SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2017-08-23

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<DESCRIPTION>EX-10.1 - PURCHASE AGREEMENT
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<p style="text-align:right;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Exhibit&#160;10.1</p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:18pt;margin-top:18pt;text-indent:0%;font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Tesla, Inc.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-top:6pt;text-indent:0%;font-weight:bold;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">5.30% Senior Notes due 2025</p>
<p style="text-align:center;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0%;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><font style="text-decoration:underline;">Purchase Agreement</font></p>
<p style="text-align:right;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">August 11, 2017</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:6pt;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Goldman Sachs &amp; Co. LLC</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Morgan Stanley &amp; Co. LLC</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-left:1.81%;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">As representatives of the several Purchasers</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;margin-left:1.88%;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">named in Schedule I hereto,</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-left:1.88%;text-indent:0%;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">c/o Goldman Sachs &amp; Co. LLC</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">200 West Street</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">New York, New York 10282-2198</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-indent:0%;font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:10pt;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">c/o Morgan Stanley &amp; Co. LLC</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">1585 Broadway </p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">New York, New York 10036</p>
<p style="margin-top:12pt;text-align:justify;margin-bottom:6pt;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Ladies and Gentlemen:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-top:6pt;text-indent:0%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">Tesla, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the &#8220;Company&#8221;), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this agreement (this &#8220;Agreement&#8221;), to issue and sell to the Purchasers named in Schedule I hereto (the &#8220;Purchasers&#8221;) an aggregate of $1,800,000,000 principal amount of its 5.30% Senior Notes due 2025 specified above (the &#8220;Securities&#8221;). The Company&#8217;s obligations under the Securities will be initially fully and unconditionally guaranteed (the &#8220;Guarantee&#8221;) as to the payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest, on a senior unsecured basis by SolarCity Corporation (the &#8220;Guarantor&#8221;).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-top:6pt;margin-left:3.62%;text-indent:-3.62%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Company and the Guarantor represent and warrant to, and agree with, each of the Purchasers that:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-top:6pt;margin-left:7.25%;text-indent:-7.25%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-transform:none;font-variant: normal;"><a name="_AEIOULastRenderedPageBreakAEIOU2"></a>(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A preliminary offering circular, dated August 7, 2017 (the &#8220;Preliminary Offering Circular&#8221;), and an<font style="font-weight:bold;"> </font>offering circular, dated August 11, 2017 (the &#8220;Offering Circular&#8221;), have been prepared in connection with the offering of