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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 20, 2024

 

 

CBRE GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-32205   94-3391143

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

2100 McKinney Avenue  
Suite 1250  
Dallas, Texas   75201
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

(214) 979-6100

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading
Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share   CBRE   New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 


This Current Report on Form 8-K is filed by CBRE Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the matters described herein.

 

Item 1.01

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

On February 20, 2024, CBRE Services, Inc. (“Services”), a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, issued $500 million in aggregate principal amount of 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”) guaranteed on a full and unconditional basis by the Company. The Notes are governed by an Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2013 (the “Base Indenture”), among Services, the Company, certain of Services’ subsidiaries and Computershare Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended and supplemented by the Ninth Supplemental Indenture entered into among Services, the Company and the Trustee on February 23, 2024 (the “Ninth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”).

The Notes were sold pursuant to an underwriting agreement, dated as of February 20, 2024 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among Services, the Company and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BofA Securities, Inc. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. on behalf of the several underwriters listed in Schedule A thereto. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to finance in part the acquisition of J&J Worldwide Services. The Notes were offered pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-276141) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), as supplemented by the prospectus supplement, dated February 20, 2024.

The Notes will mature on April 1, 2029 and bear interest at a rate of 5.500% per annum, payable semi-annually in arrears on April 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning on October 1, 2024.

As of February 23, 2024 (the “Issue Date”), the Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by the Company. After the Issue Date, certain of the Services’ subsidiaries will be required to fully and unconditionally guarantee the Notes on a senior unsecured basis if such subsidiaries guarantee other of Services’ indebtedness above a specified amount. The guarantees by each guarantor of the Notes will rank equal in right of payment with all existing and future senior indebtedness of such guarantor.

The Notes are senior unsecured obligations of Services. The Notes rank equal in right of payment with Services’ existing and future senior indebtedness and senior in right of payment to any of Services’ future subordinated indebtedness. The Notes and related guarantees will be effectively subordinated to all of Services’ and such guarantors’ secured debt (if any) to the extent of the value of the assets securing such debt.

The Indenture contains covenants that limit Services’ ability and the ability of certain of Services’ subsidiaries to (i) create certain liens, (ii) enter into sale/leaseback transactions and (iii) enter into mergers or consolidations. These covenants are subject to a number of important qualifications and exceptions contained in the Indenture.

Events of default under the Indenture include, among others, the following (subject in certain cases to grace and cure periods): nonpayment, breach of covenants in the Indenture, default of payment of principal at final maturity and cessation of the guarantees.

The foregoing description is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Underwriting Agreement, attached as Exhibit 1.1 hereto, and the Indenture, attached as Exhibits 4.1 and 4.2 hereto.

The underwriters, and their affiliates have in the past provided and from time to time in the future may provide the Company and its affiliates with certain commercial banking, financial advisory, investment banking and other services in the ordinary course of business, for which they have received and may receive customary payments of interest, fees and commissions.


Item 2.03

Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

The information set forth above under Item 1.01 is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

 

Item 5.02

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

On February 21, 2024, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) appointed Guy A. Metcalfe to the Board, effective February 26, 2024, to serve until the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders. Mr. Metcalfe will also serve on the Board’s Compensation Committee and Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee. There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Metcalfe and any other person pursuant to which the Board selected Mr. Metcalfe as a director, and Mr. Metcalfe has not participated in any “related party-transactions” with the Company as set forth in Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. The Board has also determined that Mr. Metcalfe is “independent” as defined under New York Stock Exchange and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) rules and guidance as well as under the Board’s Corporate Governance Guidelines and its Categorical Independence Standards. Mr. Metcalfe will receive the Company’s standard compensation package for non-employee directors. A description of this standard compensation package can be found in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on April 4, 2023. Mr. Metcalfe and the Company will also enter into the Company’s standard form of Indemnification Agreement for members of the Board.

 

Item 7.01

Regulation FD Disclosure.

On February 23, 2024, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Metcalfe to the Board. A copy of that press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.

The information included in this Current Report on Form 8-K under this Item 7.01 (including Exhibit 99.1 hereto) is being “furnished” and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.


Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(d)

Exhibits

The following documents are attached as exhibits to this Current Report on Form 8-K:

 

Exhibit

No.

   Exhibit Description
1.1    Underwriting Agreement, dated as of February 20, 2024, among CBRE Group, Inc., CBRE Services, Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BofA Securities, Inc. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., for themselves and on behalf of the several underwriters listed therein
4.1    Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2013, among CBRE Group, Inc., CBRE Services, Inc., certain subsidiaries of CBRE Services, Inc. named therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (incorporated herein by reference from Exhibit 4.4(a) to the Form 10-Q filed by CBRE Group, Inc. on May 10, 2013 (File No. 001-32205))
4.2    Ninth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 23, 2024, among CBRE Group, Inc., CBRE Services, Inc. and Computershare Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, for the issuance of 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029, including the Form of 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029
5.1    Legal Opinion of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
23.1    Consent of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)
99.1*    Press Release announcing the appointment of Guy A. Metcalfe as a Director of the Company, dated February 23, 2024
104    Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

 

*

Furnished herewith.

“Safe Harbor” Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This current report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the use of proceeds from the offering of the Notes and future transactions between the Company and its affiliates and the underwriters and their respective affiliates. These forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors discussed in the Company’s filings with the SEC. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this current report and, except to the extent required by applicable securities laws, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update or revise any of them to reflect actual results, any changes in expectations or any change in events. If the Company does update one or more forward-looking statements, no inference should be drawn that it will make additional updates with respect to those or other forward-looking statements. For additional information concerning risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, and risks to the Company’s business in general, please refer to its SEC filings, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023.


SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: February 23, 2024   CBRE GROUP, INC.
    By:  

/s/ EMMA E. GIAMARTINO

      Emma E. Giamartino
      Chief Financial Officer

Exhibit 1.1

 

 

 

CBRE SERVICES, INC.

(a Delaware corporation)

$500,000,000 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

Dated: February 20, 2024

 

 

 

 


CBRE SERVICES, INC.

(a Delaware corporation)

$500,000,000 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

February 20, 2024

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

BofA Securities, Inc.

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

as Representatives of the several Underwriters

 

c/o

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

550 South Tryon Street

Charlotte, North Carolina 28202

 

c/o

BofA Securities, Inc.

One Bryant Park

New York, New York 10036

 

c/o

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

452 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York 10018

Ladies and Gentlemen:

CBRE Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), confirms its agreement with each of the 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 Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BofA Securities, Inc. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. 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 the respective principal amounts set forth opposite their names in said Schedule A of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”). The Securities (as defined below) are to be issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of March 14, 2013 (the “Base Indenture”), among the Company, CBRE Group, Inc. (“Parent” or the “Guarantor”), certain subsidiaries of the Company party thereto and Computershare Trust Company, National Association, as successor-in-interest to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the Ninth Supplemental Indenture thereto, to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined below) (the “Ninth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), among the Company, Parent, as guarantor, and the Trustee.

The payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by Parent pursuant to its guarantee (the “Guarantee”). The Notes and the Guarantee are herein collectively referred to as the “Securities.”

The Company understands that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of the Securities as soon as the Representatives deem advisable after this Underwriting Agreement (this “Agreement”) has been executed and delivered and the Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the “1939 Act”).


The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-276141), including the Securities, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “1933 Act”). Such registration statement, as of any time, means such registration statement as amended by any post-effective amendments thereto to such time, the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein at such time pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act and the documents otherwise deemed to be a part thereof as of such time pursuant to Rule 430B under the 1933 Act (“Rule 430B”), is referred to herein as the “Registration Statement”; provided, however, that the “Registration Statement” without reference to a time means such registration statement as amended by any post-effective amendments thereto as of the time of the first contract of sale for the Securities, which time shall be considered the “new effective date” of such registration statement with respect to the Securities within the meaning of paragraph (f)(2) of Rule 430B, including the exhibits and schedules thereto as of such time, the documents incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference therein at such time pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act and the documents otherwise deemed to be a part thereof as of such time pursuant to the Rule 430B. Each preliminary prospectus used in connection with the offering of the Securities, including the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act, are collectively referred to herein as a “preliminary prospectus”. The final prospectus, in the form first furnished or made available to the Underwriters for use in connection with the offering of the Securities, including the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act, are collectively referred to herein as the “Prospectus”. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to any of the foregoing shall be deemed to include the copy filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system or any successor system (“EDGAR”).

As used in this Agreement:

“Applicable Time” means 2:15 p.m., New York City time, on February 20, 2024, or such other time as agreed by the Company and the Representatives.

“General Disclosure Package” means any Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectuses issued at or prior to the Applicable Time and the most recent preliminary prospectus (including any documents incorporated therein by reference) that is distributed to investors prior to the Applicable Time, all considered together.

“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 of the 1933 Act (“Rule 433”), including without limitation any “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act (“Rule 405”)) relating to the Securities that is (i) required to be filed with the Commission by the Company, (ii) a “road show that is a written communication” within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i), whether or not required to be filed with the Commission, (iii) exempt from filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d)(5)(i) because it contains a description of the Securities or of the offering that does not reflect the final terms, in each case in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g), or (iv) the Final Term Sheet (as defined below).

 

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“Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is intended for general distribution to prospective investors, as evidenced by its being specified in Schedule B hereto.

“Issuer Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus” means any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not an Issuer General Use Free Writing Prospectus.

All references in this Agreement to financial statements and schedules and other information which is “contained”, “included” or “stated” (or other references of like import) in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to include all such financial statements and schedules and other information incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement; and all references in this Agreement to amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to include the filing of any document under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the “1934 Act”), incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, at or after the execution and delivery of this Agreement.

SECTION 1. Representations and Warranties.

(a) Representations and Warranties by the Company and the Guarantor. Each of the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, represents and warrants to each Underwriter as of the date hereof, the Applicable Time and the Closing Time (as defined below), and agrees with each Underwriter, as follows:

(i) Registration Statement and Prospectuses. The Company and the Guarantor satisfy the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement” (as defined in Rule 405) and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such registration statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401 under the 1933 Act has been received by the Company or the Guarantor. Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective under the 1933 Act, which automatic shelf registration statement became effective under Rule 462(e) under the 1933 Act. No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has been issued under the 1933 Act, no order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for any of those purposes have been instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of any of the Company or the Guarantor, contemplated.

Each of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the time of its effectiveness and at each deemed effective date with respect to the Underwriters pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2) under the 1933 Act, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act. Each preliminary prospectus, the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, at the time each was filed with the Commission, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the 1933 Act. Each preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus delivered to the Underwriters for use in connection with this offering was identical in all material respects to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.

The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus, when they became effective or at the time they were or hereafter are filed with the Commission, complied and will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act.

 

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(ii) Accurate Disclosure. Neither the Registration Statement nor any amendment thereto, at its effective time or at the Closing Time, contained or will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or will omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. No preliminary prospectus (including any documents incorporated therein by reference), as of its date, included, includes or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. As of the Applicable Time, neither (A) the General Disclosure Package nor (B) any individual Issuer Limited Use Free Writing Prospectus, when considered together with the General Disclosure Package, included or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Neither the Prospectus nor any amendment or supplement thereto (including any prospectus wrapper), as of its issue date, at the time of any filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the 1933 Act or at the Closing Time, included or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, at the time the Registration Statement became effective or when such documents incorporated by reference were filed with the Commission, as the case may be, when read together with the other information in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may be, did not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. The investor presentation dated February 16, 2024 (the “Investor Presentation”), when considered together with the General Disclosure Package, did not, and at the Closing Time, will not, include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation and warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in the Investor Presentation in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in the Investor Presentation.

The representations and warranties in this subsection shall not apply to (x) the Statement of Eligibility (Form T-1) of the Trustee under the 1939 Act or (y) statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), the General Disclosure Package, the Investor Presentation or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein. For purposes of this Agreement, the only information so furnished shall be the information in the first paragraph under the heading “Underwriting–Discounts” and the information in the first and second paragraphs under the heading “Underwriting–Short Positions and Certain Other Transactions” in each case contained in the Prospectus (the “Underwriter Information”).

(iii) Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. No Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicts or will conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein, and any preliminary prospectus or other prospectus deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified. Any offer that is a written communication relating to the Securities made prior to the initial filing of the Registration Statement

 

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by the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this paragraph only, of Rule 163(c) of the 1933 Act) has been filed with the Commission in accordance with the exemption provided by Rule 163 under the 1933 Act (“Rule 163”) and otherwise complied with the requirements of Rule 163, including, without limitation, the legending requirement, to qualify such offer for the exemption from Section 5(c) of the 1933 Act provided by Rule 163.

(iv) Well-Known Seasoned Issuer. (A) At the original effectiveness of the Registration Statement, (B) at the time of the most recent amendment thereto for the purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the 1933 Act (whether such amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act or form of prospectus), (C) at the time the Company and the Guarantor or any person acting on their behalf (within the meaning, for this clause only, of Rule 163(c) of the 1933 Act)) made any offer relating to the Securities in reliance on the exemption of Rule 163, and (D) as of the Applicable Time, each of the Company and the Guarantor was and is a “well-known seasoned issuer” (as defined in Rule 405).

(v) Company Not Ineligible Issuer. At the time of filing the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the earliest time thereafter that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) of the 1933 Act) of the Securities and at the date hereof, neither the Company nor the Guarantor was or is an “ineligible issuer”, as defined in Rule 405, without taking account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary that the Company or the Guarantor be considered an ineligible issuer.

(vi) Independent Accountants. KPMG LLP, which expressed its opinion with respect to the financial statements (which term as used in this Agreement includes the related notes thereto) and supporting schedules filed with the Commission and included in or incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, are independent registered public accountants within the meaning of Regulation S-X under the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act, and any non-audit services provided by KPMG LLP to the Company or the Guarantor have been approved by the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company.

(vii) Financial Statements. The financial statements included in or incorporated by reference into in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus present fairly the financial position of Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates shown and their results of operations and cash flows for the periods shown, and, except as otherwise disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis. The supporting schedules, if any, present fairly the information required to be stated therein. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus and the Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

(viii) No Material Adverse Change in Business. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus: (A) there has been no material adverse change, nor any development or event involving a prospective material adverse change, in the financial condition, results of operations or business of Parent and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (any such change, a “Material Adverse Change”); (B) Parent and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity, have not incurred any material liability or obligation, indirect, direct or contingent, not in the ordinary course

 

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of business nor entered into any material transaction or agreement not in the ordinary course of business; and (C) there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company (except for dividends to Parent which are permitted under each of (1) the Credit Agreement, dated as of July 10, 2023, the “2023 Credit Agreement”), among Parent, the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company, the lenders and other agents named therein and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent and (2) the Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of August 5, 2022 (as amended or supplemented through the date hereof, the “Revolving Credit Agreement” and, together with the 2023 Credit Agreement, the “Credit Agreements”), among Parent, the Company, the lenders party thereto, the issuing banks party thereto and Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as administrative agent) or, except for dividends paid to the Company or other subsidiaries, any of its subsidiaries on any class of capital stock or repurchase or redemption by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any class of capital stock.

