$1,000,000,000 Newmont Mining Corporation

EX-10.1 5 dex101.htm PURCHASE AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF JULY 11, 2007 Purchase Agreement, dated as of July 11, 2007

Exhibit 10.1

$1,000,000,000

Newmont Mining Corporation

as Issuer

Newmont USA Limited

as Guarantor

$500,000,000 1.250% Convertible Notes due 2014

$500,000,000 1.625% Convertible Notes due 2017

Purchase Agreement

July 11, 2007

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

As Representatives of the several Initial Purchasers

Listed in Schedule 1 hereto

c/o J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

270 Park Avenue

New York, New York 10017

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Newmont Mining Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several initial purchasers listed in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Initial Purchasers”), for whom you are acting as representatives (the “Representatives”), $500 million principal amount of its 1.250% Convertible Notes due 2014 (the “2014 Notes”) and $500 million principal amount of its 1.625% Convertible Notes due 2017 (the “2017 Notes” and together with the 2014 Notes, the “Firm Notes”). Payment of principal of, and interest, if any, on, the 2014 Notes will be guaranteed by Newmont USA Limited, a Delaware corporation, as Guarantor (the “Guarantor”), pursuant to the terms and conditions of the guaranty issued under the 2014 Notes Indenture (as defined below) (the “2014 Guaranty”). Payment of principal of, and interest, if any, on, the 2017 Notes will be guaranteed by the Guarantor pursuant to the terms and conditions of the guaranty issued under the 2017 Notes Indenture (as defined below) (the “2017 Guaranty” and together with the 2014 Guaranty, the “Guaranties”). The 2014 Notes and the related 2014 Guaranty will be issued pursuant to an Indenture to be dated as of July 17, 2007 (the “ 2014 Notes Indenture”) among the Company, the Guarantor, and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The 2017 Notes and the related 2017 Guaranty will be issued pursuant to an Indenture to be dated as of July 17, 2007 (the “2017 Notes Indenture” and, together with the 2014 Notes Indenture, the “Indentures”) among the Company, the

Guarantor, and the Trustee. The Company also proposes to issue and sell to the Initial Purchasers not more than an additional $75 million principal amount of each of its 1.250% Convertible Notes due 2014 (the “Additional 2014 Notes”) and 1.625% Convertible Notes due 2017 (the “Additional 2017 Notes” and together with the Additional 2014 Notes, the “Additional Notes”) if and to the extent that the Initial Purchasers shall have determined to exercise the right to purchase such Additional Notes granted to the Initial Purchasers in Section 1 hereof. The Firm Notes and the Additional Notes are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Securities” or the “Notes”. The Notes will be convertible into shares (the “Underlying Securities”) of common stock, par value $1.60 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company on the terms set forth in the respective Notes and the Indentures.

The Securities will be sold to the Initial Purchasers without being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance upon an exemption therefrom.

The Company has prepared a preliminary offering memorandum dated July 10, 2007 (the “Preliminary Offering Memorandum”) and will prepare a final offering memorandum dated as of the date hereof (the “Offering Memorandum”) setting forth information concerning the Company, the Securities and the Underlying Securities. Copies of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum have been, and copies of the Offering Memorandum will be, delivered by the Company to the Initial Purchasers pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The Company hereby confirms that it has authorized the use of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the other Time of Sale Information (as defined below) and the Offering Memorandum in connection with the offering and resale of the Securities by the Initial Purchasers in the manner contemplated by this Agreement. References herein to the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum shall be deemed to refer to and include any document incorporated by reference therein.

At or prior to the time when sales of the Securities were first made (the “Time of Sale”), the following information shall have been prepared (collectively with the pricing information set forth on Annex A hereto, the “Time of Sale Information”): the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, as supplemented and amended by the written communications listed on Annex A hereto.

Holders of the Securities (including the Initial Purchasers and their direct and indirect transferees) will be entitled to the benefits of a Registration Rights Agreement, to be dated the Closing Date (as defined below) and substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company and the Guarantor will agree to file one or more registration statements with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) providing for the registration under the Securities Act of the Securities or the Exchange Securities referred to (and as defined) in the Registration Rights Agreement.

Each of the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, hereby confirms its agreement with the several Initial Purchasers concerning the purchase and resale of the Securities, as follows:

1. Purchase and Resale of the Securities. (a) On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement, and subject to its terms and conditions, (i) the Company agrees to issue and sell the Firm Notes to the several Initial Purchasers as provided in this Agreement, (ii) the Guarantor agrees to issue and deliver the related Guaranties and (iii) each Initial Purchaser agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company and the Guarantor the respective principal amount of Firm Notes set forth opposite such Initial Purchaser’s name in Schedule 1 hereto at a price equal to 98.05% of the principal amount thereof (the “Purchase Price”) plus accrued interest, if any, from July 17, 2007 to the Closing Date.

On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement, and subject to its terms and conditions, (i) the Company agrees to issue and sell the Additional Notes to the several Initial Purchasers as provided in this Agreement, and (ii) the Initial Purchasers shall have the right to purchase in whole, or from time to time in part, up to $75 million principal amount of each of its Additional 2014 Notes and Additional 2017 Notes at the Purchase Price plus accrued interest, if any, from the Closing Date (as defined below) to the date of payment and delivery. The Guarantor hereby agrees that the Additional 2014 Notes shall have the benefit of the 2014 Guaranty and that the Additional 2017 Notes shall have the benefit of the 2017 Guaranty. If you, on behalf of the Initial Purchasers, exercise such option, you shall so notify the Company in writing not later than 13 days after the date of this Agreement, which notice shall specify the principal amount of Additional Notes to be purchased by the Initial Purchasers and the date on which such Additional Notes are to be purchased. Such date may be the same as the Closing Date but not earlier than the Closing Date nor later than ten business days after the date of such notice. No Additional Notes shall be sold or delivered unless the Firm Notes previously have been, or simultaneously are, sold and delivered.

