• 5.050% Senior Notes due March 22, 2028 (CUSIP No. 49177JAF9)
• 5.000% Senior Notes due March 22, 2030 (CUSIP No. 49177JAH5)
• 4.850% Senior Notes due May 22, 2032 (CUSIP No. 49177JAS1)
• 4.900% Senior Notes due March 22, 2033 (CUSIP No. 49177JAK8)
• 5.100% Senior Notes due March 22, 2043 (CUSIP No. 49177JAM4)
• 5.050% Senior Notes due March 22, 2053 (CUSIP No. 49177JAP7)
• 5.200% Senior Notes due March 22, 2063 (CUSIP No. 49177JAR3)

ANNEX A

"Qualified Institutional Buyer" means:

(1) Any of the following entities, acting for its own account or the accounts of other Qualified Institutional Buyers, that in the aggregate owns and invests on a discretionary basis at least $100 million in securities of issuers that are not affiliated with the entity:

(a) Any insurance company as defined in Section 2(a)(13) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act");

(b) Any investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "Investment Company Act"), or any business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48) of the Investment Company Act;

(c) Any small business investment company licensed by the U.S. Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 or any Rural Business Investment Company as defined in section 384A of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act;

(d) Any plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions, for the benefit of its employees;

(e) Any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended;

(f) Any trust fund whose trustee is a bank or trust company and whose participants are exclusively plans of the types identified in subparagraph (1)(D) or (E) above, except trust funds that include as participants individual retirement accounts or H.R. 10 plans;

(g) Any business development company as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended (the "Investment Advisers Act");

(h) Any organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, corporation (other than a bank as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act or a savings and loan association or other institution referenced in Section 3(a)(5)(A) of the Securities Act or a foreign bank or savings and loan association or equivalent institution), partnership, or Massachusetts or similar business trust;

(i) Any investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act; and

(j) Any institutional accredited investor, as defined in rule 501(a) under the Securities Act, of a type not listed in this definition in paragraphs (a) through (i) or paragraphs (2) through (4) below.

(2) Any dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), acting for its own account or the accounts of other Qualified Institutional Buyers, that in the aggregate owns and invests on a discretionary basis at least US$10 million of securities of issuers that are not affiliated with the dealer, provided, that securities constituting the whole or a part of an unsold allotment to or subscription by a dealer as a participant in a public offering shall not be deemed to be owned by such dealer;

(3) Any dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the Exchange Act acting in a "riskless principal transaction" (as defined below) on behalf of a Qualified Institutional Buyer;

(4) Any investment company registered under the Investment Company Act, acting for its own account or for the accounts of other qualified institutional buyers, that is part of a family of investment companies which own in the aggregate at least $100 million in securities of issuers, other than issuers that are affiliated with the investment company or are part of such family of investment companies. "Family of investment companies" means any two or more investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act, except for a unit investment trust whose assets consist solely of shares of one or more registered investment companies, that have the same investment adviser (or, in the case of unit investment trusts, the same depositor), provided that:

(a) Each series of a series company (as defined in Rule 18f-2 under the Investment Company Act) shall be deemed to be a separate investment company; and

(b) Investment companies shall be deemed to have the same adviser (or depositor) if their advisers (or depositors) are majority-owned subsidiaries of the same parent, or if one investment company's adviser (or depositor) is a majority-owned subsidiary of the other investment company's adviser (or depositor);

(5) Any entity, all of the equity owners of which are Qualified Institutional Buyers, acting for its own account or the accounts of other Qualified Institutional Buyers; and

(6) Any bank as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act, any savings and loan association or other institution as referenced in Section 3(a)(5)(A) of the Securities Act, or any foreign bank or savings and loan association or equivalent institution, acting for its own account or the accounts of other qualified institutional buyers, that in the aggregate owns and invests on a discretionary basis at least US$100 million in securities of issuers that are not affiliated with it and that has an audited net worth of at least US$25 million as demonstrated in its latest annual financial statements, as of a date not more than 16 months preceding the date of sale under the rule in the case of a U.S. bank or savings and loan association, and not more than 18 months preceding such date of sale for a foreign bank or savings and loan association or equivalent institution.

For purposes of the foregoing definition:

(1) In determining the aggregate amount of securities owned and invested on a discretionary basis by an entity, the following instruments and interests shall be excluded: bank deposit notes and certificates of deposit; loan participations; repurchase agreements; securities owned but subject to a repurchase agreement; and currency, interest rate and commodity swaps.

