FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT
TOYOTA MOTOR
CREDIT CORPORATION
Medium-Term
Notes, Series B
Due More
Than Nine Months From Date of Issue
March 10,
2009
XXXXXXX
LYNCH, PIERCE, XXXXXX & XXXXX INCORPORATED
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx World Headquarters
0
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, New York 10080
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HSBC
SECURITIES (USA) INC.
000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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BANC
OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
Bank
of America Tower
Xxx
Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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X.X.
XXXXXX SECURITIES INC.
00
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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BARCLAYS
CAPITAL INC.
000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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XXXXXX
XXXXXXX & CO. INCORPORATED
0000
Xxxxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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CITIGROUP
GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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TOYOTA
FINANCIAL SERVICES SECURITIES
USA CORPORATION
00000
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX-00
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
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DEUTSCHE
BANK SECURITIES INC.
00
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Ladies
and Gentlemen:
Toyota
Motor Credit Corporation, a California corporation (the “Company”) confirms its
agreement with Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated (“Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx”), Banc of America Securities LLC (“Banc of America”), Barclays Capital
Inc. (“Barclays”), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (“Citigroup”), Deutsche Bank
Securities Inc. (“Deutsche Bank”), HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. (“HSBC”), X.X.
Xxxxxx Securities Inc. (“X.X. Xxxxxx”), Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
(“Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx”), and Toyota Financial Services Securities USA Corporation
(“TFSS USA”) (collectively, the “Agents”), with respect to the issue and sale by
the Company of its Medium-Term Notes, Series B, Due More Than Nine Months From
Date of Issue (the “Notes”). The Notes are to be issued pursuant to an
indenture, dated as of August 1, 1991, between the Company and The Bank of New
York Mellon (“BONY”), as successor to
JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A., as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., as trustee, as
amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of
October 1, 1991, among the Company, BONY and Deutsche Bank Trust Company
Americas, formerly known as Bankers Trust Company, and the Second Supplemental
Indenture, dated as of March 31, 2004 among the Company, BONY and Deutsche Bank
Trust Company Americas (collectively, and as the same may be further amended,
restated or supplemented, the “Indenture”). Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas
will act as trustee with respect to the Notes (the “Trustee”). This Fourth
Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement shall be referred to hereafter as
this “Agreement.” The Company and certain of the Agents previously entered into
a Third Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement dated March 7, 2006 (the
“Original Agreement”), with respect to the Company’s Medium-Term Notes Due More
Than Nine Months From Date of Issue (the “Original Notes”), and the parties have
agreed not to offer and sell any additional Original Notes pursuant to the
Original Agreement after the date hereof.
As of the
date hereof, the Company has authorized the issuance and sale by the Company
directly or through the Agents pursuant to the terms of this Agreement of an
unlimited aggregate principal amount of Notes. This Agreement provides both for
the sale of Notes by the Company directly to purchasers, in which case the
Agents will act as agents of the Company in soliciting Note purchases, and (as
may from time to time be agreed to by the Company and the related Agent or
Agents) to one or more Agents as principal for resale to
purchasers.
The
Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)
an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-157642) for the
registration of debt securities, including the Notes, under the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”) and the offering thereof from time to time
in accordance with Rule 415 of the rules and regulations of the Commission under
the 1933 Act (the “1933 Act Regulations”). Such registration statement has
automatically become effective pursuant to Rule 462(e) of the 1933 Act
Regulations, and the Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939, as amended (the “1939 Act”). Such registration statement (and any
further registration statements which may be filed by the Company for the
purpose of registering additional Notes and in connection with which this
Agreement is included or incorporated by reference as an exhibit) and the
prospectus constituting a part thereof, and any prospectus supplements relating
to the Notes, including all documents incorporated therein by reference, as from
time to time amended or supplemented by the filing of documents pursuant to the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “1934 Act”) or the 1933 Act or otherwise,
are referred to herein as the “Registration Statement” and the “Prospectus,”
respectively, except that if any revised prospectus shall be provided to the
Agents by the Company for use in connection with the offering of the Notes which
is not required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933
Act Regulations, the term “Prospectus” shall refer to such revised prospectus
from and after the time it is first provided to the Agents for such use. For
purposes of this Agreement, all references to the Registration Statement,
Prospectus or preliminary prospectus or to any amendment or supplement thereto
shall be deemed to include any copy filed with the Commission pursuant to its
Interactive Data Electronic Applications (“IDEA”) or Electronic Data Gathering,
Analysis and Retrieval (“XXXXX”) systems.
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SECTION
1. Appointment as
Agents.
(a) Appointment of
Agents. Subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, the Company
hereby appoints the Agents, except as otherwise provided in this Section 1(a),
as the exclusive agents, subject to the provisions contained in this Section
1(a), for the purpose of soliciting purchases of the Notes from the Company by
others and agrees that, except as otherwise contemplated herein, whenever the
Company determines to sell Notes directly to one or more Agents as principal for
resale to others, it will enter into a Terms Agreement (as hereafter defined)
relating to each such sale in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(b)
hereof if requested by such Agent. The Company agrees that, except as otherwise
provided in this Section 1(a), during the period the Agents are acting as the
Company’s agents hereunder, the Company will not engage any other party to
assist in the placement of the Notes (other than any person or entity which, by
executing a counterpart of this Agreement, becomes an Agent hereunder).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company reserves the right to (i) appoint
additional agents for the purpose of assisting in the placement of the Notes
during the term of this Agreement under the terms of an agreement substantially
identical to this Agreement (provided that the commission to be paid to such
additional agents in connection with the sale of any Note shall be the
applicable commission determined pursuant to Section 3(a) hereof), and (ii) sell
Notes to one or more underwriters in a discrete principal transaction or
transactions (whether on an individual or syndicated basis) so long as such
underwriter or underwriters shall execute an agreement substantially identical
to this Agreement relating to such principal transaction or transactions (such
person and/or entity described in subclause (ii) of this sentence shall be
referred to herein as a “Dealer”), provided however, that no such agreement will
appoint any such underwriter an agent under this Agreement except as relates to
the related transaction or transactions. As used herein, the term “Agent”, in
addition to Xxxxxxx Xxxxx, Banc of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank,
HSBC, X.X. Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx and TFSS USA, refers to each person or entity
which, at any particular time, is an agent or underwriter, as the case may be,
for the Company hereunder as evidenced by its execution of a counterpart of this
Agreement.
(b) Reasonable Efforts
Solicitations; Right to Reject Offers. Upon receipt of instructions from
the Company, the Agents will use their reasonable efforts to solicit purchases
of such principal amount of Notes as the Company and the Agents shall agree upon
from time to time during the term of this Agreement, it being understood that
the Company shall not approve the solicitation of purchases of Notes in excess
of the amount which shall be authorized by the Company from time to time. The
Agents will have no responsibility for maintaining records with respect to the
aggregate initial offering price of Notes sold, or of otherwise monitoring the
availability of Notes for sale under the Registration Statement. Each Agent will
communicate to the Company, orally or in writing, each offer to purchase Notes,
other than those offers rejected by such Agent. Each Agent shall have the right,
in its discretion reasonably exercised, to reject any proposed purchase of
Notes, as a whole or in part, and any such rejection shall not be deemed a
breach of the Agent’s agreement contained herein. The Company may accept or
reject any proposed purchase of the Notes, in whole or in part.
(c) Solicitations as Agents;
Purchases as Principals. In soliciting purchases of the Notes on behalf
of the Company, unless otherwise specified pursuant to the terms hereof, each
Agent shall act solely as agent for the Company and not as principal. Each Agent
shall
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make
reasonable efforts to assist the Company in obtaining performance by each
purchaser whose offer to purchase Notes has been solicited by such Agent and
accepted by the Company. No Agent shall have any liability to the Company in the
event any such purchase is not consummated for any reason. No Agent shall have
any obligation to purchase Notes from the Company as principal but such Agent,
individually or as part of a syndicate with other Agents, may agree from time to
time to purchase Notes as principal. Any such purchase of Notes by an Agent as
principal shall be made pursuant to a Terms Agreement in accordance with Section
3(b) hereof if requested by such Agent. If the Company shall default on its
obligation to deliver Notes to a purchaser whose offer has been solicited by
such Agent on any agency basis and accepted by the Company due to its refusal to
perform or because of a breach of representation or warranty contained herein,
the Company shall (i) hold such Agent harmless against any loss, claim or damage
arising from or as a result of such default by the Company and (ii) pay to such
Agent any commission to which it would otherwise be entitled absent such
default. As used herein, the term “Related Agent,” in connection with any
particular offer and sale of Notes, refers to each Agent acting as agent or
purchasing as principal with respect to such Notes.
(d) Reliance. The Company
and the Agents agree that any Notes the placement of which the Agents arrange
shall be placed by the Agents, and any Notes purchased by the Agents shall be
purchased, in reliance on the representations, warranties, covenants and
agreements of the Company contained herein and on the terms and conditions and
in the manner provided herein.
SECTION
2. Representations and
Warranties.
