UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT $500,000,000 2.75% Senior Notes due 2021 $300,000,000 Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2018 Moody’s CorporationUnderwriting Agreement • March 1st, 2017 • 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 Barclays Capital Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), $500,000,000 principal amount of its 2.75% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “2021 Notes”) and $300,000,000 principal amount of its floating rate Senior Notes due 2018 (the “Floating Rate Notes” and, together with the 2021 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 Sixth Supplemental Indenture to be dated as of March 2, 2017 (the “Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee.
