424B2 1 d424b2.htm UNDERLYING SUPPLEMENT NO. 750 Underlying Supplement no. 750

Underlying supplement no. 750

To prospectus dated May 30, 2006 and

prospectus supplement dated May 30, 2006

  

Registration Statement no. 333-134553

Dated June 18, 2007

Rule 424(b)(2)

LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC.

Basket Consisting of the S&P 500® Index (SPX), MSCI EAFE Index® (MXEA) and the MSCI Emerging Markets IndexSM (MXEF)

General

 

 

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. may offer and sell notes linked to a basket of indices from time to time. This underlying supplement no. 750 describes the Basket of the S&P 500® Index, MSCI EAFE Index® and the MSCI Emerging Markets IndexSM, which we refer to in this underlying supplement as Basket Indices. The specific terms for each series of notes will be included in a product supplement. A separate term sheet or pricing supplement, as the case may be, will describe terms that apply specifically to the notes. We refer to such term sheets and pricing supplements generally as terms supplements. You should read the base prospectus, the MTN prospectus supplement, the relevant product supplement and any other related prospectus supplement, term sheet or pricing supplement, including the description of the Basket of the S&P 500® Index, MSCI EAFE Index® and the MSCI Emerging Markets IndexSM set forth in this underlying supplement, carefully before you invest in the notes. Any terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the meaning given to them in the base prospectus, the MTN prospectus supplement or relevant product supplement or terms supplement. this underlying supplement may not be used to sell securities unless accompanied by the base prospectus, the MTN prospectus supplement, the relevant product supplement, the relevant terms supplements and any other related prospectus supplements.

Investing in notes linked to a Basket consisting of the S&P 500® Index, MSCI EAFE Index® and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index SM involves a number of risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page US-3 in this underlying supplement no. 750, “Risk Factors” in the relevant product supplement and “Key Risks” in the relevant terms supplement.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of the notes or passed upon the accuracy or the adequacy of this underlying supplement no. 750, the accompanying base prospectus, the MTN prospectus supplement, the relevant product supplement, the relevant terms supplements and any other related prospectus supplements. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

LEHMAN BROTHERS

June 18, 2007

“Standard & Poor’s,” “S&P,” “S&P 500” and “Standard & Poor’s 500” are trademarks of McGraw-Hill, Inc. and have been licensed for use by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The notes, linked to the performance of the S&P 500 Index, are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Standard & Poor’s and Standard & Poor’s makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in the notes.

The MSCI indexes are the exclusive property of Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. (“MSCI”). MSCI and the MSCI index names are mark(s) of MSCI or its affiliates and have been be licensed for use for certain purposes by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The notes referred to herein are not sponsored, endorsed, or promoted by MSCI, and MSCI bears no liability with respect to any such financial securities. Under no circumstances may any person or entity claim any affiliation with MSCI without the prior written permission of MSCI.

 


In making your investment decision, you should rely only on the information contained or incorporated by reference in the relevant terms supplements, this underlying supplement no. 750, the relevant product supplement and the accompanying base prospectus and MTN prospectus supplement with respect to the notes offered and with respect to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The relevant terms supplements, this underlying supplement no. 750, the relevant product supplement and the accompanying base prospectus and MTN prospectus supplement contain the terms of the notes and supersede all prior or contemporaneous oral statements as well as any other written materials including preliminary pricing terms, correspondence, trade ideas, structures for implementation, sample structures, fact sheets, brochures or other educational materials of ours. We have not authorized anyone to give you any additional or different information. The information in the relevant terms supplements, this underlying supplement no. 750, the relevant product supplement and the accompanying base prospectus and MTN prospectus supplement may only be accurate as of the dates of each of these documents, respectively.

The notes described in the relevant terms supplements, this underlying supplement no. 750 and the relevant product supplement are not appropriate for all investors, and involve important legal and tax consequences and investment risks, which should be discussed with your professional advisers. You should be aware that the regulations of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. and the laws of certain jurisdictions (including regulations and laws that require brokers to ensure that investments are suitable for their customers) may limit the availability of the notes. The relevant terms supplements, this underlying supplement no. 750, the relevant product supplement and the accompanying base prospectus and MTN prospectus supplement do not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the notes in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful.

In this underlying supplement no. 750, the relevant terms supplements, the relevant product supplement and the accompanying base prospectus and MTN prospectus supplement, “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., unless the context requires otherwise.

 

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RISK FACTORS

Your investment in notes linked to a Basket consisting of the S&P 500 Index, the MSCI EAFE Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index will involve certain risks. Investing in the notes is not equivalent to investing directly in the S&P 500 Index, MSCI EAFE Index or the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or any of the component stocks of the S&P 500 Index, MSCI EAFE Index or the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. You should consider carefully the following discussion of risks before you decide that an investment in notes linked to a Basket consisting of the S&P 500 Index, MSCI EAFE Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index is suitable for you. In addition, you should consider carefully the discussion of risks set forth in the relevant product supplement before you decide that an investment in the notes is suitable for you.

The amount payable at maturity will not be adjusted, unless otherwise specified in the relevant terms supplement, for changes in exchange rates that might affect the S&P 500 Index, the MSCI EAFE Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

Although the stocks composing the MSCI EAFE Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index are traded in currencies other than U.S. dollars, and the notes, which are linked to the Basket which includes the S&P 500 Index, the MSCI EAFE Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, are denominated in U.S. dollars, the amount payable on the notes at maturity will not be adjusted, unless otherwise specified in the relevant terms supplement, for changes in the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and each of the currencies in which the stocks composing the MSCI EAFE Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index are denominated. Changes in exchange rates, however, may reflect changes in various non-U.S. economies that in turn may affect the amount payable on the notes at maturity. The amount we pay in respect of the notes on the maturity date, if any, will be determined solely in accordance with the procedures described in the relevant product supplement.

Each publisher may adjust its Index in a way that affects its level and adversely affects the value of your note, and each publisher has no obligation to consider your interests.

Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and the publisher of the S&P 500 Index (“S&P”), is responsible for calculating and maintaining the S&P 500 Index. Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. (“MSCI”) is responsible for calculating and maintaining the MSCI EAFE Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. We are not affiliated with S&P or MSCI in any way (except for licensing arrangements discussed below in “The S&P 500® Index,” “The MSCI EAFE Index®” and “The MSCI Emerging Markets Index SM”) and have no way to control or predict their actions including any errors in or discontinuation of disclosure regarding their methods or policies relating to the calculation of the S&P 500 Index, the MSCI EAFE Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

Each of S&P and MSCI can add, delete or substitute the stocks underlying its Index or make other methodological changes that could change the level of its Index. You should realize that the changing of companies included in any of the three Indices may affect such Index, and in turn the Basket, as a newly added company may perform significantly better or worse than the company or companies it replaces. Additionally, each of S&P and MSCI may alter, discontinue or suspend calculation or dissemination of its Index. Any of these actions could affect the level of the Basket and adversely affect the value of your notes. Each of S&P and MSCI has no obligation to consider your interests in calculating or revising its Index. See “The S&P 500® Index,” “The MSCI EAFE Index®” and “The MSCI Emerging Markets Index SM.”

