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

 

December 6, 2011

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported)

 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

DELAWARE

 

1-4423

 

94-1081436

(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)

 

(Commission File Number)

 

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

 

3000 HANOVER STREET, PALO ALTO, CA

 

94304

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip code)

 

(650) 857-1501

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

 



 

Item 8.01.              Other Events.

 

On December 6, 2011, Hewlett-Packard Company (“HP”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) among HP, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, for the issuance and sale by HP of (i) $650,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014, (ii) $850,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016, and (iii) $1,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021, ((i), (ii) and (iii) are collectively referred to as the “Notes”).  The Notes were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to HP’s automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-159366) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 20, 2009 (the “Registration Statement”).  On December 9, 2011, HP closed its public offering of the Notes.

 

The Underwriting Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 1.1.  A form of each series of the Notes is attached hereto as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3.  HP’s officers’ certificate, dated December 9, 2011 (the “301 Officers’ Certificate”), authorizing the terms of the Notes pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture (as defined in Item 9.01 below) governing the Notes, is attached hereto as Exhibit 4.4.  In connection with the issuance of the Notes, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP has provided a legal opinion and consent, which are attached hereto as Exhibits 5.1 and 23.1, respectively.

 

The purpose of this Current Report is to incorporate by reference the form of the Notes, the Underwriting Agreement, the 301 Officers’ Certificate and the opinion and consent of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (attached hereto as Exhibits 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1 and 23.1, respectively) into the Registration Statement.  By filing this Current Report, such exhibits and this Current Report are hereby incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement.

 

Item 9.01.

 

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

 

 

Exhibit 1.1

 

Underwriting Agreement, dated December 6, 2011, among HP, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

Exhibit 4.1

 

Form of 2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014

Exhibit 4.2

 

Form of 3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016

Exhibit 4.3

 

Form of 4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021

Exhibit 4.4

 

Officers’ Certificate (exhibits omitted), dated December 9, 2011, delivered pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2000 (the “Indenture”) entered into by and between HP and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Chase Manhattan Bank and Trust Company, National Association) as Trustee

Exhibit 5.1

 

Opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Exhibit 23.1

 

Consent of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)

 

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SIGNATURE

 

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

 

 

 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

 

DATE: December 12, 2011

By:

/s/ Paul T. Porrini

 

Name:

Paul T. Porrini

 

Title:

Vice President, Deputy General Counsel
and Assistant Secretary

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number

 

Description

 

 

 

Exhibit 1.1

 

Underwriting Agreement, dated December 6, 2011, among HP, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

 

 

Exhibit 4.1

 

Form of 2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014

 

 

 

Exhibit 4.2

 

Form of 3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016

 

 

 

Exhibit 4.3

 

Form of 4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021

 

 

 

Exhibit 4.6

 

Officers’ Certificate (exhibits omitted), dated December 9, 2011, delivered pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2000 (the “Indenture”) entered into by and between HP and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Chase Manhattan Bank and Trust Company, National Association) as Trustee

 

 

 

Exhibit 5.1

 

Opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

 

 

 

Exhibit 23.1

 

Consent of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 hereto)

 

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Exhibit 1.1

 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

 

Debt Securities

 

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

 

December 6, 2011

 

To the Representatives named in Schedule I hereto
    of the Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Hewlett-Packard Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to sell to the underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), the principal amount of each of its securities identified in Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “Securities”), each to be issued under an Indenture dated as of June 1, 2000 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor in interest to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, which was successor in interest to Chase Manhattan Bank and Trust Company, National Association), as trustee (the “Trustee”).  If the firm or firms listed in Schedule II hereto include only the firm or firms listed in Schedule I hereto, then the terms “Underwriters” and “Representatives,” as used herein shall each be deemed to refer to such firm or firms.

 

1.              Representations and Warranties .  The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with each Underwriter that:

 

(a)            The Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), and has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) an “automatic shelf registration” statement as defined under Rule 405 of the rules and regulations of the Act (the “Act Regulations”) (the file number of which is set forth in Schedule I hereto), including a related base prospectus, on such Form for the registration under the Act of the offering and sale of the Securities.  Such registration statement, including any amendments thereto filed prior to the Execution Time, became effective upon filing.  The Company may have filed one or more preliminary prospectuses, including a Preliminary Prospectus, in accordance with Rules 415 and 424(b), each of which has previously been furnished to you.  The Company will file with the Commission a Final Prospectus relating to the Securities in accordance with Rules 430B and 424(b) of the Act Regulations.  As filed such Final Prospectus shall include all Rule 430B Information and, except to the extent the Representatives shall agree in writing to a modification, shall be in all substantive respects in the form furnished to you

 



 

prior to the Execution Time or, to the extent not completed at the Execution Time, shall contain only such specific additional information and other changes (beyond that contained in the Base Prospectus and any Preliminary Prospectus) as the Company has advised you, prior to the Execution Time, will be included or made therein.  The Registration Statement, at the Execution Time, meets the requirements set forth in Rule 415(a)(1)(x).

 

The terms that follow, when used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated.  The term “Effective Date” shall mean each date that the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto became or become effective.  The term “Applicable Time” shall mean 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Time) on December 6, 2011 or such other time as agreed to by the Company and the Representatives.  “Execution Time” shall mean the date and time that this Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto.  “Base Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus referred to in the preceding paragraph included in the Registration Statement at their most recent Effective Date.  “Final Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time that includes the 430B Information, together with the Base Prospectus.  “Registration Statement” shall mean the registration statement referred to in the preceding paragraph, including such portions of incorporated documents as are specifically incorporated by reference since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, including exhibits and financial statements, and including any prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and deemed part of the registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B, in the form in which it or they has or have or shall become effective and, in the event any post-effective amendment thereto becomes effective prior to the Closing Date (as hereinafter defined), shall also mean such registration statement or statements as so amended.  “Rule 415,” “Rule 424,” “Rule 430B,” “Rule 433” and “Regulation S-K” refer to such rules under the Act.  “Rule 430B Information” means information with respect to the Securities and the offering thereof permitted to be omitted from the Registration Statement when it becomes effective pursuant to Rule 430B.  “Disclosure Package” shall mean (i) the Base Prospectus, as amended and supplemented to the Applicable Time, (ii) any Preliminary Prospectus, (iii) the Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule III hereto (including the final term sheet, substantially in the form set forth in Schedule IV hereto) and (iv) any other Free Writing Prospectuses that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to be treated as part of the Disclosure Package.  “Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean a free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405, used in connection with the offering of the Securities.  “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433, used in connection with the offering of the Securities.  “Preliminary Prospectus” shall mean any preliminary prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus which describes the Securities and the related offering and is used prior to filing of the Final Prospectus, together with the Base Prospectus.  “Well-Known Seasoned Issuer” shall mean a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405.  Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, a Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include such portions of documents as are

 

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specifically incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on or before the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference herein to the terms “amend,” “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the filing of any document under the Exchange Act after the Effective Date of the Registration Statement, or the date of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein by reference.

 

(b)            On the Effective Date, the Registration Statement did, and when the Final Prospectus is first filed in accordance with Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus (and any supplement thereto) will, comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Act and the rules thereunder; on the Effective Date and on the Closing Date the Indenture did or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), and the rules thereunder; on the applicable Effective Date and at the Execution Time, the Registration Statement did not contain any untrue statement of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; and as of its date and on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus (together with any supplement thereto) will not, include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided , however , that the Company makes no representations or warranties as to (i) that part of the Registration Statement which shall constitute the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of the Trustee or (ii) the information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for inclusion in connection with the preparation of the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto).

 

(c)            This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.  The Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally from time to time in effect, and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); and the Securities have been duly authorized and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, will constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of the

 

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Indenture (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally from time to time in effect, and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

 

(d)            None of the issue and sale of the Securities, the consummation of any other of the transactions herein contemplated or the fulfillment of the terms hereof will conflict with, result in a breach of, or constitute a default under, (i) the charter or by-laws of the Company, or (ii) the terms of any material indenture or other material agreement or instrument to which the Company or its subsidiaries is a party or bound, or (iii) any decree or regulation or order applicable to the Company of any U.S. federal or California or Delaware court, governmental authority or agency having jurisdiction over the Company, except where the conflict or breach of which in clause (ii) or clause (iii) above would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.

 

(e)            At the Applicable Time the Disclosure Package, when taken together as a whole, does not contain 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 under which they were made, not misleading.  The preceding sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 6 hereof.

 

(f)             The Company is a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer and the Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined in Rule 405 of the Act Regulations.  The Company has not received from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Act Regulations objecting to the use of the automatic shelf registration form.  The Company has paid the registration fee for this offering pursuant to Rule 456(b)(1) of the Act Regulations or will pay such fees within the time period required by such rule (without giving effect to the proviso therein) and in any event prior to the Closing Date.

