any director or officer of any of its Subsidiaries nor any agent, employee, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of OGI or any of its Subsidiaries has (i) used any funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity in contravention of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”) or the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom, as amended (the “UKBA”); (ii) made or taken an act in furtherance of an offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government or regulatory official or employee, including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office in contravention of the FCPA or the UKBA; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the FCPA or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the UKBA or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws (collectively, the “Anti-Corruption Laws”) or (iv) made, offered, agreed, requested or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including, without limitation, any unlawful rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful or improper payment or benefit. OGI has implemented and maintained in effect policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote compliance by OGI and its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, agents, employees and affiliates with all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws.
(ff) The operations of OGI and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where OGI or any of its Subsidiaries conducts business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental or regulatory agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving OGI or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of OGI, threatened.
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(gg) Neither OGI nor any of its Subsidiaries, directors or officers nor, to the knowledge of OGI, any director or officer of any of its Subsidiaries nor any agent, employee, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of OGI or any of its Subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government, (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”) or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”), the European Union, the United Kingdom (including His Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”) and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is OGI or any of its Subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or the target of Sanctions (each such country or territory, a “Sanctioned Country”), including, without limitation, on the date hereof, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic or so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, Crimea region, the non-government controlled areas of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Regions and the other “Covered Regions” (as defined in Executive Order 14065 of the President of the United States), Belarus, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela, to the extent prohibited for an individual or entity required to comply with Sanctions; and OGI will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any person or entity in violation of the Anti-Corruption Laws or any additional anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to OGI and its Subsidiaries, (ii) for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business or transaction of or with any Sanctioned Person (or, to the knowledge of any officer, director or employee of OGI who is engaged in or has approved a transaction with such person, any person in which a Sanctioned Person owns, directly or indirectly, a 50 percent or greater interest) or in any Sanctioned Country, or (iii) in any other manner that would result in the violation of any Sanctions applicable to any party hereto.
“Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any person or entity listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated persons maintained by OFAC, the U.S. Department of State or HMT, or (b) any person or entity located, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country.
(hh) No holders of securities of OGI have rights to the registration of such securities under the Registration Statement.
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(ii) There is and has been no failure on the part of OGI or any of OGI’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply in all material respects with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith, including Section 402 relating to loans and Sections 302 and 906 relating to certifications.
(jj) Since the date of the most recent financial statements of OGI included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there has been no Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(kk) There are no stamp or other issuance or transfer taxes or duties or other similar fees or charges required to be paid by or on behalf of the Underwriters in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Belgium, Luxembourg or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof in connection with (1) the creation, issue or delivery by the Issuer of the Notes, (2) the creation, issue or delivery by the Guarantor of the Guarantee, (3) the purchase by the Underwriters of the Securities in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, (4) the sale, transfer and delivery by the Underwriters of the Securities in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, or (5) the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the Indenture and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
(ll) All payments to be made by any of the Companies or its subsidiaries under this Agreement and all interest, principal, premium, if any, additional amounts, if any, and other payments on or under the Securities may, under the current laws and regulations of the United Kingdom, the United States of America, any other jurisdiction in which any of the Companies, as the case may be, is organized or is otherwise resident for tax purposes, any jurisdiction from or through which a payment is made, and any political subdivision, authority or agency therein or thereof having power to tax (each, a “Taxing Jurisdiction”) be paid without withholding or deduction for taxes (in relation to the withholding or deduction for United Kingdom taxes from payments of interest under the Securities, provided that the Securities are and remain listed and admitted to trading on a “recognised stock exchange” within the meaning of section 1005 of the Income Tax Act 2007) and without the necessity of obtaining any governmental authorization in the Taxing Jurisdiction.
(mm) The Issuer has the power to submit, and pursuant to Section 16(b) hereof has submitted, to the extent permitted by law, to the jurisdiction of any U.S. Federal or New York State court located in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, County and State of New York with respect to this Agreement; and the Issuer has the power to designate, and pursuant to Section 16(b) hereof, has designated, appointed and empowered OGI as agent for service of process in any suit, action or proceedings based on or arising under this Agreement in any U.S. Federal or New York State court in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, County and State of New York, as provided herein, and OGI has, pursuant to Section 16(b) hereof, accepted such appointment with respect to this Agreement.
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(nn) The Issuer is not entitled to claim for itself or any of its assets or revenues any immunity or exemption from suit, execution, attachment or other legal process in the jurisdiction in which it has been organized or in any jurisdiction in which any of its property or assets are held and, to the extent that the Issuer or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties, assets or revenues may have or may hereafter become entitled to any such right of immunity in any such court in which proceedings arising out of, or relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, may at any time be commenced, each Company has, pursuant to this Agreement, waived, and it will waive, or will cause its subsidiaries to waive, such right to the extent permitted by law.
Any certificate signed by any officer of any of the Companies and delivered to the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters in connection with the offering of the Securities shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Companies, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.
2. Purchase and Sale. Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, the Issuer agrees to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Issuer, at the purchase price set forth in Schedule I hereto the principal amount of the Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name in Schedule II hereto.
3. Delivery and Payment. Delivery of and payment for the Securities shall be made on the date and at the time specified in Schedule I hereto or at such time on such later date not more than three Business Days after the foregoing date as the Representatives shall designate, which date and time may be postponed by agreement between the Representatives and the Issuer or as provided in Section 9 hereof (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Securities being herein called the “Closing Date”). Delivery of the Securities shall be made to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against payment by the several Underwriters through the Representatives of the purchase price thereof to or upon the order of the Issuer by wire transfer payable in same-day funds to an account specified by the Issuer. The Securities will be delivered by the Issuer in the form of one or more global notes (the “Global Notes”), duly executed and registered in the name of BT Globenet Nominees Limited, with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the sale of the Securities duly paid by the Companies. Delivery of the applicable Global Notes shall be made through the facilities of a common depositary or its nominee (the “Common Depositary”) on behalf of Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. (“Euroclear”) and Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, Luxembourg (“Clearstream, Luxembourg”) unless the Representatives shall otherwise instruct. It is understood that the Common Depositary has been authorized by the Representatives, for their own accounts and the accounts of the several Underwriters, to accept delivery of and receipt for, and make payment of the purchase price for, the Securities.
Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch (the “Settlement Bank”) acknowledges that the Securities will initially be credited to an account (the “Commissionaire Account”) for the benefit of the Settlement Bank, the terms of which include a third-party beneficiary clause, with the Issuer as the third-party beneficiary and provide that such Securities are to be delivered to others only against payment of the purchase price for the Securities into the Commissionaire Account on a delivery against payment basis.
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The Settlement Bank acknowledges that (i) the Securities shall be held to the order of the Issuer as set out above and (ii) the purchase price for the Securities received in the Commissionaire Account will be held on behalf of the Issuer until such time as it is transferred to the Issuer’s order. The Settlement Bank undertakes that the purchase price for the Securities will be transferred to the Issuer’s order promptly following receipt of such purchase price in the Commissionaire Account.
The Issuer acknowledges and accepts the benefit of the third-party beneficiary clause in respect of the Commissionaire Account.
4. Offering by Underwriters. It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Securities for sale to the public as set forth in the Final Prospectus.
5. Agreements. Each of the Companies agrees with the several Underwriters that:
(a) Prior to the termination of the offering of the Securities, none of the Companies will file any amendment of the Registration Statement or supplement (including the Final Prospectus or any Preliminary Prospectus) to the Base Prospectus unless OGI has furnished you a copy for your review prior to filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object. The Companies will cause the Final Prospectus, properly completed, and any supplement thereto to be filed in a form approved by the Representatives with the Commission pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed and will provide evidence satisfactory to the Representatives of such timely filing. OGI will promptly advise the Representatives: (1) when the Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed (if required) with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b), (2) when, prior to termination of the offering of the Securities, any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have been filed or become effective, (3) of any request by the Commission or its staff for any amendment of the Registration Statement or for any supplement to the Final Prospectus or for any additional information, (4) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or of any notice objecting to its use or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose and (5) of the receipt by any of the Companies of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. Each of the Companies will use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order or the occurrence of any such suspension or objection to the use of the Registration Statement and, upon such issuance, occurrence or notice of objection, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal of such stop order or relief from such occurrence or objection, including, if necessary, by filing an amendment to the Registration Statement or a new registration statement and using its reasonable best efforts to have such amendment or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable.
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(b) To prepare a final term sheet, containing solely a description of final terms the Securities, in the form attached as Schedule IV hereto, and to file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such Rule.
(c) If, at any time prior to the filing of a final prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b), any event occurs as a result of which the Disclosure Package would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made at such time, not misleading, OGI will (i) notify promptly the Representatives so that any use of the Disclosure Package may cease until it is amended or supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement the Disclosure Package to correct such statement or omission; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.
(d) If, at any time when the Final Prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), any event occurs as a result of which the Final Prospectus, as then supplemented, would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made at such time, not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement, file a new registration statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply with the Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder, including in connection with use or delivery of the Final Prospectus, OGI promptly will (i) notify the Representatives of such event, (ii) prepare and file with the Commission, subject to the second sentence of paragraph (a) of this Section 5, an amendment or supplement or new registration statement which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance, (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to have any amendment to the Registration Statement or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable in order to avoid any disruption in use of the Final Prospectus and (iv) supply any supplemented Final Prospectus to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.
(e) As soon as practicable, OGI will make generally available to its security holders and to the Representatives, an earnings statement or statements (which need not be audited) of OGI and its Subsidiaries which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act and Rule 158.
(f) The Companies will furnish to each of the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, one signed copy of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto) and to each other Underwriter a copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), as many copies of each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any supplement thereto as the Representatives may reasonably request.
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(g) The Companies will arrange, if necessary, for the qualification of the Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate, will maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities and will pay any fee of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority in connection with its review of the offering; provided that in no event shall any of the Companies be obligated to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified or to take any action that (i) would subject it to service of process in suits, other than those arising out of the offering or sale of the Securities, or (ii) would subject it to payment of taxes, in any jurisdiction where it is not now so subject.
(h) The Companies agree that, unless they have obtained or will obtain the prior written consent of the Representatives, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees with the Companies that, unless it has obtained or will obtain, as the case may be, the prior written consent of OGI, each of them has not made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405) required to be filed by the Companies with the Commission or retained by the Companies under Rule 433, other than a free writing prospectus containing the information contained in the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereof; provided that the prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Free Writing Prospectuses included in Schedule III and Schedule V hereto. Any such free writing prospectus consented to by the Representatives or OGI is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.” The Companies agree that (x) they have treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and (y) they have complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping.
(i) The Companies will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, or otherwise dispose of (or enter into any transaction which is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the Companies or any affiliate of the Companies or any person in privity with the Companies or any affiliate of the Companies), directly or indirectly, including the filing (or participation in the filing) of a registration statement with the Commission in respect of, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act, any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Companies (other than the Securities) or publicly announce an intention to effect any such transaction, until the Business Day set forth on Schedule I hereto.
(j) The Companies will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Companies to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities. The Companies have not issued nor will issue, without the prior consent of the Underwriters, any stabilization announcement referring to the proposed issue of Securities. Each of the Companies authorizes the Underwriters to make such public disclosure of information relating to stabilization of the Securities as is required by applicable law, regulation and guidance.
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(k) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Companies will pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of their respective obligations hereunder, including without limitation, (i) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Securities and any taxes payable in that connection; (ii) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and filing under the Act of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (including all exhibits, amendments and supplements thereto) and the distribution thereof; (iii) the costs of reproducing and distributing this Agreement, the Indenture and the Securities; (iv) the fees and expenses of the Companies’ counsel and independent accountants; (v) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the registration or qualification and determination of eligibility for investment of the Securities under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate and the preparation, printing and distribution of a Blue Sky Memorandum (including the reasonable related fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters); (vi) any fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Securities; (vii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee, any paying agent, any transfer agent and any registrar (including related fees and expenses of any counsel to such parties) and all fees and expenses (including fees and expenses of counsel) in connection with clearance and settlement of the Securities by “book-entry” transfer with the Common Depositary for Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg; (viii) all expenses and application fees incurred in connection with any filing with, and clearance of the offering by, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority; (ix) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the Securities on The New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”); (x) any stamp or other duties or taxes (including any interest and penalties) on or in connection with the issue and delivery of the Securities, the purchase by the Underwriters of the Securities, the sale and delivery of the Securities by the Underwriters to the initial purchasers thereof and the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Guarantee and any value added tax payable in connection with the commissions or other amounts payable or allowed under this Agreement and otherwise in connection with the transactions envisaged by this Agreement; and (xi) all expenses incurred by the Companies in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors.
(l) The Companies shall use commercially reasonable efforts to have the Securities listed and admitted to trading on the NYSE or another “recognised stock exchange” (as defined in Section 1005 of the United Kingdom Income Tax Act 2007) upon issuance of the Securities or as promptly as practicable thereafter.
(m) The Companies shall cooperate with the Representatives and use their commercially reasonable efforts in arranging for the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through Clearstream, Luxembourg and Euroclear.
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(n) The Companies agree with each of the Underwriters that all payments under this Agreement shall be made free and clear of, and without withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature imposed or levied by or on behalf of any Taxing Jurisdiction (“Taxes”), unless any of the Companies is required by law to so withhold or deduct any amount for or on account of any Taxes from any payment made hereunder. In that event, any such Company shall pay such additional amounts as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received after such withholding or deduction will equal the amount that would have been received if no withholding or deduction has been made, except to the extent that such Taxes (a) were imposed due to any present or former connection of an Underwriter with the Taxing Jurisdiction other than (i) a jurisdiction where the persons entitled to payment are incorporated or (ii) any connection arising solely from the entering into of this Agreement or receipt of payments hereunder or (b) would not have been imposed but for the failure of such Underwriter to comply with any reasonable certification, identification or other reporting requirements concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with the Taxing Jurisdiction of the Underwriter if such compliance is required or imposed by law as a precondition to an exemption from, or reduction in, such taxes, duties or other charges.
(o) All amounts payable by the Companies under this Agreement shall be exclusive of value added tax and any similar Tax (“VAT”). If VAT is chargeable on any supply under this Agreement (for which an Underwriter or its affiliate is liable to account to a Tax authority), the Companies will pay to the relevant Underwriter an amount equal to such VAT (against delivery of an appropriate VAT invoice). Where any Company is required under this Agreement to reimburse or indemnify any Underwriter for or against any cost or expense, the amount of such cost or expense shall include all amounts representing VAT on such cost or expense save to the extent that the relevant Underwriter determines (in its sole discretion exercised in good faith) the relevant VAT is recoverable.
6. Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Securities shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Companies contained herein as of the Execution Time and the Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Companies made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Companies of their obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
(a) The Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, has been filed in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); the final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(b) hereto, and any other material required to be filed by the Companies pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or, to the Companies’ knowledge, threatened.
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(b) The Companies shall have requested and caused Jones Day, counsel for the Companies, to have furnished to the Representatives their opinions, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(c) The Companies shall have requested and caused Louis F. Januzzi, general counsel for OGI, to have furnished to the Representatives his opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(d) The Representatives shall have received from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities, the Indenture, the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Companies shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.
(e) The Companies shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate of the Companies, signed by, in the case of OGI, an Executive Vice President, or, in the case of the Issuer, a director, and the principal financial or accounting officer of each of the Companies, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus, the Disclosure Package and any supplements or amendments thereto, as well as each electronic roadshow used to offer the Securities identified on Schedule V and this Agreement and that:
(i) the representations and warranties of the Companies in this Agreement are true and correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and the Companies have complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on their part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date;
(ii) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to any of the Companies’ knowledge, threatened; and
(iii) since the date of the most recent financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).
(f) OGI shall have requested and caused each of KPMG LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to have furnished to the Representatives, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, letters (which may refer to letters previously delivered to one or more of the Representatives), dated respectively as of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, confirming that they are independent accountants within the meaning of the Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the PCAOB and containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three business days prior to the Closing Date.
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(g) Subsequent to the Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), there shall not have been (i) any change or decrease specified in the letter or letters referred to in paragraph (g) of this Section 6 or (ii) any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business or properties of OGI and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) the effect of which, in any case referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above, is, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).
(h) Subsequent to the Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of the Companies’ debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.
(i) On or before the Closing Date, the Securities shall be eligible for clearance and settlement through Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg.
(j) On or before the Closing Date, an application for listing of the Securities on the NYSE shall have been submitted to the NYSE.
(k) At the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, the Representatives shall have received from the chief financial officer of OGI a certificate with respect to certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
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(l) Prior to the Closing Date, the Companies shall have furnished to the Representatives such further information, certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request.
If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled when and as provided in this Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall not be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, this Agreement and, subject to Section 11 hereof, all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the Closing Date by the Representatives. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to OGI in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing.
The documents required to be delivered by this Section 6 shall be delivered at the office of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling US LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, at 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022 or One Bishops Square, London E1 6AD, United Kingdom, on the Closing Date.
7. Reimbursement of Underwriters’ Expenses. If the sale of the Securities provided for herein is not consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Underwriters set forth in Section 6 hereof is not satisfied, because of any termination pursuant to Section 10 hereof or because of any refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Companies to perform any agreement herein or comply with any provision hereof other than by reason of a default by any of the Underwriters, the Companies will, jointly and severally, reimburse the Underwriters severally through Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch on demand for all out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) that shall have been incurred by them in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Securities.
8. Indemnification and Contribution. (a) The Companies agree, jointly and severally, to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the directors, officers, employees, affiliates and agents of each Underwriter and each person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Act, the Exchange Act or other Federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement as originally filed or in any amendment thereof, or in the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or any other preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Securities, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the information contained in the final term sheet required to be prepared and filed pursuant to Section 5(b) hereto, or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the Companies will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Companies by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion therein. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Companies may otherwise have.
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(b) Each Underwriter severally and not jointly agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Companies, each of their respective directors, each of their respective officers who signs the Registration Statement, and each person who controls the Companies within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Companies to each Underwriter, but only with reference to written information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Companies by or on behalf of such Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which any Underwriter may otherwise have. The Companies acknowledge that the statements set forth in the last paragraph of the cover page regarding delivery of the Securities and, under the heading “Underwriting,” (i) in the first paragraph, the list of Underwriters and their respective participation in the sale of the Securities, and (ii) the fifth paragraph related to stabilization in any Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus constitute the only information furnished in writing by or on behalf of the several Underwriters for inclusion in any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus.
(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve it from liability under paragraph (a) or (b) above unless and to the extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above. The indemnifying party shall be entitled to appoint counsel of the indemnifying party’s choice at the indemnifying party’s expense to represent the indemnified party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the indemnifying party shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate counsel retained by the indemnified party or parties except as set forth below); provided, however, that such counsel shall be satisfactory to the indemnified party. Notwithstanding the indemnifying party’s election to appoint counsel to represent the indemnified party in an action, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel), and the indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party to represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest, (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action or (iv) the indemnifying party shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party. In no event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in addition to any local counsel) separate from their own counsel in connection with any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding and does not include an admission of fault.
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(d) In the event that the indemnity provided in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 8 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, the Companies and the Underwriters severally agree to contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending same) (collectively “Losses”) to which the Companies and one or more of the Underwriters may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Companies on the one hand and by the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities; provided, however, that in no case shall (i) any Underwriter (except as may be provided in any agreement among underwriters relating to the offering of the Securities) be responsible for any amount in excess of the underwriting discount or commission applicable to the Securities purchased by such Underwriter hereunder. If the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is unavailable for any reason, the Companies and the Underwriters severally shall contribute in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Companies on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. Benefits received by the Companies shall be deemed to be equal to the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by them collectively, and benefits received by the Underwriters shall be deemed to be equal to the total underwriting discounts and commissions, in each case as set forth on the cover page of the Final Prospectus. Relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or any alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information provided by the Companies on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Companies and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (d), no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this Section 8, each person who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act and each director, officer, employee and agent of an Underwriter shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each person who controls the Companies within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, each officer of the Companies who shall have signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Companies shall have the same rights to contribution as the Companies, subject in each case to the applicable terms and conditions of this paragraph (d).
9. Default by an Underwriter. If any one or more Underwriters shall fail to purchase and pay for any of the Securities agreed to be purchased by such Underwriter or Underwriters hereunder and such failure to purchase shall constitute a default in the performance of its or their obligations under this Agreement, the remaining Underwriters shall be obligated severally to take up and pay for (in the respective proportions which the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their names in Schedule II hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the names of all the remaining Underwriters) the Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase; provided, however, that in the event that the aggregate principal amount of Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase shall exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth in Schedule II hereto, the remaining Underwriters shall have the right to purchase all, but shall not be under any obligation to purchase any, of the Securities, and if such nondefaulting Underwriters do not purchase all the Securities, this Agreement will terminate without liability to any nondefaulting Underwriter or the Companies. In the event of a default by any Underwriter as set forth in this Section 9, the Closing Date shall be postponed for such period, not exceeding five Business Days, as the Representatives shall determine in order that the required changes in the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to the Companies and any nondefaulting Underwriter for damages occasioned by its default hereunder.
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10. Termination. This Agreement shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, by notice given to the Companies prior to delivery of and payment for the Securities, if at any time prior to such time (i) trading in OGI’s common stock shall have been suspended by the Commission or the NYSE or trading in securities generally on the NYSE shall have been suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such Exchange, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by U.S. Federal, New York State, Delaware State, United Kingdom or European Union authorities, (iii) there shall have occurred a material disruption in securities settlement or clearance services in the United States or with respect to the Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg systems in Europe or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities nationally or internationally involving the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union, declaration by the United States, the United Kingdom or the European Union of a national emergency or war, or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the United States or international financial markets is such as to make it, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).
11. Representations and Indemnities to Survive. The respective agreements, representations, warranties, indemnities and other statements of the Companies or their officers and of the Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or the Companies or any of the officers, directors, employees, agents or controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities. The provisions of Sections 5(k), 7, 8 and 16 hereof shall survive the termination or cancellation of this Agreement.
12. Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and effective only on receipt, and, if sent to the Representatives, will be mailed, delivered or telefaxed to BNP PARIBAS at 16, boulevard des Italiens 75009 Paris, France, attention: Debt Syndicate Desk, email: [email protected]; Citigroup Global Markets Limited at Citigroup Centre, Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5LB, United Kingdom, fax: +44 20 7986 1927, attention: Syndicate Desk; Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch at 21 Moorfields, London EC2Y 9DB, United Kingdom, tel: +44 207 545 4361, attention: DCM Debt Syndicate or HSBC Bank plc at 8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ, tel: +44 20 7991 8888, email: [email protected], attention: Head of DCM Legal; or, if sent to the Companies, will be mailed or delivered to 280 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017 (tel: +1 212-415-3600), attention of the Legal Department, with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to Jones Day, 250 Vesey Street, New York, New York 10281 (tel: +1 212-326-3939), Attention: Rory T. Hood.
13. Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers, directors, employees, agents and controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.
14. No Fiduciary Duty. The Companies hereby acknowledge that (a) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Companies, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and any affiliate through which it may be acting, on the other, (b) the Underwriters are acting as principal and not as an agent or fiduciary of the Companies and (c) the Companies’ engagement of the Underwriters in connection with the offering and the process leading up to the offering is as independent contractors and not in any other capacity. Furthermore, the Companies agree that they are solely responsible for making their own judgments in connection with the offering (irrespective of whether any of the Underwriters has advised or is currently advising the Companies on related or other matters). The Companies agree that they will not claim that the Underwriters have rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owe an agency, fiduciary or similar duty to the Companies, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.
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15. Integration. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Companies and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.
16. Applicable Law. (a) This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts made and to be performed within the State of New York.
(b) By the execution and delivery of this Agreement, (i) the Issuer hereby irrevocably designates and appoints OGI (together with any successor, the “Agent for Service”), as its authorized agent upon which process may be served in any suit or proceeding based on or arising out of this Agreement or the Securities, that may be instituted in any U.S. federal or state court in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, County and State of New York, or brought under U.S. federal or state securities laws, (ii) OGI hereby accepts the appointment as Agent for Service made by the Issuer in clause (i) above, (iii) the Issuer submits to the jurisdiction of any such court in any such suit or proceeding, and (iv) the Issuer agrees that service of process upon the Agent for Service shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Issuer in any such suit or proceeding. The Issuer further agrees to take any and all action, including the execution and filing of any and all such documents and instruments, as may be necessary to continue such designation and appointment of the Agent for Service in full force and effect so long as any of the Securities shall be outstanding.
17. Waiver of Jury Trial. The Companies hereby irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.
18. Agreement Among Underwriters. The execution of this Agreement by each Underwriter constitutes the acceptance of each Underwriter of the ICMA Agreement Among Managers Version 1/New York Schedule (the “AAM”), subject to any amendment notified to the Underwriters in writing at any time prior to the execution of this Agreement. References to the “Managers” shall be deemed to refer to the Underwriters, references to the “Lead Managers” shall be deemed to refer to each of the Representatives, references to “Settlement Lead Manager” shall be deemed to refer to Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch and references to “Subscription Agreement” shall be deemed to refer to this Agreement. As applicable to the Underwriters, Clause 3 of the AAM shall be deemed to be deleted in its entirety and replaced with Section 9 of this Agreement.
Each Underwriter agrees severally to pay the portion of the aggregate expenses of the Underwriters represented by such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on the proportion that the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite each Underwriter’s name in Schedule II bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite the names of all Underwriters) of the Securities (with respect to each Underwriter, the “Pro Rata Expenses”). Notwithstanding anything contained in the International Capital Markets Association Primary Market Handbook, each Underwriter hereby agrees that the Settlement Lead Manager (as defined in this Section 18) may allocate the Pro Rata Expenses to the account of such Underwriter for settlement of accounts (including payment of such Underwriter’s fees by the Settlement Lead Manager) as soon as practicable but in any case no later than 90 days following the Closing Date.
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Where there are any inconsistencies between this Agreement and the AAM, the terms of this Agreement shall prevail. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 18 purely governs the relationship among the Underwriters and does not affect the relationship in this Agreement between the Companies on one hand and any of the Underwriters on the other hand.
19. Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same agreement. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement or any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means.
20. Judgment Currency. If for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder into any currency other than the Agreement Currency, the parties hereto agree, to the fullest extent that they may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Underwriters could purchase the Agreement Currency with such other currency in New York City on the business day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligations of the Companies in respect of any sum due from them to the Underwriters shall, notwithstanding any judgment in any currency other than the Agreement Currency, not be discharged until the first Business Day, following receipt by the Underwriters of any sum adjudged to be so due in such other currency, on which (and only to the extent that) the Underwriters may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with such other currency; if the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Underwriters hereunder, each Company agrees (on joint and several basis), as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Underwriters against such loss. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Underwriters hereunder, each of the Underwriters severally and not jointly agrees to pay to the Companies (but without duplication) an amount equal to the excess of the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased over the sum originally due to any such Underwriter hereunder.
21. Contractual Recognition of UK Bail-In. Notwithstanding and to the exclusion of any other term of this Agreement or any other agreements, arrangements, or understanding between any UK Bail-in Party and any other party to this Agreement, each party to this Agreement acknowledges and accepts that a UK Bail-in Liability arising under this Agreement may be subject to the exercise of UK Bail-in Powers by the relevant UK resolution authority, and acknowledges, accepts, and agrees to be bound by:
(a) the effect of the exercise of UK Bail-in Powers by the relevant UK resolution authority in relation to any UK Bail-in Liability of a UK Bail-in Party to any other party under this Agreement, that (without limitation) may include and result in any of the following, or some combination thereof:
(i) the reduction of all, or a portion, of the UK Bail-in Liability or outstanding amounts due thereon;
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(ii) the conversion of all, or a portion, of the UK Bail-in Liability into shares, other securities or other obligations of the UK Bail-in Party or another person, and the issue to or conferral on the other parties to this Agreement of such shares, securities or obligations;
(iii) the cancellation of the UK Bail-in Liability;
(iv) the amendment or alteration of any interest, if applicable, thereon, the maturity or the dates on which any payments are due, including by suspending payment for a temporary period;
(b) the variation of the terms of this Agreement, as deemed necessary by the relevant UK resolution authority, to give effect to the exercise of UK Bail-in Powers by the relevant UK resolution authority.