Neither Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. nor any of its affiliates assumes any responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of the information about the component indices or the publishers of such component indices contained in this underlying supplement or any public disclosure of information by such publishers. You, as an investor in the notes, should make your own investigation into the component indices and the publishers of such component indices.

 

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We cannot control actions by the companies whose stocks or other equity securities are represented in the Basket.

We are one of the companies that are represented in the Basket, but we are not affiliated with any of the other companies whose stock is represented in the Basket. As a result, we will have no ability to control the actions of such companies, including actions that could affect the value of the stocks underlying the Basket Indices or your notes. None of the money you pay us will go to any of the companies represented in the Basket and none of those companies will be involved in the offering of the notes in any way. Neither those companies nor we will have any obligation to consider your interests as a holder of the notes in taking any corporate actions that might affect the value of your notes.

You will have no shareholder rights in issuers of stocks underlying the S&P 500 Index, the MSCI EAFE Index or the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

Investing in the notes is not equivalent to investing in the securities underlying the S&P 500 Index, the MSCI EAFE Index or the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. As a holder of the notes, you will not have voting rights or rights to receive dividends or other distributions or other rights that holders of the securities composing the S&P 500 Index, the MSCI EAFE Index or the MSCI Emerging Markets Index would have.

An investment in the notes is subject to risks associated with non-U.S. securities markets.

The stocks that constitute the MSCI EAFE Index and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index have been issued by non-U.S. companies. Investments in securities indexed to the value of such non-U.S. equity securities involve risks associated with the securities markets in those countries, including risks of volatility in those markets, governmental intervention in those markets and cross shareholdings in companies in certain countries. Also, there is generally less publicly available information about companies in some of these jurisdictions than about U.S. companies that are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and generally non-U.S. companies are subject to accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards and requirements and securities trading rules different from those applicable to U.S. reporting companies.

The prices of securities in non-U.S. jurisdictions may be affected by political, economic, financial and social factors in such markets, including changes in a country’s government, economic and fiscal policies, currency exchange laws or other foreign laws or restrictions. Moreover, the economies in such countries may differ favorably or unfavorably from the economy of the United States in such respects as growth of gross national product, rate of inflation, capital reinvestment, resources and self sufficiency. Such countries may be subjected to different and, in some cases, more adverse economic environments.

The countries represented by the MSCI Emerging Markets Index include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Columbia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey. Countries with emerging markets may have relatively unstable governments, may present the risks of nationalization of businesses, restrictions on foreign ownership and prohibitions on the reparation of assets, and may have less protection of property rights than more developed countries. The economies of countries with emerging markets may be based on only a few industries, may be highly vulnerable to changes in local or global trade conditions, and may suffer from extreme and volatile debt burdens or inflation rates.

Time differences between the cities where the component indices trade and New York City may create discrepancies in trading levels.

As a result of the time difference between the cities where the securities underlying the component indices trade and New York City (where the notes may trade), there may be discrepancies between the levels of the component indices and the trading prices of the notes. In addition, there may be periods when the foreign securities markets are closed for trading (for example during holidays in a foreign country), as a result of which the levels of the component indices remain unchanged for multiple trading days in New York City.

 

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THE BASKET

The Basket will consist of the three Basket Indices, which will be substantially equally weighted unless otherwise specified in the relevant terms supplements. The level of the Basket will increase or decrease depending on the performance of the Basket Indices.

 

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THE S&P 500® INDEX

We have derived all information contained in this underlying supplement no. 750 regarding the S&P 500 Index, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from publicly available information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, S&P. We have not independently verified such information. We make no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of such information.

Additional information concerning the S&P 500 Index may be obtained at the S&P web site (www.spglobal.com). Information contained in the S&P web site is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered part of, this underlying supplement or any terms supplement.

You can obtain the level of the S&P 500 Index at any time from the Bloomberg Financial Markets page “SPX <Index> <GO>” or from the S&P web site at www.spglobal.com.

S&P 500 Index Composition, Maintenance and Calculation

The S&P 500 Index was developed by S&P and is calculated, maintained and published by S&P. The S&P 500 Index is intended to provide a performance benchmark for the U.S. equity markets. The calculation of the level of the S&P 500 Index (discussed below in further detail) is based on the relative value of the aggregate Market Value (as defined below) of the common stocks of 500 companies (the “Component Stocks”) as of a particular time as compared to the aggregate average Market Value of the common stocks of 500 similar companies during the base period of the years 1941 through 1943. Historically, the “Market Value” of any Component Stock was calculated as the product of the market price per share and the number of the then-outstanding shares of such Component Stock. As discussed below, on March 21, 2005, S&P began to use a new methodology to calculate the Market Value of the Component Stocks and on September 16, 2005, S&P completed its transition to the new calculation methodology. The 500 companies are not the 500 largest companies listed on the NYSE and not all 500 companies are listed on such exchange. S&P chooses companies for inclusion in the S&P 500 Index with the objective of achieving a distribution by broad industry groupings that approximates the distribution of these groupings in the common stock population of the U.S. equity market. S&P may from time to time, in its sole discretion, add companies to, or delete companies from, the S&P 500 Index to achieve the objectives stated above. Relevant criteria employed by S&P include the viability of the particular company, the extent to which that company represents the industry group to which it is assigned, the extent to which the company’s common stock is widely-held and the Market Value and trading activity of the common stock of that company.

On March 21, 2005, S&P began to calculate the S&P 500 Index based on a half float-adjusted formula, and on September 16, 2005, the S&P 500 Index became fully float-adjusted. S&P’s criteria for selecting stocks for the S&P 500 Index will not be changed by the shift to float adjustment. However, the adjustment affects each company’s weight in the S&P 500 Index (i.e., its Market Value).

Under float adjustment, the share counts used in calculating the S&P 500 Index reflect only those shares that are available to investors, not all of a company’s outstanding shares. S&P defines three groups of shareholders whose holdings are subject to float adjustment:

 

   

holdings by other publicly traded corporations, venture capital firms, private equity firms, strategic partners, or leveraged buyout groups;

 

   

holdings by government entities, including all levels of government in the United States or foreign countries; and

 

   

holdings by current or former officers and directors of the company, founders of the company, or family trusts of officers, directors, or founders, as well as holdings of trusts, foundations, pension funds, employee stock ownership plans, or other investment vehicles associated with and controlled by the company.

