8-K

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: August 31, 2017

(Date of earliest event reported)

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	1-225	39-0394230
(State or other jurisdiction	(Commission File	(IRS Employer
of incorporation)	Number)	Identification No.)

P.O. Box 619100, Dallas, Texas	75261-9100
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)

(972) 281-1200

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

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:

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

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

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

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

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 o

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. o

Item 8.01Other Events.

On August 31, 2017, Kimberly-Clark Corporation (the “Corporation”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc, Barclays Bank PLC, J. P. Morgan Securities plc, HSBC Bank plc, RBC Europe Limited, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., and Banco Santander, S.A., for the issuance and sale by the Corporation of €500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 0.625% Notes due September 7, 2024 (the “Notes”). The Notes were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to the Corporation’s registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-212013) filed on June 14, 2016.

A copy of the Underwriting Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 1.1. A form of the global note representing the Notes is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.1.

Item 9.01Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit 1.1	Underwriting Agreement, dated August 31, 2017
Exhibit 4.1	Form of Global Note Representing the 0.625% Notes due September 7, 2024
Exhibit 4.2	Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated September 7, 2017
Exhibit 5.1	Opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Exhibit 23.1	Consent of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit 1.1	Underwriting Agreement, dated August 31, 2017
Exhibit 4.1	Form of Global Note Representing the 0.625% Notes due September 7, 2024
Exhibit 4.2	Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated September 7, 2017
Exhibit 5.1	Opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Exhibit 23.1	Consent of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)

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SIGNATURE

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

	KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION
Date: September 7, 2017	By:	/s/ Flavio Costa
		Flavio Costa
		Vice President and Treasurer

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EX-1.1

Exhibit 1.1

EXECUTION VERSION

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

August 31, 2017

Kimberly-Clark Corporation
351 Phelps Drive
Irving, Texas 75038

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The underwriter or underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”), acting through the firm or firms named in Schedule I-A hereto as representatives (the “Representatives”), understand that Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell €500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 0.625% Notes due September 7, 2024 (the “Designated Securities”) designated in Schedule II hereto, registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”) on an “automatic shelf registration statement” (as defined under Rule 405 under the Act), on Form S-3 (File No. 333-212013) (the “Registration Statement”). The Designated Securities are to be issued under the indenture designated in Schedule II hereto (the “Indenture”), between the Company and the trustee designated in such Schedule II. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein or incorporated by reference herein and referred to below, the Company hereby agrees to sell to each of the Underwriters, and each of the Underwriters agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, the principal amount of such Designated Securities set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in such Schedule I at the Purchase Price to Underwriters set forth in Schedule II hereto. If the firm or firms named in Schedule I-A hereto include only the firm or firms named as Underwriters in Schedule I hereto, the terms “Underwriters” and “Representatives” shall each be deemed to refer to such firm or firms.

The Underwriters will pay for such Designated Securities upon delivery thereof at the Closing Location and on the Date and Time of Delivery set forth in Schedule II hereto.

The Designated Securities shall have the terms set forth in Schedule II hereto.

Unless otherwise provided herein, all the provisions contained in the document entitled Kimberly-Clark Corporation Underwriting Agreement General Terms and Conditions dated July 26, 2010 (the “Underwriting Agreement General Terms”), a copy of which is attached hereto, are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety and

shall be deemed to be a part of this Agreement to the same extent as if such provisions had been set forth in full herein.

1.             In addition to the representations and warranties contained in the Underwriting Agreement General Terms, the following representations, warranties and agreements shall be deemed part of Section 2 of the Underwriting Agreement General Terms:

(w)  In accordance with applicable requirements of the Act, including, without limitation, Regulation S-X, the spin-off of the Company’s health care business does not require the inclusion of pro forma financial information in the prospectus supplement or prospectus relating to the offering of the Designated Securities.

(x)  Neither the Company or its subsidiaries nor, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, employee, associated party or person acting on behalf of the Company or its subsidiaries has engaged in any activity which would breach the US Foreign and Corrupt Practices Act 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010, or any other applicable anti-bribery or corruption law or regulation (together, the “Anti-Bribery and Corruption Laws”). To the best of the Company’s knowledge and belief, no actions or investigations by any governmental or regulatory agency are ongoing or threatened against the Company or its subsidiaries, or any of their directors, officers, employee, associated party or person acting on their behalf in relation to a breach of the Anti-Bribery and Corruption Laws. The Company will not directly or indirectly use, lend or contribute the proceeds raised under the Underwriting Agreement for any purpose that would breach the Anti-Bribery and Corruption Laws.

(y)  The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company or any of its subsidiaries conducts business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or any of the Guarantors, threatened. The Company agrees to provide the Underwriters with all information reasonably required by Underwriters to carry out their obligations under applicable Anti-Money Laundering Laws and the Underwriters’ policies and procedures with respect thereto.

(z)  Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor to the best of the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, employee, associated party or person acting on behalf of the Company or its subsidiaries is currently the subject

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or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government, (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”) or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council (“UNSC”), the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”), or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company, any of its subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or target of Sanctions, including, without limitation, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and Crimea (each, a “Sanctioned Country”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (i) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject or target of Sanctions, (ii) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Country or (iii) in any other manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, initial purchaser, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. The Company has instituted and maintains policies and procedures designed to prevent Sanctions violations (by the Company and its subsidiaries and by persons associated with the Company and its subsidiaries). The Company and its subsidiaries neither know nor have reason to believe that any of them are or may become subject of Sanctions-related investigations or juridical proceedings.

2.             For the purposes of this Underwriting Agreement, Section 4 of the Underwriting Agreement General Terms is revised by deleting the text of such Section in full and inserting the following in lieu thereof:

The Underwriters’ Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter pursuant to this Agreement, shall be delivered initially in book-entry only form represented by one or more fully registered global notes, without coupons, registered in the name of The Bank of New York Depository (Nominees) Limited, as nominee of The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as Common Depositary (the “Common Depositary”) for Clearstream Banking, S.A. (“Clearstream”), and Euroclear Bank, SA/NV (“Euroclear”), to be made available for checking by the Representatives at least twenty-four hours prior to the Time of Delivery.  Payment for the Underwriters’ Securities shall be made by or on behalf of the Underwriters in immediately available funds to the Common Depositary, for the account of the Company, against delivery to the Common Depositary, for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters, of the Underwriters’ Securities, with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the sale of the Underwriters’ Securities duly paid by the Company.

3.             In addition to the covenants of the Company contained in the Underwriting Agreement General Terms, the following covenant shall be deemed part of Section 5 of the Underwriting Agreement General Terms:

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(i)  The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to list, subject to notice of issuance, the Designated Securities on the New York Stock Exchange for trading on such exchange as promptly as practicable after the date hereof.

4.             For the purposes of this Underwriting Agreement, Section 7 of the Underwriting Agreement General Terms is revised by deleting the text of such Section in full and inserting the following in lieu thereof:

7.             The Company covenants and agrees with the several Underwriters that the Company will pay or cause to be paid the following: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and accountants in connection with the registration of the Securities under the Act and all other expenses in connection with the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus and amendments and supplements thereto and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers; (ii) the cost of printing any Agreement among Underwriters, this Agreement, the Indenture, any Delayed Delivery Contracts, any Blue Sky and Legal Investment Memoranda and any other documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the Designated Securities; (iii) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Designated Securities for offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 5(d) hereof, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky and legal investment surveys; (iv) any fees charged by securities rating services for rating the Designated Securities; (v) any filing fees incident to any required review by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority of the terms of the sale of the Designated Securities; (vi) the cost of preparing certificates for the Designated Securities; (vii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee under the Indenture and any agent of the Trustee and the fees and disbursements of any counsel for the Trustee in connection with the Indenture and the Designated Securities; (viii) the fees and expenses of the Common Depositary; (ix) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the Designated Securities on the New York Stock Exchange; (x) the transportation, meetings, NetRoadshow and other expenses incurred by or on behalf of Company representatives in connection with presentations to prospective purchasers of the Designated Securities; and (xi) all other reasonable costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section 7. It is understood, however, that, except as provided in this Section, Section 9 and Section 12 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their counsel, transfer taxes on resale of any of the Designated Securities by them, and, except as contemplated by clause (x) above, any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make. Each Underwriter agrees to pay the portion of such expenses represented by such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on the proportion that the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite each Underwriter’s name in Schedule I to the Pricing Agreement bears to the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth opposite

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the names of all Underwriters) of the Securities (with respect to each Underwriter, the “Pro Rata Expenses”).  Notwithstanding anything contained in the International Capital Market Association Primary Market Handbook, each Underwriter hereby agrees that the Settlement Lead Manager (as defined below) may allocate the Pro Rata Expenses to the account of such Underwriter for settlement of accounts (including payment of such Underwriter’s fees by the Settlement Lead Manager) as soon as practicable but in any case no later than 90 days following the closing date.

5.             For the purposes of this Underwriting Agreement, Section 8 of the Underwriting Agreement General Terms is revised as follows:

(i)            The opinion to be delivered by the General Counsel of the Company pursuant to Section 8(c)(v) of the Underwriting Agreement General Terms shall be revised to provide as follows:

(v)  The Indenture, including the Sixth Supplemental Indenture relating to the Designated Securities and dated as of the Closing Date, has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; and the Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act; and the Paying Agency Agreement relating to the Designated Securities has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding instrument, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, subject, as to enforcement, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles.

(ii)           Clause (g) of Section 8 of the Underwriting Agreement General Terms is revised by deleting the text of such clause in full and inserting the following in lieu thereof:

(g)           Subsequent to the execution of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange; (ii) trading of any securities of the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange on which such securities are listed or traded; (iii) a material disruption in securities settlement, payment or clearance services in the United States or Europe shall have occurred; (iv) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York declared by Federal, New York State or European authorities; or (v) the engagement or escalation by the United States or Europe in hostilities or any calamity or crisis which have resulted in the declaration, on or after the date of this Agreement, of a national emergency or war, the effect of which (in any such case described in clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) hereof) in the reasonable judgment of the Representatives makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed

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with the public offering or the delivery of the Designated Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus;

(iii)          The period at  the end of clause (h) of the Underwriting Agreement General Terms is deleted and replaced with a semi-colon.

(iv)  The following conditions shall be deemed part of Section 8 of the Underwriting Agreement General Terms:

(i)  Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, special tax counsel of the Company, shall have furnished to the Representatives their written opinion, dated the date of the Time of Delivery, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, to the effect that:

(i)            Insofar as the statements in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus under the caption “Certain United States Federal Tax Consequences” purport to describe specific provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or rules or regulations thereunder or legal conclusions with respect thereto, such statements present in all material respects an accurate summary of such provisions or conclusions;

(j)            The Designated Securities will be eligible for clearance and settlement through Clearstream and Euroclear; and

(k) The Company shall have applied to list the Designated Securities on The New York Stock Exchange and satisfactory evidence of such action shall have been provided to the Representatives.

6.             In addition, the following sections shall be added to the Underwriting Agreement General Terms and deemed Section 19, Section 20, Section 21 and Section 22 thereof, respectively:

19.          Notwithstanding any other term of this Underwriting Agreement or any other agreements, arrangements or understanding between the Underwriters that are subject to Bail-in Legislation (as defined below) (together, the “Covered EU Banks”) and the Company, the Company acknowledges, accepts and agrees to be bound by: (i) the effect of the exercise of Write-down and Conversion powers as defined in relation to the relevant Bail-in Legislation (as defined below) (“Bail-in Powers”) by the resolution authority with the ability to exercise any Bail-in Powers in relation to the Covered EU Banks (the “Relevant Resolution Authority”) in relation to any liability as defined under the applicable Bail-in Legislation (a “BRRD Liability”) of such Covered EU Banks to the Company under this Underwriting Agreement, that (without limitation) may include and result in any of the following, or some combination thereof: (a) the reduction of all, or a portion, of the BRRD Liability or outstanding amounts due thereon; (b) the conversion of all, or a portion, of the BRRD Liability into shares, other

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securities or other obligations of the Covered EU Banks or another person (and the issue to or conferral on the Company of such shares, securities or obligations); (c) the cancellation of the BRRD Liability; or (d) 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; and (ii) the variation of the terms of this Agreement, as deemed necessary by the Relevant Resolution Authority, to give effect to the exercise of Bail-in Powers by the Relevant Resolution Authority.  For purposes of this Section 19, “Bail-in Legislation” means in relation to a member state of the European Economic Area which has implemented, or which at any time implements, Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms, the relevant implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement as described in the EU Bail-in Legislation Schedule from time to time.  “EU Bail-in Legislation Schedule” means the document described as such, then in effect, and published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person) from time to time at http://www.lma.eu.com/.

20.          The Underwriters agree as between themselves that they will be bound by and will comply with the International Capital Markets Association Agreement Among Managers Version 1/New York Law Schedule (the “Agreement Among Managers”) as amended in the manner set out below:  For purposes of the Agreement Among Managers, “Managers” means the Underwriters and the Representatives shall be joint “Lead Managers”, “Settlement Lead Manager” and “Stabilizing Manager” mean Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and “Subscription Agreement” means the Underwriting Agreement. Clause 3 of the Agreement Among Managers shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced with Section 10 of Underwriting Agreement General Terms.

21.          In connection with the issue of the Designated Securities, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (in this capacity, the “Stabilizing Manager”) (or any person acting on behalf of the Stabilizing Manager) may over-allot Designated Securities or effect transactions with a view to supporting the market price of the Designated Securities at a level higher than that which might otherwise prevail. However, stabilization may not necessarily occur. Any stabilization action may begin on or after the date on which adequate public disclosure of the final terms of the offer of the Designated Securities is made, and, if begun, may cease at any time, but it must end no later than the earlier of 30 days after the issue of the Designated Securities and 60 days after the date of the allotment of the Designated Securities. Such stabilization shall be carried out in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Any loss or profit sustained as a consequence of any such over-allotment or stabilization shall be for the account of the Stabilizing Manager. The Stabilizing Manager may conduct these transactions in the over-the-counter market or otherwise.  If the Stabilizing Manager commences any stabilization action, it may discontinue them at any time.  The Company confirms the appointment of Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC as the central point for adequate public disclosure of information, and handling any request from a competent

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authority, in accordance with Article 6(5) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of 8 March, 2016, with regard to regulatory technical standards for the conditions applicable to buy-back program and stabilization measures.

