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Exhibit 4.2

 

 

 

 3.750% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2025

3.950% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2030

FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

between

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.,

as Issuer

and

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,

as Trustee

Dated as of March 26, 2020

 

 

 

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Table of Contents

 

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ARTICLE I
	
Definitions1
	
 

	
 
	
Section 1.01
	
Definition of Terms1
	
 

	
ARTICLE II
	
The Notes3
	
 

	
 
	
Section 2.01
	
Designation3
	
 

	
 
	
Section 2.02
	
Principal Amount; Series Treatment3
	
 

	
 
	
Section 2.03
	
Maturity5
	
 

	
 
	
Section 2.04
	
Interest5
	
 

	
 
	
Section 2.05
	
Form of Notes5
	
 

	
 
	
Section 2.06
	
Transfer Restrictions6
	
 

	
 
	
Section 2.07
	
Transfers and Exchanges7
	
 

	
 
	
Section 2.08
	
Restricted Securities7
	
 

	
ARTICLE III
	
Transfer Restriction Legends10
	
 

	
 
	
Section 3.01
	
Legends10
	
 

	
ARTICLE IV
	
Redemption Of The Notes11
	
 

	
 
	
Section 4.01
	
Optional Redemption by Company11
	
 

	
ARTICLE V
	
Change of Control12
	
 

	
 
	
Section 5.01
	
Offer to Purchase Upon Change of Control Triggering Event12
	
 

	
ARTICLE VI
	
Execution Of The Notes13
	
 

	
 
	
Section 6.01
	
Execution; Certificates13
	
 

	
ARTICLE VII
	
Miscellaneous13
	
 

	
 
	
Section 7.01
	
Ratification of Indenture13
	
 

	
 
	
Section 7.02
	
Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals13
	
 

	
 
	
Section 7.03
	
Governing Law14
	
 

	
 
	
Section 7.04
	
Separability14
	
 

	
 
	
Section 7.05
	
Counterparts14
	
 

 

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EXHIBIT A-1
	
Form of 2025 Note

	
EXHIBIT A-2 
	
Form of 2030 Note

	
EXHIBIT B 
	
Form of Transfer Certificate for Exchange or Transfer from Rule 144A Global Note to Regulation S Global Note Prior to the Expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period

	
EXHIBIT C 
	
Form of Transfer Certificate for the Transfer or Exchange from Rule 144A Global Note to Regulation S Global Note After the Expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period

	
EXHIBIT D 
	
Form of Transfer Certificate for Exchange or Transfer from Regulation S Global Note to Rule 144A Global Note

 

 

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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of March 26, 2020 (this “Supplemental Indenture”), between Baxter International Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee, under the Indenture, dated as of March 26, 2020 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee.

WHEREAS, the Company executed and delivered the Indenture to the Trustee to provide for, among other things, the issuance from time to time of the Company’s debt securities in one or more series as might be authorized under the Indenture;

WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that the Company and the Trustee may enter into an indenture supplemental to the Indenture to establish the form and terms of any series of Securities (as defined in the Indenture) as provided by Sections 2.01 and 3.01 of the Indenture;

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has duly adopted resolutions authorizing the Company to issue the Securities provided for in this Supplemental Indenture;

WHEREAS, the Company desires to enter into this Supplemental Indenture to provide for the establishment of two series of Securities (as defined in the Indenture) to be known as the (i) 3.750% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “2025 Notes”) and (ii) 3.950% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “2030 Notes,” collectively with the 2025 Notes, the “Notes”), the form, substance, terms, provisions and conditions of which shall be set forth in the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture; and

WHEREAS, the Company has requested that the Trustee execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture in order to satisfy all requirements necessary to make (i) this Supplemental Indenture a valid instrument in accordance with its terms and (ii) the Securities provided for hereby, when executed and delivered by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee, the valid obligations of the Company.

NOW THEREFORE, each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other parties and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes:

ARTICLE I
Definitions

Section 1.01Definition of Terms.  Unless the context otherwise requires:

(a)a term defined in the Indenture has the same meaning when used in this Supplemental Indenture unless the definition of such term is amended and supplemented pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture;

(b)a term defined anywhere in this Supplemental Indenture has the same meaning throughout;

(c)the singular includes the plural and vice versa;

(d)a reference to a Section or Article is to a Section or Article of this Supplemental Indenture;

 

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(e)headings are for convenience of reference only and do not affect interpretation; and

(f)the following terms have the meanings given to them in this Section 1.01(f):

“Additional Interest” means, with respect to a series of Notes, all additional interest, if any, then owing on the Notes of such series pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement.

“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, S.A., or its successor.

 “Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the first paragraph hereof, and shall also include the Company’s successors and permitted assigns.

“Depositary” means the clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act that is designated to act as the Depositary for the Global Notes. The Depository Trust Company shall be the initial Depositary, until a successor shall have been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, and thereafter, “Depositary” shall mean or include such successor.

“Distribution Compliance Period” means, with respect to a Regulation S Security, the “distribution compliance period”, as such term is defined in Regulation S, for such Regulation S Security.

“Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank SA/NV, or its successor.

“Exchange Notes” means, with respect to a series of Notes, Securities of the Company issued in the Exchange Offer and having terms identical in all material respects to the Initial Notes of such series, except for the issue date and, if applicable, the first interest payment date and the date from which interest shall accrue and except that the transfer restrictions under the Securities Act shall be eliminated and the Additional Interest provisions shall not apply to such securities. 

“Exchange Offer” means an offer made by the Company pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement to exchange the Initial Notes or additional Notes issued under Section 2.02(a), as applicable, for the related Exchange Notes.

“Global Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(b).

“Indenture” shall have the meaning set forth in the first paragraph hereof.

“Initial Notes” means, with respect to a series of Notes, (i) all Notes of such series issued on the first date that the Notes of such series were originally issued under this Supplemental Indenture and (ii) any Notes of such series (other than Exchange Notes of such series) issued in replacement therefor.

“Initial Purchasers” has the meaning given to such term in the definition of “Initial Notes Registration Rights Agreement.”

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“Initial Notes Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement dated March 26, 2020, between the Company and the Initial Purchasers (as defined in such Registration Rights Agreement) with respect to the Initial Notes.

“Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the recitals hereof.

“Registration Rights Agreement” means the Initial Notes Registration Rights Agreement and any registration rights agreement entered into in connection with the issuance of any additional Notes.

“Regulation S” means Regulation S under the Securities Act.

“Regulation S Security” means a Note sold in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act.

“Restricted Securities” means “restricted securities,” as such term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act.

“Rule 144A Security” means a Note sold pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

“U.S. Resale Restriction Termination Date” means, with respect to the Initial Notes of any series and any additional Note of such series issued under Section 2.02(a), (x) the date which is one year after the later of the date of original issue thereof, as the case may be, and the last date on which the Company or any of its affiliates were the owner thereof, as the case may be, (or any predecessor thereto) and (y) such later date, if any, as may be required by any subsequent change in applicable law.

ARTICLE II
The Notes

Section 2.01Designation. The Company hereby establishes (a) a series of Securities designated the “3.750% Senior Notes due 2025” and (b) a series of Securities designated the “3.950% Senior Notes due 2030” for issuance under the Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture.

Section 2.02Principal Amount; Series Treatment.  

(a)The 2025 Notes shall be initially limited to an aggregate principal amount of $750,000,000 and the 2030 Notes shall be initially limited to an aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000. The Company may, from time to time, without the consent of the Holders of any series of Notes, issue additional Notes of any series, so that such additional Notes and the outstanding Notes of such series will be consolidated together and form a single series of Securities under the Indenture as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture. Any increase in the aggregate principal amount of any series of Notes shall be evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate to be delivered to the Trustee, without any further action by the Company.

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Notes from the most recent date to which interest has been paid on the Notes of such series (other than such additional Notes) or if no interest has been paid on the outstanding Notes of such series from the first date that such outstanding Notes were originally issued under the Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture; provided that, if such additional Notes are not fungible with the Initial Notes of such series for U.S. Federal income tax purposes, such additional Notes shall have a separate CUSIP number.

(c)For all purposes of the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, all 2025 Notes, whether Initial Notes, additional Notes issued under Section 2.02(a) or Exchange Notes, shall constitute one series of Securities and shall vote together as one series of Securities.

(d)For all purposes of the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture, all 2030 Notes, whether Initial Notes, additional Notes issued under Section 2.02(a) or Exchange Notes, shall constitute one series of Securities and shall vote together as one series of Securities.

(e)The Notes shall be issued in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

Section 2.03Maturity. The 2025 Notes will become due and payable on October 1, 2025 and the 2030 Notes will become due and payable on April 1, 2030.

Section 2.04Interest. Interest on the 2025 Notes will accrue at a rate of 3.750% per annum and interest on the 2030 Notes will accrue at a rate of 3.950% per annum, in each case, from March 26, 2020 (in the case of the Initial Notes of each series or any additional Notes of each series issued prior to October 1, 2020) until the principal thereof becomes due and payable or to the date of redemption or repurchase (if any) of the Notes.  Interest on the Notes shall be payable semi-annually on April 1 and October 1 of each year, in each case to the Holders of record of the Notes as of the close of business on the March 17 and September 16 (whether or not a Business Day) preceding such interest payment dates, commencing, in the case of the Initial Notes or any additional Notes issued prior to October 1, 2020, on October 1, 2020. Additional Interest may accrue on the Notes pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement, and all references to “interest” in the Indenture and in the Notes shall include any such Additional Interest that may be payable. 

Section 2.05Form of Notes.  

(a)The Notes shall contain the terms set forth in, and shall be substantially in the forms of, Exhibit A-1 with respect to the 2025 Notes and Exhibit A-2 with respect to the 2030 Notes, each as attached hereto. The terms and provisions contained in the forms of Notes set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2 shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of the Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture.

Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends, endorsements or changes as the Authorized Officers executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, or as may be required by the Depositary or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation 

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of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed, or to conform to usage, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.

(b)So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, or unless otherwise required by law, or otherwise contemplated herein, each series of the Notes shall be represented by one or more Notes in global form registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary.

The Notes shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent Global Securities in registered form, substantially in the forms set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2, as applicable (the “Global Notes”), each registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. The aggregate principal amount of the Global Notes may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary or its nominee, in accordance with the instructions given by the Holder thereof, as hereinafter provided.

The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in any such Global Note shall be effected through the Depositary in accordance with the Indenture and its Applicable Procedures. Except as provided in the Indenture, beneficial owners of a Global Note shall not be entitled to have certificates registered in their names, will not receive or be entitled to receive physical delivery of certificates in definitive form and will not be considered Holders of such Global Note.

Any Global Note shall represent such of the Outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect redemptions, transfers or exchanges permitted hereby. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee in such manner and upon instructions given by the Holder of such Notes in accordance with the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture. Payment of principal of and interest and premium, if any, on any Global Note shall be made to the Holder of such Note.

