$350,000,000 Eagle MaterialsInc. 4.500% Senior Notes due 2026 Underwriting Agreement

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EX-1.1 2 d408288dex11.htm EX-1.1 EX-1.1

Exhibit 1.1

EXECUTION VERSION

$350,000,000

Eagle Materials Inc.

4.500% Senior Notes due 2026

Underwriting Agreement

July 28, 2016

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

As Representative of the

several Underwriters listed

in Schedule 1 hereto

 

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

383 Madison Avenue

New York, New York 10179

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Eagle Materials Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as representative (the “Representative”), $350,000,000 principal amount of its 4.500% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Securities”). The Securities will be issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of May 8, 2009 (the “Base Indenture”), among the Company, the guarantors listed on Schedule 2 hereto (the “Guarantors”), and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended by a Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of August 2, 2016 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”), and will be guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by each of 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”), an automatic shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-206222), as amended by Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 thereto, in each case including a base prospectus (the “Base Prospectus”), relating to certain securities described therein, including the Securities, which automatic shelf registration statement became effective in accordance with Rule 462(e) under the Securities Act. Such registration statement, 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, is referred to herein as the


Registration Statement”; and as used herein, the term “Preliminary Prospectus” means each preliminary prospectus supplement, together with the Base Prospectus, that describes the Securities and the offering thereof and is used prior to filing the Prospectus (as defined below), and the term “Prospectus” means the final prospectus supplement, together with the Base 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.

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 July 25, 2016, and each “free-writing prospectus” (as defined pursuant to Rule 405 under the Securities Act) listed on Annex A hereto.

The Company intends to use the proceeds of the offering of the Securities to repay a portion of the amounts outstanding under its Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of October 30, 2014, among the Company, the lenders party thereto, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, and the other agents party thereto (as amended, amended and restated, extended, renewed, restated, supplemented or modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”).

2. Purchase of the Securities by the Underwriters.

(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 98.625% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest, if any, from August 2, 2016 to the Closing Date (as defined below), plus any additional amount of Securities which such Underwriter may become obligated to purchase pursuant to the provisions of Section 10 hereof. 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.

 

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(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 Representative 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 offices of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, 425 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10017 at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on August 2, 2016, or at such other time or place on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as the Representative 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 Representative 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 payable in connection with the sale of the Securities duly paid by the Company. The Global Note will be made available for inspection by the Representative not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the business day prior to the Closing Date.

(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, neither the Representative 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 neither the Representative nor any other Underwriter shall have any responsibility or liability to the Company or the Guarantors with respect thereto. Any review by the Representative or any other Underwriter of the Company or the Guarantors, the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit of the Representative or such Underwriter, as the case may be, and shall not be on behalf of the Company or the Guarantors or any other person.

 

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3. Representations and Warranties of the Company and the Guarantors. The Company and the Guarantors 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, at the time of filing thereof, complied in all material respects with the Securities Act and did 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, 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 or on behalf of such Underwriter expressly for use in any Preliminary Prospectus.

(b) Time of Sale Information. The Time of Sale Information, at the Time of Sale, did not, and at 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 or on behalf of such Underwriter expressly for use in the Preliminary Prospectus, the Time of Sale Information or the Prospectus. 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. 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 and the Guarantors or their agents and representatives (other than a communication referred to in clauses (i) (ii) and (iii) 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 Preliminary Prospectus, (iii) the Prospectus, (iv) the documents listed on Annex A hereto which constitute part of the Time of Sale Information and (v) any electronic road show or other written communications, in each case approved in advance by the Representative. 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, when taken together with the Preliminary Prospectus filed prior to the first use of such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, did not, at the Time of Sale, and will not, at the Closing Date, 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

 

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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 or on behalf of such Underwriter expressly for use in any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus.

(d) 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. 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 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 amendment thereto, the Registration Statement complied and will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (together with the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, 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 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, 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 (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 or on behalf of such Underwriter expressly for use in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto.

(e) 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, as the case may be, 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 required to be stated therein or necessary in order 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 each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus or the Time of Sale Information, when such documents 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 required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

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(f) Financial Statements. The financial statements included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, together with the related schedules and notes, present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the entities purported to be shown thereby at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and the changes in their cash flows for the periods specified, and comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved except where and to the extent noted therein. The supporting schedules, if any, included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information present fairly, in all material respects, in accordance with GAAP, the information required to be stated therein. The selected financial data and the summary financial information included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information present fairly, in all material respects, the information required to be stated therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent with that of the audited financial statements included therein. The other financial information included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information has been derived from the accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries, as applicable, and presents fairly, in all material respects, the information shown therein. Except as are included or incorporated by reference therein, no financial statements or supporting schedules are required to be included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act. All disclosures included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information regarding “non-GAAP financial measures” (as such term is defined by the rules and regulations of the Commission) comply with Regulation G under the 1934 Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, to the extent applicable. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information fairly presents in all material respects the information called for and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto in all material respects.