22.          The payment of any amount due hereunder in U.S. dollars, euro or any other specified currency (the “Relevant Currency”) is of the essence. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the obligations of the Company in respect of any amount due under this Agreement must, notwithstanding any payment in any other currency (whether pursuant to a judgment or otherwise), be discharged only to the extent of the amount in the Relevant Currency that the party entitled to receive such payment may, in accordance with its normal procedures, purchase with the sum paid in such other currency (after any premium and costs of exchange on the business day immediately following the day on which such party receives such payment). If the amount in the Relevant Currency that may be so purchased for any reason falls short of the amount originally due, the person owing such payment shall pay such additional amounts, in the Relevant Currency, as may be necessary to compensate for the shortfall. Any obligation of any party not discharged by such payment shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, be due as a separate and independent obligation and, until discharged as provided herein, shall continue in full force and effect.

7.             In addition, references to “$” in the Underwriting Agreement General Terms are hereby changed to “€.”

8.             This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

9.             The Company 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.

10.          The Company hereby submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. federal and New York state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.  The Company waives any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such suit or proceeding in such courts.  The Company agrees that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which the Company is subject by a suit upon such judgment.

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Please confirm your agreement by (i) having an authorized officer sign a copy of this Agreement in the space set forth below and (ii) returning the signed copy to us.

Very truly yours,
Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch
By	/s/ Patrick M. Käufer
Name: Patrick M. Käufer
Title: Managing Director
By	/s/ Anguel Zaprianov
Name: Anguel Zaprianov
Title: Managing Director

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Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
By	/s/ Adam Greene
Name: Adam Greene
Title: Vice President

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Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc
By	/s/ Delphine Mourot
Name: Delphine Mourot
Title: Executive Director

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Barclays Bank PLC
By	/s/ Sean White
Name: Sean White
Title: Legal UK & Europe Authorised to Sign

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J.P. Morgan Securities plc
By	/s/ Romeo Raugei
Name: Romeo Raugei
Title: Vice President

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HSBC Bank plc
By	/s/ Karl Allen
Name: Karl Allen
Title: Director

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RBC Europe Limited
By	/s/ Ivan Browne
Name: Ivan Browne
Title: Duly Authorised Signatory

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Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.
By	/s/ Thomas Reifenrath
Name: Thomas Reifenrath
Title: Managing Director
/s/ Sandra de las Cavadas
Name: Sandra de las Cavadas
Title: Executive Director

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Banco Santander, S.A
By	/s/ C. Luccioni
Name: C. Luccioni
Title: Associate
By	/s/ E. Bellanger
Name: E. Bellanger
Title: Director

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Accepted:
Kimberly-Clark Corporation
By	/s/ Flavio Costa
	Name: Flavio Costa
	Title: Vice President and Treasurer

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SCHEDULE I

Underwriters	Principal Amount of Designated Securities to be Purchased
Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch	€	116,670,000
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC	€	116,670,000
Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc	€	116,670,000
Barclays Bank PLC	€	40,000,000
J.P. Morgan Securities plc	€	40,000,000
HSBC Bank plc	€	28,750,000
RBC Europe Limited	€	28,750,000
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A	€	6,245,000
Banco Santander, S.A	€	6,245,000
Total	€	500,000,000

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SCHEDULE I-A

Representatives

Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc

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SCHEDULE II

Indenture:	First Amended and Restated Indenture, dated as of March 1, 1988, between Kimberly-Clark Corporation (the “Company”) and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor Trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented and amended
Trustee:	The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor Trustee
Titles of Designated Securities:	0.625% Notes due September 7, 2024
Aggregate Principal Amount:	€500,000,000
Denominations:	€100,000 and €1,000 in excess thereof
Initial Offering Prices to Public:	99.823% of the principal amount
Purchase Price to Underwriters:	99.423% of the principal amount
Preliminary Prospectus Supplement:	Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated August 31, 2017
Interest Rate:	0.625% with interest accruing from September 7, 2017
Interest Payment Date:	September 7, commencing September 7, 2018
Record Date:	August 23
Day Count Convention:	Actual/Actual (ICMA)
Issuance and Payment in Euros	All payments of principal of, the redemption price of (if any), the change of control repurchase price of (if any), additional amounts (if any), and interest on, the notes, will be payable in euro, provided, that if the euro is unavailable to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company’s control or if the euro is no longer being used by the then member states of the European Monetary Union that have

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	adopted the euro as their currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of the notes will be made in U.S. dollars until the euro is again available to the Company or so used. The amount payable on any date in euro will be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate mandated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second business day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the most recent U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate published in The Wall Street Journal on or most recently prior to the second business day prior to the relevant payment date. Any payment in respect of the notes so made in U.S. dollars will not constitute an event of default under the notes or the indenture governing the notes. None of the trustee or the paying agent shall have any responsibility for any calculation or conversion in connection with the foregoing. Any references herein to payments being made in euro notwithstanding, payments shall be made in U.S. dollars to the extent set forth in this paragraph
Payment of Additional Amounts:	Additional amounts shall be payable as described under the caption “Description of Notes—Payment of Additional Amounts” in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated August 31, 2017 relating to the Designated Securities.
Redemption upon Tax Event:	Kimberly-Clark Corporation may, at its option, redeem the Notes in whole but not in part upon the occurrence of certain events relating to U.S. taxation as described under the caption “Description of Notes—Redemption upon Tax Event” in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated August 31, 2017 relating to the Designated Securities.
Optional Redemption Provisions:	Prior to July 7, 2024 (the “Par Call Date”), the Notes will be redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Designated Securities to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Designated Securities to be redeemed if such Designated Securities matured on the Par Call Date (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the date of redemption), discounted to the date of redemption on an annual basis (Actual/Actual (ICMA)) at the applicable comparable government bond rate, plus 10 basis points, plus, in each case, accrued interest thereon to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption. On or after the Par Call Date, the Designated Securities will be

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	redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of principal amount of the Designated Securities to be redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.
Sinking Fund Provisions:	The Designated Securities shall not be entitled to any sinking fund
Repurchase upon Change of Control Repurchase Event:	The Designated Securities shall be subject to repurchase upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Repurchase Event as described under the caption “Description of Notes—Repurchase upon Change of Control Repurchase Event” in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated August 31, 2017 relating to the Notes
Form of Designated Securities:	Initially in book-entry only form represented by one or more fully registered global notes, without coupons, registered in the name of The Bank of New York Depository (Nominees) Limited, as nominee of The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as Common Depositary (the “Common Depositary”) for Clearstream Banking, S.A., and Euroclear Bank, SA/NV, to be made available for checking by the Representatives at least twenty-four hours prior to the Time of Delivery.
Date and Time of Delivery:	September 7, 2017; 9:00 a.m., London time
Closing Location:	Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 425 Lexington Avenue New York, New York 10017
Funds for Payment of Purchase Price:	Payment for the Designated Securities shall be made by or on behalf of the Underwriters in immediately available funds to the Common Depositary, for the account of the Company, against delivery to the Common Depositary, for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters, of the Designated Securities, with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the sale of the Designated Securities duly paid by the Company.
Delayed Delivery:	None

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Name and Address for Purposes of Section 13:	c/o Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch Winchester House 1 Great Winchester Street London EC2N 2DB
	c/o Goldman Sachs &. Co. LLC 200 West Street New York, New York 10282
	c/o Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc 25 Cabot Square Canary Wharf London E14 4QA
Time of Sale:	9:45 a.m., New York City time, on the date of this Agreement
Other Terms:	The provisions of Section 402 and Section 1006 of the Indenture, relating to defeasance and covenant defeasance, respectively, as described “Description of Debt Securities—Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance” in the Prospectus dated June 14, 2016, shall apply to the Designated Securities, provided that (a) references in Article Four of the Indenture to “money of the United States” or “money” shall be deemed to refer to euros and (b) the term “United States government securities” shall be replaced with the term “Government Obligations” which shall mean (i) direct obligations of a Participating Member State, (ii) obligations the timely payment of the principal of and interest on which is fully and unconditionally guaranteed by such Participating Member State, a central bank of a Participating Member State or a governmental agency of such Participating Member State, and (iii) certificates, depositary receipts or other instruments which evidence a direct ownership interest in obligations described in clause (i) or (ii) above or in any specific principal or interest payments due in respect thereof, and the term “Participating Member State” shall mean a member state of the European Union which has adopted or adopts the single currency in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Community (as that Treaty is amended from time to time). Otherwise as set forth in the final Prospectus relating to the Designated Securities.

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SCHEDULE III

“Free Writing Prospectuses”

·Pricing term sheet, dated August 31, 2017, relating to the Designated Securities, as filed pursuant to Rule 433 under the Securities Act.

SCHEDULE IV

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION

€500,000,000

0.625% Notes due September 7, 2024

PRICING TERM SHEET

Dated August 31, 2024

Issuer:	Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Security Type:	Senior Notes
Offering Format:	SEC Registered
Principal Amount:	€500,000,000
Maturity Date:	September 7, 2024
Coupon:	0.625% with interest accruing from September 7, 2017
Interest Payment Date:	September 7, commencing September 7, 2018
Interest Record Date:	August 23
Day Count Convention:	Actual/Actual (ICMA)
Denominations:	€100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof
Mid Swaps Yield:	0.421%
Spread to Mid Swaps:	+23 basis points
Yield to Maturity:	0.651%
Price to Public:	99.823% of the principal amount
Benchmark DBR:	1.000% due August 15, 2024
Benchmark DBR Yield:	-0.112%
Spread to Benchmark DBR:	76.3 bps
Net Proceeds After Underwriting Discount and Before Other Expenses:	€497,115,000
Additional Amounts:	Additional amounts, if any, shall be payable as described under the caption “Description of Notes—

	Payment of Additional Amounts” in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated August 31, 2017 relating to the Notes.
Redemption Upon Tax Event:	Kimberly-Clark Corporation may, at its option, redeem the Notes in whole but not in part upon the occurrence of certain events relating to U.S. taxation as described under the caption “Description of Notes—Redemption upon Tax Event” in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated August 31, 2017 relating to the Notes.
Optional Redemption:	Prior to July 7, 2024 (the “Par Call Date”), the Notes will be redeemable, at the option of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, at any time, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Notes to be redeemed if such Notes matured on the Par Call Date (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the date of redemption), discounted to the date of redemption on an annual basis (Actual/Actual (ICMA)) at the applicable comparable government bond rate, plus 10 basis points, plus, in each case, accrued interest thereon to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption. On or after the Par Call Date, the Notes will be redeemable, at the option of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, at any time, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.
Repurchase upon Change of Control Repurchase Event:	Kimberly-Clark Corporation will be required to make an offer to repurchase the Notes at a price of 101% of the principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event.
Expected Settlement Date:	September 7, 2017 (T+5) We expect delivery of the Notes will be made against payment therefor on or about September 7, 2017, which is the fifth London business day following the date of the pricing of the Notes. Under Rule 15c6-1

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	of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, effective September 5, 2017, 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 on the date of pricing of the Notes or the next succeeding business day would be required by Rule 15c6-1, by virtue of the fact that the Notes initially will settle in T+5, to specify an alternative settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent failed settlement and should consult their own advisers.
CUSIP:	Awaiting assignment
Common Code:	Awaiting assignment
ISIN:	Awaiting assignment
Joint Book-Running Managers:	Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc Barclays Bank PLC J.P. Morgan Securities plc
Senior Co-Managers:	HSBC Bank plc RBC Europe Limited
Co-Managers:	Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. Banco Santander, S.A.

The issuer has filed a registration statement (No. 333-212013) (including a prospectus) and a preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Notes with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read each of these documents and other documents the issuer has filed, or files in the future, with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering.

You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch toll-free at 1-800-503-4611, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC toll-free at 866-471-2526,  or Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc toll-free at 1-866-718-1649.

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SCHEDULE V

Form of Comfort Letter

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Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Debt Securities

Underwriting Agreement General Terms and Conditions

Dated July 26, 2010

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell from time to time certain of its debt securities (the “Securities”) registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), as set forth in Section 2. The Securities are to be issued in one or more series under one or more indentures between the Company and such banking institutions, as trustees, as, in the case of any such indenture or any such trustee, is designated in Schedule II to the Underwriting Agreement (as defined below) relating to any such series (each indenture and trustee so designated with respect to any such series being hereinafter referred to as the “Indenture” and the “Trustee”, respectively).

From time to time, the Company may enter into one or more underwriting agreements that provide for the sale of the Securities specified in Schedule II to such underwriting agreement to the underwriter or several underwriters named to Schedule I to such underwriting agreement (the “Underwriters”). The general terms and conditions set forth herein may be incorporated by reference in any such underwriting agreement (an “Underwriting Agreement”). The Underwriting Agreement, including the provisions incorporated therein by reference, is herein referred to as this Agreement.

1.             The Company proposes to issue and sell the Securities in one or more series, which series may vary as to their terms (including, but not limited to, interest rate, maturity, any redemption provisions and any sinking fund requirements), all of such terms for any particular series being determined at the time of sale. All or a portion of particular series of the Securities will be purchased by the Underwriters for resale upon terms of offering determined at the time of sale. The Securities so to be purchased in any such offering are hereinafter referred to as the “Designated Securities”, and any firm or firms named in Schedule I-A to the Underwriting Agreement as acting as representatives of such Underwriters are hereinafter referred to as the “Representatives”. If the firm or firms named in Schedule I-A to the Underwriting Agreement include only the firm or firms named in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement, the terms “Underwriters” and “Representatives” shall each be deemed to refer to such firm or firms. The term “Underwriters’ Securities” means Designated Securities other than Contract Securities.

The term “Contract Securities” means Designated Securities, if any, to be purchased pursuant to Delayed Contracts (as defined in Section 3 hereof) below.

