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Underwriting Agreement

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HEWLETT PACKARD CO | The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. | J.P. Morgan Trust Company, | Chase Manhattan Bank and Trust Company

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Title: UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 2/28/2007
Industry: Computer Peripherals    

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT, Parties: hewlett packard co , the bank of new york trust company  n.a. ,  j.p. morgan trust company  , chase manhattan bank and trust company
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Exhibit 1.1

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY

Debt Securities

UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

February 22, 2007

To the Representatives named in Schedule I hereto

 

of the Underwriters named in Schedule II hereto

 

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 .

(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 in

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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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