However, treasury stock, stock options, restricted shares, equity participation units, warrants, preferred stock, convertible stock, and rights are not part of the float. In cases where holdings in a group exceed 10% of the outstanding shares of a company, the holdings of that group will be

 

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excluded from the float-adjusted count of shares to be used in the S&P 500 Index calculation. Mutual funds, investment advisory firms, pension funds, or foundations not associated with the company and investment funds in insurance companies, shares of a United States company traded in Canada as “exchangeable shares,” shares that trust beneficiaries may buy or sell without difficulty or significant additional expense beyond typical brokerage fees, and, if a company has multiple classes of stock outstanding, shares in an unlisted or non-traded class if such shares are convertible by shareholders without undue delay and cost, are also part of the float.

For each stock, an investable weight factor (“IWF”) is calculated by dividing the available float shares, defined as the total shares outstanding less shares held in one or more of the three groups listed above where the group holdings exceed 10% of the outstanding shares, by the total shares outstanding. (On March 21, 2005, the S&P 500 Index moved halfway to float adjustment, meaning that if a stock has an IWF of 0.80, the IWF used to calculate the S&P 500 Index between March 21, 2005 and September 16, 2005 was 0.90. On September 16, 2005, S&P began to calculate the S&P 500 Index on a fully float-adjusted basis, meaning that if a stock has an IWF of 0.80, the IWF used to calculate the S&P 500 Index on and after September 16, 2005 is 0.80.) The float-adjusted S&P 500 Index is calculated by dividing the sum of the IWF multiplied by both the price and the total shares outstanding for each stock by the index divisor. For companies with multiple classes of stock, S&P calculates the weighted average IWF for each stock using the proportion of the total company market capitalization of each share class as weights.

As of the date of this underlying supplement, the S&P 500 Index is calculated using a base-weighted aggregate methodology: the level of the S&P 500 Index reflects the total Market Value of all 500 Component Stocks relative to the S&P 500 Index’s base period of 1941-43 (the “Base Period”).

An indexed number is used to represent the results of this calculation in order to make the value easier to work with and track over time.

The actual total Market Value of the Component Stocks during the Base Period has been set equal to an indexed value of 10. This is often indicated by the notation 1941-43=10. In practice, the daily calculation of the S&P 500 Index is computed by dividing the total Market Value of the Component Stocks by a number called the Index Divisor. By itself, the Index Divisor is an arbitrary number. However, in the context of the calculation of the S&P 500 Index, it is the only link to the original Base Period level of the S&P 500 Index. The Index Divisor keeps the S&P 500 Index comparable over time and is the manipulation point for all adjustments to the S&P 500 Index (“Index Maintenance”).

Index Maintenance includes monitoring and completing the adjustments for company additions and deletions, share changes, stock splits, stock dividends, and stock price adjustments due to company restructurings or spinoffs.

To prevent the level of the S&P 500 Index from changing due to corporate actions, all corporate actions which affect the total Market Value of the S&P 500 Index require an Index Divisor adjustment. By adjusting the Index Divisor for the change in total Market Value, the level of the S&P 500 Index remains constant. This helps maintain the level of the S&P 500 Index as an accurate barometer of stock market performance and ensures that the movement of the S&P 500 Index does not reflect the corporate actions of individual companies in the S&P 500 Index. All Index Divisor adjustments are made after the close of trading and after the calculation of the S&P 500 Index closing level.

The table below summarizes the types of Index maintenance adjustments and indicates whether or not an Index Divisor adjustment is required.

 

Type of
Corporate Action

  

Comments

  

Divisor
Adjustment

Company added/ deleted

   Net change in market value determines divisor adjustment.   

Yes

 

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Type of
Corporate Action

  

Comments

  

Divisor
Adjustment

Change in shares outstanding

   Any combination of secondary issuance, share repurchase or buy back – share counts revised to reflect change.   

Yes

Stock split

   Share count revised to reflect new count. Divisor adjustment is not required since the share count and price changes are offsetting.   

No

Spin-off

   If spun-off company is not being added to the index, the divisor adjustment reflects the decline in index market value (i.e., the value of the spun-off unit).   

Yes

Spin-off

   Spun-off company added to the index, no company removed from the index.   

No

Spin-off

   Spun-off company added to the index, another company removed to keep number of names fixed. Divisor adjustment reflects deletion.   

Yes

Change in IWF due to a corporate action or a purchase or sale by an inside holder.

   Increasing (decreasing) the IWF increases (decreases) the total market value of the index. The divisor change reflects the change in market value caused by the change to an IWF.   

Yes

Special Dividend

   When a company pays a special dividend the share price is assumed to drop by the amount of the dividend; the divisor adjustment reflects this drop in index market value.   

Yes

Rights offering

   Each shareholder receives the right to buy a proportional number of additional shares at a set (often discounted) price. The calculation assumes that the offering is fully subscribed. Divisor adjustment reflects increase in market cap measured as the shares issued multiplied by the price paid.   

Yes

Stock splits and stock dividends do not affect the Index Divisor of the S&P 500 Index, because following a split or dividend, both the stock price and number of shares outstanding are adjusted by S&P so that there is no change in the Market Value of the Component Stock. All stock split and dividend adjustments are made after the close of trading on the day before the ex-date.

Each of the corporate events exemplified in the table requiring an adjustment to the Index Divisor has the effect of altering the Market Value of the Component Stock and consequently of altering the aggregate Market Value of the Component Stocks (the “Post-Event Market Value”). In order that the level of the S&P 500 Index not be affected by the altered Market Value (whether increase or decrease) of the affected Component Stock, a new Index Divisor (“New Divisor”) is derived as follows, where “Old Divisor” is the Index Divisor before the corporate event and “Pre-Event Market Value” is the market value of the component stocks before the corporate event:

 

  New Divisor      =      Old Divisor      x     

Post-Event Market Value

Pre-Event Market Value

 

Changes in a company’s shares outstanding of 5% or more due to mergers, acquisitions, public offerings, private placements, tender offers, Dutch auctions or exchange offers are made as soon as reasonably possible. All other changes of 5% or more (due to, for example, company stock repurchases, redemptions, exercise of options, warrants, subscription rights, conversion of preferred stock, notes, debt, equity participation units or other recapitalizations) are made weekly and are announced on Tuesdays for implementation after the close of trading on Wednesday. Changes of less than 5% are accumulated and made quarterly on the third Friday of March, June, September and December, and are usually announced two days prior.

 

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IWFs are reviewed annually based on the most recently available data filed with various regulators and exchanges. Revised IWFs are applied on the third Friday of September. Changes in IWFs resulting from corporate actions which exceed 10 percentage points will be implemented as soon as possible; changes of less than 10 percentage points are implemented at the next annual review.

