USE OF PROCEEDS The net proceeds of the issue of the Securities, which amount to EUR5,000,000 shall be used to purchase the Initial Charged Assets on the Issue Date. Method of Payment On the Issue Date, delivery of beneficial interests in the Temporary Bearer Global Security will be made in book-entry form through the facilities of Euroclear or Clearstream, Luxembourg, in each case against payment therefor in immediately available funds. 33
DESCRIPTION OF THE INITIAL CHARGED ASSETS AND THE ISSUER OF THE INITIAL CHARGED ASSETS The information in the following sections concerning the Initial Charged Assets and the issuer of the Initial Charged Assets has been accurately reproduced from information published by the issuer of the Initial Charged Assets. So far as the Issuer is aware and is able to ascertain from information so published, no facts have been omitted which would render the reproduced information inaccurate or misleading. A. Initial Charged Assets The Initial Charged Assets comprise EUR5,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of the EUR 1,500,000,000 Floating Rate Notes due 2010 of Merrill Lynch S.A. Issuer: Merrill Lynch S.A. Issue Date: 29 September, 2005 and 8 December, 2005. Aggregate Principal Amount issued: Form and Denomination: EUR 1,250,000,000 was issued on 29 September, 2005, followed by EUR 250,000,000 on 8 December, 2005, to be consolidated and form a single tranche of EUR 1,500,000,000. Form: Bearer. First Interest Payment Date: 29 December, 2005. Maturity Date: 29th September 2010. Denomination: EUR 50,000 and integral multiples of EUR 1,000 in excess thereof. Interest Rate: Interest Payment Dates: 3 month EURIBOR + 0.2 per cent per annum. 29 March, 29 June, 29 September and 29 December in each year. ID Codes: ISIN and Common Code: XS0231029868 and 023102986, respectively. Listing: Governing Law: Status: Luxembourg Stock Exchange. New York. Direct, unsecured, unsubordinated debt securities. B. Description of the issuer of the Initial Charged Assets History and Business Merrill Lynch S.A. (MLSA) is a Luxembourg public limited liability company. MLSA was incorporated on 18th December, 1991 as a société anonyme for an unlimited period. MLSA's articles of incorporation were published in the Mémorial, Journal Officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, Recueil Spécial des Sociétés et Associations, C-No. 51 of 14th February, 1992. MLSA's articles of incorporation have not been amended since 2nd July, 2008. MLSA complies with the Luxembourg corporate governance regime. MLSA is wholly-owned beneficially by Merrill Lynch International Holdings Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of 34