-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Mkl09sbLUvAJkwOGvwT6BLzddhrgowLd5dLU/9q0Ik4VXEfLwFXRmv2w34H057S1 pMStUJpfqralQxmbkqgl1g== 0001104659-06-014627.txt : 20060307 0001104659-06-014627.hdr.sgml : 20060307 20060307160911 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-06-014627 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 4 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20060307 ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20060307 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20060307 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000834071 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PERSONAL CREDIT INSTITUTIONS [6141] IRS NUMBER: 953775816 STATE OF INCORPORATION: CA FISCAL YEAR END: 0331 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-09961 FILM NUMBER: 06670302 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 19001 S. WESTERN AVENUE CITY: TORRANCE STATE: CA ZIP: 90509 BUSINESS PHONE: (310) 468-1310 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 19001 S. WESTERN AVENUE CITY: TORRANCE STATE: CA ZIP: 90509 8-K 1 a06-6408_18k.htm CURRENT REPORT OF MATERIAL EVENTS OR CORPORATE CHANGES

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported):  March 7, 2006

 

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

California

 

1-9961

 

95-3775816

(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

 

 

 

 

19001 South Western Avenue
Torrance, California

 

90501

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(Zip Code)

 

(310) 468-1310

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

Not applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 



 

Item 9.01               Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

The purpose of this Form 8-K is to file the following exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

 

 

 

1.1

 

Third Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement, dated March 7, 2006 among Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, and Toyota Financial Services Securities USA Corporation.

 

 

 

4.1

 

Form of Fixed Rate Global Medium-Term Note

 

 

 

4.2

 

Form of Floating Rate Global Medium-Term Note

 

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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 thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION

 

 

(Registrant)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ George Borst

Date:  March 7, 2006

George Borst

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

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EX-1.1 2 a06-6408_1ex1d1.htm UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

Exhibit 1.1

 

Final

 

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION

 

Medium-Term Notes, Series B
Due More Than Nine Months From Date of Issue

 

 

THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED
DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

 

 

March 7, 2006

 

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER

& SMITH INCORPORATED

Merrill Lynch World Headquarters

4 World Financial Center, Floor 15

New York, New York  10080

 

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

388 Greenwich Street

New York , New York 10013

 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.

60 Wall Street, 2nd Floor

New York, New York  10005

 

HSBC SECURITIES (USA) INC.

452 Fifth Avenue

New York, New York  10018

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.

270 Park Avenue, 7th Floor

New York, New York  10017

 

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INCORPORATED

1585 Broadway, 2nd Floor

New York, New York  10036

 

TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES SECURITIES USA CORPORATION

19001 South Western Avenue, NF-10

Torrance, California  90501

 



 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, a California corporation (the “Company”) confirms its agreement with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (“Merrill Lynch”), Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (“Citigroup”), Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (“Deutsche Bank”), HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. (“HSBC”), J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. (“J.P. Morgan”), Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated (“Morgan Stanley”), and Toyota Financial Services Securities USA Corporation (“TFSS USA”) (collectively, the “Agents”), with respect to the issue and sale by the Company of its Medium-Term Notes, Series B, Due More Than Nine Months From Date of Issue (the “Notes”). The Notes are to be issued pursuant to an indenture (as the same may be amended or restated from time to time, the “Indenture”) dated as of August 1, 1991, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of October 1, 1991 and the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 31, 2004 among the Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank (as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.) and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly known as Bankers Trust Company). Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas will act as trustee with respect to the Notes (the “Trustee”). This Third Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement shall be referred to hereafter as this “Agreement.”  The Company and certain of the Agents previously entered into a Second Amended and Restated Distribution Agreement dated April 2, 2004 (the “Original Agreement”), with respect to the Company’s Medium-Term Notes Due More Than One Year From Date of Issue (the “Original Notes”), and the parties have agreed not to offer and sell any additional Original Notes pursuant to the Original Agreement after the date hereof.

 

As of the date hereof, the Company has authorized the issuance and sale by the Company directly or through the Agents pursuant to the terms of this Agreement of an unlimited aggregate principal amount of Notes. In calculating the aggregate principal amount of Notes issued pursuant to this Agreement, with respect to Notes issued at a discount to face, the initial offering price shall be used, and with respect to Notes issued at a premium to face, the face amount of such Notes will be used. This Agreement provides both for the sale of Notes by the Company directly to purchasers, in which case the Agents will act as agents of the Company in soliciting Note purchases, and (as may from time to time be agreed to by the Company and the related Agent or Agents) to one or more Agents as principal for resale to purchasers.

 

The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-132201) for the registration of debt securities, including the Notes, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”) and the offering thereof from time to time in accordance with Rule 415 of the rules and regulations of the Commission under the 1933 Act (the “1933 Act Regulations”). Such registration statement has automatically become effective pursuant to Rule 462 of the 1933 Act Regulations and the Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “1939 Act”). Such registration statement (and any further registration statements which may be filed by the Company for the purpose of registering additional Notes and in connection with which this Agreement is included or incorporated by reference as an exhibit) and the prospectus constituting a part thereof, and any prospectus supplements relating to the Notes, including all documents incorporated therein by reference, as from time to time amended or supplemented by the filing of documents pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “1934 Act”) or the 1933 Act or otherwise, are referred to herein as the “Registration Statement”

 

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and the “Prospectus”, respectively, except that if any revised prospectus shall be provided to the Agents by the Company for use in connection with the offering of the Notes which is not required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the 1933 Act Regulations, the term “Prospectus” shall refer to such revised prospectus from and after the time it is first provided to the Agents for such use. For purposes of this Agreement, all references to the Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary prospectus or to any amendment or supplement thereto shall be deemed to include any copy filed with the Commission pursuant to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval system (“EDGAR”).

 

SECTION 1.           Appointment as Agents.

 

(a)           Appointment of Agents. Subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, the Company hereby appoints the Agents, except as otherwise provided in this Section 1(a), as the exclusive agents, subject to the provisions contained in this Section 1(a), for the purpose of soliciting purchases of the Notes from the Company by others and agrees that, except as otherwise contemplated herein, whenever the Company determines to sell Notes directly to one or more Agents as principal for resale to others, it will enter into a Terms Agreement (as hereafter defined) relating to each such sale in accordance with the provisions of Section 3(b) hereof if requested by such Agent. The Company agrees that, except as otherwise provided in this Section 1(a), during the period the Agents are acting as the Company’s agents hereunder, the Company will not engage any other party to assist in the placement of the Notes (other than any person or entity which, by executing a counterpart of this Agreement, becomes an Agent hereunder). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company reserves the right to (i) appoint additional agents for the purpose of assisting in the placement of the Notes during the term of this Agreement under the terms of an agreement substantially identical to this Agreement (provided that the commission to be paid to such additional agents in connection with the sale of any Note shall be the applicable commission determined pursuant to Section 3(a) hereof), and (ii) sell Notes to one or more underwriters in a discrete principal transaction or transactions (whether on an individual or syndicated basis) so long as such underwriter or underwriters shall execute an agreement substantially identical to this Agreement relating to such principal transaction or transactions (such person and/or entity described in subclause (ii) of this sentence shall be referred to herein as a “Dealer”), provided however, that no such agreement will appoint any such underwriter an agent under this Agreement except as relates to the related transaction or transactions. As used herein, the term “Agent”, in addition to Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and TFSS USA, refers to each person or entity which, at any particular time, is an agent or underwriter, as the case may be, for the Company hereunder as evidenced by its execution of a counterpart of this Agreement.

 

(b)           Reasonable Efforts Solicitations; Right to Reject Offers. Upon receipt of instructions from the Company, the Agents will use their reasonable efforts to solicit purchases of such principal amount of Notes as the Company and the Agents shall agree upon from time to time during the term of this Agreement, it being understood that the Company shall not approve the solicitation of purchases of Notes in excess of the amount which shall be authorized by the Company from time to time. The Agents will have no responsibility for maintaining records with respect to the aggregate initial offering price of Notes sold, or of otherwise monitoring the availability of Notes for sale under the Registration Statement. Each Agent will communicate to the Company, orally or in writing, each offer to purchase Notes, other than those offers rejected

 

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by such Agent. Each Agent shall have the right, in its discretion reasonably exercised, to reject any proposed purchase of Notes, as a whole or in part, and any such rejection shall not be deemed a breach of the Agent’s agreement contained herein. The Company may accept or reject any proposed purchase of the Notes, in whole or in part.

 

(c)           Solicitations as Agents; Purchases as Principals. In soliciting purchases of the Notes on behalf of the Company, unless otherwise specified pursuant to the terms hereof, each Agent shall act solely as agent for the Company and not as principal. Each Agent shall make reasonable efforts to assist the Company in obtaining performance by each purchaser whose offer to purchase Notes has been solicited by such Agent and accepted by the Company. No Agent shall have any liability to the Company in the event any such purchase is not consummated for any reason. No Agent shall have any obligation to purchase Notes from the Company as principal but such Agent, individually or as part of a syndicate with other Agents, may agree from time to time to purchase Notes as principal. Any such purchase of Notes by an Agent as principal shall be made pursuant to a Terms Agreement in accordance with Section 3(b) hereof if requested by such Agent. If the Company shall default on its obligation to deliver Notes to a purchaser whose offer has been solicited by such Agent on any agency basis and accepted by the Company due to its refusal to perform or because of a breach of representation or warranty contained herein, the Company shall (i) hold such Agent harmless against any loss, claim or damage arising from or as a result of such default by the Company and (ii) pay to such Agent any commission to which it would otherwise be entitled absent such default. As used herein, the term “Related Agent,” in connection with any particular offer and sale of Notes, refers to each Agent acting as agent or purchasing as principal with respect to such Notes.

 

(d)           Reliance. The Company and the Agents agree that any Notes the placement of which the Agents arrange shall be placed by the Agents, and any Notes purchased by the Agents shall be purchased, in reliance on the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements of the Company contained herein and on the terms and conditions and in the manner provided herein.

 

SECTION 2.           Representations and Warranties.

 

(a)           The Company represents and warrants to each Agent as of the date hereof, as of the date of each acceptance by the Company of an offer for the purchase of Notes (whether through the Agents as agents or to one or more Agents as principal), immediately before the time of sale, within the meaning of Rule 159 of the 1933 Act Regulations, of Notes to any purchaser (whether through the Agents as agents or to one or more Agents as principal), as of the date of each delivery of Notes (whether through the Agents as agents or to one or more Agents as principal) (the date of each such delivery to one or more Agents as principal being hereafter referred to as a “Settlement Date”), and as of any time that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (other than by an amendment or supplement providing solely for the establishment of or a change in, the interest rates, maturity, price or other terms of Notes or similar changes) or there is filed with the Commission any document incorporated by reference into the Prospectus (other than any Current Report on Form 8-K relating exclusively to the issuance of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes) (each of the times referenced above being referred to herein as a “Representation Date”) as follows:

 

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(i)            Registration Statement, Prospectus and Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company is a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act Regulations. At the time the Registration Statement became effective, the Registration Statement complied, and as of the applicable Representation Date will comply, in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations and the 1939 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued under the 1933 Act and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, are contemplated by the Commission, and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information has been complied with; and the Indenture has been duly qualified under the 1939 Act. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement,” as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act Regulations, that initially became effective within three years of the applicable Representation Date, and the Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations objecting to the use of the automatic shelf registration form. The Registration Statement at the time it became effective did not, and at each time thereafter at which any amendment to the Registration Statement becomes effective or any Annual Report on Form 10-K is filed by the Company with the Commission and as of the applicable Representation Date, will not, considering the Registration Statement and all Incorporated Documents (as defined in Section 5(a)(4)) considered as a whole, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. The Prospectus, as of the date hereof does not, and (A) the Prospectus and (B) any applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es), considered together with the Prospectus, as of the applicable Representation Date will not, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the representations and warranties in this subsection (i) of Section 2(a) of this Agreement shall not apply to statements in or omissions from the Registration Statement, Prospectus or any applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es) made in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished to the Company in writing by the Agent or Agents expressly for use in the Registration Statement, Prospectus or such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es) or to those parts of the Registration Statement that constitute the Statements of Eligibility under the 1939 Act on Form T-1. Each Prospectus delivered to the Related Agent for use in connection with the offering of the Notes is identical to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. Each applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement. “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus,” as used in this Agreement, means any “issuer free writing prospectus,” as defined in Rule 433 of the 1933 Act Regulations, that would be deemed to be related to the offer of Notes.

 

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(ii)           Incorporated Documents. The documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus and in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, at the time such incorporated documents were filed with the Commission, complied in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (the “1934 Act Regulations”), and, when read together and with the other information in or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

(iii)          Accountants. The accountants who certified the financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus are independent public accountants within the meaning of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations.

 

(iv)          Financial Statements. The financial statements and any supporting schedules of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus present fairly the consolidated financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the consolidated results of their operations for the periods specified; and, except as stated therein, said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis; and any supporting schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement present fairly the information required to be stated therein.

 

(v)           Due Incorporation; Authorization and Validity of this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes. The Company (A) has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of California with corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Prospectus, (B) has the requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, any Terms Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder, (C) has duly authorized, executed and delivered this Agreement and any Terms Agreement and each of this Agreement and such Terms Agreement constitutes the valid and binding agreement of the Company, and (D) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of substantial properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification and in which the failure to do so would materially adversely affect the business or financial condition of the Company.

 

(vi)          Material Changes or Material Transactions. Since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any applicable Permitted Free Writing Prospectus (as defined in Section 4(e) below), except as otherwise stated therein, (A) there has been no material adverse

 

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change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (B) there have been no transactions entered into by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, other than those in the ordinary course of business (which includes, but is not limited to, Euromarket, Euro Asian or global financing and domestic private placement and public financing), which are material with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, and (C) since the date of the most recent audited financial statements of the Company, there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind in excess of $300 million declared, paid or made by the Company on any class of its capital stock except as otherwise described in an Incorporated Document or as disclosed in the documentation relating to a particular issuance of Notes, including the applicable pricing supplement.

 

(vii)         Significant Subsidiaries. Each “significant subsidiary”, if any, of the Company (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the 1933 Act) (each a “Subsidiary” and, collectively, the “Subsidiaries”) has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has the corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Prospectus and is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not materially affect the business or financial condition of the Company; except as otherwise disclosed in the Prospectus, all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of each such Subsidiary has been duly authorized and validly issued, is fully paid and non-assessable and is owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance, claim or equity; none of the outstanding shares of capital stock of any Subsidiary was issued in violation of preemptive or similar rights of any securityholder of such Subsidiary.

 

(viii)        The Indenture. The Indenture has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and assuming it has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by the Trustee, constitutes a legally valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by (1) bankruptcy, insolvency reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally (including, without limitation, fraudulent conveyance laws) or the application of general principles of equity, including without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law, (2) requirements that a claim with respect to any Notes payable in foreign or composite currency (or a foreign or composite currency judgement in respect of such claim) be converted into U.S. dollars at a

 

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rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law or (3) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments outside the United States.

 

(ix)           The Notes. The Notes have been duly and validly authorized by the Company for issuance, offer and sale pursuant to this Agreement and, when completed as contemplated by the Procedures (hereinafter defined), executed, authenticated and delivered pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture and this Agreement against payment of the consideration set forth in the Prospectus or pursuant to any Terms Agreement, will constitute legally valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as may be limited by (1) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally (including, without limitation, fraudulent conveyance laws) or by the application of general principles of equity, including without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law, (2) requirements that a claim with respect to any Notes payable in foreign or composite currency (or a foreign or composite currency judgement in respect of such claim) be converted into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law or (3) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments outside the United States and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture;  and the Notes and the Indenture conform in all material respects to all statements relating thereto contained in the Registration Statement.