Section 2.06Transfer Restrictions. The following provisions shall apply only to a Global Note:

(i)Each Global Note authenticated under this Supplemental Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or Trustee if the Trustee is acting as custodian for the Depositary or its nominee with respect to such Global Note, and each such Global Note shall constitute a single Note, for the applicable series, for all purposes of the Indenture and this Supplemental Indenture.

(ii)Notwithstanding any other provision in this Supplemental Indenture, no Global Note may be exchanged in whole or in part for Notes registered, and no transfer of a Global Note in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other 

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than the Depositary or a nominee thereof except as provided in Section 3.05 of the Indenture. Any Note issued in exchange for a Global Note or any portion thereof shall be a Global Note; provided that any such Note so issued that is registered in the name of a Person other than the Depositary or a nominee thereof shall not be a Global Note.

(iii)Securities issued in exchange for a Global Note or any portion thereof pursuant to clause (ii) above shall be issued pursuant to Section 3.05 of the Indenture.

(iv)At such time as all interests in a Global Note have been redeemed, repurchased, converted, canceled or exchanged for Notes (of an applicable series) in certificated form, such Global Note shall, upon receipt thereof, be canceled by the Trustee in accordance with standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Trustee. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Note is redeemed, repurchased, converted, canceled or exchanged for Notes (of an applicable series) in certificated form, the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Trustee, be appropriately reduced, and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee or at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such reduction.

Section 2.07Transfers and Exchanges. Each series of the Notes shall be transferred and exchanged by the Holders thereof and the Trustee in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in Section 3.05 of the Indenture and, in the case of Notes of any series that constitute Restricted Securities, in accordance with Section 2.08 of this Supplemental Indenture.

Section 2.08Restricted Securities. Except as permitted by this Section 2.08, each Restricted Security (including Restricted Securities represented in whole or in part by Global Notes) shall bear a legend specified in Section 3.01(1) hereof, in the case of a Rule 144A Security, or Section 3.01(2), in the case of a Regulation S Security.

If any Notes are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes of the same series and in the same form not bearing the applicable legend referred to above, the Notes so issued shall not bear such legend. If any Notes are issued upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes of the same series and in the same form bearing such legend or if a request is made to remove such legend from any Notes, the Notes so issued shall bear such legend or such legend shall not be removed, as the case may be, unless and until there is delivered to the Company such satisfactory evidence as may be reasonably required by the Company to evidence that any such Notes are not then subject to any transfer restrictions under the Securities Act. Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence to the Company, the Trustee, upon receipt of the written order of the Company, signed by an Authorized Officer, shall authenticate and deliver Notes of the same series and in the same form of like tenor and terms that does not bear such legend.

Beneficial interests in any Restricted Security may be transferred to persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in the same Restricted Security in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in the legend therein containing transfer restrictions under the Securities Act; provided, however, that prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period with respect to a Regulation S Security, transfers of beneficial interests in such 

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Regulation S Security may not be made to a U.S. Person (as defined in Rule 902(k) promulgated under the Securities Act) or for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person (other than an Initial Purchaser in the case of a Regulation S Security evidencing Initial Notes or an initial purchaser of such Security pursuant to a purchase agreement with the Company in the case of additional Notes), except in the circumstances provided for in the legend set forth in Section 3.01(2) hereof. Beneficial interests in any Global Note that does not bear a legend containing transfer restrictions under the Securities Act may be transferred to persons who take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Global Note that does not bear a legend containing transfer restrictions under the Securities Act. No written orders or instructions shall be required to be delivered to the Security Registrar to effect the transfers described in this paragraph. 

Prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period with respect to a Regulation S Security, if an owner of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Security deposited with the Depositary wishes at any time to exchange all or a portion of its beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security for a beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security, or to transfer all or a portion of its beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security, to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security, such owner may, subject to the rules and procedures of the Depositary and to the requirements set forth below, exchange, cause the exchange, transfer or cause the transfer of such beneficial interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security.

Upon receipt by the Trustee, as Security Registrar, of (1) written instructions given in accordance with the Depositary’s Applicable Procedures from an agent member or participant of the Depositary directing the Trustee to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Security in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Security to be exchanged or transferred, (2) a written order given in accordance with the Depositary’s Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the Euroclear or Clearstream or other account to be credited with such increase and the name of such account and (3) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto given by the owner of such beneficial interest, the Trustee, as Security Registrar, shall instruct the Depositary, its nominee, or the custodian for the Depositary, as the case may be, to reduce or reflect on its records a reduction of the Rule 144A Security by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security to be so exchanged or transferred and the Trustee, as Security Registrar, shall instruct the Depositary, its nominee, or the custodian for the Depositary, as the case may be, concurrently with such reduction, to increase or reflect on its records an increase of the principal amount of such Regulation S Security by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security to be so exchanged or transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions (who shall be the agent member of Euroclear or Clearstream, or both, as the case may be) a beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security equal to the reduction in the principal amount of such Rule 144A Security.

After the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period with respect to a Regulation S Security, if an owner of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Security deposited with the Depositary wishes at any time to exchange all or a portion of its beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security for a beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security, or to transfer all or a portion of its beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security, such owner 

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may, subject to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary and to the requirements set forth below, exchange, cause the exchange, transfer or cause the transfer of such beneficial interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security.

Upon receipt by the Trustee, as Security Registrar, of (1) written instructions given in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures from an agent member or participant of a depositary directing the Trustee to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Security in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Security to be exchanged or transferred, (2) a written order given in accordance with the Depositary’s Applicable Procedures containing information regarding the Euroclear or Clearstream or other account to be credited with such increase and (3) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto given by the owner of such beneficial interest, the Trustee, as Security Registrar, shall instruct the Depositary, its nominee, or the custodian for the Depositary, as the case may be, to reduce or reflect on its records a reduction of the Rule 144A Security by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security to be so exchanged or transferred and the Trustee, as Security Registrar, shall instruct the Depositary, its nominee, or the custodian for the Depositary, as the case may be, concurrently with such reduction, to increase or reflect on its records an increase of the principal amount of such Regulation S Security by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security to be so exchanged or transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security equal to the reduction in the principal amount of such Rule 144A Security.

If an owner of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Security deposited with the Depositary wishes at any time to exchange its interest for a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Security deposited with the Depositary, or to transfer its beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security, such owner may, subject to the rules and procedures of Euroclear or Clearstream or the Depositary, as the case may be, and to the requirements set forth in the following sentence, exchange, cause the exchange, transfer or cause the transfer of such interest for an equivalent beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security.

Upon receipt by the Trustee, as Security Registrar, at its Offices in The City of New York of (1) written instructions from Euroclear or Clearstream or the Depositary, as the case may be, directing the Trustee, as Security Registrar, to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Security in an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Security to be exchanged or transferred, such instructions to contain information regarding the agent member’s account with the Depositary to be credited with such increase, and (2) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto given by the owner of such beneficial interest, the Trustee, as Security Registrar, shall instruct the Depositary, its nominee, or the custodian for the Depositary, as the case may be, to reduce or reflect on its records a reduction of the Regulation S Security by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security to be so exchanged or transferred and the Trustee as Security Registrar, shall instruct the Depositary, its nominee, or the custodian for the Depositary, as the case may be, concurrently with such reduction, to increase or reflect on its records an increase of the principal amount of such Rule 144A Security by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in such Regulation S Security to be so exchanged or transferred, and to credit or cause to be 

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credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Security equal to the reduction in the principal amount of such Regulation S Security.

Upon the occurrence of an Exchange Offer in accordance with a Registration Rights Agreement, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of a written order of the Company, signed by an Authorized Officer, the Trustee shall authenticate, one or more Global Notes of the applicable series not bearing a legend containing transfer restrictions under the Securities Act in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the beneficial interests in the Global Notes of such series that are Restricted Securities tendered for acceptance in accordance with the Exchange Offer and accepted for exchange in the Exchange Offer pursuant to the terms of such Registration Rights Agreement. Concurrently with the issuance of such Global Notes, the Security Registrar shall cause the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Restricted Security (including Restricted Securities represented in whole or in part by Global Notes) to be reduced accordingly.

After the transfer of any Notes of a series bearing a legend containing transfer restrictions under the Securities Act during the effectiveness of, and pursuant to, a shelf registration statement with respect to such Notes, all requirements pertaining to such legend shall cease to apply (but, for the avoidance of doubt, the requirements that any such Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply).

ARTICLE III
Transfer Restriction Legends

Section 3.01Legends.

	
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Each Global Note representing Notes of a series sold in reliance upon Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and any Notes of such series issued in exchange therefor, unless and until (x) such Security is exchanged for a related Exchange Note or sold in connection with an effective shelf registration statement pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement or (y) until the applicable U.S. Resale Restriction Termination Date, shall bear the following legend on the face thereof:

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED FOR OFFER OR SALE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY OTHER STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT), (B) IT IS A NON-U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO IT IN THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH PURCHASE IS MADE, OR (C) IT IS AN 

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“ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION D PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND (2) AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS ONE YEAR AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF, THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE OF THE ISSUANCE OF ANY ADDITIONAL NOTES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO THE ISSUER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHICH NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (C) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO IT IN THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH PURCHASE IS MADE, (D) TO AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION D THAT IS ACQUIRING THE SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE ISSUER’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S, OR REGISTRAR’S, AS APPLICABLE, RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (C), (D) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE TRUSTEE OR REGISTRAR. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE APPLICABLE HOLDING PERIOD WITH RESPECT TO RESTRICTED SECURITIES SET FORTH IN RULE 144.

	
(2)
	
Each Global Note representing Notes of a series sold in reliance upon Regulation S, and any Notes of such series issued in exchange therefor, unless and until such Security is exchanged for a related Exchange Note or sold in connection with an effective shelf registration statement pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, shall bear the following legend on the face thereof:

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED FOR OFFER OR SALE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY OTHER STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE 

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DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT), (B) IT IS A NON-U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO IT IN THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH PURCHASE IS MADE, OR (C) IT IS AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION D PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND (2) AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS 40 DAYS AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF, THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE OF THE ISSUANCE OF ANY ADDITIONAL NOTES AND THE DATE ON WHICH THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY) WAS FIRST OFFERED TO PERSONS OTHER THAN DISTRIBUTORS (AS DEFINED IN RULE 902 OF REGULATION S) IN RELIANCE ON REGULATION S, ONLY (A) TO THE ISSUER OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A PROMULGATED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHICH NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (C) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO IT IN THE JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH PURCHASE IS MADE, (D) TO AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION D THAT IS ACQUIRING THE SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE ISSUER’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S, OR REGISTRAR’S, AS APPLICABLE, RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (C), (D) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE TRUSTEE OR REGISTRAR. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE APPLICABLE HOLDING PERIOD WITH RESPECT TO RESTRICTED SECURITIES SET FORTH IN RULE 144.

