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NEXSTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
and
IBJ XXXXXXXX BANK & TRUST COMPANY
as Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of July 31, 1997
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$80,000,000
6 1/4% Convertible Subordinated Debentures Due 2004
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE ONE
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
SECTION 101. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 110. Separability Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 112. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 114. No Security Interest Created . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 115. Limitation on Individual Liability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
ARTICLE TWO
Security Forms
SECTION 201. Forms Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SECTION 202. Form of Face of Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Global Securities and Definitive Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 204. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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ARTICLE THREE
The Securities
SECTION 301. Title and Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SECTION 302. Denominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 309. Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 311. Global Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
ARTICLE FOUR
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 403. Reinstatement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 404. Return of Unclaimed Monies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
ARTICLE FIVE
Remedies
SECTION 501. Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest and to Convert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
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SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 512. Control by Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
ARTICLE SIX
The Trustee
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
ARTICLE SEVEN
Holders' Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communication to Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
SECTION 704. Reports by Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
SECTION 705. Rule 144A Information Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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ARTICLE EIGHT
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
SECTION 802. Successor Substituted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
ARTICLE NINE
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 907. Notice of Supplemental Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
ARTICLE TEN
Covenants
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 1003. Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
SECTION 1005. Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
SECTION 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
ARTICLE ELEVEN
Redemption of Securities
SECTION 1101. Right of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
SECTION 1102. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
SECTION 1103. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
SECTION 1104. Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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SECTION 1105. Notice of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
SECTION 1106. Deposit of Redemption Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SECTION 1107. Securities Payable on Redemption Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SECTION 1108. Securities Redeemed in Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ARTICLE TWELVE
Subordination of Securities
SECTION 1201. Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 1202. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 1203. Prior Payment to Senior Indebtedness upon Acceleration of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 1204. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 1205. Payment Permitted if No Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 1206. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 1207. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 1208. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 1209. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 1210. Notice to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 1211. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
SECTION 1212. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SECTION 1213. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness;
Preservation of Trustee's Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SECTION 1214. Article Applicable to Paying Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SECTION 1215. Certain Conversions Deemed Payment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
SECTION 1216. No Suspension of Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
Conversion of Securities
SECTION 1301. Conversion Privilege and Conversion Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
SECTION 1302. Exercise of Conversion Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SECTION 1303. Fractions of Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SECTION 1304. Adjustment of Conversion Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
SECTION 1305. Notice of Adjustments of Conversion Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
SECTION 1306. Notice of Certain Corporate Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
SECTION 1307. Company to Reserve Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
SECTION 1308. Taxes on Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
SECTION 1309. Covenant as to Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
SECTION 1310. Cancellation of Converted Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
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SECTION 1311. Provisions on Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
SECTION 1312. Trustee's Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
Right to Require Repurchase
SECTION 1401. Right to Require Repurchase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
SECTION 1402. Notice; Method of Exercising Repurchase Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
SECTION 1403. Deposit of Repurchase Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
SECTION 1404. Securities Not Repurchased on Repurchase Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
SECTION 1405. Securities Repurchased in Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
SECTION 1406. Certain Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
ANNEX A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A-1
ANNEX B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-1
ANNEX C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C-1
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INDENTURE, dated as of July 31, 1997 between NEXSTAR PHARMACEUTICALS,
INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its principal executive offices
at 0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, and IBJ XXXXXXXX BANK &
TRUST COMPANY, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called the
"Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of its 6
1/4% Convertible Subordinated Debentures Due 2004 (herein called the
"Securities") of substantially the tenor and amount hereinafter set forth, and
to provide therefor the Company has duty authorized the execution and delivery
of this Indenture.
All things necessary to make the Securities, when executed by the
Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the
Company, the valid obligations of the Company, and to make this Indenture a
valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with their and its terms, have
been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS
OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term
"generally accepted accounting principles" with respect
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to any computation required and permitted hereunder shall mean such
accounting principles as are generally accepted and accepted and adopted
by the Company at the date of this Indenture; and
(4) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms used in Articles Twelve, Thirteen and Fourteen are
defined in such Articles.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly
or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Applicable Procedures" has the meaning specified in Section 305.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities.
The term "Beneficial Owner" is determined in accordance with Rule
13d-3, promulgated by the Commission under the Exchange Act.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the
Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York
or the city in which the Corporate Trust Office is located are authorized or
obligated to close by law or executive order.
"Cedel" means Cedel Bank societe anonyme.
"Change in Control" has the meaning specified in Section 1406.
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"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission as from
time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time
after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and
performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then
the body performing such duties at such time.
"Common Stock" includes any stock of any class of the Company which
has no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of
any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the
Company and which is not subject to redemption by the Company. However, subject
to the provisions of Section 1311, shares issuable on conversion of Securities
shall include only shares of the class designated as Common Stock of the
Company at the date of this Indenture or shares of any class or classes
resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof and which have
no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company
and which are not subject to redemption by the Company; provided, that if at
any time there shall be more than one such resulting class, the shares of each
such class then so issuable shall be substantially in the proportion which the
total number of shares of such class resulting from all such reclassifications
bears to the total number of shares of all such classes resulting from all such
reclassifications.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its President
or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee in New York,
New York, which initially shall be Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: Corporate and Institutional Trust, at which at any particular
time its corporate trust business shall principally be administered.
"Corporation" means a corporation, association, company, joint-stock
company or business trust.
"Current Market Price" has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
"DTC" has the meaning specified in Section 305.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
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"Definitive Security" or "Definitive Securities" means a Security or
Securities that are in the form of the Security set forth in Sections 202 and
203 hereof, and not including the legend specified for a Global Security or the
additional language referred to in footnote 1 or the additional schedule
referred to in footnote 2.
"Depositary" has the meaning specified in Section 305.
"Euroclear" means Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels
office, as operator of the Euroclear System.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Global Security" or "Global Securities" means a Security or
Securities in the form of the Security set forth in Sections 202 and 203
hereof, containing the legend specified for a Global Security, the additional
language referred to in footnote 1 and the additional schedule referred to in
footnote 2.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,
including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental
indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a
part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture,
respectively.
"Initial Purchasers" means SBC Warburg Inc. and Xxxxxxxxxxx & Co.,
Inc.
"Interest Payment Date" means the Stated Maturity of an instalment of
interest on the Securities.
"Material Subsidiary" means a Subsidiary meeting the definition of
"significant subsidiary" set forth in Section 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under
the Securities Act.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or
herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity thereof or by declaration of
acceleration, redemption or otherwise.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate, in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee, signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief
Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary,
of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. Any such certificate shall be
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delivered in such officer's corporate, and not individual, capacity. One of
the officers signing an Officers' Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004
shall be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the
Company.
"144A Global Security" has the meaning specified in Section 201.
"144A Securities Certificate" means a certificate substantially in
the form set forth as Annex B.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, in form
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, who may be counsel for or an employee
of the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or redemption
of which moneys in the necessary amount have been theretofore deposited
with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or
set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act
as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided,
that if such Securities, or portions thereof, are to be redeemed, notice
of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or
provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; and
(iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 306 or
in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to the
Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona
fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the
Company; provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the
requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
hereunder, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall
be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in
determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver,
only Securities which the Trustee has received written notice of ownership
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate
of Company shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
provides written evidence to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's
right
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so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or of such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of and premium, if any, or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that
evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in
exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Security.
"Purchase Agreement" means that certain Purchase Agreement dated July
28, 1997 between the Company and the Initial Purchasers.
"Record Date" means either a Regular Record Date or a Special Record
Date, as applicable.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture on the applicable Redemption Date.
"Registration Rights Agreement" means that certain Registration
Rights Agreement dated as of July 31, 1997 between the Company and the Initial
Purchasers.
"Regular Record Date", for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date, means the January 15 or July 15 (whether or not a Business Day),
as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
"Regulation S" means Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended.
"Regulation S Certificate" means a certificate substantially in the
form set forth as Annex A.
"Regulation S Global Security" has the meaning specified in Section
201.
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"Repurchase Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1401.
"Repurchase Event" has the meaning specified in Section 1406. "Repurchase
Price" has the meaning specified in Section 1401.
"Resale Restriction Termination Date" means, with respect to any
Security, the date which is two years after the later of (i) the original issue
date of such Security and (ii) the last date on which the Company or any
Affiliate of the Company was the owner of such Security (or any Predecessor
Security).
"Responsible Officer" means, when used with respect to the Trustee,
any vice president (whether or not designated by numbers or words added before
or after the title "vice president"), secretary, treasurer, trust officer, any
assistant trust officer, any assistant cashier, any assistant secretary, any
assistant treasurer, or any other officer or assistant officer of the Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the Persons who
at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate
trust matter is referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity
with the particular subject.
"Restricted Period" has the meaning specified in Section 201.
"Securities Custodian" means the Trustee, as custodian with respect
to the Securities in global form, or any successor entity thereto.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"Senior Indebtedness" means the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on (a) all indebtedness of the Company for money borrowed, whether
outstanding on the date of execution of the Indenture or thereafter created,
incurred or assumed, except any such indebtedness that by the term of the
instrument or instruments by which such indebtedness was created or incurred
expressly provides that it (i) is junior in right of payment to the Debentures
or (ii) ranks pari passu in right of payment with the Debentures, and (b) any
amendments, renewals, extensions, modifications, refinancings and refundings of
the foregoing. For the purposes of this definition, "indebtedness for money
borrowed" when used with respect to the Company means (i) any obligation of, or
any obligation guaranteed by, the Company for the repayment of borrowed money
including without limitation fees, penalties or other obligations in respect
thereof), whether or not evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other written
instruments, (ii) any deferred payment obligation of, or any such obligation
guaranteed by, the Company for the payment of the purchase price of property or
assets evidenced by a note or similar instrument, and (iii) any obligation of,
or any such obligation guaranteed by, the Company for the payment of rent or
other amounts under a lease of property or assets which obligation is required
to be classified and accounted for as a capitalized lease on the balance sheet
of the Company under generally accepted accounting principles.
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"Shelf Registration Statement" means the Registration Statement with
respect to the Common Stock the Issuer is required to file pursuant to the
Registration Rights Agreement.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means
a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any
instalment of interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as
the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such instalment of
interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding
voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by
one or more other Subsidiaries or by the Company and one or more other
Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock
which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all
times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by
reason of any contingency.
"Termination of Trading" has the meaning specified in Section 1406.
"Transfer Restricted Securities" means Securities that bear or are
required to bear the Securities Act legend set forth in Section 202 hereof.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in
force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however,
that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date,
"Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean such successor Trustee.
"Unrestricted Securities Certificate" means a certificate
substantially in the form set forth as Annex C.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company means any
vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added
before or after the title "vice president".
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust
Indenture Act or as it may reasonably request. Each
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such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers'
Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of
Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of
the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirement set forth in this Indenture.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual or firm signing such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the
definitions herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual or such
firm, he has or they have made such examination or investigation as is
necessary to enable him or them to express an informed opinion as to
whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual or such firm, such condition or covenant has been complied
with.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any Person may certify to
give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certification or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate of public officials or upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the
Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in
the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to such matters are erroneous.
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Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agents duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered
to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of
a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and
the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where
such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The Company may, in the circumstances permitted by the Trust
Indenture Act, fix any day as the record date for the purpose of determining
the Holders entitled to give or take any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, or to vote on any action,
authorized or permitted to be given or taken by Holders. If not set by the
Company prior to the first solicitation of a Holder made by any Person in
respect of any such action, or, in the case of any such vote, prior to such
vote, the record date for any such action or vote shall be the 30th day (or, if
later, the date of the most recent list of Holders required to be provided
pursuant to Section 701) prior to such first solicitation or vote, as the case
may be. With regard to any record date, only the Holders on such date (or their
duly designated proxies) shall be entitled to give or take, or vote on, the
relevant action. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not set a
record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with
respect to, any Act by the Holders pursuant to Section 501, 502 or 512.
(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security
Register.
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(e) Any Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future
Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer therefor or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the
Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Security.
(f) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to
give or take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Security may do
so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or
by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such
appointment with regard to all or any different part of such principal amount.
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
Any Act of Holders or other documents provided or permitted by this
Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing
to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration, or at any other address previously furnished in
writing to the Holders and the Company by the Trustee; or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company,
addressed to it at the address of its principal executive offices
specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other
address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given:
at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; upon receipt by a Trust
Officer if deposited in the mail, with postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt
acknowledged in writing or by telephone by a Trust Officer, if telecopied; upon
receipt by a Trust Officer after timely delivery to the courier, if sent by
nationally recognized overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event,
such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to each Holder affected
by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not later
than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the earliest date (if any),
prescribed for the giving of such notice. Where this Indenture provides for
notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person
entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such
waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders
shall
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be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent
to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver. All such
notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the
time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being
deposited in the mail, with postage prepaid, if mailed; when answered back if
telexed; when receipt acknowledged, if telecopied; and the next Business Day
after timely delivery to the courier, if sent by nationally recognized
overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by
mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee
shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a
provision of the Trust Indenture Act or another provision that would be
required or deemed under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture if
this Indenture were subject thereto, the latter provision shall control. If any
provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust
Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall
be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the
case may be.
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company and the
Trustee shall bind each of their respective successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
SECTION 110. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder, the Holders of Securities and, with respect to Article Twelve, the
holders of Senior Indebtedness, any benefit or any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under this Indenture.
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SECTION 112. Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, but without regard to the
principles of conflicts of laws thereof.
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or
Stated Maturity of any Security or the last date on which a Holder has the
right to convert his Securities shall not be a Business Day, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities)
payment of interest or principal and premium if any, or conversion of the
Securities need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next
succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the
Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, or on such
last day for conversion; provided, that no interest shall accrue for the period
from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity,
as the case may be, to the next succeeding Business Day.
SECTION 114. No Security Interest Created.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall be construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform
Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in
effect in any jurisdiction where property of the Company or its Subsidiaries is
or may be located.
SECTION 115. Limitation on Individual Liability.
No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement
contained in this Indenture or in any Security, or for any claim based thereon
or otherwise in respect thereof, shall be had against any incorporator,
shareholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the
Company or any successor Person, either directly or through the Company,
whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the
enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly
understood that this Indenture and the obligations issued hereunder are solely
corporate obligations, and that no such personal liability whatever shall
attach to, or is or shall be incurred by, the incorporators, shareholders,
officers or directors, as such, of the Company or any successor Person, or any
of them, because of the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or
under or by reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in
this Indenture or in any Security or implied therefrom; and that any and all
such personal liability of every name and nature, either at common law or in
equity or by constitution or statute, of, and any and all such rights and
claims against, every such incorporator, shareholder, officer or director, as
such, because of the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under
or by reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this
Indenture or in any Security or implied therefrom, are hereby expressly waived
and released as a
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condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and
the issuance of such Security.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.