The obligations of the Underwriters under this Agreement are several and not joint.

2.The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each of the Underwriters that:

(a)A registration statement in respect of the Securities has been filed not earlier than three years prior to the date of this Agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) and has become effective under the Act, in the form heretofore delivered or hereafter to be delivered to the Representatives and, excluding exhibits to such registration statement, but including all documents incorporated by reference therein on or prior to the date of this Agreement, to the Representatives for each of the other Underwriters; such registration statement, including all exhibits thereto but excluding Form T-1, and the prospectus included in such registration statement, each as amended at the date of this Agreement, being hereinafter called the “Registration Statement” and the “Basic Prospectus”, respectively. As used in this Agreement, “Preliminary Prospectus”, if any, means the Basic Prospectus together with the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, if any, referred to in Schedule II to the Underwriting Agreement. As used in this Agreement, “Prospectus” means the Basic Prospectus together with the final prospectus supplement specifically relating to the Designated Securities in the definitive form filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Act after the date and time this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto. Any reference herein to the Basic Prospectus, and Preliminary Prospectus, if any, or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents or portions thereof incorporated by reference therein pursuant to the applicable form under the Act; and any reference to any amendment or supplement to the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents or portions thereof filed after the date of this Agreement under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and so incorporated by reference.

(b)If by the third anniversary (the “Renewal Deadline”) of the initial effective date of the Registration Statement, any of the Designated Securities remain unsold by the Underwriters, the Company will file, if it has not already done so and is eligible to do so, a new automatic shelf registration statement relating to the Securities, in a form satisfactory to you.  If at the Renewal Deadline the Company is no longer eligible to file an automatic shelf registration statement, the Company will, if it has not already done so, file a new shelf registration statement relating to the Securities, in a form satisfactory to you and will use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective within 180 days after the Renewal Deadline.  The Company will take all other action necessary or appropriate to permit the public offering and sale of the Designated Securities to continue as contemplated in the expired registration

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statement relating to the Securities.  References herein to the Registration Statement shall include such new automatic shelf registration statement or such new shelf registration statement, as the case may be.

(c)At or prior to the time when sales of the Designated Securities were first made (the “Time of Sale”), the Company had prepared the following information (collectively, the “Time of Sale Information”):  the Preliminary Prospectus and each “free writing prospectus” (as defined pursuant to Rule 405 under the Securities Act) listed on Schedule III to the Underwriting Agreement.

(d)The Registration Statement and the Prospectus conform, and any further amendments or supplements thereto, when they become effective or are filed with the Commission, will conform, in all material respects to the requirements of the Act and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (the “Trust Indenture Act”) and the rules and regulations adopted by the Commission; the Registration Statement and the Basic Prospectus, on each effective date of the Registration Statement (and any amendment thereto) did not contain and will not contain, and on the date of execution of this Agreement did not contain, any 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; and the Prospectus does not, and any amendments or supplements thereto, when they become effective or are filed with the Commission, will not, contain any 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; the Time of Sale Information, at the Time of Sale did not contain any 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, however, that the representations and warranties contained in this paragraph (d) shall not apply to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein.

(e)The Company (including its agents and representatives, other than the Underwriters in their capacity as such) has not made an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Designated Securities pursuant to a “written communication” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Act) (each such communication by the Company or its agents and representatives (other than a communication referred to in clauses (i) (ii) and (iii) below) an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”) other than (i) any document not constituting a prospectus pursuant to Section 2(a)(10)(a) of the Act or Rule 134 under the Act, (ii) the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, (iii) the Prospectus, (iv) the documents listed on Schedule III to the Underwriting Agreement and (v) any electronic road show or other written communications, in each case approved in advance by the Representatives.  Each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus complied in all material respects with the Act, has been or will be (within the time period specified in Rule 433) filed in accordance with the Act (to the extent required

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thereby) and, when taken together with any Preliminary Prospectus accompanying, or delivered prior to delivery of, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, did not contain any 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 each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus 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 any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.  Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any document incorporated by reference and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified.

(f)(i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained since the date of the latest financial statements contained in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus any loss or interference material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree and (ii) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus there has not been any material change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any material adverse change, or any development which will result in a material adverse change, in the business, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, otherwise (in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii) hereof) than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.

(g)The Company and each of its significant subsidiaries is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, with corporate or limited liability company power to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.

(h)Deloitte & Touche LLP, who have audited certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, are independent public accountants with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries as required by the Act.

(i)The financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, together with related schedules and notes filed as a part of or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and fairly present the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations and changes in financial position for the periods

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specified, and have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as disclosed in such financial statements.

(j)The Company has designed and maintains internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act, “Reporting Controls”); and the Reporting Controls are (i) designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP and include, without limitation, those processes specifically referred to in Rule 13a-15(f) and (ii) effective to perform the functions for which they are maintained.

(k)The Company maintains systems of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.

(l)The Company maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act.  Such disclosure controls and procedures have been designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer by others within those entities; and such disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter for which the Company has filed a quarterly report on Form 10-Q or annual report on Form 10-K with the Commission.

(m)The Company and its directors or officers, in their capacities as such, have complied in all material respects with the provisions of the Sarbanes- Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith, including Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications.

(n)The Company is not an ineligible issuer and is a well-known seasoned issuer, in each case as defined under the Act, in each case at the times specified in the Act in connection with the offering of the Designated Securities.

(o)The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of

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the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Designated Securities.

(p)Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws, (ii) in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement, lease or other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound or (iii) in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above where such default would have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

(q)The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Underwriting Agreement, the Designated Securities and the Indenture (the “Transaction Documents”), the issuance and sale of the Designated Securities and compliance by the Company with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or By-laws of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (iii) result in the violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii) above where such default would have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

(r)No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of each of the Transaction Documents, the issuance and sale of the Designated Securities and compliance by the Company with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except for the registration of the Designated Securities under the Securities Act, the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as may be required under applicable state securities laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Designated Securities by the Underwriters.

(s)The Company has full right, power and authority to execute and deliver each of the Transaction Documents and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder; and all action required to be taken for the due and

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proper authorization, execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby has been duly and validly taken.

(t)The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and upon effectiveness of the Registration Statement was duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability (collectively, the “Enforceability Exceptions”).

(u)The Designated Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture and paid for as provided herein, will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.

(v)The Underwriting Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

3.Upon authorization by the Representatives of the release of the Underwriters’ Securities, the several Underwriters propose to offer the Underwriters’ Securities for sale upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.

The Company may specify in Schedule II to the Underwriting Agreement that the Underwriters are authorized to solicit offers to purchase Designated Securities, in the maximum aggregate principal amount specified in such Schedule II, from the Company pursuant to delayed delivery contracts (herein called “Delayed Delivery Contracts”), substantially in the form of Annex I attached hereto but with such changes therein as the Representatives and the Company may authorize or approve. If so specified, the Underwriters will endeavor to make such arrangements, and as compensation therefor the Company will pay to the Representatives, for the accounts of the Underwriters, at the Time of Delivery (as defined in Section 4 hereof), a commission in the amount set forth in such Schedule II. Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, are to be with institutional investors of the types approved by the Company and set forth in the Prospectus and subject to other conditions therein set forth. The Underwriters will not have any responsibility in respect of the validity or performance of any Delayed Delivery Contracts.

The principal amount of Contract Securities to be deducted from the principal amount of Designated Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter as set forth in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement shall be, in each case, the principal amount of Contract Securities which the Company has been advised by the Representatives has been

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attributed to such Underwriter, provided that, if the Company has not been so advised, the amount of Contract Securities to be so deducted shall be, in each case, that proportion of Contract Securities which the principal amount of Designated Securities to be purchased by such Underwriter under this Agreement bears to the total principal amount of the Designated Securities (rounded as the Representatives may determine to the nearest $1,000 principal amount). The total principal amount of Underwriters’ Securities to be purchased by all the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement shall be the total principal amount of Designated Securities set forth in Schedule I to the Underwriting Agreement less the principal amount of the Contract Securities. The Company will deliver to the Representatives not later than 3:30 p.m., New York time, on the third business day preceding the Time of Delivery (or such other time and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing) a written notice setting forth the principal amount of Contract Securities.

4.Underwriters’ Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter pursuant to this Agreement, in definitive form, and in such authorized denominations and registered in such names as the Representatives may request upon at least forty-eight hours’ prior notice to the Company, shall be delivered by or on behalf of the Company to the Representatives for the account of such Underwriter, against payment by such Underwriter or on its behalf of the purchase price therefor by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company to the Underwriter at least forty-eight hours in advance, all at the place and time and date specified in such Schedule II or at such other place and time and date as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing, such time and date being herein called the “Time of Delivery”.

Concurrently with the delivery of and payment for the Underwriters’ Securities, the Company will deliver to the Representatives for the accounts of the Underwriters by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the order of the party designated in Schedule II to this Agreement in the amount of the compensation payable by the Company to the Underwriters in respect of any Delayed Contracts as provided in Section 3 hereof and in such Schedule II.

5.The Company acknowledges and agrees with each of the Underwriters of the Designated Securities:

(a)That the Underwriters are acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company with respect to the offering of the Designated Securities contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the terms of the offering) and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Company or any other person; neither any Representative nor any other Underwriter is advising the Company or any other person as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction; the Company shall consult with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Underwriters shall have no responsibility or liability to the Company with respect thereto; any review by the Underwriters of the Company, the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters

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relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit of the Underwriters and shall not be on behalf of the Company; and that the Company will not claim that the Underwriters, or any of them, has rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owes a fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto;

(b)To make no amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or Prospectus after the execution of this Agreement and prior to the Time of Delivery without furnishing prior thereto a copy of each such amendment or supplement to the Representatives; to advise the Representatives promptly of any such amendment or supplement after the Time of Delivery, to furnish the Representatives with copies of any such amendment or supplement after the Time of Delivery and to file promptly all documents required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, in each case for so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Designated Securities; to advise the Representatives, promptly after it receives notice thereof, of the time when any amendment to the Registration Statement has become effective or when any supplement to the Prospectus or any amended Prospectus has been filed, of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus or any supplement thereto or any amended Preliminary Prospectus or Prospectus, of the suspension of the qualification of the Designated Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction, of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose, or of any request by the Commission for the amending or supplementing of the Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information; and in the event of the issuance of any stop order or of any order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus or any supplement thereto or any amended Prospectus or suspending any such qualification, to use promptly its best efforts to obtain its withdrawal;

(c)Before using any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to make an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Designated Securities, and before filing with the Commission any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, the Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters a copy of the proposed Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, amendment or supplement for review and will not use or file any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably object.

(d)Promptly from time to time to take such action as the Representatives may reasonably request to qualify the Designated Securities for offering and sale under the securities laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may request and to comply with such laws so as to permit the continuance of sales and dealings therein in such jurisdictions for as long as may be necessary to complete the distribution of the Designated Securities, provided that, in connection therewith, the Company shall not be required to qualify as a foreign corporation or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction;

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(e)To furnish the Underwriters with copies of the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in such quantities as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably request, and, if the delivery of a prospectus is required at any time and if at such time any event shall have occurred as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made when such Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus is delivered, not misleading, or, if for any other reason it shall be necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or to file under the Exchange Act any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in order to comply with the Act, the Exchange Act or the Trust Indenture Act, to notify the Representatives and upon the request of the Representatives and subject to Section 5(c) hereof so to amend or supplement the Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or file such document, as the case may be, and to prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter and to any dealer in securities as many copies as the Representatives may from time to time reasonably request of an amended Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or a supplement to the Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance;

(f)To make generally available to its security holders not later than eighteen months after the date of this Agreement an earnings statement of the Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Act and covering a period of at least twelve consecutive months beginning after the date of this Agreement;

(g)During the period beginning on the date of this Agreement and continuing to and including the earlier of (i) the termination of trading restrictions on the Designated Securities, as notified to the Company by the Representatives, and (ii) the Time of Delivery, not to offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities of the Company which mature more than one year after the Time of Delivery and which are substantially similar to the Designated Securities, without the prior written consent of the Representatives; and

(h)The Company will, pursuant to reasonable procedures developed in good faith, retain copies of each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not filed with the Commission in accordance with Rule 433 under the Act.

6.Each Underwriter hereby represents and agrees with the Company as follows:

(a)It (including its agents and representatives) has not and will not use, authorize use of, refer to, or participate in the planning for use of, any “free writing prospectus”, as defined in Rule 405 under the Act (which term includes use of any written information furnished to the Commission by the Company and not incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and any press release issued by the Company) other than (i) a “written communication” that would not trigger an obligation to file such

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free writing prospectus with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433, (ii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Schedule III to the Underwriting Agreement or prepared pursuant to Section 2(e) or Section 5(c) above (including any electronic road show), or (iii) any free writing prospectus prepared by such underwriter and approved by the Company in advance in writing.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Underwriters may use a term sheet substantially in the form of or containing the information set forth in Schedule IV to the Underwriting Agreement without the consent of the Company.

(b)It is not subject to any pending proceeding under Section 8A of the Act with respect to the offering (and will promptly notify the Company if any such proceeding against it is initiated during the Prospectus Delivery Period); as used herein, the term “Prospectus Delivery Period” means such period of time after the first date of the public offering of the Designated Securities as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters a prospectus relating to the Designated Securities is required by law to be delivered (or required to be delivered but for Rule 172 under the Act) in connection with sales of the Designated Securities by any Underwriter or dealer.

