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): May 5, 2010
 
FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL, INC.
 
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
         
Delaware   001-32630   16-1725106
         
(State or other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
  (Commission File
Number)
  (IRS Employer
Identification No.)
     
601 Riverside Avenue
Jacksonville, Florida
  32204
     
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (904) 854-8100
(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 ( see General Instruction A.2.):
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
         
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
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Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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SIGNATURES
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EXHIBIT INDEX
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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On May 5, 2010, Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (the “Company”) completed the public offering of $300 million aggregate principal amount of its 6.60% Notes due 2017 (the “Notes”). The offer and sale of the Notes are registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to the Company’s effective registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-147391) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on November 14, 2007 (the “Registration Statement”) and were offered pursuant to the prospectus supplement dated April 30, 2010, to the prospectus dated November 14, 2007 (together, the “Prospectus”), which forms part of the Registration Statement.
The sale of the Notes was made pursuant to the terms of an Underwriting Agreement dated April 30, 2010 (the “Underwriting Agreement”) between the Company and Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters listed in Schedule 1 thereto. The Underwriting Agreement includes the terms and conditions of the offer and sale of the Notes, indemnification and contribution obligations and other terms and conditions customary in agreements of this type.
The Notes were issued under an Indenture (the “Base Indenture”), dated as of December 8, 2005, between the Company (formerly known as Fidelity National Title Group, Inc.) and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (now known as The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.) as Trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 6, 2006, between such parties (the “First Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the “Base Indenture,” the “First Amended Indenture”), and by a Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 5, 2010, between such parties (the “Second Supplemental Indenture,” and, together with the First Amended Indenture, the “Indenture”). The Second Supplemental Indenture amends provisions of the First Amended Indenture relating to limitations on liens incurred by the Company and occurrences that would constitute “events of default” under the Indenture. The Second Supplemental Indenture does not affect the terms of securities issued under the First Amended Indenture prior to May 5, 2010. The Notes, and certain specific terms of the Notes, were established by an officers’ certificate under the Indenture (the “Officers’ Certificate”).
The Notes are unsecured obligations of the Company and rank equal in right of payment with the Company’s existing and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness. Interest on the Notes accrues at a rate of 6.60% per annum and is payable on May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing November 15, 2010. The Notes mature on May 15, 2017. The terms of the Notes are further described in the Prospectus.
The net proceeds from the offering of the Notes were approximately $297.3 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company will use the net proceeds from this offering to repay outstanding borrowings under its revolving credit facility, without a corresponding reduction in the commitment thereunder. The Company may reborrow the amount repaid at any time, subject to compliance with the credit agreement. Certain affiliates of the underwriters are agents and/or lenders under the revolving credit facility.
The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement, Second Supplemental Indenture, Officers’ Certificate and Notes is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Underwriting Agreement, Second Supplemental Indenture, Officers’ Certificate and form of Note, respectively, which are incorporated herein by reference and are attached hereto as Exhibits 1.1, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, respectively. The foregoing description of the Base Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Base Indenture and First Supplemental Indenture, respectively, which were filed with the SEC as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 and Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 24, 2006, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.

 


 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
     (d) Exhibits
     
Exhibit    
Number   Description
1.1
  Underwriting Agreement dated April 30, 2010 between Fidelity National Financial, Inc. and Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named in Schedule 1 thereto.
4.1
  Second Supplemental Indenture, dated May 5, 2010, between Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (formerly known as Fidelity National Title Group, Inc.), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (formerly known as The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.) as trustee.
4.2
  Officers’ Certificate pursuant to the Indenture, dated May 5, 2010.
4.3
  Form of 6.60% Note due 2017 (included as Exhibit B to Exhibit 4.2 above).
5.1
  Opinion of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.
12.1
  Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
23.1
  Consent of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP (Included in Exhibit 5.1).

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SIGNATURES
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
         
  FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Anthony J. Park    
    Anthony J. Park   
    Chief Financial Officer   
 
Dated: May 5, 2010

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EXHIBIT INDEX
     
Exhibit    
Number   Description
1.1
  Underwriting Agreement dated April 30, 2010 between Fidelity National Financial, Inc. and Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as representatives of the several underwriters named in Schedule 1 thereto.
4.1
  Second Supplemental Indenture, dated May 5, 2010, between Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (formerly known as Fidelity National Title Group, Inc.), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (formerly known as The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.) as trustee.
4.2
  Officers’ Certificate pursuant to the Indenture, dated May 5, 2010.
4.3
  Form of 6.60% Note due 2017 (included as Exhibit B to Exhibit 4.2 above).
5.1
  Opinion of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP.
12.1
  Statement Regarding Computation of Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges.
23.1
  Consent of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP (Included in Exhibit 5.1).

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Exhibit 1.1
EXECUTION VERSION
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
$300,000,000
6.60% Senior Notes due 2017
Underwriting Agreement
April 30, 2010
Banc of America Securities LLC
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
As Representatives of the
     several Underwriters listed
     in Schedule 1 hereto
c/o Banc of America Securities LLC
One Bryant Park
New York, New York 10036
c/o J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
383 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10179
Ladies and Gentlemen:
     Fidelity National Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “ Underwriters ”), for whom you are acting as Representatives (the “ Representatives ”), the respective amounts set forth in such Schedule 1 of $300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 6.60% Senior Notes due 2017 (the “ Notes ”).
     The Notes will be issued pursuant to an indenture, dated as of December 8, 2005 (the “ Base Indenture ”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as succeeded by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “ Trustee ”), as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture, dated as of January 6, 2006 (the “ First Supplemental Indenture ”), to the Base Indenture and a second supplemental indenture, to be dated as of the Closing Date (the “ Second Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”), to the Base Indenture. Certain terms of the Notes will be established pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate (as defined in the Indenture) pursuant to Section 3.1(b) of the Base Indenture. The Notes will be issued in book-entry form in the name of Cede & Co., as nominee of The Depository Trust Company (“ DTC ”), pursuant to a Blanket Issuer Letter of Representations, to be dated on or before the Closing Date (as defined in Section 2 below) executed by the Company and received and accepted by DTC.
     The Company hereby confirms its agreement with the several Underwriters concerning the purchase and sale of the Notes, as follows:
     1.  Registration Statement . The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder (collectively, the “ Securities Act ”), a registration statement (File No. 333-147391), including a base prospectus (the “ Base Prospectus ”) relating to the registration of certain securities described therein, including the Notes. Such registration statement, as amended at the time it became effective, including the information, if any, deemed pursuant to Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the Securities Act to be part of the registration statement at the time of its

 


 

effectiveness, is referred to herein as the “ Registration Statement ”; and as used herein, the term “ Preliminary Prospectus ” means any preliminary prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus that describes the Notes and the offering thereof and is used prior to filing of the final prospectus, together with the Base Prospectus, and the term “ Prospectus ” means the final prospectus supplement, together the Base Prospectus, that is first filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act (or made available upon request of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act) in connection with confirmation of sales of the Notes. If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act (the “ Rule 462 Registration Statement ”), then any reference herein to the term “ Registration Statement ” shall be deemed to include such Rule 462 Registration Statement. Any reference in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act, as of the effective date of the Registration Statement or the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be, and any reference to “amend”, “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after such date under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “ Exchange Act ”) that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
     At or prior to the Applicable Time (as defined below), the Company had prepared the following information (the “ Pricing Disclosure Package ”): a Preliminary Prospectus dated April 29, 2010 and each “free-writing prospectus” (as defined pursuant to Rule 405 under the Securities Act) listed on Annex B hereto.
     “ Applicable Time ” means 11:30 a.m., New York City time, on April 30, 2010.
     2.  Purchase of the Notes by the Underwriters.
          (a) The Company agrees to issue and sell the Notes to the several Underwriters as provided in this Agreement, and each Underwriter, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements set forth herein and subject to the conditions set forth herein, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company the aggregate principal amount of Notes set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name in Schedule 1 hereto at 99.272% of the principal amount of the Notes.
          (b) The Company understands that the Underwriters intend to make a public offering of the Notes as soon after the execution of this Agreement as in the judgment of the Representatives is advisable, and initially to offer the Notes on the terms set forth in the Prospectus. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters may offer and sell Notes to or through any affiliate of an Underwriter.
          (c) Payment for the Notes shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company to the Representatives at the offices of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP at 1888 Century Park East, Suite 2100, Los Angeles, CA 90067 at 9:00 A.M., New York City time, on May 5, 2010, or at such other time or place on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing. The time and date of such payment for the Notes is referred to herein as the “ Closing Date ”.
          Payment for the Notes shall be made against delivery to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters of the Notes to be purchased on such date with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the sale of such Notes duly paid by the Company. Delivery of the Notes shall

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be made through the facilities of DTC unless the Representatives shall otherwise instruct. The certificates for the Notes will be made available for inspection and packaging by the Representatives at the office of DTC or its designated custodian not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the business day prior to the Closing Date.
          (d) The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters are acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company with respect to the offering of Notes contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the terms of the offering) and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Company or any other person. Additionally, neither the Representatives nor any other Underwriter is advising the Company or any other person as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction. The Company shall consult with its own advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making its own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Underwriters shall have no responsibility or liability to the Company with respect thereto. Any review by the Underwriters of the Company, the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit of the Underwriters and shall not be on behalf of the Company.
     3.  Representations and Warranties of the Company . The Company represents and warrants to each Underwriter that:
          (a) Preliminary Prospectus. No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and each Preliminary Prospectus included in the Pricing Disclosure Package, at the time of filing thereof, complied in all material respects with the Securities Act, and no Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, contained any 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 under which they were made, not misleading; provided , that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in any Preliminary Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.
          (b) Pricing Disclosure Package . The Pricing Disclosure Package as of the Applicable Time did not, and as of the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided , that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in such Pricing Disclosure Package, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.
          (c) Issuer Free Writing Prospectus. Other than the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, the Company (including its agents and representatives, other than the Underwriters in their capacity as such) has not prepared, used, authorized, approved or referred to and will not prepare, use, authorize, approve or refer to any “written communication” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes (each such communication by the Company or its agents and representatives (other than a communication referred to in clause (i) below) an “ Issuer Free Writing Prospectus ”) other than (i) any document not constituting a prospectus pursuant to Section 2(a)(10)(a) of the Securities Act or Rule 134 under the Securities Act or (ii) the documents listed on Annex B hereto, each electronic road show and any other

