QWEST CORPORATION PRICEDETERMINATION AGREEMENT
Exhibit 1.2
QWEST CORPORATION
PRICE DETERMINATION AGREEMENT
September 22, 2014
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH
INCORPORATED
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC
UBS SECURITIES LLC
WELLS FARGO SECURITIES, LLC
AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SEVERAL UNDERWRITERS
C/O | MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH |
INCORPORATED
ONE BRYANT PARK
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036
MORGAN STANLEY & CO. LLC
1585 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036
UBS Securities LLC
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York, 10019
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
550 South Tryon Street, 5th Floor
Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to the Underwriting Agreement, dated September 22, 2014 (the Underwriting Agreement), between Qwest Corporation, a Colorado corporation (the Company), and the Underwriters named in Schedule I thereto (the Underwriters). The Underwriting Agreement provides for the sale to the Underwriters, and the purchase by the Underwriters, severally but not jointly, from the Company, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys 6.875% Notes due 2054 (the Initial Securities) to be issued pursuant to an Indenture dated as of October 15, 1999, between the Company (formerly named US WEST Communications, Inc.) and Bank of New York Trust Company, National Association (as successor in interest to Bank One Trust Company and J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National Association), as amended and supplemented to the date hereof, and as will be further supplemented by the Thirteenth Supplemental Indenture between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee, to be dated as of September 29, 2014 relating to the Securities (as defined herein). This Agreement is the Price Determination Agreement referred to in the Underwriting Agreement.
For all purposes of the Underwriting Agreement, Time of Sale means 4:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the date of this Price Determination Agreement.
Pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Underwriting Agreement, the undersigned agree with the Underwriters that the purchase price for the Initial Securities to be paid by the Underwriters shall be 96.85% of the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Securities set forth opposite the names of the Underwriters in Schedule I attached thereto for retail sales (aggregating to a $478,221,087.50 purchase price in respect of $493,775,000.00 aggregate principal amount of such sales); provided that such purchase price will be 98.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities sold by the Underwriters to certain institutions (aggregating to a $6,100,500.00 purchase price in respect of $6,225,000.00 aggregate principal amount of such sales). In addition, pursuant to Section 1(c) of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company hereby grants to the Underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional $75,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Companys 6.875% Notes due 2054 (the Option Securities and, together with the Initial Securities, the Securities).
The Company represents and warrants to the Underwriters that the representations and warranties of the Company set forth in Section 3 of the Underwriting Agreement are accurate as though expressly made at and as of the date hereof.
THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE PARTIES TO THIS PRICE DETERMINATION AGREEMENT SHALL, PURSUANT TO NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW SECTION 5-1401, BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO ANY CHOICE OF LAW PRINCIPLES THAT MIGHT CALL FOR THE APPLICATION OF THE LAW OF ANY OTHER JURISDICTION.
This Price Determination Agreement may be signed in two or more counterparts with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.
If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of the agreement among the Underwriters and the Company, please sign and return to the Company a counterpart hereof, whereupon this instrument along with all counterparts and together with the Underwriting Agreement shall be a binding agreement among the Underwriters and the Company in accordance with its terms and the terms of the Underwriting Agreement.
Very truly yours, | ||
QWEST CORPORATION | ||
By: | /s/ R. Stewart Ewing, Jr. | |
Name: | R. Stewart Ewing, Jr. | |
Title: | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Confirmed as of the date first above mentioned:
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
UBS Securities LLC
Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
As Representatives of the several Underwriters
By: | Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith | |
Incorporated | ||
By: | /s/ Keith Harman | |
Name: | Keith Harman | |
Title: | Managing Director | |
By: | Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC | |
By: | /s/ Yurij Slyz | |
Name: | Yurij Slyz | |
Title: | Executive Director | |
By: | UBS Securities LLC | |
By: | /s/ Christian Stewart | |
Name: | Christian Stewart | |
Title: | Managing Director | |
By: | /s/ Prath Reddy | |
Name: | Prath Reddy | |
Title: | Associate Director |
By: | Wells Fargo Securities, LLC | |
By: | /s/ Carolyn Hurley | |
Name: | Carolyn Hurley | |
Title: | Director |