Exhibit 5.1
[Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP Letterhead]
(212) 701-3000
June 27, 2016
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
5 Dakota Drive
Lake Success, NY 11042
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel to Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation, (the “Company”) in connection with the registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-212143) (the “Registration Statement”) and the prospectus supplement dated June 21, 2016 (the “Prospectus Supplement”) relating to $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.400% Senior Notes due 2026 (the “Notes”). In our capacity as counsel in the connection referred to above, we have examined originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified, of (i) the Underwriting Agreement, dated June 21, 2016 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), among the Company and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC., as representatives of the underwriters listed therein (the “Underwriters”); (ii) the base indenture (the “Base Indenture”) dated May 29, 2007 by and between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (the “Trustee”); (iii) a form of the Third Supplemental Indenture to the Base Indenture between the Company and the Trustee (the “Supplemental Indenture,” and together with the Base Indenture, the “Indenture”); (iv) the form of global notes representing the Notes; and (v) the Registration Statement and the Prospectus Supplement.
In rendering the opinion set forth herein, we have examined originals, photocopies or conformed copies of certain records of the Company, certain agreements, certificates of public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of the Company and certain other documents. In such examinations, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures on original documents and the conformity to the originals of all copies submitted to us as conformed or photocopied.
On the basis of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Notes will, when they have been duly authorized, executed, authenticated, issued and delivered in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture and duly purchased and paid for in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, constitute legal, valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms, except as the enforceability thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, fraudulent transfer or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity.
We are members of the bar of the State of New York, and in rendering this opinion we express no opinion as to the laws of any jurisdiction other than the laws of the State of New York and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