Discontinuation of the S&P 500 Index; Alteration of Method of Calculation

S&P has no obligation to continue to publish the S&P 500 Index, and may discontinue publication of the S&P 500 Index at any time in its sole discretion. If S&P discontinues publication of the S&P 500 Index and S&P or another entity publishes a successor or substitute index that the calculation agent determines, in its sole discretion, to be comparable to the discontinued Index (such index being referred to herein as a “S&P 500 successor index”), then any Index closing level will be determined by reference to the level of such S&P 500 successor index at the close of trading on the NYSE, the AMEX, the NASDAQ National Market or the relevant exchange or market for the S&P 500 successor index on each relevant Basket Valuation Date, Observation Date, Averaging Date, Review Date or other relevant date or dates as set forth in the relevant terms supplement.

Upon any selection by the calculation agent of an S&P 500 successor index, the calculation agent will cause written notice thereof to be promptly furnished to the trustee, to us and to the holders of the notes.

If S&P discontinues publication of the S&P 500 Index prior to, and such discontinuation is continuing on, a Basket Valuation Date, Observation Date, Averaging Date, Review Date or other relevant date as set forth in the relevant terms supplement, and the calculation agent determines, in its sole discretion, that no S&P 500 successor index is available at such time, or the calculation agent has previously selected an S&P 500 successor index and publication of such S&P 500 successor index is discontinued prior to, and such discontinuation is continuing on, such Basket Valuation Date, Observation Date, Averaging Date, Review Date or other relevant date, or if S&P (or the publisher of any S&P 500 successor index) fails to calculate and publish a closing level for the S&P 500 Index (or any S&P 500 successor index) on any date when it would ordinarily do so in accordance with its customary practice, then the calculation agent will determine the Index closing level for such date. The Index closing level will be computed by the calculation agent in accordance with the formula for and method of calculating the S&P 500 Index or S&P 500 successor index, as applicable, last in effect prior to such discontinuation, or failure to calculate or publish a closing level for the index, using the closing price (or, if trading in the relevant securities has been materially suspended or materially limited, its good faith estimate of the closing price that would have prevailed but for such suspension or limitation) at the close of the principal trading session on such date of each security most recently composing the S&P 500 Index or S&P 500 successor index, as applicable. Notwithstanding these alternative arrangements, discontinuation of the publication or failure to calculate or publish the closing level of the S&P 500 Index may adversely affect the value of the notes.

As used herein, “closing price” of a security, on any particular day, means the last reported sales price for that security on the relevant exchange at the scheduled weekday closing time of the regular trading session of the relevant exchange. If, however, the security is not listed or traded on a bulletin board, then the closing price of the security will be determined using the average execution price per share that an affiliate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. pays or receives upon the purchase or sale of the security used to hedge Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’ obligations under the notes. The “relevant exchange” for any security (or any combination thereof then underlying the S&P 500 Index or any successor index) means the primary exchange, quotation system (which includes bulletin board services) or other market of trading for such security.

If at any time the method of calculating the S&P 500 Index or an S&P 500 successor index, or the level thereof, is changed in a material respect, or if the S&P 500 Index or an S&P 500 successor index is in any other way modified so that the S&P 500 Index or such S&P 500 successor index does not, in the opinion of the calculation agent, fairly represent the level of the S&P 500 Index or such S&P 500 successor index had such changes or modifications not been made, then the calculation agent will, at the close of business in New York City on each date on which the S&P 500 Index closing level is to be determined, make such calculations and adjustments as, in the good faith judgment of

 

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the calculation agent, may be necessary in order to arrive at a level of a stock index comparable to the S&P 500 Index or such S&P 500 successor index, as the case may be, as if such changes or modifications had not been made, and the calculation agent will calculate the Index closing level with reference to the S&P 500 Index or such S&P 500 successor index, as adjusted. Accordingly, if the method of calculating the S&P 500 Index or a S&P 500 successor index is modified so that the level of the S&P 500 Index or such S&P 500 successor index is a fraction of what it would have been if there had been no such modification (e.g., due to a split in the S&P 500 Index), then the calculation agent will adjust its calculation of the S&P 500 Index or such S&P 500 successor index in order to arrive at a level of the S&P 500 Index or such S&P 500 successor index as if there had been no such modification (e.g., as if such split had not occurred).

License Agreement with S&P

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has entered into a non-exclusive license agreement with S&P, which grants Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and certain of its affiliated or subsidiary companies a license, in exchange for a fee, to use the S&P 500 Index in connection with certain securities, including the notes.

The notes are not sponsored, endorsed, sold or promoted by Standard & Poor’s, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., which we refer to as S&P. S&P makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, to the owners of the notes or any member of the public regarding the advisability of investing in securities generally or in the notes particularly, or the ability of the S&P 500 Index to track general stock market performance. S&P’s only relationship to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is the licensing of certain trademarks and trade names of S&P without regard to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. or the notes. S&P has no obligation to take the needs of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. or the holders of the notes into consideration in determining, composing or calculating the S&P 500 Index. S&P is not responsible for and has not participated in the determination of the timing, price or quantity of the notes to be issued or in the determination or calculation of the amount due at maturity of the notes. S&P has no obligation or liability in connection with the administration, marketing or trading of the notes.

S&P DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF THE S&P 500 INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN AND S&P SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS OR INTERRUPTIONS THEREIN. S&P MAKES NO WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC., HOLDERS OF THE NOTES, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FROM THE USE OF THE S&P 500, INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. S&P MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR USE WITH RESPECT TO THE S&P 500 INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL S&P HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS), EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

“STANDARD & POOR’S®”, “S&P®”, “S&P 500®” AND “500®” ARE TRADEMARKS OF THE MCGRAW-HILL COMPANIES, INC. AND HAVE BEEN LICENSED FOR USE BY LEHMAN BROTHERS INC. AND SUB-LICENSED FOR USE BY LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC. THIS TRANSACTION IS NOT SPONSORED, ENDORSED, SOLD OR PROMOTED BY S&P AND S&P MAKES NO REPRESENTATION REGARDING THE ADVISABILITY OF PURCHASING ANY OF THE NOTES.

 

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THE MSCI EAFE INDEX®

We have derived all information regarding the MSCI EAFE Index contained in this underlying supplement no. 750, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from publicly available information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. (“MSCI”). The MSCI EAFE Index is offered and maintained by MSCI. We have not independently verified such information. We make no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of such information.

Additional information concerning the MSCI EAFE Index, including the country and industrial sector weightings of the securities included in the MSCI EAFE Index, may be obtained at the MSCI Barra web site (www.mscibarra.com). Information contained in the MSCI Barra web site is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered part of, this underlying supplement or any terms supplement.

