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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM 8-K
 
 
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report: November 12, 2020
(Date of earliest event reported)
 
 
 
Commission
File Number
 
Exact Name of Registrant
as specified in its charter
 
State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization
 
IRS Employer
Identification Number
1-12609
 
PG&E CORPORATION
 
California
 
94-3234914
1-2348
 
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
 
California
 
94-0742640
 
 
77 Beale Street
P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco, California 94177
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
 
77 Beale Street
P.O. Box 770000
San Francisco, California 94177
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(415) 973-1000
 
(415) 973-7000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
 
(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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):
 
 
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
 
 
Soliciting Material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
 
 
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
 
 
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
 
Title of each class
 
Trading
Symbol(s)
 
Name of each exchange
on which registered
Common stock, no par value
 
PCG
 
The New York Stock Exchange
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5% series A redeemable
 
PCG-PE
 
NYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5% redeemable
 
PCG-PD
 
NYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 4.80% redeemable
 
PCG-PG
 
NYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 4.50% redeemable
 
PCG-PH
 
NYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 4.36% series A redeemable
 
PCG-PI
 
NYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 6% nonredeemable
 
PCG-PA
 
NYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5.50% nonredeemable
 
PCG-PB
 
NYSE American LLC
First preferred stock, cumulative, par value $25 per share, 5% nonredeemable
 
PCG-PC
 
NYSE American LLC
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
 
Emerging growth company    PG&E Corporation   
Emerging growth company    Pacific Gas and Electric Company   
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.
 
PG&E Corporation      
Pacific Gas and Electric Company      
 
 
 

Item 8.01.
Other Events
On November 16, 2020, Pacific Gas and Electric Company completed the sale of $1,450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Floating Rate First Mortgage Bonds due November 15, 2021 (the “Mortgage Bonds”). For further information concerning the Mortgage Bonds, refer to the exhibits attached to this report.
 
Item 9.01.
Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits.
 
Exhibit
No.
  
Description
1.1    Underwriting Agreement, dated November 12, 2020, by and among Pacific Gas and Electric Company, BofA Securities, Inc., Mizuho Securities USA LLC, MUFG Securities Americas Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
4.1    Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 16, 2020, relating to the Mortgage Bonds, between Pacific Gas and Electric Company and the Trustee (including the form of Mortgage Bond)
4.2    Calculation Agency Agreement, dated as of November 16, 2020, between Pacific Gas and Electric Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A, as calculation agent
5.1    Opinion of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, dated November 16, 2020
104    Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document

SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrants have duly caused this report to be signed on their behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
 
   
PG&E CORPORATION
    By:  
/s/ CHRISTOPHER A. FOSTER
      Christopher A. Foster
Dated: November 16, 2020       Vice President and Interim Chief Financial Officer
   
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
    By:  
/s/ DAVID S. THOMASON
      David S. Thomason
Dated: November 16, 2020       Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Controller

Exhibit 1.1

EXECUTION VERSION

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

$1,450,000,000 Aggregate Principal Amount

of Floating Rate First Mortgage Bonds due 2021

Underwriting Agreement

New York, New York

November 12, 2020

BofA Securities, Inc.

One Bryant Park

New York, NY 10036

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

1271 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

1221 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor

New York, NY 10020

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

550 South Tryon Street, 5th Floor

Charlotte, NC 28202

As Representatives of the several Underwriters

named in Schedule I hereto

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of California (the “Company”), proposes to sell to the several underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you (the “Representatives”) are acting as representatives, $1,450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of floating rate first mortgage bonds due 2021 (the “Securities”), certain terms of which are set forth on Schedule II. The Securities are to be issued under an indenture, dated as of June 19, 2020 (the “Base Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by (i) the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 19, 2020 (the “First Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee; (ii) the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2020 (the “Second Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee; (iii) the Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2020 (the “Third Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee; (iv) the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2020 (the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee; (v) the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of July 1, 2020


(the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”), between the Company and the Trustee; (vi) the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 1, 2020 (the “Sixth Supplemental Indenture”); and (vii) the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 16, 2020 (the “Seventh Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture and the First Supplemental Indenture, Second Supplemental Indenture, Third Supplemental Indenture, Fourth Supplemental Indenture, Fifth Supplemental Indenture and Sixth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), between the Company and Trustee. Any reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the Exchange Act on or before the Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the issue date of the Base Prospectus, any 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, the Base Prospectus, 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 issue date of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein by reference. Certain terms used herein are defined in Section 21 hereof.

1.    Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to, and agrees with, each Underwriter as set forth below in this Section 1.

(a)    The Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Act and has prepared and filed with the Commission a shelf registration statement (File No. 333-236629) on Form S-3, including a related Base Prospectus, for 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, has become effective. The Company may have filed with the Commission, as part of an amendment to the Registration Statement or pursuant to Rule 424(b), one or more preliminary prospectus supplements relating to the Securities, each of which has previously been furnished to you. The Company will file with the Commission a final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities in accordance with Rule 424(b). As filed, such final prospectus supplement shall contain all information required by the Act and the rules thereunder, 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 Company has paid the fees required by the Commission relating to the Securities within the time required by Rule 456(a) and otherwise in accordance with Rules 456(a) and 457(o).

(b)    On each 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

 

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the applicable requirements of the Act, the Exchange Act and the Trust Indenture Act and the respective rules thereunder; on each Effective Date, at the Execution Time and on the Closing Date, the Registration Statement did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; on the Effective Date and on the Closing Date the Indenture did or will comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and the rules thereunder; and on the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) 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 the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto), 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 8 hereof.

(c)    As of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, (i) the Disclosure Package and (ii) each Road Show, if any, when taken together as a whole with the Disclosure Package, did not and will 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 and any such Road Show 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 8 hereof.

(d)    The Company has not prepared or used any Free Writing Prospectus, other than any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed under item 1 of Schedule III hereto. Any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus did not, as of its issue date, and does not include any information that conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any document incorporated therein by reference 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 any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus 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 8 hereof.

(e)    The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of California, with full corporate

 

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power and authority to own or lease, as the case may be, and to operate its properties and conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, and is duly qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction which requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole (a “Material Adverse Effect”).

(f)    This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

(g)    As of the date hereof, the Company has the authorized capitalization as set forth in Disclosure Package, and after giving effect to the issuance of the Securities and the use of net proceeds therefrom as described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, the Company will have an authorized capitalization as set forth under the as adjusted column of the capitalization table in the section entitled “Capitalization.”

(h)    The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company; and at the Closing Date, the Indenture will have been duly executed and delivered by the Company; and at the Closing Date, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery by the Trustee, the Indenture will constitute, a valid and binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement thereof may be limited (i) by laws and principles of equity affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights, including, without limitation, bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency arrangement, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium, receivership, assignment for the benefit of creditors laws, and (ii) the applicable regulatory requirements (including the approval of the California Public Utilities Commission (the “CPUC”) (collectively, the “Enforceability Exceptions”); and the Indenture will be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act as of the Closing Date.

(i)    The issuance and sale by the Company of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action; and, when issued and authenticated pursuant to the Indenture and delivered to the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement against payment of the consideration therefor specified herein, the Securities will be valid and binding obligations of the Company, entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by the Enforceability Exceptions.

(j)    None of the (i) issue and sale of the Securities, the (ii) execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the Indenture, (iii) the application of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described under “Use of Proceeds” in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, and (iv) the consummation of any other of the transactions contemplated herein, or the performance by the Company of any of its obligations set forth under this Agreement or the Indenture will conflict with, or result in a breach or violation of: (i) the charter, bylaws or comparable constituent

 

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documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or bound or to which its or their property is subject, or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of its or their properties, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for such conflicts, breaches or violations which could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(k)    After giving effect to the issue and sale of the Securities, neither the Company nor any subsidiary will be in violation or default of (i) any provision of its charter or bylaws, (ii) the terms of any indenture, contract, lease, mortgage, deed of trust, note agreement, loan agreement or other agreement, obligation, condition, covenant or instrument to which it is a party or bound or to which its property is subject, or (iii) any statute, law, rule, regulation, judgment, order or decree of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency, governmental body, arbitrator or other authority having jurisdiction over the Company or such subsidiary or any of its properties, as applicable, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for such conflicts, breaches or violations which could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(l)    No holders of securities of the Company have rights to the registration of such securities under the Registration Statement.

(m)    Since January 1, 2020, there has not occurred any change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Disclosure Package that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(n)    No action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or its or their property is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened that (i) would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the issue and sale of the Securities, the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement, the application of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described under “Use of Proceeds” in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated herein or the performance by the Company of any of its obligations set forth under this Agreement or the Indenture or (ii) would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).

(o)    The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in the Disclosure

 

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Package and the Final Prospectus, will not be an “investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”) or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the 1940 Act.

(p)    Except as set forth or contemplated in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (i) is in violation of any statute, any rule, regulation, decision or order of any governmental agency or body or any court, domestic or foreign, relating to the use, disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or relating to the protection or restoration of the environment or human exposure to hazardous or toxic substances (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (ii) owns or operates any real property contaminated with any substance that is subject to any Environmental Laws, (iii) is liable for any off-site disposal or contamination pursuant to any Environmental Laws, or (iv) is subject to any pending, or to the Company’s knowledge, threatened, claim relating to any Environmental Laws, in each case, which violation, obligation, contamination, liability or claim could, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and the Company is not aware of any facts, circumstances or events that could reasonably be expected to lead to any of the foregoing.

(q)    The Company does not have any significant subsidiaries as defined by Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X.

(r)    Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in each of the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), (i) the Company and its subsidiaries have not incurred any material liability or obligation, direct or contingent, nor entered into any material transaction other than in the ordinary course of business; (ii) the Company has not purchased any of its outstanding capital stock (except as permitted under its existing equity compensation plans), nor declared, paid or otherwise made any dividend or distribution of any kind on its capital stock other than ordinary and customary dividends; and (iii) there has not been any material change in the capital stock, short-term debt or long-term debt of the Company and its subsidiaries, except in each case as described or contemplated in each of the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).

(s)    Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations which, individually or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a Material Adverse Effect, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).

(t)    The CPUC has authorized the issuance and sale by the Company of the Securities, and such authorization is in full force and effect and sufficient for the issuance and sale of the Securities to the Underwriters.

 

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(u)    No consent, approval, authorization, filing with or order of any court or governmental agency or body is required in connection with the issue and sale of the Securities, the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement or the Indenture, the application of the proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described under “Use of Proceeds” in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and the consummation of any other of the transactions contemplated herein or the performance by the Company of any of its obligations set forth herein, except (i) such as have been obtained from the CPUC; (ii) such filings and recordings with governmental or regulatory authorities or agencies as may be required to perfect security interests under the Indenture; (iii) such as have been obtained, under the Act, the Trust Indenture Act and the rules and interpretations of the Commission thereunder or otherwise; and (iv) such as may be required under the blue sky laws of any jurisdiction in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters in the manner contemplated herein and in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

(v)    The consolidated historical financial statements and schedules of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and the Registration Statement present fairly in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates and for the periods indicated, comply as to form with the applicable accounting requirements of the Act and have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved (except as otherwise noted therein). The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto in all material respects.

(w)    Deloitte & Touche LLP, who have audited certain financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and delivered their report with respect to the audited consolidated financial statements and schedules incorporated in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Act and the applicable published rules and regulations thereunder and of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

(x)    The Company and each of its consolidated subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls over financial reporting sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any material differences. The Company and its subsidiaries’ internal controls over financial reporting are effective and the Company and its subsidiaries are not aware of any material weakness in their internal controls over financial reporting.

 

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(y)    The Company maintains “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) and such disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the Company’s most recently completed fiscal quarter.

(z)    The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.

(aa)    There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company and any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection thereunder, including Section 402 relating to loans and Sections 302 and 906 relating to certifications.

(bb)    To the Company’s knowledge, none of the Company, any of its subsidiaries, or any director, officer, agent, affiliate or employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently the subject of any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”); and the Company will not use the proceeds from the sale of the Securities, or knowingly lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, affiliate, joint venture partner or other person or entity for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently the subject of any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

(cc)    None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, affiliate or employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made or taken an act in furtherance of an offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government official or employee, including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law; or (iv) made, offered, agreed, requested or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including, without limitation, any rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful or improper payment or benefit. The Company and its subsidiaries have instituted, maintain and enforce, and will continue to maintain and enforce policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote and ensure compliance with all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws.

 

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

(ee)    (i) Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus, there has been no security breach, disclosure or outage of, or unauthorized access to, the Company’s or its subsidiaries’ information technology or computer systems, networks, hardware, software, websites or applications, personally identifiable or confidential data or databases thereof (including all personally identifiable or confidential data of their respective customers, employees, suppliers, and vendors, and any third party personally identifiable or confidential data, in each case that is maintained, processed or stored by the Company and its subsidiaries, and any such personally identifiable or confidential data processed or stored by third parties on behalf of the Company and its subsidiaries), equipment or technology (collectively, “IT Systems and Data”); (ii) neither the Company nor its subsidiaries are aware or have been notified of any security breach, disclosure or outage of, or unauthorized access to, their IT Systems and Data; and (iii) the Company and its subsidiaries have implemented reasonable controls, policies, procedures, and technological safeguards and backup and disaster recovery technology designed to maintain and protect the confidentiality, integrity, operation, redundancy and security of their IT Systems and Data that are reasonably consistent with generally accepted industry standards and practices, or as required by applicable regulatory standards, except with respect to clauses (i) and (ii), for any such security breach, disclosure, outage, or unauthorized access as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, or with respect to clause (iii), where the failure to do so would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its subsidiaries have complied, and are presently in compliance, in all material respects, with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification.

