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Item 8.01. Other Events
The exhibits filed herewith are exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (file no. 333-236344) of 3M Company (the “Company”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 10, 2020. On March 25, 2020, the Company entered into an Underwriting Agreement with Citigroup Global Markets Inc., BofA Securities, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, relating to the sale of $500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 2.650% Notes due 2025, $600,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.050% Notes due 2030 and $650,000,000 aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 3.700% Notes due 2050.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 1.1 | Underwriting Agreement relating to the issuance and sale of the Company’s 2.650% Notes due 2025, 3.050% Notes due 2030 and 3.700% Notes due 2050 | |
| 4.1 | Form of Global Note for the Company’s 2.650% Notes due 2025 | |
| 4.2 | Form of Global Note for the Company’s 3.050% Notes due 2030 | |
| 4.3 | Form of Global Note for the Company’s 3.700% Notes due 2050 | |
| 5.1 | Opinion of Michael M. Dai relating to the Company’s 2.650% Notes due 2025, 3.050% Notes due 2030 and 3.700% Notes due 2050 | |
| 23.1 | Consent of Michael M. Dai (included in Exhibit 5.1 above) | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded in the Inline XBRL document). |
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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.
| Date: March 27, 2020 | 3M Company | |
| By: | /s/ Ivan K. Fong | |
| Ivan K. Fong, | ||
| Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary | ||
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