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written communications approved in writing in advance by the Representatives. Each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus complied in all material respects with the Securities Act, has been or will be (within the time period specified in Rule 433) filed in accordance with the Securities Act (to the extent required thereby), does not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus as of the Applicable Time, and when taken together with the Preliminary Prospectus accompanying, or delivered prior to delivery of, such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, did not, and as of the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided , that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Preliminary Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Preliminary Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.
          (d) Registration Statement and Prospectus. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act that has been filed with the Commission not earlier than three years prior to the date hereof; and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such registration statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act has been received by the Company. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued by the Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act against the Company or related to the offering of the Notes has been initiated or threatened by the Commission; as of the applicable effective date of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, the Registration Statement and any such post-effective amendment complied and will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “ Trust Indenture Act ”), and did not and 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 not misleading; and as of the date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto and as of the Closing Date, the Prospectus will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided , that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to (i) that part of the Registration Statement that constitutes the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) of the Trustee under the Trust Indenture Act or (ii) any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 7(b) hereof.
          (e) Incorporated Documents. The documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Pricing Disclosure Package, when they were filed with the Commission, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act, and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Pricing Disclosure Package, when such documents are filed with the Commission, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and will not

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contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
          (f) Financial Statements. The financial statements (including the related notes thereto) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations and the changes in their cash flows for the periods specified; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby, and any supporting schedules included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement present fairly in all material respects the information required to be stated therein; the other financial information included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus has been derived from the accounting records of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and presents fairly in all material respects the information shown thereby; and the pro forma financial information and the related notes thereto, if any, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus have been prepared in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the assumptions underlying such pro forma financial information are reasonable and are set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
          (g) No Material Adverse Change. Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, (i) there has not been any change in the capital stock (other than the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of stock options and warrants described as outstanding in, and the grant of options and awards under existing equity incentive plans described in, the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus), short-term debt or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set aside for payment, paid or made by the Company on any class of capital stock, or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the business, properties, management, financial position, stockholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement (whether or not in the ordinary course of business) that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained any loss or interference with its business that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole and that is either from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except in each case as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
          (h) Organization and Good Standing. The Company and each of its subsidiaries listed on Exhibit 21.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 (the “ Significant Subsidiaries ”) have been duly organized and are validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization, are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such qualification, and have all power and authority necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing or have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, management, financial

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position, stockholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or on the performance by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement (a “ Material Adverse Effect ”). The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association or other entity that would be a “Significant Subsidiary” (as defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X) other than the Significant Subsidiaries.
          (i) Capitalization. The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading “Capitalization”; all the outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to any pre-emptive or similar rights; except as described in or expressly contemplated by the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no outstanding rights (including, without limitation, pre-emptive rights), warrants or options to acquire, or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for, any shares of capital stock or other equity interest in the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any contract, commitment, agreement, understanding or arrangement of any kind relating to the issuance of any capital stock of the Company or any such subsidiary, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or any such rights, warrants or options; the capital stock of the Company conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; and all the outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity interests of each subsidiary owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of any lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, restriction on voting or transfer or any other claim of any third party.
          (j) Stock Options. With respect to the stock options (the “ Stock Options ”) granted pursuant to the stock-based compensation plans of the Company and its subsidiaries (the “ Company Stock Plans ”), (i) each Stock Option intended to qualify as an “incentive stock option” under Section 422 of the Code (as defined below) so qualifies, (ii) each grant of a Stock Option was duly authorized no later than the date on which the grant of such Stock Option was by its terms to be effective (the “ Grant Date ”) by all necessary corporate action, including, as applicable, approval by the board of directors of the Company (or a duly constituted and authorized committee thereof) and any required stockholder approval by the necessary number of votes or written consents, and the award agreement governing such grant (if any) was duly executed and delivered by each party thereto, (iii) each such grant was made in accordance with the terms of the Company Stock Plans, the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements, including the rules of the New York Stock Exchange and any other exchange on which Company securities are traded, and (iv) each such grant was properly accounted for in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the financial statements (including the related notes) of the Company and disclosed in the Company’s filings with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws. The Company has not knowingly granted, and there is no and has been no policy or practice of the Company of granting, Stock Options prior to, or otherwise coordinating the grant of Stock Options with, the release or other public announcement of material information regarding the Company or its subsidiaries or their results of operations or prospects.
          (k) Due Authorization. The Company has the corporate power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder; and all action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery by it of this Agreement and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby has been duly and validly taken.
          (l) Underwriting Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

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          (m) Authorization of the Indenture . The Base Indenture, the First Supplemental Indenture and the Second Supplemental have been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and have been duly authorized; the Base Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture have been and the Second Supplemental will be, on or prior to the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by the Company; when the Second Supplemental Indenture is executed and delivered by the Company (and assuming due authorization, execution and delivery of the Indenture by the Trustee), the Indenture will constitute a valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles.
          (n) Authorization of the Notes. The Notes to be purchased by the Underwriters from the Company are in the form contemplated by the Indenture, have been duly authorized by the Company for issuance and sale pursuant to this Agreement and the Indenture and, at the Closing Date, will have been duly executed by the Company and, when authenticated in the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the purchase price therefor pursuant to this Agreement, will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors or by general equitable principles, and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.
          (o) Description of the Underwriting Agreement. The Underwriting Agreement conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
          (p) Description of the Notes and the Indenture. The Notes and the Indenture conform in all material respects to the descriptions thereof contained in the Registration Statement, Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
          (q) Accuracy of Statements in Prospectus. The statements made in the Registration Statement, Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the captions (A) Description of the Notes,” (B) “Description of Debt Securities,” (C) “Underwriting,” and (D) “Certain United States Federal Income Tax Considerations,” in each case, insofar as such statements constitute a summary of the legal matters, documents or proceedings referred to therein, fairly present and summarize, in all material respects, such matters or documents.
          (r) No Violation or Default. Neither the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents; (ii) in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is subject; or (iii) in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for any such default or violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
          (s) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Notes and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default or a Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below) under, or result in the

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creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or (iii) result in the violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii) above, for any such conflict, breach, violation, default or Debt Repayment Triggering Event that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect. As used herein, a “ Debt Repayment Triggering Event ” means any event or condition which gives, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both would give, the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) issued by the Company, the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (other than the requirement under the Company’s credit facility to apply the proceeds from the offer and sale of the Notes contemplated hereby as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading “Use of Proceeds”).
          (t) No Consents Required. No consent, approval, authorization, order, license, registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement, the issuance and sale of the Notes and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, except (i) for the registration of the Notes under the Securities Act and the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act, (ii) as may be required under the rules and regulations of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (the “ FINRA ”) and (iii) such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as may be required under applicable state securities laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Notes by the Underwriters.
          (u) Legal Proceedings. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no legal, governmental or regulatory investigations, actions, suits or proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be a party or to which any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may be the subject that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; no such investigations, actions, suits or proceedings are threatened or, to the knowledge of the Company, contemplated by any governmental or regulatory authority or threatened by others; and (i) there are no current or pending legal, governmental or regulatory actions, suits or proceedings that are required under the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that are not so described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and (ii) there are no statutes, regulations or contracts or other documents that are required under the Securities Act to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus that are not so filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
          (v) Independent Accountants . KPMG LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and as required by the Securities Act.

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          (w) Title to Real and Personal Property . The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple (in the case of real property) to, or have valid and marketable rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property and assets that are material to the respective businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except those that (i) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries or (ii) could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
          (x) Title to Intellectual Property . The Company and its subsidiaries own or possess adequate rights to use all material patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, licenses and know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as currently conducted and as proposed to be conducted, and the conduct of their respective businesses will not conflict in any material respect with any such rights of others. The Company and its subsidiaries have not received any notice of any claim of infringement, misappropriation or conflict with any such rights of others in connection with its patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights and know-how, which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
          (y) No Undisclosed Relationships . No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders, customers or suppliers of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the other, that is required by the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and that is not so described in such documents and in the Pricing Disclosure Package.
          (z) Investment Company Act . The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Notes and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, will not be required to register as an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “ Investment Company Act ”).
          (aa) Taxes. The Company and its subsidiaries have paid all federal, state, local and foreign taxes and filed all tax returns required to be paid or filed through the date hereof; and except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there is no tax deficiency that has been, or could reasonably be expected to be, asserted against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets that could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
          (bb) Licenses and Permits. The Company and its subsidiaries possess all licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authorities that are necessary for the ownership or lease of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, except where the failure to possess or make the same would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice of any revocation or modification of any such license, certificate, permit or authorization or has any reason to believe that any such license, certificate, permit or authorization will not be renewed in the ordinary course.