For the purposes of this provision:
“UK Bail-in Legislation” means Part I of the UK Banking Act 2009 and any other law or regulation applicable in the UK relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (otherwise than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“UK Bail-in Liability” means a liability in respect of which the UK Bail-in Powers may be exercised.
“UK Bail-in Party” means any party to this Agreement which is subject to UK Bail-in Legislation.
“UK Bail-in Powers” means the powers under the UK Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or affiliate of a bank or investment firm, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability.
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22. Contractual Recognition of EU Bail-In. Notwithstanding and to the exclusion of any other term of this Agreement or any other agreements, arrangements, or understanding between the parties to this Agreement and any BRRD Party, each party to this Agreement acknowledges and accepts that a BRRD Liability arising under this Agreement may be subject to the exercise of Bail-in Powers by the Relevant Resolution Authority, and acknowledges, accepts, and agrees to be bound by:
(a) the effect of the exercise of Bail-in Powers by the Relevant Resolution Authority in relation to any BRRD Liability of a BRRD Party under this Agreement, that (without limitation) may include and result in any of the following, or some combination thereof:
(i) the reduction of all, or a portion, of the BRRD Liability or outstanding amounts due thereon;
(ii) the conversion of all, or a portion, of the BRRD Liability into shares, other securities or other obligations of such BRRD Party or another person, and the issue to or conferral on the other parties to this Agreement of such shares, securities or obligations;
(iii) the cancellation of the BRRD Liability; or
(iv) the amendment or alteration of any interest, if applicable, thereon, the maturity or the dates on which any payments are due, including by suspending payment for a temporary period; and
(b) the variation of the terms of this Agreement, as deemed necessary by the Relevant Resolution Authority, to give effect to the exercise of Bail-in Powers by the Relevant Resolution Authority.
The terms which follow, when used in this Section 22, shall have the meanings indicated.
“Bail-in Legislation” means in relation to a member state of the European Economic Area which has implemented, or which at any time implements, the BRRD, the relevant implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement as described in the EU Bail-in Legislation Schedule from time to time.
“Bail-in Powers” means any Write-down and Conversion Powers as defined in the EU Bail-in Legislation Schedule, in relation to the relevant Bail-in Legislation.
“BRRD” means Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms.
“BRRD Liability” means a liability in respect of which the relevant Write Down and Conversion Powers in the applicable Bail-in Legislation may be exercised.
“BRRD Party” means any party to this Agreement which is subject to Bail-in Legislation.
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“EU Bail-in Legislation Schedule” means the document described as such, then in effect, and published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person) from time to time at http://www.lma.eu.com/pages.aspx?p=499 (or any successor page).
“Relevant Resolution Authority” means the resolution authority with the ability to exercise any Bail-in Powers in relation to any relevant BRRD Party.
23. UK MiFIR Product Governance Rules. Solely for the purposes of the requirements of 3.2.7R of the FCA Handbook Product Intervention and Product Governance Sourcebook (the “UK MiFIR Product Governance Rules”) regarding the mutual responsibilities of manufacturers under the UK MiFIR Product Governance Rules:
(i) each of Citigroup Global Markets Limited, BNP PARIBAS, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch and HSBC Bank plc (each a “UK Manufacturer” and together the “UK Manufacturers”) acknowledges to each other UK Manufacturer that it understands the responsibilities conferred upon it under the UK MiFIR Product Governance Rules relating to each of the product approval process, the target market and the proposed distribution channels as applying to the Securities and the related information set out in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement in connection with the Securities; and
(ii) each of the Underwriters and the Companies note the application of the UK MiFIR Product Governance Rules and acknowledge the target market and distribution channels identified as applying to the Securities by the UK Manufacturers and the related information set out in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement in connection with the Securities.
24. MiFID Product Governance Rules. Solely for the purposes of the requirements of Article 9(8) of the MiFID Product Governance rules under EU Delegated Directive 2017/593 (the “Product Governance Rules”) regarding the mutual responsibilities of manufacturers under the Product Governance Rules:
(i) each of the Underwriters who are deemed to be MiFID II manufacturers (each a “Manufacturer” and together the “Manufacturers”) acknowledges to each other Manufacturer that it understands the responsibilities conferred upon it under the Product Governance Rules relating to each of the product approval process, the target market and the proposed distribution channels as applying to the Securities and the related information set out in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement, in connection with the Securities; and
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(ii) each of the Underwriters and the Companies notes the application of the Product Governance Rules and acknowledges the target market and distribution channels identified as applying to the Securities by the Manufacturers and the related information set out in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement, in connection with the Securities.
25. Stabilization. In connection with the issue of the Securities, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch (in this capacity, the “Stabilizing Manager”) (or any person acting on its behalf), may over-allot Securities or effect transactions with a view to supporting the market price of the Securities during the stabilization period at a level higher than that which might otherwise prevail. However, there is no assurance that the Stabilizing Manager (or persons acting on behalf of the Stabilizing Manager) will undertake any stabilizing action. Nothing contained in this Section 25 shall be construed so as to require the Issuer to issue in excess of the aggregate principal amount of Securities specified in Schedule II hereto. Such stabilization, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time and shall be conducted by the Stabilizing Manager in accordance with all applicable laws and rules.
26. Compliance with USA Patriot Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), certain of the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Companies, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.
27. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes. (a) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
(b) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
(c) As used in this Section 27:
“BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k).
“Covered Entity” means any of the following:
(i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);
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(ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or
(iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
28. Authority of the Representatives. Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may be taken by the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such action taken by the Representatives shall be binding upon the Underwriters.
29. Headings. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
30. Definitions. The terms which follow, when used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated.
“Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
“Agreement Currency” shall mean Euros or such other lawful currency of the participating member states in the Third Stage of European Economic and Monetary Union of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
“Base Prospectus” shall mean the base prospectus dated October 21, 2024 referred to in Section 1(a) above contained in the Registration Statement to be used in connection with the offer and sale of the Securities.
“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City, United States or London, United Kingdom.
“Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Disclosure Package” shall mean (i) the Base Prospectus, (ii) the Preliminary Prospectus used most recently prior to the Execution Time, (iii) the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule III hereto (including the final term sheet, identified in Schedule III hereto) and (iv) any other Free Writing Prospectus that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the Disclosure Package and which are identified in Schedule III hereto.
“Effective Date” shall mean each date and time that the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto became or become effective.
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“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
“Execution Time” shall mean 11:54 a.m. New York City time on February 25, 2026.
“Final Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that was first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time, together with the Base Prospectus.
“Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean a free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405 used in connection with the offering of the Securities.
“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433 used in connection with the offering of the Securities.
“Preliminary Prospectus” shall mean any preliminary prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus referred to in Section 1(a) above which is used prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus, together with the Base Prospectus.
“Registration Statement” shall mean the registration statement referred to in Section 1(a) above, including exhibits and financial statements and any prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and deemed part of such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430A, 430B and 430C, as amended on each Effective Date and at the Execution Time and, in the event any post-effective amendment thereto becomes effective prior to the Closing Date, shall also mean such registration statement as so amended.
“Rule 158,” “Rule 163,” “Rule 164,” “Rule 172,” “Rule 405,” “Rule 415,” “Rule 424,” “Rule 430A,” “Rule 430B,” “Rule 430C” and “Rule 433” refer to such rules under the Act.
“Trust Indenture Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.
“Well-Known Seasoned Issuer” shall mean a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to us the enclosed duplicate hereof, whereupon this letter and your acceptance shall represent a binding agreement among the Companies and the several Underwriters.
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| Very truly yours, | |||
| Omnicom Finance Holdings plc | |||
| By: | /s/ David Barry | ||
| Name: | David Barry | ||
| Title: | Director | ||
| Omnicom Group Inc. | |||
| By: | /s/ Philip J. Angelastro | ||
| Name: | Philip J. Angelastro | ||
| Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
[Omnicom Underwriting Agreement Signature Page]
| Accepted as of the date hereof: | |||
| By: | BNP PARIBAS | ||
| By: | /s/ Rafael Ribeiro | ||
| Name: | Rafael Ribeiro | ||
| Title: | Head of Investment Grade Finance, Americas | ||
| By: | /s/ Pasquale A. Perraglia IV | ||
| Name: | Pasquale A. Perraglia IV | ||
| Title: | Managing Director | ||
[Omnicom Underwriting Agreement Signature Page]
| By: | Citigroup Global Markets Limited | ||
| By: | /s/ Abraham Omotoso | ||
| Name: | Abraham Omotoso | ||
| Title: | Designated Signatory | ||
[Omnicom Underwriting Agreement Signature Page]
| By: | Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch | ||
| By: | /s/ Ritu Ketkar | ||
| Name: | Ritu Ketkar | ||
| Title: | Managing Director | ||
| By: | /s/ John Han | ||
| Name: | John Han | ||
| Title: | Managing Director | ||
[Omnicom Underwriting Agreement Signature Page]
| By: | HSBC Bank plc | ||
| By: | /s/ Elizabeth A. Newton | ||
| Name: | Elizabeth A. Newton | ||
| Title: | Senior Legal Counsel | ||
[Omnicom Underwriting Agreement Signature Page]
| By: | Danske Bank A/S | ||
| By: | /s/ Kasper Resen Steenstrup | ||
| Name: | Kasper Resen Steenstrup | ||
| Title: | Senior Legal Director | ||
| By: | /s/ Chen Chen Hu | ||
| Name: | Chen Chen Hu | ||
| Title: | Senior Legal Counsel | ||
[Omnicom Underwriting Agreement Signature Page]
| By: | ING Bank N.V., Belgian Branch | ||
| By: | /s/ Valentine Goudt | ||
| Name: | Valentine Goudt | ||
| Title: | Head Legal Capital Markets | ||
| By: | /s/ Francois Opfergelt | ||
| Name: | Francois Opfergelt | ||
| Title: | Managing Director | ||
[Omnicom Underwriting Agreement Signature Page]
SCHEDULE I
Underwriting Agreement dated February 25, 2026
Registration Statement No. 333-282748
| Representatives: | BNP PARIBAS |
Citigroup Global Markets Limited
Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch
HSBC Bank plc
Title, Principal Amount, Purchase Price and Description of the Notes:
Title: 3.850% Senior Notes due 2034
Principal amount: €600,000,000
Purchase price (include accrued interest or amortization, if any): 99.372% per Senior Note
Sinking fund provisions: None
Redemption provisions: Make-Whole Spread: +20 basis points
Closing Date and Time: March 2, 2026 at 4:00 a.m. New York City time
Type of Offering: Non-delayed
Date referred to in Section 5(i) after which OGI may offer or sell debt securities issued or guaranteed by OGI without the consent of the Representatives: March 2, 2026
Schedule I-1
SCHEDULE II
| Underwriters | Principal Amount of Notes to be Purchased |
|||
| BNP PARIBAS | € | 150,000,000 | ||
| Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch | € | 150,000,000 | ||
| HSBC Bank plc | € | 150,000,000 | ||
| Citigroup Global Markets Limited | € | 90,000,000 | ||
| Danske Bank A/S | € | 30,000,000 | ||
| ING Bank N.V., Belgian Branch | € | 30,000,000 | ||
| TOTAL | € | 600,000,000 | ||
Schedule II-1
SCHEDULE III
Schedule of Free Writing Prospectuses included in the Disclosure Package:
Final Pricing Term Sheet dated February 25, 2026, for €600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.850% Senior Notes due 2034, filed on February 25, 2026 with the Commission by the Companies pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act.
Schedule III-1
SCHEDULE IV
FORM OF PRICING TERM SHEET
Omnicom Finance Holdings plc
€600,000,000 3.850% Senior Notes due 2034
Pricing Term Sheet
February 25, 2026
| Issuer: | Omnicom Finance Holdings plc |
| Issuer LEI: | 213800JBHE39OG74OJ98 |
| Guarantor: | Omnicom Group Inc. (“Omnicom”) |
| Ratings*: |
Moody’s: [***] S&P: [***] |
| Title of Securities: | 3.850% Senior Notes due 2034 |
| Principal Amount: | €600,000,000 |
| Coupon: | 3.850% per annum |
| Day Count: | ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) |
| Interest Payment Dates: | Annually on each May 2 |
| Initial Interest Payment Date: | May 2, 2026 |
| Maturity Date: | May 2, 2034 |
| Benchmark Bund: | DBR 2.200% due February 15, 2034 |
| Re-offer Spread vs. Bunds: | +130.2 basis points |
| Reference EUR Mid-Swap Rate: | 2.620% |
| Re-offer Spread to EUR Mid-Swap Rate: | +125 basis points |
| Annual Yield to Maturity: | 3.870% |
| Price to Public (Issue Price): | 99.872% |
| All-In Price (after deducting underwriting discount): | 99.372% |
| Make-Whole Call: | Prior to February 2, 2034 at B + 20 bps |
| Par Call: | On or after February 2, 2034 |
| Trade Date: | February 25, 2026 |
| Settlement Date (T+3 (London business days))**: |
March 2, 2026 |
| Minimum Denomination: | €100,000 x €1,000 |
| Settlement and Trading: | Through the facilities of Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. and Clearstream Banking, société anonyme, Luxembourg |
| Expected Listing: | New York Stock Exchange |
| CUSIP: | 68217V AC1 |
Schedule IV-1
| ISIN: | XS3308064354 |
| Common Code: | 330806435 |
| Stabilization: | FCA/ICMA |
| Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Book-Running Managers: |
Citigroup Global Markets Limited Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch |
| Joint Book-Running Managers: |
BNP PARIBAS HSBC Bank plc |
| Co-Managers: |
Danske Bank A/S ING Bank N.V., Belgian Branch |
| Concurrent Offering: |
Substantially concurrently with this offering, Omnicom is offering dollar-denominated notes (the “concurrent offering”). The concurrent offering is being made by means of a separate prospectus supplement and not by means of the prospectus supplement to which this pricing term sheet relates. This communication is not an offer of any securities other than the notes to which this pricing term sheet relates. The concurrent offering may not be completed, and the completion of the concurrent offering is not a condition to the completion of the offering of the notes to which this pricing term sheet relates.
Omnicom expects to use any net proceeds received from the concurrent offering to fund the repayment of Omnicom’s 3.600% Senior Notes due 2026, which mature on April 15, 2026, of which $1,400 million aggregate principal amount was outstanding as of December 31, 2025, and any remaining proceeds for general corporate purposes, which could include Omnicom’s working capital expenditures, fixed asset expenditures, acquisitions, repayment of commercial paper and short-term debt, refinancing of other debt, repurchases of Omnicom’s common stock or other capital transactions. |
| * | An explanation of the significance of ratings may be obtained from the ratings agencies. Generally, ratings agencies base their ratings on such material and information, and such of their own investigations, studies and assumptions, as they deem appropriate. The security ratings above are not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold the securities offered hereby. The ratings may be subject to review, revision, supervision, reduction or withdrawal at any time by Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s. Each of the security ratings above should be evaluated independently of any other security rating. |
| ** | We currently expect to deliver the notes on or about March 2, 2026, which will be the third business day following the date of pricing of the notes (such settlement cycle being referred to as “T+3”). Under Rule 15c6-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in one business day (as such term is used for purposes of Rule 15c6-1 of the Exchange Act) unless the parties to any such trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers who wish to trade the notes on any date prior to the business day before delivery of the notes will be required, by virtue of the fact that the notes will settle in T+3, to specify an alternative settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement; such purchasers should consult their own advisors in this regard. |
Schedule IV-2
MIFID II AND UK MIFIR PRODUCT GOVERNANCE / PROFESSIONAL INVESTORS AND ELIGIBLE COUNTERPARTIES ONLY TARGET MARKET / NO PRIIPs KID OR UK PRIIPs KID — Manufacturer target market is eligible counterparties and professional clients only (all distribution channels). No key information document (“KID”) under Regulation (EU) No. 1286/2014 (as amended, the “PRIIPs Regulation”) or PRIIPS Regulation as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (“EUWA”) (the “UK PRIIPs Regulation”) has been prepared as the notes are not available to retail investors in a member state of the European Economic Area (the “EEA”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”).
In the EEA, the notes offered are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the EEA. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, “MiFID II”); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97, as amended, where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or (iii) not a qualified investor as defined in Regulation (EU) 2017/1129, as amended or superseded. Consequently, no KID required by the PRIIPs Regulation, for offering or selling the notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the EEA has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the EEA may be unlawful under the PRIIPs Regulation.
In the UK, the notes are not intended to be offered, sold or otherwise made available to and should not be offered, sold or otherwise made available to any retail investor in the UK. For these purposes, a retail investor means a person who is neither: (i) a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the EUWA (the “UK MiFIR”); nor (ii) a qualified investor as defined in paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to The Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations 2024. Consequently, no KID required by the UK PRIIPs Regulation for offering or selling the notes or otherwise making them available to retail investors in the UK has been prepared and therefore offering or selling the notes or otherwise making them available to any retail investor in the UK may be unlawful under the UK PRIIPs Regulation.
In the UK, this document is for distribution only to persons who (i) have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 (as amended, the “Financial Promotion Order”), (ii) are persons falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) (“high net worth companies, unincorporated associations etc.”) of the Financial Promotion Order, (iii) are outside the UK, or (iv) are persons to whom an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the FSMA) in connection with the issue or sale of any securities may otherwise lawfully be communicated or caused to be communicated (all such persons together being referred to as “relevant persons”). This document is directed only at relevant persons and must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this document relates is available only to relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.
Schedule IV-3
In the EEA, solely for the purposes of each manufacturer’s product approval process, the target market assessment in respect of the notes has led to the conclusion that: (i) the target market for the notes is eligible counterparties and professional clients only, each as defined in MiFID II; and (ii) all channels for distribution of the notes to eligible counterparties and professional clients are appropriate. Any person subsequently offering, selling or recommending the notes (a “distributor”) should take into consideration the manufacturers’ target market assessment; however, a distributor subject to MiFID II is responsible for undertaking its own target market assessment in respect of the notes (by either adopting or refining the manufacturers’ target market assessment) and determining appropriate distribution channels.
In the UK, solely for the purposes of each manufacturer’s product approval process, the target market assessment in respect of the notes has led to the conclusion that: (i) the target market for the notes is only eligible counterparties as defined in the FCA Handbook Conduct of Business Sourcebook, and professional clients, as defined in the UK MiFIR; and (ii) all channels for distribution of the notes to eligible counterparties and professional clients are appropriate. Any person subsequently offering, selling or recommending the notes (a “distributor”) should take into consideration the manufacturers’ target market assessment; however, a distributor subject to the FCA Handbook Product Intervention and Product Governance Sourcebook is responsible for undertaking its own target market assessment in respect of the notes (by either adopting or refining the manufacturers’ target market assessment) and determining appropriate distribution channels.
The issuer and Omnicom have filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement, the preliminary prospectus supplement and other documents the issuer or Omnicom have filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer, Omnicom and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer, Omnicom, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus and the preliminary prospectus supplement if you request it by calling Citigroup Global Markets Limited at +1-800-831-9146, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch at +1-800-503-4611, BNP PARIBAS at +1-800-854-5674 or HSBC Bank plc at +44 (0) 20-7991-1422.
Any disclaimers or other notices that may appear below are not applicable to this communication and should be disregarded. Such disclaimers or other notices were automatically generated as a result of this communication being sent via Bloomberg or another email system.
Schedule IV-4
SCHEDULE V
1. Electronic road show of the Companies dated February 24, 2026.
Schedule V-1
Exhibit 4.1
Execution Version
OMNICOM GROUP INC.
as Issuer
INDENTURE
Dated as of March 2, 2026
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
as Trustee
Debt Securities
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Page | |||
| ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE | 1 | ||
| SECTION 1.1 | Definitions | 1 | |
| SECTION 1.2 | Other Definitions | 5 | |
| SECTION 1.3 | Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act | 5 | |
| SECTION 1.4 | Rules of Construction | 6 | |
| ARTICLE II THE SECURITIES | 6 | ||
| SECTION 2.1 | Issuable in Series | 6 | |
| SECTION 2.2 | Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities | 6 | |
| SECTION 2.3 | Execution and Authentication | 9 | |
| SECTION 2.4 | Registrar and Paying Agent | 10 | |
| SECTION 2.5 | Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust | 10 | |
| SECTION 2.6 | Securityholder Lists | 10 | |
| SECTION 2.7 | Transfer and Exchange | 11 | |
| SECTION 2.8 | Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities | 11 | |
| SECTION 2.9 | Outstanding Securities | 12 | |
| SECTION 2.10 | Treasury Securities | 12 | |
| SECTION 2.11 | Temporary Securities | 12 | |
| SECTION 2.12 | Cancellation | 13 | |
| SECTION 2.13 | Defaulted Interest | 13 | |
| SECTION 2.14 | Global Securities | 13 | |
| SECTION 2.15 | CUSIP, ISIN and Common Code Numbers | 15 | |
| ARTICLE III REDEMPTION | 15 | ||
| SECTION 3.1 | Notice to Trustee | 15 | |
| SECTION 3.2 | Selection of Securities to be Redeemed | 16 | |
| SECTION 3.3 | Notice of Redemption | 16 | |
| SECTION 3.4 | Effect of Notice of Redemption | 17 | |
| SECTION 3.5 | Deposit of Redemption Price | 17 | |
| SECTION 3.6 | Securities Redeemed in Part | 17 | |
| ARTICLE IV COVENANTS | 18 | ||
| SECTION 4.1 | Payment of Principal and Interest | 18 | |
| SECTION 4.2 | SEC Reports | 18 | |
| SECTION 4.3 | Compliance Certificate | 18 | |
| SECTION 4.4 | Stay, Extension and Usury Laws | 19 | |
| SECTION 4.5 | Corporate Existence | 19 | |
| SECTION 4.6 | Taxes | 19 | |
| ARTICLE V SUCCESSORS | 19 | ||
| SECTION 5.1 | When the Issuer May Merge, Etc. | 19 | |
| SECTION 5.2 | Successor Corporation Substituted | 20 | |
| ARTICLE VI DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES | 20 | ||
| SECTION 6.1 | Events of Default | 20 | |
| SECTION 6.2 | Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment | 22 | |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(Continued)
| Page | |||
| SECTION 6.3 | Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee | 23 | |
| SECTION 6.4 | Trustee May File Proofs of Claim | 23 | |
| SECTION 6.5 | Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities | 24 | |
| SECTION 6.6 | Application of Money Collected | 24 | |
| SECTION 6.7 | Limitation on Suits | 24 | |
| SECTION 6.8 | Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest | 25 | |
| SECTION 6.9 | Restoration of Rights and Remedies | 25 | |
| SECTION 6.10 | Rights and Remedies Cumulative | 25 | |
| SECTION 6.11 | Delay or Omission Not Waiver | 26 | |
| SECTION 6.12 | Control by Holders | 26 | |
| SECTION 6.13 | Waiver of Past Defaults | 26 | |
| SECTION 6.14 | Undertaking for Costs | 26 | |
| ARTICLE VII TRUSTEE | 27 | ||
| SECTION 7.1 | Duties of Trustee | 27 | |
| SECTION 7.2 | Rights of Trustee | 28 | |
| SECTION 7.3 | Individual Rights of Trustee | 29 | |
| SECTION 7.4 | Trustee’s Disclaimer | 29 | |
| SECTION 7.5 | Notice of Defaults | 29 | |
| SECTION 7.6 | Reports by Trustee to Holders | 29 | |
| SECTION 7.7 | Compensation and Indemnity | 30 | |
| SECTION 7.8 | Replacement of Trustee | 30 | |
| SECTION 7.9 | Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc. | 31 | |
| SECTION 7.10 | Eligibility; Disqualification | 31 | |
| SECTION 7.11 | Preferential Collection of Claims | 31 | |
| ARTICLE VIII SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE | 32 | ||
| SECTION 8.1 | Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture | 32 | |
| SECTION 8.2 | Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification | 33 | |
| SECTION 8.3 | Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series | 33 | |
| SECTION 8.4 | Covenant Defeasance | 35 | |
| SECTION 8.5 | Repayment to the Issuer | 36 | |
| SECTION 8.6 | Reinstatement | 36 | |
| ARTICLE IX AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS | 36 | ||
| SECTION 9.1 | Without Consent of Holders | 36 | |
| SECTION 9.2 | With Consent of Holders | 37 | |
| SECTION 9.3 | Compliance with Trust Indenture Act | 38 | |
| SECTION 9.4 | Revocation and Effect of Consents | 38 | |
| SECTION 9.5 | Notation on or Exchange of Securities | 38 | |
| SECTION 9.6 | Trustee Protected | 38 | |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(Continued)
| Page | |||
| ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS | 39 | ||
| SECTION 10.1 | Trust Indenture Act Controls | 39 | |
| SECTION 10.2 | Notices | 39 | |
| SECTION 10.3 | Communication by Holders with Other Holders | 40 | |
| SECTION 10.4 | Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent | 40 | |
| SECTION 10.5 | Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion | 40 | |
| SECTION 10.6 | Rules by Trustee and Agents | 41 | |
| SECTION 10.7 | Legal Holidays | 41 | |
| SECTION 10.8 | No Recourse Against Others | 41 | |
| SECTION 10.9 | Counterparts and Electronic Signature | 41 | |
| SECTION 10.10 | Governing Laws | 42 | |
| SECTION 10.11 | No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements | 42 | |
| SECTION 10.12 | Successors | 42 | |
| SECTION 10.13 | Severability | 42 | |
| SECTION 10.14 | Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. | 42 | |
| SECTION 10.15 | USA Patriot Act | 42 | |
| SECTION 10.16 | Force Majeure | 42 | |
| SECTION 10.17 | Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial | 43 | |
| ARTICLE XI SINKING FUNDS | 43 | ||
| SECTION 11.1 | Applicability of Article | 43 | |
| SECTION 11.2 | Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities | 44 | |
| SECTION 11.3 | Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund | 44 | |
| EXHIBITS | |||
| Exhibit A – Form of Debt Security | A-1 | ||
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE*
|
Trust Indenture Act Section |
Indenture Section | |
| 310 | (a)(1) | 7.10 |
| (a)(2) | 7.10 | |
| (a)(3) | Not Applicable | |
| (a)(4) | Not Applicable | |
| (a)(5) | 7.10 | |
| (b) | 7.10 | |
| 311 | (a) | 7.11 |
| (b) | 7.11 | |
| 312 | (a) | 2.6 |
| (b) | 10.3 | |
| (c) | 10.3 | |
| 313 | (a) | 7.6 |
| (b)(1) | 7.6 | |
| (b)(2) | 7.6 | |
| (c) | 7.6 | |
| (d) | 7.6 | |
| 314 | (a) | 4.2, 10.5 |
| (b) | Not Applicable | |
| (c)(1) | 10.4 | |
| (c)(2) | 10.4 | |
| (c)(3) | Not Applicable | |
| (d) | Not Applicable | |
| (e) | 10.5 | |
| (f) | Not Applicable | |
| 315 | (a) | 7.1 |
| (b) | 7.5 | |
| (c) | 7.1 | |
| (d) | 7.1 | |
| (e) | 6.14 | |
| 316 | (a) | 2.10 |
| (a)(1)(A) | 6.12 | |
| (a)(1)(B) | 6.13 | |
| (b) | 6.8 | |
| 317 | (a)(1) | 6.3 |
| (a)(2) | 6.4 | |
| (b) | 2.5 | |
| 318 | (a) | 10.1 |
| * | Note: This Cross-Reference Table is not part of the Indenture. |
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INDENTURE dated as of March 2, 2026 among OMNICOM GROUP INC., a New York corporation, (the “Issuer”), and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (“Trustee”).
The Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to be issued in one or more series (the “Securities”), as herein provided, up to such principal amount as may from time to time be authorized in or pursuant to one or more resolutions of its Board of Directors or by supplemental indenture.
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities issued under this Indenture.
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1 Definitions.
“Additional Amounts” means any additional amounts which are required hereby or by any Security, under circumstances specified herein or therein, to be paid by the Issuer in respect of certain taxes imposed on Holders specified therein and which are owing to such Holders.
“Affiliate” of any specified person means any other person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” (including, with correlative meanings, the terms “controlled by” and “under common control with”), as used with respect to any person, shall mean the possession, directly, or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by agreement or otherwise.
“Agent” means any Registrar or Paying Agent.
“Bankruptcy Law” has the meaning specified in Section 6.1 of this Indenture.
“Board of Directors” means, with respect to the Issuer, either the board of directors of the Issuer or any duly authorized committee of such board of directors.
“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Issuer to have been duly adopted by its Board of Directors or pursuant to authorization by its Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of the certificate (and delivered to the Trustee, if appropriate).
“Business Day” means, unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture hereto for a particular Series, any day except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in the City of New York on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.
“Company Request” or “Company Order” means a written request or order signed in the name of the Issuer by its Chairman of the Board, Chief Financial Officer, a President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Corporate Trust Office” means the designated corporate trust office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of original execution of this Indenture is located at (i) for purposes of surrender, transfer or exchange of any Security, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, c/o DB Services Americas, Inc., 5201 Gate Parkway, 1st Floor, Jacksonville, FL 32256, Attn: Transfer Operations and (ii) for all other purposes, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Trust and Securities Services, 1 Columbus Circle, 4th Floor, Mail Stop: NYC01-0417, New York, New York 10019, USA, Attention: Corporate Team/Omnicom AA8765 or at any other time at such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the parties hereto or at the designated corporate trust office of any successor Trustee as to which such successor Trustee may notify the parties hereto in writing.
“Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
“Debt” of any person as of any date means, without duplication, all indebtedness of such person in respect of borrowed money, including all interest, fees and expenses owed in respect thereto (whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the assets of such person or only to a portion thereof), or evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments..
“Default” means any event which is, or with the passage of time or giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default.
“Depository” means, unless otherwise provided in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, with respect to the Securities of any Series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York, or any successor thereto registered under the Exchange Act or other applicable statute or regulation.
“Discount Security” means any Security that provides for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.
“Dollars” means the currency of The United States of America.
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 6.1 of this Indenture.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.
“Global Security” or “Global Securities” means a Security or Securities, as the case may be, in the form established pursuant to Section 2.2 evidencing all or part of a Series of Securities, issued to the Depository for such Series or its nominee, and registered in the name of such Depository or nominee.
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“Guarantee” means a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business), direct or indirect, in any manner (including, without limitation, by way of a pledge of assets or through letters of credit or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof), of all or any part of any Debt.
“Guarantor” means any person, if any, identified pursuant to Section 2.2.18 of this Indenture as providing a Guarantee of any of the Issuer’s obligations under this Indenture, and its successors and assigns.
“Holder” or “Securityholder” means a person in whose name a Security is registered.
“Indenture” means this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time and shall include the form and terms of particular Series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.
“interest” when used with respect to any Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after Maturity at the rate prescribed in such Discount Security.
“interest payment date” when used with respect to any Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
“Issuer” means the party named as such in the preamble to this Indenture until a successor replaces it pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture and, thereafter, shall mean any such successor. The foregoing sentence shall likewise apply to any subsequent such successor or successors.
“Legal Holiday” has the meaning specified in Section 10.7 of this Indenture.
“mandatory sinking fund payment” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1 of this Indenture.
“Maturity,” when used with respect to any Security or installment of principal thereof, means the date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, notice of option to elect repayment or otherwise.
“Officer” means the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, any Vice-President, the Treasurer, the Secretary, any Assistant Treasurer or any Assistant Secretary of the Issuer.
“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by any Officer of the Issuer.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of legal counsel who is acceptable to the Trustee. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer.
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“optional sinking fund payment” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1 of this Indenture.
“Paying Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 2.4 of this Indenture.
“person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, limited liability company, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
“principal” of a Security means the principal of the Security plus, when appropriate, the premium, if any, on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, the Security.
“record date” as used with respect to any interest payment date (except a date for payment of defaulted interest) for the Securities of any series shall mean the date specified as such in the terms of the Registered Securities of such series established, or, if no such date is so established, the fifteenth day next preceding such interest payment date, whether or not such record date is a Business Day.
“Registrar” has the meaning specified in Section 2.4 of this Indenture.
“Responsible Officer” means any officer of the Trustee in its Corporate Trust Office having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture, and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with a particular subject.
“SEC” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.
“Series” or “Series of Securities” means each series of debentures, notes or other debt instruments of the Issuer created pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.2 hereof.
“Significant Subsidiary” means (i) any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Issuer that would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act, as such regulation is in effect on the date hereof, or (ii) any group of direct or indirect Subsidiaries of the Issuer that, taken together as a group, would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act, as such regulation is in effect on the date hereof.
“Stated Maturity” when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
“Subsidiary” of any person means any corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust or estate of which (or in which) more than 50% of (a) the issued and outstanding voting stock of such person, (b) the interest in the capital or profits of such limited liability company, partnership or joint venture or (c) the beneficial interest in such trust or estate is at the time directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such person, by such person and one or more of its other subsidiaries or by one or more of such person’s other subsidiaries.
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“successor person” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1 of this Indenture.
“TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code ss. ss. 77aaa-77bbbb), as amended from time to time, and as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the TIA is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act as so amended.
“Trustee” means the person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the Securities of any Series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that Series.
“U.S. Government Obligations” means securities which are (i) direct obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, and which in the case of (i) and (ii) are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depositary receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depositary receipt.
SECTION 1.2 Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act. Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
“Commission” means the SEC.
“indenture securities” means the Securities.
“indenture security holder” means a Securityholder.
“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture.
“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee.
“obligor” on the Securities means the Issuer and any successor obligor upon the Securities.
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All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA and not otherwise defined herein are used herein as so defined.
SECTION 1.3 Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(b) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
(c) references to “generally accepted accounting principles” shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in effect as of the time when and for the period as to which such accounting principles are to be applied;
(d) “or” is not exclusive;
(e) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular; and
(f) provisions apply to successive events and transactions.
ARTICLE
II
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1 Issuable in Series. The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued in one or more Series. All Securities of a Series shall be identical except as may be set forth in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture or an Officer’s Certificate detailing the adoption of the terms thereof pursuant to the authority granted under a Board Resolution. In the case of Securities of a Series to be issued from time to time, the Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture may provide for the method by which specified terms (such as interest rate, maturity date, record date or date from which interest shall accrue) are to be determined. Securities may differ between Series in respect of any matters, provided that all Series of Securities shall be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.
SECTION 2.2 Establishment of Terms of Series of Securities. At or prior to the issuance of any Securities within a Series, the following shall be established (as to the Series generally, in the case of Subsection 2.2.1 and either as to such Securities within the Series or as to the Series generally in the case of Subsections 2.2.2 through 2.2.21) by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture or an Officer’s Certificate pursuant to authority granted under a Board Resolution:
2.2.1 the title of the Series (which shall distinguish the Securities of that particular Series from the Securities of any other Series);
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2.2.2 the price or prices (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount thereof) at which the Securities of the Series will be issued;
2.2.3 any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of the Series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the Series pursuant to Section 2.7, 2.8, 2.11, 3.6 or 9.5);
2.2.4 the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of the Series is payable;
2.2.5 the rate or rates (which may be fixed or variable) per annum or, if applicable, the method used to determine such rate or rates (including, but not limited to, any commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index) at which the Securities of the Series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest, if any, shall accrue, the date or dates on which such interest, if any, shall commence and be payable and any regular record date for the interest payable on any interest payment date;
2.2.6 the place or places where the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series shall be payable, or the method of such payment, if by wire transfer, mail or other means;
2.2.7 if applicable, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of the Series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Issuer;
2.2.8 the obligation, if any, of the Issuer to redeem, purchase or repay the Securities of the Series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof upon the happening of any event and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the Series shall be redeemed, purchased or repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
2.2.9 the dates, if any, on which and the price or prices at which the Securities of the Series will be repurchased by the Issuer at the option of the Holders thereof and other detailed terms and conditions of such repurchase obligations;
2.2.10 if other than denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, the denominations in which the Securities of the Series shall be issuable;
2.2.11 whether the Securities will be issuable as Global Securities, the terms and conditions, if any, upon which such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for other individual Securities of such Series in definitive registered form, the Depository for such Global Security and the form of any legend or legends to be borne by any such Global Security in addition to or in lieu of the legend referred to in Section 2.14.3;
2.2.12 if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of the Securities of the Series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2;
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2.2.13 the manner in which the amounts of payment of principal of or interest, if any, on the Securities of the Series will be determined, if such amounts may be determined by reference to an index based on a currency or currencies or by reference to a commodity, commodity index, stock exchange index or financial index;
2.2.14 any addition to or change in the Events of Default which applies to any Securities of the Series and any change in the right of the Trustee or the requisite Holders of such Securities to declare the principal amount thereof due and payable pursuant to Section 6.2;
2.2.15 any addition to or change in the covenants set forth in Articles IV or V which applies to Securities of the Series;
2.2.16 any other terms of the Securities of the Series (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, except as permitted by Section 9.1, but which may modify or delete any provision of this Indenture insofar as it applies to such Series);
2.2.17 any depositories, interest rate calculation agents, or other agents with respect to Securities of such Series if other than those appointed herein;
2.2.18 the form and terms of any Guarantee of the Securities and the terms and conditions, if any, upon which any Guarantees thereof shall be subordinated in right of payment to other indebtedness of the Issuer or any Guarantor;
2.2.19 the provisions relating to any security provided for the Securities of the Series;
2.2.20 the subordination, if any, of the Securities of the Series pursuant to this Indenture and any changes or additions to the provisions of this Indenture then in effect; and
2.2.21 if and as applicable, the terms and conditions of any right to exchange for or convert Securities of the Series into shares of common stock or preferred stock of the Issuer.
All Securities of any one Series need not be issued at the same time and may be issued from time to time, consistent with the terms of this Indenture, if so provided by or pursuant to the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate referred to above, and the authorized principal amount of any Series may not be increased to provide for issuances of additional Securities of such Series, unless otherwise provided in such Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate.
The Securities of each Series shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A to this Indenture, or in such other form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistent herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. If the form of Securities of any Series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Issuer and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 2.3 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.
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The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the Officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
SECTION 2.3 Execution and Authentication. Two Officers shall sign the Securities for the Issuer by manual, facsimile or electronic signature.
If an Officer whose signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Security is authenticated, the Security shall nevertheless be valid.
A Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual or electronic signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent.
The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated under this Indenture.
The Trustee shall at any time, and from time to time, authenticate Securities for original issue in the principal amount provided in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate, upon receipt by the Trustee of a Company Order. Such Company Order may authorize authentication and delivery pursuant to electronic instructions in writing from the Issuer or its duly authorized agent or agents. Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities of any Series outstanding at any time may not exceed any limit upon the maximum principal amount for such Series set forth in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2, except as provided in Section 2.8.
Prior to the issuance of Securities of any Series, the Trustee shall have received and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying on: (a) the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate establishing the form of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series and the terms of the Securities of that Series or of Securities within that Series, (b) an Officer’s Certificate complying with Section 10.4, and (c) an Opinion of Counsel complying with Section 10.4.
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and deliver any Securities of such Series: (a) if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken; or (b) if the Trustee in good faith by its board of directors or trustees, executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or vice-presidents shall determine that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to Holders of any then outstanding Series of Securities.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Issuer to authenticate Securities. An authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer.
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SECTION 2.4 Registrar and Paying Agent. The Issuer shall maintain, with respect to each Series of Securities, at the place or places specified with respect to such Series pursuant to Section 2.2, an office or agency where Securities of such Series may be presented or surrendered for payment (“Paying Agent”) and where Securities of such Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange (“Registrar”). The Registrar shall keep a register with respect to each Series of Securities and to their transfer and exchange. The Issuer will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the name and address, and any change in the name or address, of each Registrar or Paying Agent. If at any time the Issuer shall fail to maintain any such required Registrar or Paying Agent or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the name and address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Issuer hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Issuer may also from time to time designate one or more co-registrars or additional paying agents and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Issuer of its obligations to maintain a Registrar and Paying Agent in each place so specified pursuant to Section 2.2 for Securities of any Series for such purposes. The Issuer will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the name or address of any such co-registrar or additional paying agent. The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar and the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent.
The Issuer hereby appoints the Trustee as the initial Registrar, Paying Agent and custodian of Global Securities for the Depository for each Series unless another Registrar, Paying Agent or custodian of Global Securities for the Depository, as the case may be, is appointed prior to the time Securities of that Series are first issued.
SECTION 2.5 Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust. The Issuer shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust, for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities, or the Trustee, all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of or interest on the Series of Securities, and will notify the Trustee of any default by the Issuer in making any such payment. While any such default continues, the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee.
The Issuer at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent (if other than the Issuer or a Subsidiary of the Issuer) shall have no further liability for the money. If the Issuer or a Subsidiary of the Issuer acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of Securityholders of any Series of Securities all money held by it as Paying Agent.
SECTION 2.6 Securityholder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities and shall otherwise comply with TIA ss. 312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee at least ten days before each interest payment date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list, in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of Securityholders of each Series of Securities.
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SECTION 2.7 Transfer and Exchange. Where Securities of a Series are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer or to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Securities of the same Series, the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange if its requirements for such transactions are met. To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Trustee shall authenticate Securities at the Registrar’s request. No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange (except as otherwise expressly permitted herein), but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.11, 3.6 or 9.5).
Neither the Issuer nor the Registrar shall be required (a) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange Securities of any Series for the period beginning at the opening of business fifteen days immediately preceding the mailing or electronic delivery of a notice of redemption of Securities of that Series selected for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing or electronic delivery, or (b) to register the transfer of or exchange Securities of any Series selected, called or being called for redemption as a whole or the portion being redeemed of any such Securities selected, called or being called for redemption in part.
SECTION 2.8 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Issuer shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Issuer and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Issuer or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Issuer shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same Series and of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become due and payable, the Issuer in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Issuer may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
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Every new Security of any Series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Issuer, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that Series duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 2.9 Outstanding Securities. The Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities authenticated by the Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those reductions in the interest on a Global Security effected by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof and those described in this Section as not outstanding.
If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases to be outstanding until the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by a protected purchaser. Additionally, if a Security is paid pursuant to Section 2.8, it ceases to be outstanding.
If the Paying Agent (other than the Issuer, a Subsidiary of the Issuer or an Affiliate of any thereof) holds on the Maturity of Securities of a Series money sufficient to pay such Securities payable on that date, then on and after that date such Securities of the Series cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue unless otherwise provided by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture or an Officer’s Certificate with respect to any Series.
A Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer holds the Security.
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the principal amount of a Discount Security that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purposes shall be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.2.
SECTION 2.10 Treasury Securities. In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of Securities of a Series have concurred in any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, Securities of a Series owned by the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer shall be disregarded, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver only Securities of a Series that a responsible officer in the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.
SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities. Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Issuer may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities upon a Company Order. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of definitive Securities but may have variations that the Issuer considers appropriate for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Issuer shall prepare and the Trustee upon request shall authenticate definitive Securities of the same Series and date of maturity in exchange for temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, temporary Securities shall have the same rights under this Indenture as the definitive Securities.
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SECTION 2.12 Cancellation. The Issuer at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee shall cancel all Securities surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation and shall dispose of such canceled Securities in accordance with its customary procedures (subject to the record retention requirement of the Exchange Act) and upon written instruction from the Issuer deliver a certificate of such destruction to the Issuer, unless the Issuer otherwise directs. The Issuer may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
SECTION 2.13 Defaulted Interest. If the Issuer defaults in a payment of interest on a Series of Securities, it shall pay the defaulted interest, plus, to the extent permitted by law, any interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the persons who are Securityholders of the Series on a subsequent special record date. The Issuer shall fix the record date and payment date. At least 30 days before the record date, the Issuer shall mail or electronically deliver to the Trustee and to each Securityholder of the Series a notice that states the record date, the payment date and the amount of interest to be paid. The Issuer may pay defaulted interest in any other lawful manner.
SECTION 2.14 Global Securities.
2.14.1 General; Terms of Securities. A Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate shall establish whether the Securities of a Series shall be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and the Depository for such Global Security or Securities. If the Issuer shall establish that the Securities of a particular Series are to be issued as a Global Security, then the Issuer shall execute one or more Global Securities that (i) shall represent, and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of, all of the outstanding Securities of such Series, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and (iii) shall be delivered to the Trustee as custodian for the Depository or otherwise delivered pursuant to the Depository’s instruction, and the Trustee, in accordance with Section 2.3, shall authenticate such Global Security or Global Securities.
2.14.2 Transfer and Exchange. Notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in Section 2.7 of the Indenture and in addition thereto, any Global Security shall be exchangeable pursuant to Section 2.7 of the Indenture for Securities registered in the names of Holders other than the Depository for such Security or its nominee only if (i) such Depository notifies the Issuer that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for such Global Security or if at any time such Depository ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and, in either case, the Issuer fails to appoint a successor Depository within 90 days of such event, (ii) the Issuer executes and delivers to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to the effect that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Securities represented by such Global Security shall have happened and be continuing. Any Global Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be exchangeable for Securities registered in such names as the Depository shall direct in writing in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security with like tenor and terms.
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Except as provided in this Section 2.14.2, a Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository with respect to such Global Security to a nominee of such Depository, by a nominee of such Depository to such Depository or another nominee of such Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such a successor Depository.
The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Security other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.
Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any actions taken or not taken by the Depository.
2.14.3 Legend. Any Global Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
“THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITORY (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS SECURITY) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE ANY SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE, (II) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.7 OF THE INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE ISSUER.
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR TO ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. UNLESS THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO SUCH ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.”
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2.14.4 Acts of Holders. The Depository, as a Holder, may appoint agents and otherwise authorize participants to give or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action which a Holder is entitled to give or take under the Indenture.
2.14.5 Payments. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Indenture, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.2, payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on any Global Security shall be made to the Holder thereof.
2.14.6 Consents, Declaration and Directions. Except as provided in Section 2.14.4, the Issuer, the Trustee and any Agent shall treat a person as the Holder of such principal amount of outstanding Securities of such Series represented by a Global Security as shall be specified in a written statement of the Depository with respect to such Global Security, for purposes of obtaining any consents, declarations, waivers or directions required to be given by the Holders pursuant to this Indenture. Notwithstanding the foregoing, prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Security, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Agents may deem and treat the person in whose name a Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever (except for purposes of obtaining any consents, declarations, waivers or directions) including the transfer or exchange of such Security, whether or not such Security is overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or the Agents shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 2.15 CUSIP, ISIN and Common Code Numbers. The Issuer in issuing the Securities may use CUSIP, ISIN and/or Common Code numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use CUSIP, ISIN and/or Common Code numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other elements of identification printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Issuer shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the CUSIP, ISIN and/or Common Code numbers.
ARTICLE
III
REDEMPTION
SECTION 3.1 Notice to Trustee. The Issuer may, with respect to any Series of Securities, reserve the right to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or may covenant to redeem and pay the Series of Securities or any part thereof prior to the Stated Maturity thereof at such time and on such terms as provided for in such Securities. If a Series of Securities is redeemable and the Issuer wants or is obligated to redeem prior to the Stated Maturity thereof all or part of the Series of Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the Issuer shall notify the Trustee of the redemption date and the principal amount of Series of Securities to be redeemed. The Issuer shall give the notice at least 15 days before the redemption date (or such shorter notice as may be acceptable to the Trustee).
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SECTION 3.2 Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture or an Officer’s Certificate, if less than all the Securities of a Series are to be redeemed, the Trustee shall select the Securities of the Series to be redeemed in any manner in accordance with the procedures of the Depository. The Trustee shall make the selection from Securities of the Series outstanding not previously called for redemption. The Trustee may select for redemption portions of the principal of Securities of the Series that have denominations larger than $2,000. Securities of the Series and portions of them it selects shall be in amounts of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof or, with respect to Securities of any Series issuable in other denominations pursuant to Section 2.2.10, the minimum principal denomination for each Series and integral multiples thereof. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities of a Series called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities of that Series called for redemption.
SECTION 3.3 Notice of Redemption. Unless otherwise indicated for a particular Series by Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, the Issuer shall mail a notice of redemption by first-class mail (or deliver such notice electronically in accordance with the procedures of the Depository) to each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed.
The notice shall identify the Securities of the Series to be redeemed and shall state:
(a) the redemption date;
(b) the redemption price;
(c) if any Security is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Security to be redeemed and that, after the redemption date upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion shall be issued upon cancellation of the original Security;
(d) the name and address of the Paying Agent;
(e) that Securities of the Series called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price;
(f) that, upon the satisfaction of any conditions to such redemption set forth in the notice of redemption, and unless the Issuer defaults in making such redemption payment or the Paying Agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, interest on Securities of the Series (or portion thereof) called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the redemption date;
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(g) the CUSIP, ISIN or Common Code numbers, if any, printed on the Securities being redeemed; and
(h) any other information as may be required by the terms of the particular Series or the Securities of a Series being redeemed.
Any notice of any redemption of a Series of Securities may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of a corporate transaction that is pending (such as an equity or equity-linked offering, an incurrence of indebtedness or an acquisition or other strategic transaction involving a change of control in the Issuer or another entity). If such redemption is so subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied or otherwise waived by the relevant redemption date. Unless otherwise impracticable, the Issuer shall provide written notice to the Trustee prior to the close of business two Business Days prior to the redemption date if any such redemption has been rescinded or delayed, and upon receipt the Trustee shall provide such notice to each Holder in the same manner in which the notice of redemption was given. Upon the rescission of such notice of redemption, the rescinded notice of redemption shall have no force or effect.
At the Issuer’s request and upon its provision of such notice information, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Issuer’s name and at its expense.
SECTION 3.4 Effect of Notice of Redemption. Once notice of redemption is mailed or delivered electronically as provided in Section 3.3, Securities of a Series called for redemption become due and payable on the redemption date and at the redemption price, subject to the satisfaction of any conditions precedent provided in such notice. Upon surrender to the Paying Agent, such Securities shall be paid at the redemption price plus accrued interest to the redemption date. On and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or any portion of the Securities called for redemption (unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest).
SECTION 3.5 Deposit of Redemption Price. On or before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the redemption date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest, if any, on all Securities to be redeemed on that date. For the avoidance of doubt, the calculation or determination of the redemption price, including the determination of any Treasury Rate, under this Article III shall not be the obligation or responsibility of the Trustee or any Paying Agent.
SECTION 3.6 Securities Redeemed in Part. Upon surrender of a certificated Security that is redeemed in part, the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new certificated Security of the same Series and the same maturity equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the certificated Security surrendered.
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ARTICLE
IV
COVENANTS
SECTION 4.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Issuer covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each Series of Securities that the Issuer will duly and punctually pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of that Series in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture. Any amounts to be given to the Trustee or Paying Agent, shall be deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, by the Issuer. Such payments shall be considered made on the date due if on such date the Trustee or the Paying Agent holds, in accordance with this Indenture, money sufficient to make all payments with respect to such Securities then due and the Trustee or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, is not prohibited from paying such money to the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
SECTION 4.2 SEC Reports. The Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee within 15 days after it files them with the SEC copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Issuer is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Issuer also shall comply with the other provisions of TIA ss. 314(a). For the avoidance of doubt, the Issuer will be deemed to have furnished such reports referred to above to the Trustee and the Holders, as applicable, if the Issuer has filed such reports with the SEC via its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) System filing system (or any successor system thereto) and such reports are publicly available. The Issuer will notify the Trustee of the filing by email or otherwise.
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only, and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Issuer’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely exclusively on an Officer’s Certificate).
SECTION 4.3 Compliance Certificate. The Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Issuer, an Officer’s Certificate signed by one of the principal executive, financial or accounting officers of the Issuer, stating that a review of the activities of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officer with a view to determining whether the Issuer has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge the Issuer has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he or she may have knowledge).
The Issuer will, so long as any of the Securities are outstanding, deliver in writing to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, within 10 Business Days after becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default that is continuing, an Officer’s Certificate specifying such Default or Event of Default and what action the Issuer has taken, is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.
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SECTION 4.4 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Issuer covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture or the Securities; and the Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted.
SECTION 4.5 Corporate Existence. Subject to Article V, the Issuer will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and the corporate, partnership or other existence of each Significant Subsidiary in accordance with the respective organizational documents of each Significant Subsidiary and the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Issuer and the Significant Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Issuer shall not be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise, or the corporate, partnership or other existence of any Significant Subsidiary, if the Issuer’s Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 4.6 Taxes. The Issuer shall, and shall cause the Significant Subsidiaries to, pay prior to delinquency all material taxes, assessments and governmental levies, except as contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings.
ARTICLE
V
SUCCESSORS
SECTION 5.1 When the Issuer May Merge, Etc. The Issuer shall not consolidate with or merge into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to, any person (a “successor person”) unless:
(a) the successor person (if any) is a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity organized and validly existing under the laws of any U.S. domestic jurisdiction;
(b) the successor person expressly assumes by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the Issuer’s obligations on the Securities and under this Indenture; and
(c) immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing.
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The Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction an Officer’s Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the proposed transaction and such supplemental indenture comply with this Indenture.
For purposes of the foregoing, the conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Issuer (other than to the Issuer or another Subsidiary of the Issuer), which, if such assets were owned by the Issuer, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Issuer, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Issuer, but a bona fide pledge or hypothecation will be deemed not to be prohibited by this Indenture.
SECTION 5.2 Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Issuer in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Issuer is merged or to which such sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Issuer under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor person has been named as the Issuer herein; provided, however, that the predecessor Issuer in the case of a sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall not be released from the obligation to pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities. The Issuer, the Trustee and the successor person shall enter into a supplemental indenture to evidence the succession and substitution of such successor person and such discharge and release of the Issuer.
ARTICLE
VI
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.1 Events of Default.
“Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to Securities of any Series, means any one of the following events, unless in the establishing Board Resolution, supplemental indenture or Officer’s Certificate, it is provided that such Series shall not have the benefit of said Event of Default:
(a) default in the payment of any interest on any Security of that Series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
(b) default in the payment of the principal, other than a scheduled installment payment, or premium, if any, of any Security of that Series when such payment becomes due and payable, at its Maturity, upon redemption, by acceleration or otherwise; or
(c) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment, when as due in respect of any Security of that Series; or
(d) default in the performance or breach of any covenant or warranty of the Issuer in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty that has been included in this Indenture solely for the benefit of a Series of Securities other than that Series), which default continues uncured for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer by the Trustee or to the Issuer and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or
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(e) (A) the Issuer’s failure to make any payment by the end of any applicable grace period after maturity of its indebtedness, which term as used in this clause (e) means obligations (other than nonrecourse obligations) of the Issuer for borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments in an amount (taken together with amounts in (B)) in excess of $150 million and continuance of such failure, or (B) the acceleration of its indebtedness in an amount (taken together with the amounts in (A)) in excess of $150 million because of a default with respect to such indebtedness without such indebtedness having been discharged or such acceleration having been cured, waived, rescinded or annulled in case of (A) or (B) above, for a period of 30 days after written notice to the Issuer by the Trustee or to the Issuer and the Trustee by Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series; however, if any such failure or acceleration referred to in (A) or (B) above shall cease or be cured or be waived, rescinded or annulled in accordance with the terms of the applicable indebtedness, then the Event of Default by reason thereof shall be deemed not to have occurred;
(f) The Issuer or any of the Significant Subsidiaries pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:
(i) commences a voluntary case,
(ii) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case,
(iii) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property, or
(iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors;
(g) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law that:
(i) is for relief against the Issuer or any of the Significant Subsidiaries in an involuntary case,
(ii) appoints a Custodian of the Issuer or any of the Significant Subsidiaries or for all or substantially all of its respective property, or
(iii) orders the liquidation of the Issuer or any of the Significant Subsidiaries, and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or
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(h) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that Series, which is specified in a Board Resolution, a supplemental indenture hereto or an Officer’s Certificate, in accordance with Section 2.2.14.
The term “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or State law for the relief of debtors.
SECTION 6.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any Series at the time outstanding occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default as to the Issuer referred to in Section 6.1(f) or (g)) then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities of that Series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of such Securities) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the Securities of that Series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Issuer (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(f) or (g) shall occur as to the Issuer, the principal amount (or specified amount) of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all outstanding Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to any Series has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series, by written notice to the Issuer and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(a) the Issuer has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(i) all overdue interest, if any, on all Securities that Series,
(ii) the principal of any Securities of that Series that has become due otherwise than by such declaration of and interest thereon at the rate or rates therefor in such Securities,
(iii) to the extent that payment of such interest is legally enforceable, interest upon any overdue principal and overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities of that Series, and
(iv) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee and the reasonable compensation, expenses, and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(b) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that Series, other than the non-payment of the principal and interest of Securities of that Series which has become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 6.13.
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No such rescission shall affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 6.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. The Issuer covenants, that if:
(a) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default for a period of 30 days, or
(b) default is made in the payment of principal of any Security at the Maturity thereof, or
(c) default is made in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when and as due by the terms of a Security,
then, the Issuer will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to them, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal or any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Issuer fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Issuer or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or deemed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Issuer or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to any Securities of any Series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such Series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 6.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to the Issuer or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Issuer or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Issuer for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, indemnity, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
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(b) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same, and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 6.5 Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 6.6 Application of Money Collected. Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.7; and
Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of and interest on the Securities in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and interest, respectively; and
Third: To the Issuer or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct in a final non-appealable judgment.
SECTION 6.7 Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Security of any Series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of that Series;
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(b) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that Series; it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders.
SECTION 6.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on such Security on the Stated Maturity or Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 6.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 6.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.8, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
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SECTION 6.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 6.12 Control by Holders. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such Series, provided that
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture,
(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction, and
(c) subject to the provisions of Section 7.1, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability.
SECTION 6.13 Waiver of Past Defaults. Subject to Section 6.2, the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such Series waive any past Default hereunder with respect to such Series and its consequences, except a Default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of such Series (provided, however, that the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series may rescind an acceleration and its consequences, including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration). Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 6.14 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Issuer, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of any Series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security on or after the Stated Maturity or Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the redemption date).
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ARTICLE VII
TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.1 Duties of Trustee. (a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) The Trustee need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others and no implied duties shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee.
(ii) In the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon Officer’s Certificates or Opinions of Counsel furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; however, in the case of any such Officer’s Certificates or Opinions of Counsel which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such Officer’s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).
(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this Section.
(ii) The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.
(iii) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it with respect to Securities of any Series in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such Series.
(d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section.
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(e) The Trustee may refuse to perform any duty or exercise any right or power unless it receives indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or expense.
(f) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Issuer. Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
(g) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties, or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk is not reasonably assured to it.
(h) The Paying Agent, the Registrar and any authenticating agent shall be entitled to the protections, immunities and subject to the standard of care as are set forth in paragraphs (b), (c), (f) and (g) of this Section with respect to the Trustee.
SECTION 7.2 Rights of Trustee.
(a) The Trustee may rely on and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper person. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
(c) The Trustee may act through agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care. No Depository shall be deemed an agent of the Trustee and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any act or omission by any Depository.
(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers.
(e) The Trustee may consult with counsel of its choosing and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon.
(f) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders of Securities unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
(g) The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities, unless either (1) a Responsible Officer shall have actual knowledge of such default or Event of Default or (2) written notice of such default or Event of Default shall have been received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office and such notice references this Indenture and the applicable Series of Securities.
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(h) The permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties.
(i) In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.
(j) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each Agent, custodian and any other person employed to act hereunder.
(k) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit.
SECTION 7.3 Individual Rights of Trustee. The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or an Affiliate of the Issuer with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. The Trustee is also subject to Sections 7.10 and 7.11.
SECTION 7.4 Trustee’s Disclaimer. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Securities, it shall not be accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement in the Securities other than its authentication.
SECTION 7.5 Notice of Defaults. If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing with respect to the Securities of any Series and if it is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail (or deliver electronically in accordance with the procedures of the Depository) to each Securityholder of the Securities of that Series notice of a Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs or, if later, after a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has knowledge of such Default or Event of Default. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest on any Security of any Series, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as its corporate trust committee or a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of Securityholders of that Series.
SECTION 7.6 Reports by Trustee to Holders. Within 60 days after May 15 in each year commencing May 15, 2026, the Trustee shall transmit by mail or electronically deliver to all Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear on the register kept by the Registrar, a brief report dated as of such May 15, in accordance with, and to the extent required under, TIA ss. 313.
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders of any Series shall be filed with the SEC and each stock exchange on which the Securities of that Series are listed. The Issuer shall promptly notify the Trustee when Securities of any Series are listed on any stock exchange.
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SECTION 7.7 Compensation and Indemnity. The Issuer shall pay to the Trustee compensation as agreed to in writing between the Issuer and the Trustee from time to time. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Issuer shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by it. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the Trustee’s agents and counsel.
The Issuer shall indemnify the Trustee, in each of its capacities hereunder, (including the cost of defending itself) against any claims, loss, liability or expense incurred by it except as set forth in the next paragraph in the performance of its duties under this Indenture as Trustee or Agent. The Trustee shall notify the Issuer promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. The Issuer shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuer shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel. The Issuer need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. This indemnification shall apply to officers, directors, employees, shareholders and agents of the Trustee.
The Issuer need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability incurred by the Trustee or by any officer, director, employee or agent of the Trustee through its own negligence or willful misconduct.
To secure the Issuer’s payment obligations in this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any Series on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay principal and interest on particular Securities of that Series.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(f) or (g) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture and the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
SECTION 7.8 Replacement of Trustee. A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section.
The Trustee may resign with respect to the Securities of one or more Series by so notifying the Issuer. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of any Series may remove the Trustee with respect to that Series by so notifying the Trustee and the Issuer. The Issuer may remove the Trustee with respect to Securities of one or more Series if:
(a) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;
(b) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law;
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(c) a Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or
(d) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.
If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the Issuer shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Securities of the applicable Series may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Issuer.
If a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any one or more Series does not take office within 60 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Issuer or the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Securities of the applicable Series may, at the expense of the Issuer, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
If the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any one or more Series fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Securityholder of the applicable Series may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Issuer. Immediately after that, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee at the expense of the Issuer subject to the lien provided for in Section 7.7, and the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee with respect to each Series of Securities for which it is acting as Trustee under this Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail (or deliver electronically in accordance with the procedures of the Depository) a notice of its succession to each Securityholder of each such Series. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.8, the Issuer’s obligations under Section 7.7 hereof shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee with respect to expenses and liabilities incurred by it prior to such replacement.
SECTION 7.9 Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc. If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation, the successor corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee.
SECTION 7.10 Eligibility; Disqualification. This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of TIA ss.ss. 310(a) (1), (2) and (5). The Trustee shall always have a combined capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall comply with TIA ss. 310(b).
SECTION 7.11 Preferential Collection of Claims. The Trustee is subject to TIA ss. 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship listed in TIA ss. 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA ss. 311(a) to the extent indicated.
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ARTICLE VIII
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE; DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall upon Company Order cease to be of further effect (except as hereinafter provided in this Section 8.1), and the Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(a) either
(i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Securities that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(ii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(1) have become due and payable, or
(2) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or
(3) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Issuer, or
(4) are deemed paid and discharged pursuant to Section 8.3, as applicable;
and the Issuer, in the case of (1), (2) or (3) above, has deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount sufficient for the purpose of paying and discharging the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have become due and payable on or prior to the date of such deposit) or to the Stated Maturity or redemption date, as the case may be;
(b) the Issuer has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuer; and
(c) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Issuer to the Trustee under Section 7.7, and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to clause (a) of this Section, the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 8.1, 8.2 and 8.5 shall survive.
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SECTION 8.2 Application of Trust Funds; Indemnification.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 8.5, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1, all money and U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3 or 8.4 and all money received by the Trustee in respect of U.S. Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.3 or 8.4, shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Issuer acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received by the Trustee or to make mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments as contemplated by Sections 8.3 or 8.4.
(b) The Issuer shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against U.S. Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Sections 8.3 or 8.4 or the interest and principal received in respect of such obligations other than any payable by or on behalf of Holders.
(c) The Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Issuer from time to time upon Company Request any U.S. Government Obligations or money held by it as provided in Sections 8.3 or 8.4 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are then in excess of the amount thereof which then would have been required to be deposited for the purpose for which such U.S. Government Obligations or money were deposited or received. This provision shall not authorize the sale by the Trustee of any U.S. Government Obligations held under this Indenture.
SECTION 8.3 Legal Defeasance of Securities of any Series. Unless this Section 8.3 is otherwise specified, pursuant to Section 2.2.16, to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, the Issuer shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on all the outstanding Securities of such Series on the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (d) hereof, and the provisions of this Indenture, as it relates to such outstanding Securities of such Series, shall no longer be in effect (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Issuer, shall, at Company Request, execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except as to:
(a) the rights of Holders of Securities of such Series to receive, from the trust funds described in subparagraph (d) hereof, (i) payment of the principal of and each installment of principal of and interest on the outstanding Securities of such Series on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest and (ii) the benefit of any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to the Securities of such Series on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Securities of such Series;
(b) the provisions of Sections 2.4, 2.7, 2.8, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.5; and
(c) the rights, powers, trust and immunities of the Trustee hereunder;
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provided that, the following conditions shall have been satisfied:
(a) the Issuer shall have deposited or caused to be deposited irrevocably with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for making the purpose of the following payments, specifically pledged as security for and dedicated solely to the benefit of the Holders of such Securities cash in Dollars (or such other money or currencies as shall then be legal tender in the United States) and/or U.S. Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest, premium, if any, and principal in respect thereof, in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment of principal (including mandatory sinking fund or analogous payments) of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on all the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of interest or principal are due;
(b) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Issuer is a party or by which it is bound;
(c) no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit;
(d) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the Issuer has received from, or there has been published by, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable United States federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit, defeasance and discharge and will be subject to United States federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had not occurred;
(e) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Issuer with the intent of preferring the Holders of the Securities of such Series over any other creditors of the Issuer or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Issuer;
(f) such deposit shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company (as defined in the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended), or such trust shall be qualified under such Act or exempt from regulation thereunder; and
(g) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for relating to the defeasance by this Section have been complied with.
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SECTION 8.4 Covenant Defeasance.
Unless this Section 8.4 is otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.2.16 to be inapplicable to Securities of any Series, on and after the 91st day after the date of the deposit referred to in subparagraph (a) hereof, the Issuer may omit to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth under Sections 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 and 5.1 as well as any additional covenants contained in a supplemental indenture hereto for a particular Series of Securities or a Board Resolution or an Officer’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 2.2.16 (and the failure to comply with any such covenants shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default under Section 6.1), with respect to the Securities of such Series, provided that the following conditions shall have been satisfied:
(a) With reference to this Section 8.4, the Issuer has deposited or caused to be irrevocably deposited (except as provided in Section 8.2(c)) with the Trustee as trust funds in trust, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities cash in Dollars (or such other money or currencies as shall then be legal tender in the United States) and/or U.S. Government Obligations, which through the payment of interest, principal and premium, if any, in respect thereof, in accordance with their terms, will provide (and without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on such Trustee), not later than one day before the due date of any payment of money, an amount in cash, sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay principal and interest, if any, on and any mandatory sinking fund in respect of the Securities of such Series on the dates such installments of interest or principal are due;
(b) Such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or instrument to which the Issuer is a party or by which it is bound;
(c) No Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit or during the period ending on the 91st day after such date;
(d) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel confirming that Holders of the Securities of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and defeasance and will be subject to United States federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred;
(e) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate stating the deposit was not made by the Issuer with the intent of preferring the Holders of the Securities of such Series over any other creditors of the Issuer or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the Issuer; and
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(f) The Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the defeasance contemplated by this Section 8.4 have been complied with.
SECTION 8.5 Repayment to the Issuer. The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall pay to the Issue upon request any money held by them for the payment of principal and interest that remains unclaimed for two years. After that, Securityholders entitled to the money must look to the Issuer for payment as general creditors unless an applicable abandoned property law designates another person.
SECTION 8.6 Reinstatement. If the Trustee or any Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in accordance with Section 8.2 by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Issuer’s obligations under this Indenture and the Holders of Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.1, 8.3 or 8.4 until such time as the Trustee or such Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 8.2.
ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS
SECTION 9.1 Without Consent of Holders. The Issuer and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series without the consent of any Securityholder:
(a) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;
(b) to comply with Article V;
(c) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to or in place of certificated Securities;
(d) to make any change that does not materially adversely affect in any material respect the legal rights of any Securityholder;
(e) to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and terms and conditions of Securities of any Series as permitted by this Indenture;
(f) in the case of subordinated Securities, to make any change in the provisions of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture relating to subordination that would limit or terminate the benefits available to any holder of senior Debt under such provisions (but only if each such holder of senior Debt consents to such change);
(g) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture with respect to Securities of a Series; although no such addition, change or elimination may apply to Securities of any Series created prior to the execution of such amendment and entitled to the benefit of such provision, nor may any such amendment modify the rights of a Holder of any Security with respect to such provision, unless the amendment becomes effective only when there is no outstanding Security of any Series created prior to such amendment and entitled to the benefit of such provision;
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(h) to secure the Securities of any Series;
(i) to add to the Issuer’s covenants or obligations under this Indenture for the protection of the Holders or surrender any right, power or option conferred by this Indenture on the Issuer;
(j) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more Series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee; or
(k) to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.
SECTION 9.2 With Consent of Holders. (a) The Issuer and the Trustee may enter into a supplemental indenture with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of each Series affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series), for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Securityholders of each such Series. Except as provided in Section 6.13, the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of each Series affected by such waiver by notice to the Trustee (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for the Securities of such Series) may waive compliance by the Issuer with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities with respect to such Series.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Securities under this Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof. After a supplemental indenture or waiver under this Section becomes effective, the Issuer shall mail (or deliver electronically in accordance with the procedures of the Depository) to the Holders of Securities affected thereby, a notice briefly describing the supplemental indenture or waiver. Any failure by the Issuer to mail (or deliver electronically in accordance with the procedures of the Depository) or publish such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver.
(b) Without the consent of each Securityholder affected, an amendment or waiver may not be made to, as to any non-consenting Securityholder:
(i) reduce the percentage of principal amount of outstanding Securities whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver;
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(ii) reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest (including default interest) on any Security;
(iii) reduce the principal amount of or the premium, if any, on any Security or change the Stated Maturity of any Security or reduce the amount of, or postpone the date fixed for, the payment of any sinking fund or analogous obligation;
(iv) in the case of any subordinated Securities, or coupons appertaining thereto, make any change in the provisions of this Indenture relating to subordination that adversely affects the rights of any Holder under such provisions;
(v) reduce the principal amount of Discount Securities payable upon acceleration of the maturity thereof;
(vi) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest, if any, on any Security (except a rescission of acceleration of the Securities of any Series by the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such Series and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration);
(vii) make the principal of or interest, if any, on any Security payable in any currency other than that stated in the Security;
(viii) make any change in Sections 6.8, 6.13 or 9.2; or
(ix) waive a redemption payment with respect to any Security or change any of the provisions with respect to the redemption of any Securities.
SECTION 9.3 Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment to this Indenture or the Securities of one or more Series shall be set forth in a supplemental indenture hereto that complies with the TIA as then in effect.
SECTION 9.4 Revocation and Effect of Consents. Until an amendment or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a Security is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to his Security or portion of a Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date the amendment or waiver becomes effective.
Any amendment or waiver once effective shall bind every Securityholder of each Series affected by such amendment or waiver unless it is of the type described in any of clauses (i) through (ix) of Section 9.2(b). In that case, the amendment or waiver shall bind each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Security.
SECTION 9.5 Notation on or Exchange of Securities. The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment or waiver on any Security of any Series thereafter authenticated. The Issuer in exchange for Securities of that Series may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate upon request new Securities of that Series that reflect the amendment or waiver.
SECTION 9.6 Trustee Protected. In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall receive, and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, in addition to the documents required by Section 10.4, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee shall sign all supplemental indentures, except that the Trustee need not sign any supplemental indenture that adversely affects its rights, duties, liabilities or immunities.
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ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 10.1 Trust Indenture Act Controls. If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts with another provision which is required or deemed to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, such required or deemed provision shall control.
SECTION 10.2 Notices. Any notice or communication by the Issuer or the Trustee to the other is duly given if in writing and delivered in person or mailed by first-class mail:
if to the Issuer:
Omnicom Group Inc.
280 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Attention: General Counsel
if to the Trustee:
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas
Trust and Securities Services
1 Columbus Circle, 4th Floor
Mail Stop: NYC01-0417
New York, New York 10019, USA
Attention: Corporate Team/Omnicom AA8765
Facsimile: (732) 578-4635
The Issuer or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
Any notice or communication to a Securityholder shall be mailed by first-class mail to their address shown on the register kept by the Registrar or delivered electronically in accordance with the procedures of the Depository. Failure to mail (or deliver electronically in accordance with the procedures of the Depository) a notice or communication to a Securityholder of any Series or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Securityholders of that or any other Series.
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If a notice or communication is mailed or published (or delivered electronically in accordance with the procedures of the Depository) in the manner provided above, within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the Securityholder receives it.
If the Issuer mails (or delivers electronically in accordance with the procedures of the Depository) a notice or communication to Securityholders, it shall mail or deliver electronically a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time.
SECTION 10.3 Communication by Holders with Other Holders. Securityholders of any Series may communicate pursuant to TIA ss. 312(b) with other Securityholders of that Series or any other Series with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Securities of that Series or all Series. The Issuer, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA ss. 312(c).
SECTION 10.4 Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. Upon any request or application by the Issuer to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, the Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee:
(a) an Officer’s Certificate stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and
(b) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent have been complied with.
SECTION 10.5 Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion. Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate provided pursuant to TIA ss. 314(a) (4)) shall comply with the provisions of TIA ss. 314(e) and shall include:
(a) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
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SECTION 10.6 Rules by Trustee and Agents. The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or a meeting of Securityholders of one or more Series. Any Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions.
SECTION 10.7 Legal Holidays. Unless otherwise provided by Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture for a particular Series, a “Legal Holiday” is any day that is not a Business Day. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at that place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.
SECTION 10.8 No Recourse Against Others. A director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Issuer shall not have any liability for any obligations of the Issuer under the Securities or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each Securityholder by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability.
The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of the Securities.
SECTION 10.9 Counterparts and Electronic Signatures. This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Facsimile, documents executed, scanned and transmitted electronically and electronic signatures, including those created or transmitted through a software platform or application, shall be deemed original signatures for purposes of this Indenture and all matters and agreements related thereto, with such facsimile, scanned and electronic signatures having the same legal effect as original signatures. The parties agree that this Indenture or any instrument, agreement or document necessary for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture or related hereto or thereto (including, without limitation, addendums, amendments, notices, instructions, communications with respect to the delivery of securities or the wire transfer of funds or other communications) (“Executed Documentation”) may be accepted, executed or agreed to through the use of an electronic signature in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations in effect from time to time applicable to the effectiveness and enforceability of electronic signatures. Any Executed Documentation accepted, executed or agreed to in conformity with such laws, rules and regulations will be binding on all parties hereto to the same extent as if it were physically executed and each party hereby consents to the use of any third-party electronic signature capture service providers as may be reasonably chosen by a signatory hereto or thereto. When the Trustee acts on any Executed Documentation sent by electronic transmission, the Trustee will not be responsible or liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from its reliance upon and compliance with such Executed Documentation, notwithstanding that such Executed Documentation (a) may not be an authorized or authentic communication of the party involved or in the form such party sent or intended to send (whether due to fraud, distortion or otherwise) or (b) may conflict with, or be inconsistent with, a subsequent written instruction or communication; it being understood and agreed that the Trustee shall conclusively presume that Executed Documentation that purports to have been sent by an authorized officer of a person has been sent by an authorized officer of such person. The party providing Executed Documentation through electronic transmission or otherwise with electronic signatures agrees to assume all risks arising out of such electronic methods, including, without limitation, the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties.
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SECTION 10.10 Governing Laws. THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN SUCH STATE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF.
SECTION 10.11 No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Issuer or a Subsidiary of the Issuer. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.
SECTION 10.12 Successors. All agreements of the Issuer in this Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successor. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor.
SECTION 10.13 Severability. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 10.14 Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table, and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 10.15 USA Patriot Act. In order to comply with the laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions, including, without limitation, those relating to the funding of terrorist activities and money laundering, including Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act of the United States (“Applicable Law”), the Trustee is required to obtain, verify, record and update certain information relating to individuals and entities which maintain a business relationship with the Trustee. Accordingly, the Issuer agrees to provide to the Trustee, upon its request from time to time such identifying information and documentation as may be available for the Issuer in order to enable the Trustee to comply with Applicable Law.
SECTION 10.16 Force Majeure. The Trustee and the Agents shall not incur any liability for not performing any act or fulfilling any duty, obligation or responsibility hereunder by reason of any occurrence beyond the control of the Trustee or any Agent (including but not limited to any act or provision of any present or future law or regulation or governmental authority, any act of God or war, civil or military disturbance or unrest, local or national disturbance or disaster, any nuclear or natural catastrophes, any act of terrorism, pandemics, epidemics, recognized public emergencies, quarantine restrictions, interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software or hardware) services, and hacking, cyber-attacks, or other use or infiltration of the Trustee’s technological infrastructure exceeding authorized access, or the unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or facsimile or other wire or communication facility); provided that nothing in this Section 10.16 shall alter the Trustee’s standard of care under the TIA; and provided further that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.
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SECTION 10.17 Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial. The Issuer agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding brought by any party to enforce any rights under or with respect to this Indenture, any Security or any other document or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby may be instituted in any state or federal court in The Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, State of New York, United States of America, irrevocably waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such suit, action or proceeding, irrevocably waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any claim that and agrees not to claim or plead in any court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum and irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any such court in any such suit, action or proceeding or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof.
To the extent that the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries has or hereafter may acquire any immunity from jurisdiction of any court (including any court in the United States, the State of New York or other jurisdiction in which the Issuer or any successor thereof may be organized or any political subdivisions thereof) or from any legal process (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution, execution or otherwise) with respect to itself or its property or assets, this Indenture, the Securities, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any other documents or actions to enforce judgments in respect of any thereof, then the Issuer hereby irrevocably waives, and will cause its Subsidiaries to waive, such immunity, and any defense based on such immunity, in respect of its obligations under the above-referenced documents and the transactions contemplated thereby, to the extent permitted by law.
THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION BROUGHT ON OR WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE SECURITIES, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENT EXECUTED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THEREWITH.
ARTICLE XI
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 11.1 Applicability of Article. The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of the Securities of a Series, except as otherwise permitted or required by any form of Security of such Series issued pursuant to this Indenture.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of the Securities of any Series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment” and any other amount provided for by the terms of Securities of such Series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided for by the terms of Securities of any Series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 11.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption of Securities of any Series as provided for by the terms of the Securities of such Series.
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SECTION 11.2 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities. The Issuer may, in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund payment with respect to the Securities of any Series to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities (1) deliver outstanding Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable (other than any of such Securities previously called for mandatory sinking fund redemption) and (2) apply as credit Securities of such Series to which such sinking fund payment is applicable and which have been redeemed either at the election of the Issuer pursuant to the terms of such Series of Securities (except pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund) or through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments or other optional redemptions pursuant to the terms of such Securities, provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received by the Trustee, together with an Officer’s Certificate with respect thereto, not later than 10 days prior to the date on which the Trustee begins the process of selecting Securities for redemption, and shall be credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly. If as a result of the delivery or credit of Securities in lieu of cash payments pursuant to this Section 11.2, the principal amount of Securities of such Series to be redeemed in order to exhaust the aforesaid cash payment shall be less than $100,000, the Trustee need not call Securities of such Series for redemption, except upon receipt of a Company Order that such action be taken, and such cash payment shall be held by the Trustee or a Paying Agent and applied to the next succeeding sinking fund payment, provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall from time to time upon receipt of a Company Order pay over and deliver to the Issuer any cash payment so being held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent upon delivery by the Issuer to the Trustee of Securities of that Series purchased by the Issuer having an unpaid principal amount equal to the cash payment required to be released to the Issuer.
SECTION 11.3 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not less than 45 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, supplemental indenture hereto or Officer’s Certificate in respect of a particular Series of Securities) prior to each sinking fund payment date for any Series of Securities, the Issuer will deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for that Series pursuant to the terms of that Series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering and crediting of Securities of that Series pursuant to Section 11.2, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and the Issuer shall thereupon be obligated to pay the amount therein specified.
Not less than 30 days (unless otherwise indicated in the Board Resolution, Officer’s Certificate or supplemental indenture in respect of a particular Series of Securities) before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 3.2 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Issuer in the manner provided in Section 3.3. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
| OMNICOM GROUP INC. | |||
| By: | /s/ Philip G. Angelastro | ||
| Name: | Philip J. Angelastro | ||
| Title: | Executive Vice President and | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | |||
| DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee | |||
| By: | /s/ Denise Kellerk | ||
| Name: | Denise Kellerk | ||
| Title: | Vice President | ||
| By: | /s/ Sebastian Hidalgo | ||
| Name: | Sebastian Hidalgo | ||
| Title: | Assistant Vice President | ||
EXHIBIT A Debt Security
Form of Face of Security
[Title of Series]
[If the Security is a Global Security, insert the following legend: THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITORY (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS SECURITY) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE ANY SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE, (II) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.7 OF THE INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE ISSUER.
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR TO ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. UNLESS THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO SUCH ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.]
[Insert any legend required by applicable securities laws and regulations or the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations thereunder.]
No. _____
[CUSIP] [Common Code] [ISIN] _____
$____________
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OMNICOM GROUP INC., a New York corporation (the “Issuer,” which term includes any successor person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to _________, or registered assigns, the principal sum of _________ Dollars on _________, ____ [if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert - and to pay interest thereon from _________ or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid] or duly provided for, [semi-annually on _________ and in each year] [If other than semi-annual payments, insert frequency of payments and payment dates], commencing ____________, at [If the Security is to bear interest at a fixed rate, insert - the rate of ____% per annum, set forth below] [If the Security is to bear interest at a variable or floating rate and if determined with reference to an index, refer to description of index below] until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment [If applicable, insert - and (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of ____% per annum on any overdue principal and premium and on any overdue installment of interest]. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on the [regular] record date for such interest, which shall be the _________ or _________ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such interest payment date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such [regular] record date and may either be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on a [special] record date for the payment of such defaulted interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this Series not less than 10 days prior to such [special] record date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this Series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture).