(2) The aggregate value of securities owned and invested on a discretionary basis by an entity shall be the cost of such securities, except where the entity reports its securities holdings in its financial statements on the basis of their market value, and no current information with respect to the cost of those securities has been published. In the latter event, the securities may be valued at market for purposes of the foregoing definition.

(3) In determining the aggregate amount of securities owned by an entity and invested on a discretionary basis, securities owned by subsidiaries of the entity that are consolidated with the entity in its financial statements prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles may be included if the investments of such subsidiaries are managed under the direction of the entity, except that, unless the entity is a reporting company under Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act, securities owned by such subsidiaries may not be included if the entity itself is a majority-owned subsidiary that would be included in the consolidated financial statements of another enterprise.

(4) "Riskless principal transaction" means a transaction in which a dealer buys a security from any person and makes a simultaneous offsetting sale of such security to a Qualified Institutional Buyer, including another dealer acting as riskless principal for a Qualified Institutional Buyer.

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"U.S. person" means:

(1) Any natural person resident in the United States;

(2) Any partnership or corporation organized or incorporated under the laws of the United States;

(3) Any estate of which any executor or administrator is a U.S. person;

(4) Any trust of which any trustee is a U.S. person;

(5) Any agency or branch of a foreign entity located in the United States;

(6) Any non-discretionary account or similar account (other than an estate or trust) held by a dealer or other fiduciary for the benefit or account of a U.S. person;

(7) Any discretionary account or similar account (other than an estate or trust) held by a dealer or other fiduciary organized, incorporated, or (if an individual) resident in the United States; and

(8) Any partnership or corporation if:

(a) Organized or incorporated under the laws of any foreign jurisdiction; and

(b) Formed by a U.S. person principally for the purpose of investing in securities not registered under the Securities Act, unless it is organized or incorporated, and owned, by accredited investors (as defined in Rule 501(a) under the Securities Act) who are not natural persons, estates or trusts.

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The following are not "U.S. Persons":

(1) Any discretionary account or similar account (other than an estate or trust) held for the benefit or account of a non-U.S. person by a dealer or other professional fiduciary organized, incorporated, or (if an individual) resident in the United States;

(2) Any estate of which any professional fiduciary acting as executor or administrator is a U.S. person if:

(a) An executor or administrator of the estate who is not a U.S. person has sole or shared investment discretion with respect to the assets of the estate; and

(b) The estate is governed by foreign law;

(3) Any trust of which any professional fiduciary acting as trustee is a U.S. person, if a trustee who is not a U.S. person has sole or shared investment discretion with respect to the trust assets, and no beneficiary of the trust (and no settlor if the trust is revocable) is a U.S. person;

(4) An employee benefit plan established and administered in accordance with the law of a country other than the United States and customary practices and documentation of such country;

(5) Any agency or branch of a U.S. person located outside the United States if:

(a) The agency or branch operates for valid business reasons; and

(b) The agency or branch is engaged in the business of insurance or banking and is subject to substantive insurance or banking regulation, respectively, in the jurisdiction where located; and

(6) The International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations and their agencies, affiliates and pension plans and any other similar international organizations, their agencies, affiliates and pension plans.

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"United States" means the United States of America, its territories and possessions, any State of the United States, and the District of Columbia.

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"Non-U.S. qualified offeree" means:

(1)           any person or entity that is located and/or resident in a member state of the European Economic Area ("EAA") (the "Member State") and is (x) a qualified investor within the meaning of Article 2(e) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended, the "Prospectus Regulation") and any relevant implementing measure in each Member State and (y) not an EAA retail investor. For these purposes, an "EAA retail investor" means a person who is one (or more) of: (i) a retail client as defined in point (11) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU (as amended, "MiFID II"); or (ii) a customer within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/97 (as amended or superseded, the "Insurance Distribution Directive"), where that customer would not qualify as a professional client as defined in point (10) of Article 4(1) of MiFID II; or

(2)           any person or entity that is located and/or resident in the United Kingdom that is not a UK retail investor. For these purposes, a "UK retail investor" means a person who is either one (or both) of the following: (i) not a professional client, as defined in point (8) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 as it forms part of domestic law by virtue of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 ("EUWA"); or (ii) not a qualified investor as defined in paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations 2024 ("POATRs"); or

(3)           any person resident in in a province or territory of Canada which is (i) acquiring, or is deemed to be acquiring, the Kimberly-Clark Notes as principal and not as agent, (ii) not an individual, (iii) an "accredited investor," as defined in National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus Exemptions or subsection 73.3(1) of the Securities Act (Ontario), (iv) a "permitted client" as defined in National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions and Ongoing Registrant Obligations (see Annex B for the relevant definitions), and (v) not a person created or used solely to acquire or hold the Kimberly-Clark Notes as an "accredited investor" as described in paragraph (m) of the definition of "accredited investor" in section 1.1 of NI 45-106; or

(4)           any entity outside the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area and Canada to whom the offers contemplated by the Exchange Offers and Consent Solicitations may be made in compliance with all other applicable laws and regulations of any applicable jurisdiction.

