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): September 16, 2025
Royalty Pharma plc
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
| England and Wales | 001-39329 | 98-1535773 | ||
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Identification No.) |
| 110 East 59th Street New York, New York |
10022 | |
| (Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (212) 883-0200
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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):
| ☐ | Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
| ☐ | Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
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| Class A Ordinary Shares, par value $0.0001 per share | RPRX | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company ☐
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 1.01. | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On September 16, 2025, Royalty Pharma plc (the “Issuer”) closed its previously announced offering (the “Offering”) of $600 million aggregate principal amount of 4.450% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes”), $900 million aggregate principal amount of 5.200% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Notes”) and $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.950% Senior Notes due 2055 (the “2055 Notes” and, together with the 2031 Notes and 2035 Notes, the “Notes”). The Notes were issued under the indenture, dated as of September 2, 2020 (the “Base Indenture”), among the Issuer, Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd (“RP Holdings”) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as supplemented by the fourth supplemental indenture, dated as of June 9, 2025 (the “Fourth Supplemental Indenture”), among the Issuer, RP Holdings, Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC (“RP Manager” and, together with RP Holdings, the “Guarantors”) and the Trustee, and as further supplemented by the fifth supplemental indenture, dated as of September 16, 2025 (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”), among the Issuer, the Guarantors and the Trustee. The Notes are guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by the Guarantors.
The 2031 Notes bear interest at a fixed rate of 4.450% per annum, and interest will be payable on March 25 and September 25 of each year, beginning March 25, 2026, until the maturity date of March 25, 2031. The 2035 Notes bear interest at a fixed rate of 5.200% per annum, and interest will be payable on March 25 and September 25 of each year, beginning March 25, 2026, until the maturity date of September 25, 2035. The 2055 Notes bear interest at a fixed rate of 5.950% per annum, and interest will be payable on March 25 and September 25 of each year, beginning March 25, 2026, until the maturity date of September 25, 2055. The Issuer may redeem the Notes at such times and at the redemption prices as provided for in the Indenture. The Indenture also contains certain covenants as set forth in the Indenture and requires the Issuer to offer to repurchase the Notes upon certain change of control events.
The foregoing summary of the Indenture and the Notes does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of (i) the Base Indenture and the Fourth Supplemental Indenture attached as Exhibit 4.1 hereto and Exhibit 4.2 hereto, respectively, and (ii) the Fifth Supplemental Indenture attached as Exhibit 4.3 hereto and the form of the Notes included therein, which are incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 8.01. | Other Events. |
On September 2, 2025, the Issuer and the Guarantors entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with the representatives of the several underwriters in connection with the Offering. The Underwriting Agreement includes the terms and conditions for the offering and sale of the Notes, indemnification and contribution obligations, and other terms and conditions customary in agreements of this type. The foregoing summary of the Underwriting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Underwriting Agreement attached as Exhibit 1.1 hereto.
| Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: September 16, 2025
| ROYALTY PHARMA PLC | ||
| By: | /s/ Terrance Coyne |
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| Terrance Coyne | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||
Exhibit 1.1
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
$2,000,000,000
ROYALTY PHARMA PLC
4.450% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2031
5.200% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2035
5.950% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2055
Underwriting Agreement
September 2, 2025
BofA Securities, Inc.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
TD Securities (USA) LLC
As Representatives of the
several Underwriters listed
in Schedule 1 hereto
c/o BofA Securities, Inc.
One Bryant Park
New York, New York 10036
c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
200 West Street
New York, New York 10282
c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
383 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10179
c/o Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
1585 Broadway
New York, New York 10036
c/o TD Securities (USA) LLC
1 Vanderbilt Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, New York 10017
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Royalty Pharma plc, a public limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales (the “Company”), Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd, a private limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales (“RP Holdings”) and Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“RP Manager” and, together with RP Holdings, the “Guarantors”), propose to enter into this agreement (this “Agreement”) to issue and sell to the several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), $600,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s 4.450% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes”), $900,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s 5.200% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Notes”) and $500,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s 5.950% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2055 (the “2055 Notes” and, together with the 2031 Notes and the 2035 Notes, the “Securities”). The Securities will be issued pursuant to an indenture dated as of September 2, 2020 (as supplemented by the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 9, 2025, the “Base Indenture”) among the Company, the Guarantors and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended by a Fifth Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of the Closing Date (as defined below), in respect of the Securities (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”, and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), and will be guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by the Guarantors (the “Guarantees”).
The Company and the Guarantors hereby confirm their agreement with the several Underwriters concerning the purchase and sale of the Securities, as follows:
1. Registration Statement. The Company has prepared and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Securities Act”), a registration statement on Form S-3ASR (File No. 333-279905) as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto, including a prospectus, relating to the Securities. Such registration statement, as amended at the time it became effective, including the information, if any, deemed pursuant to Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the Securities Act to be part of the registration statement at the time of its effectiveness (“Rule 430 Information”), is referred to herein as the “Registration Statement”; and as used herein, the term “Preliminary Prospectus” means each prospectus included in such registration statement (and any amendments thereto) before effectiveness, any prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(a) under the Securities Act and the prospectus included in the Registration Statement at the time of its effectiveness that omits Rule 430 Information, and the term “Prospectus” means the prospectus in the form first used (or made available upon request of purchasers pursuant to Rule 173 under the Securities Act) in connection with confirmation of sales of the Securities. Any reference in this Agreement to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the Securities Act, as of the effective date of the Registration Statement or the date of such Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus, as the case may be and any reference to “amend”, “amendment” or “supplement” with respect to the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any documents filed after such date under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”) that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus.
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At or prior to the time when sales of the Securities were first made (the “Time of Sale”), the Company had prepared the following information (collectively, the “Time of Sale Information”): a Preliminary Prospectus dated September 2, 2025, and each “free-writing prospectus” (as defined pursuant to Rule 405 under the Securities Act) listed on Annex A hereto.
2. Purchase and Sale of the Securities.
(a) The Company agrees to issue and sell the Securities to the several Underwriters as provided in this Agreement, and each Underwriter, on the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements set forth herein and subject to the conditions set forth herein, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company the respective principal amount of Securities set forth opposite such Underwriter’s name in Schedule 1 hereto at a price equal to: (i) 98.559% of the principal amount of the 2031 Notes, (ii) 97.539% of the principal amount of the 2035 Notes, and (iii) 95.074% of the principal amount of the 2055 Notes, in each case, plus accrued interest, if any, from September 16, 2025 to the Closing Date. The Company will not be obligated to deliver any of the Securities except upon payment for all the Securities to be purchased as provided herein.
(b) The Company understands that the Underwriters intend to make a public offering of the Securities as soon after the effectiveness of this Agreement as in the judgment of the Representatives is advisable, and initially to offer the Securities on the terms set forth in the Time of Sale Information. The Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters may offer and sell Securities to or through any affiliate of an Underwriter and that any such affiliate may offer and sell Securities purchased by it to or through any Underwriter.
(c) Payment for and delivery of the Securities will be made at the New York City office of Goodwin Procter LLP at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on September 16, 2025, or at such other time or place on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing. The time and date of such payment and delivery is referred to herein as the “Closing Date”.
(d) Payment for the Securities shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account(s) specified by the Company to the Representatives against delivery to the nominee of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), for the account of the Underwriters, of one or more global notes representing the Securities (collectively, the “Global Note”), with any Transfer Taxes (as defined below) payable in connection with the sale of the Securities pursuant to Section 2(a) above duly paid by the Company. The Global Note will be made available for inspection by the Representatives not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the business day prior to the Closing Date.
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(e) The Company and the Guarantors acknowledge and agree that each Underwriter is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company and the Guarantors with respect to the offering of Securities contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the terms of the offering) and not as a financial advisor or a fiduciary to, or an agent of, the Company, the Guarantors or any other person. Additionally, none of the Representatives nor any other Underwriter is advising the Company, the Guarantors or any other person as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction. The Company and the Guarantors shall consult with their own advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making their own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and the Underwriters shall have no responsibility or liability to the Company or the Guarantors with respect thereto. Any review by the Representatives or any Underwriter of the Company, the Guarantors and the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit of such Representative or such Underwriter, as the case may be, and shall not be on behalf of the Company, the Guarantors or any other person.
3. Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Guarantors. The Company and each Guarantor jointly and severally represent and warrant to each Underwriter that:
(a) Preliminary Prospectus. No order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and each Preliminary Prospectus included in the Time of Sale Information, at the time of filing thereof, complied in all material respects with the Securities Act and no Preliminary Prospectus, at the time of filing thereof, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company and the Guarantors make no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company and the Guarantors in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in any Preliminary Prospectus, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the Underwriter Information (as defined Section 9(b) hereof).
(b) Time of Sale Information. The Time of Sale Information, at the Time of Sale did not, and as of the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company and the Guarantors make no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company and the Guarantors in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in such Time of Sale Information, it being understood that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the Underwriter Information.
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No statement of material fact included in the Prospectus has been omitted from the Time of Sale Information and no statement of material fact included in the Time of Sale Information that is required to be included in the Prospectus has been omitted therefrom.
(c) Issuer Free Writing Prospectus. Other than the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, the Company and the Guarantors (including their agents and representatives, other than the Underwriters in their capacity as such) have not prepared, made, used, authorized, approved or referred to and will not prepare, make, use, authorize, approve or refer to any “written communication” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities (each such communication by the Company, the Guarantors or their agents and representatives (other than a communication referred to in clause (i) below) an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”) other than (i) any document not constituting a prospectus pursuant to Section 2(a)(10)(a) of the Securities Act or Rule 134 under the Securities Act, (ii) the documents listed on Annex A hereto, including a Pricing Term Sheet substantially in the form of Annex B hereto, which constitute part of the Time of Sale Information and (iii) each electronic road show and any other written communications approved in writing in advance by the Representatives. Each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus complies in all material respects with the Securities Act, has been or will be (within the time period specified in Rule 433) filed in accordance with the Securities Act (to the extent required thereby) and does not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement or the Time of Sale Information, and, when taken together with the Preliminary Prospectus filed prior to the first use of such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, at the Time of Sale, did not, and as of the Closing Date will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company and the Guarantors make no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company and the Guarantors in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.
(d) Testing-the-Waters Materials. The Company has not engaged in any Testing-the-Waters Communications. “Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any oral or written communication with potential investors undertaken in reliance on Rule 163B under the Securities Act.
(e) Registration Statement and Prospectus. The Registration Statement is an “automatic shelf registration statement” as defined under Rule 405 of the Securities Act that has been filed with the Commission not earlier than three years prior to the date hereof; and no notice of objection of the Commission to the use of such registration statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act has been received by the Company.
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No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued by the Commission, and no proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act against the Company or related to the offering of the Securities has been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission; as of the applicable effective date of the Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, the Registration Statement and any such post-effective amendment complied and will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Trust Indenture Act”), and did not and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; and as of the date of the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto and as of the Closing Date, the Prospectus will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that the Company makes no representation or warranty with respect to (i) that part of the Registration Statement that constitutes the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) of the Trustee under the Trust Indenture Act or (ii) any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the Underwriter Information.
(f) Incorporated Documents. The documents incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, when they were filed with the Commission conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act, and none of such documents contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Information, when such documents become effective or are filed with the Commission, as the case may be, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, as applicable, and will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.
(g) Financial Statements.
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The consolidated financial statements (including the related notes thereto) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, and present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations and the changes in their cash flows for the periods specified; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby, and the supporting schedules included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information present fairly in all material respects the information required to be stated therein; the other financial information included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus has been derived from the accounting records of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and presents fairly in all material respects the information shown thereby; all disclosures included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is defined by the rules and regulations of Commission) comply with Regulation G of the Exchange Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K of the Securities Act, to the extent applicable. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.
(h) No Material Adverse Change. Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, (i) there has not been any material change in the share capital, short-term debt or long-term debt of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set aside for payment, paid or made by the Company on any class of share capital, except in each case as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the business, properties, management, financial position, shareholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries taken as a whole; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement (whether or not in the ordinary course of business) that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company, the Guarantors and its subsidiaries taken as a whole; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its respective subsidiaries has sustained any loss or interference with its business that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole and that is either from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except in each case as otherwise disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.
(i) Organization and Good Standing. The Company and each of its subsidiaries have been duly incorporated or organized and are validly existing and in good standing (or their jurisdictional equivalent) under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of incorporation or organization, are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing (or their jurisdictional equivalent) in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such qualification, and have all power and authority necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged, except where the failure to be so qualified, in good standing (or their jurisdictional equivalent) or have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, management, financial position, shareholders’ equity, results of operations or prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole or on the performance by the Company and the Guarantors of their obligations under this Agreement, the Securities and the Guarantees (a “Material Adverse Effect”).
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The subsidiaries listed in Schedule 2 to this Agreement are the only significant subsidiaries of the Company.
(j) Capitalization. The Company has an issued capitalization as set forth in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus under the heading “Capitalization”; all the outstanding shares of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable and are not subject to any pre-emptive or similar rights that have not been duly waived or satisfied; except as described in or expressly contemplated by the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, there are no outstanding rights (including, without limitation, pre-emptive rights that have not been duly waived or satisfied), warrants or options to acquire, or instruments convertible into or exchangeable for, any share capital or other equity interest in the Company, the Guarantors or any of their subsidiaries, or any contract, commitment, agreement, understanding or arrangement of any kind relating to the issuance of any share capital of the Company or any such subsidiary, any such convertible or exchangeable securities or any such rights, warrants or options; the share capital of the Company conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus; and all the outstanding share capital or other equity interests of each subsidiary owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of any lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, restriction on voting or transfer or any other similar claim of any third party.
(k) Due Authorization. Each of the Company and the Guarantors has full right, power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and the Company and each of the Guarantors to the extent it is a party, have full right, power and authority to execute and deliver the Securities and the Indenture (including each Guarantee set forth therein) (collectively, the “Transaction Documents”) and to perform their respective obligations hereunder and thereunder; and all action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby has been duly and validly taken.
(l) The Indenture. The Base Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantors and the Fifth Supplemental Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and the Guarantors and on the Closing Date will be duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantors and, when duly executed and delivered in accordance with its terms by each of the parties thereto, the Indenture will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantors enforceable against the Company and the Guarantors in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability (collectively, the “Enforceability Exceptions”); and on the Closing Date the Indenture will conform in all material respects to any applicable requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
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(m) The Securities and the Guarantees. The Securities have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture and paid for as provided herein, will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture; and the Guarantees have been duly authorized by each of the Guarantors and, when the Securities have been duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture and paid for as provided herein, will be valid and legally binding obligations of each of the Guarantors, enforceable against each of the Guarantors in accordance with their terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and will be entitled to the benefits of the Indenture.
(n) Underwriting Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantors.
(o) Descriptions of the Transaction Documents. Each Transaction Document conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.
(p) No Violation or Default. None of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its articles of association or similar organizational documents; (ii) in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries is bound or to which any property or asset of the Company, the Guarantors or any of their subsidiaries is subject; or (iii) in violation of any law or statute applicable to the Company or the Guarantors or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority having jurisdiction over the Company or the Guarantors, except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for any such default or violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(q) No Conflicts.
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The execution, delivery and performance by the Company and the Guarantors of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities, the issuance of the Guarantees and compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, result in the termination, modification or acceleration of, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property, right or asset of the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries is bound or to which any property, right or asset of the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the articles of association or similar organizational documents of the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries or (iii) result in the violation of any law or statute applicable to the Company or the Guarantors or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii) above, for any such conflict, breach, violation, default, lien, charge or encumbrance that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(r) No Consents Required. No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company and the Guarantors of each of the Transaction Documents to which each is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities, the issuance of the Guarantees and compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except for (i) the registration of the Securities and the Guarantees under the Securities Act, (ii) the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act and (iii) such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as may be required under applicable state securities laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters.
(s) Legal Proceedings. Except as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, there are no legal, governmental or regulatory investigations, actions, demands, claims, suits, arbitrations, inquiries or proceedings (“Actions”) pending to which the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries is or may reasonably be expected to become a party or to which any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is or may reasonably be expected to become the subject that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company, the Guarantors or any of their subsidiaries, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, no such Actions are threatened or contemplated by any governmental or regulatory authority or threatened by others; and (i) there are no current or pending Actions that are required under the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus that are not so described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus and (ii) there are no statutes, regulations or contracts or other documents that are required under the Securities Act to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or described in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus that are not so filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement or described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.
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(t) Independent Accountants. Ernst & Young LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and as required by the Securities Act.
(u) Title to Real and Personal Property. The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property that are material to the respective businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except those that (i) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries or (ii) would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(v) Intellectual Property. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus or could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the Company and its subsidiaries own or have the right to use all patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, domain names and other source indicators, copyrights and copyrightable works, know-how, trade secrets, systems, procedures, proprietary or confidential information and all other worldwide intellectual property, industrial property and proprietary rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) used in the conduct of their respective businesses; (ii) to the knowledge of the Company, the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries’ conduct of their respective businesses does not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate any Intellectual Property of any person; (iii) the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries have not received any written notice of any claim relating to Intellectual Property; and (iv) to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, the Intellectual Property owned by or exclusively licensed to the Company, the Guarantors or their respective subsidiaries is not being infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated by any person.
(w) Investment Company Act. Neither the Company, nor the Guarantors is or has been since the completion of the Company’s initial public offering on June 18, 2020, and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, neither of them will be, required to register as an “investment company” or an entity “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (collectively, the “Investment Company Act”); and the facts described in the no-action letter from the Commission, dated August 13, 2010, remain substantially unchanged.
(x) Taxes. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus, (i) the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries have paid all material national, federal, state, local and foreign taxes and filed all tax returns required to be paid or filed through the date hereof; and (ii) there is no material tax deficiency that has been asserted against the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets.
