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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): February 24, 2025

 

 

FedEx Corporation

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   1-15829   62-1721435

(State or other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

942 South Shady Grove Road  
Memphis, Tennessee   38120
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (901) 818-7500

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading

Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common Stock, $0.10 Par Value   FDX   New York Stock Exchange
0.450% Notes due 2025   FDX 25A   New York Stock Exchange
1.625% Notes due 2027   FDX 27   New York Stock Exchange
0.450% Notes due 2029   FDX 29A   New York Stock Exchange
1.300% Notes due 2031   FDX 31   New York Stock Exchange
0.950% Notes due 2033   FDX 33   New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 


Item 2.03.

Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

The information included in Item 8.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated into this Item 2.03 by reference.

 

Item 8.01.

Other Events.

Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations

On February 26, 2025 (the “Settlement Date”), FedEx Corporation (“FedEx”) completed its previously announced (i) offers to exchange (each, an “Exchange Offer” and, collectively, the “Exchange Offers”) any and all outstanding senior notes of the series listed in the table below (the “Existing Notes”) for new notes (the “Notes”) and (ii) related consent solicitations (each, a “Consent Solicitation” and, collectively, the “Consent Solicitations”) to adopt certain proposed amendments the applicable Existing Indenture (as defined herein) governing the Existing Notes of such series to provide for the automatic and unconditional release and discharge of the guarantee of FedEx Freight, Inc. at the time it ceases to be a subsidiary (as defined in the applicable Existing Indenture) of FedEx in connection with the Separation (as defined herein) with respect to that series of the Existing Notes (the “Proposed Amendments”). As used in this Current Report on Form 8-K, the “Separation” means any sale, exchange, transfer, distribution, or other disposition of assets and/or capital stock of one or more subsidiaries of FedEx resulting in the separation of the FedEx Freight business through the capital markets to create a new publicly traded company.

Pursuant to the Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations, the aggregate principal amounts of the Existing Notes set forth in the table below were validly tendered and subsequently accepted. Such accepted Existing Notes will be retired and canceled and will not be reissued. Following such cancellation, the aggregate principal amounts of the Existing Notes set forth below will remain outstanding.

 

Title of Series of Existing

Notes

 

CUSIP / ISIN No.

 

Aggregate Principal

Amount Tendered and

Accepted

   Aggregate Principal Amount
Outstanding Following

Settlement
3.400% Notes due 2028   31428XBP0 / US31428XBP06   $340,494,000    $159,506,000
4.200% Notes due 2028   31428XBR6 / US31428XBR61   $237,285,000    $162,715,000
3.100% Notes due 2029   31428XBV7 / US31428XBV73   $628,053,000    $371,947,000
4.250% Notes due 2030   31428XBZ8 / US31428XBZ87   $406,103,000    $343,897,000
2.400% Notes due 2031   31428XCD6 / US31428XCD66   $642,185,000    $357,815,000
4.900% Notes due 2034   31428XAX4 / US31428XAX49   $351,518,000    $148,482,000
3.900% Notes due 2035   31428XBA3 / US31428XBA37   $391,912,000    $108,088,000
3.250% Notes due 2041   31428XCE4 / US31428XCE40   $619,635,000    $130,365,000
3.875% Notes due 2042   31428XAT3 / US31428XAT37   $444,611,000    $55,389,000
4.100% Notes due 2043   31428XAU0 / US31428XAU00   $391,769,000    $108,231,000
5.100% Notes due 2044   31428XAW6 / US31428XAW65   $541,689,000    $208,311,000
4.100% Notes due 2045   31428XBB1 / US31428XBB10   $503,830,000    $146,170,000
4.750% Notes due 2045   31428XBE5 / US31428XBE58   $913,438,000    $336,562,000
4.550% Notes due 2046   31428XBG0 / US31428XBG07   $1,007,069,000    $242,931,000

 

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Title of Series of Existing

Notes

 

CUSIP / ISIN No.

 

Aggregate Principal

Amount Tendered and

Accepted

   Aggregate Principal Amount
Outstanding Following

Settlement
4.400% Notes due 2047   31428XBN5 / US31428XBN57   $604,653,000    $145,347,000
4.050% Notes due 2048   31428XBQ8 / US31428XBQ88   $743,435,000    $256,565,000
4.950% Notes due 2048   31428XBS4 / US31428XBS45   $696,469,000    $153,531,000
5.250% Notes due 2050   31428XCA2 / US31428XCA28   $1,047,658,000    $202,342,000
4.500% Notes due 2065   31428XBD7 / US31428XBD75   $213,040,000    $36,960,000
0.450% Notes due 2029   XS2337252931   €391,747,000    €208,253,000
1.300% Notes due 2031   XS2034629134   €145,122,000    €354,878,000
0.950% Notes due 2033   XS2337253319   €402,828,000    €247,172,000

On the Settlement Date, following the receipt of the requisite consents to adopt the Proposed Amendments with respect to each series of Existing Notes (other than FedEx’s 1.300% Notes due 2031) (the “Majority Existing Notes”), the following supplemental indentures were executed to give effect to the Proposed Amendments with respect to each series of Majority Existing Notes:

 

   

Supplemental Indenture No. 7, dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 7”), to the indenture, dated as of August 8, 2006 (as amended and supplemented, the “2006 Base Indenture”), among FedEx, as issuer, the subsidiary guarantors named therein (the “Guarantors”) and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A.), as trustee, relating to FedEx’s outstanding 4.900% Notes due 2034, 3.900% Notes due 2035, 3.875% Notes due 2042, 4.100% Notes due 2043, 5.100% Notes due 2044, 4.100% Notes due 2045 and 4.500% Notes due 2065; and

 

   

Supplemental Indenture No. 14, dated as of February 26, 2025 (together with Supplemental Indenture No. 7, the “Existing Notes Supplemental Indentures”), to the indenture, dated October 23, 2015 (as amended and supplemented, the “2015 Base Indenture” and, together with the 2006 Base Indenture, the “Existing Indentures”), among FedEx, as issuer, the Guarantors and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as trustee (the “2015 Indenture Trustee”), relating to FedEx’s outstanding 3.400% Notes due 2028, 4.200% Notes due 2028, 0.450% Notes due 2029, 3.100% Notes due 2029, 4.250% Notes due 2030, 2.400% Notes due 2031, 0.950% Notes due 2033, 3.250% Notes due 2041, 4.750% Notes due 2045, 4.550% Notes due 2046, 4.400% Notes due 2047, 4.050% Notes due 2048, 4.950% Notes due 2048 and 5.250% Notes due 2050.

The requisite consents were not received to adopt the Proposed Amendments with respect to FedEx’s 1.300% Notes due 2031 and the Proposed Amendments will not be made to the applicable Existing Indenture with respect to such series of Existing Notes. The foregoing summary of the Existing Notes Supplemental Indentures does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Existing Notes Supplemental Indentures attached hereto as Exhibits 4.1 and 4.3, respectively, the terms of which are in each case incorporated herein by reference.

In connection with the settlement of the Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations, on February 26, 2025, FedEx issued the following Notes in exchange for Existing Notes of the corresponding series tendered and accepted by FedEx:

 

  (a)

$340,494,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.400% Notes due 2028 (the “3.400% 2028 Notes”);

 

  (b)

$237,285,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.200% Notes due 2028 (the “4.200% 2028 Notes”);

 

  (c)

$628,053,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.100% Notes due 2029 (the “3.100% 2029 Notes”);

 

  (d)

$406,103,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.250% Notes due 2030 (the “4.250% 2030 Notes”);

 

  (e)

$642,185,000 aggregate principal amount of 2.400% Notes due 2031 (the “2.400% 2031 Notes”);

 

  (f)

$351,518,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.900% Notes due 2034 (the “4.900% 2034 Notes”);

 

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  (g)

$391,912,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.900% Notes due 2035; (the “3.900% 2035 Notes”)

 

  (h)

$619,635,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.250% Notes due 2041 (the “3.250% 2041 Notes”);

 

  (i)

$444,611,000 aggregate principal amount of 3.875% Notes due 2042 (the “3.875% 2042 Notes”);

 

  (j)

$391,769,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.100% Notes due 2043 (the “4.100% 2043 Notes”);

 

  (k)

$541,689,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.100% Notes due 2044 (the “5.100% 2044 Notes”);

 

  (l)

$503,830,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.100% Notes due 2045 (the “4.100% 2045 Notes”);

 

  (m)

$913,438,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.750% Notes due 2045 (the “4.750% 2045 Notes”);

 

  (n)

$1,007,069,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.550% Notes due 2046 (the “4.550% 2046 Notes”);

 

  (o)

$604,653,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.400% Notes due 2047 (the “4.400% 2047 Notes”);

 

  (p)

$743,435,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.050% Notes due 2048 (the “4.050% 2048 Notes”);

 

  (q)

$696,469,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.950% Notes due 2048 (the “4.950% 2048 Notes”);

 

  (r)

$1,047,658,000 aggregate principal amount of 5.250% Notes due 2050 (the “5.250% 2050 Notes”);

 

  (s)

$213,040,000 aggregate principal amount of 4.500% Notes due 2065 (the “4.500% 2065 Notes” and, together with the 3.400% 2028 Notes, 4.200% 2028 Notes, 3.100% 2029 Notes, 4.250% 2030 Notes, 2.400% 2031 Notes, 4.900% 2034 Notes, 3.900% 2035 Notes, 3.250% 2041 Notes, 3.875% 2042 Notes, 4.100% 2043 Notes, 5.100% 2044 Notes, 4.100% 2045 Notes, 4.750% 2045 Notes, 4.550% 2046 Notes, 4.400% 2047 Notes, 4.050% 2048 Notes, 4.950% 2048 Notes and the 5.250% 2050 Notes, the “USD Notes”);

 

  (t)

€391,747,000 aggregate principal amount of 0.450% Notes due 2029 (the “0.450% 2029 Notes”);

 

  (u)

€145,122,000 aggregate principal amount of 1.300% Notes due 2031 (the “1.300% 2031 Notes”); and

 

  (v)

€402,828,000 aggregate principal amount of 0.950% Notes due 2033 (the “0.950% 2033 Notes” and, together with the 0.450% 2029 Notes and the 1.300% 2031 Notes, the “Euro Notes”).

The USD Notes and Euro Notes are referred to collectively in this Current Report on Form 8-K as the “Notes.”

The Notes are governed by the 2015 Base Indenture, as supplemented by (i) Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated February 26, 2025 (the “USD Supplemental Indenture”), among FedEx, the Guarantors and the 2015 Indenture Trustee, with respect to the USD Notes, and (ii) Supplemental Indenture No. 16, dated February 26, 2025 (the “Euro Supplemental Indenture”), among FedEx, the Guarantors, the 2015 Indenture Trustee and U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch, as paying agent, with respect to the Euro Notes. The Notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantors, each of which also guarantees the corresponding series of Existing Notes. The guarantee of FedEx Freight, Inc. will be released at the time it ceases to be a subsidiary of FedEx in connection with the Separation.

The Notes and the related guarantees are FedEx’s and the Guarantors’ general, unsecured senior obligations, and rank equally in right of payment with all of FedEx’s and the Guarantors’ existing and future unsubordinated indebtedness, liabilities and other obligations.

The interest rate and maturity date for each series of Notes is as follows:

 

  (a)

The 3.400% 2028 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 3.400% per annum and will mature on February 15, 2028;

 

  (b)

The 4.200% 2028 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.200% per annum and will mature on October 17, 2028;

 

  (c)

The 3.100% 2029 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 3.100% per annum and will mature on August 5, 2029;

 

  (d)

The 4.250% 2030 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.250% per annum and will mature on May 15, 2030;

 

  (e)

The 2.400% 2031 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 2.400% per annum and will mature on May 15, 2031;

 

  (f)

The 4.900% 2034 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.900% per annum and will mature on January 15, 2034;

 

  (g)

The 3.900% 2035 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 3.900% per annum and will mature on February 1, 2035;

 

  (h)

The 3.250% 2041 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 3.250% per annum and will mature on May 15, 2041;

 

  (i)

The 3.875% 2042 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 3.875% per annum and will mature on August 1, 2042;

 

  (j)

The 4.100% 2043 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.100% per annum and will mature on April 15, 2043;

 

  (k)

The 5.100% 2044 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 5.100% per annum and will mature on January 15, 2044;

 

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  (l)

The 4.100% 2045 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.100% per annum and will mature on February 1, 2045;

 

  (m)

The 4.750% 2045 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.750% per annum and will mature on November 15, 2045;

 

  (n)

The 4.550% 2046 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.550% per annum and will mature on April 1, 2046;

 

  (o)

The 4.400% 2047 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.400% per annum and will mature on January 15, 2047;

 

  (p)

The 4.050% 2048 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.050% per annum and will mature on February 15, 2048;

 

  (q)

The 4.950% 2048 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.950% per annum and will mature on October 17, 2048;

 

  (r)

The 5.250% 2050 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 5.250% per annum and will mature on May 15, 2050;

 

  (s)

The 4.500% 2065 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 4.500% per annum and will mature on February 1, 2065;

 

  (t)

The 0.450% 2029 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 0.450% per annum and will mature on May 4, 2029;

 

  (u)

The 1.300% 2031 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 1.300% per annum and will mature on August 5, 2031; and

 

  (v)

The 0.950% 2033 Notes will bear interest at a rate of 0.950% per annum and will mature on May 4, 2033.

Each series of Notes will have the same interest rate, interest payment dates, maturity date and optional redemption provisions as the corresponding series of Existing Notes; provided that (a) the methodology for calculating any make-whole redemption price for the USD Notes will reflect the SIFMA model provisions and (b) FedEx will be permitted to deliver notices of redemption that are subject to one or more conditions precedent with respect to the Notes. The Notes of each series will accrue interest from (and including) the most recent date on which interest has been paid on the corresponding series of Existing Notes accepted in the Exchange Offers.

The foregoing summary of the Notes does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of: (i) the 2015 Base Indenture attached as Exhibit 4.2 hereto; (ii) the USD Supplemental Indenture attached as Exhibit 4.4 hereto; (iii) the Euro Supplemental Indenture attached as Exhibit 4.24 hereto; (iv) the forms of the USD Notes attached as Exhibits 4.5 through 4.23, respectively; and (v) the forms of the Euro Notes attached as Exhibits 4.25, 4.26 and 4.27, respectively, the terms of which are in each case incorporated herein by reference.

Registration Rights Agreement

On February 26, 2025, in connection with the completion of the Exchange Offers, FedEx, the Guarantors and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as dealer manager, entered into a registration rights agreement with respect to the Notes (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). FedEx agreed under the Registration Rights Agreement to, among other things, use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) file a registration statement on an appropriate registration form with respect to a registered offer to exchange the Notes for new notes, with terms substantially identical in all material respects to the Notes and (ii) cause such registration statement to become effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. FedEx shall be obligated to pay additional interest on the Notes if it does not complete the exchange offer on or prior to the 365th day after the issuance of the Notes, or if the shelf registration statement with respect to the Notes (if required to be filed) is not declared effective by the later of (i) 180 days after the 365th day after the issuance of the Notes or (ii) 180 days after the receipt of the relevant request for filing of a shelf registration statement from the dealer manager pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement.

The foregoing summary of the Registration Rights Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Registration Rights Agreement attached as Exhibit 4.28 hereto, the terms of which are incorporated herein by reference.

On February 24, 2025, FedEx issued a press release announcing the final results of the Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations. A copy of the press release issued by FedEx is attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.

 

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Item 9.01.

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Exhibit

4.1    Supplemental Indenture No. 7, dated as of February 26, 2025, among FedEx Corporation, as issuer, the subsidiary guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee.
4.2    Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among FedEx Corporation, as issuer, the subsidiary guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to FedEx’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated and filed October 23, 2015, and incorporated herein by reference).
4.3    Supplemental Indenture No. 14, dated as of February 26, 2025, among FedEx Corporation, as issuer, the subsidiary guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee.
4.4    Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated February 26, 2025, among FedEx Corporation, as issuer, the subsidiary guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee.
4.5    Form of 3.400% Notes due 2028 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.6    Form of 4.200% Notes due 2028 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.7    Form of 3.100% Notes due 2029 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.8    Form of 4.250% Notes due 2030 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.9    Form of 2.400% Notes due 2031 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.10    Form of 4.900% Notes due 2034 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.11    Form of 3.900% Notes due 2035 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.12    Form of 3.250% Notes due 2041 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.13    Form of 3.875% Notes due 2042 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.14    Form of 4.100% Notes due 2043 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.15    Form of 5.100% Notes due 2044 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.16    Form of 4.100% Notes due 2045 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.17    Form of 4.750% Notes due 2045 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.18    Form of 4.550% Notes due 2046 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.19    Form of 4.400% Notes due 2047 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.20    Form of 4.050% Notes due 2048 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.21    Form of 4.950% Notes due 2048 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.22    Form of 5.250% Notes due 2050 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.23    Form of 4.500% Notes due 2065 (included in Exhibit 4.4 of this Current Report on Form 8-K).
4.24    Supplemental Indenture No. 16, dated February 26, 2025, among FedEx Corporation, as issuer, the subsidiary guarantors named therein, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee, and U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch, as paying agent.
4.25    Form of 0.450% Notes due 2029 (included in Exhibit 4.24 of this Current Report on Form 8-K)
4.26    Form of 1.300% Notes due 2031 (included in Exhibit 4.24 of this Current Report on Form 8-K)
4.27    Form of 0.950% Notes due 2033 (included in Exhibit 4.24 of this Current Report on Form 8-K)
4.28    Registration Rights Agreement, dated February 26, 2025, among FedEx Corporation, the subsidiary guarantors named therein and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC.
4.29    Succession Agreement, dated as of December 13, 2021, among FedEx Corporation, the subsidiary guarantors named therein, Computershare Trust Company, N.A., as agent for Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, and U.S. Bank National Association (filed as Exhibit 4.2 to FedEx’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 13, 2021 and filed December 16, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference).
99.1    Press Release of FedEx Corporation, dated February 24, 2025.
104    Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

    FEDEX CORPORATION
Date: February 26, 2025     By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

            Trampas T. Gunter
            Corporate Vice President, Corporate Development and
Treasurer

 

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Exhibit 4.1

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 7

Dated as of February 26, 2025

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 7, dated as of February 26, 2025, among FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Federal Express Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Federal Express Europe, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Federal Express Holdings S.A., LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Federal Express International, Inc., a Delaware corporation, FedEx Freight, Inc., an Arkansas corporation, and FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc., a Texas corporation (collectively, the “Guarantors”), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association) (as successor trustee to The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the “Predecessor Trustee”)), as trustee (the “Trustee”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of August 8, 2006 (as amended or supplemented to date, the “Indenture”), to provide for the issuance by the Company from time to time, and the guarantee by the Guarantors, of the Company’s senior unsecured debt securities;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 1, dated as of August 8, 2006;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 2, dated as of January 16, 2009;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 3, dated as of July 27, 2012;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 4, dated as of April 11, 2013;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 5, dated as of January 9, 2014;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 6, dated as of January 9, 2015;

WHEREAS, there are currently Outstanding under the Indenture the series of Securities designated as the 4.900% Notes due 2034, the 3.900% Notes due 2035, the 3.875% Notes due 2042, the 4.100% Notes due 2043, the 5.100% Notes due 2044, the 4.100% Notes due 2045 and the 4.500% Notes due 2065 (collectively, the “Amended Series”);

WHEREAS, Section 9.02 of the Indenture permits the execution of supplemental indentures with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture (voting as a single class) (the “Required Consents”) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under the Indenture;

WHEREAS, in connection with the proposed Separation (as defined herein), the Company offered to exchange any and all outstanding notes of the Amended Series for notes issued by the Company pursuant to an Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated as of January 7, 2025 (as amended, the “Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement”);


WHEREAS, pursuant to the Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, the Company solicited consents (the “Consent Solicitations”) from the Holders of the notes of the Amended Series to certain amendments to the Indenture (the “Amendments”);

WHEREAS, the Company has obtained the Required Consents to the Amendments for each of the Amended Series pursuant to the applicable Consent Solicitations, and the Company has filed with the Trustee evidence satisfactory to the Trustee of such consents; and

WHEREAS, the entry into this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 by the parties hereto is authorized by the provisions of the Indenture.

NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree, for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of each series of the Notes as follows:

ARTICLE 1

RELATION TO THE INDENTURE; DEFINITIONS AND

OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 1.01. Relation to the Indenture. This Supplemental Indenture No. 7 constitutes an integral part of the Indenture.

Section 1.02. Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 unless otherwise specified herein:

(a) all terms defined in this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 which are used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings they are given in the Indenture; and

(b) the provisions of general application stated in Section 1.01 of the Indenture shall apply to this Supplemental Indenture No. 7, except that the words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereto” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 as a whole and not to the Indenture or any particular Article, Section or other subdivision of the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture No. 7.

ARTICLE 2

AMENDMENTS TO THE INDENTURE

Section 2.01. Amendment to Section 1.01 of the Indenture. Solely with respect to the Amended Series, Section 1.01 of the Indenture is hereby amended by adding the following defined term to Section 1.01 in appropriate alphabetical sequence, as follows:

Separation” means any sale, exchange, transfer, distribution, or other disposition of assets and/or Capital Stock of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company resulting in the separation of the Company’s FedEx Freight business through the capital markets to create a new publicly traded company.

Section 2.02. Amendment to Section 12.04(a) of the Indenture. Solely with respect to the Amended Series, Section 12.04(a) of the Indenture is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

 

  (a)

Subject to the provisions of Section 10.07, (i) upon the sale, exchange, transfer or other disposition (by merger or otherwise), other than a lease, of a Guarantor, or of all of the Capital Stock of a Guarantor, or all, or substantially all, the assets of a Guarantor, to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company, such Guarantor shall be deemed to be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all its obligations under its Guarantee and under this Article 12 without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder and (ii) in connection with the

 

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  Separation, at the time that FedEx Freight, Inc. ceases to be a Subsidiary of the Company, FedEx Freight, Inc. shall be deemed to be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all its obligations under its Guarantee and under this Article 12 without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder. The Trustee shall, without any further action required on the part of any Holder, deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing such release and discharge upon receipt of a Company Request accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate certifying as to compliance with this Section 12.04(a).

ARTICLE 3

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 3.01. Supplemental Indenture. The Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture No. 7, is in all respects hereby adopted, ratified and confirmed.

Section 3.02. Effectiveness. This Supplemental Indenture No. 7 shall take effect as of the date hereof.

Section 3.03. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

Section 3.04. Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions herein shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 3.05. Governing Law. This Supplemental Indenture No. 7 shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

Section 3.06. Execution by the Trustee. The Trustee has executed this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 only upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Trustee shall not be responsible for the correctness of the recitals contained herein, which shall be taken as statements of the Company and the Guarantors, and the Trustee makes no representation and shall have no responsibility for, or in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 or the execution hereof by any Person (other than the Trustee).

Section 3.07. Counterparts. This Supplemental Indenture No. 7 may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Facsimile, PDF copies or other electronic transmission of signatures shall constitute original signatures for all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 and any enforcement hereof. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 or any document to be signed in connection with this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures (as defined herein), deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means. “Electronic Signatures” means any electronic symbol or process attached to, or associated with, any contract or other record and adopted by a person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture No. 7 to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

     

FedEx Corporation,

  as Issuer

Attest:      
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Corporate Vice President, Corporate Development and Treasurer
     

Federal Express Corporation,

  as Guarantor

Attest:      
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

Federal Express Europe, Inc.,

  as Guarantor

Attest:      
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

Federal Express Holdings S.A., LLC

  as Guarantor

Attest:      
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

Federal Express International, Inc.,

  as Guarantor

Attest:      
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

FedEx Freight, Inc.,

  as Guarantor

Attest:      
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer

 

 

[Signature Page – Supplemental Indenture No. 7]


     

FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc.,

  as Guarantor

Attest:      
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association,

  as Trustee

      By:  

/s/ Ivy L. Wegener

      Name:   Ivy L. Wegener
      Title:   Vice President

 

 

[Signature Page – Supplemental Indenture No. 7]

Exhibit 4.3

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 14

Dated as of February 26, 2025

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 14, dated as of February 26, 2025, among FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Federal Express Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Federal Express Europe, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Federal Express Holdings S.A., LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Federal Express International, Inc., a Delaware corporation, FedEx Freight, Inc., an Arkansas corporation, and FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc., a Texas corporation (collectively, the “Guarantors”), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association ((as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association) (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (the “Predecessor Trustee”)), as trustee (the “Trustee”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (as amended or supplemented to date, the “Indenture”), to provide for the issuance by the Company from time to time, and the guarantee by the Guarantors, of the Company’s senior unsecured debt securities;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 1, dated as of October 23, 2015;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 2, dated as of March 24, 2016;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 3, dated as of April 11, 2016;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 4, dated as of January 6, 2017;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 5, dated as of January 31, 2018;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 6, dated as of October 17, 2018;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 7, dated as of January 16, 2019;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of January 18, 2019;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 9, dated as of July 24, 2019;


WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 10, dated as of August 5, 2019;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 11, dated as of April 7, 2020;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 12, dated as of April 29, 2021;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 13, dated as of May 4, 2021;

WHEREAS, there are currently Outstanding under the Indenture the series of Securities designated as the 3.400% Notes due 2028, the 4.200% Notes due 2028, the 3.100% Notes due 2029, the 4.250% Notes due 2030, the 2.400% Notes due 2031, the 3.250% Notes due 2041, the 4.750% Notes due 2045, the 4.550% Notes due 2046, the 4.400% Notes due 2047, the 4.050% Notes due 2048, the 4.950% Notes due 2048, the 5.250% Notes due 2050, the 0.450% Notes due 2029 and the 0.950% Notes due 2033 (collectively, the “Amended Series”);

WHEREAS, Section 9.02 of the Indenture permits the execution of supplemental indentures with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture (voting as a single class) (the “Required Consents”) for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under the Indenture;

WHEREAS, in connection with the proposed Separation (as defined herein), the Company offered to exchange any and all outstanding notes of the Amended Series for notes issued by the Company pursuant to an Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated as of January 7, 2025 (as amended, the “Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement”);

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, the Company solicited consents (the “Consent Solicitations”) from the Holders of the notes of the Amended Series to certain amendments to the Indenture (the “Amendments”);

WHEREAS, the Company has obtained the Required Consents to the Amendments for each of the Amended Series pursuant to the applicable Consent Solicitations, and the Company has filed with the Trustee evidence satisfactory to the Trustee of such consents; and

WHEREAS, the entry into this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 by the parties hereto is authorized by the provisions of the Indenture.

 

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NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree, for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of each series of the Notes as follows:

ARTICLE 1

RELATION TO THE INDENTURE; DEFINITIONS AND

OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 1.01. Relation to the Indenture. This Supplemental Indenture No. 14 constitutes an integral part of the Indenture.

Section 1.02. Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 unless otherwise specified herein:

(a) all terms defined in this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 which are used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings they are given in the Indenture; and

(b) the provisions of general application stated in Section 1.01 of the Indenture shall apply to this Supplemental Indenture No. 14, except that the words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereto” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 as a whole and not to the Indenture or any particular Article, Section or other subdivision of the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture No. 14.

ARTICLE 2

AMENDMENTS TO THE INDENTURE

Section 2.01. Amendment to Section 1.01 of the Indenture. Solely with respect to the Amended Series, Section 1.01 of the Indenture is hereby amended by adding the following defined term to Section 1.01 in appropriate alphabetical sequence, as follows:

Separation” means any sale, exchange, transfer, distribution, or other disposition of assets and/or Capital Stock of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company resulting in the separation of the Company’s FedEx Freight business through the capital markets to create a new publicly traded company.