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ARTICLE IV
Redemption Of The Notes

Section 4.01Optional Redemption by Company. Each series of Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Company on the terms and conditions set forth, as applicable, in the forms of Note set forth as Exhibits A-1 and A-2.

ARTICLE V
Change of Control

Section 5.01Offer to Purchase Upon Change of Control Triggering Event. Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined in the forms of Note set forth as Exhibits A-1 and A-2), and unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem a series of the Notes pursuant to Section 4.01, the Company shall be required to make an offer to each holder of such series of the Notes to repurchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that holder’s Notes on the terms and conditions set forth, as applicable, in the forms of Note set forth as Exhibits A-1 and A-2.

ARTICLE VI
Execution Of The Notes

Section 6.01Execution; Certificates. The Notes and any Officers’ Certificate to be delivered under the Indenture in connection with the authentication and delivery of the Notes shall be executed and delivered as set forth in the Indenture.

ARTICLE VII
Miscellaneous

Section 7.01Ratification of Indenture.  The Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed part of the Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided.

Section 7.02Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals.  The recitals herein contained are made by the Company and not by the Trustee, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness thereof. The Trustee makes no representation as to and shall not be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Notes or the proceeds thereof. 

Section 7.03Governing Law.  This Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, as applied to contracts made and performed within the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of law.

Section 7.04Separability.  In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Supplemental Indenture or of the Notes, but this Supplemental Indenture 

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and the Notes shall be construed as if such invalid or illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein or therein.

Section 7.05Counterparts.  This Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Supplemental Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this First Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.

	
By:
	
 /s/ James Saccaro

	
 
	
Name: James Saccaro

	
 
	
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee

	
By:
	
 /s/ Valere Boyd

	
 
	
Name: Valere Boyd

	
 
	
Title: Vice President

 

 

 

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EXHIBIT A-1

[FACE OF NOTE]

Each Global Note shall bear the following legend: 

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF.  THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND, Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in definitive registered form, this Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to the nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or to a nominee of such successor Depositary.]

Each Global Note having The Depository Trust Company as the Depositary shall have the following legend:

[Unless this Security is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Security issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co., or such other name as requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is required by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL since the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]

[Insert appropriate legend pursuant to Article 3 of this Supplemental Indenture]

 

 

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CUSIP No. [Rule 144A: 071813 BV0][Reg S: U07181 AY3]

ISIN [Rule 144A: US071813BV00][Reg S: USU07181AY33] 

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.
3.750% Senior Notes due 2025

No. [144A][RegS]-$____________

Baxter International Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ________ or registered assigns, at the office or agency of the Company in the City of New York, the principal sum [of ___________ DOLLARS ($____________)]1[set forth on Schedule I attached hereto (as the same may be revised from time to time)]2 on October 1, 2025, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest, semiannually on April 1 and October 1 of each year, commencing on October 1, 2020, on said principal sum at said office or agency, in like coin or currency, at the rate per annum specified in the title of this Note, from the April 1 and October 1, as the case may be, next preceding the date of this Note to which interest has been paid, unless the date hereof is a date to which interest has been paid, in which case from the date of this Note, or unless no interest has been paid on these Notes, in which case from March 26, 2020 until payment of said principal sum has been made or duly provided for; provided, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security Register or by wire transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located in the United States. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the date hereof is after the 17th day of March or the 16th day of September, as the case may be, and before the following April 1 or October 1, as the case may be, this Note shall bear interest from such April 1 and October 1; provided, that, if the Company shall default in the payment of interest due on such April 1 and October 1, then this Note shall bear interest from the next preceding April 1 or October 1, to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid on these Notes, from March 26, 2020.  The interest so payable on any April 1 or October 1, will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, be paid to the person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the March 17 or September 16 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), as the case may be, preceding such April 1 or October 1.  Interest on this Note will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof.  Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

	
	 

	
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This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by the Trustee under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof.

 

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Baxter International Inc. has caused this instrument to be duly executed on the date set forth below.

Dated: 

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.

	
By:
	
 /s/ 

	
 
	
Name: 

	
 
	
Title: 

 

 

 

 

 

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(FORM OF CERTIFICATION OF AUTHENTICATION)
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

 

		
	
The bank of new york MELLON trust compANY, N.A.

as Trustee

By:__________________________
Authorized Signatory

Dated:  

 
	
 

 

 

 

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REVERSE OF NOTE
BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.
3.750% Senior Notes due 2025

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company of the series hereinafter specified, all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of March 26, 2020, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 26, 2020 (both together herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., 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 description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Securities.  This Note is one of a series of Securities of the Company designated as the 3.750% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”), initially limited in aggregate principal amount of $750,000,000, subject to the issuance of additional Notes as provided in the Indenture.  Terms used but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture.  

If any interest payment date, maturity date or redemption date of this Note falls on a day that is not a Business Day, payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest will accrue for the period from and after the interest payment date, maturity date or redemption date, as the case may be, to the next succeeding Business Day.  As used in this Note, the term “Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in the City of New York are authorized or obligated by or pursuant to law, regulation or executive order to close.

The Indenture contains provisions for the defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of the Notes or certain covenants set forth in the Indenture applicable to the Notes upon compliance by the Company of certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to this Note.

This Note is redeemable in whole at any time or in part, from time to time, at the option of the Company, prior to the date that is one month prior to its maturity date (the “Par Call Date”), at a make whole redemption price equal to the greater of:

(i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption, and

(ii) the sum of the present values of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and the scheduled payments of interest thereon (exclusive of interest accrued to the date of redemption) from the redemption date to the Par Call Date, discounted to the redemption date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption.

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price 

 

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for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed calculated as if the maturity date of the Notes were the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”) that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the Remaining Life of the Notes.

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, (1) the average of four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

“Reference Treasury Dealers” means (1) Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer (“Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Company shall substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a Primary Treasury Dealer, and (2) at the option of the Company, additional Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Company.  

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

On or after the date that is one month prior to its maturity date, this Note is redeemable in whole at any time or in part, from time to time, at the option of the Company, at a redemption price equal to 100% of its principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption.

Any redemption made at the option of the Company (an “Optional Redemption”) shall be made upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days prior notice before the redemption date to the Holders.  If the Notes are only partially redeemed by the Company pursuant to an Optional Redemption, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and in accordance with the Indenture, provided, however, that in the case of Notes in global form such selection shall be made in accordance with the procedures of the applicable Depositary.  In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or Notes of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.  Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

 

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If a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined below) occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the Notes (as described above), the Company shall be required to make an offer (the “Change of Control Offer”) to each holder of the Notes to repurchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that holder’s Notes on the terms set forth below.  In the Change of Control Offer, the Company shall be required to offer payment in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes repurchased to the date of repurchase (the “Change of Control Payment”).  Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the option of the Company, prior to any Change of Control, but after public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control, a notice shall be mailed (or, with respect to Notes in global form, to the extent permitted or required by applicable Depositary procedures, sent electronically) to holders of the Notes with a copy to the Trustee describing the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase the Notes on the date specified in the notice, which date shall be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed or sent (the “Change of Control Payment Date”).  The notice shall, if mailed or sent prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

 

                On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:

 

	
 
	
(1)
	
accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;

(2)       deposit with the paying agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered; and

(3)       deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being repurchased.

 

The Company 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 an offer made by the Company and the third party repurchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.  In addition, the Company shall not repurchase any Notes if there has occurred and is continuing on the Change of Control Payment Date an Event of Default, other than a default in the payment of the Change of Control Payment upon a Change of Control Triggering Event.

 

The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (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 Notes as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any such securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Offer provisions of the Notes, the Company shall comply with those securities laws and 

 

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regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Offer provisions of the Notes by virtue of any such conflict.

 

For purposes of the Change of Control Offer provisions of the Notes, the following definitions shall apply:

 

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: (1) 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 Company or one of its 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 Company’s Voting Stock or other Voting Stock into which the Company’s Voting Stock is reclassified, consolidated, exchanged or changed, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (2) 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 transactions, of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets and the assets of its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to one or more “persons” (as that term is defined in the Indenture), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries or (3) the adoption of a plan relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction shall not be deemed to be a Change of Control if (1) the Company becomes a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of a holding company and (2)(A) the direct or indirect holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to that transaction or (B) immediately following that transaction no “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) (other than a holding company satisfying the requirements of this sentence) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such holding company.

 “Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

 

“Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, and the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any replacement Rating Agency or Rating Agencies.

 

 “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

 

“Rating Agencies” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P, and (2) if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act selected by the Company (as certified by a resolution of the Company’s Board of Directors) as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, or both of them, as the case may be.

 

“Rating Event” means the rating on the Notes is lowered by each of the Rating Agencies and the Notes are rated below an Investment Grade Rating by each of the Rating Agencies on any day within the 60-day period (which 60-day period will be extended so long as the rating of the Notes is under publicly announced consideration for a possible downgrade by any of the 

 

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Rating Agencies but no longer than 180 days) after the earlier of (1) the occurrence of a Change of Control and (2) public notice of the Company’s intention to effect a Change of Control; provided, however, that a 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 Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Triggering Event) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not announce or publicly confirm to the Company in writing at the Company’s 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 has occurred at the time of the Rating Event).

 

“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global.

 

“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any specified “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), as of any date, the capital stock of such person that is at the time entitled to vote generally in the election of the board of directors of such person.

 

The Company’s obligation to make a Change of Control Offer as set forth herein shall be subject to the covenant defeasance provisions of Section 13.02(c) of the Indenture.

If an Event of Default, with respect to the Notes shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of this Note may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect set forth in the Indenture. 

[Payment of Additional Interest shall be the sole and exclusive remedy for a Holder of the Notes in the event of a Registration Default (as defined in the Initial Notes Registration Rights Agreement) referred to in Section 6(a) of the Initial Notes Registration Rights Agreement and failure to pay such Additional Interest when due and payable will constitute a default (as defined in Section 7.02 of the Indenture) and such failure will constitute an Event of Default if such failure to pay continues for a period of 30 days (subject to the terms of Article VI of the Indenture). No other default under the Registration Rights Agreement shall constitute a default or Event of Default under the Notes or the Indenture.]3 

The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected to execute supplemental indentures adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes subject to the limitations set forth in the Indenture.  It is also provided in the Indenture that, with respect to certain defaults or Events of Default regarding the Securities of any series, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of such series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any such past 

	
	 

	
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default or Event of Default and its consequences.  The preceding sentence shall not, however, apply to a default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Notes.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note (unless revoked as provided in the Indenture) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of this Note and any Notes which may be issued in exchange or substitution herefor, irrespective of whether or not any notation thereof is made upon this Note or such other Notes.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligations of the Company, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, and any premium and interest on, this Note in the manner and at the respective times herein provided.

