Exhibit 4.15
Execution Version
FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Fourth Supplemental Indenture (this “Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of October 27, 2023, between Activision Blizzard, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as trustee), a national banking association, as trustee under the Existing Indenture referred to below (the “Trustee”).
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the Company and the Trustee have previously executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of May 26, 2017 (the “Base Indenture”), as supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of August 10, 2020 (the “Second Supplemental Indenture” or the “Existing Supplemental Indenture”) with respect to the Company’s 1.350% Senior Notes due 2030 (the “2030 Notes”) and the Company’s 2.500% Senior Notes due 2050 (the “2050 Notes” and, together with the 2030 Notes, the “Notes”). The Base Indenture, as modified or supplemented by the Second Supplemental Indenture, is referred to herein as the “Existing Indenture”;
WHEREAS, that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger was made and entered into as of January 18, 2022, as may be amended , supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, by and among the Company, Microsoft Corporation, a Washington corporation (“Microsoft”), and Anchorage Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft (“Merger Sub”), pursuant to which on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein, Merger Sub merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft;
WHEREAS, in connection with the Merger, pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offering Memorandum and Consent Solicitation Statement, dated October 16, 2023 (the “Offering Memorandum”), Microsoft offered to certain eligible Holders of each series of Notes to exchange (such offer with respect to each series of Notes, an “Exchange Offer”) any and all of their outstanding Notes of such series for a corresponding series of new notes issued by Microsoft, and the Company, at the request of Microsoft, has solicited consents from such Holders of each series of the Notes (such solicitation with respect to both series of the Notes as a single class, the “Consent Solicitation”), to, among other things, amend certain provisions of the Existing Indenture with respect to each series of Notes and to the Notes of each series to eliminate certain of the covenants, restrictive provisions and events of default, as set forth in this Supplemental Indenture (the “Amendments”);
WHEREAS, Section 9.02 and Section 9.07 of the Existing Supplemental Indenture provide that the Company and the Trustee may, subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Existing Indenture, amend or supplement the Existing Indenture with respect to each series of the Notes and each of the Notes, with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding voting as a single class (including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a tender offer or exchange offer for, or purchase of, such series of Notes) (such consents with respect to the Notes, the “Requisite Consents”);