SEC Contract Filing

Filing Date: 2015-02-27

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #000000; TEXT-ALIGN: center">GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION AND CONSOLIDATED AFFILIATES</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; COLOR: #000000; TEXT-ALIGN: left; TEXT-INDENT: 39.6pt">AMENDED AND RESTATED AGREEMENT (the "Agreement") dated February 24,&#160;2015, by and between GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, a New York corporation ("GE") and GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation ("GE CAPITAL").</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; COLOR: #000000; TEXT-ALIGN: left">WHEREAS, GE owns all of the outstanding common stock of GE Capital;</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; COLOR: #000000; TEXT-ALIGN: left">WHEREAS, GE and GE Capital consider it to be in their respective best interests that the ratio of earnings to fixed charges of GE Capital and consolidated affiliates be not less than 1.10 for each GE Capital fiscal year; and</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; COLOR: #000000; TEXT-ALIGN: left">WHEREAS, GE and GE Capital wish to amend and restate an agreement originally entered into on March 28, 1991 and previously amended and restated on October 29, 2009.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; COLOR: #000000; TEXT-ALIGN: left">NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, the mutual advantage and benefit of the parties hereto and other good and valuable consideration, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; COLOR: #000000; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">GE shall make income maintenance payments to GE Capital, constituting additions to the pre-tax income of GE Capital, to the extent that such payments are necessary to cause the ratio of earnings to fixed charges of GE Capital and consolidated affiliates (determined on a consolidated basis and in accordance with present SEC regulations) to be not less than 1.10 for the period, as a single aggregation, of each GE Capital fiscal year commencing with the GE Capital fiscal year ending December 31, 1991; provided, however, that non-cash charges attributable to goodwill and intangibles shall be excluded from the calculation of such ratio.</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; COLOR: #000000; TEXT-ALIGN: justify">This Agreement may not be amended in a manner adverse to GE Capital unless (a) holders of not less than 50.1% of the aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured debt securities (with an original stated maturity in excess of 270 days) issued, or guaranteed, by GE Capital and outstanding at the time of such proposed amendment, consent to the amendment, or (b) the amendment does not result in a downgrade of GE Capital's long-term ratings at the time of such amendment (as determined by each of Moody's Investor Service, Inc. and Standard and Poors, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies).</div>
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