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          (cc) No Labor Disputes. No labor disturbance by or dispute with employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is contemplated or threatened, and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by, or dispute with, the employees of any of its or its subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, contractors or customers, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
          (dd) Compliance with ERISA. (i) Each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), for which the Company or any member of its “Controlled Group” (defined as any organization which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) would have any liability (each, a “Plan”) has been maintained in compliance with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code, except for noncompliance that could not reasonably be expected to result in material liability to the Company or its subsidiaries; (ii) no prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred with respect to any Plan excluding transactions effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption that could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability to the Company or its subsidiaries; (iii) for each Plan that is subject to the funding rules of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, as applicable, has been satisfied (without taking into account any waiver thereof or extension of any amortization period) and is reasonably expected to be satisfied in the future (without taking into account any waiver thereof or extension of any amortization period); (iv) the fair market value of the assets of each Plan exceeds the present value of all benefits accrued under such Plan (determined based on those assumptions used to fund such Plan); (v) no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that either has resulted, or could reasonably be expected to result, in material liability to the Company or its subsidiaries; (vi) neither the Company nor any member of the Controlled Group has incurred, nor reasonably expects to incur, any liability under Title IV of ERISA (other than contributions to the Plan or premiums to the PBGC, in the ordinary course and without default) in respect of a Plan (including a “multiemployer plan”, within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA); and (vii) there is no pending audit or investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any other governmental agency or any foreign regulatory agency with respect to any Plan that could reasonably be expected to result in material liability to the Company or its subsidiaries. None of the following events has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur: (x) a material increase in the aggregate amount of contributions required to be made to all Plans by the Company or its subsidiaries in the current fiscal year of the Company and its subsidiaries compared to the amount of such contributions made in the Company and its subsidiaries’ most recently completed fiscal year; or (y) a material increase in the Company and its subsidiaries’ “accumulated post-retirement benefit obligations” (within the meaning of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 106) compared to the amount of such obligations in the Company and its subsidiaries’ most recently completed fiscal year.
          (ee) Disclosure Controls . The Company and its subsidiaries maintain an effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and that has been designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company and its subsidiaries have carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.

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          (ff) Accounting Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries maintain systems of “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and have been designed by, or under the supervision of, their respective principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including, but not limited to, internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, there are no material weaknesses in the Company’s internal controls. The Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company have been advised of: (i) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting which have adversely affected or are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting.
          (gg) Insurance. The Company and its subsidiaries have insurance covering their respective properties, operations, personnel and businesses, including business interruption insurance, which insurance is in amounts and insures against such losses and risks as are adequate to protect the Company and its subsidiaries and their respective businesses; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has (i) received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that capital improvements or other expenditures are required or necessary to be made in order to continue such insurance or (ii) any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage at reasonable cost from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business.
          (hh) No Unlawful Payments. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977; or (iv) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment.
          (ii) Compliance with Money Laundering Laws . The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “ Money Laundering Laws ”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.
          (jj) Compliance with OFAC. None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of

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its subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“ OFAC ”); and the Company will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the offering of the Notes hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.
          (kk) No Restrictions on Subsidiaries . Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no Significant Subsidiary of the Company is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, from paying any dividends to the Company, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company.
          (ll) No Broker’s Fees. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person (other than this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Notes.
          (mm) No Registration Rights . Except for rights, if any, of LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. (“ LFG ”) pursuant to that certain amended and restated Stock Purchase Agreement by and between the Company and LFG, no person has the right to require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to register any securities for sale under the Securities Act by reason of the filing of the Registration Statement with the Commission or the issuance and sale of the Notes.
          (nn) No Stabilization. The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Notes.
          (oo) Forward-Looking Statements. No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.
          (pp) Statistical and Market Data. Nothing has come to the attention of the Company that has caused the Company to believe that the statistical and market-related data included in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus is not based on or derived from sources that are reliable and accurate in all material respects.
          (qq) Sarbanes-Oxley Act . There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or, to the knowledge of the Company, any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the “ Sarbanes-Oxley Act ”), including Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications.
          (rr) Status under the Securities Act . At the time of filing the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, at the earliest time thereafter that the Company or any offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the Securities Act) of the Notes and at the date hereof, the Company was not and is not an “ineligible issuer,” and is a well-known seasoned issuer, in each case as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

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          (ss) Insurance Subsidiary Statements. For each of the insurance subsidiaries of the Company chartered as an insurance company under state law (the “ Insurance Subsidiaries ”), the Company has provided access to true, correct and complete copies of the statutory financial statements for each such Insurance Subsidiary for the years 2006 through 2009. All such statements shall be referred to as “ Insurance Subsidiary Statements ”; the Insurance Subsidiary Statements present fairly in all material respects, on a consistent basis and in accordance with practices prescribed or permitted by the appropriate regulatory agencies of each state in which the Insurance Subsidiary Statements have been filed or may be required to be filed, the financial position at the end of each such referenced period and results of each such Insurance Subsidiary’s operations for each such referenced period; the exhibits and schedules included in the Insurance Subsidiary Statements are fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the subject Insurance Subsidiary and the Insurance Subsidiary Statements comply in all material respects with applicable regulatory requirements; and each of the Company and the Insurance Subsidiaries maintains its books and records in accordance with, and is otherwise in compliance with, the applicable Insurance Laws (as defined in Section 3(tt) below), except where the failure to so maintain its books and records or be in compliance would not, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
          (tt) Insurance Laws. Each of the Insurance Subsidiaries is duly licensed as an insurer or reinsurer, as the case may be, under the insurance laws and the rules, regulations and interpretations of the insurance regulatory authorities thereunder (collectively, the “ Insurance Laws ”) of each jurisdiction in which the conduct of its existing business as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus requires such licensing, except for such jurisdictions in which the failure to be so licensed would not, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Company and the Insurance Subsidiaries has made all required filings under applicable holding company statutes or other Insurance Laws in each jurisdiction where such filings are required, except for such jurisdictions in which the failure to make such filings would not, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; each of the Company and the Insurance Subsidiaries has all other necessary authorizations, approvals, orders, consents, certificates, licenses, permits, registrations and qualifications of and from all insurance regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective existing businesses as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and all of the foregoing are in full force and effect, except where the failure to have such authorizations, approvals, orders, consents, certificates, permits, registrations or qualifications or their failure to be in full force and effect would not, individually or in the aggregate, be reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; none of the Company and the Insurance Subsidiaries has received any notification from any insurance regulatory authority or other governmental authority in the United States or elsewhere to the effect that any additional material authorization, approval, order, consent, certificate, permit, registration or qualification is needed to be obtained by either the Company or the Insurance Subsidiaries to conduct its existing business as described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and except as otherwise described in the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, no insurance regulatory authority has issued any order or decree impairing, restricting or prohibiting the payment of dividends by the Company or any of the Insurance Subsidiaries.
          (uu) Reinsurance. All reinsurance treaties, reinsurance contracts and reinsurance agreements to which the Company or any of its Insurance Subsidiaries is a party are in full force and effect, and none of the Company or any of its Insurance Subsidiaries is in violation of, or in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of, any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained therein, except where the failure to be in full force and effect and except where any such violation or default would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; none of the Company or any of its Insurance Subsidiaries has received any notice from any of the other parties to such treaties, contracts or agreements which are material to its business that such other party intends not to perform in any material respect such treaty, contract or agreement; and the Company and its Insurance Subsidiaries have no

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reason to believe that any of the parties to such treaties, contracts or agreements will be unable to perform such treaty, contract, agreement or arrangement, except where such non-performance would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
          (vv) Reserves. Except as described in the Registration Statement the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus, none of the Company or any of its Insurance Subsidiaries have made any material changes in their insurance reserving practices during the last two years.
     4.  Further Agreements of the Company . The Company covenants and agrees with each Underwriter that:
          (a) Required Filings. The Company will file the final Prospectus with the Commission within the time periods specified by Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the Securities Act, will file any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act; will file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Notes; and will furnish copies of the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (to the extent not previously delivered) to the Underwriters in New York City prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day next succeeding the date of this Agreement in such quantities as the Representatives may reasonably request. The Company will pay the registration fee for this offering within the time period required by Rule 456(b)(1) under the Securities Act (without giving effect to the proviso therein) and in any event prior to the Closing Date.
          (b) Delivery of Copies. The Company will deliver, without charge, (i) to the Representatives, one signed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto, in each case including all exhibits and consents filed therewith; and (ii) to each Underwriter (A) a conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (without exhibits) and (B) during the Prospectus Delivery Period (as defined below), as many copies of the Prospectus (including all amendments and supplements thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus) as the Representatives may reasonably request. As used herein, the term “Prospectus Delivery Period” means such period of time after the first date of the public offering of the Notes as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters a prospectus relating to the Notes is required by law to be delivered (or required to be delivered but for Rule 172 under the Securities Act) in connection with sales of the Notes by any Underwriter or dealer.
          (c) Amendments or Supplements, Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. Before preparing, using, authorizing, approving, referring to or filing any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and before filing any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, the Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters a copy of the proposed Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, amendment or supplement for review and will not prepare, use, authorize, approve, refer to or file any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably object in a timely manner.
          (d) Notice to the Representatives. The Company will advise the Representatives promptly, and confirm such advice in writing, (i) when the Registration Statement has become effective; (ii) when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective; (iii) when any supplement to the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment to the Prospectus has been filed; (iv) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or the receipt of any comments from the Commission relating to the Registration Statement or any other request by the Commission for any additional

