HEALTH CARE REIT, INC. UNDERWRITING AGREEMENTUnderwriting Agreement • November 30th, 2012 • Health Care Reit Inc /De/ • Real estate investment trusts
Health Care REIT, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to sell to the underwriters (the “Underwriters”) named in Schedule I hereto for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), (a) $450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 2.250% Notes due 2018 (the “2018 Notes”), (b) $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.750% Notes due 2023 (the “2023 Notes”) and (c) $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.125% Notes due 2043 (the “2043 Notes,” and together with the 2018 Notes and the 2023 Notes, the “Notes”), to be issued pursuant to the provisions of an indenture dated as of March 15, 2010, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a supplemental indenture thereto, to be dated as of December 6, 2012 (the indenture, as so supplemented, the “Indenture”).