Section 2.02. Amendment to Section 12.04 of the Indenture. Solely with respect to the Amended Series, Section 12.04 of the Indenture is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

SECTION 12.04. Release of a Guarantor. Subject to the provisions of Section 10.07, (i) upon the sale, exchange, transfer or other disposition (by merger or otherwise), other than a lease, of a Guarantor, or of all of the Capital Stock of a Guarantor, or all, or substantially all, the assets of a Guarantor, to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company, such Guarantor shall be deemed to be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all its obligations under its Guarantee and under this Article 12 without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder and (ii) in connection with the Separation, at the time that FedEx Freight, Inc. ceases to be a Subsidiary of the Company, FedEx Freight, Inc. shall be deemed to be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all its obligations under its Guarantee and under this Article 12 without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder. The Trustee shall, without any further action required on the part of any Holder, deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing such release and discharge upon receipt of a Company Request accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate certifying as to compliance with this Section 12.04.

 

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ARTICLE 3

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 3.01. Supplemental Indenture. The Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture No. 14, is in all respects hereby adopted, ratified and confirmed.

Section 3.02. Effectiveness. This Supplemental Indenture No. 14 shall take effect as of the date hereof.

Section 3.03. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

Section 3.04. Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions herein shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 3.05. Governing Law. This Supplemental Indenture No. 14 shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

Section 3.06. Execution by the Trustee. The Trustee has executed this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 only upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Trustee shall not be responsible for the correctness of the recitals contained herein, which shall be taken as statements of the Company and the Guarantors, and the Trustee makes no representation and shall have no responsibility for, or in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 or the execution hereof by any Person (other than the Trustee).

Section 3.07. Counterparts. This Supplemental Indenture No. 14 may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Facsimile, PDF copies or other electronic transmission of signatures shall constitute original signatures for all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 and any enforcement hereof. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 or any document to be signed in connection with this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures (as defined herein), deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means. “Electronic Signatures” means any electronic symbol or process attached to, or associated with, any contract or other record and adopted by a person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture No. 14 to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

     

FedEx Corporation,

  as Issuer

Attest:        
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:  

Corporate Vice President, Corporate

Development and Treasurer

     

Federal Express Corporation,

  as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

Federal Express Europe, Inc.,

  as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

Federal Express Holdings S.A., LLC

  as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

Federal Express International, Inc.,

  as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

FedEx Freight, Inc.,

  as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer

 

[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture No. 14]


     

FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc.,

  as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:  

/s/ Alana L. Griffin

    By:  

/s/ Trampas T. Gunter

Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
       
     

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association,

  as Trustee

      By:  

/s/ Ivy L. Wegener

      Name:   Ivy L. Wegener
      Title:   Vice President
     

U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch,

  as Paying Agent

      By:  

/s/ Shobita Choudhury

      Name:   Shobita Choudhury
      Title:   Authorised Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture No. 14]

Exhibit 4.4

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 15

Dated as of February 26, 2025

3.400% Notes due 2028

4.200% Notes due 2028

3.100% Notes due 2029

4.250% Notes due 2030

2.400% Notes due 2031

4.900% Notes due 2034

3.900% Notes due 2035

3.250% Notes due 2041

3.875% Notes due 2042

4.100% Notes due 2043

5.100% Notes due 2044

4.100% Notes due 2045

4.750% Notes due 2045

4.550% Notes due 2046

4.400% Notes due 2047

4.050% Notes due 2048

4.950% Notes due 2048

5.250% Notes due 2050

4.500% Notes due 2065

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025, among FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Federal Express Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Federal Express Europe, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Federal Express Holdings S.A., LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Federal Express International, Inc., a Delaware corporation, FedEx Freight, Inc., an Arkansas corporation, and FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc., a Texas corporation (collectively, the “Guarantors”), and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association ((as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association) (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (the “Predecessor Trustee”)), as trustee (the “Trustee”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (as amended or supplemented to date, the “Indenture”), to provide for the issuance by the Company from time to time, and the guarantee by the Guarantors, of the Company’s senior unsecured debt securities;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 1, dated as of October 23, 2015;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 2, dated as of March 24, 2016;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 3, dated as of April 11, 2016;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 4, dated as of January 6, 2017;


WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 5, dated as of January 31, 2018;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 6, dated as of October 17, 2018;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 7, dated as of January 16, 2019;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of January 18, 2019;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 9, dated as of July 24, 2019;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 10, dated as of August 5, 2019;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 11, dated as of April 7, 2020;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 12, dated as of April 29, 2021;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 13, dated as of May 4, 2021;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 14, dated as of February 26, 2025;

WHEREAS, in connection with the proposed Separation (as defined herein), the Company offered to exchange (the “Exchange Offers”) any and all outstanding notes of certain series issued by the Company (the “Existing Notes”) for notes issued by the Company pursuant to an Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated as of January 7, 2025 (as amended, the “Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement”);

WHEREAS, Section 9.01(b) of the Indenture permits execution of supplemental indentures without the consent of any Holders for the purpose of adding to the covenants of the Company or any Guarantor for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities so long as such supplemental indenture states that such covenant is expressly being included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities;

WHEREAS, Section 9.01(d) of the Indenture permits execution of supplemental indentures without the consent of any Holders for the purpose of changing any of the provisions of the Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities; provided, however, that if such change shall adversely affect in any material respect the interests of Holders of Securities of any series, such change shall become effective with respect to such series only when no such Security of such series remains Outstanding;

WHEREAS, Section 9.01(j) of the Indenture permits execution of supplemental indentures without the consent of any Holders for the purpose of establishing the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01 of the Indenture;

WHEREAS, the entry into this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 by the parties hereto is authorized by the provisions of the Indenture; and

 

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WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and under the Indenture, duly issued by the Company and to make this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantors, in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, have been done.

NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree, for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of each series of the Notes as follows:

ARTICLE 1

RELATION TO THE INDENTURE; DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 1.01. Relation to the Indenture. This Supplemental Indenture No. 15 constitutes an integral part of the Indenture.

Section 1.02. Definitions. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15, the following terms shall have the respective meanings set forth in this Section.

2028 3.400% Notes” means the 3.400% Notes due 2028.

2028 4.200% Notes” means the 4.200% Notes due 2028.

2029 3.100% Notes” means the 3.100% Notes due 2029.

2030 4.250% Notes” means the 4.250% Notes due 2030.

2031 2.400% Notes” means the 2.400% Notes due 2031.

2034 4.900% Notes” means the 4.900% Notes due 2034.

2035 3.900% Notes” means the 3.900% Notes due 2035.

2041 3.250% Notes” means the 3.250% Notes due 2041.

2042 3.875% Notes” means the 3.875% Notes due 2042.

2043 4.100% Notes” means the 4.100% Notes due 2043.

2044 5.100% Notes” means the 5.100% Notes due 2044.

2045 4.100% Notes” means the 4.100% Notes due 2045.

2045 4.750% Notes” means the 4.750% Notes due 2045.

2046 4.550% Notes” means the 4.550% Notes due 2046.

2047 4.400% Notes” means the 4.400% Notes due 2047.

2048 4.050% Notes” means the 4.050% Notes due 2048.

2048 4.950% Notes” means the 4.950% Notes due 2048.

2050 5.250% Notes” means the 5.250% Notes due 2050.

2065 4.500% Notes” means the 4.500% Notes due 2065.

 

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Additional Interest,” with respect to any series of Notes, means additional interest then owing with respect to such series of Notes pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Regulation S Global Note or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for such Global Note, Euroclear and Clearstream, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking S.A.

Dealer Manager” means Goldman Sachs & Co, Inc.

Definitive Note” means a certificated Note that does not include the Global Notes Legend.

Depositary” means collectively The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors.

Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank SA/NV, as operator of the Euroclear System.

Exchange Notes” has the meaning specified in the Registration Rights Agreement.

Global Notes Legend” means the legend set forth in Exhibits A-1 through A-19 to this Supplemental Indenture No. 15.

Initial Notes” means the Notes issued pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 on the date hereof.

Non-Par Call Notes” means, collectively, the 2034 4.900% Notes, 2035 3.900% Notes, 2042 3.875% Notes, 2043 4.100% Notes, 2044 5.100% Notes, 2045 4.100% Notes and the 2065 4.500% Notes.

Notes” means, collectively, the 2028 3.400% Notes, the 2028 4.200% Notes, the 2029 3.100% Notes, the 2030 4.250% Notes, the 2031 2.400% Notes, the 2034 4.900% Notes, the 2035 3.900% Notes, the 2041 3.250% Notes, the 2042 3.875% Notes, the 2043 4.100% Notes, the 2044 5.100% Notes, the 2045 4.100% Notes, the 2045 4.750% Notes, the 2046 4.550% Notes, the 2047 4.400% Notes, the 2048 4.050% Notes, the 2048 4.950% Notes, the 2050 5.250% Notes and the 2065 4.500% Notes.

Par Call Notes” means, collectively, the 2028 3.400% Notes, the 2028 4.200% Notes, the 2029 3.100% Notes, the 2030 4.250% Notes, the 2031 2.400% Notes, the 2041 3.250% Notes, the 2045 4.750% Notes, the 2046 4.550% Notes, the 2047 4.400% Notes, the 2048 4.050% Notes, the 2048 4.950% Notes and the 2050 5.250% Notes.

Participant” means members of, or participants in, the Depositary.

QIB” means qualified institutional buyer as specified in Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

Registered Exchange Offer” means the offer by the Company, pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, to certain Holders of Initial Notes, to issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for their Initial Notes, a like aggregate principal amount of Exchange Notes in an exchange registered under the Securities Act.

Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2025, by and among the Company, the Guarantors and the Dealer Manager.

Regulation S” means Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act.

Regulation S Notes” means all Notes offered and issued pursuant to the Exchange Offers to holders of the Existing Notes in an offshore transaction in reliance on Regulation S.

 

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Restricted Notes Legend” means the legend set forth in the first paragraph of Section 2.09(e)(i) hereof.

Restricted Period” means, with respect to any Notes, the period that is 40 consecutive days beginning on and including the later of (i) the day on which such Notes are first offered to Persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) in reliance on Regulation S and (ii) the date of original issuance with respect to such Notes.

Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act.

“Rule 144A” means Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

Rule 144A Notes” means all Notes offered and issued pursuant to the Exchange Offers to holders of Existing Notes reasonably believed to be QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A.

Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Transfer Restricted Note” means any Note that bears or is required to bear a Restricted Notes Legend.

Section 1.03. Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 unless otherwise specified herein:

(a) all terms defined in this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 which are used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings they are given in the Indenture; and

(b) the provisions of general application stated in Section 1.01 of the Indenture shall apply to this Supplemental Indenture No. 15, except that the words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereto” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 as a whole and not to the Indenture or any particular Article, Section or other subdivision of the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture No. 15.

ARTICLE 2

THE SERIES OF NOTES

Section 2.01. Title. There shall be (i) a series of Securities designated the 3.400% Notes due 2028, (ii) a series of Securities designated the 4.200% Notes due 2028, (iii) a series of Securities designated the 3.100% Notes due 2029, (iv) a series of Securities designated the 4.250% Notes due 2030, (v) a series of Securities designated the 2.400% Notes due 2031, (vi) a series of Securities designated the 4.900% Notes due 2034, (vii) a series of Securities designated the 3.900% Notes due 2035, (viii) a series of Securities designated the 3.250% Notes due 2041, (ix) a series of Securities designated the 3.875% Notes due 2042, (x) a series of Securities designated the 4.100% Notes due 2043, (xi) a series of Securities designated the 5.100% Notes due 2044, (xii) a series of Securities designated the 4.100% Notes due 2045, (xiii) a series of Securities designated the 4.750% Notes due 2045, (xiv) a series of Securities designated the 4.550% Notes due 2046, (xv) a series of Securities designated the 4.400% Notes due 2047, (xvi) a series of Securities designated the 4.050% Notes due 2048, (xvii) a series of Securities designated the 4.950% Notes due 2048, (xviii) a series of Securities designated the 5.250% Notes due 2050 and (xix) a series of Securities designated the 4.500% Notes due 2065.

Section 2.02. Principal Amounts. Subject to Section 2.13, (i) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2028 3.400% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $340,494,000, (ii) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2028 4.200% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $237,285,000, (iii) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2029 3.100% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $628,053,000, (iv) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2030 4.250% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $406,103,000, (v) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2031 2.400% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $642,185,000, (vi) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2034 4.900% Notes

 

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that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $351,518,000, (vii) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2035 3.900% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $391,912,000, (viii) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2041 3.250% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $619,635,000, (ix) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2042 3.875% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $444,611,000, (x) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2043 4.100% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $391,769,000, (xi) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2044 5.100% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $541,689,000, (xii) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2045 4.100% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $503,830,000, (xiii) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2045 4.750% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $913,438,000, (xiv) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2046 4.550% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $1,007,069,000, (xv) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2047 4.400% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $604,653,000, (xvi) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2048 4.050% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $743,435,000, (xvii) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2048 4.950% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $696,469,000, (xviii) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2050 5.250% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $1,047,658,000 and (xix) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2065 4.500% Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall not exceed $213,040,000 (except for Notes of each series authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Section 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.07 of the Indenture and except for any Notes which pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Indenture are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder).

Section 2.03. Stated Maturity Dates. (i) The entire outstanding principal amount of the 2028 3.400% Notes shall be payable on February 15, 2028, (ii) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2028 4.200% Notes shall be payable on October 17, 2028, (iii) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2029 3.100% Notes shall be payable on August 5, 2029, (iv) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2030 4.250% Notes shall be payable on May 15, 2030, (v) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2031 2.400% Notes shall be payable on May 15, 2031, (vi) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2034 4.900% Notes shall be payable on January 15, 2034, (vii) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2035 3.900% Notes shall be payable on February 1, 2035, (viii) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2041 3.250% Notes shall be payable on May 15, 2041, (ix) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2042 3.875% Notes shall be payable on August 1, 2042, (x) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2043 4.100% Notes shall be payable on April 15, 2043, (xi) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2044 5.100% Notes shall be payable on January 15, 2044, (xii) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2045 4.100% Notes shall be payable on February 1, 2045, (xiii) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2045 4.750% Notes shall be payable on November 15, 2045, (xiv) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2046 4.550% Notes shall be payable on April 1, 2046, (xv) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2047 4.400% Notes shall be payable on January 15, 2047, (xvi) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2048 4.050% Notes shall be payable on February 15, 2048, (xvii) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2048 4.950% Notes shall be payable on October 17, 2048, (xviii) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2050 5.250% Notes shall be payable on May 15, 2050, and (xix) the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2065 4.500% Notes shall be payable on February 1, 2065, in each case subject to Section 2.06, Section 2.07 (solely with respect to the 4.500% Notes due 2065) and Section 3.02.

Section 2.04. Interest.

(a) 2028 3.400% Notes. The 2028 3.400% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 3.400% per annum. Interest on the 2028 3.400% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2028 3.400% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.400% Notes due 2028 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on February 15 and August 15, commencing August 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2028 3.400% Notes are registered on the preceding February 1 and August 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

 

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(b) 2028 4.200% Notes. The 2028 4.200% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.200% per annum. Interest on the 2028 4.200% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2028 4.200% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.200% Notes due 2028 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on April 17 and October 17, commencing April 17, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2028 4.200% Notes are registered on the preceding April 2 and October 2 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(c) 2029 3.100% Notes. The 2029 3.100% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 3.100% per annum. Interest on the 2029 3.100% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2029 3.100% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.100% Notes due 2029 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on February 5 and August 5, commencing August 5, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2029 3.100% Notes are registered on the preceding January 21 and July 21 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(d) 2030 4.250% Notes. The 2030 4.250% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.250% per annum. Interest on the 2030 4.250% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2030 4.250% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.250% Notes due 2030 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15, commencing May 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2030 4.250% Notes are registered on the preceding May 1 and November 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(e) 2031 2.400% Notes. The 2031 2.400% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 2.400% per annum. Interest on the 2031 2.400% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2031 2.400% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 2.400% Notes due 2031 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15, commencing May 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2031 2.400% Notes are registered on the preceding May 1 and November 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(f) 2034 4.900% Notes. The 2034 4.900% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.900% per annum. Interest on the 2034 4.900% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2034 4.900% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.900% Notes due 2034 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15, commencing July 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2034 4.900% Notes are registered on the preceding January 1 and July 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(g) 2035 3.900% Notes. The 2035 3.900% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 3.900% per annum. Interest on the 2035 3.900% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2035 3.900% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.900% Notes due 2035 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on February 1 and August 1, commencing August 1, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2035 3.900% Notes are registered on the preceding January 15 and July 15 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(h) 2041 3.250% Notes. The 2041 3.250% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 3.250% per annum. Interest on the 2041 3.250% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2041 3.250% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.250% Notes due 2041 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15, commencing May 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2041 3.250% Notes are registered on the preceding May 1 and November 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

 

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(i) 2042 3.875% Notes. The 2042 3.875% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 3.875% per annum. Interest on the 2042 3.875% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2042 3.875% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.875% Notes due 2042 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on February 1 and August 1, commencing August 1, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2042 3.875% Notes are registered on the preceding January 15 and July 15 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(j) 2043 4.100% Notes. The 2043 4.100% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.100% per annum. Interest on the 2043 4.100% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2043 4.100% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.100% Notes due 2043 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15, commencing April 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2043 4.100% Notes are registered on the preceding April 1 and October 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(k) 2044 5.100% Notes. The 2044 5.100% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 5.100% per annum. Interest on the 2044 5.100% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2044 5.100% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 5.100% Notes due 2044 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15, commencing July 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2044 5.100% Notes are registered on the preceding January 1 and July 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(l) 2045 4.100% Notes. The 2045 4.100% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.100% per annum. Interest on the 2045 4.100% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2045 4.100% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.100% Notes due 2045 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on February 1 and August 1, commencing August 1, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2045 4.100% Notes are registered on the preceding January 15 and July 15 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(m) 2045 4.750% Notes. The 2045 4.750% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.750% per annum. Interest on the 2045 4.750% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2045 4.750% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.750% Notes due 2045 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15, commencing May 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2045 4.750% Notes are registered on the preceding May 1 and November 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(n) 2046 4.550% Notes. The 2046 4.550% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.550% per annum. Interest on the 2046 4.550% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2046 4.550% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.550% Notes due 2046 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on April 1 and October 1, commencing April 1, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2046 4.550% Notes are registered on the preceding March 15 and September 15 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(o) 2047 4.400% Notes. The 2047 4.400% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.400% per annum. Interest on the 2047 4.400% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2047 4.400% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.400% Notes due 2047 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15, commencing July 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2047 4.400% Notes are registered on the preceding January 1 and July 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

 

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(p) 2048 4.050% Notes. The 2048 4.050% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.050% per annum. Interest on the 2048 4.050% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2048 4.050% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.050% Notes due 2048 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on February 15 and August 15, commencing August 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2048 4.050% Notes are registered on the preceding February 1 and August 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(q) 2048 4.950% Notes. The 2048 4.950% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.950% per annum. Interest on the 2048 4.950% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2048 4.950% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.950% Notes due 2048 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on April 17 and October 17, commencing April 17, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2048 4.950% Notes are registered on the preceding April 2 and October 2 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(r) 2050 5.250% Notes. The 2050 5.250% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 5.250% per annum. Interest on the 2050 5.250% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2050 5.250% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 5.250% Notes due 2050 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15, commencing May 15, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2050 5.250% Notes are registered on the preceding May 1 and November 1 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(s) 2065 4.500% Notes. The 2065 4.500% Notes will bear interest at the rate of 4.500% per annum. Interest on the 2065 4.500% Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest on the 2065 4.500% Notes will be payable from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.500% Notes due 2065 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, semi-annually in arrears on February 1 and August 1, commencing August 1, 2025, and ending on the date of maturity, to the Persons in whose names the 2065 4.500% Notes are registered on the preceding January 15 and July 15 (whether or not that date is a Business Day), respectively.

(t) Additional Interest. All references in this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 and the Notes of any series to any interest or other amount payable shall be deemed to include Additional Interest required to be paid with respect to the Notes of such series pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, if any.

Section 2.05. Defeasance and Discharge; Covenant Defeasance. The provisions of Section 13.02 and Section 13.03 of the Indenture shall apply to each series of the Notes.

Section 2.06. Optional Redemption.

(a) Optional Redemption of the Par Call Notes. Prior to the applicable Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem any series of the Par Call Notes at its option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(i) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the applicable Redemption Date (assuming the Par Call Notes to be redeemed matured on the applicable Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points in the case of the 2028 3.400% Notes, 20 basis points in the case of the 2028 4.200% Notes, 20 basis points in the case of the 2029 3.100% Notes, 50 basis points in the case of the 2030 4.250% Notes, 15 basis points in the case of the 2031 2.400% Notes, 20 basis points in the case of the 2041 3.250% Notes, 30 basis points in the case of the 2045 4.750% Notes, 30 basis points in the case of the 2046 4.550% Notes, 25 basis points in the case of the 2047 4.400% Notes, 20 basis points in the case of the 2048 4.050% Notes, 25 basis points in the case of the 2048 4.950% Notes and 50 basis points in the case of the 2050 5.250% Notes, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

 

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(ii) 100% of the principal amount of the Par Call Notes of that series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the applicable Par Call Date, the Company may redeem a series of Par Call Notes, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Par Call Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Par Call Date” means (i) with respect to the 2028 3.400% Notes, November 15, 2027 (three months prior to their maturity date), (ii) with respect to the 2028 4.200% Notes, July 17, 2028 (three months prior to their maturity date), (iii) with respect to the 2029 3.100% Notes, May 5, 2029 (three months prior to their maturity date), (iv) with respect to the 2030 4.250% Notes, February 15, 2030 (three months prior to their maturity date), (v) with respect to the 2031 2.400% Notes, February 15, 2031 (three months prior to their maturity date), (vi) with respect to the 2041 3.250% Notes, November 15, 2040 (six months prior to their maturity date), (vii) with respect to the 2045 4.750% Notes, May 15, 2045 (six months prior to their maturity date), (viii) with respect to the 2046 4.550% Notes, October 1, 2045 (six months prior to their maturity date), (ix) with respect to the 2047 4.400% Notes, July 15, 2046 (six months prior to their maturity date), (x) with respect to the 2048 4.050% Notes, August 15, 2047 (six months prior to their maturity date), (xi) with respect to the 2048 4.950% Notes, April 17, 2048 (six months prior to their maturity date), and (xii) with respect to the 2050 5.250% Notes, November 15, 2049 (six months prior to their maturity date).

For purposes of this Section 2.06(a), “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date for a series of Par Call Notes, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the applicable Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the applicable Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the applicable Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

If on the third Business Day preceding the applicable Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the applicable Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the applicable Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding such Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following such Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding such Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the applicable Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In

 

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determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days (or, in the case of the 2045 4.750% Notes, the 2046 4.550% Notes and the 2047 4.400% Notes, at least 30 days) but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Par Call Notes to be redeemed.

In the case of a partial redemption, selection of the Par Call Notes for redemption will be made pro rata, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion deems appropriate and fair. No Par Call Notes of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If any Par Call Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to such Par Call Note will state the portion of the principal amount of such Par Call Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Par Call Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Par Call Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Par Call Note. For so long as the Par Call Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Par Call Note shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Par Call Notes or portions of the Par Call Notes called for redemption.

(b) Optional Redemption of the Non-Par Call Notes. The Company may redeem each series of the Non-Par Call Notes, at its option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(i) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points in the case of the 2034 4.900% Notes, 20 basis points in the case of the 2035 3.900% Notes, 25 basis points in the case of the 2042 3.875% Notes, 20 basis points in the case of the 2043 4.100% Notes, 20 basis points in the case of the 2044 5.100% Notes, 25 basis points in the case of the 2045 4.100% Notes and 30 basis points in the case of the 2065 4.500% Notes less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(ii) 100% of the principal amount of the Non-Par Call Notes of that series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

For the purposes of this Section 2.0(b), “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date for a series of Non-Par Call Notes, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

 

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The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the applicable Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated H.15 under the caption H.15 TCM. In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life of the applicable series of Non-Par Call Notes; or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the maturity date of the applicable series of Non-Par Call Notes on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

If on the third Business Day preceding the applicable redemption date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the maturity date of the applicable series of the Non-Par Call Notes, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the maturity date of the applicable series of the Non-Par Call Notes but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the maturity date of the applicable series of Non-Par Call Notes, one with a maturity date preceding the maturity date of the applicable series of Non-Par Call Notes and one with a maturity date following the maturity date of the applicable series of Non-Par Call Notes, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the maturity date of the applicable series of Non-Par Call Notes. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the maturity date of the applicable series of Non-Par Call Notes or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Non-Par Call Notes to be redeemed.

In the case of a partial redemption, selection of the Non-Par Call Notes for redemption will be made pro rata, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion deems appropriate and fair. No Non-Par Call Notes of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If any Non-Par Call Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to such Non-Par Call Note will state the portion of the principal amount of such Non-Par Call Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Non-Par Call Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Non-Par Call Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Non-Par Call Note. For so long as the Non-Par Call Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Non-Par Call Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

 

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Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Non-Par Call Notes or portions of the Non-Par Call Notes called for redemption.

Section 2.07. Tax Event Redemption of the 2065 4.500% Notes. If a “tax event” (as defined herein) occurs, the Company may redeem the 2065 4.500% Notes, at the Company’s option, in whole, but not in part, at any time upon a notice of redemption delivered within 90 days following the occurrence of such tax event, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the 2065 4.500% Notes being redeemed, plus interest accrued to, but excluding, the date of redemption on the principal balance of the 2065 4.500% Notes being redeemed.

Tax event” means that the Company shall have received an opinion of nationally recognized independent tax counsel to the effect that, as a result of:

 

  (a)

any amendment to or change (including any announced prospective amendment or change) in any law or treaty, or any regulation thereunder, of the United States or any of its political subdivisions or taxing authorities;

 

  (b)

any judicial decision, administrative action, official administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory procedure, regulation, notice or announcement, including any notice or announcement of intent to adopt or promulgate any ruling, regulatory procedure or regulation (any of the foregoing, an “administrative or judicial action”);

 

  (c)

any amendment to or change in any official position with respect to, or any interpretation of, an administrative or judicial action or a law or regulation of the United States that differs from the previously generally accepted position or interpretation; or

 

  (d)

a threatened challenge asserted in writing in connection with the Company’s audit or an audit of any of the Company’s Subsidiaries, or a publicly-known threatened challenge asserted in writing against any other taxpayer that has raised capital through the issuance of securities that are substantially similar to the 2065 4.500% Notes,

in each case, occurring or becoming publicly-known on or after the original issue date of the 2065 Notes, there is more than an insubstantial increase in the risk that interest paid by the Company on the 2065 Notes is not, or will not be, deductible, in whole or in part, by the Company for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Holders of the 2065 4.500% Notes to be redeemed will receive written notice mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary) at least 30 days, but no more than 60 days, before the date of redemption. Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the 2065 4.500% Notes called for redemption.

Section 2.08. Form and Dating.

