UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): June 6, 2019

 

WELLS FARGO & COMPANY

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware 001-2979 No. 41-0449260
(State or other jurisdiction (Commission File (IRS Employer
of incorporation) Number) Identification No.)

 

420 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California 94104

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 1-866-249-3302

 

Not applicable

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

 

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

 

☐       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 Name of Each Exchange
on Which Registered
Common Stock, par value $1-2/3 WFC New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE)
7.5% Non-Cumulative Perpetual Convertible Class A Preferred Stock, Series L WFC.PRL NYSE
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series N WFC.PRN NYSE
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series O WFC.PRO NYSE
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series P WFC.PRP NYSE
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of 5.85% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series Q WFC.PRQ NYSE
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of 6.625% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series R WFC.PRR NYSE
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series T WFC.PRT NYSE
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series V WFC.PRV NYSE
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series W WFC.PRW NYSE
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series X WFC.PRX NYSE
Depositary Shares, each representing a 1/1000th interest in a share of Non-Cumulative Perpetual Class A Preferred Stock, Series Y WFC.PRY NYSE
Guarantee of 5.80% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Normal Wachovia Income Trust Securities of Wachovia Capital Trust III WBTP NYSE
Guarantee of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, due October 30, 2028 of Wells Fargo Finance LLC WFC/28A NYSE

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.12b-2).

 

  Emerging growth 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. ☐

 

 

 

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

Exhibits are filed herewith in connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File Nos. 333-221324 and 333-221324-01) filed by Wells Fargo & Company and Wells Fargo Finance LLC with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

On June 6, 2019, Wells Fargo Finance LLC issued the following Medium-Term Notes, Series A: (i) Accelerated Return Notes ® Linked to a Basket of Three Financial Sector Stocks; (ii) Capped Leveraged Index Return Notes ® Linked to the Russell 2000 ® Index; (iii) Notes Linked to a Basket of Three Semi-Conductor Sector Stocks; (iv) Principal at Risk Securities Linked to the S&P 500 ® Index due June 6, 2023; (v) Accelerated Return Notes ® Linked to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index; and (vi) Principal at Risk Securities Linked to the MSCI EAFE Index ® (collectively, the “Notes”). The Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company (the “Guarantee”).

 

The purpose of this Current Report is to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission the form of Note related to each issuance and the opinion of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP regarding the Notes and the Guarantee.

 

(d)       Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.   Description   Location
         
4.1  

Form of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Accelerated Return Notes ® Linked to a Basket of Three Financial Sector Stocks.

  Filed herewith
         
4.2  

Form of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Capped Leveraged Index Return Notes ® Linked to the Russell 2000 ® Index.

  Filed herewith
         
4.3  

Form of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Notes Linked to a Basket of Three Semi-Conductor Sector Stocks.

  Filed herewith
         
4.4  

Form of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Principal at Risk Securities Linked to the S&P 500 ® Index due June 6, 2023.

  Filed herewith
         
4.5  

Form of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Accelerated Return Notes ® Linked to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

  Filed herewith
         
4.6  

Form of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Principal at Risk Securities Linked to the MSCI EAFE Index ® .

  Filed herewith
         
5.1  

Opinion of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP regarding the Notes and the Guarantee.

  Filed herewith
         
23.1  

Consent of Faegre Baker Daniels LLP.

  Included as part of Exhibit 5.1

 

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SIGNATURE

 

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

 

  WELLS FARGO & COMPANY  
     
DATED: June 6, 2019 /s/ Le Roy Davis   
  Le Roy Davis
Senior Vice President and Assistant Treasurer
 

 

 

 

 

WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 8-K

Exhibit 4.1

 

[Face of Note]

 

Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“ DTC ”), to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or 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.

 

CUSIP NO. 95002W107

  PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: $________

ISIN NO. US95002W1071  
REGISTERED NO. ___  

  

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

  

Accelerated Return Notes ® Linked to a

  Basket of Three Financial Sector Stocks

  

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the “ Company ,” which term includes any successor corporation under and as defined in the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & Co., or registered assigns, an amount equal to the Redemption Amount (as defined below), 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, on July 31, 2020 (the “ Stated Maturity Date ”). This Security shall not bear any interest.

 

Any payments on this Security at Maturity will be made against presentation of this Security at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.

 

Principal Amount ” shall mean, when used with respect to this Security, the amount set forth on the face of this Security as its “Principal Amount.”

 

 

 

Determination of Redemption Amount

 

The “ Redemption Amount ” of this Security will equal:

  

if the Ending Value is greater than the Starting Value: the lesser of: (i) Principal Amount plus :

   

 

  

(ii) the Capped Value;

 

if the Ending Value is less than or equal to the Starting Value:

  

 

  

All calculations with respect to the Redemption Amount will be rounded to the nearest one hundred-thousandth, with five one-millionths rounded upward (e.g., 0.000005 would be rounded to 0.00001); and the Redemption Amount will be rounded to the nearest cent, with one-half cent rounded upward.

   

Market Measure ” or “ Basket ” shall mean a basket comprised of the following Basket Stocks, with each Basket Stock having the “ Initial Component Weight ” noted parenthetically: Citigroup Inc. (33.33), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (33.33) and Morgan Stanley (33.34).

  

Basket Stock ” or “ Underlying Stock ” shall mean the common stock of each of Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley.

  

Underlying Company ” shall mean each of Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Morgan Stanley.

  

The “ Pricing Date ” shall mean May 30, 2019.

  

The “ Starting Value ” is 100.00.

  

The “ Participation Rate ” is 300%.

  

The “ Capped Value ” is 123.70% of the Principal Amount.

  

The “ Ending Value ” of the Basket means the sum of the products of the Closing Market Price of each Basket Stock on the Calculation Day multiplied by its Price Multiplier on that day, and the Component Ratio for each Basket Stock, subject to the provisions set forth below under “Market Disruption Events and “Anti-Dilution Adjustments.”

 

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The “ Calculation Day ” is July 24, 2020, subject to the provisions set forth below under “Market Disruption Events.”

 

The “ Component Ratio ” for each Basket Stock is equal to:

 

 

[ the Initial Component Weight for such Basket Stock (expressed as a percentage) x 100]

the Closing Market Price of such Basket Stock on the Pricing Date,

  

in each case rounded to eight decimal places and subject to the provisions set forth below under “Adjustments to the Component Ratio for a Basket Component.” The Component Ratios of the Basket Stocks are as follows: Citigroup Inc. (0.52397422), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (0.31132075) and Morgan Stanley (0.79703562). The Closing Market Prices of the Basket Stocks on the Pricing Date are as follows: Citigroup Inc. (63.61), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (107.06) and Morgan Stanley (41.83).

  

The “ Price Multiplier ” for an Underlying Stock is 1, and is subject to adjustment for certain corporate events relating to such Underlying Stock described below under “Anti-Dilution Adjustments.”

 

Business Day ” shall mean a day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to close in New York, New York.

  

Joint Calculation Agency Agreement ” shall mean the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement dated as of October 5, 2018 among the Company, Wells Fargo & Company, as guarantor (the “ Guarantor ”), and the Calculation Agents, as amended from time to time.

  

Calculation Agents ” shall mean the Persons that have entered into the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement with the Company and the Guarantor providing for, among other things, the determination of the Ending Value, the Price Multiplier, the Closing Market Price, the Redemption Amount any Market Disruption Events, any anti-dilution adjustments, any successor Underlying Stock, Business Days, Trading Days and Non-Calculation Days, which term shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include their successors under such Joint Calculation Agency Agreement. The initial Calculation Agents shall be Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and BofA Securities, Inc. Pursuant to the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement, the Company may appoint a different Calculation Agent from time to time after the initial issuance of this Security without the consent of the Holder of this Security and without notifying the Holder of this Security.

  

A “ Trading Day ” means a day on which trading is generally conducted (or was scheduled to have been generally conducted, but for the occurrence of a Market Disruption Event) on the New York Stock Exchange (the “ NYSE ”), the Nasdaq Stock Market, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and in the over-the-counter market for equity securities in the United States, or any successor exchange or market, or in the case of a security traded on one or more non-U.S. securities exchanges or markets, on the principal non-U.S. securities exchange or market for such security.

  

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The “ Closing Market Price ” for one share of any Underlying Stock (or one unit of any other security for which a Closing Market Price must be determined) on any Trading Day means any of the following:

  

●             if the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is listed or admitted to trading on a national securities exchange, the last reported sale price, regular way (or, in the case of The Nasdaq Stock Market, the official closing price), of the principal trading session on that day on the principal U.S. securities exchange registered under the Exchange Act on which the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is listed or admitted to trading;

 

●             if the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange but is included in the OTC Bulletin Board, the last reported sale price of the principal trading session on the OTC Bulletin Board on that day;

 

●             if the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is issued by a foreign issuer and its closing price cannot be determined as set forth in the two bullet points above, and the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is listed or admitted to trading on a non-U.S. securities exchange or market, the last reported sale price, regular way, of the principal trading session on that day on the primary non-U.S. securities exchange or market on which the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is listed or admitted to trading (converted to U.S. dollars using such exchange rate as the Calculation Agents, in their sole discretion, determine to be commercially reasonable); or

 

●             if the Closing Market Price cannot be determined as set forth in the prior bullets, the mean, as determined by the Calculation Agents, of the bid prices for the Underlying Stock (or such other security) obtained from as many dealers in that security, but not exceeding three, as will make the bid prices available to the Calculation Agents. If no such bid price can be obtained, the Closing Market Price will be determined (or, if not determinable, estimated) by the Calculation Agents in their sole discretion in a commercially reasonable manner.

 

Adjustments to the Component Ratio for a Basket Stock

 

The Component Ratios for the Basket Stocks will not be revised subsequent to their determination on the Pricing Date, except that the Calculation Agents may in their good faith judgment adjust the Component Ratio of any Basket Stock in the event that Basket Stock is materially changed or modified in a manner that does not, in the opinion of the Calculation Agents, fairly represent the value of that Basket Stock had those material changes or modifications not been made.

 

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Market Disruption Events

 

As to any Underlying Stock (or any “ successor Underlying Stock ,” which is the common equity securities or the ADRs (as defined below) of a Successor Entity (as defined below)), a “ Market Disruption Event ” means any of the following events, as determined by the Calculation Agents in their sole discretion:

 

(A) the suspension of or material limitation on trading, in each case, for more than two consecutive hours of trading, or during the one-half hour period preceding the close of trading, of the shares of the Underlying Stock (or the successor to the Underlying Stock) on the primary exchange where such shares trade, as determined by the Calculation Agents (without taking into account any extended or after-hours trading session);

 

(B) the suspension of or material limitation on trading, in each case, for more than two consecutive hours of trading, or during the one-half hour period preceding the close of trading, on the primary exchange that trades options contracts or futures contracts related to the shares of the Underlying Stock (or successor to the Underlying Stock) as determined by the Calculation Agents (without taking into account any extended or after-hours trading session), in options contracts or futures contracts related to the shares of the Underlying Stock (or successor to the Underlying Stock); or

 

(C) the determination that the scheduled Calculation Day is not a Trading Day by reason of an extraordinary event, occurrence, declaration, or otherwise.

 

For the purpose of determining whether a Market Disruption Event has occurred:

 

(1) a limitation on the hours in a Trading Day and/or number of days of trading will not constitute a Market Disruption Event if it results from an announced change in the regular business hours of the relevant exchange;

 

(2) a decision to permanently discontinue trading in the shares of the Underlying Stock (or successor Underlying Stock) or the relevant futures or options contracts relating to such shares will not constitute a Market Disruption Event;

 

(3) a suspension in trading in a futures or options contract on the shares of the Underlying Stock (or successor Underlying Stock), by a major securities market by reason of (a) a price change violating limits set by that securities market, (b) an imbalance of orders relating to those contracts, or (c) a disparity in bid and ask quotes relating to those contracts, will each constitute a suspension of or material limitation on trading in futures or options contracts relating to the Underlying Stock;

 

(4) subject to paragraph (3) above, a suspension of or material limitation on trading on the relevant exchange will not include any time when that exchange is closed for trading under ordinary circumstances; and

 

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(5) for the purpose of clause (A) above, any limitations on trading during significant market fluctuations under NYSE Rule 80B, or any applicable rule or regulation enacted or promulgated by the NYSE or any other self-regulatory organization or the Securities and Exchange Commission of similar scope as determined by the Calculation Agents, will be considered “material.”

 

If for any Basket Stock (an “ Affected Basket Stock ”), a Market Disruption Event occurs on the scheduled Calculation Day (such day being a “ Non-Calculation Day ”), the Calculation Agents will determine the prices of the Basket Stocks for such Non-Calculation Day, and as a result, the Ending Value, as follows:

 

the Closing Market Price of each Basket Stock that is not an Affected Basket Stock will be its Closing Market Price on that Non-Calculation Day; and

 

the Closing Market Price of each Basket Stock that is an Affected Basket Stock for the Non-Calculation Day will be determined on the immediately succeeding Trading Day on which no Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing; provided that the Closing Market Price of that Basket Stock will be determined (or, if not determinable, estimated) by the Calculation Agents in a commercially reasonable manner on a date no later than the second scheduled Trading Day prior to the Stated Maturity Date, regardless of the occurrence of a Market Disruption Event on that day.

 

Anti-Dilution Adjustments

 

As to any Underlying Stock (or successor Underlying Stock), the Calculation Agents, in their sole discretion, may adjust the Price Multiplier (and as a result, the Ending Value), and any other terms of this Security, if an event described below occurs after the Pricing Date and on or before the Calculation Day and if the Calculation Agents determine that such an event has a diluting or concentrative effect on the theoretical value of the shares of the Underlying Stock (or successor Underlying Stock).

 

The Price Multiplier resulting from any of the adjustments specified below will be rounded to the eighth decimal place with five one-billionths being rounded upward. No adjustments to the Price Multiplier will be required unless the adjustment would require a change of at least 0.1% in the Price Multiplier then in effect. Any adjustment that would require a change of less than 0.1% in the Price Multiplier which is not applied at the time of the event may be reflected at the time of any subsequent adjustment that would require a change of the Price Multiplier.

 

No adjustments to the Price Multiplier for any Underlying Stock or any other terms of this Security will be required other than those specified below. However, the Calculation Agents may, at their sole discretion, make additional adjustments or adjustments that differ from those described herein to the Price Multiplier or any other terms of this Security to reflect changes to any Underlying Stock if the Calculation Agents determine that the adjustment is appropriate to ensure an equitable result.

 

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The Calculation Agents will be solely responsible for the determination of any adjustments to the Price Multiplier for any Underlying Stock or any other terms of this Security and of any related determinations with respect to any distributions of stock, other securities or other property or assets, including cash, in connection with any corporate event described below; their determinations and calculations will be conclusive absent a determination of a manifest error.

 

No adjustments are required to be made for certain other events, such as offerings of common equity securities by any Underlying Company for cash or in connection with the occurrence of a partial tender or exchange offer for any Underlying Stock by the Underlying Company.

 

Following certain corporate events relating to an Underlying Stock, where the Underlying Company is not the surviving entity, any payment received on this Security may be based on the equity securities of a successor to the Underlying Company or any cash or any other assets distributed to holders of the Underlying Stock in such corporate event.

 

Following an event that results in an adjustment to the Price Multiplier for any Underlying Stock or any of the other terms of this Security, the Calculation Agents may (but are not required to) provide the Holder of this Security with information about that adjustment as they deem appropriate, depending on the nature of the adjustment. Upon written request by the Holder of this Security, the Calculation Agents will provide the Holder of this Security with information about such adjustment.

 

Anti-Dilution Adjustments to Underlying Stocks that Are Common Equity

 

The Calculation Agents, in their sole discretion and as they deem reasonable, may adjust the Price Multiplier for an Underlying Stock and other terms of this Security, and hence the Ending Value, as a result of certain events related to an Underlying Stock, which include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

Stock Splits and Reverse Stock Splits. If an Underlying Stock is subject to a stock split or reverse stock split, then once such split has become effective, the Price Multiplier will be adjusted such that the new Price Multiplier will equal the product of:

 

the prior Price Multiplier; and

 

the number of shares that a holder of one share of the Underlying Stock before the effective date of the stock split or reverse stock split would have owned immediately following the applicable effective date.

 

Stock Dividends. If an Underlying Stock is subject to (i) a stock dividend (i.e., an issuance of additional shares of Underlying Stock) that is given ratably to all holders of the Underlying Stock or (ii) a distribution of additional shares of the Underlying Stock as a result of the triggering of any provision of the organizational documents of the Underlying Company, then, once the dividend has become effective and the Underlying Stock is trading ex-dividend, the Price Multiplier will be adjusted on the ex-dividend date such that the new Price Multiplier will equal the prior Price Multiplier plus the product of:

 

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the prior Price Multiplier; and

 

the number of additional shares issued in the stock dividend with respect to one share of the Underlying Stock;

 

provided that no adjustment will be made for a stock dividend for which the number of shares of the Underlying Stock paid or distributed is based on a fixed cash equivalent value, unless such distribution is an Extraordinary Dividend (as defined below).