(b) The Company and the Guarantor understand that the Initial Purchasers intend to offer the Securities for resale on the terms set forth in the Time of Sale Information. Each Initial Purchaser, severally and not jointly, represents, warrants and agrees that:

(i) it is a qualified institutional buyer within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act (a “QIB”) and an accredited investor within the meaning of Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act;

(ii) it has not solicited offers for, or offered or sold, and will not solicit offers for, or offer or sell, the Securities by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) of Regulation D under the Securities Act (“Regulation D”) or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act; and

(iii) it has not solicited offers for, or offered or sold, and will not solicit offers for, or offer or sell, the Securities as part of their initial offering except within the United States of America (the “United States” or the “U.S.”) to persons whom it reasonably believes to be QIBs in transactions pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“Rule 144A”), and in connection with each such sale, it has taken or will take reasonable steps to ensure that the purchaser of the Securities is aware that such sale is being made in reliance on Rule 144A.

(c) Each Initial Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that the Company and the Guarantor and, for purposes of the opinions to be delivered to the Initial Purchasers pursuant to Sections 6(f) and 6(g), counsel for the Company and the Guarantor and counsel for the Initial Purchasers, respectively, may rely upon the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Initial Purchasers, and compliance by the Initial Purchasers with their agreements, contained in paragraph (b) above, and each Initial Purchaser hereby consents to such reliance.

(d) The Company and the Guarantor acknowledge and agree that the Initial Purchasers may offer and sell Securities to or through any affiliate of an Initial Purchaser and that any such affiliate may offer and sell Securities purchased by it to or through any Initial Purchaser.

(e) The Company and the Guarantor acknowledge and agree that the Initial Purchasers are acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s length contractual counterparty to the Company and Guarantor with respect to the offering of Securities contemplated hereby (including in connection with determining the terms of the offering) and not as financial advisors or fiduciaries to, or agents of, the Company, the Guarantor or any other person. Additionally, neither the Representatives nor any other Initial Purchaser is advising the Company, the Guarantor or any other person as to any legal, tax, investment, accounting or regulatory matters in any jurisdiction. The Company and the Guarantor shall consult with their own respective advisors concerning such matters and shall be responsible for making their own independent investigation and appraisal of the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Representatives nor any other Initial Purchaser shall have any responsibility or liability to the Company or the Guarantor with respect thereto. Any review by the Representatives or any Initial Purchaser of the Company and the Guarantor and the transactions contemplated hereby or other matters relating to such transactions will be performed solely for the benefit of the Representatives or such Initial Purchaser, as the case may be, and shall not be on behalf of the Company, the Guarantor or any other person.

2. Payment and Delivery. (a) Payment for the Firm Notes and delivery of the Firm Notes and the related Guaranty will be made at the offices of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, 125 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004 at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on July 17, 2007, or at such other time or place on the same or such other date, not later than the fifth business day thereafter, as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing. The time and date of such payment and delivery is referred to herein as the “Closing Date”.

Payment for the Additional Notes and delivery of the Additional Notes and the related Guaranty will be made at the offices of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, 125 Broad Street, New York, New York 10004 at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the date specified in the notice described in Section 1 or at such other time or place on the same or such other date, not later than July 24, 2007, as the Representatives and the Company may agree upon in writing. The time and date of such payment and delivery is referred to herein as the “Optional Closing Date”.

(b) Payment for the Securities shall be made by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account(s) specified by the Company to the Representatives against delivery to the nominee of The Depository Trust Company, for the account of the Initial Purchasers, of one or more global notes representing the Firm Notes and the Additional Notes (collectively, the “Global Note”), with the 2014 Guaranty or the 2017 Guaranty, as the case may be, duly affixed thereto and 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 Representatives not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the business day prior to the Closing Date or the Optional Closing Date, as the case may be.

3. Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, represent and warrant to each Initial Purchaser that:

(a) Preliminary Offering Memorandum, Time of Sale Information and Offering Memorandum. The Preliminary Offering Memorandum, as of its date, did not, the Time of Sale Information, at the Time of Sale, did not, and at the Closing Date or the Optional Closing Date as the case may be, will not, and the Offering Memorandum, in the form first used by the Initial Purchasers to confirm sales of the Securities as of its date, did not, and as of the Closing Date or the Optional Closing Date as the case may be, 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 Guarantor make no representation or warranty with respect to any statements or omissions made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to any Initial Purchaser furnished to the Company in writing by such Initial Purchaser through the Representatives expressly for use in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum.

(b) Additional Written Communications. Other than the Preliminary Offering Memorandum and the Offering Memorandum, the Company and the Guarantor (including its agents and representative, other than the Initial Purchasers in their capacity as such) have not made, used, prepared, authorized, approved or referred to and will not prepare, make, use, authorize, approve or refer to any

written communication that constitutes an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities other than the documents listed on Annex A hereto, including a term sheet substantially in the form of Annex B hereto, and other written communications used in accordance with Section 4(c).

(c) Incorporated Documents. The documents incorporated by reference in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, when filed with the Commission, conformed or will conform, as the case may be, in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act (as defined below) and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, 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, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

(d) Financial Statements. The financial statements and the related notes thereto included or incorporated by reference in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum present fairly the financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations and the changes in their cash flows for the periods specified; such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby; and the other financial information included or incorporated by reference in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum has been derived from the accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries and presents fairly the information shown thereby.

(e) 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 Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum (i) there has not been any change in the capital stock (other than as a result of the exercise of outstanding stock options or warrants of the Company or the issuance of shares of capital stock pursuant to the Company Stock Plans (as defined below)) or increase in long-term debt of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole (except for the increase in the Company’s revolving credit facility to $2,000,000,000, extension of its maturity to April 2012 and any drawing thereunder), 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 (except for the dividends declared on April 24, 2007 that were paid on June 29, 2007 to holders of record at the close of business on June 8, 2007), or any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the business, properties, management, financial position, results of operations or prospects 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 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, except in each case as otherwise disclosed in or contemplated by each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum.

(f) Organization and Good Standing. The Company, the Guarantor and each of the Company’s Significant Subsidiaries, as set forth in Schedule 2(f) hereto (the “Significant 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, have a material adverse effect on the business, properties, 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 of its obligations under the Securities (a “Material Adverse Effect”), and, other than the Guarantor and the Significant Subsidiaries (which directly or indirectly own over 10% of the Company’s consolidated assets or derive over 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenues), there are no subsidiaries of the Company that directly own (i.e., other than through the ownership of equity interests of other subsidiaries of the Company) over 10% of the Company’s consolidated assets or directly derive (i.e., other than as a result of the ownership of equity interests of other subsidiaries of the Company) over 10% of the Company’s consolidated revenues.