(a) The
Company represents and warrants to each Agent as of the date hereof, as of the
date of each acceptance by the Company of an offer for the purchase of Notes
(whether through the Agents as agents or to one or more Agents as principal),
immediately before the time of sale, within the meaning of Rule 159 of the 1933
Act Regulations, of Notes to any purchaser (whether through the Agents as agents
or to one or more Agents as principal), as of the date of each delivery of Notes
(whether through the Agents as agents or to one or more Agents as principal)
(the date of each such delivery to one or more Agents as principal being
hereafter referred to as a “Settlement Date”), and as of any time that the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (other
than by an amendment or supplement providing solely for the establishment of or
a change in, the interest rates, maturity, price or other terms of Notes or
similar changes) or there is filed with the Commission any document incorporated
by reference into the Prospectus (other than any Current Report on Form 8-K
relating exclusively to the issuance of debt securities under the Registration
Statement other than the Notes) (each of the times referenced above being
referred to herein as a “Representation Date”) as follows:
(i) Registration Statement,
Prospectus and Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company is a
“well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act Regulations
in respect of the Registration Statement. At the time the Registration Statement
became effective, the Registration Statement complied, and as of the applicable
Representation Date will comply, in all material respects with the applicable
requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations and the 1939 Act and
the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated
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thereunder
and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has
been issued under the 1933 Act and no proceedings for that purpose have been
instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, are contemplated
by the Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for additional
information has been complied with; and the Indenture has been duly qualified
under the 1939 Act. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf
registration statement,” as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act Regulations,
that initially became effective within three years of the applicable
Representation Date, and the Company has not received from the Commission any
notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations objecting to the
use of the automatic shelf registration form. The Registration Statement at the
time it became effective did not, and at each time thereafter at which any
amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective or any Annual Report
on Form 10-K is filed by the Company with the Commission and as of the
applicable Representation Date, will not, considering the Registration Statement
and all Incorporated Documents (as defined in Section 5(a)(4)) considered as a
whole, 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. The Prospectus, as of the date hereof does not, and (A)
the Prospectus and (B) any applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es),
considered together with the Prospectus, as of the applicable Representation
Date will not, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however,
that the representations and warranties in this subsection (i) of Section 2(a)
of this Agreement shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the
Registration Statement, Prospectus or any applicable Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus(es) made in reliance upon and in conformity with information
furnished to the Company in writing by the Agent or Agents expressly for use in
the Registration Statement, Prospectus or such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus(es) or to those parts of the Registration Statement that constitute
the Statements of Eligibility under the 1939 Act on Form T-1. Each Prospectus
delivered to the Related Agent for use in connection with the offering of the
Notes is identical to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with
the Commission pursuant to IDEA or XXXXX, except to the extent permitted by
Regulation S-T. Each applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus does not include
any information that conflicts with the information contained in the
Registration Statement. “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus,” as used in this
Agreement, means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule
433(h)(1) of the 1933 Act Regulations, that would be deemed to be related to the
offer of Notes.
(ii)
Incorporated
Documents. The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and
in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, at the time such incorporated documents
were filed with the Commission, complied in all material respects
with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder (the “1934 Act Regulations”), and, when read together and with
the other information in or incorporated by reference in the
Prospectus,
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did not
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 light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading.
(iii) Accountants. The
accountants who certified the financial statements included or
incorporated by reference in the Prospectus are independent public accountants
within the meaning of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations.
(iv) Financial Statements.
The financial statements and any supporting schedules of
the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included or incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any applicable
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus present fairly the consolidated financial
position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates
indicated and the consolidated results of their operations for the periods
specified; and, except as stated therein, said financial statements have been
prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the
United States applied on a consistent basis; and any supporting schedules
included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement present
fairly the information required to be stated therein.
(v) Due Incorporation;
Authorization and Validity of this Agreement, the Indenture and the
Notes. The Company (A) has been duly incorporated and is validly
existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of
California with corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its
properties and to conduct its business as described in the Prospectus, (B) has
the requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this
Agreement, any Terms Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes and to perform its
obligations hereunder and thereunder, (C) has duly authorized, executed and
delivered this Agreement and any Terms Agreement and each of this Agreement and
such Terms Agreement constitutes the valid and binding agreement of the Company,
and (D) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is
in good standing in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of
substantial properties or the conduct of its business requires such
qualification and in which the failure to do so would materially adversely
affect the business or financial condition of the Company.
(vi) Material Changes or Material
Transactions. Since the respective dates as of which
information is given in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any
applicable Permitted Free Writing Prospectus (as defined in Section 4(e) below),
except as otherwise stated therein, (A) there has been no material adverse
change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business
affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as
one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (B)
there have been no transactions entered into by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries, other than those in the ordinary course of business (which
includes, but is not limited to, Euromarket, Euro Asian or global financing and
domestic private
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placement
and public financing), which are material with respect to the Company and its
subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, and (C) since the date of the most
recent audited financial statements of the Company, there has been no dividend
or distribution of any kind in excess of $300 million declared, paid or made by
the Company on any class of its capital stock except as otherwise described in
an Incorporated Document or as disclosed in the documentation relating to a
particular issuance of Notes, including the applicable pricing
supplement.
(vii) Significant
Subsidiaries. Each “significant subsidiary”, if any, of the Company (as
such term is defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the 1933 Act) (each
a “Subsidiary” and, collectively, the “Subsidiaries”) has been duly organized
and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its incorporation, has the corporate power and authority to own,
lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the
Prospectus and is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business
and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is
required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the
conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good
standing would not materially affect the business or financial condition of the
Company; except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus, all of the issued and
outstanding capital stock of each such Subsidiary has been duly authorized and
validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by the Company,
directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest,
mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, claim or equity; none of the outstanding
shares of capital stock of any Subsidiary was issued in violation of preemptive
or similar rights of any securityholder of such Subsidiary.
(viii) The Indenture. The
Indenture has been duly and validly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company and assuming it has been duly and validly authorized,
executed and delivered by the Trustee, constitutes a legally valid and binding
obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with
its terms, except as may be limited by (1) bankruptcy, insolvency
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally
(including, without limitation, fraudulent conveyance laws) or the application
of general principles of equity, including without limitation, concepts of
materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible
unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief, regardless of
whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law, (2) requirements that a
claim with respect to any Notes payable in foreign or composite currency (or a
foreign or composite currency judgement in respect of such claim) be converted
into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant
to applicable law or (3) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the
making of payments outside the United States.
(ix) The Notes. The Notes
have been duly and validly authorized by the Company for
issuance, offer and sale pursuant to this Agreement and, when
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completed
as contemplated by the Procedures (hereinafter defined), executed, authenticated
and delivered pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture and this Agreement
against payment of the consideration set forth in the Prospectus or pursuant to
any Terms Agreement, will constitute legally valid and binding obligations of
the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms,
except as may be limited by (1) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally (including,
without limitation, fraudulent conveyance laws) or by the application of general
principles of equity, including without limitation, concepts of materiality,
reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of
specific performance or injunctive relief, regardless of whether considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law, (2) requirements that a claim with respect to
any Notes payable in foreign or composite currency (or a foreign or composite
currency judgement in respect of such claim) be converted into U.S. dollars at a
rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law or
(3) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments
outside the United States and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture;
and the Notes and the Indenture conform in all material respects to all
statements relating thereto contained in the Registration
Statement.
(x) No Defaults; Compliance with
Laws; Regulatory Approvals. Neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries is in violation of its charter or bylaws or in default in the
performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition
contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or
other instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiaries is a party or by which
it may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any
of its Subsidiaries is subject, which violation or default would materially
adversely affect the business or financial condition of the Company and its
Subsidiaries considered as one enterprise; and the execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement, any Terms Agreement and the Indenture and the
consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and therein will not
conflict with, or constitute a breach of, or default under, or result in the
creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or
assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to, any material
contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other instrument
to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it may be
bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is subject, nor will such action result in any violation of the
provisions of the charter or bylaws of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
or, to the best knowledge of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any law,
administrative regulation or administrative or court decree, and no consent,
approval, authorization, order or decree of any court or governmental agency or
body of the United States is required for the consummation by the Company of the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement, any Terms Agreement or the
Indenture, except such as may be required under the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act
Regulations or the 1939 Act or the 1939 Act Regulations or as may be required by
state securities or Blue Sky laws.
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(xi) Legal Proceedings;
Contracts. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus and any applicable Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, there is no
action, suit or proceeding before or by any court or governmental agency or
body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company,
threatened, against the Company or any of its subsidiaries which is required to
be disclosed in the Registration Statement or which might in the opinion of the
Company result in any material adverse change in the condition, financial or
otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the
Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, or which might
materially and adversely affect the properties or assets thereof or which might
materially and adversely affect the consummation of this Agreement or any Terms
Agreement; all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any of their respective property
or assets is the subject which are not described in the Registration Statement,
including ordinary routine litigation incidental to its business, are,
considered in the aggregate, not material; and there are no contracts or
documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are required to be
filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement by the 1933 Act or by the 1933
Act Regulations which have not been so filed.
(xii) Licenses. The Company
owns or possesses or has obtained all material governmental
licenses, permits, consents, orders, approvals and other authorizations
necessary to lease or own, as the case may be, and to operate its properties and
to carry on its business as presently conducted where its ownership or lease of
substantial properties or the conduct of its business requires such ownership or
possession or the obtaining of such governmental licenses, permits, consents,
orders, approvals and other authorizations and where the failure to do so would
materially adversely affect the business or financial condition of the Company
and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise.
(xiii) Investment Company
Act. The Company is not, and upon issuance and sale of the
Notes as herein contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom
as described in the Prospectus will not be, an “investment company” or an entity
“controlled” by an “investment company” as such terms are defined in the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
(xiv) Commodity Exchange
Act. The Notes, upon issuance, will be excluded or exempted under,
or beyond the purview of, the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (the “Commodity
Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission under the Commodity Exchange Act (the “Commodity Exchange Act
Regulation”).
(xv) Rating of the Notes.
The Company’s long term debt rating is “Aa1” by Xxxxx’x
Investors Service, Inc. and “AA+” by Standard & Poor’s Ratings
Services.
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(b) Additional
Certifications. Any certificate signed by any director or officer of the
Company and delivered to the Agents or to counsel to the Agents in connection
with an offering of Notes or the sale of Notes to one or more of the Agents as
principal shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the
Agents as to the matters covered thereby on the date of such certificate and at
each Representation Date subsequent thereto.