(g) No Material Adverse Change. Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, except as otherwise disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, (i) there has not been any material change in the capital stock 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 capital stock, or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the business, properties, assets, management, financial position, or results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; (ii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has entered into any transaction or agreement that is material to the Company and its

 

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subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or incurred any liability or obligation, direct or contingent, that is material to the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has sustained any material loss or interference with its business 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.

(h) Organization and Good Standing. The Company and each of its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries have been duly organized and are validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization, are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing 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 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, assets, management, financial position, 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, the Indenture and the Guarantees (a “Material Adverse Effect”). The Company does not own or control, directly or indirectly, any corporation, association or other entity other than the subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2016, except for entities that have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(b)(21) of Regulation S-K. The subsidiaries listed in Schedule 3 hereto are the only significant subsidiaries (within the meaning of Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X) of the Company.

(i) Capitalization. The Company has the capitalization as set forth in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information under the heading “Capitalization” and all the outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity interests of the Company and each of its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries 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 claim of any third party (collectively, “Liens”), except for (i) Liens pursuant to the Credit Agreement (the “Existing Indebtedness”) on the Closing Date, and (ii) as otherwise disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus.

(j) Due Authorization. The Company and each of the Guarantors have full right, power and authority to execute and deliver, in each case to the extent a party thereto, this Agreement, 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 by the Company and each of the Guarantors, as applicable, 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.

 

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(k) The Indenture. (i) The Indenture has been duly authorized by the Company and each of the Guarantors and on the Closing Date will be duly executed and delivered by the Company and each of the Guarantors, (ii) upon effectiveness of the Registration Statement, the Indenture was duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and (iii) 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 each of the Guarantors enforceable against the Company and each of the Guarantors in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or affecting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) (collectively, the “Enforceability Exceptions”).

(l) 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.

(m) Underwriting Agreement. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and each of the Guarantors.

(n) Credit Agreement Amendment. On or prior to the Closing Date, Amendment No. 2 to the Credit Agreement (the “Credit Agreement Amendment”) will have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and each of the Guarantors and will constitute a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company and each of the Guarantors, enforceable against the Company and each of the Guarantors in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

(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 Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information.

(p) No Violation or Default. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its charter, by-laws or similar organizational document, (ii) in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the performance or observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them may be

 

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bound or to which any of the properties or assets of the Company or any subsidiary is subject (collectively, “Agreements and Instruments”), or (iii) in violation of any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any arbitrator, court, governmental body, regulatory body, administrative agency or other authority, body or agency having jurisdiction over the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties, assets or operations (each, a “Governmental Entity”), except, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii), for such defaults or violations that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(q) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company and each of 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 each of the Guarantors with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents will not, whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both, conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or Repayment Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any properties or assets of the Company or any subsidiary thereof pursuant to, the Agreements and Instruments (except for such conflicts, breaches, defaults or Repayment Events or liens, charges or encumbrances that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect), nor will any such action result in any violation of the provisions of the charter, by-laws or similar organizational document of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree of any Governmental Entity (except, in the case of any such violations of any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment, order, writ or decree, for such violations as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect). As used herein, a “Repayment Event” means any event or condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

(r) No Consents Required. No filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration, qualification or decree of, any Governmental Entity is necessary or required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company and each of 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 each of 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, the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act and such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as may be required under applicable state securities laws or the rules of Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Securities by the Underwriters or (ii) those that have been, or prior to the Closing Date will be, obtained and are in full force and effect.

 

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(s) Legal Proceedings. Except as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any Governmental Entity now pending or, to the knowledge of the Company and each of the Guarantors, threatened, against the Company or any of its subsidiaries, which would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (i) there is no current or pending action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or brought by any Governmental Entity required under the Securities Act to be described in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus that is not so described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information 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 Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information.