(g) Stock Options. Except as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, with respect to the outstanding stock options (the “Stock Options”) granted pursuant to the stock-based compensation plans of the Company and its subsidiaries (the “Company Stock Plans”), (i) each Stock Option designated by the Company at the time of grant as an “incentive stock option” under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), was designed to so qualify, (ii) each grant of a Stock Option was duly authorized no later than the date on which the grant of such Stock Option was by its terms to be effective (the “Grant Date”) by all necessary corporate action, including, as applicable, approval by the board of directors of the Company (or a duly constituted and authorized committee thereof) and any required stockholder approval by the necessary number of votes or written consents, and the award agreement governing such grant (if any) was duly executed and delivered by each party thereto, (iii) each such grant was made in accordance with the applicable material terms of the Company Stock Plans, the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements, including the rules of The New York Stock Exchange and any other exchange on which Company securities are traded, (iv) the per share exercise price of each Stock Option was equal to or greater than the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined pursuant to the terms of the applicable Stock Plan on the applicable Grant Date and (v) each such grant was properly accounted for in accordance with GAAP in the financial statements

(including the related notes) of the Company in all material respects and disclosed in the Company’s filings with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act and all other applicable laws. The Company has not knowingly granted, and there is no and has been no policy or practice of the Company of granting, Stock Options prior to, or otherwise improperly coordinate the grant of Stock Options with, the release or other public announcement of material nonpublic information regarding the Company and its subsidiaries or their results of operations or prospects.

(h) Capitalization. The Company has an authorized capitalization as set forth in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum under the heading “Capitalization”; such authorized capital stock of the Company conforms as to legal matters in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum; there are no outstanding options to purchase, or any rights or warrants to subscribe for, or any securities or obligations convertible into, or any contracts or commitments to issue or sell, any shares of Common Stock, any shares of capital stock of the Guarantor or any Significant Subsidiary (except, if any, such options, rights, warrants, securities, obligations, contracts or commitments in favor of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective subsidiaries), or any such warrants, convertible securities or obligations, except as set forth in or contemplated by the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, except for this Agreement and except for options and other stock-based compensation awards granted under, or contracts or commitments pursuant to, the Company’s previous or currently existing stock option and other similar officer, director or employee benefit plans; except for this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement or stock purchase plans, there are no contracts, commitments, agreements, arrangements, understandings or undertakings of any kind to which the Company or the Guarantor is a party, or by which it is bound, granting to any person the right to require either the Company or the Guarantor to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any securities of the Company or the Guarantor or requiring the Company or the Guarantor to include such securities with the Securities registered pursuant to any registration statement; the shares of Common Stock outstanding on the date hereof have been duly authorized and are validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable; and all the outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity interests of the Company, the Guarantor and the Significant Subsidiaries have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable (except, in the case of any foreign subsidiary, for directors’ qualifying shares) and, except as set forth in Schedule 2(h), all outstanding shares of capital stock or other equity interests of the Guarantor and the Significant Subsidiaries 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 except those that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(i) Due Authorization. Each of the Company and the Guarantor has full right, power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Indenture and the Registration Rights Agreement and to perform its respective obligations hereunder and thereunder; the Company has full right, power and authority to execute and deliver the Notes and to perform its obligations thereunder; the

Guarantor has full right, power and authority to execute and deliver the Guaranties and to perform its respective obligations thereunder (collectively, the Guaranties, the Notes, this Agreement, the Indentures and the Registration Rights Agreement are referred to herein as the “Transaction Documents”); and all action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby has been duly and validly taken by the Company and the Guarantor, as the case may be.

(j) The Indentures. The Indentures have been duly authorized by the Company and the Guarantor and, when duly executed and delivered in accordance with their respective terms by each of the parties thereto, will constitute valid and legally binding agreements of the Company and the Guarantor enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor in accordance with their respective terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability (collectively, the “Enforceability Exceptions”); and on the Closing Date, the Indentures will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), and the rules and regulations of the Commission applicable to an indenture that is qualified thereunder.

(k) The Notes and the Guaranties. The Notes have been duly authorized by the Company and, when duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indentures 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 2014 Notes Indenture or the 2017 Notes Indenture as the case may be. The Guaranties have been duly authorized by the Guarantor and, when executed and delivered by the Guarantor and affixed to the Notes, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of the Guarantor, will be in the forms contemplated by the Indentures, entitled to the benefits of the 2014 Notes Indenture or the 2017 Notes Indenture as the case may be, and enforceable against the Guarantor in accordance with their respective terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions.

(l) The Underlying Securities. Upon issuance and delivery of the Notes in accordance with this Agreement and the Indentures, the Notes will be convertible at the option of the holder thereof into the Underlying Securities in accordance the terms of the Notes and the 2014 Notes Indenture or the 2017 Notes Indenture as the case may be; the Underlying Securities reserved for issuance upon conversion of the Notes have been duly authorized and reserved and, when issued upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and the 2014 Notes Indenture or the 2017 Notes Indenture as the case may be, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of the Underlying Securities will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights.

(m) Purchase and Registration Rights Agreements. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor; and the Registration Rights Agreement has been duly authorized by the Company and the Guarantor and on the Closing Date will be duly executed and delivered by the Company and the Guarantor and, when duly executed and delivered in accordance with its terms by each of the parties thereto, will constitute valid and legally binding agreements of the Company and the Guarantor, respectively enforceable against the Company and the Guarantor, respectively in accordance with its terms, subject to the Enforceability Exceptions, and except that rights to indemnity and contribution thereunder may be limited by applicable law and public policy.

(n) Descriptions of the Transaction Documents. Each Transaction Document conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum.