 

Extraordinary Dividends. There will be no adjustments to the Price Multiplier to reflect any cash dividends or cash distributions paid with respect to an Underlying Stock other than Extraordinary Dividends, as described below, and distributions described under the section entitled “—Reorganization Events” below.

 

An “ Extraordinary Dividend ” means, with respect to a cash dividend or other distribution with respect to an Underlying Stock, a dividend or other distribution that the Calculation Agents determine, in their sole discretion, is not declared or otherwise made according to the Underlying Company’s then existing policy or practice of paying such dividends on a quarterly or other regular basis. If an Extraordinary Dividend occurs, the Price Multiplier will be adjusted on the ex-dividend date so that the new Price Multiplier will equal the product of:

 

the prior Price Multiplier; and

 

a fraction, the numerator of which is the Closing Market Price per share of the Underlying Stock on the Trading Day preceding the ex-dividend date and the denominator of which is the amount by which the Closing Market Price per share of the Underlying Stock on that preceding Trading Day exceeds the Extraordinary Dividend Amount.

 

The “ Extraordinary Dividend Amount ” with respect to an Extraordinary Dividend will equal:

 

in the case of cash dividends or other distributions that constitute regular dividends, the amount per share of the Underlying Stock of that Extraordinary Dividend minus the amount per share of the immediately preceding non-Extraordinary Dividend for that share; or

 

in the case of cash dividends or other distributions that do not constitute regular dividends, the amount per share of the Underlying Stock of that Extraordinary Dividend.

 

To the extent an Extraordinary Dividend is not paid in cash, the value of the non-cash component will be determined by the Calculation Agents, whose determination will be conclusive. A distribution on the Underlying Stock described in the section “—Issuance of Transferable Rights or Warrants” or clause (a), (d) or (e) of the section entitled “—Reorganization Events” below that also constitutes an Extraordinary Dividend will only cause an adjustment under those respective sections.

 

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Issuance of Transferable Rights or Warrants. If an Underlying Company issues transferable rights or warrants to all holders of record of the Underlying Stock to subscribe for or purchase the Underlying Stock, including new or existing rights to purchase the Underlying Stock under a shareholder rights plan or arrangement, then the Price Multiplier will be adjusted on the Trading Day immediately following the issuance of those transferable rights or warrants so that the new Price Multiplier will equal the prior Price Multiplier plus the product of:

 

the prior Price Multiplier; and

 

the number of shares of the Underlying Stock that can be purchased with the cash value of those warrants or rights distributed on one share of the Underlying Stock.

 

The number of shares that can be purchased will be based on the Closing Market Price of the Underlying Stock on the date the new Price Multiplier is determined. The cash value of those warrants or rights, if the warrants or rights are traded on a registered national securities exchange, will equal the closing price of that warrant or right. If the warrants or rights are not traded on a registered national securities exchange, the cash value will be determined by the Calculation Agents and will equal the average of the bid prices obtained from three dealers at 3:00 p.m., New York time on the date the new Price Multiplier is determined, provided that if only two of those bid prices are available, then the cash value of those warrants or rights will equal the average of those bids and if only one of those bids is available, then the cash value of those warrants or rights will equal that bid.

 

Reorganization Events

 

If after the Pricing Date and on or prior to the Calculation Day of this Security, as to any Underlying Stock:

 

  (a)

there occurs any reclassification or change of the Underlying Stock, including, without limitation, as a result of the issuance of tracking stock by the Underlying Company;

     
  (b)

the Underlying Company, or any surviving entity or subsequent surviving entity of the Underlying Company (a “ Successor Entity ”), has been subject to a merger, combination, or consolidation and is not the surviving entity;

     
  (c)

any statutory exchange of securities of the Underlying Company or any Successor Entity with another corporation occurs, other than under clause (b) above;

     
  (d)

the Underlying Company is liquidated or is subject to a proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, or other similar law; 

     
 

(e)

 

 

the Underlying Company issues to all of its shareholders securities of an issuer other than the Underlying Company, including equity securities of an affiliate of the Underlying Company, other than in a transaction described in clauses (b), (c), or (d) above;

 

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(f)

a tender or exchange offer or going-private transaction is consummated for all the outstanding shares of the Underlying Company; 

     

(g)

there occurs any reclassification or change of the Underlying Stock that results in a transfer or an irrevocable commitment to transfer all such outstanding shares of the Underlying Stock to another entity or person;

     
 

(h)

the Underlying Company or any Successor Entity is the surviving entity of a merger, combination, or consolidation, that results in the outstanding Underlying Stock (other than Underlying Stock owned or controlled by the other party to such transaction) immediately prior to such event collectively representing less than 50% of the outstanding Underlying Stock immediately following such event; or

     
 

(i)

the Underlying Company ceases to file the financial and other information with the SEC in accordance with Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act (an event in clauses (a) through (i), a “ Reorganization Event ”),

 

then, on or after the date of the occurrence of a Reorganization Event, the Calculation Agents shall, in their sole discretion, make an adjustment to the Price Multiplier or to the method of determining the Redemption Amount or any other terms of this Security as the Calculation Agents, in their sole discretion, determine appropriate to account for the economic effect on this Security of that Reorganization Event (including adjustments to account for changes in volatility, expected dividends, stock loan rate, or liquidity relevant to the Underlying Stock or to this Security), which may, but need not, be determined by reference to the adjustment(s) made in respect of such Reorganization Event by an options exchange to options on the relevant Underlying Stock traded on that options exchange and determine the effective date of that adjustment. If the Calculation Agents determine that no adjustment that they could make will produce a commercially reasonable result, then the Calculation Agents may cause the Stated Maturity Date of this Security to be accelerated to the fifth Business Day following the date of that determination and the Redemption Amount payable to the Holder of this Security will be calculated as though the date of early repayment were the Stated Maturity Date of this Security and as though the Calculation Day were the fifth Trading Day prior to the date of acceleration.

 

If the Underlying Company ceases to file the financial and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act, as contemplated by clause (i) above, and the Calculation Agents determine in their sole discretion that sufficiently similar information is not otherwise available to the Holder of this Security, then the Calculation Agents may cause the Stated Maturity Date of this Security to be accelerated to the fifth Business Day following the date of that determination and the Redemption Amount payable to the Holder of this Security will be calculated as though the date of early repayment were the Stated Maturity Date of this Security, and as though the Calculation Day were the fifth Trading Day prior to the date of acceleration. If the Calculation Agents determine that sufficiently similar information is available to the Holder of this Security, the Reorganization Event will be deemed to have not occurred.

 

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Alternative Anti-Dilution and Reorganization Adjustments

 

The Calculation Agents may elect at their discretion to not make any of the adjustments to the Price Multiplier for any Underlying Stock or to the other terms of this Security, including the method of determining the Redemption Amount, but may instead make adjustments, in their discretion, to the Price Multiplier for the Underlying Stock or any other terms of this Security (such as the Starting Value) that will reflect the adjustments to the extent practicable made by the Options Clearing Corporation on options contracts on the Underlying Stock or any successor common stock.

 

Anti-Dilution Adjustments to Underlying Stocks that Are ADRs

 

For purposes of the anti-dilution adjustments set forth above, if an Underlying Stock is an ADR (an “ Underlying ADR ”), the Calculation Agents will consider the effect of any of the relevant events on the Underlying ADR, and adjustments will be made as if the Underlying ADR was the Underlying Stock described above. For example, if the stock represented by the Underlying ADR is subject to a two-for-one stock split, and assuming an initial Price Multiplier of 1, the Price Multiplier for the Underlying ADR would be adjusted so that it equals two. With respect this Security linked to an Underlying ADR (or an Underlying Stock issued by a non-U.S. Underlying Company), the term “dividend” means the dividends paid to holders of the Underlying ADR (or the Underlying Stock issued by the non-U.S. Underlying Company), and such dividends may reflect the netting of any applicable foreign withholding or similar taxes that may be due on dividends paid to a U.S. person.

 

The Calculation Agents may determine not to make an adjustment if:

 

(A)        holders of the Underlying ADR are not eligible to participate in any of the events that would otherwise require anti-dilution adjustments as set forth above if this Security had been linked directly to the common shares of the Underlying Company represented by the Underlying ADR; or

 

(B)         to the extent that the Calculation Agents determine that the Underlying Company or the depositary for the ADRs has adjusted the number of common shares of the Underlying Company represented by each share of the Underlying ADR, so that the market price of the Underlying ADR would not be affected by the corporate event.

 

If the Underlying Company or the depositary for the ADRs, in the absence of any of the events described above, elects to adjust the number of common shares of the Underlying Company represented by each share of the Underlying ADR, then the Calculation Agents may make the appropriate anti-dilution adjustments to reflect such change. The depositary for the ADRs may also make adjustments in respect of the ADRs for share distributions, rights distributions, cash distributions and distributions other than shares, rights, and cash. Upon any such adjustment by the depositary, the Calculation Agents may adjust the Price Multiplier or other terms of this Security as the Calculation Agents determine commercially reasonable to account for that event.

 

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Delisting of ADRs or Termination of ADR Facility

 

If the Underlying Stock is an Underlying ADR and such Underlying ADR is no longer listed or admitted to trading on a U.S. securities exchange registered under the Exchange Act or included in the OTC Bulletin Board Service operated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., or if the ADR facility between the Underlying Company and the ADR depositary is terminated for any reason, then, on and after the date that the Underlying ADR is no longer so listed or admitted to trading or the date of such termination, as applicable (the “ termination date ”), the Underlying Stock will be deemed to be the Underlying Company’s common equity securities rather than the Underlying ADR. The Calculation Agents will determine the price of the Underlying Stock by reference to those common shares. Under such circumstances, the Calculation Agents may modify any terms of this Security as they deem necessary, in their sole discretion, to ensure an equitable result. On and after the termination date, for all purposes, the Closing Market Price of the Underlying Company’s common shares on their primary exchange will be converted to U.S. dollars using such exchange rate as the Calculation Agents, in their sole discretion, determine to be commercially reasonable.

 

Calculation Agents

 

The Calculation Agents have the sole discretion to make all determinations regarding this Security as described in this Security, including determinations regarding the Starting Value, the Ending Value, the Price Multiplier, the Closing Market Price, the Redemption Amount, any Market Disruption Events, any anti-dilution adjustments, any successor Underlying Stock, Business Days, Trading Days and Non-Calculation Days. Absent manifest error, all determinations of the Calculation Agents will be conclusive for all purposes and final and binding on the Holder hereof and the Company, without any liability on the part of the Calculation Agents.

 

The Company covenants that, so long as this Security is Outstanding, there shall at all times be a Calculation Agent (which shall be a broker-dealer, bank or other financial institution) with respect to this Security.

 

Tax Considerations

 

The Company agrees, and by acceptance of a beneficial ownership interest in this Security each Holder of this Security will be deemed to have agreed (in the absence of a statutory, regulatory, administrative or judicial ruling to the contrary), for United States federal income tax purposes to characterize and treat this Security as a prepaid derivative contract that is an “open transaction.”

 

Redemption and Repayment

 

This Security is not subject to redemption at the option of the Company or repayment at the option of the Holder hereof prior to July 31, 2020. This Security is not entitled to any sinking fund.

 

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Acceleration

 

If an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, with respect to this Security shall occur and be continuing, the Redemption Amount (calculated as set forth in the next sentence) of this Security may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The amount payable to the Holder hereof upon any acceleration permitted under the Indenture will be equal to the Redemption Amount described under “Determination of Redemption Amount,” determined as if the date of acceleration were the Calculation Day. The payment of the Redemption Amount of this Security may also be accelerated as set forth above under “Anti-Dilution Adjustments—Reorganization Events.”

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

         
DATED:      
       
    WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC
       
    By:  
       
      Its:
       
    Attest:   
       
      Its:
       
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION      
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.      
       
CITIBANK, N.A.,      
as Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      
       
OR      
       
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,      
as Authenticating Agent for the Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      

 

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[Reverse of Note]

 

  WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A

 

  Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Accelerated Return Notes ® Linked to a

Basket of Three Financial Sector Stocks

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “ Securities ”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an indenture dated as of April 25, 2018, as amended or supplemented from time to time (herein called the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, as issuer, the Guarantor and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (herein called the “ Trustee ,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series of the Securities designated as Medium-Term Notes, Series A, of the Company. The amount payable on the Securities of this series may be determined by reference to the performance of one or more equity-, commodity- or currency-based indices, exchange traded funds, securities, commodities, currencies, statistical measures of economic or financial performance, or a basket comprised of two or more of the foregoing, or any other market measure or may bear interest at a fixed rate or a floating rate. The Securities of this series may mature at different times, be redeemable at different times or not at all, be repayable at the option of the Holder at different times or not at all and be denominated in different currencies.

 

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons and will be either (a) book-entry securities represented by one or more Global Securities recorded in the book-entry system maintained by the Depositary or (b) certificated securities issued to and registered in the names of, the beneficial owners or their nominees.

 

The Company agrees, to the extent permitted by law, not to voluntarily claim the benefits of any laws concerning usurious rates of interest against a Holder of this Security.

 

Guarantee

 

The Securities of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor as and to the extent set forth in the Indenture.

 

Modification and Waivers

 

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

 

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of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of all series to be affected, acting together as a class. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of all series at the time Outstanding affected by certain provisions of the Indenture, acting together as a class, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with those provisions of the Indenture. Certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences may be waived under the Indenture by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series. Solely for the purpose of determining whether any consent, waiver, notice or other action or Act to be taken or given by the Holders of Securities pursuant to the Indenture has been given or taken by the Holders of Outstanding Securities in the requisite aggregate principal amount, the principal amount of this Security will be deemed to be equal to the amount set forth on the face hereof as the “Principal Amount” hereof. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

Defeasance

 

Section 403 and Article Fifteen of the Indenture and the provisions of clause (ii) of Section 401(1)(B) of the Indenture, relating to defeasance at any time of (a) the entire indebtedness on this Security and (b) certain restrictive covenants, upon compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with certain conditions set forth therein, shall not apply to this Security. The remaining provisions of Section 401 of the Indenture shall apply to this Security.

 

Authorized Denominations

 

This Security is issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $10 or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of $10.

 

Registration of Transfer

 

Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Security at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a new Security or Securities of this series, with the same terms as this Security, in authorized denominations for an equal aggregate Principal Amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor, as provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations provided therein and to the limitations described below, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

 

This Security is exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form only if (x) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for this Security or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, (y) the Company in its sole discretion determines that this Security shall be exchangeable for definitive

 

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Securities in registered form and notifies the Trustee thereof or (z) an Event of Default with respect to the Securities represented hereby has occurred and is continuing. If this Security is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence, it shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form, having the same date of issuance, Stated Maturity Date and other terms and of authorized denominations aggregating a like amount.

 

This Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor of the Depositary or a nominee of such successor. Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this Global Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in definitive form and will not be considered the Holders hereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

 

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

 

Obligation of the Company Absolute

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the Redemption Amount at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed, except as otherwise provided in this Security.

 

No Personal Recourse

 

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the Redemption Amount, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any successor corporation or of the Guarantor or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released.

 

Defined Terms

 

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

 

Governing Law

 

This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.

 

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ABBREVIATIONS

  

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

 

TEN COM -- as tenants in common

 

TEN ENT -- as tenants by the entireties

 

JT TEN -- as joint tenants with right
   

of survivorship and not

as tenants in common

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT --    Custodian  
  (Cust)    (Minor)

 

Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act  
   
(State)  

  

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

  

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s) and transfer(s) unto

  

Please Insert Social Security or

Other Identifying Number of Assignee

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 

(Please print or type name and address including postal zip code of Assignee)

  

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the within Security of WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint __________________ attorney to transfer the said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated: _________________________

 

 
   
   

 

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

 

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WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 8-K

Exhibit 4.2

 

[Face of Note]

 

Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“ DTC ”), to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or 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.

 

CUSIP NO. 95002W404 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: $__________
ISIN NO. US95002W4042  
REGISTERED NO. ___  

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Capped Leveraged Index Return Notes ® Linked to the Russell 2000 ® Index

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the “ Company ,” which term includes any successor corporation under and as defined in the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & Co., or registered assigns, an amount equal to the Redemption Amount (as defined below), 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, on May 28, 2021 (the “ Stated Maturity Date ”). This Security shall not bear any interest.

 

Any payments on this Security at Maturity will be made against presentation of this Security at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.

 

Principal Amount ” shall mean, when used with respect to this Security, the amount set forth on the face of this Security as its “Principal Amount.”

 

 

 

 

Determination of Redemption Amount

 

The “ Redemption Amount ” of this Security will equal:

 

if the Ending Value is greater than the Starting Value: the lesser of:

 

(i) Principal Amount +

 

 

(ii) the Capped Value;

 

if the Ending Value is equal to or less than the Starting Value, but greater than or equal to the Threshold Value: the Principal Amount; or

 

if the Ending Value is less than the Threshold Value: the Principal Amount minus :

 

 

 

All calculations with respect to the Redemption Amount will be rounded to the nearest one hundred-thousandth, with five one-millionths rounded upward (e.g., 0.000005 would be rounded to 0.00001); and the Redemption Amount will be rounded to the nearest cent, with one-half cent rounded upward.