 

(x)            No Defaults; Compliance with Laws; Regulatory Approvals. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of its charter or bylaws or in default in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiaries is a party or by which it may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, which violation or default would materially adversely affect the business or financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries considered as one enterprise; and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement, any Terms Agreement and the Indenture and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and therein will not conflict with, or constitute a breach of, or 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 material contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which it may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, nor will such action result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or bylaws of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the best knowledge of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, any law, administrative regulation or administrative or court decree, and no consent, approval, authorization, order or

 

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decree of any court or governmental agency or body of the United States is required for the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, any Terms Agreement or the Indenture, except such as may be required under the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations or the 1939 Act or the 1939 Act Regulations or as may be required by state securities or Blue Sky laws.

 

(xi)           Legal Proceedings; Contracts. Except as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any applicable Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, there is no action, suit or proceeding before or by any court or governmental agency or body, domestic or foreign, now pending, or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against the Company or any of its subsidiaries which is required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement or which might in the opinion of the Company result in any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, or which might materially and adversely affect the properties or assets thereof or which might materially and adversely affect the consummation of this Agreement or any Terms Agreement; all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or of which any of their respective property or assets is the subject which are not described in the Registration Statement, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to its business, are, considered in the aggregate, not material; and there are no contracts or documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries which are required to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement by the 1933 Act or by the 1933 Act Regulations which have not been so filed.

 

(xii)          Licenses. The Company owns or possesses or has obtained all material governmental licenses, permits, consents, orders, approvals and other authorizations necessary to lease or own, as the case may be, and to operate its properties and to carry on its business as presently conducted where its ownership or lease of substantial properties or the conduct of its business requires such ownership or possession or the obtaining of such governmental licenses, permits, consents, orders, approvals and other authorizations and where the failure to do so would materially adversely affect the business or financial condition of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise.

 

(xiii) Investment Company Act. The Company is not, and upon issuance and sale of the Notes as herein contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described in the Prospectus will not be, an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company” as such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).

 

(xiv)        Commodity Exchange Act. The Notes, upon issuance, will be excluded or exempted under, or beyond the purview of, the Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (the “Commodity Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the Commodity Exchange Act (the “Commodity Exchange Act Regulation”).

 

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(xv)         Rating of the Notes. The Company’s long term debt rating is “Aaa” by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and “AAA” by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services.

 

(b)           Additional Certifications. Any certificate signed by any director or officer of the Company and delivered to the Agents or to counsel to the Agents in connection with an offering of Notes or the sale of Notes to one or more of the Agents as principal shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to the Agents as to the matters covered thereby on the date of such certificate and at each Representation Date subsequent thereto.

 

(c)           Selling Restrictions. Each Agent severally represents and agrees, with respect to Notes:

 

(i)            In relation to each member state of the European Economic Area (each a “Member State”) that has implemented the “Prospectus Directive” (each such Member State, a “Relevant Member State”), with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the “Relevant Implementation Date”), it has not made and will not make an offer of Notes to the public in that Relevant Member State except that it may, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of Notes to the public in that Relevant Member State:

 

(1)           in (or in Germany where the offer starts within) the period beginning on the date of publication of the Prospectus in relation to Notes which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive and ending on the date which is 12 months after the date of such publication;

 

(2)           at any time to any legal entity which is authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;

 

(3)           at any time to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance of more than €43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than €50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts, or other qualified investors pursuant to Art. 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Directive; or

 

(4)           at any time in any other circumstances which do not require the publication by the Company of the Prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive.

 

For purposes of this provision, the expression an “offer of Notes to the public” in relation to any Notes in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means presenting sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Notes to be offered, so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase

 

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or subscribe for the Notes, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State and the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.

 

(ii)           With respect to Notes that are offered and sold into the United Kingdom:

 

(1)           in relation to Notes having a maturity of less than one year, (a) it is a person whose ordinary activities involve it in acquiring, holding, managing, or disposing of investments (as principal or agent) for the purposes of its business, and (b) it has not offered or sold and will not offer or sell Notes other than to persons whose ordinary activities involve them in acquiring, holding, managing, or disposing of investments (as principal or agent) for the purposes of their businesses or who it is reasonable to expect will acquire, hold, manage, or dispose of investments (as principal or agent) for the purposes of their businesses where the issue of the Notes would otherwise constitute a contravention of Section 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 of the United Kingdom, as amended (the “FSMA”) by the Company;

 

(2)           it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated any invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of the FSMA) received by it in connection with the issue of any Notes in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the Company; and

 

(3)           it has complied and will comply with all other applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to any Notes in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.

 

SECTION 3.           Solicitations as Agents; Purchases as Principals.

 

(a)           Solicitations as Agents. On the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, when agreed by the Company and an Agent, such Agent, as an agent of the Company, will use its reasonable efforts to solicit offers for the purchase of Notes upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus. The Agents are not authorized to appoint sub-agents with respect to Notes sold through them as agent.

 

The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to suspend solicitation of purchases of the Notes through the Agents, as agents, commencing at any time for any period of time or permanently. Upon receipt of instructions from the Company, the Agents will forthwith suspend solicitation of purchases from the Company until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed.

 

The Company agrees to pay each Agent a commission, in the form of a discount or otherwise as agreed to by the Company and the Agents, equal to the applicable percentage of the principal amount of each Note sold by the Company as a result of a solicitation made by such

 

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Agent as set forth in Schedule A hereto; provided, however, that the Company shall only be obligated to pay one such fee with respect to any particular Note so sold.

 

The purchase price, interest rate, maturity date and other terms of the Notes shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Agents and set forth in a pricing supplement to the Prospectus to be prepared following each acceptance by the Company of an offer for the purchase of Notes. Except as may be otherwise provided in such supplement to the Prospectus, the Notes will be issued in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof. All Notes sold through the Agents as agents will be sold at 100% of their principal amount unless otherwise agreed to by the Company and the Agents.

 

(b)           Purchases as Principal. Notes purchased from the Company by an Agent individually or as part of a syndicate with one or more other Agents, as principal shall be made in accordance with the terms contained herein and, if requested by such Agent, pursuant to a separate agreement which will provide for the sale of such Notes to, and the purchase and reoffering thereof, by such Agent. Each such separate agreement (which may be an oral agreement) between one or more Agents and the Company is herein referred to as a “Terms Agreement.”  Unless the context otherwise requires, each reference contained herein to “this Agreement” shall be deemed to include any Terms Agreement between the Company and one or more Agents. Each such Terms Agreement, whether oral or in writing, shall be with respect to such information (as applicable) as is specified in Exhibit A hereto. An Agent’s commitment to purchase Notes as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of the Company herein contained, and the Company’s agreement to sell Notes to an Agent as principal shall be deemed to have been made on the basis of the representations and warranties of such Agent herein contained, and each such commitment shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth and, as applicable, as set forth in any Terms Agreement. Each Terms Agreement shall specify the principal amount of Notes to be purchased by each Agent pursuant thereto, the price to be paid to the Company for such Notes (which, if not so specified in a Terms Agreement, shall be at a discount equivalent to the applicable commission set forth in Schedule A hereto), the time and place of delivery of and payment for such Notes, if the trade is being made with two or more Agents, the applicable default provisions in the event of a default by one or more of the Agents, and such other provisions (including further terms of the Notes) as may be mutually agreed upon. The Agents may engage the services of any broker or dealer in connection with the resale of the Notes purchased by them as principal and may allow all or any portion of the discount received from the Company in connection with such purchases to such brokers or dealers. Such Terms Agreement shall also specify whether or not any of the officer’s certificate, opinions of counsel or comfort letter specified in Sections 7(b), 7(c) and 7(d) hereof shall be required to be delivered by the Company on the related Settlement Date.

 

If the Company and two or more Agents enter into an agreement pursuant to which such Agents agree to purchase Notes as part of a syndicate and one or more of such Agents shall fail at the Settlement Date to purchase the Notes which it or they are obligated to purchase (the “Defaulted Notes”), then the nondefaulting Agents shall have the right, within 24 hours thereafter, to make arrangements for one of them or one or more other Agents or underwriters to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Defaulted Notes in such amounts as may

 

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be agreed upon and upon the terms herein set forth; provided, however, that if such arrangements shall not have been completed within such 24-hour period, then:

 

(i)            if the aggregate principal amount of Defaulted Notes does not exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be so purchased by all of such Agents on the Settlement Date, the nondefaulting Agents shall be obligated, severally and not jointly, to purchase the full amount thereof in the proportions that their respective initial underwriting obligations bear to the underwriting obligations of all nondefaulting Agents; or

 

(ii)           if the aggregate principal amount of Defaulted Notes exceeds 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be so purchased by all of such Agents on the Settlement Date, such agreement to purchase such Notes shall terminate without liability on the part of any nondefaulting Agents.

 

No action taken pursuant to this paragraph shall relieve any defaulting Agent from liability in respect of its default. In the event of any such default which does not result in a termination of such agreement, either the nondefaulting Agents or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Settlement Date for a period not exceeding seven days in order to effect any required changes in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements.

 

(c)           Administrative Procedures. Administrative procedures with respect to the sale of Notes shall be agreed upon from time to time by the Agents and the Company (the “Procedures”). Each Agent and the Company agree to perform the respective duties and obligations specifically provided to be performed by them in the Procedures.

 

(d)           Delivery of Closing Documents. The documents required to be delivered by Section 5 hereof shall be delivered at the office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, 400 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California 90071 on the date hereof, or at such other time or place as the Agents and the Company may agree.

 

SECTION 4.           Covenants of the Company.

 

The Company covenants with the Agents as follows:

 

(a)           Notice of Certain Events. The Company will promptly notify (i) the Agents of the effectiveness of any amendment to the Registration Statement, (ii) each Related Agent of the transmittal to the Commission for filing of any supplement to the Prospectus (other than an amendment or supplement which relates exclusively to an offering of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes) or any document to be filed pursuant to the 1934 Act which will be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus (other than any Current Report on Form 8-K relating exclusively to an offering of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (iii) the Agents of the receipt of any comments from the Commission with respect to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, (iv) the Agents of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus (other than an amendment or supplement which relates exclusively to an offering of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes) or for additional information, (v) the Agents of the

 

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issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, or of the receipt by the Company from the Commission of any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations objecting to the use of the automatic shelf registration statement form with respect to the Registration Statement; and (vi) the Agents of any change in the rating assigned by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization to any debt securities (including the Notes) of the Company, or the public announcement by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization that it has under surveillance or review, with possible negative implications, its rating of any such debt securities, or the withdrawal by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization of its rating of any such debt securities since the date of this Agreement. The Company will make every reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order and, if any stop order is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible moment.

 

(b)           Notice of Certain Proposed Filings. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (m) of this Section 4, the Company will (A) give the Agents notice of its intention to file or prepare any additional registration statement with respect to Notes, any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus (other than an amendment or supplement providing solely for the establishment of or change in, the interest rates, maturity, price or other terms of Notes or other similar changes or an amendment or supplement which relates exclusively to an offering of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes), and (B) give each Related Agent notice of its intention to file, prepare or use any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, whether by the filing of documents pursuant to the 1934 Act (other than any Current Report on Form 8-K relating exclusively to the issuance of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes), the 1933 Act or otherwise, and will furnish each such Agent with copies of any such amendment or supplement, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or other documents proposed to be filed, prepared or used a reasonable time in advance of such proposed filing, preparation or use, as the case may be, and will not file or use any such amendment or supplement, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, or other such documents in a form to which you or your counsel shall reasonably object.

 

(c)           Copies of the Registration Statement, Prospectus and Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. The Company will deliver to the Agents as many signed and conformed copies of the Registration Statement (as originally filed) and of each amendment thereto (including exhibits filed therewith or incorporated by reference therein and documents incorporated by reference in the Prospectus) as the Agents may reasonably request. The Company will furnish to the Agents as many copies of the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented) (other than an amendment or supplement which relates exclusively to an offering of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as each Related Agent shall reasonably request so long as the Agent is required to deliver a Prospectus in connection with sales or solicitations of offers to purchase the Notes. The Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto furnished to the Agents will be identical to any electronically transmitted copies thereof filed with the Commission pursuant to EDGAR, except to the extent permitted by Regulation S-T. Any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus furnished to the Agents will be in the form filed or required to be filed with the Commission or, if not required to be filed, in the form retained in the Company’s records pursuant to Rule 433(g).

 

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(d)           Preparation of Pricing Supplements. The Company will prepare, with respect to any Notes to be sold through or to the Agents pursuant to this Agreement, a Pricing Supplement with respect to such Notes in a form previously approved by the Related Agents and will file with the Commission such Pricing Supplement pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) of the 1933 Act Regulation not later than the close of business of the Commission on the fifth business day after the date on which such Pricing Supplement is first used.

 

(e)           Free Writing Prospectuses; Filing Fees. The Company will (A) not unless it obtains the prior consent of the Related Agents, and each Agent covenants with the Company that it will not unless it obtains the prior consent of the Company, make any offer relating to Notes that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 of the 1933 Act Regulations) required to be filed with the Commission (each such free writing prospectus for which consent has been obtained, a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus”), (B) treat each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (C) if agreed to by the Related Agents and the Company, prepare a final term sheet (the “Final Term Sheet”) reflecting the final terms of an offering of Notes, in form and substance satisfactory to each Related Agent and the Company, and shall file such Final Term Sheet as an “issuer free writing prospectus” pursuant to Rule 433 of the 1933 Act Regulations prior to the close of business within two days following the date such final terms are established, (D) comply with the requirements of Rules 163, 164 and 433 of the 1933 Act Regulations applicable to any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping, (E) not include any information in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement, and (F) not take any action that would result in an Agent or the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) of the 1933 Act Regulations a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Agent that such Agent otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder. The Company will pay the required filing fees relating to Notes to the Commission within the time required by Rule 456(b)(1) of the 1933 Act Regulations and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(b) and 457(r) thereof.

 

(f)            Revisions of Prospectus — Material Changes. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (m) of this Section 4, if at any time during the term of this Agreement any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary, in the reasonable opinion of counsel to the Agents or counsel for the Company, to further amend or supplement the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in order that the Prospectus or such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus will not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances existing at the time the Prospectus or such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, or if it shall be necessary, in the reasonable opinion of either such counsel, to amend or supplement the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in order to comply with the requirements of the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations, immediate notice shall be given, and confirmed in writing, to the Agents to cease the solicitation of offers to purchase the Notes in the Agents’ capacity as agents and to cease sales of any Notes the Agents may then own as principal pursuant to a Terms Agreement, and the Company will promptly prepare and file with the Commission such amendment or supplement, whether by filing documents pursuant to the 1934 Act, the 1933 Act or otherwise, as may be

 

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necessary to correct such untrue statement or omission or to make the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus comply with such requirements.

 

(g)           Prospectus Revisions — Periodic Financial Information. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (m) of this Section 4, on or prior to the date on which there shall be released to the general public interim financial statement information related to the Company with respect to each of the first three quarters of any fiscal year or preliminary financial statement information with respect to any fiscal year, the Company shall furnish such information to counsel for the Agents, and shall cause the Registration Statement and the Prospectus to be amended or supplemented, whether by the filing of documents pursuant to the 1934 Act, the 1933 Act or otherwise, to include or incorporate by reference financial information with respect thereto and corresponding information for the comparable period of the preceding fiscal year, as well as such other information and explanation as shall be necessary for an understanding thereof or as shall be required by the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations.

 

(h)           Prospectus Revisions — Audited Financial Information. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (m) of this Section 4, on or prior to the date on which there shall be released to the general public financial information included in or derived from the audited financial statements of the Company for the preceding fiscal year, the Company shall cause the Registration Statement and the Prospectus to be amended, whether by the filing of documents pursuant to the 1934 Act, the 1933 Act or otherwise, to include or incorporate by reference such audited financial statements and the report or reports, and consent or consents to such inclusion or incorporation by reference, of the independent accountants with respect thereto, as well as such other information and explanations as shall be necessary for an understanding of such financial statements or as shall be required by the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations.