 

(g)            Each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, including any final term sheet listed on Schedule III hereof prepared and filed pursuant to this Agreement, does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any document incorporated therein and any prospectus supplement deemed to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified.  The foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter through the Representative specifically for use therein, it being understood

 

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and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in Section 6 hereof.

 

(h)            At the earliest time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) of the Act Regulations) of the Securities, the Company was not and is not an Ineligible Issuer (as defined in Rule 405), without taking into account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to the Rule 405 that it is not necessary that the Company by considered an Ineligible Issuer.

 

2.              Purchase and Sale .  Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the representations and warranties herein set forth, the Company agrees to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the purchase price set forth in Schedule I hereto, the respective principal amounts of each of the Securities set forth opposite each respective Underwriter’s name in Schedule II hereto.

 

3.              Delivery and Payment .

 

(a)            Delivery of and payment for the Securities shall be made at the office, on the date and at the time specified in Schedule I hereto, which date and time may be postponed by agreement between the Representatives and the Company or as provided in Section 7 hereof (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Securities being called the “Closing Date”).  Delivery of the Securities shall be made to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against payment by the several Underwriters through the Representatives of the purchase price thereof to or upon the order of the Company by wire transfer or transfers in immediately available funds to an account designated by the Company.  The Securities shall be delivered in definitive global form through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company.

 

(b)            It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Securities for sale to the public as set forth in the Preliminary Prospectus.

 

4.              Agreements .

 

(A)           The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that:

 

(a)            The Company will file the Final Prospectus, properly completed, pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed and will provide evidence satisfactory to the Representatives of such timely filing.  The Company will promptly advise the Representatives (i) of any receipt by the Company from the Commission of any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Act Regulations objecting to use of the automatic shelf registration statement form with respect to the Registration Statement, (ii) when, prior to termination of the offering of the Securities, any amendment to the Registration Statement relating to the Securities shall have become effective (if not

 

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already effective), (iii) of any request by the Commission for any amendment of the Registration Statement or amendment of or supplement to the Final Prospectus or for any additional information, (iv) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose, (v) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose and (vi) when the Preliminary Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, shall have been filed (if required) by the Company.  The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to prevent the issuance of any such stop order and, if issued, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.  The Company will not file any amendment to the Registration Statement or supplement to the Final Prospectus relating to the Securities or file any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus unless the Company has afforded you the opportunity to review it prior to filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably and timely object.

 

(b)            If, at any time when a prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be delivered under the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), any event occurs as a result of which the Final Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply with the Act or the rules thereunder in any material respect, the Company will give the Representatives prompt notice of the occurrence of such event and promptly will prepare and file with the Commission, subject to the last sentence of paragraph (a) of this Section 4, an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or omission or an amendment which will effect such compliance.

 

(c)            The Company will make generally available to its securityholders as soon as practicable, but in any event not later than eighteen months after the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in Rule 158(c) under the Act) an earnings statement of the Company and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Act and the rules thereunder (including, at the option of the Company, Rule 158).

 

(d)            The Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, copies of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto) and each amendment thereto which shall have become effective on or prior to the Closing Date (and the Company will furnish to counsel for the Underwriters a photocopy of one signed copy of the Registration Statement (including exhibits and amendments)) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to

 

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Rule 172), as many copies of any Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any amendments thereof and supplements thereto as the Representatives may reasonably request.

 

(e)            The Company will take such action as the Representatives may reasonably request to qualify the Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may reasonably request, and to maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities, provided that in connection therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction or to file a consent or otherwise subject itself to service of process or taxation in any jurisdiction where it is not already so subject.

 

(f)             Until the earlier of the day on which the distribution of the Securities is completed or the business day following the Closing Date, the Company will not, without the consent of the Representatives, offer or sell, or announce the offering of, any debt securities covered by the Registration Statement or any other registration statement filed under the Act which mature more than one year after the date hereof and which are substantially similar to such debt securities, except any proposed issuances of debt securities with respect to which the Company has advised the Representatives in writing prior to the execution hereof.

 

(g)            The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action intended to result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.

 

(h)            The Company will prepare a final term sheet, if required, containing a description of the Securities, in a form approved by the Representatives and to file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such Rule.

 

(i)             If there occurs an event or development as a result of which the Disclosure Package would include an untrue statement of a material fact or would omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, not misleading, the Company will notify promptly the Representatives so that any use of the Disclosure Package may cease until it is amended or supplemented and the Company will promptly file with the Commission, subject to paragraph (a) of this Section 4, any amendments or supplements to the Disclosure Package so that such statement or omission is corrected.

 

(j)             If there occurs an event or development as a result of which an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus would conflict with the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, the Company will notify promptly the Representatives.

 

(k)            Unless it obtains the prior written consent of the Representatives, the Company will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer

 

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Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a Free Writing Prospectus required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433, other than the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 4(h) hereto; provided that the prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus included in Schedule III hereto.  Any such Free Writing Prospectus consented to by the Representatives is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing Prospectus.”  The Company agrees that (x) it has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and (y) it has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending and record keeping.

 

(l)             The Company has given the Representatives notice of any filings made pursuant to the Exchange Act within 48 hours prior to the Execution Time; the Company will give the Representatives notice of its intention to make any such filing from the Execution Time to the Closing Date and will furnish the Representative(s) with copies of any such documents a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed filing.

 

(B)            The several Underwriters agree with the Company that:

 

(a)            The Company will pay the expenses of printing and producing all documents relating to the offering.

 

(b)            The Company will pay the reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of outside counsel for the Company and the Trustee relating to the offering.

 

(c)            The Company will pay any fees of Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and Fitch Ratings relating to the rating of the Securities.

 

(d)            The Company will pay the fees and disbursements of Ernst & Young LLP relating to the preparation of the letters required by Section 5(e) of this Agreement.

 

(e)            The several Underwriters will pay all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their counsel, transfer taxes or resale of any of the Securities by them and any advertising expenses in connection with any offers they make.

 

(f)             Unless they obtain the prior written consent of the Company, the Representatives will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a Free Writing Prospectus required to be filed by the Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433, other than the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 4(h) hereto; provided that the prior written consent of the parties hereto shall be

 

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deemed to have been given in respect of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus included in Schedule III hereto.

 

(C)            Each of the Underwriters severally represents and warrants and agrees as set forth on Schedule V hereto.

 

5.              Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters .  The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Securities shall be subject to the accuracy in all material respects of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained herein as of the Execution Time, as of the date of the effectiveness of any amendment to the Registration Statement filed prior to the Closing Date (including the filing of any document incorporated by reference therein) and as of the Closing Date, to the accuracy in all material respects of the statements of the Company made in any certificates delivered by the Company pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance in all material respects by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

 

(a)            The Final Prospectus, or any supplement thereto, shall have been filed in the manner and within the time period required under Rule 424(b), and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been filed in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 433; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, or any notice that would prevent its use, as amended from time to time, shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened.

 

(b)            The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives:

 

(i)             the opinion of the General Counsel, an Associate General Counsel or a Deputy General Counsel of the Company, or an outside counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, substantially to the effect that:

 

(A)           the Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with full corporate power and authority to own its properties and conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and Final Prospectus as amended or supplemented, except where such failure would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole;

 

(B)            insofar as the statements contained in the Disclosure Package, the statements contained in the Final Prospectus under the caption “Description of the Global Notes” and the statements contained in the Base Prospectus under the caption “Description of the Debt Securities” purport to describe specific provisions of the Securities or the Indenture, such statements present in all material respects an accurate summary of such provisions;

 

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(C)            the Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally from time to time in effect, and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law); and the Securities have been duly authorized and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, arrangement, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally from time to time in effect, and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law);

 

(D)           the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto have become effective under the Act; any required filing of the Base Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, and any supplements thereto, pursuant to Rule 424(b) or Rule 433 has been made in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433, as the case may be; to the best knowledge of such counsel, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, as amended, or any notice that would prevent its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or contemplated under the Act;

 

(E)            this Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company;

 

(F)            no authorization, approval or other action by, and no notice to, consent of, order of, or filing with, any U.S. federal or California or Delaware governmental authority or agency is required for the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein, except such as have been obtained under the Act, the Exchange Act and the Trust Indenture Act and such as may be required under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities and such other approvals (specified in such opinion) as have been obtained; and

 

(G)            none of the issue and sale of the Securities, the consummation of any other of the transactions herein contemplated or the fulfillment of the terms hereof will conflict with, result in a breach of, or constitute a default under, the charter or by-laws of the Company or, to such counsel’s knowledge, the terms of any Material Agreements, or any material decree or regulation known to such counsel to be applicable to the Company of any U.S. federal or California or Delaware court,

 

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governmental authority or agency having jurisdiction over the Company.  “Material Agreements” means all agreements filed as exhibits to the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K pursuant to clause (10) of paragraph (b) of Item 601 of Regulation S-K (but only such agreements that continue to be in effect).