(ff)    Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person (other than this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against the Company or any of its subsidiaries for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the negotiation, documentation and execution of the offering of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement.

 

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(gg)    The Company and each of its subsidiaries have timely filed all federal, state, local and foreign tax returns required to be filed through the date of this Agreement and have timely paid all taxes required to be paid thereon (except for cases in which the failure to file or pay would not have a Material Adverse Effect, or, except with respect to taxes currently being contested in good faith and for which reserves required by U.S. GAAP have been created in the financial statements of the Company), and no tax deficiency has been determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries which has had (nor does the Company nor any of its subsidiaries have any notice or knowledge of any tax deficiency which could reasonably be expected to be determined adversely to the Company or its subsidiaries and which could reasonably be expected to have) a Material Adverse Effect.

(hh)    The Company has good and valid title to all real property and all personal property subject to the lien of the Indenture, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims (i) except for such liens, encumbrances, equities or claims as are described in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus and are permitted by the Indenture and (ii) except for such defects in title as are not reasonably likely to, individually or in the aggregate, materially interfere with the use made or to be made of such property by the Company or materially impair the liens of the Indenture or have a material adverse effect on (x) the condition (financial or other), results of operations or business of the Company or (y) the authority or the ability of the Company to enter into or perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture or the Securities.

(ii)    The Base Indenture was effective to create, as of July 1, 2020 in favor of the Trustee, for the benefit of itself and the holders of the Bonds, a legal, valid and enforceable lien on and security interest in all of the Company’s right, title and interest in and to the Mortgaged Property (as such term is defined in the Indenture) described in the instruments recorded as provided in Schedule IV-2; and when such Base Indenture and memoranda of indenture supplements were filed or recorded in the proper real estate filing or recording offices as provided in Schedule IV-2, and all relevant mortgage taxes and recording charges were duly paid, such lien was perfected in favor of the Trustee (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) in such Mortgaged Property and, to the extent applicable, subject to Section 9-315 of the Uniform Commercial Code, the proceeds thereof, in each case prior and superior in right to the Lien of any other person, except for Permitted Liens (as such term is defined in the Indenture). The Seventh Supplemental Indenture will be effective to create as of the Closing Date in favor of the Trustee, for the benefit of itself and the holders of the Securities and the other Bonds a legal, valid and enforceable lien on and security interest in all of the Company’s right, title and interest in and to the Mortgaged Property (as such term is defined in the Base Indenture) described in the Seventh Supplemental Indenture; and when on or following the Closing Date such Seventh Supplemental Indenture (or memorandum thereof) is filed or recorded in the proper real estate filing or recording offices, and all relevant mortgage taxes and recording charges are duly paid, the Trustee (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) shall

 

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have a perfected Lien on, and security interest in, all right, title, and interest of the Company in such Mortgaged Property and, to the extent applicable, subject to Section 9-315 of the Uniform Commercial Code, the proceeds thereof, in each case prior and superior in right to the Lien of any other person, except for Permitted Liens (as such term is defined in the Indenture).

(jj)    Other than the financing statements filed and the Base Indenture and memoranda of indenture supplements recorded on or following June 19, 2020 in favor of the Trustee (which financing statements are identified on Schedule IV-1 hereto and the recording information for the Base Indenture and memoranda of indenture supplements is identified on Schedule IV-2 hereto), no effective mortgage, financing statement, fixture filing or other instrument similar in effect under any applicable law covering all or any part of the property subject to the liens of the Indenture is on file in any filing or recording office except for financing statements filed in connection with Permitted Liens (as defined in the Indenture).

(kk)    [Reserved].

(ll)    The Company carries, or is covered by, insurance in such amounts and covering such risks as is adequate for the conduct of its businesses and the value of its properties and as is customary for companies engaged in similar businesses in similar industries. The Company (i) has not received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that substantial capital improvements or other material expenditures will have to be made in order to continue such insurance and (ii) has no reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers at a cost that is not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Any certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to the Representatives or counsel for the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement shall be deemed a representation and warranty by the Company, as to matters covered thereby, to each Underwriter.

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 a purchase price of 99.85% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued interest, if any, from November 16, 2020 to the Closing Date hereunder, the principal amount of the Securities set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in Schedule I.

3.    Delivery and Payment. Delivery of and payment for the Securities shall be made at 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, 450 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017 on November 16, 2020, which date and time may be postponed by agreement between the Representatives and the Company or as provided in Section 9 hereof (such date and time of delivery and payment for the Securities being herein called the “Closing Date”). Delivery of the Securities shall be made to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters against payment

 

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by the several Underwriters through the Representatives of the aggregate purchase price for the Securities, plus accrued interest, if any, by wire transfer to the account or accounts specified by the Company, in immediately available funds. Delivery of the Securities shall be made through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company unless the Representatives shall otherwise instruct.

4.    Offering by Underwriters. It is understood that the several Underwriters propose to, and they hereby represent that they will, offer the Securities for sale to the public as set forth in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus.

5.    Agreements. The Company agrees with the several Underwriters that:

(a)    Prior to the termination of the offering of the Securities, the Company will not file any amendment of the Registration Statement or supplement (including the Final Prospectus or any Preliminary Prospectus) to the Base Prospectus or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement unless the Company has furnished you a copy for your review prior to filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which you reasonably object in a timely manner. The Company will cause the Final Prospectus, properly completed, and any supplement thereto to be filed in a form approved by the Representatives with the Commission 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) when the Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed (if required) with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) or when any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have been filed with the Commission, (ii) when, prior to termination of the offering of the Securities, any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have been filed or become effective, (iii) of any request by the Commission or its staff for any amendment of the Registration Statement, or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, or for any 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 any notice objecting to its use, any order preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, or the institution or threatening of any proceeding for the purpose of suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, and (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 institution or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to prevent (i) the issuance of such stop order or other order referred to in the preceding sentence, or (ii) the occurrence of (A) any suspension of the effectiveness, or objection to the use, of the Registration Statement or (B) any prevention or suspension of the use of the preliminary prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Final Prospectus and, upon such issuance, occurrence or notice of objection, to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal of such stop order or relief from such occurrence or objection, including, if necessary, by filing an amendment to the Registration Statement or a new registration statement and using its reasonable best efforts to have such amendment or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable.

 

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(b)    The Company shall prepare a final term sheet for the Securities, containing solely descriptions of the respective final terms and offering of the Securities, in the form approved by you and attached as Schedule II hereto, and file such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by such Rule.

(c)    If, at any time prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424(b), any event occurs as a result of which the Disclosure Package 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 or the circumstances then prevailing not misleading, the Company will (i) notify promptly the Representatives so that any use of the Disclosure Package may cease until it is amended or supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement the Disclosure Package to correct such statement or omission; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.

(d)    If, at any time following issuance of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and prior to the completion of the distribution of the Securities, any event occurs as a result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus would conflict with the information in the Registration Statement, Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus or 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 or the circumstances then prevailing not misleading, the Company will (i) notify promptly the Representatives so that any use of such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus may cease until it is amended or supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus to correct such statement or omission; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.

(e)    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 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 at such time not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the Registration Statement, file a new registration statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply with the Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder, including in connection with use or delivery of the Final Prospectus, the Company promptly will (i) notify the Representatives of any such event, (ii) prepare and file with the Commission, subject to the second sentence of paragraph (a) of this Section 5, an amendment or supplement or new registration statement which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance, (iii) use its reasonable best efforts to have any amendment to the Registration Statement or new registration statement declared effective as soon as practicable in order to avoid any disruption in use of the Final Prospectus and (iv) supply any supplemented Final Prospectus to you in such quantities as you may reasonably request.

 

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(f)    As soon as practicable, the Company will make generally available to its security holders and to the Representatives an earnings statement or statements of the Company and its subsidiaries which will satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act and Rule 158.

(g)    The Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, without charge, signed copies of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto) and to each other Underwriter a copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto) 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 Rule 172), as many copies of each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any supplement thereto as the Representatives may reasonably request. The Company will pay the expenses of printing or other production of all documents relating to the offering.

(h)    The Company will arrange, if necessary, for the qualification of the Securities for sale under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate and will maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the distribution of the Securities; provided that in no event shall the Company be obligated to qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified or to take any action that would subject it to service of process in suits, other than those arising out of the offering or sale of the Securities, in any jurisdiction where it is not now so subject.

(i)    Prior to the completion of the distribution of the Securities, the Company will not use or refer to any Free Writing Prospectus, except as permitted pursuant to Rule 164(e)(2); and to the extent the Company is so permitted to use a Free Writing Prospectus pursuant to such rule, the Company will furnish to you a copy of each proposed Free Writing Prospectus to be prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and will not use or refer to any proposed Free Writing Prospectus to which you reasonably object.

(j)    The Company will not take any action that would result in an Underwriter or the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) a Free Writing Prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Underwriters that the Underwriters otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.

(k)     During the period from the date of this Agreement through the Closing Date, the Company will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, or otherwise dispose of (or enter into any transaction which is designed to, or might reasonably be expected to, result in the disposition (whether by actual disposition or effective economic disposition due to cash settlement or otherwise) by the Company or any controlled affiliate of the Company), directly or indirectly, or confidentially submit or file (or participate in the filing of) a registration statement with the Commission in respect of, or establish or increase a put equivalent position or liquidate or decrease a call equivalent position within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act, any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company (other than the Securities) or publicly announce an intention to effect any such transaction;

 

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provided that the prior written consent of the Representatives shall not be required for issuances of commercial paper or other debt securities with scheduled maturities of less than one year.

(l)    The Company will not take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would constitute or that might reasonably be expected to cause or result in, under the Exchange Act or otherwise, stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities.

(m)    The Company agrees to pay the costs and expenses relating to the following matters: (i) the preparation, printing or reproduction and filing with the Commission of the Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits thereto), each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and each amendment or supplement to any of them; (ii) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery (including postage, air freight charges and charges for counting and packaging) of such copies of the Registration Statement, each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and all amendments or supplements to any of them, as may, in each case, be reasonably requested for use in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities; (iii) the preparation, printing, authentication, issuance and delivery of certificates for the Securities, and any stamp or transfer taxes in connection with the original issuance and sale of the Securities; (iv) the printing (or reproduction) and delivery of this Agreement, any blue sky memorandum (the cost of such memorandum not to exceed $15,000) and all other agreements or documents printed (or reproduced) and delivered in connection with the offering of the Securities; (v) any registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of the several states (including filing fees and the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such registration and qualification); (vi) any filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (including filing fees and the reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters relating to such filings); (vii) the costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations on any Road Show undertaken in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Securities; (viii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee, including the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Trustee in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby; (ix) all fees and expenses associated with the grant or perfection of the security interests and liens to be obtained pursuant to the Indenture, including, without limitation, the preparation of the Indenture and the other documents required thereunder in connection therewith (other than the fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters related thereto); (x) the recording of the Base Indenture and any supplemental indenture in the real estate mortgage records in the applicable county recording offices of the State of California; (xi) the fees and expenses of the Company’s accountants and the fees and expenses of counsel (including local and special counsel) for the Company; and (xii) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder.

(n)    As of the Closing Date, the Company shall have good and valid title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all real property and all personal property subject to the liens of the Indenture, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or

 

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claims (i) except for such liens, encumbrances, equities or claims as are described in the Disclosure Package and the Prospectus or are permitted by the Indenture and (ii) except for such defects in title as are not reasonably likely to, individually or in the aggregate, materially interfere with the use made or to be made of such property by the Company, materially impair the liens of the Indenture or have a material adverse effect on (x) the condition (financial or other), results of operations or business of the Company or (y) the authority or the ability of the Company to enter into or perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Indenture or the Securities.

(o)    Promptly following the Closing Date, the Company shall cause the Seventh Supplemental Indenture and other supplemental indentures (or notices, memoranda or financing statements or amendments thereto as may be recorded or filed to place third parties on notice thereof) to be recorded and filed and re-recorded and re-filed in such manner and in such places, as may be required by law in order to fully preserve and protect the security of the holders of the Securities and the other Bonds.

6.    Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters. The obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Securities shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained herein as of the Execution Time and the Closing Date, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

(a)    The Final Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, shall have been filed in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); the final term sheet contemplated by Section 5(b) hereto, and any other material required to be filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Act, shall have been filed with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such filings by Rule 433; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use shall have been issued and no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened.

(b)    The Representatives shall have received from (i) Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, counsel for the Company, their written opinion and negative assurance letter, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, and (ii) Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, regulatory counsel for the Company, their written opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.