 

Index ” shall mean the Russell 2000 ® Index.

 

The “ Pricing Date ” shall mean May 30, 2019.

 

The “ Starting Value ” is 1,485.531, the Closing Level of the Index on the Pricing Date.

 

The “ Closing Level ” of the Index on any Market Measure Business Day means the official closing level of the Index reported by the Index Publisher on such Market Measure Business Day, subject to the provisions set forth below under “Discontinuance of the Index,” “Adjustments to the Index” and “Market Disruption Events.”

 

The “ Ending Value ” will be the average of the Closing Levels of the Index on each Calculation Day (as defined below) occurring during the Maturity Valuation Period (as defined below), subject to the provisions set forth below under “Market Description Events.”

 

The “ Threshold Value ” is 1,336.978, which is equal to 90% of the Starting Value, rounded to three decimal places.

 

The “ Participation Rate ” is 200.00%.

 

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The “ Capped Value ” is 116.32% of the Principal Amount.

 

A “ Market Measure Business Day ” means a day on which (1) the New York Stock Exchange (the “ NYSE ”) and The Nasdaq Stock Market, or their successors, are open for trading and (2) the Index or any Successor Index (as defined below) is calculated and published.

 

Index Publisher ” shall mean FTSE Russell.

 

Maturity Valuation Period ” means each of May 19, 2021, May 20, 2021, May 21, 2021, May 24, 2021 and May 25, 2021, subject to the provisions set forth below under “Market Disruption Events.”

 

Calculation Day ” means any Market Measure Business Day during the Maturity Valuation Period on which a Market Disruption Event (as defined below) has not occurred.

 

Business Day ” shall mean a day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to close in New York, New York.

 

Joint Calculation Agency Agreement ” shall mean the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement dated as of October 5, 2018 among the Company, Wells Fargo & Company, as guarantor (the “ Guarantor ”), and the Calculation Agents, as amended from time to time.

 

Calculation Agents ” shall mean the Persons that have entered into the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement with the Company and the Guarantor providing for, among other things, the determination of the Ending Value and the Redemption Amount, which term shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include their successors under such Joint Calculation Agency Agreement. The initial Calculation Agents shall be Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and BofA Securities, Inc. Pursuant to the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement, the Company may appoint a different Calculation Agent from time to time after the initial issuance of this Security without the consent of the Holder of this Security and without notifying the Holder of this Security.

 

Adjustments to the Index

 

If, after the Pricing Date, the Index Publisher makes a material change in the method of calculating the Index or in another way that changes the Index such that it does not, in the opinion of the Calculation Agents, fairly represent the level of the Index had those changes or modifications not been made, the Calculation Agents will, at the close of business in New York, New York, on each date that the Closing Level is to be calculated, make adjustments to the Index. Those adjustments will be made in good faith as necessary to arrive at a calculation of a level of the Index as if those changes or modifications had not been made, and the Calculation Agents shall calculate the Closing Level of the Index, as so adjusted.

 

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Discontinuance of the Index

 

If, after the Pricing Date, the Index Publisher discontinues publication of the Index, and the Index Publisher or another entity then publishes a substitute index that the Calculation Agents determine, in their sole discretion, to be comparable to the original Index (a “ Successor Index ”), the Calculation Agents will substitute the Successor Index as calculated by the relevant Index Publisher or any other entity and calculate the Ending Value as described in the definition of “Ending Value” above. If the Calculation Agents select a Successor Index, the Calculation Agents will give written notice of the selection to the Trustee, to the Company, and to the Holder hereof.

 

If the Index Publisher discontinues publication of the Index before the end of the Maturity Valuation Period and the Calculation Agents do not select a Successor Index, then on each day that would have been a Calculation Day, until the earlier to occur of:

 

the determination of the Ending Value; and

 

a determination by the Calculation Agents that a Successor Index is available,

 

the Calculation Agents will compute a substitute level for the Index in accordance with the procedures last used to calculate the Index before any discontinuance as if that day were a Calculation Day. The Calculation Agents will make available to the Holder hereof information regarding those levels by means of Bloomberg L.P., Thomson Reuters, a website, or any other means selected by the Calculation Agents in their reasonable discretion.

 

If a Successor Index is selected or the Calculation Agents calculate a level as a substitute for the Index, the Successor Index or level will be used as a substitute for all purposes, including for the purpose of determining whether a Market Disruption Event exists.

 

Market Disruption Events

 

Market Disruption Event ” means one or more of the following events, as determined by the Calculation Agents in their sole discretion:

 

(A) the suspension of or material limitation on trading, in each case, for more than two consecutive hours of trading, or during the one-half hour period preceding the close of trading, on the primary exchange where the securities included in the Index trade (without taking into account any extended or after-hours trading session), in 20% or more of the securities which then compose the Index or any Successor Index; and

 

(B) the suspension of or material limitation on trading, in each case, for more than two consecutive hours of trading, or during the one-half hour period preceding the close of trading, on the primary exchange that trades options contracts or futures contracts related to the Index (without taking into account any extended or after-hours trading session), whether by reason of movements in price otherwise exceeding levels permitted by the relevant exchange or otherwise, in options contracts or futures contracts related to the Index, or any Successor Index.

 

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For the purpose of determining whether a Market Disruption Event has occurred:

 

1) a limitation on the hours in a trading day and/or number of days of trading will not constitute a Market Disruption Event if it results from an announced change in the regular business hours of the relevant exchange;

 

2) a decision to permanently discontinue trading in the relevant futures or options contracts related to the Index, or any Successor Index, will not constitute a Market Disruption Event;

 

3) a suspension in trading in a futures or options contract on the Index, or any Successor Index, by a major securities market by reason of (a) a price change violating limits set by that securities market, (b) an imbalance of orders relating to those contracts, or (c) a disparity in bid and ask quotes relating to those contracts will constitute a suspension of or material limitation on trading in futures or options contracts related to the Index;

 

4) a suspension of or material limitation on trading on the relevant exchange will not include any time when that exchange is closed for trading under ordinary circumstances; and

 

5) if the Index has component securities listed on the NYSE, for the purpose of clause (A) above, any limitations on trading during significant market fluctuations under NYSE Rule 80B, or any applicable rule or regulation enacted or promulgated by the NYSE or any other self-regulatory organization or the Securities and Exchange Commission of similar scope as determined by the Calculation Agents, will be considered “material.”

 

If (i) a Market Disruption Event occurs on a scheduled Calculation Day during the Maturity Valuation Period or (ii) any scheduled Calculation Day is determined by the Calculation Agents not to be a Market Measure Business Day by reason of an extraordinary event, occurrence, declaration, or otherwise (any such day in either (i) or (ii) being a “ Non-Calculation Day ”), the Closing Level of the Index for the applicable Non-Calculation Day will be the Closing Level of the Index on the next Calculation Day that occurs during the Maturity Valuation Period. For example, if the first and second scheduled Calculation Days during the Maturity Valuation Period are Non-Calculation Days, then the Closing Level of the Index on the next Calculation Day will also be the Closing Level for the Index on the first and second scheduled Calculation Days during the Maturity Valuation Period. If no further Calculation Days occur after a Non-Calculation Day, or if every scheduled Calculation Day during the Maturity Valuation Period is a Non-Calculation Day, then the Closing Level of the Index for that Non-Calculation Day and each following Non-Calculation Day (or for all the scheduled Calculation Days during the Maturity Valuation Period, if applicable) will be determined (or, if not determinable, estimated) by the Calculation Agents in a commercially reasonable manner on the last scheduled Calculation Day during the Maturity Valuation Period, regardless of the occurrence of a Market Disruption Event on that last scheduled Calculation Day.

 

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Calculation Agent

 

The Calculation Agents have the sole discretion to make all determinations regarding this Security as described in this Security, including determinations regarding the Starting Value, the Threshold Value, the Ending Value, the Index, the Redemption Amount, any Market Disruption Events, a Successor Index, Market Measure Business Days, Business Days, Calculation Days, Non-Calculation Days, and determinations related to the discontinuance of the Index. Absent manifest error, all determinations of the Calculation Agents will be conclusive for all purposes and final and binding on the Holder hereof and the Company, without any liability on the part of the Calculation Agents.

 

The Company covenants that, so long as this Security is Outstanding, there shall at all times be a Calculation Agent (which shall be a broker-dealer, bank or other financial institution) with respect to this Security.

 

Tax Considerations

 

The Company agrees, and by acceptance of a beneficial ownership interest in this Security each Holder of this Security will be deemed to have agreed (in the absence of a statutory, regulatory, administrative or judicial ruling to the contrary), for United States federal income tax purposes to characterize and treat this Security as a prepaid derivative contract that is an “open transaction.”

 

Redemption and Repayment

 

This Security is not subject to redemption at the option of the Company or repayment at the option of the Holder hereof prior to May 28, 2021. This Security is not entitled to any sinking fund.

 

Acceleration

 

If an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, with respect to this Security shall occur and be continuing, the Redemption Amount (calculated as set forth in the next sentence) of this Security may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The amount payable to the Holder hereof upon any acceleration permitted under the Indenture will be equal to the Redemption Amount described under “Determination of Redemption Amount,” determined as if the date of acceleration were the sole Calculation Day.

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

         
DATED:      
       
    WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC
       
    By:  
       
      Its:
       
    Attest:   
       
      Its:
       
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION      
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.      
       
CITIBANK, N.A.,      
as Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      
       
OR      
       
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,      
as Authenticating Agent for the Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      

 

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[Reverse of Note]

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Capped Leveraged Index Return Notes ® Linked to the Russell 2000 ® Index

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “ Securities ”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an indenture dated as of April 25, 2018, as amended or supplemented from time to time (herein called the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, as issuer, the Guarantor and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (herein called the “ Trustee ,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series of the Securities designated as Medium-Term Notes, Series A, of the Company. The amount payable on the Securities of this series may be determined by reference to the performance of one or more equity-, commodity- or currency-based indices, exchange traded funds, securities, commodities, currencies, statistical measures of economic or financial performance, or a basket comprised of two or more of the foregoing, or any other market measure or may bear interest at a fixed rate or a floating rate. The Securities of this series may mature at different times, be redeemable at different times or not at all, be repayable at the option of the Holder at different times or not at all and be denominated in different currencies.

 

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons and will be either (a) book-entry securities represented by one or more Global Securities recorded in the book-entry system maintained by the Depositary or (b) certificated securities issued to and registered in the names of, the beneficial owners or their nominees.

 

The Company agrees, to the extent permitted by law, not to voluntarily claim the benefits of any laws concerning usurious rates of interest against a Holder of this Security.

 

Guarantee

 

The Securities of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor as and to the extent set forth in the Indenture.

 

Modification and Waivers

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantor and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal

 

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amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of all series to be affected, acting together as a class. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of all series at the time Outstanding affected by certain provisions of the Indenture, acting together as a class, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with those provisions of the Indenture. Certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences may be waived under the Indenture by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series. Solely for the purpose of determining whether any consent, waiver, notice or other action or Act to be taken or given by the Holders of Securities pursuant to the Indenture has been given or taken by the Holders of Outstanding Securities in the requisite aggregate principal amount, the principal amount of this Security will be deemed to be equal to the amount set forth on the face hereof as the “Principal Amount” hereof. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

Defeasance

 

Section 403 and Article Fifteen of the Indenture and the provisions of clause (ii) of Section 401(1)(B) of the Indenture, relating to defeasance at any time of (a) the entire indebtedness on this Security and (b) certain restrictive covenants, upon compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with certain conditions set forth therein, shall not apply to this Security. The remaining provisions of Section 401 of the Indenture shall apply to this Security.

 

Authorized Denominations

 

This Security is issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $10 or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of $10.

 

Registration of Transfer

 

Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Security at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a new Security or Securities of this series, with the same terms as this Security, in authorized denominations for an equal aggregate Principal Amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor, as provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations provided therein and to the limitations described below, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

 

This Security is exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form only if (x) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for this Security or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, (y) the Company in its sole discretion determines that this Security shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form and notifies the Trustee thereof or (z) an Event of Default with respect to the Securities represented hereby has occurred and is continuing. If this Security is exchangeable

 

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pursuant to the preceding sentence, it shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form, having the same date of issuance, Stated Maturity Date and other terms and of authorized denominations aggregating a like amount.

 

This Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor of the Depositary or a nominee of such successor. Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this Global Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in definitive form and will not be considered the Holders hereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

 

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

 

Obligation of the Company Absolute

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the Redemption Amount at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed, except as otherwise provided in this Security.

 

No Personal Recourse

 

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the Redemption Amount, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any successor corporation or of the Guarantor or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released.

 

Defined Terms

 

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

 

Governing Law

 

This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.

 

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ABBREVIATIONS

 

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

 

TEN COM -- as tenants in common

 

TEN ENT -- as tenants by the entireties

 

JT TEN -- as joint tenants with right
   

of survivorship and not

as tenants in common

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT --    Custodian  
  (Cust)    (Minor)

 

Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act  
   
(State)  

 

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

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s) and transfer(s) unto

 

Please Insert Social Security or

Other Identifying Number of Assignee

 

   
 
 
 
 
 

 

(Please print or type name and address including postal zip code of Assignee)

 

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the within Security of WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint __________________ attorney to transfer the said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated: _________________________

 

   
   
   

 

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

 

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WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 8-K

Exhibit 4.3

 

[Face of Note]

 

Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“ DTC ”), to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or 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.

 

CUSIP NO. 95002W206 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: $_________
ISIN NO. US95002W2061  
REGISTERED NO. ___  

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Notes Linked to a Basket of

Three Semi-Conductor Sector Stocks

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the “ Company ,” which term includes any successor corporation under and as defined in the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & Co., or registered assigns, an amount equal to the Redemption Amount (as defined below), 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, on May 28, 2021 (the “ Stated Maturity Date ”). This Security shall not bear any interest.

 

Any payments on this Security at Maturity will be made against presentation of this Security at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.

 

Principal Amount ” shall mean, when used with respect to this Security, the amount set forth on the face of this Security as its “Principal Amount.”

 

 

 

 

Determination of Redemption Amount

 

The “ Redemption Amount ” of this Security will equal:

 

if the Ending Value is greater than the Starting Value: the lesser of: (i) Principal Amount plus :

 

 

 

(ii) the Capped Value;

 

if the Ending Value is equal to or less than the Starting Value, but greater than or equal to the Threshold Value: the Principal Amount; or

 

if the Ending Value is less than the Threshold Value: the Principal Amount minus :

 

 

 

All calculations with respect to the Redemption Amount will be rounded to the nearest one hundred-thousandth, with five one-millionths rounded upward (e.g., 0.000005 would be rounded to 0.00001); and the Redemption Amount will be rounded to the nearest cent, with one-half cent rounded upward.

 

Market Measure ” or “ Basket ” shall mean a basket comprised of the following Basket Stocks, with each Basket Stock having the “ Initial Component Weight ” noted parenthetically: Micron Technology, Inc. (33.33), ON Semiconductor Corporation (33.33) and Intel Corporation (33.34).

 

Basket Stock ” or “ Underlying Stock ” shall mean the common stock of each of Micron Technology, Inc., ON Semiconductor Corporation and Intel Corporation.

 

Underlying Company ” shall mean each of Micron Technology, Inc., ON Semiconductor Corporation and Intel Corporation.

 

The “ Pricing Date ” shall mean May 30, 2019.

 

The “ Starting Value ” is 100.00.

 

The “ Threshold Value ” is 90.00, which is equal to 90% of the Starting Value.

 

The “ Participation Rate ” is 200%.

 

The “ Capped Value ” is 132.20% of the Principal Amount.

 

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The “ Ending Value ” of the Basket means the sum of the products of the Closing Market Price of each Basket Stock on the Calculation Day multiplied by its Price Multiplier on that day, and the Component Ratio for each Basket Stock, subject to the provisions set forth below under “Market Disruption Events and “Anti-Dilution Adjustments.”

 

The “ Calculation Day ” is May 21, 2021, subject to the provisions set forth below under “Market Disruption Events.”

 

The “ Component Ratio ” for each Basket Stock is equal to:

 

[ the Initial Component Weight for such Basket Stock (expressed as a percentage) x 100]

the Closing Market Price of such Basket Stock on the Pricing Date,

 

in each case rounded to eight decimal places and subject to the provisions set forth below under “Adjustments to the Component Ratio for a Basket Component.” The Component Ratios of the Basket Stocks are as follows: Micron Technology, Inc. (1.00030012), ON Semiconductor Corporation (1.84041966) and Intel Corporation (0.74536106). The Closing Market Prices of the Basket Stocks on the Pricing Date are as follows: Micron Technology, Inc. (33.32), ON Semiconductor Corporation (18.11) and Intel Corporation (44.73).

 

The “ Price Multiplier ” for an Underlying Stock is 1, and is subject to adjustment for certain corporate events relating to such Underlying Stock described below under “Anti-Dilution Adjustments.”

 

Business Day ” shall mean a day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to close in New York, New York.