(c) Selling
Restrictions. Each Agent severally represents and agrees
that:
(i) In
relation to each member state of the European Economic Area (each a “Member
State”) which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each such Member State,
a “Relevant Member State”), with effect from and including the date on which the
Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the “Relevant
Implementation Date”), it has not made and will not make an offer of Notes to
the public in that Relevant Member State except that it may, with effect from
and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of Notes to the
public in that Relevant Member State:
(1) if the
applicable pricing supplement in relation to the Notes specifies that an offer
of those Notes may be made other than pursuant to Article 3(2) of the Prospectus
Directive in that Relevant Member State (a “Non-exempt Offer”), following the
date of publication of the Prospectus in relation to Notes which has been
approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where
appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the
competent authority in that Relevant Member State, provided that any such
prospectus has subsequently been completed by the applicable pricing supplement
contemplating such Non-exempt Offer, in accordance with the Prospectus
Directive, in the period beginning and ending on the dates specified in such
prospectus or such pricing supplement, as applicable;
(2) at any
time to any legal entity which is authorized or regulated to operate in the
financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose
is solely to invest in securities;
(3) at any
time to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250
employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance of more than
€43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than €50,000,000, as shown in
its last annual or consolidated accounts;
(4) at any
time to fewer than 100 natural or legal persons (other than qualified investors
as defined in the Prospectus Directive) subject to obtaining the prior consent
of the relevant agent or agents nominated by the Company for any such offer;
or
(5) at any
time in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus
Directive.
provided
that no such offer of Notes referred to in (2) to (5) above shall require the
Company or any agent to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of
the
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Prospectus
Directive or supplement a prospectus pursuant to Article 16 of the Prospectus
Directive.
For the
purposes of this provision, the expression an “offer of Notes to the public” in
relation to any Notes in any Relevant Member State means the communication in
any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer
and the Notes to be offered, so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase
or subscribe for the Notes, as the same may be varied in that Member State by
any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State and the
expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any
relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State,
(ii) With
respect to Notes that are offered and sold into the United
Kingdom:
(1) it has
complied and will comply with all applicable provisions of the Financial
Services and Markets Act (2000) (the “FSMA”) with respect to anything done by it
in relation to any Notes in, from or otherwise involving the United
Kingdom;
(2) it has
only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or
cause to be communicated any invitation or inducement to engage in investment
activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the FSMA) received by it in
connection with the issue of any Notes in circumstances in which Section 21(1)
of the FSMA does not apply to the Company; and
(3) in relation to any Notes which have a
maturity of less than one year, (a) it is a person whose ordinary activities
involve it in acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of
investments (as principal or agent) for the purposes of its business and (b) it
has not offered or sold and will not offer or sell Notes other than to persons
whose ordinary activities involve them in acquiring, holding, managing or disposing of investments (as
principal or as agent) for the purposes of their businesses or who it is
reasonable to expect will acquire, hold, manage or dispose of investments (as
principal or agent) for the purposes of their businesses where the issue of the Notes would otherwise
constitute a contravention of Section 19 of the FSMA by the
Company.
(iii) With
respect to Notes that are offered and sold into Hong Kong, such Notes may not be
offered or sold in Hong Kong by means of any document other than:
(1) in
circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning
of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 32, Laws of Hong Kong), or
(2) to
“professional investors” within the meaning of the Securities and Futures
Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder,
or
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(3) in other
circumstances which do not result in the document being a “prospectus” within
the meaning of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 32, Laws of Hong Kong) and no
advertisement, invitation or document relating to the Notes may be issued or may
be in the possession of any person for the purpose of issue (in each case
whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), which is directed at, or the contents of
which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if
permitted to do so under the laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to Notes
which are or are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or
only to “professional investors” within the meaning of the Securities and
Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made
thereunder.
(iv) With
respect to Notes that are offered and sold into Singapore, any document or
material in connection with the offer or sale, or invitation for subscription or
purchase, of the Notes may not be circulated or distributed, nor may the Notes
be offered or sold, or be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or
purchase, whether directly or indirectly, to persons in Singapore other
than
(1) to an
institutional investor under Section 274 of the Securities and Futures Act,
Chapter 289 of Singapore (the “SFA”),
(2) to a
relevant person pursuant to Section 275(1), or any person pursuant to Section
275(1A), and in accordance with the conditions specified in Section 275 of the
SFA or
(3) otherwise
pursuant to, and in accordance with the conditions of, any other applicable
provision of the SFA, in each case subject to compliance with conditions set
forth in the SFA.
Where the
notes are subscribed or purchased under Section 275 of the SFA by a relevant
person which is (A) a corporation (which is not an accredited investor (as
defined in Section 4A of the SFA)) the sole business of which is to hold
investments and the entire share capital of which is owned by one or more
individuals, each of whom is an accredited investor; or (B) a trust (where the
trustee is not an accredited investor) whose sole purpose is to hold investments
and each beneficiary of the trust is an individual who is an accredited
investor, shares, debentures and units of shares and debentures of that
corporation or the beneficiaries’ rights and interest (howsoever described) in
that trust shall not be transferred within six months after that corporation or
that trust has acquired the notes pursuant to an offer made under Section 275 of
the SFA except (x) to an institutional investor (for corporations, under Section
274 of the SFA) or to a relevant person defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA, or
to any person pursuant to an offer that is made on terms that such shares,
debentures and units of shares and debentures of that corporation or such rights
and interest in that trust are acquired at a consideration of not less than
S$200,000 (or its equivalent in a foreign currency) for each transaction,
whether such amount is to be paid for in cash or by
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exchange
of securities or other assets, and further for corporations, in accordance with
the conditions specified in Section 275 of the SFA; (y) where no consideration
is or will be given for the transfer; or (z) where the transfer is by operation
of law.
SECTION
3. Solicitations as Agents;
Purchases as Principals.
(a) Solicitations as
Agents. On the basis of the representations and warranties herein
contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, when agreed
by the Company and an Agent, such Agent, as an agent of the Company, will use
its reasonable efforts to solicit offers for the purchase of Notes upon the
terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus. The Agents are not authorized
to appoint sub-agents with respect to Notes sold through them as
agent.
The
Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation of
purchases of the Notes through the Agents, as agents, commencing at any time for
any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of instructions from the
Company, the Agents will forthwith suspend solicitation of purchases from the
Company until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such
solicitation may be resumed.
The
Company agrees to pay each Agent a commission, in the form of a discount or
otherwise as agreed to by the Company and the Agents, equal to the applicable
percentage of the principal amount of each Note sold by the Company as a result
of a solicitation made by such Agent as set forth in Schedule A hereto;
provided, however, that the Company shall only be obligated to pay one such fee
with respect to any particular Note so sold.
The
purchase price, interest rate, maturity date and other terms of the Notes shall
be agreed upon by the Company and the Agents and set forth in a pricing
supplement to the Prospectus to be prepared following each acceptance by the
Company of an offer for the purchase of Notes. Except as may be otherwise
provided in such supplement to the Prospectus, the Notes will be issued in
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof. All Notes sold through
the Agents as agents will be sold at 100% of their principal amount unless
otherwise agreed to by the Company and the Agents.
(b) Purchases as
Principal. Notes purchased from the Company by an Agent individually or
as part of a syndicate with one or more other Agents, as principal shall be made
in accordance with the terms contained herein and, if requested by such Agent,
pursuant to a separate agreement which will provide for the sale of such Notes
to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof by, such Agent. Each such separate
agreement (which may be an oral agreement) between one or more Agents and the
Company is herein referred to as a “Terms Agreement.” Unless the context
otherwise requires, each reference contained herein to “this Agreement” shall be
deemed to include any Terms Agreement between the Company and one or more
Agents. Each such Terms Agreement, whether oral or in writing, shall be with
respect to such information (as applicable) as is specified in Exhibit A hereto. An
Agent’s commitment to purchase Notes as principal shall be deemed to have been
made on the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein
contained, and the Company’s agreement to sell Notes to an Agent as principal
shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the
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representations
and warranties of such Agent herein contained, and each such commitment shall be
subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth and, as applicable, as set
forth in any Terms Agreement. Each Terms Agreement shall specify the principal
amount of Notes to be purchased by each Agent pursuant thereto, the price to be
paid to the Company for such Notes (which, if not so specified in such Terms
Agreement, shall be at a discount equivalent to the applicable commission set
forth in Schedule
A hereto), the time and place of delivery of and payment for such Notes,
if the trade is being made with two or more Agents, the applicable default
provisions in the event of a default by one or more of the Agents (if different
from the provisions set forth in the following paragraph), and such other
provisions (including further terms of the Notes) as may be mutually agreed
upon. The Agents may engage the services of any broker or dealer in connection
with the resale of the Notes purchased by them as principal and may allow all or
any portion of the discount received from the Company in connection with such
purchases to such brokers or dealers. Such Terms Agreement shall also specify
whether or not any of the officer’s certificate, opinions of counsel or comfort
letter specified in Sections 7(b), 7(c) and 7(d) hereof shall be required to be
delivered by the Company on the related Settlement Date.
If the
Company and two or more Agents enter into an agreement pursuant to which such
Agents agree to purchase Notes as part of a syndicate and one or more of such
Agents shall fail at the Settlement Date to purchase the Notes which it or they
are obligated to purchase (the “Defaulted Notes”), then the nondefaulting Agents
shall have the right, within 24 hours thereafter, to make arrangements for one
of them or one or more other Agents or underwriters to purchase all, but not
less than all, of the Defaulted Notes in such amounts as may be agreed upon and
upon the terms herein set forth; provided, however, that if such arrangements
shall not have been completed within such 24-hour period, then:
(i) if the
aggregate principal amount of Defaulted Notes does not exceed 10% of the
aggregate principal amount of Notes to be so purchased by all of such Agents on
the Settlement Date, the nondefaulting Agents shall be obligated, severally and
not jointly, to purchase the full amount thereof in the proportions that their
respective initial underwriting obligations bear to the underwriting obligations
of all nondefaulting Agents; or
(ii) if the
aggregate principal amount of Defaulted Notes exceeds 10% of the aggregate
principal amount of Notes to be so purchased by all of such Agents on the
Settlement Date, such agreement to purchase such Notes shall terminate without
liability on the part of any nondefaulting Agents.
No action
taken pursuant to this paragraph shall relieve any defaulting Agent from
liability in respect of its default. In the event of any such default which does
not result in a termination of such agreement, either the nondefaulting Agents
or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Settlement Date for a period
not exceeding seven days in order to effect any required changes in the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in any other documents or
arrangements.
