ITEM 1.01. ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT.
On May 30, 2012 General Motors LLC ("GM LLC"), an indirect wholly-owned
subsidiary of General Motors Company (the "Company"), entered into a Definitive
Transaction Framework Agreement by and among GM LLC, The Prudential Insurance
Company of America ("Prudential Insurance"), Prudential Financial, Inc., and
State Street Bank and Trust Company, as Independent Fiduciary of the GM
Retirement Program for Salaried Employees (the "SRP") (the "Agreement") pursuant
to which the SRP will purchase from Prudential Insurance a group annuity
contract that requires Prudential Insurance to pay and administer future annuity
payments to certain of the Company's salaried retirees.
Following the execution of the Agreement, the SRP is offering lump-sum
distributions to certain retired salaried employees who participate in the SRP.
Certain retired salaried employees that are not offered lump-sum distributions
or those that are offered lump-sum distributions that do not elect to take the
offer will receive annuity payments from Prudential Insurance in accordance with
the terms of the group annuity contract. GM LLC has agreed to provide additional
funding to the SRP so that the SRP has sufficient assets to purchase the group
annuity contract, provide additional funding to the pension plan for current
salaried employees and complete the transactions contemplated by the Agreement.
It is expected that the additional funding for the SRP will be in the range of
$3.5 billion to $4.5 billion. The final amount of the funding will depend on
several factors including interest rates, SRP asset returns and the lump sum
election rate. The Agreement contains closing conditions and termination rights
in favor of GM LLC regarding total cash required and total liquidity impact on
the Company as well as a termination right in favor of Prudential Insurance
regarding its overall projected balance sheet position at December 31, 2012.
Certain aspects of the transactions contemplated by the Agreement regarding the
SRP are subject to review by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. The
Agreement is also subject to other customary closing conditions for this type of
agreement. Assuming all of the closing conditions are met, the Company expects
the transactions contemplated under the Agreement to be completed by December
31, 2012. Upon completion, the Company expects to account for the transactions
as a settlement of approximately $26 billion of pension obligations under U.S.
generally accepted accounting principles. A press release announcing the entry
into the Agreement and charts supplied to the media are filed herewith as
Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2 and are incorporated by reference herein.
Prudential Insurance currently has an annuity contract with the SRP valued at
approximately $1 billion that applies to certain pension obligations under the
SRP. All but a de minimis amount of the assets and obligations under this
annuity contract are included in the overall transactions contemplated by the
Agreement.
The foregoing description of the Agreement does not purport to be complete and
is qualified in its entirety by the provisions of the Agreement, which will be
filed with the Company's quarterly report for the quarter ended June 30, 2012.