The Notes are issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.  In the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, but without the payment of any service charge, Notes may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations at the office or agency of the Trustee in the City of New York.

There is no sinking fund for the retirement of the Notes.

Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note at the office or agency of the Trustee in the City of New York, a new Note or Notes of authorized denominations for an equal aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange therefor, subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, or the Trustee may treat the registered Holder hereof as the owner of this Note (whether or not this Note shall be overdue), for the purpose of receiving payment of the principal hereof and premium, if any, and subject to the provisions on the face hereof, interest hereon, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company, nor the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any incorporator or against any past, present or future stockholder, employee, officer or director, as such, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or 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 and any and all such claims being expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of the supplement to the Indenture and issue hereof of the Notes.

This Note is the senior unsecured and unsubordinated obligation of the Company and will rank on parity with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company, including any other Securities issued under the Indenture.  

 

 

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[FORM OF TRANSFER NOTICE]

FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned registered holder hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

Insert Taxpayer Identification No.

______________________________________________________________________________
Please print or typewrite name and address including zip code of assignee

______________________________________________________________________________
the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing attorney to transfer said Note on the books of

______________________________________________________________________________
the Company with full power of substitution in the premises.

By:________________________

Date:_______________________

 

 

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Schedule I

[Include as Schedule I only for a Global Note]
BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.
3.750% Senior Notes due 2025

No. [144A][RegS]-

The initial principal amount of this Note is $[_________]

				
	

Date
	

Principal Amount
	
Notation Explaining Principal Amount Recorded
	
Authorized Signature of Trustee or Custodian

	

	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

 

 

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EXHIBIT A-2

[FACE OF NOTE]

 Each Global Note shall bear the following legend:

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE AND, UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE REGISTERED FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO THE NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR TO A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.]

Each Global Note having The Depository Trust Company as the Depositary shall have the following legend:

[Unless this Security is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Security issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co., or such other name as requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is required by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL since the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.]

[Insert appropriate legend pursuant to Article 3 of this Supplemental Indenture]

 

 

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CUSIP No. [Rule 144A: 071813 BW8][Reg S: U07181 AZ0]

ISIN [Rule 144A: US071813BW82][Reg S: USU07181AZ08] 

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.
3.950% Senior Notes due 2030

No. [144A][RegS]-$____________

Baxter International Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to ________ or registered assigns, at the office or agency of the Company in the City of New York, the principal sum of [___________ DOLLARS ($____________)]4 [set forth on Schedule I attached hereto (as the same may be revised from time to time)]5 on April 1, 2030, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, and to pay interest, semiannually on April 1 and October 1 of each year, commencing on October 1, 2020, on said principal sum at said office or agency, in like coin or currency, at the rate per annum specified in the title of this Note, from the April 1 and October 1, as the case may be, next preceding the date of this Note to which interest has been paid, unless the date hereof is a date to which interest has been paid, in which case from the date of this Note, or unless no interest has been paid on these Notes, in which case from March 26, 2020 until payment of said principal sum has been made or duly provided for; provided, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Security Register or by wire transfer to an account maintained by the payee with a bank located in the United States. 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the date hereof is after the 17th day of March or the 16th day of September, as the case may be, and before the following April 1 or October 1, as the case may be, this Note shall bear interest from such April 1 and October 1; provided, that, if the Company shall default in the payment of interest due on such April 1 and October 1, then this Note shall bear interest from the next preceding April 1 or October 1, to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid on these Notes, from March 26, 2020.  The interest so payable on any April 1 or October 1, will, subject to certain exceptions provided in the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof, be paid to the person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the March 17 or September 16 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), as the case may be, preceding such April 1 or October 1.  Interest on this Note will be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof.  Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by the Trustee under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof.

	
	 

	
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Baxter International Inc. has caused this instrument to be duly executed on the date set forth below.

Dated: 

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.

 

 

	
By:
	
 /s/ 

	
 
	
Name: 

	
 
	
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(FORM OF CERTIFICATION OF AUTHENTICATION)
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
as Trustee

 

 

	
By:
	
 

	
 
	
Authorized Signatory 

 

Dated:

 

 

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REVERSE OF NOTE
BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.
3.950% Senior Notes due 2030

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Company of the series hereinafter specified, all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of March 26, 2020, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 26, 2020 (both together herein called the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., 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 description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Securities.  This Note is one of a series of Securities of the Company designated as the 3.950% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “Notes”), initially limited in aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000, subject to the issuance of additional Notes as provided in the Indenture.  Terms used but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture.  

If any interest payment date, maturity date or redemption date of this Note falls on a day that is not a Business Day, payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest will accrue for the period from and after the interest payment date, maturity date or redemption date, as the case may be, to the next succeeding Business Day.  As used in this Note, the term “Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in the City of New York are authorized or obligated by or pursuant to law, regulation or executive order to close.

The Indenture contains provisions for the defeasance at any time of the entire indebtedness of the Notes or certain covenants set forth in the Indenture applicable to the Notes upon compliance by the Company of certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to this Note.

This Note is redeemable in whole at any time or in part, from time to time, at the option of the Company, prior to the date that is three months prior to its maturity date (the “Par Call Date”), at a make whole redemption price equal to the greater of:

(i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption, and

(ii) the sum of the present values of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and the scheduled payments of interest thereon (exclusive of interest accrued to the date of redemption) from the redemption date to the Par Call Date, discounted to the redemption date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption.

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price 

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for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such redemption date.

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed calculated as if the maturity date of the Notes were the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”) that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the Remaining Life of the Notes.

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, (1) the average of four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Company obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such quotations.

“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Company.

“Reference Treasury Dealers” means (1) Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer (“Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Company shall substitute another nationally recognized investment banking firm that is a Primary Treasury Dealer, and (2) at the option of the Company, additional Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Company.  

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date.

On or after the date that is one month prior to its maturity date, this Note is redeemable in whole at any time or in part, from time to time, at the option of the Company, at a redemption price equal to 100% of its principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption.

Any redemption made at the option of the Company (an “Optional Redemption”) shall be made upon not less than 10 nor more than 60 days prior notice before the redemption date to the Holders.  If the Notes are only partially redeemed by the Company pursuant to an Optional Redemption, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and in accordance with the Indenture, provided, however, that in the case of Notes in global form such selection shall be made in accordance with the procedures of the applicable Depositary.  In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or Notes of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.  Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

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If a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined below) occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the Notes (as described above), the Company shall be required to make an offer (the “Change of Control Offer”) to each holder of the Notes to repurchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that holder’s Notes on the terms set forth below.  In the Change of Control Offer, the Company shall be required to offer payment in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes repurchased to the date of repurchase (the “Change of Control Payment”).  Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the option of the Company, prior to any Change of Control, but after public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control, a notice shall be mailed (or, with respect to Notes in global form, to the extent permitted or required by applicable Depositary procedures, sent electronically) to holders of the Notes with a copy to the Trustee describing the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase the Notes on the date specified in the notice, which date shall be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed or sent (the “Change of Control Payment Date”).  The notice shall, if mailed or sent prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

 

                On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:

 

	
 
	
(1)
	
accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;

(2)       deposit with the paying agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered; and

(3)       deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being repurchased.

 

The Company 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 an offer made by the Company and the third party repurchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.  In addition, the Company shall not repurchase any Notes if there has occurred and is continuing on the Change of Control Payment Date an Event of Default, other than a default in the payment of the Change of Control Payment upon a Change of Control Triggering Event.

 

The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (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 Notes as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any such securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Offer provisions of the Notes, the Company shall comply with those securities laws and 

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regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Offer provisions of the Notes by virtue of any such conflict.

 

For purposes of the Change of Control Offer provisions of the Notes, the following definitions shall apply:

 

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: (1) 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 Company or one of its 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 Company’s Voting Stock or other Voting Stock into which the Company’s Voting Stock is reclassified, consolidated, exchanged or changed, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (2) 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 transactions, of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets and the assets of its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to one or more “persons” (as that term is defined in the Indenture), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries or (3) the adoption of a plan relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction shall not be deemed to be a Change of Control if (1) the Company becomes a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of a holding company and (2)(A) the direct or indirect holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to that transaction or (B) immediately following that transaction no “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) (other than a holding company satisfying the requirements of this sentence) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such holding company.

 “Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

 

“Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, and the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any replacement Rating Agency or Rating Agencies.

 

 “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.

 

“Rating Agencies” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P, and (2) if either Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act selected by the Company (as certified by a resolution of the Company’s Board of Directors) as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, or both of them, as the case may be.

 

“Rating Event” means the rating on the Notes is lowered by each of the Rating Agencies and the Notes are rated below an Investment Grade Rating by each of the Rating Agencies on any day within the 60-day period (which 60-day period will be extended so long as the rating of the Notes is under publicly announced consideration for a possible downgrade by any of the 

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Rating Agencies but no longer than 180 days) after the earlier of (1) the occurrence of a Change of Control and (2) public notice of the Company’s intention to effect a Change of Control; provided, however, that a 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 Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Triggering Event) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not announce or publicly confirm to the Company in writing at the Company’s 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 has occurred at the time of the Rating Event).

 

“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global.

 

“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any specified “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), as of any date, the capital stock of such person that is at the time entitled to vote generally in the election of the board of directors of such person.

 

The Company’s obligation to make a Change of Control Offer as set forth herein shall be subject to the covenant defeasance provisions of Section 13.02(c) of the Indenture.

If an Event of Default, with respect to the Notes shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of this Note may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect set forth in the Indenture.

[Payment of Additional Interest shall be the sole and exclusive remedy for a Holder of the Notes in the event of a Registration Default (as defined in the Initial Notes Registration Rights Agreement) referred to in Section 6(a) of the Initial Notes Registration Rights Agreement and failure to pay such Additional Interest when due and payable will constitute a default (as defined in Section 7.02 of the Indenture) and such failure will constitute an Event of Default if such failure to pay continues for a period of 30 days (subject to the terms of Article VI of the Indenture). No other default under the Registration Rights Agreement shall constitute a default or Event of Default under the Notes or the Indenture.]6 

The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected to execute supplemental indentures adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Notes subject to the limitations set forth in the Indenture.  It is also provided in the Indenture that, with respect to certain defaults or Events of Default regarding the Securities of any series, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of such series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any such past 

	
	 

	
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default or Event of Default and its consequences.  The preceding sentence shall not, however, apply to a default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Notes.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note (unless revoked as provided in the Indenture) shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of this Note and any Notes which may be issued in exchange or substitution herefor, irrespective of whether or not any notation thereof is made upon this Note or such other Notes.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligations of the Company, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, and any premium and interest on, this Note in the manner and at the respective times herein provided.

