Exhibit 1.1
HEWLETT-PACKARD
COMPANY
Debt Securities
UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
February 22, 2007
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To the Representatives named in Schedule
I hereto
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of the Underwriters named in Schedule II
hereto
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
Hewlett-Packard Company, a Delaware
corporation (the “Company”), proposes to sell to the
underwriters named in Schedule II hereto (the
“Underwriters”), for whom you are acting as
representatives (the “Representatives”), the principal
amount of each of its securities identified in
Schedule I hereto (collectively, the
“Securities”), each to be issued under an Indenture
dated as of June 1, 2000 (the “Indenture”),
between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A.
(as successor in interest to J.P. Morgan Trust Company, National
Association, which was successor in interest to Chase Manhattan
Bank and Trust Company, National Association), as trustee (the
“Trustee”). If the firm or firms listed in Schedule
II hereto include only the firm or firms listed in Schedule
I hereto, then the terms “Underwriters” and
“Representatives,” as used herein shall each be deemed
to refer to such firm or firms.
1.
Representations and
Warranties . The Company represents and
warrants to, and agrees with each Underwriter that:
(a)
The Company meets
the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the “Act”), and has filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)
an “automatic shelf registration” statement as defined
under Rule 405 of the rules and regulations of the Act (the
“Act Regulations”) (the file number of which is set
forth in Schedule I hereto), including a related base
prospectus, on such Form for the registration under the Act of the
offering and sale of the Securities. Such registration statement,
including any amendments thereto filed prior to the Execution Time,
became effective upon filing. The Company may have filed one or
more preliminary prospectuses, including a Preliminary Prospectus,
in accordance with Rules 415 and 424(b), each of which has
previously been furnished to you. The Company will file with the
Commission a Final Prospectus relating to the Securities in
accordance with Rules 430B and 424(b) of the Act Regulations. As
filed such Final Prospectus shall include all Rule 430B Information
and, except to the extent the Representatives shall agree in
writing to a modification, shall be in all substantive respects in
the form furnished to you
prior to the
Execution Time or, to the extent not completed at the Execution
Time, shall contain only such specific additional information and
other changes (beyond that contained in the Base Prospectus and any
Preliminary Prospectus) as the Company has advised you, prior to
the Execution Time, will be included or made therein. The
Registration Statement, at the Execution Time, meets the
requirements set forth in Rule 415(a)(1)(x).
The terms that follow, when used in
this Agreement, shall have the meanings indicated. The term
“Effective Date” shall mean each date that the
Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment or
amendments thereto became or become effective. The term
“Applicable Time” shall mean such date and time that
sales of the Securities are first made. “Execution
Time” shall mean the date and time that this Agreement is
executed and delivered by the parties hereto. “Base
Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus referred to in the
preceding paragraph included in the Registration Statement at their
most recent Effective Date. “Final Prospectus” shall
mean the prospectus supplement relating to the Securities that is
first filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) after the Execution Time that
includes the 430B Information, together with the Base Prospectus.
“Registration Statement” shall mean the registration
statement referred to in the preceding paragraph, including such
portions of incorporated documents as are specifically incorporated
by reference since the end of the fiscal year covered by the
Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, including
exhibits and financial statements, and including any prospectus
supplement relating to the Securities that is filed with the
Commission pursuant to Rule 424 (b)
and deemed part of the registration statement pursuant to Rule
430B, in the form in which it or they has or have or shall become
effective and, in the event any post-effective amendment thereto
becomes effective prior to the Closing Date (as hereinafter
defined), shall also mean such registration statement or statements
as so amended. “Rule 415,” “Rule 424,”
“Rule 430B,” “Rule 433” and
“Regulation S-K” refer to such rules under the Act.