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information; (v) of the issuance by the Commission of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; (vi) of the occurrence of any event within the Prospectus Delivery Period as a result of which the Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package or any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading; (vii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the Commission to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act; and (viii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice with respect to any suspension of the qualification of the Notes for offer and sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification of the Notes and, if any such order is issued, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.
          (e) Ongoing Compliance. (1) If during the Prospectus Delivery Period (i) any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the Commission and furnish to the Underwriters and to such dealers as the Representatives may designate such amendments or supplements to the Prospectus as may be necessary so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus will comply with law and (2) if at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Pricing Disclosure Package as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Pricing Disclosure Package is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Pricing Disclosure Package to comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the Commission (to the extent required) and furnish to the Underwriters and to such dealers as the Representatives may designate such amendments or supplements to the Pricing Disclosure Package as may be necessary so that the statements in the Pricing Disclosure Package as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Pricing Disclosure Package is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Pricing Disclosure Package will comply with law.
          (f) Blue Sky Compliance. The Company will qualify the Notes for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws (including insurance securities laws) of such jurisdictions as the Representatives shall reasonably request and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for distribution of the Notes; provided , that the Company shall not be required to (i) qualify as a foreign corporation or other entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to so qualify, (ii) file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not otherwise so subject.
          (g) Earning Statement. The Company will make generally available to its security holders and the Representatives as soon as practicable an earning statement that satisfies the provisions of Section

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11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 of the Commission promulgated thereunder covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the “effective date” (as defined in Rule 158) of the Registration Statement.
          (h) Agreement Not to Offer or Sell Additional Securities. During the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the Closing Date, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives (which consent may be withheld at the sole discretion of the Representatives), directly or indirectly, sell, offer, contract or grant any option to sell, pledge, transfer or establish an open “put equivalent position” within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(h) under the Exchange Act, or otherwise dispose of or transfer, or announce the offering of, or file any registration statement under the Securities Act in respect of, any debt securities of the Company similar to the Notes or securities exchangeable for or convertible into debt securities similar to the Notes (other than as contemplated by this Agreement with respect to the Notes).
          (i) Use of Proceeds. The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes as described in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus under the heading “Use of Proceeds”.
          (j) No Stabilization. The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Stock.
          (k) Reports. So long as the Notes are outstanding, the Company will furnish to the Representatives, as soon as they are available, copies of all reports or other communications (financial or other) furnished to holders of the Notes, and copies of any reports and financial statements furnished to or filed with the Commission or any national securities exchange or automatic quotation system; provided , the Company will be deemed to have furnished such reports and financial statements to the Representatives to the extent they are filed on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system.
          (l) Record Retention . The Company will, pursuant to reasonable procedures developed in good faith, retain copies of each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not filed with the Commission in accordance with Rule 433 under the Securities Act.
     5.  Certain Agreements of the Underwriters . Each Underwriter hereby represents and agrees that:
          (a) It has not used, authorized use of, referred to or participated in the planning for use of, and will not use, authorize use of, refer to or participate in the planning for use of, any “free writing prospectus”, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (which term includes use of any written information furnished to the Commission by the Company and not incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and any press release issued by the Company) other than (i) a free writing prospectus that contains no “issuer information” (as defined in Rule 433(h)(2) under the Securities Act) that was not included (including through incorporation by reference) in the Preliminary Prospectus or a previously filed Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, (ii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Annex B or prepared pursuant to Section 3(c) or Section 4(c) above (including any electronic road show), or (iii) any free writing prospectus prepared by such underwriter and approved by the Company in advance in writing (each such free writing prospectus referred to in clauses (i) or (iii), an “Underwriter Free Writing Prospectus”).
          (b) It has not and will not, without the prior written consent of the Company, use any free writing prospectus that contains the final terms of the Notes unless such terms have previously been

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included in a free writing prospectus filed with the Commission; provided , that Underwriters may use a term sheet substantially in the form of Annex C hereto without the consent of the Company; provided, further, that any Underwriter using such term sheet shall notify the Company, and provide a copy of such term sheet to the Company, prior to, or substantially concurrently with, the first use of such term sheet.
     6.  Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations . The obligation of each Underwriter to purchase the Notes on the Closing Date as provided herein is subject to the performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
          (a) Registration Compliance; No Stop Order. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceeding for such purpose, pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission; the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission under the Securities Act (in the case of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act) and in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof; and all requests by the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representatives.
          (b) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company contained herein shall be true and correct on the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date; and the statements of the Company and its officers made in any certificates delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date.
          (c) No Downgrade. Subsequent to the earlier of (A) the Applicable Time and (B) the execution and delivery of this Agreement, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Notes or any debt securities or preferred stock of, or guaranteed by, the Company or any of its subsidiaries that are rated by a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities Act and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, or has changed its outlook with respect to, its rating of the Notes or any such debt securities or preferred stock (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading).
          (d) No Material Adverse Change. No event or condition of a type described in Section 3(g) hereof shall have occurred or shall exist, which event or condition is not described in the Pricing Disclosure Package (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and the Prospectus (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and the effect of which in the judgment of the Representatives makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Notes on the Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
          (e) Officer’s Certificate. The Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date, a certificate of the chief financial officer or chief accounting officer of the Company and one additional senior executive officer of the Company who is satisfactory to the Representatives on behalf of the Company (i) confirming that such officers have carefully reviewed the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus and, to the knowledge of such officers, the representations set forth in Sections 3(b) and 3(d) hereof are true and correct, (ii) confirming that the other representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct and that the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date, and (iii) to the effect set forth in paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) above.

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          (f) Comfort Letters. On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, KPMG LLP shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus; provided, that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three business days prior to such Closing Date.
          (g) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsels for the Company. Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, counsel for the Company, and Michael L. Gravelle, in-house counsel for the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, their written opinion and 10b-5 statement, dated the Closing Date, and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
          (h) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Underwriters. The Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date an opinion and 10b-5 statement of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to such matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
          (i) No Legal Impediment to Issuance. No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date prevent the issuance or sale of the Notes; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Notes.
          (j) Good Standing . The Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company and its Significant Subsidiaries in their respective jurisdictions of organization and their good standing as foreign entities in such other jurisdictions as the Representatives may reasonably request, in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication from the appropriate governmental authorities of such jurisdictions.
          (k) Additional Documents. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives such further certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request.
     All opinions, letters, certificates and evidence mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters.
     7.  Indemnification and Contribution.
          (a) Indemnification of the Underwriters. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, legal fees and other expenses incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred), joint or several, that arise out of, or are based upon, (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or

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necessary in order to make the statements therein, not misleading, (ii) or any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any “issuer information” filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act or any Pricing Disclosure Package, or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in subsection (b) below.
          (b) Indemnification of the Company. Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a) above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities that arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Pricing Disclosure Package, it being understood and agreed upon that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the following information in the Prospectus furnished on behalf of each Underwriter: the concession and reallowance figures appearing in the fifth paragraph and the information concerning short selling and purchasing contained in the ninth and tenth paragraphs under the caption “Underwriting”.
          (c) Notice and Procedures. If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any person in respect of which indemnification may be sought pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such person (the “ Indemnified Person ”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnification may be sought (the “ Indemnifying Person ”) in writing; provided , that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under paragraph (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided , further , that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an Indemnified Person otherwise than under paragraph (a) or (b) above. If any such proceeding shall be brought or asserted against an Indemnified Person and it shall have notified the Indemnifying Person thereof, the Indemnifying Person shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person (who shall not, without the consent of the Indemnified Person, be counsel to the Indemnifying Person) to represent the Indemnified Person in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding, as incurred. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person 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 Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the Indemnifying Person has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person; (iii) the Indemnified Person shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the Indemnifying Person; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interest between them. It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying Person shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be

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liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Indemnified Persons, and that all such fees and expenses shall be paid or reimbursed as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for any Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of such Underwriter shall be designated in writing by Banc of America Securities LLC and any such separate firm for the Company, its directors, its officers who signed the Registration Statement and any control persons of the Company shall be designated in writing by the Company. The Indemnifying Person shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the Indemnifying Person agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person shall have requested that an Indemnifying Person reimburse the Indemnified Person for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this paragraph, the Indemnifying Person shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by the Indemnifying Person of such request and (ii) the Indemnifying Person shall not have reimbursed the Indemnified Person in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No Indemnifying Person shall, without the written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (y) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.
          (d) Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) above is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters on the other, from the offering of the Notes or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) but also the relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters on the other, in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters on the other, shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds (before deducting expenses) received by the Company from the sale of the Notes and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters in connection therewith, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate offering price of the Notes. The relative fault of the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters on the other, shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
          (e) Limitation on Liability. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with any such action or claim.

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Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 7, in no event shall an Underwriter be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the offering of the Notes exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7 are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations hereunder and not joint.
          (f) Non-Exclusive Remedies. The remedies provided for in this Section 7 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity.
     8.  Effectiveness of Agreement . This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.
     9.  Termination . This Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, by notice to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on or by any of the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Stock Market, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange or the Chicago Board of Trade; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York State authorities; or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, in the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Notes on the Closing Date on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus.
     10.  Defaulting Underwriter.
          (a) If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter defaults on its obligation to purchase the Notes that it has agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, the non-defaulting Underwriters may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Notes by other persons satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained in this Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any Underwriter, the non-defaulting Underwriters do not arrange for the purchase of such Notes, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within which to procure other persons satisfactory to the non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase such Notes on such terms. If other persons become obligated or agree to purchase the Notes of a defaulting Underwriter, either the non-defaulting Underwriters or the Company may postpone the Closing Date for up to five full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel for the Company or counsel for the Underwriters may be necessary in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or in any other document or arrangement, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus that effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires, any person not listed in Schedule 1 hereto that, pursuant to this Section 10, purchases Notes that a defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase.
          (b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Notes of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in