(a) General. The Notes and the Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication shall be substantially in the forms set forth in the corresponding Exhibits A1 – A19 attached hereto (other than, (i) with respect to any additional Notes of any series of the Notes, changes related to issue date, issue price and first Interest Payment Date of such additional Notes, and (ii) with respect to any Exchange Notes of any series of the Notes, changes related to legends, transfer restrictions, CUSIP/ISIN numbers and other changes customary for registered notes). The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall be in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. The Notes of each series and any additional Notes of such series subsequently issued under the Indenture, together with any Exchange Notes issued with respect to the Notes of such series in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement, will be treated as a single series or class for all purposes under the Indenture, including, without limitation, waivers, amendments and redemptions; provided that, if any such additional Notes are not fungible with then-outstanding Notes of that series for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such additional Notes will have a separate CUSIP number and ISIN number.

 

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(i) The Notes shall initially be issued only (A) to persons reasonably believed to be QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) outside the United States, to persons other than “U.S. persons” as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act, in compliance with Regulation S. Notes may thereafter be transferred to, among others, purchasers reasonably believed to be QIBs, and purchasers in reliance on Regulation S, subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth herein. Notes initially issued pursuant to Rule 144A shall be issued in the form of one or more permanent global securities in fully registered form (collectively, the “Rule 144A Global Note”) and Notes initially issued pursuant to Regulation S shall be issued in the form of one or more permanent global securities in fully registered form (collectively, the “Regulation S Global Note”), in each case without interest coupons and with the Global Notes Legend and the applicable Restricted Notes Legend set forth in Section 2.09(e)(i) hereof, which shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to the Depositary or a nominee thereof or a custodian therefor (including the Trustee) on behalf of the Holders of the Notes represented thereby, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided in this Supplemental Indenture No. 15.

(ii) Beneficial interests in Regulation S Global Notes may be exchanged for interests in Rule 144A Global Notes of the same series if (1) such exchange occurs in connection with a transfer of Notes in compliance with Rule 144A and (2) the transferor of the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note first delivers to the Trustee a written certificate (in the form of the Form of Exchange Certificate attached to the applicable Exhibit hereto) to the effect that the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note is being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

(iii) Beneficial interests in Rule 144A Global Notes may be transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an interest in a Regulation S Global Note only if the transferor first delivers to the Trustee a written certificate (in the form of Exhibit B hereto) to the effect that such transfer is being made in accordance with Rule 903 or 904 of Regulation S (if applicable).

(iv) The Rule 144A Global Notes and the Regulation S Global Notes are collectively referred to herein as “Global Notes.”

The terms and provisions contained in the Notes shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15, and the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of any Note conflicts with the express provisions of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall govern and be controlling.

The Company hereby designates The Depository Trust Company as the initial Depositary for the Global Notes.

(b) Global Notes. The Notes will be issued initially in the form of one or more Global Notes in definitive, fully registered, book-entry form. The Global Notes shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such Global Note or a nominee thereof and delivered to the Depositary or a nominee thereof or a custodian therefor (including the Trustee) on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes represented thereby, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided in this Supplemental Indenture No. 15. The aggregate principal amount of the Global Notes may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depositary or its nominee as hereinafter provided.

(c) Book-Entry Provisions. This Section 2.08(c) shall apply only to a Global Note deposited with or on behalf of the Depositary. The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 2.08(c) and pursuant to a Company Order, authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Notes that (A) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for such Global Note or Global Notes or the nominee thereof and (B) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary’s instructions or held by the Trustee as custodian thereof.

 

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(d) Payment. Payments in respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on a Global Note registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee will be payable to the Depositary in its capacity as the registered holder under the Indenture. Under the terms of the Indenture, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee will treat the persons in whose names the Notes, including the Global Notes, are registered as the owners of the Notes for the purpose of receiving payments and for all other purposes, whether or not the Notes be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and its Participants, the operation of customary practices of such Depositary governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Note.

(e) Definitive Notes. Except as provided in Section 2.09, owners of a beneficial interest in the Global Notes will not have Notes registered in their names, will not receive physical delivery of Definitive Notes and will not be considered the registered owners or “holders” thereof under the Indenture for any purpose.

Section 2.09. Transfer and Exchange.

(a) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes. When Definitive Notes are presented to the Security Registrar with a request:

(i) to register the transfer of such Definitive Notes; or

(ii) to exchange such Definitive Notes for an equal principal amount of Definitive Notes of other authorized denominations, the Security Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met; provided, however, that the Definitive Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange:

(1) shall be duly endorsed or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or the Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing; and

(2) are accompanied by the following additional information and documents, as applicable:

(A) certification (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note) that such definitive Note is being transferred (x) to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A or (y) outside the United States in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S and in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act; and

(B) (x) if such Definitive Notes are being delivered to the Security Registrar by a Holder for registration in the name of such Holder, without transfer, a certification from such Holder to that effect (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note); or (y) if such Definitive Notes are being transferred to the Company, a certification to that effect (in the form satisfactory to the Trustee).

(b) Restrictions on Transfer of a Definitive Note for a Beneficial Interest in a Global Note. A Definitive Note may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Note except upon satisfaction of the requirement set forth below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, together with (i) certification (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note) that such Definitive Note is being transferred (A) to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A or (B) outside the United States in an offshore transaction

 

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within the meaning of Regulation S and in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act and (ii) written instructions directing the Trustee to make, or to direct the custodian thereof to make, an adjustment on its books and records with respect to such Global Note to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by the Global Note, such instructions to contain information regarding the Depositary account to be credited with such increase, then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Note and cause, or direct the custodian thereof to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing between the Depositary and the custodian, the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by the Global Note to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of the Definitive Note to be exchanged and shall credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Note equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Note so canceled. If no Global Notes are then outstanding and the Global Note has not been previously exchanged for certificated securities pursuant to Section 2.10, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon receipt of a Company Order, a new Global Note in the appropriate principal amount.

(c) Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes.

(i) The transfer and exchange of Global Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary, in accordance with this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth herein, if any) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor. A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver a written order given in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in such Global Note or another Global Note and such account shall be credited in accordance with such order with a beneficial interest in the applicable Global Note and the account of the Person making the transfer shall be debited by an amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Global Note being transferred. Transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Global Note to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through a Regulation S Global Note, whether before or after the expiration of the Restricted Period, shall be made only upon receipt by the Trustee of a certification from the transferor to the effect that such transfer is being made in accordance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S or (if available) Rule 144 under the Securities Act and that, if such transfer is being made prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, the interest transferred shall be held immediately thereafter through Euroclear or Clearstream.

(ii) If the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial interest in one Global Note to a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global Note to which such interest is being transferred in an amount equal to the principal amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Security Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note from which such interest is being transferred.

(iii) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 (other than the provisions set forth in Section 2.08), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary, by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary, or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.

(iv) In the event that a Global Note is exchanged for Notes in definitive form prior to the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer or the effectiveness of the shelf registration statement with respect to such Notes, such Notes may be exchanged only in accordance with such procedures as are substantially consistent with the provisions of this section (including the certification requirements set forth on the reverse of the Initial Notes intended to ensure that such transfers comply with Rule 144, Rule 144A, Regulation S or such other applicable exemption from registration under the Securities Act, as the case may be) and such other procedures as may from time to time be adopted by the Company.

 

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(d) Restrictions on Transfer of Regulation S Global Notes.

(i) Prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, interests in a Regulation S Global Note may only be held through Euroclear or Clearstream. During the Restricted Period, beneficial ownership interests in a Regulation S Global Note may only be sold, pledged or transferred through Euroclear or Clearstream in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and only (A) to the Company, (B) so long as such security is eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a person whom the selling holder reasonably believes is a QIB that purchases for its own account or for the account of a QIB to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (C) in an offshore transaction in accordance with Regulation S, (D) pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act or (E) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, in each case in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States; provided, however, that prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, transfers of beneficial interests in a Regulation S Global Note may not be made to a U.S. person or for the account or benefit of a U.S. person. Prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through a Rule 144A Global Note shall be made only in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A and upon receipt by the Trustee of a written certification from the transferor of the beneficial interest in the form provided on the reverse of the Initial Note to the effect that such transfer is being made to a person whom the transferor reasonably believes is a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A. Such written certification shall no longer be required after the expiration of the Restricted Period. In the case of a transfer of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note for an interest in a Rule 144A Global Note, the transferee must, at the request of the Company, deliver an opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company stating that the proposed transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

(ii) Upon the expiration of the Restricted Period, beneficial ownership interests in a Regulation S Global Note shall be transferable in accordance with applicable law and the other terms of the Indenture.

(e) Legends.

(i) Except as permitted by the following paragraphs (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v), each Note certificate evidencing the Global Notes and the Definitive Notes (and all Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only):

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE

 

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TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

Each Note evidencing a Global Note offered and sold to QIBs pursuant to Rule 144A shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.

Each Note evidencing a Global Note offered and sold to non-U.S. persons outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S shall bear a legend substantially in the following form:

BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

Each Global Note shall bear a legend substantially in the following form:

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

Each Note in definitive form shall bear the following additional legend:

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 

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(ii) Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Note that is a Definitive Note, the Security Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Note for a definitive Note that does not bear the legends set forth above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Note if the Holder certifies in writing to the Security Registrar that its request for such exchange was made in reliance on Rule 144 (such certification to be in the form set forth on the reverse of the Initial Note).

(iii) After a transfer of any Initial Notes during the period of the effectiveness of a shelf registration statement with respect to such Initial Notes, as the case may be, all requirements pertaining to the Restricted Notes Legend on such Initial Notes shall cease to apply and the requirements that any such Initial Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

(iv) Upon the consummation of a Registered Exchange Offer with respect to the Initial Notes pursuant to which Holders of such Initial Notes are offered Exchange Notes in exchange for their Initial Notes, all requirements pertaining to Initial Notes that Initial Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply, and Exchange Notes in global form without the Restricted Notes Legend shall be available to Holders that exchange such Initial Notes in such Registered Exchange Offer.

(v) Upon a sale or transfer after the expiration of the Restricted Period of any Initial Note acquired pursuant to Regulation S, all requirements that such Initial Note bear the Restricted Notes Legend shall cease to apply and the requirements requiring any such Initial Note be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

(f) By its acceptance of any Note bearing any legend in Section 2.09(e)(i) hereof, each Holder of such Note acknowledges the restrictions on transfer of such Note set forth in this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 and in such legend in Section 2.09(e)(i) hereof and agrees that it shall transfer such Note only as provided in this Supplemental Indenture No. 15.

(g) Cancellation or Adjustment of Global Note. At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Note have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned by the Depositary to the Trustee for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is then the custodian for such Global Note) with respect to such Global Note, by the Trustee or the custodian thereof, to reflect such reduction.

(h) Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes.

(i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate, Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Security Registrar’s request.

(ii) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, 3.06 or 11.07 of the Indenture not involving any transfer.

(i) Prior to due presentment of any Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and premium, if any, and (subject to Sections 3.05 and 3.07 of the Indenture) interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payment with respect to such Note shall be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

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(j) The Company hereby appoints the Trustee as Security Registrar for the Notes. Neither the Company nor the Security Registrar shall be required to (i) issue, register the transfer of or exchange Notes of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Notes of such series selected for redemption under Section 11.03 of the Indenture and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Notes so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

(k) All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

(l) No Obligation of the Trustee.

(i) The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a member of, or a Participant in, the Depositary or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the delivery to any Participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Notes shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Note). The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its members, Participants and any beneficial owners.

(ii) The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under the Indenture, this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depositary Participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

Section 2.10. Definitive Notes.

(a) A Global Note deposited with the Depositary or with the Trustee as custodian pursuant to Section 2.08 shall be transferred to the beneficial owners thereof in the form of Definitive Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Note, in exchange for such Global Note, only if such transfer complies with Section 2.09 and (i) the Depositary has notified the Company that it is unwilling, unable or ineligible to continue as Depositary with respect to such Global Note or if at any time the Depositary with respect to such Global Note ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act or, in the case of a Depositary outside the United States, registered under applicable law and, in each case, a successor Depositary is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after receipt of such notice or after it becomes aware of such condition, as the case may be, or (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order providing that such Global Note shall be so exchangeable and the transfer thereof so registrable.

(b) Any Global Note that is transferable to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to this Section 2.10 shall be surrendered by the Depositary to the Trustee, to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in part, without charge, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Any portion of a Global Note transferred pursuant to this Section 2.10 shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in denominations of $2,000 of principal amount and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof and registered in such names as requested by or on behalf of the Depositary (in accordance with its customary procedures).

 

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(c) The registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Participants and Persons that may hold interests through Participants, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under the Indenture or the Notes.

(d) In the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in Section 2.10(a)(ii) or (ii), the Company will promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Definitive Notes in fully registered form without interest coupons.

Section 2.11. Sinking Fund; Open Market Purchases. The Notes shall not be subject to a sinking fund. The Company or any of its affiliates may at any time and from time to time purchase Notes in the open market or otherwise.

Section 2.12. Additional Amounts. The provisions of Section 10.06 of the Indenture shall not apply to the Notes.

Section 2.13. Amount Not Limited. The aggregate principal amount of Notes which may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture, as supplemented from time to time, shall not be limited. The Company may, without the consent of the Holders or the Trustee, increase the principal amount of any series of Notes by issuing additional Notes of such series. The Notes of each series and any additional Notes of such series subsequently issued under the Indenture will be treated as a single series or class for all purposes under the Indenture, including, without limitation, waivers, amendments and redemptions; provided that, if any such additional Notes are not fungible with the existing Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such additional Notes will have a separate CUSIP number and ISIN number.

ARTICLE 3

CHANGE OF CONTROL REPURCHASE EVENT

Section 3.01. Intended Beneficiary; Definitions.

(a) The provisions of this Article 3 shall be applicable only to, and are solely for the benefit of Holders of, each series of Notes and to no other Security.

(b) For purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15:

Below Investment Grade Ratings Event” means, with respect to a series of Notes, on any day within the 60-day period (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of such series of Notes is under publicly announced consideration for a possible downgrade by any Rating Agency) after the earlier of(1) the occurrence of a Change of Control, or (2) the public announcement of the occurrence of a Change of Control or the intention by the Company to effect a Change of Control, the Notes of such series are rated below Investment Grade by each and every Rating Agency. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Below Investment Grade Ratings Event otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating shall not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus shall not be deemed a Below Investment Grade Ratings Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Repurchase Event hereunder) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not publicly announce or publicly confirm, or inform the Trustee in writing at the Company’s request, that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of the Below Investment Grade Ratings Event).

Change of Control” means the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” or “group” (as those terms are used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than (1) the Company or any Subsidiary, (2) any employee benefit plan (or a trust forming a part thereof) maintained by the Company or any Subsidiary, or (3) any underwriter temporarily holding Voting Stock of the Company pursuant to an offering of such Voting Stock, becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the combined voting power of the Company’s Voting Stock or other Voting Stock into which the Company’s Voting Stock is reclassified, consolidated, exchanged or changed measured by voting power rather than number of shares.

 

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Change of Control Repurchase Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Ratings Event with respect to a series of Notes.

Investment Grade” means, with respect to Moody’s, a rating of Baa3 or better (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s); with respect to S&P, a rating of BBB- or better (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P); and, with respect to any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company, the equivalent investment grade credit rating.

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., a subsidiary of Moody’s Corporation, and its successors.

Rating Agency” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P, and (2) if either of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, selected by the Company (as certified by a Board Resolution) as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, or both of them, as the case may be.

S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global Inc., and its successors.

Voting Stock” of any specified “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) as of any date means the capital stock of such person that is at the time entitled to vote generally in the election of the board of directors of such person.

Section 3.02. Change of Control Repurchase Event.

(a) If a Change of Control Repurchase Event occurs with respect to a series of Notes, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem such Notes pursuant to the redemption terms of such Notes, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of the Notes of such series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price (the “Repurchase Price”) in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the Repurchase Date (as defined herein).

(b) Within 30 days following a Change of Control Repurchase Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to a Change of Control, but after the public announcement of such Change of Control, the Company will mail or electronically deliver, or cause to be mailed or electronically delivered, or otherwise deliver in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary, a notice to each Holder of the Notes of such series, with a copy to the Trustee, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Repurchase Event and offering to repurchase the Notes of such series on the payment date specified in the notice (such offer, the “Repurchase Offer” and such date, the “Repurchase Date”), which Repurchase Date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed or delivered, pursuant to the procedures described in such notice. The notice shall, if mailed or delivered prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Repurchase Offer is conditioned on a Change of Control Repurchase Event occurring on or prior to the Repurchase Date.

(c) The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of a series of Notes as a result of a Change of Control Repurchase Event. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Notes, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Notes by virtue of such conflict.

 

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(d) On the Repurchase Date following a Change of Control Repurchase Event, the Company will, to the extent lawful:

(i) accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Repurchase Offer;

(ii) deposit with the Trustee or with such Paying Agent as the Trustee may designate an amount equal to the aggregate Repurchase Price for all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered;

(iii) deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted for payment by the Company, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes being repurchased by the Company pursuant to the Repurchase Offer; and

(iv) deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee, for authentication by the Trustee, any new Notes required to be issued pursuant to Section 3.02(e) below, duly executed by the Company.

(e) Upon receipt by the Trustee from the Company of a notice setting forth the Repurchase Price and the Notes properly tendered and accepted for payment, the Trustee will promptly mail or electronically deliver, or cause the Paying Agent to promptly mail or electronically deliver, or otherwise deliver in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary, to each Holder of such Notes, or portions of such Notes, properly tendered and accepted for payment by the Company the Repurchase Price for such Notes or portions of such Notes, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each such Holder a new Note, duly executed by the Company equal in principal amount to any unrepurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, as applicable; provided that each new Note will be in a principal amount equal to $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.

(f) The Company will not be required to make a Repurchase Offer upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for such an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.

(g) The Company and the Guarantors acknowledge that the Company may not have sufficient funds to repurchase all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event.

ARTICLE 4

AMENDMENTS TO INDENTURE

Section 4.01. Amendment to Section 1.01 of the Indenture. Soley with respect to the Notes, Section 1.01 of the Indenture is hereby amended by adding the following defined term to Section 1.01 in appropriate alphabetical sequence, as follows:

Separation” means any sale, exchange, transfer, distribution, or other disposition of assets and/or Capital Stock of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company resulting in the separation of the Company’s FedEx Freight business through the capital markets to create a new publicly traded company.

Section 4.02. Amendment to Section 12.04 of the Indenture. Solely with respect to the Notes, Section 12.04 of the Indenture is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

SECTION 12.04. Release of a Guarantor. Subject to the provisions of Section 10.07, (i) upon the sale, exchange, transfer or other disposition (by merger or otherwise), other than a lease, of a Guarantor, or of all of the Capital Stock of a Guarantor, or all, or substantially all, the assets of a Guarantor, to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company, such Guarantor shall be deemed to be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all its obligations under its Guarantee and under this Article 12 without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder and (ii) in connection with the Separation, at

 

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the time that FedEx Freight, Inc. ceases to be a Subsidiary of the Company, FedEx Freight, Inc. shall be deemed to be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all its obligations under its Guarantee and under this Article 12 without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder. The Trustee shall, without any further action required on the part of any Holder, deliver an appropriate instrument evidencing such release and discharge upon receipt of a Company Request accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate certifying as to the compliance with this Section 12.04.

ARTICLE 5

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 5.01. Supplemental Indenture. The Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture No. 15, is in all respects hereby adopted, ratified and confirmed.

Section 5.02. Effectiveness. This Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall take effect as of the date hereof.

Section 5.03. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

Section 5.04. Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions herein shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 5.05. Governing Law. This Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

Section 5.06. Execution by the Trustee. The Trustee has executed this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 only upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Trustee shall not be responsible for the correctness of the recitals contained herein, which shall be taken as statements of the Company and the Guarantors, and the Trustee makes no representation and shall have no responsibility for, or in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 or the execution hereof by any Person (other than the Trustee).

Section 5.07. Counterparts. This Supplemental Indenture No. 15 may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Facsimile, PDF copies or other electronic transmission of signatures shall constitute original signatures for all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 and any enforcement hereof. The words “execution,” “signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 or any document to be signed in connection with this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures (as defined herein), deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means. “Electronic Signatures” means any electronic symbol or process attached to, or associated with, any contract or other record and adopted by a person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture No. 15 to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

         

FedEx Corporation,

as Issuer

Attest:         
By:    /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:    Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:    Assistant Secretary     Title:   Corporate Vice President, Corporate Development and Treasurer
      

Federal Express Corporation,

as Guarantor

Attest:         
By:    /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:    Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:    Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
      

Federal Express Europe, Inc.,

as Guarantor

Attest:         
By:    /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:    Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:    Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
      

Federal Express Holdings S.A., LLC

as Guarantor

Attest:         
By:    /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:    Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:    Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
      

Federal Express International, Inc.,

as Guarantor

Attest:         
By:    /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:    Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:    Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer

 

 

[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture No. 15]


      

FedEx Freight, Inc.,

as Guarantor

Attest:         
By:    /s/ Alana L. Griffin        By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:    Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:    Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
      

FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc.,

as Guarantor

Attest:         
By:    /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:    Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:    Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
      

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association,

as Trustee

      

By:

  /s/ Ivy L. Wegener
         Name: Ivy L. Wegener
         Title: Vice President

 

 

[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture No. 15]


Exhibit A-1

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

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[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

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No. [•]    CUSIP No. [     ]1

FEDEX CORPORATION

3.400% Notes due 2028

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on February 15, 2028 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.400% Notes due 2028 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing August 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 3.400% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding February 1 and August 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.400% Notes due 2028 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such

 

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Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CF1 / US31428XCF15

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AG1 / USU31520AG19

 

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Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION

By:

   

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Attest:
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

3.400% Notes due 2028

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$340,494,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Par Call Date” means November 15, 2027 (three months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

 

New

Balance

 

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated:_________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 3.400% Notes due 2028

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated:___________________

 

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Exhibit A-2

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [    ]2

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.200% Notes due 2028

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on October 17, 2028 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.200% Notes due 2028 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on April 17 and October 17 of each year, commencing April 17, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.200% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding April 2 and October 2 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

2 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CG9 / US31428XCG97

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AH9 / USU31520AH91

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.200% Notes due 2028 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

Attest:

 
By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.200% Notes due 2028

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$237,285,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Par Call Date” means July 17, 2028 (three months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated:_________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.200% Notes due 2028

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

      (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $      in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated         .

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Dated:___________________

 

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Exhibit A-3

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [     ]3

FEDEX CORPORATION

3.100% Notes due 2029

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on August 5, 2029 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.100% Notes due 2029 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on February 5 and August 5 of each year, commencing August 5, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 3.100% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding January 21 and July 21 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

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Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CH7 / US31428XCH70

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AJ5 / USU31520AJ57

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.100% Notes due 2029 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

Attest:

 
By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

3.100% Notes due 2029

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$628,053,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Par Call Date” means May 5, 2029 (three months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated:_________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 3.100% Notes due 2029

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

      (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $      in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated         .

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Dated:___________________

 

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Exhibit A-4

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [     ]4

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.250% Notes due 2030

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on May 15, 2030 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.250% Notes due 2030 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing May 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.250% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding May 1 and November 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

4 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CJ3 / US31428XCJ37

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AK2 / USU31520AK21

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.250% Notes due 2030 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

Attest:

 
By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.250% Notes due 2030

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$406,103,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Par Call Date” means February 15, 2030 (three months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated:_________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.250% Notes due 2030

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

      (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $      in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated         .

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Dated:___________________

 

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Exhibit A-5

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

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[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [    ]5

FEDEX CORPORATION

2.400% Notes due 2031

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[    ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on May 15, 2031 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 2.400% Notes due 2031 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing May 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 2.400% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding May 1 and November 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease

 

5 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CK0 / US31428XCK00

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AL0 / USU31520AL04

 

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to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 2.400% Notes due 2031 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION

By:    
Name:  
Title:  
Attest:  
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

2.400% Notes due 2031

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$642,185,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Par Call Date” means February 15, 2031 (three months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in

Outstanding

Principal Amount

 

New

Balance

 

Notation Made by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐  inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 2.400% Notes due 2031

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]

By:    
Name:  

Title:

 

 

Dated:___________________

 

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Exhibit A-6

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [    ]6

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.900% Notes due 2034

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on January 15, 2034 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.900% Notes due 2034 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing July 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.900% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding January 1 and July 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

6 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CL8 / US31428XCL82

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AM8 / USU31520AM86

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.900% Notes due 2034 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
Attest:  
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.900% Notes due 2034

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$351,518,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

The Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

 

  (1)

(a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 15 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

 

  (2)

100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Stated Maturity Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Stated Maturity Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Stated Maturity Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Stated Maturity Date but there are two or more United States

 

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Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Stated Maturity Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date and one with a maturity date following the Stated Maturity Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Stated Maturity Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions of the Notes of this series called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated:_________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.900% Notes due 2034

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated:___________________

 

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Exhibit A-7

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [   ]7

FEDEX CORPORATION

3.900% Notes due 2035

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on February 1, 2035 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.900% Notes due 2035 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on February 1 and August 1 of each year, commencing August 1, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 3.900% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding January 15 and July 15 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

7 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CM6 / US31428XCM65

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AN6 / USU31520AN69

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.900% Notes due 2035 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION

By:

   

Name:

 

Title:

 
Attest:  
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

3.900% Notes due 2035

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$391,912,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

The Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

 

  (1)

(a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

 

  (2)

100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Stated Maturity Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Stated Maturity Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Stated Maturity Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Stated Maturity Date but there are two or more United States

 

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Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Stated Maturity Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date and one with a maturity date following the Stated Maturity Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Stated Maturity Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated:_________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 3.900% Notes due 2035

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ____________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Dated:___________________

 

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Exhibit A-8

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [   ]8

FEDEX CORPORATION

3.250% Notes due 2041

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on May 15, 2041 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.250% notes due 2041 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing May 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 3.250% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding May 1 and November 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

8 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CN4 / US31428XCN49

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AP1 / USU31520AP18

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.250% Notes due 2041 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION

By:

   
Name:  

Title:

 

Attest:

 
By:    

Name:

 
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

A-95


[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

3.250% Notes due 2041

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$619,635,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

“Par Call Date” means November 15, 2040 (six months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in

Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made by

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 
Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 3.250% Notes due 2041

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

      (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $      in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated         .