 

Such opinion shall also include a statement that such counsel has participated in conferences with officers and other representatives of the Company, counsel for the Company, the independent accountants of the Company and the Underwriters at which the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and related matters were discussed and, although such counsel is not passing upon, and does not assume any responsibility for, the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus or the statements contained therein and has made no independent check or verification thereof, on the basis of the foregoing, no facts have come to such counsel’s attention that has caused such counsel to believe that (i) the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus (except the financial statements and the notes thereto and financial statement schedules and other information of an accounting, statistical or financial nature included therein, and the Statement of Eligibility (Form T-1) included as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, as to which such counsel need express no view) were not appropriately responsive in all material respects with requirements of the Act and the rules thereunder, (ii) the Registration Statement, as of the most recent Effective Date, contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the Final Prospectus as of its date and on the Closing Date includes any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state 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 for the financial statements and the notes thereto and the financial statement schedules and other information of an accounting, statistical or financial nature included therein, and the Statement of Eligibility (Form T-1) included as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, as to which such counsel need express no view) and (iii) that the Disclosure Package, considered together, as of the Applicable Time, contained any untrue statement of material fact or omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstance under which they were made, not misleading (except the financial statements and the notes thereto and financial statement schedules and other information of an accounting, statistical or financial nature included therein, as to which such counsel need express no view).

 

Any of the statements described above may be omitted from the opinion of such counsel; provided , however , that in such event the Company shall also have furnished to the Representatives the corresponding opinion or statement of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, counsel for the Company, described in subsection 5(b)(ii) below.

 

(ii)            in the event that any of the statements described in the foregoing subsection 5(b)(i) are omitted from the opinion delivered pursuant to such

 

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subsection, the opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect of the statements so omitted.

 

In rendering such opinions, such counsel may rely (A) as to matters involving the application of laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of California or the United States, to the extent they deem proper and specified in such opinion, upon the opinion of other counsel of good standing whom they believe to be reliable and who are satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters; and (B) as to matters of fact, to the extent they deem proper, on certificates of responsible officers of the Company or public officials.

 

(c)            The Representatives shall have received from Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities, the Indenture, the Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus, Disclosure Package and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they reasonably request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.

 

(d)            The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate signed by an officer of the Company reasonably acceptable to the Representatives, dated the Closing Date, to the effect:

 

(i)             the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as if made on the Closing Date and the Company has complied with all the agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied at or prior to the Closing Date, in each case, in all material respects, unless otherwise waived by the Representatives;

 

(ii)            no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, as amended, or any notice that would prevent its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened; and

 

(iii)           since the date of the most recent financial statements included in the Disclosure Package, there has been no material adverse change in the financial condition, earnings, business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

 

(e)            On the date of this Agreement and at the Closing Date, Ernst & Young LLP shall have furnished to the Representatives a letter or letters dated as of such date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, confirming that they are an independent registered public accounting firm, with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published rules and regulations

 

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thereunder adopted by the Commission and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, stating or affirming in effect that:

 

(i)             in its opinion the Company’s consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule thereto audited by such independent registered public accounting firm and included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K at October 31, 2010 and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement or the Preliminary Prospectus and Final Prospectus, comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and the Exchange Act and the related rules and regulations adopted by the Commission; with respect to the three-month period ended January 31, 2011, three- and six- month periods ended April 30, 2011 and three- and nine-month periods ended July 31, 2011 they have:

 

(1)            performed the procedures specified by the PCAOB for a review of interim financial information as described in AU 722, Interim Financial Information, on the unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements for the period, included in the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended January 31, 2011, April 30, 2011 and July 31, 2011 incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement; and

 

(2)            inquired of certain officials of the Company who have responsibility for financial and accounting matters as to whether the unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Exchange Act as it applies to Form 10-Q and the related rules and regulations adopted by the Commission.

 

As a result of the foregoing procedures nothing came to their attention that caused them to believe that:

 

(A)           any material modifications should be made to the unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements referred to above, incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, for them to be in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles;

 

(B)            the unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements referred to above do not comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Exchange Act as it applies to Form 10-Q and the related rules and regulations adopted by the Commission; or

 

(C)            the unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements referred to above were not determined on a basis substantially consistent with that of the corresponding amounts in the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended October 31, 2010, incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

 

(ii)            they have:

 

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(A)           read the unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Company for August and September of both 2011 and 2010, such information being incomplete in that it omits certain disclosures; and

 

(B)            inquired of the Company’s management who have responsibility for financial and accounting matters as to whether the unaudited consolidated condensed financial statements referred to in (A) are stated on a basis substantially consistent with that of the audited consolidated financial statements incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement.

 

(iii)           they have read the minutes of the meetings of the stockholders, board of directors, Audit Committee and Compensation Committee or obtained a summary of topics discussed at such meetings for the period subsequent to the date of the most recent audited financial statements incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement;

 

(iv)           they have performed certain other procedures as a result of which they determined that the information described in a letter to be delivered to the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters of an accounting, financial or statistical nature (which is limited to accounting, financial or statistical information that has been obtained from accounting records which are subject to controls over financial reporting or which has been derived directly from such accounting records by analysis or computation) set forth in the Registration Statement, as amended, the Final Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, and in Exhibit 12 to the Registration Statement (including selected accounting, financial or statistical information included or therein), agrees with accounting records or schedules made from such accounting records which are subject to controls over financial reporting or which has been derived directly from such accounting records by analysis or computation.

 

(f)             Subsequent to the respective dates of which information is given in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement on or after the Execution Time), there shall not have been (i) any material change in the capital stock (other than upon exercise of outstanding stock options) or any significant increase in long-term debt of the Company or its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (ii) any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the financial condition, earnings, business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, the effect of which, in any case referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above, is, in the judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering, sale or the delivery of the Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

 

(g)            Prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives such further information, certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request.

 

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(h)            Subsequent to the Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the ratings of any of the Securities by Moody’s Investor’s Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) or Standard & Poor’s Corporation (“S&P”) and neither Moody’s nor S&P shall have publicly announced that it has placed any of the Securities on a credit watch with negative implications, except as disclosed prior to the Execution Time.

 

If any of the conditions specified in this Section 5 shall not have been fulfilled in all material respects when and as provided in this Agreement, or if any of the opinions and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall not be in all material respects reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and their counsel, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be terminated at, or at any time prior to, the Closing Date by the Representatives.  Notice of such termination shall be given to the Company in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing.

 

6.              Indemnification and Contribution .

 

(a)            The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates and selling agents and each person who controls any Underwriter, its affiliates and selling agents within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act against any and all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or any of them may become subject under the Act, the Exchange Act or other U.S. federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement for the registration of the Securities as originally filed or in any amendment thereof, or in any preliminary prospectus, the Final Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the information contained in the final term sheet required to be prepared and filed pursuant to Section 4(h) hereof, or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred, as such expenses are incurred, by them in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided , however , that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives for use in connection with the preparation thereof.  This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability that the Company may otherwise have.

 

(b)            Each Underwriter severally (and not jointly) agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors, each of its officers who signs the

 

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Registration Statement, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to each Underwriter, but only with reference to written information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use in the preparation of the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity.  This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability that any Underwriter may otherwise have.  The Company acknowledges that the statements set forth in the third and sixth paragraphs under the heading “Underwriting” of the Final Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, constitute the only information furnished in writing by or on behalf of the several Underwriters for inclusion in the Final Prospectus and the Disclosure Package, and you, as the Representatives, confirm that such statements are correct.

 

(c)            Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 6 of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 6, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party will not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party under this Section 6 or otherwise.  In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party, and it notifies the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to appoint counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party to represent the indemnified party in such action; provided , however , if the defendants in any such action include both the indemnified party and the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified parties which are different from or additional to those available to the indemnifying party, the indemnified party or parties shall have the right to select separate counsel to defend such action on behalf of such indemnified party or parties.  Upon receipt of notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to appoint counsel to defend such action and approval by the indemnified party of counsel, the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 6 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof unless (i) the indemnified party shall have employed separate counsel in accordance with the proviso to the next preceding sentence (it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel (in addition to any local counsel), approved by the Representatives in the case of paragraph (a) of this Section 6, representing the indemnified parties under such paragraph (a) who are parties to such action), (ii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of commencement of the action or (iii) the indemnifying party has authorized in writing the employment of counsel for the indemnified party at the expense of the indemnifying party; and except that, if clause (i) or (iii) is applicable, such liability shall be only in respect of the counsel referred to in such clause (i) or (iii).  No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the

 

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indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened action in respect of which any indemnified party is a party and indemnity was sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of the indemnified party from all liability on any claims that are the subject matter of such action.