[If the Securities are floating or adjustable rate securities with respect to which the principal of or any premium or interest may be determined with reference to an index, insert the text of the floating or adjustable rate provision.]
[If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity, insert - The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated Maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this Security shall bear interest at the rate of ____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such default in payment to the date payment of such principal has been made or duly provided for. Interest on any overdue principal shall be payable on demand. Any such interest on any overdue principal that is not so paid on demand shall bear interest at the rate of ____% per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such demand for payment to the date payment of such interest has been made or duly provided for, and such interest shall also be payable on demand.]
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and [if applicable, insert - any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for that purpose in ______________, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Issuer payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security register).
A-2
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said state.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual or electronic signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
| Dated: | OMNICOM GROUP INC. | |
| By: | ||
| By: | ||
A-3
Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the Series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
| Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee | ||
| By: | ||
| Authorized Signatory | ||
A-4
Form of Reverse of Security.
OMNICOM GROUP INC.
[Title of Series]
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Issuer, designated as its _________ due _________ (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more Series under an Indenture, dated as of _________, [as amended by, [insert description of any applicable supplemental indentures]], herein [collectively] called the “Indenture”), between the Issuer and _________, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [, limited in aggregate principal amount to $__________]. Capitalized terms used in this Security and not defined herein have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Indenture.
_________, the Trustee under the Indenture has been appointed by the Issuer as paying agent, registrar, [conversion agent] and [custodian] with regard to the Securities.
In case an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of and accrued interest on all Securities may be declared, and upon said declaration, shall become due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided for in the Indenture.
[If applicable, insert - The Securities of this Series are subject to redemption upon not less than 10 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice by mail (or electronic delivery in accordance with the procedures of the Depository), [if applicable, insert - (1) on _________ in any year commencing with the year ______ and ending with the year ______ through operation of the sinking fund for this Series at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [on or after _________, ____] as a whole or in part, at the election of the Issuer, at the following redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount): If redeemed [on or before _________, ____% and if redeemed] during the 12-month period beginning of the years indicated,
| Redemption Year | Price | Redemption Year | Price | |||
and thereafter at a redemption price equal to ___________ of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert - (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to the redemption date, but interest installments whose stated Maturity is on or prior to such redemption date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more predecessor securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant record dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
A-5
[If applicable, insert - The Securities of this Series are subject to redemption upon not less than 10 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice by mail (or electronic delivery in accordance with the procedures of the Depository), (1) on _________ in any year commencing with the year ______ and ending with the year ______ through operation of the sinking fund for this Series at the redemption prices for redemption through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [on or after _________], as a whole or in part, at the election of the Issuer, at the redemption prices for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning _________ of the years indicated,
| Redemption Price For Redemption Through Operation of the Sinking Fund |
Redemption Price For Redemption Otherwise Than Through Operation Year |
Sinking Fund | ||
and thereafter at a redemption price equal to ____% of the principal amount, together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the redemption date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity in on or prior to such redemption date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more predecessor securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant record dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]
[The sinking fund for this Series provides for the redemption on ________ in each year beginning with the year _______ and ending with the year _______ of [not less than $________ “mandatory sinking fund”) and not more than] $________ aggregate principal amount of Securities of this Series. Securities of this Series acquired or redeemed by the Issuer otherwise than through [mandatory] sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent [mandatory] sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made [in the inverse order in which they become due).]]
[If the Security is subject to redemption, insert - In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this Series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.]
The Indenture contains provisions that permit the Issuer to elect either (1) to defease and be discharged from the entire indebtedness of this Security or (2) to be released from its obligations under certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon payment in full of the Securities and compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
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[If the Security is convertible into or exchangeable for common stock of the Issuer, insert appropriate provisions and specify the conversion features and the form of conversion notice pursuant to the Form of Conversion Notice set forth herein.]
[If the Security is convertible into or exchangeable for other securities or property, specify the conversion features and the form of conversion notice pursuant to the Form of Conversion Notice set forth herein.]
[If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security, insert - If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this Series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this Series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.]
[If the Security is an Original Issue-Discount Security, insert - If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this Series shall occur and be continuing, an amount of principal of the Securities of this Series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to - Insert formula for determining the amount.
Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Issuer’s obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities of this Series shall terminate.]
[If Security is subordinate Debt, insert - The Issuer and each Holder of the Securities of this Series, by accepting such Securities, agree that the payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest on such Securities is subordinated, to the extent and in the manner provided in the applicable [supplemental indenture][Officer’s Certificate] creating this Series, to the prior payment in full of all present and future Senior Debt, as defined in the applicable [supplemental indenture][Officer’s Certificate] and that the subordination provisions in the applicable [supplemental indenture][Officer’s Certificate] relating to this Series of Securities are for the benefit of the holders of Senior Debt. Each Holder of a Security by his or her acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee in his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided for in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.]
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The Indenture permits the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each Series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding of each Series to be affected, with certain exceptions as therein provided with respect to certain modifications or amendments which may not be made without the consent of each Holder of such Security affected thereby. The Indenture also permits certain amendments and modifications thereto from time to time by the Issuer and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any Series of the Securities to be affected thereby for certain specified purposes, including curing ambiguities, defects or inconsistencies and making any such change that does not adversely affect the legal rights of any Holder of such Series of the Securities, as provided therein.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each Series at the time outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such Series, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences with respect to such Series. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and Interest on this Security at the times, place and [rate(s)], and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the security register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Issuer in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this Series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this Series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $__________ and integral multiples of $__________ in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this Series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this Series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security is overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Issuer or of any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
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Exhibit 4.2
Execution Version
OMNICOM GROUP INC.
as Issuer
FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of March 2, 2026
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
as Trustee
Debt Securities
First Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 2, 2026 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”) between Omnicom Group Inc., a New York corporation (the “Issuer”) and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (the “Trustee”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Issuer and the Trustee executed and delivered an indenture dated as of March 2, 2026 (the “Indenture”) to provide for the issuance by the Issuer from time to time of Securities to be issued in one or more Series as provided in the Indenture;
WHEREAS, the issuance and sale of up to $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of a Series of the Issuer’s 4.200% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes”), $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of a Series of the Issuer’s 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033 (the “2033 Notes”) and $600,000,000 of a Series of the Issuer’s 5.300% Senior Notes due 2036 (the “2036 Notes”, and together with the 2029 Notes and the 2033 Notes, the “Securities”) have been authorized by the board of directors of the Issuer;
WHEREAS, on the date hereof, the Issuer desires to issue and sell $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2029 Notes, $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2033 Notes and $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2036 Notes;
WHEREAS, the Issuer desires to enter into this First Supplemental Indenture pursuant to Sections 2.2, 2.14.1 and 9.1 of the Indenture to supplement the Indenture to establish the form and terms of the Securities; and
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that, for and in consideration of the above premises, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the sole, equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 Relation to Base Indenture.
This First Supplemental Indenture constitutes an integral part of the Indenture. In the event of inconsistencies between the Indenture and this First Supplemental Indenture, the terms hereof shall govern.
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Section 1.2. Definitions.
(a) All of the terms used in this First Supplemental Indenture which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings specified in the Indenture, unless otherwise provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires, and for the purposes of this First Supplemental Indenture and the Securities, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section:
“Below Investment Grade Rating Event” occurs if both the rating on the applicable Series of Securities is lowered by each of the Rating Agencies and such Securities are rated below Investment Grade by each of the Rating Agencies on any date from the date of the public notice of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control until the end of the 60-day period following public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of the applicable Series of Securities is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies); provided that a Below Investment Grade Rating Event otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating shall not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus shall not be deemed a Below Investment Grade Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Triggering Event hereunder) if any of the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply does not announce or publicly confirm or inform the Trustee in writing at its request that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of the Below Investment Grade Rating Event).
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following:
| (1) | the sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) other than to the Issuer or one of its Subsidiaries; |
| (2) | the consummation of any transaction (including without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Issuer or one of its wholly owned Subsidiaries, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the then outstanding shares of the Issuer’s Voting Stock, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; or |
| (3) | the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Issuer. |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) the Issuer becomes a wholly owned Subsidiary of a holding company and (ii) the holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following such transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the Issuer’s Voting Stock immediately prior to such transaction.
“Change of Control Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 3.2 of this First Supplemental Indenture.
“Change of Control Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.2 of this First Supplemental Indenture.
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“Change of Control Purchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 3.2 of this First Supplemental Indenture.
“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event.
“Consolidated Net Worth” means the consolidated net worth of the Issuer, as determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Debt” of any person means, without duplication: (a) all indebtedness of such person for borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such person for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than earn-out payment obligations of such Person in connection with the purchase of property or services to the extent they are still contingent); (c) all obligations of such person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments; (d) all obligations of such person created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property); (e) all obligations of such person as lessee under leases to the extent that such leases have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as finance leases; (f) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such person in respect of acceptances, letters of credit or similar extensions of credit; (g) all obligations of such person in respect of Hedge Agreements; (h) all Debt of others referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above or clause (i) below and other payment obligations guaranteed, directly or indirectly, in any manner by such person, or in effect guaranteed, directly or indirectly, by such person through an agreement (1) to pay or purchase such Debt or to advance or supply funds for the payment or purchase of such Debt, (2) to purchase, sell or lease (as lessee or lessor) property, or to purchase or sell services, primarily for the purpose of enabling the debtor to make payment of such Debt or to assure the holder of such Debt against loss, (3) to supply funds to or in any other manner invest in the debtor (including any agreement to pay for property or services irrespective of whether such property is received or such services are rendered) or (4) otherwise to assure a creditor against loss; and (i) all Debt referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above secured by (or for which the holder of such Debt has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including, without limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such person, even though such person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such Debt.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.
“Hedge Agreements” means interest rate swap, cap or collar agreements, interest rate future or option contracts, currency swap agreements, currency future or option contracts and other similar agreements.
“Investment Grade” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories) by Moody’s and BBB- (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories) by S&P, or, in each case, if such Rating Agency ceases to rate the applicable Series of Securities or fails to make a rating of such Series of Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Issuer’s control, the equivalent investment grade credit rating by the replacement agency selected by the Issuer in accordance with the procedures described under clause (2) of the definition of “Rating Agencies.”
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“Lien” means any lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance of any kind, or any other type of preferential arrangement intended to provide security for the payment or performance of an obligation, including, without limitation, the lien or retained security title of a conditional vendor and any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and its successors.
“Par Call Date” means:
for the 2029 Notes, February 2, 2029;
for the 2033 Notes, April 2, 2033; and
for the 2036 Notes, March 2, 2036.
“Permitted Liens” means such of the following as to which no enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure proceeding shall have been commenced: (a) Liens for taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies to the extent not yet due and payable, or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; (b) Liens imposed by law, such as materialmen’s, mechanics’, carriers’, workmen’s and repairmen’s Liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business securing obligations that are not overdue for a period of more than 30 days or that are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings that prevent the forfeiture or sale of the asset subject to such Lien; (c) pledges or deposits to secure obligations under workers’ compensation laws or similar legislation or to secure public or statutory obligations or, in any such case, to secure reimbursement obligations under letters of credit or bonds issued to support such obligations; and (d) easements, rights of way and other encumbrances on title to real property that do not render title to the property encumbered thereby unmarketable or materially adversely affect the use of such property for its present purposes.
“Rating Agencies” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if any of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the applicable Series of Securities or fails to make a rating of the applicable Series of Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Issuer’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, selected by the Issuer as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, or both of them, as the case may be.
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“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, and its successors.
“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the yield determined by the Issuer after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily) — H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities — Treasury constant maturities — Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Issuer shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the redemption date to the applicable Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields — one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life — and shall interpolate to the applicable Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the redemption date. If on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Issuer shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such redemption date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the applicable Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the applicable Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the applicable Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the applicable Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the applicable Par Call Date, the Issuer shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the applicable Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the applicable Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Issuer shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.
“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any person, capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.
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ARTICLE TWO
THE SECURITIES
Section 2.1. Terms of the Securities.
The Securities shall have the following terms, established pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Indenture:
2.1.1. Pursuant to Section 2.2.1 of the Indenture, and in each case to be issued as a Series of Securities under the Indenture:
the title of the 2029 Notes shall be the “4.200% Senior Notes due 2029”;
the title of the 2033 Notes shall be the “5.000% Senior Notes due 2033”; and
the title of the 2036 Notes shall be the “5.300% Senior Notes due 2036”;
2.1.2. Pursuant to Section 2.2.2 of the Indenture, the price or prices at which the Securities of the Series will be issued initially shall be:
for the 2029 Notes, 99.891% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2029 Notes;
for the 2033 Notes, 99.929% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2033 Notes; and for the 2036 Notes, 99.618% of the aggregate principal amount of the 2036 Notes;
2.1.3. Pursuant to Section 2.2.3 of the Indenture, the aggregate principal amount of the Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this First Supplemental Indenture initially shall be limited to:
for the 2029 Notes, $400,000,000,
for the 2033 Notes, $700,000,000; and
for the 2036 Notes, $600,000,000;
2.1.4. Pursuant to Section 2.2.4 of the Indenture:
100% of the 2029 Notes shall be payable on March 2, 2029;
100% of the 2033 Notes shall be payable on June 2, 2033; and
100% of the 2036 Notes shall be payable on June 2, 2036;
2.1.5. Pursuant to Section 2.2.5 of the Indenture, the Securities shall bear interest at a rate equal to:
4.200% per annum for the 2029 Notes;
5.000% per annum for the 2033 Notes; and
5.300% per annum for the 2036 Notes;
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interest on the 2029 Notes shall accrue from March 2, 2026 until the principal thereof is paid or duly provided for;
interest on the 2033 Notes shall accrue from March 2, 2026 until the principal thereof is paid or duly provided for; and
interest on the 2036 Notes shall accrue from March 2, 2026 until the principal thereof is paid or duly provided for;
interest on the 2029 Notes shall be payable semi-annually in arrears in cash on March 2 and September 2 of each year, commencing on September 2, 2026 to Holders of record on February 15 and August 18 (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable interest payment date;
interest on the 2033 and the 2036 Notes shall be payable semi-annually in arrears in cash on June 2 and December 2 of each year, commencing on June 2, 2026 to Holders of record on May 18 and November 17 (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable interest payment date;
Interest on the Securities shall be computed from and including the prior interest payment date (or, in the case of the first interest payment date, from and including March 2, 2026) to but excluding the next interest payment date on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months;
In the event that any principal or interest on the applicable Series of Securities is not paid when due, whether at Maturity or otherwise, then except to the extent permitted by law such overdue principal and interest shall bear interest until paid at the rate of interest set forth in this Section 2.1.5 of this First Supplemental Indenture, compounded semi-annually;
2.1.6. Pursuant to Section 2.2.6 of the Indenture, the place or places where the principal of and interest in the Securities shall be payable shall be as set forth in the Securities;
2.1.7. Pursuant to Section 2.2.7 of the Indenture, the Securities shall be subject to redemption at the option of the Issuer as set forth in Article III of the Indenture, as modified by Section 3.1 of this First Supplemental Indenture;
2.1.8. Pursuant to Section 2.2.8 of the Indenture, the Issuer shall not be obligated to redeem or purchase the Securities pursuant to any sinking fund or at the option of a Holder thereof prior to the Maturity;
2.1.9. Pursuant to Section 2.2.9 of the Indenture, the Issuer shall not be obligated to redeem or purchase the Securities pursuant to any repurchase obligations or at the option of a Holder thereof prior to the Maturity, except pursuant to Section 3.2 of this First Supplemental Indenture;
2.1.10. Pursuant to Section 2.2.10, the Securities shall be issuable in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof;
2.1.11. Pursuant to Section 2.2.11 of the Indenture, the Securities shall be issued as Global Securities, the forms of which are attached hereto as Exhibit A, Exhibit B and Exhibit C;
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2.1.12. Pursuant to Section 2.2.15 of the Indenture, the Issuer shall be subject to the additional restrictions as set forth in Section 4.1 of this First Supplemental Indenture; and
2.1.13. Pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Indenture, the Issuer may, without the consent of the Holders of the Securities of any Series, issue additional Securities of such Series having the same ranking and the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as the Securities of such Series issued on the date hereof (except for the issue date, the price to the public, the payment of interest accruing prior to the issue date of such additional Securities and the first payment of interest following the issue date of such additional Securities). Any such additional Securities shall be a part of the Series having the same terms as the Securities of such Series issued on the date hereof, provided that such additional Securities subsequently issued are fungible for U.S. federal income tax purposes with any Securities of such Series previously issued.
ARTICLE THREE
ADDITIONAL REDEMPTION PROVISION
Section 3.1. Optional Redemption.
Prior to the applicable Par Call Date, the Issuer may redeem such Series of Securities at its option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:
| (a) | (i) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the redemption date (assuming such Securities matured on the applicable Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points with respect to the 2029 Notes, 20 basis points with respect to the 2033 Notes and 20 basis points with respect to the 2036 Notes less (ii) interest accrued to, but excluding, the date of redemption, and |
| (b) | 100% of the principal amount of the applicable Series of the Securities to be redeemed, |
plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date.
On or after the applicable Par Call Date, the Issuer may redeem the applicable Series of Securities, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Securities being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date.
Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depository’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of the applicable Series of the Securities to be redeemed at its registered address.
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The Issuer’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. The calculation or determination of the redemption price shall be made by the Issuer or on its behalf by such person as the Issuer shall designate. For the avoidance of doubt, the calculation or determination of the redemption price, including the determination of any Treasury Rate, shall not be the obligation or responsibility of the Trustee or Paying Agent.
Any notice of any redemption of the Securities may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of a corporate transaction that is pending (such as an equity or equity-linked offering, an incurrence of indebtedness or an acquisition or other strategic transaction involving a change of control in the Issuer or another entity). If such redemption is so subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied or otherwise waived by the relevant redemption date.
On and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on the applicable Series of Securities or any portion of such Securities called for redemption (unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest). On or before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the redemption date, the Issuer shall deposit with a Paying Agent (or the Trustee, if other than the Paying Agent) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the applicable Series of the Securities to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the applicable Series of Securities are to be redeemed, such Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by such method as the Trustee deems fair and appropriate, subject to the procedures of the Depository.
Section 3.2. Repurchase Upon Change of Control Triggering Event.
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Issuer has exercised its option to redeem the applicable Series of the Securities pursuant to Section 3.1 of this First Supplemental Indenture, each Holder of such Securities shall have the right to require the Issuer to repurchase all or a portion of such Holder’s Securities pursuant to a change of control offer pursuant to, and in accordance with, the provisions of this Section 3.2 (a “Change of Control Offer”), at a purchase price (the “Change of Control Purchase Price”) equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase, subject to the right of Holders of Securities of such Series on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date.
Within 30 days following the date upon which the Issuer becomes aware that a Change of Control Triggering Event has occurred, or at the Issuer’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of the pending Change of Control, the Issuer shall be required to send, by first class mail or electronic delivery, a notice to each Holder of such Securities, with a copy to the Trustee, which notice shall govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer. Such notice shall state, among other things, the purchase date, which must be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed or delivered, other than as may be required by law (the “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice, if mailed or delivered prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, shall state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. The Issuer shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for such an offer made by the Issuer and such third party purchases all Securities of the applicable Series properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.
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The Issuer shall be required to comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the applicable Series of the Securities as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section 3.2 and the applicable Series of the Securities, the Issuer shall be required to comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 3.2 and such Securities by virtue of any such compliance.
On each Change of Control Payment Date, the Issuer shall, to the extent lawful:
| (a) | accept for payment all Securities of the applicable Series or portions of such Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Change of Control Offer; |
| (b) | deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price in respect of all Securities of the applicable Series or portions of such Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn; and |
| (c) | deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the applicable Series of the Securities properly accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of such Securities or portions of such Securities being repurchased. |
ARTICLE FOUR
LIMITATION ON LIENS
Section 4.1. Limitation on Liens.
The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create or suffer to exist any Lien on or with respect to any of the Issuer’s properties, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure any Debt of the Issuer, any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Issuer or any other person without securing the Securities equally and ratably with such Debt to which such Liens relate for so long as such Debt shall be so secured, other than:
(a) Permitted Liens;
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(b) purchase money Liens upon or in any real property or equipment acquired or held by the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer in the ordinary course of business to secure the purchase price of such property or equipment or to secure Debt incurred solely for the purpose of financing the acquisition of such property or equipment, or Liens existing on such property or equipment at the time of its acquisition (other than any such Liens created in contemplation of such acquisition that were not incurred to finance the acquisition of such property) or extensions, renewals or replacements of any of the foregoing for the same or a lesser amount, provided, however, that no such Lien shall extend to or cover any properties of any character other than the real property or equipment being acquired and fixed improvements thereon or accessions thereto, and no such extension, renewal or replacement shall extend to or cover any properties not theretofore subject to the Lien being extended, renewed or replaced;
(c) Liens existing on February 25, 2026;
(d) Liens on property of a person existing at the time such person is merged into, consolidated with, or acquired by the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer or becomes a Subsidiary of the Issuer; provided that such Liens were not created in contemplation of such merger, consolidation or acquisition and do not extend to any assets other than those of the person so merged into or consolidated with the Issuer or such Subsidiary or acquired by the Issuer or such Subsidiary;
(e) Liens granted by Subsidiaries of the Issuer to secure Debt owed to the Issuer or a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Issuer;
(f) Liens arising out of a judgment, decree or order of court being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, provided that adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the Issuer or the books of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in conformity with GAAP;
(g) Debt of a person existing at the time such person is merged into or consolidated with the Issuer or becomes a Subsidiary of the Issuer provided that such Debt was not created in contemplation of such merger, consolidation or acquisition;
(h) Liens to secure any extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding (or successive extensions, renewals, refinancings or refundings), in whole or in part, of any Debt secured by Liens referred to above or Liens created in connection with any amendment, consent or waiver relating to such Debt, so long as such Lien does not extend to any other property, the amount of Debt secured is not increased (other than by the amount equal to any costs and expenses incurred in connection with any extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding) and the Debt so secured does not exceed the fair market value (as determined by the Issuer’s Board of Directors in good faith) of the assets subject to such Liens at the time of such extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding, or such amendment, consent or waiver, as the case may be;
(i) any assignment of accounts receivable (1) by and among the Issuer and its Subsidiaries or (2) pursuant to non-recourse factoring or similar arrangements or otherwise in an aggregate amount not to exceed in any fiscal year the greater of $1,000,000,000 (measured as the face value of such accounts receivable at the time of assignment) and 10.0% of the consolidated accounts receivable of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries as reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of the Issuer as of the end of the fiscal year of the Issuer most recently ended prior to such assignment for which financial statements are available; and
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(j) (1) Liens otherwise prohibited by this covenant, securing Debt or other obligations in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding plus (2) the aggregate face value at the time of assignment of such accounts receivable assigned, the assignment of which is not otherwise permitted by the foregoing exceptions, in an aggregate amount not to exceed 20% of Consolidated Net Worth of the Issuer and its Subsidiaries as set forth in the Issuer’s most recently available financial statements.
ARTICLE FIVE
LIABILITY OF TRUSTEE
Section 5.1 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals.
The Trustee shall not be responsible in any matter whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this First Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which are made solely by the Issuer or for or with respect to (i) the proper authorization by the Issuer by action or otherwise, (ii) the due execution hereof by the Issuer or (iii) the consequences of any amendment herein provided for, and the Trustee makes no representation with respect to any such matters.
ARTICLE SIX
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 6.1. Ratification and Effect.
Except as hereby expressly amended, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, provisions and conditions thereof shall be and remain in full force and effect.
Upon and after the execution of this First Supplemental Indenture, each reference in the Indenture to “this Indenture,” “hereunder,” “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Indenture shall mean and be a reference to the Indenture as modified hereby.
Section 6.2 Governing Law.
THIS FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN SUCH STATE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF.
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Section 6.3 Counterpart Originals.
This First Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement.
Section 6.4 Effect of Headings.
The headings of the Articles and Sections of this First Supplemental Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
Section 6.5. Severability.
In case any provision in this First Supplemental Indenture or in the Securities of any Series shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 6.6. Modification, Amendment and Waiver.
The provisions of this First Supplemental Indenture may not be amended, supplemented, modified or waived except by an execution of a Supplemental Indenture executed by the Issuer and the Trustee. Any such amendment shall comply with Article IX of the Indenture. Until an amendment, waiver or other action by Holders becomes effective, a consent thereto by a Holder of the applicable Series of the Security hereunder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of that Security or portion of the Security that evidences the same obligation as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent, waiver or action is not made on such Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent, waiver or action as to such Holder’s Security or portion of such Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date the amendment, waiver or action becomes effective. After an amendment, waiver or action becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder.
Section 6.7. Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indenture Part of Indenture.
Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This First Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of Securities heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby.
Section 6.8. Trust Indenture Acts Controls.
If any provision of this First Supplemental Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with any provision of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “TIA”), that is required under the TIA to be part of and govern any provision of this First Supplemental Indenture, the provision of the TIA shall control. If any provision of this First Supplemental Indenture modifies or excludes any provisions of the TIA that may be so modified or excluded, the provisions of the TIA shall be deemed to apply to the Indenture as so modified or to be excluded by this First Supplemental Indenture, as the case may be.
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Section 6.9. Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial.
The Issuer agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding brought by any party to enforce any rights under or with respect to this First Supplemental Indenture, any Security or any other document or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby may be instituted in any state or federal court in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, State of New York, United States of America, irrevocably waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such suit, action or proceeding, irrevocably waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any claim that and agrees not to claim or plead in any court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum and irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any such court in any such suit, action or proceeding or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof.
To the extent that the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries has or hereafter may acquire any immunity from jurisdiction of any court (including any court in the United States, the State of New York or other jurisdiction in which the Issuer or any successor thereof may be organized or any political subdivisions thereof) or from any legal process (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution, execution or otherwise) with respect to itself or its property or assets, this First Supplemental Indenture, the applicable Series of the Securities, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any other documents or actions to enforce judgments in respect of any thereof, then the Issuer hereby irrevocably waives, and will cause its Subsidiaries to waive, such immunity, and any defense based on such immunity, in respect of its obligations under the above-referenced documents and the transactions contemplated thereby, to the extent permitted by law.
THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION BROUGHT ON OR WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT, ANY SERIES OF THE SECURITIES, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENT EXECUTED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THEREWITH.
[Signatures pages follow]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this First Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
| OMNICOM GROUP INC. | |||
| By: | /s/ Philip J. Angelastro | ||
| Name: | Philip J. Angelastro | ||
| Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture]
| DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee | |||
| By: | /s/ Denise Kellerk | ||
| Name: | Denise Kellerk | ||
| Title: | Vice President | ||
| By: | /s/ Sebastian Hidalgo | ||
| Name: | Sebastian Hidalgo | ||
| Title: | Assistant Vice President | ||
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture]
Exhibit A
FORM OF GLOBAL SECURITY FOR THE 4.200% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2029
THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITORY (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS SECURITY) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE ANY SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE, (II) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.7 OF THE INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE ISSUER.