The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall
be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article, with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks
of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with any organizational document, any applicable law or with
the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities are listed or as
may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.
The Securities issued in definitive form shall be substantially in
the form set forth in Section 202 hereof.
Unless issued in definitive form, Securities issued and sold in
reliance on Rule 144A shall be issued in the form of one or more global
securities (the "144A Global Security"), the face of which shall be
substantially in the form set forth in Section 202 hereof and the reverse of
which shall be substantially in the form set forth in Section 203 hereof, which
144A Global Security shall be deposited on behalf of the holders of the
Securities represented thereby with the Trustee, as custodian for the
Depositary, and registered in the name of the nominee of the Depositary, duly
executed by the Company and authenticated as provided for herein.
Securities offered and sold outside the United States in reliance on
Regulation S may be evidenced in the form of one or more permanent Global
Securities (the "Regulation S Global Security"), the face of which shall be
substantially in the form set forth in Section 202 hereof and the reverse of
which shall be substantially in the form set forth in Section 203 hereof, which
Regulation S Global Security shall be deposited on behalf of the holders of the
Securities represented thereby with the Trustee, as custodian for the
Depositary, and registered in the name of a nominee of the Depositary, duly
executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee or an authenticating
agent as provided herein, for credit to the accounts of the respective
depositories for Euroclear and Cedel (or such other accounts as they may
direct). Prior to or on the 40th day after the later of the commencement of the
offering of the Securities and the last original issuance date of the
Securities (the "Restricted Period"), beneficial interests in the Regulation S
Global Security may only be held through Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, Brussels office, as operator of Euroclear or Cedel or another agent
member of Euroclear and Cedel acting for and on behalf of them unless delivery
is made through the 144A Global
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Security in accordance with the certification requirements hereof. During the
Restricted Period, interests in the Regulation S Global Security may be
exchanged for interests in the Restricted Global Security or for Definitive
Securities only in accordance with the certification requirements described in
Section 305 below.
Each Global Security shall represent such of the outstanding
Securities as shall be specified therein and each shall provide that it shall
represent the aggregate amount of outstanding Securities from time to time
endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of outstanding Securities
represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as
appropriate, to reflect exchanges and redemptions. Any endorsement of a Global
Security to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of
outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the
Securities Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in accordance with
instructions given by the Holder thereof.
The Definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved
or produced by any combination of these methods on steel engraved borders or
may be produced in any other manner permitted by the rules of any securities
exchange on which the Securities may be listed, all as determined by the
officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities.
SECTION 202. Form of Face of Security.
[If a Global Security -- UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR
IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED
EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A
NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY
OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY. UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY
AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 XXXXX XXXXXX,
XXX XXXX, XXX XXXX) ("XXX"), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF
TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER
ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS
WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & Co., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.]
[If a Transfer Restricted Security -- THIS SECURITY AND THE COMMON
STOCK ISSUABLE UPON ITS CONVERSION HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S.
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND MAY NOT
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BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT (1) TO A PERSON WHOM
THE TRANSFEROR REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER WITHIN
THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ACQUIRING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT
OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A TRANSACTION MEETING
THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (2) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION MEETING THE
REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 903 OR RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(3) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF AVAILABLE), OR (4) PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT IN EACH CASE IN
ACCORDANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF THE STATES OF THE UNITED
STATES AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS.]
NEXSTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
6 1/4% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2004
No. __________ $__________
NEXSTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC., a corporation duly organized and
existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the "Company",
which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter
referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or
registered assigns, the principal sum of ________________ Dollars [OR SUCH
GREATER OR LESSER AMOUNT AS INDICATED ON THE SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF
SECURITIES ON THE REVERSE HEREOF](1) on August 1, 2004, and to pay interest
thereon from the date of original issuance of Securities pursuant to the
Indenture or from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which
interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on February 1 and
August 1 in each year, commencing February 1, 1998, at the rate of 6 1/4% per
annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment and
promises to pay any liquidated damages which may be payable pursuant to Section
4 of the Registration Rights Agreement on the Interest Payment Dates. The
interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest
Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in
whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered
at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which
shall be January 15 or July 15 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may
be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so
punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the
Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in
whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
____________________
(1) This phrase should be included only if the Security is issued in global
form.
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registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee or be paid at any time in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed and upon such notice
as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said
Indenture. Notice of a Special Record Date shall be given to Holders of
Securities not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Payment of
the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Security will be
made (i) in respect of Securities held of record by the Depositary or its
nominee in same day funds on or prior to the respective payment dates and (ii)
in respect of Securities held of record by Holders other than the Depositary or
its nominee at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose
pursuant to Section 1002 of the Indenture, in each case in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as of the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that at the
option of the Company payment in respect of Securities held of record by
Holders other than the Depositary or its nominee may be made by check mailed on
or prior to the respective payment date to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security
set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this
Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid
or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated: _______________________ NEXSTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
By _________________________________
Attest:
_____________________________
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SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Global Securities and Definitive Security.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the
Company designated as its 6 1/4% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2004
(herein called the "Securities"), limited in aggregate principal amount to
$80,000,000 (including Securities issuable pursuant to the Initial Purchasers'
overallotment option, as provided for in the Purchase Agreement dated July 28,
1997 between the Company and the Initial Purchasers), issued and to be issued
under an indenture, dated as of July 31, 1997 (herein called the "Indenture"),
between the Company and IBJ Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company, as Trustee (herein
called the "Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee under the
Indenture), to which indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto
reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations
of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee, the
holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities and of the
terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Indenture,
the Holder of this Security is entitled, at his option, at any time on or
before the close of business on August 1, 2004, or in case this Security or a
portion hereof is called for redemption, then in respect of this Security or
such portion hereof until and including, but (unless the Company defaults in
making the payment due upon redemption) not after, the close of business on the
second business day preceding the Redemption Date, to convert this Security (or
any portion of the principal amount hereof which is $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof), at the principal amount hereof, or of such portion, into
fully paid and non-assessable shares (calculated as to each conversion to the
nearest 1/100th of a share) of Common Stock at a conversion price equal to $16
7/8 principal amount for each share of Common Stock (or at the current adjusted
conversion price if an adjustment has been made as provided in the Indenture)
by surrender of this Security, duly endorsed or assigned to the Company or in
blank, to the Company at its office or agency maintained for that purpose
pursuant to Section 1002 of the Indenture, accompanied by written notice to the
Company in the form provided in this Security (or such other notice as is
acceptable to the Company) that the Holder hereof elects to convert this
Security, or if less than the entire principal amount hereof is to be
converted, the portion hereof to be converted, and, in case such surrender
shall be made during the period from the opening of business on any Regular
Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date to the close of business
on such Interest Payment Date (unless this Security or the portion thereof
being converted has been called for redemption), also accompanied by payment in
next day funds, or other funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to
the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of
this Security then being converted. Subject to the aforesaid requirement for
payment and, in the case of a conversion after the Regular Record Date next
preceding any Interest Payment Date and on or before such Interest Payment
Date, to the right of the Holder of this Security (or any Predecessor Security)
of record at such Regular Record Date to receive an instalment of interest
(with certain exceptions provided in the Indenture), no payment or adjustment
is to be made upon conversion on account of any interest accrued hereon or on
account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon conversion. No
fractional shares or scrip representing fractions of shares will be issued on
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conversion, but instead of any fractional share the Company shall pay a cash
adjustment as provided in the Indenture. The conversion price is subject to
adjustment as provided in the Indenture. In addition, the Indenture provides
that in case of certain consolidations or mergers to which the Company is a
party or the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of
Company, the Indenture shall be amended, without the consent of any Holders of
Securities, so that this Security, if then outstanding, will be convertible
thereafter, during the period this Security shall be convertible as specified
above, only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property
receivable upon the consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by a holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock into which this Security might have been
converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer
(assuming such holder of Common Stock failed to exercise any rights of election
and received per share the kind and amount received per share by a plurality of
non-electing shares).
The Securities are subject to redemption upon not less than 15 (or
such longer period or time required by the Depositary)30 and not more than 60
days' notice by mail, at any time on or after August 10, 2000, as a whole or in
part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices set forth below
(expressed as percentages of the principal amount), plus accrued interest to
the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant
Regular Record Date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is
on or prior to the Redemption Date).
If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning August 1 in the year
indicated (August 10, in the case of 2000), the redemption price shall be:
Redemption Redemption
Year Price Year Price
---- ---------- ---- ----------
2000 103.00% 2001 101.50%
2002 100.00% 2003 100.00%
In certain circumstances involving the occurrence of a Repurchase
Event (as defined in the Indenture), the Holder hereof shall have the right to
require the Company to repurchase this Security at 100% of the principal amount
hereof, together with accrued interest to the Repurchase Date, but interest
installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Repurchase Date will
be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates
referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.
In the event of redemption or conversion of this Security in part
only, a new Security or Securities for the unredeemed or unconverted portion
hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation
hereof.
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The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, in all respects,
subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all
Senior Indebtedness, and this Security is issued subject to the provisions of
the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by accepting
the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes
and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary
or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided, and (c) appoints
the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal
of all the Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with
the effect provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided,
the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of
the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities under the Indenture
at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of
not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the
time Outstanding, and, under certain limited circumstances, by the Company and
the Trustee without the consent of the Holders. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all the Securities, to waive compliance by the Company with certain
provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of
this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of
such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate,
and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed or to convert this Security as
provided in the Indenture.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of and any
premium and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities,
of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will
be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities are issuable only in fully registered form without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate
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principal amount of Securities of a different authorized denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer
or exchange except as provided in the Indenture, and the Company may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, except as provided in this Security, whether or not
this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such
agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. The Company will
furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the
Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement.
[FORM OF CONVERSION NOTICE]
TO NEXSTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
The undersigned registered owner of this Security hereby irrevocably
exercises the option to convert this Security, or the portion hereof (which is
$1,000 or a multiple thereof) designated below, into shares of Common Stock in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Security, and
directs that the shares issuable and deliverable upon the conversion, together
with any check in payment for a fractional share and any Security representing
any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the
registered owner hereof unless a different name has been provided below if this
Notice is being delivered on a date after the close of business on a Regular
Record Date and prior to the close of business on the related Interest Payment
Date, this Notice is accompanied by payment in next day funds, or other funds
acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the interest payable on such
Interest Payment Date on the principal of this Security to be converted (unless
this Security has been called for redemption). If shares or any portion of this
Security not converted are to be issued in the name of a person other than the
undersigned, the undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect
thereto. Any amount required to be paid by the undersigned on account of
interest accompanies this Security.
Dated: ______________________________
______________________________
Signature(s)
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Signature(s) must be guaranteed by a commercial
bank or trust company or a member firm of a
national stock exchange if shares of Common Stock
are to be delivered, or Securities to be issued, other
than to and in the name of the registered owner.
______________________________________
Medallion Guarantee
Fill in for registration of shares of Common Stock if they are to be delivered,
or Securities if they are to be issued, other than to and in the name of the
registered owner:
_______________________________________
(Name)
_______________________________________
(Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx)
_______________________________________
(City, State and zip code)
(Please print name and address)
Register: _____ Common Stock
_____ Securities
(Check appropriate line(s)).
Principal amount to be converted (if less than all):
$ ______,000
Social Security or other Taxpayer Identification Number of owner:
_____________________________________________________
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[ASSIGNMENT FORM]
If you the holder want to assign this Security, fill in the form below and have
your signature guaranteed:
I or we assign and transfer this Security to
______________________________________________________________________________
(Insert assignee's social security or tax ID number)__________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
(Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code) and irrevocably appoint
______________________________________________________________________________
agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may
substitute another to act for him.
______________________________________________________________________________
Date: _________________ Your signature: ____________________________________
(sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Security)
Medallion Guarantee: _________________________________________________________
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[OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE]
If you wish to have this Security purchased by the Company pursuant
to Section 1401 of the Indenture, check the Box: [__]
If you wish to have a portion of this Security (which is $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof) purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 1401 of
the Indenture, state the amount you wish to have purchased:
$____________________
Date: __________________ Your Signature(s): _______________________________
Tax Identification No.: _____________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Security)
Signature Guarantee: __________________________________
[FORM OF SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF DEFINITIVE SECURITIES](2)
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for
Definitive Securities have been made:
Signature of
Principal Amount of authorized
Amount of decrease Amount of increase this Global signatory of
in Principal Amount in Principal Amount Security following Trustee or
of this Global of this Global such decrease (or Securities
Date of Exchange Security Security increase) Custodian
---------------- ------------------- ------------------- ------------------- ------------
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
____________________
(2) This Schedule should be included only if the Security is issued in
global form.
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SECTION 204. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially
the following form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
________________________________,
as Trustee
By _________________________________
Authorized Signatory
Dated: __________________
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 301. Title and Terms.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to $80,000,000
(including $5,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be sold
to the Initial Purchasers by the Company upon exercise of the overallotment
option granted pursuant to the Purchase Agreement), except for Securities
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange
for, or in lieu of, other Securities pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306, 906,
1108, 1302 or 1405.
The Securities shall be known and designated as the "6 1/4 %
Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2004" of the Company. Their Stated
Maturity shall be August 1, 2004 and they shall bear interest at the rate of 6
1/4% per annum, from the date of original issuance of Securities pursuant to
this Indenture or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest
has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be, payable semi-annually
on February 1 and August 1, commencing February 1, 1998, until the principal
thereof is paid or made available for payment.
The principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities
shall be payable (i) in respect of Securities held of record by the Depositary
or its nominee in same day funds on or prior to the respective payment dates
and (ii) in respect of Securities held of record by Holders other than the
Depositary or its nominee at the office or agency of the Company maintained for
such purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided, however, that at the option of
the Company payment to Holders of record other than the Depositary may be made
by check mailed no later than the
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applicable payment date to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the Security Register.
The Securities shall be subject to the transfer restrictions set
forth in Section 305.
The Securities shall be redeemable as provided in Article Eleven.
The Securities shall be subordinated in right of payment to Senior
Indebtedness as provided in Article Twelve.
The Securities shall be convertible as provided in Article Thirteen.
The Securities shall be subject to repurchase at the option of the
Holder as provided in Article Fourteen.
SECTION 302. Denominations.