(ix) Good Standing of the Company. The Company has been duly incorporated and is an existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with corporate power and authorizations to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation in good standing in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified or to be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse effect on the financial condition, results of operations or business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”).

(x) Good Standing of Subsidiaries. Parent and each Significant Subsidiary (as defined below) of the Company has been duly formed and is an existing corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership, as the case may be, in good standing (if applicable) under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with corporate (or equivalent) power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and Parent and each Significant Subsidiary of the Company is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership, as the case may be, in good standing (if applicable) in all other jurisdictions in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified or to be in good standing would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; all of the issued and outstanding capital stock, ownership interests, or partnership interests, as the case may be, of Parent and each Significant Subsidiary of the Company has been duly authorized and validly issued and, in the case of capital stock, is fully paid and nonassessable; and, except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, the capital stock, ownership interests, or partnership interests, as the case may be, of Parent and each Significant Subsidiary owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, is owned free from liens, encumbrances and defects. For purposes of this Agreement, “Significant Subsidiaries” has the meaning set forth in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, as promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the 1934 Act, and includes, without limitation, whether or not such subsidiaries would constitute a significant subsidiary pursuant to Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, all of the subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 to Parent’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.

 

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(xi) Capitalization. At December 31, 2023, on a consolidated basis, after giving pro forma effect to the issuance and sale of the Securities pursuant hereto, Parent would have an authorized and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the caption “Capitalization” (other than for subsequent issuances of capital stock, if any, pursuant to employee benefit plans described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, upon exercise of outstanding options or warrants described in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or pursuant to a share subscription agreement or any distribution agreements in effect on or prior to the date hereof). All of the outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and have been issued in compliance with federal and state securities laws.

(xii) Authorization of Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by, and is a valid and binding agreement of, the Company and the Guarantor.

(xiii) Authorization of the Indenture. (A) The Base Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and the Guarantor and constitutes a valid and binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantor, enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles and (B) the Ninth Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and the Guarantor and at the Closing Time will have been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor and will constitute a valid and binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantor, enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles.

(xiv) Authorization of the Securities. The Notes to be purchased by the Underwriters from the Company are in the form contemplated by the Indenture, have been duly authorized for issuance and sale pursuant to this Agreement and the Indenture and, at the Closing Time, will have been duly executed by the Company and, when authenticated in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor, will constitute valid and binding agreements of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture. The Guarantee of the Notes is in the form contemplated by the Indenture, has been duly authorized for issuance and sale pursuant to this Agreement and the Indenture by the Guarantor and, at the Closing Time, the Guarantee of the Notes will have been duly executed by the Guarantor and, when the Notes have been authenticated in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor, will constitute valid and binding agreements of the Guarantor, enforceable against the Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

(xv) Description of the Securities and the Indenture. The Securities and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the respective statements relating thereto contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and will be in substantially the respective forms filed or incorporated by reference, as the case may be, as exhibits to the Registration Statement.

 

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(xvi) Non-Contravention of Existing Instruments. None of Parent, the Company or any of the Significant Subsidiaries is in breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or in default under, (A) any statute, rule, regulation or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, that has jurisdiction over Parent, the Company, or any of the Significant Subsidiaries or any of their properties, (B) any agreement or instrument to which Parent, the Company or any of the Significant Subsidiaries is a party or by which Parent, the Company or any of the Significant Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties of Parent, the Company or any of the Significant Subsidiaries is subject or (C) the charter, by-laws or similar governing document of Parent, the Company or any of the Significant Subsidiaries (each an “Existing Instrument”), except with respect to clauses (A) and (B) for any breaches, violations or defaults that would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Assuming the accuracy of the representations of the other parties hereto and the performance by those parties of their agreements herein, the execution, delivery and performance of the Base Indenture, the Ninth Supplemental Indenture and this Agreement, and the issuance and sale of the Securities and compliance with the terms and provisions thereof will not result in a breach or violation of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, (X) any statute, rule, regulation or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, that has jurisdiction over Parent or any of its subsidiaries or any of their properties, (Y) any agreement or instrument to which Parent, the Company or any of the Significant Subsidiaries is a party or by which Parent, the Company or any of the Significant Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the properties of the Company or the Significant Subsidiaries is subject or (Z) the charter, by-laws or similar governing documents of Parent or the Company, except, with respect to clauses (X) and (Y), where such breach, violation or default would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect or would materially and adversely affect the ability of Parent or Company to perform their respective obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture or the Notes.

(xvii) Absence of Proceedings. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no pending actions, suits or proceedings against or affecting Parent, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties that (A) if determined adversely to Parent or any of its subsidiaries, would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, (B) would materially and adversely affect the ability of Parent or its subsidiaries to perform their respective obligations under this Agreement or (C) are otherwise material in the context of the sale of the Securities; and no such actions, suits or proceedings are, to the knowledge of the Company or the Guarantor, threatened or contemplated.

(xviii) Absence of Further Requirements. No filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any governmental entity is necessary or required for the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of their obligations hereunder, in connection with the offering, issuance or sale of the Securities hereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except such as have been already obtained or as may be required under the 1933 Act, state securities laws or the rules of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”).

(xix) Possession of Licenses and Permits. Parent, the Company and the Significant Subsidiaries possess adequate certificates, authorities or permits issued by appropriate governmental agencies or bodies necessary to conduct the business now operated by them and have not received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authority or permit that, if determined adversely to Parent, the Company or any of the Significant Subsidiaries, would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(xx) Title to Property. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, Parent and its subsidiaries have good and valid title to all real properties and all other properties and assets owned by them that are material to Parent and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in each case free from liens, encumbrances and defects that would materially affect the value thereof or materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made thereof by them other than liens, encumbrances and defects permitted by the Credit Agreements; and except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, Parent and its subsidiaries hold any leased real or personal property that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole under valid and enforceable leases with no exceptions that would materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made thereof by them.

(xxi) Environmental Laws. Except as disclosed in the General Disclosure Package, none of Parent or any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any statute, rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use, disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or relating to the protection or restoration of the environment or human exposure to hazardous or toxic substances (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), owns or operates any real property contaminated with any substance that is subject to any Environmental Laws, is liable for any off-site disposal or contamination pursuant to any Environmental Laws, or is subject to any claim relating to any Environmental Laws, which violation, contamination, liability or claim would reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect; and the Company is not aware of any pending investigation which might lead to such a claim.

(xxii) Accounting Controls and Disclosure Controls. Each of Parent and its subsidiaries maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (A) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (B) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (C) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (D) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (E) the interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, since the end of Parent’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (X) no material weakness or significant deficiencies in Parent’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (Y) no change in Parent’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially adversely affected, or is reasonably likely to materially adversely affect, Parent’s internal control over financial reporting. Parent maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15 under the 1934 Act) that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by Parent in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Commission, including, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by Parent in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is accumulated and communicated to Parent’s management, including its principal executive officer or officers and its principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

(xxiii) Compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. There is and has been no failure which is continuing on the part of Parent or the Company or any of their respective directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith.

 

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(xxiv) Payment of Taxes. Parent and its consolidated subsidiaries have filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns or have properly requested extensions thereof and have paid all taxes required to be paid by any of them and, if due and payable, any related or similar assessment, fine or penalty levied against any of them except (A) as may be being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings or (B) as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. Parent has made adequate charges, accruals and reserves in the applicable financial statements referred to in Section 1(vii) hereof in respect of all federal, state and foreign income and franchise taxes for all periods as to which the tax liability of Parent or any of its consolidated subsidiaries has not been finally determined.

(xxv) Insurance. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, each of Parent and its subsidiaries are insured by recognized, financially sound institutions with policies in such amounts and with such deductibles and covering such risks as are generally deemed adequate and customary for their businesses including, without limitation, policies covering real and personal property owned or leased by the Company and its subsidiaries against theft, damage, destruction, acts of vandalism and earthquakes. Parent has no reason to believe that it or any subsidiary will not be able (A) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (B) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not result in a Material Adverse Change. Neither Parent nor any subsidiary has been denied any insurance coverage which it has sought or for which it has applied, where such denial would be material to Parent and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole.

(xxvi) Investment Company Act. Each of the Company and the Guarantor is not, and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities as described in the Registration Statement, General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, will not be an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”).

(xxvii) Absence of Manipulation. Neither the Company nor the Guarantor has taken or will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that might be reasonably expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.

(xxviii) Money Laundering Laws. The operations of Parent and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in material compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental or regulatory agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving Parent or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, threatened.

(xxix) Trade Sanctions Laws. None of (A) (1) Parent, its subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or officers or, (2) to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, any agent, employee or affiliate of Parent or any of its subsidiaries is the subject or target of any sanctions adopted by the European Union, any U.S. sanctions administered or enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the U.S. Department of State, His Majesty’s Treasury, the United Nations Security Council, or any other relevant sanctions authority (any such sanctions, “Sanctions” and such sanctions authorities, the “Sanctions Authorities”) or (B) Parent or its subsidiaries is located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the subject or target of any country-wide or territory-wide Sanctions, including, without limitation, at the time of this Agreement, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk

 

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People’s Republic, the Kherson, the Zaporizhzhia and the Crimea regions of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria (each, a “Sanctioned Country”). Parent and its subsidiaries have instituted, maintain and enforce, and will continue to maintain and enforce, policies and procedures designed to promote and ensure, and which are reasonably expected to ensure, compliance with all of the relevant regulations adopted by the Sanctions Authorities. The Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, (X) to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any person or entity, that, at the time of such financing, is the subject of Sanctions, (Y) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Country, or (Z) in any other manner that would result in a violation of the relevant regulations adopted by the Sanctions Authorities by any person or entity (including any Underwriter). For the past five years, none of Parent or any of its subsidiaries has knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country.

(xxx) Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Laws. None of (A) (1) Parent, its subsidiaries or any of their respective directors or officers or, (2) to the knowledge of Parent and the Company, any agent, employee or affiliate of Parent or any of its subsidiaries has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of the FCPA (as defined below), including, without limitation, making use of the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA. Parent, its subsidiaries and their respective directors and officers and affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance, in all material respects, with the Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Laws (as defined below) and have instituted, maintain and enforce, and will continue to maintain and enforce, policies and procedures designed to promote and ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance with the Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Laws. “FCPA” means Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder. “Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Laws” means the OECD Convention, the Bribery Act 2010 and the anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws of any jurisdiction to which Parent or any of its subsidiaries are, or have been, subject and in each case any related rules, orders regulations and guidance.

(xxxi) Regulations T, U, X. Neither the Company nor the Guarantor nor any of their respective subsidiaries nor any agent thereof acting on their behalf has taken, and none of them will take, any action that might cause this Agreement or the issuance or sale of the Securities to violate Regulation T, Regulation U or Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

(xxxii) Related Party Transactions. The Company is not aware of any relationship, direct or indirect, that exists between or among any of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their Affiliates, on the one hand, and any director, officer, member, stockholder, customer or supplier of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their Affiliates, on the other hand, which is required by the 1933 Act to be disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no outstanding loans, advances (except advances for business expenses in the ordinary course of business) or guarantees of indebtedness by the Company, the Guarantor or any of their Affiliates to or for the benefit of any of the executive officers or directors of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their Affiliates or any of their respective family members.

 

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(xxxiii) No Default in the Credit Agreements. No event of default exists under the 2023 Credit Agreement or the Revolving Credit Agreement.

(xxxiv) No Finder’s Fee. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company or the Guarantor and any person that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company, the Guarantor or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or other like payment in connection with this offering.

(xxxv) Cybersecurity; Data Protection. Parent and its subsidiaries’ information technology assets and equipment, computers, systems, networks, hardware, software, websites, applications, and databases (collectively, “IT Systems”) are adequate for, and operate and perform in all material respects as required in connection with the operation of the business of Parent and its subsidiaries as currently conducted, free and clear of all material bugs, errors, defects, Trojan horses, time bombs, malware and other corruptants. Parent and its subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable controls, policies, procedures, and safeguards to maintain and protect their material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and data (including all personal, personally identifiable, sensitive, confidential or regulated data (“Personal Data”) used in connection with their businesses. There have been no breaches, violations, outages or unauthorized uses of or accesses to Parent’s or its subsidiaries’ IT Systems or Personal Data, except for those that have been remedied without material cost or liability or the duty to notify any other person, nor any incidents under internal review or investigations relating to the same. Parent and its subsidiaries are presently in material compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Personal Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Personal Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification.

(b) Officer’s Certificates. Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company or the Guarantor delivered to the Representatives or to counsel for the Underwriters shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to each Underwriter as to the matters covered thereby.

SECTION 2. Sale and Delivery to Underwriters; Closing.

(a) Purchase and Sale. On the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company, at the applicable Purchase Price (as defined in Schedule A), the aggregate principal amount of the applicable Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name in Schedule A, subject to such adjustments as the Representatives in their discretion shall make to ensure that any sales or purchases are in authorized denominations.

(b) Delivery and Payment. Payment of the purchase price for the Securities and the delivery of documents by or on behalf of the parties hereto pursuant to Section 5 hereof, shall be made at the offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, Worldwide Plaza, 825 8th Avenue, New York New York 10019, or at such other place as shall be agreed upon by the Representatives and the Company, at 9:00 A.M. (New York City time) on February 23, 2024 (unless postponed in accordance with the provisions of Section 10), or such other time not later than five business days after such date as shall be agreed upon by the Representatives and the Company (such time and date of payment and delivery being herein called the “Closing Time” and such date of payment and delivery being herein called the “Closing Date”).

 

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The Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter hereunder will be represented by one or more definitive global notes in book-entry form which will be deposited by or on behalf of the Company with The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its designated custodian. The Company will deliver the Securities to Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, for the respective accounts of the Underwriters, against payment by the several Underwriters, through Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, of the purchase price by wire transfer of same-day funds to the account specified by the Company, by causing DTC to credit the Securities to the account of Wells Fargo Securities, LLC at DTC. Such payment and delivery shall be made at the Closing Time.

It is understood that each Underwriter has authorized Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, for its account, to accept delivery of, receipt for, and make payment of the purchase price for, the Securities, which it has agreed to purchase. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, individually and not as representative of the Underwriters, may (but shall not be obligated to) make payment of the purchase price for the Securities to be purchased by any Underwriter whose funds have not been received by the Closing Time, as the case may be, but such payment shall not relieve such Underwriter from its obligations hereunder.

