Baldor Electric Company 10,294,118 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.10 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • January 31st, 2007 • Baldor Electric Co • Motors & generators • New York
BALDOR ELECTRIC COMPANYBaldor Electric Co • January 31st, 2007 • Motors & generators • New York
Baldor Electric Company, a Missouri corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the underwriters named in Schedule A annexed hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representative, an aggregate principal amount of $550,000,000 8 5/8% Senior Notes due 2017 (the “Notes”). The Company’s obligations under the Notes and the Indenture (as defined below) will be, jointly and severally, unconditionally guaranteed (the “Guarantees”), on a senior basis, by each of the Subsidiaries (as defined below) listed on the signature pages hereto, each of which entities shall, promptly following the consummation of the Acquisition (as defined below), merge with and into each of the Reliance Significant Subsidiaries (as defined below) with the Reliance Significant Subsidiaries being the respective surviving entities (the “Guarantor Mergers”), at which point the Reliance Significant Subsidiaries will pursuant to a supplemental indenture (the “Supplemental Indenture for Note Gua