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-9

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [     ]9

FEDEX CORPORATION

3.875% Notes due 2042

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on August 1, 2042 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.875% Notes due 2042 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on February 1 and August 1 of each year, commencing August 1, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 3.875% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding January 15 and July 15 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

9 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CP9 / US31428XCP96

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AQ9 / USU31520AQ90

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 3.875% Notes due 2042 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
Attest:  
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
 

Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

3.875% Notes due 2042

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$444,611,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

The Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

 

  (1)

(a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

 

  (2)

100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Stated Maturity Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Stated Maturity Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Stated Maturity Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Stated Maturity Date but there are two or more United States

 

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Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Stated Maturity Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date and one with a maturity date following the Stated Maturity Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Stated Maturity Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 3.875% Notes due 2042

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-10

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]    CUSIP No. [     ]10

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.100% Notes due 2043

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on April 15, 2043 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.100% Notes due 2043 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year, commencing April 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.100% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding April 1 and October 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

10 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CQ7 / US31428XCQ79

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AR7 / USU31520AR73

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.100% Notes due 2043 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
Attest:  
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.100% Notes due 2043

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$391,769,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

The Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

 

  (1)

(a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

 

  (2)

100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Stated Maturity Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Stated Maturity Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Stated Maturity Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Stated Maturity Date but there are two or more United States

 

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Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Stated Maturity Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date and one with a maturity date following the Stated Maturity Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Stated Maturity Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 
Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 
Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.100% Notes due 2043

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-11

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]    CUSIP No. [    ]11

FEDEX CORPORATION

5.100% Notes due 2044

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on January 15, 2044 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 5.100% Notes due 2044 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing July 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 5.100% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding January 1 and July 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

11 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CR5 / US31428XCR52

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AS5 / USU31520AS56

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 5.100% Notes due 2044 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
Attest:  
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

5.100% Notes due 2044

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$541,689,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

The Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

 

  (1)

(a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 20 basis point, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

 

  (2)

100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Stated Maturity Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Stated Maturity Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Stated Maturity Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Stated Maturity Date but there are two or more United States

 

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Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Stated Maturity Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date and one with a maturity date following the Stated Maturity Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Stated Maturity Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 5.100% Notes due 2044

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-12

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]    CUSIP No. [    ]12

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.100% Notes due 2045

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on February 1, 2045 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.100% Notes due 2045 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on February 1 and August 1 of each year, commencing August 1, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.100% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding January 15 and July 15 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

12 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CS3 / US31428XCS36

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AT3 / USU31520AT30

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.100% Notes due 2045 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
Attest:  
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.100% Notes due 2045

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$503,830,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

The Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

 

  (1)

(a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

 

  (2)

100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Stated Maturity Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Stated Maturity Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Stated Maturity Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Stated Maturity Date but there are two or more United States

 

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Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Stated Maturity Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date and one with a maturity date following the Stated Maturity Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Stated Maturity Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

 

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The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.100% Notes due 2045

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-13

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]    CUSIP No. [    ]13

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.750% Notes due 2045

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on November 15, 2045 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.750% Notes due 2045 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing May 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.750% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding May 1 and November 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

13 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CT1 / US31428XCT19

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AU0 / USU31520AU03

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.750% Notes due 2045 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

Attest:

 
By:    

Name:

 
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.750% Notes due 2045

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$913,438,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

“Par Call Date” means May 15, 2045 (six months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.750% Notes due 2045

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

       (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $       in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated         .

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-14

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [     ]14

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.550% Notes due 2046

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on April 1, 2046 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.550% Notes due 2046 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on April 1 and October 1 of each year, commencing April 1, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.550% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding March 15 and September 15 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

14 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CU8 / US31428XCU81

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AV8 / USU31520AV85

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.550% Notes due 2046 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
Attest:  
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.550% Notes due 2046

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$1,007,069,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

“Par Call Date” means October 1, 2045 (six months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding
Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made
by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

A-176


FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.550% Notes due 2046

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

      (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $      in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated         .

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]

By:    

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-15

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [     ]15

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.400% Notes due 2047

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on January 15, 2047 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.400% Notes due 2047 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year, commencing July 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.400% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding January 1 and July 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

15 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CV6 / US31428XCV64

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AW6 / USU31520AW68

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.400% Notes due 2047 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
Attest:  
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

A-181


Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

A-182


[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.400% Notes due 2047

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$604,653,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

“Par Call Date” means July 15, 2046 (six months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

A-187


FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

A-189


FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.400% Notes due 2047

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

       (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $       in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated         .

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-16

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [     ]16

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.050% Notes due 2048

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[   ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on February 15, 2048 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.050% Notes due 2048 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on February 15 and August 15 of each year, commencing August 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.050% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding February 1 and August 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

16 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CW4 / US31428XCW48

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AX4 / USU31520AX42

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.050% due 2048 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:
Title:
Attest:
By:    
Name:
Title:

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.050% Notes due 2048

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$743,435,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 20 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

“Par Call Date” means August 15, 2047 (six months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

 

New

Balance

 

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.050% Notes due 2048

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-17

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]    CUSIP No. [    ]17

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.950% Notes due 2048

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[    ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on October 17, 2048 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.950% Notes due 2048 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on April 17 and October 17 of each year, commencing April 17, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.950% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding April 2 and October 2 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

17 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CX2 / US31428XCX21

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AY2 / USU31520AY25

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.950% Notes due 2048 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION

By:

   

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Attest:
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.950% Notes due 2048

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$696,469,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

“Par Call Date” means April 17, 2048 (six months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

 

New

Balance

 

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.950% Notes due 2048

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-18

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]

   CUSIP No. [    ]18

FEDEX CORPORATION

5.250% Notes due 2050

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[    ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on May 15, 2050 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 5.250% Notes due 2050 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on May 15 and November 15 of each year, commencing May 15, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 5.250% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding May 1 and November 1 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

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Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CY0 / US31428XCY04

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 AZ9 / USU31520AZ99

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 5.250% Notes due 2050 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  
Attest:  
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

5.250% Notes due 2050

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$1,047,658,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

Prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), the Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

(1) (a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date (assuming the Notes of this series to be redeemed matured on the Par Call Date) on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

(2) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

On or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Par Call Date” means November 15, 2049 (six months prior to the Stated Maturity Date).

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Par Call Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Par Call Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

 

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If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Par Call Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on such Par Call Date but there are two or more United States Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Par Call Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date and one with a maturity date following the Par Call Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Par Call Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Par Call Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 10 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series, called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

 

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In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

 

Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 5.250% Notes due 2050

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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Exhibit A-19

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

 

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[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

No. [•]    CUSIP No. [     ]19

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.500% Notes due 2065

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest by the Guarantors named in the Indenture

Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or registered assigns, the principal sum of US$[    ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on February 1, 2065 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.500% Notes due 2065 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually in arrears on February 1 and August 1 of each year, commencing August 1, 2025, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, at the rate of 4.500% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 15 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 15”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein and the Trustee (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding January 15 and July 15 (whether or not a Business Day (as defined herein)), respectively. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

 

19 

Rule 144A CUSIP / Rule 144A ISIN: 31428X CZ7 / US31428XCZ78

Regulation S CUSIP / Regulation S ISIN: U31520 BA3 / USU31520BA30

 

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The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an office or agency in New York, New York and in such other cities, if any, as the Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the “Place of Payment”) where Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association as such Paying Agent.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any Interest Payment Date and on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein will include interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 4.500% Notes due 2065 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be.

If any Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein falls on a day that is not a Business Day, principal, premium, if any, and/or interest payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date, or such date of earlier redemption or repurchase, as the case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption or repurchase as contemplated herein, as the case may be. “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in New York or Tennessee are obligated or authorized by law to close.

The principal, premium, if any, and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Attest:
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

4.500% Notes due 2065

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to US$213,040,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 15. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

The Company may redeem the Notes of this series at the Company’s option, in whole or in part, at any time and from time to time, at a Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount and rounded to three decimal places) equal to the greater of:

 

  (1)

(a) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon discounted to the Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 30 basis points, less (b) interest accrued to the date of redemption, and

 

  (2)

100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed;

plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon to, but excluding, the Redemption Date.

Treasury Rate” means, with respect to the Redemption Date, the yield determined by the Company in accordance with the following two paragraphs.

The Treasury Rate shall be determined by the Company after 4:15 p.m., New York City time (or after such time as yields on U.S. government securities are posted daily by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date based upon the yield or yields for the most recent day that appear after such time on such day in the most recent statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Selected Interest Rates (Daily)—H.15” (or any successor designation or publication) (“H.15”) under the caption “U.S. government securities–Treasury constant maturities–Nominal” (or any successor caption or heading) (“H.15 TCM”). In determining the Treasury Rate, the Company shall select, as applicable: (1) the yield for the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the period from the Redemption Date to the Stated Maturity Date (the “Remaining Life”); or (2) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 exactly equal to the Remaining Life, the two yields – one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately shorter than and one yield corresponding to the Treasury constant maturity on H.15 immediately longer than the Remaining Life – and shall interpolate to the Stated Maturity Date on a straight-line basis (using the actual number of days) using such yields and rounding the result to three decimal places; or (3) if there is no such Treasury constant maturity on H.15 shorter than or longer than the Remaining Life, the yield for the single Treasury constant maturity on H.15 closest to the Remaining Life. For purposes of this paragraph, the applicable Treasury constant maturity or maturities on H.15 shall be deemed to have a maturity date equal to the relevant number of months or years, as applicable, of such Treasury constant maturity from the Redemption Date.

If on the third Business Day preceding the Redemption Date H.15 TCM is no longer published, the Company shall calculate the Treasury Rate based on the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day preceding such Redemption Date of the United States Treasury security maturing on, or with a maturity that is closest to, the Stated Maturity Date, as applicable. If there is no United States Treasury security maturing on the Stated Maturity Date but there are two or more United States

 

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Treasury securities with a maturity date equally distant from the Stated Maturity Date, one with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date and one with a maturity date following the Stated Maturity Date, the Company shall select the United States Treasury security with a maturity date preceding the Stated Maturity Date. If there are two or more United States Treasury securities maturing on the Stated Maturity Date or two or more United States Treasury securities meeting the criteria of the preceding sentence, the Company shall select from among these two or more United States Treasury securities the United States Treasury security that is trading closest to par based upon the average of the bid and asked prices for such United States Treasury securities at 11:00 a.m., New York City time. In determining the Treasury Rate in accordance with the terms of this paragraph, the semi-annual yield to maturity of the applicable United States Treasury security shall be based upon the average of the bid and asked prices (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) at 11:00 a.m., New York City time, of such United States Treasury security, and rounded to three decimal places.

The Company’s actions and determinations in determining the Redemption Price shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Notice of any redemption will be mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise transmitted in accordance with the Depositary’s procedures) at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each holder of the Notes of this series to be redeemed.

No Notes of this series of a principal amount of $2,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If the Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to the Note will state the portion of the principal amount of the Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by the Depositary (or another depositary), the redemption of the Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Depositary.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions of the Notes of this series called for redemption.

If a “tax event” (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to the Notes of this series, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, at the Company’s option, in whole, but not in part, at any time upon a notice of redemption delivered within 90 days following the occurrence of such tax event, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed, plus interest accrued to the date of redemption on the principal balance of the Notes of this series being redeemed.

Holders of the Notes of this series to be redeemed will receive written notice mailed or electronically delivered (or otherwise delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary) at least 30 days, but no more than 60 days, before the date of redemption. Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes of this series called for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 15) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 15, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of $2,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

 

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The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

 

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In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 
Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 
Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 4.500% Notes due 2065

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of $__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated: ___________________

 

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE

DELIVERED IN CONNECTION WITH

TRANSFERS PURSUANT TO REGULATION S

[Date]

Attention:

Re:

FedEx Corporation (the “Company”)

[applicable series of Notes] (the “Securities”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

In connection with our proposed sale of $______________ aggregate principal amount of the Securities, we confirm that such sale has been effected pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and, accordingly, we represent that:

(1) the offer of the Securities was not made to a person in the United States;

(2) either (a) at the time the buy offer was originated, the transferee was outside the United States or we and any person acting on our behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States, or (b) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market and neither we nor any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction has been prearranged with a buyer in the United States;

(3) no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S, as applicable;

(4) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act; and

(5) we have advised the transferee of the transfer restrictions applicable to the Securities.

You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this certificate have the meanings set forth in Regulation S.

 

Very truly yours,

[Name of Transferor]

By:

   
 

Authorized Signature

 

B-1

Exhibit 4.24

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 16

Dated as of February 26, 2025

0.450% Notes due 2029

1.300% Notes due 2031

0.950% Notes due 2033

SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. 16, dated as of February 26, 2025, among FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Federal Express Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Federal Express Europe, Inc., a Delaware corporation, Federal Express Holdings S.A., LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Federal Express International, Inc., a Delaware corporation, FedEx Freight, Inc., an Arkansas corporation, and FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc., a Texas corporation (collectively, the “Guarantors”), U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association ((as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association) (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association (the “Predecessor Trustee”)), as trustee (the “Trustee”) and U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch (formerly known as Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch), as paying agent (the “Paying Agent”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (as amended or supplemented to date, the “Indenture”), to provide for the issuance by the Company from time to time, and the guarantee by the Guarantors, of the Company’s senior unsecured debt securities;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 1, dated as of October 23, 2015;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 2, dated as of March 24, 2016;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 3, dated as of April 11, 2016;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 4, dated as of January 6, 2017;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 5, dated as of January 31, 2018;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 6, dated as of October 17, 2018;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 7, dated as of January 16, 2019;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 8, dated as of January 18, 2019;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 9, dated as of July 24, 2019;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 10, dated as of August 5, 2019;


WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 11, dated as of April 7, 2020;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 12, dated as of April 29, 2021;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Predecessor Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 13, dated as of May 4, 2021;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 14, dated as of February 26, 2025;

WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee have executed and delivered Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated as of February 26, 2025;

WHEREAS, in connection with the proposed Separation (as defined herein), the Company offered to exchange (the “Exchange Offers”) any and all outstanding notes of certain series issued by the Company (the “Existing Notes”) for notes issued by the Company pursuant to an Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated as of January 7, 2025 (as amended, the “Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement”);

WHEREAS, Section 9.01(b) of the Indenture permits execution of supplemental indentures without the consent of any Holders for the purpose of adding to the covenants of the Company or any Guarantor for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities so long as such supplemental indenture states that such covenant is expressly being included solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities;

WHEREAS, Section 9.01(d) of the Indenture permits execution of supplemental indentures without the consent of any Holders for the purpose of changing any of the provisions of the Indenture in respect of one or more series of Securities; provided, however, that if such change shall adversely affect in any material respect the interests of Holders of Securities of any series, such change shall become effective with respect to such series only when no such Security of such series remains Outstanding;

WHEREAS, Section 9.01(j) of the Indenture permits execution of supplemental indentures without the consent of any Holders for the purpose of establishing the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01 of the Indenture;

WHEREAS, the entry into this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 by the parties hereto is authorized by the provisions of the Indenture;

WHEREAS, the Redemption for Tax Reasons (as defined herein), as set forth below, is expressly being included solely for the benefit of the Company; and

WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and under the Indenture, duly issued by the Company and to make this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 a valid and legally binding agreement of the Company and the Guarantors, in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, have been done.

NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by the Holders, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Paying Agent mutually covenant and agree, for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of each series of the Notes as follows:

 

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ARTICLE 1

RELATION TO THE INDENTURE; DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

Section 1.01. Relation to the Indenture. This Supplemental Indenture No. 16 constitutes an integral part of the Indenture.

Section 1.02. Definitions. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16, the following terms shall have the respective meanings set forth in this Section.

2029 Notes” means the 0.450% Notes due 2029.

2031 Notes” means the 1.300% Notes due 2031.

2033 Notes” means the 0.950% Notes due 2033.

Additional Interest,” with respect to any series of Notes, means all additional interest then owing with respect to such series of Notes pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.

Agency Agreement” means the agreement among the Company, U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch (formerly known as Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch), as the Paying Agent, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as the registrar and Transfer Agent (as defined herein), and the Trustee.

Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a Regulation S Global Note or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of Euroclear, Clearstream and their respective nominees and successors, acting through itself or the Common Depositary, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.

business day” means each day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which the Trustee, Paying Agent, Transfer Agent and registrar or banking institutions are not required by law or regulation to be open in the State of New York or London and, for any place of payment outside of New York City or London, in such place of payment, and on which the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer system (the TARGET2 system), or any successor thereto, does not operate;

Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking, société anonyme.

Common Depositary” means any Person acting as the common depositary for Euroclear and Clearstream which initially shall be U.S. Bank Europe DAC.

Dealer Manager” means Goldman Sachs & Co, Inc.

Definitive Note” means a certificated Note that does not include the Global Notes Legend and in a customary form agreed by the Company, the Trustee and the Paying Agent and security printed in accordance with any applicable legal and stock exchange requirements.

euro” or “” means the currency of the member states of the European Monetary Union that have adopted or that adopt the single currency in accordance with the treaty establishing the European Community, as amended by the Treaty on European Union.

Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank SA/NV, as operator of the Euroclear System.

Exchange Notes” has the meaning specified in the Registration Rights Agreement.

 

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Global Notes Legend” means the legend set forth in Exhibits A-1 through A-3 to this Supplemental Indenture No. 16.

Initial Notes” means the Notes issued pursuant to this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 on the date hereof.

Notes” means, collectively, the 2029 Notes, the 2031 Notes and the 2033 Notes.

QIB” means qualified institutional buyer as specified in Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

Registered Exchange Offer” means the offer by the Company, pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, to certain Holders of Initial Notes, to issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for their Initial Notes, a like aggregate principal amount of Exchange Notes in an exchange registered under the Securities Act.

Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2025, by and among the Company, the Guarantors and the Dealer Manager.

Regulation S” means Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act.

Regulation S Notes” means all Notes offered and issued pursuant to the Exchange Offers to holders of the Existing Notes in an offshore transaction in reliance on Regulation S.

Restricted Notes Legend” means the legend set forth in the first paragraph of Section 2.11(e)(i) hereof.

Restricted Period” means, with respect to any Notes, the period that is 40 consecutive days beginning on and including the later of (i) the day on which such Notes are first offered to Persons other than distributors (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act) in reliance on Regulation S and (ii) the date of original issuance with respect to such Notes.

Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act.

Rule 144A” means Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act.

Rule 144A Notes” means all Notes offered and issued pursuant to the Exchange Offers to holders of Existing Notes reasonably believed to be QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A.

Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Transfer Restricted Note” means any Note that bears or is required to bear a Restricted Notes Legend.

Section 1.03. Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application. For all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 unless otherwise specified herein:

(a) all terms defined in this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 which are used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings they are given in the Indenture; and

(b) the provisions of general application stated in Section 1.01 of the Indenture shall apply to this Supplemental Indenture No. 16, except that the words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereto” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 as a whole and not to the Indenture or any particular Article, Section or other subdivision of the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture No. 16.

 

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ARTICLE 2

THE SERIES OF NOTES

Section 2.01. Title. There shall be (i) a series of Securities designated the 0.450% Notes due 2029, (ii) a series of Securities designated as the 1.300% Notes due 2031 and (iii) a series of Securities designated the 0.950% Notes due 2033.

Section 2.02. Principal Amounts. Subject to Section 2.15, (i) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2029 Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 shall not exceed €391,747,000, (ii) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2031 Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 shall not exceed €145,122,000 and (iii) the initial aggregate principal amount of the 2033 Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 shall not exceed €402,828,000 (except for Notes of each series authenticated and delivered upon registration of, transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Section 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.07 of the Indenture and except for any Notes which pursuant to Section 3.03 of the Indenture are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder).

Section 2.03. Stated Maturity Dates. The entire outstanding principal amount of the 2029 Notes shall be payable on May 4, 2029, the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2031 Notes shall be payable on August 5, 2031, and the entire outstanding principal amount of the 2033 Notes shall be payable on May 4, 2033, in each case subject to Section 2.07, Section 2.08, Section 2.09 and Section 4.02.

Section 2.04. Interest.

(a) 2029 Notes. The 2029 Notes will bear interest at the rate of 0.450% per annum. Interest on the 2029 Notes will be payable annually in arrears on May 4 of each year, commencing on May 4, 2025, to the Persons in whose names the 2029 Notes are registered at the close of business of the preceding April 19 or, if the 2029 Notes are represented by one or more Global Securities, the close of business on the business day (for this purpose a day on which Clearstream and Euroclear are open for business) immediately preceding April 19. Interest on the 2029 Notes will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the period for which interest is being calculated and the actual number of days from and including the last date to which interest was paid on the 2029 Notes (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 0.450% Notes due 2029 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on the 2029 Notes) to, but excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date. This payment convention is referred to as ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) as defined in the rulebook of the International Capital Market Association.

(b) 2031 Notes. The 2031 Notes will bear interest at the rate of 1.300% per annum. Interest on the 2031 Notes will be payable annually in arrears on August 5 of each year, commencing on August 5, 2025, to the Persons in whose names the 2031 Notes are registered at the close of business of the preceding July 21 or, if the 2031 Notes are represented by one or more Global Securities, the close of business on the business day (for this purpose a day on which Clearstream and Euroclear are open for business) immediately preceding July 21. Interest on the 2031 Notes will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the period for which interest is being calculated and the actual number of days from and including the last date to which interest was paid on the 2031 Notes (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 1.300% Notes due 2031 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on the 2033 Notes) to, but excluding, the next scheduled interest payment date. This payment convention is referred to as ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) as defined in the rulebook of the International Capital Market Association.

(c) 2033 Notes. The 2033 Notes will bear interest at the rate of 0.950% per annum. Interest on the 2033 Notes will be payable annually in arrears on May 4 of each year, commencing on May 4, 2025, to the Persons in whose names the 2033 Notes are registered at the close of business of the preceding April 19 or, if the 2033 Notes are represented by one or more Global Securities, the close of business on the business day (for this purpose a day on which Clearstream and Euroclear are open for business) immediately preceding April 19. Interest on the 2033 Notes will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the period for which interest is being calculated and the actual number of days from and including the last date to which interest was paid on the 2033 Notes (or from and

 

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including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 0.950% Notes due 2033 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on the 2031 Notes) to, but excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date. This payment convention is referred to as ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) as defined in the rulebook of the International Capital Market Association.

(d) Additional Interest. All references in this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 and the Notes of any series to any interest or other amount payable shall be deemed to include Additional Interest required to be paid with respect to the Notes of such series pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, if any.

Section 2.05. Payments in Euro. All payments of interest and principal, including payments made upon any redemption of the Notes, will be payable in euro. If, on or after the date of issuance of the Notes, the euro is unavailable to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company’s control (including the dissolution of the European Monetary Union) or if the euro is no longer being used by the then member states of the European Monetary Union that have adopted the euro as their currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of the Notes will be made in U.S. dollars until the euro is again available to the Company or so used. In such circumstances, the amount payable on any date in euro will be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate mandated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second business day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the then most recent U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate available on or prior to the second business day prior to the relevant payment date as determined by the Company in its sole discretion. Any payment in respect of the Notes so made in U.S. dollars will not constitute an Event of Default under the Notes or the Indenture. Neither the Trustee nor the Paying Agent shall have any responsibility for any calculation or conversion in connection with the foregoing.

Section 2.06. Defeasance and Discharge; Covenant Defeasance.

(a) The provisions of Section 13.02 and Section 13.03 of the Indenture shall apply to each series of the Notes, subject to clause (b) below.

(b) Solely with respect to the Notes, the Government Obligations referred to in Section 13.04 of the Indenture shall include (1) securities that are direct obligations of the Federal Republic of Germany for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (2) obligations of a person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the Federal Republic of Germany, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the Federal Republic of Germany, which, in either case under clauses (1) or (2) are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof.

Section 2.07. Optional Redemption. The Company will have the right, at its option, to redeem a series of Notes, in whole or in part, at any time prior to the applicable Par Call Date (as defined herein), on at least 10 days’, but no more than 60 days’, prior written notice mailed or electronically delivered by the Company (or otherwise delivered in accordance with the applicable clearing system’s procedures) to the Holders of the Notes to be redeemed. Upon redemption of the Notes of any series, the Company will pay a Redemption Price equal to the greater of:

(a) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed; and

(b) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments (as defined herein) of principal and interest on the Notes to be redeemed that would be due if the Notes matured on the applicable Par Call Date (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the Redemption Date), discounted to the Redemption Date on an ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) day count basis, at the applicable Comparable Government Bond Rate (as defined herein) plus 0.150% (15 basis points) in the case of the 2029 Notes, 0.250% (25 basis points) in the case of the 2031 Notes and 0.200% (20 basis points) in the case of the 2033 Notes,

in each case, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption on the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed.

 

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At any time on or after the applicable Par Call Date, the Company may redeem a series of Notes, in whole or in part, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption on the principal amount of the Notes being redeemed.

Comparable Government Bond” means, with respect to the series of Notes to be redeemed prior to the applicable Par Call Date, in relation to any Comparable Government Bond Rate calculation, at the discretion of an independent investment bank selected by the Company, a bond that is a direct obligation of the Federal Republic of Germany (“German government bond”), whose maturity is closest to the Par Call Date of such Notes to be redeemed, or if such independent investment bank in its discretion determines that such similar bond is not in issue, such other German government bond as such independent investment bank may, with the advice of three brokers of, and/or market makers in, German government bonds selected by the Company, determine to be appropriate for determining the Comparable Government Bond Rate.

Comparable Government Bond Rate” means the yield to maturity, expressed as a percentage (rounded to three decimal places, with 0.0005 being rounded upwards), on the third business day prior to the date fixed for redemption, of the Comparable Government Bond on the basis of the middle market price of the Comparable Government Bond prevailing at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such business day as determined by an independent investment bank selected by the Company.

Par Call Date” means February 4, 2029, in the case of the 2029 Notes (the date that is three months prior to the maturity date of the 2029 Notes), May 5, 2031 (three months prior to their maturity date) in the case of the 2031 Notes and February 4, 2033, in the case of the 2033 Notes (the date that is three months prior to the maturity date of the 2033 Notes).

Remaining Scheduled Payments” means with respect to each Note to be redeemed, the remaining scheduled payments of the principal thereof and interest thereon that would be due after the related Redemption Date but for such redemption; provided, however, that, if such Redemption Date is not an Interest Payment Date with respect to such Note, the amount of the next succeeding scheduled interest payment thereon will be deemed to be reduced (solely for the purposes of this calculation) by the amount of interest accrued thereon to such Redemption Date.

In the case of a partial redemption, selection of the Notes for redemption will be made pro rata, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee in its sole discretion deems appropriate and fair. No Notes of a principal amount of €100,000 or less will be redeemed in part. If any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice of redemption that relates to such Note will state the portion of the principal amount of such Note to be redeemed. A new note in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Note will be issued in the name of the holder of the Note upon surrender for cancellation of the original Note. For so long as the Notes are held by a depositary, the redemption of the New Euro Notes shall be done in accordance with the policies and procedures of the applicable clearing system.

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in its sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the redemption price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes, called for redemption.

Section 2.08. Redemption for Tax Reasons. If, as a result of any change in, or amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated under the laws) of the United States (or any taxing authority in the United States), or any change in, or amendments to, an official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment is announced or becomes effective on or after the date of the Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, the Company becomes or, based upon a written opinion of independent counsel selected by the Company, the Company will become obligated to pay additional

 

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amounts as described in Section 3.01 hereof with respect to a series of Notes, then the Company may at any time at its option redeem, in whole, but not in part, the outstanding Notes of such series on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior notice, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of their principal amount, together with accrued and unpaid interest on those Notes to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption (such redemptions, a “Redemption for Tax Reasons”).

Section 2.09. Redemption for Reason of Minimal Outstanding Amount of 2029 Notes and 2033 Notes. With respect to the 2029 Notes and the 2033 Notes only, in the event that the Company has purchased Notes of one or both such series equal to or greater than 80% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes of such series initially issued, the Company may redeem, in whole, but not in part, the remaining Notes of such series on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior notice, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, together with accrued and unpaid interest on those Notes to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.

Section 2.10. Form of Notes and Payment.

(a) General. The Notes shall initially be issued in the form of one or more Global Notes in fully registered, book-entry form, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee, which shall be deposited with the Common Depositary and shall be registered in the name of USB Nominees (UK) Limited, as nominee of U.S. Bank Europe DAC, as common depositary for Euroclear and Clearstream. The Notes shall be substantially in the forms set forth in the corresponding Exhibits A1 – A3 attached hereto (other than, (i) with respect to any additional Notes of any series of the Notes, changes related to issue date, issue price and first Interest Payment Date of such additional Notes, and (ii) with respect to any Exchange Notes of any series of the Notes, changes related to legends, transfer restrictions, CUSIP/ISIN numbers, common codes and other changes customary for registered notes). The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The Notes shall be issued in fully registered form only in denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof. The Notes of each series and any additional Notes of such series subsequently issued under the Indenture, together with any Exchange Notes issued with respect to the Notes of such series in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement, will be treated as a single series or class for all purposes under the Indenture, including, without limitation, waivers, amendments and redemptions; provided that, if any such additional Notes are not fungible with then Outstanding Notes of that series for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such additional Notes will have a separate CUSIP/ISIN numbers, common codes or other identifying number.