SECTION 3. Covenants of the Company and the Guarantor. The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, covenant with each Underwriter as follows:

(a) Compliance with Securities Regulations and Commission Requests. The Company, subject to Section 3(b), will comply with the requirements of Rule 430B, and will promptly notify the Representatives, (i) when any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement relating to the Securities has become effective or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus has been filed, (ii) of the receipt of any comments from the Commission relating to the Prospectus or the Securities, (iii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus, including any document incorporated by reference therein or for additional information, in each case relating to the Prospectus or the Securities, (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus, or of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, or of the initiation or threatening of any proceedings for any of such purposes or of any examination pursuant to Section 8(d) or 8(e) of the 1933 Act concerning the Registration Statement and (v) if the Company becomes the subject of a proceeding under Section 8A of the 1933 Act in connection with the offering of the Securities. The Company will effect all filings required under Rule 424(b), in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b) (without reliance on Rule 424(b)(8)), and will take such steps as it deems necessary to ascertain promptly whether the form of prospectus transmitted for filing under Rule 424(b) was received for filing by the Commission and, in the event that it was not, it will promptly file such prospectus. The Company will make every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order, prevention or suspension and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment. The Company shall pay the required Commission filing fees relating to the Securities within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1)(i) under the 1933 Act without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) under the 1933 Act (including, if applicable, by filing a “Calculation of Filing Fee Table” exhibit to the Prospectus in accordance with Rule 456(b)(1)(ii) and Rule 424(g)).

(b) Continued Compliance with Securities Laws. The Company will comply with the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act so as to permit the completion of the distribution of the Securities as contemplated in this Agreement and in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus. If at any time when a prospectus relating to the Securities is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172 of the 1933 Act (“Rule 172”), would be) required by the 1933 Act to be delivered in connection with sales of the Securities, any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the

 

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reasonable opinion of counsel for the Underwriters or for the Company, to (i) amend the Registration Statement in order that the Registration Statement will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, (ii) amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus in order that the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may be, will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing at the time it is delivered to a purchaser or (iii) amend the Registration Statement or amend or supplement the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, as the case may be, in order to comply with the requirements of the 1933 Act, the Company will promptly (A) give the Representatives notice of such event, (B) prepare any amendment or supplement as may be necessary to correct such statement or omission or to make the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus comply with such requirements and, a reasonable amount of time prior to any proposed filing or use, furnish the Representatives with copies of any such amendment or supplement and (C) file with the Commission any such amendment or supplement; provided that the Company shall not file or use any such amendment or supplement to which the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters shall reasonably object. The Company will furnish to the Underwriters such number of copies of such amendment or supplement as the Underwriters may reasonably request. The Company has given the Representatives notice of any filings made pursuant to the 1934 Act within 48 hours prior to the Applicable Time; the Company will give the Representatives notice of its intention to make any such filing from the Applicable Time to the Closing Time and will furnish the Representatives with copies of any such documents a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing, as the case may be, and will not file or use any such document to which the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters shall reasonably object.

(c) Delivery of Registration Statements. The Company has furnished or, upon request, will deliver to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, conformed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (including exhibits filed therewith or incorporated by reference therein and documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein) and signed copies of all consents and certificates of experts, and, upon request, will also deliver to the Representatives, without charge, a conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (without exhibits) for each of the Underwriters. The copies of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical in all material respects to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.

(d) Delivery of Prospectuses. The Company has delivered to each Underwriter, without charge, as many copies of each preliminary prospectus as such Underwriter reasonably requested, and the Company hereby consents to the use of such copies for purposes permitted by the 1933 Act. The Company will furnish to each Underwriter, without charge, during the period when a prospectus relating to the Securities is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172, would be) required to be delivered under the 1933 Act, such number of copies of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) as such Underwriter may reasonably request. The Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to the Underwriters will be identical in all material respects to the electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T.

(e) Blue Sky Qualifications. The Company and the Guarantor will use their commercially reasonable best efforts, in cooperation with the Underwriters, to qualify the Securities for offering and sale under the applicable securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions (domestic or foreign) as the Representatives may designate and to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required to complete the distribution of the Securities; provided, however, that neither the Company nor the Guarantor shall be obligated to file any general consent to service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation or as a dealer in securities in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified or to subject itself to taxation in respect of doing business in any jurisdiction in which it is not otherwise so subject.

 

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(f) Rule 158. The Company will, in the time and manner required by the Indenture, file such reports pursuant to the 1934 Act as are necessary in order to make generally available to its securityholders an earnings statement for the purposes of, and to provide to the Underwriters the benefits contemplated by, the last paragraph of Section 11(a) of the 1933 Act.

(g) Use of Proceeds. The Company will use the net proceeds received by it from the sale of the Securities in the manner specified in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under “Use of Proceeds.”

(h) Restriction on Sale of Securities. During the period from the date of this Agreement to the Closing Time, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives (which consent may be withheld at the sole discretion of the Representatives), directly or indirectly, issue, sell, offer to sell, contract to sell or grant any option to sell, pledge, transfer or establish an open “put equivalent position” within the meaning of Rule 16a-1 under the 1934 Act, or otherwise dispose of any debt securities of the Company or securities exchangeable for or convertible into debt securities of the Company other than the Securities to be sold hereunder.

(i) Reporting Requirements. The Company, during the period when a Prospectus relating to the Securities is (or, but for the exception afforded by Rule 172, would be) required to be delivered under the 1933 Act, will file all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to the 1934 Act within the time periods required by the 1934 Act.

(j) Final Term Sheet; Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company will prepare a final term sheet (the “Final Term Sheet”), substantially in the form set forth in Schedule C hereto, reflecting the final terms of the Securities, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives, and shall file such Final Term Sheet as an “issuer free writing prospectus” pursuant to Rule 433 prior to the close of business two business days after the date hereof; provided that the Company shall furnish the Representatives with copies of any such Final Term Sheet a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing and will not use or file any such document to which the Representatives or counsel to the Underwriters shall reasonably object. The Company agrees that, unless it obtains the prior written consent of the Representatives, it will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus,” or a portion thereof, required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433; provided that the Representatives will be deemed to have consented to the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses listed on Schedule B hereto and any “road show that is a written communication” within the meaning of Rule 433(d)(8)(i) that has been reviewed by the Representatives. The Company represents that it has treated or agrees that it will treat each such free writing prospectus consented to, or deemed consented to, by the Representatives as an “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433, and that it has complied and will comply with the applicable requirements of Rule 433 with respect thereto, including timely filing with the Commission where required, legending and record keeping. If at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus there occurred or occurs an event or development as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus conflicted or would conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus or included or would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at that subsequent time, not misleading, the Company will promptly notify the Representatives and will promptly amend or supplement, at its own expense, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to eliminate or correct such conflict, untrue statement or omission.

 

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SECTION 4. Payment of Expenses.

(a) Expenses. The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, will pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the performance of their obligations under this Agreement, including (i) the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits) as originally filed and each amendment thereto, (ii) the preparation, printing and delivery to the Underwriters of copies of each preliminary prospectus, each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto and any costs associated with electronic delivery of any of the foregoing by the Underwriters to investors, (iii) the preparation, issuance and delivery of the Securities to the Underwriters, (iv) the fees and disbursements of the Company’s counsel, accountants and other advisors, (v) the qualification of the Securities under securities laws in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(e) hereof, including filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection therewith and in connection with the preparation of the Blue Sky Survey and any supplement thereto, (vi) all fees and expenses of the Trustee and any expenses of any transfer agent or registrar for the Securities, (vii) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the Securities, including without limitation, expenses associated with the production of road show slides and graphics, fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road show presentations and half of the cost of any chartered airplane or other transportation, (viii) if any, the filing fees incident to, and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters in connection with, the review by FINRA of the terms of the sale of the Securities, (ix) the costs and expenses (including, without limitation, any damages or other amounts payable in connection with legal or contractual liability) associated with the reforming of any contracts for sale of the Securities made by the Underwriters caused by a breach of the representation contained in the third sentence of Section 1(a)(ii) and (x) all necessary issue, transfer and other stamp taxes in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities to the Underwriters. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Underwriters and Representatives shall pay their own expenses, including the fees and disbursements of their respective counsel.

(b) Termination of Agreement. If this Agreement is terminated by the Representatives in accordance with the provisions of Section 5, Section 9(a)(i) or Section 9(a)(iii) hereof, the Company shall reimburse the Underwriters for all of their out-of-pocket expenses, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters.

SECTION 5. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor contained herein or in certificates of any officer of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their subsidiaries, to the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of their covenants and other obligations hereunder, and to the following further conditions:

(a) Effectiveness of Registration Statement. The Registration Statement has become effective and at the Closing Time no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has been issued under the 1933 Act, no order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for any of those purposes have been instituted or are pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, contemplated; and the Company has complied with each request (if any) from the Commission for additional information. The Company shall have paid the required Commission filing fees relating to the Securities within the time period required by Rule 456(1)(i) under the 1933 Act without regard to the proviso therein and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) under the 1933 Act and, if applicable, shall have filed a “Calculation of Filing Fee Table” exhibit to the Prospectus in accordance with Rule 456(b)(1)(ii) and Rule 424(g).

 

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(b) Opinion of Counsel for Company. At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have received the favorable opinion and negative assurance letter, dated the Closing Date, of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, counsel for the Company, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters.

(c) Opinion of Associate General Counsel for Company. At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have received the favorable opinion, dated the Closing Date, of Marie Ly, Associate General Counsel of the Company, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters.

(d) Opinion of Counsel for Underwriters. At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have received the favorable opinion and negative assurance letter, dated the Closing Date, of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters, with respect to any matters as the Representatives may reasonably require.

(e) Officer’s Certificate. The Representatives shall have received a certificate of the chief executive officer, the president, the chief financial officer or the chief accounting officer of the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that (i) there has been no Material Adverse Change, (ii) the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct with the same force and effect as though expressly made at and as of the Closing Time, (iii) the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Time and (iv) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement under the 1933 Act has been issued, no order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the Prospectus has been issued and no proceedings for any of those purposes have been instituted or are pending or, to their knowledge, contemplated.

(f) Accountant’s Comfort Letter. At the time of the execution of this Agreement, the Representatives shall have received from KPMG LLP a letter, dated the date hereof, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, together with signed or reproduced copies of such letter for each of the other Underwriters containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.

(g) Bring-down Comfort Letter. At the Closing Time, the Representatives shall have received from KPMG LLP a letter, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that they reaffirm the statements made in the letter furnished pursuant to Section 5(f) hereof, except that the specified date referred to shall be a date not more than three business days prior to the Closing Date.

(h) Maintenance of Rating. Since the execution of this Agreement, there shall not have been any decrease in or withdrawal of the rating of any securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined for purposes of Section 3(a)(62) of the 1934 Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in or withdrawal of any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.

(i) Material Adverse Change. In the judgment of the Representatives there shall not have occurred any Material Adverse Change.

 

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(j) Additional Documents. At the Closing Time, the Company and the Guarantor shall have entered into the Ninth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes will have been executed and authenticated in the manner provided for in the Indenture. At the Closing Time, counsel for the Underwriters shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as they may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated, or in order to evidence the accuracy of any of the representations or warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein contemplated shall be reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters.

(k) Termination of Agreement. If any condition specified in this Section shall not have been fulfilled when and as required to be fulfilled, this Agreement may be terminated by the Representatives by notice to the Company at any time at or prior to the Closing Time, as the case may be, and such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 4 and except that Sections 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 and 16 shall survive any such termination and remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 6. Indemnification.

(a) Indemnification of Underwriters. Each of the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its directors, officers and affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 501(b) under the 1933 Act (each, an “Affiliate”)), its selling agents and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act as follows:

(i) against any and all losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses whatsoever, as incurred, arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), including any information deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B, or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact included (A) in any preliminary prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the General Disclosure Package, the Investor Presentation or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or (B) in any materials or information provided to investors by, or with the approval of, the Company in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Securities (“Marketing Materials”), including any roadshow or investor presentations made to investors by the Company (whether in person or electronically), or the omission or alleged omission in any preliminary prospectus, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, Prospectus, the Investor Presentation or in any Marketing Materials of a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

(ii) against any and all losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses whatsoever, as incurred, to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or of any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission; provided that (subject to Section 6(d) below) any such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company;

(iii) against any and all expenses whatsoever, as incurred (including the fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by the Representatives), reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission, to the extent that any such expense is not paid under (i) or (ii) above;

 

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provided, however, that this indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense to the extent arising out of any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), including any information deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B, the General Disclosure Package, the Investor Presentation or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information.

(b) Indemnification of the Company, the Guarantor, Directors and Officers. Each Underwriter severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantor, their directors, each of their officers who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company or any Guarantor within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act, against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in subsection (a) of this Section 6, as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereto), including any information deemed to be a part thereof pursuant to Rule 430B, the General Disclosure Package, the Investor Presentation or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with the Underwriter Information.

(c) Actions against Parties; Notification. Each indemnified party shall give notice as promptly as reasonably practicable to each indemnifying party of any action commenced against it in respect of which indemnity may be sought hereunder, but failure to so notify an indemnifying party shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability hereunder to the extent it is not materially prejudiced as a result thereof and in any event shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement. In the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 6(a) above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be selected by the Representatives, and, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 6(b) above, counsel to the indemnified parties shall be selected by the Company. An indemnifying party may participate at its own expense in the defense of any such action; provided, however, that counsel to the indemnifying party shall not (except with the consent of the indemnified party) also be counsel to the indemnified party. In no event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in addition to any local counsel) separate from their own counsel for all indemnified parties in connection with any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever in respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section 6 or Section 7 hereof (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such litigation, investigation, proceeding or claim and (ii) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

(d) Settlement without Consent if Failure to Reimburse. If at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel, such indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of the nature contemplated by Section 6(a)(ii) effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 45 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request, (ii) such indemnifying party shall have received notice of the terms of such settlement at least 30 days prior to such settlement being entered into and (iii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed such indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement.

 

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SECTION 7. Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in Section 6 hereof is for any reason unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the aggregate amount of such losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by such indemnified party, as incurred, (a) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement or (b) if the allocation provided by clause (a) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (a) above but also the relative fault of the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and of the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.

The relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, in connection with the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the total underwriting discount received by the Underwriters, on the other hand, in each case as set forth on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate initial public offering price of the Securities as set forth on the cover of the Prospectus.

The relative fault of the Company and the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Underwriters, on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any such untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company and the Guarantor or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

The Company, the Guarantor and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section 7. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified party and referred to above in this Section 7 shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission.

Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the underwriting commissions received by such Underwriter in connection with the Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public.

No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

For purposes of this Section 7, each person, if any, who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act and each Underwriter’s Affiliates and selling agents shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each director of the Company, each officer of the Company who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company. The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule A hereto and not joint.

 

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SECTION 8. Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive. All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement or in certificates of officers of Parent or any of its subsidiaries submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (a) any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or its Affiliates or selling agents, any person controlling any Underwriter, its officers or directors or any person controlling the Company and (b) delivery of and payment for the Securities.

SECTION 9. Termination of Agreement.

