Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-023282
Chunk: 56

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-03-13
Form: 424B5
Chunk 56
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 short positions or making stabilizing purchases, repurchase Notes originally sold by that syndicate member.

Any of these activities may have the effect of preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of the Notes. They may also cause the price of the Notes to be higher than the price that otherwise would exist in the open market in the absence of these transactions. The underwriters may conduct these transactions in the over-the-counter market or otherwise. If the underwriters commence any of these transactions, they may discontinue them at any time.

We estimate that our total expenses (which consist of, among other fees, Securities and Exchange Commission registration fees, legal fees and expenses, accounting fees and expenses, printing expenses and rating agency fees) for this offering, excluding underwriting discounts, will be approximately U.S.$7,042,000. The underwriters have agreed to reimburse us for U.S.$6,875,000 of expenses incurred in connection with the offering.

The underwriters and their respective affiliates are full service financial institutions engaged in various activities, which may include securities trading, commercial and investment banking, financial advisory, investment management, investment research, principal investment, hedging, financing and brokerage activities. In the ordinary course of their various business activities, the underwriters and their respective affiliates may make or hold a broad array of investments and actively trade debt and equity securities (or related derivative securities) and financial instruments (including bank loans) for their own account and for the accounts of their customers and such investment and securities activities may involve securities and instruments of Rio Tinto or its subsidiaries. The underwriters and their respective affiliates may also make investment recommendations or publish or express independent research views in respect of such securities or instruments and may at any time hold, or recommend to clients that they acquire, long or short positions in such securities and instruments.

The underwriters or their affiliates have also performed investment banking and advisory services for us and the Rio Tinto Group from time to time for which they have received customary fees and reimbursement of expenses. The underwriters or their affiliates may in the future, from time to time, engage in transactions with and perform services for us and the Rio Tinto Group in the ordinary course of their business for which they may receive customary fees and reimbursement of expenses.

The underwriters and/or certain of their affiliates were lenders under the Bridge Loan Facility and will receive proceeds of issuance of the Notes upon repayment of amounts borrowed under the Bridge Loan Facility. See “The Offering — The following terms apply to the Notes — Use of Proceeds” and