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$1,100,000,000 6.000% Notes due February 15, 2018 Officers? Certificate and Company Order

Indenture Agreement

$1,100,000,000 6.000% Notes due February 15, 2018 

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Title: $1,100,000,000 6.000% Notes due February 15, 2018 Officers? Certificate and Company Order
Governing Law: New York     Date: 2/7/2008
Industry: Insurance (Accident and Health)     Law Firm: Hogan Hartson;Simpson Thacher     Sector: Financial

$1,100,000,000 6.000% Notes due February 15, 2018 

Officers? Certificate and Company Order, Parties: unitedhealth group incorporated , us bank national association
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Exhibit 4.3

UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED

$1,100,000,000 6.000% Notes due February 15, 2018

Officers’ Certificate and Company Order

Pursuant to the Indenture, dated as of February 4, 2008 (the “Indenture”), between UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, a Minnesota corporation (the “Company”) and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) and resolutions adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors on October 30, 2007, this Officers’ Certificate and Company Order is being delivered to the Trustee to establish the terms of a series of Securities in accordance with Section 301 of the Indenture, to establish the form of the Securities of such series in accordance with Section 201 of the Indenture, to request the authentication and delivery of the Securities of such series pursuant to Section 303 of the Indenture and to comply with the provisions of Section 102 of the Indenture. This Officers’ Certificate and Company Order shall be treated for all purposes under the Indenture as a supplemental indenture thereto.

All conditions precedent provided for in the Indenture relating to (i) the establishment of a series of Securities, (ii) the establishment of the form of Securities of such series and (iii) the procedures for authentication and delivery of such series of securities have been complied with.

Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

 

A. Establishment of a Series of Securities pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture .

There is hereby established pursuant to Section 301 of the Indenture a series of Securities which shall have the following terms:

 

  (1) The Securities shall bear the title “6.000% Notes due February 15, 2018” (referred to herein as the “Notes”).

 

  (2) The aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be issued pursuant to this Officers’ Certificate and Company Order shall be limited to $1,100,000,000 except for (a) Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, or 1007 of the Indenture, (b) Notes which, pursuant to Section 303 of the Indenture, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered thereunder and (c) any Securities of this series which are issued in the manner contemplated by paragraph 18(a) hereof.

 

  (3)

Interest will be payable to the Person in whose name a Note (or any Predecessor Security) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date (as defined below) immediately preceding each Interest Payment Date (as defined below). In the event that a payment of principal or interest is due on a date that is not a Business Day (as defined below), the related payment of principal or interest shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect

 


 

as if made on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or date of Maturity, as the case may be. “Business Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York or Minneapolis, Minnesota or at the place of payment (specified in paragraph (6) hereof) are authorized or obligated by law, regulation or executive order to remain closed.

 

  (4) The Stated Maturity of the Notes shall be February 15, 2018.

 

  (5) The Notes shall bear interest at the rate of 6.000% per annum (based upon a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months), from February 7, 2008 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be, payable semi-annually on February 15 and August 15 in each year, commencing August 15, 2008, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment. Each such February 15 and August 15 shall be an “Interest Payment Date” for the Notes, and each February 1 and August 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, immediately preceding an Interest Payment Date for the Notes shall be the “Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date.

The provision related to interest on overdue principal in Section 501 of the Indenture shall not be applicable to the Notes.

 

  (6) Principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Notes will be payable, and, except as provided in Section 305 of the Indenture with respect to a Global Security (as defined below), the transfer of the Notes will be registrable and Notes will be exchangeable for notes bearing identical terms and provisions at the corporate trust office of U.S. Bank National Association, in St. Paul, Minnesota. The method of such payment shall be by wire transfer for Notes held in book-entry form or at the option of the Company by check mailed to the Person entitled thereto as shown on the Security Register.

 

  (7) The Notes will be redeemable as follows:

The Notes will be subject to redemption, in whole or in part at any time before their Stated Maturity, at the option of the Company at a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the Notes to be redeemed (excluding the portion of any such interest accrued to the Redemption Date) discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Yield (as defined below), plus 35 basis points, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date. For this purpose, the following terms have the following meanings:

 

   

“Treasury Yield” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per year equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity or interpolated (on a day-count basis) yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.