(a) Termination. The Representatives may terminate this Agreement, by notice to the Company, at any time at or prior to the Closing Time (i) if there has been, in the judgment of the Representatives, since the time of execution of this Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus, any Material Adverse Change, (ii) if there has occurred any material adverse change in the financial markets in the United States or the international financial markets, any outbreak of hostilities or escalation thereof or other calamity or crisis or any change or development involving a prospective change in national or international political, financial or economic conditions, in each case the effect of which is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the completion of the offering or to enforce contracts for the sale of the Securities, (iii) if trading in any securities of the Company or Parent has been suspended or materially limited by the Commission or the New York Stock Exchange, (iv) if trading generally on the NYSE MKT LLC or the New York Stock Exchange or in the Nasdaq Global Market has been suspended or materially limited, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices have been required, by any of said exchanges or by order of the Commission, FINRA or any other governmental authority, (v) a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or securities settlement or clearance services in the United States or with respect to Clearstream or Euroclear systems in Europe or (vi) if a banking moratorium has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities.

(b) Liabilities. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to this Section, such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in Section 4 hereof, and provided further that Sections 1, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 and 16 shall survive such termination and remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 10. Default by One or More of the Underwriters. If one or more of the Underwriters shall fail at the Closing Time to purchase the Securities which it or they are obligated to purchase under this Agreement (the “Defaulted Securities”), the Representatives shall have the right, within 24 hours thereafter, to make arrangements for one or more of the non-defaulting Underwriters, or any other Underwriters, to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Defaulted Securities in such amounts as may be agreed upon and upon the terms herein set forth; if, however, the Representatives shall not have completed such arrangements within such 24-hour period, then:

(a) if the number of Defaulted Securities does not exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities to be purchased on such date, each of the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated, severally and not jointly, to purchase the full amount thereof in the proportions that their respective underwriting obligations hereunder bear to the underwriting obligations of all non-defaulting Underwriters, or

 

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(b) if the number of Defaulted Securities exceeds 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities to be purchased on such date, this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter.

No action taken pursuant to this Section 10 shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of its default.

In the event of any such default which does not result in a termination of this Agreement, either the Representatives or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Time, for a period not exceeding seven days in order to effect any required changes in the Registration Statement, the General Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements. As used herein, the term “Underwriter” includes any person substituted for an Underwriter under this Section 10.

SECTION 11. Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices to the Underwriters shall be directed to Wells Fargo Securities, LLC at 550 South Tryon Street, 5th Floor, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202, Attention: Transaction Management (email: tmgcapitalmarkets@wellsfargo.com); BofA Securities, Inc., 114 W 47th St., NY8-114-07-01, New York, New York 10036, Attention: High Grade Transaction Management/Legal, Email: dg.hg_ua_notices@bofa.com; HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., 452 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10018, Attention: Transaction Management Group, Email: tmg.americas@us.hsbc.com; and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., 250 Vesey Street, New York, New York 10281, Attention: Debt Capital Markets / Chief Legal Officer, U.S., Email: us.legal@scotiabank.com; with a copy to Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, Worldwide Plaza, 825 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, Fax No.: (212) 474-3700, Attention: Nicholas A. Dorsey. Notices to the Company or the Guarantor shall be directed to it at 400 South Hope Street, 25th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90071, Fax No.: (213) 613-3735, Attention: General Counsel, with a copy to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, 2475 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304, Fax No.: (650) 251-5002, Attention: William B. Brentani and Heidi Mayon.

In accordance with the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.

SECTION 12. No Advisory or Fiduciary Relationship. The Company acknowledges and agrees that (a) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement, including the determination of the initial public offering price of the Securities and any related discounts and commissions, is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the several Underwriters, on the other hand, (b) in connection with the offering of the Securities and the process leading thereto, each Underwriter is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the agent or fiduciary of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or their respective stockholders, creditors, employees or any other party, (c) no Underwriter has assumed or will assume an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offering of the Securities or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Underwriter has advised or is currently advising the Company or any of its subsidiaries on other matters) and no Underwriter has any obligation to the Company with respect to the offering of the Securities except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement, (d) the Underwriters and their respective affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Company and (e) the Underwriters have not provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offering of the Securities and the Company has consulted its own respective legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate.

 

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SECTION 13. Parties. This Agreement shall each inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Underwriters and the Company and their respective successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, firm or corporation, other than the Underwriters and the Company and their respective successors and the controlling persons and officers and directors referred to in Sections 6 and 7 and their heirs and legal representatives, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. This Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof are intended to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Underwriters and the Company and their respective successors, and said controlling persons and officers and directors and their heirs and legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No purchaser of Securities from any Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such purchase.

SECTION 14. Trial by Jury. The Company (on its behalf and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, on behalf of its stockholders and affiliates) and each of the Underwriters hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

SECTION 15. GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF, THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO ITS CHOICE OF LAW PROVISIONS.

SECTION 16. Consent to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Immunity. Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or based upon this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby (“Related Proceedings”) shall be instituted in (i) the federal courts of the United States of America located in the City and County of New York, Borough of Manhattan or (ii) the courts of the State of New York located in the City and County of New York, Borough of Manhattan (collectively, the “Specified Courts”), and each party irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction (except for proceedings instituted in regard to the enforcement of a judgment of any such court (a “Related Judgment”), as to which such jurisdiction is non-exclusive) of such courts in any such suit, action or proceeding. Service of any process, summons, notice or document by mail to such party’s address set forth above shall be effective service of process for any suit, action or other proceeding brought in any such court. The parties irrevocably and unconditionally waive any objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or other proceeding in the Specified Courts and irrevocably and unconditionally waive and agree not to plead or claim in any such court that any such suit, action or other proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

SECTION 17. TIME. TIME SHALL BE OF THE ESSENCE OF THIS AGREEMENT. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE SET FORTH HEREIN, SPECIFIED TIMES OF DAY REFER TO NEW YORK CITY TIME.

SECTION 18. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same Agreement. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement or any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means.

SECTION 19. Effect of Headings. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

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SECTION 20. Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.

(a) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

(b) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

As used in this Section 20:

“BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k).

“Covered Entity” means any of the following:

(i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);

(ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or

(iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).

“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.

“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

SECTION 21. UK Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of UK Financial Institutions.

Notwithstanding and to the exclusion of any other term of this Agreement or any other agreements, arrangements or understanding between any UK Bail-in Party (as defined below) and the Company or Parent, the Company and Parent each acknowledges and accepts that a relevant UK Bail-In Liability (as defined below) arising under this Agreement may be subject to the exercise of UK Bail-in Powers (as defined below) by the relevant UK resolution authority and acknowledges, accepts and agrees to be bound by:

(i) the effect of the exercise of UK Bail-in Powers by the relevant UK resolution authority in relation to any UK Bail-In Liability of each Underwriter subject to the UK Bail-In Powers of the relevant UK resolution authority (a “UK Bail-In Party”) to the Company under this Agreement, that (without limitation) may include and result in any of the following, or some combination thereof: (1) the reduction of all, or a portion, of the UK Bail-In Liability or outstanding amounts due thereon;

 

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(2) the conversion of all, or a portion, of the UK Bail-In Liability into shares, other securities or other obligations of each UK Bail-In Party or another person (and the issue to or conferral on the Company of such shares, securities or obligations); (3) the cancellation of the UK Bail-In Liability; and/or (4) the amendment or alteration of any interest, if applicable, thereon, the maturity or the dates on which any payments are due, including by suspending payment for a temporary period;

(ii) and the variation of the terms of this Agreement, as deemed necessary by the relevant UK resolution authority, to give effect to the exercise of UK Bail-in Powers by the relevant UK resolution authority.

(b) As used in this Section 13, “UK Bail-in Legislation” means Part I of the UK Banking Act of 2009 and any other law or regulation applicable in the UK relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (otherwise than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings); “UK Bail-in Powers” means the powers under UK Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or affiliate of a bank or investment firm, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or investment under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability; “UK Bail-In Liability” means a liability in respect of which the UK Bail-In Powers may be exercised.

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return to the Company the enclosed copies hereof, whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts hereof, shall become a binding agreement in accordance with its terms.

 

Very truly yours,
CBRE SERVICES, INC., as issuer
By:  

/s/ EMMA E. GIAMARTINO

  Name: Emma E. Giamartino
  Title: Chief Financial Officer
CBRE GROUP, INC., as Guarantor
By:  

/s/ EMMA E. GIAMARTINO

  Name: Emma E. Giamartino
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

[Signature Page to the Underwriting Agreement]


CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED,

as of the date first above written:

 

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC
By:  

/s/ CAROLYN HURLEY

  Authorized Signatory

For itself and as Representative of the other Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto.

[Signature Page to the Underwriting Agreement]


CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED,

as of the date first above written:

 

BOFA SECURITIES, INC.
By:  

/s/ CHRIS PORTER

  Authorized Signatory

For itself and as Representative of the other Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto.

[Signature Page to the Underwriting Agreement]


CONFIRMED AND ACCEPTED,

as of the date first above written:

 

HSBC SECURITIES (USA) INC.
By:  

/s/ PATRICE ALTONGY

  Authorized Signatory

For itself and as Representative of the other Underwriters named in Schedule A hereto.

[Signature Page to the Underwriting Agreement]

 


SCHEDULE A

The initial public offering price of the Notes shall be 99.837% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest thereon, if any, from the date of issuance.

The purchase price (the “Purchase Price”) to be paid by the Underwriters for the Notes shall be 99.237% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest thereon, if any, from the date of issuance.

The interest rate on the Notes shall be 5.500% per annum.

 

Name of Underwriter

   Principal
Amount of
Notes
 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

   $ 100,001,000  

BofA Securities, Inc.

     90,000,000  

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

     90,000,000  

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

     52,500,000  

Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.

     52,500,000  

NatWest Markets Securities Inc.

     45,000,000  

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

     20,000,000  

Comerica Securities, Inc.

     8,750,000  

ING Financial Markets LLC

     8,750,000  

ANZ Securities, Inc.

     3,611,000  

Barclays Capital Inc.

     3,611,000  

Capital One Securities, Inc.

     3,611,000  

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

     3,611,000  

Loop Capital Markets LLC

     3,611,000  

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

     3,611,000  

PNC Capital Markets LLC

     3,611,000  

Standard Chartered Bank

     3,611,000  

U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.

     3,611,000  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 500,000,000  
  

 

 

 

 

Sch A


SCHEDULE B

Free Writing Prospectuses

Final Term Sheet

 

Sch B


SCHEDULE C

Final Term Sheet

(See Attached)

 

Sch C


Filed Pursuant to Rule 433
File No. 333-276141

Pricing Term Sheet

CBRE Services, Inc.

$500,000,000 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029

February 20, 2024

 

The following information, filed pursuant to Rule 433, supplements the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated February 20, 2024, Registration Statement No. 333-276141.

 

Issuer:    CBRE Services, Inc. (the “Issuer”)
Expected Ratings (Moody’s/S&P):*    [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]
Guarantor:    CBRE Group, Inc.
Title of Securities:    5.500% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”)
Principal Amount:    $500,000,000
Trade Date:    February 20, 2024
Settlement Date (T+3):**    February 23, 2024
Final Maturity Date:    April 1, 2029
Interest Payment Dates:    April 1 and October 1, commencing October 1, 2024
Record Dates:    March 15 and September 15
Coupon:    5.500%
Benchmark Treasury:    UST 4.000% due January 31, 2029
Benchmark Treasury Price / Yield:    98-30 3/4 / 4.235%
Spread to Benchmark Treasury:    +130 basis points
Yield to Maturity:    5.535%
Public Offering Price:    99.837% of the principal amount
Net Proceeds to Issuer (before net expenses):    $496,185,000
Optional Redemption:    Following issuance and prior to March 1, 2029, make-whole call at T+20 basis points. At any time on or after March 1, 2029, par call.
CUSIP/ISIN:    12505B AH3/US12505BAH33


Joint Book-Running Managers:    Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
   BofA Securities, Inc.
  

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Scotia Capital (USA) Inc.

Co-Managers:   

NatWest Markets Securities Inc.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Comerica Securities, Inc.

ING Financial Markets LLC

ANZ Securities, Inc.

Barclays Capital Inc.

Capital One Securities, Inc.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Loop Capital Markets LLC

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

PNC Capital Markets LLC

Standard Chartered Bank

U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.

 

*

Note: A securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to revision, suspension or withdrawal at any time.

**

We expect that delivery of the Notes will be made against payment therefor on or about the settlement date specified in this pricing term sheet, which will be the third business day following the date of pricing of the Notes (this settlement cycle being referred to as “T+3”). Pursuant to Rule 15c6-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, trades in the secondary market generally are required to settle in two business days, unless the parties to that trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, purchasers who wish to trade the Notes prior to the second business day before settlement will be required, by virtue of the fact that the Notes initially will settle in T+3, to specify an alternate settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent a failed settlement and should consult their own advisor.

The Issuer has filed a registration statement including a prospectus and a prospectus supplement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus and prospectus supplement in that registration statement and other documents the Issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the Issuer and this offering. You may obtain these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies may be obtained by calling Wells Fargo Securities, LLC toll free at 1-800-645-3751, BofA Securities, Inc. toll free at 1-800-294-1322 or HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. toll free at 1-866-811-8049.

Any disclaimer or other notice that may appear below is not applicable to this communication and should be disregarded. Such disclaimer or notice was automatically generated as a result of this communication being sent by Bloomberg or another email system.

Exhibit 4.2

 

 

 

CBRE Services, Inc.,

as Issuer,

CBRE Group, Inc.,

as Parent and Guarantor

and

Computershare Trust Company, National Association,

as Trustee

Ninth Supplemental Indenture

Dated as of February 23, 2024

$500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029

 

 

 


NINTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of February 23, 2024, between CBRE Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as Issuer (the “Issuer”), CBRE Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as Parent and Guarantor, and Computershare Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee (the “Trustee”).

WITNESSETH THAT:

WHEREAS, the Issuer, Parent and the Trustee, as successor to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee, have entered into an Indenture dated as of March 14, 2013 (the “Base Indenture” and, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), providing for the issuance from time to time of series of its Securities (as defined in the Base Indenture);

WHEREAS, Section 301 of the Base Indenture provides for the Issuer and the Trustee to enter into an indenture supplemental to the Base Indenture to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Article III of the Base Indenture;

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 301 of the Base Indenture, the Issuer, for its lawful corporate purposes, desires to create and authorize a new series of Securities to be known as the 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”), initially in an aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000;

WHEREAS, the Issuer has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture, which sets forth the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are to be executed, registered, authenticated, issued and delivered; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement according to its terms have been done, and all things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Issuer and authenticated and delivered by or on behalf of the Trustee as in this Supplemental Indenture provided, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Issuer have been done;

NOW, THEREFORE:

In order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are executed, registered, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises, of the purchase and acceptance of the Notes by the Holders thereof and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each of the Issuer, Parent and any other Guarantor, if any, covenants and agrees with the Trustee, for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Notes, as follows:


ARTICLE I

Definitions

SECTION 1.01. Relation to Base Indenture. This Supplemental Indenture constitutes an integral part of the Base Indenture. However, to the extent any provision of the Base Indenture conflicts with the express provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture will govern and be controlling in respect of the Notes.

