Exhibit 5.1/23.2
Opinion of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone,
P.L.C.
December 21,
2009
BorgWarner
Inc.
3850 Hamlin
Road
Auburn Hills,
Michigan 48326
Re:
Registration of Shares on Form S-3
Ladies and
Gentlemen:
We
have acted as your counsel in connection with the Registration Statement on Form
S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “1933 Act”) for the
registration of 500,000 shares (the “Shares”) of Common Stock, par value $0.01
per share, of BorgWarner Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). The
Shares are issuable under the Company’s Dividend Reinvestment and Stock Purchase
Plan (the “Plan”).
You
have requested our opinion as to the matters set forth below in connection with
the Registration Statement. For purposes of rendering that opinion, we have
examined the Registration Statement, the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation,
and Bylaws, the Plan and the corporate action of the Company adopting the Plan,
and we have made such other investigation as we have deemed appropriate. We have
examined and relied upon certificates of public officials and, as to certain
matters of fact that are material to our opinion; we have also relied on a
certificate of an officer of the Company. In rendering our opinion, we also have
made the assumptions that are customary in opinion letters of this kind. We have
not verified any of those assumptions.
Our
opinion set forth below is limited to the law of the State of
Delaware.
Based
upon and subject to the foregoing, it is our opinion that the Shares, when and
if issued and delivered against payment therefor in accordance with the Plan,
will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
The
opinion expressed herein is limited to the matters specifically set forth herein
and no other opinion shall be inferred beyond the matters expressly stated. We
assume no obligation to supplement this opinion if any applicable law changes
after the date hereof or if we become aware of any fact that might change the
opinion expressed herein after the date hereof.
This
opinion is being furnished to you for submission to the Commission as an exhibit
to the Registration Statement. We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion
as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the use of the name of our
firm therein. In giving this consent, we do not admit that we are within the
category of persons whose consent is required by Section 7 of the 1933 Act or
the rules and regulations thereunder.
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Yours
truly
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/s/ Miller, Canfield,
Paddock and Stone, P.L.C.
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