 

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“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the Company as having an actual or interpolated maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes being redeemed, or such other maturity that would be utilized at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes being redeemed.

 

   

“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (i) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, or (ii) if the Trustee obtains fewer than four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations.

 

   

“Independent Investment Banker” means any of Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. or J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. or their respective successors or, if such firms are unwilling or unable to select the Comparable Treasury Issue, one of the remaining Reference Treasury Dealers appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the Company.

 

   

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) any of Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. or J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. or their affiliates and any other primary U.S. Government securities dealer in the United States (a “Primary Treasury Dealer”) designated by, and not affiliated with, any of Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. or J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.; provided, however , that if Banc of America Securities LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. or J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. or any of their respective affiliates shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company will appoint another Primary Treasury Dealer as a substitute for such entity and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Trustee.

 

   

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed, in each case, as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. on the third business day preceding such Redemption Date.

 

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A notice of redemption may provide that it is subject to certain conditions that will be specified in the notice. If those conditions are not met, the redemption notice will be of no effect and the Company will not be obligated to redeem the Notes.

A partial redemption of the Notes may be effected on a pro rata basis (and in such manner as complies with applicable legal and stock exchange requirements, if any) or in such method as the Trustee, in the exercise of its reasonable discretion, deems fair and appropriate. The Trustee may provide for the selection for redemption of portions in amounts of $1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000; except that if all of the Notes of a Holder are to be redeemed, the entire outstanding amount of Notes held by such Holder, even if not a multiple of $1,000, shall be redeemed.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed.

Unless any Note called for redemption shall not be paid upon surrender thereof for redemption, on and after the Redemption Date interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions thereof called for redemption.

 

  (8) The Company shall not be obligated to redeem or purchase any Notes pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous provisions.

If a Change of Control Triggering Event (as defined herein) occurs, unless the Company has exercised its option to redeem the Notes of this series, the Company shall be required to make an offer (a “Change of Control Offer”) to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes on the terms set forth herein. In a Change of Control Offer, the Company shall be required to offer payment in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the Notes of this series repurchased to the date of repurchase (a “Change of Control Payment”). Within 30 days following any Change of Control Triggering Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to any Change of Control, but after public announcement of the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control, a notice shall be mailed to Holders of the Notes of this series describing the transaction that constitutes or may constitute the Change of Control Triggering Event and offering to repurchase such Notes on the date specified in the notice, which date shall be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed (a “Change of Control Payment Date”). The notice shall, if mailed prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the offer to purchase is conditioned on the Change of Control Triggering Event occurring on or prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

 

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In order to accept the Change of Control Offer, the Holder must deliver to the Paying Agent, at least five Business Days prior to the Change of Control Payment Date, the Note together with the form entitled “Election Form” (which form is annexed to the Note) duly completed, or a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or a letter from a member of a national securities exchange, or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority or a commercial bank or trust company in the United States setting forth:

 

  (i) the name of the Holder of the Note;

 

  (ii) the principal amount of the Note;

 

  (iii) the principal amount of the Note to be repurchased;

 

  (iv) the certificate number or a description of the tenor and terms of the Note;

 

  (v) a statement that the Holder is accepting the Change of Control Offer; and

 

  (vi) a guarantee that the Note, together with the form entitled “Election Form” duly completed, will be received by the Paying Agent at least five Business Days prior to the Change of Control Payment Date.

Any exercise by a Holder of its election to accept the Change of Control Offer shall be irrevocable. The Change of Control Offer may be accepted for less than the entire principal amount of the Note, but in that event the principal amount of the Note remaining outstanding after repurchase must be equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.

On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:

 

  (i) accept for payment all Notes of this series or portions of such Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;

 

  (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes of this series or portions of such Notes properly tendered; and

 

  (iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes of this series properly accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series or portions of such Notes being repurchased.

The Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event if a third party makes such an

 

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offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company and the third party purchases all Notes of this series properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer. In addition, the Company shall not repurchase any Notes of this series if there has occurred and is continuing on the Change of Control Payment Date an Event of Default under the Indenture, other than a default in the payment of the Change of Control Payment upon a Change of Control Triggering Event.