(i) The Notes shall initially be issued only (A) to persons reasonably believed to be QIBs in reliance on Rule 144A or (B) outside the United States, to persons other than “U.S. persons” as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act, in compliance with Regulation S. Notes may thereafter be transferred to, among others, purchasers reasonably believed to be QIBs, and purchasers in reliance on Regulation S, subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth herein. Notes initially issued pursuant to Rule 144A shall be issued in the form of one or more permanent global securities in fully registered form (collectively, the “Rule 144A Global Note”) and Notes initially issued pursuant to Regulation S shall be issued in the form of one or more permanent global securities in fully registered form (collectively, the “Regulation S Global Note”), in each case without interest coupons and with the Global Notes Legend and the applicable Restricted Notes Legend set forth in Section 2.11(e)(i) hereof, which shall be deposited on behalf of the Holders of the Notes represented thereby with the Common Depositary and shall be registered in the name of USB Nominees (UK) Limited, as nominee of the Common Depositary for such Global Note or Global Notes, duly executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as provided in this Supplemental Indenture No. 16.

(ii) Beneficial interests in Regulation S Global Notes may be exchanged for interests in Rule 144A Global Notes of the same series if (1) such exchange occurs in connection with a transfer of Notes in compliance with Rule 144A and (2) the transferor of the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note first delivers to the Trustee a written certificate (in the form of the Form of Exchange Certificate attached to the applicable Exhibit hereto) to the effect that the beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note is being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

 

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(iii) Beneficial interests in Rule 144A Global Notes may be transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an interest in a Regulation S Global Note only if the transferor first delivers to the Trustee a written certificate (in the form of Exhibit B hereto) to the effect that such transfer is being made in accordance with Rule 903 or 904 of Regulation S (if applicable).

(iv) The Rule 144A Global Notes and the Regulation S Global Notes are collectively referred to herein as “Global Notes.”

The terms and provisions contained in the Notes shall constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16, and the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Paying Agent, by their execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any provision of any Note conflicts with the express provisions of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16, the provisions of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 shall govern and be controlling.

(b) Book-Entry Provisions. This Section 2.10(b) shall apply only to a Global Note deposited with the Common Depositary. The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 2.10(b) and pursuant to a Company Order, authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Notes that (A) shall be registered in the name of USB Nominees (UK) Limited, as nominee of the Common Depositary for such Global Note or Global Notes and (B) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Common Depositary.

(c) Payment. Principal, premium and additional amounts, if any, and/or interest, if any, on the Global Notes representing the Notes shall be made to the Paying Agent which in turn, for so long as the Notes are in global form, shall make payment with respect to the Notes to the Common Depositary for their respective accounts.

(d) Definitive Notes. Except as provided in this Section 2.10, owners of a beneficial interest in the Global Notes will not have Notes registered in their names, will not receive physical delivery of Definitive Notes and will not be considered the registered owners or “holders” thereof under the Indenture for any purpose.

Section 2.11. Transfer and Exchange.

(a) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes. When Definitive Notes are presented to the Security Registrar with a request:

(i) to register the transfer of such Definitive Notes; or

(ii) to exchange such Definitive Notes for an equal principal amount of Definitive Notes of other authorized denominations, the Security Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met; provided, however, that the Definitive Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange:

(1) shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing; and

(2) are accompanied by the following additional information and documents, as applicable:

(A) certification (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note) that such definitive Note is being transferred (x) to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A or (y) outside the United States in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S and in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act; and

(B) (x) if such Definitive Notes are being delivered to the Security Registrar by a Holder for registration in the name of such Holder, without transfer, a certification from such Holder to that effect (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note); or (y) if such Definitive Notes are being transferred to the Company, a certification to that effect (in the form satisfactory to the Trustee).

 

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(b) Restrictions on Transfer of a Definitive Note for a Beneficial Interest in a Global Note. A Definitive Note may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Note except upon satisfaction of the requirement set forth below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, together with (i) certification (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note) that such Definitive Note is being transferred (A) to a QIB in accordance with Rule 144A or (B) outside the United States in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S and in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act and (ii) written instructions directing the Trustee to make an adjustment on its books and records with respect to such Global Note to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented by the Global Note, such instructions to contain information regarding the Common Depositary account to be credited with such increase, then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Note and cause the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by the Global Note to be increased by the aggregate principal amount of the Definitive Note to be exchanged and shall credit or cause to be credited to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Note equal to the principal amount of the Definitive Note so canceled. If no Global Notes are then outstanding and the Global Note has not been previously exchanged for certificated securities pursuant to Section 2.12, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate, upon receipt of a Company Order, a new Global Note in the appropriate principal amount.

(c) Exchange of Global Notes for Definitive Notes.

(i) A Global Note shall be exchanged by the Company for Definitive Notes only if: (A) the Common Depositary provides notification that it is unwilling, unable or no longer qualified to continue as depositary for the Global Notes and a successor is not appointed within 90 days; (B) the Company, in its discretion at any time, determines not to have all of the Notes represented by the Global Notes; or (C) a default entitling the holders of the applicable Notes of a series to accelerate the maturity thereof has occurred and is continuing.

(ii) Any note that is exchangeable pursuant to this Section 2.11(c) is exchangeable for Definitive Notes issuable in authorized denominations and registered in such names as the Common Depositary shall direct. Subject to the foregoing, a Global Note is not exchangeable, except for a Global Note of the same aggregate denomination to be registered in the name of the Common Depositary (or its nominee).

(iii) In the event that Global Notes are exchanged for Definitive Notes prior to the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer or the effectiveness of the shelf registration statement with respect to such Notes, such Notes may be exchanged only in accordance with such procedures as are substantially consistent with the provisions of this section (including the certification requirements set forth on the reverse of the Initial Notes intended to ensure that such transfers comply with Rule 144, Rule 144A, Regulation S or such other applicable exemption from registration under the Securities Act, as the case may be) and such other procedures as may from time to time be adopted by the Company.

(iv) None of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar will be liable for any delay by the Holder of the relevant Global Notes in identifying the Holders of beneficial interests in the Global Notes, and each such Person may conclusively rely on, and will be protected in relying on, instructions from Euroclear or Clearstream for all purposes (including with respect to the registration and delivery, and the respective principal amounts, of the Definitive Notes to be issued).

(d) Restrictions on Transfer of Regulation S Global Notes.

(i) Prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, interests in a Regulation S Global Note may only be held through Euroclear or Clearstream. During the Restricted Period, beneficial ownership interests in a Regulation S Global Note may only be sold, pledged or transferred through Euroclear or Clearstream in accordance with the Applicable Procedures and only (A) to the Company, (B) so long as such security is eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144A, to a person whom the selling holder reasonably believes

 

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is a QIB that purchases for its own account or for the account of a QIB to whom notice is given that the resale, pledge or transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (C) in an offshore transaction in accordance with Regulation S, (D) pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act or (E) pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, in each case in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States; provided, however, that prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, transfers of beneficial interests in a Regulation S Global Note may not be made to a U.S. person or for the account or benefit of a U.S. person. Prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period, transfers by an owner of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note to a transferee who takes delivery of such interest through a Rule 144A Global Note shall be made only in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, pursuant to Rule 144 or Rule 144A and upon receipt by the Trustee of a written certification from the transferor of the beneficial interest in the form provided on the reverse of the Initial Note to the effect that such transfer is being made to a person whom the transferor reasonably believes is a QIB within the meaning of Rule 144A in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A. Such written certification shall no longer be required after the expiration of the Restricted Period. In the case of a transfer of a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global Note for an interest in a Rule 144A Global Note, the transferee must, at the request of the Company, deliver an opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company stating that the proposed transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

(ii) Upon the expiration of the Restricted Period, beneficial ownership interests in a Regulation S Global Note shall be transferable in accordance with applicable law and the other terms of the Indenture.

(e) Legends.

(i) Except as permitted by the following paragraphs (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v), each Note certificate evidencing the Global Notes and the Definitive Notes (and all Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes of the legend only):

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF

 

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REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

Each Note evidencing a Global Note offered and sold to QIBs pursuant to Rule 144A shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:

EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.

Each Note evidencing a Global Note offered and sold to non-U.S. persons outside the United States in reliance on Regulation S shall bear a legend substantially in the following form:

BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.

Each Global Note shall bear a legend substantially in the following form:

THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR BANK S.A./N.V., AS OPERATOR OF THE EUROCLEAR SYSTEM (“EUROCLEAR”), AND CLEARSTREAM BANKING, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME (“CLEARSTREAM” AND, TOGETHER WITH EUROCLEAR, “EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED, HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.

Each Note in definitive form shall bear the following additional legend:

IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.

 

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(ii) Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Note that is a Definitive Note, the Security Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Note for a Definitive Note that does not bear the legends set forth above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Note if the Holder certifies in writing to the Security Registrar that its request for such exchange was made in reliance on Rule 144 (such certification to be in the form set forth on the reverse of the Initial Note).

(iii) After a transfer of any Initial Notes during the period of the effectiveness of a shelf registration statement with respect to such Initial Notes, as the case may be, all requirements pertaining to the Restricted Notes Legend on such Initial Notes shall cease to apply and the requirements that any such Initial Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

(iv) Upon the consummation of a Registered Exchange Offer with respect to the Initial Notes pursuant to which Holders of such Initial Notes are offered Exchange Notes in exchange for their Initial Notes, all requirements pertaining to Initial Notes that Initial Notes be issued in global form shall continue to apply, and Exchange Notes in global form without the Restricted Notes Legend shall be available to Holders that exchange such Initial Notes in such Registered Exchange Offer.

(v) Upon a sale or transfer after the expiration of the Restricted Period of any Initial Note acquired pursuant to Regulation S, all requirements that such Initial Note bear the Restricted Notes Legend shall cease to apply and the requirements requiring any such Initial Note be issued in global form shall continue to apply.

(vi) By its acceptance of any Note bearing any legend in Section 2.11(e)(i) hereof, each Holder of such Note acknowledges the restrictions on transfer of such Note set forth in this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 and in such legend in Section 2.11(e)(i) hereof and agrees that it shall transfer such Note only as provided in this Supplemental Indenture No. 16.

(f) Cancellation or Adjustment of Global Note. At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Note have either been exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned by the Common Depositary to the Security Registrar for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Security Registrar. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes, transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Security Registrar with respect to such Global Note, by the Security Registrar, to reflect such reduction.

(g) Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes.

(i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate, Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Security Registrar’s request.

(ii) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, 3.06 or 11.07 of the Indenture not involving any transfer.

(h) Prior to due presentment of any Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Security Registrar and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar may treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered as the owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and premium, if any, and (subject to Sections 3.05 and 3.07 of the Indenture) interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payment with respect to such Note shall be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Security Registrar nor any agent of the Company, a Guarantor, the Trustee the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

 

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(i) Neither the Company nor the Security Registrar shall be required to (i) issue, register the transfer of or exchange Notes of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Notes of such series selected for redemption under Section 11.03 of the Indenture and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Notes so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part.

(j) All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under the Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.

(k) No Obligation of the Trustee.

(i) The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a member of, or a participant in Euroclear or Clearstream or any other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Common Depositary or its nominee, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the delivery to any beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Common Depositary) of any notice (including any notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Notes shall be given or made only to the registered Holders (which shall be the Common Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Note). The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Common Depositary subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Common Depositary. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Common Depositary with respect to any beneficial owners.

(ii) The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed under this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 or under applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements hereof.

Section 2.12. Paying Agent and Security Registrar.

(a) U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch (formerly known as Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch) shall initially act as the Paying Agent for the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement. U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association shall initially act as the transfer agent for the Notes (the “Transfer Agent”) in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement. The Company may change the Paying Agent or the Transfer Agent without prior notice to the Holders.

(b) U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association shall initially act as the Security Registrar, as such term is defined in Section 3.05 of the Indenture, for the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Agency Agreement. The Company may change the Security Registrar without prior notice to the Holders.

(c) Each of the Company and the Guarantors designates the office of the Paying Agent at 125 Old Broad Street, Fifth Floor, London EC2N 1AR as an agency where the Notes may be presented for payment, in each case as provided for in the Indenture.

(d) Each of the Company and the Guarantors designates the officer of the Transfer Agent at U.S. Bank Wealth Management – Corp Trust Services Boston, 1 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110 as an agency where the Notes may be presented for exchange or registration of transfer as provided for in the Indenture.

 

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Section 2.13. Sinking Fund; Open Market Purchases. The Notes shall not be subject to a sinking fund. The Company or any of its affiliates may at any time and from time to time purchase Notes in the open market or otherwise.

Section 2.14. Additional Amounts. The provisions of Section 10.06 of the Indenture shall not apply to the Notes; provided that the provisions of Section 3.01 of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 shall apply to the Notes.

Section 2.15. Amount Not Limited. The aggregate principal amount of Notes which may be authenticated and delivered under the Indenture, as supplemented from time to time, shall not be limited. The Company may, without the consent of the Holders or the Trustee, increase the principal amount of any series of Notes by issuing additional Notes of such series. The Notes of each series and any additional Notes of such series subsequently issued under the Indenture will be treated as a single series or class for all purposes under the Indenture, including, without limitation, waivers, amendments and redemptions; provided that, if any such additional Notes are not fungible with the existing Notes for U.S. federal income tax purposes, such additional Notes will have a separate CUSP/ISIN number, common code or other identifying number.

ARTICLE 3

PAYMENT OF ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS

Section 3.01. Payment of Additional Amounts.

(a) The Company will, subject to the exceptions and limitations set forth below, pay as additional interest on the Notes such additional amounts as are necessary in order that the net payment by the Company of the principal of and interest on the Notes to a Holder who is not a United States person (as defined herein), after withholding or deduction for any present or future tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by the United States or a taxing authority in the United States (including any withholding or deduction with respect to the payment of such additional amounts), will not be less than the amount provided in the Notes to be then due and payable; provided, however, that the foregoing obligation to pay additional amounts shall not apply:

(1) to any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed by reason of the Holder (or the beneficial owner for whose benefit such Holder holds such Note), or a fiduciary, settlor, beneficiary, member or shareholder of the Holder or beneficial owner if the Holder or beneficial owner is an estate, trust, partnership, corporation or other entity, or a person holding a power over an estate or trust administered by a fiduciary holder, being considered as:

(a) being or having been engaged in a trade or business in the United States or having or having had a permanent establishment in the United States;

(b) having a current or former connection with the United States (other than a connection arising solely as a result of the ownership of the Notes, the receipt of any payment thereon or the enforcement of any rights thereunder), including being or having been a citizen or resident of the United States;

(c) being or having been a personal holding company, a passive foreign investment company or a controlled foreign corporation for United States federal income tax purposes or a corporation that has accumulated earnings to avoid United States federal income tax;

(d) being or having been a “10-percent shareholder” of the Company as defined in Section 871(h)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), or any successor provision; or

(e) being a bank receiving payments on an extension of credit made pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business;

 

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(2) to any Holder that is not the sole beneficial owner of the Notes, or a portion of the Notes, or that is a fiduciary, partnership or limited liability company, but only to the extent that a beneficial owner with respect to the Holder, a beneficiary or settlor with respect to the fiduciary, or a beneficial owner or member of the partnership or limited liability company would not have been entitled to the payment of such additional amounts had the beneficiary, settlor, beneficial owner or member received directly its beneficial or distributive share of the payment;

(3) to any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not have been imposed but for the failure of the Holder or any other person to comply with any certification, identification or information reporting requirements concerning the nationality, residence, identity or connection with the United States of such Holder or other person, if compliance is required by statute, by regulation of the United States or any taxing authority therein or by an applicable income tax treaty to which the United States is a party as a precondition to exemption from, or reduction in, such tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

(4) to any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed otherwise than by withholding by the Company or a paying agent from payments on the Notes;

(5) to any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not have been imposed but for a change in law, regulation, or administrative or judicial interpretation that becomes effective more than 15 days after the payment becomes due or is duly provided for, whichever occurs later;

(6) to any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, excise, transfer, wealth, capital gains or personal property tax or similar tax, assessment or other governmental charge;

(7) to any tax, assessment or other governmental charge required to be withheld by any paying agent from any payment of principal of or interest on any Note, if such payment can be made without such withholding by presenting such Note (where presentation is required) to at least one other paying agent;

(8) to any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that would not have been imposed but for the presentation by the Holder of any Note, where presentation is required, for payment on a date more than 30 days after the date on which payment became due and payable or the date on which payment thereof is duly provided for, whichever occurs later;

(9) to any tax, assessment or other governmental charge that is imposed or withheld solely by reason of the beneficial owner being a bank (i) purchasing the Notes in the ordinary course of its lending business or (ii) that is neither (A) buying the Notes for investment purposes only nor (B) buying the Notes for resale to a third-party that either is not a bank or holding the Notes for investment purposes only;

(10) to any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed under Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code (or any amended or successor provisions), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b) of the Code or any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such sections of the Code; or

(11) in the case of any combination of items (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9), and (10).

(b) The Notes are subject in all cases to any tax, fiscal or other law or regulation or administrative or judicial interpretation applicable to the Notes. Except as specifically provided under this Section 3.01, the Company will not be required to make any payment for any tax, assessment or other governmental charge imposed by any government or a political subdivision or taxing authority of or in any government or political subdivision.

(c) As used under this Section 3.01 and Section 2.08 hereof, the term “United States” means the United States of America (including the states of the United States and the District of Columbia and any political subdivision thereof) and the term “United States person” means any individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States for U.S. federal income tax purposes, a corporation, partnership or other entity created or organized in

 

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or under the laws of the United States, any state of the United States or the District of Columbia (other than a partnership that is not treated as a United States person under any applicable Treasury regulations), or any estate or trust the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source.

(d) Any reference to amounts payable in respect of the Notes herein or in the Indenture shall be deemed to include any additional amounts which may be payable under this Section 3.01.

ARTICLE 4

CHANGE OF CONTROL REPURCHASE EVENT

Section 4.01. Intended Beneficiary; Definitions.

(a) The provisions of this Article 4 shall be applicable only to, and are solely for the benefit of Holders of, each series of Notes and to no other Security.

(b) For purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16:

Below Investment Grade Ratings Event” means, with respect to a series of Notes, on any day within the 60-day period (which period shall be extended so long as the rating of such series of Notes is under publicly announced consideration for a possible downgrade by any Rating Agency) after the earlier of (1) the occurrence of a Change of Control, or (2) the public announcement of the occurrence of a Change of Control or the intention by the Company to effect a Change of Control, the Notes of such series are rated below Investment Grade by each and every Rating Agency. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Below Investment Grade Ratings Event otherwise arising by virtue of a particular reduction in rating shall not be deemed to have occurred in respect of a particular Change of Control (and thus shall not be deemed a Below Investment Grade Ratings Event for purposes of the definition of Change of Control Repurchase Event hereunder) if the Rating Agencies making the reduction in rating to which this definition would otherwise apply do not publicly announce or publicly confirm, or inform the Trustee in writing at the Company’s request, that the reduction was the result, in whole or in part, of any event or circumstance comprised of or arising as a result of, or in respect of, the applicable Change of Control (whether or not the applicable Change of Control shall have occurred at the time of the Below Investment Grade Ratings Event).

Change of Control” means the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” or “group” (as those terms are used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), other than (1) the Company or any Subsidiary, (2) any employee benefit plan (or a trust forming a part thereof) maintained by the Company or any Subsidiary, or (3) any underwriter temporarily holding Voting Stock of the Company pursuant to an offering of such Voting Stock, becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the combined voting power of the Company’s Voting Stock or other Voting Stock into which the Company’s Voting Stock is reclassified, consolidated, exchanged or changed measured by voting power rather than number of shares.

Change of Control Repurchase Event” means the occurrence of both a Change of Control and a Below Investment Grade Ratings Event with respect to a series of Notes.

Investment Grade” means, with respect to Moody’s, a rating of Baa3 or better (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of Moody’s); with respect to S&P, a rating of BBB- or better (or its equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P); and, with respect to any additional Rating Agency or Rating Agencies selected by the Company, the equivalent investment grade credit rating.

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc., a subsidiary of Moody’s Corporation, and its successors.

Rating Agency” means (1) each of Moody’s and S&P; and (2) if either of Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Notes or fails to make a rating of the Notes publicly available for reasons outside of the Company’s control, a “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” within the meaning of Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act, selected by the Company (as certified by a Board Resolution) as a replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, or both of them, as the case may be.

 

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S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, a division of S&P Global, Inc., and its successors.

Voting Stock” of any specified “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) as of any date means the capital stock of such person that is at the time entitled to vote generally in the election of the board of directors of such person.

Section 4.02. Change of Control Repurchase Event.

(a) If a Change of Control Repurchase Event occurs with respect to a series of Notes, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem such Notes pursuant to the redemption terms of such Notes, the Company will make an offer to each Holder of the Notes of such series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price (the “Repurchase Price”) in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the Repurchase Date (as defined herein).

(b) Within 30 days following a Change of Control Repurchase Event or, at the Company’s option, prior to a Change of Control, but after the public announcement of such Change of Control, the Company will mail or electronically deliver, or cause to be mailed or electronically delivered, or otherwise deliver in accordance with the procedures of the applicable clearing system, a notice to each Holder of the Notes of such series, with a copy to the Trustee and the Paying Agent, describing the transaction or transactions that constitute or may constitute the Change of Control Repurchase Event and offering to repurchase the Notes of such series on the payment date specified in the notice (such offer, the “Repurchase Offer” and such date, the “Repurchase Date”), which Repurchase Date will be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed or delivered, pursuant to the procedures described in such notice. The notice shall, if mailed or delivered prior to the date of consummation of the Change of Control, state that the Repurchase Offer is conditioned on a Change of Control Repurchase Event occurring on or prior to the Repurchase Date.

(c) The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of a series of Notes as a result of a Change of Control Repurchase Event. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Notes, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under the Change of Control Repurchase Event provisions of the Notes by virtue of such conflict.

(d) On the Repurchase Date following a Change of Control Repurchase Event, the Company will, to the extent lawful:

(i) accept for payment all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered pursuant to the Repurchase Offer;

(ii) deposit with the Paying Agent an amount equal to the aggregate Repurchase Price for all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered;

(iii) deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee the Notes properly accepted for payment by the Company, together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes being repurchased by the Company pursuant to the Repurchase Offer; and

(iv) deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee, for authentication by the Trustee, any new Notes required to be issued pursuant to Section 4.02(e) below, duly executed by the Company.

 

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(e) Upon receipt by the Trustee from the Company of a notice setting forth the Repurchase Price and the Notes properly tendered and accepted for payment, the Trustee will promptly mail or electronically deliver, or cause the Paying Agent to promptly mail or electronically deliver, or otherwise deliver in accordance with the procedures of the applicable clearing system, to each Holder of such Notes, or portions of such Notes, properly tendered and accepted for payment by the Company the Repurchase Price for such Notes or portions of such Notes, and the Trustee will promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book-entry) to each such Holder a new Note, as applicable, duly executed by the Company equal in principal amount to any unrepurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, as applicable; provided that each new Note will be in a principal amount equal to €100,000 or integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof.

(f) The Company will not be required to make a Repurchase Offer upon a Change of Control Repurchase Event if a third party makes such an offer in the manner, at the times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for such an offer made by the Company and such third party purchases all Notes or portions of Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under its offer.

ARTICLE 5

AMENDMENTS TO INDENTURE

Section 5.01. Amendment to Section 1.01 of the Indenture. Solely with respect to the Notes, Section 1.01 of the Indenture is hereby amended by adding the following defined term to Section 1.01 in appropriate alphabetical sequence, as follows:

Separation” means any sale, exchange, transfer, distribution, or other disposition of assets and/or Capital Stock of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company resulting in the separation of the Company’s FedEx Freight business through the capital markets to create a new publicly traded company.

Section 5.02. Amendment to Section 12.04 of the Indenture. Solely with respect to the Notes, Section 12.04 of the Indenture is hereby deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:

SECTION 12.04. Release of a Guarantor. Subject to the provisions of Section 10.07, (i) upon the sale, exchange, transfer or other disposition (by merger or otherwise), other than a lease, of a Guarantor, or of all of the Capital Stock of a Guarantor, or all, or substantially all, the assets of a Guarantor, to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company, such Guarantor shall be deemed to be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all its obligations under its Guarantee and under this Article 12 without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder and (ii) in connection with the Separation, at the time that FedEx Freight, Inc. ceases to be a Subsidiary of the Company, FedEx Freight, Inc. shall be deemed to be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged from all its obligations under its Guarantee and under this Article 12 without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder. The Trustee shall deliver, without any further action required on the part of any Holder, an appropriate instrument evidencing such release and discharge upon receipt of a Company Request accompanied by an Officers’ Certificate certifying as to the compliance with this Section 12.04.

ARTICLE 6

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Section 6.01. Supplemental Indenture. The Indenture, as supplemented by this Supplemental Indenture No. 16, is in all respects hereby adopted, ratified and confirmed.

Section 6.02. Effectiveness. This Supplemental Indenture No. 16 shall take effect as of the date hereof.

Section 6.03. Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

 

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Section 6.04. Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions herein shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

Section 6.05. Governing Law. This Supplemental Indenture No. 16 shall be governed by and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

Section 6.06. Submission of Paying Agent to Jurisdiction in the United States. Each of the Paying Agent, the Transfer Agent and the registrar irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any New York State or federal court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, over any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Supplemental Indenture No. 16. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each of the Paying Agent, the Transfer Agent and the registrar irrevocably waives and agrees not to assert, by way of motion, as a defense or otherwise, any claim that it is not subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court and any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.

Section 6.07. Execution by the Trustee. The Trustee has executed this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 only upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Trustee shall not be responsible for the correctness of the recitals contained herein, which shall be taken as statements of the Company and the Guarantors, and the Trustee makes no representation and shall have no responsibility for, or in respect of, the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 or the execution hereof by any Person (other than the Trustee).