(c) Administrative
Procedures. Administrative procedures with respect to the sale of Notes
shall be agreed upon from time to time by the Agents and the Company
(the
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“Procedures”).
Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and
obligations specifically provided to be performed by them in the
Procedures.
(d) Delivery of Closing
Documents. The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof
shall be delivered at the office of O’Melveny & Xxxxx LLP, 000 Xxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000 on the date hereof, or at such other time
or place as the Agents and the Company may agree.
SECTION
4. Covenants of the
Company.
The
Company covenants with the Agents as follows:
(a) Notice of Certain
Events. The Company will promptly notify (i) the Agents of the
effectiveness of any amendment to the Registration Statement, (ii) each Related
Agent of the transmittal to the Commission for filing of any supplement to the
Prospectus (relating to Notes that the Related Agent is offering and selling as
agent or purchasing as principal hereunder) or any document to be filed pursuant
to the 1934 Act which will be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus (other
than any Current Report on Form 8-K relating exclusively to Notes that the
Related Agent is not offering and selling as agent nor purchasing as principal
hereunder) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (iii) the Agents of the
receipt of any comments from the Commission with respect to the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus, (iv) the Agents of any request by the Commission
for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement
to the Prospectus (relating to Notes that the Related Agent is offering and
selling as agent or purchasing as principal hereunder) or for additional
information, (v) the Agents 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, or of the receipt by the Company from the
Commission of any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations
objecting to the use of the automatic shelf registration statement form with
respect to the Registration Statement; and (vi) the Agents of any change in the
rating assigned by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization to
any debt securities (including the Notes) of the Company, or the public
announcement by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization that
it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its
rating of any such debt securities, or the withdrawal by any nationally
recognized statistical rating organization of its rating of any such debt
securities since the date of this Agreement. The Company will make every
reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order and, if any stop
order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible
moment.
(b) Notice of Certain Proposed
Filings. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (m) of this Section
4, the Company will (A) give the Agents notice of its intention to file or
prepare any additional registration statement with respect to Notes, any
amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the
Prospectus (other than an amendment or supplement providing solely for the
establishment of or change in, the interest rates, maturity, price or other
terms of Notes or other similar changes or an amendment or supplement which
relates exclusively to an offering of debt securities under the Registration
Statement other than the Notes), and (B) give each Related Agent notice of its
intention to file, prepare or use any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any
amendment or supplement thereto,
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whether
by the filing of documents pursuant to the 1934 Act (other than any Current
Report on Form 8-K relating exclusively to Notes that the Related Agent is not
offering and selling as agent nor purchasing as principal hereunder), the 1933
Act or otherwise, and will furnish each such Agent with copies of any such
amendment or supplement, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or other documents
proposed to be filed, prepared or used a reasonable time in advance of such
proposed filing, preparation or use, as the case may be, and will not file or
use any such amendment or supplement, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or other
such documents in a form to which you or your counsel shall reasonably
object.
(c) Copies of the Registration
Statement, Prospectus and Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. The
Company will deliver to the Agents as many signed and conformed copies of the
Registration Statement (as originally filed) and of each amendment thereto
(including exhibits filed therewith or incorporated by reference therein and
documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus) as the Agents may
reasonably request. The Company will furnish to each Related Agent as many
copies of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) (relating to Notes that
the Related Agent is offering and selling as agent or purchasing as principal
hereunder) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (relating to Notes that the
Related Agent is offering and selling as agent or purchasing as principal
hereunder) as the Related Agent shall reasonably request so long as the Agent is
required to deliver a Prospectus in connection with sales or solicitations of
offers to purchase the Notes. The Registration Statement and the Prospectus and
any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to the Agents will be identical
to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission
pursuant to IDEA or XXXXX, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. Any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus furnished to the Agents will be in the form filed
or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in
the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g).
(d) Preparation of Pricing
Supplements. The Company will prepare, with respect to any Notes to be
sold through or to the Agents pursuant to this Agreement, a Pricing Supplement
with respect to such Notes in a form previously approved by the Related Agents
and will file with the Commission such Pricing Supplement pursuant to Rule
424(b)(2) or Rule 424(b)(5) of the 1933 Act Regulation not later than the close
of business of the Commission on the second business day after the date on which
such Pricing Supplement is first used.
(e) Free Writing Prospectuses;
Filing Fees. The Company will (A) not make any offer relating to Notes
that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise
constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act
Regulations) required to be filed with the Commission unless it obtains the
prior consent of the Related Agents, and each Agent covenants with the Company
that it will not make any offer relating to Notes that would constitute an
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a “free
writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act Regulations)
required to be filed with the Commission unless it obtains the prior consent of
the Company, (each such free writing prospectus for which consent has been
obtained, a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus”), (B) treat each Permitted Free
Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (C) if agreed to by the
Related Agents and the Company, prepare a final term sheet (the “Final Term
Sheet”) reflecting the final terms of an offering of Notes, in form and
substance satisfactory to each Related Agent and the Company, and shall file
such Final Term Sheet as an
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Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus prior to the close of business within two days following
the date such final terms are established, (D) comply with the requirements of
Rules 163, 164 and 433 of the 1933 Act Regulations applicable to any Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission, legending and
record keeping, (E) not include any information in any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration
Statement, and (F) not take any action that would result in an Agent or the
Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) of
the 1933 Act Regulations a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of
such Agent that such Agent otherwise would not have been required to file
thereunder. The Company will pay the required filing fees relating to Notes to
the Commission within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) of the 1933 Act
Regulations and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r)
thereof.
(f) Revisions of Prospectus —
Material Changes. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (m) of this
Section 4, if at any time during the term of this Agreement any event shall
occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the reasonable
opinion of counsel to the Agents or counsel for the Company, to further amend or
supplement the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in order that
the Prospectus or such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus will not include an untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the
circumstances existing at the time the Prospectus or such Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, or if it shall be necessary, in the
reasonable opinion of either such counsel, to amend or supplement the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus or such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in
order to comply with the requirements of the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act
Regulations, immediate notice shall be given, and confirmed in writing, to the
Agents to cease the solicitation of offers to purchase the Notes in the Agents’
capacity as agents and to cease sales of any Notes the Agents may then own as
principal pursuant to a Terms Agreement, and the Company will promptly prepare
and, subject to the last clause of subsection (b) of this Section 4, file with
the Commission such amendment or supplement, whether by filing documents
pursuant to the 1934 Act, the 1933 Act or otherwise, as may be necessary to
correct such untrue statement or omission or to make the Registration Statement,
the Prospectus and such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus comply with such
requirements.
(g) Prospectus Revisions —
Periodic Financial Information. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection (m) of this Section 4, on or prior to the date on which there shall
be released to the general public interim financial statement information
related to the Company with respect to each of the first three quarters of any
fiscal year or preliminary financial statement information with respect to any
fiscal year, the Company shall furnish such information to counsel for the
Agents, and shall cause the Registration Statement and the Prospectus to be
amended or supplemented, whether by the filing of documents pursuant to the 1934
Act, the 1933 Act or otherwise, to include or incorporate by reference financial
information with respect thereto and corresponding information for the
comparable period of the preceding fiscal year, as well as such other
information and explanation as shall be necessary for an understanding thereof
or as shall be required by the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act
Regulations.
(h) Prospectus Revisions —
Audited Financial Information. Except as otherwise provided in subsection
(m) of this Section 4, on or prior to the date on which there shall be released
to the general public financial information included in or derived from
the
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audited
financial statements of the Company for the preceding fiscal year, the Company
shall cause the Registration Statement and the Prospectus to be amended, whether
by the filing of documents pursuant to the 1934 Act, the 1933 Act or otherwise,
to include or incorporate by reference such audited financial statements and the
report or reports, and consent or consents to such inclusion or incorporation by
reference, of the independent accountants with respect thereto, as well as such
other information and explanations as shall be necessary for an understanding of
such financial statements or as shall be required by the 1933 Act or the 1933
Act Regulations.
(i) Earnings
Statements. The Company, by applying the provisions of Rule
158 under the
1933 Act, will make generally available to its security holders as soon as
practicable, but not later than 90 days after the close of the period covered
thereby, an earnings statement (in form complying with the provisions of Rule
158 under the 1933 Act) covering each twelve month period beginning, in each
case, not later than the first day of the Company’s fiscal quarter next
following the “effective date” (as defined in such Rule 158(c)) of the
Registration Statement with respect to each sale of Notes.
(j) Blue Sky
Qualifications. If requested by an Agent prior to the issuance
of any
Notes, the Company will endeavor, in cooperation with the Agents and to the
extent reasonably practicable, to qualify the Notes for offering and sale under
the applicable securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions of the
United States as the Agents may designate, and will maintain such qualification
in effect for as long as may be required for the distribution of the Notes;
provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file any general
consent to service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation in any
jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified. The Company will file such
statements and reports as may be required by the laws of each jurisdiction in
which the Notes have been qualified as above provided. The Company will promptly
advise the Agents of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect
to the suspension of the qualification of the Notes for sale in any such state
or jurisdiction or the initiating or threatening of any proceeding for such
purpose.
(k) 1934 Act Filings. The
Company, during the period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under
the 1933 Act, will file promptly all documents required to be filed with the
Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act. Such
documents will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934
Act and the 1934 Act Regulations and to the extent such documents are
incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when read together with the other
information in or incorporated by reference into the Prospectus, will not
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 light of the circumstances under which they are made, not
misleading.
(l) Stand-Off Agreement.
If required by any Terms Agreement, between the date of any Terms Agreement and
the Settlement Date with respect to such Terms Agreement, the Company will not,
without the prior written consent of each Agent party to such Terms Agreement,
directly or indirectly, sell, offer to sell, contract, to sell or otherwise
dispose of, or announce the offering of, any debt securities of the Company
denominated in the same currency as the Notes to be purchased pursuant to such
Terms Agreement, or any security exchangeable into such debt securities (other
than (i) the Notes that are to be sold pursuant to such Terms
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Agreement
(ii) securities sold in any Euro Asian or Euromarket financing, or (iii)
commercial paper in the ordinary course of business).