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(y) Licenses and Permits. The Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries possess all licenses, sub-licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate national, federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authorities that are necessary for the ownership or lease of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, except where the failure to possess or make the same would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and except as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, none of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective subsidiaries has received notice of any revocation or modification of any such license, sub-license, certificate, permit or authorization or has any reason to believe that any such license, sub-license, certificate, permit or authorization will not be renewed in the ordinary course, except where such revocation, modification or nonrenewal would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(z) No Labor Disputes. No labor disturbance by or dispute with employees of the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, is contemplated or threatened and neither the Company nor the Guarantors is aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by, or dispute with, the employees of the Company, the Guarantors or any of the their respective subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, contractors or customers, except as would not have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective subsidiaries has received any notice of cancellation or termination with respect to any collective bargaining agreement to which it is a party.
(aa) Certain Environmental Matters. (i) The Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries (x) are in compliance with all, and have not violated any, applicable national, federal, state, local and foreign laws (including common law), rules, regulations, requirements, decisions, judgments, decrees, orders and other legally enforceable requirements relating to pollution or the protection of human health or safety, the environment, natural resources, hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (collectively, “Environmental Laws”); (y) have received and are in compliance with all, and have not violated any, permits, licenses, certificates or other authorizations or approvals required of them under any Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses; and (z) have not received notice of any actual or potential liability or obligation under or relating to, or any actual or potential violation of, any Environmental Laws, including for the investigation or remediation of any disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants, and have no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in any such notice, (ii) there are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws of or relating to the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries, except in the case of each of (i) and (ii) above, for any such matter as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (iii) (x) there is no proceeding that is pending, or that is known to be contemplated, against the Company, the Guarantors or any of their subsidiaries under any Environmental Laws in which a governmental entity is also a party, other than such proceeding regarding which it is reasonably believed no monetary sanctions of $100,000 or more will be imposed, (y) the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries are not aware of any facts or issues regarding compliance with Environmental Laws, or liabilities or other obligations under Environmental Laws or concerning hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants, that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the capital expenditures, earnings or competitive position of the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries, and (z) none of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective subsidiaries anticipates material capital expenditures relating to any Environmental Laws.
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(bb) Compliance with ERISA. (i) Each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), for which the Company or any of its subsidiaries would have any liability, whether contingent or otherwise, (each, a “Plan”) has been maintained in compliance with its terms and the requirements of any applicable statutes, orders, rules and regulations, including but not limited to ERISA and the Code; (ii) no prohibited transaction, within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, has occurred with respect to any Plan, excluding transactions effected pursuant to a statutory or administrative exemption; (iii) for each Plan that is subject to the funding rules of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, no Plan has failed (whether or not waived), or is reasonably expected to fail, to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section 302 of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code) applicable to such Plan; (iv) no Plan is, or is reasonably expected to be, in “at risk status” (within the meaning of Section 303(i) of ERISA), and no Plan that is a “multiemployer plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA is in “endangered status” or “critical status” (within the meaning of Sections 304 and 305 of ERISA); (v) no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA and the regulations promulgated thereunder) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (vi) each Plan that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified, and nothing has occurred, whether by action or by failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification; (vii) neither the Company nor any member of the “Controlled Group” (defined as any entity, whether or not incorporated, that is under common control with the Company within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(14) of ERISA or any entity that would be regarded as a single employer with the Company under Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) has incurred, nor reasonably expects to incur, any liability under Title IV of ERISA (other than contributions to the Plan or premiums to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, in the ordinary course and without default) in respect of a Plan (including a “multiemployer plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA); and (viii) none of the following events has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur: (A) a material increase in the aggregate amount of contributions required to be made to all Plans by the Company or its Controlled Group affiliates in the current fiscal year of the Company and its Controlled Group affiliates compared to the amount of such contributions made in the Company’s and its Controlled Group affiliates’ most recently completed fiscal year; or (B) a material increase in the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries’ “accumulated post-retirement benefit obligations” (within the meaning of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 715-60) compared to the amount of such obligations in the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries’ most recently completed fiscal year, except in each case with respect to the events or conditions set forth in (i) through (viii) hereof, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
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(cc) Disclosure Controls. The Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries maintain an effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that is designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, including controls and procedures designed to ensure that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company and its subsidiaries have carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.
(dd) Accounting Controls. The Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries maintain systems of “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and have been designed by, or under the supervision of, their respective principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with GAAP. The Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries maintain internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (v) interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. There are no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in the Company’s internal controls. The Company’s auditors and the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company have been advised of: (i) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting which have adversely affected or are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and (ii) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting.
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(ee) Insurance. The Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries have insurance covering their respective properties, operations, personnel and businesses, including business interruption insurance, which insurance is in amounts and insures against such losses and risks as are adequate to protect the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries and their respective businesses; and none of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective subsidiaries has (i) received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that capital improvements or other expenditures are required or necessary to be made in order to continue such insurance or (ii) any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage at reasonable cost from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business.
(ff) Cybersecurity; Data Protection. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus or could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries’ information technology assets and equipment, computers, systems, networks, hardware, software, websites, applications, and databases (collectively, “IT Systems”) are adequate for, and operate and perform in all material respects as required in connection with the operation of the business of the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries as currently conducted; (ii) the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable controls, policies, procedures, and safeguards to maintain and protect their material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and data (including all personal, personally identifiable, sensitive, confidential or regulated data (“Personal Data”)) used in connection with their businesses, and there have been no breaches, violations, outages or unauthorized uses of or accesses to same, nor any incidents under internal review or investigations relating to the same; and (iii) the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries are presently in compliance and have for the past three (3) years been in compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Personal Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Personal Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification.
(gg) No Unlawful Payments. None of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective affiliates, subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, any director, officer or employee of the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries nor any agent or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made or taken an act in furtherance of an offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government official or employee , including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom, or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law; or (iv) made, offered, agreed, requested or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including, without limitation, any unlawful rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful or improper payment or benefit.
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None of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective subsidiaries will use, directly or indirectly, the proceeds of the offering in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any person in violation of any applicable anti-corruption laws. The Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries have instituted, maintain and enforce, and will continue to maintain and enforce, policies and procedures designed to promote and ensure compliance with all applicable anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws.
(hh) Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA Patriot Act), the applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, threatened.
(ii) No Conflicts with Sanctions Laws. None of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective subsidiaries, directors, officers or employees, nor, to the knowledge of the Company and the Guarantors, any agent, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. government, (including, without limitation, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State and including, without limitation, the designation as a “specially designated national” or “blocked person”), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, His Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or target of Sanctions, including, without limitation, Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, or the Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, or Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine (collectively, “Sanctioned Territories”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the offering of the Securities hereunder, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity (i)
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to fund or facilitate any activities of or business with any person that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject or target of Sanctions, (ii) to fund or facilitate any activities of or business in any Sanctioned Territory or (iii) in any manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. In the past ten years, the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Territory.
(jj) No Restrictions on Subsidiaries. Except as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, or that will be permitted by the Indenture, no subsidiary of the Company or the Guarantors is currently prohibited, directly or indirectly, under any agreement or other instrument to which it is a party or is subject, from paying any dividends to the Company or the Guarantors, from making any other distribution on such subsidiary’s capital stock or similar ownership interest, from repaying to the Company any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or the Guarantors or from transferring any of such subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries.
(kk) No Broker’s Fees. None of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person (other than this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against any of them or any Underwriter for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities.
(ll) No Registration Rights. No person has the right to require the Company or any of its subsidiaries to register any securities for sale under the Securities Act by reason of the filing of the Registration Statement with the Commission or the issuance and sale of the Securities, other than rights that have been validly waived.
(mm) No Stabilization. None of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective subsidiaries or affiliates has taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Securities.
(nn) Margin Rules. Neither the issuance, sale and delivery of the Securities nor the application of the proceeds thereof by the Company as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus will violate Regulation T, U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or any other regulation of such Board of Governors.
(oo) Forward-Looking Statements. No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) included or incorporated by reference in any of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.
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(pp) Statistical and Market Data. Nothing has come to the attention of the Company or the Guarantors that has caused the Company or the Guarantors to believe that the statistical and market-related data included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus is not based on or derived from sources that are reliable and accurate in all material respects.
(qq) Sarbanes-Oxley Act. There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or any of the Company’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated in connection therewith (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), including Section 402 related to loans and Sections 302 and 906 related to certifications.
(rr) Status under the Securities Act. The Company is not an ineligible issuer and is a well-known seasoned issuer, in each case as defined under the Securities Act, in each case at the times specified in the Securities Act in connection with the offering of the Securities.
(ss) Transfer Taxes. No stamp duties, stamp duty reserve tax, documentary, issuance, transfer, capital, registration or other similar taxes or duties (“Transfer Taxes”) are payable by or on behalf of the Underwriters in the United Kingdom (including any such Transfer Taxes imposed by any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof) in respect of (A) the execution, delivery, performance and/or enforcement of this Agreement, (B) the initial issuance, initial sale and/or delivery of the Securities in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, or (C) the initial resale and delivery by the Underwriters of the Securities as contemplated herein.
(tt) No Withholding Tax. All payments to be made by the Company under this Agreement, under the current laws and regulations of the United Kingdom or any political subdivision thereof (the “Taxing Jurisdiction”), will not be subject to withholding, duties, levies, deductions, charges or other taxes under the current laws and regulations of the Taxing Jurisdiction and are otherwise payable free and clear of any other withholding, duty, levy, deduction, charge or other tax in the Taxing Jurisdiction and without the necessity of obtaining any governmental authorization in the Taxing Jurisdiction.
(uu) No Immunity. None of the Company, the Guarantors nor any of their respective subsidiaries or their properties or assets is entitled to claim immunity from the jurisdiction of any court or from any legal process in its respective jurisdiction of incorporation for enforcement of the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in this Agreement (whether through service or notice, attachment upon or prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution or otherwise); and, to the extent that the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries or any of its properties, assets or revenues may have or may hereafter become entitled to any such right of immunity in any such court in which proceedings arising out of, or relating to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, may at any time be commenced, the Company and the Guarantors have, pursuant to Section 18(f) of this Agreement, waived, and it will waive, or will cause their respective subsidiaries to waive, such right to the extent permitted by law.
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(vv) Enforcement of Foreign Judgments. Any final and conclusive judgment for a definite sum of money (but not in respect of any taxes, fine or other penalty) rendered by any U.S. federal or New York state court located in the State of New York having competent jurisdiction under its own laws in respect of any suit, action or proceeding against the Company or the Guarantors based upon this Agreement would be declared enforceable against the Company or the Guarantors by the courts of England and Wales, without re-litigation or re-examination of the matters adjudicated upon, provided that (i) the judgment was not obtained by fraud, (ii) the enforcement of the judgment would not be contrary to English public policy, (iii) the judgment was not obtained in proceedings contrary to natural justice, (iv) the judgment is not inconsistent with an English judgment or a foreign judgment given earlier in respect of the same matter, (v) the judgment is not for multiple damages and (vi) enforcement proceedings are instituted within six years after the date of the judgment.
(ww) Valid Choice of Law. The choice of laws of the State of New York as the governing law of this Agreement is a valid choice of law under the laws of England and Wales and will be honored by the courts of England and Wales, subject to the restrictions described under the caption “Enforcement of Civil Liabilities under U.S. Federal Securities Law and Other Matters” in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus. Each of the Company and each of the Guarantors has the power to submit, and pursuant to Section 18(d) of this Agreement, has legally, validly, effectively and irrevocably submitted, to the personal jurisdiction of each New York state and United States federal court sitting in the City of New York and has validly and irrevocably waived any objection to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding brought in such court.
(xx) Submission to Jurisdiction. The Company and the Guarantors have the power to submit, and pursuant to Section 18(d) of this Agreement and the Indenture have legally, validly, effectively and irrevocably submitted, to the exclusive jurisdiction of any U.S. federal or New York state court located in The City of New York; and have the power to designate, appoint and empower, and pursuant to Section 18(d) of this Agreement and the Indenture, have legally, validly and effectively designated, appointed and empowered an agent for service of process in any suit or proceeding based on or arising under this Agreement or the Indenture, as applicable, in any U.S. federal or New York state court located in The City of New York.
(yy) Exchange Controls. No exchange control authorization or any other authorization, approval, consent or license of any governmental or regulatory authority or court in England and Wales is required for the payment of any amounts payable under the Transaction Documents and, except as disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, all interest, principal, premium, if any, additional amounts, if any, and other payments on or under the Transaction Documents.
(zz) Indemnification and Contribution. The indemnification and contribution provisions set forth in Section 9 hereof do not contravene English law or public policy.
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(aaa) No Requirement to Qualify to do Business. It is not necessary under the laws of England and Wales that any holder of the Securities, or the Underwriters, should be licensed, qualified or entitled to carry on business in England and Wales, (i) to enable any of them to enforce their respective rights under the Transaction Document or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any other document to be delivered in connection herewith or therewith or (ii) solely by reason of the execution, delivery or performance of any such document.
(bbb) Legality. The legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility into evidence of any of the Transaction Documents or the Securities in any jurisdiction in which the Company and each Guarantor are organized or does business is not dependent upon such document being submitted into, filed or recorded with any court or other authority in any such jurisdiction on or before the date hereof or that any tax, imposition or charge be paid in any such jurisdiction on or in respect of any such document.
(ccc) No Requirement to File or Record. This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents are in proper legal form under the laws of England and Wales for the enforcement thereof in England and Wales against the Company and the Guarantors, and to ensure the legality, enforcement or admissibility into evidence of this Agreement and any other Transaction Document in England and Wales, it is not necessary for this Agreement or any such Transaction Document, as the case may be, to be filed or recorded with any court or other authority in England and Wales or that any tax or fee be paid in the United Kingdom on or in respect of this Agreement or such Transaction Document, as the case may be, or any other document, other than court costs (including, without limitation, filing fees). This Agreement and the other Transaction Documents are in proper legal form under the laws of the State of New York for the enforcement thereof in the State of New York against the Company and the Guarantors, and it is not necessary in order to ensure the legality, validity, enforcement or admissibility into evidence of this Agreement and any other Transaction Document in the State of New York that this Agreement or any such Transaction Document, as the case may be, be filed or recorded with any court or other authority in the State of New York or that any tax or fee be paid in the State of New York on or in respect of this Agreement or such Transaction Document, as the case may be, or any other document, other than court costs, including (without limitation) filing fees.
(ddd) Legal Action. A holder of the Securities and each Underwriter are each entitled to sue as plaintiff in the court of the jurisdiction of formation and domicile of each of the Guarantors for the enforcement of their respective rights under this Agreement and the Securities and such access to such courts will not be subject to any conditions which are not applicable to residents of such jurisdiction or a company incorporated in such jurisdiction except that plaintiffs not residing in England and Wales may be required to guarantee payment of a possible order for payment of costs or damages at the request of the defendant.
(eee) Residency. Each of the Company and the Guarantors is not a resident for tax purposes other than in its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization, as applicable.
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(fff) Listing of Securities. The Company is not aware of any reason why The International Stock Exchange Authority should not give approval for the Securities and the Exchange Notes, in each case subject to issuance thereof, to be included in the Official List of and admitted to trading on The International Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”).
(ggg) Outbound Investment. Neither the Company, the Guarantors, nor any of their respective subsidiaries is a “covered foreign person,” as that term is defined in 31 C.F.R. § 850.209. Neither the Company, the Guarantors, nor any of their respective subsidiaries currently engages, or has plans to engage, directly or indirectly, in a “covered activity,” as that term is defined in 31 C.F.R. § 850.208 (“Covered Activity”). None of the Company, the Guarantors, nor any of their respective subsidiaries has any joint ventures that engages in or plans to engage in any Covered Activity. None of the Company, the Guarantors, nor any of their respective subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, holds a board seat on, has a voting or equity interest in, or has any contractual power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of any person or persons that engages or plans to engage in any Covered Activity.
4. RESERVED
5. Further Agreements of the Company and the Guarantors. The Company and each of the Guarantors covenant and agree with each Underwriter that:
(a) Required Filings. The Company and the Guarantors will file the final Prospectus with the Commission within the time periods specified by Rule 424(b) and Rule 430A, 430B or 430C under the Securities Act, will file any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (including the Pricing Term Sheet referred to in Annex B hereto) to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act; and the Company will furnish copies of the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (to the extent not previously delivered) to the Underwriters in New York City prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the business day next succeeding the date of this Agreement in such quantities as the Representatives may reasonably request. The Company will pay the registration fees for this offering within the time period required by Rule 456(b)(1)(i) under the Securities Act (without giving effect to the proviso therein) and in any event prior to the Closing Date.
(b) Delivery of Copies. The Company will deliver, without charge, (i) to the Representatives, six signed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto, in each case including all exhibits and consents filed therewith and documents incorporated by reference therein; and (ii) to each Underwriter (A) a conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto (without exhibits) and (B) during the Prospectus Delivery Period (as defined below), as many copies of the Prospectus (including all amendments and supplements thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus) as the Representatives may reasonably request. As used herein, the term “Prospectus Delivery Period” means such period of time after the first date of the public offering of the Securities as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters a prospectus relating to the Securities is required by law to be delivered (or required to be delivered but for Rule 172 under the Securities Act) in connection with sales of the Securities by any Underwriter or dealer.
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(c) Amendments or Supplements; Issuer Free Writing Prospectuses. Before making, preparing, using, authorizing, approving, referring to or filing any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, and before filing any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, the Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters a copy of the proposed Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, amendment or supplement for review and will not make, prepare, use, authorize, approve, refer to or file any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which the Representatives reasonably objects in a timely manner.