7.The Company covenants and agrees with the several Underwriters that the Company will pay or cause to be paid the following: (i) the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and accountants in connection with the registration of the Securities under the Act and all other expenses in connection with the preparation, printing and filing of the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus and amendments and supplements thereto and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers; (ii) the cost of printing any Agreement among Underwriters, this Agreement, the Indenture, any Delayed Delivery Contracts, any Blue Sky and Legal Investment Memoranda and any other documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the Designated Securities; (iii) all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Designated Securities for offering and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 5(d) hereof, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky and legal investment surveys; (iv) any fees charged by securities rating services for rating the Designated Securities; (v) any filing fees incident to any required review by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority of the terms of the sale of the Designated Securities; (vi) the cost of preparing certificates for the Designated Securities; (vii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee under the Indenture and any agent of the Trustee and the fees and disbursements of any counsel for the Trustee in connection with the Indenture and the Designated Securities; and (viii) all other reasonable costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder which are not otherwise specifically provided for in this Section. It is understood, however, that, except as provided in this Section, Section 9 and Section 12 hereof, the Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their counsel, transfer taxes on resale of any of the Designated Securities by them, and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.

8.The obligations of the Underwriters of the Designated Securities hereunder shall be subject, in their discretion, to the condition that all representations and

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warranties of the Company herein are, at and as of the Time of Sale and at and as of the Time of Delivery, true and correct in all material respects, the condition that the Company shall have performed in all material respects all of its obligations hereunder theretofore to be performed, and the following additional conditions:

(a)No stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission; and all requests for additional information on the part of the Commission shall have been complied with to the Representatives’ reasonable satisfaction;

(b)Counsel for the Underwriters shall have furnished to the Representatives such opinion or opinions, dated the date of the Time of Delivery, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, with respect to the (i) incorporation of the Company, (ii) the validity of the Indenture, the Designated Securities and the Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, (iii) the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, and (iv) such other matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such papers and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters;

(c)The General Counsel of the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives his written opinion, dated the date of the Time of Delivery, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, to the effect that:

(i)The Company is a corporation validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, with corporate power to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus;

(ii)To the best of such counsel’s knowledge there is no pending or threatened action, suit or proceeding before any court or governmental agency, authority or body involving the Company or any of its properties required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement which is not adequately disclosed in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus; and such counsel does not know of any contracts or other documents of a character required to be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement or required to be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus, or required to be described in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus, which are not filed or incorporated by reference or described as required;

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(iii)This Agreement and all Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;

(iv)The Designated Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters, in the case of the Underwriters’ Securities, or by the purchasers thereof pursuant to Delayed Delivery Contracts, in the case of any Contract Securities, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits provided by the Indenture, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; and the Designated Securities and the Indenture conform in all material respects to the description thereof in the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, and the Prospectus;

(v)The Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; and the Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act;

(vi)The issuance and sale of the Designated Securities and the compliance by the Company with the provisions of the Designated Securities, the Indenture, each of the Delayed Delivery Contracts, if any, and this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions relating to the Designated Securities contemplated herein and therein will not conflict with or result in a breach of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument in respect of indebtedness for money borrowed known to such counsel to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or, to the knowledge of such counsel after due inquiry, any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company is subject, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, or the By-Laws of the Company or, to the knowledge of such counsel, any  statute or any order, rule or regulation of any court or regulatory authority or other governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties; and no consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or any such regulatory authority or other governmental agency or body is required for the issuance and sale by the Company of the Designated Securities or the consummation of the transactions relating to the Designated Securities

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contemplated by this Agreement or the Indenture or any of such Delayed Delivery Contracts, except such as have been obtained under the Act and the Trust Indenture Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, registrations or qualifications as may be required under state securities or Blue Sky laws;

(vii)The documents or portions thereof, if any, incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, and the Prospectus (other than the financial statements, related schedules and other financial information included therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion), when they were filed with the Commission, complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the related rules and regulations adopted by the Commission; and

(viii)The Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, and the Prospectus (other than the financial statements, related schedules and other financial information included therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion) comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Act and the Trust Indenture Act and the rules and regulations thereunder; and, although such counsel is not passing upon, and does not assume responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of statements contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus (except as to the matters specified in the last clause of subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph (c)), nothing has come to the attention of such counsel that causes such counsel to believe that the Registration Statement (other than the financial statements, related schedules and other financial information included therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion), at each time the Registration Statement became effective, contained any untrue statement of  a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not misleading, or that the Time of Sale Information (other than the financial statements, related schedules and other financial information included therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion) as of the Time of Sale and the Prospectus (other than the financial statements, related schedules and other financial information included therein, as to which such counsel need express no view) as of its date and as of the Time of Delivery included or includes any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

(d)On the date of this Agreement and at the Time of Delivery, Deloitte & Touche LLP shall have furnished to the Representatives letters in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, to the effect set forth in Schedule V to the Underwriting Agreement;

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(e)(i) Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall have sustained since the date of the latest financial statements contained in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus any loss or interference material to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity or from any labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree and (ii) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus there shall not have been any material change in the capital stock or long-term debt of the Company or any material adverse change, or any development which will result in a material adverse change, in the business, financial position, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, otherwise (in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii) hereof) than as set forth or contemplated in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, the effect of which (in any such case described in clause (i) or (ii) hereof) is in the reasonable judgment of the Representatives so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Designated Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus;

(f)Subsequent to the execution of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred any downgrading in any rating accorded to the Company’s debt securities by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.; neither of such rating agencies shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any of the Company’s debt securities; provided, however, that this paragraph (f) shall not apply to either of such rating agencies which shall have notified the Representatives of the rating or such surveillance or review of the Designated Securities prior to the execution of this Agreement;

(g)Subsequent to the execution of this Agreement, there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) a suspension or material limitation in trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange; (ii) trading of any securities of the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange on which such securities are listed or traded; (iii) a material disruption in securities settlement, payment or clearance services in the United States shall have occurred; (iv) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities in New York declared by either Federal or New York State authorities; or (v) the engagement or escalation by the United States in hostilities or any calamity or crisis which have resulted in the declaration, on or after the date of this Agreement, of a national emergency or war, the effect of which (in any such case described in clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) hereof) in the reasonable judgment of the Representatives makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the delivery of the Designated Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus; and

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(h)The Company shall have furnished or caused to be furnished to the Representatives at the Time of Delivery one or more certificates of officers of the Company reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives as to the accuracy in all material respects of the representations and warranties of the Company herein at and as of the Time of Delivery, as to the performance in all material respects by the Company of all of its obligations hereunder to be performed at or prior to the Time of Delivery, and as to the matters set forth in paragraph (a) and clauses (i) and (ii) of paragraph (e) of this Section 8, with the certificate based upon knowledge or belief as to proceedings initiated or threatened referred to in such paragraph (a) and as to the matters referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) of such paragraph (e).

9.(a)  The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which such Underwriter may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or arise out of or are based upon an omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, not misleading or (ii) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and will reimburse each Underwriter for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred as they are incurred by such Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed under Rule 433(d) under the Act, the Time of Sale Information, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, or any such amendment or supplement, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein.

(b)Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless the Company against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company may become subject, under the Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon (i) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or arise out of or are based upon an omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, not misleading or (ii) an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information, any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus or any amendment or

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supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in the Registration Statement, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information, the Preliminary Prospectus, if any, the Prospectus or any such amendment or supplement, in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein; and will reimburse the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim as they are incurred.

(c)Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under such subsection. In case any such action shall be brought against any indemnified party and it shall notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and, after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other counsel (except for one local counsel) or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. No indemnifying party shall, without the written consent of the indemnified party, effect the settlement or compromise of, or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to, any pending or threatened action or claim in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified party is an actual or potential party to such action or claim) unless such settlement, compromise or judgment (i) includes an unconditional release of the indemnified party from all liability arising out of such action 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)If the indemnification provided for in this Section 9 is unavailable to an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to therein, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Designated Securities to which such loss, claim, damage or liability (or action in respect

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thereof) relates. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the indemnified party failed to give the notice required under subsection (c) above, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from such offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection (d) 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 subsection (d). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to above in this subsection (d) shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Designated Securities underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations in this subsection (d) to contribute are several in proportion to their respective underwriting obligations and not joint.

(e)The obligations of the Company under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Act; and the obligations of the Underwriters under this Section 9 shall be in addition to any liability which the respective Underwriters may otherwise have and shall extend, upon the same terms and conditions, to each officer and director of the Company and to each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act.

10.(a)  If any Underwriter shall default in its obligation to purchase the Underwriters’ Securities which it has agreed to purchase under this Agreement, the Representatives may in their discretion arrange for themselves or another party or other

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parties to purchase such Underwriters’ Securities on the terms contained herein. If within thirty-six hours after such default by any Underwriter the Representatives do not arrange for the purchase of such Underwriters’ Securities, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of thirty-six hours within which to procure another party or other parties satisfactory to the Representatives to purchase such Underwriters’ Securities on such terms. In the event that, within the respective prescribed periods, the Representatives notify the Company that they have so arranged for the purchase of such Underwriters’ Securities, or the Company notifies the Representatives that it has so arranged for the purchase of such Underwriters’ Securities, the Representatives or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Time of Delivery for a period of not more than seven days, in order to effect whatever changes may thereby be made necessary in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or in any other documents or arrangements, and the Company agrees to file promptly any amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus which in the opinion of the Representatives may thereby be made necessary. The term “Underwriter” as used in this Agreement shall include any person substituted under this Section with like effect as if such person had originally been a party to this Agreement.

(b)If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Underwriters’ Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the Representatives, by the Company, or by both, as the case may be, as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Underwriters’ Securities which remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Designated Securities, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the principal amount of Underwriters’ Securities which such Underwriter agreed to purchase under this Agreement and, in addition, to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase its pro rata share (based on the principal amount of Designated Securities which such Underwriter agreed to purchase under this Agreement) of the Underwriters’ Securities of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.

(c)If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Underwriters’ Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the Representatives, by the Company, or by both, as the case may be, as provided in subsection (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of Underwriters’ Securities which remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Designated Securities, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in subsection (b) above to require non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase Underwriters’ Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters, then this Agreement shall thereupon terminate, without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company, except for the expenses to be borne by the Company and the Underwriters as provided in Section 7 hereof and the indemnity and contribution agreements in Section 9 hereof; but nothing herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter from liability for its default.

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11.The respective indemnities, agreements, representations, warranties and other statements of the Company and the several Underwriters, as set forth in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of them, respectively, pursuant to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation (or any statement as to the results thereof) made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or any controlling person of any Underwriter, or the Company, or any officer or director or controlling person of the Company, and shall survive delivery of and payment for the Designated Securities.

12.If this Agreement shall be terminated pursuant to Section 10 hereof, the Company shall not then be under any liability to any Underwriter with respect to the Designated Securities except as provided in Section 7 and Section 9 hereof; but, if for any other reason Underwriters’ Securities are not delivered by or on behalf of the Company as provided herein, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters through the Representatives for all out-of-pocket expenses approved in writing by the Representatives, including fees and disbursements of counsel, reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in making preparations for the purchase, sale and delivery of the Designated Securities, but the Company shall then be under no further liability to any Underwriter with respect to the Designated Securities except as provided in Section 7 and Section 9 hereof.

13.In all dealings hereunder, the Representatives shall act on behalf of each of the Underwriters, and the parties hereto shall be entitled to act and rely upon any statement, request, notice or agreement on behalf of any Underwriter made or given by the Representatives.

All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing or by telegram if promptly confirmed in writing and if to the Underwriters shall be sufficient in all respects, if delivered or sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the Representatives in care of the firm and at the address specified in Schedule II to this Agreement and if to the Company shall be sufficient in all respects if delivered or sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the address of the Company set forth on the facing page of the Registration Statement, Attention: Treasurer; provided, however, that any notice to an Underwriter pursuant to Section 9(c) hereof shall be delivered or sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to such Underwriter at its address set forth in its Underwriters’ Questionnaire delivered to the Company.

14.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 implement risk-based procedures 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.

15.This Agreement shall be binding upon, and inure solely to the benefit of, the Underwriters, the Company and, to the extent provided in Section 9 and Section 11 hereof, the officers and directors of the Company and each person who controls the Company or any Underwriter, and their respective heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns, and no other person shall acquire or have any right under or by

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virtue of this Agreement. No purchaser of any of the Designated Securities from any Underwriter shall be deemed a successor or assign by reason merely of such purchase.

16.Time shall be of the essence of this Agreement.

17.This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

18.This Agreement may be executed by any one or more of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such respective counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.

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ANNEX I

Delayed Delivery Contract

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION
c/o

, 20[  ]

Attention:

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The undersigned hereby agrees to purchase from Kimberly-Clark Corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”), and the Company agrees to sell to the undersigned,                                                                                    $

principal amount of the Company’s [Title of Designated Securities] (hereinafter called the “Designated Securities”), offered by the Company’s Prospectus dated       , 20[  ]     [as amended or supplemented], receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged, at a purchase price of     % of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest from the date from which interest accrues as set forth below, and on the further terms and conditions set forth in this contract.

[The undersigned will purchase the Designated Securities from the Company on                 , 20[  ]   (the “Delivery Date”) and interest on the Designated Securities so purchased will accrue from                  , 20[  ].]

[The undersigned will purchase the Designated Securities from the Company on the delivery date or dates and in the principal amount or amounts set forth below:

Delivery Date	Principal Amount	Date From Which Interest Accrues
, 20[ ]	$	, 20[ ]
, 20[ ]	$	, 20[ ]
, 20[ ]	$	, 20[ ]

Each such date on which Designated Securities are to be purchased hereunder is hereinafter referred to as a “Delivery Date”.]

Payment for the Designated Securities which the undersigned has agreed to purchase on [the] [each] Delivery Date shall be made to the Company or its order by certified or official bank check in                                Clearing House funds at the office of          ,         ,         , or by wire transfer to a bank account specified by the Company, on [the] [such] Delivery Date upon delivery to the undersigned of the Designated Securities then to be purchased by the undersigned in definitive fully registered form and in such denominations and registered in such names as the

undersigned may designate by written or telegraphic communication addressed to the Company not less than five full business days prior to [the] [such] Delivery Date.