The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of the Notes of this series as a result of a Change of Control Triggering Event. To the extent that the provisions of any such securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Offer provisions of the Notes of this series, the Company shall comply with those securities laws and regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Offer provisions of the Notes of this series by virtue of any such conflict.

For purposes of the Change of Control Offer provisions of the Notes of this series, the following terms are applicable:

“Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one or more series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any person, other than the Company or a Subsidiary; (2) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any person becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Company’s outstanding Voting Stock or other Voting Stock into which the Company’s Voting Stock is reclassified, consolidated, exchanged or changed, measured by voting power rather than number of shares; (3) the Company consolidates with, or merges with or into, any person, or any person consolidates with, or merges with or into, the Company, in any such event pursuant to a transaction in which any of the Company’s outstanding Voting Stock or the Voting Stock of such other person is converted into or exchanged for cash, securities or other property, other than any such transaction where the shares of the Company’s Voting Stock outstanding immediately prior to such transaction constitute, or are converted into or exchanged for, a majority of the Voting Stock of the surviving person or any direct or indirect parent company of the surviving person immediately after giving effect to such transaction; (4) the first day on which a majority of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors are not Continuing Directors; or (5) the adoption of a plan relating to the Company’s liquidation or dissolution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a transaction shall not be deemed to involve a Change of Control under clause (2) above if (i) the Company becomes a direct or

 

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indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of a holding company and (ii)(A) the direct or indirect holders of the Voting Stock of such holding company immediately following that transaction are substantially the same as the holders of the Company’s Voting Stock immediately prior to that transaction or (B) immediately following that transaction no person (other than a holding company satisfying the requirements of this sentence) is the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such holding company. The term “person,” as used in this definition, has the meaning given thereto in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act.

“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Rating Event.

“Continuing Directors” means, as of any date of determination, any member of the Company’s Board of Directors who (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the date the Notes of this series were issued or (2) was nominated for election, elected or appointed to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination, election or appointment (either by a specific vote or by approval of the Company’s proxy statement in which such member was named as a nominee for election as a director, without objection to such nomination).

“Fitch” means Fitch Inc., and its successors.

“Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than BBB- (or the equivalent) by Fitch, Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, and the equivalent investment grade credit rating from any replacement rating agency or rating agencies selected by the Company.

“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., and its successors.

“Rating Agencies” means (1) each of Fitch, Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if any of Fitch, Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes of this series or fails to make a rating of such Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange Act selected by the Company (as certified by a resolution of the Company’s Board of Directors) as a replacement agency for Fitch, Moody’s or S&P, or all of them, as the case may be.

“Rating Event” means the rating on the Notes of this series is lowered by at least two of the three Rating Agencies and the Notes of this series are rated below an Investment Grade Rating by at least two of the three Rating Agencies on any day during the period (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of the Notes of this series is under publicly announced consideration for a possible downgrade by any of the Rating Agencies) commencing on the date of the first public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control or the Company’s intention to effect a Change of Control and ending 60 days following consummation of such Change of Control.

 

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“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Rating Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and its successors.

“Voting Stock” means, with respect to any specified “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) as of any date, the capital stock of such person that is at the time entitled to vote generally in the election of the board of directors of such person.

 

  (9) The Notes shall not be convertible into shares of Common Stock of the Company or exchangeable for any other securities.

 

  (10) The Trustee shall be the Security Registrar and the Paying Agent.

 

  (11) The amount of payments of principal of and any premium or interest on the Notes will not be determined with reference to an index.