(c)    The Representatives shall have received from the General Counsel of the Company a written opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.

(d)    The Representatives shall have received from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representatives, with respect to the issuance and sale of the Securities, the Indenture, the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus

 

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(together with any supplement thereto) and other related matters as the Representatives may reasonably require, and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters.

(e)    The Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate of the Company, signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice President or the Treasurer and by the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, dated the Closing Date, to the effect that the signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus and any supplements or amendments thereto, as well as each Road Show used in connection with the offering of the Securities, and this Agreement and that:

i.    the representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and correct 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;

ii.    no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any notice objecting to 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 and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there has been no Material Adverse Effect, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto).

(f)    The Company shall have requested and caused Deloitte & Touche LLP to have furnished to the Representatives, at the Execution Time and at the Closing Date, letters, dated respectively as of the Execution Time and as of the Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.

(g)    The Company shall have executed and delivered the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, in form and substance satisfactory to the Representatives.

(h)    Subsequent to the Execution Time or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof) and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), there shall not have been (i) any change in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), earnings, business or properties of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) the effect of which is, in the judgment of the Representatives, so material and adverse as to make it impractical or inadvisable to

 

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proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereof), the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).

(i)    Subsequent to the Execution Time, there shall not have been any decrease in the rating of any of PG&E Corporation’s or the Company’s debt securities by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act) or any notice given of any intended or potential decrease in any such rating or of a possible change in any such rating that does not indicate the direction of the possible change.

(j)    Prior to or on the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives (i) a true and correct copy of the Expert’s Certificate described in Section 5.02(b)(ii) of the Base Indenture, any Independent Expert’s Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 5.02(c) of the Base Indenture, and any Opinion of Counsel delivered pursuant to Section 5.02(d) of the Base Indenture, and (ii) evidence that the other conditions precedent to the issuance of the Securities set forth in Section 5.02 of the Base Indenture have been satisfied, including, without limitation that prior to the issuance of the Securities, the Property Additions used as the basis for issuance of the Securities constitute Unfunded Property and the aggregate maximum principal amount of the Securities do not exceed seventy percent (70%) of the Adjusted Property Additions Basis of such Property Additions.

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

If any of the conditions specified in this Section 6 shall not have been fulfilled 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 reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, this Agreement and all obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be canceled at, or at any time prior to, the Closing Date by the Representatives. Notice of such cancellation shall be given to the Company in writing or by telephone or facsimile confirmed in writing.

The documents required to be delivered by this Section 6 shall be delivered by physical or electronic means to the office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, at 450 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10017, on the Closing Date.

7.    Reimbursement of Underwriters’ Expenses. If the sale of the Securities provided for herein is not consummated because any condition to the obligations of the Underwriters set forth in Section 6 hereof is not satisfied, because of any termination pursuant to Section 10 hereof or because of any refusal, inability or failure on the part of the Company to perform any agreement herein or comply with any provision hereof other than by reason of a default by any of the Underwriters, the Company will reimburse the

 

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Underwriters on demand for all expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) that shall have been incurred by them in connection with the proposed purchase and sale of the Securities.

8.    Indemnification and Contribution.

(a)    The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, the directors, officers, employees and agents of each Underwriter and each person who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act and each affiliate of any Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the 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 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 (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or in any subsequent amendment thereof or 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, or (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or any other preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the Securities, the Final Prospectus, the Disclosure Package, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Road Show, or in any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, or the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and agrees to reimburse each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses reasonably 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 specifically for inclusion 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 8(b). This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which 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 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 inclusion in the documents referred to in the foregoing indemnity. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which any Underwriter may otherwise have. The Company acknowledges that the statements set forth (i) in the last paragraph of the cover page regarding delivery of the Securities, (ii) under the heading “Underwriting,” (A) the sentences related to concessions and

 

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reallowances and (B) the paragraph related to short sales, stabilization, syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids in any Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus constitute the only information furnished in writing by or on behalf of the several Underwriters for inclusion in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Road Show.

(c)    Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 8 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 8, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the failure so to notify the indemnifying party (i) will not relieve it from liability under paragraph (a) or (b) above unless and to the extent it did not otherwise learn of such action and such failure results in the forfeiture by the indemnifying party of substantial rights and defenses and (ii) will not, in any event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above. The indemnifying party shall be entitled to appoint counsel of the indemnifying party’s choice at the indemnifying party’s expense to represent the indemnified party in any action for which indemnification is sought (in which case the indemnifying party shall not thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate counsel retained by the indemnified party or parties except as set forth below); provided, however, that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. Notwithstanding the indemnifying party’s election to appoint counsel to represent the indemnified party in an action, the indemnified party shall have the right to employ separate counsel (including local counsel), and the indemnifying party shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the indemnifying party to represent the indemnified party would present such counsel with a conflict of interest, (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of, 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, (iii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action or (iv) the indemnifying party shall authorize the indemnified party to employ separate counsel at the expense of the indemnifying party. It is understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate counsel (in addition to one local counsel) for all such indemnified parties. An indemnifying party will not, without the prior written consent of the indemnified parties, settle or compromise or consent to the entry of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action, suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification or contribution may be sought hereunder (whether or not the indemnified parties are actual or potential parties to such claim or action) unless such settlement, compromise or consent (i) includes an unconditional release of each indemnified party from all liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding and (ii) does not include any statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act, by or on behalf of any indemnified party. No indemnifying party will be liable for any settlement of any such action effected without its prior written

 

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consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), but if settled with the consent of the indemnifying party or if there be a final judgment of the plaintiff in any such action, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment.

(d)    In the event that the indemnity provided in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 8 is unavailable to or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party for any reason, the Company and the Underwriters severally agree to contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending the same) (collectively “Losses”) to which the Company and one or more of the Underwriters may be subject in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and by the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities; provided, however, that 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 or commission applicable to the Securities purchased by such Underwriter hereunder. If the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or unavailable for any reason, the Company and the Underwriters severally shall contribute in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only such relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. Benefits received by the Company shall be deemed to be equal to the total net proceeds from the offering (before deducting expenses) received by it, and benefits received by the Underwriters shall be deemed to be equal to the total underwriting discounts and commissions, in each case as set forth on the cover page of the Final Prospectus. Relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any untrue or any alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information provided by the Company on the one hand or the Underwriters on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (d), in no event shall an Underwriter be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the underwriting discount or commission applicable to the Securities purchased by such Underwriter hereunder as set forth on the cover page of the Final Prospectus exceeds (y) the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. Notwithstanding the provisions of this paragraph (d), 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 8, each person who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of either the Act or the Exchange Act and each director, officer, employee and agent of an Underwriter shall have the same rights to contribution

 

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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 the applicable terms and conditions of this paragraph (d).

9.    Default by an Underwriter. If, on the Closing Date, 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 shall be obligated severally to take up and pay for (in the respective proportions which the principal amount of Securities set forth opposite their names in Schedule I hereto bears to the aggregate principal amount of 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 principal amount of Securities which the defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed to purchase shall exceed 10% of the aggregate principal amount of Securities set forth in Schedule I 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 non-defaulting Underwriters do not purchase all the Securities, this Agreement will terminate without liability to any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company. In the event of a default by any Underwriter as set forth in this Section 9, the Closing Date shall be postponed for such period, not exceeding five Business 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 non-defaulting Underwriter for damages occasioned by its default hereunder.

10.    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 at any time prior to such delivery and payment: (a) (i) trading in the common stock of PG&E Corporation shall have been suspended by the Commission or the New York Stock Exchange, (ii) trading in any series of the preferred stock of the Company shall have been suspended by the Commission or the NYSE American LLC, (iii) (A) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange shall have been suspended or limited, (B) minimum prices shall have been established on either of such exchanges, or (C) there shall have been a material disruption in the clearance or settlement of securities generally on either of such exchanges which makes it, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by this Agreement, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto), (b) a banking moratorium shall have been declared either by Federal, California or New York State authorities, (c) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war, or other calamity or crisis which makes it, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated

 

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by this Agreement, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto) or (d) there shall have been such a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions or the financial markets in the United States which makes it, in the sole judgment of the Representatives, impractical or inadvisable to proceed with the offering or delivery of the Securities as contemplated by this Agreement, the Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus (exclusive of any amendment or supplement thereto).

11.    Representations and Indemnities to Survive. The respective agreements, representations, warranties, indemnities and other statements of the Company or its 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, employees, agents or controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and will survive delivery of and payment for the Securities. The provisions of Sections 7 and 8 hereof shall survive the termination or cancellation of this Agreement.

12.    Notices. All communications hereunder will be in writing and effective only on receipt, and, if sent to the Representatives, will be mailed, delivered or telefaxed to each of BofA Securities, Inc., 1540 Broadway, NY8-540-26-02, New York, NY 10036, Attention: High Grade Transaction Management/Legal, Facsimile: (212) 901-7881, Email: dg.hg_ua_notices@bofa.com; Mizuho Securities USA LLC, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, Attention: Debt Capital Markets, Facsimile: 212-205-7812; MUFG Securities Americas Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, New York 10020, Attention: Capital Markets Group, facsimile: (646) 434-3455; Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 550 South Tryon Street, 5th Floor, Charlotte, NC 28202, Attention: Transaction Management, Email: tmgcapitalmarkets@wellsfargo.com; or, if sent to the Company, will be mailed, delivered or telefaxed to the Company’s General Counsel (fax no.: (415) 973-6374) and confirmed to the Company’s General Counsel, PG&E Corporation, at 77 Beale Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, Attention: General Counsel.

In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.

13.    Successors. This Agreement will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers, directors, employees, agents and controlling persons referred to in Section 8 hereof, and no other person will have any right or obligation hereunder.

14.    No Fiduciary Duty. The Company hereby acknowledges that (a) the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement is an arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and the Underwriters and any

 

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affiliate through which it may be acting, on the other, (b) the Underwriters are acting as principal and not as an agent or fiduciary of the Company and (c) the Company’s engagement of the Underwriters in connection with the offering and the process leading up to the offering is as independent contractors and not in any other capacity. Furthermore, the Company agrees that it is solely responsible for making its own judgments in connection with the offering (irrespective of whether any of the Underwriters has advised or is currently advising the Company on related or other matters). The Company agrees that it will not claim that the Underwriters have rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owe an agency, fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such transaction or the process leading thereto.

15.    Research Analyst Independence. The Company acknowledges that the Underwriters’ research analysts and research departments are required to be independent from their respective investment banking divisions and are subject to certain regulations and internal policies, and that such Underwriters’ research analysts may hold views and make statements or investment recommendations and/or publish research reports with respect to the Company and/or the offering of the Securities that differ from the views of their respective investment banking divisions. The Company hereby waives and releases, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any claims that the Company may have against the Underwriters with respect to any conflict of interest that may arise from the fact that the views expressed by their independent research analysts and research departments may be different from or inconsistent with the views or advice communicated to the Company by such Underwriters’ investment banking divisions. The Company acknowledges that each of the Underwriters is a full service securities firm and as such from time to time, subject to applicable securities laws, may effect transactions for its own account or the account of its customers and hold long or short positions in debt or equity securities of the companies that may be the subject of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

16.    Integration. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings (whether written or oral) between the Company and the Underwriters, or any of them, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

17.    Applicable Law. This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts made and to be performed within the State of New York.

18.    Waiver of Jury Trial. The Company hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby.

19.    Counterparts. This Agreement or any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts by manual, facsimile or electronic signature, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. The words “execution,” “signed,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement or any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement shall be deemed to include electronic

 

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signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means.

20.    Headings. The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

21.    Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Agreement shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Base Indenture. The terms that follow, when used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated.

“Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

“Base Prospectus” shall mean the base prospectus referred to in paragraph 1(a) above contained in the Registration Statement at the Execution Time.

“Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a legal holiday or a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law to close in New York City.

“Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Disclosure Package” shall mean (i) the Base Prospectus, (ii) the Preliminary Prospectus used most recently prior to the Execution Time, (iii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus identified in Schedule III hereto, (iv) any other Free Writing Prospectus permitted pursuant to Rule 164(e)(2) that the parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to treat as part of the Disclosure Package, and (v) the information listed under item 1 of Schedule III hereto.

“Effective Date” shall mean each date and time that the Registration Statement, any post-effective amendment or amendments thereto or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, became or becomes effective and, if later, the date the annual report of the last completed fiscal year of the Company on Form 10-K was so filed.

“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

“Execution Time” shall mean 3:15 p.m. Eastern Time on November 12, 2020, which is the time of the first contract of sale of the Securities.

“Final Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that was first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time, together with the Base Prospectus.

 

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“Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean a free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405.

“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433, that is permitted pursuant to Rule 164(e)(2).

“Preliminary Prospectus” shall mean any preliminary prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus referred to in paragraph 1(a) above which is used prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus, together with the Base Prospectus.

“Registration Statement” shall mean the registration statement referred to in paragraph 1(a) above, including exhibits and financial statements and any prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) and deemed part of such registration statement pursuant to Rule 430B, as amended on each Effective Date and, in the event any post-effective amendment thereto or any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement becomes effective prior to the Closing Date, shall also mean such registration statement or such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement, as the case may be, as so amended.

