NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION (Delaware corporation)Purchase Agreement • August 24th, 2006 • Northern Trust Corp • State commercial banks • New York
Northern Trust Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), confirms its agreement with Merrill Lynch & Co., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (“Merrill Lynch”) and each of the other Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters,” which term shall also include any underwriter substituted as hereinafter provided in Section 10 hereof), for whom Merrill Lynch is acting as representative (in such capacity, the “Representative”), with respect to the issue and sale by the Company and the purchase by the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of the respective principal amounts set forth in said Schedule A of $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.30% Notes due 2011 (the “Securities”). The Securities are to be issued pursuant to an indenture dated as of August 15, 2006 (the “Indenture”) between the Company and JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”). The term “Indenture,” as used herein, includes t