The obligation of the undersigned to take delivery of and make payment for Designated Securities on [the] [each] Delivery Date shall be subject to the conditions that (a) the purchase of Designated Securities to be made by the undersigned shall not on [the] [such] Delivery Date be prohibited under the laws of the jurisdiction to which the undersigned is subject and (b) the Company, on or before       , 20[  ], shall have sold to the several Underwriters, pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement dated          , 20[  ] with the Company; an aggregate principal amount of Designated Securities equal to $               , minus the aggregate principal amount of Designated Securities to be covered by this contract and other contracts similar to this contract. The obligation of the undersigned to take delivery of and make payment for Designated Securities shall not be affected by the failure of any purchaser to take delivery of and make payment for Designated Securities pursuant to other contracts similar to this contract.

Promptly after completion of the sale to the Underwriters the Company will mail or deliver to the undersigned at its address set forth below notice to such effect, accompanied by a copy of the opinion or opinions of counsel for the Company delivered to the Underwriters in connection therewith.

The undersigned represents and warrants that, as of the date of this contract, the undersigned is not prohibited from purchasing the Designated Securities hereby agreed to be purchased by it under the laws of the jurisdiction to which the undersigned is subject.

This contract will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors, but will not be assignable by either party hereto without the written consent of the other.

This contract may be executed by either of the parties hereto 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 instrument.

It is understood that the acceptance by the Company of any Delayed Delivery Contract (including this contract) is in the Company’s sole discretion and that, without limiting the foregoing, acceptances of such contracts need not be on a first-come, first-served basis. If this contract is acceptable to the Company, it is requested that the Company sign the form of acceptance below and mail or deliver one of the counterparts hereof to the undersigned at its address set forth below. This will become a binding contract between the Company and the undersigned when such counterpart is so mailed or delivered by the Company.

Yours very truly,
By
	(Signature)
	(Name and Title)
	(Address)

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Accepted,                              , 20[  ]

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION

By
	(Signature)
	(Name and Title)

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EX-4.1

Exhibit 4.1

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF.  THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF CLEARSTREAM BANKING, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME (“CLEARSTREAM”) AND EUROCLEAR BANK, S.A./N.V., AS OPERATOR OF THE EUROCLEAR SYSTEM (“EUROCLEAR”  AND, TOGETHER WITH CLEARSTREAM“, CLEARSTREAM/EUROCLEAR”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OR TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE BANK OF NEW YORK DEPOSITORY (NOMINEES) LIMITED OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF  CLEARSTREAM/EUROCLEAR (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO SUCH ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF  CLEARSTREAM/EUROCLEAR), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, THE BANK OF NEW YORK DEPOSITORY (NOMINEES) LIMITED, HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

Certificate No. 1
CUSIP No. 494368 BX0
ISIN No. XS1679515038	PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: €500,000,000
Common Code No. 167951503

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION

0.625% NOTES DUE September 7, 2024

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a corporation duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay The Bank of New York Depository (Nominees) Limited, or registered assigns, the principal sum of €500,000,000 on September 7, 2024, and to pay interest thereon from September 7, 2017, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for annually on September 7 of each year, commencing September 7, 2018, at the rate of 0.625% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be August 23 (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding such Interest Payment Date. As used herein, the term “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, (1) which is not a day on which banking institutions are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close in New York City or London and (2) on which the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer system (the TARGET2 system), or any successor thereto, is open.

Interest payable on any Interest Payment Date for this Security or on the maturity date for this Security will be the amount of interest accrued for the actual number of days in the period from, and including, the next preceding Interest Payment Date for this Security in respect of which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including September 7, 2017, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for with respect to this Security) to, but excluding, the next date on which interest is paid or duly provided for. This payment convention is referred to as Actual/Actual (ICMA) as defined in the rulebook of the International Capital Market Association. If any Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the interest payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and the Company shall not be liable for any additional interest as a result of the delay in payment. If the maturity date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the related payment of principal and interest will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest will accrue on the amounts so payable for the period from and after such date to the next succeeding Business Day.

Any interest not punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the

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requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

Principal of, the Redemption Price (if any), the Change of Control Payments (if any), and interest and Additional Amounts (if any) on, the Securities shall be payable at the office or agency of the Paying Agent; provided, however, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto at such address as shall appear in the Security Register or by wire transfer to an account appropriately designated by the Person entitled to payment; and provided that the Company shall pay principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, the Global Securities registered in the name of or held by Clearstream/Euroclear or such other Depository as any officer of the Company may from time to time designate, or its respective nominee, by wire in immediately available funds to Clearstream/Euroclear or such other such Depository or its nominee, as the case may be, as the Holders of the Global Security.

By no later than 11:00 a.m., London time, at least one Business Day prior to the date that any payment of principal of, the Redemption Price (if any), the Change of Control Payments (if any), or interest and Additional Amounts (if any) on, or any other amount payable in respect of the Securities is due and payable, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent an amount of money in euros sufficient to pay any and all such amounts due and payable in respect of the Securities on such payment date.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

DATED: September 7, 2017

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION
By:
	Flavio Costa
	Vice President and Treasurer
Attest:
		Grant B. McGee
		Corporate Secretary

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE
OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities
of the series designated
therein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
as successor Trustee

By:
	Authorized Officer

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION

0.625% NOTES DUE September 7, 2024

1.The Indenture and the Securities.  This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under a First Amended and Restated Indenture dated as of March 1, 1988 (the “Base Indenture”), as amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 6, 1992 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 25, 1994 (the “Second Supplemental Indenture”), the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2002 (the “Third Supplemental Indenture”), the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006 (the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture”), the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 9, 2011 (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”) and the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 7, 2017 (the “Sixth Supplemental Indenture” and together with the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture, the Second Supplemental Indenture, the Third Supplemental Indenture, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture and the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company and the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  Capitalized terms used herein without definition have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Indenture.

This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in aggregate principal amount to €500,000,000.  The Company may from time to time, without notice to or the consent of the Holders of the Securities, create and issue further Securities ranking equally with the Securities of this series in all respects (or in all respects other than the payment of interest accruing prior to the issue date of such further Securities of this series or except, in some cases, for the issue price and the first payment of interest following the issue date of such further Securities). Such further Securities may be consolidated and form a single series with the previously issued Securities and have the same terms as to status, redemption or otherwise as the Securities represented by this certificate.

2.Ranking.   The Securities constitute senior debt of the Company, ranking equally with all our other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company.

3.Payments in Euros; Payments to be made in U.S. Dollars if Euros are Unavailable.

(a)All payments of principal of, the Redemption Price of (if any), the Change of Control Payments (if any), interest and Additional Amounts (if any) on, the Securities, will be payable in euro, provided, that if the euro is unavailable to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company’s control or if the euro is no

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longer being used by the then member states of the European Monetary Union that have adopted the euro as their currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of the Securities will be made in U.S. dollars until the euro is again available to us or so used. In such event, the amount payable on any date in euro will be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate mandated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second Business Day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the most recent U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate published in The Wall Street Journal on or most recently prior to the second Business Day prior to the relevant payment date. Any payment in respect of the Securities so made in U.S. dollars will not constitute an Event of Default under the Securities or the Indenture. None of the Trustee, the Paying Agent or any other paying agent shall have any responsibility for any calculation or conversion in connection with the foregoing. Any references in this Security to payments being made in euro notwithstanding, payments shall be made in U.S. dollars to the extent set forth in this paragraph.

(b)No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any), the Redemption Price of (if any), the Change of Control Payments (if any), interest and Additional Amounts (if any) on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed, except that in the event the Company deposits euros or Government Obligations as provided in Section 402 of the Base Indenture (as amended by Article III of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture), such payments will be made only from proceeds of such euros or Government Obligations.

4.Payment of Additional Amounts.

(a)The Company shall pay to each beneficial owner of any Securities who is a Non-U.S. Person additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) as may be necessary so that every net payment of the principal of, and interest on such beneficial owner’s Securities, after deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed upon that beneficial owner by the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein (including any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed on the Additional Amounts so paid), will not be less than the amount provided in such beneficial owner’s Securities to be then due and payable. The Company shall not be required to make any payment of Additional Amounts for or on account of:

(i)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld solely by reason of the existence of any present or former connection (other than a connection arising solely from the ownership of those Securities or the receipt of payments or enforcement of rights in respect of those Securities) between that beneficial owner, or between a fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, member or shareholder of, or possessor of a power over, that beneficial owner, if that beneficial owner is an estate, trust, partnership or corporation, and the United States, including that beneficial owner, or that fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, member, shareholder or possessor, (1) being or having been a citizen or resident or treated as a resident of the United States, (2) being or having been present in, or engaged in a trade or business in, the United States, (3) being treated as having been present in, or engaged in a trade or business in, the United States, or (4) having or having had a permanent establishment in the United States;

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(ii)any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer, excise, personal property or similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

(iii)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by reason of that beneficial owner’s past or present status as a personal holding company, a controlled foreign corporation, a passive foreign investment company or a foreign private foundation or other foreign tax-exempt organization with respect to the United States or as a corporation that accumulates earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax;

(iv)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge which is payable otherwise than by withholding from payment of principal of, premium, if any, on, interest on or the redemption price for such beneficial owner’s Securities;

(v)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required to be withheld by any paying agent from any payment of principal of, premium, if any, on, interest on or the redemption price for any Securities if that payment can be made without withholding by any other paying agent;

(vi)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not have been imposed but for the failure of a beneficial owner or any Holder of Securities to comply (to the extent that it is legally able to do so) with a request to satisfy any applicable certification, information, documentation or other reporting requirements concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connections with the United States of the beneficial owner or any Holder of the Securities, if such compliance is required by statute or by regulation of the U.S. Treasury Department as a precondition to relief or exemption from such tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

(vii)any withholding required pursuant to Sections 1471 through 1474 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or any agreement (including any intergovernmental agreement) entered into in connection therewith;

(viii)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld by reason of a change in law, regulation, or administrative or judicial interpretation that becomes effective more than 15 days after the payment becomes due or is duly provided for, whichever occurs later;

(ix)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed on interest received by (1) a 10% shareholder (as defined in Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and the regulations that may be promulgated thereunder) of the Company, (2) a controlled foreign corporation that is related to the Company within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the Code or (3) a bank receiving interest described in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code;

(x)any tax, assessment or governmental charge that would not have been so imposed or withheld but for the presentation by the Holder of a Security for payment on a date more than 30 days after the date on which such payment became due and payable or the date on which payment thereof is duly provided for, whoever occurs later; or

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(xi)any combination of items (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), and (x) above.

(b)In addition, to the extent described below, the Company will not pay Additional Amounts to a beneficial owner of a Security that is a fiduciary, partnership, limited liability company or other fiscally transparent entity. This exception will apply to a beneficial owner of a Security that is a fiduciary, partnership, limited liability company or other fiscally transparent entity only to the extent a beneficiary or settlor with respect to the fiduciary, or a beneficial owner or member of the partnership, limited liability company or other fiscally transparent entity, would not have been entitled to the payment of an Additional Amount had the beneficiary, settlor, beneficial owner or member received directly its beneficial or distributive share of the payment subject to the tax, assessment or other governmental charge as to which withholding or another deduction occurs.

(c)As used in this Paragraph 4, the term “beneficial owner” includes any person holding a Security on behalf of or for the account of a beneficial owner and the term “Non-U.S. Person” means a person that is not a United States Person. The term “United States Person” means an individual citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation or partnership created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, an estate the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source, a trust subject to the primary supervision of a court within the United States and the control of one or more United States persons as described in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code, or a trust that existed on August 20, 1996, and elected to continue its treatment as a domestic trust.

(d)If the Company will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts under or with respect to any payment made on any of the Securities, at least 30 days prior to the date of such payment, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee and the Paying Agent an Officers’ Certificate stating the fact that Additional Amounts shall be payable and the amount so payable and such other information necessary to enable the Paying Agent to pay Additional Amounts to the beneficial owner on the relevant payment date (unless such obligation to pay Additional Amounts arises, or the Company becomes aware of such obligation, less than 45 days prior to the relevant payment date, in which case the Company may deliver such Officers’ Certificate as promptly as practicable after the date that is 30 days prior to the payment date). The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall be entitled to rely solely on such Officers’ Certificate as conclusive proof that such payments are necessary.

(e)Any references in the Indenture and the Securities to principal, premium, interest or any other amount payable in respect of the Securities shall be deemed to include Additional Amounts, as the context shall require.

(f)Except as specifically provided under this Paragraph 4, the Company will not be required to make any payment for any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by any government or a political subdivision or taxing authority of or in any government or political subdivision.

5.Redemption Upon Tax Event.  If, as a result of any change in, or amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated under the laws) of the United States (or any

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political subdivision or taxing authority of or in the United States), or any change in, or amendment to, an official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment is announced or becomes effective on or after August 31, 2017, the Company becomes, or based upon a written opinion of independent counsel selected by the Company, will become obligated to pay Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities, then the Company may at its option redeem, in whole, but not in part, the Securities on not less than 15 nor more than 45 days’ prior notice, at a redemption price equal to 100% of their principal amount, together with interest accrued but unpaid on those Securities to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption. Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price upon the surrender of the Securities for redemption, on and after the date fixed for redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or portions thereof called for redemption.

6.Optional Redemption.

(a)The Securities will be redeemable as a whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time prior to July 7, 2024 (the “Par Call Date”), at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Securities to be redeemed if such Securities matured on the Par Call Date (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the date of redemption), discounted to the date of redemption on an annual basis (Actual/Actual (ICMA)) at the applicable Comparable Government Bond Rate (as defined below), plus 10 basis points, plus in each case accrued interest on the principal amount being redeemed to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.  The Securities will be redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption, in each case as calculated by the Company or on behalf of the Company by such Person as the Company shall designate.

The calculation of the redemption price and accrued interest payable upon a redemption shall be made by the Company or on behalf of the Company by such persons as the Company may designate; provided that such calculation shall not be the duty or obligation of the Trustee unless otherwise expressly agreed.

“Comparable Government Bond” means, in relation to any Comparable Government Bond Rate calculation, at the discretion of an independent investment bank selected by the Company, a German government bond whose maturity is closest to the maturity of the Securities (assuming, for this purpose, that the Securities mature on the Par Call Date), or if such independent investment bank in its discretion determines that such similar bond is not in issue, such other German government bond as such independent investment bank may, with the advice of three brokers of, and/or market makers in, German government bonds selected by the Company, determine to be appropriate for determining the Comparable Government Bond Rate.