The Securities shall be issuable only in fully registered form
without coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or one of its
Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal or a facsimile thereof reproduced
thereon attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The
signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or
facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities executed by the Company to
the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities; and the Trustee in accordance
with such Company Order shall either at one time or from time to time pursuant
to such instructions as may be described therein authenticate and deliver such
Securities as in this Indenture provided and not otherwise. Such Company Order
shall specify the amount of Securities to be authenticated and the date on
which the original issue of securities is to be authenticated, and shall
certify that all conditions precedent to the issuance of such Securities
contained in this Indenture have been complied with. The aggregate principal
amount of Securities outstanding at any time may not exceed the amount set
forth above except as provided in Section 306.
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Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or
be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
duly executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any
Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to
the benefits of the Indenture. The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent
pursuant to the terms of Section 614.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of Definitive Securities, the Company may
execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed
or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the
tenor of the Definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as
the officers executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their
execution of such Securities. Every such temporary Security shall be executed
by the Company and shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee upon the
same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect,
as the Definitive Security or Securities in lieu of which it is issued.
If temporary Securities are issued, the Company will cause Definitive
Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
Definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for
Definitive Securities upon surrender of the temporary Securities at any office
or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 1002, without charge to
the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary
Securities the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor one or more Definitive Securities of a like
principal amount of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the temporary
Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as Definitive Securities.
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
(a) General. The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate
Trust Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office
and in any other office or agency designated pursuant to Section 1002 being
herein sometimes collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall
provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of Securities. The
Trustee is hereby appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering
Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided. At all reasonable
times the Security Register shall be open for inspection by the Company.
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The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company ("DTC")
to act as depositary (the "Depositary") with respect to the Global
Security(ies).
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as Securities
Custodian with respect to the Global Security(ies).
Subject to the other provisions of this Indenture regarding
restrictions on transfer, upon surrender for registration of transfer of any
Security at an office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section
1002 for such purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Securities of any authorized denominations and of
a like aggregate principal amount and bearing such restrictive legends as may
be required by this Indenture.
At the option of the Holder, and subject to the other provisions of
this Section 305 Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of any
authorized denomination and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon
surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency.
Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which
the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange
of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the
same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the
Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Security Registrar)
be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge to a Holder shall be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Securities except as provided in Section 306. The
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of
transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section
304, 905, 1108 or 1302 not involving any transfer.
The Company or the Security Registrar shall not be required (i) to
issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security during a period
beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a
notice of redemption of Securities selected for redemption under Section 1104
and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to
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register the transfer of or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in
whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed
in part.
(b) Certain Transfers and Exchanges. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Indenture or the Securities, transfers and exchanges of
Securities and beneficial interests in a Global Security of the kinds specified
in this Section 305(b) shall be made only in accordance with this Section
305(b).
(i) 144A Global Security to Regulation S Global Security. If the
owner of a beneficial interest in the 144A Global Security wishes at any
time to transfer such interest to a Person who wishes to acquire the same
in the form of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Security,
such transfer may be effected only in accordance with the provisions of
this Clause (b)(i) and Clause (b)(v) below and subject to any applicable
procedures of the Depositary, Euroclear and Cedel (the "Applicable
Procedures"). Upon receipt by the Trustee, as Security Registrar, of (A)
an order given by the Depositary or its authorized representative
directing that a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Security
in a specified principal amount be credited to a specified Depositary
participant's account and that a beneficial interest in the 144A Global
Security in an equal principal amount be debited from another specified
Depositary participant's account and (B) delivery to the Trustee of a
Regulation S Certificate in the form attached hereto as Annex A and duly
executed by the owner of such beneficial interest in the 144A Global
Security or his attorney duly authorized in writing, then the Trustee, as
Security Registrar but subject to Clause (b)(iv) below, shall reduce the
principal amount of the 144A Global Security and increase the principal
amount of the Regulation S Global Security by such specified principal
amount as provided in Section 311.
(ii) Regulation S Global Security to 144A Global Security. If the
owner of a beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Security wishes
at any time to transfer such interest to a Person who wishes to acquire
the same in the form of a beneficial interest in the 144A Global Security,
such transfer may be effected only in accordance with this Clause (b)(ii)
and subject to the Applicable Procedures. Upon receipt by the Trustee, as
Security Registrar, of (A) an order given by the Depositary or its
authorized representative directing that a beneficial interest in the 144A
Global Security in a specified principal amount be credited to a specified
Depositary participant's account and that a beneficial interest in the
Regulation S Global Security in an equal principal amount be debited from
another specified Depositary participant's account and (B) if such
transfer is to occur during the Restricted Period, a 144A Securities
Certificate in the form attached hereto as Annex B shall be delivered to
the Security Registrar satisfactory to the Trustee and duly executed by
the owner of such beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Security
or his attorney duly authorized in writing, then the Trustee, as Security
Registrar, shall reduce the principal amount of the Regulation S Global
Security and increase the principal amount of the 144A Global Security by
such specified principal amount as provided in Section 311.
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(iii) Definitive Security to Definitive Security. A Definitive
Security may be transferred, in whole or in part, to a Person who takes
delivery in the form of another Definitive Security as provided in Section
305(a), provided that, if the Security to be transferred in whole or in
part is a Transfer Restricted Security, then the Trustee shall have
received a 144A Securities Certificate or a Regulation S Certificate in
the form attached hereto as Annex A and duly executed by the transferor
Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing (subject in every case
to Section 305(c)).
(iv) Exchanges between Global Security and Definitive Security. A
beneficial interest in a Global Security may be exchanged for a Definitive
Security that is not a Global Security as provided in Section 311,
provided that, if such interest is a beneficial interest in the 144A
Global Security, or if such interest is a beneficial interest in the
Regulation S Global Security and such exchange is to occur during the
Restricted Period, then such interest shall be exchanged for a Transfer
Restricted Security (subject in each case to Section 305(c)). A
Definitive Security may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a
Global Security.
(v) Regulation S Global Security to be Held Through Euroclear or
Cedel during Restricted Period. The Company shall use its best efforts to
cause the Depositary to ensure that, until the expiration of the
Restricted Period, beneficial interests in the Regulation S Global
Security may be held only in or through accounts maintained at the
Depositary by Euroclear or Cedel (or by Depositary participants acting for
the account thereof), and no Person shall be entitled to effect any
transfer or exchange that would result in any such interest being held
otherwise than in or through such an account; provided that this Clause
(b)(v) shall not prohibit any transfer or exchange of such an interest in
accordance with Clause (b)(ii) above.
(c) Securities Act Legends. All Securities shall bear the legend
specified for Transfer Restricted Securities in Section 202, subject to the
following:
(i) Any Securities which are sold or otherwise disposed of
pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act,
together with any Securities issued in exchange therefor, shall not bear a
Securities Act legend; the Company shall inform the Trustee in writing of
the effective date of any such registration statement registering the
Securities under the Securities Act and shall notify the Trustee at any
time when prospectuses may not be delivered with respect to Securities to
be sold pursuant to such registration statement. The Trustee shall not be
liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the aforementioned registration statement;
(ii) at any time after the Securities may be freely transferred
without registration under the Securities Act or without being subject to
transfer restrictions pursuant to the Securities Act, a new Security which
does not bear a Securities Act legend may be issued in exchange for or in
lieu of a Security (other than a Global Security) or any portion thereof
which bears such a legend if the Trustee has received an Unrestricted
Securities Certificate in
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the form attached hereto as Annex C and duly executed by the Holder of
such legended Security or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and
after such date and receipt of such certificate, the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver such a new Security in exchange for or in lieu of
such other Security as provided in this Article Three; and
(iii) a new Security which does not bear a Securities Act legend
may be issued in exchange for or in lieu of a Security (other than a
Global Security) or any portion thereof which bears such a legend if the
Company notifies the Trustee in writing in the form of an Officer's
Certificate that placing such a legend upon such new Security is not
necessary to ensure compliance with the registration requirements of the
Securities Act, and the Trustee, at the direction of the Company, shall
authenticate and deliver such a new Security as provided in this Article
Three.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number
not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of
notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a
bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a
number not contemporaneously outstanding. The Trustee may charge the Company
for the Trustee's expenses in replacing such Security.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
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The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment or mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in
whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered
at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest. Payment
of interest will be made (i) in respect of Securities held by the Depositary or
its nominee, in same day funds on or prior to the respective Interest Payment
Dates and (ii) in respect of Securities held of record by Holders other than
the Depositary or its nominee, at the office of the Trustee in New York, New
York or at such other office or agency of the Company as it shall maintain for
that purpose pursuant to Section 1002, provided, however, that, at the option
of the Company, interest on any Security held of record by Holders other than
the Depositary or its nominee may be paid by mailing checks no later than the
applicable interest Payment Date to the addresses of the Holders thereof as
such addresses appear in the Securities Register.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called
"Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the
relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such
Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as
provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest
to the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective
Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall
be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each
Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest
or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit
prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be
held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted
Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Company shall fix a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall
be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of
the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the
Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Company shall promptly
notify the Trustee of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the
expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder at his address as it appears
in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special
Record Date. Notice of the proposed
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payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor
having been so mailed, such Defaulted interest shall be paid to the
Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record
Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any
other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause,
such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
In the case of any Security which is converted after any Regular
Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (other
than any Security whose Maturity is prior to such Interest Payment Date),
interest whose Stated Maturity is on such Interest Payment Date shall be
payable on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding such conversion, and such
interest (whether or not punctually paid or duly provided for) shall be paid to
the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities)
is registered at the close of business on such Regular Record Date, provided,
however, that Securities so surrendered for conversion shall (except in the
case of Securities or portions thereof called for redemption) be accompanied by
payment in New York Clearing House funds or other funds acceptable to the
Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment
Date on the principal amount being surrendered for conversion. Except as
otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence, in the case
of any Security which is converted, interest whose Stated Maturity is after the
date of conversion of such Security shall not be payable.
If the Company is required to increase its rate of interest pursuant
to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement the Company shall deliver an
Officer's Certificate to the Trustee setting forth the increased rate and the
period for which such rate is applicable.
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such
Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and premium, if
any, and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
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SECTION 309. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer, exchange or conversion shall, if surrendered to any Person other than
the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled by it.
The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any
Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered
shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated
in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this
Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled
Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of as directed by a Company
Order.
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest.
Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 311. Global Securities.
(a) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be
registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee thereof and delivered to
the Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global
Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global
Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no
transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the
name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a
nominee thereof unless (i) such Depositary (A) has notified the Company that it
is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or
(B) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered as such under the Exchange
Act, and in either case the Company thereupon fails to appoint a successor
Depositary, (ii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of
Default with respect to such Global Security or (iii) the Company executes and
delivers to the Trustee a Company Order stating that all Global Securities
shall be exchanged in whole for Securities that are not Global Securities (in
which case such exchange shall be effected by the Trustee).
(c) If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities
or canceled in whole, it shall be surrendered by or on behalf of the Depositary
or its nominee to the Trustee, as Security Registrar, for exchange or
cancellation as provided in this Article Three. If any Global Security is to
be exchanged for other Securities or cancelled in part, or if another Security
is to be exchanged in whole or in part for a beneficial interest in any Global
Security, in each case, as provided in Section 305, then either (i) such Global
Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or cancellation as provided in
this Article Three or (ii) the principal
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amount thereof shall be reduced or increased by an amount equal to the portion
thereof to be so exchanged or cancelled, or equal to the principal amount of
such other Security to be so exchanged for a beneficial interest therein, as
the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of
the Trustee, as Security Registrar, whereupon the Trustee, in accordance with
the Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Depositary or its authorized
representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records. Upon any
such surrender or adjustment of a Global Security, the Trustee shall, subject
to Section 305(c) and as otherwise provided in this Article Three, authenticate
and deliver any Securities issuable in exchange for such Global Security (or
any portion thereof) to or upon the order of, and registered in such names as
may be directed by, the Depositary or its authorized representative. Upon the
request of the Trustee in connection with the occurrence of any of the events
specified in the preceding paragraph, the Company shall promptly make available
to the Trustee a reasonable supply of Securities that are not in the form of
Global Securities. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely upon any order,
direction or request of the Depositary or its authorized representative which
is given or made pursuant to this Article Three if such order, direction or
request is given or made in accordance with the Applicable Procedures.
(d) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion
thereof, whether pursuant to this Article Three or otherwise, shall be
authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security,
unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the
Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
(e) The Depositary or its nominee, as registered owner of a Global
Security, shall be the Holder of such Global Security for all purposes under
the Indenture and the Securities, and owners of beneficial interests in a
Global Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable
Procedures. Accordingly, any such owner's beneficial interest in a Global
Security will be shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be
effected only through, records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or
its participants and such owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security
will not be considered the owners or holders of such Global Security for any
purpose of this Indenture or the Securities.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further
effect (except as expressly provided for in this Article Four), and the
Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
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(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
(other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen
and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and
(ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been
deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and
thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as
provided in Section 1003) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity
within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year
under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of
notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the
expense, of the Company, or
(iv) are delivered to the Trustee for conversion in
accordance with Article Thirteen,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) above, has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as
trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount in cash sufficient
(without consideration of any investment of such cash) to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for principal and premium,
if any, and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of
securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated
Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be; provided that the
Trustee shall have been irrevocably instructed to apply such amount
to said payments with respect to the Securities;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge
of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
following rights or obligations under the Securities and this Indenture shall
survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) Article
Thirteen, Article Fourteen and the Company's obligations under Sections 304,
305, 306, 1002 and 1003, in each case with respect to any Securities
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described in subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, (b) this Article
Four, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee
hereunder, including the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under
Section 607, and the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent
under Section 614 and (d) if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the rights of Holders
of any Securities described in subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section to
receive, solely from the trust fund described in such subclause (B), payments
in respect of the principal of, and premium (if any) and interest on, such
Securities when such payment are due.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust
and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and premium, if
any, and interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with the
Trustee. All moneys deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 (and
held by it or any Paying Agent) for the payment of Securities subsequently
converted shall be returned to the Company upon Company Request.
SECTION 403. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in
accordance with this Article Four by reason of any order or judgment of any
court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting
such application, then the Company's obligations under this Indenture and the
Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred
pursuant to this Article Four until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is
permitted to apply all money held in trust with respect to the Securities;
provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any
premium or interest on any Security following the reinstatement of its
obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of
the Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.
SECTION 404. Return of Unclaimed Monies.
Subject to the requirements of applicable law, any monies deposited
with or paid to the Trustee for payment of the principal of, premium, if any,
or interest on any Security and not applied but remaining unclaimed by the
Holders of such Securities for two years after the date upon which the
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on such Securities, as the case may
be, shall have become due and payable, shall be repaid to the Company by the
Trustee on written demand and all liability of the Trustee shall thereupon
cease with respect to such monies; and the Holder of any of the Securities
shall thereafter look only to the Company for any payment which such holder may
be entitled to collect unless an applicable abandoned property law designates
another Person.
