DESCRIPTION OF NOTES
The Issuer will issue the Notes under an indenture to be dated as of the closing date of the offering (the “base indenture”), among LPL Holdings, Inc., as issuer, LPL Financial Holdings Inc., as guarantor, and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as trustee (the “trustee”), as supplemented by a supplemental indenture to be dated as of the closing date of the offering (the “supplemental indenture”). We refer to the base indenture, as supplemented by the supplemental indenture, as the “indenture.” The terms of the Notes include those expressly set forth in the indenture and those made a part of the indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the “Trust Indenture Act”).
The following summary of the terms of the Notes and the indenture does not purport to be complete and is subject, and qualified in its entirety by reference, to the detailed provisions of the Notes and the indenture, including the definitions of certain terms used in the indenture. You may request a copy of the indenture from us as described under “Where You Can Find More Information” in the accompanying prospectus. Those documents, and not this description, define your legal rights as a holder of the Notes. The following description supplements, and supersedes to the extent it is inconsistent with, the statements under “Description of the Debt Securities and Guarantees” in the accompanying prospectus.
For purposes of this description, the terms the “Issuer” “we,” “us” and “our” refer only to LPL Holdings, Inc. and not to any of its subsidiaries, unless we specify otherwise. References to the “Guarantor” in this description refer to LPL Financial Holdings Inc., not including its subsidiaries. The Issuer is a direct subsidiary of the Guarantor and is an intermediate holding company of the Guarantor’s business.
General
The Notes will be issued in an initial principal amount of $ million. We may, without the consent of holders of the Notes, increase the principal amount of the Notes by issuing additional senior debt securities in the future on the same terms and conditions, except for any difference in the issue price and interest accrued prior to the issue date of the additional senior debt securities, and with the same CUSIP number as the Notes offered hereby, provided that such additional senior debt securities constitute part of the same issue as the Notes offered hereby for U.S. federal income tax purposes. The Notes offered by this prospectus supplement and any additional senior debt securities would rank equally and ratably and would be treated as a single series of debt securities for all purposes under the indenture.
The Notes will be issued only in fully registered, book-entry form, in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, except under the limited circumstances described below under “—Certificated Securities”.
The indenture does not contain any provisions that would necessarily protect holders of Notes if the Issuer or the Guarantor become involved in a highly leveraged transaction, change of control, reorganization, merger or other similar transaction that adversely affects the Issuer, the Guarantor or the holders of Notes. A sinking fund will not be provided for the Notes.
Guarantee
The Guarantor will fully and unconditionally guarantee on a senior unsecured basis the due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes, and all other amounts due under the indenture, when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, by acceleration, upon redemption or otherwise (the “guarantee”). The guarantee provides that in the event of a default in payment on a Note, the holder of the Note may institute legal proceedings directly against the Guarantor to enforce the guarantee without first proceeding against the Issuer.
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