(t) Independent Accountants. Ernst & Young LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries and who have certified certain financial statements of Texas Lehigh Cement Company LP, are an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries and Texas Lehigh Cement Company LP 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 Majority-Owned Subsidiaries have good and valid title to all real property owned by them and good title to all other properties owned by them, in each case, free and clear of all mortgages, pledges, liens, security interests, claims, restrictions or encumbrances of any kind except such as (i) are described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information or (ii) would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and all of the leases and subleases material to the business of the Company and its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, under which the Company or any of its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries holds properties described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, are in full force and effect, and neither the Company nor any Majority-Owned Subsidiary has any notice of any claim of any sort that has been asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the Company or any such Majority-Owned Subsidiary under any of the leases or subleases mentioned above, or affecting or questioning the rights of the Company or such Majority-Owned Subsidiary to the continued possession of the leased or subleased premises under any such lease or sublease, except for any such claim that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(v) Intellectual Property. The Company and its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on reasonable terms, adequate patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks, trade names or other intellectual property (collectively,

 

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Intellectual Property”) necessary to carry on the business now operated by them, and neither the Company nor any of its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries has received any notice of any infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with respect to any Intellectual Property or of any facts or circumstances which would render any Intellectual Property invalid or inadequate to protect the interest of the Company or any of its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries therein, and which infringement or conflict or invalidity or inadequacy, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(w) No Undisclosed Relationships. No relationship, direct or indirect, exists between or among the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the directors, officers, stockholders, customers, suppliers or other affiliates of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the other, that is required by the Securities Act to be described in each of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and that is not so described in such documents and in the Time of Sale Information.

(x) Investment Company Act. Neither the Company nor any of the Guarantors is, 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, none of them will be, 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”).

(y) Taxes. All United States federal income tax returns of the Company and its subsidiaries required by law to be filed have been filed and all taxes shown by such returns or otherwise assessed, which are due and payable by them, have been paid, other than assessments against which appeals have been or will be promptly taken and as to which adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP have been provided, except (in any case) to the extent the failure to do so would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its subsidiaries have filed all other tax returns that are required to have been filed by them pursuant to applicable foreign, state, local or other law except insofar as the failure to file such returns would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and have paid all taxes due and payable by them pursuant to such returns or pursuant to any assessment received by the Company and its subsidiaries, except (i) for such taxes, if any, as are being contested in good faith and as to which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP by the Company or (ii) to the extent the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. To the knowledge of the Company and each of the Guarantors, the charges, accruals and reserves on the books of the Company in respect of any income and corporation tax liability for any years not finally determined or closed by the applicable statute of limitations are adequate to meet any assessments or re-assessments for additional income tax for any years not finally determined, except to the extent of any inadequacy that would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Except as otherwise disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, there is no material tax deficiency that has been, or could reasonably be expected to be, asserted against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets.

 

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(z) Licenses and Permits. The Company and its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries possess such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively, “Governmental Licenses”) issued by the appropriate Governmental Entities necessary to conduct the business now operated by them, except where the failure to so possess such Governmental Licenses would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company and its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries are in compliance with the terms and conditions of the Governmental Licenses, except where the failure to so comply would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. All of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and effect, except where the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to be in full force and effect would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any of its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Governmental Licenses which would, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(aa) No Labor Disputes. No labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the knowledge of the Company and each of the Guarantors, is imminent, and neither the Company nor any Guarantor is aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of any of the Company’s or any of the Company’s subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, manufacturers, customers or contractors, except in each case as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(bb) Environmental Laws. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information or except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expect to have a Material Adverse Effect, (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has violated any applicable federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code or binding policy or any binding judicial or administrative interpretation thereof or of any rule of common law, including, without limitation, any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or judgment issued to any of them, in each case relating to pollution or protection of human health (in respect of exposure to hazardous materials) or the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface, subsurface strata or wildlife), including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products, asbestos-containing materials or mold (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws for their respective businesses and operations and are in compliance with their requirements, (iii) there are no administrative, regulatory or judicial

 

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actions pending against, and no written notice of any demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, or threatened investigation or proceedings have been received by the Company or any of its subsidiaries in each case arising under or related to any Environmental Law and (iv), to the knowledge of the Company, there are no events or circumstances presently existing that would reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or Governmental Entity, against the Company or any of its subsidiaries relating to Hazardous Materials or arising under any Environmental Laws or otherwise would reasonably be expected to result in any liability under any Environmental Law.

