Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.
Fifth Supplement to Note Purchase
Agreements
Dated as of December 21,
2005
Re: $75,000,000 5.43% Senior
Notes, Series F,
Due December 21,
2012
Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.
800 Market Street
Suite 2900
St. Louis, MO 63101
Dated as of
December 21, 2005
To the Series F
Purchasers named in
This Fifth Supplement to Note Purchase
Agreements (the or this "Fifth Supplement" ) is among
Ralcorp Holdings, Inc., a Missouri corporation (the
"Company" ) and the institutional investors named on
Schedule A attached hereto (the "Series F Purchasers"
).
Reference is hereby made to the Note Purchase
Agreements dated as of May 22, 2003 (as amended and
supplemented from time to time, the "Note Purchase
Agreements" ), among the Company and the purchasers listed on
Schedule A thereto. All capitalized terms not otherwise
defined herein shall have the same meaning as specified in the Note
Purchase Agreements. Reference is further made to Section 4.13
of the Note Purchase Agreements which requires that, prior to the
delivery of any Additional Notes, the Company and each Additional
Purchaser shall execute and deliver a Supplement.
The Company hereby agrees with the Series F
Purchasers as follows:
1.
The Company has authorized the issue and sale of $75,000,000
aggregate principal amount of the 5.43% Senior Notes, Series F, due
December 21, 2012 (the "Series F Notes" ). The Series
F Notes, together with the Series A Notes initially issued
pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreements, the $145,000,000
aggregate principal amount of 4.24% Senior Notes, Series B,
due December 22, 2010 (the "Series B Notes" )
issued pursuant to the First Supplement to Note Purchase Agreements
dated as of December 22, 2003 (the "First Supplement"
), the $50,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.43% Senior
Notes, Series C, due December 22, 2013 (the
"Series C Notes" ) issued pursuant to the Second
Supplement to Note Purchase Agreements dated as of
December 22, 2003 (the "Second Supplement" ), the
$75,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.76% Senior Notes,
Series D, due December 22, 2013 (the "Series D
Notes" ) issued pursuant to the Third Supplement to Note
Purchase Agreement dated as of December 22, 2003 (the " Third
Supplement" ), the $100,000,000 aggregate principal amount of
5.57% Senior Notes, Series E, due December 21, 2015 (the
"Series E Notes" ) issued pursuant to the Fourth
Supplement to Note Purchase Agreements dated as of
December 21, 2005 (the "Fourth Supplement" ), and
each series of Additional Notes which may from time to time
hereafter be issued pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.2
of the Note Purchase Agreements, are collectively referred to as
the "Notes " (such term shall also include any such notes
issued in substitution therefor pursuant to Section 13 of the
Note Purchase Agreements). The Series F Notes shall be
substantially in the form set out in Exhibit 1 hereto with
such changes therefrom, if any, as may be approved by the Series F
Purchasers and the Company.
2. Subject to
the terms and conditions hereof and as set forth in the Note
Purchase Agreements and on the basis of the representations and
warranties hereinafter set forth, the Company agrees to issue and
sell to each Series F Purchaser, and each Series F Purchaser agrees
to purchase from the Company, Series F Notes in the principal
amount set forth opposite such Series F Purchaser’s name on
Schedule A hereto at a price of 100% of the principal amount
thereof on the closing date hereafter mentioned.