“Rule 430B Information” means information with respect
to the Securities and the offering thereof permitted to be omitted
from the Registration Statement when it becomes effective pursuant
to Rule 430B. “Disclosure Package” shall mean (i) the
Base Prospectus, as amended and supplemented to the Applicable
Time, (ii) any Preliminary Prospectus, (iii) the Issuer Free
Writing Prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule III
hereto and (iv) any other Free Writing Prospectuses that the
parties hereto shall hereafter expressly agree in writing to be
treated as part of the Disclosure Package. “Free Writing
Prospectus” shall mean a free writing prospectus, as defined
in Rule 405, used in connection with the offering of the
Securities. “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean
an issuer free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 433, used in
connection with the offering of the Securities. “Preliminary
Prospectus” shall mean any preliminary prospectus supplement
to the Base Prospectus which describes the Securities and the
related offering and is used prior to filing of the Final
Prospectus, together with the Base Prospectus. “Well-Known
Seasoned Issuer” shall mean a well-known seasoned issuer, as
defined in Rule 405. Any reference herein to the Registration
Statement, a Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall
be deemed to refer to and include such portions of documents as are
specifically incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12
of Form S-3 which were filed under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), on or before the
Effective Date of the Registration Statement or the date of such
Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be;
and any
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reference herein to the terms
“amend,” “amendment” or
“supplement” with respect to the Registration
Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final Prospectus shall
be deemed to refer to and include the filing of any document under
the Exchange Act after the Effective Date of the Registration
Statement, or the date of any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final
Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to be incorporated therein
by reference.
(b)
On the Effective
Date, the Registration Statement did, and when the Final Prospectus
is first filed in accordance with Rule 424(b) and on the Closing
Date, the Final Prospectus (and any supplement thereto) will,
comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of
the Act and the rules thereunder; on the Effective Date and on the
Closing Date the Indenture did or will comply in all material
respects with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”), and the rules
thereunder; on the applicable Effective Date and at the Execution
Time, the Registration Statement did not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading;
and as of its date and on the Closing Date, the Final Prospectus
(together with any supplement thereto) will not, 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 under which they were made, not misleading;
provided, however, that the Company makes no representations or
warranties as to (i) that part of the Registration Statement which
shall constitute the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification
(Form T-1) under the Trust Indenture Act of the Trustee or (ii) the
information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement
or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance
upon and in conformity with information furnished in writing to the
Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through the
Representatives specifically for inclusion in connection with the
preparation of the Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus
(or any supplement thereto).
(c)
This Agreement
has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.
The Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by
the Company, has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act,
and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable
against the Company in accordance with its terms (subject to
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, arrangement, moratorium and other similar laws
relating to or affecting the rights and remedies of creditors
generally from time to time in effect, and subject to general
principles of equity, regardless of whether such enforceability is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law, and subject to
limitations on rights to indemnification and contribution under
applicable law or equitable principles); and the Securities have
been duly authorized and, when executed and authenticated in
accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and delivered to
and paid for by the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, will
constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company
entitled to the benefits of the Indenture (subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
arrangement, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or
affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally from time
to time in effect, and subject to general principles of equity,
regardless of whether such enforceability is
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considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law, and subject to limitations on
rights to indemnification and contribution under applicable law or
equitable principles).
(d)
None of the issue
and sale of the Securities, the consummation of any other of the
transactions herein contemplated or the fulfillment of the terms
hereof will conflict with, result in a breach of, or constitute a
default under, (i) the charter or by-laws of the Company, or (ii)
the terms of any material indenture or other material agreement or
instrument to which the Company or its subsidiaries is a party or
bound, or (iii) any decree or regulation or order applicable to the
Company of any U.S. federal or California or Delaware court,
governmental authority or agency having jurisdiction over the
Company, except where the conflict or breach of which in clause
(ii) or clause (iii) above would not have a material adverse effect
on the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(e)
At the Applicable
Time the Disclosure Package, when taken together as a whole, does
not contain 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. The preceding sentence does not apply to
statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon
and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company
by any Underwriter through the Representatives specifically for use
therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such
information furnished by or on behalf of any Underwriter consists
of the information described as such in Section 6
hereof.