(d) Notice to the Representatives. The Company will advise the Representatives promptly, and confirm such advice in writing, (i) when the Registration Statement has become effective; (ii) when any amendment to the Registration Statement has been filed or becomes effective; (iii) when any supplement to the Prospectus or any amendment to the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been filed or distributed; (iv) of any request by the Commission for any amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or the receipt of any comments from the Commission relating to the Registration Statement or any other request by the Commission for any additional information; (v) of the issuance by the Commission or any other governmental or regulatory authority of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus, any Time of Sale Information or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose or pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act; (vi) of the occurrence of any event or development within the Prospectus Delivery Period as a result of which the Prospectus, any of the Time of Sale Information or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information or any such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading; (vii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the Commission to the use of the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act; and (viii) of the receipt by the Company of any notice with respect to any suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offer and sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and the Company will use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement, preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus, any of the Time of Sale Information, Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or the Prospectus, or suspending any such qualification of the Securities and, if any such order is issued, will use reasonable best efforts to obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.
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(e) Time of Sale Information. If at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) any event or development shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which any of the Time of Sale Information as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Information to comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the Commission (to the extent required) and furnish to the Underwriters and to such dealers as the Representatives may designate, such amendments or supplements to the Time of Sale Information (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) as may be necessary so that the statements in any of the Time of Sale Information as so amended or supplemented (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) will not, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, be misleading or so that any of the Time of Sale Information will comply with law.
(f) Ongoing Compliance. If during the Prospectus Delivery Period (i) any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (c) above, file with the Commission and furnish to the Underwriters and to such dealers as the Representatives may designate, such amendments or supplements to the Prospectus (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) as may be necessary so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented including such documents to be incorporated by reference therein will not, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Prospectus is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus will comply with law.
(g) Blue Sky Compliance. The Company will qualify the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives shall reasonably request and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for distribution of the Securities; provided that the Company nor the Guarantors shall not be required to (i) qualify as a foreign corporation or other entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to so qualify, (ii) file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction or (iii) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not otherwise so subject.
(h) Earning Statement. The Company will make generally available to its security holders and the Representatives as soon as practicable an earning statement that satisfies the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 of the Commission promulgated thereunder covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the “effective date” (as defined in Rule 158) of the Registration Statement; provided, that the Company will be deemed to have furnished such earning statement to its security holders and the Representatives to the extent they are filed on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (“EDGAR”) system.
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(i) Clear Market. During the period from the date hereof through and including the Closing Date, the Company, the Guarantors and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates will not, without the prior written consent of the Representatives, offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or the Guarantors and having a tenor of more than one year. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing shall not apply to any intercompany indebtedness of the Company and the Guarantors.
(j) Use of Proceeds. The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus under the heading “Use of proceeds”.
(k) DTC. The Company will assist the Underwriters in arranging for the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.
(l) No Stabilization. Neither the Company nor any of the Guarantors will take, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that could reasonably be expected to cause or result in any stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Securities.
(m) Exchange Listing. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts, subject to notice of issuance, to have the Securities included in the Official List of and admitted to trading on the Exchange with effect as soon as reasonably practicable following issuance.
(n) Record Retention. The Company will, pursuant to reasonable procedures developed in good faith, retain copies of each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus that is not filed with the Commission in accordance with Rule 433 under the Securities Act.
(o) Tax Indemnity and Undertakings. The Company and the Guarantors agree with each of the Underwriters to make all payments under this Agreement without withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties or governmental charges whatsoever, unless the Company or the Guarantors is compelled by law to deduct or withhold such taxes, duties or charges. In that event, the Company or the Guarantors making such payment shall pay such additional amounts as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received after such withholding or deduction will equal the amounts that would have been received if no withholding or deduction had been made, except to the extent that such taxes, duties or charges (a) were imposed due to some connection of an Underwriter with the Taxing Jurisdiction other than the mere entering into of this Agreement or receipt of payments hereunder or (b) would not have been imposed but for the failure of such Underwriter to comply with any reasonable request to comply with any procedural requirement (including certification, identification or other reporting requirements) concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with the Taxing Jurisdiction of the Underwriter if such compliance is required or imposed by law as a precondition to an exemption from, or reduction in, such taxes, duties or other charges.
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(p) Transfer Taxes. The Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Underwriters against any Transfer Taxes, including any interest and penalties, on the creation, initial issue and/or initial sale and delivery of the Securities in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, and/or on the execution, delivery and/or performance of this Agreement, and/or the initial resale and delivery by the Underwriters of the Securities as contemplated herein.
6. RESERVED
7. Certain Agreements of the Underwriters. Each Underwriter hereby represents and agrees that:
(a) It has not and will not use, authorize use of, refer to, or participate in the planning for use of, any “free writing prospectus”, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act (which term includes use of any written information furnished to the Commission by the Company and not incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and any press release issued by the Company) other than (i) a free writing prospectus that, solely as a result of use by such Underwriter, would not trigger an obligation to file such free writing prospectus with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433, (ii) any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus listed on Annex A or prepared pursuant to Section 3(c) above (including any electronic road show), or (iii) any free writing prospectus prepared by such Underwriter and approved by the Company in advance in writing (each such free writing prospectus referred to in clauses (i) or (iii), an “Underwriter Free Writing Prospectus”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Underwriters may use the Pricing Term Sheet referred to in Annex B hereto without the consent of the Company.
(b) It is not subject to any pending proceeding under Section 8A of the Securities Act with respect to the offering (and will promptly notify the Company if any such proceeding against it is initiated during the Prospectus Delivery Period).
8. Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligations. The obligation of each Underwriter to purchase Securities on the Closing Date as provided herein is subject to the performance by the Company and the Guarantors of their respective covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
(a) Registration Compliance; No Stop Order. No order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceeding for such purpose, pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission; the Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission under the Securities Act (in the case of an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act) and in accordance with Section 7(a) hereof; and all requests by the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representatives.
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(b) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantors contained herein shall be true and correct on the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date; and the statements of the Company, the Guarantors and their respective officers made in any certificates delivered pursuant to this Agreement shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date.
(c) No Downgrade. Subsequent to the earlier of (A) the Time of Sale and (B) the execution and delivery of this Agreement, (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Securities or any other debt securities, convertible securities or preferred stock issued or guaranteed by the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is defined under Section 3(a)(62) under the Exchange Act and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review, or has changed its outlook with respect to, its rating of the Securities or of any other debt securities or preferred stock issued or guaranteed by the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading).
(d) No Material Adverse Change. No event or condition of a type described in Section 3(h) hereof shall have occurred or shall exist, which event or condition is not described in each of the Time of Sale Information (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and the Prospectus (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) the effect of which in the judgment of the Representatives makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.
(e) The Company’s and Guarantors’ Officer’s Certificate. The Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date a certificate of the principal executive officer or principal financial officer of the Company and of the Guarantors (i) confirming that such officer has carefully reviewed the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus and, to the knowledge of such officer, the representations set forth in Sections 3(b) and 3(e) hereof are true and correct, (ii) confirming that the other representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantors in this Agreement are true and correct and that the Company and the Guarantors have complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on their part to be performed or satisfied hereunder at or prior to the Closing Date and (iii) to the effect set forth in paragraphs (a), (c) and (d) above.
(f) RESERVED.
(g) Comfort Letters. On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, Ernst & Young LLP shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives, containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than two business days prior to the Closing Date (h) CFO Certificate.
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On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, the Chief Financial Officer of the Company shall have furnished to the Representatives a certificate, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Representatives, of its chief financial officer with respect to certain financial data contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, providing “management comfort” with respect to such information, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(i) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Company and the Guarantors. Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for the Company and the Guarantors, shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, their written opinion and 10b-5 statement, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(j) Opinion of English Counsel for the Company and the Guarantors. Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP, English counsel for the Company and the Guarantors, shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company and the Guarantors, their written opinion, dated the Closing Date, and addressed to the Representatives, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(k) Opinion of Special Counsel for the Company. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, special counsel for Company, shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, its written opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives.
(l) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Underwriters. The Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date an opinion and 10b-5 statement, addressed to the Representatives, of Goodwin Procter LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to such matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.
(m) No Legal Impediment to Issuance and/or Sale. No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any federal, state or foreign governmental or regulatory authority that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance, sale or delivery to the Underwriters of the Securities or the issuance of the Guarantees; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities or the issuance of the Guarantees.
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(n) Good Standing. The Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company, the Guarantors and their subsidiaries in their respective jurisdictions of organization (to the extent that concept is applicable under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization) and their good standing or their equivalent in such other jurisdictions as the Representatives may reasonably request, in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication from the appropriate governmental authorities of such jurisdictions, in each case to the extent the concept of good standing exists in such jurisdiction.
(o) DTC. The Securities shall be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.
(p) Indenture and Securities. The Indenture shall have been duly executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, and the Securities shall have been duly executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the Company and duly authenticated by the Trustee.
(q) Transactions. Concurrently with or prior to the Closing Date, each of the Transactions shall have been consummated in a manner consistent in all material respects with the descriptions thereof in the Registration Statement, Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.
(r) Additional Documents. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company and the Guarantors shall have furnished to the Representatives such further certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request.
All opinions, letters, certificates and evidence mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters.
9. Indemnification and Contribution.
(a) Indemnification of the Underwriters by the Company and the Guarantors. The Company and the Guarantors agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, employees, agents, directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonably incurred and documented legal fees and other reasonably incurred and documented expenses incurred in connection with any suit, action or proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred), joint or several, that arise out of, or are based upon, (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, not misleading, or (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Time of Sale Information, or caused by any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by any Underwriter consists of the Underwriter Information.
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(b) Indemnification of the Company and the Guarantors. Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantors and their respective directors, the officers who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the Guarantors within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a) above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities that arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through the Representatives expressly for use in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus (or any amendment or supplement thereto), any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or any Time of Sale Information, it being understood and agreed that the only such information consists of the following paragraphs in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus: the concession and reallowance figures appearing in the third paragraph under the caption “Underwriting” and the information contained in the sixth paragraph relating to stabilization under the caption “Underwriting” (collectively, the “Underwriter Information”).
(c) Notice and Procedures. If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any person in respect of which indemnification may be sought pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such person (the “Indemnified Person”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnification may be sought (the “Indemnifying Person”) in writing; provided that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under paragraph (a) or (b) above except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and provided, further, that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have to an Indemnified Person otherwise than under paragraph (a) or (b) above. If any such proceeding shall be brought or asserted against an Indemnified Person and it shall have notified the Indemnifying Person thereof, the Indemnifying Person shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person (who shall not, without the consent of the Indemnified Person, be counsel to the Indemnifying Person) to represent the Indemnified Person and any others entitled to indemnification pursuant to this Section 9 that the Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the reasonably incurred fees and expenses of such counsel related to such proceeding, as incurred. In any such proceeding, any Indemnified Person shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Person unless (i) the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person shall have mutually agreed to the contrary; (ii) the Indemnifying Person has failed within a reasonable time to retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Person; (iii) the Indemnified Person shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal defenses available to it that are different from or in addition to those available to the Indemnifying Person; or (iv) the named parties in any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the Indemnifying Person and the Indemnified Person and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them.
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It is understood and agreed that the Indemnifying Person shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceeding in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all Indemnified Persons, and that all such reasonably incurred fees and expenses shall be paid or reimbursed as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for any Underwriter, its affiliates, employees, agents, directors and officers and any control persons of such Underwriter shall be designated in writing by the Representatives and any such separate firm for the Company, the Guarantors, their respective directors and officers who signed the Registration Statement and any control persons of the Company and the Guarantors shall be designated in writing by the Company. The Indemnifying Person shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent, the Indemnifying Person agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person shall have requested that an Indemnifying Person reimburse the Indemnified Person for reasonably incurred fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this paragraph, the Indemnifying Person shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by the Indemnifying Person of such request and (ii) the Indemnifying Person shall not have reimbursed the Indemnified Person in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No Indemnifying Person shall, without the written consent of the Indemnified Person, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Person is or could have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such Indemnified Person, unless such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Person, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Person, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (y) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any Indemnified Person.
(d) Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in paragraph (a) or (b) above is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations.
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The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds (before deducting expenses) received by the Company from the sale of the Securities and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters in connection therewith, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate offering price of the Securities. The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.
(e) Limitation on Liability. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 9 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 9, in no event shall an Underwriter be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the offering of the Securities exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 9 are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations hereunder and not joint.
(f) Non-Exclusive Remedies. The remedies provided for in this Section 9 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies that may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity.
10. Effectiveness of Agreement. This Agreement shall become effective as of the date first written above.
11. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, by notice to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and on or prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on or by any of the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or the Guarantors shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York State authorities; or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, in the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.
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12. Defaulting Underwriter.
(a) If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter defaults on its obligation to purchase the Securities that it has agreed to purchase hereunder, the non-defaulting Underwriters may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Securities by other persons satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained in this Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any Underwriter, the non-defaulting Underwriters do not arrange for the purchase of such Securities, then the Company shall be entitled to a further period of 36 hours within which to procure other persons satisfactory to the non-defaulting Underwriters to purchase such Securities on such terms. If other persons become obligated or agree to purchase the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter, either the non-defaulting Underwriters or the Company may postpone the Closing Date for up to five full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel for the Company or counsel for the Underwriters may be necessary in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus or in any other document or arrangement, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus that effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term “Underwriter” includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires, any person not listed in Schedule 1 hereto that, pursuant to this Section 12, purchases Securities that a defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase.
(b) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Underwriter to purchase the principal amount of Securities that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder plus such Underwriter’s pro rata share (based on the principal amount of Securities that such Underwriter agreed to purchase hereunder) of the Securities of such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters for which such arrangements have not been made.
(c) If, after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Securities of a defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters by the non-defaulting Underwriters and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in paragraph (b) above, then this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 12 shall be without liability on the part of the Company and the Guarantors, except that the Company and the Guarantors will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Section 13 hereof and except that the provisions of Section 9 hereof shall not terminate and shall remain in effect.
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(d) Nothing contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of any liability it may have to the Company, the Guarantors or any non-defaulting Underwriter for damages caused by its default.
13. Payment of Expenses.
(e) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company and the Guarantors agree to pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of their obligations hereunder, including without limitation, (i) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Securities (but excluding taxes on income, profits or gains of the Underwriters); (ii) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and filing under the Securities Act of the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus, any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, any Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus (including all exhibits, amendments and supplements thereto) and the distribution thereof; (iii) the costs of reproducing and distributing each of the Transaction Documents; (iv) the fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and independent accountants; (v) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the registration or qualification and determination of eligibility for investment of the Securities under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate and the preparation, printing and distribution of a Blue Sky Memorandum (including the related fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters not to exceed $5,000); (vi) any fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Securities; (vii) the fees and expenses of the Trustee and any paying agent (including related fees and expenses of any counsel to such parties); (viii) [reserved]; (ix) all expenses and application fees incurred in connection with the approval of the Securities for book-entry transfer by DTC; (x) all expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors, provided, however, that that the Underwriters shall pay 50% of the cost of any aircraft chartered in connection with such “road show”; and (xi) all expenses and application fees related to the listing of the Securities on the Exchange.
(a) If (i) this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 11, (ii) the Company for any reason fails to tender the Securities for delivery to the Underwriters or (iii) the Underwriters decline to purchase the Securities for any reason permitted under this Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors agree to reimburse the Underwriters for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the fees and expenses of their counsel) reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in connection with this Agreement and the offering contemplated hereby. For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood that the Company and the Guarantors shall not pay or reimburse any costs, fees or expenses incurred by any Underwriter that defaults on its obligations to purchase the Securities.
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14. Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and their respective successors and the officers and directors and any controlling persons referred to herein, and the affiliates of each Underwriter referred to in Section 9 hereof. Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any other person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision contained herein. No purchaser of Securities from any Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor merely by reason of such purchase.
15. Survival. The respective indemnities, rights of contribution, representations, warranties and agreements of the Company, the Guarantors and the Underwriters contained in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of the Company, the Guarantors or the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement or any certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the delivery of and payment for the Securities and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any termination of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of the Company, the Guarantors or the Underwriters or the directors, officers, controlling persons or affiliates referred to in Section 9 hereof.
16. Certain Defined Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, (a) except where otherwise expressly provided, the term “affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; (b) the term “business day” means any day other than a day on which banks are permitted or required to be closed in New York City; (c) the term “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; and (d) the term “significant subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act.
17. Compliance with USA Patriot Act. In accordance with the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), the Underwriters are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies their respective clients, including the Company and the Guarantors, which information may include the name and address of their respective clients, as well as other information that will allow the Underwriters to properly identify their respective clients.
18. Miscellaneous.
(a) Authority of the Representatives. Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may be taken by the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such action taken by the Representatives shall be binding upon the Underwriters.
(b) Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or transmitted and confirmed by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices to the Underwriters shall be given to the Representatives: c/o BofA Securities, Inc., 114 West 47th Street, NY8-114-07-01, New York, New York 10036, Attention: High Grade Debt Capital Markets Transaction Management/Legal, Facsimile: (212) 901-7881; c/o Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, Attention: Registration Desk; c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179, Attention: Investment Grade Syndicate Desk, Facsimile: (212) 834-6081; c/o Morgan Stanley & Co.
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LLC, 1585 Broadway, 29th Floor, New York, New York 10036, Attention: Investment Banking Division, with a copy to the Legal Department; and c/o TD Securities (USA) LLC, 1 Vanderbilt Ave, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10017, Attention: DCM-Transaction Advisory, Email: USTransactionadvisory@tdsecurities.com. Notices to the Company and the Guarantors shall be given to Royalty Pharma, LLC, 110 East 59th Street; New York, New York 10022; Attention: Legal.