 

Joint Calculation Agency Agreement ” shall mean the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement dated as of October 5, 2018 among the Company, Wells Fargo & Company, as guarantor (the “ Guarantor ”), and the Calculation Agents, as amended from time to time.

 

Calculation Agents ” shall mean the Persons that have entered into the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement with the Company and the Guarantor providing for, among other things, the determination of the Ending Value, the Price Multiplier, the Closing Market Price, the Redemption Amount any Market Disruption Events, any anti-dilution adjustments, any successor Underlying Stock, Business Days, Trading Days and Non-Calculation Days, which term shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include their successors under such Joint Calculation Agency Agreement. The initial Calculation Agents shall be Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and BofA Securities, Inc. Pursuant to the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement, the Company may appoint a different Calculation Agent from time to time after the initial issuance of this Security without the consent of the Holder of this Security and without notifying the Holder of this Security.

 

A “ Trading Day ” means a day on which trading is generally conducted (or was scheduled to have been generally conducted, but for the occurrence of a Market Disruption Event) on the New York Stock Exchange (the “ NYSE ”), the Nasdaq Stock Market, the Chicago Board Options

 

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Exchange, and in the over-the-counter market for equity securities in the United States, or any successor exchange or market, or in the case of a security traded on one or more non-U.S. securities exchanges or markets, on the principal non-U.S. securities exchange or market for such security.

 

The “ Closing Market Price ” for one share of any Underlying Stock (or one unit of any other security for which a Closing Market Price must be determined) on any Trading Day means any of the following:

 

●          if the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is listed or admitted to trading on a national securities exchange, the last reported sale price, regular way (or, in the case of The Nasdaq Stock Market, the official closing price), of the principal trading session on that day on the principal U.S. securities exchange registered under the Exchange Act on which the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is listed or admitted to trading;

 

●          if the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange but is included in the OTC Bulletin Board, the last reported sale price of the principal trading session on the OTC Bulletin Board on that day;

 

●          if the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is issued by a foreign issuer and its closing price cannot be determined as set forth in the two bullet points above, and the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is listed or admitted to trading on a non-U.S. securities exchange or market, the last reported sale price, regular way, of the principal trading session on that day on the primary non-U.S. securities exchange or market on which the Underlying Stock (or such other security) is listed or admitted to trading (converted to U.S. dollars using such exchange rate as the Calculation Agents, in their sole discretion, determine to be commercially reasonable); or

 

●          if the Closing Market Price cannot be determined as set forth in the prior bullets, the mean, as determined by the Calculation Agents, of the bid prices for the Underlying Stock (or such other security) obtained from as many dealers in that security, but not exceeding three, as will make the bid prices available to the Calculation Agents. If no such bid price can be obtained, the Closing Market Price will be determined (or, if not determinable, estimated) by the Calculation Agents in their sole discretion in a commercially reasonable manner.

 

Adjustments to the Component Ratio for a Basket Stock

 

The Component Ratios for the Basket Stocks will not be revised subsequent to their determination on the Pricing Date, except that the Calculation Agents may in their good faith judgment adjust the Component Ratio of any Basket Stock in the event that Basket Stock is materially changed or modified in a manner that does not, in the opinion of the Calculation Agents, fairly represent the value of that Basket Stock had those material changes or modifications not been made.

 

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Market Disruption Events

 

As to any Underlying Stock (or any “ successor Underlying Stock ,” which is the common equity securities or the ADRs (as defined below) of a Successor Entity (as defined below)), a “ Market Disruption Event ” means any of the following events, as determined by the Calculation Agents in their sole discretion:

 

(A) the suspension of or material limitation on trading, in each case, for more than two consecutive hours of trading, or during the one-half hour period preceding the close of trading, of the shares of the Underlying Stock (or the successor to the Underlying Stock) on the primary exchange where such shares trade, as determined by the Calculation Agents (without taking into account any extended or after-hours trading session);

 

(B) the suspension of or material limitation on trading, in each case, for more than two consecutive hours of trading, or during the one-half hour period preceding the close of trading, on the primary exchange that trades options contracts or futures contracts related to the shares of the Underlying Stock (or successor to the Underlying Stock) as determined by the Calculation Agents (without taking into account any extended or after-hours trading session), in options contracts or futures contracts related to the shares of the Underlying Stock (or successor to the Underlying Stock); or

 

(C) the determination that the scheduled Calculation Day is not a Trading Day by reason of an extraordinary event, occurrence, declaration, or otherwise.

 

For the purpose of determining whether a Market Disruption Event has occurred:

 

(1) a limitation on the hours in a Trading Day and/or number of days of trading will not constitute a Market Disruption Event if it results from an announced change in the regular business hours of the relevant exchange;

 

(2) a decision to permanently discontinue trading in the shares of the Underlying Stock (or successor Underlying Stock) or the relevant futures or options contracts relating to such shares will not constitute a Market Disruption Event;

 

(3) a suspension in trading in a futures or options contract on the shares of the Underlying Stock (or successor Underlying Stock), by a major securities market by reason of (a) a price change violating limits set by that securities market, (b) an imbalance of orders relating to those contracts, or (c) a disparity in bid and ask quotes relating to those contracts, will each constitute a suspension of or material limitation on trading in futures or options contracts relating to the Underlying Stock;

 

(4) subject to paragraph (3) above, a suspension of or material limitation on trading on the relevant exchange will not include any time when that exchange is closed for trading under ordinary circumstances; and

 

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(5) for the purpose of clause (A) above, any limitations on trading during significant market fluctuations under NYSE Rule 80B, or any applicable rule or regulation enacted or promulgated by the NYSE or any other self-regulatory organization or the Securities and Exchange Commission of similar scope as determined by the Calculation Agents, will be considered “material.”

 

If for any Basket Stock (an “ Affected Basket Stock ”), a Market Disruption Event occurs on the scheduled Calculation Day (such day being a “ Non-Calculation Day ”), the Calculation Agents will determine the prices of the Basket Stocks for such Non-Calculation Day, and as a result, the Ending Value, as follows:

 

the Closing Market Price of each Basket Stock that is not an Affected Basket Stock will be its Closing Market Price on that Non-Calculation Day; and

 

the Closing Market Price of each Basket Stock that is an Affected Basket Stock for the Non-Calculation Day will be determined on the immediately succeeding Trading Day on which no Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing; provided that the Closing Market Price of that Basket Stock will be determined (or, if not determinable, estimated) by the Calculation Agents in a commercially reasonable manner on a date no later than the second scheduled Trading Day prior to the Stated Maturity Date, regardless of the occurrence of a Market Disruption Event on that day.

 

Anti-Dilution Adjustments

 

As to any Underlying Stock (or successor Underlying Stock), the Calculation Agents, in their sole discretion, may adjust the Price Multiplier (and as a result, the Ending Value), and any other terms of this Security, if an event described below occurs after the Pricing Date and on or before the Calculation Day and if the Calculation Agents determine that such an event has a diluting or concentrative effect on the theoretical value of the shares of the Underlying Stock (or successor Underlying Stock).

 

The Price Multiplier resulting from any of the adjustments specified below will be rounded to the eighth decimal place with five one-billionths being rounded upward. No adjustments to the Price Multiplier will be required unless the adjustment would require a change of at least 0.1% in the Price Multiplier then in effect. Any adjustment that would require a change of less than 0.1% in the Price Multiplier which is not applied at the time of the event may be reflected at the time of any subsequent adjustment that would require a change of the Price Multiplier.

 

No adjustments to the Price Multiplier for any Underlying Stock or any other terms of this Security will be required other than those specified below. However, the Calculation Agents may, at their sole discretion, make additional adjustments or adjustments that differ from those described herein to the Price Multiplier or any other terms of this Security to reflect changes to any Underlying Stock if the Calculation Agents determine that the adjustment is appropriate to ensure an equitable result.

 

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The Calculation Agents will be solely responsible for the determination of any adjustments to the Price Multiplier for any Underlying Stock or any other terms of this Security and of any related determinations with respect to any distributions of stock, other securities or other property or assets, including cash, in connection with any corporate event described below; their determinations and calculations will be conclusive absent a determination of a manifest error.

 

No adjustments are required to be made for certain other events, such as offerings of common equity securities by any Underlying Company for cash or in connection with the occurrence of a partial tender or exchange offer for any Underlying Stock by the Underlying Company.

 

Following certain corporate events relating to an Underlying Stock, where the Underlying Company is not the surviving entity, any payment received on this Security may be based on the equity securities of a successor to the Underlying Company or any cash or any other assets distributed to holders of the Underlying Stock in such corporate event.

 

Following an event that results in an adjustment to the Price Multiplier for any Underlying Stock or any of the other terms of this Security, the Calculation Agents may (but are not required to) provide the Holder of this Security with information about that adjustment as they deem appropriate, depending on the nature of the adjustment. Upon written request by the Holder of this Security, the Calculation Agents will provide the Holder of this Security with information about such adjustment.

 

Anti-Dilution Adjustments to Underlying Stocks that Are Common Equity

 

The Calculation Agents, in their sole discretion and as they deem reasonable, may adjust the Price Multiplier for an Underlying Stock and other terms of this Security, and hence the Ending Value, as a result of certain events related to an Underlying Stock, which include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

Stock Splits and Reverse Stock Splits. If an Underlying Stock is subject to a stock split or reverse stock split, then once such split has become effective, the Price Multiplier will be adjusted such that the new Price Multiplier will equal the product of:

 

the prior Price Multiplier; and

 

the number of shares that a holder of one share of the Underlying Stock before the effective date of the stock split or reverse stock split would have owned immediately following the applicable effective date.

 

Stock Dividends. If an Underlying Stock is subject to (i) a stock dividend (i.e., an issuance of additional shares of Underlying Stock) that is given ratably to all holders of the Underlying Stock or (ii) a distribution of additional shares of the Underlying Stock as a result of the triggering of any provision of the organizational documents of the Underlying Company, then, once the dividend has become effective and the Underlying Stock is trading ex-dividend, the Price Multiplier will be adjusted on the ex-dividend date such that the new Price Multiplier will equal the prior Price Multiplier plus the product of:

 

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the prior Price Multiplier; and

 

the number of additional shares issued in the stock dividend with respect to one share of the Underlying Stock;

 

provided that no adjustment will be made for a stock dividend for which the number of shares of the Underlying Stock paid or distributed is based on a fixed cash equivalent value, unless such distribution is an Extraordinary Dividend (as defined below).

 

Extraordinary Dividends. There will be no adjustments to the Price Multiplier to reflect any cash dividends or cash distributions paid with respect to an Underlying Stock other than Extraordinary Dividends, as described below, and distributions described under the section entitled “—Reorganization Events” below.

 

An “ Extraordinary Dividend ” means, with respect to a cash dividend or other distribution with respect to an Underlying Stock, a dividend or other distribution that the Calculation Agents determine, in their sole discretion, is not declared or otherwise made according to the Underlying Company’s then existing policy or practice of paying such dividends on a quarterly or other regular basis. If an Extraordinary Dividend occurs, the Price Multiplier will be adjusted on the ex-dividend date so that the new Price Multiplier will equal the product of:

 

the prior Price Multiplier; and

 

a fraction, the numerator of which is the Closing Market Price per share of the Underlying Stock on the Trading Day preceding the ex-dividend date and the denominator of which is the amount by which the Closing Market Price per share of the Underlying Stock on that preceding Trading Day exceeds the Extraordinary Dividend Amount.

 

The “ Extraordinary Dividend Amount ” with respect to an Extraordinary Dividend will equal:

 

in the case of cash dividends or other distributions that constitute regular dividends, the amount per share of the Underlying Stock of that Extraordinary Dividend minus the amount per share of the immediately preceding non-Extraordinary Dividend for that share; or

 

in the case of cash dividends or other distributions that do not constitute regular dividends, the amount per share of the Underlying Stock of that Extraordinary Dividend.

 

To the extent an Extraordinary Dividend is not paid in cash, the value of the non-cash component will be determined by the Calculation Agents, whose determination will be conclusive. A distribution on the Underlying Stock described in the section “—Issuance of Transferable Rights or Warrants” or clause (a), (d) or (e) of the section entitled “—Reorganization Events” below that also constitutes an Extraordinary Dividend will only cause an adjustment under those respective sections.

 

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Issuance of Transferable Rights or Warrants. If an Underlying Company issues transferable rights or warrants to all holders of record of the Underlying Stock to subscribe for or purchase the Underlying Stock, including new or existing rights to purchase the Underlying Stock under a shareholder rights plan or arrangement, then the Price Multiplier will be adjusted on the Trading Day immediately following the issuance of those transferable rights or warrants so that the new Price Multiplier will equal the prior Price Multiplier plus the product of:

 

the prior Price Multiplier; and

 

the number of shares of the Underlying Stock that can be purchased with the cash value of those warrants or rights distributed on one share of the Underlying Stock.

 

The number of shares that can be purchased will be based on the Closing Market Price of the Underlying Stock on the date the new Price Multiplier is determined. The cash value of those warrants or rights, if the warrants or rights are traded on a registered national securities exchange, will equal the closing price of that warrant or right. If the warrants or rights are not traded on a registered national securities exchange, the cash value will be determined by the Calculation Agents and will equal the average of the bid prices obtained from three dealers at 3:00 p.m., New York time on the date the new Price Multiplier is determined, provided that if only two of those bid prices are available, then the cash value of those warrants or rights will equal the average of those bids and if only one of those bids is available, then the cash value of those warrants or rights will equal that bid.

 

Reorganization Events

 

If after the Pricing Date and on or prior to the Calculation Day of this Security, as to any Underlying Stock:

 

  (a)

there occurs any reclassification or change of the Underlying Stock, including, without limitation, as a result of the issuance of tracking stock by the Underlying Company;

 

  (b)

the Underlying Company, or any surviving entity or subsequent surviving entity of the Underlying Company (a “ Successor Entity ”), has been subject to a merger, combination, or consolidation and is not the surviving entity;

 

  (c)

any statutory exchange of securities of the Underlying Company or any Successor Entity with another corporation occurs, other than under clause (b) above;

 

  (d)

the Underlying Company is liquidated or is subject to a proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, or other similar law;

 

 

(e)

 

the Underlying Company issues to all of its shareholders securities of an issuer other than the Underlying Company, including equity securities of an affiliate of the Underlying Company, other than in a transaction described in clauses (b), (c), or (d) above;

 

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(f)

 

a tender or exchange offer or going-private transaction is consummated for all the outstanding shares of the Underlying Company;

 

 

(g)

 

there occurs any reclassification or change of the Underlying Stock that results in a transfer or an irrevocable commitment to transfer all such outstanding shares of the Underlying Stock to another entity or person;

 

 

(h)

 

the Underlying Company or any Successor Entity is the surviving entity of a merger, combination, or consolidation, that results in the outstanding Underlying Stock (other than Underlying Stock owned or controlled by the other party to such transaction) immediately prior to such event collectively representing less than 50% of the outstanding Underlying Stock immediately following such event; or

 

 

(i)

 

the Underlying Company ceases to file the financial and other information with the SEC in accordance with Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act (an event in clauses (a) through (i), a “ Reorganization Event ”), 

 

then, on or after the date of the occurrence of a Reorganization Event, the Calculation Agents shall, in their sole discretion, make an adjustment to the Price Multiplier or to the method of determining the Redemption Amount or any other terms of this Security as the Calculation Agents, in their sole discretion, determine appropriate to account for the economic effect on this Security of that Reorganization Event (including adjustments to account for changes in volatility, expected dividends, stock loan rate, or liquidity relevant to the Underlying Stock or to this Security), which may, but need not, be determined by reference to the adjustment(s) made in respect of such Reorganization Event by an options exchange to options on the relevant Underlying Stock traded on that options exchange and determine the effective date of that adjustment. If the Calculation Agents determine that no adjustment that they could make will produce a commercially reasonable result, then the Calculation Agents may cause the Stated Maturity Date of this Security to be accelerated to the fifth Business Day following the date of that determination and the Redemption Amount payable to the Holder of this Security will be calculated as though the date of early repayment were the Stated Maturity Date of this Security and as though the Calculation Day were the fifth Trading Day prior to the date of acceleration.

 

If the Underlying Company ceases to file the financial and other information with the Securities and Exchange Commission in accordance with Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act, as contemplated by clause (i) above, and the Calculation Agents determine in their sole discretion that sufficiently similar information is not otherwise available to the Holder of this Security, then the Calculation Agents may cause the Stated Maturity Date of this Security to be accelerated to the fifth Business Day following the date of that determination and the Redemption Amount payable to the Holder of this Security will be calculated as though the date of early repayment were the Stated Maturity Date of this Security, and as though the Calculation Day were the fifth Trading Day prior to the date of acceleration. If the Calculation Agents determine that sufficiently similar information is available to the Holder of this Security, the Reorganization Event will be deemed to have not occurred.

