Ecolab Inc. $500,000,000 1.450% Notes due 2017 Underwriting AgreementUnderwriting Agreement • December 13th, 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 1.450% Notes due 2017 (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 Fourth Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of December 13, 2012, between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) (collectively, the “Indenture”).