(o) No Violation or Default. None of the Company, the Guarantor or any of the Significant Subsidiaries is in violation of its charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantor) is (i) in default, and no event has occurred that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject; or (ii) in violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except for any such default or violation that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(p) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company and the Guarantor of each of the Transaction Documents to which each is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities (including the issuance of the Underlying Securities upon conversion of the Notes) and compliance by the Company and the Guarantor with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents will not (i) conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is subject, (ii) result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws or similar organizational documents of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or (iii) result in the violation of any law or statute or any judgment, order, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, except, in the case of clauses (i) and (iii) above, for any such conflict, breach, violation or default that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(q) No Consents Required. No consent, approval, authorization, order, registration or qualification of or with any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Company and the Guarantor of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities (including the issuance of the Underlying Securities upon conversion thereof) and compliance by the Company and the Guarantor with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, orders and registrations or qualifications as may be required under applicable state or other securities laws in connection with the purchase and resale of the Securities by the Initial Purchasers and except for the order of the Commission declaring the Shelf Registration Statement (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) effective.

(r) Legal Proceedings. Except as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, there are no legal, governmental or regulatory investigations, actions, suits or proceedings pending to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or to which any property of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is the subject that, individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and no such investigations, actions, suits or proceedings are, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened or contemplated by any governmental or regulatory authority or by others.

(s) Independent Accountants. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries are a registered independent public accounting firm with respect to the Company and its subsidiaries within the applicable rules and regulations adopted by the Commission and the Public Accounting Oversight Board (United States) and as required by the Securities Act.

(t) Title to Real and Personal Property. The Company and its subsidiaries have good and marketable title in fee simple to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property that are material to the respective businesses of the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except those that (i) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its subsidiaries or (ii) would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(u) Title to Intellectual Property. Each of the Company, the Guarantor and the Significant Subsidiaries owns or possesses adequate rights to use all material patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, licenses and know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable

proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) (collectively, the “Intellectual Property”) reasonably necessary for the conduct of its respective businesses as conducted on the date hereof, except where the failure to own or possess such Intellectual Property would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect; and neither the Company, the Guarantor nor any Significant Subsidiary has received any notice of any infringement of or conflict with the asserted rights of others with respect to any Intellectual Property, except for notices the content of which if accurate would not, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(v) 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 or other affiliates of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, on the other, that would be required by the Securities Act to be described in a registration statement to be filed with the Commission and that is not so described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum.

(w) Investment Company Act. Neither the Company nor the Guarantor 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 Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum 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”).

(x) Taxes. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries has filed all federal, state, local and foreign tax returns required to be filed by it through the date hereof and paid all taxes as shown thereon and all assessments received by it to the extent required to be paid and not being contested in good faith, except where the failure to do so would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and to the Company’s knowledge, except as otherwise disclosed in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, there is no tax deficiency that has been, or could reasonably be expected to be, asserted in writing against the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective properties or assets that if ultimately upheld would have a Material Adverse Effect.

(y) Licenses and Permits. The Company and its subsidiaries possess all licenses, certificates, permits and other authorizations issued by, and have made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign governmental or regulatory authorities that are necessary for the ownership or lease of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, except where the failure to possess or make the same would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and except as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received notice of any revocation or modification of any such license, certificate, permit or authorization or has any reason to believe that any such license, certificate, permit or authorization will not be renewed in the ordinary course, which would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(z) No Labor Disputes. No labor disturbance by or dispute with employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries exists or, to the best knowledge of the Company, is contemplated or threatened and the Company is not aware of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by, or dispute with, the employees of any of the Company’s or any of the Company’s subsidiaries’ principal suppliers, contractors or customers, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(aa) Compliance With Environmental Laws. (i) The Company and its subsidiaries are, and at all prior times were, in compliance with any and all applicable federal, state, local and foreign laws, rules, regulations, requirements, decisions and orders relating to the protection of human health or safety, the environment, natural resources, hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (collectively, “Environmental Laws”); (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries have received and are in compliance with all permits, licenses, certificates or other authorizations or approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses; (iii) the Company and its subsidiaries have not received notice of any actual or potential liability under or relating to any Environmental Laws, including for the investigation or remediation of any disposal or release of hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants, and have no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in any such notice; (iv) other than as reserved on the Company’s financial statements, there are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws of or relating to the Company or its subsidiaries, except in each case of (i), (ii),(iii) and (iv) above, as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, and for any such failure to comply, or failure to receive required permits, licenses or approvals, or cost or liability, as would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and (v) except as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, (x) there are no proceedings that are pending, or that are known to be contemplated, against the Company or any of its subsidiaries under any Environmental Laws in which a governmental entity is also a party, other than such proceedings regarding which it is reasonably believed no monetary sanctions of $100,000 or more will be imposed except for such proceedings which would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, and (y) the Company and its subsidiaries are not aware of any issues regarding compliance with Environmental Laws, or liabilities or other obligations under Environmental Laws or concerning hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants, that would, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(bb) Compliance With ERISA. To the best knowledge of the Company (i) each employee benefit plan, within the meaning of Section 3(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), for which the Company or any member of its “Controlled Group” (defined as any organization which is a member of a controlled group of corporations within

the meaning of Section 414 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”)) would reasonably be expected to have any material liability (each, a “Plan”) has been maintained in compliance with its terms and the requirements of ERISA and the Code in all material respects, except where the failure to be in such compliance would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) no material 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 “accumulated funding deficiency” as defined in Section 412 of the Code, whether or not waived, has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (iv) there is no material difference between the fair market value of the assets of each Plan and the present value of all benefits accrued under such Plan (determined based on those assumptions used to fund such Plan); (v) no “reportable event” (within the meaning of Section 4043(c) of ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur for which the Company would have any liability; and (vi) neither the Company nor any member of the Controlled Group has incurred, nor reasonably expects to incur, any liability under Title IV of ERISA (other than contributions to the Plan or premiums to the PBGC, in the ordinary course and without default) in respect of a Plan (including a “multiemployer plan”, within the meaning of Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA), except, in the case of clause (iv), (v) and (vi) above, where such liability would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

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

(dd) Accounting Controls. The Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis maintain systems of “internal control over financial reporting” (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that comply with the requirements of the Exchange Act and have been designed by, or under the supervision of, their respective principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis 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 generally accepted accounting principles and to maintain

asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Except as disclosed in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, there are no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in the Company’s internal controls.