(f)
The Company is a
Well-Known Seasoned Issuer and the Registration Statement is an
“automatic shelf registration statement” as defined in
Rule 405 of the Act Regulations. The Company has not received
from the Commission any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the
Act Regulations objecting to the use of the automatic shelf
registration form. The Company has paid the registration fee for
this offering pursuant to Rule 456(b)(1) of the Act Regulations or
will pay such fees within the time period required by such rule
(without giving effect to the proviso therein) and in any event
prior to the Closing Date.
(g)
Each Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, including any final term sheet listed on
Schedule III hereof prepared and filed pursuant to this
Agreement, does not include any information that conflicts with the
information contained in the Registration Statement, including any
document incorporated therein and any prospectus supplement deemed
to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified. The
foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions
from the Disclosure Package based upon and in conformity with
written information furnished to the Company by any Underwriter
through the Representative specifically for use therein, it being
understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by
or on behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information
described as such in Section 6 hereof.
(h)
At the earliest
time after the filing of the Registration Statement that the
Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer
(within the meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) of the Act Regulations) of
the Securities, the Company was not and is not
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an Ineligible
Issuer (as defined in Rule 405), without taking into account of any
determination by the Commission pursuant to the Rule 405 that it is
not necessary that the Company by considered an Ineligible
Issuer.
2.
Purchase and
Sale .
Subject to the terms and conditions and in reliance upon the
representations and warranties herein set forth, the Company agrees
to sell to each Underwriter, and each Underwriter agrees, severally
and not jointly, to purchase from the Company, at the purchase
price set forth in Schedule I hereto, the respective
principal amounts of each of the Securities set forth opposite each
respective Underwriter’s name in Schedule II
hereto.
3.
Delivery and
Payment .
(a)
Delivery of and
payment for the Securities shall be made at the office, on the date
and at the time specified in Schedule I hereto, which date
and time may be postponed by agreement between the Representatives
and the Company or as provided in Section 7 hereof (such date and
time of delivery and payment for the Securities being called the
“Closing Date”). Delivery of the Securities shall be
made to the Representatives for the respective accounts of the
several Underwriters against payment by the several Underwriters
through the Representatives of the purchase price thereof to or
upon the order of the Company by wire transfer or transfers in
immediately available funds to an account designated by the
Company. The Securities shall be delivered in definitive global
form through the facilities of The Depository Trust
Company.
(b)
It is understood
that the several Underwriters propose to offer the Securities for
sale to the public as set forth in the Prospectus.
4.
Agreements
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(A)
The Company
agrees with the several Underwriters that:
(a)
The Company will
file the Final Prospectus, properly completed, pursuant to the
applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b) within the time period
prescribed and will provide evidence satisfactory to the
Representatives of such timely filing. The Company will promptly
advise the Representatives (i) of any receipt by the Company from
the Commission of any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) of the Act
Regulations objecting to use of the automatic shelf registration
statement form with respect to the Registration Statement, (ii)
when, prior to termination of the offering of the Securities, any
amendment to the Registration Statement relating to the Securities
shall have become effective (if not already effective), (iii) of
any request by the Commission for any amendment of the Registration
Statement or amendment of or supplement to the Final Prospectus or
for any additional information, (iv) of the issuance by the
Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement or the institution or threatening of any
proceeding for that purpose, (v) of the receipt by the Company of
any notification with respect to the suspension of the
qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the
initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose
and
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(vi) when the
Preliminary Prospectus, and any supplement thereto, and any Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, shall have been filed (if required) by the
Company. The Company will use its commercially reasonable efforts
to prevent the issuance of any such stop order and, if issued, to
obtain as soon as possible the withdrawal thereof. The Company will
not file any amendment to the Registration Statement or supplement
to the Final Prospectus relating to the Securities unless the
Company has afforded you the opportunity to review it prior to
filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or supplement
to which you reasonably and timely object.
