Ecolab Inc. $500,000,000 1.000% Notes due 2015 Underwriting AgreementUnderwriting Agreement • August 9th, 2012 • Ecolab Inc • Soap, detergents, cleang preparations, perfumes, cosmetics • New York
Ecolab Inc., a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), proposes to sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”), for which you (the “Representatives”) are acting as representatives, $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 1.000% Notes due 2015 (the “Securities”) to be issued under the Amended and Restated Indenture, dated as of January 9, 2001, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (f/k/a The Bank of New York Trust Company, as successor in interest to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association and Bank One, National Association), as amended by the Third Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of August 9, 2012, between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) (collectively, the “Indenture”).
