Edgar Filing: AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP INC

AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

Date: August 23, 2012

/s/ Mark A. Weiss

Mark A. Weiss

Assistant Vice President and Assistant Secretary

Current Report

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 21, 2012

AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Ohio

1-13653

31-1544320

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)


301 East Fourth Street, Cincinnati, OH				45202
(Address of principal executive offices)				(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (513) 579-2121

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

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Section 1 — Registrant’s Business and Operations

Item 1.01

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On August 21, 2012, American Financial Group, Inc. (the “Registrant”) entered into a Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) by and among the Registrant and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters, relating to the issuance and sale of $125,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Registrant’s 5-3/4% Senior Notes due 2042 (the “Notes”).

The Notes will be issued under an Indenture dated as of November 12, 1997 between the Registrant and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (the “Original Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 3, 1997, the Second Supplemental Indenture dated as of February 3, 2004, the Third Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 17, 2009, the Fourth Supplement Indenture dated as of September 27, 2010, the Fifth Supplemental Indenture dated as of June 12, 2012 and as proposed to be supplemented by the Sixth Supplemental Indenture to be dated as of August 24, 2012 (the Original Indenture, as supplemented through and including the Sixth Supplemental Indenture, the “Indenture”). The Notes have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Act”) pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-179867) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Act.

Section 9 — Financial Statements and Exhibits

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.


1		Purchase Agreement dated as of August 21, 2012 among the Registrant and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as representatives of the several underwriters

4.1		Form of Sixth Supplemental Indenture between the Registrant and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee

4.2		Form of 5-3/4% Senior Notes due 2042 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit A to Exhibit 4.1)

5		Opinion of Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

23.1		Consents of Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL (included in Exhibit 5)

23.2		Consent of Ernst & Young LLP

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.