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paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of Notes that remain unpurchased on the Closing Date does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be purchased on such date, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the aggregate principal amount of Notes that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder on such date plus such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on the aggregate principal amount of Notes that such Underwriter agreed to purchase on such date) of the Notes of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made.
          (c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Notes of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of Notes that remain unpurchased on the Closing Date exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate amount of Notes to be purchased on such date, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in paragraph (b) above, then this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10 shall be without liability on the part of the Company, except that the Company will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Section 11 hereof and except that the provisions of Section 7 hereof shall not terminate and shall remain in effect.
          (d) Nothing contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of any liability it may have to the Company or any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages caused by its default.
     11.  Payment of Expenses .
          (a) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company will pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations hereunder, including without limitation, (i) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Notes and any taxes payable in connection therewith; (ii) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and filing under the Securities Act of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Pricing Disclosure Package and the Prospectus (including all exhibits, amendments and supplements thereto) and the distribution thereof; (iii) the fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and independent accountants; (iv) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the registration or qualification of the Notes under the state or foreign securities or blue sky laws (including insurance securities laws) of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate and the preparation, printing and distribution of a Blue Sky Memorandum (including the related fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters); (v) the cost of preparing global Notes; (vi) any fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Notes; (vii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and any paying agent (including related fees and expenses of any counsel to such parties); (viii) all fees and expenses of the Company in connection with approval of the Notes by DTC for “book-entry” transfer; (ix) all expenses and application fees incurred in connection with any filing with, and clearance of the offering by, the FINRA; and (x) all expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors.
          (b) If (i) this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 9, (ii) the Company for any reason fails to tender the Notes for delivery to the Underwriters or (iii) the Underwriters decline to purchase the Notes for any reason permitted under this Agreement, the Company agrees to reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the fees and expenses of their counsel) reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in connection with this Agreement and the offering contemplated hereby.
     12.  Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement . This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers and directors and any

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controlling persons referred to in Section 7 hereof. Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any other person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision contained herein. No purchaser of Notes from any Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor merely by reason of such purchase.
     13.  Survival . The respective indemnities, rights of contribution, representations, warranties and agreements of the Company and the Underwriters contained in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of the Company or the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement or any certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the delivery of and payment for the Notes and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any termination of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Company or the Underwriters.
     14.  Certain Defined Terms . For purposes of this Agreement, (a) except where otherwise expressly provided, the term “affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; (b) the term “business day” means any day other than a day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City; and (c) the term “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.
     15.  Miscellaneous.
          (a) Authority of the Representatives. Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may be taken by the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such action taken by the Representatives shall be binding upon the Underwriters.
          (b) Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted and confirmed by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices to the Underwriters shall be given to the Representatives c/o Banc of America Securities LLC, One Bryant Park, NY1-100-18-03, New York, NY 10036, Facsimile: 646-855-5958, Attention: High Grade Transaction Management/Legal and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179 Fax: 212-834-6081; Attention High Grade Syndicate Desk. Notices to the Company shall be given to it at Fidelity National Financial, Inc., 601 Riverside Ave., Jacksonville, FL 32204, Attn: General Counsel, Fax: 904-357-1005.
          (c) Governing Law. This Agreement 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.
          (d) Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts (which may include counterparts delivered by any standard form of telecommunication), each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
          (e) Amendments or Waivers. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the parties hereto.
          (f) Headings. The headings herein are included for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement.

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     If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please indicate your acceptance of this Agreement by signing in the space provided below.
         
  Very truly yours,

FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL, INC.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Michael L. Gravelle    
    Name:   Michael L. Gravelle   
    Title:   Executive Vice President,
General Counsel and
Corporate Secretary 
 

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     The foregoing Underwriting Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted by the Representatives as of the date first above written.
         
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.
     For themselves and on behalf of the
     several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto.
 
   
By:   Banc of America Securities LLC      
       
     
By:   /s/ Joseph A. Crowley      
  Name:   Joseph A. Crowley     
  Title:   Vice President     
     
By:   J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.      
       
     
By:   /s/ Robert Bottamedi      
  Name:   Robert Bottamedi     
  Title:   Vice President     

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SCHEDULE 1
         
    Aggregate
    Principal
    Amount of
    Notes to be
Underwriters   Purchased
Banc of America Securities LLC
  $ 105,000,000  
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
  $ 105,000,000  
Barclays Capital Inc.
  $ 30,000,000  
U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.
  $ 30,000,000  
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
  $ 30,000,000  
 
       
Total
  $ 300,000,000  

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Annex A-1
[FORM OF U.S. COMPANY COUNSEL OPINION]

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Annex A-2
[FORM OF U.S. COMPANY COUNSEL LETTER]

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Annex A-3
[FORM OF COMPANY GENERAL COUNSEL OPINION]

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Annex B
ISSUER FREE WRITING PROSPECTUSES
Final Term Sheet dated April 30, 2010.

 


 

ANNEX C
Filed Pursuant to Rule 433
Dated April 30 th , 2010
Registration Statement No. 333-147391
FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL, INC.
$300 MILLION 6.60% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2017
FINAL TERM SHEET
     
Issuer:
  Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
Ratings*:
  Baa3 (stable) (Moody’s)/BBB- (neg) (S&P)
Security Type:
  Senior Unsecured Fixed Rate Notes
Offering Format:
  SEC Registered
Principal Amount:
  $300,000,000
Issue Price:
  99.897%
Underwriting Discount:
  0.625%
Gross Proceeds to Issuer:
  $297,816,000
Trade Date:
  April 30, 2010
Settlement Date:
  May 5, 2010 (T + 3)
Maturity Date:
  May 15, 2017
Denominations:
  $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof
Coupon:
  6.60%
Interest Payment Dates:
  Semi-annually on May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing on November 15, 2010
Record Dates:
  May 1 and November 1
Treasury Benchmark:
  3 1 / 4 % due March 2017
Treasury Price:
  100-26
Treasury Yield:
  3.118%
Spread to Treasury Benchmark:
  350 basis points
Re-offer Yield
  6.618%
Optional Redemption:
  At any time, in whole or in part, until maturity subject to a make-whole amount calculated using a discount rate of Treasury plus 50 basis points
CUSIP / ISIN:
  31620RAC9 / US31620RAC97
Joint Book-Running Managers:
  Banc of America Securities LLC
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
Co-Managers:
  Barclays Capital Inc.
U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc.
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
 
*   Ratings may be changed, suspended or withdrawn at any time and are not a recommendation to buy, hold or sell any security. The ratings are subject to revision or withdrawal at any time by Moody’s or S&P. Each of the security ratings above should be evaluated independently of any other security rating.
The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus and a preliminary prospectus supplement) with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus and the preliminary prospectus supplement in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov . Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus and preliminary prospectus supplement if you request it by calling Banc of America Securities LLC, toll-free at (800) 294-1322, or J.P.Morgan Securities Inc., collect at (212) 834-4533.

 

Exhibit 4.1
Second Supplemental Indenture
      Second Supplemental Indenture (the “ Second Supplemental Indenture ”), dated as of May 5, 2010, between Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (formerly known as Fidelity National Title Group, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (formerly known as The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.), a national banking association (the “ Trustee ”).
      Whereas , the Company and the Trustee entered into an Indenture (the “ Original Indenture ”), dated as of December 8, 2005, pursuant to which the Company may issue securities from time to time;
      Whereas , the Company and the Trustee entered into a First Supplemental Indenture (the “ First Supplemental Indenture ,” and the Original Indenture, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture, the “ First Amended Indenture ,” and the First Amended Indenture, as amended by this Second Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”), dated as of January 6, 2006, which amended certain provisions on the Original Indenture;
      Whereas , on November 9, 2006, the Company changed its corporate name from “Fidelity National Title Group, Inc.” to “Fidelity National Financial, Inc.”;
      Whereas , the Company desires to make certain additional amendments to the provisions of the First Amended Indenture pursuant to Section 8.1(5) thereof, which amendments shall not apply to any Outstanding Security issued prior to the date hereof; and
      Whereas , all things necessary to make this Second Supplemental Indenture the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company have been done.
      Now, Therefore , for and in consideration of the premises, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as follows:
      Section 1. Section 5.1(4) of the First Amended Indenture is hereby amended by replacing the entire text of such subsection with the following:
          “(4) default under the Company’s indebtedness (other than Securities of such series) in the payment by the Company, when due, of an aggregate principal amount of such indebtedness exceeding one hundred million Dollars ($100,000,000), or default under any such indebtedness (other than Securities of such series) which results in such indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount exceeding one hundred million Dollars ($100,000,000) becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable, in each case without such acceleration having been rescinded or annulled, or such indebtedness having been paid in full, or there having been deposited into trust a sum of money sufficient to pay in full such indebtedness, within ten (10) days after receipt of written notice of such default or breach (which notice shall state that such notice is a “Notice of Default” under this Indenture) to the Company (by registered or certified mail) by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee (in each case by registered or certified mail) by Holders of at least twenty five