(m) Suspension of Certain
Obligations. The Company reserves the right to instruct the Agents to
suspend at any time, for any period of time, the solicitation of offers to
purchase the Notes from the Company. As soon as practicable, but in any event
not later than one business day in New York City, after receipt of notice from
the Company (such notice, if oral or telephonic, to be confirmed in writing as
soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, but in any event not later than five
business days in New York City after such oral or telephonic notice), the Agents
will suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Notes from the Company until
such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be
resumed. During such period, the Company shall not be required to comply with
the provisions of subsections (a), (b), (c), (f), (g), (h) or (k) of this
Section 4 or the provisions of Section 7 hereof. Upon advising the Agents that
such solicitation may be resumed, however, the Company shall simultaneously
provide any documents required to be delivered by subsections (a), (b), (c),
(f), (g), (h) or (k) of this Section 4 and the provisions of Section 7 hereof,
and the Agents shall have no obligation to solicit offers to purchase the Notes
until such documents have been received by the Agents. In addition, if the
Company fails to comply with any of its obligations hereunder, except to the
extent suspended as provided herein, including without limitation its
obligations to deliver the documents required by subsections (a), (b), (c), (f),
(g), (h) or (k) of this Section 4 or the provisions of Section 7 hereof, the
Agents shall have the right to terminate their obligations hereunder, including
without limitation their obligations to solicit offers to purchase the Notes
hereunder as agent or to purchase Notes hereunder as principal.
(n) Use of Proceeds. The
net proceeds from the sale of Notes will be used by the Company as described in
the Prospectus.
(o) Selling Restrictions.
The Company agrees that it will not take any action in contravention of the
relevant selling restrictions applicable to an offering of Notes as set forth in
Section 2(c).
SECTION
5. Conditions of
Obligations.
The
obligations of the Agents to solicit offers to purchase the Notes as agents of
the Company, the obligations of any purchasers of the Notes sold through the
Agents as agents, and any obligation of the Agents to purchase Notes as
principals pursuant to a Terms Agreement or otherwise will be subject to the
accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein
contained and to the accuracy of the statements of the Company’s officers made
in any certificate furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the
performance and observance by the Company of all its covenants and agreements
herein contained and to the following additional conditions
precedent:
(a) Legal Opinions. On
the date hereof, the Agents shall have received the following legal opinions,
dated as of the date hereof and in form and substance satisfactory to the Agents
and their counsel:
(1) Opinion of Company
Counsel. The opinion of the General Counsel for the Company to the effect
that:
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(i) The
Company is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the State of California.
(ii) The
Company has the corporate power and corporate authority to own, lease and
operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the
Registration Statement, the Prospectus and in each document filed pursuant to
the 1934 Act and incorporated by reference into the Prospectus.
(iii) This
Agreement and any applicable Terms Agreement have each been duly authorized by
all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company, and have each been
duly executed and delivered by the Company.
(iv) The
Indenture has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part
of the Company and has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the
Indenture has been qualified under the 1939 Act. If California law were to
apply, the Indenture would constitute a legally valid and binding obligation of
the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms,
except as may be limited by (1) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally
(including, without limitation, fraudulent conveyance laws) or by the
application of general principles of equity including, without limitation,
concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the
possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief, regardless
of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law, (2) requirements that
a claim with respect to any Notes payable in foreign or composite currency (or a
foreign or composite currency judgment in respect of such claim) be converted
into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant
to applicable law, (3) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the
making of payments outside the United States or payments in which designated
foreign countries, entities or nationals have an interest; and (4) the
unenforceability under certain circumstances of (a) any indemnification
provisions, (b) broadly or vaguely stated waivers or waivers of rights granted
by law where the waivers are against public policy or prohibited by law; (c)
choice of law provisions and (d) severability provisions.
(v) The Notes
(in the form of specimens certified by the Company’s Secretary and examined by
such counsel) are in forms permitted by the Indenture, and have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company for
issuance, offer and sale as contemplated by this Agreement. If California law
were to apply, the Notes when completed as contemplated by the Procedures,
executed and authenticated as specified in the Indenture and delivered against
payment of the purchase price therefor pursuant to this Agreement as provided in
the Prospectus and any Terms Agreement, will constitute legally valid and
binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in
accordance with their terms, except as may be limited by (1) bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting
creditors’ rights generally (including, without limitation, fraudulent
conveyance
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laws) or
by the application of general principles of equity including, without
limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing
and the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief,
regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law, (2)
requirements that a claim with respect to any Notes payable in foreign or
composite currency (or a foreign or composite currency judgement in respect of
such claim) be converted into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a
date determined pursuant to applicable law, (3) governmental authority to limit,
delay or prohibit the making of payments outside the United States or payments
in which designated foreign countries, entities or nationals have an interest or
(4) the unenforceability under certain circumstances of (a) any indemnification
provisions, (b) broadly or vaguely stated waivers or waivers of rights granted
by law where the waivers are against public policy or prohibited by law; (c)
choice of law provisions and (d) severability provisions, and the Notes will be
entitled to the benefit of the Indenture.
(vi) The
Registration Statement automatically became effective under the 1933 Act, the
Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule
401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations objecting to the use of the automatic
shelf registration statement form with respect to the Registration Statement
and, to such counsel’s knowledge, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of
the Registration Statement has been issued under the 1933 Act or proceedings
therefor initiated or threatened by the Commission.
(vii) At the
time the Registration Statement became effective, the Registration Statement and
the Prospectus (other than the financial statements and other financial and
statistical data included or incorporated by reference therein and the
Statements of Eligibility on Form T-1 filed as Exhibits thereto, as to which no
opinion need be rendered) appeared on its face to comply as to form in all
material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act
Regulations and the 1939 Act and the 1939 Act Regulations.
(viii) Each
document filed pursuant to the 1934 Act (other than the financial statements and
other financial and statistical data included therein, as to which no opinion
need be rendered) and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus when filed,
appeared on its face to comply as to form in all material respects with the 1934
Act and the 1934 Act Regulations thereunder in effect at the date of their
filing.
(ix) The
information in the Prospectus under the caption “Description of the Notes,” and
“Description of Debt Securities,” to the extent that it constitutes summaries of
the Notes and the Indenture, has been reviewed by such counsel and is correct in
all material respects.
(x) No
authorization, approval, consent or order of any court or governmental authority
or agency is required in connection with the sale of the
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Notes,
except such as may be required under the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations or
the 1939 Act or the 1939 Act Regulations or state securities laws.
(xi) To such
counsel’s knowledge, the Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to
transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which its
ownership or lease of substantial properties or the conduct of its business
requires such qualification and in which the failure to so qualify and be in
good standing would materially adversely affect its business or financial
condition.
(xii) To such
counsel’s knowledge, there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or
threatened which are required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement or
in each document filed pursuant to the 1934 Act and incorporated by reference in
the Prospectus, other than those disclosed therein or in any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, and all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or to which any of their property
is subject which are not described in the Registration Statement or in each
document filed pursuant to the 1934 Act and incorporated by reference in the
Prospectus or in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including ordinary routine
litigation incidental to the business, are, considered in the aggregate, not
material.
(xiii) To such
counsel’s knowledge, no default exists in the due performance or observance by
the Company of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any
contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other instrument
described or referred to in the Registration Statement or filed as an exhibit
thereto or incorporated by reference therein, which default would have a
material adverse effect on the financial condition, earnings, business affairs,
business prospects, properties or results of operations of the Company and its
subsidiaries considered as one enterprise.
(xiv) The
execution and delivery of this Agreement, any Terms Agreement, the Indenture,
the Notes and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and
therein will not (A) conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default under,
or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon
any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to,
any material contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other
instrument known to such counsel to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries
is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound, or to which any of the
property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (B)
result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or bylaws of the
Company, or (C) to such counsel’s knowledge, results in any violation of any
applicable law, administrative regulation or administrative or court
decree.
(xv) To such
counsel’s knowledge, there are no contracts, indentures, mortgages, loan
agreements, notes, leases or other instruments required to be
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described
or referred to in the Registration Statement or in each document filed, or to be
filed or incorporated by reference as exhibits thereto other than those
described or referred to therein or filed or incorporated by reference as
exhibits thereto, and the descriptions thereof are correct in all material
respects.
(2) Tax Opinion. The
opinion of Xxxxx Xxxx & Xxxxxxxx, as special tax counsel to
the Company, to the effect that the statement in the Prospectus under the
caption “United States Federal Income Taxation” (or similar caption), insofar as
they purport to describe provisions of U.S. federal income tax laws or
regulations or legal conclusions with respect thereto fairly and accurately
summarize the matters referred to therein in all material respects.
(3) Opinion of Counsel to the
Agents. The opinion of O’Melveny & Xxxxx LLP,
counsel to the Agents, covering the matters referred to in subparagraph (1)
under the subheadings (i), (iii) through (vii), inclusive, of this Section 5(a)
and addressing substantially the matters referred to in Section 2(a)(xiii),
except that such counsel shall give the opinion in Section 5(a)(1)(iv) and (v)
applying New York law to the Indenture and to the Notes.
(4) In giving
their opinions required by subsection (a)(1) and (a)(3) of this Section 5, each
counsel shall additionally state that they do not believe that the Registration
Statement, at the time it became effective, and if an amendment to the
Registration Statement or an Annual Report on Form 10-K has been filed by the
Company with the Commission subsequent to the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement (an “Incorporated Document”) and prior to the date of such statement,
then at the time such amendment became effective or at the time of the most
recent such filing of an Incorporated Document (to the extent deemed to be
incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus), and,
considering the Registration Statement and Incorporated Document as a whole, at
the date hereof, or (if such opinion is being delivered in connection with a
Terms Agreement pursuant to Section 7(c) hereof) at the date of any Terms
Agreement and at the Settlement Date with respect thereto, as the case may be,
contains or contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omits or omitted
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to
make the statements therein, not misleading, that the Prospectus, as amended or
supplemented at the date hereof, or (if such opinion is being delivered in
connection with a Terms Agreement pursuant to Section 7(c) hereof) at the date
of any Terms Agreement and at the Settlement Date with respect thereto, as the
case may be, contains or contained an untrue statement of a material fact or
omits or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made,
not misleading or (if such opinion is being delivered in connection with a Terms
Agreement pursuant to Section 7(c) hereof) that any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus that would be deemed to be related to the offer of Notes, as amended
or supplemented at the date of any Terms Agreement and at the Settlement Date
with respect thereto, as the case may be, contains or contained an untrue
statement of a material fact or omits or omitted to state a material fact
necessary in order to
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make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made,
not misleading. Such counsel may state that they express no view as to the
Statements of Eligibility on Form T-1, financial statements and other financial
and statistical data included or incorporated by reference in such Registration
Statement, Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.