(b)
If, at any time
when a prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be
delivered under the Act (including in circumstances where such
requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172), any event
occurs as a result of which the Final Prospectus as then amended or
supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact
or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements
therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made not misleading, or if it shall be necessary to amend the
Registration Statement or supplement the Final Prospectus to comply
with the Act or the rules thereunder in any material respect, the
Company will give the Representatives prompt notice of the
occurrence of such event and promptly will prepare and file with
the Commission, subject to the last sentence of paragraph (a) of
this Section 4, an amendment or supplement which will correct such
statement or omission or an amendment which will effect such
compliance.
(c)
The Company will
make generally available to its securityholders as soon as
practicable, but in any event not later than eighteen months after
the effective date of the Registration Statement (as defined in
Rule 158(c) under the Act) an earnings statement of the Company and
its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section
11(a) of the Act and the rules thereunder (including, at the option
of the Company, Rule 158).
(d)
The Company will
furnish to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters,
without charge, copies of the Registration Statement (including
exhibits thereto) and each amendment thereto which shall have
become effective on or prior to the Closing Date (and the Company
will furnish to counsel for the Underwriters a photocopy of one
signed copy of the Registration Statement (including exhibits and
amendments)) and, so long as delivery of a prospectus by an
Underwriter or dealer may be required by the Act (including in
circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to
Rule 172), as many copies of any Preliminary Prospectus, the Final
Prospectus and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any
amendments thereof and supplements thereto as the Representatives
may reasonably request.
(e)
The Company will
take such action as the Representatives may reasonably request to
qualify the Securities for sale under the laws of such
jurisdictions as the Representatives may reasonably request, and to
maintain such qualifications in effect so long as required for the
distribution of the Securities, provided that in connection
therewith the Company shall not be required to qualify to do
business in any jurisdiction or
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to file a consent
or otherwise subject itself to service of process or taxation in
any jurisdiction where it is not already so subject.
(f)
Until the earlier
of the day on which the distribution of the Securities is completed
or the business day following the Closing Date, the Company will
not, without the consent of the Representatives, offer or sell, or
announce the offering of, any debt securities covered by the
Registration Statement or any other registration statement filed
under the Act which mature more than one year after the date hereof
and which are substantially similar to such debt securities, except
any proposed issuances of debt securities with respect to which the
Company has advised the Representatives in writing prior to the
execution hereof.
(g)
The Company will
not take, directly or indirectly, any action intended to result in
stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the
Company to facilitate the sale or resale of the
Securities.
(h)
The Company will
prepare a final term sheet, containing a description of the
Securities, in a form approved by the Representatives and to file
such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433(d) within the time required by
such Rule.
(i)
If there occurs
an event or development as a result of which the Disclosure Package
would include an untrue statement of a material fact or would omit
to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances then prevailing, not
misleading, the Company will notify promptly the Representatives so
that any use of the Disclosure Package may cease until it is
amended or supplemented.
(j)
If there occurs
an event or development as a result of which an Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus would conflict with the Registration Statement, the
Prospectus Supplement or the Final Prospectus, the Company will
notify promptly the Representatives.
(k)
Unless it obtains
the prior written consent of the Representatives, the Company will
not make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute
an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise
constitute a Free Writing Prospectus required to be filed by the
Company with the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule
433, other than the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to
Section 4(h) hereto; provided that the prior written consent
of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect
of the Issuer Free Writing Prospectus included in Schedule III
hereto. Any such Free Writing Prospectus consented to by the
Representatives is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted
Free Writing Prospectus.” The Company agrees that (x) it
has treated and will treat, as the case may be, each Permitted Free
Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and (y) it
has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the
requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free
Writing Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the
Commission, legending and record keeping.
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(l)
The Company has
given the Representatives notice of any filings made pursuant to
the Exchange Act within 48 hours prior to the Execution Time; the
Company will give the Representatives notice of its intention to
make any such filing from the Execution Time to the Closing Date
and will furnish the Representative(s) with copies of any such
documents a reasonable amount of time prior to such proposed
filing.
(B)
The several Underwriters agree with
the Company that:
(a)
The Company will pay the expenses of
printing and producing all documents relating to the
offering.