 

(d)            In order to provide for just and equitable contribution in circumstances in which the indemnification provided for in this Section 6 is due in accordance with its terms but is for any reason held by a court to be unavailable from the Company or the Underwriters on grounds of policy or otherwise, the Company and the Underwriters shall contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending same) to which the Company and one or more of the Underwriters may be subject (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 Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.  The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by the Company bear to the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters.  The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection (d), (y) in no case shall any Underwriter (except as may be provided in any agreement among underwriters relating to the offering of the Securities) be responsible for any amount in excess of the underwriting discount applicable to the Securities purchased by such Underwriter hereunder and (z) no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.  For purposes of this Section 6, each person who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such Underwriter, and each person who controls the Company within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act, each officer of the Company who shall have signed the Registration Statement and each director of the Company shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject in each case to clauses (y) and (z) of this paragraph (d).  Any party entitled to contribution will, promptly after receipt of notice of commencement of any action, suit or proceeding against such party in respect of which a claim for contribution may be made against another party or parties under this paragraph (d), notify in writing such party or parties from whom contribution may be sought, but the omission to so notify

 

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such party or parties shall not relieve the party or parties from whom contribution may be sought from any other obligation it or they may have hereunder or otherwise than under this paragraph (d).  The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 7(d) are several in proportion to their respective underwriting commitments as set forth on Schedule II hereto, and not joint.

 

7.              Default by an Underwriter .  If any one or more Underwriters shall fail to purchase and pay for any of the Securities agreed to be purchased by such Underwriter or Underwriters hereunder and such failure to purchase shall constitute a default in the performance of its or their obligations under this Agreement, the remaining Underwriters of that series of Securities shall be obligated severally to take up and pay for (in the respective proportions which the amount of Securities set forth opposite their names in Schedule II hereto for that particular series of Securities bears to the aggregate amount of such Securities set forth opposite the names of all the remaining Underwriters) the Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase; provided , however , that in the event that the aggregate amount of Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase shall exceed 10% of the aggregate amount of all of the Securities set forth in Schedule II hereto, the remaining Underwriters shall have the right to purchase all, but shall not be under any obligation to purchase any, of the Securities, and if such nondefaulting Underwriters do not purchase all the Securities, this Agreement will terminate without liability to any nondefaulting Underwriter or the Company.  In the event of a default by any Underwriter as set forth in this Section 7, the Closing Date shall be postponed for such period, not exceeding seven days, as the Representatives shall determine in order that the required changes in the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected.  Nothing contained in this Agreement shall relieve any defaulting Underwriter of its liability, if any, to the Company and any nondefaulting Underwriter for damages occasioned by its default hereunder.

 

8.              Termination .  This Agreement shall be subject to termination in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, by notice given to the Company prior to delivery of and payment for the Securities, if prior to such time (i) trading in securities generally on The New York Stock Exchange or trading of the Company’s common stock on The New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or limited or minimum prices shall have been established on such exchange, (ii) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by U.S. federal or New York State authorities, (iii) there shall have occurred and be continuing any major disruption of settlements of securities clearance services in the United States or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or material escalation of hostilities or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the financial markets of the United States is such as to make it, in the judgment of the Representatives, impracticable to proceed with the offering, sale and delivery of the Securities.

 

9.              Representations and Indemnities to Survive .  The respective agreements, representations, warranties, indemnities and other statements of the Company or its

 

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officers and of the Underwriters set forth in or made pursuant to this Agreement will remain in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or the Company or any of the officers, directors or controlling persons referred to in Section 6 hereof, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities.  If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 7 or if for any reason the purchase of the Securities by the Underwriters is not consummated, the Company and the Underwriters shall remain responsible for their respective expenses and reimbursements pursuant to Section 4 and the respective obligations of the Company and the Underwriters pursuant to Section 6 shall remain in effect.

 

10.            Notices .  All communications hereunder will be in writing and effective only on receipt, and, if sent to the Representatives, will be mailed, delivered or faxed and confirmed to them, at the address specified in Schedule I hereto; or, if sent to the Company, will be mailed, delivered or faxed and confirmed to it, at Hewlett-Packard Company, 3000 Hanover Street, MS1042, Palo Alto, California 94304; attention of the Treasurer, fax (650) 857-3528, with a copy to the General Counsel, Hewlett-Packard Company, 3000 Hanover Street, MS1050, Palo Alto, California 94304, fax  (650) 857-2012.

 

11.            Successors .  This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers and directors and controlling persons referred to in Section 6 hereof, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.

 

12.            Applicable Law .  This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

13.            Arm’s Length Transaction .  The company acknowledges that each of the Underwriters is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company with respect to the offering of Securities contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the terms of the offering) and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or any agent of, the Company or any other person.  Additionally, no 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.

 

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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to us the enclosed duplicate hereof, whereupon this letter and your acceptance shall represent a binding agreement among the Company and the several Underwriters.

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ John N. McMullen

 

 

Senior Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

The foregoing Agreement is hereby

confirmed and accepted on the

date specified in Schedule I hereto.

 



 

GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

 

(GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Stephen L. Sheiner

 

 

Name:

Stephen L. Sheiner

 

 

Title:

Executive Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Jean Seo

 

 

Name:

Jean Seo

 

 

Title:

Vice President

 

 

For themselves and the other several

Underwriters, if any, named in Schedule II

to the foregoing Agreement.

 



 

SCHEDULE I

 

Debt Securities

 

2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014

 

Underwriting Agreement :

Dated December 6, 2011

 

 

Registration Statement No. :

333-159366

 

 

Representatives:

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

200 West Street

 

New York, NY 10282

 

 

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

383 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor

 

New York, NY 10179

 

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

1585 Broadway

 

New York, NY 10036

 

 

Joint Bookrunners :

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

 

Co-Managers :

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

 

Incorporated

 

Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

 

RBS Securities Inc.

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

 

Title of Securities :

2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014

 

 

Ranking :

Senior unsecured obligations ranking equally with all other senior unsecured indebtedness of HP from time to time outstanding

 

 

Principal Amount :

$650,000,000

 

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Interest Rate :

2.625% per annum.

 

 

Purchase Price:

99.746%

 

 

Offering Price :

99.946%

 

 

Interest Payment Dates :

Semiannually; June 9 and December 9 of each year, commencing June 9, 2012 (subject to the following business day convention).

 

 

Method of Calculation :

30/360

 

 

Subordination Provisions :

None

 

 

Optional Redemption :

 

 

The Company will have the right to redeem the 2.625% Global Notes, in whole or in part on at least 30 days’ but no more than 60 days’ prior written notice mailed to the registered holders of the 2.625% Global Notes to be redeemed.  The redemption price will be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the 2.625% Global Notes to be redeemed and (2) the sum of the present value of the principal amount of the 2.625% Global Notes to be redeemed and the remaining scheduled payments of interest thereon from the redemption date to the maturity date discounted from the scheduled payment dates to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis at the Treasury Rate plus 35 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest.

 

If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the 2.625% Global Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent on or before the redemption date and certain other conditions are satisfied, then on and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on the 2.625% Global Notes (or such portion thereof) called for redemption and such 2.625% Global Notes will cease to be outstanding.  If any redemption date is not a business day, the Company will pay the redemption price on the next business day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

 

If fewer than all of the 2.625% Global Notes are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the 2.625% Global Notes for redemption on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee deems appropriate and fair.  No 2.625% Global Notes of $1,000 or less will be redeemed in part.

 

Sinking Fund Provisions :

None

 

 

Closing Date, Time and Place :

10:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, December 9, 2011 at the offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, 200 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10166

 

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Method of Payment :

Wire transfer of immediately available funds

 

 

Overallotment Option :

None

 

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3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016

 

Underwriting Agreement :

Dated December 6, 2011

 

 

Registration Statement No. :

333-159366

 

 

Representatives:

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

200 West Street

 

New York, NY 10282

 

 

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

383 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor

 

New York, NY 10179

 

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

1585 Broadway

 

New York, NY 10036

 

 

Joint Bookrunners :

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

 

Co-Managers :

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

 

Incorporated

 

Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

 

RBS Securities Inc.

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

 

Title of Securities :

3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016

 

 

Ranking :

Senior unsecured obligations ranking equally with all other senior unsecured indebtedness of HP from time to time outstanding

 

 

Principal Amount :

$850,000,000

 

 

Interest Rate :

3.300% per annum.

 

 

Purchase Price:

99.440%

 

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Offering Price :

99.790%

 

 

Interest Payment Dates :

Semiannually; June 9 and December 9 of each year, commencing June 9, 2012 (subject to the following business day convention).

 

 

Method of Calculation :

30/360

 

 

Subordination Provisions :

None

 

 

Optional Redemption :

 

 

The Company will have the right to redeem the 3.300% Global Notes, in whole or in part on at least 30 days’ but no more than 60 days’ prior written notice mailed to the registered holders of the 3.300% Global Notes to be redeemed.  The redemption price will be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the 3.300% Global Notes to be redeemed and (2) the sum of the present value of the principal amount of the 3.300% Global Notes to be redeemed and the remaining scheduled payments of interest thereon from the redemption date to the maturity date discounted from the scheduled payment dates to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis at the Treasury Rate plus 37.5 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest.

