0001193125-10-270799 Sample Contracts

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER BY AND AMONG ABB LTD, BROCK ACQUISITION CORPORATION AND BALDOR ELECTRIC COMPANY DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Merger Agreement • November 30th, 2010 • Baldor Electric Co • Motors & generators • New York

• Contract Type
  Merger Agreement
• Filed
  November 30th, 2010
• Company
  Baldor Electric Co
• Industry
  Motors & generators
• Jurisdiction
  New York

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER (including the exhibits and disclosure schedules attached hereto, this “Agreement”), dated as of November 29, 2010, by and among ABB Ltd, a corporation organized under the Laws of Switzerland (“Parent”), Brock Acquisition Corporation, a Missouri corporation and a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and Baldor Electric Company, a Missouri corporation (the “Company”). Each of Parent, Merger Sub and the Company are referred to herein as a “Party” and together as “Parties”.