You can obtain the level of the MSCI EAFE Index at any time from the Bloomberg Financial Markets page “MXEA <Index> <GO>” or from the MSCI Barra web site at www.mscibarra.com.

All disclosure contained in this underlying supplement no. 750 regarding the MSCI EAFE Index, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, is derived from the MSCI Standard Index Series Methodology Book published by Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. (“MSCI”) and other publicly available information. This information reflects the policies of MSCI, as stated in this publicly available information, and is subject to change by MSCI at its discretion. MSCI has no obligation to continue to publish, and may discontinue publication of, the MSCI EAFE Index. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has not independently verified the accuracy or completeness of any information relating to the MSCI indices.

General

MSCI Equity Indices were founded in 1969 by Capital International S.A. as the first international performance benchmarks constructed to facilitate accurate comparison of world markets. Morgan Stanley acquired the rights to the indices and data from Capital International in 1986. In November 1998, Morgan Stanley transferred all rights to the MSCI indices to MSCI. The MSCI Equity Indices have covered the world’s developed markets since 1969 and, in 1988, MSCI commenced coverage of the emerging markets. MSCI applies the same criteria and calculation methodology across all markets for all equity indices, developed and emerging.

Selection Criteria

MSCI undertakes an index construction process, which involves: (i) defining the equity universe, (ii) adjusting the total market capitalization of all securities in the universe for free float available to foreign investors, (iii) classifying the universe of securities under the Global Industry Classification Standard (the “GICS”), and (iv) selecting securities for inclusion according to MSCI’s Index construction rules and guidelines.

Defining the Universe

The index construction process starts at the country level, with the identification of all listed securities for that country. MSCI classifies a company and its securities in one and only country. This allows securities to be sorted distinctly by their respective countries. In general, companies and their respective securities are classified as belonging to the country in which they are incorporated. All listed equity securities, or listed securities that exhibit characteristics of equity securities, except investment trusts, mutual funds and equity derivatives, are eligible for inclusion in the universe. Generally, only equity or equity-like securities that are listed in the country of classification are included in the universe.

Adjusting the Total Market Capitalization of Securities in the Universe for Free Float

After identifying the universe of securities, MSCI calculates the free float-adjusted market capitalization of each security in that universe using publicly available information. The process of free float adjusting market capitalization involves (i) defining and estimating the free float available to foreign investors for each security, using MSCI’s definition of free float, (ii) assigning a free float-

 

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adjustment factor to each security, and (iii) calculating the free float-adjusted market capitalization of each security.

Classifying Securities Under the GICS

In addition to the free float-adjustment of market capitalization, all securities in the universe are assigned to the industry that MSCI believes best describes their business activities. The GICS provides a comprehensive classification scheme to industries worldwide.

Selecting Securities for Index Inclusion

In order to ensure a broad and fair representation in the indices of diverse business activities, MSCI follows a “bottom-up” approach to index construction, building indices from the industry group level up.

MSCI targets an 85% free float-adjusted market representation level within each industry group, within each country. The security selection process within each industry group is based on the analysis of:

 

   

Each company’s business activities and the diversification that its securities would bring to the index.

 

   

The size (based on free float-adjusted market capitalization) and liquidity of securities. MSCI targets for inclusion the most sizable and liquid securities in an industry group. In addition, securities that do not meet the minimum size guidelines discussed below and/or securities with inadequate liquidity are not considered for inclusion.

 

   

The estimated free float for the company and its individual share classes. In general, only securities of companies with estimated free float greater than 15% are considered for inclusion.

The free float of a security is the proportion of shares outstanding that are deemed to be available for purchase in the public equity markets by international investors. In practice, limitations on free float available to international investors include: (i) strategic and other shareholdings not available for purchase by foreigners and (ii) limits on share ownership for foreigners.

Maintaining the MSCI Indices

The MSCI indices are maintained with the objective of reflecting changes in the relevant underlying equity markets on a timely basis. In maintaining the MSCI indices, emphasis is also placed on continuity, reliability and minimizing turnover in the indices. Maintaining the indices involves many aspects, including additions to and deletions from the indices and changes in number of shares and change in Foreign Inclusion Factors (“FIFs”) as a result of updated free float estimates.

Generally, index maintenance can be described by three broad categories of implementation of changes:

 

   

Annual full country index reviews that re-assesses the various dimensions of the equity universe for all countries and which are conducted on a fixed annual timetable;

 

   

Quarterly index reviews, aimed at more promptly reflecting other significant market events; and

 

   

Ongoing event-related changes, such as mergers and acquisitions, which are generally implemented in the index as they occur.

Potential changes in the status of countries (stand-alone, emerging, developed) follow separate timetables. These changes are normally implemented in one or more phases at the regular annual full country index review and quarterly index review dates.

The annual full country index review for all MSCI indices is carried out once every 12 months and implemented as of the close of the last business day of May. The implementation of changes resulting from a quarterly index review occurs on only three dates throughout the year: as of the close

 

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of the last business day of February, August and November. Any country indices may be impacted at the quarterly index review. MSCI index additions and deletions due to quarterly index rebalancings are announced at least two weeks in advance.

MSCI EAFE Index

The MSCI EAFE Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is intended to measure the equity market performance of developed markets, excluding the U.S. and Canada. It has a base date of December 31, 1969 and had on that date an initial value of 100.

Discontinuation of the MSCI EAFE Index; Alteration of Method of Calculation

MSCI has no obligation to continue to publish the MSCI EAFE Index, and may discontinue publication of the MSCI EAFE Index at any time in its sole discretion. If MSCI discontinues publication of the MSCI EAFE Index and MSCI or another entity publishes a successor or substitute index that the calculation agent determines, in its sole discretion, to be comparable to the discontinued Index (such index being referred to herein as a “MSCI EAFE successor index”), then any Index closing level will be determined by reference to the level of such MSCI EAFE successor index at the close of trading on the NYSE, the AMEX, the NASDAQ National Market or the relevant exchange or market for the MSCI EAFE successor index on each relevant Basket Valuation Date, Observation Date, Averaging Date, Review Date or other relevant date or dates as set forth in the relevant terms supplement.

Upon any selection by the calculation agent of an MSCI EAFE successor index, the calculation agent will cause written notice thereof to be promptly furnished to the trustee, to us and to the holders of the notes.

