PNC Funding Corp, Issuer
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The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., Guarantor
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New York, New
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December 7, 2005
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named in
Schedule I
hereto of the
Underwriters named in
Schedule II hereto
Dear Ladies and
Gentlemen:
PNC
Funding Corp, a Pennsylvania 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 its
securities identified in Schedule I hereto (together with the
guarantees mentioned below, the “Securities”) to be
guaranteed by The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., a
Pennsylvania corporation (the “Guarantor”), and to be
issued under an indenture dated as of December 1, 1991, among
the Company, the Guarantor and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (formerly
known as JPMorgan Chase Bank, which was formerly known as The Chase
Manhattan Bank, which was formerly known as Chemical Bank,
successor by merger to Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company), as
trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended by a Supplemental
Indenture dated as of February 15, 1993, among the Company,
the Guarantor and the Trustee, and as further amended by a Second
Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 15, 2000 (as
amended, the “Indenture”). 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.
Section 1.
Representations and Warranties . The Company and the
Guarantor represent and warrant to, and agree with, each
Underwriter as set forth below in this Section 1. Certain
terms used in this Section 1 are defined in paragraph
(c) hereof.
(a) If the
offering of the Securities is a Delayed Offering (as specified in
Schedule I hereto), paragraph (i) below is applicable and, if
the offering of the Securities is a Non-Delayed Offering (as so
specified), paragraph (ii) below is applicable.
(i) The Company
and the Guarantor meet the requirements for the use of Form S-3
under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) and have
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
“Commission”) a registration
statement (the file number of which is set forth in Schedule I
hereto), on such Form, including a basic prospectus, for
registration under the Act of the offering and sale of the
Securities. The Company and the Guarantor may have filed one or
more amendments thereto, and may have used a Preliminary Final
Prospectus, each of which has previously been furnished to you.
Such registration statement, as so amended, has become effective.
The offering of the Securities is a Delayed Offering and, although
the Basic Prospectus may not include all information with respect
to the Securities and the offering thereof required by the Act and
the rules thereunder to be included in the Final Prospectus, the
Basic Prospectus includes all such information required by the Act
and the rules thereunder to be included therein as of the Effective
Date. The Company and the Guarantor will next file with the
Commission pursuant to Rules 415 and 424(b)(2) or (5) a
final supplement to the form of prospectus included in such
registration statement relating to the Securities and the offering
thereof. As filed, such final prospectus supplement shall include
all required information with respect to the Securities and the
offering thereof 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 Basic Prospectus, any
Preliminary Final Prospectus and the Pricing Disclosure Package) as
the Company has advised you, prior to the Execution Time, will be
included or made therein.
(ii) The Company
and the Guarantor meet the requirements for the use of Form S-3
under the Act and have filed with the Commission a registration
statement (the file number of which is set forth in Schedule I
hereto) on such Form, including a basic prospectus, for
registration under the Act of the offering and sale of the
Securities. The Company and the Guarantor may have filed one or
more amendments thereto, including a Preliminary Final Prospectus,
each of which has previously been furnished to you. The Company and
the Guarantor will next file with the Commission either (x) a
final prospectus supplement relating to the Securities in
accordance with Rules 430A and 424(b)(1) or (4), or
(y) prior to the effectiveness of such registration statement,
an amendment to such registration statement, including the form of
final prospectus supplement. In the case of clause (x), the Company
and the Guarantor included in such registration statement, as
amended at the Effective Date, all information (other than
Rule 430A Information) required by the Act and the rules
thereunder to be included in the Final Prospectus with respect to
the Securities and the offering thereof. As filed, such final
prospectus supplement or such amendment and form of final
prospectus supplement shall contain all Rule 430A
Information,
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together with
all other such required information, with respect to the Securities
and the offering thereof 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 Basic Prospectus and
any Preliminary Final Prospectus) as the Company has advised you,
prior to the Execution Time, will be included or made
therein.
(b) On the
Effective Date, the Registration Statement did or will, at the
Applicable Time and on the Closing Date the Pricing Disclosure
Package did or will, and when the Final Prospectus is first filed
(if required) 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 Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the
“Exchange Act”) and the respective rules thereunder; on
the Effective Date, the Registration Statement did not or will not
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state
any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in
order to make the statements therein not misleading; at the
Applicable Time and on the Closing Date, the Pricing Disclosure
Package did not or 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 light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading; and each Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus listed on Schedule III does not conflict with the
information contained in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus and each such Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, as supplemented by and taken together with
the Pricing Disclosure Package as of the Applicable Time, did not
include 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; and, on the Effective Date, the Final Prospectus, if
not filed pursuant to Rule 424(b), did not or will not, and on
the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) 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 and the Guarantor make 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, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus
(or any supplement thereto) in reliance upon and in conformity with
information furnished in writing to the Company or the Guarantor by
or on behalf of any Underwriter through the Representatives
specifically for use in connection with the preparation of the
Registration Statement or the Final Prospectus (or any supplement
thereto).