(cc) 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”) (other than a “multiemployer plan” (as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA)), which is subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) and for which the Company or its subsidiaries have any liability (including liability on account of any member of their “Controlled Group” (defined as any entity, whether or not incorporated, that is under common control with the Company or any of its subsidiaries 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(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code)) (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 “multiemployer plan” within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which the Company or its subsidiaries makes or is obligated to make contributions or otherwise has liability (including liability on account of a member of their Controlled Group) is in “endangered status” or “critical status” (within the meaning of Sections 304 and 305 of ERISA) (a “Multiemployer Plan”); (v) no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA and the regulations promulgated thereunder) (other than such an event for which notice requirements have been waived) 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 of its subsidiaries has incurred, nor reasonably expects to incur, any liability (including liability on account of a member of their Controlled Group) under Title IV of ERISA (other than contributions to the Plan, with respect to accrued benefits, or premiums to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, in the ordinary course and without default) in respect of a Plan or a Multiemployer Plan and (viii) none of the following events has occurred or is reasonably likely to occur: (A) a material increase in the aggregate amount of

 

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contributions required to be made to all Plans and Multiemployer Plans by the Company or its subsidiaries’ in the current fiscal year of the Company compared to the amount of such contributions made in the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ most recently completed fiscal year; or (B) a material increase in the Company and its 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 and its subsidiaries’ most recently completed fiscal year, except in each case with respect to the events or conditions set forth in this paragraph (cc), as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(dd) Disclosure Controls. The Company (on a consolidated basis) maintains an effective system of “disclosure controls and procedures” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) of the Exchange Act) that complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits pursuant to the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, and is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive officer or officers and principal financial officer or officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. The Company (on a consolidated basis) has carried out evaluations of the effectiveness of their disclosure controls and procedures as required by Rule 13a-15 of the Exchange Act.

(ee) Accounting Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries, together, maintain a system of “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed by, or under the supervision of, the Company’s 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. Except as described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (i) no material weakness or significant deficiency in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (ii) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company and its 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 accountability for assets; (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 each of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto in all material respects.

 

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(ff) Insurance. The Company and its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries carry or are entitled to the benefits of insurance, with financially sound and reputable insurers, in such amounts and covering such risks as is generally and customarily maintained by similarly situated companies engaged in the same or similar businesses, and all such insurance is in full force and effect, in each case with such exceptions as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has not received any written notice from any insurer or third party stating that it or any of its Majority-Owned Subsidiaries will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire, except in circumstances where the Company believes that it will be able to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

(gg) No Unlawful Payments. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor any director, officer or employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the Company and each of the Guarantors, any agent, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, has (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expense relating to political activity; (ii) made or taken an act in furtherance of an offer, promise or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government official or employee, including of any government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or any applicable law or regulation implementing the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions, or committed an offence under the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom, or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law; or (iv) made, offered, agreed, requested or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe or other unlawful benefit, including, without limitation, any rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful or improper payment or benefit. The Company and its subsidiaries have instituted, maintain and enforce 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 and its 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 applicable money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions where the Company or any of its subsidiaries conducts business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or any of the Guarantors, threatened.

 

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(ii) No Conflicts with Sanctions Laws. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, directors, officers or employees, nor, to the knowledge of the Company or any of the Guarantors, any agent, affiliate or other person associated with or acting on behalf of the Company or any of its 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 (“OFAC”) 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 (“UNSC”), the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”), or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), nor is the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of the Guarantors located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or target of Sanctions, including, without limitation, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria and Crimea (each, a “Sanctioned Country”); 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) 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 Country or (iii) in any other manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction, whether as underwriter, initial purchaser, advisor, investor or otherwise) of Sanctions. For the past five years, the Company and its 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 Country.

(jj) No Restrictions on Subsidiaries. No subsidiary of the Company 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, 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 from transferring any of such subsidiary’s properties or assets to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company, except for any such restrictions (a) contained in the Existing Indebtedness on the Closing Date, (b) disclosed in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus, or (c) that will be permitted by the Indenture.

(kk) No Broker’s Fees. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any contract, agreement or understanding with any person (other than this Agreement) that would give rise to a valid claim against 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.

 

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(mm) No Stabilization. Neither the Company nor any of the Guarantors 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.

(pp) Industry Statistical and Market Data. Nothing has come to the attention of the Company or any Guarantor that has caused the Company or such Guarantor to believe that the industry 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.

4. Further Agreements of the Company and the Guarantors. The Company and the Guarantors jointly and severally 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, and will file any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus (including the Pricing Term Sheet referred to in Annex A hereto) to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act; the Company will file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statements required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the

 

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Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a prospectus is required in connection with the offering or sale of the Securities; 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 Representative 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 Representative, two 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) upon request, a conformed copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto, in each case including all exhibits and consents filed therewith 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 Representative 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.

(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, whether before or after the time that the Registration Statement becomes effective the Company will furnish to the Representative 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 Representative reasonably objects.

