UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT $400,000,000 4.250% Senior Notes due 2029 $400,000,000 4.875% Senior Notes due 2048 Moody’s CorporationUnderwriting Agreement • December 7th, 2018 • 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 J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), $400,000,000 principal amount of its 4.250% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “2029 Notes”) and $400,000,000 principal amount of its 4.875% Senior Notes due 2048 (the “2048 Notes” and, together with the 2029 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 Ninth Supplemental Indenture to be dated as of December 17, 2018 (the “Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and the Trust