3. The sale and
purchase of the Series F Notes to be purchased by each Series F
Purchaser shall occur at the offices of Chapman and Cutler LLP, 111
West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603, at 10:00 a.m. Chicago
time, at a closing (the "Closing" ) on December 21,
2005 or on such other Business Day thereafter on or prior to
December 23, 2005 as may be agreed upon by the Company and the
Series F Purchasers. At the Closing the Company will deliver to
each Series F Purchaser the Series F Notes to be purchased by such
Series F Purchaser in the form of a single Series F Note (or such
greater number of Series F Notes in denominations of at least
$100,000 as such Series F Purchaser may request) dated the date of
the Closing and registered in such Series F Purchaser’s name
(or in the name of such Series F Purchaser’s nominee),
against delivery by such Series F Purchaser to the Company or its
order of immediately available funds in the amount of the purchase
price therefor by wire transfer of immediately available funds for
the account of the Company to account number 1096726 and account
name Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. at JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in New
York, New York, ABA #021000021. If, at the Closing, the
Company shall fail to tender such Series F Notes to any Series F
Purchaser as provided above in this Section 3, or any of the
conditions specified in Section 4 shall not have been
fulfilled to any Series F Purchaser’s satisfaction, such
Series F Purchaser shall, at such Series F Purchaser’s
election, be relieved of all further obligations under this Fifth
Supplement, without thereby waiving any rights such Series F
Purchaser may have by reason of such failure or such
nonfulfillment.
4. The
obligation of each Series F Purchaser to purchase and pay for the
Series F Notes to be sold to such Series F Purchaser at the Closing
is subject to the fulfillment to such Series F Purchaser’s
satisfaction, prior to the Closing, of the conditions set forth in
Section 4 of the Note Purchase Agreements with respect to the
Series F Notes to be purchased at the Closing, and to the following
additional conditions:
(a) Except as
supplemented, amended or superceded by the representations and
warranties set forth in Exhibit A hereto, each of the
representations and warranties of the Company set forth in
Section 5 of the Note Purchase Agreements shall be correct as
of the date of Closing and the Company shall have delivered to each
Series F Purchaser an Officer’s Certificate, dated the date
of the Closing certifying that such condition has been
fulfilled.
(b)
Contemporaneously with the Closing, (i) the Company
shall sell to each Series F Purchaser, and each Series F Purchaser
shall purchase, the Series F Notes to be purchased by such Series F
Purchaser at the Closing as specified in Schedule A and
(ii) the Company shall sell to each purchaser and each
purchaser shall purchase the Series E Notes to be purchased by
such purchaser at the Closing and as specified in Schedule A
to the Fourth Supplement.
5.
Maturity . As provided therein, the entire
unpaid principal balance of the Series F Notes shall be due and
payable on the stated maturity date thereof.
6.
Optional Prepayments with Make-Whole Amount .
The Company may, at its option, upon notice as provided below,
prepay at any time all, or from time to time any part of, the
Series F Notes, in an amount not less than 10% of the aggregate
principal amount of the Series F Notes then outstanding in the case
of a partial prepayment, at 100% of the principal amount so
prepaid, plus the Make-Whole Amount determined for the prepayment
date with respect to such principal amount. The Company will give
each holder of Series F Notes written notice of each optional
prepayment under this Section 6 of this Fifth Supplement not
less than 30 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed
for such prepayment. Each such notice shall specify such date, the
aggregate principal amount of the Series F Notes to be prepaid on
such date, the principal amount of each Series F Note held by such
holder to be prepaid (determined in accordance with Section 7
of this Fifth Supplement), and the interest to be paid on the
prepayment date with respect to such principal amount being
prepaid, and shall be accompanied by a certificate of a Senior
Financial Officer as to the estimated Make-Whole Amount due in
connection with such prepayment (calculated as if the date of such
notice were the date of the prepayment), setting forth the details
of such computation. Two Business Days prior to such prepayment,
the Company shall deliver to each holder of Series F Notes a
certificate of a Senior Financial Officer specifying the
calculation of such Make-Whole Amount as of the specified
prepayment date.
7. Allocation
of Partial Prepayments for Series F Notes . In the
case of each partial prepayment of the Series F Notes pursuant to
Section 6 of this Fifth Supplement, the principal amount of the
Series F Notes to be prepaid shall be allocated among all of the
Series F Notes at the time outstanding in proportion, as nearly as
practicable, to the respective unpaid principal amounts thereof not
theretofore called for prepayment.
8.
Maturity; Surrender, etc. for Series F Notes .
In the case of each prepayment of Series F Notes pursuant to
Section 6 of this Fifth Supplement and Section 8.3 of the Note
Purchase Agreements, the principal amount of each Series F Note to
be
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