The Notes are issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.  In the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, but without the payment of any service charge, Notes may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations at the office or agency of the Trustee in the City of New York.

There is no sinking fund for the retirement of the Notes.

Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Note at the office or agency of the Trustee in the City of New York, a new Note or Notes of authorized denominations for an equal aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange therefor, subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, or the Trustee may treat the registered Holder hereof as the owner of this Note (whether or not this Note shall be overdue), for the purpose of receiving payment of the principal hereof and premium, if any, and subject to the provisions on the face hereof, interest hereon, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company, nor the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, or the Trustee shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement contained in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of any indebtedness evidenced thereby, shall be had against any incorporator or against any past, present or future stockholder, employee, officer or director, as such, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or 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 and any and all such claims being expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of the supplement to the Indenture and issue hereof of the Notes.

This Note is the senior unsecured and unsubordinated obligation of the Company and will rank on parity with all other unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company, including any other Securities issued under the Indenture.  

 

 

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[FORM OF TRANSFER NOTICE]

FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned registered holder hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto

Insert Taxpayer Identification No.:

 

 

 

Please print or typewrite name and address including zip code of assignee of the within Note

 

 

 

and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing ___________ to transfer said Note on the books of the Company with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

 

By:

Date:

 

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Schedule I

[Include as Schedule I only for a Global Note]
BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.
3.950% Senior Notes due 2030

No. [144A][RegS]-

The initial principal amount of this Note is $[_________]

	
Date
	
Principal Amount
	
Notation Explaining Principal Amount Recorded
	
Authorized Signature of Trustee or Custodian

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

  

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE 
FOR EXCHANGE OR TRANSFER FROM RULE 144A GLOBAL NOTE
TO REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE
PRIOR TO THE EXPIRATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION COMPLIANCE PERIOD

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.

2 N. LaSalle Street, 7th Floor

Chicago, Illinois 60602

Attn: Corporate Trust Administration

Re:  Baxter International Inc.
$ ___________ Senior Notes due 20__ (the “Notes”)

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of March 26, 2020, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture thereto dated March 26, 2020 (the “Indenture”), between Baxter International Inc. (the “Company”) and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee. Capitalized terms not defined in this Certificate shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture or Regulation S under the Securities Act.

This Certificate relates to $___________ aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Security (CUSIP No. XXX) held with the Depositary by or on behalf of [TRANSFEROR] as beneficial owner (the “Transferor”). The Transferor has requested an exchange or transfer of its beneficial interest for an interest in the Regulation S Security (CUSIP No. XXX) to be held by [[Euroclear] [Clearstream] (ISIN Code XXX) (Common Code [  ]) through] the Depositary.

In connection with such request and in respect of such Notes, the Transferor does hereby certify that such exchange or transfer has been effected in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in such Notes and pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 (as applicable) of Regulation S under the Securities Act, and accordingly the Transferor does hereby certify that:

	
(1)
	
the Transferor is not a distributor of such Notes, the Company, or an Affiliate of the Company or any such distributor or a person acting on behalf of any of the foregoing;

	
(2)
	
the offer of such Notes was not made to a person;

	
(3)
	
either:  (A) at the time the buy order was originated, the transferee was outside the United States or the Transferor and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States, or (B) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities or a designated offshore securities market and neither the Transferor nor any person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction was prearranged with a buyer in the United States;

	
(4)
	
no directed selling efforts have been made in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or 904(b) of Regulation S, as applicable;

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(5)
	
if the Transferor is a dealer in securities or has received a selling concession, fee or other remuneration in respect of such Notes covered by this Certificate, then the requirements of Rule 904(c)(1) of Regulation S have been satisfied; and

	
(6)
	
the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

This Certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and the initial purchasers of such Notes being exchanged or transferred.

[TRANSFEROR]

	
By:
	
 

	
 
	
Name: 

	
 
	
Title: 

 

Dated:  ___________________

 

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EXHIBIT C

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE FOR THE TRANSFER OR EXCHANGE FROM RULE 144A GLOBAL NOTE TO REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION COMPLIANCE PERIOD

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.

2 N. LaSalle Street, 7th Floor

Chicago, Illinois 60602

Attn: Corporate Trust Administration

Re:  Baxter International Inc.
$ ___________ Senior Notes due 20__ (the “Notes”)

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of March 26, 2020, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture thereto dated March 26, 2020 (the “Indenture”), between Baxter International Inc. and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee. Capitalized terms not defined in this Certificate shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture or Regulation S under the Securities Act.

This Certificate relates to $___________ aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Security (CUSIP No. XXX) held with DTC by or on behalf of [TRANSFEROR] as beneficial owner (the “Transferor”). The Transferor has requested an exchange or transfer of its beneficial interest for an interest in the Regulation S Security (CUSIP No. XXX) to be held by [[Euroclear] [Clearstream] (ISIN Code XXX) (Common Code [  ]) through] the Depositary.

In connection with such request and in respect of such Notes, the Transferor does hereby certify that such exchange or transfer has been effected in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in such Notes and that, with respect to transfers made in reliance on Regulation S under the Securities Act, pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act, and accordingly the Transferor does hereby certify that:

	
(i) (A)
	
the offer of such Notes was not made to a U.S. person; (B) either (1) at the time the buy order was originated, the transferee was outside the United States or the Transferor and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States, or (2) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market and neither the Transferor nor any person acting on its behalf knows that the transaction was pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States; (C) no directed selling efforts have been made in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or 904(b) of Regulation S, as applicable; and (D) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act; or

	
(ii)
	
with respect to transfers made in reliance on Rule 144A under the Securities Act, such Notes are being transferred in a transaction permitted by Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

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This Certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and the initial purchasers of such Notes being exchanged or transferred.

[TRANSFEROR]

	
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ACTIVE 255638934v.4

 

EXHIBIT D

FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE
FOR EXCHANGE OR TRANSFER FROM REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE
TO RULE 144A GLOBAL NOTE

The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.

2 N. LaSalle Street, 7th Floor

Chicago, Illinois 60602

Attn: Corporate Trust Administration

Re:  Baxter International Inc.
$___________ Senior Notes due 20__ (the “Notes”)

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of March 26, 2020, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture thereto dated March 26, 2020 (the “Indenture”), between Baxter International Inc. (the “Company”) and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee. Capitalized terms not defined in this Certificate shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture or Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

This Certificate relates to $___________ aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Security (CUSIP No. XXX) (ISIN Code XXX) (Common Code [  ]) through DTC by or on behalf of [TRANSFEROR] as beneficial owner (the “Transferor”). The Transferor has requested an exchange or transfer or its interest in the Notes for an interest in the Rule 144A Security (CUSIP No. XXX).

In connection with such request, and in respect of such Notes, the Transferor does hereby certify that such transfer is being effected in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth in the Indenture and pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act, to a transferee that the Transferor reasonably believes is acquiring such Notes for its own account or an account with respect to which the transferee exercises sole investment discretion and the transferee and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, in each case in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A under the Securities Act and in accordance with any applicable securities laws of the any state of the United States or any other jurisdiction.

This Certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and the initial purchasers of such Notes being transferred.

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ACTIVE 255638934v.4bax-ex43_24.htm

Exhibit 4.3

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.

 

$750,000,000 3.750% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2025

$500,000,000 3.950% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2030

 

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

March 26, 2020

 

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

 

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

383 Madison Avenue

New York New York 10179

 

  as Representatives of the Initial Purchasers

 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Baxter International Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (“Citigroup”), Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (“Goldman Sachs”) and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (“J.P. Morgan”) and the initial purchasers named in Schedule A hereto  (collectively, the “Initial Purchasers”), for whom Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan are acting as representatives (in such capacity, collectively, the “Representatives”), upon the terms set forth in a purchase agreement dated March 24, 2020 (the “Purchase Agreement”) by and among the Company and the Representatives, $750,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.750% Senior Notes due 2025 (the “Initial 2025 Securities”) and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.950% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “Initial 2030 Securities” and, together with the Initial 2025 Securities, the “Initial Securities”). The Initial Securities will be issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of March 26, 2020 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture, dated March 26, 2020, between the Company and the Trustee (the “First Supplemental Indenture”) (the Base Indenture, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”). As an inducement to the Initial Purchasers, the Company agrees with the Initial Purchasers, for the benefit of the holders of the Initial Securities (including, without limitation, the Initial Purchasers), the Exchange Securities (as defined below) and the Private Exchange Securities (as defined below) (collectively the “Holders”), as follows:

1.Registered Exchange Offer. The Company shall, at its own cost, prepare and use commercially reasonable efforts to file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement (the “Exchange Offer Registration Statement”) on an appropriate form under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), with respect to a proposed offer (the “Registered Exchange Offer”) to the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities (as defined in Section 6 hereof), who are not prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in the Registered Exchange Offer, to issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for Initial Securities of the applicable series, a like aggregate principal amount of debt securities (the “Exchange Securities”) of the 

 

 

Company issued under the Indenture and identical in all material respects to the corresponding series of Initial Securities (except for the transfer restrictions relating to the Initial Securities and the provisions relating to the matters described in Section 6 hereof) that would be registered under the Securities Act. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such Exchange Offer Registration Statement to become effective under the Securities Act. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) consummate the Registered Exchange Offer on or prior to the 540th day  after the date of this agreement (the “Issue Date”) and (ii) consummate the Registered Exchange Offer on or before the 60th day after the Exchange Offer Registration Statement becomes effective under the Securities Act.  

If the Company effects the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company will be entitled to close the Registered Exchange Offer 20 business days after the commencement thereof provided that the Company has accepted all the Initial Securities theretofore validly tendered in accordance with the terms of the Registered Exchange Offer.  

Following the declaration of the effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly commence the Registered Exchange Offer, it being the objective of such Registered Exchange Offer to enable each Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities (as defined in Section 6 hereof) electing to exchange the Initial Securities of the applicable series for Exchange Securities of the corresponding series (assuming that such Holder is not an affiliate of the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act, acquires the Exchange Securities in the ordinary course of such Holder’s business and has no arrangements with any person to participate in the distribution of the Exchange Securities and is not prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in the Registered Exchange Offer) to trade such Exchange Securities from and after their receipt without any limitations or restrictions under the Securities Act and without material restrictions under the securities laws of the several states of the United States.  

The Company acknowledges that, pursuant to current interpretations by the Commission’s staff of Section 5 of the Securities Act, in the absence of an applicable exemption therefrom, (i) each Holder that is a broker-dealer electing to exchange Initial Securities, acquired for its own account as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, for Exchange Securities (a “Participating Broker-Dealer”), is required to deliver a prospectus containing the information set forth in (a) Annex A hereto on the cover, (b) Annex B hereto in the “Exchange Offer Procedures” section and the “Purpose of the Exchange Offer” section, and (c) Annex C hereto in the “Plan of Distribution” section of such prospectus in connection with a sale of any such Exchange Securities received by such Participating Broker-Dealer pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and (ii) an Initial Purchaser that elects to sell Exchange Securities acquired in exchange for Initial Securities constituting any portion of an unsold allotment is required to deliver a prospectus containing the information required by Item 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, as applicable, in connection with such sale.

