U.S. and Canada Participants (employees who are on the U.S. or Canadian payroll system):

U. S. Severance Plan. Employee is eligible to receive under The Dow Chemical Company U.S. Severance Plan (the “Severance Plan”): # a lump sum severance payment of $788,829.00 (less deductions or withholdings required by law or by agreement between the Parties and any outstanding amounts Employee owes to the Company, including but not limited to any outstanding balance owed on any housing or relocation loans), and # any other additional benefits that are available to the Employee under the Severance Plan.

U.S. Government Securities, in each case maturing within one (1) year from the date of acquisition thereof;

U.S. Dollars, Canadian dollars, pounds sterling, euros, the national currency of any participating member state of the European Union or, in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, such local currencies held by it from time to time in the ordinary course of business;

“U.C.C.” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

U.S. dollar denominated time deposits, certificates of deposit and bankers’ acceptances of # any Lender, # any domestic commercial bank of recognized standing having capital and surplus in excess of $500,000,000 or # any bank (or the parent company of such bank) whose short-term commercial paper rating from S&P is at least A-1, A-2 or the equivalent thereof or from Moody’s is at least P-1, P-2 or the equivalent thereof (any such bank, an “Approved Bank”), in each case with maturities of not more than 90 days from the date of acquisition;

U.S. Real Property Holding Corporation. The Company is not and has never been a U.S. real property holding corporation within the meaning of Section 897 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the Company shall so certify upon Purchaser’s request.

Each U.K. Lender which becomes a Party after the Closing Date (a “New U.K. Lender”) shall indicate in the relevant Assignment and Assumption or other agreement executed pursuant to the terms of this Agreement which it executes on becoming a Party as a U.K. Lender, and for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and without liability to any U.K. Borrower, which of the following categories it falls in: # not a U.K. Qualifying Lender; # a U.K. Qualifying Lender (other than a U.K. Treaty Lender); or # a U.K. Treaty Lender, and if the New U.K. Lender fails to indicate its status in accordance with this [Section 3.01(i)(ix)] then such New U.K. Lender shall be treated for the purposes of this Agreement (including by each U.K. Borrower) as if it is not a U.K. Qualifying Lender until such time as it notifies the Administrative Agent which category applies (and the Administrative Agent, upon receipt of such notification, shall inform the relevant U.K. Borrower). For the avoidance of doubt, an Assignment and Assumption or any other such agreement pursuant to any Person becomes a Party shall not be invalidated by any failure of a Lender to comply with this [Section 3.01(i)(ix)].

Each U.K. Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally jointly and severally guarantees to the Administrative Agent and the U.K. Lenders the full and punctual payment when due (whether at stated maturity, by required pre-payment, by acceleration or otherwise) of all of the Obligations of the other U.K. Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents in consideration of the financial accommodations to be provided by the Lenders, the Agents and the L/C Issuers under this Agreement, for the mutual benefit, directly and indirectly, of each U.K. Borrower and in consideration of the undertakings of the other U.K. Borrower to accept joint and several liability for the Obligations. Each U.K. Borrower agrees that this is an absolute, unconditional and continuing guaranty of the full and punctual payment of all of the Obligations of the other U.K. Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and not of their collectability only and is in no way conditioned upon any requirement that the Administrative Agent or any U.K. Lender first attempt to collect any of such Obligations from such U.K. Borrower or resort to any collateral security or other means of obtaining payment. Each U.K. Borrower, jointly and severally, hereby irrevocably and unconditionally accepts, not merely as a surety but also as a co-debtor, joint and several liability with the other U.K. Borrower with respect to the payment and performance of all of the Obligations (including, without limitation, any Obligations arising under this [Section 10.10(a)]), it being the intention of the parties hereto that all of the Obligations of the U.K. Borrowers shall be the joint and several Obligations of each U.K. Borrower without preferences or distinction among them. Each U.K. Borrower hereby waives all defenses relating to the joint and several liability described above, including, without limitation, all suretyship defenses.

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