 

If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the 3.300% Global Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent on or before the redemption date and certain other conditions are satisfied, then on and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on the 3.300% Global Notes (or such portion thereof) called for redemption and such 3.300% Global Notes will cease to be outstanding.  If any redemption date is not a business day, the Company will pay the redemption price on the next business day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

 

If fewer than all of the 3.300% Global Notes are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the 3.300% Global Notes for redemption on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee deems appropriate and fair.  No 3.300% Global Notes of $1,000 or less will be redeemed in part.

 

Sinking Fund Provisions :

None

 

 

Closing Date, Time and Place :

10:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, December 9, 2011 at the offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, 200 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10166

 

 

Method of Payment :

Wire transfer of immediately available funds

 

 

Overallotment Option :

None

 

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4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021

 

Underwriting Agreement :

 

Dated December 6, 2011

 

 

 

Registration Statement No. :

 

333-159366

 

 

 

Representatives:

 

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

 

200 West Street

 

 

New York, NY 10282

 

 

 

 

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

 

383 Madison Avenue, 3rd Floor

 

 

New York, NY 10179

 

 

 

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

 

1585 Broadway

 

 

New York, NY 10036

 

 

 

Joint Bookrunners :

 

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

 

 

Co-Managers :

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

 

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

 

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

 

 

Incorporated

 

 

Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

 

 

RBS Securities Inc.

 

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

 

 

Title of Securities :

 

4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021

 

 

 

Ranking :

 

Senior unsecured obligations ranking equally with all other senior unsecured indebtedness of HP from time to time outstanding

 

 

 

Principal Amount :

 

$1,500,000,000

 

 

 

Interest Rate :

 

4.650% per annum.

 

 

 

Purchase Price:

 

99.257%

 

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Offering Price :

 

99.707%

 

 

 

Interest Payment Dates :

 

Semiannually; June 9 and December 9 of each year, commencing June 9, 2012 (subject to the following business day convention).

 

 

 

Method of Calculation :

 

30/360

 

 

 

Subordination Provisions :

 

None

 

Optional Redemption :

 

The Company will have the right to redeem the 4.650% Global Notes, in whole or in part on at least 30 days’ but no more than 60 days’ prior written notice mailed to the registered holders of the 4.650% Global Notes to be redeemed.  The redemption price will be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the 4.650% Global Notes to be redeemed and (2) the sum of the present value of the principal amount of the 4.650% Global Notes to be redeemed and the remaining scheduled payments of interest thereon from the redemption date to the maturity date discounted from the scheduled payment dates to the redemption date on a semi-annual basis at the Treasury Rate plus 40 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest.

 

If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the 4.650% Global Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent on or before the redemption date and certain other conditions are satisfied, then on and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on the 4.650% Global Notes (or such portion thereof) called for redemption and such 4.650% Global Notes will cease to be outstanding.  If any redemption date is not a business day, the Company will pay the redemption price on the next business day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

 

If fewer than all of the 4.650% Global Notes are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the 4.650% Global Notes for redemption on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee deems appropriate and fair.  No 4.650% Global Notes of $1,000 or less will be redeemed in part.

 

Sinking Fund Provisions :

 

None

 

 

 

Closing Date, Time and Place :

 

10:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, December 9, 2011 at the offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, 200 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10166

 

 

 

Method of Payment :

 

Wire transfer of immediately available funds

 

 

 

Overallotment Option :

 

None

 

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SCHEDULE II

 

2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014

 

Underwriter

 

Amount to be
Purchased

 

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

$

184,167,000

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

184,167,000

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

184,166,000

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

12,187,000

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

12,187,000

 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

12,187,000

 

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

 

12,187,000

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

 

12,188,000

 

Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

 

12,188,000

 

RBS Securities Inc.

 

12,188,000

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

12,188,000

 

TOTAL

 

$

650,000,000

 

 

3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016

 

Underwriter

 

Amount to be
Purchased

 

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

$

240,833,000

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

240,833,000

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

240,834,000

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

15,938,000

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

15,938,000

 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

15,938,000

 

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

 

15,938,000

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

 

15,937,000

 

Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

 

15,937,000

 

RBS Securities Inc.

 

15,937,000

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

15,937,000

 

TOTAL

 

$

850,000,000

 

 

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4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021

 

Underwriter

 

Amount to be
Purchased

 

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

$

425,000,000

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

425,000,000

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

425,000,000

 

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.

 

28,125,000

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

28,125,000

 

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

 

28,125,000

 

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

 

28,125,000

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

 

28,125,000

 

Mizuho Securities USA Inc.

 

28,125,000

 

RBS Securities Inc.

 

28,125,000

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

 

28,125,000

 

TOTAL

 

$

1,500,000,000

 

 

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SCHEDULE III

 

Schedule of Free Writing Prospectuses included in Disclosure Package

 

Final Term Sheet dated December 6, 2011 with respect to the 2.625% Global Notes Due December 9, 2014 filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 of the Act.

 

Final Term Sheet dated December 6, 2011 with respect to the 3.300% Global Notes Due December 9, 2016 filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 of the Act.

 

Final Term Sheet dated December 6, 2011 with respect to the 4.650% Global Notes Due December 9, 2021 filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433 of the Act.

 

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SCHEDULE IV

 

Form of Final Term Sheets

 

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SCHEDULE V

 

Offering Restrictions

 

Each of the Underwriters severally represents, warrants and agrees as follows:

 

(a)                                   it will not offer, sell, or deliver any of the 2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014, the 3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016 or the 4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021 (collectively, the “Global Notes”), directly or indirectly, or distribute the Preliminary Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the Final Prospectus or any other offering material relating to the Global Notes, in or from any jurisdiction except under circumstances that will result in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations and which will not impose any obligations on the Company except as set forth in the Underwriting Agreement to which this Schedule V is attached.

 

(b)                                  in relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a Relevant Member State), with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the Relevant Implementation Date), it has not made and will not make an offer of Global Notes to the public in that Relevant Member State, except that it may, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of Global Notes to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time: (i) to legal entities which are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities, (ii) to any company which has two or more of (1) an average of over 250 or, if the relevant member state has implemented the relevant provisions of the 2010 PD Amending Directive, 150, employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than €43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than €50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts, (iii) to fewer than 100 natural or legal persons (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Directive) subject to obtaining the prior consent of the representatives for any such offer, or (iv) in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive; provided that no such offer of Global Notes shall require the issuer or any underwriter to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive..

 

For the purposes of this provision, the expression an “offer of Global Notes to the public” in relation to any Global Notes in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Global Notes to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Global Notes, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State and the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC (and amendments thereto, including

 

V-1



 

the 2010 PD Amending Directive, to the extent implemented in the relevant Member State) and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.

 

(c)                                   it and each of its affiliates: (i) has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the “FSMA”)) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the Global Notes in circumstances in which section 21(1) of FSMA does not apply to us, and (ii) has complied with, and will comply with, all applicable provisions of FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the Global Notes in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom and the expression “2010 PD Amending Directive” means Directive 2010/73/EU.

 

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Exhibit 4.1

 

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

 

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OR TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY 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.

 



 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014

 

No. R-FX14-[    ]

 

$

CUSIP No. 428236 BT9

 

 

 

Hewlett-Packard Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of                          Dollars ($                        ) or such other amount indicated on the Schedule of Exchange of Global Notes attached hereto on December 9, 2014 (if such date is not a Business Day, payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest for the Securities will be paid on the next Business Day); provided, however, that no interest on that payment will accrue from and after December 9, 2014, and to pay interest thereon from December 9, 2011, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for,  semi-annually on June 9 and December 9 in each year, commencing June 9, 2012, at the rate of 2.625% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment.  The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day), next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.  Interest on the Security shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months, and for any period shorter than a full six-month interest period, on the basis of the actual days elapsed in such period.

 

So long as all of the Securities of this series are represented by Global Securities, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on this Global Security shall be paid in same day funds to the Depositary, or to such name or entity as is requested by an authorized representative of the Depositary.  If at any time the Securities of this series are no longer represented by the Global Securities and are issued in definitive form (“Certificated Securities”), then the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on each Certificated Security at Maturity shall be paid to the Holder upon surrender of such Certificated Security at the office or agency maintained by the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (which shall initially be the principal corporate trust office of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee) or at such

 



 

other place or places as may be designated in or pursuant to the Indenture, provided that such Certificated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, acting as Paying Agent, in time for the Paying Agent to make such payments in such funds in accordance with its normal procedures.  Payments of interest with respect to Certificated Securities other than at Maturity may, at the option of the Company, be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it appears on the Security Register on the relevant Regular or Special Record Date or by wire transfer in same day funds to such account as may have been appropriately designated to the Paying Agent by such Person in writing not later than such relevant Regular or Special Record Date.

