UAL CORPORATION, as Issuer, and UNITED AIR LINES, INC., as Guarantor to THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee INDENTURE Dated as of __________, 2006 Providing for Issuance of [__]% Senior Convertible Notes due 2021
EXHIBIT T3C
Draft Dated October 26, 2005
Draft Dated October 26, 2005
PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL
UAL CORPORATION,
as Issuer,
as Issuer,
and
UNITED AIR LINES, INC.,
as Guarantor
as Guarantor
to
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
as Trustee
Dated as of __________, 2006
_______________________
Providing for Issuance of
[__]% Senior Convertible Notes due 2021
[__]% Senior Convertible Notes due 2021
Reconciliation and tie between Indenture, dated as of ___, 2006, and the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended.
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 Section | Indenture Section | |||
310
|
(a)(1). | 6.10; 6.11; 6.12 | ||
(a)(2). | 6.12 | |||
(a)(3). | TIA | |||
(a)(4). | Not applicable | |||
(a)(5). | TIA | |||
(b). | 4.6; 6.4; 6.10; 6.12; TIA | |||
311
|
(a). | 6.4; 6.16; TIA | ||
(b). | TIA | |||
(c). | Not Applicable | |||
312
|
(a). | 6.8 | ||
(b). | 1.16; TIA | |||
(c). | 1.16; TIA | |||
313
|
(a). | 6.3; 6.7; TIA | ||
(b). | 6.3; 6.7; TIA | |||
(c). | 6.3; 6.7; TIA | |||
(d). | 6.3; 6.7; TIA | |||
314
|
(a). | 9.5; 9.7; TIA | ||
(b). | Not Applicable | |||
(c)(1). | 1.2; 4.1; 4.6; 5.7; 7.1; 9.5 | |||
(c)(2). | 1.2; 4.1; 4.6; 7.1; 9.5 | |||
(c)(3). | Not Applicable | |||
(d). | Not Applicable | |||
(e). | 9.8; TIA | |||
(f). | TIA | |||
315
|
(a). | 6.1; 6.3; TIA | ||
(b). | 6.2 | |||
(c). | TIA | |||
(d)(1). | TIA | |||
(d)(2). | 6.1; TIA | |||
(d)(3). | 6.1; TIA | |||
(e). | 6.10; TIA | |||
316
|
(a) (last sentence). | 1.1 | ||
(a)(1)(A). | 5.2; 5.8 | |||
(a)(1)(B). | 5.7 | |||
(b). | 5.9; 5.10 | |||
(c). | 1.4; TIA | |||
317
|
(a)(1). | 5.3; 6.3 | ||
(a)(2). | 5.4; 6.3 |
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Trust Indenture Act of 1939 Section | Indenture Section | |||
(b). | 6.3; 9.3 | |||
318
|
(a). | 1.11 | ||
(b). | TIA | |||
(c). | 1.11; TIA |
This reconciliation and tie Section does not constitute part of the Indenture. |
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Table of Contents
ARTICLE 1 Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application |
1 | |||
Section 1.1. Definitions |
1 | |||
Section 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions |
11 | |||
Section 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee |
11 | |||
Section 1.4. Acts of Holders |
12 | |||
Section 1.5. Notices, etc., to Trustee, Company, and Guarantor |
13 | |||
Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver |
13 | |||
Section 1.7. Headings and Table of Contents |
14 | |||
Section 1.8. Successors and Assigns |
14 | |||
Section 1.9. Separability |
14 | |||
Section 1.10. Benefits of Indenture |
14 | |||
Section 1.11. Governing Law |
14 | |||
Section 1.12. Legal Holidays |
14 | |||
Section 1.13. Trustee to Establish Record Dates |
14 | |||
Section 1.14. Notes Relative to Other Notes |
15 | |||
Section 1.15. No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and
Stockholders |
15 | |||
Section 1.16. Communication by Holders with Other Holders |
15 | |||
Section 1.17. Company Responsible for Making Calculations |
15 | |||
ARTICLE 2 Security Forms |
15 | |||
Section 2.1. Forms Generally |
15 | |||
Section 2.2. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication |
16 | |||
Section 2.3. Notes in Global Form |
16 | |||
Section 2.4. Global Note Legend |
17 | |||
Section 2.5. Transfer Restrictions |
17 | |||
ARTICLE 3 The Securities |
17 | |||
Section 3.1. Aggregate Amounts; Issuance |
17 | |||
Section 3.2. Denominations |
18 | |||
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating |
18 | |||
Section 3.4. Temporary Notes |
19 | |||
Section 3.5. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange |
19 | |||
Section 3.6. Replacement Notes |
21 | |||
Section 3.7. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved |
22 | |||
Section 3.8. Persons Deemed Owners |
23 | |||
Section 3.9. Cancellation |
24 | |||
Section 3.10. Computation of Interest |
24 | |||
Section 3.11. CUSIP Numbers |
24 | |||
ARTICLE 4 Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance |
24 | |||
Section 4.1. Termination of Company’s Obligations Under the Indenture |
24 | |||
Section 4.2. Application of Trust Funds |
25 | |||
Section 4.3. Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance |
25 |
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Section 4.4. Defeasance and Discharge |
26 | |||
Section 4.5. Covenant Defeasance |
26 | |||
Section 4.6. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance |
26 | |||
Section 4.7. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust |
28 | |||
Section 4.8. Reinstatement |
28 | |||
ARTICLE 5 Defaults and Remedies |
29 | |||
Section 5.1. Events of Default |
29 | |||
Section 5.2. Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment |
30 | |||
Section 5.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee |
30 | |||
Section 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim |
31 | |||
Section 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes |
31 | |||
Section 5.6. Delay or Omission Not Waiver |
32 | |||
Section 5.7. Waiver of Past Defaults |
32 | |||
Section 5.8. Control by Majority |
32 | |||
Section 5.9. Limitation on Suits by Holders |
32 | |||
Section 5.10. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment |
33 | |||
Section 5.11. Application of Money Collected |
33 | |||
Section 5.12. Restoration of Rights and Remedies |
33 | |||
Section 5.13. Rights and Remedies Cumulative |
33 | |||
Section 5.14. Undertaking for Costs |
34 | |||
Section 5.15. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws |
34 | |||
ARTICLE 6 The Trustee |
34 | |||
Section 6.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities |
34 | |||
Section 6.2. Notice of Defaults |
35 | |||
Section 6.3. Rights of Trustee |
35 | |||
Section 6.4. Trustee May Hold Notes |
37 | |||
Section 6.5. Money Held in Trust |
37 | |||
Section 6.6. Trustee’s Disclaimer |
37 | |||
Section 6.7. Reports by Trustee to the Holders |
37 | |||
Section 6.8. Securityholder Lists |
37 | |||
Section 6.9. Compensation and Indemnity |
37 | |||
Section 6.10. Replacement of Trustee |
38 | |||
Section 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor |
39 | |||
Section 6.12. Disqualification; Eligibility |
40 | |||
Section 6.13. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business |
41 | |||
Section 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent |
41 | |||
Section 6.15. Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company |
42 | |||
Section 6.16. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company |
43 | |||
ARTICLE 7 Consolidation, Merger or Sale by the Company |
43 | |||
Section 7.1. Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets Only on Certain Terms |
43 | |||
ARTICLE 8 Supplemental Indentures |
43 | |||
Section 8.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders |
43 | |||
Section 8.2. With Consent of Holders |
44 |
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Section 8.3. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act |
46 | |||
Section 8.4. Execution of Supplemental Indentures |
46 | |||
Section 8.5. Effect of Supplemental Indentures |
46 | |||
Section 8.6. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures |
46 | |||
Section 8.7. Notice |
46 | |||
ARTICLE 9 Covenants |
46 | |||
Section 9.1. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest |
46 | |||
Section 9.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency |
47 | |||
Section 9.3. Money for Notes to Be Held in Trust; Unclaimed Property |
47 | |||
Section 9.4. Corporate Existence |
48 | |||
Section 9.5. Reports by the Company |
48 | |||
Section 9.6. Notice of Default |
49 | |||
Section 9.7. Provision of Financial Statements |
49 | |||
Section 9.8. Compliance Certificates |
49 | |||
Section 9.9. Further Instruments and Acts |
50 | |||
Section 9.10. Payments for Consents |
50 | |||
ARTICLE 10 Redemption and Repurchase |
50 | |||
Section 10.1. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee |
50 | |||
Section 10.2. Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed |
50 | |||
Section 10.3. Notice of Redemption |
51 | |||
Section 10.4. Deposit of Redemption Price |
52 | |||
Section 10.5. Notes Payable on Redemption Date |
52 | |||
Section 10.6. Notes Redeemed in Part |
53 | |||
Section 10.7. Optional Redemption |
53 | |||
Section 10.8. Mandatory Redemption |
53 | |||
ARTICLE 11 Note Guarantee |
54 | |||
Section 11.1. Guarantee |
54 | |||
Section 11.2. Limitation on Guarantor Liability |
56 | |||
Section 11.3. Execution and Delivery of a Note Guarantee |
56 | |||
Section 11.4. Guarantor May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms |
56 | |||
Section 11.5. Release of Guarantee |
57 | |||
ARTICLE 12 Conversion of Notes |
57 | |||
Section 12.1. Right to Convert |
57 | |||
Section 12.2. Exercise of Conversion Privilege; Issuance of Common Stock on
Conversion; No Adjustment for Interest or Dividends;
Settlement of Cash or Common Stock upon Conversion |
58 | |||
Section 12.3. Cash Payments in Lieu of Fractional Shares |
62 | |||
Section 12.4. Conversion Rate |
62 | |||
Section 12.5. Adjustment of Conversion Rate |
62 | |||
Section 12.6. Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale |
70 | |||
Section 12.7. Taxes on Shares Issued |
71 | |||
Section 12.8. Reservation of Shares, Shares to Be Fully Paid; Compliance with
Governmental Requirements; Listing of Common Stock |
71 |
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Section 12.9. Responsibility of Trustee |
71 | |||
Section 12.10. Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions |
72 |
Exhibits
Exhibit A
|
Form of [___]% Senior Convertible Note | |
Exhibit B
|
Form of Notation of Guarantee |
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INDENTURE, dated as of ___, 2006, among UAL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”), UNITED AIR LINES, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Guarantor”) and THE BANK OF
NEW YORK, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (the “Trustee”).
Recitals
On December 9, 2002, the Company and certain of its directly and indirectly wholly owned
subsidiaries filed a voluntary petition under Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code, as
amended (the “Bankruptcy Code”), with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District
of Illinois (the “Bankruptcy Court”).
The Company and certain of its directly and indirectly wholly owned subsidiaries filed a Joint
Plan of Reorganization (the “Plan”) which was approved by the Bankruptcy Court on ___.
Pursuant to the Plan, the Company is required to issue the [___]% Senior Convertible Notes (as
defined herein) to holders of bonds relating to X’Xxxx International Airport.
The Company has duly authorized the issuance of the [___]% Senior Convertible Notes (the
“Notes”), and to provide therefor, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture.
All things necessary to make the Notes, 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 its terms, have been done
and all things necessary to duly authorize the issuance of the Common Stock (as hereinafter
defined) of the Company initially issuable upon the conversion of the Notes, and to reserve for
issuance the number of shares of Common Stock initially issuable upon such conversion, have been
done.
For and in consideration of the premises and the acquisition of the Notes by the Holders
thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as follows for the equal and ratable benefit of the
Holders of the Notes:
ARTICLE 1
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
of General Application
Section 1.1. Definitions. (a) 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, and not otherwise defined herein 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
(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.
“___ % Senior Convertible Notes” means the $___principal amount of ___% senior
convertible notes issued pursuant to this Indenture or any supplemental indenture hereto.
“Adjustment Event” has the meaning specified in Section 12.5(k).
“Affiliate” of any specified Person means any Person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with, such specified
Person. For 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.
“Agent” means any Paying Agent or Registrar.
“Authenticating Agent” means any authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.14.
“Bankruptcy Law” means the Bankruptcy Code or any similar federal, state or foreign
law for the relief of debtors.
“Board” or “Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Company,
the Executive Committee thereof or any other duly authorized committee thereof.
“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution of the Board of Directors, certified
by the Corporate 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 the District of Columbia or U.S. governmental agencies are
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to remain closed.
“Cash Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 12.2(h)(C).
“Cash Settlement Averaging Period” has the meaning specified in Section 12.2(h)(B).
“Cash Settlement Notice Period” has the meaning specified in Section 12.2(g)(A).
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“Change in Ownership” means any “person” or “group” within the meaning of Sections
13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act or any successor provision to either of the foregoing,
including any group acting for the purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities within
the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the
“Securities Exchange Act”), becomes the “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the
Securities Exchange Act, directly or indirectly, through a purchase, merger or other acquisition
transaction, of the voting power to elect a majority of the Board, other than an acquisition by the
Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of its subsidiaries’ or the Company’s employee benefit
plans.
“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time
constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of
this Indenture 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” means the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company.
“Company” means the Person named as the Company in the first paragraph of this
Indenture until one or more successor Persons shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter means such successor(s).
“Company Order” and “Company Request” mean, respectively, a written order or
request signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive
Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, any Executive Vice President or any Senior
Vice President, signing alone, by any Vice President signing together with the Treasurer, any
Assistant Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company, or, with
respect to Section 3.3, Section 3.4, Section 3.5 and Section 6.1, any other employee of the Company
named in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee.
“Conversion Agent” means the Trustee or such other office or agency designated by the
Company where Notes may be presented for conversion.
“Conversion Date” has the meaning specified in Section 12.2(c).
“Conversion Obligation” has the meaning specified in Section 12.2(g)(A).
“Conversion Price” as of any day means 125% of the average of the Last Reported Sales
Prices for the 60 consecutive Trading Days following ___,
2006, 1 rounded to the
nearest cent.
“Conversion Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 12.4.
“Conversion Retraction Period” has the meaning specified in Section 12.2(g)(A).
1 | Insert the date the Company emerges from bankruptcy. |
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“Corporate Trust Office” means the office of the Trustee at which at any particular
time its corporate trust business shall be principally administered, which office at the date
hereof is located at ___.
“Corporation” includes corporations, associations, companies and business trusts.
“Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or similar official
under any Bankruptcy Law.
“Default” means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time, or both, would
be, an Event of Default.
“Depositary”, when used with respect to the Notes issuable or issued in whole or in
part in global form, means the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section
3.1 until a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of
this Indenture, and thereafter shall mean or include each Person which is then a Depositary
hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one such Person, shall be a collective reference
to such Persons.
“Determination Date” has the meaning specified in Section 12.5(k).
“Dollar” means the coin or currency of the United States as at the time of payment is
legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
“Employee Notes” means the Company’s ___% Senior Convertible Notes due 2021 to be
issued pursuant to the Plan to various employees of the Company, including through their respective
collective bargaining units.
“Ex-Dividend Date” means, with respect to any dividend or distribution on shares of
Common Stock, the first date on which a sale of shares of Common Stock does not automatically
transfer the right to receive the relevant dividend or distribution from such seller of the shares
to the buyer.
“Existing Credit Facility” means the Credit Agreement, dated as of ___, among
___, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced in whole or in
part from time to time.
“Form of Conversion Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 12.2(a).
“Fundamental Change” means (a) any sale, conveyance, transfer or disposition of more
than 50% of the property or assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis
(measured either by book value in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles
consistently applied or by fair market value determined in the reasonable good faith judgment of
the Board) in any transaction or series of related transactions (other than sales in the ordinary
course of business) and (b) any merger or consolidation to which the Company is a party, except for
(x) a merger which is effected solely to change the state of incorporation of the Company or (y) a
merger in which the Company is the surviving Person, the terms of the Notes are not changed or
altered in any respect, the Notes are not exchanged for cash, securities or other
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property or assets and, after giving effect to such merger, the holders of the capital stock
of the Company as of the date of this Indenture shall continue to own the outstanding capital stock
of the Company possessing the voting power (under ordinary circumstances) to elect a majority of
the Board.
“Government Obligations” means securities which are (i) direct obligations of the
United States for the payment of which its full faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of
a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United
States, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by
the United States, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option of the
issuer thereof, and shall also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank or trust company as
custodian with respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest on or
principal of any such Government Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of
a depositary receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to
make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount
received by the custodian in respect of the Government Obligation evidenced by such depositary
receipt.
“Guarantor” means United Air Lines, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned
Subsidiary of the Company, and its successor and assigns.
“Holder” means a Person in whose name a Note is registered on the Register.
“Indenture” means this Indenture as originally executed or as amended or supplemented
from time to time and shall include the forms and terms of Notes established as contemplated by
Section 2.1 and Section 3.1.
“Interest Payment Date”, when used with respect to any Note, means the Stated Maturity
of an installment of interest on such Note.
“Last Reported Sale Price” of the Common Stock on any date means the closing sale
price per share (or, if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and asked prices
or, if there is more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average asked
prices) on that date as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or
regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is traded or, if the Common Stock is not
listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, as reported by the Nasdaq National
Market. If the Common Stock is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities
exchange and not reported by the Nasdaq National Market on the relevant date, the “Last
Reported Sale Price” will be the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the
over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by the National Quotation Bureau
Incorporated or any similar U.S. system of automated dissemination of quotation of securities
prices. If the Common Stock is not so quoted, the “Last Reported Sale Price” will be the
average of the mid-point of the last bid and asked prices for the Common Stock on the relevant date
from each of at least three independent nationally recognized investment banking firms selected by
the Company for this purpose. “Last Reported Sale Price” of any other security shall have
a correlative meaning.
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“Market Price” means, with respect to any Repurchase Date or other date of
determination, the average of the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock for the 20
consecutive Trading Days ending on the third Business Day prior to the applicable Repurchase Date
or date of determination, as the case may be (or, if such third Business Day is not a Trading Day,
then ending on the last Trading Day prior to such third Business Day), appropriately adjusted in
the good faith judgment of the Board to take into account the occurrence, during the period
commencing on the first Trading Day during the period of 20 consecutive Trading Days and ending on
the applicable Repurchase Date or date of determination, as the case may be, of any event described
in Section 12.5 or Section 12.6.
“Market Value” of the Common Stock means, as of any date of determination:
(a) If the principal market for the Common Stock is a national securities exchange in the
United States, the Market Value shall be average of the last sale price of the Common Stock on
such exchange for the 20 consecutive trading days immediately prior to the date of
determination, all as quoted by such exchange.
(b) If the principal market for the Common Stock is the over-the-counter market, and the
Common Stock is quoted on The NASDAQ Stock Market (“NASDAQ”), the Market Value shall be the
average of the last sale price of the Common Stock on NASDAQ for the 20 consecutive trading days
immediately prior to the date of determination, or if the Common Stock is an issue for which the
last sale price is not quoted on NASDAQ, the average of the last bid price for the 20
consecutive trading days immediately prior to the date of the determination. If the relevant
quotation did not exist at such close of trading, then the Market Value shall be the relevant
quotation on the next preceding Business Day on which there was such a quotation.
If the principal market for the Common Stock is the over-the-counter market, and the Common
Stock is not quoted on NASDAQ, the Market Value shall be determined in accordance with market
practice for the Common Stock, based on the average of the price for such Common Stock for the 20
consecutive trading days immediately prior to the date of determination, obtained from a generally
recognized source agreed to by the Company and the Trustee or the average of the closing bid
quotation for the 20 consecutive trading days immediately prior to the date of determination,
obtained from such a source. If the relevant quotation did not exist at such close of trading,
then the market Value shall be the relevant quotation on the next preceding Business Day on which
there was such a quotation.
“Maturity”, when used with respect to any Note, means the date on which the principal
of such Note or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided,
whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
“Note” or “Notes” has the meaning stated in the fourth recital of this
Indenture and more particularly means any Note or Notes of the Company issued, authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture.
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“Note Guarantee” means the guarantee by the Guarantor as set forth in Section 11.1, as
evidenced by the Form of Notation of Guarantee annexed hereto as Exhibit B, to be attached to each
Note.
“Officer” means the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer,
the President, the Chief Financial Officer, any Executive Vice President, any Senior Vice
President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, the Corporate Secretary, or any Assistant Treasurer
or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.
“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, the
Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, any Executive Vice President
or any Senior Vice President signing alone, or by any Vice President signing together with the
Corporate Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer, or any Assistant Treasurer of the
Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of legal counsel, who may be (a) the most
senior attorney serving in the capacity of legal counsel employed by the Company, (b) Xxxxxxxx &
Xxxxx LLP or (c) other counsel designated by the Company and who shall be acceptable to the
Trustee.
“Outstanding”, when used with respect to Notes, means, as of the date of
determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
(ii) Notes, or portions thereof, for which payment or redemption money in the necessary
amount has 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 Notes provided that if such Notes are
to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or
provisions therefor satisfactory to the Trustee have been made;
(iii) Notes, except to the extent provided in Section 4.4 and Section 4.5, with respect
to which the Company has effected defeasance and/or covenant defeasance as provided in
Article 4;
(iv) Notes converted into Common Stock pursuant to Article 12 and Notes deemed not
outstanding pursuant to Article 10; and
(v) Notes which have been surrendered pursuant to Section 3.6 or in exchange for or in
lieu of which other Notes have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture,
other than any such Notes in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Trustee
proof satisfactory to it that such Notes are held by a Person reasonably believed by the
Trustee to be a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Notes are valid obligations of the
Company;
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provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver hereunder, or whether sufficient funds are available for redemption or
for any other purpose, and for the purpose of making the calculations required by Section 313 of
the Trust Indenture Act, Notes owned by the Company, the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the
Notes or any Affiliate of the Company, the Guarantor or 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
Notes which the Trustee knows to be so owned as a result of written notice being provided to that
effect by the Company, by any such other obligor upon the Notes or any such Affiliate of the
Company, as the case may be, to the Trustee shall be so disregarded.
“Paying Agent” means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on any Notes on behalf of the Company.
“PBGC 6% Senior Notes” means $500,000,000 in aggregate original principal amount of 6%
Senior Notes due 2031 issued pursuant to an Indenture dated ___between the Company,
Guarantor and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, as well as (i) any notes issued in exchange
therefor or upon transfer thereof and (ii) any increase in the principal amount thereof pursuant to
paragraph 1 of such notes.
“PBGC 8% Contingent Notes” means up to $500,000,000 in aggregate original principal
amount of 8% Contingent Senior Notes, if any, issued pursuant to an Indenture dated ___
between the Company, Guarantor and The Bank of New York, as Trustee, as well as any notes issued in
exchange therefor or upon transfer thereof.
“PBGC Preferred Stock” means the Company’s 2% Convertible Preferred Stock, par value
$100 per share, issued by the Company to or for the benefit of PBGC pursuant to the Plan.
“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited
liability company, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity.
“Place of Payment,” when used with respect to the Notes, means the place or places
where, subject to the provisions of Section 9.2, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on
such Notes are payable as specified in such Notes.
“Predecessor Security” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all
or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of
this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 3.6 in exchange for or in lieu
of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen security.
“Redemption Date”, when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, means the date
fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
“Redemption Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.3.
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“Redemption Price”, when used with respect to any Note to be redeemed, in whole or in
part, means the price at which such Note or part thereof is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
“Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.5.
“Registrar” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.5
“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date on the
Notes of any series means the date specified on the face of such Note.
“Responsible Officer”, when used with respect to the Trustee, shall mean any officer
within the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration
of the Indenture, including the chairman or any vice chairman of the board of directors, the
chairman or any vice chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the chairman of
the trust committee, the president, any senior vice president, any vice president, any assistant
vice president, the secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant
cashier, any senior trust officer, any trust officer, the controller, any assistant controller, or
any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any
of the above designated officers, respectively, and also means, with respect to a particular
corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such corporate trust matter is referred because
of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on the Notes means a
date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.7.
“Stated Maturity”, when used with respect to any Note or any installment of principal
thereof or interest thereon means the date specified in such Note as the original date on which the
principal of such Note or such installment of principal or interest is due and payable. The Stated
Maturity of the principal amount of the Notes shall be ___, 2021.
“Stock Record Date” means, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other
transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock have the right to receive any cash,
securities or other property or in which the Common Stock (or other applicable security) is
exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date
fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property
(whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors or by statute, contract or otherwise).
“Subsidiary” means (i) any corporation of which the Company at the time owns or
controls, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the shares of outstanding stock having general
voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect a majority of the board of directors of such
corporation (irrespective of whether or not at the time stock of any other class or classes of such
corporation shall have or might have voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency),
(ii) a partnership in which the Company holds a majority interest in the equity capital or profits
of such partnership, or (iii) any other Person (other than a corporation or a partnership) in which
the Company, directly or indirectly, at the date of determination has (x) at least a majority
ownership interest or (y) the power to elect or direct the election of a majority of the directors
or other governing body of such Person.
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“Trading Day” means a day during which trading in securities generally occurs on the
New York Stock Exchange or, if the applicable security is not listed on the New York Stock
Exchange, on the principal other national or regional securities exchange on which the applicable
security is then listed or, if the applicable security is not listed on a national or regional
securities exchange, on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System
or, if the applicable security is not quoted on the National Association of Securities Dealers
Automated Quotation System, on the principal other market on which the applicable security is then
traded (provided that no day on which trading of the applicable security is suspended on such
exchange or other trading market will count as a Trading Day).
“Trust Indenture Act” or “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, as in effect on the date of this Indenture, except as provided in Section 8.3.
“Trustee” means the party named as such in the first paragraph of this Indenture until
a successor Trustee replaces it pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter means such successor Trustee.
“United States” means the United States of America (including the States and the
District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other areas subject to its
jurisdiction.
(c) The following terms shall have the meanings specified in the Sections referred to
opposite such term below:
Term | Section | |
“Act”.
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Section 1.4(a) | |
“Defaulted Interest”.
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Section 3.7(b) | |
“DTC”.
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Section 2.4 | |
“Event of Default”.
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Section 5.1 | |
“Plan”.
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Recitals | |
“Securities Exchange Act”
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Section 1.1(a) |
(d) Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated
by reference and is made a part of this Indenture. The following TIA terms used in this
Indenture have the following meanings:
“indenture securities” means the Notes;
“indenture security holder” means a Holder of a Note;
“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture;
“indenture trustee” or “institutional trustee” means the Trustee; and
“obligor” on the Notes and the Note Guarantee means the Company and the Guarantor,
respectively, and any successor obligor upon the Notes and the Note Guarantee,
respectively.
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Section 1.2. 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 Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, each such certificate
stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with and each such opinion stating that in the opinion of such
counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with. Each 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 Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements 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 signing such certificate or opinion has read such
condition or covenant 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, he or she has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed opinion
as to whether or not such condition or covenant has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or
covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3. 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 such Person may certify or 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 certificate 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 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 as to such matters are erroneous.
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.
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Section 1.4. Acts of Holders.
(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 an
agent duly appointed in writing. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action
shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are received by the Trustee in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture 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 6.1)
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 in any reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by references to the Register or in any other
reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of
the Holder of any Note shall bind every future Holder of the same Note and the holder of every
Note or other security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof 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 Note.
(e) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, the Company may, at its option, by or pursuant
to an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee, fix in advance a record date (which shall
not be more than 60 days prior to the date of such solicitation) for the determination of
Holders entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act in the circumstances permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, but the Company shall
have no obligation to do so. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or after such
record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such record date shall
be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether Holders of the requisite
proportion of Outstanding Notes have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the
Outstanding Notes shall be computed as of such record date;
provided that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders on such
record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the
provisions of clause (a) of this Section 1.4 not later than six months after the record date.
If not set by the Company prior to the first solicitation of a Holder of Notes made by any
Person (other than the Company) in respect of any such Act, or, in the case of any such vote,
prior to such vote, the record date for any such Act or vote shall be the 30th day
(or, if later, the date of the most
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recent list of Holders required to be provided pursuant to
Section 6.8) prior to such first solicitation or vote, as the case may be. With regard to any
record date for an Act to be taken by the Holders of one or more series of Notes, only the
Holders of Notes of such series on such date (or their duly designated proxies) shall be
entitled to give or take, or vote on, the relevant action.
Section 1.5. Notices, etc., to Trustee, Company, and Guarantor. Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or
permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder, by the Company or by the Guarantor 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,
(2) the Company by the Trustee, by the Guarantor 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 UAL Corporation, P.O. Box 66919,
Chicago, Illinois 60666, Attention: Treasurer, or at any other address previously furnished in
writing to the Trustee by the Company, or
(3) the Guarantor by the Trustee, by the Company 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 Guarantor addressed to it at United Air Lines, Inc.,
___, Attention: ___, or at any other address previously furnished in writing
to the Trustee by the Guarantor.
Section 1.6. 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 in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each such Holder affected by
such event, at its address as it appears in the 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.
In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice,
nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of
such notice with respect to other Holders of Notes given as provided herein. In any case where
notice is given to Holders by publication, neither the failure to publish such notice, nor any
defect in any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Notes
given as provided herein. Any notice mailed to a Holder in the manner herein
prescribed shall be conclusively deemed to have been received by such Holder, whether or not
such Holder actually receives such notice.
If by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it
shall be impracticable to give such notice as provided above, then such notification as shall be
made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose
hereunder. If it is impossible or, in the opinion of the Trustee, impracticable to give any notice
by publication in the manner herein required, then such publication in lieu thereof as shall be
made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient publication of such notice.
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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 equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall 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.
Section 1.7. Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and Section headings herein,
the cross-reference sheet and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and are not intended
to be considered a part hereof and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.8. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Indenture
by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not. All covenants
and agreements in this Indenture by the Guarantor shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
Section 1.9. Separability. In case any provision of this Indenture or the Notes 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 1.10. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes,
expressed or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
Indenture.
Section 1.11. Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND THE NOTE GUARANTEE SHALL
BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO
PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS. This Indenture is subject to the Trust Indenture Act and if any
provision hereof limits, qualifies, or conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that
is required hereunder to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the Trust Indenture Act 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, then such provision of the Trust Indenture Act shall be deemed to apply to
this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be.
Section 1.12. Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption
Date, or Stated Maturity of any principal of any Note shall not be a Business Day, then payment of
principal, premium, if any, or interest 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 such date; provided
that no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after such Interest
Payment Date, Redemption Date, or Stated Maturity, as the case may be.
Section 1.13. Trustee to Establish Record Dates. The Trustee shall fix a record date
for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to make, give or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided in this Indenture to be
made, given or taken by Holders; provided that the record date for any such action
solicited by the Company shall be governed by Section 1.4(e). If such a record date is fixed, the
Holders on
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such record date and only such Holders, shall be entitled to make, give or take such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, whether or not
such Holders remain Holders after such record date.
Section 1.14. Notes Relative to Other Notes. The Notes shall be junior in right of
payment to the Existing Credit Facility and any other secured indebtedness, other indebtedness
contemplated by the Company’s Plan of Reorganization [and other mutually agreed upon indebtedness].
The Notes shall be pari passu in right of payment to the PBGC 6% Senior Notes, and senior in right
of payment to the Employee Notes and the PBGC 8% Contingent Notes. Except as otherwise provided
above, the Notes shall be pari passu in right of payment with all current and future senior
unsecured debt of the Company or the Guarantor and senior in right of payment to all current and
future subordinated debt of the Company.
Section 1.15. No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and
Stockholders. No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator or
stockholder of the Company or the Guarantor, as such, will have any liability for any obligations
of the Company or the Guarantor under the Notes, this Indenture, the Note Guarantee or for any
claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of
Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part
of the consideration for issuance of the Notes. The waiver may not be effective to waive
liabilities under the federal securities laws.
Section 1.16. Communication by Holders with Other Holders. Holders of Notes may communicate pursuant to Section 312(b) of the TIA with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes. The Company, the Trustee, the
Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of Section 312(c) of the TIA.
Section 1.17. Company Responsible for Making Calculations. Unless otherwise specified
in this Indenture, the Company will be responsible for making all calculations called for under
this Indenture and the Notes. These calculations include, but are not limited to, determination of
the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock and the Market Price, the amount of accrued and
unpaid interest payable on the Notes, the Conversion Rate of the Notes and the Conversion Price of
the Notes. The Company will make these calculations in good faith, and, absent manifest error,
these calculations will be final and binding on the Holders. Promptly after the calculation
thereof, the Company will provide to each of the Trustee and the Conversion Agent an Officers’
Certificate setting forth a schedule of its calculations, and each of the Trustee and the
Conversion Agent is entitled to conclusively rely upon the accuracy of such calculations without
independent verification. The Trustee will forward the Company’s calculations to any Holder upon
the request of such Holder.
ARTICLE 2
Security Forms
Section 2.1. Forms Generally. The Notes shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit
A hereto. The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange
rule or depository rule or usage. The Company and the Trustee shall approve the form
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of the Notes
and any notation, legend or endorsement thereon. Each Note shall be dated the date of its issuance
and shall show the date of its authentication.
If temporary Notes are issued as permitted by Section 3.4, the temporary Notes shall be
substantially in the form of the definitive Notes, but may have variations that the Company
considers appropriate for temporary Notes.
The Notes are issuable in global form pursuant to Section 2.3. Otherwise, pursuant to Section
3.5, the Notes may be issued in the form of certificated Notes in registered form substantially in
the form set forth in Exhibit A.
The terms and provisions contained in the Notes shall constitute, and are hereby expressly
made, a part of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Company, the Guarantor and the
Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and
provisions and to be bound thereby.
The permanent Notes shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any combination
of these methods or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the Officers
executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
Section 2.2. 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 Notes of a series issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee, | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Authorized Signatory |
Section 2.3. Notes in Global Form. The Notes are issuable in temporary or permanent
global form substantially in the form of Exhibit A. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.2,
any Note issued in global form shall represent such of the Outstanding Notes as shall be specified
therein and may provide that it shall represent the aggregate amount of Outstanding Notes from time
to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Notes represented thereby may
from time to time be reduced to reflect exchanges, redemptions, repurchases or conversions of such
Notes. Any endorsement of a Note in global form to reflect the amount of or any increase or
decrease in the amount of Outstanding Notes represented thereby, shall be made by the Trustee.
The provisions of the last paragraph of Section 3.3 shall apply to any Note in global form if
such Note was never issued and sold by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the Note
in global form together with written instructions (which need not comply with Section 1.2 and need
not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the reduction in the principal amount
of Notes represented thereby, together with the written statement contemplated by the last
paragraph of Section 3.3.
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Section 2.4. Global Note Legend. The following legend shall appear on the face of all
global Notes issued under this Indenture:
“UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR NOTES IN CERTIFICATED FORM,
TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES
OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (00 XXXXX XXXXXX, XXX XXXX, XXX XXXX (“DTC”), CEDE & CO. OR TO A
SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE. UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR
PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS MAY BE
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR SUCH
OTHER ENTITY AS MAY BE 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.”
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.1 and Section 3.7, payment of principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on any Note in permanent global form shall be made to the Person or
Persons specified therein.
Section 2.5. Transfer Restrictions. The Notes shall be subject to the limitations on
transfer contained in Article Fourth, Part VI, Sections 5 through 7 of the Corporation’s Restated
Certificate of Incorporation. The following legend shall appear on each Note issued under this
Indenture:
“THE TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE OF UAL CORPORATION IS SUBJECT TO RESTRICTION PURSUANT TO
ARTICLE FOURTH, PART VI, SECTIONS 5, 6, AND 7 OF THE RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF
INCORPORATION OF UAL CORPORATION. UAL CORPORATION WILL FURNISH A COPY OF ITS
RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION TO THE HOLDER OF RECORD OF THIS NOTE WITHOUT
CHARGE UPON WRITTEN REQUEST ADDRESSED TO UAL CORPORATION AT ITS PRINCIPAL PLACE OF
BUSINESS.”
ARTICLE 3
The Securities
Section 3.1. Aggregate Amounts; Issuance.
(a) The aggregate principal amount of [___]% Senior Convertible Notes which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is $[149,646,114]. The entire aggregate
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amount
of $[149,646,114] of the [___]% Senior Convertible Notes will be issued on the date of this
Indenture.
(b) If the Notes are issued in whole or in part in temporary or permanent global form, the
Company shall notify the Trustee and each of the Holders of the initial Depositary for such
Notes.
(c) All Notes shall be substantially identical except as to denomination, interest and the
date from which interest, if any, shall accrue.
Section 3.2. Denominations. Any Notes shall be issuable in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. The Notes shall be executed
on behalf of the Company by the Chairman, President or Chief Executive Officer under its corporate
seal reproduced thereon and attested to by the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.
The signatures of such Officers on the Notes may be manual or facsimile. The Notes 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 Notes or did not hold such
offices at the date of such Notes.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with
a Company Order for the authentication, and make available for delivery such Notes, and the Trustee
in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Notes.
If the Notes are to be issued in whole or in part in global form, then the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section and the Company Order with respect
to such Notes, authenticate and deliver one or more Notes in global form that (i) shall represent
and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Notes to be represented by such Note in global form, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the
Depositary for such Note or Notes in global form or the nominee of such Depositary and (iii) shall
be delivered by the Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary’s instruction.
Each Depositary designated by the Company for a Note in global form must, at the time of its
designation and at all times while it serves as Depositary, be a clearing agency registered under
the Securities Exchange Act and any other applicable statute or regulation. The Trustee shall have
no responsibility to determine if the Depositary is so registered. Each Depositary shall enter
into an agreement with the Trustee governing the respective duties and rights of such Depositary
and the Trustee with regard to Notes issued in global form.
No Note shall be entitled to any benefits under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for
any purpose until authenticated by the manual signature of one of the authorized signatories of the
Trustee or an Authenticating Agent. Such signature upon any Note shall be conclusive evidence and
the only evidence, that such Note has been duly authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
and is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Note shall have been authenticated and delivered
hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such Note to the
Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 3.9 together with a written statement (which need
not comply with Section 1.2 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that such
Note has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all purposes of this Indenture such Note
shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall not be entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 3.4. Temporary Notes Pending the preparation of definitive Notes, the Company may execute and, upon Company
Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver temporary Notes which are printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of
the tenor and form of the definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the Officers executing
such Notes may determine, as conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Notes. Temporary
Notes may be in global form.
Except in the case of temporary Notes in global form, each of which shall be exchanged in
accordance with the provisions thereof, if temporary Notes are issued, the Company will cause
permanent Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After preparation of such permanent
Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for such permanent Notes of like tenor upon
surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Company pursuant to Section 9.2 in
a Place of Payment, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or
more temporary Notes, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in
exchange therefor a like principal amount of permanent Notes of authorized denominations and of
like tenor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as permanent Notes.
Section 3.5. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange. The Company shall
cause to be kept at one of its offices or agencies to be maintained in accordance with Section 9.2
in a Place of Payment a register (the “Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations
as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration
of transfers and exchanges of Notes. The Trustee is hereby appointed as the initial “Registrar”
for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers and exchanges of Notes as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency maintained
pursuant to Section 9.2 in a Place of Payment, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees one or more new
Notes, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor.
At the option of the Holder, Notes (except a Note in global form) may be exchanged for other
Notes, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount containing
identical terms and provisions, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or
agency. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes which the Holder making the exchange is entitled
to receive.
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Notwithstanding any other provision (other than the provisions set forth in the sixth and
seventh paragraphs of this Section) of this Section, unless and until it is exchanged in whole or
in part for Notes in certificated form, a Note in global form representing all or a portion of the
Notes may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of such Depositary or
by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by such
Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.
If at any time the Depositary for the Notes notifies the Company that it is unwilling or
unable to continue as Depositary for the Notes or if at any time the Depositary for the Notes shall
no longer be eligible under Section 3.3, the Company shall appoint a successor Depositary with
respect to the Notes. If a successor Depositary for the Notes is not appointed by the Company
within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such ineligibility, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and
delivery of certificated Notes of like tenor, shall authenticate and deliver Notes of like tenor in
certificated form, in authorized denominations and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of the Note or Notes of like tenor in global form in exchange for such Note or
Notes in global form.
The Company may at any time in its sole discretion determine that Notes issued in global form
shall no longer be represented by such Notes in global form. In such event the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of
certificated Note or Notes of like tenor, shall authenticate and deliver, Notes of like tenor in
certificated form, in authorized denominations and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of the Note or Notes of like tenor in global form in exchange for such Note or
Notes in global form.
The Depositary may surrender a Note in global form in exchange in whole or in part for Notes
in certificated form on such terms as are acceptable to the Company and such Depositary.
Thereupon, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without
service charge,
(A) to each Person specified by such Depositary a new certificated Note or Notes of like
tenor, of any authorized denomination as requested by such Person in aggregate principal amount
equal to and in exchange for such Person’s beneficial interest in the Note in global form; and
(B) to such Depositary a new Note in global form of like tenor in a denomination equal to
the difference, if any, between the principal amount of the surrendered Note in global form and
the aggregate principal amount of certificated Notes delivered to Holders thereof.
Upon the exchange of a Note in global form for Notes in certificated form, such Note in global
form shall be cancelled by the Trustee. Notes in certificated form issued in exchange for a Note
in global form pursuant to this Section shall be registered in such names and in such authorized
denominations as the Depositary for such Note in global form, pursuant to
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instructions from its
direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall
deliver such Notes to the Persons in whose names such Notes are so registered.
Whenever any Notes are surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.
All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or upon any exchange of Notes shall be the
valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so
required by the Company, the Registrar or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to those of the Company, the Registrar and the
Trustee requiring such written instrument of transfer duly executed by the Holder thereof or such
Xxxxxx’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or for any
exchange of Notes, but 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 or transfer or
exchange of Notes, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.4 or Section 10.6 not involving any
transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any
Notes for a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a
notice of redemption of Notes selected for redemption under Section 10.3 and ending at the close of
business on the day of such mailing; or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Note so
selected for redemption or repurchase, in whole or in part, except the unredeemed or unpurchased
portion of any Note being redeemed or repurchased in part.
Section 3.6. Replacement Notes. If a mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee,
together with such security or indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to save
each of them harmless, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver a
replacement Note of the same principal amount and Stated Maturity, if the Trustee’s requirements
are met.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence to their satisfaction
of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note 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 Note 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 Note, a replacement Note of the same principal amount and Stated
Maturity containing identical terms and provisions and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become or is about to become
due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Note, pay such Note.
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Upon the issuance of any new Note 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 Note issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Note
shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the
destroyed, lost or stolen Note 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 Notes duly
issued hereunder.
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 of mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Notes.
Section 3.7. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
(a) Interest, if any, on any Note 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 Note (or one or
more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest at the office or agency maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 9.2;
provided, however, that, at the option of the Company, interest on any Notes may
be paid (i) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it shall appear on
the Register of Holders of Notes; (ii) in cash, by wire transfer to an account maintained by the
Person entitled thereto as specified in the Register of Holders of Notes; or (iii) with respect
to any Interest Payment Date on or prior to the first anniversary of the original issuance date
of the Notes, in Common Stock having a Market Value as of the close of business on the Business
Day immediately preceding the relevant Interest Payment Date equal to the amount of interest not
paid by check or wire transfer to the Person entitled to receive such interest payment.
(b) Any interest on any Note which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided
for in accordance with Section 3.7(a) 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 Notes (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 Note 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 (1) provided.
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Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15
days and not fewer than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not fewer than 10
days after the receipt by the Trustee of the
notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company 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 of Notes of such series at its address as it
appears in the Register, not fewer than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of
the proposed 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 Notes (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 to the Persons in whose names
the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business
on a specified date in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which such Notes 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 (2), such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
(c) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.7 and Section 3.5, each Note
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of
any other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were
carried by such other Notes.
Section 3.8. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment of any Note 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 Note is registered as the owner of such Note for the purpose of
receiving payment of principal of, premium, if any, and (subject to Section 3.7) interest on such
Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note 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.
None of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall have any
responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account
of beneficial ownership interests of a Note in global form, or for maintaining supervising or
reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, with respect to any Note in global form, nothing herein shall prevent the Company or the
Trustee, or any agent of the Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written
certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by any Depositary (or its nominee), as a
Holder, with respect to such Note in global form or impair, as between such Depositary and owners
of beneficial interests in such Note in global form, the operation of customary practices governing
the exercise of the rights of such Depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of such Note in global
form.
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Section 3.9. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, redemption or registration of transfer or exchange
shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and, upon
receipt, shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company at any time may deliver Notes previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever,
and may deliver to the Trustee (or any other Person for delivery to the Trustee, on its behalf) for
cancellation any Notes previously authenticated hereunder which the Company has not issued and
sold, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Notes shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes cancelled as provided in this Section, except
as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled Notes held by the Trustee shall be
disposed of as directed by a Company Order at the sole expense of the Company.
Section 3.10. Computation of Interest. Interest on any Notes shall be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Section 3.11. CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may use such “CUSIP”
numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers (in addition
to the other identification numbers printed on the Notes) in notices of redemption as a convenience
to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to
the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a
redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
ARTICLE 4
Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance
Section 4.1. Termination of Company’s Obligations Under the Indenture. This Indenture
shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect to Notes (except as to any
surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of such Notes as herein expressly provided
for) and the Trustee, at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to such Notes (the Company,
however, hereby agreeing to reimburse the Trustee for any costs and expenses thereafter incurred by
the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the Notes) when
(1) either
(A) all such Notes previously authenticated and delivered (other than (i) such
Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as
provided in Section 3.6, and (ii) such Notes 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 9.3) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
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(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or
(iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, 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;
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited irrevocably or
caused to be deposited irrevocably with the Trustee as trust funds in trust, which shall
be immediately due and payable, for the purpose an amount sufficient to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation, for principal, premium, if any, and interest to the date of such
deposit (in the case of Notes which have become due and payable) or to the Stated
Maturity or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the
Company; and
(3) the Company 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 obligation of the Company to
the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.9, the obligations of the Company to any
Authenticating Agent under Section 6.14 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of this Section, the obligations under Sections 3.3, 3.5,
3.6, 3.10, and 4.2, the last paragraph of Section 9.3 and Article 5 as it relates to the
above-mentioned Sections and Articles shall survive until the Notes have been indefeasibly paid in
full; provided, however, that the Company shall reimburse the Trustee for any costs and expenses
incurred by the Trustee in connection with effectuating the provisions of Sections 4.2 and 9.3.
Section 4.2. Application of Trust Funds. Subject to the provisions of the last
paragraph of Section 9.3, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be
held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes 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,
premium, if any, and any interest for whose payment such money has been deposited with or received
by the Trustee, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law.
Section 4.3. Company’s Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The
Company may at its option by Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to the Notes and the Note
Guarantee, elect to have Section 4.4 (if applicable) or Section 4.5 (if applicable) be applied to
such Outstanding Notes and the Note Guarantee upon compliance with the conditions set forth below
in this Article 4.
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Section 4.4. Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company’s exercise of the option
specified in Section 4.3 applicable to this Section with respect to the Notes, the Company and the
Guarantor shall be deemed to have been discharged from their obligations with respect to such Notes
and the Note Guarantee on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 4.6 are satisfied
(hereinafter “defeasance”). For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be
deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Notes and the Note
Guarantee which shall thereafter be deemed to be “Outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 4.7
and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in clause (ii) of this Section, and to have
satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes, such Note Guarantee and this Indenture
insofar as such Notes and such Note Guarantee are concerned (and the Trustee, at the cost and
expense of the Company, shall on Company Order execute proper instruments acknowledging the same),
except the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (i)
the rights of Holders of Outstanding Notes to receive, solely from the trust funds described in
Section 4.6(a) and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal
of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such Notes when such payments are due; (ii) the
Company’s obligations with respect to such Notes under Section 3.4, Section 3.5, Section 3.6,
Section 9.2 and Section 9.3 and such obligations as shall be ancillary thereto; (iii) the rights,
powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder; and (iv) this Article 4. Subject
to compliance with this Article 4, the Company may exercise its option under this Section
notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 4.5 with respect to such Notes and
the Note Guarantee. Following a defeasance, payment of such Notes may not be accelerated because
of an Event of Default.
Section 4.5. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company’s exercise of the option specified
in Section 4.3 applicable to this Section with respect to any Notes, the Company shall be released
from its obligations under Section 7.1 and Section 9.5 with respect to the Notes and the Note
Guarantee on and after the date the conditions set forth in Section 4.6 are satisfied (hereinafter,
“covenant defeasance”), and such Notes shall thereafter be deemed to be not “Outstanding” for the
purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences
of any thereof) in connection with Section 7.1 and Section 9.5 but shall continue to be deemed
“Outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means
that, with respect to such Notes, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no liability
in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such Section, whether directly or
indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or such other covenant
or by reason of reference in any such Section or such other covenant to any other provision herein
or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a
Default or an Event of Default under Section 5.1(4) or otherwise, as the case may be, but,
except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and the Notes and the Note Guarantee
shall be unaffected thereby.
Section 4.6. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The following shall be
the conditions to application of Section 4.4 or Section 4.5 to any Notes:
(a) The Company shall have deposited or caused to be deposited irrevocably with the Trustee
(or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.11 who shall agree to comply with,
and shall be entitled to the benefits of, the provisions of Section 4.3 through 4.8 inclusive
and the last paragraph of Section 9.3 applicable to the Trustee, for purposes of such
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also a “Trustee”) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the payments referred to
below, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders
of such Notes, with instructions to the Trustee as to the application thereof, (A) cash in
United States dollars in an amount or (B) non-callable Government Obligations which through the
payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will
provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment, cash in United States
dollars in an amount or (C) a combination of cash in United States dollars and non-callable
Government Obligations in an amount, sufficient, in each case, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by the
Trustee to pay and discharge, the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such
Notes on the Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest on the day on
which such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such
Notes. Before such a deposit the Company may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for
the redemption of Notes at a future date or dates in accordance with Article 10 which shall be
given effect in applying the foregoing.
