DARDEN RESTAURANTS, INC. (a Florida corporation) UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT October 5, 2011Underwriting Agreement • October 11th, 2011 • Darden Restaurants Inc • Retail-eating places • New York
Darden Restaurants, Inc., a Florida corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several underwriters named in Exhibit A hereto (the “Underwriters”) $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.50% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “Notes”). Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC shall be designated and will act as Representatives (the “Representatives”) of the several Underwriters in connection with the offering and sale of the Notes.