(d) Notice to the Representative. The Company will advise the Representative 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; (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 of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus or the

 

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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 within the Prospectus Delivery Period as a result of which the Prospectus, 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 required to be stated therein or 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 or the Prospectus or suspending any such qualification of the Securities and, if any such order is issued, will obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.

(e) Time of Sale Information. If at any time prior to the Closing Date (i) any event 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 promptly notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to Section 4(c) hereof, file with the Commission (to the extent required) and furnish to the Underwriters and to such dealers as the Representative 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 (including such documents to be 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 required to be stated therein or 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 promptly notify the Underwriters thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to Section 4(c) hereof, file with the Commission and furnish to the Underwriters and to such dealers as the Representative 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

 

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including such documents to be incorporated by reference 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 Representative shall reasonably request and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for distribution of the Securities; provided that neither the Company nor any of the Guarantors shall 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 timely file such reports pursuant to the Exchange Act as are necessary to make generally available to its security holders and the Representative 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.

(i) Clear Market. During the period from the date hereof through and including the date that is 90 days after the date hereof, the Company and each of the Guarantors will not, without the prior written consent of the Representative, offer, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or any of the Guarantors and having a tenor of more than one year.

(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) 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.

5. Certain Agreements of the Underwriters. Each Underwriter hereby represents and agrees that:

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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 hereto or prepared pursuant to Section 3(c) or Section 4(c) hereof (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 A 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).

6. 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 each of 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 a Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, to the extent required by Rule 433 under the Securities Act) and in accordance with Section 4(a) hereof; and all requests by the Commission for additional information shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Representative.

(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 or preferred stock issued or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is defined under Section 3(a)(62) of 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 or any of its subsidiaries (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading).

 

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(d) No Material Adverse Change. No event or condition of a type described in Section 3(g) 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 Representative 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) Officer’s Certificate. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date a certificate of an executive officer of the Company and of each Guarantor who has specific knowledge of the Company or such Guarantor’s financial matters and is reasonably satisfactory to the Representative (i) confirming that such officer has carefully reviewed the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Information and the Prospectus and, to the best knowledge of such officer, the representations set forth in Sections 3(b) and 3(d) 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 Sections 6(a), (c) and (d) hereof.

(f) Comfort Letters. (i) On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date, Ernst & Young LLP shall have furnished to the Representative, 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 Representative, 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, in each case with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries and Texas Lehigh Cement Company LP, as the case may be; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three business days prior to the Closing Date; and (ii) the Company shall have furnished to the Representative a certificate, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representative, 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 Representative.

(g) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Company. The Representative shall have received (1) the favorable opinion and 10b-5 Statement, addressed to the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date of Sidley Austin LLP, counsel for the Company and all Guarantors other than any Guarantor referenced in Section 6(h), in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to

 

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the Representative, and (2) the favorable opinion addressed to the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date of James H. Graass, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Company, in form an substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.

(h) Opinions of Local Counsel. (i) Woodburn & Wedge, counsel for CCP Cement Company, CCP Gypsum LLC, Mountain Cement Company, Nevada Cement Company, Texas Cement Company, CCP Land Company, Centex Cement Corporation, Rio Grande Drywall Supply Co. and Western Aggregates LLC in the State of Nevada, shall have furnished to the Representative, at the request of the Company, its written opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative, (ii) Crowe & Dunlevy, counsel for CRS Atlantic LLC in the State of Oklahoma, shall have furnished to the Representative, at the request of the Company, its written opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative, and (iii) Quarles & Brady LLP, counsel for Wisconsin Cement Company in the State of Wisconsin, shall have furnished to the Representative, at the request of the Company, its written opinion, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Representative on behalf of the Underwriters, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representative.

(i) Opinion and 10b-5 Statement of Counsel for the Underwriters. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date an opinion and 10b-5 statement, addressed to the Underwriters, of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, with respect to such matters as the Representative 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.

(j) No Legal Impediment to Issuance. 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 or sale 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.

(k) Good Standing. The Representative shall have received on and as of the Closing Date satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company and the Guarantors in their respective jurisdictions of organization and their good standing in such other jurisdictions as the Representative may reasonably request, in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication, from the appropriate governmental authorities of such jurisdictions.

(l) DTC. The Securities shall be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.

 

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(m) Indenture and Securities. The Indenture shall have been duly executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of the Company, each of 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.

(n) Credit Agreement Amendment. Concurrently with or prior to the Closing Date, the Credit Agreement Amendment shall have become effective and the terms thereof shall be consistent in all material respects with the terms described in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and the Time of Sale Information, and the Representatives shall have received conformed counterparts thereof.