SECTION 1.02. Definition of Terms. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture:

(a) Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings specified in the Base Indenture, and all other terms defined in this Supplemental Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them;

(b) the terms defined in this Supplemental Indenture include the plural as well as the singular;

(c) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or Section, as the case may be, of this Supplemental Indenture; and

(d) The following terms shall have the respective meanings as set forth below:

Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person, directly or indirectly, controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.

Attributable Debt” in respect of a Sale/Leaseback Transaction means, as at the time of determination, the present value (discounted at the interest rate borne by the Notes, compounded annually) of the total obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the remaining term of the lease included in such Sale/Leaseback Transaction (including any period for which such lease has been extended); provided, however, that if such Sale/Leaseback Transaction results in a Capital Lease Obligation, the amount of indebtedness represented thereby will be determined in accordance with the definition of “Capital Lease Obligation”.

Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Issuer or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such Board.

 

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Business Day” means each day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which commercial banking institutions are authorized or required by law to close in New York City or the state in which the Corporate Trust Office is located.

Capital Lease Obligation” means an obligation that is required to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease for financial reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP, and the amount of indebtedness represented by such obligation shall be the capitalized amount of such obligation determined in accordance with GAAP; and the Stated Maturity thereof shall be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such lease prior to the first date upon which such lease may be terminated by the lessee without payment of a penalty. For purposes of Section 4.02, a Capital Lease Obligation will be deemed to be secured by a Lien on the property being leased.

Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including any Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity.

Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following:

(1) any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other than one or more Permitted Holders, is or becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that any Person that is deemed to have beneficial ownership of shares solely as the result of being part of a group pursuant to Rule 13d-5(b)(1) shall be deemed not to have beneficial ownership of any shares held by a Permitted Holder forming a part of such group), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Issuer; provided, however, that the Permitted Holders beneficially own (as defined above, except that in the event the Permitted Holders are part of a group pursuant to Rule 13d-5(b)(1), the Permitted Holders shall be deemed not to have beneficial ownership of any shares held by persons other than Permitted Holders forming a part of such group), directly or indirectly, in the aggregate a lesser percentage of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Issuer than such other person and do not have the right or ability by voting power, contract or otherwise to elect or designate for election a majority of the Board of Directors (for the purposes of this clause (1), such other person shall be deemed to beneficially own any Voting Stock of a specified Person held by a parent entity, if such other person is the beneficial owner (as first defined above), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the voting power of the Voting Stock of such parent entity and the Permitted Holders beneficially own (as second defined above), directly or indirectly, in the aggregate a lesser percentage of the voting power of the Voting Stock of such parent entity and do not have the right or ability by voting power, contract or otherwise to elect or designate for election a majority of the board of directors of such parent entity);

 

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(2) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Issuer; or

(3) the merger or consolidation of the Issuer with or into another Person or the merger of another Person with or into the Issuer, or the sale of all or substantially all the assets of the Issuer (determined on a consolidated basis) to another Person (other than, in all such cases, a Person that is controlled by the Permitted Holders), other than a transaction following which (A) in the case of a merger or consolidation transaction, holders of securities that represented 100% of the Voting Stock of the Issuer immediately prior to such transaction (or other securities into which such securities are converted as part of such merger or consolidation transaction) own, directly or indirectly, at least a majority of the voting power of the Voting Stock of the surviving Person in such merger or consolidation transaction immediately after such transaction and (B) in the case of a sale of assets transaction, the transferee Person becomes the obligor in respect of the Notes and a Subsidiary of the transferor of such assets.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction will not be deemed to involve a Change of Control if (a) the Issuer is or becomes a direct or indirect wholly-owned Subsidiary of a holding company, (b) such holding company beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Capital Stock of the Issuer and (c) the direct or indirect holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the Parent’s Voting Stock immediately prior to that transaction.

Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Co-investment” means any investment by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries in, or any guarantee by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries of the indebtedness of, a Co-investment Vehicle or separate account or investment program managed, operated or sponsored by an Investment Subsidiary.

Co-investment Vehicle” shall mean an entity (other than a Subsidiary of the Issuer) formed for the purpose of investing principally in real estate related assets or engaging in real estate development.

Common Stock” shall mean the Class A common stock of Parent.

Consolidated Total Assets” means, as of any date of determination, the total assets of the Issuer and its consolidated Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as shown on or reflected on our most recent internal consolidated balance sheet, including relevant footnotes thereto (without duplication), prepared in accordance with GAAP, after giving effect to any acquisitions or dispositions occurring subsequent to the date of such balance sheet.

 

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Corporate Trust Office” means the designated corporate trust office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, presently located at 1505 Energy Park Drive, St. Paul, MN, 55108, Attention: Corporate Trust Department – CBRE Services, Inc. Administrator/Michael Tu, or such other address as the Trustee may designate from time to time, or the designated corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice).

Debt” means any indebtedness for money borrowed.

Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.

Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary other than a Foreign Subsidiary.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

Exempt Construction Loan” means any interim construction loan (or guarantee thereof) of an Investment Subsidiary (1) that is subject to or backed by committed permanent refinancing, or (2) in which such Investment Subsidiary has entered into a lease of the property securing such Exempt Construction Loan (or guarantee thereof) and such lease supports a refinancing of the entire interim construction loan amount based upon prevailing permanent loan terms at the time the interim construction loan is closed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, construction loans (and guarantees thereof) shall cease to be treated as Exempt Construction Loans in the event that any of the following occur: (a) the obligor of such Exempt Construction Loan is in default beyond any applicable notice and cure periods of any obligations under the credit agreement relating to such Exempt Construction Loan; or (b) the underlying real property securing such Exempt Construction Loan has not been sold by a date which is no later than 15 months (unless subject to or backed by committed permanent refinancing, in which case no deadline for the sale of such real property shall apply) after completion of construction.

Foreign Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person that is not organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and any Subsidiary of such Foreign Subsidiary.

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time.

Guarantor” means Parent and/or a Subsidiary Guarantor, if any.

Guaranty” means the Parent Guaranty and/or a Subsidiary Guaranty, collectively referred to herein as the “Guarantees.

 

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Guaranty Agreement” means this Supplemental Indenture as of the Issue Date or any other supplemental indenture, in a form satisfactory to the Trustee, pursuant to which a Guarantor guarantees the Issuer’s obligations with respect to the Notes on the terms provided for in this Supplemental Indenture.

Holder” or “Noteholder” means the Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Registrar’s books.

Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P and the equivalent rating from any replacement Rating Agency.

Investment Subsidiary” means (1) any Subsidiary engaged principally in the business of buying and holding real estate related assets in anticipation of selling such assets or transferring such assets, which assets may include securities of companies engaged principally in such business, (2) any Subsidiary engaged principally in the business of investment management, including investing in and/or managing entities formed for the purpose of investing principally in real estate related assets and (3) any Subsidiary engaged principally in real estate development and investment activities.

Issue Date” means February 23, 2024.

Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, lien or charge of any kind (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in the nature thereof). For the avoidance of doubt, the grant by any Person of a non-exclusive license to use intellectual property owned by, licensed to, or developed by such Person and such license activity shall not constitute a grant by such Person of a Lien on such intellectual property.

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to the ratings agency business thereof.

Non-Recourse Debt” means Debt of, or guarantees by, an Investment Subsidiary; provided, however, that (1) such Debt is incurred solely in relation to the investment or real estate development activities of such Investment Subsidiary and (2) such Debt is not guaranteed by, or otherwise recourse to Parent, the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer other than an Investment Subsidiary (subject to customary environmental indemnities or completion or budget guarantees, and subject to customary exclusions from liability by lenders in non-recourse financing transactions secured by real property (including by means of separate indemnification agreements or carve-out guarantees)); provided, further, that if any such Debt is partially guaranteed by or otherwise recourse to Parent, the Issuer or any Subsidiary of the Issuer other than an Investment Subsidiary, the portion of such Debt not so guaranteed or recourse shall be “Non-Recourse Debt” hereunder.

 

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Officer” means the chairman of the board of directors, the chief executive officer, the president, the chief financial officer, any executive vice president, senior vice president or vice president, the treasurer or any assistant treasurer or the secretary or any assistant secretary of Parent or the Issuer.

Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed on behalf of Parent or the Issuer, as the case may be, by an Officer of Parent or the Issuer, respectively, and delivered to the Trustee.

Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to Parent or the Issuer, satisfactory to the Trustee.

Par Call Date” means March 1, 2029.

Parent” means CBRE Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its successors; and any other parent entity of the Issuer that elects to provide a Parent Guaranty, and its successors.

Parent Guaranty” means the Guarantee by Parent of the Issuer’s obligations with respect to the Notes contained in this Supplemental Indenture.

Permitted Holders” means (1) any member of senior management of the Issuer on the Issue Date and (2) Parent.

principal” means the principal of the Note payable on the Note which is due or overdue or is to become due at the relevant time.

Principal Property” means any building, structure or other facility, together with the land upon which it is erected and any fixtures which are a part of the building, structure or other facility, located in the United States, and owned or leased or to be owned or leased by the Issuer or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, and in each case the net book value of which as of that date exceeds $50,000,000, other than any such land, building, structure or other facility or portion thereof which, in the opinion of the Board of Directors of the Issuer (or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of such Board) by resolution determines in good faith not to be of material importance to the total business conducted by the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise.

Rating Agencies” means (1) each of S&P and Moody’s and (2) if either S&P or Moody’s (or any replacement agency therefor contemplated below) ceases to provide ratings services to issuers or investors generally, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act selected by us (as certified by a resolution of our board of directors) to act as a replacement agency for S&P or Moody’s (or any previous replacement agency), as the case may be.

 

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Rating Event” means the ratings of the Notes are lowered by both of the Rating Agencies and the Notes are rated below an Investment Grade Rating by both of the Rating Agencies, on any day during the period commencing on the date of the first public announcement of the occurrence of a Change of Control or of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control and ending 60 days following the consummation of such Change of Control (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of the Notes is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies on the 60th day of such period, such extension to last with respect to each such Rating Agency until the date on which such Rating Agency considering such possible downgrade either (1) rates the Notes below an Investment Grade Rating or (2) publicly announces that it is no longer considering the Notes for possible downgrade).

Refinance” means, in respect of any Debt, to refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay, prepay, redeem, defease or retire, or to issue other Debt in exchange or replacement for, such Debt. “Refinanced” and “Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings.

Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee (or any successor group of the Trustee), including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers having direct responsibility for the administration of the Indenture, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

Restricted Subsidiary” means any Domestic Subsidiary of the Issuer other than (1) any of its less than 80%-owned Subsidiaries if the common stock of such subsidiary is traded on any national securities exchange or on the over-the-counter markets or (2) any business combination related shell company, as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

Sale/Leaseback Transaction” means an arrangement relating to Principal Property owned by the Issuer or a Subsidiary of the Issuer on the Issue Date or thereafter acquired by the Issuer or a Subsidiary of the Issuer whereby the Issuer or a Subsidiary of the Issuer transfers such property to a Person and the Issuer of a Subsidiary of the Issuer leases it from such Person.

S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc., or any successor to the ratings agency business thereof.

Second Change of Control Payment Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.01(g).

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Issuer that would be a “Significant Subsidiary” of the Issuer within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC.

 

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Specified Debt” means Debt in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $300,000,000.

Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any security, the date specified in such security as the fixed date on which the final payment of principal of such security is due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption provision (but excluding any provision providing for the repurchase of such security at the option of the holder thereof upon the happening of any contingency unless such contingency has occurred).

Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Voting Stock is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by:

(1) such Person;

(2) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person; or

(3) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.

Subsidiary Guarantor” means each Subsidiary of the Issuer that Guarantees the Notes pursuant to the terms of this Supplemental Indenture.

Subsidiary Guaranty” means a Guarantee by a Subsidiary Guarantor of the Issuer’s obligations with respect to the Notes.

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the yield determined by the Issuer in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

 

  (1)

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Issuer after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Issuer shall select, as applicable: (i) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the redemption date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (ii) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15

 

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  immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the redemption date.

 

  (2)

If on the third Business Day preceding the redemption date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Issuer shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second business day preceding such redemption date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Issuer shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Issuer shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

Voting Stock” of a Person means all classes of Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) of such Person then outstanding and normally entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof.

Wholly Owned” means, with respect to any Subsidiary of a Person, 100% of the Capital Stock of such Person (other than director’s qualifying shares) shall at the time be owned by such Person and other Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.

 

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ARTICLE II

General Terms And Conditions Of The Notes

SECTION 2.01. Establishment of the 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029. A new series of Securities with the following terms is hereby established pursuant to Section 301 of the Base Indenture:

(1) The title of the series of Securities constituted by the Notes shall be the “5.500% Senior Notes due 2029”.

(2) The initial aggregate principal amount of the Notes is $500,000,000. There is no limit upon the aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture. The Issuer may from time to time without notice to or the consent of the Holders of the Notes create and issue additional Notes (“Additional Notes”) ranking equally and ratably with the Notes issued on the Issue Date in all respects other than the issue price, the date of the issuance, the payment of interest accruing prior to the issue date of such Additional Notes and in some cases the first payment of interest following the issue date of such Additional Notes. Any such Additional Notes shall be consolidated and form a single series with the Notes issued on the Issue Date for all purposes under the Indenture including for purposes of waivers, amendments, redemptions and offers to purchase; provided that if the Additional Notes are not fungible with the Notes issued on the Issue Date for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such nonfungible Additional Notes shall have a separate CUSIP number from the Notes issued on the Issue Date.

(3) The Notes will be (i) unsecured senior obligations of the Issuer, (ii) senior in right of payment to all existing and any future subordinated indebtedness of the Issuer and (iii) guaranteed by Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor on an unsecured senior basis.

(4) Not applicable.

(5) The entire outstanding principal of the Notes shall be payable on April 1, 2029 plus any accrued and unpaid interest to such date.

(6) Interest on the Notes shall accrue at a rate of 5.500% per annum, computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payments for the Notes will include accrued interest from and including the Issue Date or from and including the last date in respect of which interest has been paid, as the case may be, to, but excluding, the Interest Payment Date or the date of maturity, as the case may be. The Interest Payment Dates for the Notes on which interest will be payable shall be April 1 and October 1 of each year, beginning October 1, 2024. The Regular Record Dates for the interest payable on the Notes on any Interest Payment Date shall be the March 15 and September 15 preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date, whether or not a Business Day.

 

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(7) Payment of principal and premium, if any, of, and interest on, the Notes shall be made at, and in the manner prescribed by, Sections 1001 and 1002 of the Base Indenture.

