Material Agreement Form 8 K

On October 29, 2024, Newell Brands Inc. (the "Company") and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representative of the underwriters named therein, entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") with respect to the offering and sale of $750,000,000 of aggregate principal amount of 6.375% notes due 2030 (the "2030 Notes") and $500,000,000 of aggregate principal amount of 6.625% notes due 2032 (the "2032 Notes" and, together with the 2030 Notes, the "Notes") under the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-3(Registration No. 333-279561).The offering and sale closed on November 13, 2024. The purchase price paid by the underwriters was 99.15% of the aggregate principal amount of both the 2030 Notes and 2032 Notes. The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the offering of the Notes to redeem in full its outstanding 4.875% senior notes due 2025 and to redeem in part its outstanding 4.200% senior notes due 2026.

The Notes were issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of November 19, 2014, between the Company (formerly known as "Newell Rubbermaid Inc.") and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association (formerly known as "U.S. Bank National Association"), as trustee (the "Trustee"), as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture relating to the 2030 Notes, dated November 13, 2024 (the "First Supplemental Indenture"), by and between the Company and the Trustee, and the Second Supplemental Indenture relating to the 2032 Notes, dated November 13, 2024 (the " Second Supplemental Indenture" and, collectively with the First Supplemental Indenture, the "Supplemental Indentures"), by and between the Company and the Trustee.

The Supplemental Indentures provide, among other things, that the Notes are the senior unsecured obligations of the Company and include covenants that limit the ability of the Company and its subsidiaries to incur or guarantee additional debt, create or permit certain liens, redeem or repurchase certain debt, consummate certain asset sales, make certain loans and investments, consolidate, merge, or sell all or substantially all of the Company and its subsidiaries assets, enter into certain transactions with affiliates and pay distributions on, or redeem or repurchase the Company's capital stock, subject in each case to certain qualifications and exceptions, including the termination of certain of these covenants upon the Notes receiving investment grade credit ratings.

If a specified event deemed to be a change of control of the Company and a ratings downgrade occur, the Company will be required to offer to repurchase all outstanding Notes at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof on the date of purchase plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the repurchase date.

The Supplemental Indentures contain customary events of default that include (subject in certain cases to customary grace and cure periods), among others, nonpayment of principal or interest; failure to pay certain other indebtedness; certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization; and failure to pay certain final judgments.

Copies of the First Supplemental Indenture, the Second Supplemental Indenture, the form of the 2030 Notes and the form of the 2032 Notes are filed as Exhibits 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-Kand are incorporated herein by reference.