(o) Additional Documents. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall have furnished to the Representative such further certificates and documents as the Representative 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.

7. Indemnification and Contribution.

(a) Indemnification of the Underwriters. The Company and each of the Guarantors jointly and severally agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, 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, reasonable legal fees and other reasonable 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 the 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 or on behalf of such Underwriter expressly for use therein.

(b) Indemnification of the Company and the Guarantors. Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of the Guarantors, each of their respective directors and officers who signed the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the

 

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Guarantors 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, reasonable legal fees and other reasonable 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 the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, but in each case, only with respect to any such 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 or on behalf of such Underwriter expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information consists of the following paragraphs in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus: the third and fourth sentences of the first paragraph and the second paragraph under the caption “Underwriting (conflicts of interest)—Price stabilization and short positions.”

(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 Sections 7(a) or (b) hereof, 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 Sections 7(a) or (b) hereof 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 Sections 7(a) or (b) hereof. 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 7 that the Indemnifying Person may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and expenses of such proceeding and shall pay the 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

 

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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. 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 fees and expenses shall be paid or reimbursed as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for any Underwriter, its affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of such Underwriter shall be designated in writing by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC 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 or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the Indemnifying Person agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an Indemnified Person shall have requested that an Indemnifying Person reimburse the Indemnified Person for 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 45 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 Sections 7(a) or (b) hereof 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 and the Guarantors 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 and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses,

 

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claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantors 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 and the Guarantors 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 and the Guarantors 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 any Guarantor 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, the Guarantors and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 7 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 Section 7(d) hereof. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in Section 7(d) hereof 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 7, 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 7 are several in proportion to their respective purchase obligations hereunder and not joint.

(f) Non-Exclusive Remedies. The remedies provided for in this Section 7 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.

8. Effectiveness of Agreement. This Agreement shall become effective as of the date first written above.

9. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representative, 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 the New York Stock Exchange or the over-the-counter market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the

 

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Company or any of 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 Representative, 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.

10. 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 10, 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 Section 10(a) hereof, 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 Section 10(a) hereof, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that remains unpurchased exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate principal

 

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amount of all the Securities, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in Section 10(b) hereof, then this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Underwriters. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 10 shall be without liability on the part of the Company or the Guarantors, except that the Company and each of the Guarantors will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Section 11 hereof and except that the provisions of Section 7 hereof shall not terminate and shall remain in effect.

(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.

11. Payment of Expenses.

(a) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company and each of the Guarantors jointly and severally agree to pay or cause to be paid all costs and expenses incident to the performance of their respective obligations hereunder, including without limitation, (i) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Securities and any taxes payable in connection therewith; (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 and the Guarantors’ 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 Representative may designate and the preparation, printing and distribution of a Blue Sky Memorandum (including the related reasonable fees and expenses of counsel for the Underwriters); (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) all expenses and application fees incurred in connection with any filing with, and clearance of the offering by, FINRA, and the approval of the Securities for book-entry transfer by DTC; (ix) all expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors; and (x) one half of all air travel expenses in connection with any “road show” presentation to potential investors.

(b) If (i) this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 9 hereof, (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 each of the Guarantors jointly and severally 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.

 

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12. 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 7 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.

13. 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.

14. 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; (d) the term “significant subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act; and (e) the term “Majority-Owned Subsidiary” or “Majority-Owned Subsidiaries” means any subsidiary (or subsidiaries) more than 50 percent of whose outstanding voting securities are owned by its parent and/or the parent’s other majority-owned subsidiaries.

15. 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, 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.

16. Miscellaneous.

(a) Authority of the Representative. Any action by the Underwriters hereunder may be taken by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC on behalf of the Underwriters, and any such action taken by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC 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 Representative c/o J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, 383 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10179 (fax: 212 ###-###-####); Attention: Gregory Spier. Notices to

 

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the Company and the Guarantors shall be given to them at 3811 Turtle Creek Boulevard, Suite 1100, Dallas, Texas 75219, attention of D. Craig Kesler, Chief Financial Officer (fax: (214)  ###-###-####), with a copy to the attention of James H. Graass, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary (fax: (214)  ###-###-####) and a copy to Sidley Austin LLP, 2001 Ross Avenue, Suite 3600, Dallas, Texas 75201 to the attention of William D. Howell (fax (214)  ###-###-####).

(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 each of 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 each of the Guarantors agree that a 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 Company and each Guarantor, as applicable, is subject by a suit upon such judgment.

(e) 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.

(f) 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.