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ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
SECTION 501. Events of Default.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein, means any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be occasioned by the provisions of Article Twelve or be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body);
(1) default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any,
on any Security at its Maturity, whether or not such payment is prohibited
by the provisions of Article Twelve; or
(2) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security when it
becomes due and payable, whether or not such payment is prohibited by the
provisions of Article Twelve, and continuance of such default for a period
of 30 days; or
(3) failure to provide timely notice of a Repurchase Event as
required in accordance with the provisions of Article Fourteen; or
(4) default in the payment of the Repurchase Price in respect of any
Security on the Repurchase Date therefor in accordance with the provisions
of Article Fourteen, whether or not such payment is prohibited by the
provisions of Article Twelve; or
(5) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in
this Section specifically dealt with), and continuance of such default or
breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered
or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the
Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities a written notice specifying such default or breach
and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice
of Default" hereunder; or
(6) a default under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of
indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any Subsidiary or under
any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or
by which there may be secured or evidenced any indebtedness for money
borrowed by the Company or any Subsidiary, whether such indebtedness now
exists or shall hereafter be created, which default shall constitute a
failure to pay the principal of indebtedness in excess of $5,000,000 when
due and payable after the expiration of any applicable grace period with
respect thereto or shall have resulted in indebtedness in excess of
$5,000,000 becoming or being declared due and payable prior to
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the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable, without
such indebtedness having been discharged, or such acceleration having been
rescinded or annulled, within a period of 30 days after there shall have
been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee
or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities a written notice specifying
such default and requiring the Company to cause such indebtedness to be
discharged or cause such acceleration to be rescinded or annulled and
stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(7) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A)
a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any Material
Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable
Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar
law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company or any Material
Subsidiary a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a
petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of
or in respect of the Company or any Material Subsidiary under any
applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian, receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of
the Company or any Material Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its
property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and
the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other
decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive
days; or
(8) the commencement by the Company or any Material Subsidiary of a
voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any
other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the
consent by it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of
the Company or any Material Subsidiary in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or to the commencement of any
bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by
it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief
under any applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the
filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Company or any Material Subsidiary or of any
substantial part of its property, or the making by it of a general
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing
of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the
taking of corporate action by the Company or any Material Subsidiary in
furtherance of any such action.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any Notice of Default pursuant to this
Section 501, a record date shall automatically and without any other action by
any Person be set for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding
Securities entitled to join in such Notice of Default, which record date shall
be the close of business on the day the Trustee receives such Notice of
Default. The Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date (or their
duly appointed agents), and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in
such Notice of Default, whether or not
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such Holders remain Holders after such record date: provided, that unless such
Notice of Default shall have become effective by virtue of the Holders of the
requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on such record date (or
their duly appointed agents) having joined therein on or prior to the 90th day
after such record date, such Notice of Default shall automatically and without
any action by any Person be canceled and of no further force or effect.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default (other than as specified in subparagraph (7)
or (8) of Section 501) occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case
the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities may declare the principal of all the Securities to be
due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the
Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal plus
any interest accrued on the Securities to the date of declaration shall become
immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in subparagraph
(7) or (8) of Section 501 occurs and is continuing, then the principal of,
premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the
Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without
any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of
Securities.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made
and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained
by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by written notice
to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities,
(B) the principal of and premium, if any, on any Securities
which have become due otherwise than by such declaration of
acceleration and interest thereon at the rate borne by the
Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest at the rate borne by the Securities,
and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee, their respective agents and counsel hereunder
and the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances
of the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, their respective agents
and counsel;
and
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(2) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities that has
become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or
waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission and waiver shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any declaration of acceleration, or
any rescission and annulment of any such declaration, pursuant to this Section
502, a record date shall automatically and without any other action by any
Person be set for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding
Securities entitled to join in such declaration, or rescission and annulment,
as the case may be, which record date shall be the close of business on the day
the Trustee receives such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case
may be. The Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date (or their
duly appointed agents), and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in
such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, whether or
not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that unless
such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have
become effective by virtue of Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities on such record date (or their duly appointed agents)
having joined therein on or prior to the 90th day after such record date, such
declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall
automatically and without any action by any Person be canceled and of no
further force or effect.
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security
when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for
a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of or premium,
if any, on any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal and premium, if any, and interest, and, to the extent
that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any
overdue principal and premium, if any, and on any overdue interest, at the rate
borne by the Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall
be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee
and each predecessor Trustee, their respective agents and counsel, and any
other amounts due the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee under Section 607.
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If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute
a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid and may
prosecute any such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the
same against the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) and collect
the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out
of the property of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities),
wherever situated.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in
its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act
in order to have the claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such
proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and
receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims
and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee,
liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial
proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it and
each predecessor Trustee for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and
their respective agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee
under Section 607.
No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting
the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee
to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided,
however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election
of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and may be a member of the
Creditors' Committee.
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating
thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in
its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment
shall,
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after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and
their respective agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders
of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal or premium,
if any, or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation
thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if
fully paid:
FIRST: To payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607;
SECOND: Subject to Article 12, to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness;
THIRD: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities in
respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been
collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according
to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and
premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and
FOURTH: The balance, if any, to the Company or any other Person or
Persons determined to be entitled thereto.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Security shall have any right to institute any
proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee
of a continuing Event of Default;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name
as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities
to be incurred in compliance with such request;
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(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more holders shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders,
or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders
or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest and to Convert.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and (subject to
Section 307) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities
expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption
Date or, in the case of a repurchase pursuant to Article Fourteen, on the
Repurchase Date) and to convert such Security in accordance with Article
Thirteen and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment and
right to convert, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of
such Holder.
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders
shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions
hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders
shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 306, no
right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the
Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every
right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in
addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or
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otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or
otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any
other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security
to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair
any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or
an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law
to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as
often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case
may be.
SECTION 512. Control by Holders.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising
any trust or power conferred on the Trustee; provided, that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture; and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(3) subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee shall have
the right to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee in good
faith shall determine that the action so directed would involve the
Trustee in personal liability or would be unduly prejudicial to Holders
not joining in such direction.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any such direction, a record date
shall automatically and without any other action by any Person be set for the
purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to join
in such direction, which record date shall be the close of business on the day
the Trustee receives such direction. The Holders of Outstanding Securities on
such record date (or their duly appointed agents), and only such Persons, shall
be entitled to join in such direction, whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date; provided, that unless such direction shall have
become effective by virtue of Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities on such record date (or their duly appointed agents)
having joined therein on or prior to the 90th day after such record date, such
direction shall automatically and without any action by any Person be canceled
and of no further force or effect.
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SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities waive
any past default hereunder and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on any Security, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article
Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any
Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for
every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs.
In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit
to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess costs
against any such litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the
Trust Indenture Act; provided, that neither this Section nor the Trust
Indenture Act shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an
undertaking or to make such an assessment in any suit instituted by the
Company, in any suit instituted by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder pursuant to
Section 508, or a suit by a Holder or Holders of more than 10% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided
by this Indenture and the Trust Indenture Act for securities issued pursuant to
indentures qualified thereunder. Except as otherwise provided herein,
notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability or risk in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds
for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity satisfactory
to it against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether
or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture
relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection
to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of
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this Section. The Trustee shall not be liable (x) for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the
Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts or (y) with respect to any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities at the time Outstanding relating to the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding or any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising
any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture. Prior to
the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all
Events of Default which may have occurred: (i) the duties and obligations of
the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this
Indenture and in the Trust Indenture Act, and the Trustee shall not be liable
except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically
set forth in this Indenture and in the Trust Indenture Act, and no implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee;
and (ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee
may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
the opinions therein, upon any statements, certificates or opinions furnished
to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture and
believed by the Trustee to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper party or parties; but in the case of any such statements,
certificates or opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically
required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to
examine the same to determine whether or not they conform on their face to the
requirements of this Indenture. If a default or an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers
vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in its
exercise thereof as a prudent person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.
The Trustee shall give the Holders notice of any default of which a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives written notice and to the extent
provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided, however, that in the case of any
default other than a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any) or interest on any Debenture, with respect to which the Trustee shall be
protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors,
the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible
Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such
notice is in the interests of the Holders of Debentures; and provided, further,
that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 501(5),
no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the
occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means
any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an
Event of Default.
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
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(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document
believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the
proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall
be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any
resolution of the Board of Directors shall be sufficiently evidenced by a
Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee
shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless
other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such
Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity
satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might
be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting with respect to
any matter contemplated by this Indenture, it may require an Officers'
Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel, which shall conform to the
provisions of Section 102, and the Trustee shall be protected and shall
not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith and
without gross negligence in reliance on such certificate or opinion;
(g) the Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in
respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder;
(h) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry or
investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney; and
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(i) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by
it hereunder.
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee and any Authenticating Agent assume no
responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as
to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The
Trustee and any Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to
Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights
it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent,
Security Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust hereunder need
not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The
Trustee or any Paying Agent shall be under no liability for interest on any
money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by it hereunder (including its services as
Security Registrar or Paying Agent, if so appointed by the Company) and in
connection with entering into the Indenture as may be mutually agreed upon
in writing by the Company and the Trustee (which compensation shall not be
limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee
of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein and subject to the
terms of any written agreement between the Company and the Trustee, to
reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor. Trustee upon its request for
all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances
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incurred or made by or on behalf of it in connection with the performance
of its duties under any provision of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents
and counsel and all other persons not regularly in its employ) except to
the extent any such expense, disbursement or advance may be attributable
to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee (each an
"indemnitee") for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or
expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out
of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this
Indenture or the trusts hereunder and its duties hereunder (including its
services as Security Registrar or Paying Agent, if so appointed by the
Company) including enforcement of this Section 607 (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its agents
and counsel and all other persons not regularly in its employ) and
including the costs and expenses of defending itself against or
investigating any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or
performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The Company shall
defend any claim or threatened claim asserted against an indemnitee for
which it may seek indemnity, and the indemnitee shall cooperate in the
defense unless, in the reasonable opinion of the indemnitee's counsel, the
indemnitee has an interest adverse to the Issuer or a potential conflict
of interest exists between the indemnitee and the Company, in which case
the indemnitee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the
reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel; provided that the Company
shall only be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of one law
firm (in addition to local counsel) in any one action or separate
substantially similar actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the
same general allegations or circumstances, such law firm to be designated
by the indemnitee.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company
under this Section 607, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities
upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except
funds held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities,
and the Securities are hereby subordinated to such prior Lien. The obligations
of the Company under this Section to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and
any predecessor Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and any predecessor
Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances, and any other amounts due the
Trustee or any predecessor Trustee under Section 607, shall constitute an
additional obligation hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture and any other termination of this Indenture
including any termination under any bankruptcy law.
When the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee incurs expenses or
renders services in connection with the performance of its obligations
hereunder (including its services as Security Registrar or Paying Agent, if so
appointed by the Company) after an Event of Default specified in Section 501(7)
or (8) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended
to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar
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federal or state law to the extent provided in Section 503(b)(5) of Title 11 of
the United States Code, as now or hereafter in effect.
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such
interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to
the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
Person that (i) is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such,
(ii) has (or, in the case of a corporation included in a bank holding company
system, whose related bank holding company has) a combined capital and surplus
of at least $50,000,000 and (iii) has a Corporate Trust Office, or a designated
agent, in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York. If such Person
publishes reports of conditions at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of a Federal or state supervising or examining authority, then for
the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease
to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in
this Article.
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee
required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the resigning Trustee
within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning
Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of
a successor Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by an Act of the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities delivered to
the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
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(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after written
request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for the last six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by
any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, the
Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee and
such successor Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section
611. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or
the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee shall be appointed by Act
of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611 become the successor
Trustee and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no
successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders
and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 611, any Holder who
has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all
Holders in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the
name of the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of
the Company or the
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successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges,
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all
the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by
such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of any such successor Trustee,
the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly
vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and
trusts.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time
of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same
effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims
against the Company (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents acceptable
to and at the expense of the Company which shall be authorized to act on behalf
of the Trustee to authenticate Securities issued upon original issue and upon
exchange, registration of transfer, partial conversion or partial redemption or
pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all
purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is
made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the
Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be
deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a Person organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State
thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such
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laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of
not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal
or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition
at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising
or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to
be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such
Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in this Section.
Any Person into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from
any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to the corporate agency or corporate
trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue o be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such Person shall be otherwise eligible under
this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act
on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice
thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a
notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail notice of such
appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders as their names
and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any successor Authenticating
Agent upon acceptance of its appointment under this Section shall become vested
with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like
effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor
Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible to act as such under
the provisions of this Section.
Any Authenticating Agent by the acceptance of its appointment shall
be deemed to have represented to the Trustee that it is eligible for
appointment as Authenticating Agent under this Section and to have agreed with
the Trustee that it will perform and carry out the duties of an Authenticating
Agent as herein set forth, including among other things the duties to
authenticate Securities when presented to it in connection with the original
issuance and with exchanges, registrations of transfer or redemptions or
conversions thereof or pursuant to Section 306; it xxxx keep and maintain, and
furnish to the Trustee from time to time as requested by the Trustee,
appropriate records of all transactions carried out by it as Authenticating
Agent and will furnish the Trustee such other information and reports as the
Trustee may reasonably require; and it will notify the Trustee promptly if it
shall cease to be eligible to act as Authenticating Agent in accordance with
the provisions of this Section. Any Authenticating Agent by the acceptance of
its appointment shall be deemed to have agreed with the Trustee to indemnify
the Trustee against any
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loss, liability or expense incurred by the Trustee and to defend any claim
asserted against the Trustee by reason of any acts or failures to act of such
Authenticating Agent, but such Authenticating Agent shall have no liability for
any action taken by it in accordance with the specific written direction of the
Trustee.
The Trustee shall not be liable for any act or any failure of the
Authenticating Agent to perform any duty either required herein or authorized
herein to be performed by such person in accordance with this Indenture.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.