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percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series;”
      Section 2. Section 1.1 of the First Amended Indenture is hereby amended by inserting the following definition immediately after the definition of “Credit Agreement” therein:
Covered Subsidiaries ” means any present or future Subsidiary of the Company, the consolidated total assets of which, determined as of the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter of the Company ended at least thirty (30) days prior to the date of determination, for which fiscal quarter internal financial statements are available and have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect on the last day of such fiscal quarter, constitute at least fifteen percent (15%) of the Company’s total consolidated assets, and any successor to any such Subsidiary whose consolidated total assets likewise satisfy such requirement; provided , however , that Covered Subsidiaries shall in no event include any Subsidiary of the Company that is not itself an insurance company or the direct or indirect owner of one or more subsidiaries that is an insurance company.
      Section 3. Section 9.8 of the First Amended Indenture is hereby amended by replacing the entire text of such section with the following:
     “Section 9.8. Limitation on Liens . The Company shall not, and the Company shall not permit any of its Covered Subsidiaries to, incur, assume or guarantee any Debt secured by a Lien on any Voting Stock issued by any of the Company’s Covered Subsidiaries, unless the Outstanding Securities of each series are, for so long as such Debt is so secured, secured by such Voting Stock equally and ratably with (or prior to) such Debt; provided , however , that this Section 9.8 shall not apply to (i) Liens existing at the time a corporation or other entity becomes a Covered Subsidiary or any renewal, extension or replacement, in whole or in part, of any such Liens; (ii) Liens on shares of subsidiaries that are not Covered Subsidiaries; or (iii) any series of Securities at any time when no Securities of such series are Outstanding. Each Lien, if any, granted, pursuant to this Section 9.8, to secure any Securities shall automatically and unconditionally be deemed to be released and discharged upon the release and discharge of the Lien whose existence caused such Securities to be required, by this Section 9.8, to be so secured, provided such Lien is not then otherwise required, by this Section 9.8, to so secure such Securities.”
      Section 4. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall Section 1, Section 2 or Section 3 apply to any Outstanding Security issued prior to the date hereof. It is expressly understood that the Company intends to establish, after the execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Second Supplemental Indenture, a new series of Securities under the Indenture titled “6.60% Senior Notes due 2017.”
      Section 5. The Indenture, as amended hereby, is in all respects ratified and confirmed, and the terms and conditions thereof, as amended hereby, shall be and remain in full force and effect.
      Section 6. The recitals contained in this Second Supplemental Indenture shall be

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taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee shall have no liability or responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Second Supplemental Indenture.
      Section 7. THIS SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
      Section 8. This Second Supplemental Indenture may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.
      Section 9. Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
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      In Witness Whereof , the parties hereto have caused this Second Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the date first written above.
         
  Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Anthony J. Park    
    Name:   Anthony J. Park   
    Title:   Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer   
         
   
Attest:   /s/ Goodloe Partee    
  Name:   Goodloe Partee   
  Title:   Senior Vice President, Legal   
         
  The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.
 
 
  By:   /s/ Christie Leppert    
    Name:   Christie Leppert   
    Title:   Vice President   
 

Exhibit 4.2
CERTIFICATE OF
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
AND
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, GENERAL COUNSEL AND CORPORATE SECRETARY
PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 1.2, 2.1, 3.1 AND 3.3
OF THE INDENTURE
MAY 5, 2010
     The undersigned, Anthony J. Park and Michael L. Gravelle, do hereby certify that they are the duly appointed and acting Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, respectively, of Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (formerly known as Fidelity National Title Group, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”). Whereas the Company has determined to issue, offer and sell a newly established series of Securities (as defined in the Indenture referred to below) to the public, at an initial public offering price equal to 99.897% of the principal amount of such Securities, in an underwritten public offering, subject to underwriting discounts and commissions equal to 0.625% of the principal amount of such Securities, each of the undersigned also hereby certifies in the capacities set forth above, pursuant to Sections 1.2, 2.1, 3.1 and 3.3 of the Indenture (the “ Base Indenture ”), dated as of December 8, 2005, between Fidelity National Title Group, Inc. (as predecessor in interest to the Company) and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (now known as The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.), as Trustee, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture (the “ First Supplemental Indenture ”), dated as of January 6, 2006, between such parties, and by the Second Supplemental Indenture (the “ Second Supplemental Indenture ,” and the Base Indenture, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture and the Second Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”), dated as of the date hereof (and heretofore executed and delivered), between such parties, that:
     A. The Board of Directors of the Company, pursuant to resolutions duly adopted by such Board of Directors (a copy of such resolutions being attached hereto as Exhibit A ), has authorized the undersigned to take such action as is necessary to establish such new series of Securities to be issued under the Indenture, and to determine and establish the form and terms thereof, and the undersigned, pursuant to the Indenture, hereby establish such new series with the terms set forth below in this clause A and elsewhere in this Certificate:
     1. The title of the Securities of the series is “6.60% Senior Notes due 2017” (the “ Notes ”), CUSIP number 31620RAC9.
     2. The limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Notes which may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture (except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes pursuant to Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 8.6 or 10.7 of the Indenture, and except as provided in the last sentence of Section 3.1(c) of the Indenture) is three hundred million Dollars ($300,000,000). The limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Notes may be increased by the Company without the consent of the holders of any outstanding Notes.

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     3. The date on which the principal of the Notes is payable, unless the Notes are theretofore accelerated or redeemed pursuant to the Indenture, shall be May 15, 2017. The Notes shall bear no premium.
     4. The rate at which the Notes shall bear interest shall be 6.60% per annum. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and shall be payable semi-annually in arrears in accordance herewith and with the Indenture.
     5. Interest on the Notes shall accrue on the principal amount from, and including, the most recent date to which interest has been paid or provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from, and including, the date hereof, in each case to, but excluding, the next Interest Payment Date or May 15, 2017, as the case may be.
     6. The Interest Payment Dates of the Notes shall be May 15 and November 15 of each year. The initial Interest Payment Date shall be November 15, 2010. The Regular Record Date corresponding to any Interest Payment Date occurring on May 15 shall be the immediately preceding May 1, and the Regular Record Date corresponding to any Interest Payment Date occurring on November 15 shall be the immediately preceding November 1. Interest payable on the Notes on an Interest Payment Date shall be payable to the persons in whose name the Notes are registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such Interest Payment Date, except that interest payable on May 15, 2017 shall be payable to the persons to whom principal is payable on such date; provided , however , that Defaulted Interest shall be payable as provided in the Indenture.
     7. The Place of Payment where the principal of and interest on the Notes shall be payable is at the agency of the Trustee maintained for that purpose at the office of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., 101 Barclay Street, Floor 21W, New York, New York 10286; provided , however , that payment of interest, other than on May 15, 2017, may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed to the address of the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Register; and provided further that the Depository, or its nominee, as holder of Notes in global form, shall be entitled to receive payments of interest and principal by wire transfer of immediately available funds.
     8. Article 10 of the Indenture shall apply to the Notes.
  (a)   The Notes shall be redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, at a Redemption Price, payable in cash, equal to the greater of: (x) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed; and (y) the sum of the present values of the remaining (as of the Redemption Date for such redemption) scheduled interest and principal payments on the Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed (excluding interest accrued to such Redemption Date), discounted to such Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the applicable Treasury Yield plus fifty (50) basis points, in each case plus unpaid interest that has accrued to, but excluding, such Redemption Date;

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      provided , however , that if such Redemption Date is after a Regular Record Date for the Notes and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, then the payment of interest becoming due on such Interest Payment Date shall be payable, on such Interest Payment Date, to the Holder of record at the close of business on such Regular Record Date, and the Redemption Price shall not include unpaid interest that has accrued to, but excluding, such Redemption Date. The Notes shall not be redeemable by the Company except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence. The Notes shall not be redeemable at the election of any Holder, except to the extent that the principal of, and interest on, the Notes may be accelerated in accordance with Article 5 of the Indenture.
 
  (b)   For purposes of the Notes, the following definitions shall be inserted in Section 1.1 of the Indenture:
 
      Comparable Treasury Issue ” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes and that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes.
 
      Comparable Treasury Price ” of a Comparable Treasury Issue means, with respect to any Redemption Date: (x) the average of the bid and the asked prices for such Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed as a percentage of its principal amount, at 4:00 p.m. on the third (3rd) Business Day preceding such Redemption Date, as set forth on “Telerate Page 500,” or such other page as may replace Telerate Page 500; or (y) if Telerate Page 500, or any successor page, is not displayed or does not contain bid and asked prices for such Comparable Treasury Issue at that time, the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations obtained by the Trustee for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or, if the Trustee is unable to obtain at least four (4) such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations obtained by the Trustee.
 
      Independent Investment Banker ” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers, or its successor, selected by the Company or, if it is unwilling or unable to select the applicable Comparable Treasury Issue, an independent investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the Trustee and reasonably acceptable to the Company.
 
      Reference Treasury Dealers ” means Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. (or their respective successors) and three (3) other primary U.S. government securities dealers in New York City selected by Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities

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      Inc. (each, a “ Primary Treasury Dealer ”). If any of the foregoing ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company shall substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer in its place.
 
      Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations ” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date for the Notes, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue for the Notes, expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount, quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third (3rd) Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
 
      Treasury Yield ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date applicable to the Notes, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity, computed as of the third (3rd) Business Day immediately preceding such Redemption Date, of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed as a percentage of its principal amount, equal to the applicable Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.
 
  (c)   For purposes of the Notes, (i) the phrase “equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or any integral multiple thereof” in Section 10.3 of the Indenture shall be replaced with the phrase “equal to any authorized denomination for Securities of that series”; (ii) the phrase “in such manner as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate” in Section 10.3 of the Indenture shall be replaced with the phrase “on a pro rata basis or by any other method the Trustee deems fair and appropriate”; (iii) the phrase “the Redemption Price” in Section 10.4(2) shall be replaced with the phrase “the Redemption Price and the aggregate principal amount to be redeemed pursuant to such redemption”; and (iv) the clause “, and (unless the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) interest accrued to the Redemption Date on,” in Section 10.5 of the Indenture shall be deleted.
 