(c) Governing Law. This Agreement and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
(d) Submission to Jurisdiction. The Company and the Guarantors hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. federal and New York state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company and each of the Guarantors waive any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such suit or proceeding in such courts. Each of the Company and the Guarantors agrees that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and each of the Guarantors, as applicable, and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which Company and each of the Guarantors, as applicable, is subject by a suit upon such judgment. The Company and the Guarantors irrevocably appoint Royalty Pharma, LLC, located in New York, New York, as its authorized agent in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York upon which process may be served in any such suit or proceeding, and agrees that service of process upon such authorized agent, and written notice of such service to the Company or the Guarantors, as the case may be, by the person serving the same to the address provided in this Section 18, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company and the Guarantors in any such suit or proceeding. The Company and the Guarantors hereby represent and warrant that such authorized agent has accepted such appointment and has agreed to act as such authorized agent for service of process. The Company and the Guarantors further agree to take any and all action as may be necessary to maintain such designation and appointment of such authorized agent in full force and effect for a period of seven years from the date of this Agreement.
(e) Judgment Currency. The Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify each Underwriter, its directors, officers, affiliates and each person, if any, who controls such Underwriter within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, against any loss incurred by such Underwriter as a result of any judgment or order being given or made for any amount due hereunder and such judgment or order being expressed and paid in a currency (the “judgment currency”) other than U.S. dollars and as a result of any variation as between (i) the rate of exchange at which the U.S. dollar amount is converted into the judgment currency for the purpose of such judgment or order, and (ii) the rate of exchange at which such indemnified person is able to purchase U.S. dollars with the amount of the judgment currency actually received by the indemnified person. The foregoing indemnity shall constitute the joint and several obligation of the Company and the Guarantors and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding any such judgment or order as aforesaid.
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The term “rate of exchange” shall include any premiums and costs of exchange payable in connection with the purchase of, or conversion into, the relevant currency.
(f) Waiver of Immunity. To the extent that the Company and the Guarantors may acquire any immunity (sovereign or otherwise) from jurisdiction of any court of (i) England and Wales, (ii) the United States or the State of New York, (iii) any jurisdiction in which it owns or leases property or assets or from any legal process (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution, execution, set-off or otherwise) with respect to themselves or their respective property and assets or this Agreement, the Guarantors hereby irrevocably waives such immunity in respect of its obligations under this Agreement to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
(g) Waiver of Jury Trial. Each of the parties hereto hereby waives any right to trial by jury in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement.
(h) Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes.
(I) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
(II) In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.
As used in this Section 18(h):
“BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k).
“Covered Entity” means any of the following:
(A) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b);
(B) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (C) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R.
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§ 382.2(b).
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(i) Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts (which may include counterparts delivered by any standard form of telecommunication), each of which shall be an original and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including any electronic signature covered by the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, the Electronic Signatures and Records Act or other applicable law, e.g., www.docusign.com) or other transmission method and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes.
(j) Amendments or Waivers. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the parties hereto.
(k) Headings. The headings herein are included for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement.
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If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding, please indicate your acceptance of this Agreement by signing in the space provided below.
| Very truly yours, | ||
| ROYALTY PHARMA PLC | ||
| By | /s/ Pablo Legorreta |
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| Title: Director | ||
| ROYALTY PHARMA HOLDINGS LTD | ||
| By | /s/ Pablo Legorreta |
|
| Title: Director | ||
| ROYALTY PHARMA MANAGER, LLC | ||
| By | /s/ Pablo Legorreta |
|
| Title: Manager | ||
Accepted: As of the date first written above
| BOFA SECURITIES, INC. | ||
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC | ||
| J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | ||
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC | ||
| TD SECURITIES (USA) LLC | ||
| For themselves and on behalf of the several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto. | ||
| BOFA SECURITIES, INC. | ||
| By | /s/ Douglas Muller |
|
| Authorized Signatory | ||
| GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC | ||
| By | /s/ Karim Saleh |
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| Authorized Signatory | ||
| J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC | ||
| By | /s/ Som Bhattacharyya |
|
| Authorized Signatory | ||
| MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC | ||
| By | /s/ Thomas Hadley |
|
| Authorized Signatory | ||
| TD SECURITIES (USA) LLC | ||
| By | /s/ Chandni Joshi |
|
| Authorized Signatory | ||
Schedule 1
| Principal Amount of Securities to be Purchased | ||||||||||||
| 2031 Notes | 2035 Notes | 2055 Notes | ||||||||||
| Underwriter |
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| BofA Securities, Inc. |
$ | 91,800,000 | $ | 137,700,000 | $ | 76,500,000 | ||||||
| Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC |
91,800,000 | 137,700,000 | 76,500,000 | |||||||||
| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC |
91,800,000 | 137,700,000 | 76,500,000 | |||||||||
| Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC |
91,800,000 | 137,700,000 | 76,500,000 | |||||||||
| TD Securities (USA) LLC |
91,800,000 | 137,700,000 | 76,500,000 | |||||||||
| Citigroup Global Markets Inc. |
27,000,000 | 40,500,000 | 22,500,000 | |||||||||
| DNB Markets Inc. |
27,000,000 | 40,500,000 | 22,500,000 | |||||||||
| SG Americas Securities, LLC |
27,000,000 | 40,500,000 | 22,500,000 | |||||||||
| SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. |
27,000,000 | 40,500,000 | 22,500,000 | |||||||||
| U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. |
27,000,000 | 40,500,000 | 22,500,000 | |||||||||
| Academy Securities, Inc. |
667,000 | 1,000,000 | 556,000 | |||||||||
| AmeriVet Securities, Inc. |
667,000 | 1,000,000 | 556,000 | |||||||||
| Blaylock Van, LLC |
667,000 | 1,000,000 | 556,000 | |||||||||
| Cabrera Capital Markets LLC |
667,000 | 1,000,000 | 556,000 | |||||||||
| Drexel Hamilton, LLC |
667,000 | 1,000,000 | 556,000 | |||||||||
| R. Seelaus & Co., LLC |
667,000 | 1,000,000 | 555,000 | |||||||||
| Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc. |
666,000 | 1,000,000 | 555,000 | |||||||||
| Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC |
666,000 | 1,000,000 | 555,000 | |||||||||
| Tigress Financial Partners LLC |
666,000 | 1,000,000 | 555,000 | |||||||||
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| Total |
$ | 600,000,000 | $ | 900,000,000 | $ | 500,000,000 | ||||||
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Schedule 2
Significant Subsidiaries
Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd
Royalty Pharma Investments 2019 ICAV
RPI 2019 Intermediate Finance Trust
Royalty Pharma Investments 2011 ICAV
RPI Acquisitions (Ireland) Limited
RPI Finance Trust
Royalty Pharma Investments 2023 ICAV
Royalty Pharma Development Funding, LLC
Annex A
Time of Sale Information
| 1. | Term Sheet, dated September 2, 2025, substantially in the form of Annex B. |
Annex B
[Attached]
Filed Pursuant to Rule 433
Registration Statement No. 333-279905
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus dated September 2, 2025
Relating to Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated September 2, 2025
ROYALTY PHARMA PLC
PRICING TERM SHEET
September 2, 2025
Terms applicable to
$600,000,000 4.450% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes”)
| Issuer: | Royalty Pharma plc | |
| Guarantor: | The 2031 Notes will initially be guaranteed by Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd and Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC | |
| Expected Ratings:* | ||
| (Moody’s / S&P / Fitch) | Baa2 / BBB- / BBB- | |
| Title of Securities: | 4.450% Senior Notes due 2031 | |
| Principal Amount Offered: | $600,000,000 | |
| Trade Date: | September 2, 2025 | |
| Settlement Date:** | September 16, 2025 (T+10) | |
| Final Maturity Date: | March 25, 2031 | |
| Interest Payment Dates: | Semi-annually each March 25 and September 25, commencing March 25, 2026 | |
| Benchmark Treasury: | 3.625% due August 31, 2030 | |
| Benchmark Treasury Price / Yield: | 99-14+ / 3.746% | |
| Spread to Benchmark Treasury: | T+93bps | |
| Yield to Maturity: | 4.676% | |
| Coupon: | 4.450% | |
| Denominations: | $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof | |
| Public Offering Price: | 98.909% of the principal amount | |
| Gross Proceeds: | $593,454,000 | |
| Make-Whole Call: | Prior to February 25, 2031 (one month prior to the final maturity date), Make-Whole call at Treasury plus 15 basis points | |
| Par Call: | On or after February 25, 2031 (one month prior to the final maturity date) | |
| Joint Book-Running Managers: | BofA Securities, Inc. | |
| Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC | ||
| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC | ||
| Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC | ||
| TD Securities (USA) LLC | ||
| Co-Managers: | Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | |
| DNB Markets Inc. | ||
| SG Americas Securities, LLC | ||
| SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. | ||
| U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. | ||
| Academy Securities, Inc. | ||
| AmeriVet Securities, Inc. | ||
| Blaylock Van, LLC | ||
| Cabrera Capital Markets LLC | ||
| Drexel Hamilton, LLC | ||
| R. Seelaus & Co., LLC | ||
| Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc. | ||
| Siebert Williams shank & Co., LLC | ||
| Tigress Financial Partners LLC | ||
| CUSIP / ISIN: | 78081BAT0 / US78081BAT08 | |
Terms applicable to
$900,000,000 5.200% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Notes”)
| Issuer: | Royalty Pharma plc | |
| Guarantor: | The 2035 Notes will initially be guaranteed by Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd and Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC | |
| Expected Ratings:* | ||
| (Moody’s / S&P / Fitch) | Baa2 / BBB- / BBB- | |
| Title of Securities: | 5.200% Senior Notes due 2035 | |
| Principal Amount Offered: | $900,000,000 | |
| Trade Date: | September 2, 2025 | |
| Settlement Date:** | September 16, 2025 (T+10) | |
| Final Maturity Date: | September 25, 2035 | |
| Interest Payment Dates: | Semi-annually each March 25 and September 25, commencing March 25, 2026 | |
| Benchmark Treasury: | 4.250% due August 15, 2035 | |
| Benchmark Treasury Price / Yield: | 99-23+ / 4.283% | |
| Spread to Benchmark Treasury: | T+118 bps | |
| Yield to Maturity: | 5.463% | |
| Coupon: | 5.200% | |
| Denominations: | $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof | |
| Public Offering Price: | 97.989% of the principal amount | |
| Gross Proceeds: | $881,901,000 | |
| Make-Whole Call: | Prior to June 25, 2035 (three months prior to the final maturity date), Make-Whole call at Treasury plus 20 basis points | |
| Par Call: | On or after June 25, 2035 (three months prior to the final maturity date) | |
| Joint Book-Running Managers: | BofA Securities, Inc. | |
| Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC | ||
| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC | ||
| Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC | ||
| TD Securities (USA) LLC | ||
| Co-Managers: | Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | |
| DNB Markets Inc. | ||
| SG Americas Securities, LLC | ||
| SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. | ||
| U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. | ||
| Academy Securities, Inc. | ||
| AmeriVet Securities, Inc. | ||
| Blaylock Van, LLC | ||
| Cabrera Capital Markets LLC | ||
| Drexel Hamilton, LLC | ||
| R. Seelaus & Co., LLC | ||
| Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc. | ||
| Siebert Williams shank & Co., LLC | ||
| Tigress Financial Partners LLC | ||
| CUSIP / ISIN: | 78081BAU7 / US78081BAU70 | |
Terms applicable to
$500,000,000 5.950% Senior Notes due 2055 (the “2055 Notes”)
| Issuer: | Royalty Pharma plc | |
| Guarantor: | The 2055 Notes will initially be guaranteed by Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd and Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC | |
| Expected Ratings:* | ||
| (Moody’s / S&P / Fitch) | Baa2 / BBB- / BBB- | |
| Title of Securities: | 5.950% Senior Notes due September 25, 2055 | |
| Principal Amount Offered: | $500,000,000 | |
| Trade Date: | September 2, 2025 | |
| Settlement Date:** | September 16, 2025 (T+10) | |
| Final Maturity Date: | September 25, 2055 | |
| Interest Payment Dates: | Semi-annually each March 25 and September 25, commencing March 25, 2026 | |
| Benchmark Treasury: | 4.750% due May 15, 2055 | |
| Benchmark Treasury Price / Yield: | 96-14+ / 4.980% | |
| Spread to Benchmark Treasury: | T+128 bps | |
| Yield to Maturity: | 6.260% | |
| Coupon: | 5.950% | |
| Denominations: | $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof | |
| Public Offering Price: | 95.824% of the principal amount | |
| Gross Proceeds: | $479,120,000 | |
| Make-Whole Call: | Prior to March 25, 2055 (six months prior to the final maturity date), Make-Whole call at Treasury plus 20 basis points | |
| Par Call: | On or after March 25, 2055 (six months prior to the final maturity date) | |
| Joint Book-Running Managers: | BofA Securities, Inc. | |
| Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC | ||
| J.P. Morgan Securities LLC | ||
| Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC | ||
| TD Securities (USA) LLC | ||
| Co-Managers: | Citigroup Global Markets Inc. | |
| DNB Markets Inc. | ||
| SG Americas Securities, LLC | ||
| SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc. | ||
| U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. | ||
| Academy Securities, Inc. | ||
| AmeriVet Securities, Inc. | ||
| Blaylock Van, LLC | ||
| Cabrera Capital Markets LLC | ||
| Drexel Hamilton, LLC | ||
| R. Seelaus & Co., LLC | ||
| Samuel A. Ramirez & Company, Inc. | ||
| Siebert Williams shank & Co., LLC | ||
| Tigress Financial Partners LLC | ||
| CUSIP / ISIN: | 78081BAV5 / US78081BAV53 | |
| * | A securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time. |
| ** | We expect that delivery of the Notes will be made to investors on or about September 16, 2025, which will be the tenth business day following the date of this pricing term sheet (such settlement being referred to as “T+10”). Under Rule 15c6-1 of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, trades of securities in the secondary market generally are required to settle in one business day unless the parties to any such trade expressly agree otherwise. Accordingly, the purchasers who wish to trade the Notes prior to the first business day preceding the settlement date will be required to specify an alternate settlement cycle at the time of any such trade to prevent failed settlement. Purchasers of the Notes who wish to trade the Notes prior to the first business day preceding the settlement date should consult their own advisors. |
The issuer has filed a registration statement, as amended by post-effective amendment No. 1 thereto (including a prospectus dated June 3, 2024), and a preliminary prospectus supplement dated September 2, 2025 with the SEC for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement, the preliminary prospectus supplement and other documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about the issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, the issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in the offering will arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling BofA Securities, Inc. toll-free at 1-800-294-1322; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC toll-free at 1-866-471-2526; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC collect at 212-834-4533; Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC toll-free at 1-866-718-1649; or TD Securities (USA) LLC toll-free at 855-495-9846.
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Exhibit 4.3
FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Dated as of September 16, 2025
Supplementing that Certain
INDENTURE
Dated as of September 2, 2020
Among
ROYALTY PHARMA PLC,
ROYALTY PHARMA HOLDINGS LTD,
ROYALTY PHARMA MANAGER, LLC
and
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
4.450% Senior Notes due 2031
5.200% Senior Notes due 2035
5.950% Senior Notes due 2055
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||||||
| ARTICLE 1 | ||||||
| ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES | ||||||
| Section 1.01. |
Issuance of Notes; Principal Amount; Maturity; Title | 2 | ||||
| Section 1.02. |
Interest | 3 | ||||
| Section 1.03. |
Payment | 4 | ||||
| Section 1.04. |
Relationship with Base Indenture | 4 | ||||
| ARTICLE 2 | ||||||
| DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION | ||||||
| Section 2.01. |
Definitions | 4 | ||||
| ARTICLE 3 | ||||||
| SECURITY FORMS | ||||||
| Section 3.01. |
Form Generally | 11 | ||||
| Section 3.02. |
Form of Note | 11 | ||||
| ARTICLE 4 | ||||||
| REMEDIES | ||||||
| Section 4.01. |
Events of Default | 23 | ||||
| ARTICLE 5 | ||||||
| REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES | ||||||
| Section 5.01. |
Optional Redemption | 23 | ||||
| Section 5.02. |
Optional Tax Redemption | 24 | ||||
| ARTICLE 6 | ||||||
| PARTICULAR COVENANTS | ||||||
| Section 6.01. |
Liens | 25 | ||||
| Section 6.02. |
Obligation to Offer to Repurchase Upon a Change of Control Triggering Event | 25 | ||||
| Section 6.03. |
Financial Reports | 27 | ||||
| Section 6.04. |
Sale Leaseback Transactions | 28 | ||||
| Section 6.05. |
Additional Amounts | 28 | ||||
| Section 6.06. |
International Stock Exchange | 31 | ||||
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| ARTICLE 7 | ||||||
| SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES | ||||||
| Section 7.01. |
Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders of Notes | 31 | ||||
| Section 7.02. |
Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders of Notes | 31 | ||||
| ARTICLE 8 | ||||||
| DEFEASANCE | ||||||
| Section 8.01. |
Covenant Defeasance | 33 | ||||
| ARTICLE 9 | ||||||
| MISCELLANEOUS | ||||||
| Section 9.01. |
Execution as Supplemental Indenture | 33 | ||||
| Section 9.02. |
Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes | 34 | ||||
| Section 9.03. |
Separability Clause | 34 | ||||
| Section 9.04. |
Successors and Assigns | 34 | ||||
| Section 9.05. |
Execution and Counterparts | 34 | ||||
| Section 9.06. |
Governing Law | 34 | ||||
| Section 9.07. |
Submission to Jurisdiction | 34 | ||||
| Section 9.08. |
Waiver of Immunity | 35 | ||||
| Section 9.09. |
Jury Trial Waiver | 35 | ||||
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This Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 16, 2025 (this “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”), among Royalty Pharma plc, a public limited company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, having its principal office at 110 East 59th Street, New York, New York 10022 (the “Company”), Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd (“Initial Guarantor”), Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC (together with the Initial Guarantor, the “Guarantors”) and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee under the Base Indenture (as hereinafter defined) and hereunder (the “Trustee”), supplements that certain Indenture, dated as of September 2, 2020, among the Company, the Initial Guarantor and the Trustee (as supplemented by the Fourth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of June 9, 2025, among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, the “Base Indenture” and subject to Section 1.04 hereof, together with this Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”) with respect to the Notes (as hereinafter defined).