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR TO ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. UNLESS THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO SUCH ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
A-1
4.200% Senior Notes due 2029
ISIN: US681919BV74
CUSIP: 681919 BV7
$[400,000,000][ ]
No. [1]
OMNICOM GROUP INC., a New York corporation (the “Issuer,” which term includes any successor person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $[400,000,000][ ] on March 2, 2029 and to pay interest thereon from March 2, 2026 or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on March 2 and September 2 in each year, commencing September 2, 2026, at the rate of 4.200% per annum, set forth below. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment date shall, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such interest, which shall be February 15 or August 18 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such interest payment date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such regular record date and may either be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such defaulted interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this Series not less than 10 days prior to such special record date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this Series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture).
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for that purpose in The City of New York,New York, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Issuer payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said state.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual or electronic signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
| Dated: | OMNICOM GROUP INC. | |
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
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This is one of the Securities of the Series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
| Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee | ||
| By: | ||
| Authorized Signatory | ||
| Dated: | ||
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Reverse of Security
OMNICOM GROUP INC.
4.200% Senior Notes due 2029
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Issuer, designated as its 4.200% Senior Notes due 2029 (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more Series under an Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2026 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Issuer and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 2, 2026, between the Issuer and the Trustee (the “First Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the Series designated on the face hereof, initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $400,000,000. Capitalized terms used in this Security and not defined herein have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Indenture.
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the Trustee under the Indenture, has been appointed by the Issuer as Paying Agent, Registrar and custodian with regard to the Securities.
In case an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of and accrued interest on all Securities may be declared, and upon said declaration, shall become due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided for in the Indenture.
Prior to February 2, 2029 (the “Par Call Date”), the Issuer may redeem the Securities at its option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:
| (a) | (i) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the redemption date (assuming the Securities matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points less (ii) interest accrued to, but excluding, the date of redemption, and |
| (b) | 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed, |
plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date.
On or after the Par Call Date, the Issuer may redeem the Securities, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date.
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“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the yield determined by the Issuer after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily) — H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities — Treasury constant maturities — Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Issuer shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the redemption date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields — one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life — and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the redemption date.
If on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Issuer shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such redemption date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Issuer shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Issuer shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.
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Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depository’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at its registered address.
The Issuer’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. The calculation or determination of the redemption price shall be made by the Issuer or on its behalf by such person as the Issuer shall designate. For the avoidance of doubt, the calculation or determination of the redemption price, including the determination of any Treasury Rate, shall not be the obligation or responsibility of the Trustee or Paying Agent.
Any notice of any redemption of the Securities may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of a corporate transaction that is pending (such as an equity or equity-linked offering, an incurrence of indebtedness or an acquisition or other strategic transaction involving a change of control in the Issuer or another entity). If such redemption is so subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied or otherwise waived by the relevant redemption date.
On and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on the Securities or any portion of the Securities called for redemption (unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest). On or before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the redemption date, the Issuer shall deposit with a Paying Agent (or the Trustee, if other than the Paying Agent) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, the Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by such method as the Trustee deems fair and appropriate, subject to the procedures of the Depository.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this Series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof; provided that in the case of a Global Security, an appropriate book-entry adjustment may be made in lieu of the issuance of a new Security.
The Indenture contains provisions that permit the Issuer to elect either (1) to defease and be discharged from the entire indebtedness of this Security or (2) to be released from its obligations under certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon payment in full of the Securities and compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event with respect to the Securities of this Series, the Issuer shall be required to make an offer to repurchase the Securities of this Series on the terms set forth in Section 3.2 of the First Supplemental Indenture.
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If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this Series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this Series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture permits the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each Series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding of each Series to be affected, with certain exceptions as therein provided with respect to certain modifications or amendments which may not be made without the consent of each Holder of such Security affected thereby. The Indenture also permits certain amendments and modifications thereto from time to time by the Issuer and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any Series of the Securities to be affected thereby for certain specified purposes, including curing ambiguities, defects or inconsistencies and making any such change that does not adversely affect the legal rights of any Holder of such Series of the Securities, as provided therein.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each Series at the time outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such Series, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences with respect to such Series. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and Interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the security register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Issuer in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this Series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, shall be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this Series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this Series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this Series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
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No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security is overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Issuer or of any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
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Exhibit B
FORM OF GLOBAL SECURITY FOR THE 5.000% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2033
THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITORY (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS SECURITY) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE ANY SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE, (II) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.7 OF THE INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE ISSUER.
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR TO ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. UNLESS THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO SUCH ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
B-1
5.000% Senior Notes due 2033
ISIN: US681919BW57
CUSIP: 681919 BW5
$[500,000,000][200,000,000]
No. [1][2]
OMNICOM GROUP INC., a New York corporation (the “Issuer,” which term includes any successor person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $[500,000,000][200,000,000] on June 2, 2033 and to pay interest thereon from March 2, 2026 or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on June 2 and December 2 in each year, commencing June 2, 2026, at the rate of 5.000% per annum, set forth below. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment date shall, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such interest, which shall be May 18 or November 17 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such interest payment date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such regular record date and may either be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such defaulted interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this Series not less than 10 days prior to such special record date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this Series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture).
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for that purpose in The City of New York, New York, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Issuer payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said state.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual or electronic signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
B-2
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
| Dated: | OMNICOM GROUP INC. | |
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
B-3
This is one of the Securities of the Series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
| Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee | ||
| By: | ||
| Authorized Signatory | ||
| Dated: | ||
B-4
Reverse of Security
OMNICOM GROUP INC.
5.000% Senior Notes due 2033
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Issuer, designated as its 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033 (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more Series under an Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2026 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Issuer and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 2, 2026, between the Issuer and the Trustee (the “First Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the Series designated on the face hereof, initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $700,000,000. Capitalized terms used in this Security and not defined herein have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Indenture.
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the Trustee under the Indenture, has been appointed by the Issuer as Paying Agent, Registrar and custodian with regard to the Securities.
In case an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of and accrued interest on all Securities may be declared, and upon said declaration, shall become due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided for in the Indenture.
Prior to April 2, 2033 (the “Par Call Date”), the Issuer may redeem the Securities at its option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:
| (c) | (i) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the redemption date (assuming the Securities matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points less (ii) interest accrued to, but excluding, the date of redemption, and |
| (d) | 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed, |
plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date.
On or after the Par Call Date, the Issuer may redeem the Securities, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date.
B-5
“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the yield determined by the Issuer after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily) — H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities — Treasury constant maturities — Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Issuer shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the redemption date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields — one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life — and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the redemption date.
If on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Issuer shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such redemption date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Issuer shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Issuer shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.
Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depository’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at its registered address.
B-6
The Issuer’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. The calculation or determination of the redemption price shall be made by the Issuer or on its behalf by such person as the Issuer shall designate. For the avoidance of doubt, the calculation or determination of the redemption price, including the determination of any Treasury Rate, shall not be the obligation or responsibility of the Trustee or Paying Agent.
Any notice of any redemption of the Securities may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of a corporate transaction that is pending (such as an equity or equity-linked offering, an incurrence of indebtedness or an acquisition or other strategic transaction involving a change of control in the Issuer or another entity). If such redemption is so subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied or otherwise waived by the relevant redemption date.
On and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on the Securities or any portion of the Securities called for redemption (unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest). On or before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the redemption date, the Issuer shall deposit with a Paying Agent (or the Trustee, if other than the Paying Agent) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, the Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by such method as the Trustee deems fair and appropriate, subject to the procedures of the Depository.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this Series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof; provided that in the case of a Global Security, an appropriate book-entry adjustment may be made in lieu of the issuance of a new Security.
The Indenture contains provisions that permit the Issuer to elect either (1) to defease and be discharged from the entire indebtedness of this Security or (2) to be released from its obligations under certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon payment in full of the Securities and compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event with respect to the Securities of this Series, the Issuer shall be required to make an offer to repurchase the Securities of this Series on the terms set forth in Section 3.2 of the First Supplemental Indenture.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this Series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this Series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
B-7
The Indenture permits the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each Series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding of each Series to be affected, with certain exceptions as therein provided with respect to certain modifications or amendments which may not be made without the consent of each Holder of such Security affected thereby. The Indenture also permits certain amendments and modifications thereto from time to time by the Issuer and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any Series of the Securities to be affected thereby for certain specified purposes, including curing ambiguities, defects or inconsistencies and making any such change that does not adversely affect the legal rights of any Holder of such Series of the Securities, as provided therein.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each Series at the time outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such Series, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences with respect to such Series. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and Interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the security register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Issuer in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this Series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, shall be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this Series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this Series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this Series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
B-8
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security is overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Issuer or of any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
B-9
Exhibit C
FORM OF GLOBAL SECURITY FOR THE 5.300% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2036
THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITORY (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS SECURITY) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE ANY SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE, (II) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.7 OF THE INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE ISSUER.
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR TO ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. UNLESS THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO SUCH ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
C-1
5.300% Senior Notes due 2036
ISIN: US681919BX31
CUSIP: 681919 BX3
$[500,000,000][100,000,000]
No. [1][2]
OMNICOM GROUP INC., a New York corporation (the “Issuer,” which term includes any successor person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $[500,000,000][100,000,000] on June 2, 2036 and to pay interest thereon from March 2, 2026 or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on June 2 and December 2 in each year, commencing June 2, 2026, at the rate of 5.300% per annum, set forth below. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment date shall, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such interest, which shall be May 18 or November 17 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such interest payment date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such regular record date and may either be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such defaulted interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this Series not less than 10 days prior to such special record date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this Series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture).
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for that purpose in The City of New York, New York, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the option of the Issuer payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said state.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual or electronic signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
C-2
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
| Dated: | OMNICOM GROUP INC. | |
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
C-3
This is one of the Securities of the Series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
| Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee | ||
| By: | ||
| Authorized Signatory | ||
| Dated: | ||
C-4
Reverse of Security
OMNICOM GROUP INC.
5.300% Senior Notes due 2036
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Issuer, designated as its 5.300% Senior Notes due 2036 (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more Series under an Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2026 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Issuer and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 2, 2026, between the Issuer and the Trustee (the “First Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the Series designated on the face hereof, initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $600,000,000. Capitalized terms used in this Security and not defined herein have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Indenture.
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the Trustee under the Indenture, has been appointed by the Issuer as Paying Agent, Registrar and custodian with regard to the Securities.
In case an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of and accrued interest on all Securities may be declared, and upon said declaration, shall become due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided for in the Indenture.
Prior to March 2, 2036 (the “Par Call Date”), the Issuer may redeem the Securities at its option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:
| (e) | (i) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the redemption date (assuming the Securities matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points less (ii) interest accrued to, but excluding, the date of redemption, and |
| (f) | 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed, |
plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date.
On or after the Par Call Date, the Issuer may redeem the Securities, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the redemption date.
C-5
“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the yield determined by the Issuer after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily) — H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities — Treasury constant maturities — Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Issuer shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the redemption date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields — one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life — and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the redemption date.
If on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Issuer shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such redemption date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Issuer shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Issuer shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.
Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depository’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at its registered address.
C-6
The Issuer’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error. The calculation or determination of the redemption price shall be made by the Issuer or on its behalf by such person as the Issuer shall designate. For the avoidance of doubt, the calculation or determination of the redemption price, including the determination of any Treasury Rate, shall not be the obligation or responsibility of the Trustee or Paying Agent.
Any notice of any redemption of the Securities may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of a corporate transaction that is pending (such as an equity or equity-linked offering, an incurrence of indebtedness or an acquisition or other strategic transaction involving a change of control in the Issuer or another entity). If such redemption is so subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied or otherwise waived by the relevant redemption date.
On and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on the Securities or any portion of the Securities called for redemption (unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest). On or before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the redemption date, the Issuer shall deposit with a Paying Agent (or the Trustee, if other than the Paying Agent) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, the Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by such method as the Trustee deems fair and appropriate, subject to the procedures of the Depository.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this Series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof; provided that in the case of a Global Security, an appropriate book-entry adjustment may be made in lieu of the issuance of a new Security.
The Indenture contains provisions that permit the Issuer to elect either (1) to defease and be discharged from the entire indebtedness of this Security or (2) to be released from its obligations under certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon payment in full of the Securities and compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event with respect to the Securities of this Series, the Issuer shall be required to make an offer to repurchase the Securities of this Series on the terms set forth in Section 3.2 of the First Supplemental Indenture.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this Series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this Series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
C-7
The Indenture permits the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each Series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding of each Series to be affected, with certain exceptions as therein provided with respect to certain modifications or amendments which may not be made without the consent of each Holder of such Security affected thereby. The Indenture also permits certain amendments and modifications thereto from time to time by the Issuer and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any Series of the Securities to be affected thereby for certain specified purposes, including curing ambiguities, defects or inconsistencies and making any such change that does not adversely affect the legal rights of any Holder of such Series of the Securities, as provided therein.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each Series at the time outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such Series, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences with respect to such Series. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and Interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the security register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Issuer in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this Series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, shall be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this Series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of this Series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities of this Series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
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Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Issuer, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer or the Trustee may treat the person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security is overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Issuer or of any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
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Exhibit 4.3
Execution Version
OMNICOM FINANCE HOLDINGS PLC
as Issuer
OMNICOM GROUP INC.
as Guarantor
SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of March 2, 2026
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS
as Trustee
Debt Securities
Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 2, 2026 (the “Second Supplemental Indenture”) among Omnicom Finance Holdings plc, a public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales (the “Issuer”), Omnicom Group Inc., a New York corporation (“OGI”) referred to as the “Guarantor”; the Guarantor together with the Issuer collectively referred to as the “Omnicom Companies”), and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (the “Trustee”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Omnicom Companies and the Trustee executed and delivered an indenture dated as of March 6, 2024 (the “Indenture”) to provide for the issuance by the Issuer from time to time of Securities to be issued in one or more Series as provided in the Indenture;
WHEREAS, the issuance and sale of up to €600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Issuer’s 3.850% Senior Notes due 2034 (the “Securities”) have been authorized by the board of directors of the Issuer;
WHEREAS, the Issuer desires to issue and sell €600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Securities on the date hereof;
WHEREAS, the Guarantee of the Securities has been authorized by the board of directors of the Guarantor;
WHEREAS, the Issuer desires to enter into this Second Supplemental Indenture pursuant to Sections 2.2, 2.14.1 and 9.1 of the Indenture to supplement the Indenture to establish the form and terms of the Securities and amend the Indenture with respect to the Securities to be issued hereunder as provided below, and the Guarantor desires to enter into this Second Supplemental Indenture to issue its Guarantee of the Securities; and
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that, for and in consideration of the above premises, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the sole, equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 Relation to Base Indenture.
This Second Supplemental Indenture constitutes an integral part of the Indenture. In the event of inconsistencies between the Indenture and this Second Supplemental Indenture, the terms hereof shall govern.
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Section 1.2. Definitions.
(a) All of the terms used in this Second Supplemental Indenture which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings specified in the Indenture, unless otherwise provided herein or unless the context otherwise requires, and for the purposes of this Second Supplemental Indenture and the Securities, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section:
“Below Investment Grade Rating Event” occurs if both the rating on the Securities is lowered by each of the Rating Agencies and such Securities are rated below Investment Grade by each of the Rating Agencies on any date from the date of the public notice of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control until the end of the 60-day period following public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of such Securities is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies); provided that a Below Investment Grade Rating Event otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating shall not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus shall not be deemed a Below Investment Grade Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Triggering Event hereunder) if any of the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply does not announce or publicly confirm or inform the Issuer and Trustee in writing that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of the Below Investment Grade Rating Event).
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following:
| (1) | the sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of OGI and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than to OGI or one of its Subsidiaries; |
| (2) | the consummation of any transaction (including without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than OGI or one of its wholly owned Subsidiaries, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the then outstanding shares of OGI’s Voting Stock, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; or |
| (3) | the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of OGI. |
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction shall not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (i) OGI becomes a wholly owned Subsidiary of a holding company and (ii) the holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following such transaction are substantially the same as the holders of OGI’s Voting Stock immediately prior to such transaction.
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“Change of Control Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 3.2 of this Second Supplemental Indenture. 3
“Change of Control Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.2 of this Second Supplemental Indenture.
“Change of Control Purchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 3.2 of this Second Supplemental Indenture.
“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event.
“Comparable Government Bond” means, in relation to any Comparable Government Bond Rate calculation, at the discretion of an independent investment bank selected by the Issuer, a German federal government bond whose maturity is closest to the Stated Maturity of the Securities to be redeemed, or if such independent investment bank in its discretion determines that such similar bond is not in issue, such other German federal government bond as such independent investment bank may, with the advice of three brokers of, and/or market makers in, German federal government bonds selected by the Issuer, determine to be appropriate for determining the Comparable Government Bond Rate.
“Comparable Government Bond Rate” means the price, expressed as a percentage (rounded to three decimal places, with 0.0005 being rounded upwards), at which the gross redemption yield on the Securities to be redeemed, if they were to be purchased at such price on the third Business Day prior to the date fixed for redemption, of the Comparable Government Bond would be equal to the gross redemption yield on such Business Day of the Comparable Government Bond on the basis of the middle market price of such Comparable Government Bond prevailing at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Business Day as determined by an independent investment bank selected by the Issuer.
“Consolidated Net Worth” means the consolidated net worth of OGI, as determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Debt” of any person means, without duplication: (a) all indebtedness of such person for borrowed money; (b) all obligations of such person for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than earn-out payment obligations of such person in connection with the purchase of property or services to the extent they are still contingent); (c) all obligations of such person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments; (d) all obligations of such person created or arising under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such person (even though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property); (e) all obligations of such person as lessee under leases to the extent that such leases have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as finance leases; (f) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such person in respect of acceptances, letters of credit or similar extensions of credit; (g) all obligations of such person in respect of Hedge Agreements; (h) all Debt of others referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above or clause (i) below and other payment obligations guaranteed, directly or indirectly, in any manner by such person, or in effect guaranteed, directly or indirectly, by such person through an agreement (1) to pay or purchase such Debt or to advance or supply funds for the payment or purchase of such Debt, (2) to purchase, sell or lease (as lessee or lessor) property, or to purchase or sell services, primarily for the purpose of enabling the debtor to make payment of such Debt or to assure the holder of such Debt against loss, (3) to supply funds to or in any other manner invest in the debtor (including any agreement to pay for property or services irrespective of whether such property is received or such services are rendered) or (4) otherwise to assure a creditor against loss; and (i) all Debt referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above secured by (or for which the holder of such Debt has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including, without limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such person, even though such person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such Debt.
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“Euro” or “€” means the single currency introduced at the third stage of the European Economic and Monetary Union pursuant to the treaty establishing the European Community, as amended.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America.
“Hedge Agreements” means interest rate swap, cap or collar agreements, interest rate future or option contracts, currency swap agreements, currency future or option contracts and other similar agreements.
“Investment Grade” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories) by Moody’s and BBB- (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories) by S&P, or, in each case, if such Rating Agency ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Issuer’s and the Guarantor’s control, the equivalent investment grade credit rating by the replacement agency selected by the Issuer in accordance with the procedures described under clause (2) of the definition of “Rating Agencies.”
“Lien” means any lien, security interest or other charge or encumbrance of any kind, or any other type of preferential arrangement intended to provide security for the payment or performance of an obligation, including, without limitation, the lien or retained security title of a conditional vendor and any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and its successors.
“par call date” has the meaning specified in Section 3.1 of this Second Supplemental Indenture.
“Permitted Liens” means such of the following as to which no enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure proceeding shall have been commenced: (a) Liens for taxes, assessments and governmental charges or levies to the extent not yet due and payable, or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; (b) Liens imposed by law, such as materialmen’s, mechanics’, carriers’, workmen’s and repairmen’s Liens and other similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of business securing obligations that are not overdue for a period of more than 30 days or that are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings that prevent the forfeiture or sale of the asset subject to such Lien; (c) pledges or deposits to secure obligations under workers’ compensation laws or similar legislation or to secure public or statutory obligations or, in any such case, to secure reimbursement obligations under letters of credit or bonds issued to support such obligations; and (d) easements, rights of way and other encumbrances on title to real property that do not render title to the property encumbered thereby unmarketable or materially adversely affect the use of such property for its present purposes.
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“Rating Agencies” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if any of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Issuer’s and the Guarantor’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, selected by the Issuer as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, or both of them, as the case may be.
“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to each Security to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of the principal thereof and interest thereon that would be due after the related redemption date but for such redemption calculated as if the Stated Maturity of such Security was the par call date; provided, however, that, if such redemption date is not an interest payment date with respect to such Security, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment thereon shall be reduced by the amount of interest accrued thereon to, but excluding, such redemption date.
“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, and its successors.
“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any person, capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of such person, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.
(b) The definition of “Business Day” in the Indenture is hereby amended and restated with respect to the Securities as follows:
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday, (1) which is not a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York or London are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close and (2) on which the Trans-European Automated Real Time Gross Settlement Express Transfer system (the “T2” system), or any successor thereto, is open.
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ARTICLE TWO
THE SECURITIES; AMENDMENTS TO THE INDENTURE
Section 2.1. Terms of the Securities.
The Securities shall have the following terms, established pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Indenture:
2.1.1. Pursuant to Section 2.2.1 of the Indenture, the title of the Securities to be issued under the Indenture shall be the “3.850% Senior Notes due 2034”;
2.1.2. Pursuant to Section 2.2.2 of the Indenture, the price or prices at which the Securities shall be issued shall be 99.872% of the aggregate principal amount thereof;
2.1.3. Pursuant to Section 2.2.3 of the Indenture, the aggregate principal amount of the Securities that may be authenticated and delivered under this Second Supplemental Indenture shall be limited to €600,000,000;
2.1.4. Pursuant to Section 2.2.4 of the Indenture, 100% of the Securities shall be payable, unless earlier redeemed pursuant to their terms, on May 2, 2034;
2.1.5. Pursuant to Section 2.2.5 of the Indenture, the Securities shall bear interest at a rate equal to 3.850% per annum; interest on the Securities shall accrue from March 2, 2026 until the principal thereof is paid or duly provided for; interest on the Securities shall be payable annually in arrears in cash on May 2 of each year, commencing on May 2, 2026 to Holders of record on April 17 (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable interest payment date. Interest on the Securities shall be computed from and including the prior interest payment date (or, in the case of the first interest payment date, from and including March 2, 2026) to but excluding the next interest payment date on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed in the period for which interest is being calculated and the actual number of days from and including the last day on which interest was paid on the Securities (or March 2, 2026 if no interest has been paid on the Securities), to but excluding the next scheduled interest payment date. This payment convention is referred to as ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) (as defined in the rulebook of the International Capital Markets Association). In the event that any principal or interest on the Securities is not paid when due, whether at Maturity or otherwise, then to the extent permitted by law such overdue principal and interest shall bear interest until paid at the rate of interest set forth in this Section 2.1.5 of this Second Supplemental Indenture, compounded annually;
2.1.6. Pursuant to Section 2.2.6 of the Indenture, the place or places where the principal of and interest in the Securities shall be payable shall be as set forth in the Securities, the form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A;
2.1.7. Pursuant to Section 2.2.7 of the Indenture, the Securities shall be subject to redemption at the option of the Issuer as set forth in Article III and Section 13.1 of the Indenture, as modified by Section 3.1 of this Second Supplemental Indenture;
2.1.8. Pursuant to Section 2.2.8 of the Indenture, the Issuer shall not be obligated to redeem or purchase the Securities pursuant to any sinking fund or at the option of a Holder thereof prior to the Maturity;
2.1.9. Pursuant to Section 2.2.9 of the Indenture, the Issuer shall not be obligated to redeem or purchase the Securities pursuant to any repurchase obligations or at the option of a Holder thereof prior to the Maturity, except pursuant to Section 3.2 of this Second Supplemental Indenture;
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2.1.10. Pursuant to Section 2.2.10, the Securities shall be issuable in denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof;
2.1.11. Pursuant to Section 2.2.11 of the Indenture, the Securities shall be issued as Global Securities, and the Issuer hereby designates each of Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. (“Euroclear”) and Clearstream Banking, S.A., Luxembourg (“Clearstream, Luxembourg”) initially as a Depository for the Securities. Each Global Security representing the Securities shall be registered initially in the name of BT Globenet Nominees Limited as nominee for Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, the common depository of Euroclear and Clearstream, Luxembourg;
2.1.12. Pursuant to Section 2.2.15 of the Indenture, OGI shall be subject to the additional restrictions as set forth in Section 4.1 and Article V of this Second Supplemental Indenture;
2.1.13. Pursuant to Section 2.2.16 of the Indenture, the provisions of Section 13.2 of the Indenture shall apply to the Securities;
2.1.14. Pursuant to Section 2.2.16 of the Indenture, the provisions of Article VIII of the Indenture shall apply to the Securities, except that for purposes of Article VIII of the Indenture, the definition of “Foreign Government Obligations” shall be modified with respect to the Securities as follows:
“Foreign Government Obligations” means securities denominated in Euro that are (i) direct obligations of the Federal Republic of Germany, the payments of which are supported by the full faith and credit of the German government or (ii) obligations of a person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the Federal Republic of Germany the timely payments of which are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of the German government, which, in either case under clauses (i) or (ii) are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof;
2.1.15. Pursuant to Section 2.2.18 of the Indenture, the obligations of the Issuer under the Indenture and this Second Supplemental Indenture with respect to the Securities issued under this Second Supplemental Indenture shall be guaranteed by the Guarantor in accordance with Article XII of the Indenture;
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2.1.16. Pursuant to Section 2.2.22 of the Indenture, application has been made to have the Securities listed on The New York Stock Exchange. The listing application is subject to approval by The New York Stock Exchange. If such a listing is obtained, the Issuer shall have no obligation to maintain such listing, and the Issuer may delist the Securities at any time;
2.1.17. Pursuant to Section 2.2.23 of the Indenture, all payments of interest, principal and premium, if any, including payments made upon any redemption or repurchase of the Securities, shall be payable in Euro. If, on or after February 25, 2026, Euro is unavailable to the Issuer or, in the case of the Guarantee, the Guarantor due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Issuer’s or the Guarantor’s control or if Euro is no longer being used by the then-member states of the European Economic and Monetary Union that have adopted Euro as their currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of the Securities shall be made in Dollars until Euro is again available to the Issuer or, in the case of the Guarantee, the Guarantor or so used. In such circumstances, the amount payable on any date in Euro shall be converted into Dollars by the Issuer or the Guarantor, as applicable, at the rate mandated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second Business Day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the most recent Dollar/Euro exchange rate published in The Wall Street Journal on or prior to the second Business Day prior to the relevant payment date. Any payment in respect of the Securities so made in Dollars shall not constitute an Event of Default under the Securities or the Indenture. Neither the Trustee nor the Paying Agent for the Securities shall have any responsibility for any calculation or conversion in connection with the foregoing;
2.1.18. Pursuant to Section 2.2 of the Indenture, the Issuer may, without the consent of the Holders of the Securities, issue additional Securities having the same ranking and the same interest rate, maturity and other terms as the Securities issued on the date hereof (except for the issue date, the price to the public, the payment of interest accruing prior to the issue date of such additional Securities or except for first payment of interest following the issue date of such additional Securities). Any such additional Securities shall have the same terms as the Securities of issued on the date hereof, provided that such additional Securities subsequently issued are fungible for U.S. federal income tax purposes with any Securities previously issued; and
2.1.19. Section 2.17 of the Indenture shall be applicable to the Securities.
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Section 2.2. Amendments to the Indenture. The Indenture is hereby amended with respect to the Securities only as follows:
(a) The phrase, “10:00 a.m., New York City time (or such other time as may be specified pursuant to Section 2.2 with respect to any Security denominated in a Foreign Currency)”, in Section 4.1 of the Indenture is hereby replaced by, “10:00 a.m., London time”;
(b) The phrase, “Subject to Article V”, in Section 4.5 of the Indenture is hereby replaced by, “Subject to Article V and Article Five of the Second Supplemental Indenture”;
(c) The phrase, “to comply with Article V”, in Section 9.1(b) of the Indenture is hereby replaced by, “to comply with Article V or Article Five of the Second Supplemental Indenture”;
(d) The phrase, “otherwise in compliance with Article V of this Indenture”, in Section 12.1.12 of the Indenture is hereby replaced by, “otherwise in compliance with Article V of this Indenture and Article Five of the Second Supplemental Indenture”;
(e) The phrase, “$100 million”, in Section 6.1(e)(A) of the Indenture is hereby replaced by, “$150 million”;
(f) The phrase, “$100 million”, in Section 6.1(e)(B) of the Indenture is hereby replaced by, “$150 million”;
(g) The phrase, “15 days” in Section 3.3 of the Indenture is hereby replaced by, “10 days”; and
(h) The phrase “Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Trust and Agency Services, 1 Columbus Circle, 17th Floor, Mail Stop: NYC01-1710, New York, NY 10019, USA, Attention: Corporates Team/Omnicom AA6238”, in the definition of “Corporate Trust Office” in Section 1.1 of the Indenture is hereby replaced by, “Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, Trust and Securities Services, 1 Columbus Circle, 4th Floor, Mail Stop: NYC01-0417, New York, New York 10019, USA, Attention: Corporate Team/Omnicom”.