 

  (12) The Notes shall be subject to the covenants and definitions set forth in the Indenture. There shall be the following addition to the covenants of the Company set forth in Article V of the Indenture with respect to the Notes:

The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist:

 

  (i) any Lien upon any stock or Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary, whether owned on the date hereof or thereafter acquired, to secure any Indebtedness of the Company or any other person (other than the Securities), or

 

  (ii) any Lien upon any Principal Property, whether owned or leased on the date hereof, or thereafter acquired, to secure any Indebtedness of the Company or any other person (other than the Securities), without in any such case making effective provision to secure all the outstanding Securities equally and ratably with such Indebtedness, except Permitted Liens.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may, and may permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien upon any stock or Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary or upon any Principal Property without equally and ratably securing the Securities if the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness then outstanding secured by such Lien and all similar Liens does not exceed 10% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company as of the most recent quarterly consolidated balance sheet of the Company prepared in accordance with GAAP; provided, that Indebtedness secured by Permitted Liens shall not be included in the amount of such secured Indebtedness.

 

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“Consolidated Net Worth” means, with respect to any Person as of any date, the sum of (i) the consolidated equity of the common stockholders of such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date, plus (ii) the respective amounts reported on such Person’s balance sheet as of such date with respect to any series of preferred stock (other than Disqualified Stock) that by its terms is not entitled to the payment of dividends unless such dividends may be declared and paid only out of net earnings in respect of the year of such declaration and payment, but only to the extent of any cash received by such Person upon issuance of such preferred stock, less (x) all write-ups (other than write-ups resulting from foreign currency translations and write-ups of tangible assets of a going concern business made within 12 months after the acquisition of such business) subsequent to the date of the initial issuance of the Notes in the book value of any asset owned by such Person or a consolidated Subsidiary of such Person, and (y) all unamortized debt discount and expense and unamortized deferred charges as of such date, all of the foregoing determined in accordance with GAAP.

“Disqualified Stock” means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the Holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is 91 days after the date on which the Securities mature.

“Permitted Liens” means

 

  (i) any Lien upon property, stock or indebtedness of an entity existing at the time such entity becomes a Restricted Subsidiary;

 

  (ii) any Lien upon property, stock or indebtedness existing at the time of the acquisition thereof by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (whether directly or by merger, consolidation or otherwise) or granted to secure payment of any part of the purchase price thereof or granted to secure any Indebtedness incurred to finance the purchase thereof (provided that such Indebtedness is incurred before, concurrently with or within 270 days after the completion of such purchase);

 

  (iii) any Lien upon property to secure any part of the cost of development, construction, alteration, repair or improvement of such property or granted to secure Indebtedness incurred to finance such cost (provided that such Indebtedness is incurred before, concurrently with or within 270 days after the completion of such development, construction, alteration, repair or improvement);

 

  (iv) any Lien securing Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary owing to the Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary;

 

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  (v) Any Lien existing on the date of initial issuance of the Notes;

 

  (vi) any Lien on property of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in favor of the United States of America or any State or political subdivision thereof, or in favor of any country or any political subdivision thereof, to secure payment pursuant to any contract or statute, rule or regulation; and

 

  (vii) any extension, renewal or replacement, in whole or in part, of any Lien referred to in the foregoing six subparts; provided , however , that the principal amount of Indebtedness secured thereby shall not exceed the principal amount of Indebtedness so secured at the time of such extension, renewal or replacement; and provided, further, that such Lien shall be limited to all or part of the property which was subject to the Lien so extended, renewed or replaced.

“Principal Property” means the land, land improvements, buildings and fixtures (to the extent they constitute real property interests) (including any leasehold interest therein) constituting the Company’s principal corporate office or any other discrete facility of the Company and its Subsidiaries (whether owned at the date of initial issuance of the Notes or thereafter acquired), provided in each case that such facility

 

  (i) is owned by the Company or any Subsidiary,

 

  (ii) is located within any of the present 50 states of the United States of America or the District of Columbia,

 

  (iii) has not been determined in good faith by the Company’s Board of Directors not to be of material importance to the business conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, and

 

  (iv) has a book value as on the date as of which the determination is being made in excess of 5% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company as of the most recent quarterly consolidated balance sheet of the Company prepared in accordance with GAAP.

“Restricted Subsidiary” means each Subsidiary of the Company existing as of the date of date of initial issuance of the Notes and each Subsidiary of the Company thereafter created or acquired, unless expressly excluded by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company before, or within 120 days following, such creation or acquisition.

 

  (13) The Notes will be issued only in fully registered form and the minimum initi

 
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