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company and the Guarantors have heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee the Base Indenture providing for the issuance from time to time of one or more series of the Company’s senior unsecured debt securities (herein and in the Base Indenture called the “Securities”), the forms and terms of which are to be determined as set forth in Sections 201 and 301 of the Base Indenture, and the Guarantees thereof by the Guarantors.
Section 901 of the Base Indenture provides, among other things, that the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into indentures supplemental to the Base Indenture for, among other things, the purposes of (a) establishing the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 201 and 301 of the Base Indenture and (b) adding to or changing any of the provisions to the Base Indenture in certain circumstances with respect to a series of Securities.
The Company desires to create three series of Securities designated as its 4.450% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes”), 5.200% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Notes”) and 5.950% Senior Notes due 2055 (the “2055 Notes”) pursuant to the terms of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture.
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes to be issued from time to time, as provided for in the Indenture.
Each of the Guarantors has duly authorized its Guarantee of the Notes and to provide therefor such Guarantor has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture.
All things necessary have been done to make this Fifth Supplemental Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms and to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under the Indenture and duly issued by the Company, the valid and legally binding obligations of the Company.
All things necessary have been done to make the Guarantees, upon execution and delivery of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the valid and legally binding obligations of each Guarantor and to make this Fifth Supplemental Indenture a valid and legally binding agreement of each Guarantor, in accordance with its terms.
ARTICLE 1
ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES
Section 1.01. Issuance of Notes; Principal Amount; Maturity; Title.
(a) On September 16, 2025, the Company shall issue and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee shall authenticate, the Initial Notes substantially in the form set forth in Section 3.02 below.
(b) Pursuant to the terms hereof and Sections 201 and 301 of the Base Indenture, the Company hereby creates three series of Securities designated as the “4.450% Senior Notes due 2031”, “5.200% Senior Notes due 2035” and “5.950% Senior Notes due 2055” of the Company (the 2031 Notes, 2035 Notes and the 2055 Notes are collectively referred to herein as the “Notes” and include both the Initial Notes of such series and the Additional Notes of such series), which Notes shall be deemed “Securities” for all purposes under the Base Indenture.
(c) The Initial Notes to be issued pursuant to the Indenture shall be issued on the date hereof and initially limited in aggregate principal amount to $600,000,000 of the 2031 Notes, $900,000,000 of the 2035 Notes and $500,000,000 of the 2055 Notes and shall mature on the applicable Stated Maturity, unless the Notes are redeemed prior to that date as described in Article 5 or repurchased prior to that date as described in Section 6.02 of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture or otherwise. The aggregate principal amount of Initial Notes Outstanding at any time may not exceed $600,000,000 for the 2031 Notes, $900,000,000 for the 2035 Notes and $500,000,000 for the 2055 Notes, except for Notes issued, authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes of the series pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 905 or 1107 of the Base Indenture and except for any Notes which, pursuant to Section 303 of the Base Indenture, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered.
(d) The Company may without the consent of the Holders of any Securities, issue additional Notes of any series hereunder as part of the same applicable series and on the same terms and conditions (and having the same Guarantors) and with the same CUSIP, ISIN and other identifying numbers as the Initial Notes of such series initially issued, but may be offered at a different offering price or have a different issue date, initial interest accrual date or initial Interest Payment Date (“Additional Notes”); provided that if any such Additional Notes are not fungible with the previously outstanding Notes of the relevant series for U.S. federal income tax purposes or U.S. securities law, such Additional Notes will not have the same CUSIP, ISIN or other identifying number as the outstanding Notes of that series.
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(e) The Notes shall be issued only in fully registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $2,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.
Section 1.02. Interest.
(a) Interest on a Note will accrue at the per annum rate of 4.450% for the 2031 Notes, 5.200% for the 2035 Notes and 5.950% for the 2055 Notes, from and including the date specified on the face of such Note to, but excluding, the date on which the principal thereof is paid, deemed paid, or made available for payment and, in each case, will be paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
(b) The Company shall pay interest on the Notes semi-annually in arrears on March 25 and September 25 of each year (each, an “Interest Payment Date”), commencing March 25, 2026.
(c) Interest shall be paid on each Interest Payment Date to the registered Holders of the Notes as of the close of business on the Regular Record Date.
(d) Amounts due on the Stated Maturity or earlier Redemption Date or Repurchase Price Payment Date (pursuant to Section 6.02 of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture) of the Notes will be payable at the corporate trust office of the Trustee, initially at Wilmington Trust, National Association, Global Capital Markets, 50 South Sixth Street, Suite 1290, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, Attention: Royalty Pharma Administrator, except as otherwise provided in the Notes. The Company shall make payments of principal, premium, interest, Redemption Price or Repurchase Price in respect of the Notes in book-entry form to DTC in immediately available funds, while disbursement of such payments to owners of beneficial interests in Notes in book-entry form will be made in accordance with the procedures of DTC and its participants in effect from time to time. The Trustee will initially act as Paying Agent for payments with respect to the Notes. The Company may at any time designate additional Paying Agents or rescind the designation of any Paying Agent or approve a change in the office through which any Paying Agent acts, except that the Company shall be required to maintain a Paying Agent in each Place of Payment for the Notes.
(e) If any Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity, earlier Redemption Date or Repurchase Price Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day in The City of New York, the Company shall make the required payment of principal, premium, interest, Redemption Price or Repurchase Price with respect to the Notes on the next succeeding Business Day as if it were made on the date payment was due, and no interest will accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after that Interest Payment Date, Stated Maturity, earlier Redemption Date or Repurchase Price Payment Date, as the case may be, to such next succeeding Business Day.
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Section 1.03. Payment.
All payments of principal of, the Redemption Price and the Repurchase Price (if any) for and interest on the Notes will be payable in U.S. dollars.
Section 1.04. Relationship with Base Indenture.
The terms and provisions contained in the Base Indenture will constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture. However, solely with respect to the Notes, to the extent any provision of the Base Indenture conflicts with the express provisions of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the provisions of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture will govern and be controlling.
ARTICLE 2
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 2.01. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture otherwise requires):
(a) any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture;
(b) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Fifth Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision;
(c) “including” means including without limitation;
(d) “dollars” and “$” refer to U.S. dollars
(e) unless otherwise provided, references to agreements and other instruments shall be deemed to include all amendments and other modifications to such agreements and instruments, but only to the extent such amendments and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of the Indenture; and
(f) unless otherwise provided in this Fifth Supplemental Indenture or in any Note, the words “execute,” “execution,” “signed” and “signature” and words of similar import used in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Fifth Supplemental Indenture, any Note or any of the transactions contemplated hereby (including amendments, waivers, consents and other modifications) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures and the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature in ink or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as applicable, to the fullest extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act and any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Trustee is not under any obligation to agree to accept electronic signatures in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Trustee pursuant to procedures approved by the Trustee.
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The terms defined in this Section 2.01 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto have the respective meanings specified in this Section 2.01. All other terms used in this Fifth Supplemental Indenture that are defined in the Base Indenture, either directly or by reference therein (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture otherwise requires), have the respective meanings assigned to such terms in the Base Indenture, as in force at the date of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture as originally executed; provided that any term that is defined in both the Base Indenture and this Fifth Supplemental Indenture shall have the meaning assigned to such term in this Fifth Supplemental Indenture solely with respect to the Notes.
“Additional Notes” has the meaning specified in Section 1.01(d).
“Additional Amounts” has the meaning specified in Section 6.05.
“Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Global Security or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary or DTC, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.
“Attributable Debt” means the present value (discounted at the rate of 8.0% per annum compounded monthly) of the obligations for rental payments required to be paid during the remaining term of any lease of more than 12 months.
“Below Investment Grade Rating Event” means the rating on the Notes of a series is lowered in respect of a Change of Control and the Notes of such series are rated below Investment Grade by two of the three Rating Agencies on any date from the date of the public notice of an arrangement that could result in a Change of Control until the end of the 60-day period following public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control (which period shall be extended until the ratings are announced if during the period beginning on the date of such public notice and ending on the 60th day following public notice of a Change of Control the rating of the Notes of such series is under publicly announced consideration for possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies); provided that a Below Investment Grade Rating Event otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating shall not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus shall not be deemed a Below Investment Grade Rating Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Triggering Event hereunder) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not announce or publicly confirm or inform the Company in writing at its request that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of the Below Investment Grade Rating Event).
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The Company will request the Rating Agencies to make such confirmation in connection with any Change of Control and shall promptly deliver an Officers’ Certificate to the Trustee certifying as to whether or not such confirmation has been received or denied.
“Board of Directors” means:
| • | with respect to a corporation, the board of directors of the corporation or a duly authorized committee thereof; |
| • | with respect to a partnership, the board of directors of the general partner of the partnership; |
| • | with respect to a limited liability company managed by the member or members, the managing member or members or any controlling committee of managing members thereof; |
| • | with respect to a limited liability company managed by a manager or managers, the manager or managers and any controlling committee of managers; and |
| • | with respect to any other Person, the board or committee of such Person serving a similar function. |
“Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close in the place where the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on, or any Redemption Price or Repurchase Price of, the Notes are payable.
“Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all shares, interests (including general or limited partnership interests, limited liability company or membership interests or limited liability partnership interests), participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including any preferred stock, but in no event will Capital Stock include any debt securities convertible or exchangeable into equity.
“Change of Control” means the occurrence of the following:
| • | the direct or indirect sale, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the combined assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision); or |
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| • | the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision) (other than the Company or one of its Subsidiaries), becomes the beneficial owner (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act or any successor provision) of a majority of the Voting Stock in the Company or other Voting Stock into which the Company’s Voting Stock is reclassified, consolidated, exchanged or changed, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; or |
| • | the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision) or any such person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in either case, pursuant to a transaction in which any of the Company’s outstanding Voting Stock or the Voting Stock of such other person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than pursuant to a transaction in which shares of the Company’s Voting Stock outstanding immediately prior to the transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving person immediately after giving effect to such transaction, in each case, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; or |
| • | the adoption of a plan relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution. |
“Change of Control Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(a).
“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Rating Event.
“Consolidated Total Assets” means, with respect to any Person as of any date, the amount of total assets as shown on the latest consolidated balance sheet of such Person for the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements are available prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
“Covenant Defeasance” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.
“Definitive Note” means a certificated Note registered in the name of the Holder thereof and issued in accordance with Section 3.01 hereof. Definitive Notes shall be substantially in the form of Section 3.02 hereto except that such Note shall not bear the Global Legend and shall not have the “Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Note” attached thereto.
“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation.
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01.
“Fitch” means Fitch Inc., or any successor thereto.
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“Funded Debt” has the meaning specified in Section 6.04.
“Global Legend” has the meaning specified in Section 3.02.
“Initial Notes” means Notes in an aggregate principal amount of up to $600,000,000 of the 2031 Notes, $900,000,000 of the 2035 Notes and $500,000,000 of the 2055 Notes initially issued on September 16, 2025 under this Fifth Supplemental Indenture in accordance with Section 1.01(b).
“Interest Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.02(b).
“Investment Grade” means a rating of Baa3 or better by Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s) and BBB- or better by S&P (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P) or Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Fitch) (or, in each case, if such Rating Agency ceases to rate the Notes for reasons outside of the Company’s control, the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any Rating Agency selected by the Company as a replacement Rating Agency).
“Make-Whole Amount” means, with respect to (i) the 2031 Notes, 15 basis points, (ii) the 2035 Notes, 20 basis points and (iii) the 2055 Notes, 20 basis points.
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., or any successor thereto.
“Notes” has the meaning specified in Section 1.01(b).
“Par Call Date” means, with respect to (i) the 2031 Notes, February 25, 2031, (ii) the 2035 Notes, June 25, 2035 and (iii) the 2055 Notes, March 25, 2055.
“Payor” has the meaning specified in Section 5.02.
“Permitted Liens” means (a) liens on any Principal Property or Voting Stock or profit participating equity interests of any Subsidiary existing at the time such entity becomes a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company or is merged into a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company (provided that such lien was not incurred in anticipation of such transaction and was in existence prior to such transaction) so long as such lien does not extend to any other property and the debt so secured is not increased, and purchase money mortgages and construction cost mortgages existing at or incurred within 360 days of the time of acquisition thereof, (b) statutory liens, liens for taxes or assessments or governmental liens not yet due or delinquent or which can be paid without penalty or are being contested in good faith, (c) liens in favor of a Credit Party, (d) liens existing on the first date on which any Notes issued under the Indenture are authenticated by the Trustee and (e) liens to secure any extension, renewal or replacement of any indebtedness for money borrowed (“Refinanced Debt”) secured by any pledge, mortgage, lien or other encumbrance referred to in the foregoing clauses (a) through (d), so long as (i) any such lien does not extend to any Principal Property, Voting Stock or profit participating equity interests that did not secure the indebtedness for money borrowed that is to be extended, renewed or replaced (the “Original Debt”) and (ii) the principal amount of the Refinanced Debt does not exceed the principal amount of the Original Debt, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon together with any fees, premiums (including tender premiums) and expenses relating to such extension, renewal or replacement.
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“Principal Property” means any building, structure or other facility (together with the land on which it is erected and fixtures comprising a part thereof) used primarily for manufacturing or research, owned or leased by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and having a net book value which, on the date of the determination as to whether a property is a Principal Property is being made, exceeds 1% of Consolidated Total Assets, other than any such building, structure or other facility or portion thereof that the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith is not of material importance to the total business conducted or assets owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries as an entirety.
“Rating Agency” means:
| • | each of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch; and |
| • | if any of Moody’s, S&P or Fitch ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act selected by the Company as a replacement agency for Moody’s, S&P or Fitch, as the case may be. |
“Regular Record Date” with respect to any Interest Payment Date, means the March 10 and September 10 (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable March 25 and September 25 Interest Payment Date, respectively.
“Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction” has the meaning specified in Section 6.05(a).
“Repurchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(a).
“Repurchase Price Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(c).
“Sale and leaseback transaction” is an arrangement between a Credit Party and any Person in which the Credit Party leases back for a term of more than three years a Principal Property that the Credit Party has sold or transferred to that Person.
“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global, Inc., or any successor thereto.
“Stated Maturity” means March 25, 2031 for the 2031 Notes, September 25, 2035 for the 2035 Notes and September 25, 2055 for the 2055 Notes.
“Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 6.05.
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“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.
The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily) - H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the applicable Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the applicable Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.
If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the U.S. Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the applicable Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no U.S. Treasury security maturing on the applicable Par Call Date but there are two or more U.S. Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the applicable Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the applicable Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the applicable Par Call Date, the Company shall select the U.S. Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the applicable Par Call Date. If there are two or more U.S. Treasury securities maturing on the applicable Par Call Date or two or more U.S. Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more U.S. Treasury securities the U.S. Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such U.S. Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable U.S. Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such U.S. Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.
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The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
“Voting Stock” of any person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such person that is ordinarily entitled to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such person.
ARTICLE 3
SECURITY FORMS
Section 3.01. Form Generally.
(a) The Notes of each series shall be in substantially the form set forth in Section 3.02 of this Article 3, with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by the Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with applicable tax laws or the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefor or as may, consistent herewith, be determined by the Officer executing such Notes, as evidenced by the execution thereof. All Notes shall be in fully registered form.
(b) The Notes shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the Officer of the Company executing such Notes, as evidenced by the execution of such Notes.
(c) Upon their original issuance, the Notes of each series shall be issued in the form of one or more Global Securities in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons. Each such Global Security shall be duly executed by the Company, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and shall be registered in the name of DTC as Depositary, or its nominees, and deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for DTC. Beneficial interests in the Global Securities will be shown on, and transfers will only be made through, the records maintained by DTC and its participants.
Section 3.02. Form of Note.
[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]
THE FOLLOWING LEGEND SHALL APPEAR ON THE FACE OF EACH GLOBAL SECURITY FOR WHICH DTC IS TO BE THE DEPOSITARY (the “Global Legend”):
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF. TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”) OR ITS NOMINEE OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF.
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UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF 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 IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
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[FORM OF [—]% SENIOR NOTE DUE 20[—]]
ROYALTY PHARMA PLC
[—]% SENIOR NOTE DUE 20[—]
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Royalty Pharma plc, a public limited company duly incorporated and existing under the laws of England and Wales (herein called the “Company,” which term includes any Successor Person under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of U.S. dollars ($ ), or such other principal amount as shall be set forth in the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Note attached hereto, on [—] (the “Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon, from September 16, 2025, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for to, but excluding, the next Interest Payment Date, which shall be March 25 and September 25 of each year, commencing March 25, 2026 (each an “Interest Payment Date”), at the per annum rate of [—]% (the “Note Interest Rate”), until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment.
For the purposes of this Note, the term “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a day on which banking institutions or trust companies are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to close in the place where the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on, or any Redemption Price or Repurchase Price of, the Notes are payable.