ARTICLE THREE
ADDITIONAL REDEMPTION PROVISION
Section 3.1. Optional Redemption.
Prior to February 2, 2034 (the date that is three months prior to the maturity date of the notes (“par call date”)), the Securities shall be redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Issuer’s option, at any time or from time to time, upon mailed notice (or electronic notice, as applicable) to the registered address of each Holder of the Securities at least 10 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption. The redemption price, as determined by the Issuer, shall be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on such Securities discounted to the date of redemption, on an annual basis (assuming an ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) day count fraction), at the applicable Comparable Government Bond Rate plus 20 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date.
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On or after the par call date, the Securities shall be redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Issuer’s option, at any time or from time to time, upon mailed notice (or electronic notice, as applicable) to the registered address of each Holder of the Securities at least 10 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount of such Securities, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date.
Any notice of any redemption of the Securities may, at the Issuer’s discretion, be given subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of a corporate transaction that is pending (such as an equity or equity-linked offering, an incurrence of indebtedness or an acquisition or other strategic transaction involving a change of control in the Issuer or another entity). If such redemption is so subject to satisfaction of one or more conditions precedent, such notice shall describe each such condition, and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied or otherwise waived by the relevant redemption date.
On and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on the Securities or any portion of the Securities called for redemption (unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest). On or before 10:00 a.m. London time on the redemption date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or the Trustee, if other than the Paying Agent) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, the Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by such method as the Trustee deems fair and appropriate, subject to the procedures of the Depositories as to Global Securities.
Section 3.2. Repurchase Upon Change of Control Triggering Event.
Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Issuer has exercised its option to redeem the Securities pursuant to Section 3.1 of this Second Supplemental Indenture or Section 13.1 of the Indenture, each Holder of the Securities shall have the right to require the Issuer to repurchase all or a portion of such Holder’s Securities pursuant to a change of control offer pursuant to, and in accordance with, the provisions of this Section 3.2 (a “Change of Control Offer”), at a purchase price (the “Change of Control Purchase Price”) equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of repurchase, subject to the right of Holders of Securities of such Securities on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date.
Within 30 days following the date upon which the Issuer becomes aware that a Change of Control Triggering Event has occurred, or at the Issuer’s option, prior to any Change of Control but after the public announcement of the pending Change of Control, the Issuer shall be required to send, by first class mail or electronic delivery, a notice to each Holder of the Securities, with a copy to the Trustee, which notice shall govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer. Such notice shall state, among other things, the purchase date, which must be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed or delivered, other than as may be required by law (the “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice, if mailed or delivered prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, shall state that the Change of Control Offer is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date. The Issuer shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for such an offer made by the Issuer and such third party purchases all Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.
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The Issuer shall be required to comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Securities as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section 3.2 and the Securities, the Issuer shall be required to comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 3.2 and the Securities by virtue of any such compliance.
On each Change of Control Payment Date, the Issuer shall, to the extent lawful:
| (a) | accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Change of Control Offer; |
| (b) | deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price in respect of all Securities or portions of Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn; and |
| (c) | deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted together with an Officer’s Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities or portions of Securities being repurchased. |
ARTICLE FOUR
LIMITATION ON LIENS
Section 4.1. Limitation on Liens.
OGI shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, create or suffer to exist any Lien on or with respect to any of OGI’s properties, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure any Debt of OGI, any direct or indirect Subsidiary of OGI or any other person without securing the Securities equally and ratably with such Debt to which such Liens relate for so long as such Debt shall be so secured, other than:
(a) Permitted Liens;
(b) purchase money Liens upon or in any real property or equipment acquired or held by OGI or any Subsidiary of OGI in the ordinary course of business to secure the purchase price of such property or equipment or to secure Debt incurred solely for the purpose of financing the acquisition of such property or equipment, or Liens existing on such property or equipment at the time of its acquisition (other than any such Liens created in contemplation of such acquisition that were not incurred to finance the acquisition of such property) or extensions, renewals or replacements of any of the foregoing for the same or a lesser amount, provided, however, that no such Lien shall extend to or cover any properties of any character other than the real property or equipment being acquired and fixed improvements thereon or accessions thereto, and no such extension, renewal or replacement shall extend to or cover any properties not theretofore subject to the Lien being extended, renewed or replaced;
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(c) Liens existing on February 25, 2026;
(d) Liens on property of a person existing at the time such person is merged into, consolidated with, or acquired by OGI or any Subsidiary of OGI or becomes a Subsidiary of OGI; provided that such Liens were not created in contemplation of such merger, consolidation or acquisition and do not extend to any assets other than those of the person so merged into or consolidated with OGI or such Subsidiary or acquired by OGI or such Subsidiary;
(e) Liens granted by Subsidiaries of OGI (other than the Issuer and OCI) to secure Debt owed to OGI or a wholly owned Subsidiary of OGI;
(f) Liens arising out of a judgment, decree or order of court being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, provided that adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of OGI or the books of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in conformity with GAAP;
(g) Debt of a person existing at the time such person is merged into or consolidated with OGI or becomes a Subsidiary of OGI provided that such Debt was not created in contemplation of such merger, consolidation or acquisition;
(h) Liens to secure any extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding (or successive extensions, renewals, refinancings or refundings), in whole or in part, of any Debt secured by Liens referred to above or Liens created in connection with any amendment, consent or waiver relating to such Debt, so long as such Lien does not extend to any other property, the amount of Debt secured is not increased (other than by the amount equal to any costs and expenses incurred in connection with any extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding) and the Debt so secured does not exceed the fair market value (as determined by OGI’s Board of Directors in good faith) of the assets subject to such Liens at the time of such extension, renewal, refinancing or refunding, or such amendment, consent or waiver, as the case may be;
(i) Any assignment of accounts receivable (a) by and among OGI and its Subsidiaries or (b) pursuant to non-recourse factoring or similar arrangements or otherwise in an aggregate amount not to exceed in any fiscal year the greater of $1,000,000,000 (measured as the face value of such accounts receivable at the time of assignment) and 10.0% of the consolidated accounts receivable of OGI and its Subsidiaries as reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of OGI as of the end of the fiscal year of OGI most recently ended prior to such assignment for which financial statements are available; and
(i) (a) Liens otherwise prohibited by this covenant, securing Debt or other obligations in an aggregate amount at any time outstanding plus (b) the aggregate face value at the time of assignment of such accounts receivable assigned, the assignment of which is not otherwise permitted by the foregoing exceptions, in an aggregate amount not to exceed 20% of Consolidated Net Worth of OGI and its Subsidiaries as set forth in the OGI’s most recently available financial statements.
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ARTICLE FIVE
SUCCESSORS
Section 5.1 When OGI May Merge, Etc. OGI shall not consolidate with or merge into, or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its properties and assets to, any person (a “successor person”) unless:
(a) either (i) OGI is the continuing person or (ii) the resulting, surviving or transferee person is an entity organized under the laws of the United States;
(b) the successor person expressly assumes by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, OGI’s obligations with respect to its Guarantee of the Securities, the Indenture and this Second Supplemental Indenture; and
(c) immediately after giving effect to the transaction, no Default or Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing.
OGI shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the consummation of the proposed transaction an Officer’s Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the proposed transaction and such supplemental indenture comply with the Indenture and this Second Supplemental Indenture.
For purposes of the foregoing, the conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of OGI (other than to OGI or another Subsidiary of OGI), which, if such assets were owned by OGI, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of OGI, shall be deemed to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of OGI, but a bona fide pledge or hypothecation shall be deemed not to be prohibited by the Indenture and this Second Supplemental Indenture.
Section 5.2 Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of OGI in accordance with Section 5.1, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into or with which OGI is merged or to which such sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, OGI under the Indenture and this Second Supplemental Indenture with the same effect as if such successor person has been named as OGI herein; provided, however, that the predecessor OGI in the case of a sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall not be released from the obligation to pay the principal of and interest, if any, on the Securities. OGI, the Trustee and the successor person shall enter into a supplemental indenture to evidence the succession and substitution of such successor person and such discharge and release of OGI.
The provisions of Article V of the Indenture shall also be applicable to the Securities.
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ARTICLE SIX
LIABILITY OF TRUSTEE
Section 6.1 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals.
The Trustee shall not be responsible in any matter whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Second Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which are made solely by the Issuer or for or with respect to (i) the proper authorization by the Issuer by action or otherwise, (ii) the due execution hereof by the Issuer or (iv) the consequences of any amendment herein provided for, and the Trustee makes no representation with respect to any such matters.
ARTICLE SEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 7.1. Ratification and Effect.
Except as hereby expressly amended, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, provisions and conditions thereof shall be and remain in full force and effect.
Upon and after the execution of this Second Supplemental Indenture, each reference in the Indenture to “this Indenture,” “hereunder,” “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Indenture shall mean and be a reference to the Indenture as modified hereby.
Section 7.2 Governing Law.
THIS SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPLICABLE TO AGREEMENTS MADE AND TO BE PERFORMED IN SUCH STATE, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS PROVISIONS THEREOF.
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Section 7.3 Counterpart Originals.
This Second Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Facsimile, documents executed, scanned and transmitted electronically and electronic signatures, including those created or transmitted through a software platform or application, shall be deemed original signatures for purposes of this Second Supplemental Indenture and all matters and agreements related thereto, with such facsimile, scanned and electronic signatures having the same legal effect as original signatures. The parties agree that this Second Supplemental Indenture or any instrument, agreement or document necessary for the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Indenture or related hereto or thereto (including, without limitation, addendums, amendments, notices, instructions, communications with respect to the delivery of securities or the wire transfer of funds or other communications) (“Executed Documentation”) may be accepted, executed or agreed to through the use of an electronic signature in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations in effect from time to time applicable to the effectiveness and enforceability of electronic signatures. Any Executed Documentation accepted, executed or agreed to in conformity with such laws, rules and regulations will be binding on all parties hereto to the same extent as if it were physically executed and each party hereby consents to the use of any third-party electronic signature capture service providers as may be reasonably chosen by a signatory hereto or thereto. When the Trustee acts on any Executed Documentation sent by electronic transmission, the Trustee will not be responsible or liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from its reliance upon and compliance with such Executed Documentation, notwithstanding that such Executed Documentation (a) may not be an authorized or authentic communication of the party involved or in the form such party sent or intended to send (whether due to fraud, distortion or otherwise) or (b) may conflict with, or be inconsistent with, a subsequent written instruction or communication; it being understood and agreed that the Trustee shall conclusively presume that Executed Documentation that purports to have been sent by an authorized officer of a person has been sent by an authorized officer of such person. The party providing Executed Documentation through electronic transmission or otherwise with electronic signatures agrees to assume all risks arising out of such electronic methods, including, without limitation, the risk of the Trustee acting on unauthorized instructions and the risk of interception and misuse by third parties.
Section 7.4 Effect of Headings.
The headings of the Articles and Sections of this Second Supplemental Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
Section 7.5. Severability.
In case any provision in this Second Supplemental Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 7.6. Modification, Amendment and Waiver.
The provisions of this Second Supplemental Indenture may not be amended, supplemented, modified or waived except by an execution of a Supplemental Indenture executed by each of the Omnicom Companies and the Trustee. Any such amendment shall comply with Article IX of the Indenture. Until an amendment, waiver or other action by Holders becomes effective, a consent thereto by a Holder of a Security hereunder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of that Security or portion of the Security that evidences the same obligation as the consenting Holder’s Security, even if notation of the consent, waiver or action is not made on the Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent, waiver or action as to such Holder’s Security or portion of the Security if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before the date the amendment, waiver or action becomes effective. After an amendment, waiver or action becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder.
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Section 7.7. Ratification of Indenture; Supplemental Indenture Part of Indenture.
Except as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. This Second Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of the Securities heretofore or hereafter authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby.
Section 7.8. Trust Indenture Acts Controls.
If any provision of this Second Supplemental Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with any provision of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “TIA”), that is required under the TIA to be part of and govern any provision of this Second Supplemental Indenture, the provision of the TIA shall control. If any provision of this Second Supplemental Indenture modifies or excludes any provisions of the TIA that may be so modified or excluded, the provisions of the TIA shall be deemed to apply to the Indenture as so modified or to be excluded by this Second Supplemental Indenture, as the case may be.
Section 7.9. Consent to Jurisdiction; Service of Process; and Waiver of Jury Trial.
Each of the Issuer and the Guarantor agrees that any legal suit, action or proceeding brought by any party to enforce any rights under or with respect to this Second Supplemental Indenture, any Security or any other document or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby may be instituted in any state or federal court in The Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, State of New York, United States of America, irrevocably waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such suit, action or proceeding, irrevocably waives to the fullest extent permitted by law any claim that and agrees not to claim or plead in any court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum and irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any such court in any such suit, action or proceeding or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof.
To the extent that the Issuer or the Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries has or hereafter may acquire any immunity from jurisdiction of any court (including any court in the United States, the State of New York or other jurisdiction in which the Issuer, the Guarantor or any successor thereof may be organized or any political subdivisions thereof) or from any legal process (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution, execution or otherwise) with respect to itself or its property or assets, this Second Supplemental Indenture, the Securities, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any other documents or actions to enforce judgments in respect of any thereof, then each of the Issuer and the Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to waive, such immunity, and any defense based on such immunity, in respect of its obligations under the above-referenced documents and the transactions contemplated thereby, to the extent permitted by law.
The Issuer hereby appoints Omnicom Group Inc., 280 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, Attention: General Counsel (the “Agent for Service”), and OGI hereby accepts such appointment, as its agent to receive service of process or other legal summons for purposes of any such suit, action or proceeding that may be instituted in any state or federal court in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, State of New York, United States of America. The Issuer agrees that service of process upon the Agent for Service shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Issuer in any such suit, action or proceeding. The Issuer further agrees to take any and all action, including the execution and filing of any and all such documents and instruments, as may be necessary to continue such designation and appointment of the Agent for Service in full force and effect so long as any of the Securities shall be outstanding.
THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION BROUGHT ON OR WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT, THE SECURITIES, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY OR ANY OTHER DOCUMENT EXECUTED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THEREWITH.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Second Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
| OMNICOM FINANCE HOLDINGS PLC | |||
| By: | /s/ David Barry | ||
| Name: | David Barry | ||
| Title: | Director | ||
| OMNICOM GROUP INC. | |||
| By: | /s/ Philip J. Angelastro | ||
| Name: | Philip J. Angelastro | ||
| Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||
Second Supplemental Indenture
| DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as Trustee | |||
| By: | /s/ Denise Kellerk | ||
| Name: | Denise Kellerk | ||
| Title: | Vice President | ||
| By: | /s/ Sebastian Hidalgo | ||
| Name: | Sebastian Hidalgo | ||
| Title: | Assistant Vice President | ||
Second Supplemental Indenture
Exhibit A
FORM OF GLOBAL SECURITY FOR THE 3.850% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2034
THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS HELD BY THE DEPOSITORY (AS DEFINED IN THE INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS SECURITY) OR ITS NOMINEE IN CUSTODY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIAL OWNERS HEREOF, AND IS NOT TRANSFERABLE TO ANY PERSON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEPT THAT (I) THE TRUSTEE MAY MAKE ANY SUCH NOTATIONS HEREON AS MAY BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE, (II) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE BUT NOT IN PART PURSUANT TO SECTION 2.7 OF THE INDENTURE, (III) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE DELIVERED TO THE TRUSTEE FOR CANCELLATION PURSUANT TO THE INDENTURE AND (IV) THIS GLOBAL SECURITY MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY WITH THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE ISSUER.
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE DEPOSITORY OR TO ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. UNLESS THIS GLOBAL SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO SUCH ENTITY AS MAY BE REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
Exhibit A-1
3.850% Senior Notes due 2034
ISIN: XS3308064354
Common Code: 330806435
CUSIP No. 68217V AC1
€600,000,000
No. 1
OMNICOM FINANCE HOLDINGS PLC, a public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales (the “Issuer,” which term includes any successor person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to BT GLOBENET NOMINEES LIMITED, or registered assigns, the principal sum of €600,000,000 on May 2, 2034 and to pay interest thereon from March 2, 2026 or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, annually on May 2 in each year, commencing May 2, 2026, at the rate of 3.850% per annum, set forth below. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment date shall, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on the regular record date for such interest, which shall be April 17 of each year (whether or not a Business Day), next preceding such interest payment date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such regular record date and may either be paid to the person in whose name this Security (or one or more predecessor securities) is registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such defaulted interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this Series not less than 10 days prior to such special record date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this Series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture).
Distributions of principal, premium, if any, and interest with respect to this Security shall be credited in Euro to the extent received by Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg from the Paying Agent to the cash accounts of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg participants in accordance with the relevant system’s rules and procedures.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
This Security is fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Omnicom Group Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York (“OGI”) referred to as the “Guarantor”, as provided in the Indenture.
This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said state.
Exhibit A-2
By the execution and delivery of this Security, the Issuer (i) acknowledges that it has irrevocably designated and appointed OGI (together with any successor, the “Agent for Service”), as its authorized agent upon which process may be served in any suit or proceeding based on or arising out of the Securities, that may be instituted in any U.S. federal or state court in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, County and State of New York, or brought under U.S. federal or state securities laws, and acknowledges that the Agent for Service has accepted such designation, (ii) submits to the jurisdiction of any such court in any such suit or proceeding, and (iii) agrees that service of process upon the Agent for Service shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Issuer in any such suit or proceeding. The Issuer further agrees to take any and all action, including the execution and filing of any and all such documents and instruments, as may be necessary to continue such designation and appointment of the Agent for Service in full force and effect so long as any of the Securities shall be outstanding.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual or electronic signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
Exhibit A-3
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
| Dated: | OMNICOM FINANCE HOLDINGS PLC | |
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
| By: | ||
| Name: | ||
| Title: | ||
Exhibit A-4
This is one of the Securities of the Series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
| Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee | ||
| By: | ||
| Authorized Signatory | ||
| Dated: | ||
Exhibit A-5
Reverse of Security
OMNICOM FINANCE HOLDINGS PLC
3.850% Senior Notes due 2034
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Issuer, designated as its 3.850% Senior Notes due 2034 (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more Series under an Indenture, dated as of March 6, 2024 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Issuer, the Guarantor and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), as supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 2, 2026, between the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee (the “Second Supplemental Indenture” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the Series designated on the face hereof, initially limited in aggregate principal amount to €600,000,000. Capitalized terms used in this Security and not defined herein have the meaning ascribed thereto in the Indenture.
Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the Trustee under the Indenture, has been appointed by the Issuer as Paying Agent, Registrar and transfer agent with regard to the Securities. Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch will serve initially as common depositary of the Depositories with regard to the Securities.
In case an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of and accrued interest on all Securities may be declared, and upon said declaration, shall become due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided for in the Indenture.
Prior to February 2, 2034 (the “par call date”), the Securities shall be redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Issuer’s option, at any time or from time to time, upon mailed notice (or electronic notice, as applicable) to the registered address of each Holder of the Securities at least 10 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption. The redemption price, as determined by the Issuer, shall be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and (2) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments on such Securities discounted to the date of redemption, on an annual basis (assuming an ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) day count fraction), at the applicable Comparable Government Bond Rate plus 20 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date.
On or after the par call date, the Securities shall be redeemable, as a whole or in part, at the Issuer’s option, at any time or from time to time, upon mailed notice (or electronic notice, as applicable) to the registered address of each Holder of the Securities at least 10 days but not more than 60 days prior to the redemption at a redemption price of 100% of the principal amount of such Securities, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to, but excluding, the redemption date.
Exhibit A-6
“Comparable Government Bond” means, in relation to any Comparable Government Bond Rate calculation, at the discretion of an independent investment bank selected by the Issuer, a German federal government bond, whose maturity is closest to the Stated Maturity of the Securities to be redeemed, or if such independent investment bank in its discretion determines that such similar bond is not in issue, such other German federal government bond as such independent investment bank may, with the advice of three brokers of, and/or market makers in, German federal government bonds selected by the Issuer, determine to be appropriate for determining the Comparable Government Bond Rate.
“Comparable Government Bond Rate” means the price, expressed as a percentage (rounded to three decimal places, with 0.0005 being rounded upwards), at which the gross redemption yield on the Securities to be redeemed, if they were to be purchased at such price on the third Business Day prior to the date fixed for redemption, of the Comparable Government Bond would be equal to the gross redemption yield on such Business Day of the Comparable Government Bond on the basis of the middle market price of such Comparable Government Bond prevailing at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Business Day as determined by an independent investment bank selected by the Issuer.
“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with respect to each Security to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of the principal thereof and interest thereon that would be due after the related redemption date but for such redemption calculated as if the Stated Maturity of such Security was the par call date; provided, however, that, if such redemption date is not an interest payment date with respect to such Security, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment thereon shall be reduced by the amount of interest accrued thereon to, but excluding, such redemption date.
On and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on the Securities or any portion of the Securities called for redemption (unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the redemption price and accrued interest). On or before 10:00 a.m. London time on the redemption date, the Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or the Trustee) money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the Securities to be redeemed on that date. If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed, the Securities to be redeemed shall be selected by such method as the Trustee deems fair and appropriate, subject to the procedures of the Depositories as to Global Securities.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this Series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof; provided that in the case of a Global Security, an appropriate book-entry adjustment may be made in lieu of the issuance of a new Security.
The Indenture contains provisions that permit the Issuer to elect either (1) to defease and be discharged from the entire indebtedness of this Security or (2) to be released from its obligations under certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon payment in full of the Securities and compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
Exhibit A-7
Upon the occurrence of Change of Control Triggering Event with respect to the Securities of this Series, the Issuer shall be required to make an offer to repurchase the Securities of this Series on the terms set forth in Section 3.2 of the Second Supplemental Indenture.
The provisions of Article XIII of the Base Indenture shall apply to this Series of the Securities.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of this Series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Securities of this Series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture permits the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantor and the rights of the Holders of the Securities to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding to be affected, with certain exceptions as therein provided with respect to certain modifications or amendments which may not be made without the consent of each Holder of such Security affected thereby. The Indenture also permits certain amendments and modifications thereto from time to time by the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee without the consent of the Holders of any Series of the Securities to be affected thereby for certain specified purposes, including curing ambiguities, defects or inconsistencies and making any such change that does not adversely affect the legal rights of any Holder of the Securities, as provided therein.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such Series, to waive compliance by the Issuer or the Guarantor with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and Interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or Currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the security register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Issuer in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of this Series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, shall be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities of this Series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of the Securities and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
Exhibit A-8
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, the Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security is overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Guarantor, the Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Issuer, the Guarantor or of any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof, expressly waived and released.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
Exhibit A-9
Exhibit 5.1

250 Vesey Street ● New York, New York 10281.1047
Telephone: +1.212.326.3939 ● jonesday.com
March 2, 2026
Omnicom Group Inc.
280 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
| Re: | $400,000,000
Aggregate Principal Amount of 4.200% Senior Notes Due 2029, $700,000,000 Aggregate Principal Amount of 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033 and $600,000,000 Aggregate Principal Amount of 5.300% Senior Notes Due 2036 of Omnicom Group Inc. |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are acting as counsel for Omnicom Group Inc., a New York corporation (“OGI”), in connection with OGI’s issuance and sale of (i) $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.200% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes”) and (ii) $700,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.000% Senior Notes due 2033 (the “2033 Notes”) and (iii) $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.300% Senior Notes due 2036 and, together with the 2029 Notes and the 2033 Notes, the “Notes”), pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, dated February 25, 2026, by and among OGI, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, acting as representatives of the several underwriters named therein. The Notes are being issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of March 2, 2026, by and between OGI and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2026, by and between OGI and the Trustee (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”).
In connection with the opinion expressed herein, we have examined such documents, records and matters of law as we have deemed relevant or necessary for purposes of such opinion. Based on the foregoing, and subject to the further limitations, qualifications and assumptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that the Notes constitute valid and binding obligations of OGI.
For the purposes of the opinion expressed herein, we have assumed that (i) the Trustee has authorized, executed and delivered the Indenture, (ii) the Notes have been duly authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and (iii) the Indenture is a valid, binding and enforceable obligation of the Trustee.
AMSTERDAM
● ATLANTA ● BEIJING ● BOSTON ● BRISBANE ● BRUSSELS ● CHICAGO ● CLEVELAND ● COLUMBUS ● DALLASDETROIT
● DUBAI ● DÜSSELDORF ● FRANKFURT ● HONG KONG ● HOUSTON ● IRVINE ● LONDON ● LOS ANGELES
● MADRIDMELBOURNE ● MEXICO CITY ● MIAMI ● MILAN ● MINNEAPOLIS ● MUNICH ● NEW YORK ●
PARIS ● PERTH ● PITTSBURGHSAN DIEGO ● SAN FRANCISCO ● SÃO PAULO ● SHANGHAI ● SILICON VALLEY
● SINGAPORE ● SYDNEY ● TAIPEI ● TOKYO ● WASHINGTON

Omnicom Group Inc.
March 2, 2026
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The opinion expressed herein is limited by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer and fraudulent conveyance, voidable preference, moratorium or other similar laws and related regulations and judicial doctrines from time to time in effect relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, and (ii) general equitable principles and public policy considerations, whether such principles and considerations are considered in a proceeding at law or at equity.
As to facts material to the opinion and assumptions expressed herein, we have relied upon oral or written statements and representations of officers and other representatives of OGI and others. The opinion expressed herein is limited to the laws of the State of New York, as currently in effect, and we express no opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction on the opinion expressed herein.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K dated the date hereof filed by OGI and incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-282748) (the “Registration Statement”), filed by OGI to effect the registration of the Notes under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) and to the reference to Jones Day under the caption “Validity of Securities” in the prospectus constituting a part of such Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not hereby admit that we are included in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder.
| Very truly yours, | |
| /s/ Jones Day |
Exhibit 5.2

250 Vesey Street ● New York, New York 10281.1047
Telephone: +1.212.326.3939 ● jonesday.com
March 2, 2026
Omnicom
Group Inc.