“Road Show” shall mean a road show, as defined in Rule 433(h)(4) under the Act, together with any communication that is provided or transmitted simultaneously with such road show in a manner designed to make such communication available as part of such road show.

“Rule 144A,” “Rule 158,” “Rule 164,” “Rule 172,” “Rule 405,” “Rule 415,” “Rule 424,” “Rule 430B”, “Rule 433”, “Rule 462 and “Rule 501” refer to such rules under the Act.

“Rule 462(b) Registration Statement” shall mean any registration statement and any amendments thereto filed pursuant to Rule 462(b).

“Trust Indenture Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

22.    Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.

(a)    In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

(b)    In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

 

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“BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k);

“Covered Entity” means any of the following:

 

  (i)

a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);

 

  (ii)

a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or

 

  (iii)

a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b);

“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable; and

“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

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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,
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
By:  

/s/ Margaret K. Becker

  Name: Margaret K. Becker
  Title: Senior Director and Treasurer


The foregoing Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first written above.

 

BOFA SECURITIES, INC.
By:  

/s/ Shawn Cepeda

  Name: Shawn Cepeda
  Title: Managing Director

 

MIZUHO SECURITIES USA LLC
By:  

/s/ Okwudiri Onyedum

  Name: Okwudiri Onyedum
  Title: Managing Director

 

MUFG SECURITIES AMERICAS INC.
By:  

/s/ Richard Testa

  Name: Richard Testa
  Title: Managing Director

 

WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC
By:  

/s/ Carolyn Hurley

  Name: Carolyn Hurley
  Title: Director

For themselves and as Representatives of the other several Underwriters named herein.


SCHEDULE I

 

Name of Underwriter

   Principal Amount of
Securities to be
Purchased
 

BofA Securities, Inc.

   $ 333,500,000  

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

     333,500,000  

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

     333,500,000  

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

     333,500,000  

AmeriVet Securities, Inc.

     58,000,000  

Great Pacific Securities

     58,000,000  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 1,450,000,000  

 

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SCHEDULE II

Issuer Free Writing Prospectus dated November 12, 2020

Filed Pursuant to Rule 433

Registration No. 333-236629

(Supplementing the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement

dated November 12, 2020 to the Prospectus dated June 9, 2020)

PRICING TERM SHEET

 

LOGO

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

$1,450,000,000 Floating Rate First Mortgage Bonds due 2021

The information in this pricing term sheet relates to Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s offering of mortgage bonds listed above and should be read together with the preliminary prospectus supplement dated November 12, 2020 (the “Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”) relating to such offering and the accompanying prospectus dated June 9, 2020, including the documents incorporated by reference therein, each filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, included in the Registration Statement No. 333-236629 (as supplemented by such Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, the “Preliminary Prospectus”). The information in this pricing term sheet supplements the Preliminary Prospectus and supersedes the information in the Preliminary Prospectus to the extent inconsistent with the information in the Preliminary Prospectus. Other information (including financial information) presented or incorporated by reference in the Preliminary Prospectus is deemed to have changed to the extent affected by the changes described herein.

 

Issuer:    Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Anticipated Ratings

(Moody’s/S&P/Fitch):*

   [Intentionally Omitted]
Aggregate Principal Amount Offered:    $1,450,000,000
Issue Price:    100.00%, plus accrued interest, if any, from November 16, 2020
Trade Date:    November 12, 2020
Settlement Date:    November 16, 2020 (T+2)
Maturity Date:    November 15, 2021
Interest Payment Dates:    Interest will be payable quarterly in arrears on February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing on February 15, 2021, subject to adjustment as provided in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement if any such date is not a business day, and at maturity.
Interest:    Three-month LIBOR plus 1.375% per annum, payable quarterly in arrears and reset quarterly.

 

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   See “Description of the Mortgage Bonds—Interest—Effect of Benchmark Transition Event” contained in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement, which describes how the interest payments will be determined by reference to a different base rate than LIBOR following the occurrence of a Benchmark Transition Event (as defined in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement).
Interest Reset Dates:    Each February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15, commencing on February 15, 2021, subject to adjustment as provided in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement if any such date is not a business day.
Regular Record Dates:    February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1, as the case may be, immediately preceding the applicable interest payment date (whether or not such record date is a business day); provided, however, that interest payable at maturity shall be payable to the persons to whom principal shall be payable.
Proceeds to the Company:    Approximately $1,447,825,000 (after deducting the underwriting discounts but before deducting estimated offering expenses payable by the Company).
Use of Proceeds:    The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the mortgage bonds for general corporate purposes, including the repayment of approximately $1.0 billion of borrowings outstanding under the accounts receivable facility and approximately $340.0 million of borrowings outstanding under the revolving credit facility, as described in the Preliminary Prospectus.
CUSIP / ISIN:    694308 JR9 / US694308JR90
Joint Book-Running Managers:   

BofA Securities, Inc.

 

Mizuho Securities USA LLC

 

MUFG Securities Americas Inc.

 

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

Co-Managers:   

AmeriVet Securities, Inc.

 

Great Pacific Securities

 

*

Note: A securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time.

The issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering.

You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to

 

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send you the prospectus if you request it by contacting each of BofA Securities, Inc., at 1-800-294-1322 or dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; Mizuho Securities USA LLC, at (866) 271-7403; MUFG Securities Americas Inc., at 877-649-6848; or Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, at 1-800-645-3751 or cmclientsupport@wellsfargo.com.

ANY DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES THAT MAY APPEAR BELOW ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO THIS COMMUNICATION AND SHOULD BE DISREGARDED. SUCH DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES WERE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED AS A RESULT OF THIS COMMUNICATION BEING SENT VIA BLOOMBERG OR ANOTHER EMAIL SYSTEM.

 

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SCHEDULE III

 

  1.

Schedule of Free Writing Prospectuses permitted pursuant to Rule 164(e)(2) that are included in the Disclosure Package:

 

  (a)

Pricing Term Sheet included as Schedule II hereto

 

III


SCHEDULE IV-1

 

  1.

A UCC-1 financing statement naming the Company as debtor and the Trustee as a secured party and describing the Mortgaged Property as collateral, to be filed with the California Secretary of State.

 

  2.

A UCC-1 financing statement naming the Company as debtor and the Trustee as a secured party and describing the Mortgaged Property, that is, or is to become Fixtures, as collateral, to be filed with the California Secretary of State.

 

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SCHEDULE IV-2

MORTGAGE INDENTURE RECORDING INFORMATION

The following Schedule sets out the Recording Date and Instrument Number with respect to the recordation of the Indenture of Mortgage, dated as of June 19, 2020:

 

County    Recording Date    Instrument Number

Alameda

   7/8/2020    2020159002

Alpine

   7/8/2020    2020000313

Amador

   7/7/2020    2020-0005302-00

Butte

   7/7/2020    2020-0026656

Calaveras

   7/7/2020    2020-008603

Colusa

   7/13/2020    2020-0002012

Contra Costa

   7/10/2020    2020-0137967-00

El Dorado

   7/7/2020    2020-0033173-00

Fresno

   7/7/2020    2020-0084490

Glenn

   7/8/2020    2020-2622

Humboldt

   7/14/2020    2020-011590

Kern

   7/7/2020    220088046

Kings

   7/7/2020    2011843

Lake

   7/7/2020    2020008082

Lassen

   7/8/2020    2020-02654

Madera

   7/7/2020    2020015446

Marin

   7/7/2020    2020-0028741

Mariposa

   7/7/2020    20202190

Mendocino

   7/7/2020    202007917

Merced

   7/7/2020    2020022266

Modoc

   7/7/2020    20200001804

Monterey

   7/7/2020    2020032685

Napa

   7/7/2020    2020-0016006

Nevada

   7/7/2020    20200015164

Placer

   7/7/2020    2020-0067740-00

 

IV


County    Recording Date    Instrument Number

Plumas

   7/9/2020    2020-0003422

Sacramento

   7/7/2020    202007071055

San Benito

   7/7/2020    2020-0007874

San Bernardino

   7/7/2020    2020-0226134

San Francisco

   7/7/2020    2020-K949017-00

San Joaquin

   7/7/2020    2020-080390

San Luis Obispo

   7/7/2020    2020033897

San Mateo

   7/7/2020    2020-064008

Santa Barbara

   7/13/2020    2020-0034969

Santa Clara

   7/7/2020    24528422

Santa Cruz

   7/7/2020    2020-0024403

Shasta

   7/7/2020    2020-0021039

Sierra

   7/9/2020    2020171226

Solano

   7/7/2020    202000054277

Sonoma

   7/9/2020    2020055917

Stanislaus

   7/8/2020    2020-0047771-00

Sutter

   7/8/2020    2020-0009800

Tehama

   7/7/2020    2020007674

Trinity

   7/8/2020    202002224

Tulare

   7/7/2020    2020-0039416

Tuolumne

   7/7/2020    2020007628

Yolo

   7/8/2020    2020-0020467

Yuba

   7/8/2020    2020-010218

 

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The following Schedule sets out the Recording Date and Instrument Number with respect to the recordation of the Memorandum of Supplemental First Mortgage Indentures, dated as of August 12, 2020:

 

County    Recording Date    Instrument Number

Alameda

   8/19/20    2020203390

Alpine

   8/21/20    2020000409

Amador

   8/19/20    2020-0006984-00

Butte

   8/19/20    2020-0033263

Calaveras

   8/19/20    2020-011334

Colusa

   8/19/20    2020-0002404

Contra Costa

   8/24/20    2020-0179597

El Dorado

   8/19/20    2020-0042892-00

Fresno

   8/20/20    2020-0108156

Glenn

   8/25/20    2020-3320

Humboldt

   8/24/20    2020-014544

Kern

   8/19/20    220113312

Kings

   8/21/20    2015093

Lake

   8/19/20    2020010193

Lassen

   8/20/20    2020-03389

Madera

   8/19/20    2020019584

Marin

   8/19/20    2020-0037600

Mariposa

   8/20/20    20202821

Mendocino

   8/19/20    2020-10112

Merced

   8/19/20    2020028493

Modoc

   8/19/20    20200002135

Monterey

   8/19/20    2020042185

Napa

   8/20/20    2020-0020526

Nevada

   8/25/20    20200020840

Placer

   8/19/20    2020-0087937-00

Plumas

   8/20/20    2020-0004742

 

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County    Recording Date    Instrument Number

Sacramento

   8/19/20    202008190892

San Benito

   8/19/20    2020-0010072

San Bernardino

   8/19/20    2020-0294961

San Francisco

   8/19/20    2020006126

San Joaquin

   8/19/20    2020-103840

San Luis Obispo

   8/19/20    2020043805

San Mateo

   8/21/20    2020-084135

Santa Barbara

   8/19/20    2020-0043690

Santa Clara

   8/19/20    24580344

Santa Cruz

   8/19/20    2020-0031634

Shasta

   8/19/20    2020-0027008

Sierra

   8/20/20    2020171540

Solano

   8/19/20    202000069597

Sonoma

   8/19/20    2020070874

Stanislaus

   8/19/20    2020-0061515-00

Sutter

   8/19/20    2020-0012784

Tehama

   8/19/20    2020009820

Trinity

   8/20/20    2020-02748

Tulare

   8/26/20    2020-0049011

Tuolumne

   8/19/20    2020009759

Yolo

   8/19/20    2020-0026550

Yuba

   8/19/20    2020-012939

 

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Exhibit 4.1

TO BE RECORDED AND WHEN

RECORDED RETURN TO:

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

550 South Hope Street, Suite 2000

Los Angeles, CA 90071

Attention: Robert M. Johnson, Esq.

 

 

SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

Dated as of November 16, 2020

SUPPLEMENT TO INDENTURE OF MORTGAGE

Dated as of June 19, 2020

 

 

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

ISSUER (MORTGAGOR)

AND

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

TRUSTEE (MORTGAGEE)

 

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS

     1  

ARTICLE II ESTABLISHMENT OF FLOATING RATE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS DUE 2021

     6  

ARTICLE III AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER

     11  

ARTICLE IV COVENANTS

     11  

ARTICLE V MISCELLANEOUS

     11  
EXHIBIT A FORM OF FLOATING RATE FIRST MORTGAGE BOND DUE 2021      A-1  

 

 

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SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of November 16, 2020 (this “Seventh Supplemental Indenture”), by and between PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, a California corporation (the “Company”), as Mortgagor, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., a national banking association, as Trustee under the Mortgage Indenture (as hereinafter defined) and Mortgagee (the “Trustee”).

RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

A.    The Company and the Trustee are parties to that certain Indenture of Mortgage, dated as of June 19, 2020 (together with all indentures supplemental thereto, the “Mortgage Indenture”), providing for the issuance by the Company of Bonds (as defined in the Mortgage Indenture) from time to time.

B.    Under the Mortgage Indenture, the Company is authorized to issue unlimited series of Bonds and establish one or more series of Bonds at any time in accordance with the provisions of the Mortgage Indenture, and the terms of such series of Bonds may be described by a supplemental indenture executed by the Company and the Trustee.