The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the March 10 and September 10 (whether or not a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable March 25 and September 25 Interest Payment Date. Except as otherwise provided in the Indenture, any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes not less than 10 days prior to the Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which such Notes may be listed, all as more fully provided in the Indenture. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
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Payment of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on this Note and the Repurchase Price in connection with a Change of Control Triggering Event will be made at the Trustee, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. With respect to Global Securities, the Company will make such payments by wire transfer of immediately available funds to DTC, or its nominee, as registered owner of the Global Securities. With respect to Definitive Notes, the Company will make such payments, subject to surrender of such Note at the Trustee, except in the case of installments of interest, by wire transfer of immediately available funds to a U.S. dollar account maintained in New York, New York to each Holder of an aggregate principal amount of Notes in excess of $5,000,000 that has furnished wire instructions in writing to the Trustee no later than 15 days prior to the relevant payment date. If a Holder of a Definitive Note (i) does not furnish such wire instructions as provided in the preceding sentence or (ii) holds $5,000,000 or less aggregate principal amount of Notes, the Company will make such payments by mailing or causing to be mailed a check to such Holder’s registered address.
The Notes constitute the direct, unconditional, unsecured and unsubordinated general obligations of the Company and shall at all times rank pari passu without any preference among themselves and with all other unsecured obligations of the Company, other than subordinated obligations of the Company and except for statutorily preferred obligations. The Notes are not redeemable prior to the Maturity Date, except as set forth on the reverse of this Note and will not be subject to any sinking fund.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Note 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.
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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
1. Indenture. This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company designated as its “[—]% Senior Notes due 20[—]” (herein called the “Notes”), issued under a Fifth Supplemental Indenture, dated as of September 16, 2025 (the “Fifth Supplemental Indenture”), to an indenture, dated as of September 2, 2020 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof, the “Base Indenture” and herein with the Fifth Supplemental Indenture, collectively, the “Indenture”), among the Company, Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd, Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. The aggregate principal amount of the Initial Notes Outstanding of this series at any time may not exceed $[—] in aggregate principal amount, except for, or in lieu of, other Notes of the series pursuant to Sections 304, 305, 306, 905 or 1107 of the Base Indenture and except for any Notes which, pursuant to Section 303 of the Base Indenture, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered. The Fifth Supplemental Indenture pursuant to which this Note is issued provides that Additional Notes of this series may be issued thereunder.
All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. In the event of a conflict or inconsistency between this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern.
2. Optional Redemption. Prior to [—] (the “Par Call Date”), the Company may at its option redeem all or a part of the Notes upon not more than 60 days’ nor less than 10 days’ prior notice, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) in cash equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the aggregate principal amount of any Notes being redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on any Notes being redeemed (assuming the Notes matured on the Par Call Date) discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus [—] basis points, plus in each case accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of the Holders on the Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).
The Company shall give the Trustee and the Holders notice of the Redemption Price with respect to any redemption pursuant to the preceding paragraph as soon as practicable after the calculation thereof and the Trustee shall have no responsibility for such calculation.
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On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may at its option redeem all or a part of the Notes upon not more than 60 days’ nor less than 10 days’ prior notice, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price in cash equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of any Notes to be redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of the Holders on the Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date). Any notice of any redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of a securities offering or other corporate transaction.
3. Optional Tax Redemption. If, as a result of any amendment to, or change in, the laws (or any rulings, rules or regulations thereunder) of a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction or any amendment to or change in an official interpretation or application of such laws, rulings, rules or regulations (including by virtue of a holding, judgment, order by a court or change in published administrative practice), which amendment or change becomes effective (or, in the case of an amendment or change in official interpretation or application, is announced) on or after September 2, 2025 (or in the case where a jurisdiction becomes a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction after September 2, 2025, on or after the date such jurisdiction becomes a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction under the Indenture) the relevant Payor would be obligated, after taking all reasonable measures available to it to avoid the requirement to pay Additional Amounts with respect to any series of Notes then, at the Company’s option, all, but not less than all, of this series of Notes may be redeemed at any time on giving not less than 10 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice to the Holders of such Notes, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest and any Additional Amounts due thereon up to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of the Holders on the Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date); provided, however, that (1) no notice of redemption for tax reasons may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the relevant Payor would be obligated to pay these Additional Amounts if a payment on Notes of such series were then due, and (2) at the time such notice of redemption is given, such obligation to pay such Additional Amounts remains in effect.
4. Change of Control Triggering Event. In the event of a Change of Control Triggering Event, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the Notes, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of Notes to repurchase all or any part of that Holder’s Notes at a Repurchase Price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to but excluding the Repurchase Price Payment Date, pursuant to Section 6.02 of the Fifth Supplemental Indenture.
5. Global Security. If this Note is a Global Security, then, in the event of a deposit or withdrawal of an interest in this Note, including an exchange, transfer, redemption, repurchase or conversion of this Note in part only, the Trustee, as custodian of the Depositary, shall make an adjustment on its records to reflect such deposit or withdrawal in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.
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6. Defaults and Remedies. If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the specified aggregate principal of all the Outstanding Notes of a series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture. Upon payment of the amount of principal so declared due and payable, all obligations of the Company in respect of the payment of the principal of and interest on the Notes shall terminate.
No Holder of Notes of a series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to the Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator or sequestrator (or similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder (except actions for payment of overdue principal of, and premium, if any, or interest on such Notes in accordance with its terms), unless (i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to such series, specifying an Event of Default, as required under the Indenture; (ii) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee under the Indenture; (iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request; (iv) the Trustee has failed to institute any such proceeding for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and provision of indemnity or security (if so required); and (v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series, it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of the Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under the Indenture, except in the manner provided in the Indenture and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of principal of, and premium, if any, or interest hereon, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for herein.
7. Amendment, Supplement and Waiver. The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Notes of a series under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of such series. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of a series, on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes of a series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note or such other Note. Certain modifications or amendments to the Indenture require the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected.
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No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair (without the consent of the Holder hereof) the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
8. Registration and Transfer. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registerable on the Security Register. Upon surrender for registration of transfer of this Note at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, the Company shall execute, and, upon Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of the same series of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and principal amount. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, at the option of the Holder, this Note may be exchanged for one or more new Notes of the same series of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and principal amount, upon surrender of this Note at such office or agency. Upon such surrender by the Holder, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of the same series of any authorized denominations and of like tenor and principal amount. Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall be duly endorsed (if so required by the Company or the Trustee), or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing. No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered as the owner thereof for all purposes (except as otherwise provided in the Indenture), whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
9. Guarantee. As expressly set forth in the Base Indenture, payment of this Note is jointly and severally and fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantors that have become and continue to be Guarantors pursuant to the Indenture. Guarantors may be released from their obligations under the Indenture and their Guarantees under the circumstances specified in the Base Indenture.
10. Governing Law. THE INDENTURE, THIS NOTE AND THE GUARANTEES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription of the face of this Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM (= tenant in common)
TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties (Cust))
JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common)
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT (= under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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SCHEDULE OF INCREASES AND DECREASES IN NOTE
ROYALTY PHARMA PLC
[—]% Senior Note due 20[—]
The initial principal amount of this Note is $ . The following increases or decreases in this Note have been made:
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ARTICLE 4
REMEDIES
Section 4.01. Events of Default.
“Event of Default” means, wherever used herein with respect to a series of the Notes, any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) an Event of Default pursuant to Section 501 of the Base Indenture; or
(b) the Company’s failure to pay the Repurchase Price when due in connection with a Change of Control Triggering Event.
ARTICLE 5
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
The provisions of this Article 5 apply solely with respect to the Notes and all references to Holders in this Article 5 shall be solely to Holders of the Notes. The Notes of each series shall be redeemable at the Company’s option prior to the Stated Maturity in accordance with this Article 5, Section 6.02(h) and Article XI of the Base Indenture (as amended by this Article 5).
Section 5.01. Optional Redemption. Prior to the applicable Par Call Date, the Company may at its option redeem all or a part of any series of the Notes upon not more than 60 days’ nor less than 10 days’ prior notice, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) in cash equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the aggregate principal amount of any Notes of such series being redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (exclusive of interest accrued to the Redemption Date) on any Notes of such series being redeemed (assuming the Notes matured on the applicable Par Call Date), discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus the applicable Make-Whole Amount, plus in each case accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of the Holders on the Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date).
The Company shall give the Trustee and the Holders notice of the Redemption Price with respect to any redemption pursuant to the preceding paragraph as soon as practicable after the calculation thereof and the Trustee shall have no responsibility for such calculation.
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On or after the applicable Par Call Date, the Company may at its option redeem all or a part of any series of the Notes upon not more than 60 days’ nor less than 10 days’ prior notice, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price in cash equal to 100% of the aggregate principal amount of any Notes of such series being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of the Holders on the Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date). Any notice of any redemption may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including, but not limited to, completion of a securities offering or other corporate transaction.
If the Company redeems one series of Notes, the Company will have no obligation to redeem any other series of Notes.
Section 5.02. Optional Tax Redemption.
(a) If, as a result of any amendment to, or change in, the laws (or any rulings, rules or regulations thereunder) of a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction or any amendment to or change in an official interpretation or application of such laws, rulings, rules or regulations (including by virtue of a holding, judgment, order by a court or change in published administrative practice), which amendment or change becomes effective (or, in the case of an amendment or change in official interpretation or application, is announced) on or after September 2, 2025 (or in the case where a jurisdiction becomes a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction after September 2, 2025, on or after the date such jurisdiction becomes a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction under the Indenture) the Company, any Guarantor or any successor thereto, as applicable (each, a “Payor”) would be obligated, after taking all reasonable measures available to it to avoid the requirement to pay Additional Amounts then, at the Company’s option, all, but not less than all, of any series of Notes may be redeemed at any time on giving not less than 10 days’ nor more than 60 days’ notice to the Holders of such Notes, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount, plus accrued and unpaid interest and any Additional Amounts due thereon up to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of the Holders on the Regular Record Date to receive interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date); provided, however, that (1) no notice of redemption for tax reasons may be given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the relevant Payor would be obligated to pay these Additional Amounts if a payment on Notes of such series were then due, and (2) at the time such notice of redemption is given such obligation to pay such Additional Amounts remains in effect.
(b) Prior to the delivery of any notice of redemption to the Holders pursuant to this Section 5.02, the Company will deliver to the Trustee and the Paying Agent:
| • | an Officers’ Certificate of the Company stating that the Company is entitled to effect the redemption and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the conditions precedent to the Company’s right to redeem have occurred; and |
| • | an opinion of tax counsel or an independent tax advisor, in either case reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, stating that no later than the next succeeding date on which any amount is to be paid, the relevant Payor has or will become obligated to pay such Additional Amounts as a result of such amendment or change. |
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ARTICLE 6
PARTICULAR COVENANTS
Section 6.01. Liens. The Credit Parties shall not, and shall not permit any of their Subsidiaries to, create, assume, incur or guarantee any indebtedness for money borrowed (or any guaranty thereof) that is secured by a pledge, mortgage, lien or other encumbrance (other than Permitted Liens) on any Principal Property or any Voting Stock or profit participating equity interests of their respective Subsidiaries (to the extent of their ownership of such Voting Stock or profit participating equity interests) or any entity that succeeds (whether by merger, consolidation, sale of assets or otherwise) to all or any substantial part of the business of any of such Subsidiaries, without providing that the Notes of each series (together with, if the Credit Parties shall so determine, any other indebtedness of, or guarantee by, the Credit Parties ranking equally with each series of the Notes and existing as of the closing of the offering of the Notes or thereafter created) will be secured equally and ratably with or prior to all other indebtedness secured by such pledge, mortgage, lien or other encumbrance on the Principal Property or Voting Stock or profit participating equity interests of any such entities, unless after giving effect thereto the aggregate amount of all indebtedness for money borrowed (or any guaranty thereof) that is so secured, together with all Attributable Debt in respect of sale and leaseback transactions involving Principal Properties, would not exceed 15% of the Consolidated Total Assets of the Company. This Section 6.01 shall not limit the ability of the Credit Parties or any of their Subsidiaries to incur indebtedness or other obligations secured by liens on assets other than the Principal Property and the Voting Stock or profit participating equity interests of their respective Subsidiaries.
Section 6.02. Obligation to Offer to Repurchase Upon a Change of Control Triggering Event.
(a) If a Change of Control Triggering Event occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem a series of the Notes pursuant to Article 5 by giving notice of such redemption to the Holders of the Notes of such series pursuant to Section 1104 of the Base Indenture, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of Notes of such series to repurchase all or any part of that Holder’s Notes (the “Change of Control Offer”) at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101 % of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of purchase (the “Repurchase Price”).
(b) In connection with any Change of Control related to a Change of Control Triggering Event and any particular reduction in the rating on the Notes, the Company shall request from the Rating Agencies each such Rating Agency’s written confirmation that such reduction in the rating on the Notes was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of any Below Investment Grade Rating Event). The Company shall promptly certify to the Trustee as to whether or not such confirmation has been received or denied.
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(c) Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after the public announcement of the Change of Control, the Company will give notice to each Holder of Notes, with a written copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase Notes on the payment date specified in the notice, which date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is given (the “Repurchase Price Payment Date”). The notice shall, if given prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the payment date specified in the notice.
(d) The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Triggering Event provisions of the Notes, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Triggering Event provisions of the Notes by virtue of such conflict.
(e) On the Change of Control Triggering Event payment date, the Company will, to the extent lawful:
(i) accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered (and not validly withdrawn) pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;
(ii) deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Repurchase Price in respect of all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered (and not validly withdrawn); and
(iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes of each series being purchased by the Company.
(f) The Paying Agent will promptly deliver to each Holder of Notes properly tendered the Repurchase Price for the Notes, and the Trustee will promptly, upon Company Order, authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each Holder a new Note of the same series equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of any Notes surrendered; provided that each new Note representing any unpurchased portion of any Notes surrendered will be in a minimum principal amount of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
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(g) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will not be required to make an offer to repurchase the Notes of a series upon a Change of Control Triggering Event if (i) a third party makes an offer in respect of such Notes in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer, or (ii) the Company has given written notice of a redemption as provided under Section 1104 of the Base Indenture; provided that the Company has not failed to pay the applicable Redemption Price on the applicable Redemption Date.
(h) If Holders of not less than 90% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes of the applicable series validly tender and do not withdraw such Notes in an offer to repurchase such Notes upon a Change of Control Triggering Event and the Company, or any third party making such an offer in lieu of the Company, purchases all of the Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn by such Holders, the Company or such third party will have the right, upon not less than 10 days’ nor more than 60 days’ prior notice; provided that such notice is given not more than 30 days following the applicable Repurchase Price Payment Date pursuant to the offer described in this Section 6.02, to redeem all Notes of such series that remain outstanding following such purchase on a date specified in such notice and at a price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes to be redeemed to, but excluding, the Redemption Date specified in such notice.
Section 6.03. Financial Reports.
(a) For so long as the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall provide (or cause its Affiliates to provide) to the Trustee, unless available on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (or successor system), within 15 days after the Company files the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act. The Trustee may conclusively presume, and shall incur no liability in such presumption, that the Company has not filed any such reports, information, documents and other reports with the Commission that are not available on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (or successor system) unless and until it shall have received written notice from the Company to the contrary.
(b) Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee shall be for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute actual or constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of the covenants contained in the Indenture (as to which the Trustee will be entitled to conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate). The Trustee shall have no obligation to determine if and when the Company’s information is available on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (or successor system) and the Trustee shall have no obligation to obtain any reports that are posted on the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (or successor system).
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Section 6.04. Sale Leaseback Transactions. The Credit Parties and their Subsidiaries shall not enter into any sale and leaseback transaction involving any Principal Property, the acquisition or completion of construction and commencement of full operation of which has occurred more than 180 days prior thereto, unless (a) such Credit Party or such Subsidiary could incur a lien on such property under the restrictions described in Section 6.01 in an amount equal to the Attributable Debt with respect to the sale and leaseback transaction without equally and ratably securing the Notes or (b) such Credit Party, within 180 days after the sale or transfer by the Credit Party, applies to the retirement of its pari passu indebtedness for borrowed money of a Credit Party having a maturity of, or by its terms extendible or renewable for, a period of more than 12 months after the date of determination of the amount thereof (“Funded Debt”) an amount equal to the greater of (i) the net proceeds of the sale of the Principal Property sold and leased pursuant to such arrangement and (ii) the fair market value of the Principal Property so sold and leased as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company; provided that the amount to be applied to the retirement of Funded Debt of the Company shall be reduced by the principal amount of any Notes having a maturity date more than 12 months after such sale or transfer delivered within 180 days after such sale or transfer to the Trustee for retirement and cancellation; provided, further, that no retirement referred to in this clause (b) may be effected by payment at maturity or pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund payment or any mandatory prepayment provision.
Section 6.05. Additional Amounts.