280 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Omnicom
Finance Holdings plc
Bankside 3, 90-100 Southwark Street
London, SE1 0SW, United Kingdom
| Re: | €600,000,000 Aggregate Principal Amount of 3.850% Senior Notes Due 2034 of Omnicom Finance Holdings plc |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We are acting as counsel for Omnicom Finance Holdings plc, a public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales (the “Issuer”), Omnicom Group Inc., a New York corporation (the “Guarantor”), in connection with the issuance and sale of €600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.850% Senior Notes due 2034 (the “Notes”) of the Issuer, and the full and unconditional guarantee of the Notes (the “Guarantee”) by the Guarantor, pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, dated February 25, 2026, by and among the Issuer, the Guarantor, and BNP PARIBAS, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, HSBC Bank plc, Danske Bank A/S and ING Bank N.V., Belgian Branch. The Notes are being issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of March 6, 2024, by and among the Issuer, the Guarantor and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2, 2026, by and among the Issuer, the Guarantor and the Trustee (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”).
In connection with the opinions expressed herein, we have examined such documents, records and matters of law as we have deemed relevant or necessary for purposes of such opinions. Based on the foregoing, and subject to the further limitations, qualifications and assumptions set forth herein, we are of the opinion that:
| 1. | The Notes constitute valid and binding obligations of the Issuer. |
| 2. | The Guarantee constitutes a valid and binding obligation of the Guarantor. |
AMSTERDAM ● ATLANTA ● BEIJING ● BOSTON ● BRISBANE ● BRUSSELS ● CHICAGO ● CLEVELAND ● COLUMBUS ● DALLAS DETROIT ● DUBAI ● DÜSSELDORF ● FRANKFURT ● HONG KONG ● HOUSTON ● IRVINE ● LONDON ● LOS ANGELES ● MADRID MELBOURNE ● MEXICO CITY ● MIAMI ● MILAN ● MINNEAPOLIS ● MUNICH ● NEW YORK ● PARIS ● PERTH ● PITTSBURGH SAN DIEGO ● SAN FRANCISCO ● SÃO PAULO ● SHANGHAI ● SILICON VALLEY ● SINGAPORE ● SYDNEY ● TAIPEI ● TOKYO ● WASHINGTON
Omnicom
Group Inc.
Omnicom Finance Holdings plc
March 2, 2026
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The opinions set forth above are subject to the following limitations, qualifications and assumptions:
For the purposes of the opinions expressed herein, we have assumed that (i) the Trustee has authorized, executed and delivered the Indenture, (ii) the Notes have been duly authenticated by the Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and (iii) the Indenture is a valid, binding and enforceable obligation of the Trustee.
In rendering the foregoing opinions, with respect to the Issuer, we have further assumed that (i) the Issuer is a public limited company existing and in good standing under the laws of England and Wales, (ii) the Indenture and the Notes have been (A) authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Issuer, and (B) executed and delivered by the Issuer under the laws of England and Wales, and (iii) the execution, delivery, performance and compliance with the terms and provisions of the Indenture and the Notes by the Issuer do not violate or conflict with the laws of England and Wales or the terms and provisions of the Issuer’s Certificate of Incorporation and Articles of Association, or any rule, regulation, order, decree judgment, instrument or agreement binding upon or applicable to the Issuer or its properties.
The opinions expressed herein are limited by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer and fraudulent conveyance, voidable preference, moratorium or other similar laws and related regulations and judicial doctrines from time to time in effect relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, and (ii) general equitable principles and public policy considerations, whether such principles and considerations are considered in a proceeding at law or at equity.
As to facts material to the opinions and assumptions expressed herein, we have relied upon oral or written statements and representations of officers and other representatives of the Issuer, the Guarantor and others. The opinions expressed herein are limited to the laws of the State of New York, as currently in effect, and we express no opinion as to the effect of the laws of any other jurisdiction on the opinions expressed herein.
We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Current Report on Form 8-K dated the date hereof filed by the Guarantor and incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-282748) (the “Registration Statement”), filed by the Issuer and the Guarantor to effect the registration of the Notes and the Guarantee under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) and to the reference to Jones Day under the caption “Validity of Securities” in the prospectus constituting a part of such Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not hereby admit that we are included in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder
| Very truly yours, | |
| /s/ Jones Day |
Exhibit 5.3

AUTHORISED AND REGULATED BY THE SOLICITORS REGULATION AUTHORITY
SRA NO. 223597
21 Tudor Street ● London EC4Y 0DJ
telephone: +44.20.7039.5959
| To: | Omnicom Finance Holdings plc Bankside 3, 90 - 100 Southwark Street London SE1 0SW |
| Re: | Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed by Omnicom Finance Holdings plc and Omnicom Group Inc. |
| Date: | 2 March 2026 |
Ladies and Gentleman:
We have acted as English counsel to Omnicom Finance Holdings plc, a public limited company organised under the laws of England and Wales with registered number 11432221 (the “Issuer”) in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) to which this opinion letter (this “Opinion”) has been filed as an exhibit. The Registration Statement relates to the proposed registration under the US Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”) of debt securities of the Issuer (the “Debt Securities”) which, if issued, will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Omnicom Group Inc. (the “Company”). The Debt Securities, if issued by the Issuer will be issued pursuant to the base indenture, dated as of 6th March, 2024 (the “Base Indenture”), by and among the Issuer, the Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the supplemental indenture dated as of 2 March 2026 (together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), by and among the Issuer, the Company and the Trustee. The Debt Securities, if issued, will be guaranteed by the Company.
1. SCOPE OF REVIEW AND RELIANCE
The following agreements and other related documents have been examined (items (a) through (e), inclusive, are referred to herein, collectively, as the “Opinion Documents”):
(a) a signed scanned copy of the Indenture referred to in the Registration Statement (including the forms of Debt Securities to be issued pursuant to the Indenture attached as exhibits to the Indenture);
(b) a copy of the certificate of incorporation of the Issuer, and a copy of the articles of association of the Issuer, in each case, obtained from the Company Search referred to below (collectively, the “Articles of Association”);
(c) a certified copy of the minutes (the “2024 Minutes”) of a meeting of the board of directors of the Issuer held on 15 October 2024 at which the directors of the Issuer, amongst other things, passed resolutions (the “2024 Resolutions”) authorising the filing of the Registration Statement;
(d) a certified copy of the minutes (together with the 2024 Minutes, the “Minutes”) of a meeting of the board of directors of the Issuer held on 20 February 2026 at which the directors of the Issuer, amongst other things, passed resolutions (together with the 2024 Resolutions, the “Resolutions”) relating to the Opinion Documents; and
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(e) the Registration Statement.
We have not reviewed any documents other than the Opinion Documents. The only search and enquiry that we have made and relied upon for the purpose of giving this Opinion is an online search on 13 February 2026 and updated on 2 March 2026 of the public documents of the Issuer kept at Companies House in Cardiff (the “Company Search”). The Registration Statement, the Indenture and the Debt Securities are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Transaction Documents”.
2. ASSUMPTIONS
For the purposes of giving this Opinion, we have assumed, with your consent and without further investigation on our part, that, so far as the laws of every jurisdiction other than England and Wales are concerned, all restrictions, laws, guidelines, regulations or reporting requirements that apply to the Indenture and any issue of Debt Securities thereunder have been or will be complied with and that such laws do not qualify or affect our opinions in this Opinion as set out below.
We have also made the following assumptions with your consent and without investigation on our part:
(a) insofar as any obligation falls to be performed in any jurisdiction outside England, its performance will not be illegal or ineffective by virtue of the laws of that jurisdiction;
(b) all signatures on the executed documents which, or copies (whether photocopies, certified copies, facsimile copies or electronic copies) of which, we have examined are genuine, and that such copies conform to the original documents executed;
(c) where a signatory signs a Transaction Document by electronic signature, (i) such signatory intends to authenticate such document and (ii) any formalities relating to the execution of such document are satisfied;
(d) each of the parties to the Transaction Documents, other than the Issuer, is able lawfully to enter into such Transaction Documents;
(e) that each corporate party (other than the Issuer) is duly organised, validly existing and in good standing (where such concept is legally relevant) under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation and has the capacity, power and authority to execute and deliver the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and to exercise its respective rights and perform its respective obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party;
(f) the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents have been or will be duly authorised by each of the parties thereto in accordance with all applicable laws, other than in the case of the Issuer the laws of England and Wales, that such documents have been duly executed and unconditionally delivered or will be duly executed and unconditionally delivered by each of the relevant parties thereto with effect from the date it is expressed to be effective in accordance with all applicable laws and is not or will not be (when delivered) subject to any escrow or similar arrangement, that all conditions precedent to the effectiveness of the Transaction Documents contained therein have been satisfied and such documents are unconditional in all respects, and that such documents shall constitute the valid and binding obligations of each of such parties enforceable in accordance with all applicable laws and, if the laws or regulations of any other jurisdiction may be relevant to the obligations or rights of any of the parties in any of the Transaction Documents or any of the transactions contemplated by any Transaction Document, such laws do not prohibit, and are not inconsistent with, the entry into and performance of any such obligations, rights or transactions;
(g) each of the parties to the Transaction Documents who is carrying on, or purporting to carry on, any regulated activity in the United Kingdom is an authorised person permitted to carry on that relevant regulated activity or an exempt person in respect of that regulated activity under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the “FSMA”) and no such agreement was or will be entered into in consequence of a communication made in breach of section 21(1) of the FSMA;
(h) the Debt Securities will be issued pursuant to the Indenture, as authorised, executed and delivered by the Issuer, the Company and the Trustee, and the Debt Securities will be duly prepared and completed in accordance with the provisions and arrangements contained or described in the Indenture and will be in the form of the Debt Securities as provided for and set out in the Indenture;

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(i) the Articles of Association, which we have examined, are those in force without amendment and the Resolutions which we have examined were duly passed at a board meeting of the Issuer properly convened and held (using the correct procedure) and that a duly qualified quorum of directors of the Issuer voted in favour of approving the Resolutions, and that the facts on which the Minutes were based were true and the directors’ decisions were taken in good faith and on reasonable grounds for believing that the transactions contemplated thereby would be most likely to promote the success of the Issuer for the benefit of its members as a whole and that the Resolutions have not been subsequently amended, rescinded, modified, superseded or revoked and are in full force and effect and the certifications referred to in paragraphs 1(b) and 1(c) above are true and accurate;
(j) the issue of Debt Securities will not cause any limit on borrowings to which the Issuer is subject to be exceeded;
(k) the absence of mutual mistake of fact, of any facts or matters which were not revealed by the Transaction Documents or of any other arrangements, documents, agreements or course of dealing between any of the parties to the Transaction Documents which modify or supersede any of their terms or that would result in the inclusion of any additional terms in any of them or would affect this Opinion;
(l) each of the Transaction Documents has been entered into, and the transactions referred to therein are carried out, by each of the parties in good faith, for bona fide commercial reasons, for the purpose of carrying on their respective businesses (and, in the case of the Issuer, in furtherance of its objects, whether contained in its Articles of Association or otherwise), for the benefit of each of them respectively and on arm’s length commercial terms and each Transaction Document will promote the success of the Issuer for the benefit of its members as a whole;
(m) each of the Transaction Documents has not been entered into in consequence of bad faith, fraud, coercion, duress, misrepresentation or undue influence or on the basis of a mistake of fact or law or believing that the Transaction Documents are fundamentally different in substance or in kind from what they are, or in connection with money laundering or any other unlawful activity;
(n) none of the parties to the Transaction Documents is or will be seeking to achieve any purpose not apparent from the Transaction Documents which might render any of them illegal, void or unenforceable;
(o) the truth, accuracy, correctness and completeness in all respects of all information, statements, certifications, acknowledgements, confirmations and representations and warranties (with the exception of representations and warranties on matters on which we have specifically and expressly given our opinion in this Opinion) contained in the Opinion Documents and that all the terms and conditions of the Transaction Documents will be observed and performed by all the parties thereto;
(p) the Issuer is neither an authorised person nor an exempt person in relation to the regulated activity of accepting deposits under the FSMA;
(q) no request will be made to admit any Debt Securities to trading on a regulated market situated or operating in the United Kingdom;
(r) all applicable provisions of the FSMA and any applicable secondary legislation made under it have been complied with respect to the Transaction Documents;
(s) the conformity to the originals of all documents submitted to us in translated, certified, photostatic, electronic or faxed or copy form and that where a document has been examined by us in draft or specimen form, it will be or has been executed in the form of that draft or specimen;

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(t) each Transaction Party is able to pay its debts within the meaning of section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 or would otherwise be solvent pursuant to any legislation applicable to it at the time of executing any of the Transaction Documents, and will not, as a consequence of executing any of the Transaction Documents, become unable to pay its debts within the meaning of that section or otherwise be insolvent pursuant to any applicable legislation and:
(i) none of the Transaction Parties has passed a resolution for its winding-up or dissolution;
(ii) no proceedings have been commenced or steps taken for the winding-up of any Transaction Party or for the appointment of any administrator, an administrative receiver or receiver or manager in relation to any Transaction Party or any assets or revenue of any Transaction Party; and/or
(iii) no analogous procedure or step described in paragraphs (i) and (ii) above has been taken in any jurisdiction in relation to any Transaction Party;
(u) each Transaction Party complied with the procedures for signing the Transaction Documents set out in any “Mercury compliant” signing instructions and either (i) physically distributed to the other parties to the Transaction Documents (or their legal advisors) complete execution versions of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party signed by it which are identical to the forms of the Transaction Documents that we have received pursuant to paragraph 1 above or (ii) delivered signed versions of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party which are identical to the forms of the Transaction Documents that we received pursuant to paragraph 1 above as part of a virtual signing in accordance with options 1 or 2 (as applicable) of the Law Society’s practice note in respect of the execution of documents at virtual signings or closings dated 16 February 2010, in each case on an unconditional basis with effect from the date it is expressed to be effective;
(v) each Transaction Party’s entry into, exercise of its rights under, performance of its obligations under, and compliance with the terms of the Transaction Documents do not and will not violate its constitutional documents (excluding the Articles of Association of the Issuer) and do not or will not violate any contract, agreement or undertaking to which it is a party;
(w) all consents, licenses, approvals, notices, filings, publications and registrations that are necessary under any applicable laws or regulations (other than the laws of England and Wales) in order to permit the execution, delivery or performance of the Transaction Documents or to protect or preserve any of the interests (whether by way of security or otherwise) created by the Transaction Documents have been made or obtained or will be made or obtained within the period permitted by these laws or regulations;
(x) the choice of law and jurisdiction provisions relating to each Transaction Document were freely made in good faith by each of the parties thereto for bona fide purposes (and were not made for the purpose of avoiding the mandatory laws of any other jurisdiction) and are valid and binding under all relevant laws (other than the laws of England and Wales) and that none of the opinions expressed below would be affected by any law or public policy of any jurisdiction other than England;
(y) in respect of a judgment entered in any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or in connection with the Transaction Documents such judgment was entered by the relevant New York court which had jurisdiction to determine such suit, action or proceeding;
(z) the information revealed by the Company Search was true, accurate, complete and up-to-date in all respects and has not since then been altered or supplemented;
(aa) each Transaction Party’s “centre of main interests” (as that term is used in Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2015/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on insolvency proceedings (recast) (“EU Recast Insolvency Regulation”) as incorporated into English law pursuant to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, and in The Insolvency (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (SI 2019/146) and in The Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006 (SI 2006/1030) (which implement the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency in the UK) (“Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations”)) is, and always has been, situated in England and Wales and it has no “establishment” (as that term is defined in Article 2(10) of the EU Recast Insolvency Regulation and in the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations) in any other jurisdiction;

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(bb) the parties to the Transaction Documents have complied (and will continue to comply) with all applicable anti-terrorism, sanctions, anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and human rights laws and regulations, and there is nothing in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents that is inconsistent with all such laws and regulations;
(cc) no part of the Transaction Documents will constitute unlawful financial assistance for the purposes of section 678 or section 679 of the Companies Act 2006; and
(dd) each Transaction Document not governed by the laws of England and Wales has the same meaning and effect under its governing law as it would have if it were interpreted under the law of England and Wales by an English court and there are no provisions of such governing law which would affect this Opinion.
3. LIMITATIONS
This Opinion is given only with respect to English law and HM Revenue and Customs’ practice in force and published at the date of this Opinion as applied by the English courts as at the date of this Opinion. By giving this opinion, we do not assume any obligation to notify you of future changes in English law or HM Revenue and Customs’ practice or their application which may affect the opinions expressed in this Opinion, or otherwise to update this Opinion in any respect. We have made no investigation of, and therefore express or imply no opinion as to, the laws of any other jurisdiction or as to the application of English or any other law by any other courts. In particular we express no opinion on European Union law (as assimilated within English law, following the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union) as it affects any jurisdiction other than England. To the extent that the laws of any jurisdiction other than England may be relevant, we have made no independent investigation thereof and this Opinion is subject to the effect of such laws, including the matters contained in the opinion of Jones Day as to matters of New York law. We express no view on the validity of the matters set out in such opinion.
The Indenture and the Debt Securities will be governed by the laws of the State of New York. We have made no investigation of such laws and do not express or imply any opinion on such laws. In addition, we have assumed that, so far as the laws of the State of New York and US securities laws are concerned, the Indenture and the Debt Securities will, on issue in accordance with the Indenture, constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Issuer and that such laws do not qualify or affect our opinions in this Opinion as set out below.
4. OPINIONS
Based on the assumptions set out in this Opinion and subject to the reservations, qualifications, limitations and observations set out in this Opinion, we are of the opinion that as at the date of this Opinion:
| 4.1 | The Issuer has been incorporated and registered as a public limited company in England and Wales under the Companies Act 2006. |
| 4.2 | The Issuer has corporate power to enter into and perform its obligations under the Indenture and to issue and perform its obligations under the Debt Securities. |
| 4.3 | The issue of the Debt Securities has been duly authorised by all necessary corporate action by the Issuer and when (a) the Registration Statement has become effective under the Securities Act and (b) the Debt Securities have been duly executed by the Issuer and authenticated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and delivered in the manner provided in the Indenture, we would expect the English courts to recognise the choice of law of New York law as the governing law of the Debt Securities. We would expect the English courts to enforce by separate action a final and conclusive judgment (which does not re-open an earlier judgement from the same jurisdiction) for a definite sum of money or for a sum of money ascertainable by arithmetical calculation (in either case not being a sum payable in respect of taxes or other charges of a like nature or in respect of a fine or other penalty), entered against the Issuer in connection with the enforcement of the Debt Securities in civil proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction in the State of New York. |

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5. QUALIFICATIONS
Nothing in this Opinion shall be taken as implying that an English court would exercise jurisdiction in any proceedings relating to the Indenture or the Debt Securities or accordingly that any remedy would be available in England for the enforcement of obligations arising under the Indenture or the Debt Securities.
This Opinion is subject to the following:
(a) The opinions in this Opinion are strictly limited to the matters stated in paragraph 4 above and do not extend to any other matters. We express no opinion as to matters of fact. We have not been responsible for investigating or verifying the accuracy of the facts (including statements of foreign law), or the reasonableness of any statement of opinion or intention, contained in or relevant to any document referred to in this Opinion, or that no material facts have been omitted therefrom.
(b) The Company Search is not capable of revealing conclusively whether or not (i) a winding-up order has been made or a resolution passed for the winding-up of a company, (ii) an administration order has been made, or (iii) a receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, moratorium monitor or liquidator has been appointed, since notice of these matters may not be filed with the Registrar of Companies immediately and, when filed, may not be entered on the public database or recorded on the public microfiches of the relevant company immediately. In addition, the Company Search is not capable of revealing, prior to the making of the relevant order, whether or not a winding-up petition has been presented or an application for an administration order has been made nor will the search conclusively reveal whether a charge or other restriction or prohibition has been created in relation to the real property owned by the relevant party.
(c) Laws relating to liquidation or administration or other laws or procedures affecting generally the enforcement of creditors’ rights may affect any obligations of the Issuer under the Transaction Documents and the remedies available.
(d) An English court will not necessarily grant a particular remedy because:
(i) the principles of equity may dictate otherwise (for example, an order for the equitable remedy of specific performance may not be made where damages are considered to be an adequate remedy);
(ii) it may be incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998;
(iii) public policy requires otherwise; or
(iv) the court otherwise has discretion as to what remedy it grants. In particular, orders for specific performance and injunctions are, in general, discretionary remedies under English law and specific performance or injunctive relief is not available where damages are considered by the court to be an adequate alternative remedy;
(e) The procedural rules to which any action brought in an English court is subject may be such that a court declines jurisdiction or stays an action. For example, an English court will only assume jurisdiction to hear a case and give judgment against a defendant on the basis of effective service. Consequently, where a defendant cannot be served, the English courts will not assume jurisdiction and we give no opinion in this respect.
(f) An English court may refuse to give effect to any provision in an agreement (i) for the payment of expenses in respect of the costs of enforcement (actual or contemplated) or of unsuccessful litigation brought before an English court, or where the court has itself made an order for costs or (ii) where it would involve the enforcement of foreign revenue or penal laws.

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(g) An English court may (or in certain cases, must) stay or strike out proceedings if concurrent proceedings are being brought elsewhere and may or must decline to accept jurisdiction in certain cases.
(h) Claims may become barred under the Limitation Act 1980 or the Foreign Limitation Periods Act 1984 or may be or become subject to the defence of set-off or counterclaim.
(i) We note the decision in the English case of R (on the application of Mercury Tax Ltd) v Revenue and Customs Commissioners 2008 EWHC 2721). One of the obiter comments in that case would appear to indicate that a previously executed signature page from one document may not be transferred to another document, even where the documents in question are simply updated versions of the same document. We refer you to (i) the Law Society Practice Note: “Execution of documents by virtual means” (16 February 2010), (ii) the cover statement in relation to such note published by the Law Society on 7 May 2020, (iii) the Note on the Execution of Documents at a Virtual Signing or Closing (February 2010) prepared by the joint working party of The Law Society Company Law Committee and The City of London Law Society Company Law and Financial Law Committees (the “JWP”) and (iv) the Note on Execution of Documents using an Electronic Signature prepared by the JWP in July 2016 as updated in October 2022, which discuss this issue in some detail (the “Notes”). The Notes detail what they consider to be a cautious and prudent approach for executing English law deeds at virtual signings or closings, including using electronic signatures.
(j) An English court may, in its discretion, order a claimant in an action who is not ordinarily resident in some part of England and Wales to provide security for costs.
(k) The Registration Statement has been prepared by the Issuer and the Company, who have accepted responsibility for the information contained therein. We have not investigated or verified the truth or accuracy of the information contained in the Registration Statement, nor have we been responsible for ensuring that no material information has been omitted from it.
(l) An English Court will not apply a chosen foreign law if: (i) it is not pleaded and proved; (ii) to do so would be contrary to the mandatory rules of English law or of such chosen foreign law or manifestly incompatible with English public policy; or (iii) the choice is not valid under the chosen law. In the English courts, foreign law is treated as a matter of fact and must be pleaded by the party relying on that law and, save in limited exceptions, must be proved by evidence. We express no opinion as to whether satisfactory evidence of the laws of any jurisdiction could be pleaded and proved as a fact in any proceedings before the English courts.
(m) There are no applicable reciprocal arrangements in force between the State of New York or the United States of America and the United Kingdom for the recognition or enforcement of judgments. Accordingly, any such judgment by the courts of the State of New York, United States of America or, as the case may be, any federal court of the United States of America (each such court being a “US Court”) is not enforceable directly in England but may be recognised by the English courts according to common law principles. Any such judgment by a US Court will not be enforced by the English courts if:
(i) that US Court had no jurisdiction, as a matter of English law, over the defendant;
(ii) the proceedings in which the judgment was given were opposed to natural justice;
(iii) the judgment was obtained by fraud;
(iv) the enforcement of the judgment would be contrary to English public policy or the Human Rights Act 1998;
(v) an order has been made and remains effective under section 9 of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933 applying that section to judgments of that US Court;

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(vi) before the date on which the US Court gave judgment, the matter in dispute had been the subject of a final judgment of another court having jurisdiction between the same parties or their privies, that judgment is enforceable in England, and that judgment conflicts with the judgment intended to be enforced in England;
(vii) the judgment is for multiple damages within the meaning of section 5(3) of the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 or based on a claim for contribution in respect of the same;
(viii) the judgment is based on a rule of law specified by the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs as concerned with the prohibition of restrictive trade practices or based on a claim for contribution in respect of the same (within the meaning of section 5(4) of the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980);
(ix) the judgment is based on foreign measures which the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs specifies as regulating and controlling international trade and which, in so far as they apply to persons carrying on business in the United Kingdom, are damaging or threaten to damage the trading interests of the United Kingdom (within the meaning of section 1 of the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980); or
(x) the bringing of proceedings in that US Court was contrary to an agreement under which the dispute in question was to be settled otherwise than by proceedings in that US Court.
The methods of execution for a foreign judgment registered in England are those available to execute a judgment of the English courts, and give the court a discretion whether to allow execution by any particular method. In addition, no steps (other than protective measures against the property of the judgment debtor) may be taken to execute a foreign judgment registered in England before the end of the period prescribed for the making of an appeal against enforcement in England of that judgment or pending the outcome of any such appeal. Moreover, execution may not be possible (A) if the judgment debtor is subject to any insolvency or similar proceedings, (B) if there is delay in seeking execution of the judgment, (C) if the time for lodging such an appeal has not expired, or (D) if the judgment debtor has any set-off or counterclaim against the judgment creditor.
Furthermore, there is doubt as to the enforceability in England and Wales of judgments of US Courts in respect of civil judgments predicated purely on US securities law.
(n) English courts can give judgments in currencies other than pounds sterling if, subject to the terms of the contract, another currency is the currency which most fairly expresses the claimant’s loss but judgments of this nature may be required to be converted into pounds sterling for execution purposes.
(o) To the extent that any operative provision of a Transaction Document is reliant on another contract or a provision in another contract (e.g. by way of cross-reference, being explicitly subject to or in accordance with, share definitions or otherwise) and such contract or provision is held to be void, then such operative provision would also be unenforceable to the extent of such reliance.
(p) There is some possibility that an English court would:
(i) hold that a judgment on an agreement, whether given in an English court or elsewhere, would supersede that agreement to all intents and purposes so that the obligations set out in that agreement (including any provision for the payment of money (for example, interest)) would not be held to survive a judgment of this nature; or
(ii) deal with a winding-up petition even if it had been presented in breach of a contract and there may be no entitlement to damages as a result of such a breach (as presentation of a winding-up petition may not itself be the cause of the relevant loss).

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(q) Under the rules of procedure, an English court may, in certain circumstances, order a claimant in an action to provide security for costs.
(r) No account has been taken in this Opinion of the future exercise of powers by the UK Government pursuant to section 5(4) of the Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980.
(s) We express no opinion as to compliance or otherwise with the financial limitations on borrowings by the Issuer contained in its Articles of Association.
(t) We give no opinion as to tax or as to any liability to tax.
(u) We have not considered the particular circumstances of any party to the Transaction Documents nor the effect of any such particular circumstances on the Transaction Documents or the effect of the transaction contemplated by the Transaction Documents on any such particular circumstances.
This Opinion is given on the basis that it and any non-contractual obligations arising out of it are governed by and shall be construed in accordance with English law as at the date of this Opinion. The English courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in relation to all disputes arising out of or in connection with this Opinion.
This Opinion is rendered to you and is solely for your benefit in connection with the transactions covered hereby. This Opinion may not be relied upon by you for any other purpose, or furnished to, quoted to or relied upon by any other person, firm or corporation for any purpose, without our prior written consent.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we consent to the filing of this Opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to us under the heading “Validity of Securities” in the prospectus that is a part of the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not admit that we are included in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the US Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder.
Yours faithfully,
/s/ Jones Day