 

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

 

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

 



 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

John N. McMullen

 

 

Senior Vice President and Treasurer

 

Attest:

 

 

 

Paul T. Porrini

 

 

Vice President, Deputy General Counsel

 

 

and Assistant Secretary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

Dated:

 

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

 

TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 



 

Reverse of Security

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2000 (herein called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Chase Manhattan Bank and Trust Company, National Association), as trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $650,000,000.

 

The Company will have the right to redeem the Securities, in whole or in part on at least 30 days’ but no more than 60 days’ prior written notice mailed to the registered Holders of the Securities to be redeemed.  The Redemption Price will be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and (2) the sum, as determined by the Company based on the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, of the present value of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and the remaining scheduled payments of interest thereon from the Redemption Date to the Maturity Date (the “Remaining Life”) (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the Redemption Date) discounted from the scheduled payment dates to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis at the treasury rate plus 35 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date is deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent on or before the Redemption Date and the conditions set forth in Article 11 of the Indenture are satisfied, then on and after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on such Securities (or such portion thereof) called for redemption and such Securities will cease to be outstanding.  If any Redemption Date is not a Business Day, the Company will pay the Redemption Price on the next Business Day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

 

If fewer than all of the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Securities of such series for redemption on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee deems appropriate and fair.  No Securities of $1,000 or less will be redeemed in part.

 

Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price, no interest will accrue on the Securities called for redemption for the period from and after the Redemption Date.

 



 

In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

 

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by a Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company as having a maturity comparable to the Remaining Life 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 with the Remaining Life.

 

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, the average of three Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date.

 

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means each of Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in the United States (a Primary Treasury Dealer), the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer.

 

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by each Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding the redemption date; provided that if three such quotations cannot reasonably be obtained by the Company, but if two such quotations are obtained, then the average of the two quotations shall be used, and if only one such quotation can reasonably be obtained by the Company, then one quotation shall be used.

 

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the applicable 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 the redemption date.

 

The Indenture contains provisions, which will apply to the Securities, for defeasance and covenant defeasance and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.

 

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

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of more than 50% in aggregate principal amount of the

 



 

Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration or transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or Trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

 

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

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said State, without regard to conflict of laws principles thereof.

 

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

 



 

ASSIGNMENT

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto:

 

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF

 

 

ASSIGNEE:

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

the within Global Security of HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY and all rights hereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing

 

                                                                                                                                                                                 attorney to transfer said Global Security on the books of the within-named Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

SIGN HERE

 

 

 

NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE WITHIN INSTRUMENT IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURE GUARANTEED

 



 

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE

 

The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Amount of Decrease in
Principal Amount of
this Global Note

 

Amount of Increase in
Principal Amount of
this Global Note

 

Principal Amount of
this Global Note
Following Such
Decrease or Increase

 

Signature of
Authorized Signatory
of Trustee or Notes
Custodian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Exhibit 4.2

 

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

 

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OR TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY 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.

 



 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016

 

No. R-FX16-[    ]

 

$                              

CUSIP No. 428236 BU6

 

Hewlett-Packard Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of                          Dollars ($                        ) or such other amount indicated on the Schedule of Exchange of Global Notes attached hereto on December 9, 2016 (if such date is not a Business Day, payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest for the Securities will be paid on the next Business Day); provided, however, that no interest on that payment will accrue from and after December 9, 2016, and to pay interest thereon from December 9, 2011, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on June 9 and December 9 in each year, commencing June 9, 2011, at the rate of 3.300% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment.  The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day), next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.  Interest on the Security shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months, and for any period shorter than a full six-month interest period, on the basis of the actual days elapsed in such period.

 

So long as all of the Securities of this series are represented by Global Securities, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on this Global Security shall be paid in same day funds to the Depositary, or to such name or entity as is requested by an authorized representative of the Depositary.  If at any time the Securities of this series are no longer represented by the Global Securities and are issued in definitive form (“Certificated Securities”), then the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on each Certificated Security at Maturity shall be paid to the Holder upon surrender of such Certificated Security at the office or agency maintained by the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (which shall initially be the principal corporate trust office of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee) or at such

 



 

other place or places as may be designated in or pursuant to the Indenture, provided that such Certificated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, acting as Paying Agent, in time for the Paying Agent to make such payments in such funds in accordance with its normal procedures.  Payments of interest with respect to Certificated Securities other than at Maturity may, at the option of the Company, be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it appears on the Security Register on the relevant Regular or Special Record Date or by wire transfer in same day funds to such account as may have been appropriately designated to the Paying Agent by such Person in writing not later than such relevant Regular or Special Record Date.

 

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

 

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

 



 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

 

 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

John N. McMullen

 

 

 

Senior Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

Attest:

 

 

 

 

Paul T. Porrini

 

 

 

Vice President, Deputy General Counsel

 

 

 

and Assistant Secretary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.

 

 

 

 

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated

 

 

herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

 

 

 

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

 

 

TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

 



 

Reverse of Security

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2000 (herein called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Chase Manhattan Bank and Trust Company, National Association), as trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $850,000,000.

 

The Company will have the right to redeem the Securities, in whole or in part on at least 30 days’ but no more than 60 days’ prior written notice mailed to the registered Holders of the Securities to be redeemed.  The Redemption Price will be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and (2) the sum, as determined by the Company based on the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, of the present value of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and the remaining scheduled payments of interest thereon from the Redemption Date to the Maturity Date (the “Remaining Life”) (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the Redemption Date) discounted from the scheduled payment dates to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis at the treasury rate plus 37.5 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date is deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent on or before the Redemption Date and the conditions set forth in Article 11 of the Indenture are satisfied, then on and after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on such Securities (or such portion thereof) called for redemption and such Securities will cease to be outstanding.  If any Redemption Date is not a Business Day, the Company will pay the Redemption Price on the next Business Day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

 

If fewer than all of the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Securities of such series for redemption on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee deems appropriate and fair.  No Securities of $1,000 or less will be redeemed in part.

 

Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price, no interest will accrue on the Securities called for redemption for the period from and after the Redemption Date.

 



 

In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

 

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by a Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company as having a maturity comparable to the Remaining Life 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 with the Remaining Life.

 

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, the average of three Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date.

 

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means each of Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in the United States (a Primary Treasury Dealer), the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer.

 

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by each Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding the redemption date; provided that if three such quotations cannot reasonably be obtained by the Company, but if two such quotations are obtained, then the average of the two quotations shall be used, and if only one such quotation can reasonably be obtained by the Company, then one quotation shall be used.

 

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the applicable 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 the redemption date.

 

The Indenture contains provisions, which will apply to the Securities, for defeasance and covenant defeasance and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.

 

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

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of

 



 

the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of more than 50% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration or transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or Trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

 

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

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said State, without regard to conflict of laws principles thereof.

 

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

 



 

ASSIGNMENT

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto:

 

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF

 

 

ASSIGNEE:

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

the within Global Security of HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY and all rights hereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing

 

                                                                                                                                                                                          attorney to transfer said Global Security on the books of the within-named Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGN HERE

 

 

 

 

NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE WITHIN INSTRUMENT IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURE GUARANTEED

 



 

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE

 

The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Amount of Decrease in
Principal Amount of
this Global Note

 

Amount of Increase in
Principal Amount of
this Global Note

 

Principal Amount of
this Global Note
Following Such
Decrease or Increase

 

Signature of
Authorized Signatory
of Trustee or Notes
Custodian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Exhibit 4.3

 

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

 

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OR TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY 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.

 



 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021

 

No. R-FX21-[    ]

 

$                               

CUSIP No. 428236 BV4

 

Hewlett-Packard Company, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of Delaware (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of                          Dollars ($                        ) or such other amount indicated on the Schedule of Exchange of Global Notes attached hereto on December 9, 2021 (if such date is not a Business Day, payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest for the Securities will be paid on the next Business Day); provided, however, that no interest on that payment will accrue from and after December 9, 2021, and to pay interest thereon from December 9, 2011, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on June 9 and December 9 in each year, commencing June 9, 2012, at the rate of 4.650% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment.  The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day), next preceding such Interest Payment Date.  Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.  Interest on the Security shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months, and for any period shorter than a full six-month interest period, on the basis of the actual days elapsed in such period.

 

So long as all of the Securities of this series are represented by Global Securities, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on this Global Security shall be paid in same day funds to the Depositary, or to such name or entity as is requested by an authorized representative of the Depositary.  If at any time the Securities of this series are no longer represented by the Global Securities and are issued in definitive form (“Certificated Securities”), then the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on each Certificated Security at Maturity shall be paid to the Holder upon surrender of such Certificated Security at the office or agency maintained by the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (which shall initially be the principal corporate trust office of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee) or at such

 



 

other place or places as may be designated in or pursuant to the Indenture, provided that such Certificated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, acting as Paying Agent, in time for the Paying Agent to make such payments in such funds in accordance with its normal procedures.  Payments of interest with respect to Certificated Securities other than at Maturity may, at the option of the Company, be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it appears on the Security Register on the relevant Regular or Special Record Date or by wire transfer in same day funds to such account as may have been appropriately designated to the Paying Agent by such Person in writing not later than such relevant Regular or Special Record Date.