 

(i)            Earnings Statements. The Company, by applying the provisions of Rule 158 under the 1933 Act, will make generally available to its security holders as soon as practicable, but not later than 90 days after the close of the period covered thereby, an earnings statement (in form complying with the provisions of Rule 158 under the 1933 Act) covering each twelve month period beginning, in each case, not later than the first day of the Company’s fiscal quarter next following the “effective date” (as defined in such Rule 158) of the Registration Statement with respect to each sale of Notes.

 

(j)            Blue Sky Qualifications. If requested by an Agent prior to the issuance of any Notes, the Company will endeavor, in cooperation with the Agents and to the extent reasonably practicable, to qualify the Notes for offering and sale under the applicable securities laws of such states and other jurisdictions of the United States as the Agents may designate, and will maintain such qualification in effect for as long as may be required for the distribution of the Notes; provided, however, that the Company shall not be obligated to file any general consent to service of process or to qualify as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction in which it is not so qualified. The Company will file such statements and reports as may be required by the laws of each jurisdiction in which the Notes have been qualified as above provided. The Company will promptly advise the Agents of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Notes for sale in any such state or jurisdiction or the initiating or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.

 

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(k)           1934 Act Filings. The Company, during the period when the Prospectus is required to be delivered under the 1933 Act, will file promptly all documents required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the 1934 Act. Such documents will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations and to the extent such documents are incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, when read together with the other information in or incorporated by reference into the Prospectus, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they are made, not misleading.

 

(l)            Stand-Off Agreement. If required by any Terms Agreement, between the date of any Terms Agreement and the Settlement Date with respect to such Terms Agreement, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of each Agent party to such Terms Agreement, directly or indirectly, sell, offer to sell, contract, to sell or otherwise dispose of, or announce the offering of, any debt securities of the Company denominated in the same currency as the Notes to be purchased pursuant to such Terms Agreement, or any security exchangeable into such debt securities (other than (i) the Notes that are to be sold pursuant to such Terms Agreement (ii) securities sold in any Euro Asian or Euromarket financing, or (iii) commercial paper in the ordinary course of business).

 

(m)          Suspension of Certain Obligations. The Company reserves the right to instruct the Agents to suspend at any time, for any period of time, the solicitation of offers to purchase the Notes from the Company. As soon as practicable, but in any event not later than one business day in New York City, after receipt of notice from the Company (such notice, if oral or telephonic, to be confirmed in writing as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, but in any event not later than five business days in New York City after such oral or telephonic notice), the Agents will suspend solicitation of offers to purchase Notes from the Company until such time as the Company has advised the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed. During such period, the Company shall not be required to comply with the provisions of subsections (a), (b), (c), (f), (g), (h) or (k) of this Section 4 or the provisions of Section 7 hereof. Upon advising the Agents that such solicitation may be resumed, however, the Company shall simultaneously provide any documents required to be delivered by subsections (a), (b), (c), (f), (g), (h) and (k) of this Section 4 and the provisions of Section 7 hereof, and the Agents shall have no obligation to solicit offers to purchase the Notes until such documents have been received by the Agents. In addition, if the Company fails to comply with any of its obligations hereunder, except to the extent suspended as provided herein, including without limitation its obligations to deliver the documents required by subsections (a), (b), (c), (f), (g), (h) or (k) of this Section 4 or the provisions of Section 7 hereof, the Agents shall have the right to terminate their obligations hereunder, including without limitation their obligations to solicit offers to purchase the Notes hereunder as agent or to purchase Notes hereunder as principal.

 

(n)           Use of Proceeds. The net proceeds from the sale of Notes will be used by the Company as described in the Prospectus.

 

(o)           Selling Restrictions. The Company agrees that it will not take any action in contravention of the relevant selling restrictions applicable to an offering of Notes as set forth in Section 3.

 

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SECTION 5.           Conditions of Obligations.

 

The obligations of the Agents to solicit offers to purchase the Notes as agents of the Company, the obligations of any purchasers of the Notes sold through the Agents as agents, and any obligation of the Agents to purchase Notes as principals pursuant to a Terms Agreement or otherwise will be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company herein contained and to the accuracy of the statements of the Company’s officers made in any certificate furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance and observance by the Company of all its covenants and agreements herein contained and to the following additional conditions precedent:

 

(a)           Legal Opinions. On the date hereof, the Agents shall have received the following legal opinions, dated as of the date hereof and in form and substance satisfactory to the Agents and their counsel:

 

(1)           Opinion of Company Counsel. The opinion of the General Counsel for the Company to the effect that:

 

(i)            The Company is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of California.

 

(ii)           The Company has corporate power and corporate authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the Registration Statement and in each document filed pursuant to the 1934 Act and incorporated by reference into the Prospectus.

 

(iii)          This Agreement and any applicable Terms Agreement have each been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company, and have each been duly executed and delivered by the Company.

 

(iv)          The Indenture has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company and has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Indenture has been qualified under the 1939 Act. If California law were to apply, the Indenture would constitute a legally valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as may be limited by (1) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally (including, without limitation, fraudulent conveyance laws) or by the application of general principles of equity including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law, (2) requirements that a claim with respect to any Notes payable in foreign or composite currency (or a foreign or composite currency judgement in respect of such claim) be converted into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law, (3) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments outside the United States or payments in which designated foreign countries, entities or nationals have an interest; and

 

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(4) the unenforceability under certain circumstances of (a) any indemnification provisions, (b) broadly or vaguely stated waivers or waivers of rights granted by law where the waivers are against public policy or prohibited by law; (c) choice of law provisions and (d) severability provisions.

 

(v)           The Notes (in the form of specimens certified by the Company’s Secretary and examined by such counsel) are in forms permitted by the Indenture, and have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Company for issuance, offer and sale as contemplated by this Agreement. If California law were to apply, the Notes when completed as contemplated by the Procedures, executed and authenticated as specified in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor pursuant to this Agreement as provided in the Prospectus and any Terms Agreement, will constitute legally valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as may be limited by (1) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally (including, without limitation, fraudulent conveyance laws) or by the application of general principles of equity including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance or injunctive relief, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law, (2) requirements that a claim with respect to any Notes payable in foreign or composite currency (or a foreign or composite currency judgement in respect of such claim) be converted into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law, (3) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments outside the United States or payments in which designated foreign countries, entities or nationals have an interest or (4) the unenforceability under certain circumstances of (a) any indemnification provisions, (b) broadly or vaguely stated waivers or waivers of rights granted by law where the waivers are against public policy or prohibited by law; (c) choice of law provisions and (d) severability provisions, and the Notes will be entitled to the benefit of the Indenture.

 

(vi)          The Registration Statement automatically became effective under the 1933 Act, the Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the 1933 Act Regulations objecting to the use of the automatic shelf registration statement form with respect to the Registration Statement and, to such counsel’s knowledge, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued under the 1933 Act or proceedings therefor initiated or threatened by the Commission.

 

(vii)         At the time the Registration Statement became effective, the Registration Statement (other than the financial statements and other financial and statistical data included or incorporated by reference therein and the Statements of Eligibility on Form T-1 filed as Exhibits thereto, as to which no opinion need be rendered) appeared on its face to comply as to form in all material respects with

 

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the requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1933 Act Regulations and the 1939 Act and the 1939 Act Regulations.

 

(viii)        Each document filed pursuant to the 1934 Act (other than the financial statements and other financial and statistical data included therein, as to which no opinion need be rendered) and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus when filed, appeared on its face to comply as to form in all material respects with the 1934 Act and the 1934 Act Regulations thereunder in effect at the date of their filing.

 

(ix)           The information in the Prospectus under the caption “Description of Notes”, and “Description of Debt Securities”, to the extent that it constitutes matters of law, summaries of legal matters, documents or proceedings, or legal conclusions, has been reviewed by him and is correct in all material respects.

 

(x)            No authorization, approval, consent or order of any court or governmental authority or agency is required in connection with the sale of the Notes, except such as may be required under the 1933 Act or the 1933 Act Regulations or the 1939 Act or the 1939 Act Regulations or state securities laws.

 

(xi)           To such counsel’s knowledge, the Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of substantial properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification and in which the failure to so qualify and be in good standing would materially adversely affect its business or financial condition.

 

(xii)          To such counsel’s knowledge, there are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or threatened which are required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement or in each document filed pursuant to the 1934 Act and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus, other than those disclosed therein or in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all pending legal or governmental proceedings to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or to which any of their property is subject which are not described in the Registration Statement or in each document filed pursuant to the 1934 Act and incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, are, considered in the aggregate, not material.

 

(xiii)         To such counsel’s knowledge, no default exists in the due performance or observance by the Company of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other instrument described or referred to in the Registration Statement or filed as an exhibit thereto or incorporated by reference therein, which default would have a material adverse effect on the financial condition, earnings, business affairs, business prospects, properties or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise.

 

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(xiv)        The execution and delivery of this Agreement, any Terms Agreement, the Indenture, the Notes and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and therein will not (A) conflict with or constitute a breach of, or 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 material contract, indenture, mortgage, loan agreement, note, lease or other instrument known to such counsel to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound, or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (B) result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or bylaws of the Company, or (C) to such counsel’s knowledge, results in any violation of any applicable law, administrative regulation or administrative or court decree.

 

(xv)         The shares of issued and outstanding Common Stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and non-assessable.

 

(xvi)        To such counsel’s knowledge, there are no contracts, indentures, mortgages, loan agreements, notes, leases or other instruments required to be described or referred to in the Registration Statement or in each document filed, or to be filed or incorporated by reference as exhibits thereto other than those described or referred to therein or filed or incorporated by reference as exhibits thereto, and the descriptions thereof are correct in all material respects.

 

(2)           Tax Opinion. The opinion of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, as special tax counsel to the Company, to the effect that the information in the Prospectus under the caption “United States Taxation” (or similar caption), to the extent that it constitutes matters of law, summaries of legal matters, documents or proceedings, or legal conclusions, has been reviewed by it and is correct in all material respects.

 

(3)           Opinion of Counsel to the Agents. The opinion of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, counsel to the Agents, covering the matters referred to in subparagraph (1) under the subheadings (i), (iii) through (vii), inclusive, of this Section 5(a) and addressing substantially the matters referred to in Section 2(a)(xiii), except that such counsel shall give the opinion in Section 5(a)(iv) and (v) applying New York law to the Indenture and to the Notes.

 

(4)           In giving their opinions required by subsection (a)(1) and (a)(3) of this Section 5, each counsel shall additionally state that they do not believe that the Registration Statement, at the time it became effective, and if an amendment to the Registration Statement or an Annual Report on Form 10-K has been filed by the Company with the Commission subsequent to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement (an “Incorporated Document”) and prior to the date of such statement, then at the time such amendment became effective or at the time of the most recent such filing of an Incorporated Document (to the extent deemed

 

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to be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and Prospectus), and, considering the Registration Statement and Incorporated Document as a whole, at the date hereof, or (if such opinion is being delivered in connection with a Terms Agreement pursuant to Section 7(c) hereof) at the date of any Terms Agreement and at the Settlement Date with respect thereto, as the case may be, contains or contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omits or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, not misleading, that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented at the date hereof, or (if such opinion is being delivered in connection with a Terms Agreement pursuant to Section 7(c) hereof) at the date of any Terms Agreement and at the Settlement Date with respect thereto, as the case may be, contains or contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omits or omitted 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 or (if such opinion is being delivered in connection with a Terms Agreement pursuant to Section 7(c) hereof) that any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that would be deemed to be related to the offer of Notes, as amended or supplemented at the date of any Terms Agreement and at the Settlement Date with respect thereto, as the case may be, contains or contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omits or omitted 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. Such counsel may state that they express no view as to the Statements of Eligibility on Form T-1, financial statements and other financial and statistical data included or incorporated by reference in such Registration Statement, Prospectus or Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

 

(b)           Officer’s Certificate. At the date hereof the Agents shall have received a certificate of the President or Vice President and the chief financial or chief accounting officer of the Company, dated as of the date hereof, certifying to their best knowledge after due inquiry to the effect that (i) since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any applicable Permitted Free Writing Prospectus or since the date of any Terms Agreement, there has not been any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (ii) the other representations and warranties of the Company contained in Section 2 hereof are true and correct with the same force and effect as through expressly made at and as of the date of such certificate, (iii) the Company has performed or complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the date of such certificate, and (iv) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and, to their knowledge, no proceedings for that purpose have been initiated or threatened by the Commission.

 

(c)           Comfort Letter. On the date hereof, the Agents shall have received a letter from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, dated as of the date hereof and in form and substance previously agreed to by the Company and the Agents.

 

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(d)           Other Documents. On the date hereof and on each Settlement Date with respect to any Terms Agreement, counsel to the Agents shall have been furnished with such documents and opinions as such counsel may reasonably require for the purpose of enabling such counsel to pass upon the issuance and sale of Notes as herein contemplated and related proceedings, or in order to evidence the accuracy and completeness of any of the representations and warranties, or the fulfillment of any of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the Company in connection with the issuance and sale of Notes as herein contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to the Agents and to counsel to the Agents.

 

If any condition specified in this Section 5 shall not have been fulfilled when and as required to be fulfilled, this Agreement (or, at the option of the Agents, any Terms Agreement) may be terminated by the Agents by notice to the Company at any time and any such termination shall be without liability of any party to any other party, except that the covenant regarding provision of any earnings statement set forth in Section 4(i) hereof, the provisions concerning payment of expenses under Section 10 hereof, the indemnity and contribution agreements set forth in Sections 8 and 9 hereof, the provisions concerning the representations, warranties and agreements to survive delivery set forth in Section 11 hereof and the provisions set forth under “Parties” of Section 15 hereof shall remain in effect.

 

SECTION 6.                                Delivery of and Payment for Notes Sold through the Agents.

 

Delivery of Notes sold through an Agent as agent shall be made by the Company to such Agent for the account of any purchaser only against payment therefor in immediately available funds. In the event that a purchaser shall fail either to accept delivery of or to make payment for a Note on the date fixed for settlement, the Agent shall promptly notify the Company and deliver the Note to the Company, and, if the Agent has theretofore paid the Company for such Note, the Company will promptly return such funds to the Agent. If such failure occurred for any reason other than default by the Agent in the performance of its obligations hereunder, the Company will reimburse such Agent on an equitable basis for its reasonable loss of the use of the funds for the period such funds were credited to the Company’s account.

 

SECTION 7.                                Additional Covenants.

 

(a)           Reaffirmation of Representations and Warranties.

 

(i)            The Company covenants and agrees with the Agents that (1) each acceptance by it of an offer for the purchase of Notes, and each delivery of Notes to one or more Agents pursuant to a Terms Agreement, shall be deemed to be an affirmation that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement and in any certificate theretofore delivered to the Agents pursuant hereto are true and correct at the time of such acceptance or sale, as the case may be, and an undertaking that such representations and warranties will be true and correct at the time of delivery to the purchaser or its agent, or to the Agent or Agents, of the Note or Notes relating to such acceptance or sale, as the case may be, as though made at and as of each such time (and it is understood that such representations and warranties shall relate to the Registration Statement and Prospectus as amended and supplemented to each such time); and (2) subject to

 

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the provisions of Section 4(m) hereof, each time that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (other than by an amendment or supplement providing solely for the establishment of the terms of Notes or a change in the interest rates, maturity or price of Notes or similar changes, and other than by an amendment or supplement that relates exclusively to an offering of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes) or there is filed with the Commission any document incorporated by reference into the Prospectus (other than any Current Report on Form 8-K relating exclusively to the issuance of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes), such amendment, supplement or filing, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be an affirmation that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement and in any certificate theretofore delivered to the Agents pursuant hereto are true and correct at the time of such amendment, supplement or filing, as the case may be, and an undertaking that such representations and warranties will be true and correct as though made at and as of each such time.

 

(ii)           Each Agent covenants and agrees with the Company that the acceptance by it of an offer to sell Notes and the delivery to it of Notes from the Company pursuant to a Terms Agreement shall be deemed to be an affirmation that the representations and warranties of such Agent contained in this Agreement are true and correct at the time of such acceptance as though made at and as of each such time.