 

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Alternative Anti-Dilution and Reorganization Adjustments

 

The Calculation Agents may elect at their discretion to not make any of the adjustments to the Price Multiplier for any Underlying Stock or to the other terms of this Security, including the method of determining the Redemption Amount, but may instead make adjustments, in their discretion, to the Price Multiplier for the Underlying Stock or any other terms of this Security (such as the Starting Value) that will reflect the adjustments to the extent practicable made by the Options Clearing Corporation on options contracts on the Underlying Stock or any successor common stock.

 

Anti-Dilution Adjustments to Underlying Stocks that Are ADRs

 

For purposes of the anti-dilution adjustments set forth above, if an Underlying Stock is an ADR (an “ Underlying ADR ”), the Calculation Agents will consider the effect of any of the relevant events on the Underlying ADR, and adjustments will be made as if the Underlying ADR was the Underlying Stock described above. For example, if the stock represented by the Underlying ADR is subject to a two-for-one stock split, and assuming an initial Price Multiplier of 1, the Price Multiplier for the Underlying ADR would be adjusted so that it equals two. With respect this Security linked to an Underlying ADR (or an Underlying Stock issued by a non-U.S. Underlying Company), the term “dividend” means the dividends paid to holders of the Underlying ADR (or the Underlying Stock issued by the non-U.S. Underlying Company), and such dividends may reflect the netting of any applicable foreign withholding or similar taxes that may be due on dividends paid to a U.S. person.

 

The Calculation Agents may determine not to make an adjustment if:

 

(A)          holders of the Underlying ADR are not eligible to participate in any of the events that would otherwise require anti-dilution adjustments as set forth above if this Security had been linked directly to the common shares of the Underlying Company represented by the Underlying ADR; or

 

(B)          to the extent that the Calculation Agents determine that the Underlying Company or the depositary for the ADRs has adjusted the number of common shares of the Underlying Company represented by each share of the Underlying ADR, so that the market price of the Underlying ADR would not be affected by the corporate event.

 

If the Underlying Company or the depositary for the ADRs, in the absence of any of the events described above, elects to adjust the number of common shares of the Underlying Company represented by each share of the Underlying ADR, then the Calculation Agents may make the appropriate anti-dilution adjustments to reflect such change. The depositary for the ADRs may also make adjustments in respect of the ADRs for share distributions, rights distributions, cash distributions and distributions other than shares, rights, and cash. Upon any such adjustment by the depositary, the Calculation Agents may adjust the Price Multiplier or other terms of this Security as the Calculation Agents determine commercially reasonable to account for that event.

 

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Delisting of ADRs or Termination of ADR Facility

 

If the Underlying Stock is an Underlying ADR and such Underlying ADR is no longer listed or admitted to trading on a U.S. securities exchange registered under the Exchange Act or included in the OTC Bulletin Board Service operated by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., or if the ADR facility between the Underlying Company and the ADR depositary is terminated for any reason, then, on and after the date that the Underlying ADR is no longer so listed or admitted to trading or the date of such termination, as applicable (the “ termination date ”), the Underlying Stock will be deemed to be the Underlying Company’s common equity securities rather than the Underlying ADR. The Calculation Agents will determine the price of the Underlying Stock by reference to those common shares. Under such circumstances, the Calculation Agents may modify any terms of this Security as they deem necessary, in their sole discretion, to ensure an equitable result. On and after the termination date, for all purposes, the Closing Market Price of the Underlying Company’s common shares on their primary exchange will be converted to U.S. dollars using such exchange rate as the Calculation Agents, in their sole discretion, determine to be commercially reasonable.

 

Calculation Agents

 

The Calculation Agents have the sole discretion to make all determinations regarding this Security as described in this Security, including determinations regarding the Starting Value, the Ending Value, the Price Multiplier, the Closing Market Price, the Redemption Amount, any Market Disruption Events, any anti-dilution adjustments, any successor Underlying Stock, Business Days, Trading Days and Non-Calculation Days. Absent manifest error, all determinations of the Calculation Agents will be conclusive for all purposes and final and binding on the Holder hereof and the Company, without any liability on the part of the Calculation Agents.

 

The Company covenants that, so long as this Security is Outstanding, there shall at all times be a Calculation Agent (which shall be a broker-dealer, bank or other financial institution) with respect to this Security.

 

Tax Considerations

 

The Company agrees, and by acceptance of a beneficial ownership interest in this Security each Holder of this Security will be deemed to have agreed (in the absence of a statutory, regulatory, administrative or judicial ruling to the contrary), for United States federal income tax purposes to characterize and treat this Security as a prepaid derivative contract that is an “open transaction.”

 

Redemption and Repayment

 

This Security is not subject to redemption at the option of the Company or repayment at the option of the Holder hereof prior to May 28, 2021. This Security is not entitled to any sinking fund.

 

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Acceleration

 

If an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, with respect to this Security shall occur and be continuing, the Redemption Amount (calculated as set forth in the next sentence) of this Security may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The amount payable to the Holder hereof upon any acceleration permitted under the Indenture will be equal to the Redemption Amount described under “Determination of Redemption Amount,” determined as if the date of acceleration were the Calculation Day. The payment of the Redemption Amount of this Security may also be accelerated as set forth above under “Anti-Dilution Adjustments—Reorganization Events.”

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

         
DATED:      
       
    WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC
       
    By:  
       
      Its:
       
    Attest:   
       
      Its:
       
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION      
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.      
       
CITIBANK, N.A.,      
as Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      
       
OR      
       
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,      
as Authenticating Agent for the Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      

 

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[Reverse of Note]

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A

 

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Notes Linked to a Basket of
Three Semi-Conductor Sector Stocks

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “ Securities ”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an indenture dated as of April 25, 2018, as amended or supplemented from time to time (herein called the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, as issuer, the Guarantor and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (herein called the “ Trustee ,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series of the Securities designated as Medium-Term Notes, Series A, of the Company. The amount payable on the Securities of this series may be determined by reference to the performance of one or more equity-, commodity- or currency-based indices, exchange traded funds, securities, commodities, currencies, statistical measures of economic or financial performance, or a basket comprised of two or more of the foregoing, or any other market measure or may bear interest at a fixed rate or a floating rate. The Securities of this series may mature at different times, be redeemable at different times or not at all, be repayable at the option of the Holder at different times or not at all and be denominated in different currencies.

 

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons and will be either (a) book-entry securities represented by one or more Global Securities recorded in the book-entry system maintained by the Depositary or (b) certificated securities issued to and registered in the names of, the beneficial owners or their nominees.

 

The Company agrees, to the extent permitted by law, not to voluntarily claim the benefits of any laws concerning usurious rates of interest against a Holder of this Security.

 

Guarantee

 

The Securities of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor as and to the extent set forth in the Indenture.

 

Modification and Waivers

 

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

 

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of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of all series to be affected, acting together as a class. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of all series at the time Outstanding affected by certain provisions of the Indenture, acting together as a class, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with those provisions of the Indenture. Certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences may be waived under the Indenture by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series. Solely for the purpose of determining whether any consent, waiver, notice or other action or Act to be taken or given by the Holders of Securities pursuant to the Indenture has been given or taken by the Holders of Outstanding Securities in the requisite aggregate principal amount, the principal amount of this Security will be deemed to be equal to the amount set forth on the face hereof as the “Principal Amount” hereof. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

Defeasance

 

Section 403 and Article Fifteen of the Indenture and the provisions of clause (ii) of Section 401(1)(B) of the Indenture, relating to defeasance at any time of (a) the entire indebtedness on this Security and (b) certain restrictive covenants, upon compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with certain conditions set forth therein, shall not apply to this Security. The remaining provisions of Section 401 of the Indenture shall apply to this Security.

 

Authorized Denominations

 

This Security is issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $10 or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of $10.

 

Registration of Transfer

 

Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Security at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a new Security or Securities of this series, with the same terms as this Security, in authorized denominations for an equal aggregate Principal Amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor, as provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations provided therein and to the limitations described below, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

 

This Security is exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form only if (x) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for this Security or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, (y) the Company in its sole discretion determines that this Security shall be exchangeable for definitive

 

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Securities in registered form and notifies the Trustee thereof or (z) an Event of Default with respect to the Securities represented hereby has occurred and is continuing. If this Security is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence, it shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form, having the same date of issuance, Stated Maturity Date and other terms and of authorized denominations aggregating a like amount.

 

This Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor of the Depositary or a nominee of such successor. Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this Global Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in definitive form and will not be considered the Holders hereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

 

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

 

Obligation of the Company Absolute

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the Redemption Amount at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed, except as otherwise provided in this Security.

 

No Personal Recourse

 

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the Redemption Amount, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any successor corporation or of the Guarantor or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released.

 

Defined Terms

 

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

 

Governing Law

 

This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.

 

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ABBREVIATIONS

 

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

 

TEN COM -- as tenants in common

 

TEN ENT -- as tenants by the entireties

 

JT TEN -- as joint tenants with right
   

of survivorship and not

as tenants in common

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT --    Custodian  
  (Cust)    (Minor)

 

Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act  
   
(State)  

 

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

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s) and transfer(s) unto

 

Please Insert Social Security or 

Other Identifying Number of Assignee

 

   
 
 
 
 
 

 

(Please print or type name and address including postal zip code of Assignee)

 

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the within Security of WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint __________________ attorney to transfer the said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated: _________________________

 

   
   
   

 

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

 

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WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 8-K

Exhibit 4.4

 

[Face of Note]

 

Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“ DTC ”), to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or 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.

 

CUSIP NO. 95001H5J6 FACE AMOUNT: $__________
REGISTERED NO. ___  

  

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Principal at Risk Securities Linked to the S&P 500 ® Index
due June 6, 2023

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the “ Company ,” which term includes any successor corporation under and as defined in the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & Co., or registered assigns, an amount equal to the Maturity Payment Amount (as defined below), 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, on the Stated Maturity Date. The “ Initial Stated Maturity Date ” shall be June 6, 2023. If the Calculation Day (as defined below) is not postponed, the Initial Stated Maturity Date will be the “ Stated Maturity Date .” If the Calculation Day is postponed, the “ Stated Maturity Date ” shall be the later of (i) the Initial Stated Maturity Date and (ii) three Business Days (as defined below) after the Calculation Day as postponed. This Security shall not bear any interest.

 

Any payments on this Security at Maturity will be made against presentation of this Security at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.

 

Face Amount ” shall mean, when used with respect to this Security, the amount set forth on the face of this Security as its “Face Amount.”

 

 

 

Determination of Maturity Payment Amount

 

The “ Maturity Payment Amount ” of this Security will equal:

   

if the Ending Level is greater than or equal to the Starting Level: the Face Amount plus the Contingent Fixed Return;

  

if the Ending Level is less than the Starting Level, but greater than or equal to the Threshold Level: the Face Amount; or

  

if the Ending Level is less than the Threshold Level: the Face Amount minus :

 

 

  

All calculations with respect to the Maturity Payment Amount will be rounded to the nearest one hundred-thousandth, with five one-millionths rounded upward (e.g., 0.000005 would be rounded to 0.00001); and the Maturity Payment Amount will be rounded to the nearest cent, with one-half cent rounded upward.

 

Index ” shall mean the S&P 500 ® Index.

  

The “ Pricing Date ” shall mean May 30, 2019.

  

The “ Starting Level ” is 2788.86, the Closing Level of the Index on the Pricing Date.

  

The “ Closing Level ” of the Index on any Trading Day means the official closing level of the Index reported by the Index Sponsor on such Trading Day, as obtained by the Calculation Agent on such Trading Day from the licensed third-party market data vendor contracted by the Calculation Agent at such time; in particular, taking into account the decimal precision and/or rounding convention employed by such licensed third-party market data vendor on such date, subject to the provisions set forth below under “Adjustments to the Index,” “Discontinuance of the Index” and “Market Disruption Events.”

  

The “ Ending Level ” will be the Closing Level of the Index on the Calculation Day.

  

The “ Threshold Level ” is 1952.202, which is equal to 70% of the Starting Level.

  

The “ Contingent Fixed Return ” is 29% of the Face Amount of this Security.

  

Index Sponsor ” shall mean S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC.

  

Business Day ” shall mean a day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to close in New York, New York.

 

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A “ Trading Day ” means a day, as determined by the Calculation Agent, on which (i) the Relevant Stock Exchanges with respect to each security underlying the Index are scheduled to be open for trading for their respective regular trading sessions and (ii) each Related Futures or Options Exchange is scheduled to be open for trading for its regular trading session.

  

The “ Related Futures or Options Exchange ” for the Index means an exchange or quotation system where trading has a material effect (as determined by the Calculation Agent) on the overall market for futures or options contracts relating to the Index.

 

The “ Relevant Stock Exchange ” for any security underlying the Index means the primary exchange or quotation system on which such security is traded, as determined by the Calculation Agent.

  

The “ Calculation Day ” shall be May 30, 2023. If such day is not a Trading Day, the Calculation Day will be postponed to the next succeeding Trading Day. The Calculation Day is also subject to postponement due to the occurrence of a Market Disruption Event (as defined below). If a Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing with respect to the Index on the Calculation Day, such Calculation Day will be postponed to the first succeeding Trading Day on which a Market Disruption Event has not occurred and is not continuing; however, if such first succeeding Trading Day has not occurred as of the eighth Trading Day after the originally scheduled Calculation Day, that eighth Trading Day shall be deemed to be the Calculation Day. If the Calculation Day has been postponed eight Trading Days after the originally scheduled Calculation Day and a Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing on such eighth Trading Day, the Calculation Agent will determine the Closing Level of the Index on such eighth Trading Day in accordance with the formula for and method of calculating the Closing Level of the Index last in effect prior to commencement of the Market Disruption Event, using the closing price (or, with respect to any relevant security, if a Market Disruption Event has occurred with respect to such security, its good faith estimate of the value of such security at the Scheduled Closing Time of the Relevant Stock Exchange for such security or, if earlier, the actual closing time of the regular trading session of such Relevant Stock Exchange) on such date of each security included in the Index. As used herein, “ closing price ” means, with respect to any security on any date, the Relevant Stock Exchange traded or quoted price of such security as of the Scheduled Closing Time of the Relevant Stock Exchange for such security or, if earlier, the actual closing time of the regular trading session of such Relevant Stock Exchange.

  

Calculation Agent Agreement ” shall mean the Calculation Agent Agreement dated as of May 18, 2018 between the Company and the Calculation Agent, as amended from time to time.

 

Calculation Agent ” shall mean the Person that has entered into the Calculation Agent Agreement with the Company providing for, among other things, the determination of the Ending Level and the Maturity Payment Amount, which term shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include its successors under such Calculation Agent Agreement. The initial Calculation Agent shall be Wells Fargo Securities, LLC. Pursuant to the Calculation Agent Agreement, the Company may appoint a different Calculation Agent from time to time after the initial issuance of this Security without the consent of the Holder of this Security and without notifying the Holder of this Security.

 

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Adjustments to the Index

  

If at any time the method of calculating the Index or a Successor Equity Index, or the closing level thereof, is changed in a material respect, or if the Index or a Successor Equity Index is in any other way modified so that such index does not, in the opinion of the Calculation Agent, fairly represent the level of such index had those changes or modifications not been made, then the Calculation Agent will, at the close of business in New York, New York, on each date that the closing level of such index is to be calculated, make such calculations and adjustments as, in the good faith judgment of the Calculation Agent, may be necessary in order to arrive at a level of an index comparable to the Index or Successor Equity Index as if those changes or modifications had not been made, and the Calculation Agent will calculate the closing level of the Index or Successor Equity Index with reference to such index, as so adjusted. Accordingly, if the method of calculating the Index or Successor Equity Index is modified so that the level of such index is a fraction or a multiple of what it would have been if it had not been modified ( e.g. , due to a split or reverse split in such equity index), then the Calculation Agent will adjust the Index or Successor Equity Index in order to arrive at a level of such index as if it had not been modified ( e.g. , as if the split or reverse split had not occurred).

  

Discontinuance of the Index

 

If the Index Sponsor discontinues publication of the Index, and the Index Sponsor or another entity publishes a successor or substitute equity index that the Calculation Agent determines, in its sole discretion, to be comparable to the Index (a “ Successor Equity Index ”), then, upon the Calculation Agent’s notification of that determination to the Trustee and the Company, the Calculation Agent will substitute the Successor Equity Index as calculated by the Index Sponsor or any other entity and calculate the Ending Level as described above. Upon any selection by the Calculation Agent of a Successor Equity Index, the Company will cause notice to be given to the Holder of this Security.

 

In the event that the Index Sponsor discontinues publication of the Index prior to, and the discontinuance is continuing on, the Calculation Day and the Calculation Agent determines that no Successor Equity Index is available at such time, the Calculation Agent will calculate a substitute Closing Level for the Index in accordance with the formula for and method of calculating the Index last in effect prior to the discontinuance, but using only those securities that comprised the Index immediately prior to that discontinuance. If a Successor Equity Index is selected or the Calculation Agent calculates a level as a substitute for the Index, the Successor Equity Index or level will be used as a substitute for the Index for all purposes, including the purpose of determining whether a Market Disruption Event exists.