 

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

 

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

 



 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

 

 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

John N. McMullen

 

 

 

Senior Vice President and Treasurer

 

 

 

Attest:

 

 

 

 

Paul T. Porrini

 

 

 

Vice President, Deputy General Counsel

 

 

 

and Assistant Secretary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.

 

 

 

 

 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated

 

 

herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

 

 

 

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON

 

 

TRUST COMPANY, N.A., as Trustee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

Authorized Signatory

 

 

 



 

Reverse of Security

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2000 (herein called the “Indenture,” which term shall have the meaning assigned to it in such instrument), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, as successor to Chase Manhattan Bank and Trust Company, National Association), as trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.  This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $1,500,000,000.

 

The Company will have the right to redeem the Securities, in whole or in part on at least 30 days’ but no more than 60 days’ prior written notice mailed to the registered Holders of the Securities to be redeemed.  The Redemption Price will be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and (2) the sum, as determined by the Company based on the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, of the present value of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and the remaining scheduled payments of interest thereon from the Redemption Date to the Maturity Date (the “Remaining Life”) (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the Redemption Date) discounted from the scheduled payment dates to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis at the treasury rate plus 40 basis points, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of and accrued interest on the Securities (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the Redemption Date is deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent on or before the Redemption Date and the conditions set forth in Article 11 of the Indenture are satisfied, then on and after the Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on such Securities (or such portion thereof) called for redemption and such Securities will cease to be outstanding.  If any Redemption Date is not a Business Day, the Company will pay the Redemption Price on the next Business Day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

 

If fewer than all of the Securities of a series are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Securities of such series for redemption on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee deems appropriate and fair.  No Securities of $1,000 or less will be redeemed in part.

 

Unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Redemption Price, no interest will accrue on the Securities called for redemption for the period from and after the Redemption Date.

 



 

In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities of this series and of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

 

“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by a Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company as having a maturity comparable to the Remaining Life 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 with the Remaining Life.

 

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any redemption date, the average of three Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date.

 

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means each of Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in the United States (a Primary Treasury Dealer), the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer.

 

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by each Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding the redemption date; provided that if three such quotations cannot reasonably be obtained by the Company, but if two such quotations are obtained, then the average of the two quotations shall be used, and if only one such quotation can reasonably be obtained by the Company, then one quotation shall be used.

 

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the applicable 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 the redemption date.

 

The Indenture contains provisions, which will apply to the Securities, for defeasance and covenant defeasance and Events of Default with respect to this Security, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.

 

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

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of

 



 

the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of more than 50% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected.  The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.  Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration or transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Security shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver or Trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of this series, the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders of a majority in principal amount of Securities of this series at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity.  The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Security for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof or any premium or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed herein.

 

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

 

The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

This Security shall be deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of New York, and for all purposes shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of said State, without regard to conflict of laws principles thereof.

 

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

 



 

ASSIGNMENT

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto:

 

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER OF

 

 

ASSIGNEE:

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

the within Global Security of HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY and all rights hereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing

 

                                                                                                                                                                                          attorney to transfer said Global Security on the books of the within-named Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGN HERE

 

 

 

 

NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE WITHIN INSTRUMENT IN EVERY PARTICULAR, WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SIGNATURE GUARANTEED

 



 

SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE

 

The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Amount of Decrease in
Principal Amount of
this Global Note

 

Amount of Increase in
Principal Amount of
this Global Note

 

Principal Amount of
this Global Note
Following Such
Decrease or Increase

 

Signature of
Authorized Signatory
of Trustee or Notes
Custodian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Exhibit 4.4

 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

 

OFFICERS’ CERTIFICATE PURSUANT TO

SECTION 301 OF THE INDENTURE

 

December 9, 2011

 

We, Paul T. Porrini and John N. McMullen, do hereby certify that we are the duly appointed Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary and Senior Vice President and Treasurer, respectively, of Hewlett-Packard Company, a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”).  We further certify, pursuant to the consent of the Debt Subcommittee of the Board of Directors of the Company adopted as of December 6, 2011 (a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A ), that pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2000 (the “ Indenture ”) between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A ., the successor to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association, the successor to Chase Manhattan Bank and Trust Company, National Association), as trustee, three series of debt securities of the Company are hereby established, with the following terms and provisions:

 

1.             The titles of such series of Securities shall be the “2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014” (the “ 2014 Global Notes ”), the “3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016” (the “ 2016 Global Notes ”), and the “4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021” (the “ 2021 Global Notes ” together with the 2014 Global Notes and the 2016 Global Notes, collectively, the “ Global Notes ”) (copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibits B-1, B-2, and  B-3 , respectively).

 

2.             The aggregate principal amount of the Global Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture shall be $650,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2014 Global Notes, $850,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2016 Global Notes and $1,500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the 2021 Global Notes (except for Global Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Global Notes pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 906 and 1107 of the Indenture, and except for any Global Notes which, pursuant to Section 303 of the Indenture, shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered thereunder).

 

3.             The prices at which the Global Notes shall be issued to the public are: 99.946% for the 2014 Global Notes; 99.790% for the 2016 Global Notes; and 99.707% for the 2021 Global Notes.

 

4.             Interest on the Global Notes shall be payable to the Persons in whose names the Global Notes (or one or more Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.

 

5.             The Stated Maturity of the 2014 Global Notes on which the principal thereof is due and payable is December 9, 2014 (if such date is not a Business Day, payment of principal,

 



 

premium, if any, and interest for the Securities will be paid on the next Business Day; provided, however, that no interest on that payment will accrue from and after December 9, 2014).  The Stated Maturity of the 2016 Global Notes on which the principal thereof is due and payable is December 9, 2016 (if such date is not a Business Day, payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest for the Securities will be paid on the next Business Day; provided, however, that no interest on that payment will accrue from and after December 9, 2016).  The Stated Maturity of the 2021 Global Notes on which the principal thereof is due and payable is December 9, 2021 (if such date is not a Business Day, payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest for the Securities will be paid on the next Business Day; provided, however, that no interest on that payment will accrue from and after December 9, 2021).

 

6.             The 2014 Global Notes will bear interest at the rate of 2.625% per year. Interest on the 2014 Global Notes will be paid semi-annually in arrears on June 9 and December 9 of each year, beginning on June 9, 2012, to the holders of record of the 2014 Global Notes at the close of business on the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding the related Interest Payment Date. Interest on the 2014 Global Notes will accrue from and including December 9, 2011, to but excluding the first Interest Payment Date and then from and including the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for to but excluding the next Interest Payment Date or Maturity date, as the case may be. Interest on the 2014 Global Notes will be paid on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months. If an Interest Payment Date on the 2014 Global Notes falls on a date that is not a Business Day, the Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day.

 

7.             The 2016 Global Notes will bear interest at the rate of 3.300% per year. We will make interest payments on the 2016 Global Notes semi-annually in arrears on June 9 and December 9 of each year, beginning on June 9, 2012, to the holders of record of the 2016 Global Notes at the close of business on the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding the related Interest Payment Date. Interest on the 2016 Global Notes will accrue from and including December 9, 2011, to but excluding the first Interest Payment Date and then from and including the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for to but excluding the next Interest Payment Date or Maturity date, as the case may be. Interest on the 2016 Global Notes will be paid on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months. If an Interest Payment Date on the 2016 Global Notes falls on a date that is not a Business Day, the Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day.

 

8.             The 2021 Global Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.650% per year. We will make interest payments on the 2021 Global Notes semi-annually in arrears on June 9 and December 9 of each year, beginning on June 9, 2012, to the holders of record of the 2021 Global Notes at the close of business on the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding the related Interest Payment Date. Interest on the 2021 Global Notes will accrue from and including December 9, 2011, to but excluding the first Interest Payment Date and then from and including the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for to

 

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but excluding the next Interest Payment Date or Maturity date, as the case may be. Interest on the 2021 Global Notes will be paid on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months. If an Interest Payment Date on the 2021 Global Notes falls on a date that is not a Business Day, the Interest Payment Date shall be postponed to the next succeeding Business Day.