If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section, the Securities
may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following
form:
This is one of the Securities described in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
IBJ Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company,
As Trustee
By ________________________________
As Authenticating Agent
By ________________________________
Authorized Officer
ARTICLE SEVEN
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
(a) semiannually, not more than 15 days after each Regular Record
Date, a List, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the
names and addresses of the Holders as of such Regular Record Date, and
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(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior
to the time such list is furnished.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the Trustee is the Security
Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communication to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in
the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701
and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished
to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and
the corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be as provided
by the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by
reason of any disclosure of information as to names and addresses of
Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act or otherwise in
accordance with this Indenture.
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Not later than 60 days following each May 15, the Trustee shall
transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions
under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange
upon which the Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the
Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when the Securities are
listed on any stock exchange.
SECTION 704. Reports by Company.
The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and
transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such
summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at
the times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act; provided, that any
such information, documents or reports required to be filed with the
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Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed
with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with
the Commission.
SECTION 705. Rule 144A Information Requirement.
If at any time prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date the
Company is no longer subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the
Company will furnish to the Holders or beneficial holders of the Securities and
prospective purchasers of the Securities designated by the Holders of the
Securities, upon their request, information required to be delivered pursuant
to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act until the earlier of (i) the date
on which the Securities and the underlying Common Stock are registered under
the Securities Act or (ii) the Resale Restriction Termination Date.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, and the Company shall not permit any Person to
consolidate with or merge into the Company, unless:
(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another
Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its
properties and assets to any Person, the Person formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which
acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, all or substantially
all of the properties and assets of the Company shall be a corporation,
partnership or trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the
laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of
Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if
any, and interest on all the Securities and the performance or observance
of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be
performed or observed and shall have provided for conversion rights in
accordance with Section 1311;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would
become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing;
(3) such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease does
not adversely affect the validity or enforceability of the Securities; and
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(4) the Company or the successor Person has delivered to the Trustee
an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a
supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction,
such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have
been complied with and that such supplemental indenture constitutes the
legal valid and binding obligation of the successor Person (subject to the
customary exceptions).
SECTION 802. Successor Substituted.
Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the Company
into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of all or
substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company in accordance
with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into
which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is
made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and
power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor Person had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except
in the case of a transfer by lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of
all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to cause this Indenture to be qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act; or
(2) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and
the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company
herein and in the Securities; or
(3) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders or an additional Event of Default, or to surrender any right or
power conferred herein or in the Securities upon the Company; or
(4) to secure the Securities; or
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(5) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights of
Holders pursuant to the requirements of Section 1311; or
(6) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities; or
(7) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein or in the Securities which may be defective or inconsistent with
any other provision herein or in the Securities, or to make any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
indenture which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture; provided, that such action pursuant to this Clause (7) shall
not adversely affect the interests of the Holders in any material respect
and the Trustee may rely upon an opinion of counsel to that effect.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by Act of said Holders
delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount
thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the
redemption thereof, or change the place of payment where, or the coin or
currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is
payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or adversely affect the
right to convert any Security as provided in Article Thirteen (except as
permitted by Section 901(5)), or modify the provisions of Article
Fourteen, or the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the
subordination of the Securities, in a manner adverse to the Holders, or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such
supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for
any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
certain defaults hereunder and their consequences provided for in this
Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 513 or
Section 1006, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that
certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding
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Security affected thereby; provided, however, that this Clause shall not
be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in
the references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section
and Section 1006, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with the
requirements of Section 901(6).
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section
to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it
shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby
of the trusts created by this indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution
of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture,
all precedent to its execution and delivery have been complied with and that it
constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company (subject to
customary exceptions). The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter
into any such supplemental indenture which adversely affects the Trustee's own
rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every
Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered
hereunder shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the
Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the
Company and (at the specific direction of the Company) authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.
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SECTION 907. Notice of Supplemental Indenture.
Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 902, the Company shall transmit to
the Holders a notice setting forth the substance of such supplemental
indenture.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest on the Securities in accordance with the terms of
the Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in New York, New York an office or agency
where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities
may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities may be
surrendered for exchange or conversion and where notices and demands to or upon
the Company in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any
change in the location, of any such office or agency. If at any time the
Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail
to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee, or the offices of its Agent, DTC, and the Company hereby
appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for
any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations;
provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner
relieve the Company of its obligations to maintain an office or agency in New
York, New York for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice
to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the
location of any such other office or agency.
SECTION 1003. Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent, it will
on or before each due date of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest
on any of the Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal and
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premium, if any, or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly
notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will,
on prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on each due date of the principal
of and premium, if any, or interest on any Securities, deposit with a Paying
Agent a sum in same day funds sufficient to pay the principal and any premium
and interest so becoming due, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust
Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will
promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee or
the Company to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such
Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this
Section, that such Paying Agent will (i) comply with the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act and this indenture applicable to it as a Paying Agent and
hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of or any premium or
interest on the Securities in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of
as herein provided; (ii) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment in
respect of the Securities; and (iii) at any time during the continuance of any
default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making
of any payment in respect of the Securities, upon the written request of the
Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying
Agent for payment in respect of the Securities, and account for any funds
disbursed.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held
in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the
Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then
held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of and premium,
if any, or interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years after
such principal and premium, if any, or interest has become due and payable
shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security
shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company
for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such
Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in New York,
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New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date
specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such
publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid
to the Company.
SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the
end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an
Officers' Certificate which shall comply with the requirements of Section 102
stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the Company
is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms, provisions
and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or
requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be in
default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of
which they may have knowledge.
SECTION 1005. Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence,
rights (charter and statutory) and franchises and the existence, rights
(charter and statutory) and franchises of each Material Subsidiary; provided,
however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or
franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation
thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company
and that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the
Holders.
SECTION 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
covenant or condition set forth in Section 1005, if before the time for such
compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the
outstanding Securities shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such
compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such covenant or
condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant or
condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver
shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the
Trustee in respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full force
and effect.
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1101. Right of Redemption.
The Securities may be redeemed at the election of the Company, in
whole or from time to time in part, at any time on or after August 10, 2000, at
the Redemption Prices specified in the form of Security hereinbefore set forth,
together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date.
SECTION 1102. Applicability of Article.
Redemption of Securities at the election of the Company as permitted
by any provision of this Indenture shall be made in accordance with such
provision and this Article.
SECTION 1103. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities pursuant to
Section 1101 shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any
redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities, the
Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the
Company (unless a shorter period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify
the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities
to be redeemed. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of all
of the Securities, the Company shall, at least 45 days prior to the Redemption
Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter period shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date.
SECTION 1104. Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities not previously
called for redemption, by lot or pro rata or by such other method as the
Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection
for redemption of portions (equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof)
of the principal amount of Securities of a denomination larger than $1,000.
If any Security selected for partial redemption is converted in part
before termination of the conversion right with respect to the portion of the
Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed
(so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Securities which
have been converted during a selection of Securities to be redeemed shall be
treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection. In any
case where more than one Security is registered in the same name, the Trustee
in its discretion may treat the aggregate principal amount so registered as if
it were represented by one Security.
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The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and each Security
Registrar in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case
of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof
to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.
SECTION 1105. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 15 (or such longer period as is required by the
Depositary) nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to the Trustee
and to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address appearing in
the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date,
(b) the Redemption Price,
(c) if less than all the Outstanding Securities are to be redeemed,
the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption of any
Securities, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be
redeemed,
(d) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due
and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and that (unless the
Company shall default in payment of the Redemption Price) interest thereon
will cease to accrue on and after said date,
(e) the conversion price, the date on which the right to convert the
Securities to be redeemed will terminate and the place or places where
such Securities may be surrendered for conversion, and
(f) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered
for payment of the Redemption Price.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request received
by the Trustee at least 25 days prior to the Redemption Date, by the Trustee in
the name and at the expense of the Company.
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SECTION 1106. Deposit of Redemption Price.
At or prior to 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) on any Redemption Date,
the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 1003) an amount of money in same day funds sufficient to
pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an
Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities or portions
thereof which are to be redeemed on that date other than any Securities called
for redemption on that date which have been converted prior to the date of such
deposit.
If any Security called for redemption is converted, any money
deposited with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent or so segregated and held
in trust for the redemption of such Security shall (subject to any right of the
Holder of such Security or any Predecessor Security to receive interest as
provided in the last paragraph of Section 307) be paid to the Company upon
Company Request or, if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such
trust.
SECTION 1107. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities
so to be redeemed shall on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security
shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued
interest to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of
interest whose Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable
to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities,
registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates
according to their terms and the provisions of Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal and premium, if any, shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the
Security.
SECTION 1108. Securities Redeemed in Part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be
surrendered at an office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose
pursuant to Section 1002 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due
endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service
charge, a new Security or Securities, of any authorized denomination as
requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal
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amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of
the Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1201. Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by
his acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, at all times and
in all respects, the indebtedness represented by the Securities and the payment
of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on each and all of the
Securities are hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in right of
payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 1202. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.
In the event of (a) any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding,
or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or
proceeding, relative to the Company or to its creditors, as such, or to a
substantial part of its assets, or (b) any proceeding for the liquidation,
dissolution or other winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or
involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy, or (c) any
general assignment for the benefits of creditors or any other marshaling of
assets and liabilities of the Company, then and in any such event the holders
of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all
amounts due or to become due on or in respect of all Senior Indebtedness; or
provision shall be made for such payment in money or money's worth, before the
Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any payment or distribution
of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, on account
of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities, and to that
end the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to receive, for
application to the payment thereof, any payment or distribution of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any such payment
or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the payment of
any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the
Securities, which may be payable or deliverable in respect of the Securities in
any such case, proceeding, dissolution, liquidation or other winding up or
event.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section, the Trustee or the Holder of any Security shall have received any
payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character,
whether in cash, property or securities, including any such payment or
distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the payment of
any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the
Securities, before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full or payment thereof
provided for, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such payment
or distribution, have been made known to the Trustee or such
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Holder, as the case may be, then and in such event such payment or distribution
shall be paid over or delivered forthwith to the trustee in bankruptcy,
receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee, agent or other Person
making payment or distribution of assets of the Company for application to the
payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to
pay all Senior Indebtedness in full, after giving effect to any concurrent
payment or distribution to or for the holders of Senior Indebtedness.
For purposes of this Article only, the words "cash, property or
securities" shall not be deemed to include securities of the Company as
reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other
corporation provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, which are
subordinated in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness which may at the
time be outstanding to substantially the same extent as, or to a greater extent
than, the Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article. The
consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company into, another
Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the
conveyance or transfer of its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to another Person upon the term and conditions set forth in Article
Eight shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding up, liquidation,
reorganization, general assignment for the benefit of creditors or marshaling
of assets and liabilities of the Company for the purposes of this Section if
the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or
which acquires by conveyance or transfer such properties and assets
substantially as an entirety, as the case may be, shall, as a part of such
consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the conditions set
forth in Article Eight.
SECTION 1203. Prior Payment to Senior Indebtedness upon Acceleration of
Securities.
In the event that any Securities are declared due and payable before
their Stated Maturity, then and in such event the holders of Senior
Indebtedness outstanding at the time such Securities so become due and payable
shall be entitled to receive payment in full in cash of all amounts due on or
in respect of such Senior Indebtedness, or provision shall be made for such
payment in money or money's worth, before the Holders of the Securities are
entitled to receive any payment (including any payment which may be payable by
reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company being
subordinated to the payment of the Securities) by the Company on account of the
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities or on account of
the purchase or other acquisition of Securities.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall
make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited by the
foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to
the time of such payment, have been made known to the Trustee or such Holder,
as the case may be, then and in such event such payment shall be paid over and
delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment and
with respect to which Section 1202 would be applicable.
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SECTION 1204. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default.
(a) In the event and during the continuation of any default in the
payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Senior
Indebtedness beyond any applicable grace period with respect thereto, or in the
event that any event of default with respect to any Senior Indebtedness shall
have occurred and be continuing and shall have resulted in such Senior
indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on
which it would otherwise have become due and payable, unless and until such
event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist
and such acceleration shall have been rescinded or annulled, or (b) in the
event any judicial proceeding shall be pending with respect to any such default
in payment or event of default, then no payment (including any payment which
may be payable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the
Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities) shall be made by
the Company on account of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
the Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of
Securities.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall
make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited by the
foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to
the time of such payment, have been made known to the Trustee or such Holder,
as the case may be, then and in such event such payment shall be paid over and
delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment with
respect to which Section 1202 would be applicable.
SECTION 1205. Payment Permitted if No Default.
Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or
in any of the Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time except
during the pendency of any case, proceeding, dissolution, liquidation or other
winding up, general assignment for the benefit of creditors or other marshaling
of assets and liabilities of the Company referred to in Section 1202 or under
the conditions described in Section 1203 or 1204, from making payments at any
time of principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the Securities, or (b)
the application by the Trustee of any money deposited with it hereunder to the
payment of or on account of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest
on the Securities or the retention of such payment by the Holders, if, at the
time of such application by the Trustee, it did not have knowledge that such
payment would have been prohibited by the provisions of this Article.
SECTION 1206. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
Subject to the payment in full of all amounts due on or in respect of
Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the
extent of the payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of this Article (equally
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and ratably with the holders of all indebtedness of the Company which by its
express terms is subordinated to other indebtedness of the Company to
substantially the same extent as the Securities are subordinated and is
entitled to like rights of subrogation) to the rights of the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness to receive payments and distributions of cash, property and
securities applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest on the Securities shall be paid in full. For
purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of
the Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the
Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Article, and no payments over pursuant to the provisions of
this Article to the holders of Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities
or the Trustee, shall, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders
of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a
payment or distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior
Indebtedness.
SECTION 1207. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the
purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the
one hand and the holders of Senior Indebtedness on the other hand. Nothing
contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities
is intended to or shall (a) impair, as among the Company, its creditors other
than holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities, the
obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the
Holders of the Securities the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on
the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance
with their terms; or (b) affect the relative rights against the Company or the
Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than the holders
of Senior Indebtedness; or (c) prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any
Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law
upon default under this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this
Article of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive cash, property and
securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
SECTION 1208. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each holder of a Security by his acceptance thereof authorizes and
directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in this Article and
appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
SECTION 1209. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness
to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company
or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any
noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants
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of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof any such holder may have
or be otherwise charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing
paragraph, the holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to
time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the
Securities, without incurring responsibility to the Holders of the Securities
and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article
or the obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the
manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or
alter, Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner
Senior Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement
under which Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release or
otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing
Senior Indebtedness; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for the
collection of Senior Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or refrain from exercising
any rights against the Company and any other Person.