C.    Pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Mortgage Indenture, the Company and the Trustee deem it advisable to enter into this Seventh Supplemental Indenture for the purposes of establishing the terms of one series of Bonds.

D.    The execution and delivery of this Seventh Supplemental Indenture has been authorized by a Board Resolution (as defined in the Mortgage Indenture).

E.    Concurrent with the execution hereof, the Company has caused its counsel to deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (as defined in the Mortgage Indenture) pursuant to Section 14.03 of the Mortgage Indenture.

F.    The Company has done all things necessary to make this Seventh Supplemental Indenture a valid agreement of the Company in accordance with its terms.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Company and the Trustee agree, for the benefit of each other and the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Bonds established hereby, as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Unless the context otherwise requires, capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meaning set forth in the Mortgage Indenture.

The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Seventh Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.


The following additional definitions are hereby established for purposes of this Seventh Supplemental Indenture and shall have the meanings set forth in this Seventh Supplemental Indenture only for purposes of this Seventh Supplemental Indenture:

Benchmark” means, initially, three-month U.S. dollar LIBOR; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to three-month U.S. dollar LIBOR or the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement.

Benchmark Replacement” means the Interpolated Benchmark with respect to the then-current Benchmark, plus the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment for such Benchmark; provided that if the Company (or the Designee) cannot determine the Interpolated Benchmark as of the Benchmark Replacement Date, then “Benchmark Replacement” means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Company (or the Designee) as of the Benchmark Replacement Date:

 

  (1)

the sum of (a) Term SOFR and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

 

  (2)

the sum of (a) Compounded SOFR and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

 

  (3)

the sum of (a) the alternate rate of interest that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;

 

  (4)

the sum of (a) the ISDA Fallback Rate and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; and

 

  (5)

the sum of (a) the alternate rate of interest that has been selected by the Company (or the Designee) as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to any industry-accepted rate of interest as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar-denominated floating rate debt securities at such time and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Company (or the Designee) as of the Benchmark Replacement Date:

 

  (1)

the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero), that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement;

 

  (2)

if the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is equivalent to the ISDA Fallback Rate, then the ISDA Fallback Adjustment; and

 

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  (3)

the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Company (or the Designee) giving due consideration to any industry-accepted spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the then-current Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar-denominated floating rate debt securities at such time.

Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “interest period,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, rounding of amounts or tenors, changes to the definition of “Corresponding Tenor” solely when such tenor is longer than the interest period and other administrative matters) that the Company (or the Designee) decides may be appropriate to reflect the adoption of such Benchmark Replacement in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Company (or the Designee) decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Company (or the Designee) determines that no market practice for use of the Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner as the Company (or the Designee) determines is reasonably necessary).

Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

 

  (1)

in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b) the date on which the administrator of the Benchmark permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide the Benchmark; and

 

  (3)

in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein.

For the avoidance of doubt, if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination.

Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:

 

  (1)

a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the Benchmark announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide the Benchmark, permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Benchmark;

 

  (2)

a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the Benchmark, the central bank for the currency of the Benchmark, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Benchmark, a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for the

 

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  Benchmark or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for the Benchmark, which states that the administrator of the Benchmark has ceased or will cease to provide the Benchmark permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Benchmark; or

 

  (3)

a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the Benchmark announcing that the Benchmark is no longer representative.

Calculation Agency Agreement” means the Calculation Agency Agreement, dated as of November 16, 2020, by and between the Calculation Agent and the Company, as such agreement may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time.

Calculation Agent” has the meaning set forth in Section 205(a).

Compounded SOFR” means the compounded average of SOFRs for the applicable Corresponding Tenor, with the rate, or methodology for this rate, and conventions for this rate being established by the Company (or the Designee) in accordance with:

 

  (1)

the rate, or methodology for this rate, and conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining compounded SOFR; provided that:

 

  (2)

if and to the extent that the Company (or the Designee) determines that Compounded SOFR cannot be determined in accordance with clause (1) above, then the rate, or methodology for this rate, and conventions for this rate that have been selected by the Company (or the Designee) giving due consideration to any industry-accepted market practice for U.S. dollar-denominated floating rate debt securities at such time.

For the avoidance of doubt, the calculation of Compounded SOFR shall exclude the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment and the Margin.

Corresponding Tenor” with respect to a Benchmark Replacement means a tenor (including overnight) having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as the applicable tenor for the then-current Benchmark.

Designee” has the meaning set forth in Section 205(a).

DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.

Floating Rate Bonds” has the meaning set forth in Section 201.

Interest Determination Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 205.

Interest Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 205(a).

 

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Interpolated Benchmark” with respect to the Benchmark means the rate determined for the Corresponding Tenor by interpolating on a linear basis between (1) the Benchmark for the longest period (for which the Benchmark is available) that is shorter than the Corresponding Tenor and (2) the Benchmark for the shortest period (for which the Benchmark is available) that is longer than the Corresponding Tenor.

ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time.

ISDA Fallback Adjustment” means the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that would apply for derivatives transactions referencing the ISDA Definitions to be determined upon the occurrence of an index cessation event with respect to the Benchmark for the applicable tenor.

ISDA Fallback Rate” means the rate that would apply for derivatives transactions referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon the occurrence of an index cessation date with respect to the Benchmark for the applicable tenor, excluding the applicable ISDA Fallback Adjustment.

LIBOR” means the three-month U.S. dollar London Interbank Offered Rate.

London Business Day” means any day on which dealings in United States dollars are transacted on the London interbank market.

Margin” has the meaning provided in Section 205(a).

Original Issue Date” means November 16, 2020.

Reference Time” with respect to any determination of the Benchmark means (1) if the Benchmark is three-month U.S. dollar LIBOR, 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two London banking days preceding the date of such determination, and (2) if the Benchmark is not three-month U.S. dollar LIBOR, the time determined by the Company (or the Designee) in accordance with the Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes.

Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board and/or the NY Federal Reserve, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the NY Federal Reserve or any successor thereto.

Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page” means the display designated on page “LIBOR01” on Reuters (or such other page as may replace the LIBOR01 page on that service or any successor service for the purpose of displaying LIBOR for U.S. dollar deposits of major banks).

SOFR” with respect to any day means the secured overnight financing rate published for such day by the NY Federal Reserve, as the administrator of the benchmark, or a successor administrator, on the website of the NY Federal Reserve at http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source.

 

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Term SOFR” means the forward-looking term rate for the applicable Corresponding Tenor based on SOFR that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.

Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the Benchmark Replacement, excluding the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

U.S. Government Securities” means any:

 

  (1)

security which is (i) a direct obligation of the United States for the payment of which the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States, which, in the case of clause (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer of the obligation; and

 

  (2)

depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any security specified in clause (a) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt or with respect to any specific payment of principal of or interest on any such security held by any such bank, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Securities or the specific payment of interest on or principal of the U.S. Government Securities evidenced by such depositary receipt.

ARTICLE II

ESTABLISHMENT OF FLOATING RATE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS DUE 2021

 

SECTION 201

    Establishment and Designation of the Floating Rate Bonds.

Pursuant to the terms hereof and Section 3.01 and Article V of the Mortgage Indenture, the Company hereby establishes a thirty-sixth series of Bonds designated as the “Floating Rate First Mortgage Bonds due 2021” (“Floating Rate Bonds”). The Floating Rate Bonds may be reopened, from time to time, for issuances of additional Bonds of such series subject to the terms of Article V of the Mortgage Indenture, and any additional Bonds issued and comprising Floating Rate Bonds shall have identical terms as the Floating Rate Bonds, except that the issue price, issue date and, in some cases, the first Interest Payment Date may differ.

 

SECTION 202

    Form of Floating Rate Bonds.

The Floating Rate Bonds shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Bonds in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A.

 

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SECTION 203

    Principal Amount.

The Floating Rate Bonds shall be issued in an initial aggregate principal amount of $1,450,000,000.

 

SECTION 204

    Stated Maturity; Minimum Denominations.

The Floating Rate Bonds shall have a Stated Maturity of November 15, 2021.

The Floating Rate Bonds are issuable in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

 

SECTION 205

    Interest.

(a)    Except as set forth in this Section 205, the Floating Rate Bonds will bear interest for each interest period at a rate determined by the Calculation Agent (as defined below). The Calculation Agent is The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., until such time as the Company appoints a successor calculation agent (herein called the “Calculation Agent”, which term includes any successor Calculation Agent under the Mortgage Indenture). The interest rate for the Floating Rate Bonds (the “Interest Rate”) for a particular interest period will be a per annum rate equal to LIBOR as determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (as defined below) by the Calculation Agent plus 1.375% (the “Margin”). The Interest Rate on the Floating Rate Bonds will be reset on the first day of each interest period other than the initial interest period (each an “Interest Reset Date”). Interest on the Floating Rate Bonds will be payable quarterly February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15 of each year, beginning February 15, 2021. An interest period is the period commencing on an Interest Payment Date (or, in the case of the initial interest period, commencing on November 16, 2020) and ending on the day preceding the next Interest Payment Date.

The interest determination date for an interest period will be the second London Business Day preceding such interest period (the “Interest Determination Date”). Promptly upon determination, the Calculation Agent will inform the Trustee and the Company, or as set forth in this Section 205, the Company or its designee (which may be an independent financial advisor or such other designee of the Company (any of such entities, a “Designee”)) will inform the Trustee, of the Interest Rate for the next interest period. Absent manifest error, the determination of the Interest Rate by the Calculation Agent, or as set forth in this Section 205, by the Company (or the Designee), shall be binding and conclusive on the Holders of the Floating Rate Bonds, the Trustee and the Company. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall the Calculation Agent or the Trustee be the Designee.

In no event shall the Calculation Agent be responsible for determining any substitute for LIBOR, or for making any adjustments to any alternative benchmark or spread thereon, the business day convention, interest determination dates or any other relevant methodology for calculating any such substitute or successor benchmark. In connection with the foregoing, the Calculation Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely on any determinations made by the Company (or the Designee) and shall have no liability for such actions taken at the direction of the Company.

 

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Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Company (or the Designee) in connection with a Benchmark Transition Event or a Benchmark Replacement, including any determination with respect to a rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, may be made in the Company’s (or the Designee’s) sole discretion, and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, will become effective without consent from any other party. None of the Trustee or the Calculation Agent will have any liability for any determination made by or on behalf of the Company (or the Designee) in connection with a Benchmark Transition Event or a Benchmark Replacement.

On any Interest Determination Date, LIBOR will be the rate for deposits in United States dollars having a maturity of three months commencing on the first day of the applicable interest period that appears on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on that Interest Determination Date.

(b)    Upon written request from any Holder of Floating Rate Bonds, the Calculation Agent will provide the Interest Rate in effect for the Floating Rate Bonds for the current interest period and, if it has been determined, the Interest Rate to be in effect for the next interest period.

(c)    All percentages resulting from any calculation of any Interest Rate for the Floating Rate Bonds will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point being rounded upwards (e.g., 8.986865% (or 0.08986865) being rounded to 8.98687% (or 0.0898687)) and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculations will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).

(d)    The Interest Rate on the Floating Rate Bonds will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by United States laws of general application. Additionally, the Interest Rate on the Floating Rate Bonds will in no event be lower than zero.

(e)    Interest on the Floating Rate Bonds will accrue from November 16, 2020, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or provided for. If any Interest Payment Date (other than the maturity date) falls on a date that is not a Business Day, the payment will be made on the next Business Day, except that if that Business Day is in the immediately succeeding calendar month, the interest payment will be made on the next preceding Business Day, in each case with interest accruing to the applicable Interest Payment Date (as so adjusted). If the maturity date of the Floating Rate Bonds falls on a day that is not a Business Day, then the related payment of principal and interest will be made on the next day that is a Business Day with the same effect as if made on the date that the payment was first due, and no interest will accrue on the amount so payable for the period from the maturity date. Interest on the Floating Rate Bonds will be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days in each quarterly interest period and a 360-day year.

(f)    If LIBOR cannot be determined on the Interest Determination Date as described in Section 205(a), the Calculation Agent will request the principal London offices of each of four

 

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major reference banks in the London interbank market, as selected by the Company, to provide the Calculation Agent with its offered quotation for deposits in United States dollars for the period of three months, commencing on the first day of the applicable interest period, to prime banks in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on that Interest Determination Date and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in United States dollars in that market at that time. If at least two quotations are provided, then LIBOR on that Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of those quotations. If fewer than two quotations are provided, then LIBOR on the Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted at approximately 11:00 a.m., in The City of New York, on the Interest Determination Date by three major banks in The City of New York selected by the Company for loans in United States dollars to leading European banks, having a three-month maturity and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in United States dollars in that market at that time; provided that if the banks selected by the Company are not providing quotations in the manner described by this sentence, LIBOR will be the same as the rate determined for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Date or if there is no immediately preceding Interest Reset Date, LIBOR will be the same as the rate determined for the initial interest period.

