ALLEGHANY CORPORATION $400,000,000 4.950% Senior Notes due 2022 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT June 21, 2012Underwriting Agreement • June 26th, 2012 • Alleghany Corp /De • Fire, marine & casualty insurance • New York
Alleghany Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several underwriters (the “Underwriters”) named in Schedule 1 attached to this agreement (this “Agreement”) acting severally and not jointly, the respective amounts set forth in such Schedule 1 of $400,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.950% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “Securities”). The Securities will be issued pursuant to an Indenture dated as of September 20, 2010 (the “Base Indenture”) between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture dated as of September 20, 2010 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”) and as supplemented by a second supplemental indenture to be dated as of June 26, 2012 (the “Second Supplemental Indenture” and together with the Base Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”). This is to confirm the agreement concerning the purchase of the Securities from the C