If MSCI discontinues publication of the MSCI EAFE Index prior to, and such discontinuation is continuing on, a Basket Valuation Date, Observation Date, Averaging Date, Review Date or other relevant date as set forth in the relevant terms supplement, and the calculation agent determines, in its sole discretion, that no MSCI EAFE successor index is available at such time, or the calculation agent has previously selected an MSCI EAFE successor index and publication of such MSCI EAFE successor index is discontinued prior to, and such discontinuation is continuing on, such Basket Valuation Date, Observation Date, Averaging Date, Review Date or other relevant date, or if MSCI (or the publisher of any MSCI EAFE successor index) fails to calculate and publish a closing level for the MSCI EAFE Index (or any MSCI EAFE successor index) on any date when it would ordinarily do so in accordance with its customary practice, then the calculation agent will determine the Index closing level for such date. The Index closing level will be computed by the calculation agent in accordance with the formula for and method of calculating the MSCI EAFE Index or MSCI EAFE successor index, as applicable, last in effect prior to such discontinuation, or failure to calculate or publish a closing level for the index, using the closing price (or, if trading in the relevant securities has been materially suspended or materially limited, its good faith estimate of the closing price that would have prevailed but for such suspension or limitation) at the close of the principal trading session on such date of each security most recently composing the MSCI EAFE Index or MSCI EAFE successor index, as applicable. Notwithstanding these alternative arrangements, discontinuation of the publication or failure to calculate or publish the closing level of the MSCI EAFE Index may adversely affect the value of the notes.

As used herein, “closing price” of a security, on any particular day, means the last reported sales price for that security on the relevant exchange at the scheduled weekday closing time of the regular trading session of the relevant exchange. If, however, the security is not listed or traded on a bulletin board, then the closing price of the security will be determined using the average execution price per share that an affiliate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. pays or receives upon the purchase or sale of the security used to hedge Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’ obligations under the notes. The “relevant exchange” for any security (or any combination thereof then underlying the MSCI EAFE Index or any successor index) means the primary exchange, quotation system (which includes bulletin board services) or other market of trading for such security.

If at any time the method of calculating the MSCI EAFE Index or an MSCI EAFE successor index, or the level thereof, is changed in a material respect, or if the MSCI EAFE Index or an MSCI EAFE successor index is in any other way modified so that the MSCI EAFE Index or such MSCI EAFE successor index does not, in the opinion of the calculation agent, fairly represent the level of the MSCI EAFE Index or such MSCI EAFE successor index had such changes or modifications not been made, then the calculation agent will, at the close of business in New York City on each date on which the MSCI EAFE Index closing level is to be determined, make such calculations and adjustments as, in the good faith judgment of the calculation agent, may be necessary in order to arrive at a level of a stock index comparable to the MSCI EAFE Index or such MSCI EAFE successor index, as the case may be, as if such changes or modifications had not been made, and the calculation agent will calculate the Index closing level with reference to the MSCI EAFE Index or such MSCI EAFE successor index, as adjusted. Accordingly, if the method of calculating the MSCI EAFE Index or a MSCI EAFE successor index is modified so that the level of the MSCI EAFE Index or such MSCI EAFE successor index is a fraction of what it would have been if there had been no such modification (e.g., due to a split in the MSCI EAFE Index), then the calculation agent will adjust its calculation of the MSCI EAFE Index or such MSCI EAFE successor index in order to arrive at a level of the MSCI EAFE Index or such MSCI EAFE successor index as if there had been no such modification (e.g., as if such split had not occurred).

License Agreement

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and MSCI have entered into a non-exclusive license agreement providing for the license to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and certain of its affiliates, in exchange for a fee, of the right to use certain indices calculated by MSCI in connection with the issuance and marketing of securities, including notes linked to a basket of indices.

The license agreement provides that the following information must be set forth in this underlying supplement no. 750:

“THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT IS NOT SPONSORED, ENDORSED, SOLD OR PROMOTED BY MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INC. (“MSCI”), ANY AFFILIATE OF MSCI OR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX. THE MSCI INDEXES ARE THE EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF MSCI. MSCI AND THE MSCI INDEX NAMES ARE SERVICE MARK(S) OF MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES AND HAVE BEEN LICENSED FOR USE FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES BY LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC. NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX MAKES ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE OWNERS OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT OR ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC REGARDING THE ADVISABILITY OF INVESTING IN FINANCIAL SECURITIES GENERALLY OR IN THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT PARTICULARLY OR THE ABILITY OF ANY MSCI INDEX TO TRACK CORRESPONDING STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE. MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES ARE THE LICENSORS OF CERTAIN TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS AND TRADE NAMES AND OF THE MSCI INDEXES WHICH ARE DETERMINED, COMPOSED AND CALCULATED BY MSCI WITHOUT REGARD TO THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT OR THE ISSUER OR OWNER OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT. NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX HAS ANY OBLIGATION TO TAKE THE NEEDS OF THE ISSUERS OR OWNERS OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT INTO CONSIDERATION IN DETERMINING, COMPOSING OR CALCULATING THE MSCI INDEXES. NEITHER MSCI, ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OR HAS PARTICIPATED IN THE DETERMINATION OF THE TIMING OF, PRICES AT, OR QUANTITIES OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT TO BE ISSUED OR IN THE DETERMINATION OR CALCULATION OF THE EQUATION BY WHICH THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT IS REDEEMABLE FOR CASH. NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, THE MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX HAS ANY OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY TO THE OWNERS OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADMINISTRATION, MARKETING OR OFFERING OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT.

 

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ALTHOUGH MSCI SHALL OBTAIN INFORMATION FOR INCLUSION IN OR FOR USE IN THE CALCULATION OF THE MSCI INDEXES FROM SOURCES WHICH MSCI CONSIDERS RELIABLE, NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX WARRANTS OR GUARANTEES THE ORIGINALITY, ACCURACY AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF ANY MSCI INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX MAKES ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC., LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC.’S CUSTOMERS OR COUNTERPARTIES, ISSUERS OF THE FINANCIAL SECURITIES, OWNERS OF THE FINANCIAL SECURITIES, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY, FROM THE USE OF ANY MSCI INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN IN CONNECTION WITH THE RIGHTS LICENSED HEREUNDER OR FOR ANY OTHER USE. NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX SHALL HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS OR INTERRUPTIONS OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY MSCI INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. FURTHER, NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX MAKES ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES AND ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO ANY MSCI INDEX AND ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

No purchaser, seller or holder of this security, or any other person or entity, should use or refer to any MSCI trade name, trademark or service mark to sponsor, endorse, market or promote this product without first contacting MSCI to determine whether MSCI’s permission is required. Under no circumstances may any person or entity claim any affiliation with MSCI without the prior written permission of MSCI.”

 

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THE MSCI EMERGING MARKETS INDEX SM

We have derived all information contained in this underlying supplement no. 750 regarding the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, from publicly available information. Such information reflects the policies of, and is subject to change by, Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. (“MSCI”). The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is offered and maintained by MSCI. We have not independently verified such information. We make no representation or warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of such information.