(a) All payments made by or on behalf of the Payor under, or with respect to, the Notes or any Guarantees will be made free and clear of and without withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other governmental charge (including penalties, interest and other liabilities related thereto) (collectively, “Taxes”) unless the withholding or deduction of such Taxes is then required by law or the official interpretation or administration thereof. If any deduction or withholding for, or on account of, any Taxes imposed, levied, collected or assessed by or on behalf of (i) the United Kingdom or any political subdivision or governmental authority thereof or therein having power to tax, (ii) any jurisdiction from or through which payment on the Notes or any Guarantees is made on behalf of the Payor, or any political subdivision or governmental authority thereof or therein having the power to tax or (iii) any other jurisdiction in which a Payor is organized, tax resident or engaged in business for tax purposes, or any political or governmental authority thereof or therein having the power to tax (each of clause (i), (ii) and (iii), a “Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction”) will at any time be required from any payments made with respect to the Notes or any Guarantees, including payments of principal, premium, if any, Redemption Price or interest, the Payor will pay such additional amounts (the “Additional Amounts”) as may be necessary in order that the net amounts received by each Holder will equal the amounts that would have been received in the absence of such withholding or deduction; provided, however, that no such Additional Amounts will be payable with respect to:
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(A) any Taxes that would not have been so imposed but for the existence of any present or former connection between the relevant Holder or beneficial owner and the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction, including being or having been a citizen, resident, or national thereof or being or having been present or engaged in a trade or business therein or having or having had a permanent establishment therein (but excluding any connection arising merely from the receipt of such payment or the acquisition or ownership of such Note or enforcement of rights thereunder);
(B) any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, excise transfer or personal property or similar tax;
(C) any Taxes which are imposed, payable or due because the Notes are presented (where presentation is required) for payment more than 30 days after the date such payment was due and payable or was first provided for, whichever is later, except for Additional Amounts with respect to Taxes that would have been imposed had the Holder presented the Note for payment on the last day of such 30-day period;
(D) any Taxes that are imposed or withheld by reason of the failure of the Holder or beneficial owner of a Note to comply with any certification, identification, information, documentation or other reporting requirements concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection of the Holder or such beneficial owner with the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction or to make, any other claim or filing for exemption to which it is entitled if such compliance, making a claim or filing for exemption is required as a precondition to exemption from all or part of such Taxes but only to the extent the Holder or beneficial owner is legally entitled to provide such certification, identification, information or documentation or other requirement and provided that at least 30 days prior to the first payment date with respect to which such certification, identification, information or documentation or other requirement is required by the Company, the relevant Holder at that time has been notified that such payment will be subject to such Taxes (in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture) by the Payor or any other person through whom payment may be made;
(E) any Taxes payable other than by deduction or withholding from payments under, or with respect to, the Notes or any Guarantees;
(F) any withholding or deduction that is imposed in connection with Sections 1471-1474 of the Code (and any successor provision to any of those Sections), and the U.S. Treasury regulations or any rulings thereunder (“FATCA”) and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b) of the Code (and any successor provision thereto), any intergovernmental agreement between the United States and any other jurisdiction implementing, or relating to, FATCA or any law, regulation or official guidance enacted or issued in any jurisdiction with respect thereto; or
(G) any combination of the above.
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(b) No Additional Amounts will be payable with respect to any payment of principal of (or premium, if any, on) or interest on such Note or with respect to any payment on a guarantee to any Holder who is a fiduciary or any person other than the sole beneficial owner of such payment, to the extent that a beneficiary or settlor with respect to such fiduciary or the beneficial owner of such payment would not have been entitled to the Additional Amounts had such beneficiary, settlor or beneficial owner held such Note directly.
(c) The Payor will (1) make any required withholding or deduction and (2) remit the full amount deducted or withheld to the applicable taxing authority in the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction in accordance with applicable law. The Payor will use all reasonable efforts to obtain certified copies of tax receipts or other available documentation evidencing the payment of any Taxes so deducted or withheld from each Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction imposing such Taxes and will attach to each certified copy (or other evidence) an Officers’ Certificate stating the amount of such withholding Taxes paid per $1,000 principal amount of the Notes, copies of which shall be promptly delivered to the Trustee and each Paying Agent.
(d) Each Payor will pay any present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes or property taxes, charges or similar levies (including interest and penalties to the extent resulting from a failure by the Company to timely pay amounts due) that arise in any jurisdiction from the execution, delivery or registration of any Notes or any other document or instrument referred to therein (other than a transfer of the Notes), excluding any such taxes, charges or similar levies imposed by any jurisdiction that is not a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction or any jurisdiction in which a Paying Agent is located, other than those resulting from, or required to be paid in connection with, the enforcement of the Notes or any other such document or instrument following the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Notes.
(e) The foregoing obligations will survive any termination, defeasance or discharge of the Indenture and will apply mutatis mutandis to any Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction with respect to any Successor Person to a Payor.
(f) Any reference in the Indenture to principal, premium or interest in respect of the Notes of a series will be deemed also to refer to any Additional Amounts that may be payable with respect to such principal, premium or interest under the obligations referred to in this subsection.
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Section 6.06. International Stock Exchange. The Company will apply to The International Stock Exchange Authority for each series of the Notes to be admitted to the Official List of The International Stock Exchange. The Company will notify the Trustee in writing in the event that the Notes are admitted for listing or de-listed from any exchange.
ARTICLE 7
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 7.01. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders of Notes.
Solely with respect to the Notes, Section 901(13) of the Base Indenture is hereby replaced in its entirety by the following:
“(13) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision of this Indenture which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein; provided that, no amendment to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency in the Indenture or the Notes made solely to conform the Indenture or the Notes to the Description of Notes contained in the Company’s prospectus supplement dated September 2, 2025, to the extent that such provision in the Description of Notes was intended to be a verbatim recitation of a provision of the Indenture or the Notes, shall be deemed to adversely affect the interests of the Holders of any Notes in any material respect; and”
Section 7.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders of Notes.
Solely with respect to the Notes, Section 902 of the Base Indenture is hereby replaced in its entirety by the following:
“With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of a series affected by such supplemental indenture (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange for the Notes), by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of such Notes under the Indenture; provided, however, no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note of the series affected thereby:
(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or interest on, any series of Notes;
(b) reduce the principal amount of any Note which would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 of the Base Indenture, or reduce the rate of or extend the time of payment of interest on any series of Notes; (c) reduce the Repurchase Price in connection with a Change of Control Triggering Event;
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(d) reduce any premium payable upon the redemption of or change the date on which any series of Notes may or must be redeemed;
(e) change the coin or currency in which the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any series of Notes is payable;
(f) change the date on which any series of Notes may or must be redeemed;
(g) impair the right of any Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on or after the Redemption Date or a Repurchase Price Payment Date, as applicable);
(h) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of a series the consent of whose Holders is required for modification or amendment of the Indenture with respect to such series or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with provisions of the Indenture or defaults thereunder and their consequences) provided for in the Indenture;
(i) modify any of the provisions of Section 902, Section 512 or Section 1005 of the Base Indenture, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of the Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note of a series affected thereby; provided, however, that this clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in the references to “the Trustee” and concomitant changes in Section 902 and Section 1005 of the Base Indenture, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the requirements of Sections 611 and 901(7) of the Base Indenture;
(j) subordinate the Notes of any series or any Guarantee of a Guarantor in respect thereof to any other obligation of the Company or such Guarantor;
(k) modify the terms of any Guarantee in a manner adverse to the Holders of any series of the Notes; or
(l) modify clauses (a) through (k) above.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other provision of the Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities other than the Notes of a series, or which modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under the Indenture of the Holders of any other series of the Notes.
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In addition, the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes of a series may, on behalf of the Holders of all Notes of such series, and subject to and in accordance with the provisions of Section 1005 of the Base Indenture, waive compliance with the Credit Parties’ covenants described under Sections Section 6.01 and 6.04 of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture and Article VIII and Section 1402 of the Base Indenture (other than any covenant, a modification to which under Section 902 of the Base Indenture would require the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note of such series affected thereby).”
ARTICLE 8
DEFEASANCE
Section 8.01. Covenant Defeasance.
Solely with respect to the Notes, Section 1303 of the Base Indenture is hereby replaced in its entirety by the following:
“Upon the Company’s exercise of its option, if any, to have Section 1303 of the Base Indenture applied to the Notes, or if Section 1303 of the Base Indenture shall otherwise apply to the Notes, (1) the Company and the Guarantors shall be released from their respective obligations and any covenants provided pursuant to Article 6 (other than Section 6.05) of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture and Section 801 and Section 1402 of the Base Indenture and (2) the occurrence of any event specified in Section 501(4) of the Base Indenture with respect to Article 6 (other than Section 6.05 of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture) or Section 801 and Section 1402 of the Base Indenture shall be deemed not to be or result in an Event of Default, in each case with respect to the Notes and the related Guarantees on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 1304 of the Base Indenture are satisfied (hereinafter called “Covenant Defeasance”). For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the Notes and Guarantees thereof, each of the Company and the Guarantors may omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such specified Section, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere herein or in the Base Indenture to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in the Base Indenture or in any other document, but the remainder of the Base Indenture, this Fifth Supplemental Indenture and such Notes and Guarantees thereof shall be unaffected thereby.”
ARTICLE 9
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 9.01. Execution as Supplemental Indenture.
This Fifth Supplemental Indenture is executed and shall be construed as an indenture supplemental to the Base Indenture and, as provided in the Base Indenture, this Fifth Supplemental Indenture forms a part thereof in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided; provided, however, that the provisions of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture apply solely with respect to the Notes.
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Section 9.02. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes.
The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company and the Guarantors, as the case may be, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture or of the Securities or the Guarantees. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Notes or the proceeds thereof. All of the provisions contained in the Base Indenture in respect of the rights, privileges, immunities, powers and duties of the Trustee shall be applicable in respect of the Notes and of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture as fully and with like effect as if set forth herein in full.
Section 9.03. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Fifth Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 9.04. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Fifth Supplemental Indenture by the Company and the Guarantors shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All agreements of the Trustee in this Fifth Supplemental Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 9.05. Execution and Counterparts.
This Fifth Supplemental Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 9.06. Governing Law.
This Fifth Supplemental Indenture and the Notes shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
Section 9.07. Submission to Jurisdiction.
The Company and the Guarantors hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. federal and New York state courts in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the Notes, the Guarantees or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby. The Company and the Guarantors waive any objection which it or they may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such suit or proceeding in such courts.
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Each of the Company and the Guarantors agrees that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such court shall be conclusive and binding upon the Company and each Guarantor, as applicable, and may be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which the Company or the Guarantor is subject by a suit upon such judgment. The Company and the Guarantors irrevocably appoint Royalty Pharma, LLC, with its principal office as of the date of this Fifth Supplemental Indenture located at 110 East 59th Street, New York, New York 10022, as its and their authorized agent in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York upon which process may be served in any such suit or proceeding, and agree that service of process upon such authorized agent, and written notice of such service to the Company or any such Guarantor, as the case may be, by the person serving the same to the address provided in Base Indenture, shall be deemed in every respect effective service of process upon the Company and such Guarantor in any such suit or proceeding. The Company and the Guarantors hereby represent and warrant that such authorized agent has accepted such appointment and has agreed to act as such authorized agent for service of process. The Company and the Guarantors further agree to take any and all action as may be necessary to maintain such designation and appointment of such authorized agent in full force and effect until at least one year after all of the Notes are no longer Outstanding.
Section 9.08. Waiver of Immunity. To the extent that the Company and the Guarantors may acquire any immunity (sovereign or otherwise) from jurisdiction of any court of (a) England and Wales, (b) the United States or the State of New York, or (c) any jurisdiction in which they own or lease property or assets or from any legal process (whether through service of notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution, execution, set-off or otherwise) with respect to themselves or their respective property and assets or this Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the Notes or the Guarantees, each of the Company and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably waives such immunity in respect of its obligations under this Fifth Supplemental Indenture, the Notes and the Guarantees to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
Section 9.09. Jury Trial Waiver. EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTORS, THE TRUSTEE AND THE HOLDERS, BY THEIR ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOTES, HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS FIFTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE GUARANTEES.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Fifth Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
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Exhibit 5.1
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Royalty Pharma plc
110 East 59th Street
New York, NY 10022
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Royalty Pharma plc, an English public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales (the “Company”) and the guarantors listed in Schedule I hereto (the “Guarantors”) have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-279905) (as amended, the “Registration Statement”) for the purpose of registering under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), certain securities, including $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 4.450% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes”), $900,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.200% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Notes”) and $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.950% Senior Notes due 2055 (the “2055 Notes”, and together with the 2031 Notes and 2035 Notes, the “Notes”). The Securities are to be issued pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture, dated as of September 2, 2020, among the Company, Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) (as supplemented by the fourth supplemental indenture, dated as of June 9, 2024, among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, the “Base Indenture”) and a fifth supplemental indenture dated September 16, 2025 among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”). The Notes will be guaranteed by each of the Guarantors (the “Guarantees” and, together with the Notes, the “Securities”). The Securities are to be sold pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement dated September 2, 2025 (the “Underwriting Agreement”) among the Company, the Guarantors and the several underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”).
We, as your counsel, have examined originals or copies of such documents, corporate records, certificates of public officials and other instruments as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purpose of rendering this opinion.
In rendering the opinions expressed herein, we have, without independent inquiry or investigation, assumed that (i) all documents submitted to us as originals are authentic and complete, (ii) all documents submitted to us as copies conform to authentic, complete originals, (iii) all signatures on all documents that we reviewed are genuine, (iv) all natural persons executing documents had and have the legal capacity to do so, (v) all statements in certificates of public officials and officers of the Company and the Guarantors that we reviewed were and are accurate and (vi) all representations made by the Company and the Guarantors as to matters of fact in the documents that we reviewed were and are accurate.
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Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the additional assumptions and qualifications set forth below, we advise you that, in our opinion:
| 1. | Assuming when the Notes have been duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Notes will constitute valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, concepts of reasonableness and equitable principles of general applicability, and may be subject to possible judicial or regulatory actions giving effect to governmental actions or foreign laws affecting creditors’ rights, provided that we express no opinion as to (x) the enforceability of any waiver of rights under any usury or stay law, (y) the effect of fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer or similar provision of applicable law on the conclusions expressed above or (z) the validity, legally binding effect or enforceability of any provision that permits holders to collect any portion of stated principal amount upon acceleration of the Notes to the extent determined to constitute unearned interest. |
| 2. | Assuming the due authorization of the Notes by the Company and the due authorization of the Guarantees included in the Indenture by each Guarantor (other than Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC), the Guarantees, assuming the Notes have been duly executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, will constitute valid and binding obligations of each Guarantor, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally, concepts of reasonableness and equitable principles of general applicability, and may be subject to possible judicial or regulatory actions giving effect to governmental actions or foreign laws affecting creditors’ rights; provided that we express no opinion as to the (x) the enforceability of any waiver of rights under any usury or stay law, (y)(i) the effect of fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer or similar provision of applicable law on the conclusions expressed above or (ii) any provision of the Guarantee that purports to avoid the effect of fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer or similar provision of applicable law by limiting the amount of the Guarantor’s obligation or (z) the validity, legally binding effect or enforceability of any provision that permits holders to collect any portion of stated principal amount upon acceleration of the Notes to the extent determined to constitute unearned interest. |
In connection with the opinions expressed above, we have assumed that the Company and each Guarantor (other than Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC) is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of its respective jurisdiction of incorporation. In addition, we have assumed that the Indenture and the Securities (collectively, the “Documents”) are valid, binding and enforceable agreements of each party thereto (other than as expressly covered above in respect of the Company and the Guarantors). We have also assumed that the execution, delivery and performance by each party to each Document to which it is a party (a) are within its corporate powers, (b) do not contravene, or constitute a default under, the certificate of incorporation or bylaws or other constitutive documents of such party, (c) require no action by or in respect of, or filing with, any governmental body, agency or official and (d) do not contravene, or constitute a default under, any provision of applicable law or regulation or any judgment, injunction, order or decree or any agreement or other instrument binding upon such party, provided that we make no such assumption to the extent that we have specifically opined as to such matters with respect to the Company and each Guarantor.
We are members of the Bar of the State of New York and the foregoing opinions are limited to the laws of the State of New York and the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act, except that we express no opinion as to any law, rule or regulation that is applicable to the Company or the Guarantors, the Documents or such transactions solely because such law, rule or regulation is part of a regulatory regime applicable to any party to any of the Documents or any of its affiliates due to the specific assets or business of such party or such affiliate. Insofar as the foregoing opinion involves matters governed by the laws of England and Wales, we have relied, without independent inquiry or investigation, on the opinion of Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP to be filed as an exhibit to a report on Form 8-K to be filed by the Company on the date hereof.
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We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to a report on Form 8-K to be filed by the Company on the date hereof and its incorporation by reference into the Registration Statement and further consent to the reference to our name under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus supplement which is a part of the Registration Statement. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
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Schedule I
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| 2. | Royalty Pharma Manager, LLC |
Exhibit 5.2
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Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP The Whittington Building 4A Frederick’s Place London EC2R 8AB |
16 September 2025
Royalty Pharma plc
The Pavilions
Bridgwater Road
Bristol
England
BS13 8AE
Dear Sir or Madam
US$600,000,000 4.450% Senior Notes due 2031, US$900,000,000 5.200% Senior Notes due 2035 and US$500,000,000 5.950% Senior Notes due 2055 to be issued by Royalty Pharma plc and guaranteed by Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd
We have acted as advisers as to English law to Royalty Pharma plc (the “Issuer”), a public limited company organised under the laws of England and Wales, and Royalty Pharma Holdings Ltd (the “Guarantor”), a private limited company organised under the laws of England and Wales (the Issuer and the Guarantor, collectively, the “English Law Opinion Parties” and each an “English Law Opinion Party”) in connection with the issue by the Issuer of US$600,000,000 4.450% Senior Notes due 2031 (the “2031 Notes”), US$900,000,000 5.200% Senior Notes due 2035 (the “2035 Notes”) and US$500,000,000 5.950% Senior Notes due 2055 (the “2055 Notes”, and together with the 2031 Notes and the 2035 Notes, the “Notes”), each guaranteed by the Guarantor and Royalty Pharma Manager LLC (the “Guarantees”) (the offer or issue of the Notes being referred to in this opinion as the “Transaction”).