“Comparable Government Bond Rate” means the price, expressed as a percentage (rounded to three decimal places, with 0.0005 being rounded upwards), at which the gross redemption yield on the Securities being redeemed, if they were to be purchased at such price on

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the third Business Day prior to the date fixed for redemption, would be equal to the gross redemption yield on such Business Day of the Comparable Government Bond on the basis of the middle market price of the Comparable Government Bond prevailing at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Business Day as determined by an independent investment bank selected by the Company. Such independent bank will calculate such gross redemption yield on the Securities to be redeemed and the Comparable Government Bond in accordance with generally accepted market practices at the time of such calculations.

(b)Notice of any redemption will be sent (or delivered by electronic transmission in accordance with the applicable procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear) at least 15 days but not more than 45 days before the redemption date to each holder of Securities to be redeemed.

(c)Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or portions thereof called for redemption.

(d)The Securities will not be subject to any sinking fund.

7.Repurchase upon Change of Control Repurchase Event.

(a)If a Change of Control Repurchase Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem this series of Securities, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of Securities to repurchase all or any part (in denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Securities at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Securities repurchased to the date of repurchase. Within 30 days following any Change of Control Repurchase Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after the public announcement of an impending Change of Control, the Company will mail (or delivered by electronic transmission in accordance with the applicable procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear) a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Repurchase Event and offering to repurchase Securities on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed (or delivered by electronic transmission in accordance with the applicable procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear). The notice shall, if mailed (or delivered by electronic transmission in accordance with the applicable procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear) prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to repurchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Repurchase Event occurring on or prior to the payment date specified in the notice. The Trustee shall have no duty or obligation to determine whether a Change of Control Repurchase Event has occurred or is continuing.

(b)The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder, to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Securities as a result of a Change of Control Repurchase Event. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Securities, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be

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deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Securities by virtue of such conflict.

(c)On the Change of Control Repurchase Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful:

(i)accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities (in denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof) properly tendered pursuant to the Company’s offer;

(ii)deposit with the Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate repurchase price in respect of all Securities or portions of Securities properly tendered; and

(iii)deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted, together with an officers’ certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities being purchased by the Company.

(d)The Trustee or Paying Agent will promptly pay to each Holder of Securities properly tendered the repurchase price for the Securities, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Securities surrendered; provided, that each new Security will be in a principal amount of €100,000 or an integral multiple of €1,000 in excess thereof.

(e)The Company will not be required to make an offer to repurchase the Securities upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.

(f)As used in this Paragraph 7, the defined terms set forth below have the specified meanings:

“Below Investment Grade Rating Event” means the Securities are rated below Investment Grade by each of the Rating Agencies on any date from the date of the public notice of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control until the end of the 60-day period following public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of the Securities is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies); provided that a Below Investment Grade Rating Event otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating shall not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus shall not be deemed a Below Investment Grade Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Repurchase Event hereunder) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not announce or publicly confirm or inform the Trustee in writing that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of the Below Investment Grade Rating Event).

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“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the then outstanding number of shares of the Company’s Voting Stock; or (3) the first day on which a majority of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors are not Continuing Directors.

“Change of Control Repurchase Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event.

“Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the date of the issuance of the Securities; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

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

“Fitch” means Fitch Ratings Ltd.

“Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P); and a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Fitch); or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service Inc.

“Rating Agency” means (1) each of Fitch, Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if any of Fitch, Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Fitch, Moody’s or S&P, as the case may be.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of McGraw-Hill, Inc.

“Voting Stock” means the Company’s capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of the Company, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

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9.Amendment and Modification; Waiver.  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also permits certain amendments and modifications to be made without the consent of Holders.  In addition, the Indenture contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

10.Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance.  The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (a) the entire indebtedness on this Security and (b) certain restrictive covenants and certain Events of Default, upon compliance by the Company with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to this Security.

11.Transfers and Exchanges.

(a)Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Security at the office or agency of the Trustee maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, a new Security or Securities of this series in authorized denominations for an equal aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor, as provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations provided therein and to the limitations described below, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

(b)A Global Security is exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form only if Clearstream or Euroclear is unwilling or unable to continue as a Depository or ceases to be a clearing agency registered under applicable law, and a qualified successor is not appointed by the Company within 90 days, (ii) the Company elects to have the Securities of this series no longer held in a book-entry clearing system or (iii) a Holder shall so request upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series. If this Security is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence, it shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form in denominations of €100,000 and any integral multiple of €1,000 in excess thereof, registered in such names as such Depository shall direct, bearing interest at the same rate, having the same date of issuance, redemption provisions, Stated Maturity and other terms and of differing denominations aggregating a like amount.

(c)A Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository, or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository, or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor of the Depository or a nominee of such successor. Except as provided above, owners of beneficial

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interests in this global Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in definitive form and will not be considered the Holders hereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

(d)Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

12.No Recourse.  No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of, the Redemption Price of (if any), the Change of Control Payments (if any), interest and Additional Amounts (if any) on, this Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released.

13.Appointment of Agents.The Company has appointed (i) The Bank of New York Mellon acting through its London Branch as the Paying Agent, and (ii) the Trustee as the Security Registrar for the Securities.  Upon notice to the Trustee, the Company may change any Paying Agent or Security Registrar.  The Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer and for exchange at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose in the City of New York, New York and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.

14.Separability. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Security should be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein and therein shall not in any way be affected, impaired, prejudiced or disturbed thereby.

15.Governing Law.  This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

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EX-4.2

Exhibit 4.2

Execution Version

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION

To

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
as successor Trustee

SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of September 7, 2017

To

FIRST AMENDED AND RESTATED INDENTURE

Dated as of March 1, 1988

€500,000,000

0.625% Notes due September 7, 2024

SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of September 7, 2017, between Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the United States, as successor trustee (the “Trustee”).

RECITALS

The Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee a First Amended and Restated Indenture, dated as of March 1, 1988 (the “Base Indenture”), as amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 6, 1992, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 25, 1994, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2002, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006 and the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 9, 2011 (the Base Indenture, as so supplemented and amended, the “Indenture”).

Section 301 of the Base Indenture provides for the issuance from time to time of unsecured debentures, notes and/or other evidences of indebtedness (the “Securities”) of the Company, issuable in one or more series under and in accordance with the terms of the Base Indenture. The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of its Securities named its 0.625% Notes due September 7, 2024 (the “Notes”) of the tenor and in the amount hereinafter set forth.

Section 901(7) of the Base Indenture provides that the Company, without the consent of any Holders, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental to the Indenture, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, to establish, among other things, the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301 of the Base Indenture.

The Company wishes and has requested that the Trustee join with it in the execution and delivery of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and the Company has provided the Trustee with a Board Resolution authorizing the execution of and approving this Sixth Supplemental Indenture.

Pursuant to Section 901(7) of the Base Indenture, the Trustee is authorized to execute and deliver this Sixth Supplemental Indenture.

The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, and all things necessary have been done to make the Notes having an aggregate principal amount of €500,000,000, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered pursuant to the Indenture and this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and duly issued by the Company, the valid obligations of the Company, and to make this Sixth Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms.

NOW, THEREFORE, THIS SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities of the series provided for herein, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities of such series, as follows:

ARTICLE I.

Relation to the Indenture: Definitions

SECTION 101.Relation to the Indenture. This Sixth Supplemental Indenture constitutes an integral part of the Indenture, and shall be construed in connection with and as part of the Indenture. If any provision of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture conflicts with any provision of the Indenture, the provisions of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall control.

SECTION 102.Definitions in the Sixth Supplemental Indenture. For all purposes of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings specified in the Indenture. If any term is defined in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and in the Indenture, such term as it relates to the Notes shall have the meaning assigned to it in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture.  All terms defined in the Notes have the meanings set forth therein.

SECTION 103.Definitions. For all purposes of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, except as expressly provided or the context otherwise requires:

“Additional Amounts” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 202 hereof.

“Base Indenture” has the meaning assigned to it in the Recitals hereto.

“Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, (1) which is not a day on which banking institutions are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close in New York City or London and (2) on which the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer system (the TARGET2 system), or any successor thereto, is open.

“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, Société Anonyme, Luxembourg, and any successor thereto.

“Code” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 202 hereof.

“Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor corporation shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, as supplemented and amended, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor corporation.

“€” or “euros” means the single currency of the Participating Member States.

“Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank SA/NV, as operator of the Euroclear System, and any successor thereto.

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“Clearstream/Euroclear” means, collectively, Clearstream and Euroclear.

“Government Obligations” means (i) direct obligations of a Participating Member State, (ii) obligations the timely payment of the principal of and interest on which is fully and unconditionally guaranteed by such Participating Member State, a central bank of a Participating Member State or a governmental agency of such Participating Member State, and (iii) certificates, depositary receipts or other instruments which evidence a direct ownership interest in obligations described in clause (i) or (ii) above or in any specific principal or interest payments due in respect thereof.

“Indenture” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals hereto.

“Non-U.S. Person” has the meaning set forth in Section 202 hereof.

“Note” has the meaning set forth in Section 201 hereof.

“Participating Member State” means a member state of the European Union which has adopted or adopts the single currency in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European Community (as that Treaty is amended from time to time).

“Paying Agent” means The Bank of New York Mellon acting through its London Branch, as paying agent, and any successor thereto.

“Securities” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals hereto.

“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture, as supplemented and amended, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee under the Indenture, as supplemented and amended, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used which respect to the Notes shall mean the Trustees with respect to the Notes.

“United States Person” has the meaning set forth in Section 202 hereof.

ARTICLE II.

The Notes

SECTION 201.Form and Terms. The Securities of the series established by this Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall be known and designated as the “0.625% Notes due September 7, 2024” (the “Notes”, or in the singular, a “Note”) of the Company, initially limited in aggregate principal amount to €500,000,000.  The CUSIP number of the Notes is 494368 BX0, the ISIN number is XS1679515038 and the Common Code number is 167951503.  If additional Securities of this series are issued pursuant to Section 301 of the Base Indenture, and if such additional Securities are not fungible with the Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such additional Securities shall have one or more separate CUSIP numbers, Common Codes and/or ISIN numbers.

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(a)The Notes will be issued only in fully registered form, and the authorized denominations of the Notes shall be €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof.  The Notes will be denominated in euros and payments of principal of, the redemption price of (if any), Additional Amounts (if any), and interest on, the Notes will be made in euros, provided, that if the euro is unavailable to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company’s control or if the euro is no longer being used by the then member states of the European Monetary Union that have adopted the euro as their currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of the notes will be made in U.S. dollars until the euro is again available to the Company or so used. In such event, the amount payable on any date in euro will be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate mandated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second business day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the most recent U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate published in The Wall Street Journal on or most recently prior to the second business day prior to the relevant payment date. Any payment in respect of the Notes so made in U.S. dollars will not constitute an event of default under the Notes or the Indenture, as supplemented and amended. None of the Trustee, the Paying Agent or any other paying agent shall have any responsibility for any calculation or conversion in connection with the foregoing. Any references in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture or in the form of Note to payments being made in euro notwithstanding, payments shall be made in U.S. dollars to the extent set forth in this paragraph.

(b)Each Note shall be substantially in the form and contain the terms and provisions set forth in the Form of Note attached hereto as Annex A and incorporated in and expressly made part of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. If any provision of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts with any provision of the Notes, such provision in the Notes shall control. Except as otherwise expressly permitted in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture, all Notes shall be identical in all respects. Notwithstanding any differences among them, all Notes issued under this Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall vote and consent together on all matters as one class.

(c)The Company hereby appoints the Trustee as the Security Registrar for the Notes.  Upon notice to the Trustee, the Company may change any Paying Agent or Security Registrar.  The Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer and for exchange at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose in The City of New York, New York and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.

(d)The Notes shall be issued initially in the form of a permanent Global Security or Global Securities in registered form and shall initially be deposited with and registered in the name of The Bank of New York Depository (Nominees) Limited, the nominee of The Bank of New York Mellon, London Branch, as the common depositary, for the accounts of Clearstream/Euroclear as Depository.  Unless and until each such Global Security is exchanged for the Notes in certificated form, each Global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part, and any payments on the Notes shall be made only to, such Depository or a nominee of such Depository, or to a successor Depository selected or approved by the Company or to a nominee of such successor Depository.

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If, (i) Clearstream or Euroclear is unwilling or unable to continue as a Depository or ceases to be a clearing agency registered under applicable law, and a qualified successor is not appointed by the Company within 90 days, (ii) the Company elects to have the Notes no longer held in a book-entry clearing system or (iii) a Noteholder shall so request upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default with respect to the Notes, the Company will issue Notes in definitive form  in authorized denominations in exchange, in whole or in part, as the case may be, for the Global Security that had been held by the Depository. Any Notes issued in definitive form in exchange for a Global Security will be registered in the name or names that the Depository gives to the Trustee or relevant agent of the Company or the Trustee. The Company expects that the Depository’s instructions will be based upon directions received by the Depository from participants with respect to ownership of beneficial interests in the Global Security that had been held by the Depository.

SECTION 202.Payment of Additional Amounts.