 

If on the Calculation Day the Index Sponsor fails to calculate and announce the level of the Index, the Calculation Agent will calculate a substitute Closing Level of the Index in accordance with the formula for and method of calculating the Index last in effect prior to the failure, but using only those securities that comprised the Index immediately prior to that failure; provided that, if a Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing on such day, then the provisions set forth above under the definition of “Calculation Day” shall apply in lieu of the foregoing.

 

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Market Disruption Events

 

A “ Market Disruption Event ” means any of the following events as determined by the Calculation Agent in its sole discretion:

 

(A) The occurrence or existence of a material suspension of or limitation imposed on trading by the Relevant Stock Exchanges or otherwise relating to securities which then comprise 20% or more of the level of the Index or any Successor Equity Index at any time during the one-hour period that ends at the Close of Trading on that day, whether by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by those Relevant Stock Exchanges or otherwise.

 

(B) The occurrence or existence of a material suspension of or limitation imposed on trading by any Related Futures or Options Exchange or otherwise in futures or options contracts relating to the Index or any Successor Equity Index on any Related Futures or Options Exchange at any time during the one-hour period that ends at the Close of Trading on that day, whether by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the Related Futures or Options Exchange or otherwise.

 

(C) The occurrence or existence of any event, other than an early closure, that materially disrupts or impairs the ability of market participants in general to effect transactions in, or obtain market values for, securities that then comprise 20% or more of the level of the Index or any Successor Equity Index on their Relevant Stock Exchanges at any time during the one-hour period that ends at the Close of Trading on that day.

 

(D) The occurrence or existence of any event, other than an early closure, that materially disrupts or impairs the ability of market participants in general to effect transactions in, or obtain market values for, futures or options contracts relating to the Index or any Successor Equity Index on any Related Futures or Options Exchange at any time during the one-hour period that ends at the Close of Trading on that day.

 

(E) The closure on any Exchange Business Day of the Relevant Stock Exchanges on which securities that then comprise 20% or more of the level of the Index or any Successor Equity Index are traded or any Related Futures or Options Exchange prior to its Scheduled Closing Time unless the earlier closing time is announced by the Relevant Stock Exchange or Related Futures or Options Exchange, as applicable, at least one hour prior to the earlier of (1) the actual closing time for the regular trading session on such Relevant Stock Exchange or Related Futures or Options Exchange, as applicable, and (2) the submission deadline for orders to be entered into the Relevant Stock Exchange or Related Futures or Options Exchange, as applicable, system for execution at such actual closing time on that day.

 

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(F) The Relevant Stock Exchange for any security underlying the Index or Successor Equity Index or any Related Futures or Options Exchange fails to open for trading during its regular trading session.

 

For purposes of determining whether a Market Disruption Event has occurred:

 

(1) the relevant percentage contribution of a security to the level of the Index or any Successor Equity Index will be based on a comparison of (x) the portion of the level of such Index attributable to that security and (y) the overall level of the Index or Successor Equity Index, in each case immediately before the occurrence of the Market Disruption Event;

 

(2) the “ Close of Trading ” on any Trading Day for the Index or any Successor Equity Index means the Scheduled Closing Time of the Relevant Stock Exchanges with respect to the securities underlying the Index or Successor Equity Index on such Trading Day; provided that, if the actual closing time of the regular trading session of any such Relevant Stock Exchange is earlier than its Scheduled Closing Time on such Trading Day, then (x) for purposes of clauses (A) and (C) of the definition of “Market Disruption Event” above, with respect to any security underlying the Index or Successor Equity Index for which such Relevant Stock Exchange is its Relevant Stock Exchange, the “Close of Trading” means such actual closing time and (y) for purposes of clauses (B) and (D) of the definition of “Market Disruption Event” above, with respect to any futures or options contract relating to the Index or Successor Equity Index, the “close of trading” means the latest actual closing time of the regular trading session of any of the Relevant Stock Exchanges, but in no event later than the Scheduled Closing Time of the Relevant Stock Exchanges;

 

(3) the “ Scheduled Closing Time ” of any Relevant Stock Exchange or Related Futures or Options Exchange on any Trading Day for the Index or any Successor Equity Index means the scheduled weekday closing time of such Relevant Stock Exchange or Related Futures or Options Exchange on such Trading Day, without regard to after hours or any other trading outside the regular trading session hours; and

 

(4) an “ Exchange Business Day ” means any Trading Day for the Index or any Successor Equity Index on which each Relevant Stock Exchange for the securities underlying the Index or any Successor Equity Index and each Related Futures or Options Exchange are open for trading during their respective regular trading sessions, notwithstanding any such Relevant Stock Exchange or Related Futures or Options Exchange closing prior to its Scheduled Closing Time.

 

Calculation Agent

 

The Calculation Agent will determine the Maturity Payment Amount and the Ending Level. In addition, the Calculation Agent will (i) determine if adjustments are required to the Closing Level of the Index under the circumstances described in this Security, (ii) if publication of the Index is

 

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discontinued, select a Successor Equity Index or, if no Successor Equity Index is available, determine the Closing Level of the Index under the circumstances described in this Security, and (iii) determine whether a Market Disruption Event or non-Trading Day has occurred.

 

The Company covenants that, so long as this Security is Outstanding, there shall at all times be a Calculation Agent (which shall be a broker-dealer, bank or other financial institution) with respect to this Security.

 

All determinations made by the Calculation Agent with respect to this Security will be at the sole discretion of the Calculation Agent and, in the absence of manifest error, will be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Company and the Holder of this Security.

 

Tax Considerations

 

The Company agrees, and by acceptance of a beneficial ownership interest in this Security each Holder of this Security will be deemed to have agreed (in the absence of a statutory, regulatory, administrative or judicial ruling to the contrary), for United States federal income tax purposes to characterize and treat this Security as a prepaid derivative contract that is an “open transaction.”

 

Redemption and Repayment

 

This Security is not subject to redemption at the option of the Company or repayment at the option of the Holder hereof prior to June 6, 2023. This Security is not entitled to any sinking fund.

 

Acceleration

 

If an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, with respect to this Security shall occur and be continuing, the Maturity Payment Amount (calculated as set forth in the next sentence) of this Security may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The amount payable to the Holder hereof upon any acceleration permitted under the Indenture will be equal to the Maturity Payment Amount hereof calculated as provided herein as though the date of acceleration was the Calculation Day.

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

         
DATED:      
       
    WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC
       
    By:  
       
      Its:
       
    Attest:   
       
      Its:
       
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION      
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.      
       
CITIBANK, N.A.,      
as Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      
       
OR      
       
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,      
as Authenticating Agent for the Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      

 

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[Reverse of Note]

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A

 

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Principal at Risk Securities Linked to the S&P 500 ® Index
due June 6, 2023

  

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “ Securities ”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an indenture dated as of April 25, 2018, as amended or supplemented from time to time (herein called the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, as issuer, Wells Fargo & Company, as guarantor (the “ Guarantor ”) and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (herein called the “ Trustee ,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series of the Securities designated as Medium-Term Notes, Series A, of the Company. The amount payable on the Securities of this series may be determined by reference to the performance of one or more equity-, commodity- or currency-based indices, exchange traded funds, securities, commodities, currencies, statistical measures of economic or financial performance, or a basket comprised of two or more of the foregoing, or any other market measure or may bear interest at a fixed rate or a floating rate. The Securities of this series may mature at different times, be redeemable at different times or not at all, be repayable at the option of the Holder at different times or not at all and be denominated in different currencies.

 

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons and will be either (a) book-entry securities represented by one or more Global Securities recorded in the book-entry system maintained by the Depositary or (b) certificated securities issued to and registered in the names of, the beneficial owners or their nominees.

 

The Company agrees, to the extent permitted by law, not to voluntarily claim the benefits of any laws concerning usurious rates of interest against a Holder of this Security.

 

Guarantee

 

The Securities of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor as and to the extent set forth in the Indenture.

 

Modification and Waivers

 

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

 

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of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of all series to be affected, acting together as a class. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of all series at the time Outstanding affected by certain provisions of the Indenture, acting together as a class, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with those provisions of the Indenture. Certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences may be waived under the Indenture by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series. Solely for the purpose of determining whether any consent, waiver, notice or other action or Act to be taken or given by the Holders of Securities pursuant to the Indenture has been given or taken by the Holders of Outstanding Securities in the requisite aggregate principal amount, the principal amount of this Security will be deemed to be equal to the amount set forth on the face hereof as the “Face Amount” hereof. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

Defeasance

 

Section 403 and Article Fifteen of the Indenture and the provisions of clause (ii) of Section 401(1)(B) of the Indenture, relating to defeasance at any time of (a) the entire indebtedness on this Security and (b) certain restrictive covenants, upon compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with certain conditions set forth therein, shall not apply to this Security. The remaining provisions of Section 401 of the Indenture shall apply to this Security.

 

Authorized Denominations

 

This Security is issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of $1,000.

 

Registration of Transfer

 

Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Security at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a new Security or Securities of this series, with the same terms as this Security, in authorized denominations for an equal aggregate Face Amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor, as provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations provided therein and to the limitations described below, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

 

This Security is exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form only if (x) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for this Security or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, (y) the Company in its sole discretion determines that this Security shall be exchangeable for definitive

 

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Securities in registered form and notifies the Trustee thereof or (z) an Event of Default with respect to the Securities represented hereby has occurred and is continuing. If this Security is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence, it shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form, having the same date of issuance, Stated Maturity Date and other terms and of authorized denominations aggregating a like amount.

 

This Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor of the Depositary or a nominee of such successor. Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this Global Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in definitive form and will not be considered the Holders hereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

 

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

 

Obligation of the Company Absolute

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the Maturity Payment Amount at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed, except as otherwise provided in this Security.

 

No Personal Recourse

 

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the Maturity Payment Amount, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any successor corporation or of the Guarantor or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released.

 

Defined Terms

 

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

 

Governing Law

 

This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.

 

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ABBREVIATIONS

 

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

 

TEN COM -- as tenants in common

 

TEN ENT -- as tenants by the entireties

 

JT TEN -- as joint tenants with right
   

of survivorship and not

as tenants in common

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT --    Custodian  
  (Cust)    (Minor)

 

Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act  
   
(State)  

 

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

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s) and transfer(s) unto

 

Please Insert Social Security or

Other Identifying Number of Assignee

 

   
 
 
 
 
 

 

(Please print or type name and address including postal zip code of Assignee)

 

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the within Security of WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint __________________ attorney to transfer the said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

  

Dated: _________________________

 

   
   
   

  

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

 

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WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 8-K

Exhibit 4.5

 

[Face of Note]

 

Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“ DTC ”), to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or 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.

 

CUSIP NO. 95002W305  PRINCIPAL AMOUNT: $________
ISIN NO. US95002W3051  
REGISTERED NO. ___  

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A  

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Accelerated Return Notes ® Linked to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC, a limited liability company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the “ Company ,” which term includes any successor corporation under and as defined in the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & Co., or registered assigns, an amount equal to the Redemption Amount (as defined below), 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, on July 31, 2020 (the “ Stated Maturity Date ”). This Security shall not bear any interest.

 

Any payments on this Security at Maturity will be made against presentation of this Security at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.

 

Principal Amount ” shall mean, when used with respect to this Security, the amount set forth on the face of this Security as its “Principal Amount.”

 

 

 

 

Determination of Redemption Amount

 

The “ Redemption Amount ” of this Security will equal:

 

if the Ending Value is greater than the Starting Value: the lesser of:

 

(i) Principal Amount +

 

(IMAGE)  

 

(ii) the Capped Value;

 

if the Ending Value is less than or equal to the Starting Value:

 

 

 

All calculations with respect to the Redemption Amount will be rounded to the nearest one hundred-thousandth, with five one-millionths rounded upward (e.g., 0.000005 would be rounded to 0.00001); and the Redemption Amount will be rounded to the nearest cent, with one-half cent rounded upward.

 

Index ” shall mean the MSCI Emerging Markets Index.

 

The “ Pricing Date ” shall mean May 30, 2019.

 

The “ Starting Value ” is 994.93, the Closing Level of the Index on the Pricing Date.

 

The “ Closing Level ” of the Index on any Market Measure Business Day means the official closing level of the Index reported by the Index Publisher on such Market Measure Business Day, subject to the provisions set forth below under “Discontinuance of the Index,” “Adjustments to the Index” and “Market Disruption Events.”

 

The “ Ending Value ” will be the average of the Closing Levels of the Index on each Calculation Day (as defined below) occurring during the Maturity Valuation Period (as defined below), subject to the provisions set forth below under “Market Description Events.”

 

The “ Participation Rate ” is 300.00%.

 

The “ Capped Value ” is 118.60% of the Principal Amount.

 

A “ Market Measure Business Day ” means a day on which (1) the London Stock Exchange, Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Sao Paulo Stock Exchange and Korea Stock Exchange, or their

 

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successors, are open for trading and (2) the Index or any Successor Index (as defined below) is calculated and published.

 

Index Publisher ” shall mean MSCI Inc.

 

Maturity Valuation Period ” means each of July 22, 2020, July 23, 2020, July 24, 2020, July 27, 2020 and July 28, 2020, subject to the provisions set forth below under “Market Disruption Events.”

 

Calculation Day ” means any Market Measure Business Day during the Maturity Valuation Period on which a Market Disruption Event (as defined below) has not occurred.

 

Business Day ” shall mean a day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to close in New York, New York.

 

Joint Calculation Agency Agreement ” shall mean the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement dated as of October 5, 2018 among the Company, Wells Fargo & Company, as guarantor (the “Guarantor”), and the Calculation Agents, as amended from time to time.

 

Calculation Agents ” shall mean the Persons that have entered into the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement with the Company and the Guarantor providing for, among other things, the determination of the Ending Value and the Redemption Amount, which term shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include their successors under such Joint Calculation Agency Agreement. The initial Calculation Agents shall be Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and BofA Securities, Inc. Pursuant to the Joint Calculation Agency Agreement, the Company may appoint a different Calculation Agent from time to time after the initial issuance of this Security without the consent of the Holder of this Security and without notifying the Holder of this Security.

 

Adjustments to the Index

 

If, after the Pricing Date, the Index Publisher makes a material change in the method of calculating the Index or in another way that changes the Index such that it does not, in the opinion of the Calculation Agents, fairly represent the level of the Index had those changes or modifications not been made, the Calculation Agents will, at the close of business in New York, New York, on each date that the Closing Level is to be calculated, make adjustments to the Index. Those adjustments will be made in good faith as necessary to arrive at a calculation of a level of the Index as if those changes or modifications had not been made, and the Calculation Agents shall calculate the Closing Level of the Index, as so adjusted.

 

Discontinuance of the Index

 

If, after the Pricing Date, the Index Publisher discontinues publication of the Index, and the Index Publisher or another entity then publishes a substitute index that the Calculation Agents determine, in their sole discretion, to be comparable to the original Index (a “ Successor Index ”), the Calculation Agents will substitute the Successor Index as calculated by the relevant Index Publisher or any other entity and calculate the Ending Value as described in the definition of “Ending Value”

 

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above. If the Calculation Agents select a Successor Index, the Calculation Agents will give written notice of the selection to the Trustee, to the Company, and to the Holder hereof.

 

If the Index Publisher discontinues publication of the Index before the end of the Maturity Valuation Period and the Calculation Agents do not select a Successor Index, then on each day that would have been a Calculation Day, until the earlier to occur of:

 

the determination of the Ending Value; and

 

a determination by the Calculation Agents that a Successor Index is available,

 

the Calculation Agents will compute a substitute level for the Index in accordance with the procedures last used to calculate the Index before any discontinuance as if that day were a Calculation Day. The Calculation Agents will make available to the Holder hereof information regarding those levels by means of Bloomberg L.P., Thomson Reuters, a website, or any other means selected by the Calculation Agents in their reasonable discretion.

 

If a Successor Index is selected or the Calculation Agents calculate a level as a substitute for the Index, the Successor Index or level will be used as a substitute for all purposes, including for the purpose of determining whether a Market Disruption Event exists.

 

Market Disruption Events

 

Market Disruption Event ” means one or more of the following events, as determined by the Calculation Agents in their sole discretion:

 

(A) the suspension of or material limitation on trading, in each case, for more than two consecutive hours of trading, or during the one-half hour period preceding the close of trading, on the primary exchange where the securities included in the Index trade (without taking into account any extended or after-hours trading session), in 20% or more of the securities which then compose the Index or any Successor Index; and

 

(B) the suspension of or material limitation on trading, in each case, for more than two consecutive hours of trading, or during the one-half hour period preceding the close of trading, on the primary exchange that trades options contracts or futures contracts related to the Index (without taking into account any extended or after-hours trading session), whether by reason of movements in price otherwise exceeding levels permitted by the relevant exchange or otherwise, in options contracts or futures contracts related to the Index, or any Successor Index.

