EXHIBIT 4.12
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY FINANCE
CORPORATION
OFFER TO EXCHANGE
$1,000,000,000 principal amount of its
5.000% Senior Notes Due 2013
unconditionally guaranteed by Berkshire Hathaway
Inc., which have been registered
under the Securities Act of 1933, for any and all
5.000% Senior Notes Due 2013,
unconditionally guaranteed by Berkshire Hathaway
Inc.
, 2008
To Brokers, Dealers, Commercial
Banks,
Trust Companies and Other
Nominees:
We are enclosing
herewith an offer by Berkshire Hathaway Finance Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (the “Company”), to exchange the
Company’s new 5.000% Senior Notes Due 2013 (the
“Exchange Notes”) which have been registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities
Act”), for any and all of the Company’s outstanding
5.000% Senior Notes Due 2013 (the “Original
Notes”), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set
forth in the accompanying Prospectus,
dated ,
2008 (as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to
time, the “Prospectus”), and related Letter of
Transmittal (which together with the Prospectus constitutes the
“Exchange Offer”).
The Exchange Offer
provides a procedure for holders to tender the Original Notes by
means of guaranteed delivery.
The Exchange Offer will
expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time,
on ,
2008, unless extended (the “Expiration Date”). Tendered
Original Notes may be withdrawn at any time prior to
5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Expiration Date, if such
Original Notes have not previously been accepted for exchange
pursuant to the Exchange Offer.
Based on an
interpretation by the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance
of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”)
as set forth in certain interpretive letters addressed to third
parties in other transactions, Exchange Notes issued pursuant to
the Exchange Offer in exchange for Original Notes may be offered
for resale, resold and otherwise transferred by a holder thereof
(other than a holder that is an “affiliate” of the
Company within the mean