(a)The Company shall pay to each beneficial owner of any Notes who is a Non-U.S. Person additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) as may be necessary so that every net payment of the principal of, and interest on such beneficial owner’s Notes, after deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed upon that beneficial owner by the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein (including any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed on the Additional Amounts so paid), will not be less than the amount provided in such beneficial owner’s Notes to be then due and payable. The Company shall not be required to make any payment of Additional Amounts for or on account of:

(i)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld solely by reason of the existence of any present or former connection (other than a connection arising solely from the ownership of those Notes or the receipt of payments or enforcement of rights in respect of those Notes) between that beneficial owner, or between a fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, member or shareholder of, or possessor of a power over, that beneficial owner, if that beneficial owner is an estate, trust, partnership or corporation, and the United States, including that beneficial owner, or that fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, member, shareholder or possessor, (1) being or having been a citizen or resident or treated as a resident of the United States, (2) being or having been present in, or engaged in a trade or business in, the United States, (3) being treated as having been present in, or engaged in a trade or business in, the United States, or (4) having or having had a permanent establishment in the United States;

(ii)any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer, excise, personal property or similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

(iii)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by reason of that beneficial owner’s past or present status as a personal holding company, a controlled foreign corporation, a passive foreign investment company or a foreign private foundation or other foreign tax-exempt organization with respect to the United States or as a corporation that accumulates earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax;

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(iv)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge which is payable otherwise than by withholding from payment of principal of, premium, if any, on, interest on or the redemption price for such beneficial owner’s Notes;

(v)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required to be withheld by any paying agent from any payment of principal of, premium, if any, on, interest on or the redemption price for any Notes if that payment can be made without withholding by any other paying agent;

(vi)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not have been imposed but for the failure of a beneficial owner or any Holder of Notes to comply (to the extent that it is legally able to do so) with a request to satisfy any applicable certification, information, documentation or other reporting requirements concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connections with the United States of the beneficial owner or any Holder of the Notes, if such compliance is required by statute or by regulation of the U.S. Treasury Department as a precondition to relief or exemption from such tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

(vii)any withholding required pursuant to Sections 1471 through 1474 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or any agreement (including any intergovernmental agreement) entered into in connection therewith;

(viii)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld by reason of a change in law, regulation, or administrative or judicial interpretation that becomes effective more than 15 days after the payment becomes due or is duly provided for, whichever occurs later;

(ix)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed on interest received by (1) a 10% shareholder (as defined in Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and the regulations that may be promulgated thereunder) of the Company, (2) a controlled foreign corporation that is related to the Company within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the Code or (3) a bank receiving interest described in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code;

(x)any tax, assessment or governmental charge that would not have been so imposed or withheld but for the presentation by the Holder of a Note for payment on a date more than 30 days after the date on which such payment became due and payable or the date on which payment thereof is duly provided for, whoever occurs later; or

(xi)any combination of items (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), and (x) above.

(b)In addition, to the extent described below, the Company will not pay Additional Amounts to a beneficial owner of a Note that is a fiduciary, partnership, limited liability company or other fiscally transparent entity. This exception will apply to a beneficial owner of a Note that is a fiduciary, partnership, limited liability company or other fiscally transparent entity only to the extent a beneficiary or settlor with respect to the fiduciary, or a beneficial owner or member of the partnership, limited liability company or other fiscally

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transparent entity, would not have been entitled to the payment of an Additional Amount had the beneficiary, settlor, beneficial owner or member received directly its beneficial or distributive share of the payment subject to the tax, assessment or other governmental charge as to which withholding or another deduction occurs.

(c)As used in this Section 202, the term “beneficial owner” includes any person holding a Note on behalf of or for the account of a beneficial owner and the term “Non-U.S. Person” means a person that is not a United States Person. The term “United States Person” means an individual citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation or partnership created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, an estate the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source, a trust subject to the primary supervision of a court within the United States and the control of one or more United States persons as described in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code, or a trust that existed on August 20, 1996, and elected to continue its treatment as a domestic trust.

(d)If the Company will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts under or with respect to any payment made on any of the Notes, at least 30 days prior to the date of such payment, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee and the Paying Agent an Officers’ Certificate stating the fact that Additional Amounts shall be payable and the amount so payable and such other information necessary to enable the Paying Agent to pay Additional Amounts to the beneficial owner on the relevant payment date (unless such obligation to pay Additional Amounts arises, or the Company becomes aware of such obligation, less than 45 days prior to the relevant payment date, in which case the Company may deliver such Officers’ Certificate as promptly as practicable after the date that is 30 days prior to the payment date). The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall be entitled to rely solely on such Officers’ Certificate as conclusive proof that such payments are necessary.

(e)Any references in the Indenture, this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes to principal, premium, interest or any other amount payable in respect of the Notes shall be deemed to include Additional Amounts, as the context shall require.

(f)Except as specifically provided under this Section 202, the Company will not be required to make any payment for any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by any government or a political subdivision or taxing authority of or in any government or political subdivision.

ARTICLE III.

Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

SECTION 301.Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance. The Notes will be subject to Article Four and Section 1006 of the Base Indenture; provided, however, that, solely with respect to the Notes, Article 4 and Section 1006 of the Base Indenture are each hereby amended by replacing:

(a)each reference to “money of the United States” and “money” with, in each instance, “euros”; and

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(b)the term “U.S. Government Obligations” with the term “Government Obligations”.

ARTICLE IV.

Miscellaneous

SECTION 401.Recitals. The recitals and statements herein and in the Notes shall be taken as recitals and statements of the Company and shall not be construed as made by the Trustee or any paying agent, and neither the Trustee nor any paying agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness.  Neither the Trustee nor any paying agent makes any representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture or of the Notes.

SECTION 402.GOVERNING LAW. THIS SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

SECTION 403.Separability Clause. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes should be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein and therein shall not in any way be affected, impaired, prejudiced or disturbed thereby.

SECTION 404.Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.

SECTION 405.Counterparts. This Sixth Supplemental Indenture may be simultaneously executed in several counterparts, and all such counterparts executed and delivered, each as an original, shall constitute but one and the same instrument.  The exchange of copies of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Sixth Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Sixth Supplemental Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes.

SECTION 406.Headings. The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the construction of any of the provisions hereof.

SECTION 407.Benefits of Sixth Supplemental Indenture. Nothing in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, the Paying Agent and their respective successors and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Sixth Supplemental Indenture.

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Nothing in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture shall apply to or amend or supplement, any other series Securities issued or issuable under the Indenture.

SECTION 408.Trust Indenture Act.   This Sixth Supplemental Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of the Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions. If any provision in this Sixth Supplemental Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provisions hereof which is required to be included herein by any provision of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall prevail.

[signature page follows]

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

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION
By:	/s/ Flavio Costa
	Name: Flavio Costa
	Title: Vice President and Treasurer
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as successor Trustee
By:	/s/ Valere Boyd
	Name: Valere Boyd
	Title: Vice President

ANNEX A

FORM OF NOTE

[IF A GLOBAL SECURITY, INSERT: “THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF.  THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF CLEARSTREAM BANKING, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME (“CLEARSTREAM”) AND EUROCLEAR BANK, S.A./N.V., AS OPERATOR OF THE EUROCLEAR SYSTEM (“EUROCLEAR”  AND, TOGETHER WITH CLEARSTREAM”, CLEARSTREAM/EUROCLEAR”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OR TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE BANK OF NEW YORK DEPOSITORY (NOMINEES) LIMITED OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF CLEARSTREAM/EUROCLEAR (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO SUCH ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF CLEARSTREAM/EUROCLEAR), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, THE BANK OF NEW YORK DEPOSITORY (NOMINEES) LIMITED, HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.”]

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Certificate No.
CUSIP No. 494368 BX0
ISIN No. XS1679515038	PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: €
Common Code No. 167951503

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION

0.625% NOTES DUE September 7, 2024

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a corporation duly incorporated and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay [                  ], or registered assigns, the principal sum of €                 on September 7, 2024, and to pay interest thereon from September 7, 2017, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for annually on September 7 of each year, commencing September 7, 2018, at the rate of 0.625% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be August 23 (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding such Interest Payment Date. As used herein, the term “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, (1) which is not a day on which banking institutions are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close in New York City or London and (2) on which the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer system (the TARGET2 system), or any successor thereto, is open.

Interest payable on any Interest Payment Date for this Security or on the maturity date for this Security will be the amount of interest accrued for the actual number of days in the period from, and including, the next preceding Interest Payment Date for this Security in respect of which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including September 7, 2017, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for with respect to this Security) to, but excluding, the next date on which interest is paid or duly provided for. This payment convention is referred to as Actual/Actual (ICMA) as defined in the rulebook of the International Capital Market Association. If any Interest Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the interest payment will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and the Company shall not be liable for any additional interest as a result of the delay in payment. If the maturity date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the related payment of principal and interest will be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest will accrue on the amounts so payable for the period from and after such date to the next succeeding Business Day.

Any interest not punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the

requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

Principal of, the Redemption Price (if any), the Change of Control Payments (if any), and interest and Additional Amounts (if any) on, the Securities shall be payable at the office or agency of the Paying Agent; provided, however, that payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto at such address as shall appear in the Security Register or by wire transfer to an account appropriately designated by the Person entitled to payment; and provided that the Company shall pay principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, the Global Securities registered in the name of or held by Clearstream/Euroclear or such other Depository as any officer of the Company may from time to time designate, or its respective nominee, by wire in immediately available funds to Clearstream/Euroclear or such other such Depository or its nominee, as the case may be, as the Holders of the Global Security.

By no later than 11:00 a.m., London time, at least one Business Day prior to the date that any payment of principal of, the Redemption Price (if any), the Change of Control Payments (if any), or interest and Additional Amounts (if any) on, or any other amount payable in respect of the Securities is due and payable, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent an amount of money in euros sufficient to pay any and all such amounts due and payable in respect of the Securities on such payment date.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set forth on the reverse hereof which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its corporate seal.

DATED:
	KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION
	By:
[corporate seal]
	Attest:

TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE
OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities
of the series designated
therein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A.,
as successor Trustee

By:
	Authorized Officer

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[Reverse of Note]

KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION

0.625% NOTES DUE September 7, 2024

1.The Indenture and the Securities.  This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under a First Amended and Restated Indenture dated as of March 1, 1988 (the “Base Indenture”), as amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 6, 1992 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 25, 1994 (the “Second Supplemental Indenture”), the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2002 (the “Third Supplemental Indenture”), the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006 (the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture”), the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 9, 2011 (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”) and the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 7, 2017 (the “Sixth Supplemental Indenture” and together with the Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture, the Second Supplemental Indenture, the Third Supplemental Indenture, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture and the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company and the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  Capitalized terms used herein without definition have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Indenture.

This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in aggregate principal amount to €500,000,000.  The Company may from time to time, without notice to or the consent of the Holders of the Securities, create and issue further Securities ranking equally with the Securities of this series in all respects (or in all respects other than the payment of interest accruing prior to the issue date of such further Securities of this series or except, in some cases, for the issue price and the first payment of interest following the issue date of such further Securities). Such further Securities may be consolidated and form a single series with the previously issued Securities and have the same terms as to status, redemption or otherwise as the Securities represented by this certificate.

2.Ranking.   The Securities constitute senior debt of the Company, ranking equally with all our other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of the Company.

3.Payments in Euros; Payments to be made in U.S. Dollars if Euros are Unavailable.

(a)All payments of principal of, the Redemption Price of (if any), the Change of Control Payments (if any), interest and Additional Amounts (if any) on, the Securities, will be

payable in euro, provided, that if the euro is unavailable to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company’s control or if the euro is no longer being used by the then member states of the European Monetary Union that have adopted the euro as their currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of the Securities will be made in U.S. dollars until the euro is again available to us or so used. In such event, the amount payable on any date in euro will be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate mandated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second Business Day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the most recent U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate published in The Wall Street Journal on or most recently prior to the second Business Day prior to the relevant payment date. Any payment in respect of the Securities so made in U.S. dollars will not constitute an Event of Default under the Securities or the Indenture. None of the Trustee, the Paying Agent or any other paying agent shall have any responsibility for any calculation or conversion in connection with the foregoing. Any references in this Security to payments being made in euro notwithstanding, payments shall be made in U.S. dollars to the extent set forth in this paragraph.

(b)No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any), the Redemption Price of (if any), the Change of Control Payments (if any), interest and Additional Amounts (if any) on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed, except that in the event the Company deposits euros or Government Obligations as provided in Section 402 of the Base Indenture (as amended by Article III of the Sixth Supplemental Indenture), such payments will be made only from proceeds of such euros or Government Obligations.

4.Payment of Additional Amounts.

(a)The Company shall pay to each beneficial owner of any Securities who is a Non-U.S. Person additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) as may be necessary so that every net payment of the principal of, and interest on such beneficial owner’s Securities, after deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed upon that beneficial owner by the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein (including any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed on the Additional Amounts so paid), will not be less than the amount provided in such beneficial owner’s Securities to be then due and payable. The Company shall not be required to make any payment of Additional Amounts for or on account of:

(i)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld solely by reason of the existence of any present or former connection (other than a connection arising solely from the ownership of those Securities or the receipt of payments or enforcement of rights in respect of those Securities) between that beneficial owner, or between a fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, member or shareholder of, or possessor of a power over, that beneficial owner, if that beneficial owner is an estate, trust, partnership or corporation, and the United States, including that beneficial owner, or that fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, member, shareholder or possessor, (1) being or having been a citizen or resident or treated as a resident of the United States, (2) being or

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having been present in, or engaged in a trade or business in, the United States, (3) being treated as having been present in, or engaged in a trade or business in, the United States, or (4) having or having had a permanent establishment in the United States;

(ii)any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer, excise, personal property or similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

(iii)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by reason of that beneficial owner’s past or present status as a personal holding company, a controlled foreign corporation, a passive foreign investment company or a foreign private foundation or other foreign tax-exempt organization with respect to the United States or as a corporation that accumulates earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax;

(iv)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge which is payable otherwise than by withholding from payment of principal of, premium, if any, on, interest on or the redemption price for such beneficial owner’s Securities;

(v)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required to be withheld by any paying agent from any payment of principal of, premium, if any, on, interest on or the redemption price for any Securities if that payment can be made without withholding by any other paying agent;

(vi)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not have been imposed but for the failure of a beneficial owner or any Holder of Securities to comply (to the extent that it is legally able to do so) with a request to satisfy any applicable certification, information, documentation or other reporting requirements concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connections with the United States of the beneficial owner or any Holder of the Securities, if such compliance is required by statute or by regulation of the U.S. Treasury Department as a precondition to relief or exemption from such tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

(vii)any withholding required pursuant to Sections 1471 through 1474 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or any agreement (including any intergovernmental agreement) entered into in connection therewith;

(viii)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld by reason of a change in law, regulation, or administrative or judicial interpretation that becomes effective more than 15 days after the payment becomes due or is duly provided for, whichever occurs later;

(ix)any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed on interest received by (1) a 10% shareholder (as defined in Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and the regulations that may be promulgated thereunder) of the Company, (2) a controlled foreign corporation that is related to the Company within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the Code or (3) a bank receiving interest described in Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code;

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(x)any tax, assessment or governmental charge that would not have been so imposed or withheld but for the presentation by the Holder of a Security for payment on a date more than 30 days after the date on which such payment became due and payable or the date on which payment thereof is duly provided for, whoever occurs later; or

(xi)any combination of items (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), and (x) above.