(ee) No Unlawful Payments. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, nor to the best knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee 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 any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977; or (iv) made any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment.

(ff) Insurance. The Company and its subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility or are self insured against such losses and risks and in such amounts as are reasonable and consistent with sound business practice.

(gg) Compliance with 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 of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company, the Guarantor or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened.

(hh) Compliance with OFAC. None of the Company, any of its subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of the Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“OFAC”); 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, for the purpose of financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by OFAC.

(ii) 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 Initial Purchaser for a brokerage commission, finder’s fee or like payment in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities.

(jj) Rule 144A Eligibility. On the Closing Date, the Securities will not be of the same class (within the meaning of Rule 144A(d)(3) under the Securities Act) as securities of the Company listed on a national securities exchange registered under Section 6 of the Exchange Act or quoted in a U.S. automated inter-dealer quotation system; and each of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum and the Offering Memorandum, each as of its respective date, contains or will contain all the information that, if requested by a prospective purchaser of the Securities, would be required to be provided to such prospective purchaser pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.

(kk) No Integration. Neither the Company nor any of its affiliates (as defined in Rule 501(b) of Regulation D) has, directly or through any agent, sold, offered for sale, solicited offers to buy or otherwise negotiated in respect of, any security (as defined in the Securities Act), that is or will be integrated with the sale of the Securities in a manner that would require registration of the Securities under the Securities Act.

(ll) No General Solicitation or Directed Selling Efforts. None of the Company or any of its affiliates or any other person acting on its or their behalf (other than the Initial Purchasers, as to which no representation is made) has (i) solicited offers for, or offered or sold, the Securities in the United States by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) of Regulation D or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act or (ii) with respect to any Securities sold in reliance on Rule 903 of Regulation S under the Securities Act (“Regulation S”), engaged in any directed selling efforts within the meaning of Rule 902(c) of Regulation S, and all such persons have complied with the offering restrictions requirement of Regulation S.

(mm) Securities Law Exemptions. Assuming the representations and warranties of the Initial Purchasers set forth in this Agreement are true, correct and complete and the Initial Purchasers comply with their agreements set forth in this Agreement, it is not necessary, in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities to the Initial Purchasers and the offer, resale and delivery of the Securities by the Initial Purchasers in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum, to register the Securities under the Securities Act or to qualify the Indentures under the Trust Indenture Act.

(nn) No Stabilization. Neither the Company nor the Guarantor 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.

(oo) 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 Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum 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.

(pp) Forward-Looking Statements. No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained in any of the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith.

(qq) Statistical and Market Data. Nothing has come to the attention of the Company or the Guarantor that has caused the Company or the Guarantor to believe that the statistical and market-related data included or incorporated by reference in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum is not based on or derived from sources that are reliable and accurate in all material respects.

(rr) Sarbanes-Oxley Act. There is and has been no failure on the part of the Company or the Guarantor or any of the Company’s or the Guarantor’s directors or officers, in their capacities as such, to comply with any provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 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.

4. Further Agreements of the Company. Each of the Company and the Guarantor, as the case may be, jointly and severally, covenants and agrees with each Initial Purchaser that:

(a) Delivery of Copies. The Company will deliver to the Initial Purchasers as many copies of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, any other Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum (including all amendments and supplements thereto) as the Representatives may reasonably request.

(b) Offering Memorandum, Amendments or Supplements. Before finalizing the Offering Memorandum or making or distributing any amendment or supplement to any of the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum or filing with the Commission any document that will be incorporated by reference therein, the Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Initial Purchasers a copy of the proposed Offering Memorandum or such amendment or supplement or document to be incorporated by reference therein for review, and will not distribute any such proposed Offering Memorandum, amendment or supplement or file any such document with the Commission to which the Representatives reasonably object.

(c) Additional Written Communications. Before using, authorizing, approving or referring to any written communication (as defined in the Securities Act) that constitutes an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities (an “Issuer Written Communication”) (other than written communications that are listed on Annex A hereto and the Offering Memorandum), the Company will furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Initial Purchasers a copy of such written communication for review and will not use, authorize, approve or refer to any such written communication to which the Representatives reasonably object.

(d) Notice to the Representatives. The Company will advise the Representatives promptly, and confirm such advice in writing, (i) of the issuance by any governmental or regulatory authority of any order preventing or suspending the use of any of the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for that purpose; (ii) of the occurrence of any event at any time prior to the completion of the initial offering of the Securities as a result of which any of the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when such Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading; and (iii) of the receipt by the Company or the Guarantor 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 and the Guarantor will use their reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order preventing or suspending the use of any of the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum 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) Ongoing Compliance of the Offering Memorandum and Time of Sale Information. (1) If at any time prior to the completion of the initial offering of the Securities (i) any event shall occur or condition shall exist as a result of which the Offering Memorandum as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Offering Memorandum is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading or (ii) it is necessary to amend or supplement the Offering Memorandum to comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Representatives thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (b) above, furnish to the Initial Purchasers such amendments or supplements to the Offering Memorandum (or any document to be filed with the Commission and incorporated by reference therein) as may be necessary so that the statements in the Offering Memorandum as so amended or supplemented (or including such document to be incorporated by reference therein) will not, in the light of the circumstances existing when the Offering Memorandum is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Offering Memorandum will comply with

law and (2) 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 any of the Time of Sale Information to comply with law, the Company will immediately notify the Representatives thereof and forthwith prepare and, subject to paragraph (b) above, furnish to the Initial Purchasers such amendments or supplements to any of 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 will not, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, be misleading.

(f) Blue Sky Compliance. The Company and the Guarantor will qualify the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such states in the United States as the Representatives shall reasonably request and will continue such qualifications in effect so long as required for the offering and resale of the Securities by the Initial Purchasers; provided that neither the Company nor the Guarantor 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.