 

(b)           Subsequent Delivery of Certificates. The Company covenants and agrees with the Agents that, subject to the provisions of Section 4(m) hereof, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished to the Agents a certificate in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agents to the effect that the statements contained in the certificate referred to in Section 5(b) hereof that were last furnished to the Agents are true and correct at and as of such time (except that such statements shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to such time) or, in lieu of such certificate, a certificate of the same tenor as the certificate referred to in Section 5(b), modified as necessary to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such certificate (1) upon each filing by the Company of an Annual Report on Form 10-K or Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q with the Commission, or (2) when the Registration Statement or the Prospectus is amended or supplemented (other than by an amendment or supplement providing solely for the establishment of the terms of Notes or a change in the interest rates, maturity or price of Notes or similar changes, and other than by an amendment or supplement that relates exclusively to an offering of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes) or there is filed with the Commission any document incorporated by reference into the Prospectus, if reasonably requested by any Agent based on disclosure included in or omitted from such amendment, supplement or incorporated document.

 

(c)           Subsequent Delivery of Legal Opinions. The Company covenants and agrees with the Agents that, subject to the provisions of Section 4(m) hereof, each time that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented (other than by an amendment or supplement providing solely for the establishment of the terms of Notes or a change in the interest rates, maturity or price of the Notes or similar changes or solely for the

 

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inclusion of additional financial information, and other than by an amendment or supplement which relates exclusively to an offering of debt securities under the Registration Statement other than the Notes) or there is filed with the Commission any document incorporated by reference into the Prospectus (other than any Current Report on Form 8-K or Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, unless the Agents shall reasonably request based on disclosure included or omitted from such Report) or (if required pursuant to the terms of a Terms Agreement) the Company sells Notes to one or more Agents pursuant to a Terms Agreement, the Company shall furnish or cause to be furnished forthwith to the Agents and to counsel to the Agents a written opinion of each of the counsel designated in Section 5(a)(1) and (2), or other counsel satisfactory to the Agents dated the date of filing with the Commission of such supplement or document, the date of effectiveness of such amendment, or the date of such sale, as the case may be, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, of substantially the same tenor as the opinions referred to in Sections 5(a)(1) and (2) hereof, but modified, as necessary, to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such opinions; or, in lieu of such opinions, counsel last furnishing such opinion to the Agents shall furnish the Agents with a letter substantially to the effect that the Agents may rely on such last opinion to the same extent as though it was dated the date of such letter authorizing reliance (except that statements in such last opinion shall be deemed to relate to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus as amended and supplemented to the time of delivery of such letter authorizing reliance).

 

(d)           Subsequent Delivery of Comfort Letters. The Company covenants and agrees with the Agents that, subject to the provisions of Section 4(m) hereof, each time that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus shall be amended or supplemented to include additional financial information or there is filed with the Commission any document incorporated by reference into the Prospectus which contains additional financial information or (if required pursuant to the terms of a Terms Agreement) the Company sells Notes to one or more Agents pursuant to a Terms Agreement, the Company shall cause PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or other independent certified public accountants reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, forthwith to furnish the Agents with a letter, dated the date of filing with the Commission of such supplement or document, the date of effectiveness of such amendment, or the date of such sale, as the case may be, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, of substantially the same tenor as the letter referred to in Section 5(c) hereof but modified to relate to the Registration Statement and Prospectus, as amended and supplemented to the date of such letter, and with such changes as may be necessary to reflect changes in the financial statements and other information derived from the accounting records of the Company; provided, however, that if the Registration Statement or the Prospectus is amended or supplemented solely to include financial information as of and for a fiscal quarter, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or other independent certified public accountants reasonably satisfactory to the Agents, may limit the scope of such letter to the unaudited financial statements included in such amendment or supplement unless any other information included therein of an accounting, financial or statistical nature is of such a nature that, in the reasonable judgment of the Agents, such letter should cover such other information.

 

SECTION 8.                                Indemnification.

 

(a)           Indemnification of the Agents. The Company agrees to indemnify severally and hold harmless each Agent and each person, if any, who controls each Agent within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act as follows:

 

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(i)            against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense whatsoever, as incurred, arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement (or any amendment or supplement thereto), the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading or arising out of any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or the omission or alleged omission therefrom of a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

 

(ii)           against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage, or and expense whatsoever, as incurred, to the extent of the aggregate amount paid in settlement of any litigation, or investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or of any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission, if such settlement is effected with the written consent of the Company; and

 

(iii)          against any and all reasonable expenses whatsoever, as incurred (including the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel chosen by an Agent to the extent authorized in Section 8(c)), reasonably incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any such untrue statement or omission, or any such alleged untrue statement or omission, to the extent that any such expense is not paid under (i) or (ii) above;

 

provided, however, that this indemnity agreement shall not apply to any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense to the extent arising out of any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by the Agents expressly for use in the Registration Statement (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto).

 

(b)           Indemnification of Company. Each Agent, severally and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, each of its officers who signed the Registration Statement, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act against any and all loss, liability, claim, damage and expense described in the indemnity contained in subsection (a) of this Section 8, as incurred, but only with respect to untrue statements or omissions, or alleged untrue statements or omissions, made in the Registration Statement (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by such Agent expressly for use

 

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in the Registration Statement (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

 

(c)           General. Each indemnified party shall give prompt notice to each indemnifying party of any action commenced against it in respect of which indemnity may be sought hereunder, but failure to so notify an indemnifying party of such commencement shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability which it may have otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement. An indemnifying party may assume the defense of the indemnified party by retaining counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party and any others the indemnifying party may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and disbursements of such counsel related to such proceeding. In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (i) the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel or (ii) the named parties to any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. In no event shall the indemnifying parties be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one counsel (in addition to any local counsel) for all indemnified parties in connection with any one action or separate but similar or related actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or circumstances.

 

(d)           Foreign Currency Judgments. The Company agrees to indemnify the Agents against any loss incurred by the Agents as a result of any judgment or order being given or made for the amount due under this Agreement and such judgment or order being paid in a currency (a “Judgment Currency”) other than U.S. dollars as a result of any variation between (i) the rate of exchange at which U.S. dollars are converted into the Judgment Currency for the purpose of such judgment or order and (ii) the rate of exchange at which the Related Agent is able to purchase U.S. dollars with the amount of the Judgment Currency actually received by such Agent. The foregoing indemnity shall constitute a separate and independent obligation of the Company and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any such judgment or order as aforesaid. The term “rate of exchange” shall include any premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of, or conversion into, the relevant currency.

 

No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever in respect of which indemnification or contribution could be sought under this Section 8 or Section 9 hereof (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties thereto), unless such settlement, compromise or consent does not contain a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party (unless such statement is agreed to by the indemnified party in writing); provided, however, that in the event such settlement, compromise or consent by the indemnifying party does not include an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of any litigation, investigation, proceeding or claim, the provisions of this section with respect to indemnification shall continue and survive.

 

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SECTION 9.                                Contribution.

 

If the indemnity agreement provided for in Section 8 hereof is for any reason held to be unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless the indemnified parties although applicable in accordance with its terms, the Company and the Agents shall contribute to the aggregate losses, liabilities claims, damages and expenses of the nature contemplated by said indemnity agreement incurred by the Company and the Agents, as incurred, in such proportions that each Agent is responsible for that portion represented by the percentage that the total commissions and underwriting discounts received by such Agent pursuant to this Agreement to the date of such liability bears to the total sales price from the sale of Notes sold to or through such Agent to the date of such liability to which such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses relate and the Company is responsible for the balance; provided, however, that no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

 

If, however, the allocation provided in the previous paragraph is not permitted by applicable law 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 the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand, and the Related Agent(s), on the other hand, in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Related Agent(s), on the other hand in connection with the offering of the Notes that were the subject of the claim for indemnification. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Agent(s) on the other shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the total proceeds from the sale of such Notes (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bears to the total discount or commission received by the Related Agent(s) in respect thereof. The relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Related Agent(s), on the other hand, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Related Agent(s) and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

 

The Company and the Agents agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 9 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Related Agent(s) were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above in this Section 9. The aggregate amount of losses, liabilities, claims, damages and expenses incurred by an indemnified party and referred to above in this Section 9 shall be deemed to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in investigating, preparing or defending against any litigation, or any investigation or proceeding by any governmental agency or body, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever based upon any applicable untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission (covered by Section 8(a) hereof).

 

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claim for indemnification exceeds the amount of any damages which such Agent has otherwise been required to pay by reason of any applicable untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission and (ii) no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the 1933 Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. In addition, in connection with an offering of Notes purchased from the Company by two or more Agents as principal, the respective obligations of such Agents to contribute pursuant to this Section 9 are several, and not joint, in proportion to the aggregate principal amount of Notes that each such Agent has agreed to purchase from the Company.

 

For purposes of this Section 9, each person, if any, who controls an Agent within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Agent, and each director of the Company, each officer of the Company and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the 1933 Act or Section 20 of the 1934 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company.

 

SECTION 10.                          Payment of Expenses.

 

The Company will pay all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including:

 

(a)           The preparation and filing of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, and any amendments or supplements thereto;

 

(b)           The preparation, filing and reproduction of this Agreement;

 

(c)           The preparation, printing, issuance and delivery of Notes, including any fees and expenses relating to the use of book-entry notes;

 

(d)           The reasonable fees and disbursements of the Company’s accountants and counsel, of the Trustee and its counsel and of any Calculation Agent;

 

(e)           The reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Agents incurred from time to time in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby;

 

(f)            The qualification of the Notes under state securities laws in accordance with the provisions of Section 4(j) hereof, including filing fees, and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Agents in connection therewith and in connection with the preparation of any Blue Sky survey;

 

(g)           The printing and delivery to the Agents in quantities as hereinabove stated of copies of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any amendments or supplements to the foregoing;

 

(h)           The preparation, printing, reproducing and delivery to the Agents of copies of the Indenture and all supplements and amendments thereto;

 

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(i)            The fees of the Commission in connection with the registration of Notes;

 

(j)            Any fees charged by rating agencies for the rating of Notes;

 

(k)           The fees and expenses, if any, incurred with respect to any filing with the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.;

 

(l)            Any advertising and other out-of-pocket expenses of the Agents incurred with the approval of such expense by the Company;

 

(m)          The cost of preparing, and providing any CUSIP or other identification numbers for, Notes; and

 

(n)           The fees and expenses of any Depository (as defined in the Indenture) and any nominees thereof in connection with Notes.

 

SECTION 11.                                                                          Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive Delivery.

 

All representations, warranties, indemnities and agreements contained in this Agreement or in certificates of officers of the Company submitted pursuant hereto or thereto, shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the Agents or any controlling person of the Agents, or by or on behalf of the Company or any controlling person of the Company, and shall survive each delivery of and payment for any of the Notes.

 

SECTION 12.                                                                          Termination.

 

(a)           Termination of this Agreement. This Agreement (excluding any Terms Agreement) may be terminated for any reason, at any time by either the Company or the Agents on the giving of 30 days’ written notice of such termination to the other party hereto; provided, however, that the termination of this Agreement by an Agent shall terminate this Agreement only between such Agent and the Company and the Company’s notice of termination as to any one Agent shall terminate this Agreement only between itself and such Agent.

 

(b)           Termination of a Terms Agreement. The Agent or Agents party to a Terms Agreement may terminate any Terms Agreement, immediately upon notice to the Company, at any time prior to the Settlement Date relating thereto (i) if there has been, since the date of such Terms Agreement or since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or any applicable Permitted Free Writing Prospectus any material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) if there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the financial markets of the United States is such as to make it, in the reasonable judgment of the Agent or Agents party to such Terms Agreement (after consultation with the Company), impracticable to market the Notes subject to such Terms Agreement or enforce contracts for the sale of such Notes, or (iii) if trading in any securities of the Company has been suspended by the Commission or a national securities exchange, or if trading generally on either the American Stock Exchange

 

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or the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended, or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for prices for securities have been required, by either of said exchanges or by order of the Commission or any other governmental authority, or if a banking moratorium shall have been declared by federal, California or New York authorities or if a banking moratorium shall have been declared by the relevant authorities in the country or countries of origin of any foreign currency or currencies in which the Notes subject to such Terms Agreement are denominated or payable, or (iv) if the rating assigned by any nationally recognized securities rating agency to any debt securities of the Company as of the date of any Terms Agreement shall have been lowered since that date or if any such rating agency shall have publicly announced since that date that it has placed any debt securities of the Company on what is commonly termed a “watch list” for possible downgrading, or (v) if there shall have come to the Agent’s or Agents’ attention any facts that would cause such Agent or Agents to believe that the Prospectus, at the time it was required to be delivered to a purchaser of Notes subject to such Terms Agreement, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing at the time of such delivery, not misleading.

 

(c)           General. In the event of any such termination, no party will have any liability to any other party hereto, except that (i) each Agent shall be entitled to any commission earned in accordance with the third paragraph of Section 3(a) hereof to the extent permitted by Section 1(c), (ii) if at the time of termination (a) the Agents shall own any Notes purchased pursuant to a Terms Agreement with the intention of reselling them or (b) an offer to purchase any of the Notes has been accepted by the Company but the time of delivery to the purchaser or its agent of the Note or Notes relating thereto has not occurred, the obligations set forth in Section 5 hereof and the covenants set forth in Sections 4 and 7 hereof shall remain in effect until such Notes are so resold or delivered, as the case may be (provided, however, that, except as provided in clause (iii) below, the Company’s obligations pursuant to Sections 4 and 7 hereof shall in any event terminate no later than the date that is thirty days (nine months with respect to subsections (f) and (k) of Section 4 hereof) after the time of such termination), and (iii) the covenant set forth in Section 4(i) hereof, the indemnity and contribution agreements set forth in Sections 8 and 9 hereof, and the provisions of Sections 10, 11 and 15 hereof shall remain in effect.

 

SECTION 13.                                                                          Notices.

 

Unless otherwise provided herein, all notices required under the terms and provisions hereof shall be in writing, either delivered by hand, by mail or by telex, by telecopier or by telegram, and any such notice shall be effective when received at the address specified below.

 

If to the Company:

 

 

 

Toyota Motor Credit Corporation

19001 South Western Avenue NF10

Torrance, California 90501

Attention:

Corporate Manager-Treasury

Telecopy:

(310) 468-6194

 

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With a copy to:

 

 

Toyota Motor Credit Corporation

19001 South Western Avenue EF12

Torrance, California 90501

Attn:

General Counsel

Telecopy:

(310) 381-4130

 

 

If to Merrill Lynch:

 

 

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Incorporated

Merrill Lynch World Headquarters

4 World Financial Center, Floor 11

New York, New York 10080

Attention:

Transactions Management Group

 

Scott Primrose

Telecopy:

(212) 449-2234

 

 

If to Citigroup:

 

 

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

Attention:

Transaction Execution Group

388 Greenwich Street, 34th Floor

New York, NY 10013

Telephone:

(212) 816-1135

Telecopy:

(646) 291-5209

 

 

If to Deutsche Bank:

 

 

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

60 Wall Street, 4th Floor

New York, New York 10005

Attention:

Keith B. DeLeon

Telephone:

(212) 250-4913

Telecopy:

(212) 797-4564

 

 

If to HSBC:

 

 

 

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

452 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor

New York, New York 10018

Attention:

Andrew S. Lazerus

Telephone:

(212) 525-3456

Telecopy:

(646) 366-3388

 

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If to J.P. Morgan:

 

 

 

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

270 Park Avenue, 7th Floor

New York, New York 10017

Attention:

Transaction Execution Group

Telecopy:

(212) 430-6407

 

 

If to Morgan Stanley:

 

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

1585 Broadway, 2nd Floor

New York, New York 10036

Attention:

Manager – Continuously Offered Products

Telecopy:

(212) 761-0780

 

 

With a copy to:

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

1585 Broadway, 34th Floor

New York, New York 10036

Attn:

Peter Cooper, Investment

Banking Information Center

Telephone:

(212) 761-8385

Telecopy:

(212) 761-0260

 

 

If to TFSS USA:

 

 

 

Toyota Financial Services Securities USA Corporation

19001 South Western Avenue, NF-10

Torrance, California 90501

Attention:

Jeff Carter, Vice President

Telecopy:

(310) 468-6194

 

or at such other address as such party may designate from time to time by notice duly given in accordance with the terms of this Section 13.