(g)    Notwithstanding Sections 205(e) and 205(f), if the Company (or the Designee) determines on or prior to the relevant Interest Determination Date that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to the then current Benchmark, then (i) the Company shall promptly provide notice of such determination to the Calculation Agent and (ii) the provisions set forth in Section 205(h) will thereafter apply to all determinations, calculations and quotations made or obtained for the purposes of calculating the rate and amount of interest payable on the Floating Rate Bonds during the relevant interest period. In accordance with Section 205(h), after a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred, the amount of interest that will be payable for each interest period on the Floating Rate Bonds will be an annual rate equal to the sum of the Benchmark Replacement and the Margin as determined by the Company or its Designee.

The foregoing notwithstanding, if the Company (or the Designee) determines that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to the then-current Benchmark, but for any reason the Benchmark Replacement has not been determined as of the relevant Interest Determination Date, the Interest Rate for the applicable interest period will be equal to the Interest Rate on the last Interest Determination Date for the Floating Rate Bonds, as determined by the Company or its Designee.

The Calculation Agent will, upon the request of any holder of the Floating Rate Bonds, provide the Interest Rate then in effect with respect to the Floating Rate Bonds. All calculations made by the Calculation Agent in the absence of manifest error will be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Company and the Holders of the Floating Rate Bonds.

(h)    If the Company (or the Designee) determines that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any determination of the Benchmark on any date, the Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes relating to the Floating Rate Bonds in respect of such determination on such date and all determinations on all subsequent dates.

 

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In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Company (or the Designee) will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time.

Any determination, decision, election or calculation that may be made by the Company (or the Designee) pursuant to this Section 205(h), including any determination with respect to tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, will be made in the Company’s (or the Designee’s) sole discretion, and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the documentation relating to the Floating Rate Bonds, shall become effective without consent from the Holders of the Floating Rate Bonds or any other party.

 

SECTION 206

    No Sinking Fund.

No sinking fund is provided for any of the Floating Rate Bonds.

 

SECTION 207

    Paying Agent and Bond Registrar.

The Trustee is hereby appointed as initial Paying Agent and initial Bond Registrar for the Floating Rate Bonds. The Place of Payment of the Floating Rate Bonds shall be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee.

 

SECTION 208

    Global Securities; Appointment of Depositary for Global Securities.

The Floating Rate Bonds shall be issued in the form of one or more permanent Global Bonds as provided in Section 3.14 of the Mortgage Indenture and deposited with, or on behalf of, the Depositary, or with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee. The Company hereby initially appoints DTC to act as the Depositary with respect to all Floating Rate Bonds, and the Floating Rate Bonds shall initially be registered in the name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of DTC.

The Company and DTC have executed a Blanket Letter of Representations, and the Trustee is hereby authorized, in connection with any successor nominee for DTC or any successor Depositary, to enter into appropriate or comparable arrangements, if necessary, and shall have the same rights with respect to its actions thereunder as it has with respect to its actions under the Mortgage Indenture.

None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or any Bond Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of Depositary records relating to, or payments made on account of, beneficial ownership interests in a Global Bond or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any Depositary records relating to such beneficial ownership interests, or for transfers of beneficial interests in the Bonds or any transactions between the Depositary and beneficial owners.

 

SECTION 209

    Optional Redemption.

(a)    The Floating Rate Bonds are not subject to optional redemption.

 

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SECTION 210

    Other Terms of the Floating Rate Bonds.

The other terms of the Floating Rate Bonds shall be as expressly set forth herein and in Exhibit A.

ARTICLE III

AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER

The Trustee and the Company may not modify, amend or supplement this Seventh Supplemental Indenture except as set forth in Article XIV of the Mortgage Indenture as if (a) references in Article XIV to “this Indenture” and “hereto” are deemed to include the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, and (b) references to the Bonds of any series “Outstanding under this Indenture” (or similar expressions and phrases) are deemed to refer only to the Floating Rate Bonds and no other Bonds.

ARTICLE IV

COVENANTS

Each of the agreements and covenants of the Company contained in Article VII of the Mortgage Indenture shall apply to the Bonds established hereby as of the Original Issue Date.

ARTICLE V

MISCELLANEOUS

 

SECTION 501

    Concerning the Trustee.

The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Seventh Supplemental Indenture or the due execution hereof by the Company, or for or in respect of the recitals and statements contained herein, all of which recitals and statements are made solely by the Company. Except as herein otherwise provided, no duties, responsibilities or liabilities are assumed, or shall be construed to be assumed, by the Trustee by reason of this Seventh Supplemental Indenture other than as set forth in the Mortgage Indenture; and this Seventh Supplemental Indenture is executed and accepted on behalf of the Trustee, subject to all the terms and conditions set forth in the Mortgage Indenture, as fully to all intents as if the same were herein set forth at length.

 

SECTION 502

    Application of Seventh Supplemental Indenture.

Except as provided herein, each and every term and condition contained in this Seventh Supplemental Indenture that modifies, amends or supplements the terms and conditions of the Mortgage Indenture shall apply only to the Floating Rate Bonds established hereby and not to any other series of Bonds established under the Mortgage Indenture. Except as specifically amended and supplemented by, or to the extent inconsistent with, this Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the Mortgage Indenture shall remain in full force and effect and is hereby ratified and confirmed.

 

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SECTION 503

    Headings.

The headings of the several Articles of this Seventh Supplemental Indenture are inserted for convenience of reference, and shall not be deemed to be any part hereof.

 

SECTION 504

    Effective Date.

This Seventh Supplemental Indenture shall be effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by each of the parties hereto.

 

SECTION 505

    Counterparts.

This Seventh Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, and each of such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed Seventh Supplemental Indenture by one party to the other may be made by facsimile, electronic mail (including any electronic signature complying with the New York Electronic Signatures and Records Act (N.Y. State Tech. §§ 301-309), as amended from time to time, or other applicable law) or other transmission method, and the parties hereto agree that any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes.

 

SECTION 506

    Governing Law.

The laws of the State of New York shall govern this Seventh Supplemental Indenture and the Floating Rate Bonds, without giving effect to applicable principles of conflicts of law to the extent that the application of the laws of another jurisdiction would be required thereby.

 

SECTION 507

    Severability.

In case any provision in this Seventh Supplemental Indenture or the Floating Rate Bonds shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

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

 

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,

as Issuer (Mortgagor)

By:  

/s/ Margaret K. Becker

Name: Margaret K. Becker
Title:   Senior Director and Treasurer

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

as Trustee (Mortgagee)

By:  

/s/ Tamara Klement-Ellis

Name: Tamara Klement-Ellis
Title:   Director


A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.

 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA    }
   }
COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO    }

On November 10, 2020, before me, James Jenkins, personally appeared Margaret K. Becker, who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that he/she/they executed the same in her authorized capacity, and that by her signature on the instrument the person, or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument.

I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.

WITNESS my hand and official seal.

/s/ James Jenkins                                        

James Jenkins

Comm. #2230637

Notary Public-California

Alameda County

My Comm. Expires Feb. 8, 2022

(Seal)


A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.

 

STATE OF FLORIDA    }
   }
COUNTY OF DUVAL    }

On November 12, 2020, before me, Nathan Turner, personally appeared Tamara Klement-Ellis, who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same in her authorized capacity, and that by her signature on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person acted, executed the instrument.

WITNESS my hand and official seal.

/s/ Nathan Turner                                        

Nathan Turner

My Commission # GG290182

Expires January 9, 2023

(Seal)


EXHIBIT A

[FORM OF FLOATING RATE FIRST MORTGAGE BOND DUE 2021]

[FORM OF FACE OF BOND]

THIS BOND IS A GLOBAL BOND WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE MORTGAGE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY (AS DEFINED IN THE MORTGAGE INDENTURE) OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS GLOBAL BOND IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR BONDS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE MORTGAGE INDENTURE AND, UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR BONDS IN CERTIFICATED FORM, THIS GLOBAL BOND MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY, OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.

UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY (AS DEFINED BELOW) OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY BOND ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS 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.

THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY OF TERMS IS SUBJECT TO THE INFORMATION SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF:

 

PRINCIPAL AMOUNT:

$[●]

  

ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE:

November 16, 2020

  

INTEREST RATE:

LIBOR plus 1.375% per annum

MATURITY DATE:

November 15, 2021

  

INTEREST PAYMENT DATES:

February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing February 15, 2021

  

THIS BOND IS A:

[X] Global Book-Entry Bond

[    ] Certificated Bond

REGISTERED OWNER: Cede & Co., as nominee of The Depository Trust Company

 

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PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

FLOATING RATE FIRST MORTGAGE BOND DUE 2021

(Floating Rate)

 

No. [●]   Principal Amount: $[●]

CUSIP [●]

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of California (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Mortgage Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as nominee for The Depository Trust Company, or registered assigns, the Principal Amount stated above on the Maturity Date stated above, and to pay interest thereon from and including the Original Issue Date stated above or, in the case of a Floating Rate First Mortgage Bond Due 2021 issued upon the registration of transfer or exchange, from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, quarterly in arrears on the Interest Payment Dates set forth above and on the Maturity Date stated above, as described on the reverse hereof 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 Mortgage Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Floating Rate First Mortgage Bond Due 2021 (this “Bond”) (or one or more Predecessor Bonds) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be February 1, May 1, August 1 or November 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date; provided, however, that interest payable at the Maturity Date will be paid to the Person to whom principal is payable. 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 Bond (or one or more Predecessor Bonds) 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, as set forth in Section 3.07 of the Mortgage Indenture, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Bonds 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 the Mortgage Indenture and any securities exchange, if any, on which the Bonds of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by any such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Mortgage Indenture.

Payments of interest on this Bond will include interest accrued to but excluding the respective Interest Payment Dates.

Payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds of this series 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. Payments of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds of this series represented by a Global Bond shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder of such Global Bond, provided that, in the case of

 

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payments of principal and premium, if any, such Global Bond is first surrendered to the Paying Agent. If any of the Bonds of this series are no longer represented by a Global Bond, (i) payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest due on the Maturity Date of such Bonds shall be made at the office of the Paying Agent upon surrender of such Bonds to the Paying Agent, and (ii) payments of interest shall be made, at the option of the Company, subject to such surrender where applicable, (A) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Bond Register or (B) by wire transfer to registered Holders of at least $10,000,000 in principal amount of Bonds at such place and to such account at a banking institution in the United States as such Holders may designate in writing to the Trustee at least sixteen (16) days prior to the date for payment.

REFERENCE IS HEREBY MADE TO THE FURTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS BOND SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF, WHICH FURTHER PROVISIONS SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES HAVE THE SAME EFFECT AS IF SET FORTH AT THIS PLACE.

 

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

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

Dated:                     

 

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
By  

 

  Name:   David Thomason
  Title:   Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Controller
By  

 

  Name:   Margaret K. Becker
  Title:   Senior Director and Treasurer

 

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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION

This is one of the Bonds of the series designated as Bonds of the Floating Rate First Mortgage Bonds due 2021 referred to in the within-mentioned Mortgage Indenture.

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

 

  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF FLOATING RATE FIRST MORTGAGE BOND DUE 2021]

This Floating Rate First Mortgage Bond due 2021 is one of a duly authorized issue of Bonds of the Company (the “Bonds”), issued and issuable in one or more series under and equally secured by an Indenture of Mortgage, dated as of June 19, 2020 (such Mortgage Indenture as originally executed and delivered and as supplemented or amended from time to time thereafter, together with any constituent instruments establishing the terms of particular Bonds, being herein called the “Mortgage Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee”, which term includes any successor trustee under the Mortgage Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Mortgage Indenture for a description of the property mortgaged, pledged and held in trust, the nature and extent of the security and the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of Bonds thereunder and of the terms and conditions upon which Bonds are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. The acceptance of this Bond shall be deemed to constitute the consent and agreement by the Holder hereof to all of the terms and provisions of the Mortgage Indenture.

Except as set forth below, this Bond will bear interest for each interest period at a rate determined by the Calculation Agent (as defined below). The Calculation Agent is The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., until such time as the Company appoints a successor calculation agent (herein called the “Calculation Agent”, which term includes any successor Calculation Agent under the Mortgage Indenture). Interest payments on this Bond will be made quarterly in arrears on February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15 of each year, beginning on February 15, 2021. The interest rate for this Bond (the “Interest Rate”) for a particular interest period will be a per annum rate equal to LIBOR as determined on the applicable Interest Determination Date (as defined below) by the Calculation Agent plus 1.375% (the “Margin”). The Interest Rate on this Bond will be reset on the first day of each interest period other than the initial interest period (each an “Interest Reset Date”). Interest on this Bond will be payable quarterly February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15 of each year, beginning February 15, 2021. An interest period is the period commencing on an Interest Payment Date (or, in the case of the initial interest period, commencing on November 16, 2020) and ending on the day preceding the next Interest Payment Date.

The interest determination date for an interest period will be the second London Business Day preceding such interest period (the “Interest Determination Date”). Promptly upon determination, the Calculation Agent will inform the Trustee and the Company or its designee (which may be an independent financial advisor or such other designee of the Company (any of such entities, a “Designee”)) will inform the Trustee, of the Interest Rate for the next interest period. Absent manifest error, the determination of the Interest Rate by the Calculation Agent, or in certain circumstances described below, by the Company (or the Designee), shall be binding and conclusive on the Holders of the Bonds of this series, the Trustee and the Company. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall the Calculation Agent or the Trustee be the Designee. A “London Business Day” is a day on which dealings in deposits in U.S. dollars are transacted in the London interbank market.