The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act (including by amending and supplementing the prospectus contained therein) from and including the date the Exchange Offer Registration Statement becomes effective until the end of such period of time as  persons subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act must comply with such requirements in order to resell the Exchange Securities; provided, however, that (i) in the case where such prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto must be delivered by an Participating Broker-Dealer or an Initial Purchaser, such period shall be the lesser of 180 days and the date on which all Participating Broker-Dealers and the Initial Purchasers have sold all Exchange Securities held by them (unless such period is extended pursuant to Section 3(j) below) and (ii) the Company shall make such prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any resale of any Exchange Securities for a period of not less than 90 days after the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer.

If, upon consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer, any Initial Purchaser holds Initial Securities acquired by it as part of its initial distribution, the Company, simultaneously with the delivery of 

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the Exchange Securities pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer, shall issue and deliver to such Initial Purchaser upon the written request of such Initial Purchaser, in exchange (the “Private Exchange”) for the Initial Securities held by such Initial Purchaser, a like principal amount of debt securities of the Company issued under the Indenture and identical in all material respects (including the existence of restrictions on transfer under the Securities Act and the securities laws of the several states of the United States, but excluding provisions relating to the matters described in Section 6 hereof) to the Initial Securities (the “Private Exchange Securities”). The Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities and the Private Exchange Securities are herein collectively called the “Securities”.

In connection with the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company shall:

(a)mail to each Holder a copy of the prospectus forming part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, together with an appropriate letter of transmittal and related documents;

(b)keep the Registered Exchange Offer open for not less than 20 business days (or longer, if required by applicable law) after the date notice thereof is mailed to the Holders;

(c)utilize the services of a depositary for the Registered Exchange Offer with an address in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, which may be the Trustee or an affiliate of the Trustee;

(d)permit Holders to withdraw tendered Securities at any time prior to the close of business, or 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the last business day on which the Registered Exchange Offer shall remain open; and

(e)otherwise comply with all applicable laws.

As soon as practicable after the close of the Registered Exchange Offer or the Private Exchange, as the case may be, the Company shall:

(x)accept for exchange all the Initial Securities validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and the Private Exchange;

(y)deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all the Initial Securities so accepted for exchange; and

(z)cause the Trustee to authenticate and deliver promptly to each Holder of the Initial Securities, Exchange Securities or Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, of the applicable series, equal in principal amount to the Initial Securities of such Holder so accepted for exchange.

The Indenture will provide that the Exchange Securities will not be subject to the transfer restrictions set forth in the Indenture and that all the Securities of a series will vote and consent together on all matters as one class and that none of the Securities of a series will have the right to vote or consent as a class separate from one another on any matter.

Interest on each Exchange Security and Private Exchange Security issued pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and in the Private Exchange will accrue from the last interest payment date on which interest was paid on the Initial Securities surrendered in exchange therefor or, if no interest has been paid on the Initial Securities, from the Issue Date. 

Each Holder participating in the Registered Exchange Offer shall be required to represent to the Company that at the time of the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer (i) any Exchange Securities received by such Holder will be acquired in the ordinary course of business, (ii) such Holder will have no arrangements or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the Securities or 

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the Exchange Securities within the meaning of the Securities Act, (iii) such Holder is not an “affiliate,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, of the Company or if it is an affiliate, such Holder will comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act to the extent applicable, (iv) if such Holder is not a broker-dealer, that it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, the distribution of the Exchange Securities and (v) if such Holder is a broker-dealer, that it will receive Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Initial Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities and that it will be required to acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.

Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, the Company will ensure that (i) any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any prospectus forming part thereof and any supplement thereto complies in all material respects with the Securities Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, (ii) any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto does not, when it becomes effective, contain an 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 not misleading and (iii) any prospectus forming part of any Exchange Offer Registration Statement, and any supplement to such prospectus, does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

2.Shelf Registration. If (i) the Company determines that it is not permitted to effect a Registered Exchange Offer with respect to a series of Initial Securities, as contemplated by Section 1 hereof, under applicable law or applicable interpretations thereof by the staff of the Commission, (ii) the Registered Exchange Offer with respect to a series of Initial Securities is not consummated on or prior to the 540th day after the Issue Date, or (iii) any Initial Purchaser notifies the Company in writing following the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer that such Initial Purchaser holds Transfer Restricted Securities that are not eligible to be exchanged for Exchange Securities in the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company shall take the following actions:

(a)The Company shall, at its cost, prepare and file with the Commission and thereafter use commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effective (unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing) a registration statement (the “Shelf Registration Statement” and, together with the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, a “Registration Statement”) on an appropriate form under the Securities Act relating to the offer and sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities (as defined in Section 6 hereof) of the applicable series (or both series, as the case may be) by the Holders thereof from time to time in accordance with the methods of distribution set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement and Rule 415 under the Securities Act (hereinafter, the “Shelf Registration”); provided, however, that no Holder (other than an Initial Purchaser) shall be entitled to have the Securities held by it covered by such Shelf Registration Statement unless such Holder agrees in writing to be bound by all the provisions of this Agreement applicable to such Holder.

(b)The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective in order to permit the prospectus included therein to be lawfully delivered by the Holders of the relevant Securities until all the Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement have been sold pursuant thereto (such period being called the “Shelf Registration Period”).

(c)Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, the Company shall cause the Shelf Registration Statement and the related prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, as of its respective effective date, (i) to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission and (ii) not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein (in 

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the case of the prospectus in light of the circumstances under which they were made), not misleading.

3.Registration Procedures. In connection with any Shelf Registration contemplated by Section 2 hereof and, to the extent applicable, any Registered Exchange Offer contemplated by Section 1 hereof, the following provisions shall apply:

(a)The Company shall (i) furnish to each Initial Purchaser, prior to the filing thereof with the Commission, a copy of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereof and each supplement, if any, to the prospectus included therein and, in the event that an Initial Purchaser (with respect to any portion of an unsold allotment from the original offering) is participating in the Registered Exchange Offer or the Shelf Registration, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to reflect in each such document, when so filed with the Commission, such comments as such Initial Purchaser reasonably may propose, provided that such comments are received by the Company within ten business days after the receipt by such Initial Purchaser of such document; (ii) include the information set forth in Annex A hereto on the cover, in Annex B hereto in the “Exchange Offer Procedures” section and the “Purpose of the Exchange Offer” section and in Annex C hereto in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and include the information set forth in Annex D hereto in the Letter of Transmittal delivered pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer; (iii) if requested by an Initial Purchaser, include the information required by Item 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, as applicable, in the prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement; (iv) include within the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement a section entitled “Plan of Distribution,” reasonably acceptable to the Initial Purchasers, which shall contain a summary statement of the positions taken or policies made by the staff of the Commission with respect to the potential “underwriter” status of any Participating Broker-Dealer, whether such positions or policies have been publicly disseminated by the staff of the Commission or such positions or policies, in the reasonable judgment of the Initial Purchasers based upon advice of counsel (which may be in-house counsel), represent the prevailing views of the staff of the Commission; and (v) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, include in the prospectus included in the Shelf Registration Statement (or, if permitted by Rule 430B(b) under the Securities Act, in a prospectus supplement that becomes a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B(f) under the Securities Act) that is delivered to any Holder pursuant to Sections 3(d) and (f) hereof, the names of the Holders who propose to sell Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement, as selling securityholders.

(b)The Company shall give written notice to the Initial Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities and any Participating Broker-Dealer from whom the Company has received prior written notice that it will be a Participating Broker-Dealer in the Registered Exchange Offer (which notice pursuant to clauses (ii)-(v) hereof shall be accompanied by an instruction to suspend the use of the prospectus until the requisite changes have been made):

(i)when the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto has been filed with the Commission and when the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective;

(ii)of any request by the Commission for amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the prospectus included therein or for additional information;

(iii)of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, of the issuance by the Commission of a notification of objection to the use of the form on which the Registration Statement has been filed, and of the happening of any 

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event that causes the Company to become an “ineligible issuer,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act;

(iv)of the receipt by the Company or its legal counsel of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and

(v)except to the extent otherwise incorporated therein by reference, of the happening of any event that requires the Company to make changes in the Registration Statement or the prospectus in order that the Registration Statement or the prospectus do not contain an untrue statement of a material fact nor omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of the prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading.

(c)The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal at the earliest possible time of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

(d)To the extent not available on the Commission’s web site at www.sec.gov, the Company shall furnish to each Holder of Securities named in the Shelf Registration, without charge, at least one copy of the Shelf Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment or supplement thereto, including financial statements and schedules, and, if the Holder so requests in writing, all exhibits thereto (including those, if any, incorporated by reference). The Company shall not, without the prior consent of the Initial Purchasers, make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute a “free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

(e)To the extent not available on the Commission’s web site at www.sec.gov, the Company shall deliver to each Participating Broker-Dealer and each Initial Purchaser, and to any other Holder who so requests in writing, without charge, at least one copy of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, and, if any Initial Purchaser or any such Holder requests in writing, all exhibits thereto (including those incorporated by reference).

(f)The Company shall, during the Shelf Registration Period, deliver to each Holder of the Securities included within the coverage of the Shelf Registration, without charge, as many copies of the prospectus (including each preliminary prospectus) included in the Shelf Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto as such person may reasonably request in writing. The Company consents, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to the use of the prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders of the Securities in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities covered by the prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, included in the Shelf Registration Statement.

(g)The Company shall deliver to each Initial Purchaser, any Participating Broker-Dealer and such other persons required to deliver a prospectus following the Registered Exchange Offer, without charge, as many copies of the final prospectus included in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto as such persons may reasonably request in writing. The Company consents, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, to the use of the prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by any Initial Purchaser, if necessary, any Participating Broker-Dealer and such other persons required to deliver a prospectus following the Registered Exchange Offer in connection with the offering and sale of the Exchange Securities covered by the prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, included in such Exchange Offer Registration Statement.

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(h)Prior to any public offering of the Securities, pursuant to any Registration Statement, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to register or qualify or cooperate with the Holders of the Securities included therein and their respective counsel in connection with the registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or “blue sky” laws of such states of the United States as any Holder of the Securities reasonably requests in writing and do any and all other acts or things reasonably necessary or advisable to enable the offer and sale in such jurisdictions of the Securities covered by such Registration Statement; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to (i) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified or (ii) take any action which would subject it to general service of process or to taxation in any jurisdiction where it is not then so subject.