 

SECTION 14.                                                                          Governing Law.

 

This Agreement and all the rights and obligations of the parties shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made and to be performed in such State.

 

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SECTION 15.                                                                          Parties.

 

This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Agents and the Company and their respective successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, firm or corporation, other than the parties hereto and their respective successors and the controlling persons and officers and directors referred to in Sections 8 and 9 and their heirs and legal representatives, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision herein contained. This Agreement and all conditions and provisions hereof are intended to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and respective successors and said controlling persons and officers and directors and their heirs and legal representatives, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No purchaser of Notes shall be deemed to be a successor by reason merely of such purchase.

 

SECTION 16.                                                                          No Advisory or Fiduciary Relationship.

 

The Company acknowledges and agrees that (i) the purchase and sale of Notes pursuant to this Agreement, including the determination of the public offering price of Notes and any related discounts and commissions, are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Company, on the one hand, and each Related Agent, on the other hand, (ii) in connection with the offerings contemplated hereby and the process leading to such transaction each Agent is and has been acting solely as a principal and is not the agent (except to the extent expressly set forth herein) or fiduciary of the Company or its stockholders, creditors, employees or any other party, (iii) no Agent has assumed or will assume an advisory or fiduciary responsibility in favor of the Company with respect to the offerings contemplated hereby or the process leading thereto (irrespective of whether such Agent has advised or is currently advising the Company on other matters) and no Agent has any obligation to the Company with respect to any offering contemplated hereby except the obligations expressly set forth in this Agreement, (iv) the Agents and their respective affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Company, and (v) no Agent has provided any legal, accounting, regulatory or tax advice with respect to the offerings contemplated hereby and the Company has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it deemed appropriate.

 

SECTION 17.                                                                          Counterparts.

 

This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original hereof.

 

SECTION 18.                                                                          Captions.

 

The captions in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not define or limit any of the terms or the provisions hereof.

 

If the foregoing is in accordance with the Agents’ understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to the Company a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument along with all counterparts will become a binding agreement between the Agents and the Company in accordance with its terms.

 

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Very truly yours,

 

 

 

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION

 

 

 

By:

      /s/ George E. Borst

 

 

 

Name:

George E. Borst

 

 

Title:

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

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Accepted:

 

MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH

INCORPORATED

 

 

By:

 /s/ Scott Primrose

 

 

 Authorized Signatory

 

 

S-2



 

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

 

 

By:

 /s/ Eric W. Wooley

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

S-3



 

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

     /s/ Matthew C. Eastwick

 

 

 

     Matthew C. Eastwick

 

 

 

 

By:

     /s/ Scott Flieger

 

 

 

S-4



 

HSBC SECURITIES (USA) INC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

    /s/ Andrew S. Lazerus

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

 

S-5



 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.

 

 

 

By:

     /s/ Maria Sramek

 

 

     Maria Sramek, Vice President

 

 

S-6



 

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. INCORPORATED

 

 

 

 

By:

     /s/ Michael Fusco

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

S-7



 

TOYOTA FINANCIAL SERVICES SECURITIES USA CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

By:

     /s/ Jeff Carter

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

The following terms, if applicable, shall be agreed to by the Agents and the Company pursuant to each Terms Agreement:

 

Principal Amount: $

 

Stated Maturity Date:

 

Original Issue Date:

 

Trade Date:

 

Issue Price:       %

 

Agent’s Discount or Commission:

 

Settlement Date and Time:

 

Additional Terms:

 

If Fixed Rate Note:

 

Interest Rate:

 

Interest Payment Dates:

 

Day Count Convention:

[ ]

30/360

[ ]

Actual/360

[ ]

Actual/Actual

If Floating Rate Note:

 

Interest Calculation:

[ ]

Regular Floating Rate Note

[ ]

Floating Rate/Fixed Rate Note Fixed Rate Commencement Date:

 

Fixed Interest Rate:

[ ]

Inverse Floating Rate Note

 

Fixed Interest Rate:

Interest Rate Basis:

Initial Interest Rate:

Initial Interest Reset Date:

Spread and/or Spread Multiplier, if any:

Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Payment Dates:

Regular Record Dates:

Index Maturity:

Maximum Interest Rate, if any:

Minimum Interest Rate, if any:

Interest Rate Reset Period:

Interest Payment Period:

Calculation Agent:

Day Count Convention:

[ ]

Actual/360

[ ]

Actual/Actual

[ ]

Other:

 

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If Redeemable:

 

 

 

Redemption Date:

Notice of Redemption:

 

 

If Repayable:

 

 

Optional Repayment Dates:

Repayment Price:

 

 

Currency:

 

Specified Currency (if other than U.S. dollars)

Minimum Denominations:

 

 

Also, agreement as to whether the following will be required:

 

 

Officers’ Certificate pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Distribution Agreement.

Legal Opinion pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Distribution Agreement.

Comfort Letter pursuant to Section 7(d) of the Distribution Agreement.

Stand-off Agreement pursuant to Section 4(l) of the Distribution Agreement.

 

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SCHEDULE A

 

As compensation for the services of the Agents hereunder, the Company shall pay the Related Agent, on a discount basis, a commission for the sale of each Note by such Agent equal to the principal amount of such Note multiplied by the appropriate percentage set forth below:

 

PERCENT OF MATURITY RANGES PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

 

From 1 year to less than 18 months .150%

From 18 months to less than 2 years .175%

From 2 years to less than 3 years .200%

From 3 years to less than 4 years .275%

From 4 years to less than 5 years .325%

From 5 years to less than 6 years .375%

From 6 years to less than 7 years .425%

From 7 years to less than 10 years .500%

From 10 years to less than 15 years .625%

From 15 years to less than 20 year .700%

From 20 years to 30 years .750%

 


*more than 30 years

*To be negotiated at time of sale between the Related Agent and the Company

 

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EX-4.1 3 a06-6408_1ex4d1.htm INSTRUMENTS DEFINING THE RIGHTS OF SECURITY HOLDERS, INCLUDING INDENTURES

Exhibit 4.1

 

FIXED RATE GLOBAL MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES B

 

Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

 

REGISTERED

 

PRINCIPAL OR FACE AMOUNT

CUSIP No.                                       

 

$                                                        

 

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES B

(Fixed Rate)

 

 

*** o CHECK IF A PRINCIPAL INDEXED NOTE ***

IF CHECKED, CALCULATION AGENT:                           

 

If this is a Principal Indexed Note, references herein to “principal” shall be deemed to be the face amount hereof, except that the amount payable upon Maturity of this Note shall be determined in accordance with the formula or formulas set forth below or in an attached Addendum hereto.

 

Original Issue Date:

Stated Maturity Date:

 

Interest Rate:  %

Interest Payment Dates:

 

Day Count Convention:

o  30/360

o  Actual/360

o  Actual/Actual

 

Business Day Convention

o Following

o Modified Following

 

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Redemption:

Redemption Date(s):

Notice of Redemption:

 

Repayment:

Optional Repayment Date(s):

Repayment Price:

 

Original Issue Discount:

Total Amount of OID:

Yield to Maturity:

Initial Accrual Period:

 

Specified Currency:

Minimum Denominations:

Form of Note:

o Book-entry only

o Certificated

 

Addendum Attached:

o Yes

o No

 

Other Provisions:

 

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TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION, a California corporation (“Issuer” or the “Company,” which terms include any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of

 

DOLLARS, or if this is a Principal Indexed Note, the principal amount as determined in accordance with the terms set forth under “Other Provisions” above and/or in an Addendum attached hereto, on the Stated Maturity Date specified above (except to the extent redeemed or repaid prior to the Stated Maturity Date), and to pay interest on the principal or face amount as set forth above at the Interest Rate per annum specified above, until the principal hereof is paid or duly made available for payment. Reference herein to “this Note”, “hereof”, “herein” and comparable terms shall include an Addendum hereto if an Addendum is specified above.

 

The Company will pay interest on each Interest Payment Date specified above, commencing on the first Interest Payment Date next succeeding the Original Issue Date specified above, and on the Stated Maturity Date or any Redemption Date or Optional Repayment Date (if specified as repayable at the option of the Holder in an attached Addendum) (the date of each such Stated Maturity Date, Redemption Date and Optional Repayment Date and the date on which principal or an installment of principal is due and payable by declaration of acceleration or otherwise pursuant to the Indenture being referred to hereinafter as a “Maturity” with respect to principal payable on such date); provided, however, that if the Original Issue Date is between a Regular Record Date (as defined below) and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest payments will commence on the second Interest Payment Date succeeding the Original Issue Date; and provided further, unless specified otherwise in an Addendum attached hereto, that if “Following” is specified above under Business Day Convention, if an Interest Payment Date (other than an Interest Payment Date at Maturity) would fall on a day that is not a Business Day (as defined below), such Interest Payment Date shall be the following day that is a Business Day (the “Following Business Day Convention”), and if “Modified Following” is specified above under Business Day Convention, if an Interest Payment Date (other than an Interest Payment Date at Maturity) would fall on a day that is not a Business Day (as defined below), such Interest Payment Date shall be the following day that is a Business Day unless such next Business Day falls in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Payment Date shall be the next preceding day that is a Business Day (the “Modified Following Business Day Convention”). Except as provided above, interest payments will be made on the Interest Payment Dates shown above. Unless otherwise specified above, the “Regular Record Date” shall be the date 15 calendar days (whether or not a Business Day) prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date. Interest on this Note will accrue from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from the Original Issue Date specified above, to, but excluding such Interest Payment Date. Unless otherwise specified in an Addendum attached hereto, if the Maturity or an Interest Payment Date falls on a day which is not a Business Day as defined below, the payment due on such Maturity or Interest Payment Date will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Maturity or Interest

 

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Payment Date, as the case may be, and no interest shall accrue with respect to such payment for the period from and after such Maturity or Interest Payment Date. 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 Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest which is payable, but not punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”), shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date, and may be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (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 the Holder of this Note not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time in any other lawful manner, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

Unless otherwise specified under Specified Currency above and/or in an Addendum attached hereto, this Note will be denominated in U.S. dollars and payments of principal, premium and interest, if any, on this Note will be made in U.S. dollars or in such coin or currency of the United States as at the time of payment is legal tender for payments of public and private debts. If this Note is not denominated in U.S. dollars or if payments of principal, premium and interest, if any, on this Note will be made in or by reference to a currency or in amounts determined by reference to one or more currencies other than that in which this Note is denominated, any other applicable provisions will be included in an Addendum attached hereto. However, unless otherwise specified in an Addendum attached hereto, if such currency is unavailable to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond its control or is no longer used by the relevant government or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of this Note will be made in U.S. dollars until such currency is again available to the Company or so used. In addition, unless otherwise specified in an Addendum attached hereto, if the Company cannot make payment in the Specified Currency indicated above solely because that currency has been replaced by the euro, then, beginning with the date the replacement becomes effective, the Company will be able to satisfy its obligations under this Note by making payment in euro or such other currency. The amounts payable on any date in such currency will be converted into euro or such other currency on the basis of the most recently available market exchange rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated in an Addendum attached hereto.

 

Payment of the principal of and interest on this Note will be made at the Office or Agency of the Company maintained by the Company for such purpose; provided, however, that at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register; and provided, further, that AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY, the Holder of this Note may be entitled to receive payments of principal of and interest on this Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds if appropriate wire transfer instructions have been received by the Trustee not less than 15 days prior to the applicable payment date.

 

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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by or on behalf of Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the Trustee for this Note under the Indenture, or its successor thereunder, by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

This Note is one of a duly authorized series of Securities (hereinafter called the “Securities”) of the Company designated as its Medium-Term Notes, Series B (the “Notes”). The Notes are issued and to be issued under an Indenture dated as of August 1, 1991 as amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 1, 1991, and the Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 31, 2004 (herein called the “Indenture”) between the Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.) and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly known as Bankers Trust Company), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights thereunder of the Company, the Trustee (as defined below) and the Holders of the Notes and the terms upon which the Notes are to be authenticated and delivered. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas shall act as Trustee with respect to the Notes (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor Trustee with respect to the Notes, under the Indenture). The terms of individual Notes may vary with respect to interest rates or interest rate formulas, issue dates, maturity, redemption, repayment, currency of payment and otherwise.

 

Except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, the Notes will be issued in global form only registered in the name of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee. The Notes will not be issued in definitive form, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, and ownership of the Notes shall be maintained in book entry form by DTC for the accounts of participating organizations of DTC.

 

This Note is not subject to any sinking fund and, unless otherwise provided above in accordance with the provisions of the following paragraphs, is not redeemable or repayable prior to the Stated Maturity Date.

 

If no Redemption Date is set forth above, this Note may not be redeemed prior to the Stated Maturity Date. If so provided above, this Note may be redeemed by the Company on any Redemption Date specified above in whole or part in increments of $1,000 (unless specified otherwise in an Addendum attached hereto, and provided that any remaining principal hereof shall be at least $1,000) at the option of the Company at the applicable Redemption Price (as defined below) together with accrued interest hereon at the applicable rate payable to the applicable Redemption Date upon written Notice of Redemption specified above or such other notice specified in an Addendum attached hereto. In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the surrender hereof.

 

Unless otherwise specified in an Addendum attached hereto, the “Redemption Price” shall be 100% of the principal amount of this Note.

 

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Unless otherwise specified in an Addendum attached hereto, this Note is not subject to repayment at the option of the Holder. If this Note shall be repayable at the option of the Holder as specified in an attached Addendum hereto, unless otherwise specified in such Addendum, on any Optional Repayment Date, this Note shall be repayable in whole or in part in increments of $1,000 (unless specified otherwise in an Addendum attached hereto, and provided that any remaining principal hereof shall be at least $1,000) at the option of the Holder hereof at a repayment price equal to 100% of the principal amount to be repaid, together with interest thereon payable to the date of repayment. If specified as repayable at the option of the Holder in such Addendum, for this Note to be repaid in whole or in part at the option of the Holder hereof, this Note must be received, with the form entitled “Option to Elect Repayment” below duly completed, by the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or such address which the Company shall from time to time notify the Holders of the Notes, not more than 15 nor less than 10 days prior to the related Optional Repayment Date or such other time as is specified in an Addendum attached hereto. Exercise of such repayment option by the Holder hereof shall be irrevocable.

 

Interest payments on this Note shall include interest accrued from, and including, the Original Issue Date indicated above, or the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, to, but excluding, the related Interest Payment Date or Maturity, as the case may be. Interest payments for this Note shall be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months if the Day Count Convention specified above is “30/360”, on the basis of the actual number of days in the related month and a 360-day year if the Day Count Convention specified above is “Actual/360” or on the basis of the actual number of days in the related year and month if the Day Count Convention specified above is “Actual/Actual”.

 

As used herein, “Business Day” means:

 

1.                     for United States dollar denominated Notes:  any day other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in The City of New York (a “New York Business Day”);

 

2.                     for non-United States Dollar denominated Notes (other than Notes denominated in euro):  a day that is both (x) a day other than a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in the Principal Financial Center (as defined below) of the country issuing the Specified Currency (as indicated above) and (y) a New York Business Day; and

 

3.                     for euro denominated Notes:  a day that is both (x) a day on which the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) system is open; and (y) a New York Business Day.

 

As used herein, “Principal Financial Center” means: the capital city of the country issuing the Specified Currency except that with respect to United States dollars,

 

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Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, South African rand and Swiss francs, the Principal Financial Center will be the City of New York, Sydney, Toronto, Johannesburg and Zurich, respectively.

 

“Specified Currency” means the currency in which a particular Note is denominated (or, if the currency is no longer legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, any other currency of the relevant country or entity which is then legal tender for the payment of such debts).