(g) 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.

(h) 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,
EAGLE MATERIALS INC.
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Senior Vice President, Controller
  and Chief Accounting Officer

 

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TLCC LP LLC
By  

/s/ Joseph P. Sells

Name:   Joseph P. Sells
Title:   President and Secretary

 

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AG DALLAS LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
AG SOUTH CAROLINA LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
AMERICAN GYPSUM COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
AMERICAN GYPSUM MARKETING COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
AUDUBON MATERIALS LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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AUDUBON READYMIX LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CCP CEMENT COMPANY
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CCP CONCRETE/AGGREGATES LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CCP GYPSUM LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CCP LAND COMPANY
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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CCP LEASING LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CENTEX CEMENT CORPORATION
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CENTEX MATERIALS LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CPCC LAND COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CRS ATLANTIC LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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CRS BLOCKER 1 INC.
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CRS BLOCKER 2 INC.
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CRS BLOCKER 3 INC.
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CRS BLOCKER 4 INC.
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
CRS HOLDCO LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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CRS PROPPANTS LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
DUNNING PROPERTIES, L.L.C.
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
EAGLE CEMENT COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
EAGLE MATERIALS AVIATION LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
EAGLE MATERIALS IP LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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EAGLE OIL AND GAS PROPPANTS HOLDINGS LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
EAGLE OIL AND GAS PROPPANTS LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
FARMING SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
FARMING SOLUTIONS LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
GREAT NORTHERN SAND LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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GREEN PROPERTY FARMS, LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
GREEN ROSE INVESTMENTS, LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
HOLLIS & EASTERN RAILROAD COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
IC ENERGY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
ILLINOIS CEMENT COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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KANSAS CITY AGGREGATE LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
KANSAS CITY FLY ASH LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
KANSAS CITY READYMIX LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
MATHEWS READYMIX LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
MEV LAND TRUST LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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MICHIGAN CEMENT COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
MINNESOTA SAND COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
MOUNTAIN CEMENT COMPANY
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
MOUNTAIN LAND & CATTLE COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
NEVADA CEMENT COMPANY
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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NORTHERN WHITE SAND LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
REPUBLIC PAPERBOARD COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
RIO GRANDE DRYWALL SUPPLY CO.
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
SKYWAY CEMENT COMPANY LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
TEXAS CEMENT COMPANY
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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TLCC GP LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
TULSA CEMENT LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
WESTERN AGGREGATES LLC
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
WESTERN CEMENT COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President
WISCONSIN CEMENT COMPANY
By  

/s/ William R. Devlin

Name:   William R. Devlin
Title:   Vice President

 

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Accepted: July 28, 2016
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES LLC
  For itself and on behalf of the several Underwriters listed in Schedule 1 hereto.
By:  

/s/ Gregory Spier

  Authorized Signatory

 

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Schedule 1

 

Underwriter

   Principal Amount  

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

   $ 192,500,000   

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

                      Incorporated

   $ 42,000,000   

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

   $ 42,000,000   

BB&T Capital Markets, a division of BB&T Securities, LLC

   $ 42,000,000   

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

   $ 10,500,000   

PNC Capital Markets LLC

   $ 10,500,000   

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

   $ 10,500,000   
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 350,000,000   


Schedule 2

Guarantors

AG Dallas LLC

AG South Carolina LLC

American Gypsum Company LLC

American Gypsum Marketing Company LLC

Audubon Materials LLC

Audubon Readymix LLC

CCP Cement Company

CCP Concrete/Aggregates LLC

CCP Gypsum LLC

CCP Land Company

CCP Leasing LLC

Centex Cement Corporation

Centex Materials LLC

CPCC Land Company LLC

CRS Atlantic LLC

CRS Blocker 1 Inc.

CRS Blocker 2 Inc.

CRS Blocker 3 Inc.

CRS Blocker 4 Inc.

CRS Holdco LLC

CRS Proppants LLC

Dunning Properties, L.L.C.

Eagle Cement Company LLC

Eagle Materials Aviation LLC

Eagle Materials IP LLC

Eagle Oil and Gas Proppants Holdings LLC

Eagle Oil and Gas Proppants LLC

Farming Solutions Holdings LLC

Farming Solutions LLC

Great Northern Sand LLC

Green Property Farms, LLC

Green Rose Investments, LLC

Hollis & Eastern Railroad Company LLC

IC Energy LLC

Illinois Cement Company LLC

Kansas City Aggregate LLC

Kansas City Fly Ash LLC

Kansas City Readymix LLC

Mathews Readymix LLC

MEV Land Trust LLC

Michigan Cement Company LLC

Minnesota Sand Company LLC


Mountain Cement Company

Mountain Land & Cattle Company LLC

Nevada Cement Company

Northern White Sand LLC

Republic Paperboard Company LLC

Rio Grande Drywall Supply Co.