(b) Officer’s
Certificate. At the date hereof the Agents shall have received a
certificate of the President or Vice President and the chief financial or chief
accounting officer of the Company, dated as of the date hereof, certifying to
their best knowledge after due inquiry that (i) since the respective dates as of
which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any
applicable Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or since the date of any Terms
Agreement, there has not been any material adverse change in the condition,
financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business
prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise,
whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (ii) the other
representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 hereof are
true and correct with the same force and effect as through expressly made at and
as of the date of such certificate, (iii) the Company has performed or complied
with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or
satisfied at or prior to the date of such certificate, and (iv) no stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and,
to their knowledge, no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or
threatened by the Commission.
(c) Comfort Letter. On
the date hereof, the Agents shall have received a letter from
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, dated as of the date hereof and in form and
substance previously agreed to by the Company and the Agents.
(d) Other Documents. On
the date hereof and on each Settlement Date with respect to any Terms Agreement,
counsel to the Agents shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions
as such counsel may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling such counsel
to pass upon the issuance and sale of Notes as herein contemplated and related
proceedings, or in order to evidence the accuracy and completeness of any of the
representations and warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions,
herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection with
the issuance and sale of Notes as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in
form and substance to the Agents and to counsel to the Agents.
If any
condition specified in this Section 5 shall not have been fulfilled when and as
required to be fulfilled, this Agreement (or, at the option of the Agents, any
Terms Agreement) may be terminated by the Agents by notice to the Company at any
time and any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any
other party, except that the covenant regarding provision of any earnings
statement set forth in Section 4(i) hereof, the provisions concerning payment of
expenses under Section 10 hereof, the indemnity and contribution agreements set
forth in Sections 8 and 9 hereof, the provisions concerning the representations,
warranties and agreements to survive delivery set forth in Section 11 hereof and
the provisions set forth under “Parties” of Section 15 hereof shall remain in
effect.
SECTION
6. Delivery of and Payment for
Notes Sold through the Agents.
Delivery
of Notes sold through an Agent as agent shall be made by the Company to such
Agent for the account of any purchaser only against payment therefor in
immediately available funds. In the event that a purchaser shall fail either to
accept delivery of or to make payment for a Note on the date fixed for
settlement, the Agent shall promptly notify the Company and deliver the Note to
the Company, and, if the Agent has theretofore paid the Company for such Note,
the Company will promptly return such funds to the Agent. If such failure
occurred for any reason other than default by the Agent in the performance of
its obligations hereunder, the Company will reimburse such Agent on an equitable
basis for its reasonable loss of the use of the funds for the period such funds
were credited to the Company’s account.
SECTION
7. Additional
Covenants.
(a) Reaffirmation of
Representations and Warranties.
(i) The
Company covenants and agrees with the Agents that (1) each acceptance by it of
an offer for the purchase of Notes, and each delivery of Notes to one or more
Agents pursuant to this Agreement or a Terms Agreement, shall be deemed to be an
affirmation that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in
this Agreement and in any certificate theretofore delivered to the Agents
pursuant hereto (except to the extent such representations and warranties relate
exclusively to Notes not then being so offered and purchased) are true and
correct at the time of such acceptance or sale, as the case may be, and an
undertaking that such representations and warranties will be true and correct at
the time of delivery to the purchaser or its agent, or to the Agent or Agents,
of the Note or Notes relating to such acceptance or sale, as the case may be, as
though made at and as of each such time (and it is understood that such
representations and warranties shall relate to the Registration Statement and
Prospectus as amended and supplemented to each such time); and (2) subject to
the provisions of Section 4(m) hereof, each time that the Registration Statement
or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (other than by an amendment
or supplement providing solely for the establishment of the terms of Notes or a
change in the interest rates, maturity or price of Notes or similar changes, and
other than by an amendment or supplement that relates exclusively to an offering
of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes) or
there is filed with the Commission any document incorporated by reference into
the Prospectus (other than any Current Report on Form 8-K relating exclusively
to the issuance of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than
the Notes), such amendment, supplement or filing, as the case may be, shall be
deemed to be an affirmation that the representations and warranties of the
Company contained in this Agreement and in any certificate theretofore delivered
to the Agents pursuant hereto are true and correct at the time of such
amendment, supplement or filing, as the case may be, and an undertaking that
such representations and warranties will be true and correct as though made at
and as of each such time.
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(ii) Each
Agent covenants and agrees with the Company that the acceptance by it of an
offer to sell Notes and the delivery to it of Notes from the Company pursuant to
a Terms Agreement shall be deemed to be an affirmation that the representations
and warranties of such Agent contained in this Agreement are true and correct at
the time of such acceptance as though made at and as of each such
time.
(b) Subsequent Delivery of
Certificates. The Company covenants and agrees with the Agents that,
subject to the provisions of Section 4(m) hereof, the Company shall furnish or
cause to be furnished to the Agents a certificate in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Agents to the effect that the statements contained in the
certificate referred to in Section 5(b) hereof that were last furnished to the
Agents are true and correct at and as of such time (except that such statements
shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as
amended and supplemented to such time) or, in lieu of such certificate, a
certificate of the same tenor as the certificate referred to in Section 5(b),
modified as necessary to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus
as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such certificate (1) upon
each filing by the Company of an Annual Report on Form 10-K or Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q with the Commission, or (2) when the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus is amended or supplemented (other than by an amendment or supplement
providing solely for the establishment of the terms of Notes or a change in the
interest rates, maturity or price of Notes or similar changes, and other than by
an amendment or supplement that relates exclusively to an offering of debt
securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes) or there is
filed with the Commission any document incorporated by reference into the
Prospectus, if reasonably requested by any Agent based on disclosure included in
or omitted from such amendment, supplement or incorporated
document.
(c) Subsequent Delivery of Legal
Opinions. The Company covenants and agrees with the Agents that, subject
to the provisions of Section 4(m) hereof, each time that the Registration
Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (other than by an
amendment or supplement providing solely for the establishment of the terms of
Notes or a change in the interest rates, maturity or price of the Notes or
similar changes or solely for the inclusion of additional financial information,
and other than by an amendment or supplement which relates exclusively to an
offering of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the
Notes) or there is filed with the Commission any document incorporated by
reference into the Prospectus (other than any Current Report on Form 8-K or
Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, unless the Agents shall reasonably request based
on disclosure included or omitted from such Report) or (if required pursuant to
the terms of a Terms Agreement) the Company sells Notes to one or more Agents
pursuant to a Terms Agreement, the Company shall furnish or cause to be
furnished forthwith to the Agents and to counsel to the Agents a written opinion
of each of the counsel designated in Section 5(a)(1) and (2), or other counsel
satisfactory to the Agents dated the date of filing with the Commission of such
supplement or document, the date of effectiveness of such amendment, or the date
of such sale, as the case may be, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agents,
of substantially the same tenor as the opinions referred to in Sections 5(a)(1)
and (2) hereof, but modified, as necessary, to relate to the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery
of such opinions; or, in lieu of such opinions, counsel last furnishing such
opinion to the Agents shall furnish the Agents with a letter substantially to
the effect that the Agents may rely on such last opinion to the same
extent
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as though
it was dated the date of such letter authorizing reliance (except that
statements in such last opinion shall be deemed to relate to the Registration
Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery
of such letter authorizing reliance).
(d) Subsequent Delivery of
Comfort Letters. The Company covenants and agrees with the Agents that,
subject to the provisions of Section 4(m) hereof, each time that the
Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented to
include additional financial information or there is filed with the Commission
any document incorporated by reference into the Prospectus which contains
additional financial information or (if required pursuant to the terms of a
Terms Agreement) the Company sells Notes to one or more Agents pursuant to a
Terms Agreement, the Company shall cause PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or other
independent certified public accountants reasonably satisfactory to the Agents,
forthwith to furnish the Agents with a letter, dated the date of filing with the
Commission of such supplement or document, the date of effectiveness of such
amendment, or the date of such sale, as the case may be, in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Agents, of substantially the same tenor as the letter
referred to in Section 5(c) hereof but modified to relate to the Registration
Statement and Prospectus, as amended and supplemented to the date of such
letter, and with such changes as may be necessary to reflect changes in the
financial statements and other information derived from the accounting records
of the Company; provided, however, that if the Registration Statement or the
Prospectus is amended or supplemented solely to include financial information as
of and for a fiscal quarter, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or other independent
certified public accountants reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, may limit
the scope of such letter to the unaudited financial statements included in such
amendment or supplement unless any other information included therein of an
accounting, financial or statistical nature is of such a nature that, in the
reasonable judgment of the Agents, such letter should cover such other
information.
SECTION
8. Indemnification.
(a) Indemnification of the
Agents. The Company agrees to indemnify severally and hold harmless each
Agent and each person, if any, who controls each Agent within the meaning of
Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act as
follows:
(i) against
any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred,
arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material
fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment or supplement
thereto), the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or arising out of any
untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the
Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any applicable Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or the omission
or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary to make the
statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made,
not misleading;
(ii) against
any and all loss, liability, claim, damage, or and expense whatsoever, as
incurred, to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any
litigation, or investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency
or
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body,
commenced or threatened, or of any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue
statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission, if such
settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company; and
(iii)
against any and all reasonable expenses whatsoever (including the reasonable
fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by an Agent to the extent authorized in
Section 8(c)), as reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending
against any litigation, or investigation or proceeding by any governmental
agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any
such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or
omission, to the extent that any such expense is not paid under (i) or (ii)
above;
provided,
however, that this indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, liability,
claim, damage or expense to the extent arising out of any untrue statement or
omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in
conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Agents
expressly for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment or supplement
thereto) or Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any
applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement
thereto).