  (d)   For purposes of the Notes, the text of the first (1st) paragraph of Section 10.6 of the Indenture shall be amended to read as follows:
 
      Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the applicable Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein specified (subject to the Company’s obligation, if applicable, to pay, on the Interest Payment Date that occurs on, or immediately following, such Redemption Date, unpaid interest on such Securities that has accrued to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date), and from and after such Redemption Date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price or, if applicable, such interest) such Securities shall cease to be Outstanding or to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in

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      accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price; provided , however , that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, installments of interest on Registered Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall, without duplication, be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant record date according to their terms and this Indenture.
     9. There shall be no obligation of the Company to redeem or purchase the Notes pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions, or to repay any of the Notes prior to May 15, 2017 at the option of a Holder thereof. Article 11 of the Indenture shall not apply to the Notes.
     10. The Notes shall be issued in fully registered form as Registered Securities (and shall in no event be issuable in the form of Bearer Securities) in denominations of two thousand Dollars ($2,000) or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of one thousand Dollars ($1,000). The Notes shall be denominated, and all payments thereon shall be made, in Dollars.
     11. The principal amount of the Notes shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2 of the Indenture, and the Notes shall not constitute an Original Issue Discount Security.
     12. Article 4 of the Indenture shall apply to the Notes. For purposes of the Notes, each occurrence of the phrase “Sections 7.1, 9.4 (other than the Company’s obligation to maintain its corporate existence), 9.8 and 9.10” in Section 4.5 of the Indenture shall be replaced with the phrase “Sections 7.1, 9.4 (other than the Company’s obligation to maintain its corporate existence), 9.6, 9.8, 9.9 and 9.10”.
     13. No Additional Amounts shall be payable on or in respect of the Notes.
     14. The Notes shall initially be issued in global form. The Depository Trust Company shall be the initial Depository for the Notes. The Notes shall be transferred only in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.5 of the Indenture. Beneficial interests in Notes issued in global form shall be exchangeable for certificated Securities representing such Notes only in the circumstances set forth in the seventh (7th) paragraph of Section 3.5 of the Indenture.
     15. For purposes of the Notes, amounts deposited pursuant to Section 4.1 of the Indenture may, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Indenture, consist of cash, Government Obligations or a combination of cash and Government Obligations, in each case on the same basis on which the Company is permitted, pursuant to Section 4.6(a) of the Indenture, to deposit cash, Government Obligations or a combination of cash and Government Obligations to effect a defeasance or covenant defeasance.

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     16. For purposes of the Notes, the following sentence shall be inserted at the end of the first paragraph of Section 1.6 of the Indenture: “For avoidance of doubt, notice to any Holder(s) of any Security that is issued in global form and registered in the name of a Depository or a nominee thereof shall be sufficient in all respects if given in compliance with the rules, policies, procedures, practices or instructions of such Depository.”
     17. For avoidance of doubt, (i) the phrase “accrued interest” in Section 5.2 of the Indenture refers to accrued and unpaid interest; and (ii) the phrase “interest upon installments of interest” in Section 5.2(1) of the Indenture refers to interest upon overdue installments of interest.
     18. For purposes of the Notes, the following sentences shall be inserted at the end of Section 9.6 of the Indenture: “For avoidance of doubt, in no event shall the Company be required to deliver to, or file with, the Trustee any material for which the Company is seeking, or has received, confidential treatment from the Commission. For purposes of this Section 9.6, each document or other report of the Company that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, shall be deemed to be delivered to, and filed with, the Trustee (and, if applicable, the Holders) if such document or report is so filed through the Commission’s EDGAR or IDEA database (or any successor thereto).”
     19. For purposes of the Notes, the phrase “a Default in payment on the Securities of any series” in Section 6.6 shall be replaced with the phrase “a Default with respect to Securities of any series (other than a Default in payment on Securities of such series)”.
     B. The form of the global Security representing the Notes is attached hereto as Exhibit B.
     C. The Notes shall be initially issued on the date hereof.
     D. The Trustee is appointed as the initial Registrar and Paying Agent.
     E. For avoidance of doubt, the Second Supplemental Indenture has been executed and delivered, and has become effective, prior to the execution and delivery of this Certificate, the establishment of the series constituting the Notes and the execution, authentication and delivery of the Notes, and the Notes shall be subject to the Second Supplemental Indenture.
     F. The foregoing form and terms of the Notes have been established in conformity with the provisions of the Indenture.
     G. The undersigned have read the provisions of Sections 3.1 and 3.3 of the Indenture and the definitions relating thereto and the resolutions adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company delivered herewith and have examined the form of global Security representing the Notes. Each of the undersigned certifies that, in his opinion, (i) he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not all conditions precedent provided in the Indenture relating to the establishment, authentication

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and delivery of the series of Securities under the Indenture designated as the Notes in this Certificate have been complied with; and (ii) all such conditions precedent have been complied with.
     H. The undersigned, by execution of this Certificate, hereby certify that attached hereto as Exhibits A and B , respectively, are (i) copies of resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company on April 21, 2010 pursuant to which the issuance of the Notes has been approved and the authority to set and establish the terms of the Notes in this Certificate and pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 3.1 of the Indenture has been granted to the undersigned; and (ii) the form of global Security representing the Notes as approved by the undersigned.
     Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture.
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      In Witness Whereof , each of the undersigned has hereunto set his hand as of the date first set forth above.
         
     
  /s/ Anthony J. Park    
  Anthony J. Park   
  Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer 
 
 
     
  /s/ Michael L. Gravelle    
  Michael L. Gravelle   
  Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary   
 

 


 

EXHIBIT A
[RESOLUTIONS]

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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF 6.60% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2017
THIS SECURITY IS IN GLOBAL FORM WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN CERTIFICATED FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
     
No. A-1   CUSIP No.: 31620RAC9
6.60% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2017
      Fidelity National Financial, Inc. , a Delaware corporation, promises to pay to Cede & Co., or its registered assigns, the principal sum of three hundred million Dollars ($300,000,000) on May 15, 2017.
Interest Payment Dates: May 15 and November 15, with the first Interest Payment Date to be November 15, 2010
Regular Record Dates: May 1 and November 1
Authenticated: May 5, 2010
Dated: May 5, 2010
                     
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.                
 
                   
By:
          By:        
 
                   
 
  Name:           Name:    
 
  Title:           Title:    

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Certificate of Authentication
      The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. , as Trustee, certifies that this is one of the Securities of the series described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
         
  The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.
     as Trustee
 
 
  By:      
    Authorized Signatory   
       
 

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Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
6.60% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2017
     1. INTEREST. Fidelity National Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security at the rate of 6.60% per annum, payable semiannually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year (each, an “ Interest Payment Date ”), commencing on November 15, 2010, until the principal is paid or made available for payment. Interest on this Security will accrue from, and including, the most recent date to which interest has been paid or provided for or, if no interest has been paid, from, and including, the date hereof, in each case to, but excluding, the next Interest Payment Date or May 15, 2017, as the case may be. Interest shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
     2. METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company shall pay interest on this Security (except defaulted interest, if any, which shall be paid on such special payment date as may be fixed in accordance with the Indenture referred to below) to the persons who are registered Holders at the close of business on the May 1 or November 1 immediately preceding the applicable Interest Payment Date, except that interest payable on May 15, 2017 shall be payable to the persons to whom principal is payable on such date. A holder must surrender this Security to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The Company shall pay principal and interest in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
     3. PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., shall act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change or appoint any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar.
     4. INDENTURE. The Company issued this Security under the Indenture (the “ Base Indenture ”), dated as of December 8, 2005, between Fidelity National Title Group, Inc. (as predecessor in interest to the Company) and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (now known as The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.), as Trustee, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture (the “ First Supplemental Indenture ”), dated as of January 6, 2006, between such parties, and by the Second Supplemental Indenture (the “ Second Supplemental Indenture ,” and the Base Indenture, as amended by the First Supplemental Indenture and the Second Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”), dated as of May 5, 2010, between such parties. The terms of this Security were established pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate, dated May 5, 2010 (the “ Establishing Officers’ Certificate ”), which modifies certain provisions of the Indenture for purposes of this Security. The terms of this Security include those stated in the Indenture (as modified by the Establishing Officers’ Certificate), those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (“ TIA ”) and those set forth in the Establishing Officers’ Certificate. This Security is subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture, the TIA and the Establishing Officers’ Certificate. The Company will provide a copy of the Indenture and the Establishing Officers’ Certificate, without charge, upon written request to the Company sent to 601 Riverside Avenue, Jacksonville, Florida 32204,

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Attention: Corporate Secretary. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture.
     5. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder or Holders of this Security shall be treated as owners of it for all purposes.
     6. OPTIONAL REDEMPTION. This Security is redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, at a Redemption Price, payable in cash, equal to the greater of: (x) 100% of the principal amount to be redeemed; and (y) the sum of the present values of the remaining (as of the Redemption Date for such redemption) scheduled interest and principal payments on this Security (or the portion hereof) to be redeemed (excluding interest accrued to such Redemption Date), discounted to such Redemption Date on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the applicable Treasury Yield plus fifty (50) basis points, in each case plus unpaid interest that has accrued to, but excluding, such Redemption Date; provided , however , that if such Redemption Date is after a Regular Record Date for this Security and on or before the related Interest Payment Date, then the payment of interest becoming due on such Interest Payment Date shall be payable, on such Interest Payment Date, to the Holder of record hereof at the close of business on such Regular Record Date, and the Redemption Price shall not include unpaid interest that has accrued to, but excluding, such Redemption Date. This Security shall not be redeemable by the Company except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence. This Security shall not be redeemable at the election of any Holder, except to the extent that the principal of, and interest on, this Security may be accelerated in accordance with Article 5 of the Indenture.
     For purposes of determining the Redemption Price, the following definitions are applicable:
     “ Comparable Treasury Issue ” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of this Security and that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of this Security.
     “ Comparable Treasury Price ” of a Comparable Treasury Issue means, with respect to any Redemption Date: (x) the average of the bid and the asked prices for such Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed as a percentage of its principal amount, at 4:00 p.m. on the third (3rd) Business Day preceding such Redemption Date, as set forth on “Telerate Page 500,” or such other page as may replace Telerate Page 500; or (y) if Telerate Page 500, or any successor page, is not displayed or does not contain bid and asked prices for such Comparable Treasury Issue at that time, the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations obtained by the Trustee for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest of such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or, if the Trustee is unable to obtain at least four (4) such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations obtained by the Trustee.