SECTION 1210. Notice to Trustee.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
fact known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to or
by the Trustee in respect of the Securities. Notwithstanding the provisions of
this Article or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be
charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the
making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, unless
and until the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the
Company or a holder of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and,
prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled in all respects to assume that no
such facts exist; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall not have
received the notice provided for in this Section at least four Business Days
prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may become payable
for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of
and premium, if any, or interest on any Security), then, anything herein
contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power
and authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the purpose for
which such money was received and shall not be affected by any notice to the
contrary which may be received by it within four Business Days prior to such
date.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee shall be
entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person
representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee
therefor) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of Senior
Indebtedness (or a trustee therefor). In the event that the Trustee determines
in good faith that further evidence is required with respect to the right of
any Person as a holder of Senior Indebtedness to participate in any payment or
distribution pursuant to this Article, the Trustee may request such Person to
furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount
of Senior Indebtedness held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is
entitled to
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participate in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to
the rights of such Person under this Article, and if such evidence is not
furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial
determination as to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
SECTION 1211. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to
in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, and the
Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree
entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such insolvency,
bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization, dissolution, winding up
or similar case or proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in
bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit
of creditors, agent or other person making such payment or distribution,
delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of
ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment or
distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and other indebtedness of
the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid
or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this
Article.
SECTION 1212. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness and shall not be liable to any such holders if
it shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of
Securities or to the Company or to any other Person cash, property or
securities to which holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue
of this Article or otherwise. With respect to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its
covenants and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article, and no
implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness shall be read into this Article against the Trustee.
SECTION 1213. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness; Preservation
of Trustee's Rights.
The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the
rights set forth in this Article with respect to any Senior Indebtedness which
may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of
its rights as such holder.
Nothing in this Article shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the
Trustee under or pursuant to Section 607.
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SECTION 1214. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall
have been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term
"Trustee" as used in this Article shall in such case (unless the context
otherwise requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying
Agent within its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such
Paying Agent were named in this Article in addition to or in place of the
Trustee; provided, however, that Section 1213 shall not apply to the Company or
any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Affiliate acts as Paying Agent.
SECTION 1215. Certain Conversions Deemed Payment.
For the purposes of this Article only, (1) the issuance and delivery
of junior securities upon conversion of Securities in accordance with Article
Thirteen shall not be deemed to constitute a payment or distribution on account
of the principal of or premium or interest on Securities or on account of the
purchase or other acquisition of Securities, and (2) the payment, issuance or
delivery of cash, property or securities (other than junior securities) upon
conversion of a Security shall be deemed to constitute payment on account of
the principal of such Security. For the purposes of this Section, the term
"junior securities" means (a) shares of any class of capital stock of the
Company and (b) securities of the Company which are subordinated in right of
payment to all Senior Indebtedness which may be outstanding at the time of
issuance or delivery of such securities to substantially the same extent as, or
to a greater extent than, the Securities are so subordinated as provided in
this Article. Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture
or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as among the Company, its
creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the
Securities, the right, which is absolute and unconditional, of the Holder of
any Security to convert such Security in accordance with Article Thirteen.
SECTION 1216. No Suspension of Remedies.
Nothing contained in this Article shall limit the right of the
Trustee or the Holders of the Securities to take any action to accelerate the
maturity of the Securities pursuant to the provisions of Article Five and as
set forth in this Indenture or to pursue any rights or remedies hereunder or
under applicable law, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article of the
holders, from time to time, of Senior Indebtedness to receive the cash,
property or securities receivable upon the exercise of such rights or remedies.
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1301. Conversion Privilege and Conversion Price.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article,
at the option of the Holder thereof, any Security or any portion of the
principal amount thereof which equals $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof
may be converted at any time at the principal amount thereof, or of such
portion thereof, into fully paid and nonassessable shares (calculated as to
each conversion to the nearest 1/100 of a share) of Common Stock, at the
conversion price, determined as hereinafter provided, in effect at the time of
conversion. Such conversion right shall expire at the close of business on
August 1, 2004. In case a Security or portion thereof is called for redemption,
such conversion right in respect of the security or portion so called shall
expire at the close of business on the second business day preceding the
applicable Redemption Date, unless the Company defaults in making the payment
due upon redemption.
The price at which shares of Common Stock shall be delivered upon
conversion (herein called the "conversion price") shall be initially $16 7/8
per share of Common Stock. The conversion price shall be adjusted in certain
instances as provided in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (i) of
Section 1304.
SECTION 1302. Exercise of Conversion Privilege.
In order to exercise the conversion privilege, the Holder of any
Security shall surrender such security, duly endorsed or assigned to the
Company or in blank, at any office or agency of the Company maintained pursuant
to Section 1002, accompanied by written notice to the Company in the form
provided in the Security (or such other notice as is acceptable to the Company)
at such office or agency that the Holder elects to convert such Security or, if
less than the entire principal amount thereof is to be converted, the portion
thereof to be converted. Securities surrendered for conversion during the
period from the opening of business on any Regular Record Date next preceding
any Interest Payment Date to the close of business on such Interest Payment
Date shall (except in the case of Securities or portions thereof which have
been called for redemption) be accompanied by payment in next day funds or
other funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest
payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount being surrendered
for conversion. Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence and
subject to the fourth paragraph of Section 307, no payment or adjustment shall
be made upon any conversion on account of any interest accrued on the
Securities surrendered for conversion or on account of any dividends on the
Common Stock issued upon conversion.
Securities shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior
to the close of business on the day of surrender of such Securities for
conversion in accordance with the
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foregoing provisions, and at such time the rights of the Holders of such
Securities as Holders shall cease, and the Person or Persons entitled to
receive the Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall be treated for all
purposes of the record holder or holders of such Common Stock as and after such
time. As promptly as practicable on or after the conversion date, the Company
shall issue and shall deliver at such office or agency a certificate or
certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion, together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as
provided in Section 1303.
In the case of any Security which is converted in part only, upon
such conversion the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new
Security or Securities of authorized denominations in aggregate principal
amount equal to the unconverted portion of the principal amount of such
Security.
SECTION 1303. Fractions of Shares.
No fractional share of Common Stock shall be issued upon conversion
of Securities. If more than one Security shall be surrendered for conversion at
one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares which shall be issuable
upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate
principal amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof) so
surrendered. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock which would
otherwise be issuable upon conversion of any Security or Securities (or
specified portions thereof), the Company shall pay a cash adjustment in respect
of such fraction in an amount equal to the same fraction of the Closing Price
(as hereinafter defined) at the close of business on the day of conversion (or,
if such day is not a Trading Day (as hereafter defined), on the Trading Day
immediately preceding such day).
SECTION 1304. Adjustment of Conversion Price.
(a) In case the Company shall pay or make a dividend or other
distribution on the Common Stock exclusively in Common Stock or shall pay or
make a dividend or other distribution on any other class of capital stock of
the Company which dividend or distribution includes Common Stock, the
conversion price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the
date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such
dividend or other distribution shall be reduced by multiplying such conversion
price by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares and
the total number of shares constituting such dividend or other distribution,
such reduction to become effective immediately after the opening of business on
the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purpose of
this paragraph (a), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time
outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company. The
Company shall not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common
Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
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(b) Subject to paragraph (g) of this Section, in case the Company
shall pay or make a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock
consisting exclusively of, or shall otherwise issue to all holders of the
Common Stock, rights or warrants entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for
or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the Current
Market Price (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section) on the
date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such
rights or warrants, the conversion price in effect at the opening of business
on the day following the date fixed for such determination shall be reduced by
multiplying such conversion price by a fraction of which the numerator shall be
the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on
the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock
which the aggregate of the offering price of the total number of shares of
Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase would purchase at such
Current Market Price and the denominator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock so offered for
subscription or purchase, such reduction to become effective immediately after
the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such
determination. For the purposes of this paragraph (b), the number of shares of
Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the
treasury of the Company. The Company shall not issue any rights or warrants in
respect of shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
(c) In case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided
into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the conversion price in effect
at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
subdivision becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, and,
conversely, in case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be combined into a
smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the conversion price in effect at the
opening of business on the day following the day upon which such combination
becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, such reduction or
increase, as the case may be, to become effective immediately after the opening
of business on the day following the day upon which subdivision or combination
becomes effective.
(d) Subject to the last sentence of this paragraph (d) and to
paragraph (g) of this Section, in case the Company shall, by dividend or
otherwise, distribute to all holders of the Common Stock evidences of its
indebtedness, shares of any class of its capital stock, cash or other assets
(including securities, but excluding any rights or warrants referred to in
paragraph (b) of this Section, excluding any dividend or distribution paid
exclusively in cash and excluding any dividend or distribution referred to in
paragraph (a) of this Section), the conversion price shall be reduced by
multiplying the conversion price in effect immediately prior to the close of
business on the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to
such distribution by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the Current
Market Price (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section) on such
date less the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose
determination shall be conclusive and set forth in a Board Resolution) on such
date of the portion of the evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock,
cash and other assets to be distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock
and the denominator shall be such Current
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Market Price, such reduction to become effective immediately prior to the
opening of business on the day following such date. If the Board of Directors
determines the fair market value of any distribution for purposes of this
paragraph (d) by reference to the actual or when-issued trading market for any
securities comprising part or all of such distribution, it must in doing so
consider the prices in such market over the same period used in computing the
Current Market Price pursuant to paragraph (h) of this Section, to the extent
possible. For purposes of this paragraph (d), any dividend or distribution that
includes shares of Common Stock, rights or warrants to subscribe for or
purchase shares of Common Stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable
for shares of Common Stock shall be deemed to be (x) a dividend or distribution
of the evidences of indebtedness, cash, assets or shares of capital stock other
than such shares of Common Stock, such rights or warrants or such convertible
or exchangeable securities (making any conversion price reduction required by
this paragraph (d)) immediately followed by (y) in the case of such shares of
Common Stock or such rights or warrants, a dividend or distribution thereof
(making any further conversion price reduction required by paragraph (a) and
(b) of this Section, except any shares of Common Stock included in such
dividend or distribution shall not be deemed "outstanding at the close of
business on the date fixed for such determination" within the meaning of
paragraph (a) of this Section), or (z) in the case of such convertible or
exchangeable securities, a dividend or distribution of the number of shares of
Common Stock as would then be issuable upon the conversion or exchange thereof,
whether or not the conversion or exchange of such securities is subject to any
conditions (making any further conversion price reduction required by paragraph
(a) of this Section, except the shares deemed to constitute such dividend or
distribution shall not be deemed "outstanding at the close of business on the
date fixed for such determination" within the meaning of paragraph (a) of this
Section).
(e) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, at any time
distribute to all holders of the Common Stock cash (excluding any cash that is
distributed as part of a distribution referred to in paragraph (d) of this
Section or in connection with a transaction to which Section 1311 applies) in
an aggregate amount that, together with (i) the aggregate amount of any other
distributions to all holders of the Common Stock made exclusively in cash
within the 12 months preceding the date fixed for the determination of
shareholders entitled to such distribution and in respect of which no
conversion price adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (a) has been made
previously and (ii) the aggregate of any cash plus the fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive
and described in a Board Resolution) as of such date of determination of
consideration payable in respect of any tender offer by the Company or a
Subsidiary for all or any portion of the Common Stock consummated within the 12
months preceding such date of determination and in respect of which no
conversion price adjustment pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section has been
made previously, exceeds 10% of the product of the Current Market Price
(determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section) on such date of
determination times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such
date, the conversion price shall be reduced by multiplying the conversion price
in effect immediately prior to the close of business on such date of
determination by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the Current Market
Price (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section) on such date
less the amount of cash to be distributed at such time applicable to one
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share of Common Stock and the denominator shall be such Current Market Price,
such reduction to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business
on the day after such date.
(f) In case a tender offer made by the Company or any Subsidiary for
all or any portion of the Common Stock shall be consummated and such tender
offer shall involve an aggregate consideration having a fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive
and described in a Board Resolution) as of the last time (the "Expiration
Time") that tenders may be made pursuant to such tender offer (as it shall have
been amended) that, together with (i) the aggregate of the cash plus the fair
market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination
shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) as of the Expiration
Time of the other consideration paid in respect of any other tender offer by
the Company or a Subsidiary for all or any portion of the Common Stock
consummated within the 12 months preceding the Expiration Time and in respect
of which no conversion price adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (f) has been
made previously and (ii) the aggregate amount of any distributions to all
holders of the Common Stock made exclusively in cash within the 12 months
preceding the Expiration Time and in respect of which no conversion price
adjustment pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section has been made previously,
exceeds 10% of the product of the Current Market Price (determined as provided
in paragraph (h) of this Section) immediately prior to the Expiration Time
times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered
shares) at the Expiration Time, the conversion price shall be reduced by
multiplying the conversion price in effect immediately prior to the Expiration
Time by a fraction of which the numerator shall be (x) the product of the
Current Market Price (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section)
immediately prior to the Expiration Time times the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares at the Expiration Time) minus
(y) the fair market value (determined as aforesaid) of the aggregate
consideration payable to shareholders upon consummation of such tender offer
and the denominator shall be the product of (A) such Current Market Price times
(B) such number of outstanding shares at the Expiration Time minus the number
of shares accepted for payment in such tender offer (the "Purchased Shares"),
such reduction to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business
on the day following the Expiration Time; provided, that if the number of
Purchased Shares or the aggregate consideration payable therefor have not been
finally determined by such opening of business, the adjustment required by this
paragraph (f) shall, pending such final determination, be made based upon the
preliminarily announced results of such tender offer, and, after such final
determination shall have been made, the adjustment required by this paragraph
(f) shall be made based upon the number of Purchased Shares and the aggregate
consideration payable therefor as so finally determined.
(g) The reclassification of Common Stock into securities which
include securities other than Common Stock (other than any reclassification
upon a consolidation or merger to which Section 1311 applies) shall be deemed
to involve (i) a distribution of such securities other than Common Stock to all
holders of Common Stock (and the effective date of such reclassification shall
be deemed to be "the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled
to such distribution" within the meaning of paragraph (d) of this Section), and
(ii) a subdivision or
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combination, as the case may be, of the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding immediately prior to such reclassification into the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately thereafter (and the effective
date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be "the day upon which such
subdivision becomes effective" or "the day upon which such combination becomes
effective", as the case may be, and "the day upon which such subdivision or
combination becomes effective" within the meaning of paragraph (c) of this
Section).
Rights or warrants issued by the Company to all holders of the Common
Stock entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of
Common Stock (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights or
warrants (i) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of Common Stock,
(ii) are not exercisable and (iii) are also issued in respect of future
issuances of Common Stock, in each case in clauses (i) through (iii) until the
occurrence of a specified event or events ("Trigger Event"), shall for purposes
of this Section 1304 not be deemed issued until the occurrence of the earliest
Trigger Event. If any such rights or warrants, including any such existing
rights or warrants distributed prior to the date of this Indenture are subject
to subsequent events, upon the occurrence of each of which such rights or
warrants shall become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences
of indebtedness or other assets, then the occurrence of each such event shall
be deemed to be such date of issuance and record date with respect to new
rights or warrants (and a termination or expiration of the existing rights or
warrants without exercise by the holder thereof). In addition, in the event of
any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights or warrants, or any Trigger
Event with respect thereto, that was counted for purposes of calculating a
distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Price under this
Section 1304 was made, (1) in the case of any such rights or warrant which
shall all have been redeemed or repurchased without exercise by any holders
thereof, the Conversion Price shall be readjusted upon such final redemption or
repurchase to give effect to such distribution or Trigger Event, as the case
may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share
redemption or repurchase price received by a holder or holders of Common Stock
with respect to such rights or warrants (assuming such holder had retained such
rights or warrants), made to all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such
redemption or repurchase, and (2) in the case of such rights or warrants which
shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof,
the Conversion Price shall be readjusted as if such rights and warrants had not
been issued.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 1304 to the
contrary, rights, warrants, evidences of indebtedness, other securities, cash
or other assets (including, without limitation, any rights distributed pursuant
to any stockholder rights plan) shall be deemed not to have been distributed
for purposes of this Section 1304 if the Company makes proper provision so that
each holder of Securities who converts a Security (or any portion thereof)
after the date fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
distribution shall be entitled to receive upon such conversion, in addition to
the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversions, the amount and kind
of such distributions that such holder would have been entitled to receive if
such holder had, immediately prior to such determination date, converted such
Security into Common Stock.
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(h) For the purpose of any computation under this paragraph and
paragraphs (b), (d) and (e) of this Section, the current market price per share
of Common Stock (the "Current Market Price") on any date shall be deemed to be
the average of the daily Closing Prices for the 5 consecutive Trading Days
selected by the Company commencing not more than 20 Trading Days before, and
ending not later than, the date in question; provided, however, that (i) if the
"ex" date for any event (other than the issuance or distribution requiring such
computation) that requires an adjustment to the conversion price pursuant to
paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above occurs on or after the 20th
Trading Day prior to the date in question and prior to the "ex" date for the
issuance or distribution requiring such computation, the Closing Price for each
Trading Day prior to the "ex" date for such other event shall be adjusted by
multiplying such Closing Price by the same fraction by which the conversion
price is so required to be adjusted as a result of such other event, (ii) if
the "ex" date for any event (other than the issuance or distribution requiring
such computation) that requires an adjustment to the conversion price pursuant
to paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above occurs on or after the "ex"
date for the issuance or distribution requiring such computation and on or
prior to the date in question, the Closing Price for each Trading Day on and
after the "ex" date for such other event shall be adjusted by multiplying such
Closing Price by the reciprocal of the fraction by which the conversion price
is so required to be adjusted as a result of such other event, and (iii) if the
"ex" date for the issuance or distribution requiring such computation is on or
prior to the date in question, after taking into account any adjustment
required pursuant to clause (ii) of this proviso, the Closing Price for each
Trading Day on or after such "ex" date shall be adjusted by adding thereto the
amount of any cash and the fair market value on the date in question (as
determined by the Board of Directors in a manner consistent with any
determination of such value for purposes of paragraph (d) or (e) of this
Section, whose determination shall be conclusive and set forth in a Board
Resolution) of the evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock or assets
being distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock as of the close of
business on the day before such "ex" date. For the purpose of any computation
under paragraph (f) of this Section, the Current Market Price on any date shall
be deemed to be the average of the daily Closing Prices for the 5 consecutive
Trading Days selected by the Company commencing on or after the latest (the
"Commencement Date") of (i) the date 20 Trading Days before the date in
question, (ii) the date of commencement of the tender offer requiring such
computation and (iii) the date of the last amendment, if any, of such tender
offer involving a change in the maximum number of shares for which tenders are
sought or a change in the consideration offered, and ending not later than the
Expiration Time of such tender offer; provided, however, that if the "ex" date
for any event (other than the tender offer requiring such computation) that
requires an adjustment to the conversion price pursuant to paragraph (a), (b),
(c), (d), (e) or (f) above occurs on or after the Commencement Date and prior
to the Expiration Time for the tender offer requiring such computation, the
Closing Price for each Trading Day prior to the "ex" date for such other event
shall be adjusted by multiplying such Closing Price by the same fraction by
which the conversion price is so required to be adjusted as a result of such
other event. The closing price for any Trading Day (the "Closing Price") shall
be the last reported sales price regular way or, in case no such reported sale
takes place on such day, the average of the reported closing bid and asked
prices regular way, in either case on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the
Common Stock is
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not listed or admitted to trading on such exchange, on the principal national
securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading
or, if not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange,
on the Nasdaq Stock Market's National Market or, if the Common Stock is not
listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange or quoted on
such National Market, the average of the closing bid and asked prices in the
over-the- counter market as furnished by any New York Stock Exchange member
firm selected from time to time by the Company for that purpose. For purposes
of this paragraph, the term "Trading Day" means each Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, other than any day on which securities are
generally not traded on the applicable securities exchange or in the applicable
securities market and the term "'ex' date," (i) when used with respect to any
issuance or distribution, means the first date on which the Common Stock trades
regular way on the relevant exchange or in the relevant market from which the
Closing Prices were obtained without the right to receive such issuance or
distribution, (ii) when used with respect to any subdivision or combination of
shares of Common Stock, means the first date on which the Common Stock trades
regular way on such exchange or in such market after the time at which such
subdivision or combination becomes effective, and (iii) when used with respect
to any tender offer means the first date on which the Common Stock trades
regular way on such exchange or in such market after the last time that tenders
may be made pursuant to such tender offer (as it shall have been amended).
(i) The Company may make such reductions in the conversion price, in
addition to those required by paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of
this Section, as it considers to be advisable (as evidenced by a Board
Resolution) in order that any event treated for federal income tax purposes as
a dividend of stock or stock rights shall not be taxable to the recipients or,
if that is not possible, to diminish any income taxes that are otherwise
payable because of such event.
(j) No adjustment in the conversion price shall be required unless
such adjustment (plus any other adjustments not previously made by reason of
this paragraph (j)) would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% in the
conversion price; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of
this paragraph (j) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and
taken into account in any subsequent adjustment.
(k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 1304, no
adjustment to the conversion price shall reduce the conversion price below the
then par value per share of the Common Stock, and any such purported adjustment
shall instead reduce the conversion price to such par value. The Company hereby
covenants not to take any action to increase the par value per share of the
Common Stock.
SECTION 1305. Notice of Adjustments of Conversion Price.
Whenever the conversion price is adjusted as herein provided:
(a) the Company shall compute the adjusted conversion price in
accordance with Section 1304 and shall prepare an Officers' Certificate
which shall include the signature of
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the Treasurer of the Company setting forth the adjusted conversion price
and showing in reasonable detail the facts upon which such adjustment is
based, and such certificate shall forthwith be filed (with a copy to the
Trustee) at each office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion
of Securities pursuant to Section 1002; and
(b) a notice stating that the conversion price has been adjusted and
setting forth the adjusted conversion price shall forthwith be prepared,
and as soon as practicable after it is prepared, such notice shall be
mailed by the Company or by the Trustee at the Company's expense to all
Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear in the Security
Register.
SECTION 1306. Notice of Certain Corporate Action.
In case:
(a) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution)
on its Common Stock payable (i) otherwise than exclusively in cash or (ii)
exclusively in cash in an amount that would require a conversion price
adjustment pursuant to paragraph (e) of Section 1304; or
(b) the Company shall authorize the granting to the holders of its
Common Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares
of capital stock of any class or of any other rights (excluding shares of
capital stock or option for capital stock issued pursuant to a benefit
plan for employees, officers or directors of the Company); or
(c) of any reclassification of the Common Stock (other than a
subdivision or combination of the outstanding shares of Common Stock), or
of any consolidation, merger or share exchange to which the Company is a
party and for which approval of any shareholders of the Company is
required, or of the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company; or
(d) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or
winding up of the Company; or
(e) the Company or any Subsidiary shall commence a tender offer for
all or a portion of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (or shall amend
any such tender offer to change the maximum number of shares being sought
or the amount or type of consideration being offered therefor);
then the Company shall cause to be filed at each office or agency maintained
pursuant to Section 1002, and shall cause to be mailed to all Holders at their
last addresses as they shall appear in the Security Register, at least 21 days
(or 11 days in any case specified in clause (a), (b) or (e) above) prior to the
applicable record, effective or expiration date hereinafter specified, a notice
stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such
dividend, distribution or granting
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of rights or warrants, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which
the holders of Common Stock of record who will be entitled to such dividend,
distribution, rights or warrants are to be determined, (y) the date on which
such reclassification, consolidation, merger, share exchange, sale, transfer,
dissolution, liquidation or winding up is expected to become effective, and the
date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be
entitled to exchange their shares of Common Stock for securities, cash or other
property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, share
exchange, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up, or (z) the
date on which such tender offer commenced, the date on which such tender offer
is scheduled to expire unless extended, the consideration offered and the other
material terms thereof (or the material terms of any amendment thereto).
Neither the failure to give any such notice nor any defect therein shall affect
the legality or validity of any action described in clauses (a) through (e) of
this Section 1306.
SECTION 1307. Company to Reserve Common Stock.
The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available, free from
preemptive rights, out of the authorized but unissued Common Stock or out of
the Common Stock held in treasury, for the purpose of effecting the conversion
of Securities, the full number of shares of Common Stock then issuable upon the
conversion of all outstanding Securities. Shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of outstanding Securities shall be issued out of the Common Stock
held in treasury to the extent available.
SECTION 1308. Taxes on Conversions.
The Company will pay any and all taxes that may be payable in respect
of the issue or delivery of shares of Common Stock on conversion of Securities
pursuant hereto. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax
which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and
delivery of shares of Common Stock in a name other than that of the Holder of
the Security or Securities to be converted, and no such issue or delivery shall
be made unless and until the Person requesting such issue has paid to the
Company the amount of any such tax, or has established to the satisfaction of
the Company that such tax has been paid.
SECTION 1309. Covenant as to Common Stock.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be
issued upon conversion of Securities will upon issue be fully paid and
nonassessable and, except as provided in Section 1308, the Company will pay all
taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.
SECTION 1310. Cancellation of Converted Securities.
All Securities delivered for conversion shall be delivered to the
Trustee to be canceled by or at the direction of the Trustee, which shall
dispose of the same as provided in Section 309.
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SECTION 1311. Provisions on Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets.
In case of any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the
Company into, any other Person, any merger of another Person into the Company
(other than a merger which does not result in any reclassification, conversion,
exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock) or any sale or
transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, the Person
formed by such consolidation or resulting from such merger or which acquires
such assets, as the case may be, shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a
supplemental indenture providing that the Holder of each Security then
Outstanding shall have the right thereafter, during the period such Security
shall be convertible as specified in Section 1301, to convert such Security
only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property, if any,
receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by a holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock into which such Security might have been
converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer,
assuming such holder of Common Stock (i) is not a Person with which the Company
consolidated or into which the Company merged or which merged into the Company
or to which such sale or transfer was made, as the case may be (a "Constituent
Person"), or an Affiliate of a Constituent Person and (ii) failed to exercise
his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or amount of securities, cash
and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer
(provided that if the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property
receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer is not the same
for each share of Common Stock held immediately prior to such consolidation,
merger, sale or transfer by other than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate
thereof and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been
exercised ("nonelecting share"), then for the purpose of this Section the kind
and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such
consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by each nonelecting share shall be
deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the
nonelecting shares. Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments
which, for events subsequent to the effective date of such supplemental
indenture, shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the
adjustments provided for in this Article. The above provisions of this Section
shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, sales or
transfers.
SECTION 1312. Trustee's Disclaimer.
The Trustee has no duty to determine when an adjustment under this
Article 13 should be made, how it should be made or what such adjustment should
be, but may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such
adjustment, and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officers' Certificate
with respect thereto which the Company is obligated to file with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 1305. The Trustee makes no representation as to the
validity or value of any securities or assets issued upon conversion of
Securities, and the Trustee shall not be responsible for the Company's failure
to comply with any provisions of this Article 13.
The Trustee shall not be under any responsibility to determine the
correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture executed
pursuant to Section 1311, but may
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accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness thereof, and shall be
protected in relying upon, the Officers' Certificate with respect thereto which
the Company is obligated to file with the Trustee pursuant to Section 1311.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
RIGHT TO REQUIRE REPURCHASE
SECTION 1401. Right to Require Repurchase.
In the event that there shall occur a Repurchase Event (as defined in
Section 1406), then each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder's option,
to require the Company to purchase, and upon the exercise of such right, the
Company shall, subject to the provisions of Section 1203, purchase, all or any
part of such Holder's Securities on the date (the "Repurchase Date") that is 30
days after the date the Company gives notice of the Repurchase Event as
contemplated in Section 1402(a) at a price (the "Repurchase Price") equal to
100% of the principal amount thereof, together with accrued and unpaid interest
to the Repurchase Date.
SECTION 1402. Notice; Method of Exercising Repurchase Right.
(a) On or before the 15th day after the occurrence of a Repurchase
Event, the Company, or at the request of the Company received by the
Trustee at least 40 days prior to the Repurchase Date, the Trustee (in the
name and at the expense of the Company), shall give notice of the
occurrence of the Repurchase Event and of the repurchase right set forth
herein arising as a result thereof by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
to the Trustee and to each Holder of the Securities at such Holder's
address appearing in the Security Register. The Company shall also deliver
a copy of such notice of a repurchase right to the Trustee.
Each notice of a repurchase right shall state:
(1) the event constituting the Repurchase Event and the date
thereof,
(2) the Repurchase Date,
(3) the date by which the repurchase right must be exercised,
(4) the Repurchase Price, and
(5) the instructions a Holder must follow to exercise a
repurchase right.
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No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notice shall limit
any Holder's right to exercise a repurchase right. The Trustee shall have no
affirmative obligation to determine if there shall have occurred a Repurchase
Event.
(b) To exercise a repurchase right, a Holder shall deliver to the
Company (or an agent designated by the Company for such purpose in the notice
referred to in (a) above) and to the Trustee on or before the close of business
on the Repurchase Date (i) written notice of the Holder's exercise of such
right, which notice shall set forth the name of the Holder, the principal
amount of the Security or Securities (or portion of a Security) to be
repurchased, and a statement that an election to exercise the repurchased right
is being made thereby, and (ii) the Security or Securities with respect to
which the repurchase right is being exercised, duly endorsed for transfer to
the Company. Such written notice shall be irrevocable. If the Repurchase Date
falls between any Regular Record Date and the next succeeding Interest Payment
Date, Securities to be repurchased must be accompanied by payment from the
Holder of an amount equal to the interest thereon which the registered Holder
thereof is to receive on such Interest Payment Date.
(c) In the event a repurchase right shall be exercised in accordance
with the terms hereof, the Company shall on the Repurchase Date pay or cause to
be paid in cash to the Holder thereof the Repurchase Price of the Security or
Securities as to which the repurchase right had been exercised. In the event
that a repurchase right is exercised with respect to less than the entire
principal amount of a surrendered Security, the Company shall execute and
deliver to the Trustee and the Trustee shall authenticate for issuance in the
name of the Holder a new Security or Securities in the aggregate principal
amount of the unrepurchased portion of such surrendered security.
SECTION 1403. Deposit of Repurchase Price.
On or prior to the Repurchase Date, the Company shall deposit with
the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own
Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an
amount of money in same day funds sufficient to pay the Repurchase Price of the
Securities which are to be repaid on or promptly following the Repurchase Date.
SECTION 1404. Securities Not Repurchased on Repurchase Date.
If any Security surrendered for repurchase shall not be so paid on
the Repurchase Date, the principal shall, until paid, bear interest to the
extent permitted by applicable law from the Repurchase Date at the rate per
annum borne by such Security.
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SECTION 1405. Securities Repurchased in Part.
Any Security which is to be repurchased only in part shall be
surrendered at any office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose
pursuant to Section 1002 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due
endorsement by, or written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney
duty authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service
charge, a new Security or Securities of any authorized denomination as
requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal amount equal to and in
exchange for the unrepurchased portion of the principal of the Security so
surrendered.
SECTION 1406. Certain Definitions.
For purposes of this Article:
(a) A "Repurchase Event" shall have occurred upon the occurrence of
a Change in Control or Termination of Trading after the date of this
Indenture and on or prior to August 1, 2004.
(b) A "Change in Control" shall occur when:
(i) all or substantially all of the Company's assets are sold
as an entirety to any person or related group of persons;
(ii) there shall be consummated any consolidation or merger of
the Company (A) in which the Company is not the continuing or
surviving corporation (other than a consolidation or merger with a
wholly owned subsidiary of the Company in which all shares of Common
Stock outstanding immediately prior to the effectiveness thereof are
changed into or exchanged for the same consideration) or (B) pursuant
to which the Common Stock would be converted into cash, securities or
other property, in each case, other than a consolidation or merger of
the Company in which the holders of the Common Stock immediately
prior to the consolidation or merger have, directly or indirectly, in
consideration of such Common Stock, capital stock having at least a
majority of the total voting power of all classes of capital stock
entitled to vote generally in the election of directors of the
continuing or surviving corporation immediately after such
consolidation or merger receives in substantially the same proportion
as their ownership of Common Stock immediately before such
transaction;
(iii) any person, or any persons acting together which
would constitute a "group" for purposes of Section 13(d) of the
Exchange Act (a "Group"), together with any Affiliates thereof, shall
beneficially own (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange
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Act) at least 50% of the total voting power of all classes of capital
stock of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of
directors of the Company; or
(iv) at any time during any consecutive two-year period,
individuals who at the beginning of such period constituted the
Directors of the Company (together with any new directors whose
election by such Board of Directors or whose nomination for election
by the stockholders of the Company was approved by a vote of 66 2/3%
of the directors then still in office who were either directors at
the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for
election was previously so approved) cease for any reason to
constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company then
in office; or
(v) the Company is liquidated or dissolved or adopts a plan of
liquidation or dissolution.
(c) A "Termination of Trading" shall occur if the Common Stock (or
other common stock into which the Securities are then convertible) is
neither listed for trading on a U.S. national securities exchange nor
approved for trading on an established automated over-the-counter trading
market in the United States.
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each
of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed
and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
NEXSTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
By: /s/ XXXXX X. XXXXX
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Secretary
Attest: Xxxxx X. Xxxxx
IBJ Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company
as Trustee
By: /s/ XXXX XXXXX
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Name: Xxxx Xxxxx
Title: Asst. Vice President
Attest: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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)
) ss.
)
On the day of July, 1997, before me personally came
Xxxxx X. Xxxxx, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say
that he is Secretary of NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Inc., one of the corporations
described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal
of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate
seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said
corporation; and that he signed his name thereto by like authority.
/s/ XXXXXXX X. XXXXXXXX
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) ss.:
)
On the day of July, 1997, before me personally came
Xxxx Xxxxx, to me known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he
is AVP of IBJ Xxxxxxxx B&T, a New York banking corp. described in and which
executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation;
that the seal affixed to said instrument is such seal; that it was so affixed by
authority of the Board of Directors of said corporation; and that he signed his
name thereto by like authority.
/s/ XXXXX PACIFICEO
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ANNEX A -- Form of
Regulation S Certificate
REGULATION S CERTIFICATE
(For transfers pursuant to Section 305(i) or (iii)
of the Indenture)
Re: 6 1/4% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due August 1, 2004
of NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Securities")
Reference is made to the Indenture, dated as of July 31, 1997 (the
"Indenture"), between NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Company") and IBJ
Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company, as Trustee. Terms used herein and defined in
the Indenture or in Regulation S or Rule 144 under the U.S. Securities Act of
1933 (the "Securities Act") are used herein as so defined.
This certificate relates to U.S. $____________ principal amount of
Securities, which are evidenced by the following certificate(s) (the "Specified
Securities"):
CUSIP No(s). ___________________________
CERTIFICATE No(s). _____________________
The person in whose name this certificate is executed below (the "Undersigned")
hereby certifies that either (i) it is the sole beneficial owner of the
Specified Securities or (ii) it is acting on behalf of all the beneficial
owners of the Specified Securities and is duly authorized by them to do so.
Such beneficial owner or owners are referred to herein collectively as the
"Owner". If the Specified Securities are represented by a Global Security,
they are held through the Depositary or one of its participants in the name of
the Undersigned, as or on behalf of the Owner. If the Specified Securities are
not represented by a Global Security, they are registered in the name of the
Undersigned, as or on behalf of the Owner.
The Owner has requested that the Specified Securities be transferred
to a person (the "Transferee") who will take delivery in the form of an
interest in the Regulation S Global Security or a Definitive Security. In
connection with such transfer, the Owner hereby certifies that, unless such
transfer is being effected pursuant to an effective registration statement
under the Securities Act, it is being effected in accordance with Rule 904 or
Rule 144 under the Securities Act and with all applicable securities laws of
the states of the United States and other jurisdictions. Accordingly, the
Owner hereby further certifies as follows:
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(1) Rule 904 Transfers. If the transfer is being effected in
accordance with Rule 904:
(A) the Owner is not a distributor of the Securities, an
affiliate of the Company or any such distributor or a person acting
on behalf of any of the foregoing;
(B) the offer of the Specified Securities was not made to a
person in the United States;
(C) either:
(i) at the time the buy order was originated, the
Transferee was outside the United States or the Owner and any
person acting on its behalf reasonably believed that the
Transferee was outside the United States, or
(ii) the transaction is being executed in, on or through
the facilities of the Eurobond market, as regulated by the
Association of International Bond Dealers, or another designated
offshore securities market and neither the Owner nor any person
acting on its behalf knows that the transaction has been
prearranged with a buyer in the United States;
(D) no directed selling efforts have been made in the United
States by or on behalf of the Owner or any affiliate thereof;
(E) if the Owner is a dealer in securities or has received a
selling concession, fee or other remuneration in respect of the
Specified Securities, and the transfer is to occur during the
Restricted Period, then the requirements of Rule 904(c)(1) have been
satisfied; and
(F) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade
the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
(2) Rule 144 Transfers. If the transfer is being effected pursuant
to Rule 144:
(A) the transfer is occurring after a holding period of at
least one year (computed in accordance with paragraph (d) of Rule
144) has elapsed since the Specified Securities were last acquired
from the Company or from an affiliate of the Company, whichever is
later, and is being effected in accordance with the applicable
amount, manner of sale and notice requirements of Rule 144; or
(B) the transfer is occurring after a holding period of at
least two years has elapsed since the Specified Securities were last
acquired from the Company or from an affiliate of the Company,
whichever is later, and the Owner is not, and during the preceding
three months has not been, an affiliate of the Company.
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This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for
your benefit and the benefit of the Company and the Initial Purchasers.
Dated: _______________________________________
(Print the name of the Undersigned, as such term is
defined in the second paragraph of this certificate.)
By:____________________________________
Name:
Title:
(If the Undersigned is a corporation, partnership or
fiduciary, the title of the person signing on behalf
of the Undersigned must be stated.)
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ANNEX B -- Form of 144A
Securities Certificate
144A SECURITIES CERTIFICATE
(For transfers pursuant to Section 305(i) or (ii)
of the Indenture)
Re: 6 1/4% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due August 1, 2004
of NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Securities")
Reference is made to the Indenture, dated as of July 31, 1997 (the
"Indenture"), between NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Company") and IBJ
Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company, as Trustee. Terms used herein and defined in
the Indenture or in Regulation S or Rule 144 under the U.S. Securities Act of
1933 (the "Securities Act") are used herein as so defined.
This certificate relates to U.S. $_____________ principal amount of
Securities, which are evidenced by the following certificate(s) (the "Specified
Securities"):
CUSIP No(s). ___________________________
CERTIFICATE No(s). _____________________
The person in whose name this certificate is executed below (the "Undersigned")
hereby certifies that either (i) it is the sole beneficial owner of the
Specified Securities or (ii) it is acting on behalf of all the beneficial
owners of the Specified Securities and is duly authorized by them to do so.
Such beneficial owner or owners are referred to herein collectively as the
"Owner". If the Specified Securities are represented by a Global Security,
they are held through the Depositary or one of its participants in the name of
the Undersigned, as or on behalf of the Owner. If the Specified Securities are
not represented by a Global Security, they are registered in the name of the
Undersigned, as or on behalf of the Owner.
The Owner has requested that the Specified Securities be transferred
to a person (the "Transferee") who will take delivery in the form of an
interest in the 144A Global Security or a Definitive Security. In connection
with such transfer, the Owner hereby certifies that, unless such transfer is
being effected pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act, it is being effected in accordance with Rule 144A or Rule 144
under the Securities Act and all applicable securities laws of the states of
the United States and other jurisdictions. Accordingly, the Owner hereby
further certifies as:
(1) Rule 144A Transfers. If the transfer is being effected in
accordance with Rule 144A:
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(A) the Specified Securities are being transferred to a person
that the Owner and any person acting on its behalf reasonably believe
is a "qualified institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A,
acquiring for its own account or for the account of a qualified
institutional buyer; and
(B) the Owner and any person acting on its behalf have taken
reasonable steps to ensure that the Transferee is aware that the
Owner may be relying on Rule 144A in connection with the transfer;
and
(2) Rule 144 Transfers. If the transfer is being effected pursuant
to Rule 144:
(A) the transfer is occurring after a holding period of at
least one year (computed in accordance with paragraph (d) of Rule
144) has elapsed since the Specified Securities were last acquired
from the Company or from an affiliate of the Company, whichever is
later, and is being effected in accordance with the applicable
amount, manner of sale and notice requirements of Rule 144; or
(B) the transfer is occurring after a holding period of at
least two years has elapsed since the Specified Securities were last
acquired from the Company or from an affiliate of the Company,
whichever is later, and the Owner is not, and during the preceding
three months has not been, an affiliate of the Company.
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This certificate and the statements contained herein are made for
your benefit and the benefit of the Company and the Initial Purchasers.
Dated: ___________________________________________
(Print the name of the Undersigned, as such term is
defined in the second paragraph of this certificate.)
By:________________________________________
Name:
Title:
(If the Undersigned is a corporation, partnership or
fiduciary, the title of the person signing on behalf
of the Undersigned must be stated.)
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ANNEX C -- Form of Unrestricted
Securities Certificate
UNRESTRICTED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE
(For removal of Securities Act Legends pursuant to Section 305(c))
Re: 6 1/4% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due August 1, 2004
of NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Securities")
Reference is made to the Indenture, dated as of July 31, 1997 (the
"Indenture"), between NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Company") and IBJ
Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company, as Trustee. Terms used herein and defined in
the Indenture or in Regulation S or Rule 144 under the U.S. Securities Act of
1933 (the "Securities Act") are used herein as so defined.
This certificate relates to U.S. $_____________ principal amount of
Securities, which are evidenced by the following certificate(s) (the "Specified
Securities"):
CUSIP No(s). ___________________________
CERTIFICATE No(s). _____________________
The person in whose name this certificate is executed below (the "Undersigned")
hereby certifies that either (i) it is the sole beneficial owner of the
Specified Securities or (ii) it is acting on behalf of all the beneficial
owners of the Specified Securities and is duly authorized by them to do so.
Such beneficial owner or owners are referred to herein collectively as the
"Owner". If the Specified Securities are represented by a Global Security,
they are held through the Depositary or one of its participants in the name of
the Undersigned, as or on behalf of the Owner. If the Specified Securities are
not represented by a Global Security, they are registered in the name of the
Undersigned, as or on behalf of the Owner.
The Owner has requested that the Specified Securities be exchanged
for Securities bearing no Securities Act legend pursuant to Section 305(c) of
the Indenture. In connection with such exchange, the Owner hereby certifies
that the exchange is occurring after a holding period of at least two years
(computed in accordance with paragraph (d) of Rule 144) has elapsed since the
Specified Securities were last acquired from the Company or from an affiliate
of the Company, whichever is later, and the Owner is not, and during the
preceding three months has not been, an affiliate of the Company. The Owner
also acknowledges that any future transfers of the Specified Securities must
comply with all applicable securities laws of the states of the United States
and other jurisdictions.
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This certificate and the statements contained herein are made
for your benefit and the benefit of the Company and the Initial
Purchasers.
Dated: ___________________________________________
(Print the name of the Undersigned, as such term is
defined in the second paragraph of this certificate.)
By:________________________________________
Name:
Title:
(If the Undersigned is a corporation, partnership or
fiduciary, the title of the person signing on behalf
of the Undersigned must be stated.)
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