 

For the purpose of determining whether a Market Disruption Event has occurred:

 

1) a limitation on the hours in a trading day and/or number of days of trading will not constitute a Market Disruption Event if it results from an announced change in the regular business hours of the relevant exchange;

 

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2) a decision to permanently discontinue trading in the relevant futures or options contracts related to the Index, or any Successor Index, will not constitute a Market Disruption Event;

 

3) a suspension in trading in a futures or options contract on the Index, or any Successor Index, by a major securities market by reason of (a) a price change violating limits set by that securities market, (b) an imbalance of orders relating to those contracts, or (c) a disparity in bid and ask quotes relating to those contracts will constitute a suspension of or material limitation on trading in futures or options contracts related to the Index;

 

4) a suspension of or material limitation on trading on the relevant exchange will not include any time when that exchange is closed for trading under ordinary circumstances; and

 

5) if the Index has component securities listed on the NYSE, for the purpose of clause (A) above, any limitations on trading during significant market fluctuations under NYSE Rule 80B, or any applicable rule or regulation enacted or promulgated by the NYSE or any other self-regulatory organization or the Securities and Exchange Commission of similar scope as determined by the Calculation Agents, will be considered “material.”

 

If (i) a Market Disruption Event occurs on a scheduled Calculation Day during the Maturity Valuation Period or (ii) any scheduled Calculation Day is determined by the Calculation Agents not to be a Market Measure Business Day by reason of an extraordinary event, occurrence, declaration, or otherwise (any such day in either (i) or (ii) being a “ Non-Calculation Day ”), the Closing Level of the Index for the applicable Non-Calculation Day will be the Closing Level of the Index on the next Calculation Day that occurs during the Maturity Valuation Period. For example, if the first and second scheduled Calculation Days during the Maturity Valuation Period are Non-Calculation Days, then the Closing Level of the Index on the next Calculation Day will also be the Closing Level for the Index on the first and second scheduled Calculation Days during the Maturity Valuation Period. If no further Calculation Days occur after a Non-Calculation Day, or if every scheduled Calculation Day during the Maturity Valuation Period is a Non-Calculation Day, then the Closing Level of the Index for that Non-Calculation Day and each following Non-Calculation Day (or for all the scheduled Calculation Days during the Maturity Valuation Period, if applicable) will be determined (or, if not determinable, estimated) by the Calculation Agents in a commercially reasonable manner on the last scheduled Calculation Day during the Maturity Valuation Period, regardless of the occurrence of a Market Disruption Event on that last scheduled Calculation Day.

 

Calculation Agent

 

The Calculation Agents have the sole discretion to make all determinations regarding this Security as described in this Security, including determinations regarding the Starting Value, the Ending Value, the Index, the Redemption Amount, any Market Disruption Events, a Successor Index, Market Measure Business Days, Business Days, Calculation Days, Non-Calculation Days, and determinations related to the discontinuance of the Index. Absent manifest error, all

 

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determinations of the Calculation Agents will be conclusive for all purposes and final and binding on the Holder hereof and the Company, without any liability on the part of the Calculation Agents.

 

The Company covenants that, so long as this Security is Outstanding, there shall at all times be a Calculation Agent (which shall be a broker-dealer, bank or other financial institution) with respect to this Security.

 

Tax Considerations

 

The Company agrees, and by acceptance of a beneficial ownership interest in this Security each Holder of this Security will be deemed to have agreed (in the absence of a statutory, regulatory, administrative or judicial ruling to the contrary), for United States federal income tax purposes to characterize and treat this Security as a prepaid derivative contract that is an “open transaction.”

 

Redemption and Repayment

 

This Security is not subject to redemption at the option of the Company or repayment at the option of the Holder hereof prior to July 31, 2020. This Security is not entitled to any sinking fund.

 

Acceleration

 

If an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, with respect to this Security shall occur and be continuing, the Redemption Amount (calculated as set forth in the next sentence) of this Security may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The amount payable to the Holder hereof upon any acceleration permitted under the Indenture will be equal to the Redemption Amount described under “Determination of Redemption Amount,” determined as if the date of acceleration were the sole Calculation Day.

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

         
DATED:      
       
    WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC
       
    By:  
       
      Its:
       
    Attest:   
       
      Its:
       
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION      
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.      
       
CITIBANK, N.A.,      
as Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      
       
OR      
       
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,      
as Authenticating Agent for the Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      

 

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[Reverse of Note]

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A  

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Accelerated Return Notes ® Linked to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “ Securities ”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an indenture dated as of April 25, 2018, as amended or supplemented from time to time (herein called the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, as issuer, the Guarantor and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (herein called the “ Trustee ,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series of the Securities designated as Medium-Term Notes, Series A, of the Company. The amount payable on the Securities of this series may be determined by reference to the performance of one or more equity-, commodity- or currency-based indices, exchange traded funds, securities, commodities, currencies, statistical measures of economic or financial performance, or a basket comprised of two or more of the foregoing, or any other market measure or may bear interest at a fixed rate or a floating rate. The Securities of this series may mature at different times, be redeemable at different times or not at all, be repayable at the option of the Holder at different times or not at all and be denominated in different currencies.

 

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons and will be either (a) book-entry securities represented by one or more Global Securities recorded in the book-entry system maintained by the Depositary or (b) certificated securities issued to and registered in the names of, the beneficial owners or their nominees.

 

The Company agrees, to the extent permitted by law, not to voluntarily claim the benefits of any laws concerning usurious rates of interest against a Holder of this Security.

 

Guarantee

 

The Securities of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor as and to the extent set forth in the Indenture.

 

Modification and Waivers

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantor and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal

 

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amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of all series to be affected, acting together as a class. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of all series at the time Outstanding affected by certain provisions of the Indenture, acting together as a class, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with those provisions of the Indenture. Certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences may be waived under the Indenture by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series. Solely for the purpose of determining whether any consent, waiver, notice or other action or Act to be taken or given by the Holders of Securities pursuant to the Indenture has been given or taken by the Holders of Outstanding Securities in the requisite aggregate principal amount, the principal amount of this Security will be deemed to be equal to the amount set forth on the face hereof as the “Principal Amount” hereof. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

Defeasance

 

Section 403 and Article Fifteen of the Indenture and the provisions of clause (ii) of Section 401(1)(B) of the Indenture, relating to defeasance at any time of (a) the entire indebtedness on this Security and (b) certain restrictive covenants, upon compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with certain conditions set forth therein, shall not apply to this Security. The remaining provisions of Section 401 of the Indenture shall apply to this Security.

 

Authorized Denominations

 

This Security is issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $10 or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of $10.

 

Registration of Transfer

 

Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Security at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a new Security or Securities of this series, with the same terms as this Security, in authorized denominations for an equal aggregate Principal Amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor, as provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations provided therein and to the limitations described below, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

 

This Security is exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form only if (x) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for this Security or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, (y) the Company in its sole discretion determines that this Security shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form and notifies the Trustee thereof or (z) an Event of Default with respect to the Securities represented hereby has occurred and is continuing. If this Security is exchangeable

 

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pursuant to the preceding sentence, it shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form, having the same date of issuance, Stated Maturity Date and other terms and of authorized denominations aggregating a like amount.

 

This Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor of the Depositary or a nominee of such successor. Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this Global Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in definitive form and will not be considered the Holders hereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

 

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

 

Obligation of the Company Absolute

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the Redemption Amount at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed, except as otherwise provided in this Security.

 

No Personal Recourse

 

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the Redemption Amount, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any successor corporation or of the Guarantor or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released.

 

Defined Terms

 

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

 

Governing Law

 

This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.

 

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ABBREVIATIONS

 

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

 

TEN COM -- as tenants in common

 

TEN ENT -- as tenants by the entireties

 

JT TEN -- as joint tenants with right
   

of survivorship and not

as tenants in common

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT --    Custodian  
  (Cust)    (Minor)

 

Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act  
   
(State)  

 

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

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s) and transfer(s) unto

 

Please Insert Social Security or

Other Identifying Number of Assignee

 

   
 
 
 
 
 

 

(Please print or type name and address including postal zip code of Assignee)

 

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the within Security of WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint __________________ attorney to transfer the said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated: _________________________

 

   
   
   

 

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

 

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WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 8-K

Exhibit 4.6

 

[Face of Note]

 

Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation (“ DTC ”), to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such other name as requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or 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.

 

CUSIP NO. 95001H5R8 FACE AMOUNT: $_________
REGISTERED NO. ___  

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A

 

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Principal at Risk Securities Linked to the MSCI EAFE Index ®

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC, a limited liability company, duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the “ Company ,” which term includes any successor corporation under and as defined in the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & Co., or registered assigns, an amount equal to the Cash Settlement Amount (as defined below), 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, on the Stated Maturity Date. The “ Stated Maturity Date ” shall be November 10, 2020. If the Determination Date (as defined below) is postponed, the Stated Maturity Date will be postponed to the second Business Day (as defined below) after the Determination Date as postponed. This Security shall not bear any interest.

 

Any payments on this Security at Maturity will be made against presentation of this Security at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose.

 

Face Amount ” shall mean, when used with respect to this Security, the amount set forth on the face of this Security as its “Face Amount.”

 

Determination of Cash Settlement Amount and Certain Definitions

 

The “ Cash Settlement Amount ” of this Security will equal:

 

if the Final Underlier Level is greater than or equal to the Cap Level, the Maximum Settlement Amount;

 

 

 

 

if the Final Underlier Level is greater than the Initial Underlier Level but less than the Cap Level, the sum of (i) the Face Amount plus (ii) the product of (a) the Face Amount times (b) the Upside Participation Rate times (c) the Underlier Return;

 

if the Final Underlier Level is equal to or less than the Initial Underlier Level but greater than or equal to the Buffer Level, the Face Amount; or

 

if the Final Underlier Level is less than the Buffer Level, the sum of (i) the Face Amount plus (ii) the product of (a) the Buffer Rate times (b) the sum of the Underlier Return plus the Buffer Amount times (c) the Face Amount.

 

All calculations with respect to the Cash Settlement Amount will be rounded to the nearest one hundred-thousandth, with five one-millionths rounded upward (e.g., 0.000005 would be rounded to 0.00001); and the Cash Settlement Amount will be rounded to the nearest cent, with one-half cent rounded upward.

 

The “ Underlier ” shall mean the MSCI EAFE Index ® .

 

The “ Trade Date ” shall mean May 30, 2019.

 

The “ Initial Underlier Level ” is 1,825.98, the Closing Level of the Underlier on the Trade Date.

 

The “ Closing Level ” of the Underlier on any Trading Day means the official closing level of the Underlier reported by the Underlier Sponsor on such Trading Day, as obtained by the Calculation Agent on such Trading Day from the licensed third-party market data vendor contracted by the Calculation Agent at such time; in particular, taking into account the decimal precision and/or rounding convention employed by such licensed third-party market data vendor on such date, subject to the provisions set forth below under “Adjustments to the Underlier,” “Discontinuance of the Underlier” and “Market Disruption Events.”

 

The “ Final Underlier Level ” will be the Closing Level of the Underlier on the Determination Date.

 

The “ Underlier Return ” will be the quotient of (i) the Final Underlier Level minus the Initial Underlier Level divided by (ii) the Initial Underlier Level, expressed as a percentage.

 

The “ Cap Level ” is 2,071.939506, which is 113.47% of the Initial Underlier Level.

 

The “ Buffer Level ” is 1,643.382, which is equal to 90% of the Initial Underlier Level.

 

The “ Maximum Settlement Amount ” is 120.205% of the Face Amount of this Security.

 

The “ Buffer Amount ” is 10%.

 

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The “ Buffer Rate ” is equal to the Initial Underlier Level divided by the Buffer Level.

 

The “ Upside Participation Rate ” is 1.5.

 

Underlier Sponsor ” shall mean MSCI Inc.

 

Business Day ” shall mean a day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or regulation to close in New York, New York.

 

A “ Trading Day ” means a day, as determined by the Calculation Agent, on which (i) the Underlier Sponsor is scheduled to publish the level of the Underlier and (ii) each Related Futures or Options Exchange is scheduled to be open for trading for its regular trading session.

 

The “ Relevant Stock Exchange ” for any security underlying the Underlier means the primary exchange or quotation system on which such security is traded, as determined by the Calculation Agent.

 

The “ Related Futures or Options Exchange ” for the Underlier means an exchange or quotation system where trading has a material effect (as determined by the Calculation Agent) on the overall market for futures or options contracts relating to the Underlier.

 

The “ Determination Date ” shall be November 6, 2020. If the originally scheduled Determination Date is not a Trading Day, the Determination Date will be postponed to the next succeeding Trading Day. The Determination Date is also subject to postponement due to the occurrence of a Market Disruption Event (as defined below). See “–Market Disruption Events.”

 

Calculation Agent Agreement ” shall mean the Calculation Agent Agreement dated as of May 18, 2018 between the Company and the Calculation Agent, as amended from time to time.

 

Calculation Agent ” shall mean the Person that has entered into the Calculation Agent Agreement with the Company providing for, among other things, the determination of the Final Underlier Level and the Cash Settlement Amount, which term shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include its successors under such Calculation Agent Agreement. The initial Calculation Agent shall be Wells Fargo Securities, LLC. Pursuant to the Calculation Agent Agreement, the Company may appoint a different Calculation Agent from time to time after the initial issuance of this Security without the consent of the Holder of this Security and without notifying the Holder of this Security.

 

Adjustments to the Underlier

 

If at any time the method of calculating the Underlier or a Successor Underlier, or the closing level thereof, is changed in a material respect, or if the Underlier or a Successor Underlier is in any other way modified so that such underlier does not, in the opinion of the Calculation Agent, fairly represent the level of such underlier had those changes or modifications not been made, then the Calculation Agent will, at the close of business in New York, New York, on each date that the closing level of such underlier is to be calculated, make such

 

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calculations and adjustments as, in the good faith judgment of the Calculation Agent, may be necessary in order to arrive at a level of an underlier comparable to the Underlier or Successor Underlier as if those changes or modifications had not been made, and the Calculation Agent will calculate the closing level of the Underlier or Successor Underlier with reference to such underlier, as so adjusted. Accordingly, if the method of calculating the Underlier or Successor Underlier is modified so that the level of such underlier is a fraction or a multiple of what it would have been if it had not been modified (e.g., due to a split or reverse split in such equity underlier), then the Calculation Agent will adjust the Underlier or Successor Underlier in order to arrive at a level of such underlier as if it had not been modified (e.g., as if the split or reverse split had not occurred).

 

Discontinuance of the Underlier

 

If the Underlier Sponsor discontinues publication of the Underlier, and the Underlier Sponsor or another entity publishes a successor or substitute equity index that the Calculation Agent determines, in its sole discretion, to be comparable to the Underlier (a “ Successor Underlier ”), then, upon the Calculation Agent’s notification of that determination to the Trustee and the Company, the Calculation Agent will substitute the Successor Underlier as calculated by the relevant Underlier Sponsor or any other entity and calculate the Final Underlier Level as described above. Upon any selection by the Calculation Agent of a Successor Underlier, the Company will cause notice to be given to the Holder of this Security.

 

In the event that the Underlier Sponsor discontinues publication of the Underlier prior to, and the discontinuance is continuing on, the Determination Date and the Calculation Agent determines that no Successor Underlier is available at such time, the Calculation Agent will calculate a substitute Closing Level for the Underlier in accordance with the formula for and method of calculating the Underlier last in effect prior to the discontinuance, but using only those securities that comprised the Underlier immediately prior to that discontinuance. If a Successor Underlier is selected or the Calculation Agent calculates a level as a substitute for the Underlier, the Successor Underlier or level will be used as a substitute for the Underlier for all purposes, including the purpose of determining whether a Market Disruption Event exists.

 

If on the Determination Date the Underlier Sponsor fails to calculate and announce the level of the Underlier, the Calculation Agent will calculate a substitute Closing Level of the Underlier in accordance with the formula for and method of calculating the Underlier last in effect prior to the failure, but using only those securities that comprised the Underlier immediately prior to that failure; provided that, if a Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing on such day, then the provisions set forth below under “Market Disruption Events” shall apply in lieu of the foregoing.

 

Market Disruption Events

 

A “ Market Disruption Event ” means any of (A), (B), (C) or (D) below, as determined by the Calculation Agent in its sole discretion:

 

(A) Any of the following events occurs or exists with respect to any security included in the Underlier or any Successor Underlier, and the aggregate of all securities included

 

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in the Underlier or Successor Underlier with respect to which any such event occurs comprise 20% or more of the level of the Underlier or Successor Underlier:

 

a material suspension of or limitation imposed on trading by the Relevant Stock Exchange for such security or otherwise at any time during the one-hour period that ends at the Scheduled Closing Time for the Relevant Stock Exchange for such security on that day, whether by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the Relevant Stock Exchange or otherwise;

 

any event, other than an early closure, that materially disrupts or impairs the ability of market participants in general to effect transactions in, or obtain market values for, such security on its Relevant Stock Exchange at any time during the one-hour period that ends at the Scheduled Closing Time for the Relevant Stock Exchange for such security on that day; or

 

the closure on any Exchange Business Day of the Relevant Stock Exchange for such security prior to its Scheduled Closing Time unless the earlier closing is announced by such Relevant Stock Exchange at least one hour prior to the earlier of (i) the actual closing time for the regular trading session on such Relevant Stock Exchange and (ii) the submission deadline for orders to be entered into the Relevant Stock Exchange system for execution at the Scheduled Closing Time for such Relevant Stock Exchange on that day.