The Notes will be issued by the Issuer pursuant to a base indenture dated 2 September 2020 between Wilmington Trust, National Association as trustee, the Issuer and the Guarantor (as supplemented by the fourth supplemental indenture, dated as of 9 June 2025, between Wilmington Trust, National Association as trustee, the Issuer, the Guarantor and Royalty Pharma Manager LLC and including the Guarantees set forth therein, the “Base Indenture”) and a fifth supplemental indenture dated 16 September 2025 between Wilmington Trust, National Association as trustee, the Issuer, the Guarantor and Royalty Pharma Manager LLC (the “Supplemental Indenture”). The Issuer filed a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-279905) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on 3 June 2024, as amended by Post-Effective No. 1 thereto filed with the Commission on 2 September 2025 (the “Registration Statement”) for the purposes of registering, under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), inter alia, the Notes. For the purposes of this opinion, we have examined the documents listed in Schedule 1 to this opinion.
Capitalised terms used in this opinion shall, unless otherwise defined, have the meaning given to them in Schedule 1 to this opinion.
This opinion is confined to matters of English law as at the date of this opinion, and this opinion and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in relation to it are governed by and shall be construed in accordance with English law. Accordingly, we express no opinion with regard to any system of law other than English law as currently applied by the English courts. To the extent that the laws of the State of New York or any other jurisdiction may be relevant, we have made no independent investigation thereof and our opinion is subject to the effect of such laws.
Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP is a limited liability partnership formed under the laws of the State of New York, USA and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority with registration number 566321.
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Davis Polk includes Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and its associated entities By accepting this opinion you irrevocably agree and accept that the courts of England shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with this opinion or its formation, including without limitation, (i) the creation, effect or interpretation of, or the legal relationships established by, this opinion and (ii) any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with this opinion.
We assume no obligation to notify you of any future changes in law, which may affect the opinions expressed herein, or otherwise to update this opinion in any respect.
Opinions
On the basis of our examination of the documents listed in Schedule 1 to this opinion and the other matters referred to above, and subject to the assumptions set out in Schedule 2 to this opinion, the qualifications set out in Schedule 3 to this opinion and any matters not disclosed to us, we are of the opinion that:
| 1. | Corporate existence. The Issuer is a company that has been duly incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales as a public company limited by shares and the Guarantor is a company that has been duly incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales as a private company limited by shares and the Company Searches and Central Registry Searches revealed no application, petition, order or resolution for the administration or winding up of the English Law Opinion Parties and no notice of appointment of, or intention to appoint, a receiver or administrator in respect of the English Law Opinion Parties. |
| 2. | Corporate power. Each of the English Law Opinion Parties has the requisite corporate capacity to enter into the Opinion Documents and, in the case of the Issuer, to issue the Notes, and, in each case, to perform its obligations thereunder. |
| 3. | Corporate action. All corporate action required to be taken by each of the English Law Opinion Parties to authorise the execution by it of the Opinion Documents and, in the case of the Issuer, to issue the Notes has been duly taken. |
This opinion is addressed to you in relation to the Registration Statement filed under the Securities Act and may not be used or relied upon for any other purpose. We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to a report on Form 8-K to be filed by the Issuer on the date hereof in connection with the Notes and its incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement and further consent to the reference to Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP under the caption “Legal Matters” in the Prospectus Supplement referred to below. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.
Yours faithfully
/s/ Davis Polk & Wardwell London LLP For the purposes of this opinion, we have examined the following documents:
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SCHEDULE 1
DOCUMENTS EXAMINED
| 1. | a copy of the executed New York law governed Base Indenture; |
| 2. | a copy of the executed New York law governed Supplemental Indenture; |
| 3. | the form of the Notes (which may be in global or in definitive registered form) as set out in the Supplemental Indenture; |
| 4. | a copy of the Registration Statement; |
| 5. | a copy of the preliminary prospectus supplement dated 2 September 2025 and a copy of the final prospectus supplement dated 2 September 2025 filed with the SEC (the “Prospectus Supplement”), each relating to the Notes; |
| 6. | a certificate from George Lloyd, in his capacity as Chief Legal Officer of the Issuer, dated 16 September 2025 (the “Issuer’s Certificate”) having attached to it, inter alia: |
| (a) | a copy of the certificate of incorporation and the certificate on re-registration as a public limited company in respect of the Issuer, each certified to be a true and correct copy; |
| (b) | a copy of the articles of association of the Issuer, certified to be a true and correct copy, as at: (i) the dates of the passing of the 2020 Issuer Board Resolutions and of the 2020 Issuer Committee Resolutions referred to below and (ii) the date of execution of the Base Indenture, |
| (c) | a copy of the articles of association of the Issuer, certified to be a true and correct copy, as at: (i) the dates of the passing of the 2025 Issuer Board Resolutions and of the 2025 Issuer Committee Resolutions referred to below, (ii) the date of execution of the Supplemental Indenture and (iii) the date hereof; |
| (d) | a copy of the written resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Issuer passed on 18 August 2020 (the “2020 Issuer Board Resolutions”) and 2 September 2025 (the “2025 Issuer Board Resolutions”) (such resolutions, together with the 2020 Issuer Board Resolutions, the “Issuer Board Resolutions”), each certified to be a true and correct copy; |
| (e) | a copy of the written resolutions of a committee appointed by the Board of Directors of the Issuer passed on 24 August 2020 and 1 September 2020 (together, the “2020 Issuer Committee Resolutions”), and 2 September 2025 and 16 September 2025 (together, the “2025 Issuer Committee Resolutions”) (such resolutions, together with the 2020 Issuer Committee Resolutions, the “Committee Resolutions”), each certified to be a true and correct copy; and |
| (f) | a list of persons duly authorised as signatories of the Issuer (who duly remain as authorised signatories of the Issuer); and |
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| 7. | a certificate from George Lloyd, in his capacity as a director of the Guarantor, dated 16 September 2025 (the “Guarantor’s Certificate”) having attached to it, inter alia: |
| (a) | a copy of the certificate of incorporation as a private limited company in respect of the Guarantor, certified to be a true and correct copy; |
| (b) | a copy of the articles of association of the Guarantor, certified to be a true and correct copy, as at: (i) the dates of the passing of the 2020 Guarantor Board Resolutions referred to below and (ii) the date of execution of the Base Indenture; |
| (c) | a copy of the articles of association of the Guarantor, certified to be a true and correct copy, as at: (i) the dates of the passing of the 2025 Guarantor Board Resolutions referred to below; (ii) the date of execution of the Supplemental Indenture; and (iii) the date hereof; |
| (d) | a copy of the written resolutions of the Board of Directors of the Guarantor passed on 24 August 2020 and 1 September 2020 (the “2020 Guarantor Board Resolutions”), and 2 September 2025 and 16 September 2025 (the “2025 Guarantor Board Resolutions”) (such resolutions, together with the 2020 Guarantor Board Resolutions and the Issuer Board Resolutions, the “Board Resolutions”), each certified to be a true and correct copy; and |
| (e) | a list of persons duly authorised as signatories of the Guarantor (who duly remain as authorised signatories of the Guarantor). |
The Base Indenture and the Supplemental Indenture are referred to in this opinion letter collectively as the “Opinion Documents” and each as an “Opinion Document”. The Opinion Documents and the Notes are together referred to in this opinion letter collectively as the “Issue Documents” and each as an “Issue Document”.
Except as stated above we have not examined any contracts, instruments or other documents entered into by any party to any of the Opinion Documents or any corporate records of any party to any of the Opinion Documents and have not made any other enquiries, other than the Company Searches and Central Registry Searches, concerning any of the Opinion Documents or the parties thereto.
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SCHEDULE 2
ASSUMPTIONS
For the purposes of this opinion, we have assumed:
| 1. | all documents submitted to us as originals are authentic and complete; |
| 2. | all documents submitted to us as copies, whether in physical or electronic form, conform to authentic, complete originals and, where a document has been examined by us in draft or specimen form, it will be or has been executed in the form of that draft or specimen; |
| 3. | all signatures (whether in physical or electronic form), stamps and seals on all documents that we reviewed are genuine and the person who affixed any signature (whether in physical or electronic form), or authorised the attachment and release of such signature, to any document is the person whose signature it purports to be or a person who had the authority of the person whose signature it purports to be to do so; |
| 4. | the capacity, power and authority to execute, deliver and perform each Issue Document by or on behalf of each of the parties (other than the English Law Opinion Parties) to such Issue Document; |
| 5. | the Notes will be duly executed, authenticated and issued in accordance with the provisions of the Opinion Documents and the name of each holder of a Note will be correctly registered in the register maintained for that purpose; |
| 6. | each of the Opinion Documents has been duly authorised, executed and delivered by each of the parties thereto in accordance with all applicable laws (other than, in the case of the English Law Opinion Parties, the laws of England); |
| 7. | in relation to the English Law Opinion Parties: |
| (a) | each of the certificates of incorporation and the certificate on re-registration as a public limited company in the form referred to in paragraph 6(a) and 7(a) of Schedule 1 to this opinion are in force on the date hereof; |
| (b) | the articles of association of the English Law Opinion Parties, in the forms referred to in paragraph 6(b) and 7(b) of Schedule 1 to this opinion, were in force at the date and time of authorisation and execution of the Base Indenture; |
| (c) | the articles of association of the English Law Opinion Parties, in the forms referred to in paragraph 6(c) and 7(c) of Schedule 1 to this opinion, were in force at the date and time of authorisation and execution of the Supplemental Indenture and are in force on the date hereof; |
| (d) | each of the Board Resolutions and the Committee Resolutions in the form referred to in paragraphs 6(d), 6(e) and 7(d) of Schedule 1 to this opinion are complete and correct, and that, in each case, no amendment has been made thereto; and |
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| (e) | the Board Resolutions and the Committee Resolutions, in the form referred to in paragraph 6(d), 6(e) and 7(d) of Schedule 1 to this opinion, respectively, were properly passed as written resolutions in accordance with the articles of association of the relevant English Law Opinion Party, that all eligible directors of the relevant English Law Opinion Party (holding the necessary offices and being all the directors of the relevant English Law Opinion Party who would have been entitled to vote on the matter had it been proposed as a resolution at a directors’ meeting or a meeting of the relevant committee (but excluding any director whose vote is not to be counted in respect of the particular matter)) have signed one or more copies of such resolutions or otherwise indicated agreement in writing to such Board Resolutions and Committee Resolutions, that all relevant policies and procedures of each of the English Law Opinion Parties were complied with, including the terms of any delegation of authority to the committee of the Board of Directors of the Issuer, that all relevant provisions of the Companies Act 2006 and the articles of association of each of the English Law Opinion Parties were duly observed, and that such resolutions have not been amended, revoked or rescinded and are in full force and effect; |
| 8. | each of the statements contained in the Issuer’s Certificate is true and correct as at the date thereof and as at the date hereof, and each of the statements contained in the Guarantor’s Certificate is true and correct as at the date thereof and as at the date hereof; |
| 9. | the directors of each of the English Law Opinion Parties acted in good faith and in accordance with their duties under all applicable laws and the articles of association of that English Law Opinion Party in authorising execution of each of the Opinion Documents and the Notes; |
| 10. | the execution and delivery of each of the Issue Documents by each English Law Opinion Party and the exercise of its rights and performance of its obligations under each of the Issue Documents benefited and will sufficiently benefit, and were and are in the interests of, each English Law Opinion Party; |
| 11. | the information revealed by our search of the entries shown on an online search at Companies House in England and Wales on 1 September 2020 and 15 September 2025 with respect to each English Law Opinion Party (the “Company Searches”) was accurate and complete in all respects, and included all relevant information which should properly have been submitted to the Registrar of Companies and has not since the time of our search on 15 September 2025 been altered; |
| 12. | the information revealed by the results of a telephone search with the Insolvency and Companies List (formerly known as the Companies Court) in London of the Central Registry of Winding Up Petitions on 1 September 2020 and 15 September 2025 with respect to each English Law Opinion Party (the “Central Registry Searches”) was accurate and complete in all respects, included all relevant information and has not since the time of our search on 15 September 2025 been altered; |
| 13. | no foreign law which may apply with respect to any Issue Document or the transactions and matters contemplated thereby would be such as to affect any of the conclusions stated herein; |
| 14. | all consents, licences, approvals, authorisations, registrations, notices or filings which were or are necessary under any applicable laws (other than, in the case of the English Law Opinion Parties, the laws of England) in order to permit the execution, delivery or performance of any Issue Document, or otherwise in connection therewith, have been made or obtained; |
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| 15. | each Opinion Document was executed and delivered by each party thereto and none of the Opinion Documents is subject to any escrow or other similar arrangement; |
| 16. | each of the Opinion Documents has been, and the Notes, when duly executed, authenticated and issued, will be, performed in accordance with its or their terms and none of them has been or will be amended or modified in any way, and there have been, are and will be no other arrangements nor any course of dealings which modify, supersede or otherwise affect any of the terms thereof, and there are no unknown facts or circumstances which are not apparent from the face of any Issue Document which may affect the conclusions in this opinion; |
| 17. | none of the parties to any Opinion Document was or is restricted by contract or any other arrangement binding on it from entering into any of the Opinion Documents to which it is a party or the Transaction and that none of the parties to any of the Opinion Documents or the Notes has entered nor will enter into any documents other than those referred to in this opinion or any other arrangements which could affect the validity of this opinion; |
| 18. | each of the Issue Documents has at all times reflected, reflects and will reflect the commercial intentions of the parties thereto and was entered into in good faith on arm’s length terms, that each party made its own independent decision to enter into each Issue Document to which it is a party and that, in respect of any party to any of the Issue Documents and its respective directors, employees, agents and advisers, there has been, is and will be no bad faith, fraud, coercion, duress or undue influence; |
| 19. | all statements made as to matters of fact and all representations and warranties given by the respective parties in the documents that we have reviewed were and are true, accurate and complete; |
| 20. | each person who is a party to any of the Opinion Documents or otherwise involved in the Transaction has complied with and will comply with all applicable provisions of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 on market abuse as it forms part of the laws of the United Kingdom (“UK MAR”), the UK Prospectus Regulation, the FSMA and the Financial Services Act 2012, as amended (the “FSA”) and the Alternative Investment Fund Management Regulations (SI 2013/1773), as amended, (the “AIFM Regulations”) and any regulations made under any of UK MAR, the UK Prospectus Regulation, the FSMA, the FSA and the AIFM Regulations with respect to anything done or to be done by it in connection with any of the Issue Documents or the Transaction in, from, or otherwise involving the United Kingdom including, without limitation, Article 14 (prohibition of insider dealing etc.) and Article 15 (prohibition of market manipulation) of UK MAR, section 19 (the general prohibition) and section 21 (restrictions on financial promotion) of the FSMA and section 89 (misleading statements), section 90 (misleading impressions) and section 91 (misleading statements etc in relation to benchmarks) of the FSA and Article 59 (marketing under Article 42 of the Directive) of the AIFM Regulations; |
| 21. | no Notes have been or will be offered in the United Kingdom to any “retail investor” within the meaning given to that term in Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPS) as it forms part of the laws of the United Kingdom; and |
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| 22. | each person who is a party to any of the Issue Documents or is otherwise involved in the Transaction has complied and will continue to comply with all applicable anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism, sanctions and human rights laws and regulations and that the performance and enforcement of each Issue Document is consistent therewith. |
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SCHEDULE 3
QUALIFICATIONS
Our opinion is subject to the following qualifications:
| 1. | the Company Searches are not capable of revealing conclusively whether or not, inter alia, (i) a winding-up order has been made or a resolution passed for the winding up of a company; or (ii) an administration order has been made; or (iii) a receiver, administrative receiver, administrator, liquidator or monitor has been appointed; or (iv) a court order has been made under the Cross-Border Insolvency Regulations 2006, since notice of these matters may not be filed with the Registrar of Companies immediately and, when filed, may not be entered on the electronic records of the relevant company immediately. In addition, the Company Searches are not capable of revealing, prior to the making of the relevant order or the appointment of an administrator otherwise taking effect, whether or not a winding-up petition or an application for an administration order has been presented or notice of intention to appoint an administrator under paragraphs 14 or 22 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 or an application for a moratorium (or an extension to an existing moratorium) has been filed with the court; |
| 2. | the Central Registry Searches relate only to the presentation of (i) a petition for the making of a winding-up order or the making of a winding-up order by the Court; (ii) an application to the High Court of Justice in London for the making of an administration order and the making by such court of an administration order; and (iii) a notice of intention to appoint an administrator or a notice of appointment of an administrator filed at the High Court of Justice in London. They are not capable of revealing conclusively whether or not such a winding-up petition, application for an administration order, notice of intention or notice of appointment has been presented or winding-up or administration order granted; |
| 3. | except as expressly set out in our opinion above, we express no opinion in respect of the tax treatment of, or the transactions contemplated by, any of the Issue Documents or the offer or issue of the Notes, any other documentation entered into in connection therewith or in connection with the Transaction or any other legal issue including (without limitation) whether any of the Issue Documents or any such other documentation is effective for any commercial, accounting, tax or legal objectives or purposes of the parties thereto or any other person. We express no opinion on the applicability of Schedule 17 to the Finance Act 2009. We also express no opinion as to matters of fact; |
| 4. | we have not been responsible for verifying whether any statement of fact (including foreign law), opinion or intention in any documents referred to in this opinion, in any related documents or otherwise in connection with the Transaction is accurate, complete or reasonable or that no material facts have been omitted therefrom. We express no opinion as to whether the Registration Statement or Prospectus Supplement contained or contains all information it is or was required to contain; |
| 5. | we express no opinion on any aspect of United Kingdom taxation; |
| 6. | this opinion is subject to all applicable laws relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, administration, voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement, moratorium, reorganisation, rescheduling, fraudulent transfer, preference, transactions at undervalue or other laws of general application relating to or affecting the rights of creditors; and |
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| 7. | legislation, treasury rules and other laws and regulations in England and Wales restrict or prohibit payments, transactions and dealings with assets and individuals or entities having a proscribed connection with certain countries or subject to international sanctions or associated with terrorism. |
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