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     “ Independent Investment Banker ” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers, or its successor, selected by the Company or, if it is unwilling or unable to select the applicable Comparable Treasury Issue, an independent investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the Trustee and reasonably acceptable to the Company.
     “ Reference Treasury Dealers ” means Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. (or their respective successors) and three (3) other primary U.S. government securities dealers in New York City selected by Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. (each, a “ Primary Treasury Dealer ”). If any of the foregoing ceases to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company shall substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer in its place.
     “ Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations ” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date for this Security, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue for this Security, expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount, quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third (3rd) Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
     “ Treasury Yield ” means, with respect to any Redemption Date applicable to this Security, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity, computed as of the third (3rd) Business Day immediately preceding such Redemption Date, of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue, expressed as a percentage of its principal amount, equal to the applicable Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.
     7. LEGAL HOLIDAYS. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Stated Maturity or Maturity of this Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of the Indenture or of this Security), payment of principal or interest need not be made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on such date; provided that no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Stated Maturity or Maturity, as the case may be.
     8. UNCLAIMED MONEY. Subject to the terms of the Indenture, if money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for two (2) years, the Trustee or Paying Agent shall pay the money back to the Company at its request, and thereafter Holders entitled to the money shall, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease.
     9. AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or this Security may be amended or supplemented with the consent of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Holders affected by the amendment. Without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture or this

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Security to, among other things, cure certain ambiguities or correct certain mistakes or to create another series of Securities and establish its terms.
     10. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. The Events of Default set forth in Sections 5.1(1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) of the Indenture apply to this Security.
          If an Event of Default with respect to the Outstanding securities of the same series as this Security occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of all Outstanding securities of the same series as this Security, by written notice to the Company (and, if given by the Holders, to the Trustee), may declare the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the aggregate principal amount of all Outstanding securities of the same series as this Security to be due and payable, and upon any such declaration, such principal and interest, if any, shall be immediately due and payable.
          At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to this Security has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as provided in the Indenture, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all Outstanding securities of the same series as this Security, by written notice to the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences as provided, and subject to satisfaction of the conditions set forth, in the Indenture.
          The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of all Outstanding securities of the same series as this Security, by written notice to the Trustee, may waive, on behalf of all Holders of such securities, any past Default or Event of Default with respect to such securities and its consequences except (a) a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, or interest on, any such security or (b) in respect of a covenant or provision of the Indenture which, pursuant to the Indenture, cannot be amended or modified without the consent of each Holder of each affected Outstanding security of the same series as this Security. Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured.
     11. AMOUNT UNLIMITED. The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued from time to time in one or more series. The Company may from time to time, without the consent of the Holders of this Security, issue additional Securities of the series of which this Security is a part on substantially the same terms and conditions as those of this Security.
     12. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY. Subject to the TIA, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform services for the Company or its affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the Company or its affiliates, as if it were not Trustee.
     13. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. No director, officer, employee or stockholder, as such, of the Company shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company under this Security or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such

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obligations or their creation. Each Holder, by accepting this Security, waives and releases all such liability. Such waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issue of this Security.
     14. DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE. The Indenture contains certain provisions pertaining to discharge and defeasance.
     15. AUTHENTICATION. This Security shall not be valid until the Trustee signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Security.
     16. GOVERNING LAW. This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.
     17. ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (= custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
     If you, as Holder of this Security, want to assign this Security, fill in the form below: I or we assign and transfer this Security to:
 
(Insert assignee’s social security or tax ID number)
 
 
 
(Print or type assignee’s name, address, and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint:
 
as agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him/her.
Date:                                 
         
Your signature:

 

(Your signature must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of this Security in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever and be guaranteed by a guarantor institution participating in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program or in such other guarantee program acceptable to the Trustee)
 
 
Signature Guarantee:      
     

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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL SECURITY
     The following exchanges of a part of this global Security for an interest in another global Security or for Securities in certificated form, have been made:
                 
            Principal amount of    
    Amount of decrease   Amount of Increase   this Global   Signature of
    in Principal amount   in Principal amount   Security following   authorized signatory
    of this Global   of this Global   such decrease   of Trustee or Note
Date of Exchange   Security   Security   or increase   Custodian
                 

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Exhibit 5.1
(DEWEY LEBOEUF)   Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
1301 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019-6092
    tel +1 212 259 8000
fax +1 212 259 6333
May 5, 2010
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
601 Riverside Avenue
Jacksonville, Florida 32204
Re:   Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
6.60% Senior Notes due 2017
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel for Fidelity National Financial, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), in connection with the sale to the underwriters (the “ Underwriters ”) named in Schedule 1 to the Underwriting Agreement, dated April 30, 2010, between Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as Representatives of the Underwriters, and the Company (the “ Underwriting Agreement ”), by the Company of $300,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its 6.60% Senior Notes due 2017 (the “ Securities ”) pursuant to the terms of the Underwriting Agreement. The Securities are being issued pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of December 8, 2005 (the “ Base Indenture ”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., now known as The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “ Trustee ”), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of January 6, 2006, between such parties (the “ First Supplemental Indenture ”) and the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of May 5, 2010, between such parties (the “ Second Supplemental Indenture ” and, together with the Base Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture, the “ Indenture ”).
The offer and sale of the Securities is being made pursuant to the Registration Statement (the “ Registration Statement ”) on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-147391), relating to the Securities and other securities, filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), including the prospectus supplement, dated April 30, 2010 (the “ Prospectus Supplement ”), filed by the Company with the Commission on April 30, 2010. This opinion is being furnished in connection with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act.
We have examined (a) the Registration Statement; (b) the Prospectus Supplement; (c) an executed copy of the Underwriting Agreement; (d) a copy of a certificate, dated May 5, 2010, representing the Securities; (e) an executed copy of the Indenture; and (f) such records of the
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May 5, 2010
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corporate proceedings of the Company as we have deemed necessary as the basis for the opinions expressed herein. In addition, we have examined the originals (or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction) of such other agreements, instruments, certificates, documents and records and have reviewed such questions of law and made such inquiries as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for the purposes of the opinions rendered herein.
In such examination, we have assumed, without inquiry, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the genuineness of all signatures on all documents examined by us, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as facsimile, electronic, certified or photostatic copies and the authenticity of such originals. We have also assumed that the books and records of the Company have been maintained in accordance with proper corporate procedures. As to any facts material to our opinion, we have, when the relevant facts were not independently established, relied upon the documents referred to in clauses (a) through (f) and the aforesaid other agreements, instruments, certificates, documents and records, as well as upon statements and certificates of officers and other representatives of the Company and others and of public officials. We have assumed that such statements, and that the representations in such documents, agreements, instruments, certificates and records, are and will continue to be true and complete without regard to any qualification as to knowledge or belief.
With your permission, for purposes of the opinion expressed herein, we have assumed that the Trustee has the power and authority to authenticate the certificate representing the Securities.
Based upon and subject to the foregoing, and subject to the further limitations, qualifications and assumptions stated herein, we are of the opinion that the issuance of the Securities has been duly authorized by the Company, the certificate representing the Securities has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and, when the certificate representing the Securities has been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and the Securities have been delivered by the Company to the Underwriters against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement and the Indenture, the Securities will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company and will be enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent

 


 

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May 5, 2010
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transfer, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally and to general equitable principles (regardless of whether such principles are considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).
The opinion expressed herein is limited in all respects to the laws of the State of New York and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and no opinion is expressed with respect to the laws of any other jurisdiction or any effect which such laws may have on the opinion expressed herein. This opinion is limited to the matters stated herein, and no opinion is implied or may be inferred beyond the matters expressly stated herein.
This opinion letter is rendered as of the date hereof based upon the facts and law in existence on the date hereof. We assume no obligation to update or supplement this opinion letter to reflect any circumstances that may come to our attention after the date hereof with respect to the opinion and statements set forth above, including any changes in applicable law that may occur after the date hereof.
We consent to the filing of this opinion letter as an exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K to be filed in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities, which will be incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and the Prospectus Supplement and to the use of our name under the caption “Legal Matters” contained in the Prospectus Supplement. In giving our consent, we do not thereby concede that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

 

Exhibit 12.1
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.
Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges Calculation
                                                         
    Three Months Ended        
    March 31,     Year Ended December 31,  
    2010     2009     2009     2008     2007     2006     2005  
 
                                                       
Adjusted earnings before fixed charges (1)
  $ 42.9     $ (1.1 )   $ 344.9     $ (279.7 )   $ 185.3     $ 941.5     $ 1,289.3  
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Add: fixed charges
                                                       
Interest expense and amortization of debt discount and debt issuance costs
  $ 7.1     $ 11.8     $ 36.7     $ 58.6     $ 52.9     $ 210.0     $ 172.3  
Estimated interest component of rent expense
    11.7       13.8       50.5       45.5       54.1       74.1       68.7  
 
                                         
Total fixed charges
  $ 18.8     $ 25.6     $ 87.2     $ 104.1     $ 107.0     $ 284.1     $ 241.0  
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Total earnings and fixed charges
  $ 61.7     $ 24.5     $ 432.1     $ (175.6 )   $ 292.3     $ 1,225.6     $ 1,530.3  
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Ratio of earnings to fixed charges
    3.3       1.0       5.0       (1.7 )     2.7       4.3       6.3  
 
                                         
 
                                                       
Rent expense
  $ 35.5     $ 41.9     $ 153.1     $ 138.0     $ 163.9     $ 224.4     $ 208.3  
 
(1)   Adjusted earnings are defined as earnings before provision for income tax and discontinued operations and excluding undistributed earnings and losses from investments in unconsolidated affiliates and noncontrolling interests, and fixed charges.