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the Indenture, for purposes of determining the rights of a Holder of a Note for which the principal thereof is determined by reference to the price or prices of specified commodities or stocks, interest rate indices, interest or exchange rate swap indices, the exchange rate of one or more specified currencies relative to another currency or such other price, exchange rate or other financial index or indices as specified above (a “Principal Indexed Note”), in respect of voting for or against amendments to the Indenture and modifications and the waiver of rights thereunder, the principal amount of any such Principal Indexed Note shall be deemed to be equal to the face amount thereof upon issuance. The method for determining the amount of principal payable at Maturity on a Principal Indexed Note will be specified in an attached Addendum.

 

Any provision contained herein with respect to the calculation of the rate of interest applicable to this Note, its payment dates or any other matter relating hereto may be modified as specified in an Addendum relating hereto and references herein to “this Note,” “hereof,” “herein,” and “as specified above” or similar language of like import shall also be references to any such Addendum.

 

If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal of all the Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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 thereby at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of 66 2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected thereby. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the 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 Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note 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 Note.

 

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No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at the time, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Security Register of the Company, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or by its attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Notes are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof (unless specified otherwise in an Addendum attached hereto). The Company will specify the minimum denominations for Notes denominated in a foreign currency in an Addendum attached hereto. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

 

Prior to due presentment of this Note 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 Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

The Indenture and the Notes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed, manually or in facsimile, and an imprint or facsimile of its corporate seal to be imprinted hereon.

 

 

 

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

George E. Borst

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

Attest:

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

David Pelliccioni

 

 

Secretary

 

 

 

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Securities of the series

designated therein referred to in the

within-mentioned indenture.

 

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

 

 

as Trustee

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Dated:

 

 

 

Authorized Officer

 

 

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OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT

 

The undersigned hereby irrevocably request(s) and instruct(s) the Company to repay this Note (or portion hereof specified below) pursuant to its terms and at a price equal to the principal amount hereof together with interest to the repayment date, to the undersigned, at                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              &nb sp;                            

(Please print or typewrite name and address of the undersigned)

 

For this Note to be repaid, the Trustee must receive at its Corporate Trust Office, or at such other place or places of which the Company shall from time to time notify the Holder of this Note, not more than 15 nor less than 10 days prior to an Optional Repayment Date, if any, shown on the face of this Note, this Note with this “Option to Elect Repayment” form duly completed.

 

If less than the entire principal amount of this Note is to be repaid, specify the portion hereof (which shall be increments of $1,000) which the Holder elects to have repaid and specify the denomination or denominations (which shall be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of the Notes to be issued to the Holder for the portion of this Note not being repaid (in the absence of any such specification, one such Note will be issued for the portion not being repaid).

 

$                                                        

 

 

NOTICE: The signature on this Option to Elect Repayment must

Date

 

 

correspond with the name as written upon the face of this Note in

 

every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change

 

whatever.

 

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ASSIGNMENT/TRANSFER FORM

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned registered Holder hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto (insert Taxpayer Identification No.)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

(Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee)

 

                                                                                                                                          

 

the within Note and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing                                                                                                                                            attorney to transfer said Note on the books of the Company with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICE: The signature of the registered Holder to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within instrument in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 

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ABBREVIATIONS

 

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations.

 

 

TEN COM—as tenants in common

 

 

 

 

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT—

 

Custodian

 

 

 

 

(Cust)

 

(Minor)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(State)

 

 

TEN ENT—as tenants by the entireties

JT TEN—as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

 

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

 

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EX-4.2 4 a06-6408_1ex4d2.htm INSTRUMENTS DEFINING THE RIGHTS OF SECURITY HOLDERS, INCLUDING INDENTURES

Exhibit 4.2

 

FLOATING RATE GLOBAL MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES B

 

Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“DTC”), to Issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as is requested by an authorized representative of (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.

 

REGISTERED

 

PRINCIPAL OR FACE AMOUNT

CUSIP No.                                       

 

$                                                        

 

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES B

(Floating Rate)

 

 

*** o CHECK IF A PRINCIPAL INDEXED NOTE ***

IF CHECKED, CALCULATION AGENT:                           

 

If this is a Principal Indexed Note, references herein to “principal” shall be deemed to be the face amount hereof, except that the amount payable upon Maturity of this Note shall be determined in accordance with the formula or formulas set forth below or in an attached Addendum hereto.

 

 

Original Issue Date:

Stated Maturity Date:

 

Initial Interest Rate:  %

Interest Payment Period:

Interest Payment Dates:

 

Calculation Agent:

 

Interest Calculation:

o Regular Floating Rate Note

o Inverse Floating Rate Note:

Fixed Interest Rate:

o Floating Rate/Fixed Rate Note:

Fixed Interest Rate:

Fixed Rate Commencement Date:

 



 

o Other Floating Rate Note

(See attached)

 

Interest Rate Basis:

o CD Rate

o CMS Rate

o CMT Rate

o Commercial Paper Rate

o Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate

o Federal Funds Rate

o LIBOR Reuters/Page:

o LIBOR Telerate/Page:

o Prime Rate

o Treasury Rate

o Other (see attached)

 

If CMT:

Designated CMT Maturity Index:

     Year(s)

Designated CMT Telerate Page:

o 7051

o 7052

If 7052:

o Week

o Month

 

Spread (+/-):

Spread Multiplier:

Index Maturity:

Index Currency:

Maximum Interest Rate:

Minimum Interest Rate:

 

Initial Interest Reset Date:

Interest Rate Reset Period:

Interest Reset Dates:

Interest Determination Date:

 

Day Count Convention:

o  30/360

o  Actual/360

o  Actual/Actual

 

Business Day Convention

o Following

o Modified Following

 

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Redemption:

Redemption Date(s):

Notice of Redemption:

 

Repayment:

Optional Repayment Date(s):

Repayment Price:

 

Original Issue Discount:

Total Amount of OID:

Yield to Maturity:

Initial Accrual Period:

 

Specified Currency:

Minimum Denominations:

Form of Note:

o Book-entry only

o Certificated

 

Addendum Attached:

o Yes

o No

 

Other Provisions:

 

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TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION, a California corporation (“Issuer” or the “Company,” which terms include any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of

 

DOLLARS, or if this is a Principal Indexed Note, the principal amount as determined in accordance with the terms set forth under “Other Provisions” above and/or in an Addendum attached hereto, on the Stated Maturity Date specified above (except to the extent redeemed or repaid prior to the Stated Maturity Date), and to pay interest on the principal or face amount hereof as set forth above, at a rate per annum equal to the Initial Interest Rate specified above until the Initial Interest Reset Date specified above and thereafter at a rate per annum determined in accordance with the provisions hereof and any Addendum relating hereto depending upon the Interest Rate Basis or Bases, if any, and such other terms specified above, until the principal hereof is paid or duly made available for payment. Reference herein to “this Note,” “hereof,” “herein,” “as specified above” and comparable terms shall include an Addendum hereto if an Addendum is specified above.

 

The Company will pay interest monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, annually or such other period as specified above under “Interest Payment Period,” on each Interest Payment Date specified above, commencing on the first Interest Payment Date specified above next succeeding the Original Issue Date specified above, and on the Stated Maturity Date or any Redemption Date or Optional Repayment Date (if specified as repayable at the option of the Holder in an attached Addendum) (the date of each such Stated Maturity Date, Redemption Date and Optional Repayment Date and the date on which principal or an installment of principal is due and payable by declaration of acceleration or otherwise pursuant to the Indenture being referred to hereinafter as a “Maturity” with respect to principal payable on such date); provided, however, that if the Original Issue Date is between a Regular Record Date (as defined below) and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest payments will commence on the second Interest Payment Date succeeding the Original Issue Date; and provided further, unless specified otherwise in an Addendum attached hereto, that if “Following” is specified above under Business Day Convention, if an Interest Payment Date (other than an Interest Payment Date at Maturity) would fall on a day that is not a Business Day (as defined below), such Interest Payment Date shall be the following day that is a Business Day (the “Following Business Day Convention”), and if “Modified Following” is specified above under Business Day Convention, if an Interest Payment Date (other than an Interest Payment Date at Maturity) would fall on a day that is not a Business Day (as defined below), such Interest Payment Date shall be the following day that is a Business Day unless such next Business Day falls in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Payment Date shall be the next preceding day that is a Business Day (the “Modified Following Business Day Convention”). Except as provided above, interest payments will be made on the Interest Payment Dates shown above. Unless otherwise specified above, the “Regular Record Date” shall be the date 15 calendar days (whether or not a Business Day) prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date. Interest on this Note will accrue from and including the Original Issue Date specified above, at the rates determined from time to time as specified herein, until the principal hereof has been paid or made available for payment. If the Maturity falls on a day which is not a Business Day as defined below, the payment due on such Maturity will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Maturity and no interest shall accrue with respect to such payment for the period from and

 

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after such Maturity. 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 Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest which is payable, but not punctually paid or duly provided for on any Interest Payment Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”), shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date, and may be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (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 the Holder of this Note not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or may be paid at any time in any other lawful manner, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

Unless otherwise specified under Specified Currency above and/or in an Addendum attached hereto, this Note will be denominated in U.S. dollars and payments of principal, premium and interest, if any, on this Note will be made in U.S. dollars or in such coin or currency of the United States as at the time of payment is legal tender for payments of public and private debts. If this Note is not denominated in U.S. dollars or if payments of principal, premium and interest, if any, on this Note will be made in or by reference to a currency or in amounts determined by reference to one or more currencies other than that in which this Note is denominated, any other applicable provisions will be included in an Addendum attached hereto. However, unless otherwise specified in an Addendum attached hereto, if such currency is unavailable to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond its control or is no longer used by the relevant government or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of this Note will be made in U.S. dollars until such currency is again available to the Company or so used. In addition, unless otherwise specified in an Addendum attached hereto, if the Company cannot make payment in the Specified Currency indicated above solely because that currency has been replaced by the euro, then, beginning with the date the replacement becomes effective, the Company will be able to satisfy its obligations under this Note by making payment in euro or such other currency. The amounts payable on any date in such currency will be converted into euro or such other currency on the basis of the most recently available market exchange rate for such currency or as otherwise indicated in an Addendum attached hereto.

 

Payment of the principal of and interest on this Note will be made at the Office or Agency of the Company maintained by the Company for such purpose; provided, however, that at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register; and provided, further, that AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY, the Holder of this Note may be entitled to receive payments of principal of and interest on this Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds if appropriate wire transfer instructions have been received by the Trustee not less than 15 days prior to the applicable payment date.

 

Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by or on behalf of Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, the Trustee for this Note under the Indenture, or its successor thereunder, by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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This Note is one of a duly authorized series of Securities (hereinafter called the “Securities”) of the Company designated as its Medium-Term Notes, Series B (the “Notes”). The Notes are issued and to be issued under an Indenture dated as of August 1, 1991 as amended and supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture dated as of October 1, 1991, and the Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of March 31, 2004 (herein called the “Indenture”) between the Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (as successor to The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.) and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas (formerly known as Bankers Trust Company), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights thereunder of the Company, the Trustee (as defined below) and the Holders of the Notes and the terms upon which the Notes are to be authenticated and delivered. Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas shall act as Trustee with respect to the Notes (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor Trustee with respect to the Notes under the Indenture). The terms of individual Notes may vary with respect to interest rates or interest rate formulas, issue dates, maturity, redemption, repayment, currency of payment and otherwise.

 

Except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, the Notes will be issued in global form only registered in the name of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) or its nominee. The Notes will not be issued in definitive form, except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, and ownership of the Notes shall be maintained in book entry form by DTC for the accounts of participating organizations of DTC.

 

This Note is not subject to any sinking fund and, unless otherwise provided above in accordance with the provisions of the following paragraphs, is not redeemable or repayable prior to the Stated Maturity Date.

 

If no Redemption Date is set forth above, this Note may not be redeemed prior to the Stated Maturity Date. If so provided above, this Note may be redeemed by the Company on any Redemption Date specified above in whole or part in increments of $1,000 (unless specified otherwise in an Addendum attached hereto, and provided that any remaining principal hereof shall be at least $1,000) at the option of the Company at the applicable Redemption Price (as defined below) together with accrued interest hereon at the applicable rate payable to the applicable Redemption Date upon written Notice of Redemption specified above or such other notice specified in an Addendum attached hereto. In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note for the unredeemed portion hereof shall be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the surrender hereof.

 

Unless otherwise specified in an Addendum attached hereto, the “Redemption Price” shall be 100% of the principal amount of this Note.

 

Unless otherwise specified in an Addendum attached hereto, this Note is not subject to repayment at the option of the Holder. If this Note shall be repayable at the option of the Holder as specified in an attached addendum hereto, unless otherwise specified in such Addendum, on any Optional Repayment Date, this Note shall be repayable in whole or in part in increments of $1,000 (unless specified otherwise in the Addendum attached hereto, and provided that any remaining principal hereof shall be at least $1,000) at the option of the Holder hereof at a repayment price equal to 100% of the principal amount to be repaid, together with interest

 

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thereon payable to the date of repayment. If specified as repayable at the option of the Holder in such Addendum, for this Note to be repaid in whole or in part at the option of the Holder hereof, this Note must be received, with the form entitled “Option to Elect Repayment” below duly completed, by the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or such address which the Company shall from time to time notify the Holders of the Notes, not more than 15 nor less than 10 days prior to the related Optional Repayment Date or such other time as is specified in an Addendum attached hereto. Exercise of such repayment option by the Holder hereof shall be irrevocable.

 

The interest rate borne by this Note shall be determined as follows:

 

1.             If this Note is designated as a Regular Floating Rate Note above, then, except as described below, this Note shall bear interest at the rate determined by reference to the applicable Interest Rate Basis shown above (i) plus or minus the applicable Spread, if any, and/or (ii) multiplied by the applicable Spread Multiplier, if any, specified and applied in the manner described above. Commencing on the Initial Interest Reset Date, the rate at which interest on this Note is payable shall be reset as of each Interest Reset Date specified above; provided, however, that the interest rate in effect for the period from the Original Issue Date to the Initial Interest Reset Date will be the Initial Interest Rate.

 

2.             If this Note is designated as a Floating Rate/Fixed Rate Note above, then, except as described below, this Note shall bear interest at the rate determined by reference to the applicable Interest Rate Basis shown above (i) plus or minus the applicable Spread, if any, and/or (ii) multiplied by the applicable Spread Multiplier, if any, specified and applied in the manner described above. Commencing on the Initial Interest Reset Date, the rate at which interest on this Note is payable shall be reset as of each Interest Reset Date specified above; provided, however, that (i) the interest rate in effect for the period from the Original Issue Date to the Initial Interest Reset Date shall be the Initial Interest Rate; and (ii) unless specified above, the interest rate in effect commencing on, and including, the Fixed Rate Commencement Date to the Maturity shall be the Fixed Interest Rate, if such a rate is specified above, or if no such Fixed Interest Rate is so specified, the interest rate in effect hereon the day immediately preceding the Fixed Rate Commencement Date.

 

3.             If this Note is designated as an Inverse Floating Rate Note above, then, except as described below, this Note will bear interest equal to the Fixed Interest Rate indicated above minus the rate determined by reference to the applicable Interest Rate Basis shown above (i) plus or minus the applicable Spread, if any, and/or (ii) multiplied by the applicable Spread Multiplier, if any, specified and applied in the manner described above; provided, however, that the interest rate hereon will not be less than zero percent. Commencing on the Initial Interest Reset Date, the rate at which interest on this Note is payable shall be reset as of each Interest Rate Reset Date specified above; provided, however, that the interest rate in effect for the period from the Original Issue Date to the Initial Interest Reset Date shall be the Initial Interest Rate.

 

4.             Notwithstanding the foregoing, if this Note is designated above as having an Addendum attached, the Note shall bear interest in accordance with the terms

 

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described in such Addendum. If interest on this Note is to be calculated in accordance with the terms of an attached Addendum, unless otherwise specified in such Addendum, commencing on the Initial Interest Reset Date, the rate at which interest on this Note is payable shall be reset as of each Interest Rate Reset Date specified above; provided, however, that the interest rate in effect for the period from the Original Issue Date to the Initial Interest Reset Date shall be the Initial Interest Rate.