(i)The Company shall cooperate with the Holders of the Securities to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing the Securities to be sold pursuant to any Registration Statement free of any restrictive legends and in such denominations and registered in such names as the Holders may request a reasonable period of time prior to sales of the Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement.

(j)Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by paragraphs (ii) through (v) of Section 3(b) above during the period for which the Company is required to maintain an effective Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly prepare and file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus and any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to Holders of the Securities or purchasers of Securities, the prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or so that the prospectus will comply with applicable law, as the case may be. If the Company notifies the Initial Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities and any known Participating Broker-Dealer in accordance with paragraphs (ii) through (v) of Section 3(b) above to suspend the use of the prospectus until the requisite changes to the prospectus have been made, then the Initial Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities and any such Participating Broker-Dealers shall suspend use of such prospectus, and the period of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement provided for in Section 2(b) above and the Exchange Offer Registration Statement provided for in Section 1 above shall each be extended by the number of days from and including the date of the giving of such notice to and including the date when the Initial Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities and any known Participating Broker-Dealer shall have received such amended or supplemented prospectus pursuant to this Section 3(j). During the period during which the Company is required to maintain an effective Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to this Agreement, the Company will prior to the three-year expiration of that Shelf Registration Statement file, use commercially reasonable efforts to cause to be declared effective (unless it becomes effective automatically upon filing) within a period that avoids any interruption in the ability of Holders of the Securities covered by the expiring Shelf Registration Statement to make registered dispositions, a new registration statement relating to the Securities, which shall be deemed the “Shelf Registration Statement” for purposes of this Agreement.

(k)Not later than the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement, the Company will provide a CUSIP number for each series of the Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, and provide the applicable trustee with printed certificates for each series of the Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, in a form eligible for deposit with The Depository Trust Company.

(l)The Company will comply with all rules and regulations of the Commission to the extent and so long as they are applicable to the Registered Exchange Offer or the Shelf 

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Registration and will make generally available to its securityholders (or otherwise provide in accordance with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act) an earning statement satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act, no later than 45 days after the end of a 12-month period (or 90 days, if such period is a fiscal year) beginning with the first month of the Company’s first fiscal quarter commencing after the effective date of the Registration Statement, which statement shall cover such 12-month period.

(m)The Company shall cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), in a timely manner and containing such changes, if any, as shall be necessary for such qualification. In the event that such qualification would require the appointment of a new trustee under the Indenture, the Company shall appoint a new trustee thereunder pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture.

(n)The Company may require each Holder of the Securities to be sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement to furnish to the Company such information regarding the Holder and the distribution of the Securities as the Company may from time to time reasonably require for inclusion in the Shelf Registration Statement, and the Company may exclude from such registration the Securities of any Holder that unreasonably fails to furnish such information within a reasonable time after receiving such request.

(o)The Company shall enter into such customary agreements (including, if requested, an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take all such other action, if any, as any Holder of the Securities shall reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Securities pursuant to any Shelf Registration.

(p)In the case of any Shelf Registration, the Company shall (i) make reasonably available for inspection by the Holders of the Securities, any underwriter participating in any disposition pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement and any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by the Holders of the Securities or any such underwriter all relevant financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and properties of the Company and (ii) cause the Company’s officers, directors, employees, accountants and auditors to supply all relevant information reasonably requested by the Holders of the Securities or any such underwriter, attorney, accountant or agent in connection with the Shelf Registration Statement, in each case, as shall be reasonably necessary to enable such persons, to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of Section 11 of the Securities Act; provided, however, that the foregoing inspection and information gathering shall be coordinated by the Initial Purchasers and on behalf of the other parties, by one counsel designated by and on behalf of such other parties as described in Section 4 hereof; provided, further, that, if the Company designates in writing any such information, reasonably and in good faith, as confidential, at the time of delivery of such information, each such person will be required to agree or acknowledge that information obtained by it as a result of such inspections shall be deemed confidential and shall not be used by it as the basis for any market transactions in the securities of the Company or otherwise unless and until such is made generally available to the public through no fault or action of such person.

(q)In the case of any Shelf Registration, the Company, if requested by any Holder of the Securities covered thereby, shall cause (i) its counsel to deliver an opinion and updates thereof relating to the Securities substantially in the form provided pursuant to Section 7(d) of the Purchase Agreement with such changes as are customary in connection with the preparation of a Registration Statement addressed to such Holders and the managing underwriters, if any, thereof and dated, in the case of the initial opinion, the effective date of such Shelf Registration Statement, (ii) its officers to execute and deliver all customary documents and certificates and updates thereof requested by any underwriters of the applicable Securities, dated the date of the closing of such offering of such Securities, and (iii) its independent public accountants to provide to the selling Holders of the applicable Securities and any underwriter therefor a comfort letter dated the date of 

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the closing of such offering of such Securities, in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in comfort letters in connection with primary underwritten offerings, subject to receipt of appropriate documentation as contemplated, and only if permitted, by Statement on Auditing Standards No. 72.

(r)If a Registered Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange is to be consummated, upon delivery of the Initial Securities of each series by Holders to the Company (or to such other Person as directed by the Company) in exchange for the applicable series of Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall mark, or caused to be marked, on the Initial Securities so exchanged that such Initial Securities of each series are being canceled in exchange for the applicable series of Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, and in no event shall the Initial Securities be marked as paid or otherwise satisfied.

(s)The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to confirm that the rating of the Initial Securities obtained prior to the initial sale of such Initial Securities will also apply to the Securities covered by a Registration Statement.

(t)In the event that any broker-dealer registered under the Exchange Act shall underwrite any Securities or participate as a member of an underwriting syndicate or selling group or “assist in the distribution” (within the meaning of the Rules (the “Rules”) of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”)) thereof, whether as a Holder of such Securities or as an underwriter, a placement or sales agent or a broker or dealer in respect thereof, or otherwise, the Company will assist such broker-dealer in complying with the requirements of such Rules, including, without limitation, by (i) if such Rules, including Rule 5121, shall so require, engaging a “qualified independent underwriter” (as defined in Rule 5121) to participate in the preparation of the Registration Statement relating to such Securities, to exercise usual standards of due diligence in respect thereto and, if any portion of the offering contemplated by such Registration Statement is an underwritten offering or is made through a placement or sales agent, to recommend the yield of such Securities, (ii) indemnifying any such qualified independent underwriter to the extent of the indemnification of underwriters provided in Section 5 hereof and (iii) providing such information to such broker-dealer as may be required in order for such broker-dealer to comply with the requirements of the Rules.

(u)The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to take all other steps necessary to effect the registration of the Securities covered by a Registration Statement contemplated hereby.

4.Registration Expenses. The Company shall bear all fees and expenses incurred in connection with the performance of its obligations under Sections 1 through 3 hereof (including the reasonable fees and expenses, if any, of Sidley Austin LLP, counsel for the Initial Purchasers, incurred in connection with the Registered Exchange Offer), whether or not the Registered Exchange Offer or a Shelf Registration is filed or becomes effective, and, in the event of a Shelf Registration, shall bear or reimburse the Holders of the Securities covered thereby for the reasonable fees and disbursements of one firm of counsel designated by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Initial Securities covered thereby to act as counsel for the Holders of the Initial Securities in connection therewith.

5.Indemnification and Contribution.

(a)The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Holder of the Securities, any Participating Broker-Dealer, any of their partners, members, directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates and each person, if any, who controls such Holder or such Participating Broker-Dealer within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (each, an “Indemnified Party”), against any and all losses, claims, damages or 

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liabilities, joint or several, or any actions in respect thereof (including, but not limited to, any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions relating to purchases and sales of the Securities) to which such Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act 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 any material fact contained in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus or “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 under the Securities Act (“Issuer FWP”), relating to a Shelf Registration, or arise out of, or are based upon, the omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, and will reimburse each Indemnified Party for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Party in connection with investigating, preparing or defending against any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that (i) 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, an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission made in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus or Issuer FWP relating to a Shelf Registration in reliance upon and in conformity with written information pertaining to such Holder and furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder specifically for inclusion therein and (ii) with respect to any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or any omission or alleged omission made in any preliminary prospectus relating to a Shelf Registration Statement, the indemnity agreement contained in this subsection (a) shall not inure to the benefit of any Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer from whom the person asserting any such losses, claims, damages or liabilities purchased the Securities concerned, to the extent that a prospectus relating to such Securities was required to be delivered (including through satisfaction of the conditions of Rule 172 under the Securities Act) by such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer under the Securities Act in connection with such purchase and any such loss, claim, damage or liability of such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer results from the fact that there was not sent or given to such person, at or prior to the time of sale of such Securities to such person, an amended or supplemented prospectus, or if permitted by Section 3(d) hereof, an Issuer FWP correcting such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement, or omission or alleged omission if the Company had previously furnished copies thereof to such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer; provided further, however, that this indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have to such Indemnified Party. The Company shall also indemnify underwriters, their officers and directors and each person who controls such underwriters within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act to the same extent as provided above with respect to the indemnification of the Holders of the Securities if requested by such Holders.

(b)Each Holder of the Securities, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its respective partners, members, directors, officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act (each a “Holder Indemnified Party”), against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities or any actions in respect thereof, to which such Holder Indemnified Party may become subject, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, 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 any material fact contained in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus or Issuer FWP relating to a Shelf Registration, or arise out of, or are based upon, the omission or the alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information pertaining to such Holder and furnished to the Company or its respective officers or directors by or on behalf of such Holder specifically for inclusion therein; and, subject to the limitation set forth in the immediately 

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preceding clause, will reimburse any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Holder Indemnified Party in connection with investigating, preparing or defending against any such loss,  claim, damage, liability or action in respect thereof, as such expenses are incurred. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which such Holder may otherwise have to the Company, its officers and directors or any of its respective controlling persons.

(c)Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 5 of notice of the commencement of any action or proceeding (including a governmental investigation), such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under subsection (a) or (b) above, notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof; but the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve the indemnifying party from any liability that it may have under subsection (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided further that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under subsection (a) or (b) above. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party, and it notifies the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 5 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened action in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on any claims that are the subject matter of such action, and (ii) does not include a statement as to, or an admission of, fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of an indemnified party.

(d)If the indemnification provided for in this Section 5 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsections (a) or (b) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to in subsection (a) or (b) above (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the indemnified party on the other from the exchange of the Initial Securities, pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer, or (ii) if the allocation provided by the foregoing clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the indemnified party on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the parties shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or such Holder or such other indemnified party, as the case may be, on the other, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (d). Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection (d), the Holders of the 

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Securities shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the net proceeds received by such Holders from the sale of the Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement exceeds the amount of damages which such Holders have otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this subsection (d), each person, if any, who controls such indemnified party within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such indemnified party and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company.

(e)This indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 5 shall survive the sale of the Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any termination or cancellation of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of any Indemnified Party or any Holder Indemnified Party.