Section 6.08. Counterparts. This Supplemental Indenture No. 16 may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. Facsimile, PDF copies or other electronic transmission of signatures shall constitute original signatures for all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 and any enforcement hereof. The words “execution,” signed,” “signature,” “delivery,” and words of like import in or relating to this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 or any document to be signed in connection with this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures (as defined herein), deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means. “Electronic Signatures” means any electronic symbol or process attached to, or associated with, any contract or other record and adopted by a person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture No. 16 to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

     

FedEx Corporation,

as Issuer

Attest:        
By:   /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Corporate Vice President, Corporate Development and Treasurer
     

Federal Express Corporation,

as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:   /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

Federal Express Europe, Inc.,

as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:   /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

Federal Express Holdings S.A., LLC

as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:   /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

Federal Express International, Inc.,

as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:   /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

FedEx Freight, Inc.,

as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:   /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer

 

[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture No. 16]


     

FedEx Office and Print Services, Inc.,

as Guarantor

Attest:        
By:   /s/ Alana L. Griffin     By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name:   Alana L. Griffin     Name:   Trampas T. Gunter
Title:   Assistant Secretary     Title:   Treasurer
     

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association,

as Trustee

      By:   /s/ Ivy L. Wegener
      Name:   Ivy L. Wegener
      Title:   Vice President
     

U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch,

as Paying Agent

      By:   /s/ Shobita Choudhury
      Name:   Shobita Choudhury
      Title:   Authorised Signatory

 

[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture No. 16]


[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR BANK S.A./N.V., AS OPERATOR OF THE EUROCLEAR SYSTEM (“EUROCLEAR”), AND CLEARSTREAM BANKING, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME (“CLEARSTREAM” AND, TOGETHER WITH EUROCLEAR, “EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED, HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

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[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

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No. [•]    ISIN No. [     ]1
   Common Code [     ]2

FEDEX CORPORATION

0.450% Notes due 2029

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest

by the Guarantors named in the Indenture Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to USB Nominees (UK) Limited as nominee of U.S. Bank Europe DAC, as common depository for the accounts of Euroclear/Clearstream or registered assigns, the principal sum of €[     ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on May 4, 2029 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 0.450% Notes due 2029 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, annually in arrears on May 4 of each year, commencing on May 4, 2025, or if any such day is not a business day, on the next succeeding business day, and Holders will not be entitled to any interest as a result of such delay, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption as contemplated herein, at the rate of 0.450% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 16 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 16”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein, the Trustee and U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch (formerly known as Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch), as paying agent (the “Paying Agent”) (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding April 19 or, if the Notes are represented by one or more global notes, the close of business on the business day (for this purpose a day on which Euroclear/Clearstream are open for business) immediately preceding April 19. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the period for which interest is being calculated and the actual number of days from and including the last date to which interest was paid on this Note (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 0.450% Notes due 2029 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to, but excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date. This payment convention is referred to as ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) as defined in the rulebook of the International Capital Market Association.

 

1 

Rule 144A ISIN: XS2992391446

Regulation S ISIN: XS2992394895

2 

Rule 144A Common Code: 299239144

Regulation S Common Code: 299239489

 

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If the Stated Maturity Date or any Redemption Date of this Note falls on a day that is not a business day, the related payment of principal, premium and additional amounts, if any, and interest will be made on the next business day as if it were made on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amounts so payable for the period from and after such date to the next business day. If any Interest Payment Date would otherwise be a day that is not a business day, that Interest Payment Date will be postponed to the next date that is a business day.

If, on or after issuance of this Note, the single currency of participating member states of the economic and monetary union as contemplated in the Treaty on European Union (the “euro”) is unavailable to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company’s control (including the dissolution of the European Monetary Union) or if the euro is no longer being used by the then member states of the European Monetary Union that have adopted the euro as their currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of this Note will be made in U.S. dollars until the euro is again available to the Company or so used. In such circumstances, the amount payable on any date in euro will be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate mandated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second business day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the then most recent U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate available on or prior to the second business day prior to the relevant payment date as determined by the Company in its sole discretion. Any payment in respect of this Note so made in U.S. dollars will not constitute an Event of Default under this Note or the Indenture.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION

By:

   
 

Name:

 

Title:

 

Attest:

By:

   
 

Name:

 

Title:

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

0.450% Notes due 2029

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to €391,747,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 16. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

The Company will have the right, at its option, to redeem the Notes of this series in whole or in part at any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), on at least 10 days’, but no more than 60 days’, prior written notice mailed or electronically delivered by the Company (or otherwise delivered in accordance with the applicable clearing system’s procedures) to the Holders of the Notes of this series to be redeemed. Upon redemption of such Notes, the Company will pay a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) of principal and interest on the Notes of this series to be redeemed that would be due if the Notes of this series matured on the Par Call Date (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the Redemption Date), discounted to the Redemption Date on an ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) day count basis, at the applicable Comparable Government Bond Rate (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) plus 0.150% (15 basis points), plus, in the case of either (i) or (ii), accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption on the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed.

At any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption on the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed. As used in this Note, Par Call Date shall mean February 4, 2029 (the date that is three months prior to the Stated Maturity Date of the Notes of this series).

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in the Company’s sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series called for redemption.

If, as a result of any change in, or amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated under the laws) of the United States (or any taxing authority in the United States), or any change in, or amendments to, an official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment is announced or becomes effective on or after the date of the issuance of the Notes of this series, the Company becomes or, based upon a written opinion of independent counsel selected by the Company, the Company will become obligated to pay additional amounts (as described in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) with respect to the Notes of this series, then the Company may at any time at its option redeem, in whole, but not in part, the outstanding Notes of this series on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior notice, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of their principal amount, together with accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes of this series to be redeemed to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.

 

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In the event that the Company has purchased Notes of this series equal to or greater than 80% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series initially issued, the Company may redeem, in whole, but not in part, the remaining Notes of this series on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior notice, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, together with accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes of this series to be redeemed to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 16, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office of the Transfer Agent, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

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The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Security Registrar and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 
Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 
Signature

 

Dated: _________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 0.450% Notes due 2029

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 16, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee, and U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch (formerly known as Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch), as paying agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of €__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated:___________________

 

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Exhibit A-2

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR BANK S.A./N.V., AS OPERATOR OF THE EUROCLEAR SYSTEM (“EUROCLEAR”), AND CLEARSTREAM BANKING, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME (“CLEARSTREAM” AND, TOGETHER WITH EUROCLEAR, “EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED, HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

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[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

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No. [•]   

ISIN No. [     ]3

Common Code [     ]4

FEDEX CORPORATION

1.300% Notes due 2031

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest

by the Guarantors named in the Indenture Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to USB Nominees (UK) Limited as nominee of U.S. Bank Europe DAC, as common depository for the accounts of Euroclear/Clearstream or registered assigns, the principal sum of €[     ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on August 5, 2031 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 1.300% Notes due 2031 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, annually in arrears on August 5 of each year, commencing on August 5, 2025, or if any such day is not a business day, on the next succeeding business day, and Holders will not be entitled to any interest as a result of such delay, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption as contemplated herein, at the rate of 1.300% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 16 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 16”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein, the Trustee and U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch (formerly known as Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch), as paying agent (the “Paying Agent”) (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding July 21 or, if the Notes are represented by one or more global notes, the close of business on the business day (for this purpose a day on which Euroclear/Clearstream are open for business) immediately preceding July 21. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the period for which interest is being calculated and the actual number of days from and including the last date to which interest was paid on this Note (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 1.300% Notes due 2031 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to, but excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date. This payment convention is referred to as ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) as defined in the rulebook of the International Capital Market Association.

 

3 

Rule 144A ISIN: XS2992396320

Regulation S ISIN: XS2992395785

4 

Rule 144A Common Code: 299239632

Regulation S Common Code: 299239578

 

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If the Stated Maturity Date or any Redemption Date of this Note falls on a day that is not a business day, the related payment of principal, premium and additional amounts, if any, and interest will be made on the next business day as if it were made on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amounts so payable for the period from and after such date to the next business day. If any Interest Payment Date would otherwise be a day that is not a business day, that Interest Payment Date will be postponed to the next date that is a business day.

If, on or after issuance of this Note, the single currency of participating member states of the economic and monetary union as contemplated in the Treaty on European Union (the “euro”) is unavailable to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company’s control (including the dissolution of the European Monetary Union) or if the euro is no longer being used by the then member states of the European Monetary Union that have adopted the euro as their currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of this Note will be made in U.S. dollars until the euro is again available to the Company or so used. In such circumstances, the amount payable on any date in euro will be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate mandated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second business day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the then most recent U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate available on or prior to the second business day prior to the relevant payment date as determined by the Company in its sole discretion. Any payment in respect of this Note so made in U.S. dollars will not constitute an Event of Default under this Note or the Indenture.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Attest:
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

1.300% Notes due 2031

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to €145,122,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 16. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

The Company will have the right, at its option, to redeem the Notes of this series in whole or in part at any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), on at least 10 days’, but no more than 60 days’, prior written notice mailed or electronically delivered by the Company (or otherwise delivered in accordance with the applicable clearing system’s procedures) to the Holders of the Notes of this series to be redeemed. Upon redemption of such Notes, the Company will pay a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) of principal and interest on the Notes of this series to be redeemed that would be due if the Notes of this series matured on the Par Call Date (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the Redemption Date), discounted to the Redemption Date on an ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) day count basis, at the applicable Comparable Government Bond Rate (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) plus 0.250% (25 basis points), plus, in the case of either (i) or (ii), accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption on the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed.

At any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption on the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed. As used in this Note, Par Call Date shall mean May 5, 2031 (the date that is three months prior to the Stated Maturity Date of the Notes of this series).

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in the Company’s sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions of the Notes of this series called for redemption.

If, as a result of any change in, or amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated under the laws) of the United States (or any taxing authority in the United States), or any change in, or amendments to, an official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment is announced or becomes effective on or after the date of the issuance of the Notes of this series, the Company becomes or, based upon a written opinion of independent counsel selected by the Company, the Company will become obligated to pay additional amounts (as described in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) with respect to the Notes of this series, then the Company may at any time at its option redeem, in whole, but not in part, the outstanding Notes of this series on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior notice, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of their principal amount, together with accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes of this series to be redeemed to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.

 

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If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 16, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office of the Transfer Agent, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

 

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Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Security Registrar and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 
Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 
Signature

 

Dated:_________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 1.300% Notes due 2031

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 16, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee, and U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch (formerly known as Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch), as paying agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of €__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]
By:    
Name:  
Title:  

 

Dated:___________________

 

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Exhibit A-3

[FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE]

[THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE DEPOSITARY OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN SUCH LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.

UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR BANK S.A./N.V., AS OPERATOR OF THE EUROCLEAR SYSTEM (“EUROCLEAR”), AND CLEARSTREAM BANKING, SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME (“CLEARSTREAM” AND, TOGETHER WITH EUROCLEAR, “EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM”) TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF EUROCLEAR/CLEARSTREAM), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, USB NOMINEES (UK) LIMITED, HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.](1)

THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION.

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, SUCH REGISTRATION. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES ON ITS OWN BEHALF AND ON BEHALF OF ANY INVESTOR ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT HAS PURCHASED SECURITIES, TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) THAT IS [IN THE CASE OF RULE 144A NOTES: SIX MONTHS][IN THE CASE OF REGULATION S NOTES: 40 DAYS] AFTER THE LATER OF THE ISSUE DATE HEREOF OR ANY OTHER ISSUE DATE IN RESPECT OF A FURTHER ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES OF THE SAME SERIES AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY AFFILIATE OF FEDEX CORPORATION WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO FEDEX CORPORATION OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (“RULE 144A”), TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-U.S. PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO FEDEX CORPORATION’S AND THE TRUSTEE’S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/ OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.

 

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[EACH PURCHASER OF THIS SECURITY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS SECURITY MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.](2)

[BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER HEREOF REPRESENTS THAT IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON NOR IS IT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.](3)

[IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION AS SUCH TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.](4)

 

(1)

Applies to Global Notes only.

 

(2)

Applies to Rule 144A Notes only.

 

(3)

Applies to Regulation S Notes only.

 

(4)

Applies to Notes in definitive form only.

 

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No. [•]   

ISIN No. [     ]5

Common Code [     ]6

FEDEX CORPORATION

0.950% Notes due 2033

Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest

by the Guarantors named in the Indenture Referred to Below

FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor Corporation under the Indenture), for value received, hereby promises to pay to USB Nominees (UK) Limited as nominee of U.S. Bank Europe DAC, as common depository for the accounts of Euroclear/Clearstream or registered assigns, the principal sum of €[     ], or such other principal sum as may be indicated on the Schedule of Changes in Outstanding Principal Amount attached hereto, on May 4, 2033 (the “Stated Maturity Date”) and to pay interest thereon from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 0.950% Notes due 2033 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, or from the most recent “Interest Payment Date” to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, annually in arrears on May 4 of each year, commencing on May 4, 2025, or if any such day is not a business day, on the next succeeding business day, and Holders will not be entitled to any interest as a result of such delay, and ending on the Stated Maturity Date or date of earlier redemption as contemplated herein, at the rate of 0.950% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association) as Trustee (the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee pursuant to the Indenture), as supplemented by Supplemental Indenture No. 16 dated as of February 26, 2025 (“Supplemental Indenture No. 16”), among the Company, the Guarantors named therein, the Trustee and U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch (formerly known as Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch), as paying agent (the “Paying Agent”) (as so amended and supplemented, the “Indenture”), be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on the “Regular Record Date” for such interest, which shall be the preceding April 19 or, if the Notes are represented by one or more global notes, the close of business on the business day (for this purpose a day on which Euroclear/Clearstream are open for business) immediately preceding April 19. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice of which shall be given to Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.

Interest payments on this Note will be computed on the basis of the actual number of days in the period for which interest is being calculated and the actual number of days from and including the last date to which interest was paid on this Note (or from and including the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for by the Company on the 0.450% Notes due 2029 issued by the Company that were accepted in the Exchange Offers, if no interest has been paid on this Note) to, but excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date. This payment convention is referred to as ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) as defined in the rulebook of the International Capital Market Association.

 

5 

Rule 144A ISIN: XS2992396676

Regulation S ISIN: XS2992396593

6 

Rule 144A Common Code: 299239667

Regulation S Common Code: 299239659

 

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If the Stated Maturity Date or any Redemption Date of this Note falls on a day that is not a business day, the related payment of principal, premium and additional amounts, if any, and interest will be made on the next business day as if it were made on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on the amounts so payable for the period from and after such date to the next business day. If any Interest Payment Date would otherwise be a day that is not a business day, that Interest Payment Date will be postponed to the next date that is a business day.

If, on or after issuance of this Note, the single currency of participating member states of the economic and monetary union as contemplated in the Treaty on European Union (the “euro”) is unavailable to the Company due to the imposition of exchange controls or other circumstances beyond the Company’s control (including the dissolution of the European Monetary Union) or if the euro is no longer being used by the then member states of the European Monetary Union that have adopted the euro as their currency or for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within the international banking community, then all payments in respect of this Note will be made in U.S. dollars until the euro is again available to the Company or so used. In such circumstances, the amount payable on any date in euro will be converted into U.S. dollars at the rate mandated by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as of the close of business on the second business day prior to the relevant payment date or, in the event the U.S. Federal Reserve Board has not mandated a rate of conversion, on the basis of the then most recent U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate available on or prior to the second business day prior to the relevant payment date as determined by the Company in its sole discretion. Any payment in respect of this Note so made in U.S. dollars will not constitute an Event of Default under this Note or the Indenture.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit pursuant to the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

Attest:
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

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Certificate of Authentication

This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

 

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
By:    
  Authorized Signatory

Dated:

 

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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]

FEDEX CORPORATION

0.950% Notes due 2033

This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of notes of the Company (herein called the “Notes”), issued pursuant to the Indenture. Reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. To the extent the terms of the Indenture and this Note are inconsistent, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof, limited in initial aggregate principal amount to €402,828,000, except as contemplated in Supplemental Indenture No. 16. Capitalized terms used herein and in the Guarantee, dated February 26, 2025, but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.

The Notes of this series are not subject to any sinking fund.

The Company will have the right, at its option, to redeem the Notes of this series in whole or in part at any time prior to the Par Call Date (as defined herein), on at least 10 days’, but no more than 60 days’, prior written notice mailed or electronically delivered by the Company (or otherwise delivered in accordance with the applicable clearing system’s procedures) to the Holders of the Notes of this series to be redeemed. Upon redemption of such Notes, the Company will pay a Redemption Price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present values of the Remaining Scheduled Payments (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) of principal and interest on the Notes of this series to be redeemed that would be due if the Notes of this series matured on the Par Call Date (not including any portion of such payments of interest accrued as of the Redemption Date), discounted to the Redemption Date on an ACTUAL/ACTUAL (ICMA) day count basis, at the applicable Comparable Government Bond Rate (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) plus 0.200% (20 basis points), plus, in the case of either (i) or (ii), accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption on the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed.

At any time on or after the Par Call Date, the Company may redeem the Notes of this series, in whole or in part, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes of this series to be redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the date of redemption on the principal amount of the Notes of this series being redeemed. As used in this Note, Par Call Date shall mean February 4, 2029 (the date that is three months prior to the Stated Maturity Date of the Notes of this series).

Any redemption notice may, at the Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions precedent, including completion of a corporate transaction. In such event, the related notice of redemption shall describe each such condition and, if applicable, shall state that, at the Company’s discretion, the date of redemption may be delayed until such time (including more than 60 days after the notice of redemption was given) as any or all such conditions shall be satisfied or waived, or such redemption may not occur and such notice may be rescinded in the event that any or all such conditions shall not have been satisfied (or waived by the Company in the Company’s sole discretion) by the date of redemption, or by the date of redemption as so delayed.

Unless the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes, or portions of the Notes of this series called for redemption.

If, as a result of any change in, or amendment to, the laws (or any regulations or rulings promulgated under the laws) of the United States (or any taxing authority in the United States), or any change in, or amendments to, an official position regarding the application or interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings, which change or amendment is announced or becomes effective on or after the date of the issuance of the Notes of this series, the Company becomes or, based upon a written opinion of independent counsel selected by the Company, the Company will become obligated to pay additional amounts (as described in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) with respect to the Notes of this series, then the Company may at any time at its option redeem, in whole, but not in part, the outstanding Notes of this series on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior notice, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of their principal amount, together with accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes of this series to be redeemed to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.

 

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In the event that the Company has purchased Notes of this series equal to or greater than 80% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series initially issued, the Company may redeem, in whole, but not in part, the remaining Notes of this series on not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior notice, at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed, together with accrued and unpaid interest on the Notes of this series to be redeemed to, but excluding, the date fixed for redemption.

If a Change of Control Repurchase Event (as defined in Supplemental Indenture No. 16) occurs with respect to Notes of this series, except to the extent the Company has exercised its right to redeem the Notes of this series pursuant to the redemption terms of the Notes, the Company will make an offer, as provided in, and subject to the terms of, Supplemental Indenture No. 16, to each Holder of the Notes of this series to repurchase all or any part (in minimum denominations of €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof) of that Holder’s Notes at a repurchase price in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes repurchased plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes repurchased to, but excluding, the date of repurchase.

The Notes of this series are fully and unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced by their guarantees (the “Guarantees”) set forth hereon. The Guarantees are the direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank equally in right of payment and in all other respects with all other unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter outstanding.

In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.

The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.

The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected pursuant to the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of such Securities at the time Outstanding (voting as a single class). The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults pursuant to the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Note.

No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.

As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office of the Transfer Agent, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.

 

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The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations equal to €100,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and therein set forth, Notes of this series are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Security Registrar and any agent of the Company, a Guarantor, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Security Registrar nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.

No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director or employee, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto, either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor thereto, under any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.

In addition to the rights provided to Holders under the Indenture, Holders of Notes shall have all of the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, including the right to receive Additional Interest, if any.

This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

 

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SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT

The following notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this Note have been made:

 

Date

 

Initial Principal Amount

 

Change in Outstanding

Principal Amount

  

New

Balance

  

Notation Made

by

 

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FORM OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

In connection with any transfer of any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred to in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) after the later of the date of original issuance of such Securities and the last date, if any, on which such Securities were owned by the Company or any Affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144) of the Company, the undersigned confirms that such Securities are being transferred in accordance with its terms:

CHECK ONE BOX BELOW

(1) ☐ to the Company; or

(2) ☐ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; or

(3) ☐ inside the United States to a person reasonably believed to be a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) that purchases for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; or

(4) ☐ in an offshore transaction in compliance with Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or

(5) ☐ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other available exemption from the registration requirement of the Securities Act.

Unless one of the boxes is checked, the Trustee shall refuse to register any of the Securities evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require, prior to registering any such transfer of the Securities, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

 

 

Signature

 

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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED.

The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Security for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A.

 

 

Signature

 

Dated:_________________________

Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

 

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FORM OF EXCHANGE CERTIFICATE

FedEx Corporation

942 South Shady Grove Road

Memphis, Tennessee 38120

U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association

Global Corporate Trust, Boston

One Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

EX-MA-FED

Re: 0.950% Notes due 2033

Reference is hereby made to the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture No. 16, dated as of February 26, 2025 (as so supplemented, the “Indenture”), among FedEx Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantors named therein, U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee, and U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch (formerly known as Elavon Financial Services DAC, UK Branch), as paying agent. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture.

___________ (the “Owner”) owns and proposes to exchange the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein, in the principal amount of €__________ in such Security[ies] or interests (the “Exchange”). In connection with the Exchange, the Owner hereby certifies that in connection with the Exchange of the Owner’s Regulation S Global Note for a beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note, with an equal principal amount, the Security[ies] or interest in such Security[ies] specified herein [is][are] being transferred to a Person (A) who the transferor reasonably believes to be a QIB, (B) purchasing for its own account or the account of a QIB in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, and (C) in accordance with all applicable securities laws of the States of the United States and other jurisdictions.

This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and are dated ______________________.

 

[Insert Name of Transferor]

By:

   

Name:

 

Title:

 

 

Dated:___________________

 

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE

DELIVERED IN CONNECTION WITH

TRANSFERS PURSUANT TO REGULATION S

[Date]

Attention:

Re:

FedEx Corporation (the “Company”)

[applicable series of Notes] (the “Securities”)

Ladies and Gentlemen:

In connection with our proposed sale of €______________ aggregate principal amount of the Securities, we confirm that such sale has been effected pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and, accordingly, we represent that:

(1) the offer of the Securities was not made to a person in the United States;

(2) either (a) at the time the buy offer was originated, the transferee was outside the United States or we and any person acting on our behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United States, or (b) the transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a designated offshore securities market and neither we nor any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction has been prearranged with a buyer in the United States;

(3) no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S, as applicable;

(4) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act; and

(5) we have advised the transferee of the transfer restrictions applicable to the Securities.

You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this certificate have the meanings set forth in Regulation S.

 

Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferor]
By:    
  Authorized Signature

 

B-1

Exhibit 4.28

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

This REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT dated February 26, 2025 (this “Agreement”) is entered into by and among FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), each Guarantor (as defined below) and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (the “Dealer Manager”). Any of the Company’s subsidiaries (including any Additional Guarantor (as defined below)) that provides a guarantee with respect to any series of Notes in accordance with the terms of the Indenture is referred to herein as a “Guarantor” and, collectively, as the “Guarantors.”

The Company, the Significant Guarantors and the Dealer Manager are parties to the Dealer Manager Agreement dated January 7, 2025 (the “Dealer Manager Agreement”) related to the Company’s exchange offers and consent solicitations, pursuant to which the Company will issue on the Effective Date (as defined below) (i) $340,494,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.400% Notes due 2028, $237,285,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.200% Notes due 2028, $628,053,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.100% Notes due 2029, $406,103,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.250% Notes due 2030, $642,185,000 aggregate principal amount of its 2.400% Notes due 2031, $351,518,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.900% Notes due 2034, $391,912,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.900% Notes due 2035, $619,635,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.250% Notes due 2041, $444,611,000 aggregate principal amount of its 3.875% Notes due 2042, $391,769,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.100% Notes due 2043, $541,689,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.100% Notes due 2044, $503,830,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.100% Notes due 2045, $913,438,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.750% Notes due 2045, $1,007,069,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.550% Notes due 2046, $604,653,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.400% Notes due 2047, $743,435,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.050% Notes due 2048, $696,469,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.950% Notes due 2048, $1,047,658,000 aggregate principal amount of its 5.250% Notes due 2050 and $213,040,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.500% Notes due 2065 (the “USD Notes”) and (ii) €391,747,000 aggregate principal amount of its 0.450% Notes due 2029, €145,122,000 aggregate principal amount of its 1.300% Notes due 2031 and €402,828,000 aggregate principal amount of its 0.950% Notes due 2033 (collectively, the “EUR Notes” and, together with the USD Notes, the “Notes”). As an inducement to participate in the exchange offers and consent solicitations, the Company has agreed to provide holders of the Company’s Outstanding Securities (as such term is defined in the Dealer Manager Agreement) that tender such securities in the exchange offers and consent solicitations (the “Initial Holders”) and their direct and indirect transferees the registration rights set forth in this Agreement. The execution and delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the obligations of the Dealer Manager under the Dealer Manager Agreement.

In consideration of the foregoing, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Additional Guarantor” shall mean any subsidiary of the Company that executes a Guarantee under the Indenture after the Effective Date.

Base Indenture” shall mean the Indenture, dated as of October 23, 2015, among the Company the Guarantors and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (as successor in interest to U.S. Bank National Association) (as successor trustee to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association), as trustee, as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.


Business Day” shall mean each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York are generally authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.

Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Dealer Manager” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Effective Date” shall mean the date of this Agreement.

EUR Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.

Exchange Dates” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)(ii) hereof.

Exchange Notes” shall mean senior notes of a series issued by the Company under the Indenture and guaranteed by the Guarantors under the Indenture, containing terms substantially identical in all material respects to the applicable series of Notes (except that the Exchange Notes will not be subject to restrictions on transfer or to any increase in annual interest rate for failure to comply with this Agreement) and to be offered to Holders in exchange for Registrable Securities of such series pursuant to the Exchange Offer for such series.

Exchange Offer” shall mean the exchange offer by the Company and the Guarantors of Exchange Securities of each series for Registrable Securities of such series pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.

Exchange Offer Registration” shall mean a registration under the Securities Act effected pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.

Exchange Offer Registration Statement” shall mean an exchange offer registration statement on Form S-4 (or, if applicable, on another appropriate form) and all amendments and supplements to such registration statement, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

Exchange Securities” shall mean the Exchange Notes and the Guarantees thereof, collectively.

FINRA” shall mean the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

Free Writing Prospectus” shall mean each free writing prospectus (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) prepared by or on behalf of the Company and used by the Company in connection with the issuance of the Exchange Securities.

Guarantees” shall mean the guarantees of the Notes by the Guarantors pursuant to the terms of the Indenture and, to the extent such guarantees are in effect at the time of the issuance of any Exchange Notes, the guarantees of the Exchange Notes by the Guarantors pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, in each case until such time as such guarantees are released in accordance with the Indenture.

Guarantor” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.


Holders” shall mean each Initial Holder, for so long as it owns any Registrable Securities, and each of their successors, assigns and direct and indirect transferees who become owners of Registrable Securities under the Indenture; provided that, for purposes of Section 4 and Section 5 hereof, the term “Holders” shall include Participating Broker-Dealers.

Indemnified Person” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(a) hereof.

Indenture” shall mean the Base Indenture as supplemented by (i) Supplemental Indenture No. 15, dated February 26, 2025, among the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee with respect to the USD Notes and (ii) Supplemental Indenture No. 16, dated as of February 26, 2025, among the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and U.S. Bank Europe DAC, UK Branch, as paying agent, with respect to the issuance of the EUR Notes.

Initial Holder” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Inspector” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a)(xv) hereof.

Issuer Information” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(a) hereof.

Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Notice and Questionnaire” shall mean a notice of registration statement and selling security holder questionnaire distributed to a Holder by the Company upon receipt of a Shelf Request from such Holder.

Participating Broker-Dealers” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a) hereof.

Participating Holder” shall mean any Holder of Registrable Securities that has returned a completed and signed Notice and Questionnaire to the Company in accordance with Section 2(b) hereof.

Person” shall mean an individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trust or unincorporated organization, or a government or agency or political subdivision thereof.

Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in, or, pursuant to the rules and regulations of the Securities Act, deemed a part of, a Registration Statement, including any preliminary prospectus, and any such prospectus as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, including a prospectus supplement with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities covered by a Shelf Registration Statement, and by all other amendments and supplements to such prospectus, and in each case including any document incorporated by reference therein.

Dealer Manager Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

Registrable Securities” shall mean the Securities; provided that the Securities of any series shall cease to be Registrable Securities upon the earliest to occur of the following: (i) when a Registration Statement with respect to such Securities has become effective under the Securities Act and such Securities have been exchanged or disposed of pursuant to such Registration Statement, (ii) when such Securities cease to be outstanding, (iii) when such Securities have been resold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act (but not Rule 144A) without regard to volume restrictions, provided that the Company shall have removed or caused to be removed any restrictive legend on the Securities, and (iv) except in the case of Securities with respect to which Holders who are eligible to make a Shelf Request, when the applicable Exchange Offer is consummated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.


Registration Default” shall mean the occurrence of any of the following with respect to a series of Securities: (i) the Exchange Offer of the Exchange Notes for all Notes validly tendered in accordance with the terms of the Exchange Offer is not completed on or prior to the Target Registration Date or, if a Shelf Registration Statement is required, such Shelf Registration Statement is not declared effective on or prior to the 180th day after the later of (a) the Target Registration Date and (b) the date on which the Company receives a duly executed Shelf Request pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof or (ii) if applicable, a Shelf Registration Statement covering resales of the Notes has been declared effective and such Shelf Registration Statement ceases to be effective or the Prospectus contained therein ceases to be usable for resales of Registrable Securities (a) on more than two occasions of at least 30 consecutive calendar days during the required Shelf Effectiveness Period or (b) at any time in any 12-month period during the required Shelf Effectiveness Period and such failure to remain effective or be usable exists for more than 90 days (whether or not consecutive) in any 12-month period.

Registration Expenses” shall mean any and all expenses incident to performance of or compliance by the Company and the Guarantors with this Agreement, including without limitation: (i) all SEC or FINRA registration and filing fees, (ii) all fees and expenses incurred in connection with compliance with state securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of one counsel for any Underwriters or Holders in connection with blue sky qualification of any Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities), (iii) all expenses of the Company and the Guarantors in preparing or assisting in preparing, word processing, printing and distributing any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto, any underwriting agreements, securities sales agreements or other similar agreements and any other documents relating to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, (iv) all rating agency fees incurred by the Company or the Guarantors (including with respect to maintaining ratings of the Securities), (v) all fees and disbursements relating to the qualification of the Indenture under applicable securities laws, (vi) the reasonable fees and disbursements of the Trustee and one counsel, (vii) all expenses for the Exchange Securities being made eligible for clearance and settlement through DTC or Euroclear and Clearstream (each as defined below), as applicable; (viii) all expenses and application fees related to any listing of the Exchange Securities issued in exchange for the EUR Notes on the New York Stock Exchange, (ix) the fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company and the Guarantors and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the reasonable and documented fees and disbursements of one counsel for the Participating Holders (which counsel shall be selected or replaced by the Participating Holders holding a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Registrable Securities held by such Participating Holders and which counsel may also be counsel for the Dealer Manager) and (x) the fees and disbursements of the independent registered public accountants of the Company and the Guarantors, including the expenses of any special audits or “comfort” letters required by or incident to the performance of and compliance with this Agreement, but excluding in all cases fees and expenses of counsel to the Underwriters (other than fees and expenses set forth in clause (ii) above) or the Holders and underwriting discounts and commissions, brokerage commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of Registrable Securities by a Holder.

Registration Statement” shall mean any registration statement of the Company and the Guarantors that covers any of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement and all amendments and supplements to any such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

SEC” shall mean the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Securities” shall mean the Notes and the Guarantees thereof, collectively.


Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

Shelf Effectiveness Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b).

Shelf Registration” shall mean a registration effected pursuant to Section 2(b).

Shelf Registration Statement” shall mean a “shelf” registration statement of the Company and, if applicable, the Guarantors, that covers all or a portion of the Registrable Securities on an appropriate form under Rule 415 under the Securities Act, or any similar rule that may be adopted by the SEC, and all amendments and supplements to such registration statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case including the Prospectus contained therein or deemed a part thereof, all exhibits thereto and any document incorporated by reference therein.

Shelf Request” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b) hereof.

Significant Guarantors” shall mean Federal Express Corporation, Federal Express International, Inc., Federal Express Europe, Inc. and FedEx Freight, Inc.

Staff” shall mean the staff of the SEC.

Suspended Actions” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(e) hereof.

Target Registration Date” shall mean the 365th day after the Effective Date.

Trust Indenture Act” shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended from time to time.

Trustee” shall mean the trustee with respect to the Securities under the Indenture.

Underwriter” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(e) hereof.

Underwritten Offering” shall mean an offering in which Registrable Securities are sold to an Underwriter for reoffering to the public.

USD Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the Preamble.

2. Registration Under the Securities Act.

(a) To the extent not prohibited by any applicable law, the SEC or applicable interpretations of the Staff, the Company and the Guarantors shall, from and after the Effective Date, use their commercially reasonable efforts to (x) cause to be filed an Exchange Offer Registration Statement covering an offer to the Holders to exchange all outstanding Registrable Securities for Exchange Securities and (y) cause such Registration Statement to become effective by the Target Registration Date and, if requested by one or more Participating Broker-Dealers, remain effective until 180 days after the last Exchange Date for use by such Participating Broker-Dealers. The Company and the Guarantors shall commence the Exchange Offer for each series of Notes promptly after the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is declared effective by the SEC and use their commercially reasonable efforts to complete the Exchange Offer for such series not later than 60 days after such effective date.


After the Exchange Offer Registration Statement has become effective, the Company and the Guarantors shall commence the Exchange Offer for each series by mailing and/or electronically delivering, or by causing the mailing and/or electronic delivery of, the related Prospectus, appropriate letters of transmittal and other accompanying documents to each Holder stating, in addition to such other disclosures as are required by applicable law, substantially the following:

(i) that such Exchange Offer is being made pursuant to this Agreement and that all Registrable Securities of such series validly tendered and not properly withdrawn will be accepted for exchange;

(ii) the dates of acceptance for exchange (which shall be a period of at least 20 Business Days from the date such notice is mailed and/or electronically delivered) (each, an “Exchange Date”);

(iii) that any Registrable Security not tendered will remain outstanding and continue to accrue interest but will not retain any rights under this Agreement, except as otherwise specified herein;

(iv) that any Holder electing to have Registrable Securities of a series exchanged pursuant to the Exchange Offer for such series will be required to surrender such Registrable Security, together with the appropriate letters of transmittal, to the institution and at the address and in the manner specified in the notice, or (B) effect such exchange otherwise in compliance with the applicable procedures of the depositary for such Registrable Security, in each case prior to the close of business on the last Exchange Date with respect to such Exchange Offer; and

(v) that any Holder of Registrable Securities of a series will be entitled to withdraw its election, not later than the close of business on the last Exchange Date with respect to the Exchange Offer for such series, by (A) sending to the institution and at the address specified in the notice, a facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of such Holder, the principal amount of Registrable Securities delivered for exchange and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing its election to have such Registrable Securities exchanged or (B) effecting such withdrawal in compliance with the applicable procedures of the depositary for the Registrable Securities.

As a condition to participating in an Exchange Offer, a Holder will be required to represent to the Company and the Guarantors that (1) any Exchange Securities to be received by it will be acquired in the ordinary course of its business, (2) at the time of the commencement of such Exchange Offer it has no arrangement or understanding with any Person to participate in the distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the Exchange Securities in violation of the provisions of the Securities Act, (3) it is not an “affiliate” (within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act) of the Company or the Guarantors, (4) if such Holder is not a broker-dealer, that it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, the distribution of the Exchange Securities and (5) if such Holder is a broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Registrable Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities, then such Holder will deliver a Prospectus (or, to the extent permitted by law, make available a Prospectus to purchasers) in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.

As soon as practicable after the last Exchange Date with respect to an Exchange Offer for Registrable Securities of a series, the Company and the Guarantors shall:

(i) accept for exchange Registrable Securities of such series or portions thereof validly tendered and not properly withdrawn pursuant to such Exchange Offer; and


(ii) deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the Trustee for cancellation all Registrable Securities of such series or portions thereof so accepted for exchange by the Company and issue, and cause the Trustee to promptly authenticate and deliver to each Holder, Exchange Securities of such series equal in principal amount to the principal amount of the Registrable Securities of such series tendered by such Holder; provided that if any of the Registrable Securities are in book-entry form, the Company shall, in cooperation with the Trustee, effect the exchange of Registrable Securities in accordance with applicable book-entry procedures.

The Company and the Guarantors shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to complete each Exchange Offer as provided above and shall use commercially reasonable efforts to comply with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and other applicable laws and regulations in connection with each Exchange Offer. No Exchange Offer shall be subject to any conditions, other than that the Exchange Offer does not violate any applicable law or applicable interpretations of the Staff and that no action or proceeding has been instituted or threatened in any court or by or before any governmental agency relating to the Exchange Offer which, in the Company’s judgment, could reasonably be expected to impair the Company’s ability to proceed with the Exchange Offer.

(b) If (i) for any reason the Exchange Offer is not completed on or prior to the Target Registration Date or (ii) following the Target Registration Date the Company receives a written request (a “Shelf Request”) from the Dealer Manager representing that it holds Registrable Securities of the applicable series that are or were ineligible to be exchanged in any such Exchange Offer, the Company and the Guarantors shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to cause to become effective a Shelf Registration Statement, which may be satisfied by filing a prospectus supplement to an existing Shelf Registration Statement, providing for the sale of all the Registrable Securities of such series by the Holders thereof; provided that (1) no Holder will be entitled to have any Registrable Securities included in any Shelf Registration Statement, or entitled to use the Prospectus forming a part of such Shelf Registration Statement, until such Holder shall have delivered a completed and signed Notice and Questionnaire and provided such other information regarding such Holder to the Company as is contemplated by Section 3(b) hereof and, if necessary, the Shelf Registration Statement has been amended to reflect such information, and (2) the Company and the Guarantors shall be under no obligation to file any such Shelf Registration Statement before they are obligated to file an Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof.

In the event that the Company and the Guarantors are required to file a Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, the Company and the Guarantors shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to file and have become effective both an Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof with respect to all Registrable Securities and a Shelf Registration Statement (which may be a combined Registration Statement with the Exchange Offer Registration Statement) with respect to offers and sales of Registrable Securities held by the Dealer Manager after completion of the Exchange Offer.

The Company and the Guarantors agree to use their commercially reasonable efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective until the date on which the Securities covered thereby cease to be Registrable Securities (the “Shelf Effectiveness Period”). The Company and the Guarantors further agree to use their commercially reasonable efforts to supplement or amend the Shelf Registration Statement, the related Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus if required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company for such Shelf Registration Statement or by the Securities Act or by any other rules and regulations thereunder or if reasonably requested by a Participating Holder of Registrable Securities with respect to information relating to such Holder, and to use their commercially reasonable efforts to cause any such amendment to become effective, if required, and such Shelf Registration Statement, Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, to become usable as soon as thereafter practicable. The Company and the Guarantors agree to furnish to the Participating Holders copies of any such supplement or amendment promptly after its being used or filed with the SEC, as reasonably requested by the Participating Holders.


(c) The Company shall pay all Registration Expenses in connection with any registration pursuant to Section 2(a) or Section 2(b) hereof. Each Holder shall pay all underwriting discounts and commissions, brokerage commissions and transfer taxes, if any, relating to the sale or disposition of such Holder’s Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement.

(d) An Exchange Offer Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC. A Shelf Registration Statement pursuant to Section 2(b) hereof will not be deemed to have become effective unless it has been declared effective by the SEC or is automatically effective upon filing with the SEC as provided by Rule 462 under the Securities Act.

If a Registration Default occurs with respect to a series of Registrable Securities, the interest rate on the Registrable Securities (and only the Registrable Securities) of such series will be increased by (i) 0.25% per annum for the first 90-day period beginning on the day immediately following such Registration Default and (ii) an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent 90-day period, in each case until and including the date such Registration Default ends; provided that the rate at which such additional interest accrues shall in no event exceed 0.50% per annum (such interest referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above, “Additional Interest”). A Registration Default ends with respect to any Security when such Security ceases to be a Registrable Security or, if earlier, (1) in the case of a Registration Default under clause (i) of the definition thereof, when the Exchange Offer for such series is completed or when the Shelf Registration Statement covering such Registrable Securities becomes effective or (2) in the case of a Registration Default under clause (ii) of the definition thereof, when the Shelf Registration Statement again becomes effective or the Prospectus again becomes usable. If at any time more than one Registration Default has occurred and is continuing, then, until the next date that there is no Registration Default, the increase in interest rate provided for by this paragraph shall apply as if there occurred a single Registration Default that begins on the date that the earliest such Registration Default occurred and ends on the next date that there is no Registration Default.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, if the applicable Exchange Offer with respect to a series of Registrable Securities is consummated, any Holder who was, at the time such Exchange Offer was pending and consummated, eligible to exchange, and did not validly tender, or withdrew, its Securities for Exchange Securities in such Exchange Offer will not be entitled to receive any Additional Interest pursuant to the preceding paragraph, and such Securities will no longer constitute Registrable Securities hereunder.

The interest rate increase pursuant to this Section 2(d) is the sole remedy for any default under this Agreement. Any amounts of Additional Interest due pursuant to this Agreement will be payable in cash on the same original interest payment dates as interest on the Notes is payable.

(e) The Company and the Guarantors shall be entitled to suspend their obligation to file any amendment to a Shelf Registration Statement, furnish any supplement or amendment to a Prospectus included in a Shelf Registration Statement or any Free Writing Prospectus, make any other filing with the SEC that would be incorporated by reference into a Shelf Registration Statement, cause a Shelf Registration Statement to remain effective or the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus usable or take any similar action (collectively, “Suspended Actions”) if there is a possible acquisition, disposition or business combination or other transaction, business development or event involving the Company, the Guarantors or any of their respective subsidiaries that may require disclosure in the Shelf Registration


Statement or Prospectus and the Company or the Guarantors determines that such disclosure is not in the best interest of the Company, the Guarantors and their stockholders or obtaining any financial statements relating to any such acquisition or business combination required to be included in the Shelf Registration Statement or Prospectus would be impracticable. Upon the occurrence of any of the conditions described in the foregoing sentence, the Company shall give prompt notice of the delay or suspension (but not the basis thereof) to the Participating Holders. Upon the termination of such condition, the Company shall promptly proceed with all Suspended Actions that were delayed or suspended and, if required, shall give prompt notice to the Participating Holders of the cessation of the delay or suspension (but not the basis thereof).

3. Registration Procedures.

(a) In connection with their obligations pursuant to Section 2(a) and Section 2(b) hereof, the Company and the Guarantors shall use commercially reasonable efforts to:

(i) prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement on the appropriate form under the Securities Act, which form (A) shall be selected by the Company and the Guarantors, (B) shall, in the case of a Shelf Registration, be available for the sale of the Registrable Securities by the Participating Holders thereof and (C) shall comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the applicable form and include or incorporate by reference all financial statements required by the SEC to be filed therewith; and cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective for the applicable period in accordance with Section 2 hereof;

(ii) subject to Section 2(e), prepare and file with the SEC such amendments and post-effective amendments to each Registration Statement as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement effective for the applicable period in accordance with Section 2 hereof and cause each Prospectus to be supplemented by any required prospectus supplement and, as so supplemented, to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act; and keep each Prospectus current during the period described in Section 4(a)(3) of, and Rule 174 under, the Securities Act that is applicable to transactions by brokers or dealers with respect to the Registrable Securities or Exchange Securities;

(iii) to the extent any Free Writing Prospectus is used, file with the SEC any Free Writing Prospectus that is required to be filed by the Company or the Guarantors with the SEC in accordance with the Securities Act and to retain a copy of any Free Writing Prospectus not required to be filed;

(iv) in the case of a Shelf Registration, furnish to each Participating Holder, to counsel for the Dealer Manager, to counsel for such Participating Holders and to each Underwriter of an Underwritten Offering of Registrable Securities, if any, without charge, as many copies of each Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, if any, and any amendment or supplement thereto (other than any document that amends and supplements any Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus because it is incorporated by reference therein), as such Participating Holder, counsel or Underwriter may reasonably request in writing in order to facilitate the sale or other disposition of the Registrable Securities thereunder; and, subject to Section 3(c) hereof, the Company and the Guarantors consent to the use of such Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or such Free Writing Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with applicable law by each of the Participating Holders and any such Underwriters in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by and in the manner described in such Prospectus, preliminary prospectus or such Free Writing Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto in accordance with applicable law;


(v) in the case of a Shelf Registration, register or qualify the Registrable Securities under all applicable state securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions of the United States as any Participating Holder shall reasonably request in writing by the time the applicable Registration Statement becomes effective; cooperate with such Participating Holders in connection with any filings required to be made with FINRA; and do any and all other acts and things that may be reasonably necessary to enable each Participating Holder to complete the disposition in each such jurisdiction of the Registrable Securities owned by such Participating Holder; provided that neither the Company nor the Guarantors shall be required to (1) qualify as a foreign corporation or other entity or as a dealer in securities in any such jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to so qualify, (2) file any general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction or (3) subject itself to taxation in any such jurisdiction if it is not already so subject or otherwise incur unreasonable expense;

(vi) notify counsel for the Dealer Manager and, in the case of a Shelf Registration, notify each Participating Holder and counsel for such Participating Holders promptly and, if requested by any such Participating Holder or counsel, confirm such advice in writing (1) when a Registration Statement has become effective, when any post-effective amendment thereto has been filed and becomes effective, when any Free Writing Prospectus has been filed or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus has been filed, (2) of the issuance by the SEC or any state securities authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, including the receipt by the Company of any notice of objection of the SEC to the use of a Shelf Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act, (3) if, between the applicable effective date of a Shelf Registration Statement and the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities covered thereby, the representations and warranties of the Company or the Guarantors contained in any underwriting agreement, securities sales agreement or other similar agreement, if any, relating to an offering of such Registrable Securities cease to be true and correct in all material respects or if the Company or the Guarantors receives any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Registrable Securities for sale in any U.S. jurisdiction or the initiation of any proceeding for such purpose, (4) of the happening of any event during the period a Registration Statement is effective that makes any statement made in such Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus in order to make the statements therein not misleading and (5) of any determination by the Company or the Guarantors that a post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus would be appropriate;

(vii) notify counsel for the Dealer Manager or, in the case of a Shelf Registration, notify each Participating Holder and counsel for such Participating Holders, of any request by the SEC or any state securities authority for amendments and supplements to a Registration Statement, Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus or for additional information after the Registration Statement has become effective;

(viii) subject to Section 2(e), obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or, in the case of a Shelf Registration, the resolution of any objection of the SEC pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the Securities Act, including by filing an amendment to such Registration Statement on the proper form, as soon as reasonably practicable and provide prompt notice to each Holder or Participating Holder of the withdrawal of any such order or such resolution;


(ix) in the case of a Shelf Registration, furnish to each Participating Holder, without charge, upon request, at least one conformed copy of each Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto (without any documents incorporated therein by reference or exhibits thereto, unless requested), if such documents are not available via EDGAR;

(x) in the case of a Shelf Registration, cooperate with the Participating Holders to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Securities to be sold and not bearing any restrictive legends and enable such Registrable Securities to be issued in such denominations and, in the case of certificated securities, registered in such names (consistent with the provisions of the Indenture) as such Participating Holders may reasonably request at least one Business Day prior to the closing of any sale of Registrable Securities;

(xi) upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section 3(a)(vi)(4) hereof, subject to Section 2(e), prepare and file with the SEC a supplement or post-effective amendment to the applicable Exchange Offer Registration Statement or Shelf Registration Statement or the related Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus or any document incorporated therein by reference or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered (or, to the extent permitted by law, made available) to purchasers of the Registrable Securities, such Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and the Company and the Guarantors shall notify the Participating Holders (in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement) and the Dealer Manager and any Participating Broker-Dealers known to the Company (in the case of an Exchange Offer Registration Statement) to suspend use of the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus as promptly as practicable after the occurrence of such an event, and such Participating Holders, such Participating Broker-Dealers and the Dealer Manager, as applicable, hereby agree to suspend use of the Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, until the Company and the Guarantor have amended or supplemented the Prospectus or the Free Writing Prospectus, as the case may be, to correct such misstatement or omission;

(xii) a reasonable time prior to the filing of any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus, any amendment to a Registration Statement or amendment or supplement to a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus, provide copies of such document to the Dealer Manager and its counsel (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, to the Participating Holders and their counsel) and make such of the representatives of the Company and the Guarantors as shall be reasonably requested by the Dealer Manager or its counsel (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Participating Holders or their counsel) available for discussion of such document; and the Company and the Guarantors shall not, at any time after initial filing of a Registration Statement, use or file any Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus, any amendment of or supplement to a Registration Statement or a Prospectus or a Free Writing Prospectus, of which the Dealer Manager and its counsel (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Participating Holders and their counsel) shall not have previously been advised and furnished a copy or to which the Dealer Manager or its counsel (and, in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Participating Holders or their counsel) shall reasonably object in writing within two Business Days after the receipt thereof, unless the Company believes that use or filing of such Prospectus, Free Writing Prospectus, or any amendment of or supplement thereto is required by applicable law;


(xiii) obtain a CUSIP number for all Exchange Securities of each series or Registrable Securities of each series that are registered on a Shelf Registration Statement, if applicable, as the case may be, not later than the initial effective date of a Registration Statement;

(xiv) cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act in connection with the registration of the Exchange Securities or Registrable Securities, as the case may be; cooperate with the Trustee and the Holders to effect such changes to the Indenture as may be required for the Indenture to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the Trust Indenture Act; and execute, cause the Trustee to execute, all documents as may be required to effect such changes and all other forms and documents required to be filed with the SEC to enable the Indenture to be so qualified in a timely manner;

(xv) in the case of a Shelf Registration, make available for inspection by a representative of the Participating Holders (an “Inspector”), any Underwriters participating in any disposition pursuant to such Shelf Registration Statement, one firm of attorneys and one firm of accountants designated by a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Registrable Securities held by the Participating Holders and one firm of attorneys and one firm of accountants designated by such Underwriters, at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, all pertinent financial and other records, documents and properties of the Company and its subsidiaries reasonably requested by any such Inspector, Underwriter, attorney or accountant, and cause the respective officers, directors and employees of the Company and the Guarantors to supply all information reasonably requested by any such Inspector, Underwriter, attorney or accountant in connection with a Shelf Registration Statement and customary due diligence related to the offering and sale of Registrable Securities thereunder, subject to such parties conducting such investigation entering into confidentiality agreements as the Company and the Guarantors may reasonably require and to any applicable privilege;

(xvi) if reasonably requested by any Participating Holder, promptly include or incorporate by reference in a prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such information with respect to such Participating Holder as such Participating Holder reasonably requests to be included therein, based upon a reasonable belief that such information is required to be included therein or is necessary to make the information about such Participating Holder not misleading, and make all required filings of such prospectus supplement or such post-effective amendment as soon as reasonably practicable after the Company has received notification of the matters to be so included in such filing;

(xvii) in the case of a Shelf Registration, enter into such customary agreements and take all such other actions in connection therewith (including those requested by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement) in order to expedite or facilitate the disposition of such Registrable Securities including, but not limited to, an Underwritten Offering and in such connection, (1) provided that, the Participating Holders’ representations and warranties are of the substance and scope as are customarily made by selling securityholders to underwriters in underwritten offerings, to the extent possible, make such representations and warranties to the Participating Holders and any Underwriters of such Registrable Securities with respect to the business of the Company and its subsidiaries and the Registration Statement, Prospectus, any Free Writing Prospectus and documents incorporated by reference or deemed incorporated by reference, if any, in each case, in form, substance and scope as are customarily made by issuers to underwriters in underwritten offerings (consistent with the Dealer Manager Agreement) and confirm the same if and when requested by the applicable underwriting agreement, (2) obtain opinions of counsel to the Company and the Guarantors (which counsel and opinions, in form, scope and substance, shall be


reasonably satisfactory to the Participating Holders and such Underwriters and their respective counsel) addressed to the Underwriter of Registrable Securities, in customary form and subject to customary limitations, assumptions and exclusions and covering the matters customarily covered in opinions requested in underwritten offerings, provided that, if required by the Underwriter, counsel for the Participating Holders shall provide an opinion to the Underwriter covering the matters customarily covered in opinions requested from selling securityholders by underwriters in underwritten offerings, in connection with an Underwritten Offering (3) in connection with an Underwritten Offering, obtain “comfort” letters from the independent registered public accountants of the Company and the Guarantors (and, if necessary, any other registered public accountant of any subsidiary of the Company or the Guarantors, or of any business acquired by the Company or the Guarantors for which financial statements and financial data are or are required to be included in the Registration Statement) addressed to the Underwriter of Registrable Securities, such letters to be in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily covered in “comfort” letters in connection with underwritten offerings, including but not limited to financial information contained in any preliminary prospectus, Prospectus or Free Writing Prospectus and (4) in connection with an Underwritten Offering, deliver such documents and certificates as may be reasonably requested by the Underwriters, and which are customarily delivered in underwritten offerings, to evidence the continued validity of the representations and warranties made pursuant to clause (1) above and to evidence compliance with any customary conditions contained in an underwriting agreement; and

(xix) so long as any Registrable Securities remain outstanding, cause each Additional Guarantor upon the creation or acquisition by the Company of such Additional Guarantor, to execute a counterpart to this Agreement in the form attached hereto as Annex A and to deliver such counterpart, together with an opinion of counsel as to the enforceability thereof against such entity, to the Dealer Manager no later than ten Business Days following the execution thereof.

(b) In the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, the Company may require, as a condition to including such Holder’s Registrable Securities in such Shelf Registration Statement, each Holder of Registrable Securities to furnish to the Company a Notice and Questionnaire and such other information regarding such Holder and the proposed disposition by such Holder of such Registrable Securities and other documentation necessary to effectuate the proposed disposition as the Company and the Guarantors may from time to time reasonably request in writing and require such Holder to agree in writing to be bound by all provisions of this Agreement applicable to such Holder. Each Holder of Registrable Securities as to which any Shelf Registration is being effected agrees to furnish promptly to the Company all information required to be disclosed so that the information previously furnished to the Company by such Holder is not materially misleading and does not omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in the light of the circumstances under which they were made.

(c) Each Participating Holder agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company and the Guarantors of the happening of any event of the kind described in Section 3(a)(vi)(2) or Section 3(a)(vi)(4) hereof, or any notice pursuant to Section 2(e), such Participating Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement until such Participating Holder’s receipt of the copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus contemplated by Section 3(a)(xi) hereof or notice that the period referred to in Section 2(e) has ended and, if so directed by the Company and the Guarantors, such Participating Holder will deliver to the Company and the Guarantors all copies in its possession, other than permanent file copies then in such Participating Holder’s possession, of the Prospectus and any Free Writing Prospectus covering such Registrable Securities that is current at the time of receipt of such notice.


(d) If the Company and the Guarantors shall give any notice to suspend the disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement, the Company and the Guarantors shall extend the period during which such Registration Statement shall be maintained effective pursuant to this Agreement by the number of days during the period from and including the date of the giving of such notice to and including the date when the Holders of such Registrable Securities shall have received copies of the supplemented or amended Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus necessary to resume such dispositions or notice that such amendment or supplement is not necessary; provided, however, that no such extension shall be made in the case where such suspension is solely a result of the Company’s compliance with Section 3(b) or any other suspension at the request of a Holder.