 

Except as provided above, the interest rate in effect on each day shall be (a) if such day is an Interest Reset Date, the interest rate determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (as defined below) immediately preceding such Interest Reset Date or (b) if such day is not an Interest Reset Date, the interest rate determined on the Interest Determination Date immediately preceding the most recent Interest Reset Date. Each Interest Rate Basis shall be the rate determined in accordance with the applicable provision below.

 

Unless specified otherwise in an Addendum attached hereto, if “Following” is specified above under Business Day Convention, if any Interest Reset Date (which term includes the term Initial Interest Reset Date unless the context otherwise requires) would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Reset Date shall follow the Following Business Day Convention, and if “Modified Following” is specified above under Business Day Convention, if any Interest Reset Date (which term includes the term Initial Interest Reset Date unless the context otherwise requires) would otherwise be a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Reset Date shall follow the Modified Following Business Day Convention.

 

Unless otherwise specified above, interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date shall be the amount of interest accrued from and including the next preceding Interest Payment Date in respect of which interest has been paid (or from and including the Original Issue Date specified above, if no interest has been paid), to but excluding the related Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that the interest payments on Maturity will include interest accrued to but excluding such Maturity.

 

Unless specified otherwise in an Addendum attached hereto, this Note will accrue interest on an “Actual/360” basis, an “Actual/Actual” basis, or a “30/360” basis, in each case from the period from the Original Issue Date to the date of Maturity, unless specified otherwise in an Addendum attached hereto. If this Note is calculated on an Actual/360 basis or an Actual/Actual basis (as specified above), accrued interest for each Interest Calculation Period, as defined below, will be calculated by multiplying:

 

(1)       the face amount of this Note;

 

(2)       the applicable interest rate; and

 

(3)       the actual number of days in the related Interest Calculation Period

 

and dividing the resulting product by 360 or 365, as applicable; or with respect to an Actual/Actual basis Note, if any portion of the related Interest Calculation Period falls in a leap year, the product of (1) and (2) above will be multiplied by the sum of:

 

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             the actual number of days in that portion of the related Interest Calculation Period falling in a leap year divided by 366, and

 

             the actual number of days in that portion of the related Interest Calculation Period falling in a non-leap year divided by 365.

 

If this Note is calculated on a 30/360 basis (as specified above), accrued interest for an Interest Calculation Period will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months, irrespective of how many days are actually in such Interest Calculation Period. Unless otherwise specified above and/or in an Addendum attached hereto, if this Note accrues interest on a 30/360 basis, if any Interest Payment Date or the Maturity falls on a day that is not a Business Day, the related payment of principal or interest will be made on the next succeeding Business Day as if made on the date such payment was due, and no interest will accrue on the amount payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or Maturity, as the case may be.

 

As used herein, “Interest Calculation Period” means with respect to any period, the period from and including the most recent Interest Reset Date (or from and including the Original Issue Date in the case of the first Interest Reset Date), to but excluding the next succeeding Interest Reset Date for which accrued interest is being calculated. Unless otherwise specified above, interest with respect to Notes for which the interest rate is calculated with reference to two or more Interest Rate Bases will be calculated in the same manner as if only one of the applicable Interest Rate Bases applied.

 

Unless otherwise specified above and/or in an attached Addendum hereto, the “Interest Reset Date” for Notes that reset as follows will be: if daily, each Business Day; if weekly, the Wednesday of each week, with the exception of weekly reset floating rate notes as to which the Treasury Rate is an applicable Interest Rate Basis, which will reset the Tuesday of each week; if monthly, the third Wednesday of each month, with the exception of monthly reset floating rate notes as to which the Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate Notes is an applicable Interest Rate Basis, which will reset on the first calendar day of the month; if quarterly, the third Wednesday of March, June, September and December of each year; if semiannually, the third Wednesday of the two months specified above and/or in an attached Addendum hereto; and if annually, the third Wednesday of the month specified above and/or in an attached Addendum hereto; provided, however, that, for Floating Rate/Fixed Rate Notes, the interest rate will not reset after the Fixed Rate Commencement Date.

 

Unless otherwise specified above, the “Interest Determination Date” with respect to the CD Rate, the CMS Rate, the CMT Rate, the Commercial Paper Rate, and the Prime Rate will be the second Business Day preceding each Interest Reset Date; the “Interest Determination Date” for the Federal Funds Rate will be the first Business Day preceding each Interest Reset Date; the “Interest Determination Date” with respect to LIBOR shall be the second London Banking Day (as defined below) preceding each Interest Reset Date; the “Interest Determination Date” with respect to the Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate shall be the last working day of the month immediately preceding each Interest Reset Date on which the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco publishes the Index (as defined below); the “Interest Determination Date” with respect to the Treasury Rate will be the day in the week in which the related Interest Reset Date falls on

 

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which day Treasury Bills (as defined below) are normally auctioned (Treasury Bills are normally sold at auction on Monday of each week, unless that day is a legal holiday, in which case the auction is normally held on the following Tuesday, except that such auction may be held on the preceding Friday); provided, however, that if an auction is held on the Friday of the week preceding the related Interest Reset Date, the related Interest Determination Date shall be such preceding Friday. If the interest rate of this Note is determined with reference to two or more Interest Rate Bases, the Interest Determination Date pertaining to this Note will be the most recent Business Day which is at least two Business Days prior to such Interest Reset Date on which each Interest Rate Basis is determinable. Each Interest Rate Basis shall be determined and compared on such date, and the applicable interest rate shall take effect on the related Interest Reset Date.

 

Unless otherwise specified above, the “Calculation Date” pertaining to any Interest Determination Date will be the earlier of (i) the tenth calendar day after such Interest Determination Date or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, or (ii) the Business Day preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date or date of Maturity, as the case may be. All calculations on this Note shall be made by the Calculation Agent specified above or such successor thereto as is duly appointed by the Company.

 

Unless specified otherwise in the Addendum attached hereto, all percentages resulting from any calculation on this Note will be rounded to the nearest one-hundred-thousandth of a percentage point, with five one millionths of a percentage point rounded upwards (e.g., 9.876545% (or .09876545) would be rounded to 9.87655% (or ..0987655)), and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculation will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upward).

 

As used herein, “Business Day” means:

 

1.                           for United States Dollar denominated Notes for which LIBOR is not an applicable Interest Rate Basis:  any day other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in The City of New York (a “New York Business Day”);

 

2.                           for United States Dollar denominated Notes for which LIBOR is an applicable Interest Rate Basis:  a day that is both (x) a day on which commercial banks are open for business, including dealings in the designated Index Currency (as defined below) in London (a “London Banking Day”) and (y) a New York Business Day;

 

3.                           for non-United States Dollar denominated Notes (other than Notes denominated in euro) for which LIBOR is not an applicable Interest Rate Basis:  a day that is both (x) a day other than a day on which commercial banks are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close in the Principal Financial Center (as defined below) of the country issuing the Specified Currency indicated above (a “Principal Financial Center Business Day”) and (y) a New York Business Day;

 

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4.                           for non-United States Dollar denominated Notes (other than Notes denominated in euro) for which LIBOR is an applicable Interest Rate Basis:  a day that is all of: (x) a Principal Financial Center Business Day; (y) a New York Business Day; and (z) a London Banking Day;

 

5.                           for euro denominated Notes for which LIBOR is not an applicable Interest Rate Basis:  a day that is both (x) a day on which the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer (TARGET) System is open (a “TARGET Business Day”); and (y) a New York Business Day; and

 

6.                           for euro denominated Notes for which LIBOR is an applicable Interest Rate Basis:  a day that is all of: (x) a TARGET Business Day; (y) a New York Business Day; and (z) a London Banking Day.

 

“Principal Financial Center” means:

 

1.                           the capital city of the country issuing the Specified Currency except that with respect to United States dollars, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, South African rand and Swiss francs, the Principal Financial Center will be the City of New York, Sydney, Toronto, Johannesburg and Zurich, respectively, or

 

2.                           the capital city of the country to which the Index Currency relates, except that with respect to United States dollars, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, euro, South African rand and Swiss francs, the Principal Financial Center will be the City of New York, Sydney, Toronto, London, Johannesburg and Zurich, respectively.

 

“Index Currency” means the currency for which LIBOR will be calculated as specified above. If no currency is specified, the Index Currency will be U.S. dollars.

 

“Specified Currency” means the currency in which a particular Note is denominated (or, if the currency is no longer legal tender for the payment of public and private debts, any other currency of the relevant country or entity which is then legal tender for the payment of such debts).

 

Determination of CD Rate. If an Interest Rate Basis for this Note is the CD Rate, as indicated above, the CD Rate shall be determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (a “CD Rate Interest Determination Date”), as the rate on such CD Rate Interest Determination Date for negotiable United States dollar certificates of deposit having the Index Maturity specified above as published in H.15 (519) (as defined below) under the heading “CDs (secondary market)”, or, if such rate is not so published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, then the CD Rate on such CD Rate Interest Determination Date will be the rate for negotiable United States dollar certificates of deposit of the Index Maturity specified above as published in H.15 Daily Update (as defined below), or other recognized electronic source used for the purpose of displaying the applicable rate, under the caption “CDs

 

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(Secondary Market”). If the rate in the preceding sentence is not so published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, then the CD Rate on the applicable CD Rate Interest Determination Date will be the rate calculated by the Calculation Agent as the arithmetic mean of the secondary market offered rates as of 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the applicable CD Rate Interest Determination Date of three leading nonbank dealers in negotiable United States dollar certificates of deposit in the City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent for negotiable United States dollar certificates of deposit of major United States money market banks for negotiable certificates of deposits with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity specified above in an amount that is representative for a single transaction in that market at that time; provided, however, that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting as set forth above, the CD Rate determined on the applicable CD Rate Interest Determination Date shall be the CD Rate in effect on such CD Rate Interest Determination Date.

 

“H.15(519)” means the weekly statistical release designated as H.15(519), or any successor publication, published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

 

“H.15 Daily Update” means the daily update of H.15(519), available through the world-wide-web site of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at http://www.bog.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/update, or any successor site or publication.

 

CMS Rate Notes. If an Interest Rate Basis for this Note is the CMS Rate, the CMS rate shall be determined on the related Interest Determination Date (a “CMS Rate Interest Determination Date”) for U.S. dollar swaps having the Index Maturity specified above published by the Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 and which appears on the Reuters Screen ISDAFIX1 Page (rounded to the nearest third decimal place (one thousandth of a percentage point)) as of 11:00 A.M., New York City time.

 

If the CMS Rate cannot be determined as described above, by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, then the CMS Rate on the applicable CMS Rate Determination Date will be the rate determined by the Calculation Agent in good faith and in a commercially reasonable manner.

 

CMT Rate Notes. If an Interest Rate Basis for this Note is the CMT Rate, the CMT rate shall be determined on the related Interest Determination Date (a “CMT Rate Interest Determination Date”), as the rate displayed on the Designated CMT Telerate Page under the caption “…Treasury Constant Maturities…Federal Reserve Board Release H.15…Mondays Approximately 3:45 P.M.,” under the column for the Designated CMT Maturity Index for: (i) if the Designated CMT Telerate Page is 7051, the rate on such CMT Rate Interest Determination Date and (ii) if the Designated CMT Telerate Page is 7052, the weekly or monthly average, as specified above, for the week or month, as applicable, ended immediately preceding the week or month, as applicable, in which the related CMT Rate Interest Determination Date occurs. If such rate is no longer displayed on the relevant page, or if not displayed by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, then the CMT Rate for the applicable CMT Rate Interest Determination Date will be the treasury constant maturity rate for the Designated CMT Maturity Index as published in H.15 (519). If the rate referred to in the preceding sentence is no longer published, or if not published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation

 

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Date, then the CMT Rate for the applicable CMT Rate Interest Determination Date will be the treasury constant maturity rate for the Designated CMT Maturity Index (or other United States Treasury rate for the Designated CMT Maturity Index) for the applicable CMT Rate Interest Determination Date with respect to the applicable Interest Reset Date as may then be published by either the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or the United States Department of the Treasury that the Calculation Agent determines to be comparable to the rate formerly displayed on the Designated CMT Telerate Page and published in H.15 (519). If the rate referred to in the preceding sentence is not so published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, then the CMT Rate for the applicable CMT Rate Interest Determination Date will be calculated by the Calculation Agent as a yield to maturity, based on the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid prices as of approximately 3:30 P.M., New York City time, on the applicable CMT Rate Interest Determination Date reported, according to their written records, by three leading primary United States government securities dealers in the City of New York (each, a “Reference Dealer”), which may include the Calculation Agent or its affiliates, selected by the Calculation Agent from five such Reference Dealers selected by the Calculation Agent after eliminating the highest quotation (or, in the event of equality, one of the highest) and the lowest quotation (or, in the event of equality, one of the lowest) for the most recently issued direct noncallable fixed rate obligations of the United States (“Treasury Note”) with an original maturity of approximately the Designated CMT Maturity Index and a remaining term to maturity of not less than such Designated CMT Maturity Index minus one year and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in that market at that time. If three or four and not five of the Reference Dealers are quoting as referred to in the preceding sentence, then the CMT Rate for the applicable CMT Rate Interest Determination Date will be calculated by the Calculation Agent as the arithmetic mean of the bid prices obtained and neither the highest nor lowest of the quotes will be eliminated. If the Calculation Agent cannot obtain three such Treasury Note quotations as referred to in the preceding sentence, the CMT Rate for the applicable CMT Interest Determination Date will be calculated by the Calculation Agent as a yield to maturity based on the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid prices as of approximately 3:30 P.M., New York City time, on the applicable CMT Rate Interest Determination Date of three Reference Dealers in the City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent from five such Reference Dealers selected by the Calculation Agent after eliminating the highest quotation (or, in the event of equality, one of the highest) and the lowest quotation (or, in the event of equality, one of the lowest) for Treasury Notes with an original maturity of the number of years that is the next highest to the Designated CMT Maturity Index and a remaining term to maturity closest to the Designated CMT Maturity Index and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in that market at that time. If three or four and not five of such Reference Dealers are quoting as described in the preceding sentence, then the CMT Rate for the applicable CMT Rate Interest Determination Date will be calculated by the Calculation Agent as the arithmetic mean of the bid prices obtained and neither the highest nor lowest of such quotes will be eliminated; provided, however, that if fewer than three Reference Dealers as selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are quoting as described above, the CMT Rate will be the rate in effect on such CMT Rate Interest Determination Date. If two Treasury Notes with an original maturity as described in the second preceding sentence, have remaining terms to maturity equally close to the Designated CMT Maturity Index, the quotes for the Treasury Note with the shorter remaining term to maturity will be used.

 

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“Designated CMT Telerate Page” means the display on the Reuters Telerate LLC or any successor service on the page designated above or any other page as may replace such page on that service for the purpose of displaying Treasury Constant Maturities as reported in H.15 (519).

 

“Designated CMT Maturity Index” means the original period to maturity of the U.S. Treasury securities either 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 20, or 30 years specified above with respect to which the CMT Rate will be calculated.

 

Determination of Commercial Paper Rate. If an Interest Rate Basis for this Note is the Commercial Paper Rate, as indicated above, the Commercial Paper Rate shall be determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (a “Commercial Paper Rate Interest Determination Date”), as the Money Market Yield (as defined below) on such date of the rate for commercial paper having the Index Maturity specified above as published in H.15 (519) under the heading “Commercial Paper - - Nonfinancial”. If such rate is not published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, then the Commercial Paper Rate will be the Money Market Yield on the applicable Commercial Paper Interest Determination Date of the rate for commercial paper having the Index Maturity specified above published in H.15 Daily Update, or other recognized electronic source for the purpose of displaying the applicable rate under the caption “Commercial Paper—Nonfinancial”. If the rate in the preceding sentence is not published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date in either H.15 (519) or H.15 Daily Update, then the Commercial Paper Rate for the applicable Commercial Paper Rate Interest Determination Date shall be calculated by the Calculation Agent as the Money Market Yield of the arithmetic mean of the offered rates at approximately 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on such Commercial Paper Rate Interest Determination Date of three leading dealers of United States dollar commercial paper in the City of New York, which may include the Calculation Agent and its affiliates, selected by the Calculation Agent for commercial paper having the Index Maturity specified above placed for industrial issuers whose bond rating is “Aa,” or the equivalent, from a nationally recognized securities rating organization; provided, however, that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting as mentioned in this sentence, the Commercial Paper Rate determined on the applicable Commercial Paper Rate Interest Determination Date shall be the rate in effect on such Commercial Paper Rate Interest Determination Date.