6.Additional Interest Under Certain Circumstances. 

(a)Additional interest with respect to the Initial Securities (the “Additional Interest”) shall be assessed as follows if any of the following events occur (each such event in clause (i) and (ii) below, a “Registration Default”):

(i)The Exchange Offer has not been completed on or prior to the 540th day after the Issue Date; or

(ii)If, pursuant to the terms of Section 2 above, the Company is required to file a Shelf Registration Statement, the Shelf Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the Commission on or prior to the 540th day after the Issue Date or, if the Company is required to file a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to any unsold allotment of Initial Securities held by any Initial Purchaser, the Shelf Registration Statement has not been declared effective by the Commission by the later of (A) the 540th day after the Issue Date and (B) the 360th day after the date on which such Initial Purchaser requests that the Company file a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to such Initial Securities.

Additional Interest shall accrue on the Initial Securities over and above the interest set forth in the title of the Initial Securities from and including the date on which any such Registration Default shall occur to but excluding the date on which all such Registration Defaults have been cured, as follows: with respect to the first 90-day period immediately following the occurrence of the first Registration Default, Additional Interest will be paid in an amount equal to 0.25% per annum of the principal amount of Initial Securities; and with respect to each subsequent 90-day period until all Registration Defaults have been cured, Additional Interest will increase by an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to such periods, up to a maximum amount of Additional Interest for all Registration Defaults of 0.50% per annum of the principal amount of Initial Securities for any period after the first 90-day period immediately following the occurrence of the first Registration Default.  Following the cure of all Registration Defaults relating to any Initial Securities, Additional Interest shall cease to accrue with respect to such securities.

(b)Payment of Additional Interest shall be the sole and exclusive remedy for a Holder of Initial Securities in the event of a Registration Default referred to in Section 6(a) hereof. No default under this Agreement shall constitute a default or event of default under the Indenture.

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(c)Any amounts of Additional Interest due pursuant to Section 6(a) above will be payable in cash on the regular interest payment dates with respect to the Transfer Restricted Securities. The amount of Additional Interest will be determined by multiplying the applicable Additional Interest rate by the principal amount of the Transfer Restricted Securities, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days such Additional Interest rate was applicable during such period (determined on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months), and the denominator of which is 360.

(d)“Transfer Restricted Securities” means each Initial Security until (i) the date on which such Initial Security has been exchanged by a person other than a broker-dealer for a freely transferable Exchange Security in the Registered Exchange Offer, (ii) following the exchange by a broker-dealer in the Registered Exchange Offer of such Initial Security for an Exchange Security of the corresponding series, the date on which such Exchange Security is sold to a purchaser who receives from such broker-dealer on or prior to the date of such sale a copy of the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or (iii) the date on which the resale of such Initial Security has been effectively registered under the Securities Act and such Initial Security is disposed of in accordance with the Shelf Registration Statement.

(e)Notwithstanding the foregoing in this Section 6, (i) the amount of Additional Interest payable shall not increase solely because more than one Registration Default has occurred and is pending, and a Holder of a Transfer Restricted Security who is not entitled to the benefits of the Shelf Registration Statement (i.e., such Holder has not elected to furnish information to the Company in accordance with Section 3(n) hereof) shall not be entitled to Additional Interest with respect to a Registration Default relating to a Shelf Registration Statement, and (ii) no Holder who (x) was eligible to exchange such Holder’s outstanding Securities at the time the Exchange Offer was pending and consummated and (y) failed to validly tender such Securities for exchange pursuant to the Exchange Offer shall be entitled to receive any Additional Interest that would otherwise accrue subsequent to the date that the Exchange Offer is consummated.

7.Rules 144 and 144A. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to file the reports required to be filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act in a timely manner and, if at any time the Company is not required to file such reports, it will, upon the request of any Holder of Initial Securities, make publicly available other information so long as necessary to permit sales of their securities pursuant to Rules 144 and 144A under the Securities Act. The Company covenants that it will take such further action as any Holder of Initial Securities may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell Initial Securities without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rules 144 and 144A under the Securities Act (including the requirements of Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act). The Company will provide a copy of this Agreement to prospective purchasers of Initial Securities identified to the Company by the Initial Purchasers upon request. Upon the request of any Holder of Initial Securities, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a written statement as to whether it has complied with such requirements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 7 shall be deemed to require the Company to register any of its securities pursuant to the Exchange Act or take any such actions after the Securities no longer constitute Transfer Restricted Securities.

8.Underwritten Registrations. If any of the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by any Shelf Registration are to be sold in an underwritten offering, the investment banker or investment bankers and manager or managers that will administer the offering (“Managing Underwriters”) will be selected by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of such Transfer Restricted Securities to be included in such offering.

No person may participate in any underwritten registration hereunder unless such person (i) agrees to sell such person’s Transfer Restricted Securities on the basis reasonably provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (ii) completes 

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and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.

9.Miscellaneous.

(a)Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given, except by the Company and the written consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waivers or consents.

(b)Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made through electronic mail or in writing by hand delivery, first-class mail, facsimile transmission, or air courier which guarantees overnight delivery:

(i)if to a Holder of the Securities, at the most current address given by such Holder to the Company.

(ii)if to the Initial Purchasers;

c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Attention: General Counsel

388 Greenwich Street

New York, New York 10013

 

c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Attention: Registration Department

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282

 

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Attention: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk

383 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10179

 

with a copy to:

Sidley Austin LLP

One South Dearborn

Chicago, IL 60603

E-mail: pjha@sidley.com

Attention: Pran Jha

 

(iii)if to the Company, at its address as follows:

Baxter International Inc.

One Baxter Parkway,

Deerfield, Illinois 60015

Attention: Corporate Secretary

with a copy to:

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

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125 Broad Street
New York, NY 10004

Fax No.: (212) 291-9430 

E-mail: blauta@sullcrom.com

Attention: Ari B. Blaut

All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time sent, if transmitted by electronic mail; at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; three business days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is acknowledged by recipient’s facsimile machine operator, if sent by facsimile transmission; and on the day delivered, if sent by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery.

(c)No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company has not, as of the date hereof, entered into, nor shall it, on or after the date hereof, enter into, any agreement with respect to its securities that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders herein or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof.

(d)Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Company and its successors and assigns.

(e)Counterparts. This Agreement 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.

(f)Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

(g)Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS, EXCEPT THAT SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW SHALL APPLY.

(h)Severability. If any one or more of the provisions contained herein, or the application thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not be affected or impaired thereby.

(i)Securities Held by the Company. Whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of principal amount of Securities is required hereunder, Securities held by the Company or its affiliates (other than subsequent Holders of Securities if such subsequent Holders are deemed to be affiliates solely by reason of their holdings of such Securities) shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage.

(j)Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Immunities. By the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company, in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement that may be instituted in any federal or state court in the State of New York or brought under federal or state securities laws, submits to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any such court in any such suit or proceeding. To the extent that the Company may acquire any immunity from jurisdiction of any court 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 

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its property, it hereby irrevocably waives such immunity in respect of this Agreement, to the fullest extent permitted by law.

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to the Company a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts, will become a binding agreement among the several Initial Purchasers and the Company in accordance with its terms.

 

				
	
 
	
Very truly yours,

 

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC.
	
	
 
	
By: 
	
	
 
	
 
	
/s/ James Saccaro

	
 
	
 
	
Name: James Saccaro

	
 
	
 
	
Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The foregoing Registration Rights Agreement

is hereby confirmed and accepted

as of the date first above written.

 

 

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

 

 

	
By:
	
/s/ Brian Bednarski

	
 
	
Name: Brian Bednarski

	
 
	
Title: Managing Director

 

GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC

 

 

	
By:
	
/s/ Sam Chaffin

	
 
	
Name: Sam Chaffin

	
 
	
Title: Vice President

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC

 

 

	
By:
	
/s/ Som Bhattacharyya

	
 
	
Name: Som Bhattacharyya

	
 
	
Title: Executive Director

 

Acting on behalf of themselves

and as representatives

of the Initial Purchasers

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCHEDULE A

	
	
Initial Purchasers

 

	
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

BofA Securities, Inc.

Barclays Capital Inc.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

 

 

 

ANNEX A

Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities. The Letter of Transmittal states that by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act. This Prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of Exchange Securities received in exchange for Initial Securities where such Initial Securities were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. The Company has agreed that, for a period of 180 days after the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer, it will make this Prospectus available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. See “Plan of Distribution.”

 

 

 

 

 

ANNEX B

Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Initial Securities, where such Initial Securities were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities. See “Plan of Distribution.”

 

 

 

 

 

ANNEX C

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities. This Prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of Exchange Securities received in exchange for Initial Securities where such Initial Securities were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. The Company has agreed that, for a period of 180 days after the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer, they will make this Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. In addition, until                     , 20    , all dealers effecting transactions in the Exchange Securities may be required to deliver a prospectus.(1)

The Company will not receive any proceeds from any sale of Exchange Securities by broker-dealers. Exchange Securities received by broker-dealers for their own account pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer may be sold from time to time in one or more transactions in the over-the-counter market, in negotiated transactions, through the writing of options on the Exchange Securities or a combination of such methods of resale, at market prices prevailing at the time of resale, at prices related to such prevailing market prices or negotiated prices. Any such resale may be made directly to purchasers or to or through brokers or dealers who may receive compensation in the form of commissions or concessions from any such broker-dealer or the purchasers of any such Exchange Securities. Any broker-dealer that resells Exchange Securities that were received by it for its own account pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and any broker or dealer that participates in a distribution of such Exchange Securities may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act and any profit on any such resale of Exchange Securities and any commissions or concessions received by any such persons may be deemed to be underwriting compensation under the Securities Act. The Letter of Transmittal states that, by acknowledging that it will deliver and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act.

For a period of 180 days after the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company will promptly send additional copies of this Prospectus and any amendment or supplement to this Prospectus to any broker-dealer that requests such documents in the Letter of Transmittal. The Company has agreed to pay all reasonable expenses incident to the Registered Exchange Offer (including the reasonable expenses of one counsel for the Holders of the Securities) other than commissions or concessions of any brokers or dealers and will indemnify the Holders of the Securities (including any broker-dealers) against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.

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(1) In addition, the legend required by Item 502(e) of Regulation S-K will appear on the back cover page of the Exchange Offer prospectus.

 

 

 

 

 

ANNEX D

 

☐ CHECK HERE IF YOU ARE A BROKER-DEALER AND WISH TO RECEIVE 10 ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THE PROSPECTUS AND 10 COPIES OF ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO.

 

							
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 
	
 

	
 
	
 
	
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If the undersigned is not a broker-dealer, the undersigned represents that it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, a distribution of Exchange Securities. If the undersigned is a broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Initial Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, it acknowledges that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities; however, by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, the undersigned will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act.

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