(b)In addition, to the extent described below, the Company will not pay Additional Amounts to a beneficial owner of a Security that is a fiduciary, partnership, limited liability company or other fiscally transparent entity. This exception will apply to a beneficial owner of a Security that is a fiduciary, partnership, limited liability company or other fiscally transparent entity only to the extent a beneficiary or settlor with respect to the fiduciary, or a beneficial owner or member of the partnership, limited liability company or other fiscally transparent entity, would not have been entitled to the payment of an Additional Amount had the beneficiary, settlor, beneficial owner or member received directly its beneficial or distributive share of the payment subject to the tax, assessment or other governmental charge as to which withholding or another deduction occurs.

(c)As used in this Paragraph 4, the term “beneficial owner” includes any person holding a Security on behalf of or for the account of a beneficial owner and the term “Non-U.S. Person” means a person that is not a United States Person. The term “United States Person” means an individual citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation or partnership created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, an estate the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source, a trust subject to the primary supervision of a court within the United States and the control of one or more United States persons as described in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code, or a trust that existed on August 20, 1996, and elected to continue its treatment as a domestic trust.

(d)If the Company will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts under or with respect to any payment made on any of the Securities, at least 30 days prior to the date of such payment, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee and the Paying Agent an Officers’ Certificate stating the fact that Additional Amounts shall be payable and the amount so payable and such other information necessary to enable the Paying Agent to pay Additional Amounts to the beneficial owner on the relevant payment date (unless such obligation to pay Additional Amounts arises, or the Company becomes aware of such obligation, less than 45 days prior to the relevant payment date, in which case the Company may deliver such Officers’ Certificate as promptly as practicable after the date that is 30 days prior to the payment date). The Trustee and the Paying Agent shall be entitled to rely solely on such Officers’ Certificate as conclusive proof that such payments are necessary.

(e)Any references in the Indenture and the Securities to principal, premium, interest or any other amount payable in respect of the Securities shall be deemed to include Additional Amounts, as the context shall require.

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(f)Except as specifically provided under this Paragraph 4, the Company will not be required to make any payment for any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by any government or a political subdivision or taxing authority of or in any government or political subdivision.

5.Redemption Upon Tax Event.  If, as a result of any change in, or amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated under the laws) of the United States (or any political subdivision or taxing authority of or in the United States), or any change in, or amendment to, an official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment is announced or becomes effective on or after August 31, 2017, the Company becomes, or based upon a written opinion of independent counsel selected by the Company, will become obligated to pay Additional Amounts with respect to the Securities, then the Company may at its option redeem, in whole, but not in part, the Securities on not less than 15 nor more than 45 days’ prior notice, at a redemption price equal to 100% of their principal amount, together with interest accrued but unpaid on those Securities to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption. Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price upon the surrender of the Securities for redemption, on and after the date fixed for redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or portions thereof called for redemption.

6.Optional Redemption.

(a)The Securities will be redeemable as a whole or in part, at the option of the Company at any time prior to July 7, 2024 (the “Par Call Date”), at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Securities to be redeemed if such Securities matured on the Par Call Date (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the date of redemption), discounted to the date of redemption on an annual basis (Actual/Actual (ICMA)) at the applicable Comparable Government Bond Rate (as defined below), plus 10 basis points, plus in each case accrued interest on the principal amount being redeemed to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.  The Securities will be redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time on or after the Par Call Date, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed, plus accrued interest thereon to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption, in each case as calculated by the Company or on behalf of the Company by such Person as the Company shall designate.

The calculation of the redemption price and accrued interest payable upon a redemption shall be made by the Company or on behalf of the Company by such persons as the Company may designate; provided that such calculation shall not be the duty or obligation of the Trustee unless otherwise expressly agreed.

“Comparable Government Bond” means, in relation to any Comparable Government Bond Rate calculation, at the discretion of an independent investment bank selected by the Company, a German government bond whose maturity is closest to the maturity of the Securities (assuming, for this purpose, that the Securities mature on the Par Call Date), or if such independent investment bank in its discretion determines that such similar bond is not in issue,

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such other German government bond as such independent investment bank may, with the advice of three brokers of, and/or market makers in, German government bonds selected by the Company, determine to be appropriate for determining the Comparable Government Bond Rate.

“Comparable Government Bond Rate” means the price, expressed as a percentage (rounded to three decimal places, with 0.0005 being rounded upwards), at which the gross redemption yield on the Securities being redeemed, if they were to be purchased at such price on the third Business Day prior to the date fixed for redemption, would be equal to the gross redemption yield on such Business Day of the Comparable Government Bond on the basis of the middle market price of the Comparable Government Bond prevailing at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such Business Day as determined by an independent investment bank selected by the Company. Such independent bank will calculate such gross redemption yield on the Securities to be redeemed and the Comparable Government Bond in accordance with generally accepted market practices at the time of such calculations.

(b)Notice of any redemption will be sent (or delivered by electronic transmission in accordance with the applicable procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear) at least 15 days but not more than 45 days before the redemption date to each holder of Securities to be redeemed.

(c)Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price, on and after the redemption date interest will cease to accrue on the Securities or portions thereof called for redemption.

(d)The Securities will not be subject to any sinking fund.

7.Repurchase upon Change of Control Repurchase Event.

(a)If a Change of Control Repurchase Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its right to redeem this series of Securities, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of Securities to repurchase all or any part (in denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Securities at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Securities repurchased to the date of repurchase. Within 30 days following any Change of Control Repurchase Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after the public announcement of an impending Change of Control, the Company will mail (or delivered by electronic transmission in accordance with the applicable procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear) a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Repurchase Event and offering to repurchase Securities on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed (or delivered by electronic transmission in accordance with the applicable procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear). The notice shall, if mailed (or delivered by electronic transmission in accordance with the applicable procedures of Clearstream and Euroclear) prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to repurchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Repurchase Event occurring on or prior to the payment date specified in the

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notice. The Trustee shall have no duty or obligation to determine whether a Change of Control Repurchase Event has occurred or is continuing.

(b)The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder, to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Securities as a result of a Change of Control Repurchase Event. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Securities, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Securities by virtue of such conflict.

(c)On the Change of Control Repurchase Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful:

(i)accept for payment all Securities or portions of Securities (in denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof) properly tendered pursuant to the Company’s offer;

(ii)deposit with the Trustee an amount equal to the aggregate repurchase price in respect of all Securities or portions of Securities properly tendered; and

(iii)deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Securities properly accepted, together with an officers’ certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Securities being purchased by the Company.

(d)The Trustee or Paying Agent will promptly pay to each Holder of Securities properly tendered the repurchase price for the Securities, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Security equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Securities surrendered; provided, that each new Security will be in a principal amount of €100,000 or an integral multiple of €1,000 in excess thereof.

(e)The Company will not be required to make an offer to repurchase the Securities upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Securities properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.

(f)As used in this Paragraph 7, the defined terms set forth below have the specified meanings:

“Below Investment Grade Rating Event” means the Securities are rated below Investment Grade by each of the Rating Agencies on any date from the date of the public notice of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control until the end of the 60-day period following public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of the Securities is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies); provided that a Below Investment Grade Rating Event otherwise

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arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating shall not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus shall not be deemed a Below Investment Grade Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Repurchase Event hereunder) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not announce or publicly confirm or inform the Trustee in writing that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of the Below Investment Grade Rating Event).

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or one of its subsidiaries; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) becomes the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the then outstanding number of shares of the Company’s Voting Stock; or (3) the first day on which a majority of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors are not Continuing Directors.

“Change of Control Repurchase Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event.

“Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the date of the issuance of the Securities; or (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or election (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director).

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

“Fitch” means Fitch Ratings Ltd.

“Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s); a rating of BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P); and a rating of BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Fitch); or the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service Inc.

“Rating Agency” means (1) each of Fitch, Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if any of Fitch, Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Securities or fails to make a rating of the Securities publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating

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organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act, selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Fitch, Moody’s or S&P, as the case may be.

“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of McGraw-Hill, Inc.

“Voting Stock” means the Company’s capital stock of any class or kind the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or persons performing similar functions) of the Company, even if the right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a contingency.

9.Amendment and Modification; Waiver.  The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The Indenture also permits certain amendments and modifications to be made without the consent of Holders.  In addition, the Indenture contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

10.Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance.  The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (a) the entire indebtedness on this Security and (b) certain restrictive covenants and certain Events of Default, upon compliance by the Company with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to this Security.

11.Transfers and Exchanges.

(a)Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Security at the office or agency of the Trustee maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, a new Security or Securities of this series in authorized denominations for an equal aggregate principal amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor, as provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations provided therein and to the limitations described below, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

(b)A Global Security is exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form only if Clearstream or Euroclear is unwilling or unable to continue as a Depository or ceases to be a clearing agency registered under applicable law, and a qualified successor is not appointed by the Company within 90 days, (ii) the Company elects to have the Securities of this series no longer held in a book-entry clearing system or (iii) a Holder shall so request upon the occurrence and continuance of an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series. If this

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Security is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence, it shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form in denominations of €100,000 and any integral multiple of €1,000 in excess thereof, registered in such names as such Depository shall direct, bearing interest at the same rate, having the same date of issuance, redemption provisions, Stated Maturity and other terms and of differing denominations aggregating a like amount.

(c)A Global Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository, or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository, or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor of the Depository or a nominee of such successor. Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this global Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in definitive form and will not be considered the Holders hereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

(d)Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

12.No Recourse.  No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of, the Redemption Price of (if any), the Change of Control Payments (if any), interest and Additional Amounts (if any) on, this Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released.

13.Appointment of Agents.The Company has appointed (i) The Bank of New York Mellon acting through its London Branch as the Paying Agent, and (ii) the Trustee as the Security Registrar for the Securities.  Upon notice to the Trustee, the Company may change any Paying Agent or Security Registrar.  The Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer and for exchange at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose in the City of New York, New York and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.

14.Separability. In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Security should be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein and therein shall not in any way be affected, impaired, prejudiced or disturbed thereby.

15.Governing Law.  This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

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EX-5.1

Exhibit 5.1

September 7, 2017

Client: 48040-00705

Kimberly-Clark Corporation
P.O. Box 619100
Dallas, Texas  75261-9100

Re:        Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-212013)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as special counsel to Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) in connection with the preparation and filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) of a Registration Statement on Form S-3, file no. 333-212013 (the “Registration Statement”), under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), the prospectus included therein, the prospectus supplement, dated August 31, 2017, filed with the Commission on September 1, 2017 pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act (the “Prospectus Supplement”), and the offering by the Company pursuant thereto of €500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 0.625% Notes due September 7, 2024 (the “Notes”).

The Notes have been issued pursuant to the First Amended and Restated Indenture, dated as of March 1, 1988, as previously amended by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 6, 1992, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 25, 1994, the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 14, 2002, the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of December 19, 2006, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 9, 2011, and the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 7, 2017 (as so amended, the “Indenture”), each between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor Trustee (the “Trustee”).

In arriving at the opinion expressed below, we have examined originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction as being true and complete copies of the originals, of the Indenture, the Notes and such other documents, corporate records, certificates of officers of the Company and of public officials and other instruments as we have deemed necessary or advisable to enable us to render this opinion.  In our examination, we have assumed, without independent investigation, the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity and competency of all natural persons, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies.  As to any facts material to this opinion, we have relied to the extent we deemed appropriate and without independent investigation upon statements and representations of officers and other representatives of the Company and others.

Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the assumptions, exceptions, qualifications and limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion that the Notes are legal, valid and binding

obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms.

The opinion expressed above is subject to the following additional exceptions, qualifications, limitations and assumptions:

A.    We render no opinion herein as to matters involving the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the United States of America and the Delaware General Corporation Law.  We are not admitted to practice in the State of Delaware; however, we are generally familiar with the Delaware General Corporation Law as currently in effect and have made such inquiries as we consider necessary to render the opinion above.  This opinion is limited to the effect of the current state of the laws of the State of New York, the United States of America and, to the limited extent set forth above, the laws of the State of Delaware and the facts as they currently exist.  We assume no obligation to revise or supplement this opinion in the event of future changes in such laws or the interpretations thereof or such facts.

B.    The opinion above is subject to (i) the effect of any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, arrangement or similar laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors’ generally, including without limitation the effect of statutory or other laws regarding fraudulent transfers or preferential transfers and (ii) general principles of equity, including without limitation concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

C.    We express no opinion regarding the effectiveness of (i) any waiver of stay, extension or usury laws; (ii) provisions relating to indemnification, exculpation or contribution, to the extent such provisions may be held unenforceable as contrary to public policy or federal or state securities laws or due to the negligence or willful misconduct of the indemnified party; (iii) any provision that would require payment of any unamortized original issue discount (including any original issue discount effectively created by payment of a fee); (iv) any provision waiving the right to object to venue in any court; (v) any agreement to submit to the jurisdiction of any Federal court; (vi) any waiver of the right to jury trial or (vii) any provision to the effect that every right or remedy is cumulative and may be exercised in addition to any other right or remedy or that the election of some particular remedy does not preclude recourse to one or more others.

We consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, and we further consent to the use of our name under the caption “Validity of Notes” in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus Supplement. In giving these consents, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under

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Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

Very truly yours,

/s/ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

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