(8) The Notes may be redeemed in accordance with paragraph 5 of the Notes.

(9) The Notes do not have the benefit of a sinking fund. The Issuer is obligated to purchase the Notes at the option of the Holders thereof pursuant to Section 4.01 of this Supplemental Indenture.

(10) Not applicable.

(11) Not applicable.

(12) Not applicable.

(13) Not applicable.

(14) Not applicable.

(15) Not applicable.

(16) Not applicable.

(17) The Notes shall be issued as Global Securities and The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York shall be the initial Depositary.

(18) Additions, deletions and changes in the Events of Default applicable to the Notes are set forth in Article V of this Supplemental Indenture.

(19) The covenants set forth in Article IV of this Supplemental Indenture shall apply to the Notes. The covenants set forth in Article VIII of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes.

(20) Not applicable.

(21) The Notes shall be guaranteed by Parent and the Subsidiary Guarantors, if any, pursuant to Section 4.05 and Article VI of this Supplemental Indenture.

(22) Not applicable.

(23) Not applicable.

(24) The provisions of this Supplemental Indenture shall supersede any conflicting terms of the Base Indenture with respect to the Notes as set forth in Section 1.01.

 

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SECTION 2.02. Form of the Notes. The Notes issued under this Supplemental Indenture shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Supplemental Indenture. The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to which the Issuer is subject, if any, or usage (provided that any such notation, legend or endorsement is in a form acceptable to the Issuer). Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms of the Notes set forth in the Exhibit A to this Supplemental Indenture are part of the terms of this Supplemental Indenture.

ARTICLE III

Redemption of the Notes

SECTION 3.01. Redemption. The Notes may be redeemed in accordance with paragraph 5 of the Notes and Article XI of the Base Indenture (other than to the extent Article XI of the Base Indenture is inconsistent with paragraph 5 of the Notes, in which case paragraph 5 of the Notes shall govern and be controlling in respect of the Notes).

SECTION 3.02. Selection of Notes. In the case of a partial redemption of Notes, selection of the Notes for redemption will be made pro rata, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee deems appropriate and fair. No Notes of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of such Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of such Note will be issued in the name of the Holder of such Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by DTC (or another depositary), the redemption of Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the depositary.

ARTICLE IV

Additional Covenants

SECTION 4.01. Change of Control Triggering Event.

(a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, each Holder of Notes shall have the right to require that the Issuer purchase such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof on the date of purchase plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), in accordance with the terms contemplated in Section 4.01(b) of this Supplemental Indenture.

 

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(b) Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Issuer has exercised its option to redeem all the Notes pursuant to paragraph 5 of the Notes, the Issuer shall mail (or deliver by electronic transmission in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary) a notice to each Holder with a copy to the Trustee (the “Change of Control Offer”) stating:

(1) that a Change of Control Triggering Event has occurred and that such Holder has the right to require the Issuer to purchase such Holder’s Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof on the date of purchase, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest on the relevant interest payment date);

(2) the circumstances that constitute such Change of Control Triggering Event;

(3) the purchase date (which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such notice is sent); and

(4) the instructions, as determined by the Issuer, consistent with this Section 4.01, that a Holder must follow in order to have its Notes purchased.

(c) Holders electing to have a Note purchased will be required to surrender the Note, with an appropriate form duly executed, to the Trustee for cancellation at the address specified in the notice at least three Business Days prior to the purchase date. Notes held in book entry form shall be delivered in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures. Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if (i) the Trustee or the Issuer receives not later than one Business Day prior to the purchase date, a facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Note which was delivered for purchase by the Holder and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his or her election to have such Note purchased or (ii) such holders withdraw their election prior to the purchase date in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary.

(d) On the purchase date, all Notes purchased by the Issuer under this Section 4.01 shall be delivered by the Issuer to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Issuer shall pay the purchase price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the Holders entitled thereto.

(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.01, the Issuer shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer following a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Section 4.01 applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Issuer and purchases all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer or if the Issuer has exercised its option to redeem all the Notes pursuant to paragraph 5 of the Notes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Change of Control Offer may be made in advance of a Change of Control Triggering Event, conditional upon such Change of Control Triggering Event, if a definitive agreement is in place for the Change of Control at the time of making of such Change of Control Offer.

 

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(f) The Issuer shall comply, to the extent applicable, with the requirements of Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act and any other securities laws or regulations in connection with the purchase of Notes pursuant to this Section 4.01. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Section 4.01, the Issuer shall comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Section 4.01 by virtue of its compliance with such securities laws or regulations.

(g) If Holders of not less than 90% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes validly tender and do not withdraw such Notes in connection with a Change of Control Offer and the Issuer, or any third party approved in writing by the Issuer making a Change of Control Offer in lieu of the Issuer in accordance with this Section 4.01, purchases all of the Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the Issuer or such third party will have the right, upon not less than 10 days’ nor more than 60 days’ prior notice, given that such notice is not given more than 30 days following the purchase pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, to redeem (with respect to the Issuer) or purchase (with respect to a third party) all Notes that remain outstanding following such purchase on a date (the “Second Change of Control Payment Date”) at a purchase price equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Second Change of Control Payment Date.

SECTION 4.02. Limitation on Liens.

(a) The Issuer will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer to, create, incur, issue, assume or guarantee any Debt secured by a Lien upon any Principal Property of the Issuer or such Restricted Subsidiary (whether such Principal Property is now existing or owned or hereafter created or acquired), in each case, unless prior to or at the same time, the Notes (together with, at the option of the Issuer, any other Debt of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries ranking equally in right of payment with the Notes or such guarantee) are secured equally and ratably with or, at the option of the Issuer, prior to such Debt so long as such Debt shall be so secured.

(b) The foregoing restriction shall not apply to:

(1) Liens on property existing with respect to any Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Issuer, provided that such Lien was not incurred in anticipation of such Person becoming a Subsidiary;

(2) Liens on property at the time of acquisition by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries of such property, or Liens on property to secure the payment of all or any part of the purchase price of such property, or Liens on property to secure any Debt incurred prior to, at the time of, or within 18 months after, the latest of the acquisition of such property or the completion of construction, the completion of improvements or the commencement of substantial commercial operation of such property for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price of the property and related costs and expenses, the construction or the making of the improvements;

 

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(3) Liens securing Debt of the Issuer or any of the Issuer’s Subsidiaries owing to the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries;

(4) Liens existing on the Issue Date;

(5) Liens on property or assets of a Person existing at the time such Person is merged into or consolidated with the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Issuer, or at the time of a sale, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of a Person to the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, provided that such Lien was not incurred in anticipation of the merger, consolidation, or sale, lease, other disposition or other such transaction;

(6) Liens securing Non-Recourse Debt or Exempt Construction Loans or guarantees thereof on assets or Capital Stock of Subsidiaries of the Issuer formed solely for the purpose of, and which engage in no business other than the business of making Co-investments;

(7) Liens created to secure the Notes;

(8) Liens imposed by law, such as materialmen’s, workmen’s or repairmen’s, carrier’s, warehousemen’s and mechanic’s Liens and other similar Liens, in each case for sums not yet overdue by more than 30 calendar days or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or other Liens arising out of judgments or awards against such Person with respect to which such Person shall then be proceeding with an appeal or other proceedings for review and Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provision relating to banker’s Liens, rights of set-off or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds maintained with a creditor depository institution;

(9) Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges not yet due or payable or subject to penalties for non-payment or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;

(10) Liens to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature;

(11) pledges or deposits under workmen’s compensation, unemployment insurance, or similar legislation and Liens of judgments thereunder which are not currently dischargeable, or deposits to secure public or statutory obligations, or deposits in connection with obtaining or maintaining self-insurance or to obtain the benefits of any law, regulation or arrangement pertaining to workmen’s compensation, unemployment insurance, old age pensions, social security or similar matters, or deposits of cash or obligations of the United States of America to secure surety, appeal or customs bonds, or deposits in litigation or other proceedings such as, but not limited to, interpleader proceedings;

 

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(12) Liens consisting of easements, rights-of-way, zoning restrictions, restrictions on the use of real property, and defects and irregularities in the title thereto, landlords’ Liens and other similar Liens none of which interfere materially with the use of the property covered thereby in the ordinary course of business and which do not, in the Issuer’s opinion, materially detract from the value of such properties;

(13) Liens in favor of the United States of America or any State thereof, or any department, agency or instrumentality or political subdivision thereof, to secure partial, progress, advance or other payments; or

(14) any extensions, renewals or replacements of any Lien referred to in clauses (1) through (13) of this Section 4.02(b) without increase of the principal of the Debt secured by such Lien (except to the extent of any fees or other costs associated with any such extension, renewal or replacement); provided, however, that any Liens permitted by any of clauses (1) through (13) shall not extend to or cover any property of the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, other than the property specified in such clauses and improvements to such property.

(c) Notwithstanding the restrictions described above, the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries may create, incur, issue, assume or guarantee Debt secured by Liens which would otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions without equally and ratably securing the Notes then Outstanding if, at the time of such creation, incurrence, issuance, assumption or guarantee, after giving effect thereto and to the retirement of any Debt which is concurrently being retired, the aggregate amount of all such Debt secured by Liens which would otherwise be subject to such restrictions (other than any Debt (or any guarantee thereof) secured by Liens permitted as described in clauses (1)-(14) of Section 4.02(b)), together with all Attributable Debt outstanding pursuant to Section 4.03(b), does not exceed 7.5% of the Consolidated Total Assets of the Issuer calculated as of the date of the creation or incurrence of the Lien. The Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries also may, without equally and ratably securing the Notes, create or incur Liens that extend, renew, substitute or replace (including successive extensions, renewals, substitutions or replacements), in whole or in part, any Lien permitted pursuant to the preceding sentence.

SECTION 4.03. Limitation on Sale/Leaseback Transactions.

(a) The Issuer will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary of the Issuer to, enter into any Sale/Leaseback Transaction for the sale and leasing back of any Principal Property unless:

(1) such transaction was entered into prior to the Issue Date;

(2) such transaction was for the sale and leasing back to the Issuer or any of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of any Principal Property by one of its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

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(3) such transaction involves a lease for not more than three years (or which may be terminated by the Issuer or its Subsidiaries within a period of not more than three years);

(4) The Issuer would be entitled to incur Debt secured by a Lien with respect to such Sale/Leaseback Transaction without equally and ratably securing the Notes pursuant to Section 4.02(b); or

(5) The Issuer or any Restricted Subsidiary applies an amount equal to the net proceeds from the sale of such Principal Property to the purchase of other property or assets used or useful in its business (including the purchase or development of other Principal Property) or to the retirement of Debt that is pari passu with the Notes (including the Notes) within 365 days before or after the effective date of any such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, provided that, in lieu of applying such amount to the retirement of pari passu Debt, the Issuer may deliver Notes to the trustee for cancellation, such Notes to be credited at the cost thereof to it.

(b) Notwithstanding the restrictions set forth in Section 4.03(a), the Issuer and its Restricted Subsidiaries may enter into any Sale/Leaseback Transaction which would otherwise be subject to the foregoing restrictions, if after giving effect thereto the aggregate amount of all Attributable Debt with respect to such transactions, together with all Debt outstanding pursuant to Section 4.02(c), does not exceed 7.5% of the Consolidated Total Assets of the Issuer calculated as of the closing date of the sale and leaseback transaction.

SECTION 4.04. SEC Reports. So long as any Notes are outstanding, at any time that the Issuer is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Issuer will furnish to the Trustee and make available on the Issuer’s website copies of such annual and quarterly reports and such information, documents and other reports as are required under Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act within 15 days after the date such information, documents or other reports were filed with the SEC; provided, however, that (a) so long as Parent is a Guarantor of the Notes, the reports, information and other documents required to be filed and provided as described hereunder may, at the Issuer’s option, be filed by and be those of Parent rather than the Issuer and (b) in the event that Parent conducts any business or holds any significant assets other than the capital stock of the Issuer at the time of filing and providing any such report, information or other document containing financial statements of Parent, Parent shall include in such report, information or other document summarized financial information (as defined in Rule 1-02(bb) of Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC) with respect to the Issuer. The Issuer or Parent will be deemed to have furnished such reports, information and documents to the Trustee if the Issuer or Parent has filed such reports, information and documents with the SEC via the EDGAR filing system or has made available such reports, information and documents on its website. The Trustee shall have no responsibility to ensure that such filing has occurred. Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Issuer’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates).

 

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SECTION 4.05. Future Guarantors. On the Issue Date, Parent shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a Guaranty Agreement pursuant to which Parent shall guarantee the Issuer’s obligations with respect to the Notes issued pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture on the terms set forth herein. After the Issue Date, the Issuer shall cause each Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Issuer that Guarantees any Specified Debt of the Issuer to, within 30 days of the incurrence of such Guarantee, execute and deliver to the Trustee a Guaranty Agreement pursuant to which such Subsidiary shall Guarantee payment of the Notes on the same terms and conditions as those set forth in this Supplemental Indenture. For the avoidance of doubt, if a Foreign Subsidiary is a co-borrower of Debt of the Issuer, and not a Guarantor of such Debt, then it will not be considered a Guarantor of such Debt for purposes of this Section 4.05.

SECTION 4.06. When the Issuer, Parent and Subsidiary Guarantors May Merge or Transfer Assets.

This Section 4.06 shall apply in respect of the Notes in lieu of Article VIII of the Base Indenture.

(a) Neither the Issuer nor Parent may consolidate with or merge into any other entity or convey, transfer or lease their properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any entity, unless:

(1) the successor or transferee entity, if other than the Issuer or Parent, as the case may be, is a Person (in the case of the Issuer, if such Person is not a corporation, then such successor or transferee shall include a corporate co-issuer) organized and existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and expressly assumes by a supplemental indenture executed and delivered to the trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, any premium on and any interest on all the outstanding Notes and the performance of every covenant and obligation in the Indenture to be performed or observed by the Issuer or Parent, as the case may be;

(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, has happened and is continuing; and

(3) within 30 days of such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Issuer or Parent, as the case may be, has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such occurrence, and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture, complies with the foregoing provisions relating to such transaction.

 

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In case of any such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, the successor entity will succeed to and be substituted for the Issuer or Parent, as the case may be, as obligor or guarantor on the Notes, as the case may be, with the same effect as if it had been named in the Indenture as the Issuer or Parent, as the case may be. As a result, the successor entity may exercise the rights and powers of the Issuer or Parent, as the case may be, under the Indenture, and the Issuer or Parent, as the case may be, shall be released from all liabilities and obligations under the Indenture and, as the case may be, under the Notes or guarantee thereof.