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(c) The terms that
follow, when used in this Agreement, shall have the meanings
indicated. The term “the Effective Date” shall mean
each date that the Registration Statement and any post effective
amendment or amendments thereto became or become effective.
“Execution Time” shall mean the date and time that this
Agreement is executed and delivered by the parties hereto.
“Applicable Time” shall mean 1:15 p.m. (Eastern Time)
on the date of the Agreement. “Basic Prospectus” shall
mean the prospectus referred to in paragraph (a) above
contained in the Registration Statement at the Effective Date
including, in the case of a Non-Delayed Offering, any Preliminary
Final Prospectus. “Preliminary Final Prospectus” shall
mean any preliminary prospectus supplement to the Basic Prospectus
which describes the Securities and the offering thereof and is used
prior to filing of the Final Prospectus. “Pricing Disclosure
Package” shall mean the Basic Prospectus (as amended and
supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time) and any
Preliminary Final Prospectus as supplemented by the final term
sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 4(a) hereof.
“Final Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus supplement
relating to the Securities that is first filed pursuant to Rule
424(b) after the Execution Time, together with the Basic Prospectus
or, if, in the case of a Non-Delayed Offering, no filing pursuant
to Rule 424(b) is required, shall mean the form of final prospectus
relating to the Securities, including the Basic Prospectus,
included in the Registration Statement at the Effective Date.
“Issuer Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean any
“issuer free writing prospectus” as defined in
Rule 433. “Registration Statement” shall mean the
registration statement referred to in paragraph (a) above,
including incorporated documents, exhibits and financial
statements, as amended at the Execution Time (or, if not effective
at the Execution Time, in the form in which it 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 as so
amended. Such term shall include any Rule 430 Information
deemed to be included therein at the Effective Date as provided by
Rule 430A, Rule 430B or Rule 430C.
“Rule 405,” “Rule 415,”
“Rule 424,” “Rule 430A”,
“Rule 430B,” “Rule 430C,”
“Rule 433” and “Regulation S-K”
refer to such rules or regulation under the Act.
“Rule 430 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 430A, Rule 430B or Rule 430C. Any
reference herein to the Registration Statement, the Basic
Prospectus, any Preliminary Final Prospectus, the Pricing
Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus shall be deemed to refer
to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein
pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 which were filed under the
Exchange Act on or before the Effective Date of the Registration
Statement or the issue date of the Basic Prospectus, any
Preliminary Final Prospectus, the Pricing Disclosure Package or the
Final Prospectus, as the case may be; and any reference herein to
the terms “amend,” “amendment” or
“supplement” with respect to the Registration
Statement, the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Final 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
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Statement or
the issue date of the Basic Prospectus, any Preliminary Final
Prospectus or the Final Prospectus, as the case may be, deemed to
be incorporated therein by reference. A “Non-Delayed
Offering” shall mean an offering of securities which is
intended to commence promptly after the effective date of a
registration statement, with the result that, pursuant to
Rules 415 and 430A, all information (other than Rule 430A
Information) with respect to the securities so offered must be
included in such registration statement at the effective date
thereof. A “Delayed Offering” shall mean an offering of
securities pursuant to Rule 415 which does not commence
promptly after the effective date of a registration statement, with
the result that only information required pursuant to Rule 415
need be included in such registration statement at the effective
date thereof with respect to the securities so offered. Whether the
offering of the Securities is a Non-Delayed Offering or a Delayed
Offering shall be set forth in Schedule I hereto.
Section 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, and the Guarantor agrees to cause the
Company 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 principal
amount of the Securities set forth opposite such
Underwriter’s name in Schedule II hereto, except that,
if Schedule I hereto provides for the sale of Securities
pursuant to delayed delivery arrangements, the respective principal
amounts of Securities to be purchased by the Underwriters shall be
as set forth in Schedule II hereto less the respective amounts
of Contract Securities determined as provided below. Securities to
be purchased by the Underwriters are herein sometimes called the
“Underwriters’ Securities” and Securities to be
purchased pursuant to Delayed Delivery Contracts as hereinafter
provided are herein called “Contract
Securities.”