(g) Clear Market. Without the prior written consent of the Representatives, neither the Company nor the Guarantor will, other than as described in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum and the Offering Memorandum, during the period ending 90 days after the date of the Offering Memorandum, (i) offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Common Stock, (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Common Stock, (iii) file with the Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to any additional shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, any shares of Common Stock, or publicly disclose the intention to effect any transaction described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii), whether any such transaction described in clause (i) or (ii) above is to be settled by delivery of Common Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to (A) the sale of the Securities under this Agreement or the issuance of the Underlying Securities, (B) the grant by the Company of employee or director stock options in the ordinary course of business, the issuance by the Company of any shares of Common Stock upon the exercise of any option or warrant or the conversion of a security outstanding on the date hereof, (C) the filing of any registration statement in respect of the Securities and the Underlying Securities and (D) the issuance of Common Stock granted to employees or directors in the ordinary course of business.

(h) Use of Proceeds. The Company will apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities as described in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum under the heading “Use of Proceeds”.

(i) Underlying Securities. The Company will reserve and keep available at all times, free of pre-emptive rights, shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to satisfy all obligations to issue the Underlying Securities upon conversion of the Notes. The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Underlying Securities to be listed on The New York Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”).

(j) Supplying Information. While the Securities remain outstanding and are “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, the Company and the Guarantor will, during any period in which the Company or the Guarantor is not subject to and in compliance with Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, furnish to holders of the Securities, prospective purchasers of the Securities designated by such holders and securities analysts, in each case upon request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.

(k) PORTAL and DTC. The Company and the Guarantor will assist the Initial Purchasers in arranging for the Securities to be designated Private Offerings, Resales and Trading through Automated Linkages (“PORTAL”) Market securities in accordance with the rules and regulations adopted by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (the “NASD”) relating to trading in the PORTAL Market and for the Securities to be eligible for clearance and settlement through The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”).

(l) Indenture Qualification. Prior to any registration of the Securities pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, or at such earlier time as may be so required, the Company will qualify the Indentures under the Trust Indenture Act, and will enter into any necessary supplemental indentures in connection therewith;

(m) No Resales by the Company. During the period from the Closing Date until two years after the Closing Date or the Optional Closing Date, if applicable, the Company and the Guarantor will not, and will not permit any of their respective affiliates (as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act) to, resell any of the Securities that have been acquired by any of them, except for Securities purchased by the Company or any of its affiliates and resold in a transaction registered under the Securities Act.

(n) No Integration. None of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective affiliates (as defined in Rule 501(b) of Regulation D) will, directly or through any agent, sell, offer for sale, solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of, any security (as defined in the Securities Act), that is or will be integrated with the sale of the Securities in a manner that would require registration of the Securities under the Securities Act.

(o) No General Solicitation or Directed Selling Efforts. None of the Company, the Guarantor or any of their respective affiliates or any other person acting on their behalf (other than the Initial Purchasers, as to which no covenant is given) will (i) solicit offers for, or offer or sell, the Securities in the United States by means of any form of general solicitation or general advertising within the meaning of Rule 502(c) of Regulation D or in any manner involving a public offering within the meaning of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act or (ii) with respect to any Securities to be sold in reliance on Rule 903 of Regulation S, engage in any directed selling efforts within the meaning of Regulation S, and all such persons will comply with the offering restrictions requirement of Regulation S.

(p) No Stabilization. The Company and the Guarantor will not, directly or indirectly, take 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 and will not, directly or indirectly, take any action prohibited by Regulation M under the Exchange Act in connection with the distribution of the Securities contemplated hereby.

5. Certain Agreements of the Initial Purchasers. Each Initial Purchaser hereby represents and agrees that it has not and will not use, authorize use of, refer to, or participate in the planning for use of, any written communication that constitutes an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the Securities other than (i) a written communication that contains no “issuer information” (as defined in Rule 433(h)(2) under the Securities Act) that was not included (including through incorporation by reference) in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, (ii) any written communication listed on Annex A or prepared pursuant to Section 4(c) above, (iii) any written communication prepared by such Initial Purchaser and approved by the Company in advance in writing or (iv) any written communication relating to or that contains the terms of the Securities and/or other information that was included (including through incorporation by reference) in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum.

6. Conditions of Initial Purchasers’ Obligations. The obligation of each Initial Purchaser to purchase Firm Notes on the Closing Date and Additional Notes on each Optional Closing Date as provided herein is subject to the performance by the Company and the Guarantor of their respective covenants and other obligations hereunder and to the following additional conditions:

(a) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor contained herein shall be true and correct on the date hereof and on and as of the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be; and the statements of the Company and the Guarantor 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 or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be.

(b) No Downgrade. Subsequent to July 1, 2007, no downgrading to below an investment grade rating shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Securities or any debt securities or preferred stock issued or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantor) by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization”, as such term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) under the Securities Act (“NRSRO”). In addition, subsequent to July 1, 2007, if any NRSRO, shall have downgraded the rating accorded the Securities or any debt securities or preferred stock issued or guaranteed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries (including the Guarantor) to the lowest investment grade rating, such rating organization shall not have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review 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 (including the Guarantor).

(c) No Material Adverse Change. No material change in the capital stock of the Company or material increase in the long-term debt of the Company or the Guarantor (except for the increase in the Company’s revolving credit facility to $2,000,000,000, extension of its maturity to April 2012 and any drawing thereunder) and no event or condition of a type described in Section 3(e) hereof shall have occurred or shall exist, which change, event or condition is not described in each of the Time of Sale Information (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) and the Offering Memorandum (excluding any amendment or supplement thereto) the effect of which in the judgment of the Representatives makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum.

(d) Officer’s Certificate. The Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, a certificate of an executive officer of each of the Company and the Guarantor who has specific knowledge of the Company’s and the Guarantor’s financial matters and is reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives (i) confirming that such officer has reviewed the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum and, to the best knowledge of such officer, the representations set forth in Section 3(a) and 3(b) hereof are true and correct, (ii) confirming that the other representations and warranties of the Company and the Guarantor in this Agreement are true and correct and that the Company and the Guarantor 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 or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, and (iii) to the effect set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) above.

(e) Comfort Letters. On the date of this Agreement and on the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, letters, dated the respective dates of delivery thereof and addressed to the Initial Purchasers, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Representatives,

containing statements and information of the type customarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained or incorporated by reference in each of the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be shall use a “cut-off” date no more than three business days prior to the Closing Date.