In no event shall the Calculation Agent be responsible for determining any substitute for LIBOR, or for making any adjustments to any alternative benchmark or spread thereon, the

 

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business day convention, interest determination dates or any other relevant methodology for calculating any such substitute or successor benchmark. In connection with the foregoing, the Calculation Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely on any determinations made by the Company (or the Designee) and shall have no liability for such actions taken at the direction of the Company.

Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Company (or the Designee) in connection with a Benchmark Transition Event or a Benchmark Replacement, including any determination with respect to a rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, may be made in the Company’s (or the Designee’s) sole discretion, and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, will become effective without consent from any other party. None of the Trustee or the Calculation Agent will have any liability for any determination made by or on behalf of the Company (or the Designee) in connection with a Benchmark Transition Event or a Benchmark Replacement.

On any Interest Determination Date, LIBOR will be the rate for deposits in United States dollars having a maturity of three months commencing on the first day of the applicable interest period that appears on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on that Interest Determination Date.

Upon written request from any Holder of the Bonds of this series, the Calculation Agent will provide the Interest Rate in effect for the Bonds of this series for the current interest period and, if it has been determined, the Interest Rate to be in effect for the next interest period.

All percentages resulting from any calculation of any Interest Rate for the Bonds of this series will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point being rounded upwards (e.g., 8.986865% (or 0.08986865) being rounded to 8.98687% (or 0.0898687)) and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such calculations will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).

The Interest Rate on the Bonds of this series will in no event be higher than the maximum rate permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by United States laws of general application. Additionally, the Interest Rate on the Bonds of this series will in no event be lower than zero.

Interest on the Bonds of this series will accrue from November 16, 2020, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or provided for. If any Interest Payment Date (other than the Maturity Date) falls on a date that is not a Business Day, the payment will be made on the next Business Day, except that if that Business Day is in the immediately succeeding calendar month, the interest payment will be made on the next preceding Business Day, in each case with interest accruing to the applicable Interest Payment Date (as so adjusted). If the Maturity Date of the Bonds of this series falls on a day that is not a Business Day, then the related payment of principal and interest will be made on the next day that is a Business Day with the same effect as if made on the date that the payment was first due, and no interest will accrue

 

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on the amount so payable for the period from the Maturity Date. Interest on the Bonds of this series will be calculated on the basis of the actual number of days in each quarterly interest period and a 360-day year.

If LIBOR cannot be determined on the Interest Determination Date as described above, the Calculation Agent will request the principal London offices of each of four major reference banks in the London interbank market, as selected by the Company, to provide the Calculation Agent with its offered quotation for deposits in United States dollars for the period of three months, commencing on the first day of the applicable interest period, to prime banks in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on that Interest Determination Date and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in United States dollars in that market at that time. If at least two quotations are provided, then LIBOR on that Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of those quotations. If fewer than two quotations are provided, then LIBOR on the Interest Determination Date will be the arithmetic mean of the rates quoted at approximately 11:00 a.m., in The City of New York, on the Interest Determination Date by three major banks in The City of New York selected by the Company for loans in United States dollars to leading European banks, having a three-month maturity and in a principal amount that is representative for a single transaction in United States dollars in that market at that time; provided that if the banks selected by the Company are not providing quotations in the manner described by this sentence, LIBOR will be the same as the rate determined for the immediately preceding Interest Reset Date or if there is no immediately preceding Interest Reset Date, LIBOR will be the same as the rate determined for the initial interest period.

Notwithstanding the preceding two paragraphs, if the Company (or the Designee) determines on or prior to the relevant Interest Determination Date that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to the then current Benchmark, then the provisions set forth below under “Effect of Benchmark Transition Event”, which is referred to as the “Benchmark Transition Provisions,” will thereafter apply to all determinations, calculations and quotations made or obtained for the purposes of calculating the rate and amount of interest payable on the bonds of this series during the relevant interest period. In accordance with the Benchmark Transition Provisions, after a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred, the amount of interest that will be payable for each interest period will be an annual rate equal to the sum of the Benchmark Replacement and the Margin.

Effect of Benchmark Transition Event:

If the Company (or the Designee) determines that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any determination of the Benchmark on any date, the Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes relating to the Bonds of this series in respect of such determination on such date and all determinations on all subsequent dates.

In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Company (or the Designee) will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time.

 

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Any determination, decision, election or calculation that may be made by the Company (or the Designee) pursuant to this Section titled “Effect of Benchmark Transition Event”, including any determination with respect to tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or nonoccurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, will be made in the Company’s (or the Designee’s) sole discretion, and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the documentation relating to the Securities, shall become effective without consent from the Holders of the Bonds of this series or any other party.

As provided in the Mortgage Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, this Bond or any portion of the principal amount hereof will be deemed to have been paid for all purposes of the Mortgage Indenture and to be no longer Outstanding thereunder, and the Company’s entire indebtedness in respect thereof will be satisfied and discharged, if there has been irrevocably deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company), in trust, money in an amount which will be sufficient and/or Eligible Obligations, the principal of and interest on which when due, without regard to any reinvestment thereof, will provide moneys which, together with money, if any, deposited with or held by the Trustee or such Paying Agent, will be sufficient to pay when due the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Bond when due.

If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing as provided in the Mortgage Indenture, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of Bonds then Outstanding, considered as one class, may declare the principal amount of all Bonds then Outstanding to be due and payable immediately by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders); provided, however, that with respect to certain Events of Default relating to bankruptcy, insolvency and similar events, the principal amount of all Bonds then Outstanding shall be due and payable immediately without further action by the Trustee or the Holders.

The Mortgage Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the Company and the Trustee to enter into one or more supplemental indentures for the purpose of adding any provisions to, or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of, the Mortgage Indenture with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Bonds at the time Outstanding, considered as one class; provided, however, that if there shall be Bonds of more than one series Outstanding under the Mortgage Indenture and if a proposed supplemental indenture shall directly affect the rights of the Holders of Bonds of one or more, but less than all, of such series, then the consent only of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Bonds of all series so directly affected, considered as one class, shall be required; and provided, further, that if the Bonds of any series shall have been issued in more than one Tranche and if a proposed supplemental indenture shall directly affect the rights of the Holders of Bonds of one or more, but less than all, of such Tranches, then the consent only of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Bonds of all Tranches so directly affected, considered as one class, shall be required; and provided, further, that the Mortgage Indenture permits the Company and the Trustee to enter into one or more supplemental indentures for certain purposes without the consent of any Holders of Bonds. The Mortgage Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of Bonds, on behalf of the Holders of all such Bonds, to waive certain past defaults under

 

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the Mortgage Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Bond shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Bond and of any Bond issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Bond.

As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Mortgage Indenture, the Holder of this Bond shall not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Mortgage 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, the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Bonds 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 at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of Bonds at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with such written 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 Bond 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 Mortgage Indenture and no provision of this Bond or of the Mortgage 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 Bond at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.

As provided in the Mortgage Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Bond is registrable in the Bond Register, upon surrender of this Bond for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Bond are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee or the Bond Registrar, as the case may be, duly executed by the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Bonds of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Bonds of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Mortgage Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Bonds of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Bonds of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holders surrendering the same.

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

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

 

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This Bond shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without regard to the principles of conflicts of laws thereunder, except to the extent that the Trust Indenture Act shall be applicable.

As provided in the Mortgage Indenture, no recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest with respect to this Bond, or any part thereof, or for any claim based hereon or otherwise in respect hereof, or of the indebtedness represented hereby, or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement under the Mortgage Indenture, against any incorporator, shareholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation (either directly or through the Company or a predecessor or successor corporation), whether by virtue of any constitutional provision, statute or rule of law or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly agreed and understood that the Mortgage Indenture and all the Bonds are solely corporate obligations and that any such personal liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as part of the consideration for, the execution of the Mortgage Indenture and the issuance of this Bond.

All terms used in this Bond which are not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Mortgage Indenture.

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

 

To assign this Bond, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) assign and transfer this Bond to                                                                                                           

     

(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)

     

     

     

     

     

(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)

and irrevocably appoint                                                                                                                        to transfer this Bond on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.

Date:                     

 

Your signature:  

 

(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Bond)
Tax Identification No.:
SIGNATURE GUARANTEE:

 

Signatures must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Bond Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Bond Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

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Exhibit 4.2

CALCULATION AGENCY AGREEMENT

BETWEEN

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY

AND

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

FLOATING RATE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS DUE 2021

THIS AGREEMENT is made as of November 16, 2020, between Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a California corporation, whose principal executive office is at 77 Beale Street, P.O. Box 770000, San Francisco, California 94117 (the “Corporation”), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON TRUST COMPANY, N.A., a national banking association, whose designated corporate trust office is at 400 South Hope Street, Suite 500, Los Angeles, California 90071 (together with any successor, called the “Calculation Agent”).

W I T N E S S E T H :

WHEREAS, the Corporation has authorized the issuance of $1,450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Floating Rate First Mortgage Bonds due November 15, 2021 (the “Bonds”).

WHEREAS, the Corporation proposes to issue the Bonds under and pursuant to the terms of its Indenture of Mortgage, dated as of June 19, 2020 (the “Indenture”), between the Corporation and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), as previously supplemented and as further supplemented by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture dated as of November 16, 2020 (the “Supplemental Indenture”) relating to the Bonds. Terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture, as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture.

WHEREAS, the Bonds are to bear interest at a rate per annum to be determined quarterly as set forth in the Supplemental Indenture.

For the purpose of appointing an agent to calculate the Interest Rate applicable to the Bonds as specified and described in the Supplemental Indenture, the Corporation and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. hereby agree as follows:

1.    Upon the terms and subject to the conditions contained herein, the Corporation hereby appoints the Calculation Agent as its calculation agent and the Calculation Agent hereby accepts such appointment as the Corporation’s agent for the purpose of calculating the interest rates on the Bonds in the manner and at the times provided in the Bonds and the Supplemental Indenture.

2.    On each interest determination date, the Calculation Agent shall determine the Interest Rate applicable to the Bonds for the relevant Interest Period, as provided for and contemplated by the Supplemental Indenture. The Calculation Agent shall


notify the Corporation and the Trustee of such Interest Rate promptly after the determination thereof. The Calculation Agent shall perform such other actions and undertake such other duties of the Calculation Agent as are described in the Supplemental Indenture to be performed or undertaken by the Calculation Agent. All interest determinations and other actions and duties of the Calculation Agent that are described in the Supplemental Indenture are incorporated herein by reference. The Calculation Agent shall not be responsible for determining the maximum rate of interest on any Bonds permitted by applicable law.

3.    The Calculation Agent shall exercise due care to determine the interest rates on the Bonds and shall communicate the same to the Corporation, the Trustee, The Depository Trust Company and any paying agent identified by the Corporation in writing as soon as practicable after each determination. The Calculation Agent will, upon the request of the Holder of any Bond, provide the interest rate then in effect with respect to such Bond and, if determined, the interest rate with respect to such Bond which will become effective on the next Interest Payment Date. No amendment to the provisions of the Bonds relating to the duties or obligations of the Calculation Agent hereunder may become effective without the prior written consent of the Calculation Agent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.

4.    The Calculation Agent accepts its obligations set forth herein, upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereof, including the following, to all of which the Corporation agrees:

(a) The Calculation Agent shall be entitled to such compensation as may be agreed upon with the Corporation for all services rendered by the Calculation Agent, and the Corporation shall pay such compensation and reimburse the Calculation Agent for the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including attorneys’ and other professionals’ fees and expenses) incurred by it in connection with the services rendered by it hereunder upon receipt of such invoices as the Corporation shall reasonably require. The Corporation shall also indemnify the Calculation Agent for, and hold it harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, claim or expense (including the costs and expenses of defending against any claim (regardless of who asserts such claim) of liability) incurred by the Calculation Agent that arises out of or in connection with its accepting appointment as, or acting as, Calculation Agent hereunder, except such as may result from the gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of the Calculation Agent or any of its agents or employees. The Calculation Agent shall incur no liability and shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation for, or in respect of, any actions taken, omitted to be taken or suffered to be taken in good faith by the Calculation Agent in reliance upon (i) the opinion or advice of legal or other professional advisors satisfactory to it or (ii) written instructions from the Corporation. The Calculation Agent shall not be liable for any error resulting from the use of or reliance on a source of information used in good faith and with due care to calculate any interest rate hereunder. The provisions of this section shall survive the termination of this Agreement.

 

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(b) In acting under this Agreement and in connection with the Bonds, the Calculation Agent is acting solely as agent of the Corporation and does not assume any obligations to or relationship of agency or trust for or with any of the owners or Holders of the Bonds.

(c) The Calculation Agent shall be protected and shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken or omitted to be taken or anything suffered by it in reliance upon the terms of the Bonds, any notice, direction, certificate, affidavit, statement or other paper, document or communication reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been approved or signed by the proper party or parties.

(d) The Calculation Agent, its officers, directors, employees and shareholders may become the owners of, or acquire any interest in, any Bonds, with the same rights that it or they would have if it were not the Calculation Agent, and may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction with the Corporation as freely as if it were not the Calculation Agent.