Skyway Cement Company LLC

Texas Cement Company

TLCC GP LLC

TLCC LP LLC

Tulsa Cement LLC

Western Aggregates LLC

Western Cement Company of California

Wisconsin Cement Company


Schedule 3

Significant Subsidiaries

AG South Carolina LLC

American Gypsum Company LLC

American Gypsum Marketing Company LLC

Audubon Materials LLC (d/b/a Central Plains Cement Company)

CRS Proppants LLC

Great Northern Sand LLC

Illinois Cement Company

Mountain Cement Company

Nevada Cement Company

Northern White Sand LLC

Republic Paperboard Company LLC

Texas Lehigh Cement Company LP (d/b/a Texas Lehigh Cement)


Annex A

Time of Sale Information

 

    Pricing Term Sheet, dated July 28, 2016, substantially in the form of Annex B hereto.


Annex B

Filed Pursuant to Rule 433

Registration Statement No. 333-206222

Issuer Free Writing Prospectus dated July 28, 2016

Relating to Preliminary Prospectus Supplement dated July 25, 2016

Eagle Materials Inc.

Pricing Term Sheet

 

Issuer    Eagle Materials Inc.
Security    Senior Notes due 2026
Guarantors    All of the Issuer’s existing majority-owned subsidiaries
Aggregate principal amount    $350,000,000
Gross Proceeds    $350,000,000
Net Proceeds (before expenses)    $345,187,500
Maturity date    August 1, 2026
Coupon    4.500%
Issue price    100.000% of face amount
Yield to maturity    4.500%
Spread to benchmark treasury    +299 basis points
Benchmark treasury    UST 1.625% due May 15, 2026
Interest payment dates    August 1 and February 1, commencing February 1, 2017
Optional redemption   

Prior to August 1, 2021, the Company may redeem some or all of the notes at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes plus a “make-whole” premium, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

Prior to August 1, 2019, the Company may redeem up to 40% of the original aggregate principal amount of the notes with the proceeds of certain equity offerings at a redemption price of 104.500% of the principal amount of the notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the date of redemption.

 

On or after August 1, 2021, the Company may redeem some or all of the notes at the redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of the principal amount of the notes to be redeemed) set forth below, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding the applicable redemption date:

 

    

Year

   Percentage  
   2021      102.250
   2022      101.500
   2023      100.750
   2024 and thereafter      100.000

 

Trade Date    July 28, 2016


Settlement      T+3; August 2, 2016     
CUSIP      26969P AA6     
ISIN      US26969PAA66     
Ratings*      [Intentionally Omitted]     
Denominations/multiple      $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof     
Joint book-running managers     

 

 

 

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

                     Incorporated

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

BB&T Capital Markets, a division of BB&T Securities, LLC

  

  

  

  

  

 
Co-managers     

 

 

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

PNC Capital Markets LLC

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

  

  

  

 
     Three months ended
June 30, 2016
    Year ended
March 31, 2016
     

Pro forma ratio of earnings to fixed charges(1)

                                                              11.0                                                              8.5  

 

(1) Earnings represent earnings before income taxes and before income from equity method investments plus: (a) fixed charges; and (b) cash distributions from equity method investments. Fixed charges include: (i) interest expense, whether expensed or capitalized, less interest accrued for uncertain tax positions; and (ii) the portion of operating rental expense which management believes is representative of the interest component of rent expense.

Changes from Preliminary Prospectus Supplement

The aggregate principal amount of notes to be issued in the offering increased from $300,000,000 to $350,000,000. The incremental net proceeds from the increase in the offering size will be used to repay outstanding borrowings under the Issuer’s Credit Facility. As a result, all information (including financial information) presented in the preliminary prospectus supplement, dated July 25, 2016, is deemed to have changed to the extent affected by the changes described herein.

 

 

 

* Note: A securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and may be revised or withdrawn at any time.

The Issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus), as amended, and a preliminary prospectus supplement 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 Web site at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, you may request that a copy of the prospectus and the preliminary prospectus supplement be mailed to you free of charge by calling J.P. Morgan at (866)  ###-###-####, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated at (800)  ###-###-####, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC at (800)  ###-###-#### or BB&T Capital Markets, a division of BB&T Securities, LLC at (844)  ###-###-####.