(f) Opinions of Counsel for the Company. Holme Roberts & Owen LLP, counsel for the Company and the Guarantor, shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, their written opinion, dated the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, and addressed to the Initial Purchasers, substantially in the form and to the effect set forth in Annex C hereto. Sharon Thomas, Vice President and Secretary of the Company, shall have furnished to the Representatives, at the request of the Company, her written opinion, dated the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, and addressed to the Initial Purchasers, substantially in the form and to the effect set forth in Annex D hereto.

(g) Opinion of Counsel for the Initial Purchasers. The Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, an opinion of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, counsel for the Initial Purchasers, with respect to such matters as the Representatives may reasonably request, and such counsel shall have received such documents and information as they may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters.

(h) 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 or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities on such date; and no injunction or order of any federal, state or foreign court shall have been issued that would, as of the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities on such date.

(i) Good Standing. The Representatives shall have received on and as of the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, satisfactory evidence of the good standing of the Company and the Guarantor in their respective jurisdictions of organization and their good standing in the State of Colorado and the State of Nevada (as to the Guarantor only), in each case in writing or any standard form of telecommunication, from the appropriate governmental authorities of such jurisdictions.

(j) Registration Rights Agreement. The Initial Purchasers shall have received a counterpart of the Registration Rights Agreement that shall have been executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer of each of the Company and the Guarantor.

(k) PORTAL and DTC. The Securities shall have been approved by the NASD for trading in the PORTAL Market and shall be eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC.

(l) Lock-up Agreements. The “lock-up” agreements, each substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, of officers and directors of the Company identified on Exhibit B-1 relating to sales and certain other dispositions of shares of Common Stock or certain other securities, shall have been delivered to the Representatives on or before the Closing Date and shall be in full force and effect on the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the “lock-up” agreements, the sale or transfer by directors of the Company of up to an aggregate of 500,000 shares of Common Stock during the term of such agreements shall be permitted with the consent of the Company and without the consent of J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. on behalf of the Initial Purchasers.

(m) Listing. An application for the listing of the Underlying Securities shall have been submitted to the Exchange.

(n) Additional Documents. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company and the Guarantor shall have furnished to the Representatives such further certificates and documents as the Representatives may reasonably request.

All opinions, letters, certificates and evidence mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Initial Purchasers.

7. Indemnification and Contribution.

(a) Indemnification of the Initial Purchasers. The Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agree to indemnify and hold harmless each Initial Purchaser, its affiliates, directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls such Initial Purchaser 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 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, any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, any of the other Time of Sale Information, any Issuer Written Communication or the Offering Memorandum (or any amendment or supplement thereto) or 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 Initial Purchaser furnished to the Company in writing by such Initial Purchaser through the Representatives expressly for use therein.

(b) Indemnification of the Company and the Guarantor. Each Initial Purchaser agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantor, each of their respective affiliates, directors and officers and each person, if any, who controls the Company or the Guarantor within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the indemnity set forth in paragraph (a) above, but only with respect to any losses, claims, damages or liabilities (including, without limitation, reasonable legal fees and other expenses incurred in connection with any suit, ,action or proceeding or any claim asserted, as such fees and expenses are incurred) 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 Initial Purchaser furnished to the Company in writing by such Initial Purchaser through the Representatives expressly for use in the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, any of the other Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum (or any amendment or supplement thereto), it being understood and agreed that the only such information consists of the following: (i) the seventh paragraph in the section “Plan of distribution” of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, the fifth and sixth sentences in the eighth paragraph of that section and the tenth paragraph of that section and (ii) the seventh paragraph in the section “Plan of distribution” of the Offering Memorandum, the fifth and sixth sentences in the eighth paragraph of that section, the tenth paragraph and the last paragraph of that section.

(c) Notice and Procedures. If any suit, action, proceeding (including any governmental or regulatory investigation), claim or demand shall be brought or asserted against any person in respect of which indemnification may be sought pursuant to either paragraph (a) or (b) above, such person (the “Indemnified Person”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnification may be sought (the “Indemnifying Person”) in writing; provided that the failure to notify the Indemnifying Person shall not relieve it from any liability that it may have under this Section 7 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 this Section 7. 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 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 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 reimbursed as they are incurred. Any such separate firm for any Initial Purchaser, its affiliates, directors and officers and any control persons of such Initial Purchaser shall be designated in writing by the Representatives and any such separate firm for the Company and the Guarantor, their respective directors and officers and any control persons of the Company or the Guarantor 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, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, 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 30 days after receipt by the Indemnifying Person of such request and (ii) the Indemnifying Person shall not have reimbursed the Indemnified Person in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No Indemnifying Person shall, without the written consent of the Indemnified Person (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), 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 paragraphs (a) and (b) above is unavailable to an Indemnified Person or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each Indemnifying Person under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Person thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Person as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Initial Purchasers 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 Guarantor on the one hand and the Initial Purchasers on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Initial Purchasers on the other shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds (before deducting expenses) received by the Company from the sale of the Securities and the total discounts and commissions received by the Initial Purchasers in connection therewith, as provided in this Agreement, bear to the aggregate offering price of the Securities. The relative fault of the Company and the Guarantor on the one hand and the Initial Purchasers 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 the Guarantor or by the Initial Purchasers, respectively, 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 Guarantor and the Initial Purchasers 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 Initial Purchasers were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any reasonable 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 Initial Purchaser be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total discounts and commissions received by such Initial Purchaser with respect to the offering of the Securities exceeds the amount of any damages that such Initial Purchaser 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 Initial Purchasers’ 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. Termination. This Agreement may be terminated in the absolute discretion of the Representatives, by notice to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and on or prior to the Closing Date (i) trading generally shall have been

suspended or materially limited on the New York Stock Exchange or the over-the-counter market; (ii) trading of any securities issued or guaranteed by the Company or the Guarantor shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market; (iii) a general moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York State authorities; or (iv) there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities or any change in financial markets or any calamity or crisis, either within or outside the United States, that, in the judgment of the Representatives, is material and adverse and makes it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offering, sale or delivery, of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, the Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum.