If
so provided in Schedule I hereto, the Underwriters are
authorized to solicit offers to purchase Securities from the
Company pursuant to delayed delivery contracts (“Delayed
Delivery Contracts”), substantially in the form of
Schedule IV hereto but with such changes therein as the
Company and the Guarantor may authorize or approve. The
Underwriters will endeavor to make such arrangements and, as
compensation therefor, the Company will pay, and the Guarantor will
cause the Company to pay, to the Representatives, for the account
of the Underwriters, on the Closing Date, the percentage set forth
in Schedule I hereto of the principal amount of the Securities
for which Delayed Delivery Contracts are made. Delayed Delivery
Contracts are to be with institutional investors, including
commercial and savings banks, insurance companies, pension funds,
investment companies and educational and charitable institutions.
The Company will enter into, and the Guarantor will cause the
Company to enter into, Delayed Delivery Contracts in all cases
where sales of Contract Securities arranged by the Underwriters
have been approved by the Company but, except as the Company may
otherwise agree, each such Delayed Delivery Contract must be for
not less than the minimum principal amount set forth in
Schedule I hereto and the aggregate principal amount of
Contract Securities may not exceed the maximum aggregate principal
amount set forth in Schedule I hereto. The Underwriters will
not have any responsibility in
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respect of the
validity or performance of Delayed Delivery Contracts. The
principal amount of Securities to be purchased by each Underwriter
as set forth in Schedule II hereto shall be reduced by an
amount which shall bear the same proportion to the total principal
amount of Contract Securities as the principal amount of Securities
set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter bears to the
aggregate principal amount set forth in Schedule II hereto,
except to the extent that you determine that such reduction shall
be otherwise than in such proportion and so advise the Company in
writing; provided , however , that the total
principal amount of Securities to be purchased by all Underwriters
shall be the aggregate principal amount set forth in
Schedule II hereto less the aggregate principal amount of
Contract Securities.
Section 3.
Delivery and Payment . Delivery of and payment for the
Underwriters’ Securities shall be made on the date and at the
time specified in Schedule I hereto (or such later date not
later than five business days after such specified date as the
Representatives shall designate), which date and time may be
postponed by agreement among the Representatives, the Company and
the Guarantor or as provided in Section 8 hereof (such date
and time of delivery and payment for the Underwriters’
Securities being herein called the “Closing Date”).
Delivery of the Underwriters’ 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 of immediately available
funds. Delivery of the Underwriters’ Securities shall be made
at such location in The City of New York as the Representatives
shall reasonably designate at least one business day in advance of
the Closing Date and payment for the Securities shall be made at
the office specified in Schedule I hereto. Certificates for
the Underwriters’ Securities shall be registered in such
names (including the nominee for any depositary which will hold
Securities to be established for “book entry” issuance
and transfer) and in such denominations as the Representatives may
request not less than two full business days in advance of the
Closing Date.
The
Company and the Guarantor agree to have the Underwriters’
Securities available for inspection, checking and packaging by the
Representatives in New York, New York, not later than 1:00 p.m. on
the business day prior to the Closing Date.
Section 4.
Agreements . The Company and the Guarantor jointly and
severally agree with the several Underwriters that:
(a)
The Company and the Guarantor will use their best efforts to cause
the Registration Statement, if not effective at the Execution Time,
and any amendment thereto, to become effective. Prior to the
termination of the offering of the Securities, the Company and the
Guarantor will not file any amendment to the Registration Statement
or supplement (including the Final Prospectus or any Preliminary
Final Prospectus) to the Basic Prospectus unless the Company and
the Guarantor have furnished you a copy for your review prior to
filing and will not file any such proposed amendment or supplement
to which you reasonably object. Subject to the foregoing sentence,
the Company and the Guarantor will cause the Final Prospectus,
properly completed, and any supplement thereto to be
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filed with the
Commission pursuant to the applicable paragraph of Rule 424(b)
within the time period prescribed; will prepare a final term sheet,
containing solely a description of the Securities in a form
approved by you and will file such term sheet pursuant to Rule
433(d) within the time period prescribed; will promptly file all
other material required to be filed by the Company and the
Guarantor with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) and will
provide evidence satisfactory to the Representatives of such timely
filing. The Company and the Guarantor will promptly advise the
Representatives (i) when the Registration Statement, if not
effective at the Execution Time, and any amendment thereto, shall
have become effective, (ii) when the Final Prospectus, and any
supplement thereto, shall have been filed with the Commission
pursuant to Rule 424(b), (iii) when any Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus shall have been field with the Commission,
(iv) when, prior to termination of the offering of the
Securities, any amendment to the Registration Statement shall have
been filed or become effective, (v) of any request by the
Commission for any amendment of the Registration Statement or
supplement to the Final Prospectus or for any additional
information, (vi) 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 and (vii) of the receipt by the Company or the
Guarantor 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. The
Company and the Guarantor will use their best efforts to prevent
the issuance of any such stop order and, if issued, to obtain as
soon as possible the withdrawal thereof.