(e) The Participating Holders who desire to do so may sell such Registrable Securities in an Underwritten Offering. In any such Underwritten Offering, the investment bank or investment banks and manager or managers (each an “Underwriter”) that will administer the offering will be selected by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Registrable Securities included in such offering, subject in each case to consent by the Company (which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed so long as such bank or manager is internationally recognized as an underwriter of debt securities offerings). All expenses of the Underwritten Offering (other than Registration Expenses of the Company and the Guarantors) shall be borne by the Participating Holders and the Underwriters, as agreed amongst them.

(f) No Holder of Registrable Securities may participate in any Underwritten Offering hereunder unless such Holder (a) agrees to sell such Holder’s Registrable Securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (b) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements.

4. Participation of Broker-Dealers in Exchange Offer.

(a) The Staff has taken the position that any broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account in an Exchange Offer in exchange for Securities that were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making or other trading activities (a “Participating Broker-Dealer”) may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act and must deliver a prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities.

The Company and the Guarantors understand that it is the Staff’s position that if the Prospectus contained in an Exchange Offer Registration Statement includes a plan of distribution containing a statement to the above effect and the means by which Participating Broker-Dealers may resell the Exchange Securities, without naming the Participating Broker-Dealers or specifying the amount of Exchange Securities owned by them, such Prospectus may be delivered by Participating Broker-Dealers (or, to the extent permitted by law, made available to purchasers) to satisfy their prospectus delivery obligation under the Securities Act in connection with resales of Exchange Securities for their own accounts, so long as the Prospectus otherwise meets the requirements of the Securities Act.

(b) In light of the above, and notwithstanding the other provisions of this Agreement, the Company and the Guarantors agree to amend or supplement the Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement for a period ending on the earlier of (i) 180 days after the date on which the Exchange Offer Registration becomes effective (as such period may be extended pursuant to Section 3(d) hereof) and (ii) the date on which each Participating Broker-Dealer is no longer required to deliver a prospectus in connection with market making or other trading activities, in each case to the extent necessary, and if requested by one or more Participating Broker-Dealers, to expedite or facilitate the disposition of any Exchange Securities by Participating Broker-Dealers consistent with the positions of the Staff recited in Section 4 above. The Company and the Guarantors further agree that Participating Broker-Dealers shall be authorized to deliver such Prospectus (or, to the extent permitted by law, make available) during such period in connection with the resales contemplated by this Section 4.


(c) The Dealer Manager shall have no liability to the Company, the Guarantors or any Holder with respect to any request that they may make pursuant to Section 4(b) hereof.

5. Indemnification and Contribution.

(a) The Company and, if the Guarantees are registered under any effective Registration Statement, the Guarantors each will, jointly and severally, indemnify and hold harmless the Dealer Manager and each Holder, their respective directors, officers and employees, each Person, if any, who controls the Dealer Manager or any Holder within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act, and each affiliate of the Dealer Manager within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act (any of the foregoing, an “Indemnified Person”), from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities, joint or several, to which such Indemnified Person may become subject under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, any Prospectus as amended or supplemented, any Free Writing Prospectus or any “issuer information” (“Issuer Information”) filed or required to be filed pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made not misleading, and will reimburse each such Indemnified Person for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with investigating or defending any such loss, damage, liability, action or claim as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company and the Guarantors shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any Registration Statement, any Prospectus as amended or supplemented, any Free Writing Prospectus or any Issuer Information in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to the Dealer Manager or any Holder furnished to the Company and the Guarantors in writing by the Dealer Manager through the Dealer Manager or by such Holder expressly for use therein.

(b) Each Holder will, severally and not jointly, indemnify and hold harmless the Company, the Guarantors, the Dealer Manager and the other selling Holders, the directors, officers and employees of the Company, the Guarantors, and the Dealer Manager, each Person, if any, who controls the Company, the Guarantors, the Dealer Manager and any other selling Holder (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) and each affiliate of the Dealer Manager within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities to which the Company, the Guarantors, or the Dealer Manager, other selling Holder, director, officer, employee, controlling Person or affiliate may become subject, under the Securities Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) that arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, any Prospectus as amended or supplemented or any Free Writing Prospectus, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in any Registration Statement, any Prospectus as amended or supplemented or any Free Writing Prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information relating to such Holder furnished to the Company or the Guarantors by such Holder; and each Holder will reimburse the Company, the Guarantors, and the Dealer Manager, other selling Holder, director, officer, employee, controlling Person and affiliate in connection


with investigating, or defending any such loss, damage, liability, action or claim as such expenses are incurred, but only with reference to information relating to such Holder furnished to the Company in writing by such Holder expressly for use in any Registration Statement, any Prospectus or any Free Writing Prospectus.

(c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection (a) or (b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, such indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such subsection, notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to any indemnified party except to the extent such omission materially prejudices the indemnifying party. In case any such action shall be brought against any indemnified party, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it shall wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and, after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election so to assume the defense thereof, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to such indemnified party under such subsection for any legal expenses of other counsel or any other expenses, in each case subsequently incurred by such indemnified party, in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation. The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify each indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested that an indemnifying party reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by this paragraph, the indemnifying party shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by the indemnifying party of such request and (ii) the indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party shall, without the written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnification could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement (A) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party, from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and (B) does not include any statement as to or any admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

(d) To the extent the indemnification provided for in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section 5 is unavailable to an indemnified party or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein (or actions in respect thereof), then each indemnifying party under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company and the Guarantors from the offering of the Securities or Exchange Securities, on the one hand, and the Holders from receiving Securities or Exchange Securities registered under the Securities Act, on the other. If, however, the allocation provided by the immediately preceding sentence is not permitted by applicable law or if the indemnifying party failed to give notice required under paragraph (c) of this Section 5, then each indemnifying party shall contribute to such amount paid or payable by such indemnified party in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits but also the relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand and the Holders on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the Company and the Guarantors on the one hand and the


Holders on the other shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or the Guarantors on the one hand or such Holder on the other and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

(e) The Company, the Guarantors and the Holders agree that it would not be just or equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 5 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Holders were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in paragraph (d) above. The amount paid or payable by an Indemnified Person as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in paragraph (d) above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such Indemnified Person in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 5, no Holder shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Securities or Exchange Securities sold by such Holder exceeds the amount of any damages that such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No Person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any Person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Holders’ obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 5 are several and not joint.

(f) The remedies provided for in this Section 5 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies that may otherwise be available to any Indemnified Person at law or in equity.

(g) The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 5 shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of (i) any termination of this Agreement, (ii) any investigation made by or on behalf of the Dealer Manager or any Holder, any Person controlling the Dealer Manager or any Holder or any affiliate of the Dealer Manager, or by or on behalf of the Company, the Guarantors, their respective officers or directors or any Person controlling the Company or the Guarantors, (iii) acceptance of any of the Exchange Securities and (iv) any sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 5 to the contrary, the Guarantors shall have no liability under this Section 5 to any indemnified party if the Guarantees are not in place or have been terminated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture prior to the time any Registration Statement has become effective.

6. General.

(a) No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company and the Guarantors represent, warrant and agree that neither the Company nor the Guarantors has entered into, or on or after the date of this Agreement will enter into, any agreement that is inconsistent with the rights granted to the Holders of Registrable Securities in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts in any material respect with the provisions hereof.

(b) Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement, including the provisions of this sentence, may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given unless the Company has obtained the written consent of Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Registrable Securities affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent; provided that no amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent to any departure from the provisions of Section 5 hereof shall be effective as against any Holder of Registrable Securities unless consented to in writing by such


Holder. Any amendments, modifications, supplements, waivers or consents pursuant to this Section 6(b) shall be by a writing executed by each of the parties hereto. Each Holder of Registrable Securities outstanding at the time of any such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent thereafter shall be bound by any such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent effected pursuant to this Section 6(b), whether or not any notice, writing or marking indicating such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent appears on the Registrable Securities or is delivered to such Holder. Each Holder may waive compliance with respect to any obligation of the Company or the Guarantors under this Agreement as it may apply or be enforced by such particular Holder.

(c) Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, registered first-class mail, telecopier, any courier guaranteeing overnight delivery or via email (i) if to a Holder, at the most current address given by such Holder to the Company by means of a notice given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c), which address initially is, with respect to the Dealer Manager, the addresses set forth in the Dealer Manager Agreement; (ii) if to the Company or the Guarantors, initially at the address of the Company set forth in the Dealer Manager Agreement and thereafter at such other address(es), notice of which is given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c); and (iii) to such other Persons at their respective addresses as provided in the Dealer Manager Agreement and thereafter at such other address, notice of which is given in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6(c). All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; three Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; on the next Business Day if timely delivered to an air courier guaranteeing overnight delivery; and, upon receipt by the sender of an automated message confirming delivery or four (4) hours after the time sent (as recorded on the device from which the sender sent the email), unless the sender receives an automated message that the email has not been delivered, when emailed, if emailed.

(d) Majority of Holders. Whenever an action or determination under this Agreement requires a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the applicable holders, in determining such majority, if the Company shall issue any additional Securities under the Indenture prior to consummation of the Exchange Offer or, if applicable, the effectiveness of any Shelf Registration Statement, then such additional Securities and the Registrable Securities to which this Agreement relates shall be treated together as one class for purposes of determining whether the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Registrable Securities has been obtained.

(e) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors, assigns and transferees of each of the parties, including, without limitation and without the need for an express assignment, subsequent Holders; provided that nothing herein shall be deemed to permit any assignment, transfer or other disposition of Registrable Securities in violation of the terms of the Dealer Manager Agreement or the Indenture. If any transferee of any Holder shall acquire Registrable Securities in any manner, whether by operation of law or otherwise, such Registrable Securities shall be held subject to all the terms of this Agreement, and by taking and holding such Registrable Securities such Person shall be conclusively deemed to have agreed to be bound by and to perform all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement and such Person shall be entitled to receive the benefits hereof. The Dealer Manager (in their capacity as Dealer Manager) shall have no liability or obligation to the Company or the Guarantors with respect to any failure by a Holder to comply with, or any breach by any Holder of, any of the obligations of such Holder under this Agreement.

(f) Third Party Beneficiaries. Each Holder shall be a third party beneficiary to the agreements made hereunder between the Company and the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Dealer Manager, on the other hand, and shall have the right to enforce such agreements directly to the extent it deems such enforcement necessary or advisable to protect its rights or the rights of other Holders hereunder.


(g) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument, and shall become effective when one or more counterparts have been signed by each of the parties and delivered (by telecopy, electronic delivery or otherwise) to the other parties. Signatures to this Agreement transmitted by facsimile transmission, by electronic mail in “portable document format” (“.pdf”) form, or by any other electronic means intended to preserve the original graphic and pictorial appearance of a document, will have the same effect as physical delivery of the paper document bearing the original signature.

(h) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only, are not a part of this Agreement and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

(i) Governing Law. This Agreement, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Agreement, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

(j) Entire Agreement; Severability. This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all oral statements and prior writings with respect thereto. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction contained in this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable or against public policy, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions contained herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated. The Company, the Guarantors and the Dealer Manager shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the invalid, void or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the invalid, void or unenforceable provisions.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

FEDEX CORPORATION
By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name: Trampas T. Gunter
Title: Treasurer
FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION
By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name: Trampas T. Gunter
Title: Treasurer
FEDERAL EXPRESS EUROPE, INC.
By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name: Trampas T. Gunter
Title: Treasurer
FEDERAL EXPRESS HOLDINGS S.A., LLC
By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name: Trampas T. Gunter
Title: Treasurer
FEDERAL EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name: Trampas T. Gunter
Title: Treasurer
FEDEX FREIGHT, INC.
By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name: Trampas T. Gunter
Title: Treasurer
FEDEX OFFICE AND PRINT SERVICES, INC.
By:   /s/ Trampas T. Gunter
Name: Trampas T. Gunter
Title: Treasurer


GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. LLC
By:   /s/ Michael Rost
Name: Michael Rost
Title: Managing Director


ANNEX A

Counterpart to Registration Rights Agreement

The undersigned hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably agrees as a Guarantor (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement, dated February 26, 2025, by and among FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation, the other Guarantors party thereto and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, as Dealer Manager) to be bound by the terms and provisions of such Registration Rights Agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this counterpart as of _______________, 20__.

 

[GUARANTOR]
By    
Name:
Title:

Exhibit 99.1

FedEx Announces Final Results of Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations for Senior Notes

MEMPHIS, Tenn., February 24, 2025 FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) (“FedEx”) announced today the final results of the offers to exchange (each an “Exchange Offer” and, collectively, the “Exchange Offers”) any and all of its outstanding senior notes of the series listed in the tables below (collectively, the “Existing Notes”) for new notes (the “New Notes”) and the related consent solicitations (each, a “Consent Solicitation” and, collectively, the “Consent Solicitations”) to adopt certain proposed amendments (the “Proposed Amendments”) to each of the indentures governing the Existing Notes (each, an “Existing Indenture”). The Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on February 21, 2025 (the “Expiration Date”).

The Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations were commenced in connection with the contemplated Separation (as defined herein) and were made pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the confidential offering memorandum and consent solicitation statement, dated January 7, 2025 (the “Offering Memorandum”). The Separation is not conditioned upon the completion of any of the Exchange Offers or Consent Solicitations, and none of the Exchange Offers or Consent Solicitations were conditioned upon completion of the Separation. As used in this press release, the “Separation” means any sale, exchange, transfer, distribution, or other disposition of assets and/or capital stock of one or more subsidiaries of FedEx resulting in the separation of the FedEx Freight business through the capital markets to create a new publicly traded company.

As of the Expiration Date, an aggregate of $10,724,846,000 principal amount of Existing USD Notes (as defined herein) and an aggregate of €939,697,000 principal amount of Existing Euro Notes (as defined herein) had been validly tendered and not properly withdrawn as set forth in the tables below and the requisite number of consents had been received to adopt the Proposed Amendments with respect to each of the following series of Existing Notes (collectively, the “Majority Existing Notes”):

 

                 Majority Existing Notes
Tendered at Expiration Date
 

Title of Series of Notes

   CUSIP / ISIN No.    Principal Amount
Outstanding
     Principal Amount      Percentage  

3.400% Notes due 2028

   31428XBP0 /
US31428XBP06
   $ 500,000,000      $ 340,494,000        68.10

4.200% Notes due 2028

   31428XBR6 /
US31428XBR61
   $ 400,000,000      $ 237,285,000        59.32

3.100% Notes due 2029

   31428XBV7 /
US31428XBV73
   $ 1,000,000,000      $ 628,053,000        62.81

4.250% Notes due 2030

   31428XBZ8 /
US31428XBZ87
   $ 750,000,000      $ 406,103,000        54.15

2.400% Notes due 2031

   31428XCD6 /
US31428XCD66
   $ 1,000,000,000      $ 642,185,000        64.22

4.900% Notes due 2034

   31428XAX4 /
US31428XAX49
   $ 500,000,000      $ 351,518,000        70.30

3.900% Notes due 2035

   31428XBA3 /
US31428XBA37
   $ 500,000,000      $ 391,912,000        78.38

3.250% Notes due 2041

   31428XCE4 /
US31428XCE40
   $ 750,000,000      $ 619,635,000        82.62

3.875% Notes due 2042

   31428XAT3 /
US31428XAT37
   $ 500,000,000      $ 444,611,000        88.92

4.100% Notes due 2043

   31428XAU0 /
US31428XAU00
   $ 500,000,000      $ 391,769,000        78.35


                 Majority Existing Notes
Tendered at Expiration Date
 

Title of Series of Notes

   CUSIP / ISIN No.    Principal Amount
Outstanding
     Principal Amount      Percentage  

5.100% Notes due 2044

   31428XAW6 /
US31428XAW65
   $ 750,000,000      $ 541,689,000        72.23

4.100% Notes due 2045

   31428XBB1 /
US31428XBB10
   $ 650,000,000      $ 503,830,000        77.51

4.750% Notes due 2045

   31428XBE5 /
US31428XBE58
   $ 1,250,000,000      $ 913,438,000        73.08

4.550% Notes due 2046

   31428XBG0 /
US31428XBG07
   $ 1,250,000,000      $ 1,007,069,000        80.57

4.400% Notes due 2047

   31428XBN5 /
US31428XBN57
   $ 750,000,000      $ 604,653,000        80.62

4.050% Notes due 2048

   31428XBQ8 /
US31428XBQ88
   $ 1,000,000,000      $ 743,435,000        74.34

4.950% Notes due 2048

   31428XBS4 /
US31428XBS45
   $ 850,000,000      $ 696,469,000        81.94

5.250% Notes due 2050

   31428XCA2 /
US31428XCA28
   $ 1,250,000,000      $ 1,047,658,000        83.81

4.500% Notes due 2065

   31428XBD7 /
US31428XBD75
   $ 250,000,000      $ 213,040,000        85.22

0.450% Notes due 2029

   XS2337252931    600,000,000      391,747,000        65.29

0.950% Notes due 2033

   XS2337253319    650,000,000      402,828,000        61.97

As of the Expiration Date, FedEx also announced that the requisite number of consents had not been received to adopt the Proposed Amendments with respect to the remaining series of Existing Notes listed in the table below (the “Non-Majority Existing Notes”):

 

                   Non-Majority Existing Notes
Tendered at Expiration Date
 

Title of Series of Notes

   CUSIP / ISIN No.      Principal Amount
Outstanding
     Principal Amount      Percentage  

1.300% Notes due 2031

     XS2034629134      500,000,000      145,122,000        29.02

In accordance with the terms of the Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations, FedEx accepted for exchange all Existing Notes validly tendered and not properly withdrawn. The Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations are expected to be settled on February 26, 2025 (the “Settlement Date”).

For each $1,000 principal amount of Existing USD Notes (as defined herein) or €1,000 principal amount of Existing Euro Notes (as defined herein) validly tendered and not properly withdrawn at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on January 22, 2025 (the “Early Participation Date”), eligible holders were eligible to receive (a) $970 principal amount of the New USD Notes (as defined herein) of the applicable series or €970 principal amount of the New Euro Notes (as defined herein) of the applicable series, as applicable (the “Exchange Consideration”), plus (b) an early participation payment of $30 principal amount of the New USD Notes of the applicable series and $2.50 in cash or €30 principal amount of the New Euro Notes of the applicable series and €2.50 in cash, as applicable (the “Early Participation Payment”). The total consideration, consisting of (a) $970 principal amount of New USD Notes of the applicable series or €970 principal amount of New Euro Notes of the applicable series, as applicable, issued as Exchange Consideration plus (b) the Early Participation Payment, is herein referred to as the “Total Consideration.”


Following certain previously announced amendments to the terms of the Exchange Offers made in connection with the Early Participation Date, eligible holders of FedEx’s 4.200% Notes due 2028, 4.250% Notes due 2030, 3.875% Notes due 2042, 4.050% Notes due 2048, 4.950% Notes due 2048, 5.250% Notes due 2050 and 1.300% Notes due 2031 that validly tendered their Existing Notes after the Early Participation Date but before 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on February 6, 2025 (the “Prior Expiration Date”), were also entitled to receive the Total Consideration, including the cash portion of the Early Participation Payment. Eligible Holders of the remaining series of Existing Notes that validly tendered their Existing Notes after the Early Participation Date but before the Prior Expiration Date were entitled to receive $1,000 principal amount of New USD Notes of the applicable series or €1,000 principal amount of New Euro Notes of the applicable series for each $1,000 principal amount of Existing USD Notes or €1,000 principal amount of Existing Euro Notes tendered, but were not be eligible to receive the cash portion of the Early Participation Payment.

In connection with the extension of the Prior Expiration Date, the terms of the Exchange Offers were further amended solely with respect to FedEx’s 3.875% Notes due 2042, 4.050% Notes due 2048, 4.950% Notes due 2048 and 5.250% Notes due 2050 such that eligible holders who validly tender their Existing Notes of such series after the Prior Expiration Date but before the Expiration Date were entitled to receive $1,000 principal amount of New USD Notes of the applicable series for each $1,000 principal amount of Existing USD Notes tendered of such series, but were no longer be eligible to receive the cash portion of the Early Participation Payment. Eligible holders of the Company’s 4.200% Notes due 2028, 4.250% Notes due 2030 and 1.300% Notes due 2031 who validly tender their existing Notes of such series after the Prior Expiration Date but before the Expiration Date continued to be eligible to receive the Total Consideration, including the cash portion of the Early Participation Payment. Eligible holders of the remaining series of Majority Existing Notes who validly tender their Existing Notes of such series after the Prior Expiration Date but before the Expiration Date also continued to be eligible to receive the same consideration described above.

Each series of New Notes will have the same interest rate, interest payment dates, maturity date and optional redemption provisions as the corresponding series of Existing Notes; provided that (a) the methodology for calculating any make-whole redemption price for the New USD Notes will reflect the SIFMA model provisions, as set forth in the Offering Memorandum, and (b) FedEx will be permitted to deliver notices of redemption that are subject to one or more conditions precedent with respect to the New Notes. The New Notes of each series will accrue interest from (and including) the most recent date on which interest has been paid on the corresponding series of Existing Notes accepted in the Exchange Offers.

On the Settlement Date, supplemental indentures to the Existing Indentures will be executed solely with respect to the Majority Existing Notes to give effect to the Proposed Amendments, which provide for the automatic and unconditional release and discharge of the guarantee of FedEx Freight, Inc. at the time it ceases to be a subsidiary (as defined in the Existing Indentures) of FedEx in connection with the Separation. The Proposed Amendments will not amend or otherwise modify the provisions of the applicable Existing Indenture governing the Majority Existing Notes regarding the application of any proceeds upon the release of a 10% subsidiary guarantor. The Proposed Amendments will not be made to the Existing Indentures with respect to the Non-Majority Existing Notes.

In this press release, references to the “Existing USD Notes” collectively refer to FedEx’s existing 3.400% Notes due 2028, 4.200% Notes due 2028, 3.100% Notes due 2029, 4.250% Notes due 2030, 2.400% Notes due 2031, 4.900% Notes due 2034, 3.900% Notes due 2035, 3.250% Notes due 2041, 3.875% Notes due 2042, 4.100% Notes due 2043, 5.100% Notes due 2044, 4.100% Notes due 2045, 4.750% Notes due 2045, 4.550% Notes due 2046, 4.400% Notes due 2047, 4.050% Notes due 2048, 4.950% Notes due 2048, 5.250% Notes due 2050 and 4.500% Notes due 2065. References to the “Existing Euro Notes” collectively refer to FedEx’s existing 0.450% Notes due 2029, 1.300% Notes due 2031 and 0.950% Notes due 2033. The Existing USD Notes and the Existing Euro Notes are referred to herein collectively as the Existing Notes. References to “New USD Notes” collectively refer to FedEx’s new 3.400% Notes due 2028, 4.200% Notes due 2028, 3.100% Notes due 2029, 4.250% Notes due 2030, 2.400% Notes due 2031, 4.900% Notes due 2034, 3.900% Notes due 2035, 3.250% Notes due 2041, 3.875% Notes due 2042, 4.100% Notes due 2043, 5.100% Notes due 2044, 4.100% Notes due 2045, 4.750% Notes due 2045, 4.550% Notes due 2046, 4.400% Notes due 2047, 4.050% Notes due 2048, 4.950% Notes due 2048, 5.250% Notes due 2050 and 4.500% Notes due 2065. References to “New Euro Notes” collectively refer to FedEx’s new 0.450% Notes due 2029, 1.300% Notes due 2031 and 0.950% Notes due 2033. The New USD Notes and the New Euro Notes are referred to herein collectively as the New Notes.


Documents relating to the Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations were only distributed to eligible holders of Existing Notes who completed and returned an eligibility form confirming that they are (a) a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or (b) a person that is outside the United States and that is (i) not a “U.S. person” within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act and (ii) meets certain other eligibility requirements in their applicable jurisdiction.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or purchase, or a solicitation of an offer to sell or purchase, or the solicitation of tenders or consents with respect to, any security. No offer, solicitation, purchase or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations were made solely pursuant to the Offering Memorandum and only to such persons and in such jurisdictions as was permitted under applicable law.

The New Notes offered in the Exchange Offers have not been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act or any state or foreign securities laws. The New Notes may not be offered or sold in the United States or to any U.S. persons except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information

Certain statements in this press release may be considered forward-looking statements, such as statements regarding the Separation and the expected timing of completion of the Exchange Offers. Forward-looking statements include those preceded by, followed by or that include the words “will,” “may,” “could,” “would,” “should,” “believes,” “expects,” “forecasts,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “estimates,” “targets,” “projects,” “intends” or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from historical experience or from future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, economic conditions in the global markets in which FedEx operates; FedEx’s ability to successfully implement its business strategy and global transformation program and optimize its network through Network 2.0, effectively respond to changes in market dynamics, and achieve the anticipated benefits of such strategies and actions; FedEx’s ability to achieve its cost reduction initiatives and financial performance goals; the timing and amount of any costs or benefits or any specific outcome, transaction, or change (of which there can be no assurance), or the terms, timing, and structure thereof, related to FedEx’s global transformation program and other ongoing reviews and initiatives; a significant data breach or other disruption to FedEx’s technology infrastructure; FedEx’s ability to successfully implement the Separation and achieve the anticipated benefits of such transaction; damage to FedEx’s reputation or loss of brand equity; FedEx’s ability to remove costs related to services provided to the U.S. Postal Service (“USPS”) under the contract for Federal Express Corporation to provide the USPS domestic transportation services that expired on September 29, 2024; FedEx’s ability to meet its labor and purchased transportation needs while controlling related costs; failure of third-party service providers to perform as expected, or disruptions in FedEx’s relationships with those providers or their provision of services to FedEx; the effects of a widespread outbreak of an illness or any other communicable disease or public health crises; anti-trade measures and additional changes in international trade policies and relations; the effect of any international conflicts or terrorist activities, including as a result of the current conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East; changes in fuel prices or currency exchange rates, including significant increases in fuel prices as a result of the ongoing conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and in the Middle East and other geopolitical and regulatory developments; the effect of intense competition; FedEx’s ability to match capacity to shifting volume levels; an increase in self-insurance accruals and expenses; failure to receive or collect expected insurance coverage; FedEx’s ability to effectively operate, integrate, leverage, and grow acquired businesses and realize the anticipated benefits of acquisitions and other strategic transactions; noncash impairment charges related to its goodwill and certain deferred tax assets; the future rate of e-commerce growth; evolving or new U.S. domestic or international laws and government regulations, policies, and actions; future guidance, regulations, interpretations, challenges, or judicial decisions related to FedEx’s tax positions; labor-related disruptions; legal challenges or changes related to service providers contracted to conduct certain linehaul and pickup-and-delivery operations and the drivers providing services on their behalf and the coverage of U.S. employees at Federal Express Corporation under the Railway Labor Act of 1926, as amended; FedEx’s ability to quickly and effectively restore operations following


adverse weather or a localized disaster or disturbance in a key geography; any liability resulting from and the costs of defending against litigation; FedEx’s ability to achieve its goal of carbon-neutral operations by 2040; and other factors which can be found in FedEx’s and its subsidiaries’ press releases and FedEx’s filings with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2024, and subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made. FedEx does not undertake or assume any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

Contacts

Media

Caitlin Maier

901-434-8100

mediarelations@fedex.com

or

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901-818-7200

ir@fedex.com

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