9. Defaulting Initial Purchaser. (a) If, on the Closing Date or any Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, any Initial Purchaser defaults on its obligation to purchase the Securities that it has agreed to purchase hereunder, the Representatives may in their discretion arrange for the purchase of such Securities by itself, the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers or other persons reasonably satisfactory to the Company on the terms contained in this Agreement. If, within 36 hours after any such default by any Initial Purchaser, the Representatives 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 Representatives to purchase such Securities on such terms. If, within the respective prescribed period, the Representatives shall have arranged for the purchase of such Securities, or the Company shall have arranged for the purchase of such Securities, either the Representatives or the Company may postpone the Closing Date or such Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, for up to five full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of the Company or the Representatives may be necessary in the Time of Sale Information, the Offering Memorandum or in any other document or arrangement relating to such purchase, and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Time of Sale Information or the Offering Memorandum that effects any such changes. As used in this Agreement, the term “Initial Purchaser” 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 9, purchases Securities that a defaulting Initial Purchaser agreed but failed to purchase.

(b) If, either (i) after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Firm Notes of a defaulting Initial Purchaser or Initial Purchasers by the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers, the Representatives and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Firm Notes that remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Firm Notes or (ii) after giving effect to any arrangements for the purchase of the Additional Notes of a defaulting Initial Purchaser or Initial Purchasers by the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers, the Representatives and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes that remains unpurchased does not exceed one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Additional Notes to be purchased at the relevant Optional Closing Date, then the Company shall have the right to require each non-defaulting Initial Purchaser to purchase the principal amount of the Firm Notes or the Additional Notes, as the case may be, that such Initial Purchaser agreed to purchase hereunder plus such Initial Purchaser’s

pro rata share (based on the principal amount of such Securities that such Initial Purchaser agreed to purchase hereunder) of such Securities of such defaulting Initial Purchaser or Initial Purchasers 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 Initial Purchaser or Initial Purchasers by the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers and the Company as provided in paragraph (a) above, the aggregate principal amount of such Securities that remains unpurchased on the Closing Date or Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, exceeds one-eleventh of the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities, or if the Company shall not exercise the right described in paragraph (b) above, then this Agreement or, with respect to any Optional Closing Date, the obligation of the Initial Purchasers to purchase Securities on the Optional Closing Date, as the case may be, shall terminate without liability on the part of the non-defaulting Initial Purchasers. Any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this Section 9 shall be without liability on the part of the Company and the Guarantor , except that the Company will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses as set forth in Section 10 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 Initial Purchaser of any liability it may have to the Company, the Guarantor or any non-defaulting Initial Purchaser for damages caused by its default.

10. Payment of Expenses. (a) Whether or not the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, the Company and the Guarantor, 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, sale, execution, issue, authentication, packaging and initial delivery of the Securities and any taxes payable by it in that connection; (ii) the costs incident to the preparation and printing of the Preliminary Offering Memorandum, any other Time of Sale Information and the Offering Memorandum (including any amendment or supplement 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 Guarantor’s counsel and independent accountants; (v) the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the registration or qualification and determination of eligibility for investment of the Securities under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate and the preparation, printing and distribution of Blue Sky memoranda related thereto (including the related fees and expenses of counsel for the Initial Purchasers); (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 the application for the inclusion of the Securities on the PORTAL Market and the approval of the Securities for book-entry transfer by DTC; (ix) any fees or costs incident to listing the Underlying Securities on the Exchange; and (x) all expenses incurred by the Company and the Guarantor in connection with any “road show”

presentation to potential investors; provided, however, that except as provided in this Section 10, the Initial Purchasers shall pay their own costs and expenses, including without limitation the fees and disbursements of their counsel and any advertising expenses (other than with respect to any road show presentation) connected with any offers they may make.

(b) If the purchase of the Firm Notes by the Initial Purchasers is not consummated for any reason permitted under this Agreement other than because of the termination of this Agreement pursuant to clauses (i), (iii) and (iv) of Section 8 hereof, the occurrence of any event specified in Section 9 hereof or the occurrence of any event specified in paragraph (h) of Section 6 hereof, the Company and the Guarantor, jointly and severally, agree to reimburse the Initial Purchasers for all out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the fees and expenses of their counsel) reasonably incurred by the Initial Purchasers in connection with this Agreement and the offering contemplated hereby, but the Company and the Guarantor shall be under no further liability to any Initial Purchaser except as provided in Section 7 hereof.

11. 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 any controlling persons referred to herein, and the affiliates, officers and directors of the persons 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 Initial Purchaser shall be deemed to be a successor merely by reason of such purchase.

12. Survival. The respective indemnities, rights of contribution, representations, warranties and agreements of the Company, the Guarantor and the Initial Purchasers contained in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of the Company, the Guarantor or the Initial Purchasers 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 Guarantor or the Initial Purchasers.

13. 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 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; (d) the term “subsidiary” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act; and (e) the term “written communication” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

14. Miscellaneous. (a) Authority of the Representatives. Any action by the Initial Purchasers hereunder may be taken by the Representatives on behalf of the Initial Purchasers, and any such action taken by the Representatives shall be binding upon the Initial Purchasers.

(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 Initial Purchasers shall be given to the Representatives c/o J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., 277 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10172 (fax: (212) ###-###-####), Attention: General Counsel; or c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc., 388 Greenwich St., New York, NY 10013 (fax: (212) ###-###-####), Attention: General Counsel. Notices to the Company and the Guarantor shall be given to them at 1700 Lincoln Street, Denver, Colorado 80203, (fax: (303) ###-###-####); Attention: Treasurer.

(c) Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

(d) 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.

(e) 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.

(f) 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.

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,

NEWMONT MINING CORPORATION

By		/s/ Thomas P. Mahoney
Title:		Vice President and Treasurer

NEWMONT USA LIMITED

By		/s/ Thomas P. Mahoney
Title:		Vice President and Treasurer


Accepted: July 11, 2007

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.

For itself and on behalf of the several Initial Purchasers listed in Schedule 1 hereto.

By		/s/ Santosh Sreenivasan
		Authorized Signatory

Accepted: July11, 2007

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

For itself and on behalf of the several Initial Purchasers listed in Schedule 1 hereto.

By		/s/ Philip Battaglia
		Authorized Signatory