(b) If, at any
time when a prospectus relating to the Securities is required to be
delivered (or in lieu thereof, the notice referred to in Rule
173(a) under the Act) under the Act, any event occurs as a result
of which the Final Prospectus as then 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
Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder, the Company and
the Guarantor promptly will prepare and file with the Commission,
subject to the second sentence of paragraph (a) of this
Section 4, an amendment or supplement which will correct such
statement or omission or effect such compliance.
(c) As soon as
practicable, the Guarantor will make generally available to its
security holders and to the Representatives an earnings statement
or statements of the Guarantor and its subsidiaries which will
satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Act and
Rule 158 under the Act.
(d) The Company
and the Guarantor will furnish to the Representatives and counsel
for the Underwriters, without charge, copies of the Registration
Statement (including exhibits thereto) and, so long as delivery of
a prospectus by an Underwriter or dealer may be required by the
Act, as many
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copies of any
Preliminary Final Prospectus, the Final Prospectus and each Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus and any supplement thereto as the
Representatives may reasonably request. The Company and the
Guarantor will pay the expenses of printing or other production of
all documents relating to the offering.
(e) The Company
and the Guarantor will use their best efforts to arrange for the
qualification of the Securities for sale under the laws of such
jurisdictions as the Representatives may designate, will maintain
such qualifications in effect so long as required for the
distribution of the Securities and will arrange for the
determination of the legality of the Securities for purchase by
institutional investors; provided , however , that
neither the Company nor the Guarantor shall be required to qualify
to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now qualified or
to take any action which would subject it to general or unlimited
service of process in any jurisdiction where they are not now
subject.
(f) Until the
business day following the Closing Date, the Company and the
Guarantor will not, without the consent of the Representatives,
offer, sell or contract to sell, or announce the offering of, any
debt securities covered by the Registration Statement or any other
registration statement filed under the Act.
Section 5.
Additional Agreements Relating to Free Writing
Prospectuses.
(a) The Company
and the Guarantor represent and agree that, other than the final
term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 4(a) hereof,
without the prior consent of the Representatives, they have not
made and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that
would constitute a “free writing prospectus” as defined
in Rule 405.
(b) Each
Underwriter represents and agrees that, without the prior consent
of the Company and the Representatives, other than one or more term
sheets relating to the Securities containing customary information
that do not require the Company or the Guarantor to file any
material pursuant to Rule 433(d) except for the final term sheet
prepared and filed pursuant to Section 4(a) hereof, it has not made
and will not make any offer relating to the Securities that would
constitute a free writing prospectus.
(c) Any free
writing prospectus the use of which has been consented to by the
Company and the Representatives (including the final term sheet
prepared and filed pursuant to Section 4(a) hereof) is listed on
Schedule III hereto.
(d) The Company
and the Guarantor have complied and will comply with the
requirements of Rule 433 applicable to any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission or
retention where required and legending.
(e) The Company
and the Guarantor agree that if at any time following issuance of
an Issuer Free Writing Prospectus any event occurred or
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occurs as a
result of which such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus would conflict
with the information in the Registration Statement, the Pricing
Disclosure Package or the Final Prospectus or would include an
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 then prevailing, not misleading, the
Company and the Guarantor will give prompt notice thereof to the
Representatives and, if requested by the Representatives, will
prepare and furnish without charge to each Underwriter an Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus or other document which will correct such
conflict, statement or omission.
Section 6.
Conditions to the Obligations of the Underwriters . The
obligations of the Underwriters to purchase the Underwriters’
Securities shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations
and warranties on the part of the Company and the Guarantor
contained herein as of the Execution Time and the Closing Date, to
the accuracy of the statements of the Company and the Guarantor
made in any certificates pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the
performance by the Company and the Guarantor of their obligations
hereunder and to the following additional conditions:
(a)
If the Registration Statement has not become effective prior to the
Execution Time, unless the Representatives agree in writing to a
later time, the Registration Statement will become effective not
later than (i) 6:00 p.m. New York City time, on the date of
determination of the public offering price, if such determination
occurred at or prior to 3:00 p.m. New York City time on such date
or (ii) 12:00 Noon on the business day following the day on
which the public offering price was determined, if such
determinati
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