Company: PAYX
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001193125-25-076822
Chunk: 28

Company: PAYCHEX INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form: 424B2
Chunk 28
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 Indenture. In addition, we will not be required to, and we will not, make an offer to repurchase any series of notes upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event if there has occurred and is continuing on the Change of Control Payment Date an event of default with respect to the notes of such series. If, with respect to a series of the notes, holders of not less than 90% in aggregate principal amount of the notes of such series then outstanding validly tender and do not withdraw such notes in an offer to repurchase the notes upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event and we, or any third party making such an offer in lieu of us as described above, purchase all of such notes properly tendered and not withdrawn by such holders, we or such third party will have the right, upon not less than 10 days’ nor more than 60 days’ prior notice (provided, that such notice is given not more than 60 days following such repurchase pursuant to the offer to repurchase the notes upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event described above) to redeem all notes of such series that remain outstanding following such purchase on a date specified in such notice (the “Second Change of Control Payment Date”) and at a price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of the notes repurchased plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the notes repurchased to, but excluding, the Second Change of Control Payment Date. Set forth below are certain definitions related to the Change of Control Repurchase Event: “Below Investment Grade Rating Event” means the notes are rated below an Investment Grade Rating 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-dayperiod following public notice of the occurrence of the Change of Control (which 60-dayperiod shall be extended so long as the rating of the notes is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies). “Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related S-17

transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of ours and our subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) other than us or one