UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT $450,000,000 2.750% Senior Notes due 2019 $300,000,000 5.250% Senior Notes due 2044 Moody’s CorporationUnderwriting Agreement • July 9th, 2014 • Moodys Corp /De/ • Services-consumer credit reporting, collection agencies • New York
Moody’s Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), $450,000,000 principal amount of its 2.750% Senior Notes due 2019 (the “2019 Notes”) and $300,000,000 principal amount of its 5.250% Senior Notes due 2044 (the “2044 Notes” and, together with the 2019 Notes, the “Securities”). The Securities will be issued pursuant to an indenture dated as of August 19, 2010 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Fourth Supplemental Indenture to be dated as of the Closing Date (the “Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee.
