UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • January 11th, 2012 • Allstate Corp • Fire, marine & casualty insurance • New York
The Allstate Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you (the “Representatives”) are acting as representatives, $500,000,000 principal amount of its 5.200% Senior Notes due 2042 (the “Securities”) registered under the Registration Statement referred to in Section 1(a) below. The Securities are to be issued pursuant to the provisions of an Indenture, dated as of December 16, 1997, as amended by the Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of July 23, 1999, the Sixth Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 12, 2000, as supplemented by the Sixteenth Supplemental Indenture to be dated as of January 11, 2012 (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association (as successor to State Street Bank and Trust Company), as trustee (the “Trustee”).