 

(B) Any of the following events occurs or exists with respect to futures or options contracts relating to the Underlier or any Successor Underlier:

 

a material suspension of or limitation imposed on trading by any Related Futures or Options Exchange or otherwise at any time during the one-hour period that ends at the close of trading on such Related Futures or Options Exchange on that day, whether by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the Related Futures or Options Exchange or otherwise;

 

any event, other than an early closure, that materially disrupts or impairs the ability of market participants in general to effect transactions in, or obtain market values for, futures or options contracts relating to the Underlier or Successor Underlier on any Related Futures or Options Exchange at any time during the one-hour period that ends at the close of trading on such Related Futures or Options Exchange on that day; or

 

the closure on any Exchange Business Day of any Related Futures or Options Exchange prior to its Scheduled Closing Time unless the earlier closing time is announced by such Related Futures or Options Exchange at least one hour prior to the earlier of (i) the actual closing time for the regular trading session on such Related Futures or Options Exchange and (ii) the submission deadline for orders to be entered into the Related Futures or Options Exchange system for execution at the close of trading for such Related Futures or Options Exchange on that day.

 

(C) The underlier sponsor fails to publish the level of the Underlier or any Successor Underlier (other than as a result of the underlier sponsor having discontinued

 

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publication of the Underlier or Successor Underlier and no Successor Underlier being available).

 

(D) Any Related Futures or Options Exchange fails to open for trading during its regular trading session.

 

For purposes of determining whether a Market Disruption Event has occurred:

 

(1)   the relevant percentage contribution of a security included in the Underlier or any Successor Underlier to the level of such underlier will be based on a comparison of (x) the portion of the level of such underlier attributable to that security to (y) the overall level of such underlier, in each case using the official opening weightings as published by the underlier sponsor as part of the market opening data;

 

(2)   the “ Scheduled Closing Time ” of any Relevant Stock Exchange or Related Futures or Options Exchange on any Trading Day means the scheduled weekday closing time of such Relevant Stock Exchange or Related Futures or Options Exchange on such Trading Day, without regard to after hours or any other trading outside the regular trading session hours; and

 

(3)   an “ Exchange Business Day ” means any Trading Day on which (i) the underlier sponsor publishes the level of the Underlier or any Successor Underlier and (ii) each Related Futures or Options Exchange is open for trading during its regular trading session, notwithstanding any Related Futures or Options Exchange closing prior to its Scheduled Closing Time.

 

If a Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing on the Determination Date, then the Determination Date will be postponed to the first succeeding Trading Day on which a Market Disruption Event has not occurred and is not continuing; however, if such first succeeding Trading Day has not occurred as of the eighth Trading Day after the originally scheduled Determination Date, that eighth Trading Day shall be deemed to be the Determination Date. If the Determination Date has been postponed eight Trading Days after the originally scheduled Determination Date and a Market Disruption Event occurs or is continuing on such eighth Trading Day, the Calculation Agent will determine the Closing Level of the Underlier on such eighth Trading Day in accordance with the formula for and method of calculating the Closing Level of the Underlier last in effect prior to commencement of the Market Disruption Event, using the closing price (or, with respect to any relevant security, if a Market Disruption Event has occurred with respect to such security, its good faith estimate of the value of such security at the time at which the official Closing Level of the Underlier is calculated and published by the Underlier Sponsor) on such date of each security included in the Underlier. As used herein, “ closing price ” means, with respect to any security on any date, the Relevant Stock Exchange traded or quoted price of such security as of the time at which the official Closing Level of the Underlier is calculated and published by the Underlier Sponsor.

 

Calculation Agent

 

The Calculation Agent will determine the Cash Settlement Amount and the Final Underlier Level. In addition, the Calculation Agent will (i) determine if adjustments are required to the Closing Level of the Underlier under the circumstances described in this Security, (ii) if publication

 

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of the Underlier is discontinued, select a Successor Underlier or, if no Successor Underlier is available, determine the Closing Level of the Underlier under the circumstances described in this Security, and (iii) determine whether a Market Disruption Event or non-Trading Day has occurred.

 

The Company covenants that, so long as this Security is Outstanding, there shall at all times be a Calculation Agent (which shall be a broker-dealer, bank or other financial institution) with respect to this Security.

 

All determinations made by the Calculation Agent with respect to this Security will be at the sole discretion of the Calculation Agent and, in the absence of manifest error, will be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Company and the Holder of this Security.

 

Tax Considerations

 

The Company agrees, and by acceptance of a beneficial ownership interest in this Security each Holder of this Security will be deemed to have agreed (in the absence of a statutory, regulatory, administrative or judicial ruling to the contrary), for United States federal income tax purposes to characterize and treat this Security as a prepaid derivative contract that is an “open transaction.”

 

Redemption and Repayment

 

This Security is not subject to redemption at the option of the Company or repayment at the option of the Holder hereof prior to November 10, 2020. This Security is not entitled to any sinking fund.

 

Acceleration

 

If an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, with respect to this Security shall occur and be continuing, the Cash Settlement Amount (calculated as set forth in the next sentence) of this Security may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. The amount payable to the Holder hereof upon any acceleration permitted under the Indenture will be equal to the Cash Settlement Amount hereof calculated as provided herein as though the date of acceleration was the Determination Date.

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

         
DATED:      
       
    WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC
       
    By:  
       
      Its:
       
    Attest:   
       
      Its:
       
TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION      
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein described in the within-mentioned Indenture.      
       
CITIBANK, N.A.,      
as Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      
       
OR      
       
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,      
as Authenticating Agent for the Trustee      
       
By:        
  Authorized Signature      

 

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[Reverse of Note]

 

WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC

 

MEDIUM-TERM NOTE, SERIES A

 

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by Wells Fargo & Company

 

Principal at Risk Securities Linked to the MSCI EAFE Index ®

 

This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the “ Securities ”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an indenture dated as of April 25, 2018, as amended or supplemented from time to time (herein called the “ Indenture ”), among the Company, as issuer, Wells Fargo & Company, as guarantor (the “Guarantor”) and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (herein called the “ Trustee ,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This Security is one of the series of the Securities designated as Medium-Term Notes, Series A, of the Company. The amount payable on the Securities of this series may be determined by reference to the performance of one or more equity-, commodity- or currency-based indices, exchange traded funds, securities, commodities, currencies, statistical measures of economic or financial performance, or a basket comprised of two or more of the foregoing, or any other market measure or may bear interest at a fixed rate or a floating rate. The Securities of this series may mature at different times, be redeemable at different times or not at all, be repayable at the option of the Holder at different times or not at all and be denominated in different currencies.

 

The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons and will be either (a) book-entry securities represented by one or more Global Securities recorded in the book-entry system maintained by the Depositary or (b) certificated securities issued to and registered in the names of, the beneficial owners or their nominees.

 

The Company agrees, to the extent permitted by law, not to voluntarily claim the benefits of any laws concerning usurious rates of interest against a Holder of this Security.

 

Guarantee

 

The Securities of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor as and to the extent set forth in the Indenture.

 

Modification and Waivers

 

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantor and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the

 

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Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of all series to be affected, acting together as a class. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of all series at the time Outstanding affected by certain provisions of the Indenture, acting together as a class, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with those provisions of the Indenture. Certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences may be waived under the Indenture by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series. Solely for the purpose of determining whether any consent, waiver, notice or other action or Act to be taken or given by the Holders of Securities pursuant to the Indenture has been given or taken by the Holders of Outstanding Securities in the requisite aggregate principal amount, the principal amount of this Security will be deemed to be equal to the amount set forth on the face hereof as the “Face Amount” hereof. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.

 

Defeasance

 

Section 403 and Article Fifteen of the Indenture and the provisions of clause (ii) of Section 401(1)(B) of the Indenture, relating to defeasance at any time of (a) the entire indebtedness on this Security and (b) certain restrictive covenants, upon compliance by the Company or the Guarantor with certain conditions set forth therein, shall not apply to this Security. The remaining provisions of Section 401 of the Indenture shall apply to this Security.

 

Authorized Denominations

 

This Security is issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $1,000 or any amount in excess thereof which is an integral multiple of $1,000.

 

Registration of Transfer

 

Upon due presentment for registration of transfer of this Security at the office or agency of the Company in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a new Security or Securities of this series, with the same terms as this Security, in authorized denominations for an equal aggregate Face Amount will be issued to the transferee in exchange herefor, as provided in the Indenture and subject to the limitations provided therein and to the limitations described below, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

 

This Security is exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form only if (x) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for this Security or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, (y) the Company in its sole discretion determines that this Security shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form and notifies the Trustee thereof or (z) an Event of Default with respect

 

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to the Securities represented hereby has occurred and is continuing. If this Security is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence, it shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities in registered form, having the same date of issuance, Stated Maturity Date and other terms and of authorized denominations aggregating a like amount.

 

This Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor of the Depositary or a nominee of such successor. Except as provided above, owners of beneficial interests in this Global Security will not be entitled to receive physical delivery of Securities in definitive form and will not be considered the Holders hereof for any purpose under the Indenture.

 

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

 

Obligation of the Company Absolute

 

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the Cash Settlement Amount at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed, except as otherwise provided in this Security.

 

No Personal Recourse

 

No recourse shall be had for the payment of the Cash Settlement Amount, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any successor corporation or of the Guarantor or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released.

 

Defined Terms

 

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

 

Governing Law

 

This Security shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.

 

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ABBREVIATIONS

 

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

 

TEN COM -- as tenants in common

 

TEN ENT -- as tenants by the entireties

 

JT TEN -- as joint tenants with right
   

of survivorship and not

as tenants in common

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT --    Custodian  
  (Cust)    (Minor)

 

Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act  
   
(State)  

 

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

 

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s) and transfer(s) unto

 

Please Insert Social Security or 

Other Identifying Number of Assignee

 

   
 
 
 
 
 

 

(Please print or type name and address including postal zip code of Assignee)

 

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the within Security of WELLS FARGO FINANCE LLC and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint __________________ attorney to transfer the said Security on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated: _________________________

 

   
   
   

 

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

 

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WELLS FARGO & COMPANY 8-K

 

Exhibit 5.1

 

   

Faegre Baker Daniels LLP

2200 Wells Fargo Center 90 South Seventh Street

Minneapolis Minnesota 55402-3901

Phone +1 612 766 7000

Fax +1 612 766 1600

 

June 6, 2019

 

Wells Fargo Finance LLC

375 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10153

 

Wells Fargo & Company

420 Montgomery Street

San Francisco, California 94104

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as counsel for Wells Fargo Finance LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), and Wells Fargo & Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Guarantor”), in connection with (i) the preparation of the Registration Statement on Form S-3, as amended, File Nos. 333-221324 and 333-221324-01 (the “Registration Statement”) of the Company and the Guarantor filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), relating to the proposed offer and sale from time to time of the securities referred to therein; (ii) Pricing Supplement No. 79 dated May 30, 2019 to Product Supplement No. STOCK ARN-1 dated April 26, 2019 (the “STOCK ARN-1 Product Supplement”), the Series A Prospectus Supplement dated May 18, 2018 (the “Series A Prospectus Supplement”) and the Prospectus dated April 5, 2019 (the “Prospectus”), relating to the offer and sale by the Company under the Registration Statement of $18,645,670 aggregate principal amount of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Accelerated Return Notes ® Linked to a Basket of Three Financial Sector Stocks, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor; (iii) Pricing Supplement No. 80 dated May 30, 2019 to Product Supplement No. EQUITY INDICES LIRN-1 dated April 25, 2019, the Series A Prospectus Supplement and the Prospectus, relating to the offer and sale by the Company under the Registration Statement of $19,872,780 aggregate principal amount of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Capped Leveraged Index Return Notes® Linked to the Russell 2000 ® Index, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor; (iv) Pricing Supplement No. 81 dated May 30, 2019 to the STOCK ARN-1 Product Supplement, the Series A Prospectus Supplement and the Prospectus, relating to the offer and sale by the Company under the Registration Statement of $4,742,570 aggregate principal amount of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Notes Linked to a Basket of Three Semi-Conductor Sector Stocks, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor; (v) Pricing Supplement No. 84 dated May 30, 2019 to the Market Measure Supplement dated May 18, 2018 (the “Market Measure Supplement”), the Series A Prospectus

 

 

 

 

Wells Fargo & Company

June 6, 2019

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Supplement and the Prospectus, relating to the offer and sale by the Company under the Registration Statement of $400,000 aggregate face amount of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Principal at Risk Securities Linked to the S&P 500 ® Index due June 6, 2023, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor; (vi) Pricing Supplement No. 83 dated May 30, 2019 to Product Supplement No. EQUITY INDICES ARN-1 dated May 15, 2019, the Series A Prospectus Supplement and the Prospectus, relating to the offer and sale by the Company under the Registration Statement of $10,238,780 aggregate principal amount of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Accelerated Return Notes ® Linked to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor; and (vii) Pricing Supplement No. 93 dated May 30, 2019 to the Market Measure Supplement, the Series A Prospectus Supplement and the Prospectus, relating to the offer and sale by the Company under the Registration Statement of $808,000 aggregate face amount of Medium-Term Notes, Series A, Principal at Risk Securities Linked to the MSCI EAFE Index ® , fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor (the Medium-Term Notes described in clauses (ii) – (vii) being herein referred to collectively as the “Notes”). The Notes are to be issued under the Indenture dated as of April 25, 2018 (the “Indenture”) among the Company, the Guarantor and Citibank, N.A., as trustee, and will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor as and to the extent set forth in the Indenture (the “Guarantee”). The Notes will be sold pursuant to a Terms Agreement, each dated May 30, 2019, among the Company, the Guarantor and the Agent named therein (the “Terms Agreement”).

 

We have examined such documents, records and instruments as we have deemed necessary or appropriate for the purposes of this opinion.

 

Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Notes and the Guarantee have been duly authorized by the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, and, when the Notes are duly executed by the Company, authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, and delivered to and paid for by the Agent pursuant to the applicable Terms Agreement, the Notes and the Guarantee will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, enforceable against the Company or the Guarantor, as applicable, in accordance with their terms subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium, fraudulent conveyance, receivership or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and subject to general equity principles including, without limitation, concepts of materiality, reasonableness, good faith, fair dealing and the possible unavailability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies (regardless of whether enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and except further as enforcement thereof may be limited by any governmental authority that limits, delays or prohibits the making of payments outside of the United States. As contemplated by the foregoing qualifications, in rendering the foregoing opinion, we are expressing no opinion as to Federal or state laws relating to fraudulent transfers. Without limiting any other qualifications set forth herein, the opinions expressed herein are subject to the effect of generally applicable laws that (i) limit the waiver of rights under usury laws; (ii) provide that, in the absence of an effective waiver or consent, a guarantor may be discharged from its guaranty, to the extent the guaranteed obligations are modified or other action or

 

 

 

 

Wells Fargo & Company

June 6, 2019

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inaction increases the scope of the guarantor’s risk or otherwise detrimentally affects the guarantor’s interests, such as by negligently administering the guaranteed obligations, or releasing the primary obligor from the guaranteed obligations; or (iii) permit a guarantor to revoke a guaranty with respect to guaranteed obligations incurred after the revocation, notwithstanding the absence of an express right of revocation in the document providing for such guaranty.

 

We have relied as to certain relevant facts upon certificates of, and/or information provided by, officers and employees of the Company and the Guarantor as to the accuracy of such factual matters without independent verification thereof or other investigation. We have also relied, without investigation, upon the following assumptions: (i) natural persons acting on behalf of the Company and the Guarantor have sufficient legal capacity to enter into and perform, on behalf of the Company or the Guarantor, the transaction in question; (ii) each party to agreements or instruments relevant hereto other than the Company and the Guarantor has satisfied those legal requirements that are applicable to it to the extent necessary to make such agreements or instruments enforceable against it; (iii) each party to agreements or instruments relevant hereto other than the Company and the Guarantor has complied with all legal requirements pertaining to its status as such status relates to its rights to enforce such agreements or instruments against the Company or the Guarantor; (iv) each document submitted to us for review is accurate and complete, each such document that is an original is authentic, each such document that is a copy conforms to an authentic original, and all signatures on each such document are genuine; and (v) the Notes and the Guarantee are necessary or convenient to the conduct, promotion or attainment of the business of the Company and the Guarantor.

 

The opinions expressed herein are limited to the specific issues addressed and to documents and laws existing on the date hereof. By rendering our opinion, we do not undertake to advise you with respect to any other matter or of any change in such documents and laws or in the interpretation thereof which may occur after the date hereof.

 

Our opinions set forth herein are limited to the laws of the State of New York, the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act and the federal laws of the United States of America, and we are expressing no opinion as to the effect of any other laws.

 

 

 

 

Wells Fargo & Company

June 6, 2019

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We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to a Current Report on Form 8-K of the Company filed with the Commission and thereby incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.

  

  Very truly yours,
     
  FAEGRE BAKER DANIELS LLP
     
  By: /s/ Dawn Holicky Pruitt
    Dawn Holicky Pruitt