(b) No Subsidiary Guarantor may consolidate with or merge into any other entity or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any entity, unless:

(1) the successor or transferee entity, if not a Subsidiary Guarantor prior to such merger, conveyance, transfer or lease, shall be a Person organized and existing under the laws of the jurisdiction under which such Subsidiary was organized or under the laws of the United States of America, or any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and expressly assumes, by a supplemental indenture, all the obligations of such Subsidiary under its guarantee; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not apply in the case of a Subsidiary Guarantor (x) that has been, or will be as a result of the subject transaction, disposed of in its entirety to another Person (other than to the Issuer, Parent or an affiliate of the Issuer or Parent), whether through a merger, consolidation or sale of Capital Stock or assets or (y) that, as a result of the disposition of all or a portion of its Capital Stock, ceases to be a Subsidiary;

(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event of Default, has happened and is continuing; and

(3) other than the case where the Guarantor is the successor entity, within 30 days of such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that such occurrence and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such occurrence, such supplemental indenture, comply with the foregoing provisions relating to such transaction.

ARTICLE V

Additional Events of Default

SECTION 5.01. Additional Events of Default. In addition to the Events of Default set forth in Section 501 of the Base Indenture, an “Event of Default” occurs with respect to the Notes if:

 

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(a) the Issuer defaults in the payment of the principal of any Note when the same becomes due and payable at its Stated Maturity, upon redemption, upon required purchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;

(b) the Issuer, Parent or any Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, fails to comply with Section 4.01 (other than a failure to purchase Notes) and such failure continues for 30 days after a Notice of Default is given;

(c) the Issuer or Parent, as the case may be, fails to comply with Section 4.04 and such failure continues for 180 days after a Notice of Default is given (provided that, if applicable, failure by the Issuer or Parent to comply with the provisions of Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act will not in itself be deemed a Default or an Event of Default);

(d) the Issuer, Parent or any Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, default in the performance of, or breach, any of their covenants and agreements in respect of the Notes contained in this Indenture or in the Notes (other than those referred to in clause (1) of Section 501 of the Base Indenture or (a), (b) or (c) above), and such default or breach continues for a period of 60 days after a Notice of Default is given; or

(e) the Parent Guaranty or a Subsidiary Guaranty of a Significant Subsidiary or a group of Subsidiary Guarantors that collectively would constitute a Significant Subsidiary ceases to be in full force and effect (other than in accordance with the terms of such Guaranty) or Parent or any Significant Subsidiary or any group of Subsidiary Guarantors that collectively would constitute a Significant Subsidiary denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Guaranty.

A default under clauses (b), (c) and (d) will not constitute an Event of Default until the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 30% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes notify the Issuer of the default and the Issuer does not cure such default within the time specified after receipt of such notice.

SECTION 5.02. Inapplicability of Events of Default. The Events of Default specified in clauses (2), (3) and (4) of Section 501 of the Base Indenture shall not apply to the Notes.

SECTION 5.03. Bankruptcy Event of Default. With respect to the Notes, the following amendments shall have been deemed to have been made to Section 501 of the Base Indenture:

(a) Section 501(5) is amended by replacing the words “the Issuer or the Guarantors” with the words “the Issuer, any Significant Subsidiary or any group of Subsidiary Guarantors that collectively would constitute a Significant Subsidiary”.

(b) Section 501(6) is amended by replacing each instance of the words “the Issuer or the Guarantors” with the words “the Issuer, any Significant Subsidiary or any group of Subsidiary Guarantors that collectively would constitute a Significant Subsidiary”.

 

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SECTION 5.04. Covenant Defeasance. On and after the date of Covenant Defeasance of the Notes, the occurrence of any event specified in (i) Section 501(5) or 501(6) of the Base Indenture (in each case only with respect to any Significant Subsidiary or any group of Subsidiary Guarantors that collectively would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) or (ii) Sections 5.01(b), 5.01(c), 5.01(d) (other than in respect of Covenant Defeasance) or 5.01(e) shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default with respect to the Notes.

SECTION 5.05. Notice of Default. The Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days after the occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officer’s Certificate of any Event of Default under clause (e) of Section 5.01 and any event which with the giving of notice or the lapse of time would become an Event of Default under clause (b), (c) and (d) of Section 5.01, its status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto.

SECTION 5.06. Article V of the Base Indenture. With respect to the Notes, the following amendments shall be deemed to have been made to Article V of the Base Indenture:

(a) The definition of “Notice of Default” in Section 501 is amended by replacing “25%” with “30%” in such definition.

(b) Section 502 is amended by replacing the first paragraph thereof with the following:

“If an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of any series at the time Outstanding (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or (6) with respect to the Issuer) occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 30% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series may declare the principal amount of all the Securities of such series (or, if any Securities of such series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such Securities as may be specified by the terms thereof), together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Issuer and the Guarantors (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration, such principal amount (or specified amount), together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or (6) with respect to the Issuer with respect to the Securities of any series at the time Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of such series (or, in the case of any Security of such series which specifies an amount to be due and payable thereon upon acceleration of the Maturity thereof, such amount as may be specified by the terms thereof), together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon, shall automatically, and without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become immediately due and payable. Upon payment of such amount, all obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantors in respect of the payment of principal and interest of the Securities of such series shall terminate.”

 

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(c) Section 507(2) is amended by replacing “25%” with “30%”.

(d) Section 507(3) of the Base Indenture shall be amended and restated as follows: “such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee security and indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, claim, liability, cost, damage or expense to be incurred in compliance with such request;”.

ARTICLE VI

Guarantees

SECTION 6.01. Guarantees.

(a) Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, required to execute and deliver a Guaranty Agreement pursuant to Section 4.05 shall, upon execution and delivery of its Guaranty Agreement, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantee, jointly and severally, to each Holder and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns (a) the full and punctual payment of principal of and interest on the Notes when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, and all other monetary obligations of the Issuer under this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes and (b) the full and punctual performance within applicable grace periods of all other obligations of the Issuer under this Supplemental Indenture and the Notes (all the foregoing being hereinafter collectively called the “Guaranteed Obligations”). Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, further agree that the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice or further assent from Parent or such Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, and that Parent and such Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, will remain bound under this Article VI notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Guaranteed Obligation.

(b) Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, waives presentation to, demand of, payment from and protest to the Issuer of any of the Guaranteed Obligations and also waives notice of protest for nonpayment. Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, waives notice of any default under the Notes or the Guaranteed Obligations. The obligations of Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, hereunder shall not be affected by (a) the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Issuer or any other Person under this Supplemental Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement or otherwise; (b) any extension or renewal of any thereof; (c) any rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions of this Supplemental Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement; (d) the release of any security held by any Holder or the Trustee for the Guaranteed Obligations or any of them; (e) the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to exercise any right or remedy against any other guarantor of the Guaranteed Obligations; or (f) except as set forth in Section 6.06, any change in the ownership of Parent or such Subsidiary Guarantor.

 

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(c) Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, further agrees that its Guaranty herein constitutes a guarantee of payment, performance and compliance when due (and not a guarantee of collection) and waives any right to require that any resort be had by any Holder or the Trustee to any security held for payment of the Guaranteed Obligations.

(d) Except as expressly set forth in Sections 6.02, 6.06 and 7.02(b) of this Supplemental Indenture and Sections 1302 and 1303 of the Base Indenture, the obligations of Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, hereunder shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of the invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations or otherwise. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, herein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by the failure of any Holder or the Trustee to assert any claim or demand or to enforce any remedy under this Supplemental Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement, by any waiver or modification of any thereof, by any default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance of the obligations, or by any other act or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of Parent or such Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, or would otherwise operate as a discharge of Parent or such Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, as a matter of law or equity.

(e) Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, further agrees that its Guarantee herein shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof, of principal of or interest on any Guaranteed Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder or the Trustee upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Issuer or otherwise.

(f) In furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which any Holder or the Trustee has at law or in equity against any Guarantor by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Issuer to pay the principal of or interest on any Guaranteed Obligation when and as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, or to perform or comply with any other Guaranteed Obligation, Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, hereby promises to and shall, upon receipt of written demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the Holders or the Trustee an amount equal to the sum of (1) the unpaid amount of such Guaranteed Obligations, (2) accrued and unpaid interest on such Guaranteed Obligations (but only to the extent not prohibited by law) and (3) all other monetary Guaranteed Obligations of the Issuer to the Holders and the Trustee.

 

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(g) Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, further agrees that, as between it, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the Guaranteed Obligations may be accelerated as provided in Article V of the Base Indenture for the purposes of Parent and each such Subsidiary Guarantor’s, if any, Guaranty herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations, and (y) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such Guaranteed Obligations as provided in such Article V, such Guaranteed Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by Parent or each such Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, for the purposes of this Section 6.01.

(h) Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, also agrees to pay any and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee or any Holder in enforcing any rights under this Section 6.01.

SECTION 6.02. Limitation on Liability. Any term or provision of this Supplemental Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount of the Guaranteed Obligations guaranteed hereunder by any Subsidiary Guarantor shall not exceed the maximum amount that can be hereby guaranteed without rendering this Supplemental Indenture, as it relates to such Subsidiary Guarantor, voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally.

SECTION 6.03. Successors and Assigns. This Article VI shall be binding upon Parent and each Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, and its successors and assigns and shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee and the Holders and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Holder or the Trustee, the rights and privileges conferred upon that party in this Indenture and in the Notes shall automatically extend to and be vested in such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions of this Supplemental Indenture.

SECTION 6.04. No Waiver. Neither a failure nor a delay on the part of either the Trustee or the Holders in exercising any right, power or privilege under this Article VI shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall a single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise of any right, power or privilege. The rights, remedies and benefits of the Trustee and the Holders herein expressly specified are cumulative and not exclusive of any other rights, remedies or benefits which either may have under this Article VI at law, in equity, by statute or otherwise.

SECTION 6.05. Modification. No modification, amendment or waiver of any provision of this Article VI, nor the consent to any departure by Parent or any Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Trustee, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. No notice to or demand on Parent or any Subsidiary Guarantor, if any, in any case shall entitle Parent or each such Subsidiary Guarantor to any other or further notice or demand in the same, similar or other circumstances.

 

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SECTION 6.06. Release of Subsidiary Guarantor. Each Subsidiary Guarantor shall be deemed released from all obligations under this Article VI without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder: (1) upon the sale or other disposition (including by way of consolidation or merger) of such Subsidiary Guarantor, (2) upon the sale or disposition of all or substantially all the assets of such Subsidiary Guarantor, (3) at such time as (a) such Subsidiary Guarantor no longer Guarantees any other Specified Debt (which, for avoidance of doubt, will include when any such Guarantee is no longer required by any contractual obligation and any other Guarantees are substantially concurrently released) of the Issuer or (b) the release or discharge of the guaranty which resulted in the creation of such Subsidiary Guaranty (except a release or discharge by or as a result of payment under such guaranty); provided that such Subsidiary Guarantor would not then otherwise be required to Guarantee the Notes pursuant to the Indenture, (4) upon the defeasance of the Notes, as provided under Article XIII of the Base Indenture or (5) pursuant to clause (4) of Section 901 of the Base Indenture (in the case of clause (1) or (2), other than to Parent, the Issuer or a Subsidiary of Parent and as permitted by the Indenture). For the avoidance of doubt, the release of a Subsidiary Guaranty of a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to clause (3) above shall automatically occur simultaneously with the release of all such Guarantees of such Subsidiary Guarantor of other Specified Debt. At the written request of the Issuer, the Trustee shall execute and deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing such release.

SECTION 6.07. Contribution. Each Subsidiary Guarantor that makes a payment under its Subsidiary Guaranty will be entitled upon payment in full of all Guaranteed Obligations to a contribution from each other Subsidiary Guarantor in an amount equal to such other Subsidiary Guarantor’s pro rata portion of such payment based on the respective net assets of all the Subsidiary Guarantors at the time of such payment determined in accordance with GAAP.

ARTICLE VII

Miscellaneous Provisions

SECTION 7.01. Article IX of the Base Indenture. With respect to the Notes, the following amendments shall be deemed to have been made to Article IX of the Base Indenture:

(a) Paragraphs (6) and (9) of Section 901 of the Base Indenture are hereby deleted.

(b) Paragraph (10) of Section 901 of the Base Indenture shall be amended and restated as follows: “to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes; provided that the uncertificated Notes are issued in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the Code;”.

(c) Paragraph (13) of Section 901 of the Base Indenture shall be amended and restated as follows: “to cure any ambiguity or omission, defect or inconsistency, as evidenced in an Officer’s Certificate; and”.

(d) Paragraph (14) of Section 901 of the Base Indenture shall be amended and restated as follows: “to make any change that does not materially and adversely affect the rights of the Holders of the Notes”.

 

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(e) The words “(15) to comply with any requirement of the SEC in connection with any required qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act; and” and “(16) to amend the provisions of the Indenture relating to the transfer and legending of Notes; provided, however, that (i) compliance with the Indenture as so amended would not result in Notes being transferred in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable securities law and (ii) such amendment does not materially and adversely affect the rights of Holders to transfer Notes.” shall be inserted after paragraph (14) in Section 901 of the Base Indenture. The word “and” at the end of paragraph (13) of Section 901 shall be deleted, and the period at the end of paragraph (14) of Section 901 shall be replaced with a semicolon.

(f) The words “which intent may be evidenced by” in paragraph (12) of Section 901 of the Base Indenture shall be deleted and replaced with “as set forth in” and the words “to that effect” at the end of paragraph (12) of Section 901 shall be deleted.

(g) Paragraph (4) of Section 902 of the Base Indenture shall be amended and restated as follows: “make any Note payable in money other than as stated in such Note”.

(h) The words “(9) change any Guaranty in a manner that would materially adversely affect the Holders of the Notes; or” and “(10) make any change in the ranking or priority of any Note or Guaranty that would materially adversely affect the Holders of the Notes.” shall be inserted after paragraph (8) in Section 902 of the Base Indenture. The word “or” at the end of paragraph (7) of Section 902 shall be deleted, and the period at the end of paragraph (8) of Section 902 shall be replaced with a semicolon.

(i) The paragraph below shall be inserted after the last paragraph of Section 902 of the Base Indenture:

Neither the Issuer nor any Affiliate of the Issuer may, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any Holder for or as an inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment or any of the terms or provisions of the Indenture or the Notes unless such consideration is offered to all Holders and is paid to all Holders that so consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame set forth in solicitation documents relating to such consent, waiver or agreement.

 

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(j) The words “(or deliver by electronic transmission in accordance with applicable procedures of the Depositary)” shall be inserted after each instance of the word “mail” in Section 902 of the Base Indenture.

SECTION 7.02. Article XIII of the Base Indenture. With respect to the Notes, the following amendments shall be deemed to have been made to Article XIII of the Base Indenture:

(a) Paragraph (3) of Section 1304 of the Base Indenture shall be amended and restated as follows: “(3) [Reserved].”

(b) For avoidance of doubt, upon exercise of Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance by the Issuer or any of the Guarantors, each Guarantor will automatically be released from all of its Guarantees under Article VI of this Supplemental Indenture.

