STIFEL FINANCIAL CORP. (a Delaware corporation)Underwriting Agreement • July 18th, 2014 • 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 & Smith Incorporated (“Merrill Lynch”) 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 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. and Merrill Lynch 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 $300,000,000 aggregate principal of amount of the Company’s 4.25% Senior Notes due 2024 (the “Securities”). The Securities are to be issued pursuant to an indenture, to be dated as of July 18, 2014 (the “Supplemental Indenture”), to the indenture, dated as of January 23, 2012 (the “Base Indenture” and, together with the Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and U.S.