(b) Indemnification of
Company. Each Agent, severally and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Company, its directors, each of its officers who signed the
Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within
the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act against
any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the
indemnity contained in subsection (a) of this Section 8, as incurred, but only
with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or
omissions, made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment or supplement
thereto) or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in
reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the
Company by such Agent expressly for use in the Registration Statement (or any
amendment or supplement thereto) or the Prospectus (or any amendment or
supplement thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.
(c) General. Each
indemnified party shall give prompt notice to each indemnifying party of any
action commenced against it in respect of which indemnity may be sought
hereunder, but failure to so notify an indemnifying party of such commencement
shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability which it may have
otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement. An indemnifying party may
assume the defense of the indemnified party by retaining counsel reasonably
satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party and any
others the indemnifying party may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the
fees and disbursements of such counsel related to such proceeding. In any such
proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own
counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of
such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified
party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel or (ii) the
named parties to any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include
both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both
parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential
differing interests between
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them. In
no event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for the fees and expenses of
more than one counsel (in addition to any local counsel) for all indemnified
parties in connection with any one action or separate but similar or related
actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or
circumstances.
(d) Foreign Currency
Judgments. The Company agrees to indemnify the Agents against any loss
incurred by the Agents as a result of any judgment or order being given or made
for the amount due under this Agreement and such judgment or order being paid in
a currency (a “Judgment Currency”) other than U.S. dollars as a result of any
variation between (i) the rate of exchange at which U.S. dollars are converted
into the Judgment Currency for the purpose of such judgment or order and (ii)
the rate of exchange at which the Related Agent is able to purchase U.S. dollars
with the amount of the Judgment Currency actually received by such Agent. The
foregoing indemnity shall constitute a separate and independent obligation of
the Company and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any such
judgment or order as aforesaid. The term “rate of exchange” shall include any
premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of, or
conversion into, the relevant currency.
No
indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified
parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with
respect to any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any
governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever in
respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this
Section 8 or Section 9 hereof (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual
or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent
does not contain a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a
failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party (unless such statement
is agreed to by the indemnified party in writing); provided, however, that in
the event such settlement, compromise or consent by the indemnifying party does
not include an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all
liability arising out of any litigation, investigation, proceeding or claim, the
provisions of this section with respect to indemnification shall continue and
survive.
SECTION
9. Contribution.
If the
indemnity agreement provided for in Section 8 hereof is for any reason held to
be unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless the indemnified parties
although applicable in accordance with its terms, the Company and the Agents
shall contribute to the aggregate losses, liabilities, claims, damages and
expenses of the nature contemplated by said indemnity agreement incurred by the
Company and the Agents, as incurred, in such proportions that each Agent is
responsible for that portion represented by the percentage that the total
commissions and underwriting discounts received by such Agent pursuant to this
Agreement to the date of such liability bears to the total sales price from the
sale of Notes sold to or through such Agent to the date of such liability to
which such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses relate and the
Company is responsible for the balance; provided, however, that no person guilty
of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933
Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of
such fraudulent misrepresentation.
If,
however, the allocation provided in the previous paragraph is not permitted by
applicable law then each indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid
or payable by
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such
indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect, not only the
relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand, and the Related
Agent(s), on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions
which resulted in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses but also
the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Related Agent(s), on
the other hand in connection with the offering of the Notes that were the
subject of the claim for indemnification. The relative benefits received by the
Company on the one hand and the Agent(s) on the other shall be deemed to be in
the same respective proportions as the total proceeds from the sale of such
Notes (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bears to the total
discount or commission received by the Related Agent(s) in respect thereof. The
relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Related Agent(s), on the
other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any
untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged
omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company
or by the Related Agent(s) and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access
to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or
omission.
The
Company and the Agents agree that it would not be just and equitable if
contribution pursuant to this Section 9 were determined by pro rata allocation
(even if the Related Agent(s) were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by
any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable
considerations referred to above in this Section 9. The aggregate amount of
losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified
party and referred to above in this Section 9 shall be deemed to include any
legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in
investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any
investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or
threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any applicable untrue or alleged
untrue statement or omission or alleged omission (covered by Section 8(a)
hereof).
Notwithstanding
the provisions of this Section 9, (i) no Agent shall be required to contribute
any amount in excess of the amount by which the total discount or commission
received by such Agent in connection with the offering of the Notes that were
the subject of the claim for indemnification exceeds the amount of any damages
which such Agent has otherwise been required to pay by reason of any applicable
untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission and (ii) no
person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section
11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was
not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. In addition, in connection with
an offering of Notes purchased from the Company by two or more Agents as
principal, the respective obligations of such Agents to contribute pursuant to
this Section 9 are several, and not joint, in proportion to the aggregate
principal amount of Notes that each such Agent has agreed to purchase from the
Company.
For
purposes of this Section 9, each person, if any, who controls an Agent within
the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall
have the same rights to contribution as such Agent, and each director of the
Company, each officer of the Company and each person, if any, who controls the
Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the
1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company.
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SECTION
10. Payment of
Expenses.
The
Company will pay all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations
under this Agreement, including:
(a) The
preparation and filing of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto;
(b) The
preparation, filing and reproduction of this Agreement;
(c) The
preparation, printing, issuance and delivery of Notes, including any fees and
expenses relating to the use of book-entry notes;
(d) The
reasonable fees and disbursements of the Company’s accountants and counsel, of
the Trustee and its counsel and of any Calculation Agent;
(e) The
reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Agents incurred from time to
time in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby;
(f) The
qualification of the Notes under state securities laws in accordance with the
provisions of Section 4(j) hereof, including filing fees, and the reasonable
fees and disbursements of counsel to the Agents in connection therewith and in
connection with the preparation of any Blue Sky survey;
(g) The
printing and delivery to the Agents in quantities as hereinabove stated of
copies of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus and any amendments or supplements to the foregoing;
(h) The
preparation, printing, reproducing and delivery to the Agents of copies of the
Indenture and all supplements and amendments thereto;
(i) The fees
of the Commission in connection with the registration of
Notes;
(j) Any fees
charged by rating agencies for the rating of Notes;
(k) The fees
and expenses, if any, incurred with respect to any filing with the Financial
Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.;
(l) Any
advertising and other out-of-pocket expenses of the Agents incurred with the
approval of such expense by the Company;
(m) The cost
of preparing, and providing any CUSIP or other identification numbers for,
Notes; and
(n) The fees
and expenses of any Depository (as defined in the Indenture and including,
without limitation, The Depository Trust Company, Clearstream and/or Euroclear)
and any nominees thereof in connection with Notes.
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SECTION
11. Representations,
Warranties and Agreements to Survive Delivery.
All
representations, warranties, indemnities and agreements contained in this
Agreement or in certificates of officers of the Company submitted pursuant
hereto or thereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect,
regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Agents or any
controlling person of the Agents, or by or on behalf of the Company or any
controlling person of the Company, and shall survive each delivery of and
payment for any of the Notes.
SECTION
12. Termination.
(a) Termination of this
Agreement. This Agreement (excluding any Terms Agreement) may be
terminated for any reason, at any time by either the Company or the Agents on
the giving of 30 days’ written notice of such termination to the other party
hereto; provided, however, that the termination of this Agreement by an Agent
shall terminate this Agreement only between such Agent and the Company and the
Company’s notice of termination as to any one Agent shall terminate this
Agreement only between itself and such Agent.
(b) Termination of a Terms
Agreement. The Agent or Agents party to a Terms Agreement may terminate
any Terms Agreement, immediately upon notice to the Company, at any time prior
to the Settlement Date relating thereto (i) if there has been, since the date of
such Terms Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is
given in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any applicable Permitted
Free Writing Prospectus any material adverse change in the condition, financial
or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the
Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not
arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) if there shall have occurred
any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis the effect
of which on the financial markets of the United States is such as to make it, in
the reasonable judgment of the Agent or Agents party to such Terms Agreement
(after consultation with the Company), impracticable to market the Notes subject
to such Terms Agreement or enforce contracts for the sale of such Notes, or
(iii) if trading in any securities of the Company has been suspended by the
Commission or a national securities exchange, or if trading generally on either
the American Stock Exchange or the New York Stock Exchange shall have been
suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum
ranges for prices for securities have been required, by either of said exchanges
or by order of the Commission or any other governmental authority, or if a
banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal, California or New York
authorities or if a banking moratorium shall have been declared by the relevant
authorities in the country or countries of origin of any foreign currency or
currencies in which the Notes subject to such Terms Agreement are denominated or
payable, or (iv) if the rating assigned by any nationally recognized securities
rating agency to any debt securities of the Company as of the date of any Terms
Agreement shall have been lowered since that date or if any such rating agency
shall have publicly announced since that date that it has placed any debt
securities of the Company on what is commonly termed a “watch list” for possible
downgrading, or (v) if there shall have come to the Agent’s or Agents’ attention
any facts that would cause such Agent or Agents to believe that the Prospectus,
at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Notes subject to
such Terms Agreement, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state a material
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fact
necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances
existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.