(a)            a financial institution,

(b)           the Business Development Bank of Canada incorporated under the Business Development Bank of Canada Act (Canada),

(c)            a subsidiary of any person referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b), if the person owns all of the voting securities of the subsidiary, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors of that subsidiary,

(d)           a person registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as an adviser or dealer,

(e)            an individual registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as a representative of a person referred to in paragraph (d),

(e.1)     an individual formerly registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada, other than an individual formerly registered solely as a representative of a limited market dealer under one or both of the Securities Act (Ontario) or the Securities Act (Newfoundland and Labrador),

(f)            the Government of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada, or any crown corporation, agency or wholly owned entity of the Government of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada,

(g)           a municipality, public board or commission in Canada and a metropolitan community, school board, the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l'Île de Montréal or an intermunicipal management board in Québec,

(h)           any national, federal, state, provincial, territorial or municipal government of or in any foreign jurisdiction, or any agency of that government,

(i)             a pension fund that is regulated by the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (Canada), a pension commission or similar regulatory authority of a jurisdiction of Canada,

(j.1)    an individual who beneficially owns financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that, before taxes but net of any related liabilities, exceeds CAD$5,000,000,

(m)      a person, other than an individual or investment fund, that has net assets of at least CAD$5,000,000 as shown on its most recently prepared financial statements and that has not been created or used solely to purchase or hold securities as an accredited investor as defined in this paragraph (m),

(n)       an investment fund that distributes or has distributed its securities only to

(i)             a person that is or was an accredited investor at the time of the distribution,

(ii)           a person that acquires or acquired securities in the circumstances referred to in sections 2.10 [Minimum amount investment] of NI 45-106, or 2.19 [Additional investment in investment funds] of NI 45-106, or

(iii)         a person described in paragraph (i) or (ii) that acquires or acquired securities under section 2.18 [Investment fund reinvestment] of NI 45-106,

(o)           an investment fund that distributes or has distributed securities under a prospectus in a jurisdiction of Canada for which the regulator or, in Québec, the securities regulatory authority, has issued a receipt,

(p)           a trust company or trust corporation registered or authorized to carry on business under the Trust and Loan Companies Act (Canada) or under comparable legislation in a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction, acting on behalf of a fully managed account managed by the trust company or trust corporation, as the case may be,

(q)           a person acting on behalf of a fully managed account managed by that person, if that person is registered or authorized to carry on business as an adviser or the equivalent under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction,

(r)            a registered charity under the Income Tax Act (Canada) that, in regard to the trade, has obtained advice from an eligibility adviser or an adviser registered under the securities legislation of the jurisdiction of the registered charity to give advice on the securities being traded,

(s)            an entity organized in a foreign jurisdiction that is analogous to any of the entities referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) or paragraph (i) in form and function,

(t)             a person in respect of which all of the owners of interests, direct, indirect or beneficial, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors, are persons that are accredited investors,

(u)           an investment fund that is advised by a person registered as an adviser or a person that is exempt from registration as an adviser,

(v)           a person that is recognized or designated by the securities regulatory authority or, except in Ontario and Québec, the regulator as an accredited investor, or

(w)          a trust established by an accredited investor for the benefit of the accredited investor's family members of which a majority of the trustees are accredited investors and all of the beneficiaries are the accredited investor's spouse, a former spouse of the accredited investor or a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild of that accredited investor, of that accredited investor's spouse or of that accredited investor's former spouse.

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AS USED IN THE "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" DEFINITION ABOVE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:

"control person" means:

in Ontario, Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan:

(a)           a person or company who holds a sufficient number of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer to affect materially the control of the issuer, and, if a person or company holds more than 20 per cent of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer, the person or company is deemed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to hold a sufficient number of the voting rights to affect materially the control of the issuer, or

(b)           each person or company in a combination of persons or companies, acting in concert by virtue of an agreement, arrangement, commitment or understanding, which holds in total a sufficient number of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer to affect materially the control of the issuer, and, if a combination of persons or companies holds more than 20 per cent of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer, the combination of persons or companies is deemed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to hold a sufficient number of the voting rights to affect materially the control of the issuer;

in British Columbia and New Brunswick:

(a)           a person who holds a sufficient number of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer to affect materially the control of the issuer, or

(b)           each person in a combination of persons, acting in concert by virtue of an agreement, arrangement, commitment or understanding, which holds in total a sufficient number of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer to affect materially the control of the issuer,

(c)           and, if a person or combination of persons holds more than 20% of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer, the person or combination of persons is deemed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to hold a sufficient number of the voting rights to affect materially the control of the issuer;

in Prince Edward Island, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Yukon:

(a)           a person who holds a sufficient number of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer to affect materially the control of the issuer, and if a person holds more than 20% of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer, the person is deemed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to hold a sufficient number of the voting rights to affect materially the control of the issuer, or

(b)           each person in a combination of persons acting in concert by virtue of an agreement, arrangement, commitment or understanding, who holds in total a sufficient number of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer to affect materially the control of the issuer, and if a combination of persons holds more than 20% of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer, the combination of persons is deemed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to hold a sufficient number of the voting rights to affect materially the control of the issuer;

in Quebec:

(a)           a person that, alone or with other persons acting in concert by virtue of an agreement, holds a sufficient number of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer to affect materially the control of the issuer. If the person, alone or with other persons acting in concert by virtue of an agreement, holds more than 20% of those voting rights, the person is presumed to hold a sufficient number of the voting rights to affect materially the control of the issuer; and

in Manitoba:

(a)           a person or company who holds a sufficient number of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer to affect materially the control of the issuer,

(b)           each person or company, or combination of persons or companies acting in concert by virtue of an agreement, arrangement, commitment or understanding, that holds in total a sufficient number of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer to affect materially the control of the issuer, or

(c)           a person or company, or combination of persons or companies, that holds more than 20% of the voting rights attached to all outstanding voting securities of an issuer, unless there is evidence that the holding does not affect materially the control of the issuer;

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"director" means

(1)           a member of the board of directors of a company or an individual who performs similar functions for a company, and

(2)           with respect to a person that is not a company, an individual who performs functions similar to those of a director of a company;

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"eligibility adviser" means

(1)           a person that is registered as an investment dealer and authorized to give advice with respect to the type of security being distributed, and

(2)           in Manitoba, also means a lawyer who is a practicing member in good standing with a law society of a jurisdiction of Canada or a chartered professional accountant who is a member in good standing of an organization of chartered professional accountants in a jurisdiction of Canada provided that the lawyer or chartered professional accountant does not

(a)            have a professional, business or personal relationship with the issuer, or any of its directors, executive officer,founders, or control persons, and

(b)           have acted for or been retained personally or otherwise as an employee, executive officer, director, associate or partner of a person that has acted for or been retained by the issuer or any of its directors, executive officers, founders or control persons within the previous 12 months;

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"executive officer" means, for an issuer, an individual who is:

(1)           a chair, vice-chair or president,

(2)           a vice-president in charge of a principal business unit, division or function including sales, finance or production, or

(3)           performing a policy-making function in respect of the issuer;

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"financial assets" means

(1)           cash,

(2)           securities, or

(3)           a contract of insurance, a deposit or an evidence of a deposit that is not a security for the purposes of securities legislation;

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"financial institution" means:

(1)           other than in Ontario,

(a)            a bank listed in Schedule I or II to the Bank Act (Canada),

(b)           a body corporate as defined in the Trust and Loan Companies Act (Canada) and to which that Act applies,

(c)            an association as defined in the Cooperative Credit Associations Act (Canada) and to which that Act applies,

(d)           an insurance company or a fraternal benefit society incorporated or formed under the Insurance Companies Act (Canada),

(e)            a trust, loan or insurance corporation authorized to carry on business by or under an Act of the legislature of a jurisdiction of Canada,

(f)            a credit union, central credit union, caisse populaire, financial services cooperative or credit union league or federation that is incorporated or otherwise authorized to carry on business by or under an Act of the legislature of a jurisdiction of Canada, or

(g)           a treasury branch established by or under an Act of the legislature of a jurisdiction of Canada; or

(h)           a Schedule III bank,

(2)           and in Ontario,

(a)            a bank listed in Schedule I, II or III to the Bank Act (Canada);

(b)           an association to which the Cooperative Credit Association Act (Canada) applies or a central cooperative credit society for which an order has been made under subsection 473(1) of that Act; or

(c)            a loan corporation, trust company, trust corporation, insurance company, treasury branch, credit union, caisse populaire, financial services cooperative or credit union league or federation that is authorized by a statute of Canada or Ontario to carry on business in Canada or Ontario, as the case may be.

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"founder" means, in respect of an issuer, a person who,