Additional information concerning the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, including the country and industrial sector weightings of the securities included in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, may be obtained at the MSCI Barra web site (www.mscibarra.com). Information contained in the MSCI Barra website is not incorporated by reference in, and should not be considered a part of, this underlying supplement no. 750 or any terms supplement.

You can obtain the level of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index at any time from the Bloomberg Financial Markets page “MXEF <Index> <GO>” or from the MSCI Barra web site at www.mscibarra.com.

All disclosure contained in this underlying supplement no. 750 regarding the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, including, without limitation, its make-up, method of calculation and changes in its components, is derived from the MSCI Standard Index Series Methodology Book published by Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. (“MSCI”) and other publicly available information. This information reflects the policies of MSCI, as stated in this publicly available information, and is subject to change by MSCI at its discretion. MSCI has no obligation to continue to publish, and may discontinue publication of, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. has not independently verified the accuracy or completeness of any information relating to the MSCI indices.

General

MSCI Equity Indices were founded in 1969 by Capital International S.A. as the first international performance benchmarks constructed to facilitate accurate comparison of world markets. Morgan Stanley acquired the rights to the indices and data from Capital International in 1986. In November 1998, Morgan Stanley transferred all rights to the MSCI indices to MSCI. The MSCI Equity Indices have covered the world’s developed markets since 1969 and, in 1988, MSCI commenced coverage of the emerging markets. MSCI applies the same criteria and calculation methodology across all markets for all equity indices, developed and emerging.

Selection Criteria

MSCI undertakes an index construction process, which involves: (i) defining the equity universe, (ii) adjusting the total market capitalization of all securities in the universe for free float available to foreign investors, (iii) classifying the universe of securities under the Global Industry Classification Standard (the “GICS”), and (iv) selecting securities for inclusion according to MSCI’s Index construction rules and guidelines.

Defining the Universe

The index construction process starts at the country level, with the identification of all listed securities for that country. MSCI classifies a company and its securities in one and only country. This allows securities to be sorted distinctly by their respective countries. In general, companies and their respective securities are classified as belonging to the country in which they are incorporated. All listed equity securities, or listed securities that exhibit characteristics of equity securities, except investment trusts, mutual funds and equity derivatives, are eligible for inclusion in the universe. Generally, only equity or equity-like securities that are listed in the country of classification are included in the universe.

 

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Adjusting the Total Market Capitalization of Securities in the Universe for Free Float

After identifying the universe of securities, MSCI calculates the free float-adjusted market capitalization of each security in that universe using publicly available information. The process of free float adjusting market capitalization involves (i) defining and estimating the free float available to foreign investors for each security, using MSCI’s definition of free float, (ii) assigning a free float-adjustment factor to each security, and (iii) calculating the free float-adjusted market capitalization of each security.

Classifying Securities Under the GICS

In addition to the free float-adjustment of market capitalization, all securities in the universe are assigned to the industry that MSCI believes best describes their business activities. The GICS provides a comprehensive classification scheme to industries worldwide.

Selecting Securities for Index Inclusion

In order to ensure a broad and fair representation in the indices of diverse business activities, MSCI follows a “bottom-up” approach to index construction, building indices from the industry group level up.

MSCI targets an 85% free float-adjusted market representation level within each industry group, within each country. The security selection process within each industry group is based on the analysis of:

 

   

Each company’s business activities and the diversification that its securities would bring to the index.

 

   

The size (based on free float-adjusted market capitalization) and liquidity of securities. MSCI targets for inclusion the most sizable and liquid securities in an industry group. In addition, securities that do not meet the minimum size guidelines discussed below and/or securities with inadequate liquidity are not considered for inclusion.

 

   

The estimated free float for the company and its individual share classes. In general, only securities of companies with estimated free float greater than 15% are considered for inclusion.

The free float of a security is the proportion of shares outstanding that are deemed to be available for purchase in the public equity markets by international investors. In practice, limitations on free float available to international investors include: (i) strategic and other shareholdings not available for purchase by foreigners and (ii) limits on share ownership for foreigners.

Maintaining the MSCI Indices

The MSCI indices are maintained with the objective of reflecting changes in the relevant underlying equity markets on a timely basis. In maintaining the MSCI indices, emphasis is also placed on continuity, reliability and minimizing turnover in the indices. Maintaining the indices involves many aspects, including additions to and deletions from the indices and changes in number of shares and change in Foreign Inclusion Factors (“FIFs”) as a result of updated free float estimates.

Generally, index maintenance can be described by three broad categories of implementation of changes:

 

   

Annual full country index reviews that re-assesses the various dimensions of the equity universe for all countries and which are conducted on a fixed annual timetable;

 

   

Quarterly index reviews, aimed at more promptly reflecting other significant market events; and

 

   

Ongoing event-related changes, such as mergers and acquisitions, which are generally implemented in the index as they occur.

 

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Potential changes in the status of countries (stand-alone, emerging, developed) follow separate timetables. These changes are normally implemented in one or more phases at the regular annual full country index review and quarterly index review dates.

The annual full country index review for all MSCI indices is carried out once every 12 months and implemented as of the close of the last business day of May. The implementation of changes resulting from a quarterly index review occurs on only three dates throughout the year: as of the close of the last business day of February, August and November. Any country indices may be impacted at the quarterly index review. MSCI index additions and deletions due to quarterly index rebalancings are announced at least two weeks in advance.

MSCI Emerging Markets Index

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization index that is designed to measure the equity market performance of emerging markets. It has a base date of December 31, 1987 and had on that date an initial value of 100.

Discontinuation of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index; Alteration of Method of Calculation

MSCI has no obligation to continue to publish the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, and may discontinue publication of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index at any time in its sole discretion. If MSCI discontinues publication of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and MSCI or another entity publishes a successor or substitute index that the calculation agent determines, in its sole discretion, to be comparable to the discontinued Index (such index being referred to herein as a “MSCI Emerging Markets successor index”), then any Index closing level will be determined by reference to the level of such MSCI Emerging Markets successor index at the close of trading on the NYSE, the AMEX, the NASDAQ National Market or the relevant exchange or market for the MSCI Emerging Markets successor index on each relevant Basket Valuation Date, Observation Date, Averaging Date, Review Date or other relevant date or dates as set forth in the relevant terms supplement.

Upon any selection by the calculation agent of an MSCI Emerging Markets successor index, the calculation agent will cause written notice thereof to be promptly furnished to the trustee, to us and to the holders of the notes.