(c) General. In the event
of any such termination, no party will have any liability to any other party
hereto, except that (i) each Agent shall be entitled to any commission earned in
accordance with the third paragraph of Section 3(a) hereof to the extent
permitted by Section 1(c), (ii) if at the time of termination (a) the Agents
shall own any Notes purchased pursuant to a Terms Agreement with the intention
of reselling them or (b) an offer to purchase any of the Notes has been accepted
by the Company but the time of delivery to the purchaser or its agent of the
Note or Notes relating thereto has not occurred, the obligations set forth in
Section 5 hereof and the covenants set forth in Sections 4 and 7 hereof shall
remain in effect until such Notes are so resold or delivered, as the case may be
(provided, however, that, except as provided in clause (iii) below, the
Company’s obligations pursuant to Sections 4 and 7 hereof shall in any event
terminate no later than the date that is thirty days (nine months with respect
to subsections (f) and (k) of Section 4 hereof) after the time of such
termination), and (iii) the covenant set forth in Section 4(i) hereof, the
indemnity and contribution agreements set forth in Sections 8 and 9 hereof, and
the provisions of Sections 10, 11 and 15 hereof shall remain in
effect.
SECTION
13. Notices.
Unless
otherwise provided herein, all notices required under the terms and provisions
hereof shall be in writing, either delivered by hand, by mail or by telex, by
telecopier or by telegram, and any such notice shall be effective when received
at the address specified below.
If to the
Company:
Toyota
Motor Credit Corporation
00000
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx NF10
Torrance,
California 90501
|
|
Attention:
|
Vice
President —TMCC Treasury and FP&A
|
Telephone:
|
(000)000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)000-0000
|
With
a copy to:
|
Toyota
Motor Credit Corporation
00000
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx EF12
Torrance,
California 90501
|
|
Attention:
|
General
Counsel
|
Telephone:
|
(000)000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)000-0000
|
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If to
Xxxxxxx Xxxxx:
Xxxxxxx
Lynch, Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx World Headquarters
4 World
Financial Center, Floor 23
Attention:
|
Transactions
Management Group
Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
|
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
If to
Banc of America:
Banc of
America Securities LLC
Bank of
America Tower
One
Bryant Park
New York,
New York 10036
Attention:
|
High
Grade Debt Capital Markets Transaction Management/Legal
|
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
If to
Barclays:
Barclays
Capital Inc.
000 Xxxx
Xxxxxx
New York,
New York 10166
Attention:
|
MTN
Trading
|
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
If
to Citigroup:
|
Citigroup
Global Markets Inc.
000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx
Floor
New York,
New York 10013
Attention:
|
Transaction
Execution Group
|
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
If to
Deutsche Bank:
Deutsche
Bank Securities Inc.
00 Xxxx
Xxxxxx, 4th Floor
New York,
New York 10005
Attention:
|
Debt
Capital Markets - Syndicate Desk
|
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
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If to
HSBC:
HSBC
Securities (USA) Inc.
000 Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, 0xx
Floor
New York,
New York 10018
Attention:
|
Transaction
Management Group
|
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
If to
X.X. Xxxxxx:
X.X.
Xxxxxx Securities Inc..
000 Xxxx
Xxxxxx
New York,
New York 10017
Attention:
|
Transaction
Execution Group - 9th floor
|
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
If to
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx:
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
0000
Xxxxxxxx, 0xx Floor
New York,
New York 10036
Attention:
|
Money
Markets Origination
|
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000; (000) 000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)
000-0000; (000) 000-0000
|
With a
copy to:
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated
0000
Xxxxxxxx, 00xx Floor
New York,
New York 10036
Attention:
|
Investment
Banking Division
|
Telephone:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
Telecopy:
|
(000)
000-0000
|
If to
TFSS USA:
Toyota
Financial Services Securities USA Corporation
00000
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX-00
Torrance,
California 90501
Attention:
|
Xxxx
Xxxxxx, Vice President
|
Telephone:
|
(000) 000-0000 |
Telecopy:
|
(000) 000-0000 |
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or at
such other address as such party may designate from time to time by notice duly
given in accordance with the terms of this Section 13.
SECTION
14. Governing
Law.
This
Agreement and all the rights and obligations of the parties shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to
agreements made and to be performed in such State.
SECTION
15. Parties.
This
Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Agents and the
Company and their respective successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this
Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, firm or
corporation, other than the parties hereto and their respective successors and
the controlling persons and officers and directors referred to in Sections 8 and
9 and their heirs and legal representatives, any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein
contained. This Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof are intended
to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and respective
successors and said controlling persons and officers and directors and their
heirs and legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or
corporation. No purchaser of Notes shall be deemed to be a successor by reason
merely of such purchase.
SECTION
16. No Advisory
or Fiduciary Relationship.
The
Company acknowledges and agrees that (i) the purchase and sale of Notes pursuant
to this Agreement, including the determination of the public offering price of
Notes and any related discounts and commissions, are arm’s-length commercial
transactions between the Company, on the one hand, and each Related Agent, on
the other hand, (ii) in connection with the offerings contemplated hereby and
the process leading to such transaction each Agent is and has been acting solely
as a principal and is not the agent (except to the extent expressly set forth
herein) or fiduciary of the Company or its stockholders, creditors, employees or
any other party, (iii) no Agent has assumed or will assume an advisory or
fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offerings
contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such
Agent has advised or is currently advising the Company on other matters) and no
Agent has any obligation to the Company with respect to any offering
contemplated hereby except the obligations expressly set forth in this
Agreement, (iv) the Agents and their respective affiliates may be engaged in a
broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the
Company, and (v) no Agent has provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax
advice with respect to the offerings contemplated hereby and the Company has
consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent
it deemed appropriate.
SECTION
17. Counterparts.
This
Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed
an original hereof.
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SECTION
18. Captions.
The
captions in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not
define or limit any of the terms or the provisions hereof.
If the
foregoing is in accordance with the Agents’ 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 between
the Agents and the Company in accordance with its terms.
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Very truly yours, | ||
TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx | ||
Title: President
and Chief Executive Officer
|
S-1
Accepted: | ||
XXXXXXX LYNCH, XXXXXX, XXXXXX & XXXXX INCORPORATED | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | ||
Title:
Authorized Signatory
|
S-2
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxx | |
Name: Xxxx Xxxxx | ||
Title:
Authorized Signatory
|
S-3
BARCLAYS
CAPITAL INC.
|
||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx | ||
Title:
Director, Authorized Signatory
|
S-4
CITIGROUP
GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
|
||
By: | /s/ Xxxx X. XxXxxxxxx, Xx. | |
Name: Xxxx X. XxXxxxxxx, Xx. | ||
Title:
Authorized Signatory
|
S-5
DEUTSCHE
BANK SECURITIES INC.
|
||
By: | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx | ||
Title:
Authorized Signatory
|
||
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | ||
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Authorized Signatory |
S-6
HSBC
SECURITIES (USA) INC.
By:
|
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
|
|
Name: Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
|
||
Title: Vice
President, Authorized Signatory
|
S-7
X.X.
XXXXXX SECURITIES INC.
By:
|
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
|
|
Name: Xxxxx
Xxxxxx
|
||
Title: Executive
Director, Authorized Signatory
|
S-8
XXXXXX
XXXXXXX & CO. INCORPORATED
By:
|
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxx
|
|
Name:
Xxxxx Xxxx
|
||
Title:
Authorized Signatory
|
S-9
TOYOTA
FINANCIAL SERVICES SECURITIES USA CORPORATION
By:
|
/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
|
|
Name:
Xxxx Xxxxxx
|
||
Title:
Authorized Signatory
|
S-10
EXHIBIT
A
The
following terms, if applicable, shall be agreed to by the Agents and the Company
pursuant to each Terms Agreement:
Principal
Amount: $__________
Stated
Maturity Date:
Original
Issue Date:
Trade
Date:
Issue
Price: ____%
Agent’s
Discount or Commission:
Settlement
Date and Time:
Additional
Terms:
|
If
Fixed Rate Note:
|
Interest
Rate:
Interest
Payment Dates:
Day
Count Convention:
|
|
[
]
|
30/360
|
[
]
|
Actual/360
|
|
[
]
|
Actual/Actual
|
|
If
Floating Rate Note:
|
Interest
Calculation:
|
|
[
]
|
Regular
Floating Rate Note
|
[
]
|
Floating
Rate/Fixed Rate Note Fixed Rate Commencement
Date:
|
|
Fixed
Interest Rate:
|
||
[
]
|
Inverse
Floating Rate Note
|
|
Fixed
Interest Rate:
|
Interest
Rate Basis:
|
Initial
Interest Rate:
Initial
Interest Reset Date:
Spread
and/or Spread Multiplier, if any:
Interest
Reset Dates:
Interest
Payment Dates:
Regular
Record Dates:
Index
Maturity:
Maximum
Interest Rate, if any:
Minimum
Interest Rate, if any:
Interest
Rate Reset Period:
Interest
Payment Period:
Calculation
Agent:
Day Count
Convention:
|
[
]
|
Actual/360
|
[
]
|
Actual/Actual
|
|
[
]
|
Other:
|
Exhibit A
- 1
If
Redeemable:
Redemption
Date:
Notice of
Redemption:
If
Repayable:
Optional
Repayment Dates:
Repayment
Price:
Currency:
Specified
Currency (if other than U.S. dollars)
Minimum
Denominations:
Also,
agreement as to whether the following will be required:
Officers’
Certificate pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Distribution Agreement. Legal
Opinion pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Distribution Agreement. Comfort Letter
pursuant to Section 7(d) of the Distribution Agreement. Stand-off Agreement
pursuant to Section 4(l) of the Distribution Agreement.
Exhibit A
- 2
SCHEDULE
A
As
compensation for the services of the Agents hereunder, the Company shall pay the
Related Agent, on a discount basis, a commission for the sale of each Note by
such Agent equal to the principal amount of such Note multiplied by the
appropriate percentage set forth below:
PERCENT
OF
MATURITY
RANGES PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
From 9
months to less than 18 months .150%
From 18
months to less than 2 years .175%
From 2
years to less than 3 years .200%
From 3
years to less than 4 years .275%
From 4
years to less than 5 years .325%
From 5
years to less than 6 years .375%
From 6
years to less than 7 years .425%
From 7
years to less than 10 years .500%
From 10
years to less than 15 years .625%
From 15
years to less than 20 year .700%
From 20
years to 30 years .750%
*More
than 30 years to be negotiated at time of sale between the Related Agent and the
Company.
Schedule
A - 1