SECTION 7.03. Article VI of the Base Indenture. With respect to the Notes, the following amendment shall be deemed to have been made to Article VI of the Base Indenture:

(a) Section 602 of the Base Indenture shall be amended and restated as follows: “If a Default occurs with respect to the Notes, is continuing and is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee must mail (or deliver by electronic transmission in accordance with the applicable procedures of DTC) to each holder of the Notes notice of the Default within 90 days after it is known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee or written notice of it is received by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee. Except in the case of a Default in the payment of principal of or interest on any Note, the Trustee may withhold notice if it determines that withholding notice is not opposed to the interest of the holders of the Notes.”

SECTION 7.04. No Recourse Against Others. With respect to the Notes, Section 114 of the Base Indenture shall be deemed to be amended and restated as follows: “No director, officer, employee, incorporator, member or stockholder of the Issuer or any Guarantor will have any liability for any obligations of the Issuer or any Guarantor under the Notes, any Guaranty or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each holder of a Note by accepting such Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.”

SECTION 7.05. Ratification of Indenture. The Base Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed to be part of the Base Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided.

SECTION 7.06. Provisions of General Application. The provisions of Sections 112, 115, 118 of the Base Indenture shall apply to this Supplemental Indenture mutatis mutandis.

 

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SECTION 7.07. Counterparts. The parties hereto may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Supplemental Indenture and signature pages for all purposes. This Supplemental Indenture and any other documents delivered in connection with this transaction shall be valid, binding, and enforceable against a party only when executed and delivered by an authorized individual on behalf of the party by means of (i) any electronic signature permitted by the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, state enactments of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and/or any other relevant electronic signatures law; (ii) an original manual signature; or (iii) a scanned manual signature. Each electronic signature or scanned manual signature shall for all purposes have the same validity, legal effect, and admissibility in evidence as an original manual signature. Each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon and shall have no liability with respect to a scanned or other electronic signature of any party and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm, or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof.

[Remainder of Page Intentionally Blank]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Ninth Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first written above.

 

CBRE SERVICES, INC., as Issuer

CBRE GROUP, INC., as Parent and Guarantor

By:  

/s/ EMMA E. GIAMARTINO

  Name: Emma E. Giamartino
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

[Signature Page to the Ninth Supplemental Indenture]


COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:  

/s/ COREY J. DEHLSTRAND

  Name: Corey J. Dehlstrand
  Title: Vice President

 

[Signature Page to the Ninth Supplemental Indenture]


Exhibit A

Form of Note

FORM OF FACE OF NOTE

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF. TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.


CUSIP No. 12505B AH3

ISIN US12505BAH33

 

No.   $     

5.500% Senior Notes due 2029

CBRE Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $     on April 1, 2029.

Interest Payment Dates: April 1 and October 1, commencing on October 1, 2024.

Regular Record Dates: March 15 and September 15.

 

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Additional provisions of this Security are set forth on the other side of this Security.

 

CBRE Services, Inc.
By:  

 

  Name:
  Title:

 

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
Computershare Trust Company, National Association
as Trustee, certifies
 

that this is one of the

Securities referred to

in the Indenture.

By:  

 

  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF NOTE

5.500% Senior Notes due 2029

 

1.

Interest

CBRE Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (such corporation, and its successors and assigns under the Indenture hereinafter referred to, being herein called the “Issuer”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above. The Issuer will pay interest semiannually on April 1 and October 1 of each year, commencing October 1, 2024. Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from February 23, 2024. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.

 

2.

Method of Payment

The Issuer will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the March 15 or September 15 next preceding the interest payment date, whether or not a Business Day, even if Notes are canceled after the record date and on or before the interest payment date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The Issuer will pay principal and interest in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments in respect of the Notes represented by a Global Security (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the accounts specified by The Depository Trust Company. The Issuer will make all payments in respect of a certificated Note (including principal, premium, if any, and interest) by mailing a check to the registered address of each Holder thereof; provided, however, that payments on a certificated Note will be made by wire transfer to a U.S. dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to the Trustee or the Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later than 30 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such other date as the Trustee may accept).

 

3.

Paying Agent and Registrar

Initially, Computershare Trust Company, National Association (the “Trustee”), will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Issuer may appoint and change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-registrar without notice to Holders, but with written notice thereof to the Paying Agent and Registrar. The Issuer or any of its wholly owned Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent, registrar or co-registrar.

 

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4.

Indenture

This note is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the Issuer, designated as the Issuer’s 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”, which expression includes any Additional Notes issued pursuant to Section 301 of the Base Indenture (as defined below) and forming a single series therewith), issued under the Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2013 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Ninth Supplemental Indenture thereto dated as of February 23, 2024 (the “Ninth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), each among the Issuer, the Guarantors party thereto and the Trustee. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of the Indenture (the “Act”). Terms defined in the Indenture and not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture. The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of the Notes are referred to the Indenture and the Act for a statement of those terms. In the event of a conflict between any provision of this Note and the Indenture, the terms of the Indenture shall govern.

The Notes are general senior unsecured obligations of the Issuer. The Issuer shall be entitled to issue Additional Notes pursuant to Section 301 of the Base Indenture. The Notes issued on the Issue Date and any Additional Notes will be treated as a single class for all purposes under the Indenture; provided, however, that in the event any Additional Notes are not fungible with the Notes issued on the Issue Date for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such nonfungible Additional Notes will be issued with a separate CUSIP number so that they are distinguishable from the Notes issued on the Issue Date.

 

5.

Optional Redemption

For any date of redemption occurring prior to the Par Call Date, the Issuer may redeem, at its option, all or a portion of the Notes at a redemption price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

 

  (1)

(a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the redemption date (assuming the Notes matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 40 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

 

  (2)

100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed,

 

plus,

in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date.

In addition, for any date of redemption occurring on and after the Par Call Date, the Issuer may redeem all or a portion of the Notes at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but not including, the date of redemption.

The Issuer’s actions and determinations in determining the redemption price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

 

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Unless the Issuer defaults in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

 

6.

Notice of Redemption

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed.

 

7.

Put Provisions

Upon a Change of Control Triggering Event, any Holder of Notes will have the right to cause the Issuer to purchase all or any part of the Notes of such Holder at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof on the date of purchase plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the related interest payment date) as provided in, and subject to the terms of, the Indenture.

 

8.

Guarantees

From and after the Issue Date, the payment by the Issuer of the principal of, and premium and interest on, the Notes is guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by Parent on the terms set forth in the Indenture and will be guaranteed by additional Guarantors in the future on a joint and several senior unsecured basis to the extent required by the terms set forth in the Indenture.

 

9.

Denominations; Transfer; Exchange

The Notes are in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 principal amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. A Holder may transfer or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements or transfer documents and to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by the Indenture. The registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any Notes selected for redemption (except, in the case of a Note to be redeemed in part, the portion of the Note not to be redeemed) or any Notes for a period beginning 15 Business Days before the mailing of a notice of an offer to repurchase or redeem Notes or 15 Business Days before an interest payment date.

 

10.

Persons Deemed Owners

The registered Holder of this Note may be treated as the owner of it for all purposes.

 

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11.

Unclaimed Money

If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee or Paying Agent shall pay the money back to the Issuer at its request unless an abandoned property law designates another Person. After any such payment, Holders entitled to the money must look only to the Issuer and not to the Trustee for payment.

 

12.

Discharge and Defeasance

Subject to certain conditions, the Issuer at any time shall be entitled to terminate some or all of its and each Guarantor’s obligations under the Notes, the Guarantees and the Indenture if the Issuer deposits with the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of principal and interest on the Notes to redemption or maturity, as the case may be.

 

13.

Amendment, Waiver

The Indenture and the Notes may be amended or supplemented as provided in the Indenture.

 

14.

Defaults and Remedies

The Events of Default relating to the Notes are defined in the Indenture. Upon an occurrence of an Event of Default, the rights and obligations of the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes shall be as set forth in the Indenture.

 

15.

Trustee Dealings with the Issuer

Subject to certain limitations imposed by the Act, the Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to it by the Issuer or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Issuer or its Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee.

 

16.

No Recourse Against Others

No director, officer, employee, incorporator, member or stockholder of the Issuer or any Guarantor will have any liability for any obligations of the Issuer or any Guarantor under the Notes, any Guaranty or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each holder of the Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.

 

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17.

Authentication

This Note shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent) manually signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Note.

 

18.

Abbreviations

Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as TEN COM (=tenants in common), TEN ENT (=tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (=joint tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=custodian), and U/G/M/A (=Uniform Gift to Minors Act).

 

19.

CUSIP Numbers

The Issuer has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and has directed the Trustee to use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holder of a Note. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon. The Issuer will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in CUSIP numbers.

 

20.

Governing Law

THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

 

21.

Copies of Indenture

The Issuer will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written request and without charge to the Holder a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Note. Requests may be made to:

CBRE Services, Inc.

2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1250

Dallas, Texas 75201

Attention: General Counsel

[Remainder of Page Intentionally Left Blank]

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

To assign this Note, fill in the form below:

I or we assign and transfer this Note to

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

 

and

irrevocably appoint      agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Issuer. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

 

 

Date:  

 

   Your Signature:   

 

 

Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note.

 

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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE

If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Issuer pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, check the box:

 

             

If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Issuer pursuant to Section 4.01 of the Ninth Supplemental Indenture, state the amount in principal amount: $

 

Date:   

 

   Your Signature:   

 

     

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note.)

Signature Guarantee:   

 

(Signature must be guaranteed)   

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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Exhibit 5.1

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

2475 HANOVER STREET

PALO ALTO, CA 94304

 

 

TELEPHONE: +1-650-251-5000

FACSIMILE: +1-650-251-5002

Direct Dial Number   E-mail Address

February 23, 2024   

CBRE Group, Inc.

CBRE Services, Inc.

2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1250

Dallas, Texas 75201

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to CBRE Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), CBRE Services, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-276141) (the “Registration Statement”) filed by Parent, the Company and certain subsidiaries of the Company, including the prospectus constituting a part thereof dated December 19, 2023, and the prospectus supplement dated February 20, 2024 to such prospectus (together, the “Prospectus”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, relating to the issuance by the Company of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.500% Senior Notes due 2029 (the “Notes”) and the issuance by Parent of the Guarantee (as defined below) with respect to the Notes.

We have examined the Registration Statement, the Underwriting Agreement, dated February 20, 2024 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among Parent, the Company and the underwriters named therein pursuant to which such underwriters have agreed to purchase the Notes, the Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2013 (the “Base Indenture”), among Parent, the Company, certain subsidiaries of the Company and Computershare Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended and supplemented by the Ninth Supplemental Indenture thereto, dated February 23, 2024 (the “Ninth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base

 

 

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Indenture, the “Indenture”), among Parent, the Company and the Trustee, duplicates of the global notes representing the Notes and the guarantee whose terms are set forth in the Indenture (the “Guarantee”). In addition, we have examined, and have relied as to matters of fact upon, originals, or duplicates or certified or conformed copies, of such records, agreements, documents and other instruments and such certificates or comparable documents of public officials and of officers and representatives of Parent and the Company and have made such other investigations as we have deemed relevant and necessary in connection with the opinions hereinafter set forth.

In rendering the opinions set forth below, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as duplicates or certified or conformed copies and the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents. We also have assumed that the Indenture is the valid and legally binding obligation of the Trustee.

In rendering the opinions set forth below, we have assumed further that the execution, issuance, delivery and performance by Parent and the Company of the Underwriting Agreement, the Indenture and its Guarantee, as applicable, do not constitute a breach or default under any agreement or instrument which is binding upon Parent or the Company.

Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the qualifications, assumptions and limitations stated herein, we are of the opinion that:

 

  1.

Assuming due authentication thereof by the Trustee and upon payment and delivery in accordance with the provisions of the Underwriting Agreement, the Notes will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms.

 

  2.

Assuming due authentication of the Notes by the Trustee and upon payment for and delivery of the Notes in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement, the Guarantee will constitute a valid and legally binding obligation of Parent enforceable against Parent in accordance with its terms.


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Our opinions set forth above are subject to (i) the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally, (ii) general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and (iii) an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. In addition, we express no opinion as to the validity, legally binding effect or enforceability of Section 110 of the Base Indenture relating to the separability of provisions of the Base Indenture.

We do not express any opinion herein concerning any law other than the law of the State of New York.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K of Parent filed with the Commission and the incorporation by reference of this opinion into the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and to the use of our name under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus.

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP

Exhibit 99.1

 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

For further information:

Steve Iaco

Media

212.984.6535

  

Brad Burke

Investors

214.863.3100

Guy Metcalfe to Join CBRE Group, Inc. Board of Directors

Dallas – February 23, 2024 – CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE) today announced that Guy A. Metcalfe has been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors, effective February 26, 2024.

Mr. Metcalfe was a Managing Director and member of Morgan Stanley’s investment banking executive committee and led its real estate investment banking business for over two decades before retiring as Global Chairman on January 31, 2024.

In more than 30 years at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Metcalfe advised clients on over $850 billion of transactions. He has served as a trusted strategic advisor to CBRE and helped to consummate notable capital-raising, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions for the company.

In addition, Mr. Metcalfe advised on some of the most transformational transactions in the real estate industry, including the mergers of each of AMB Property Corp., KTR Capital Partners, Industrial Property Trust, Liberty Property Trust and Duke Realty with Prologis; and, among others, Blackstone’s acquisitions of Trizec Properties, Equity Office Properties, Hilton Hotels, BioMed Realty Trust, Gramercy Property Trust and QTS Realty. He also advised on numerous initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, significant private capital raises and secured and unsecured debt offerings.

Bob Sulentic, CBRE’s chair and chief executive officer, said: “Guy is one of the premier strategic advisors in the real estate industry. Our Board will be greatly enhanced by his deep knowledge of and broad perspective on our sector as well as his sharp strategic thinking as we plot a course for CBRE’s continued growth.”

Mr. Metcalfe said: “I’ve seen CBRE up close for many years and know its strategic, operational and financial strengths are unmatched in the real estate services sector. The company is extremely well positioned for the future and I am excited to work with Bob and my fellow Directors to help drive growth and excellence across the business.”

Mr. Metcalfe will stand for election at CBRE’s next Annual Stockholder Meeting later this year. His appointment expands CBRE’s Board to 12 Directors.

He serves on the Board of Directors of nonprofits, including the Child Mind Institute, and has been an advisor on real estate matters to the Partnership Fund for New York City. He holds a B.A. in Business Administration (with honors) from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.


CBRE Press Release

About CBRE Group, Inc.

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2023 revenue). The company has more than 130,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves a diverse range of clients with an integrated suite of services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com. We routinely post important information on our website, including corporate and investor presentations and financial information. We intend to use our website as a means of disclosing material, non-public information and for complying with our disclosure obligations under Regulation FD. Such disclosures will be included in the Investor Relations section of our website at https://ir.cbre.com. Accordingly, investors should monitor such portion of our website, in addition to following our press releases, Securities and Exchange Commission filings and public conference calls and webcasts.

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