 

9.             The Global Notes shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities (the “ Global Securities ”).  So long as the Global Notes shall be issued in whole in the form of the Global Securities, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the Global Notes shall be paid in immediately available funds to the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary.  If at any time the Global Notes are no longer represented by the Global Securities and are issued in definitive form (“ Certificated Securities ”), then the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on each Certificated Security at Maturity shall be paid to the Holder upon surrender of such Certificated Security at the office or agency maintained by the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (which shall initially be the office of The Bank of New York, an affiliate of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., the Trustee), provided that such Certificated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, acting as Paying Agent, in time for the Paying Agent to make such payments in such funds in accordance with its normal procedures.  Payments of interest with respect to Certificated Securities other than at Maturity may, at the option of the Company, be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it appears on the Security Register on the relevant Regular or Special Record Date or by wire transfer in same day funds to such account as may have been appropriately designated to the Paying Agent by such Person in writing not later than such relevant Regular or Special Record Date.  Each payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, shall be made in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.  Transfer of the Global Notes shall be registrable on the Securities Register upon the surrender of the Global Notes for registration of transfer at the office or agency maintained by the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York (which shall initially be the office of The Bank of New York, an affiliate of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., the Trustee).

 

10.           The Global Notes are subject to redemption at the option of the Company.

 

11.           The Company will have the right to redeem the Global Notes, in whole or in part, on at least 30 days’ but no more than 60 days’ prior written notice mailed to the registered holders of the Global Notes to be redeemed.  The redemption price will be equal to the greater of (1) 100% of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and (2) the sum, as determined by the Company based on the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, of the present value of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and the remaining scheduled payments of interest thereon from the Redemption Date to the Maturity Date (the “ Remaining Life ”) (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the Redemption Date) discounted from the scheduled payment dates to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis at the Treasury Rate plus 35 basis points in the case of the 2014 Global Notes, 37.5 basis points in the case of the 2016 Global Notes

 

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and 40 basis points in the case of the 2021 Global Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount being redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

 

If money sufficient to pay the redemption price of and accrued interest on the Global Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed on the redemption date is deposited with the Trustee or Paying Agent on or before the redemption date and certain other conditions are satisfied, then on and after the redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on the Global Notes (or such portion thereof) called for redemption and such Global Notes will cease to be outstanding.  If any redemption date is not a Business Day, the Company will pay the redemption price on the next Business Day without any interest or other payment due to the delay.

 

If fewer than all of the Global Notes in one series are to be redeemed, the Trustee will select the Global Notes in that series for redemption on a pro rata basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee deems appropriate and fair.  No Global Notes of $1,000 or less will be redeemed in part.

 

Comparable Treasury Issue ” means the United States Treasury security selected by a Reference Treasury Dealer appointed by the Company as having a maturity comparable to the Remaining Life 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 with the Remaining Life.

 

Comparable Treasury Price ” means, with respect to any redemption date, the average of three Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer ” means each of Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in the United States (a Primary Treasury Dealer), the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer.

 

Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations ” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by the Company, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Company by each Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding the redemption date; provided that if three such quotations cannot reasonably be obtained by the Company, but if two such quotations are obtained, then the average of the two quotations shall be used, and if only one such quotation can reasonably be obtained by the Company, then one quotation shall be used.

 

Treasury Rate ” means, with respect to any redemption date, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the applicable 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 the redemption date.

 

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12.           The Global Notes are not subject to any sinking fund or analogous provisions.

 

13.           The Global Notes shall be issuable only in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

14.           Except as otherwise provided herein, the amount of payments of principal of, or any premium or interest on the Global Notes may not be determined with reference to an index, formula or other method.

 

15.           The Global Notes may be purchased only in currency of the United States and payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Global Notes will only be made in currency of the United States.

 

16.           The payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Global Notes will not be payable at the option of the Company or the Holder in any currency or currency units other than in the currency of the United States.

 

17.           One hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount of all or any series of the Global Notes will be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity of such series of the Global Notes pursuant to Section 502 of the Indenture.

 

18.           The aggregate principal amount payable at Stated Maturity of the 2014 Global Notes is $650,000,000, of the 2016 Global Notes is $850,000,000 and of the 2021 Global Notes is $1,500,000,000.

 

19.           The defeasance and covenant defeasance provisions of Article Thirteen of the Indenture will apply to each series of the Global Notes.

 

20.           The Global Notes may not be converted into other securities or property.

 

21.           The Depositary for the Global Notes shall be The Depository Trust Company, a New York Corporation (“ DTC ”).  The Global Notes will be represented by one or more Global Securities registered in the name of DTC or Cede & Co., as a nominee of DTC.  Except as set forth in Section 305 of the Indenture, such Global Securities may be transferred, in whole and not in part, only to DTC or another nominee of DTC.

 

22.           There are no Events of Default with respect to the Global Notes that are in addition to the Events of Default contained in the Indenture.

 

23.           The Global Notes are not subject to any guarantee with respect to the payments of principal, premium, if any, or interest.

 

24.           The Global Notes are unsecured.

 

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25.           Sections 1008 and 1009 of the Indenture will apply to the Global Notes without variation.

 

In rendering this Officers’ Certificate, each of undersigned has read the Indenture, including Sections 102, 201, 301 and 303 thereof, and has made such examinations and investigations which, in his or her opinion, are necessary to enable such person to express an informed opinion as to whether all covenants and conditions required under the Indenture to be complied with or satisfied in connection with the Trustee’s authentication and delivery of the Global Notes, have been complied with or satisfied, and, in such person’s opinion, all such covenants and conditions have been complied with and satisfied.

 

Attached hereto as Exhibits B-1, B-2 and B-3 are the forms of Global Security for the Global Notes.  We further approve all of the terms and conditions set forth on or referred to in the attached form of Global Security.  In the event that Certificated Securities are issued in exchange for a Global Security, the form of certificate evidencing the Certificated Security shall be in substantially the form of Global Security, with such grammatical and other changes as are necessary to evidence the Certificated Securities in definitive form rather than as Global Securities.

 

Capitalized terms used herein that are not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this certificate as of the date first written above.

 

 

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Paul T. Porrini

 

 

Paul T. Porrini

 

 

Vice President, Deputy General Counsel
and Assistant Secretary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ John N. McMullen

 

 

John N. McMullen

 

 

Senior Vice President and Treasurer

 

[Signature Page to the Officers’ Certificate Pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture]

 



 

EXHIBIT A

 

Consent of the Debt Subcommittee of the

Board of Directors on December 6, 2011

 



 

EXHIBIT B-1

 

Form of 2.625% Global Note due December 9, 2014

 



 

EXHIBIT B-2

 

Form of 3.300% Global Note due December 9, 2016

 



 

EXHIBIT B-3

 

Form of 4.650% Global Note due December 9, 2021

 


Exhibit 5.1

 

[Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Letterhead]

 

December 9, 2011

 

Hewlett-Packard Company

3000 Hanover Street

Palo Alto, CA 94304

 

Re:        Hewlett-Packard Company
$650,000,000 of 2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014
$850,000,000 of 3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016
$1,500,000,000 of 4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have examined the Registration Statement on Form S-3, file no. 159366 (the “ Registration Statement ”) of Hewlett-Packard Company, a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 (as amended, the “ Securities Act ”), the prospectus included therein, the prospectus supplement, dated December 6, 2011, filed with the Commission on December 7, 2011 pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act (the “ Prospectus Supplement ”), in connection with the offering and sale by the Company of $650,000,000 aggregate principle amount of the Company’s 2.625% Global Notes due December 9, 2014 (the “ 2014 Global Notes ”), $850,000,000 aggregate principle amount of the Company’s 3.300% Global Notes due December 9, 2016 (the “ 2016 Global Notes ”) and $1,500,000,000 aggregate principle amount of the Company’s 4.650% Global Notes due December 9, 2021 (the “ 2021 Global Notes ” and, together with the 2014 Global Notes and the 2016 Global Notes, the “ Notes ”).

 

The Notes have been issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of June 1, 2000 (the “ Indenture ”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor trustee, and an Officers’ Certificate, dated as of December 9, 2011 (the “ Officers’ Certificate ”), which establishes the form and terms of the Notes pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture.

 

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

 



 

Based on the foregoing and in reliance thereon, and subject to the assumptions, exceptions, qualifications and limitations set forth herein, we are of the opinion that the Notes are legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company.

 

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

 

A.    We render no opinion herein as to matters involving the laws of any jurisdiction other than the State of New York.  This opinion is limited to the effect of the current state of the laws of the State of New York and the facts as they currently exist.  We assume no obligation to revise or supplement this opinion in the event of future changes in such laws or the interpretations thereof or such facts.

 

B.    The opinion above is subject to (i) the effect of any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, arrangement or similar laws affecting the rights and remedies of creditors’ generally, including the effect of statutory or other laws regarding fraudulent transfers or preferential transfers, and (ii) general principles of equity, including concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law.

 

C.    We express no opinion regarding the effectiveness of (i) any waiver of stay, extension or usury laws or of unknown future rights, or (ii) provisions relating to indemnification, exculpation or contribution, to the extent such provisions may be held unenforceable as contrary to public policy or federal or state securities laws.

 

We consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement, and we further consent to the use of our name under the caption “Validity of the Global Notes” in the Prospectus Supplement. In giving these consents, we do not thereby admit that we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

 

Very truly yours,

 

/s/ Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

 

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