(b)
The Company will pay the reasonable
fees, expenses and disbursements of outside counsel for the Company
and the Trustee relating to the offering.
(c)
The Company will pay any fees of
Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., Standard & Poor’s
Ratings Group, a division of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and
Fitch Ratings relating to the rating of the Securities.
(d)
The Company will pay the fees and
disbursements of Ernst & Young LLP relating to the preparation
of the letters required by Section 5(e) of this
Agreement.
(e)
The several Underwriters will pay
all of their own costs and expenses, including the fees of their
counsel, transfer taxes or resale of any of the Securities by them
and any advertising expenses in connection with any offers they
make.
(f)
Unless they obtain the prior written
consent of the Company, the Representatives will not make any offer
relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a Free
Writing Prospectus required to be filed by the Company with the
Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433, other than
the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 4(h)
hereto; provided that the prior written consent of the parties
hereto shall be deemed to have been given in respect of the Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus included in Schedule III hereto.
5.
Conditions to
the Obligations of the Underwriters . The obligations of the
Underwriters to purchase the Securities shall be subject to the
accuracy in all material respects of the representations and
warranties on the part of the Company contained herein as of the
Execution Time, as of the date of the effectiveness of any
amendment to the Registration Statement filed prior to the Closing
Date (including the filing of any document incorporated by
reference therein) and as of the Closing Date, to the accuracy
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all material
respects of the statements of the Company made in any certificates
delivered by the Company pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the
performance in all material respects by the Company of its
obligations hereunder and to the following additional
conditions:
(a)
The Final
Prospectus, or any supplement thereto, shall have been filed in the
manner and within the time period required under Rule 424(b), and
any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus shall have been filed in the
manner and within the time period required by Rule 433; and no
stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration
Statement, or any notice that would prevent its use, as amended
from time to time, shall have been issued and no proceedings for
that purpose shall have been instituted or threatened.
(b)
The Company shall
have furnished to the Representatives:
(i)
the opinion of
the General Counsel, an Assistant General Counsel or a Deputy
General Counsel of the Company, or an outside counsel for the
Company, dated the Closing Date, substantially to the effect
that:
(A)
the Company has
been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in
good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with full
corporate power and authority to own its properties and conduct its
business as described in the Disclosure Package and Final
Prospectus as amended or supplemented, except where such failure
would not have a material adverse effect on the Company and its
subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(B)
the Indenture and
the Securities conform in all material respects to the description
thereof contained in the Disclosure Package and the Final
Prospectus;
(C)
the Indenture has
been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, has
been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, and constitutes
a legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable against the
Company in accordance with its terms (subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
arrangement, moratorium and other similar laws relating to or
affecting the rights and remedies of creditors generally from time
to time in effect, and subject to general principles of equity,
regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law, and subject to limitations on
rights to indemnification and contribution under applicable law or
equitable principles); and the Securities have been duly authorized
and, when executed and authenticated in accordance with the
provisions of the Indenture and delivered to and paid for by the
Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement, will constitute legal,
valid and binding obligations of the Company entitled to the
benefits of the Indenture (subject to applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, arrangement,
moratorium and other similar laws relating to or affecting the
rights and remedies of creditors generally from time to time in
effect, and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of
whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity
or at law, and subject to limitations on rights to indemnification
and contribution under applicable law or equitable
principles);
(D)
the Registration
Statement and any amendments thereto have become effective under
the Act; any required filing of the Base Prospectus,
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any Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus or the Final
Prospectus, and any supplements thereto, pursuant to Rule 424(b) or
Rule 433 has been made in the manner and within the time period
required by Rule 424(b) or Rule 433, as the case may be; to
the best knowledge of such counsel, no stop order suspending the
effectiveness of the Registration Statement, as amended, or any
notice that would prevent its use has been issued and no
proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending or
contemplated under the Act;
(E)
this Agreement
has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Company;
(F)
no authorization,
approval or other action by, and no notice to, consent of, order
of, or filing with, any U.S. federal or California or Delaware
governmental authority or agency is
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