STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP. (a Delaware corporation)Underwriting Agreement • December 21st, 2012 • Stifel Financial Corp • Security brokers, dealers & flotation companies • New York
Stifel Financial Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), confirms its agreement with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith Incorporated 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 Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are acting as representatives (in such capacity, the “Representatives”), with respect to the sale by the Company and the purchase by the Underwriters, acting severally and not jointly, of $150,000,000 aggregate principal of amount of the Company’s 5.375% Senior Notes due 2022 (the “Securities”). The Securities are to be issued pursuant to a supplemental indenture, to be dated as of December 21, 2012 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), to the indenture, dated as of January 23, 2012 (together with the Supplemental Indentur