 

“Money Market Yield” shall be a yield (expressed as a percentage rounded upwards to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point) calculated in accordance with the following formula:

 

Money Market Yield =

D x 360

 

x 100

 

 

360-(D x M)

 

 

 

 

where “D” refers to the applicable per annum rate for commercial paper quoted on a bank discount basis and expressed as a decimal and “M” refers to the actual number of days in the interest period for which interest is being calculated.

 

Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate. If an Interest Rate Basis for this Note is the Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate, as indicated above, the Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate shall be determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (an “Eleventh District

 

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Cost of Funds Rate Interest Determination Date”), and shall be the rate equal to the monthly weighted average cost of funds for the calendar month immediately preceding the month in which the applicable Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate Interest Determination Date falls as set forth under the caption “11th District” on the display on Reuters Telerate LLC or any successor service on page 7058 or any other page as may replace the specified page on that service (“Telerate Page 7058”) as of 11:00 a.m., San Francisco time, on such Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate Interest Determination Date. If such rate does not appear on Telerate Page 7058 on the applicable Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate Interest Determination Date, the Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate for such Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate Interest Determination Date will be the monthly weighted average cost of funds paid by member institutions of the Eleventh Federal Home Loan Bank District that was most recently announced (the “Index”) by the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco as the cost of funds for the calendar month immediately preceding for the applicable Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate Interest Determination Date; if the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco fails to announce the Index on or before the applicable Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate Interest Determination Date for the calendar month immediately preceding such applicable Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate Interest Determination Date, then the Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate for such Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate Interest Determination Date will be the Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate in effect on such Eleventh District Cost of Funds Rate Interest Determination Date.

 

Determination of Federal Funds Rate. If an Interest Rate Basis for this Note is the Federal Funds Rate, as indicated above, the Federal Funds Rate shall be determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (a “Federal Funds Rate Interest Determination Date”), as the rate with respect to such Federal Funds Rate Interest Determination Date for United States dollar federal funds as published in H.15 (519) under the heading “Federal Funds (Effective)” as displayed on Reuters Telerate LLC or any successor service on page 120 or any other page as may replace the applicable page on that service (“Telerate Page 120”) or, if such rate does not appear on Telerate Page 120 or is not so published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, the Federal Funds Rate for the applicable Federal Funds Rate Interest Determination Date will be the rate with respect to the applicable Federal Funds Rate Interest Determination Date for United States dollar federal funds published in H.15 Daily Update, or other recognized electronic source for the purpose of displaying the applicable rate under the heading “Federal Funds (Effective).”  If the rate in the preceding sentence is not so published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, the Federal Funds Rate for the applicable Federal Funds Rate Interest Determination Date shall be calculated by the Calculation Agent and shall be the arithmetic mean of the rates for the last transaction in overnight United States dollar federal funds arranged by three leading brokers of United States dollar federal funds transactions in The City of New York, which may include the Calculation Agent and its affiliates, selected by the Calculation Agent prior to 9:00 A.M., New York City time on the business day following the Federal Funds Rate Interest Determination Date; provided, however, that if the brokers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting as mentioned above, the Federal Funds Rate for such Federal Funds Rate Interest Determination Date shall be the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such Federal Funds Rate Interest Determination Date.

 

Determination of LIBOR. If an Interest Rate Basis for this Note is LIBOR, as indicated above, LIBOR will be determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (a “LIBOR

 

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Interest Determination Date”), and will be, either: (a) if “LIBOR Telerate” is specified above, or if neither “LIBOR Reuters” nor “LIBOR Telerate” is specified above, the rate for deposits in the Index Currency having the Index Maturity designated above commencing on the second London Banking Day immediately following such LIBOR Interest Determination Date, that appears on the Designated LIBOR Page specified above as of 11:00 A.M. London time, on such LIBOR Interest Determination Date, or (b) if “LIBOR Reuters” is specified above, the arithmetic mean of the offered rates for deposits in the Index Currency having the Index Maturity designated above, commencing on the second London Banking Day immediately following that LIBOR Interest Determination Date, that appear on the Designated LIBOR Page specified above as of 11:00 A.M. London time, on that LIBOR Interest Determination Date, if at least two such offered rates appear (except as provided in the following sentence) on such Designated LIBOR Page. If the Designated LIBOR Page by its terms provides for only a single rate, then the single rate wil be used.

 

With respect to a LIBOR Interest Determination Date on which fewer than two offered rates appear, or no rate appears, as the case may be, on the applicable Designated LIBOR Page, as specified above, LIBOR for the applicable LIBOR Interest Determination Date shall be the rate calculated by the Calculation Agent as the arithmetic mean of at least two quotations obtained by the Calculation Agent after requesting the principal London offices of each of four major reference banks in the London interbank market, which may include the Calculation Agent and its affiliates, as selected by the Calculation Agent, to provide the Calculation Agent with its offered quotation for deposits in the Index Currency for the period of the Index Maturity specified above, commencing on the second London Banking Day immediately following such LIBOR Interest Determination Date, to prime banks in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 A.M., London time, on such LIBOR Interest Determination Date and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in such Index Currency in such market at such time; if at least two such quotations are provided, LIBOR determined on such LIBOR Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of the quotations. If fewer than two quotations referred to in the preceding sentence are provided, LIBOR determined on the applicable LIBOR Interest Determination Date will be the rate calculated by the Calculation Agent as the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted at approximately 11:00 A.M. (or such other time specified above under “OTHER PROVISIONS” or in the Addendum) in the applicable Principal Financial Center, on such LIBOR Interest Determination Date by three major banks, which may include the Calculation Agent and its affiliates, in that Principal Financial Center selected by the Calculation Agent for loans in such Index Currency to leading European banks having the Index Maturity specified above and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in such Index Currency in such market at such time; provided, however, that if the banks selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting as mentioned in this sentence, LIBOR for the applicable LIBOR Interest Determination Date shall be LIBOR in effect on such LIBOR Interest Determination Date.

 

“Designated LIBOR Page” means either:

 

1.                                       If “LIBOR Telerate” is designated above or neither “LIBOR Reuters” nor “LIBOR Telerate” is specified above as the method for calculating LIBOR, the display on Reuters Telerate LLC or any successor service on the page designated above or any page as may replace the designated page on that service or for the

 

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purpose of displaying the London interbank rates of major banks for the applicable Index Currency; or

 

2.                                       if “LIBOR Reuters” is designated above, the display on the Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service or any successor service on the page designated above or any other page as may replace the designated page on that service for the purpose of displaying the London interbank offered rates of major banks for the applicable Index Currency.

 

Determination of Prime Rate. If an Interest Rate Basis for this Note is the Prime Rate, as indicated above, the Prime Rate shall be determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (a “Prime Rate Interest Determination Date”) as the rate on such Prime Rate Interest Determination Date published in H.15(519) under the heading “Bank Prime Loan.”  If such rate is not so published by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, the Prime Rate for the applicable Prime Rate Interest Determination Date will be the rate on such Prime Rate Interest Determination Date published in H.15 Daily Update, or such other recognized electronic source used for the purpose of displaying the applicable rate under the caption “Bank Prime Loan.”  If the rate referred to in the preceding sentence is not so published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, then the Prime Rate for the applicable Prime Rate Interest Determination Date shall be the rate calculated by the Calculation Agent as the arithmetic mean of the rates of interest publicly announced by the banks that appear on the Reuters Screen US PRIME 1 Page (as defined below) as the particular bank’s prime rate or base lending rate as of 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on such Prime Rate Interest Determination Date, so long as at least four rates appear on the page. If fewer than four rates described in the preceding sentence appear in Reuters Screen US PRIME 1 by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, then the Prime Rate for the applicable Prime Rate Interest Determination Date will be the rate calculated by the Calculation Agent as the arithmetic mean of the prime rates or base lending rates quoted on the basis of the actual number of days in the year divided by a 360-day year as of the close of business on such Prime Rate Interest Determination Date by three major banks, which may include the Calculation Agent and its affiliates, in The City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent; provided, however, that if the banks selected as aforesaid are not quoting as mentioned in this sentence, the Prime Rate for the applicable Prime Rate Interest Determination Date will be the Prime Rate in effect on such Prime Rate Interest Determination Date.

 

“Reuters Screen US PRIME1 Page” means the display designated as the “US PRIME 1” page on the Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service or such other page as may replace the US PRIME 1 page on that service or any successor service for the purpose of displaying prime rates or base lending rates of major United States banks.

 

Determination of Treasury Rate. If an Interest Rate Basis for this Note is the Treasury Rate, as specified above, the Treasury Rate shall be determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (a “Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date”) as the rate from the auction held on the applicable Treasury Interest Rate Determination Date (“Auction”) of direct obligations of the United States (“Treasury bills”) having the Index Maturity specified above under the caption “INVESTMENT RATE” on the display on Reuters Telerate LLC or any successor service on page 56 or any other page as may replace page 56 on that service (“Telerate

 

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Page 56”) or page 57 or any other page that may replace page 57 on that service (“Telerate Page 57”). If such rate is not so published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, the Treasury Rate for the applicable Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date will be the Bond Equivalent Yield of the rate for the applicable Treasury Bills as published in H.15 Daily Update, or other recognized electronic source used for the purpose of displaying the applicable rate, under the caption “U.S. Government Securities/Treasury Bills/Auction High”. If such rate is not so published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, the Treasury Rate for the applicable Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date will be the Bond Equivalent Yield of the auction rate of the applicable Treasury Bills announced by the United States Department of the Treasury. If the rate described in the preceding sentence is not announced by the United States Department of the Treasury, or if the Auction is not held, the Treasury Rate for the applicable Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date will be the Bond Equivalent Yield of the rate on such Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date of Treasury Bills having the Index Maturity specified above published in H.15(519) under the caption “U.S. Government Securities/Treasury Bills/Secondary Market.”  If the rate described in the preceding sentence is not so published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, the Treasury Rate for the applicable Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date will be the rate on the applicable Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date of the applicable Treasury Bills as published in H.15 Daily Update, or other recognized electronic source used for the purpose of displaying the applicable rate, under the caption “U.S. Government Securities/Treasury Bills/Secondary Market.”  If the rate described in the preceding sentence is not so published by 3:00 P.M., New York City time, on the related Calculation Date, the Treasury Rate for the applicable Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date will be the rate on such Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date calculated by the Calculation Agent as the Bond Equivalent Yield of the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates, as of approximately 3:30 P.M., New York City time, on the applicable Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date, of three primary United States government securities dealers, which may include the Calculation Agent or its affiliates, selected by the Calculation Agent, for the issue of Treasury Bills with a remaining maturity closest to the Index Maturity specified above; provided, however, that if the dealers selected as aforesaid by the Calculation Agent are not quoting as mentioned in this sentence, the Treasury Rate will be the Treasury Rate in effect on such Treasury Rate Interest Determination Date.

 

“Bond Equivalent Yield” means a yield calculated in accordance with the following formula and expressed as a percentage:

 

Bond Equivalent Yield =

D x N

 

x 100

 

 

360 – (D x M)

 

 

 

 

where “D” refers to the applicable per annum rate for Treasury Bills quoted on a bank discount basis, “N” refers to 365 or 366, as the case may be, and “M” refers to the actual number of days in the interest period for which interest is being calculated.

 

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the Indenture, for purposes of determining the rights of a Holder of a Note for which the principal thereof is determined by reference to the price or prices of specified commodities or stocks, interest rate indices, interest or exchange rate swap indices, the exchange rate of one or more specified currencies relative to another currency or such other price, exchange rate or other financial index

 

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or indices as specified above (a “Principal Indexed Note”), in respect of voting for or against amendments to the Indenture and modifications and the waiver or rights thereunder, the principal amount of any such Principal Indexed Note shall be deemed to be equal to the face amount thereof upon issuance. The method for determining the amount of principal payable at Maturity on a Principal Indexed Note will be specified in an attached Addendum.

 

Any provision contained herein with respect to the determination of an Interest Rate Basis, the specification of Interest Rate Basis, calculation of the Interest Rate applicable to this Note, its payment dates or any other matter relating hereto may be modified as specified in an Addendum relating hereto and references herein to “this Note,” “hereof,” “herein,” “as specified above” or similar language of like import shall also be references to any such Addendum.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the interest rate hereon shall not be greater than the Maximum Interest Rate, if any, or less than the Minimum Interest Rate, if any, specified above. The Calculation Agent shall calculate the interest rate hereon in accordance with the foregoing on or before each Calculation Date. The interest rate on this Note will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by New York law, as the same may be modified by United States law of general application.

 

At the request of the Holder hereof, the Calculation Agent shall provide to the Holder hereof the interest rate hereon then in effect and, if determined, the interest rate which shall become effective as of the next Interest Reset Date.

 

If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal of all the Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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 thereby at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of 66 2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected thereby. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all the 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 Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note 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 Note.

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at the time, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

 

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As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note may be registered on the Security Register of the Company, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or by its attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

The Notes are issuable in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof (unless specified otherwise in the Addendum attached hereto). As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

 

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

 

Prior to due presentment of this Note 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 Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

The Indenture and the Notes shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed, manually or in facsimile, and an imprint or facsimile of its corporate seal to be imprinted hereon.

 

 

 

TOYOTA MOTOR CREDIT CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

George E. Borst

 

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

 

Attest:

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

David Pelliccioni

 

 

Secretary

 

 

 

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

 

This is one of the Securities
of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.

 

DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS

 

 

(formerly known as Bankers Trust Company) as Trustee

 

 

 

By:

 

 

Dated:

 

 

 

Authorized Officer

 

 



 

OPTION TO ELECT REPAYMENT

 

The undersigned hereby irrevocably request(s) and instruct(s) the Company to repay this Note (or portion hereof specified below) pursuant to its terms and at a price equal to the principal amount hereof together with interest to the repayment date, to the undersigned, at                                                                                                                                                   
(Please print or typewrite name and address of the undersigned)

 

For this Note to be repaid, the Trustee must receive at its Corporate Trust Office, or at such other place or places of which the Company shall from time to time notify the Holder of this Note, not more than 15 nor less than 10 days prior to an Optional Repayment Date, if any, shown on the face of this Note, this Note with this “Option to Elect Repayment” form duly completed.

 

If less than the entire principal amount of this Note is to be repaid, specify the portion hereof (which shall be increments of $1,000) which the Holder elects to have repaid and specify the denomination or denominations (which shall be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of the Notes to be issued to the Holder for the portion of this Note not being repaid (in the absence of any such specification, one such Note will be issued for the portion not being repaid).

 

$                                                        

 

 

NOTICE: The signature on this Option to Elect Repayment must

Date:

 

 

correspond with the name as written upon the face of this Note in

 

every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change

 

whatever.

 



 

ASSIGNMENT/TRANSFER FORM

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned registered Holder hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto (insert Taxpayer Identification No.)                                                                                                                                                                      & nbsp;                                          

(Please print or typewrite name and address including postal zip code of assignee)

 

                                                                                                                                                      the within Note and all right s thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing                                                        attorney to transfer said Note on the books of the Company with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICE: The signature of the registered Holder to this assignment must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the within instrument in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever.

 



 

ABBREVIATIONS

 

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations.

 

 

 

TEN COM – as tenants in common

 

 

 

 

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT—

 

Custodian

 

 

 

 

(Cust)

 

(Minor)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(State)

 

 

TEN ENT – as tenants by the entireties

 

JT TEN – as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common

 

 

Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.

 


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