Exhibit 4.13
Execution Version
FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
First 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 E T H
WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee have previously executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of September 19, 2016 (the “Existing Indenture”), providing for the issuance of the Company’s 3.400% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”) and another series of notes that is no longer outstanding;
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 the Notes to exchange (the “Exchange Offer”) any and all of their outstanding Notes 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 the Notes (the “Consent Solicitation”), to, among other things, amend certain provisions of the Existing Indenture and the Notes 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 Indenture provide that the Company, any Guarantor (with respect to a Guarantee or the Existing Indenture) and the Trustee may, subject to certain exceptions set forth in the Existing Indenture, amend or supplement the Existing Indenture and 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, the Notes) (the “Requisite Consents”);
WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 10.06 of the Existing Indenture, each Guarantor was released and discharged from its obligations under the Existing Indenture and its Guarantee thereunder, in connection with each such Guarantor’s release and discharge in full from all of its obligations under its guarantee of the Company’s Senior Credit Facilities.
WHEREAS, as of 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date hereof, the Requisite Consents have been validly delivered by Holders and not validly revoked, based on reports provided by D.F. King & Co., Inc., as the exchange agent and information agent in connection with the Exchange Offer and the Consent Solicitation, and the Company has delivered to the Trustee the Requisite Consents which constitute consent of Holders of the Notes to enter into this Supplemental Indenture to effect the Amendments under the Existing Indenture.