If MSCI discontinues publication of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index prior to, and such discontinuation is continuing on, a Basket Valuation Date, Observation Date, Averaging Date, Review Date or other relevant date as set forth in the relevant terms supplement, and the calculation agent determines, in its sole discretion, that no MSCI Emerging Markets successor index is available at such time, or the calculation agent has previously selected an MSCI Emerging Markets successor index and publication of such MSCI Emerging Markets successor index is discontinued prior to, and such discontinuation is continuing on, such Basket Valuation Date, Observation Date, Averaging Date, Review Date or other relevant date, or if MSCI (or the publisher of any MSCI Emerging Markets successor index) fails to calculate and publish a closing level for the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (or any MSCI Emerging Markets successor index) on any date when it would ordinarily do so in accordance with its customary practice, then the calculation agent will determine the Index closing level for such date. The Index closing level will be computed by the calculation agent in accordance with the formula for and method of calculating the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or MSCI Emerging Markets successor index, as applicable, last in effect prior to such discontinuation, or failure to calculate or publish a closing level for the index, using the closing price (or, if trading in the relevant securities has been materially suspended or materially limited, its good faith estimate of the closing price that would have prevailed but for such suspension or limitation) at the close of the principal trading session on such date of each security most recently composing the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or MSCI Emerging Markets successor index, as applicable. Notwithstanding these alternative arrangements, discontinuation of the publication or failure to calculate or publish the closing level of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index may adversely affect the value of the notes.

As used herein, “closing price” of a security, on any particular day, means the last reported sales price for that security on the relevant exchange at the scheduled weekday closing time of the regular trading session of the relevant exchange. If, however, the security is not listed or traded on a bulletin board, then the closing price of the security will be determined using the average execution price per share that an affiliate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. pays or receives upon the purchase or sale of the security used to hedge Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’ obligations under the notes. The “relevant exchange” for any security (or any combination thereof then underlying the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or any successor index) means the primary exchange, quotation system (which includes bulletin board services) or other market of trading for such security.

If at any time the method of calculating the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or an MSCI Emerging Markets successor index, or the level thereof, is changed in a material respect, or if the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or an MSCI Emerging Markets successor index is in any other way modified so that the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or such MSCI Emerging Markets successor index does not, in the opinion of the calculation agent, fairly represent the level of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or such MSCI Emerging Markets successor index had such changes or modifications not been made, then the calculation agent will, at the close of business in New York City on each date on which the MSCI Emerging Markets Index closing level is to be determined, make such calculations and adjustments as, in the good faith judgment of the calculation agent, may be necessary in order to arrive at a level of a stock index comparable to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or such MSCI Emerging Markets successor index, as the case may be, as if such changes or modifications had not been made, and the calculation agent will calculate the Index closing level with reference to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or such MSCI Emerging Markets successor index, as adjusted. Accordingly, if the method of calculating the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or a MSCI Emerging Markets successor index is modified so that the level of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or such MSCI Emerging Markets successor index is a fraction of what it would have been if there had been no such modification (e.g., due to a split in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index), then the calculation agent will adjust its calculation of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or such MSCI Emerging Markets successor index in order to arrive at a level of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index or such MSCI Emerging Markets successor index as if there had been no such modification (e.g., as if such split had not occurred).

License Agreement

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and MSCI have entered into a non-exclusive license agreement providing for the license to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and certain of its affiliates, in exchange for a fee, of the right to use certain indices calculated by MSCI in connection with the issuance and marketing of securities, including notes linked to a basket of indices.

The license agreement provides that the following information must be set forth in this underlying supplement no. 750:

“THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT IS NOT SPONSORED, ENDORSED, SOLD OR PROMOTED BY MORGAN STANLEY CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL INC. ("MSCI"), ANY AFFILIATE OF MSCI OR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX. THE MSCI INDEXES ARE THE EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF MSCI. MSCI AND THE MSCI INDEX NAMES ARE SERVICE MARK(S) OF MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES AND HAVE BEEN LICENSED FOR USE FOR CERTAIN PURPOSES BY LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC. NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX MAKES ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE OWNERS OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT OR ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC REGARDING THE ADVISABILITY OF INVESTING IN FINANCIAL SECURITIES GENERALLY OR IN THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT PARTICULARLY OR THE ABILITY OF ANY MSCI INDEX TO TRACK CORRESPONDING STOCK MARKET PERFORMANCE. MSCI OR ITS AFFILIATES ARE THE LICENSORS OF CERTAIN TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS AND TRADE NAMES AND OF THE MSCI INDEXES WHICH ARE DETERMINED, COMPOSED AND CALCULATED BY MSCI WITHOUT REGARD TO THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT OR THE ISSUER OR OWNER OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT. NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX HAS ANY OBLIGATION TO TAKE THE NEEDS OF THE ISSUERS OR OWNERS OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT INTO CONSIDERATION IN DETERMINING, COMPOSING OR CALCULATING THE MSCI INDEXES. NEITHER MSCI, ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX IS RESPONSIBLE FOR OR HAS PARTICIPATED IN THE DETERMINATION OF THE TIMING OF, PRICES AT, OR QUANTITIES OF THIS FINANCIAL

 

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PRODUCT TO BE ISSUED OR IN THE DETERMINATION OR CALCULATION OF THE EQUATION BY WHICH THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT IS REDEEMABLE FOR CASH. NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, THE MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX HAS ANY OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY TO THE OWNERS OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADMINISTRATION, MARKETING OR OFFERING OF THIS FINANCIAL PRODUCT.

ALTHOUGH MSCI SHALL OBTAIN INFORMATION FOR INCLUSION IN OR FOR USE IN THE CALCULATION OF THE MSCI INDEXES FROM SOURCES WHICH MSCI CONSIDERS RELIABLE, NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX WARRANTS OR GUARANTEES THE ORIGINALITY, ACCURACY AND/OR THE COMPLETENESS OF ANY MSCI INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX MAKES ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO RESULTS TO BE OBTAINED BY LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC., LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC.’S CUSTOMERS OR COUNTERPARTIES, ISSUERS OF THE FINANCIAL SECURITIES, OWNERS OF THE FINANCIAL SECURITIES, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY, FROM THE USE OF ANY MSCI INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN IN CONNECTION WITH THE RIGHTS LICENSED HEREUNDER OR FOR ANY OTHER USE. NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX SHALL HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY ERRORS, OMISSIONS OR INTERRUPTIONS OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY MSCI INDEX OR ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. FURTHER, NEITHER MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX MAKES ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES AND ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO ANY MSCI INDEX AND ANY DATA INCLUDED THEREIN. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OF THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL MSCI, ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN, OR RELATED TO, MAKING OR COMPILING ANY MSCI INDEX HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS) EVEN IF NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

No purchaser, seller or holder of this security, or any other person or entity, should use or refer to any MSCI trade name, trademark or service mark to sponsor, endorse, market or promote this product without first contacting MSCI to determine whether MSCI’s permission is required. Under no circumstances may any person or entity claim any affiliation with MSCI without the prior written permission of MSCI.”

 

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