(e) Neither the Calculation Agent nor its officers, directors, employees, agents or attorneys shall be liable to the Corporation for any act or omission hereunder, or for any error of judgment made in good faith by it or them, except in the case of its or their gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.

(f) The Calculation Agent may consult with counsel of its selection and the advice of such counsel or any opinion of counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon.

(g) The Calculation Agent shall be obligated to perform such duties and only such duties as are herein specifically set forth, including duties described in the Supplemental Indenture to be performed or undertaken by the Calculation Agent, as provided in Section 2 hereof, and no implied duties or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the Calculation Agent.

(h) Unless herein otherwise specifically provided, any order, certificate, notice, request, direction or other communication from the Corporation made or given by it under any provision of this Agreement shall be sufficient if signed by any officer of the Corporation.

(i) The Calculation Agent may perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys, and the Calculation Agent shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.

 

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(j)    In no event shall the Calculation Agent be responsible or liable for special, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Calculation Agent has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.

(k)    In no event shall the Calculation Agent be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its reasonable control, including without limitation strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software or hardware) services; it being understood that the Calculation Agent shall use reasonable efforts which are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.

(l)    In no event shall the Calculation Agent be required to expend or risk its own funds or provide indemnities in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or the exercise of any of its rights or power or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of its duties or the exercise of any of its rights or powers hereunder.

(m)    The Corporation will provide to the Calculation Agent at least 30 days’ written notice of any proposed change to the Bonds in the form attached to the Supplemental Indenture that would affect the Calculation Agent’s duties and obligations under this Agreement. If in its good faith judgment, the Calculation Agent determines that such change would materially and adversely affect the Calculation Agent’s duties and obligations under this Agreement, the Calculation Agent may resign in accordance with Section 5(a) hereof.

5.    (a)    The Calculation Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice to the Corporation of such intention on its part, specifying the date on which its desired resignation shall become effective; provided, however, that such date shall not be earlier than 30 days after the receipt of such notice by the Corporation, unless the Corporation agrees in writing to accept a shorter notice. The Calculation Agent may be removed at any time upon 30 days’ notice by the filing with it of any instrument in writing signed on behalf of the Corporation and specifying such removal and the date when it is intended to become effective. Such resignation or removal shall take effect upon the date of the appointment by the Corporation, as hereinafter provided, of a successor Calculation Agent. If within 30 days after notice of resignation or removal has been given, a successor Calculation Agent has not been appointed, the Calculation Agent may, at the expense of the Corporation, petition a court of competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor Calculation Agent. A successor Calculation Agent shall be appointed by the Corporation by an instrument in writing signed on behalf of the Corporation and the successor Calculation Agent. Upon the appointment of a successor Calculation Agent and acceptance by it of such appointment, the Calculation Agent so succeeded shall cease to be such

 

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Calculation Agent hereunder. Upon its resignation or removal, the Calculation Agent shall be entitled to the payment by the Corporation of its compensation, if any is owed to it, for services rendered hereunder and to the reimbursement of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the services rendered by it hereunder and to the payment of all other amounts owed to it hereunder.

(b)    Any successor Calculation Agent appointed hereunder shall execute and deliver to its predecessor and to the Corporation an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon such successor Calculation Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the authority, rights, powers, trusts, immunities, duties and obligations of such predecessor with like effect as if originally named as such Calculation Agent hereunder, and such predecessor, upon payment of its charges and disbursements then unpaid, shall thereupon become obliged to transfer and deliver, and such successor Calculation Agent shall be entitled to receive, copies of any relevant records maintained by such predecessor Calculation Agent.

(c)    Any corporation into which the Calculation Agent may be merged, or any corporation with which the Calculation Agent may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger or consolidation or to which the Calculation Agent shall sell or otherwise transfer all or substantially all of its corporate trust assets or business shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be the successor Calculation Agent under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. Notice of any such merger, consolidation or sale shall forthwith be given to the Corporation and the Trustee.

6.    Any notice required to be given hereunder shall be delivered in person, sent by letter or facsimile or communicated by telephone (subject, in the case of communication by telephone, to confirmation dispatched within twenty-four hours by letter or by facsimile), in the case of the Corporation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, P.O. Box 770000, San Francisco, California 94177, telephone: (415) 973-1000, facsimile: (415) 973-6374, Attention: Treasurer, in the case of The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., to Corporate Trust Administration, 400 South Hope Street, Suite 500, Los Angeles, California 90071, telephone: (213) 630-6175, facsimile: (213) 630-6298 and, in the case of The Depository Trust Company, to Manager Announcements, Dividend Department, The Depository Trust Company, 55 Water Street - 25th Floor, New York, New York 10041, telephone: (212) 855-1000, facsimile: (212) 855-3726, or to any other address of which any party shall have notified the others in writing as herein provided. Any notice hereunder given by telephone, facsimile or letter shall be deemed to be received when in the ordinary course of transmission or post, as the case may be, it would be received.

The Calculation Agent agrees to accept and act upon instructions or directions pursuant to this Agreement sent by unsecured e-mail, pdf, facsimile transmission or other similar unsecured electronic methods, provided, however, that the Calculation Agent shall have received an incumbency certificate listing persons designated to give such instructions or directions and containing specimen signatures of such designated persons, which such incumbency certificate shall be amended and replaced whenever a person is to be added or deleted from the listing. If the Corporation elects to give the Calculation Agent e-mail or facsimile instructions (or instructions by a similar electronic method) and the Calculation Agent in its discretion elects to act upon such instructions, the Calculation Agent’s

 

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understanding of such instructions shall be deemed controlling. The Calculation Agent shall not be liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or indirectly from the Calculation Agent’s reliance upon and compliance with such instructions prior to receipt of a subsequent written instruction. The Corporation agrees to assume all risks arising out of the use of such electronic methods to submit instructions and directions to the Calculation Agent including without limitation the risk of the Calculation Agent acting on unauthorized instructions, and the risk or interception and misuse by third parties.

7.    This Agreement and the Calculation Agent’s appointment as Calculation Agent hereunder shall be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made and to be performed entirely within such state, and without regard to conflicts of laws principles, and shall inure to the benefit of, and the obligations created hereby shall be binding upon, the successors and assigns of each of the parties hereto.

8.    This Agreement may be executed by each of the parties hereto in any number of counterparts, each of which counterparts, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed to be an original and all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same agreement.

9.    In the event of any conflict relating to the rights or obligations of the Calculation Agent in connection with the calculation of the interest rates on the Bonds, the relevant terms of this Agreement shall govern such rights and obligations.

10.    EACH OF THE CORPORATION AND THE CALCULATION AGENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY. Any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Agreement shall be brought exclusively in the courts of the State of New York located in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, or of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York and, by execution and delivery of this Agreement, each party hereto hereby accepts for itself and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts. The parties hereto hereby irrevocably waive any objection, including any objection to the laying of venue or based on the grounds of forum non conveniens, that any of them may now or hereafter have to the bringing of any such action or proceeding in such jurisdiction.

11.    The Calculation Agent, at the request of the Corporation, has determined, prior to the date of execution and delivery of this Agreement, the initial interest rate for the Bonds. In connection with such determination, the Calculation Agent shall be entitled to the same rights, protections, exculpations and immunities otherwise available to it under this Agreement.

12.    The recitals contained herein shall be taken as the statements of the Corporation and the Calculation Agent assumes no responsibility for their correctness.

13.    In order to comply with laws, rules, regulations and executive orders in effect from time to time applicable to banking institutions, including those relating to the funding of terrorist activities and money laundering and the Customer Identification

 

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Program (“CIP”) requirements under the USA PATRIOT Act and its implementing regulations, pursuant to which the Calculation Agent must obtain, verify and record information that allows the Calculation Agent to identify customers (“Applicable Law”), the Calculation Agent is required to obtain, verify and record certain information relating to individuals and entities which maintain a business relationship with the Calculation Agent. Accordingly, the Corporation agrees to provide to the Calculation Agent upon its request from time to time such identifying information and documentation as may be available for such party in order to enable the Calculation Agent to comply with Applicable Law, including, but not limited to, information as to name, physical address, tax identification number and other information that will help the Calculation Agent to identify and verify the Corporation, such as organizational documents, certificates of good standing, licenses to do business or other pertinent identifying information. The Corporation understands and agrees that the Calculation Agent cannot determine the interest rates on the Bonds unless and until the Calculation Agent verifies the identity of the Corporation in accordance with its CIP.

14.    The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation is a global financial organization that provides services to clients through its affiliates and subsidiaries in multiple jurisdictions (the “BNY Mellon Group”). The BNY Mellon Group may centralize functions including audit, accounting, risk, legal, compliance, sales, administration, product communication, relationship management, storage, compilation and analysis of customer-related data, and other functions (the “Centralized Functions”) in one or more affiliates, subsidiaries and third-party service providers. Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Agreement, Corporation consents to the disclosure of and authorizes BNY Mellon to disclose information regarding Corporation to the BNY Mellon Group and to its third-party service providers who are subject to confidentiality obligations with respect to such information, in connection with the Centralized Functions. In addition, the BNY Mellon Group may aggregate Corporation data with other data collected and/or calculated by the BNY Mellon Group and the BNY Mellon Group will own all such aggregated data, provided that the BNY Mellon Group shall not distribute the aggregated data in a format that identifies Corporation or Corporation’s data with Corporation. In addition, BNY Mellon may store the names and business addresses of Corporation’s employees on the systems or in the records of the BNY Mellon Group or its service providers for purposes of the Centralized Functions, and Corporation consents and is authorized to consent to such storage and confirms that the disclosure to and storage by the BNY Mellon Group of such information does not violate any relevant data protection legislation.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed as of the date first above written.

 

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
By:  

/s/ Margaret K. Becker

  Name: Margaret K. Becker
  Title:   Senior Director and Treasurer

 

THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,

TRUST COMPANY, N.A.

as Calculation Agent

By:  

/s/ Lawrence M. Kusch

  Name: Lawrence M. Kusch
  Title:   Vice President

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

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HUNTON ANDREWS KURTH LLP

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NEW YORK, NY 10166-0005

 

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November 16, 2020

Pacific Gas and Electric Company

77 Beale Street

San Francisco, California 94105

Re:    Pacific Gas and Electric Company

          Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have served as special counsel to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a California corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the issuance and sale by the Company of $1,450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Floating Rate First Mortgage Bonds due November 15, 2021 (the “Mortgage Bonds”), covered by the Company’s Registration Statement (the “Registration Statement”) on Form S-3, as amended (File No. 333-236629), including the prospectus constituting a part thereof, dated June 9, 2020, and the final prospectus supplement, dated November 12, 2020 (collectively, the “Prospectus”), filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

The Mortgage Bonds were issued under the Company’s Indenture of Mortgage, dated as of June 19, 2020 (the “Original Mortgage”) between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), as previously amended and supplemented and as further supplemented by the Seventh Supplemental Indenture, dated as of November 16, 2020, establishing the forms, terms and other provisions of the Mortgage Bonds (the “Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Original Mortgage, the “Mortgage”). The Mortgage Bonds were sold by the Company pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, dated November 12, 2020 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Company, BofA Securities, Inc., Mizuho Securities USA LLC, MUFG Securities Americas Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein.

In rendering the opinion expressed below, we have examined and relied upon copies of the Registration Statement and the exhibits filed therewith, and the Mortgage. We have also examined originals, or copies of originals certified to our satisfaction, of such agreements, documents, certificates and statements of government officials and other instruments, and have examined such questions of law and have satisfied ourselves as to such matters of fact, as we have considered relevant and necessary as a basis for this opinion letter. We have assumed: (i) the genuineness of all signatures; (ii) the legal capacity of natural

 

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MIAMI NEW YORK NORFOLK RALEIGH/DURHAM RICHMOND SAN FRANCISCO THE WOODLANDS TYSONS WASHINGTON, DC

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Pacific Gas and Electric Company

November 16, 2020

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persons; (iii) the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals and (iv) the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as certified or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents. We have also assumed that the Mortgage will be the valid and legally binding obligation of the Trustee.

Based on the foregoing, and subject to the qualifications and limitations hereinafter set forth, we are of the opinion that the Mortgage Bonds, when duly authenticated by the Trustee and issued and delivered by the Company against payment therefor in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement and the Mortgage, will constitute the valid and binding obligations of the Company (subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, receivership, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance, transfer or other laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement of mortgagees’ and other creditors’ rights and by the effect of general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding at law or in equity).

We do not express any opinion herein concerning any law other than the law of the State of New York, the General Corporation Law of the State of California and the federal law of the United States.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to all references to us included in or made a part of the Registration Statement. In giving the foregoing consent, we do not hereby admit that we come within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder. This opinion letter is limited to the matters stated in this opinion letter, and no opinion may be implied or inferred beyond the matters expressly stated in this opinion letter. This opinion letter is given as of the date hereof, and we assume no obligation to advise you after the date hereof of facts or circumstances that come to our attention or changes in the law, including judicial or administrative interpretations thereof, that occur which could affect the opinions contained herein.    

 

Very truly yours,
/s/ Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP