5% Notes due 2015 5.75% Notes due 2035 underwriting agreement May 25, 2005Underwriting Agreement • May 31st, 2005 • Alcan Inc • Primary smelting & refining of nonferrous metals • New York
If, on the Closing Date, any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase the Securities which it or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date (the "Defaulted Securities"), and the aggregate principal amount of Defaulted Securities of a series of Securities is not more than one-tenth of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series, the other Underwriters shall be obligated, severally in the proportions which the amounts thereof set forth opposite their names in Schedule A hereto bear to the aggregate principal amount of such series set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as you may specify, to purchase the Defaulted Securities which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase; provided that in no event shall the principal amount of Securities with respect to any series which any Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to Article I be i