(b) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a breach or violation of, or
constitute a Default or Event of Default under, this Indenture or result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute a default under, any other material agreement or instrument to which
the Company is a party or by which it is bound.
(c) In the case of an election under Section 4.4, the Company shall have delivered to the
Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, in each case in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, stating that (i) the Company has received from, or there
has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of
execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the applicable Federal income tax law,
in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the
Holders of such Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as
a result of such defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount and in
the same manner and at the same times, as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance
and discharge had not occurred.
(d) In the case of an election under Section 4.5, the Company shall have delivered to the
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Notes will not recognize
income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and covenant
defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and
at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.
(e) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel, in each case in form or substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, each
stating that all conditions precedent to the defeasance under Section 4.4 or the covenant
defeasance under Section 4.5 (as the case may be) have been complied with and an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that either (i) as a result of a deposit pursuant to subsection (a) above
and the related exercise of the Company’s option under Section 4.4 or Section 4.5 (as the case
may be), registration is not required under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
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amended, by
the Company, with respect to the trust funds representing such deposit or by the trustee for
such trust funds or (ii) all necessary registrations under said act have been effected.
(f) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, stating that it has been informed by the
relevant securities exchange(s) that the Notes, if then listed on any such securities exchange,
will not be delisted as a result of such deposit.
(g) No Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have occurred and be
continuing (A) on the date of such deposit or (B) insofar as Section 5.1(5) and 5.1(6) are
concerned, at any time during the period ending on the 121st day after the date of
such deposit or, if longer, ending on the day following the expiration of the longest preference
period applicable to the Company in respect of such deposit (it being understood that the
condition in this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).
(h) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not (A) cause the Trustee for the Notes to
have a conflicting interest as defined in Section 6.12 or for purposes of Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act with respect to any securities of the Company or (B) result in the trust
arising from such deposit to constitute, unless it is qualified as, a regulated investment
company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.
Section 4.7. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust. Subject
to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 9.3, all money and non-callable Government
Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.6 in
respect of any Notes shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the
provisions of such Notes 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
Holders of such Notes of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium,
if any, and interest, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the
extent required by law.
The Company shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other charge, cost or expenses
imposed on or assessed against the money or non-callable Government Obligations deposited pursuant
to Section 4.7 or the principal and interest received in respect thereof.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the
Company from time to time upon Company Request any money or Government Obligations held by it as
provided in Section 4.7 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants satisfactory to the Trustee (including, without limitation, compliance with any
applicable FASB or Commission pronouncements, rules and regulations and computations set forth
therein) expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of
the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent defeasance
or covenant defeasance.
Section 4.8. Reinstatement. If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any
United States dollars or non-callable Government Obligations in accordance with Section 4.4 or
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Section 4.5 by reason of any order or judgment or any court or governmental authority enjoining,
restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the Company’s obligations under the
Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article 4
until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money in accordance
with Section 4.4 or Section 4.5; provided, however, that if the Company makes any
payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any such Notes following the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of
such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or the Paying Agent.
ARTICLE 5
Defaults and Remedies
Section 5.1. Events of Default. An “Event of Default” occurs with respect to the
Notes if (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall 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) the Company or the Guarantor defaults in the payment of interest on any Note when the
same becomes due and payable and such Default continues for a period of 30 days;
(2) the Company defaults in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Note when
the same becomes due and payable at its Maturity or on redemption, repurchase at the option of
Holders or otherwise, when and as due by the terms of the Notes, and in each case such Default
continues for a period of ten days;
(3) the Company fails to provide notice of a Change in Ownership or a Fundamental Change
pursuant to Section 10.8, if so required by Section 10.8 and such Default continues for a period
of 30 days;
(4) the Company or the Guarantor defaults in the performance of, or breaches, any covenant
or warranty of the Company or the Guarantor in this Indenture with respect to any Note or Note
Guarantee (other than a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is
elsewhere in this Section 5.1 specifically dealt with), and such default or breach continues for
a period of 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company
and the Guarantor by the Trustee or to the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee by the Holders
of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, 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;
(5) the Company defaults in its obligation to deliver shares of Common Stock, cash or other
property upon conversion of any of the Notes upon the exercise of a Holder’s rights pursuant to
Article 12 and such default continues for 30 days or more;
(6) the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law (A) commences a
voluntary case, (B) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary
case, (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or
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substantially all of
its property, or (D) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors;
(7) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any Bankruptcy Law
that (A) is for relief against the Company in an involuntary case, (B) appoints a Custodian of
the Company or for all or substantially all of its property, or (C) orders the liquidation of
the Company; and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect
for 60 days; or
(8) the Guarantee ceases to be in full force and effect or is declared null and void or any
Guarantor denies that it has any further liability under any Guarantee, or gives notices to such
effect (other than by reason of the termination of this Indenture or the release of any such
Guarantee in accordance with this Indenture), and such condition shall have continued for a
period of 30 days after written notice of such failure requiring the Guarantor or the Company to
remedy the same shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the
Trustee by the Holders of 25% in the aggregate principal amount at maturity of the Notes
Outstanding.
Section 5.2. Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment. If an Event of Default with
respect to the Notes at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders
of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of all of the outstanding Notes, by written notice to
the Company (and, if given by the Holders, to the Trustee), may declare the principal of all the
Notes to be due and payable and upon any such declaration such principal shall be immediately due
and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Notes 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 5 provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the outstanding Notes, by written notice to the Trustee, may rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences if all existing Defaults and Events of Default with respect
to Notes, other than the non-payment of the principal of Notes which have become due solely by such
declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.7 . No such
rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.3. 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 Note 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 Notes
at the Maturity thereof or on redemption or otherwise, when and as due by the terms of that
Note, and such default continues for a period of 10 days,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such
Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on such Notes for principal, premium, if any, and
interest with interest on any overdue principal, premium, if any, and, to the extent that payment
of such interest shall be legally enforceable, on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates
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prescribed therefore in such Notes 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, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amount 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 such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce the same against the Company, the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Notes and collect
the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of
the Company, the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the Notes, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Notes occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Notes 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 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of any judicial proceeding
directly involving the Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes), its property or its creditors
acting as such, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under Section 317(a)(2) of the Trust Indenture
Act or otherwise in order to have 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 for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.9.
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 Notes 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.
Section 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes. All rights of
action and claims under this Indenture or the Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee
without the possession of any of the Notes or the production thereof in any proceeding relating
thereto. 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, after provision for the payment of the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes in respect of which such judgment
has been recovered.
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Section 5.6. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission by the Trustee or any
Holder of any Notes to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall impair
any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in any such Event of Default.
Every right and remedy given by this Article 5 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 5.7. Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of Outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee may waive on behalf of the Holders
of all Notes a past Default or Event of Default with respect the Notes and its consequences except
(i) a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest
on any Note or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which pursuant to Section 8.2
cannot be amended or modified without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note adversely
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 Event of Default or impair any right
consequent thereon. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that
the requisite percentage of Holders have consented to such waiver and attach copies of such
consents. In case of any such waiver, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored
to their former positions and rights hereunder and under the Notes, respectively.
Section 5.8. Control by Majority. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes affected
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 it with respect to
Notes; provided, however, that the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that
(i) conflicts with law or this Indenture, (ii) is (in the Trustee’s reasonable judgment)
prejudicial to the rights of another Holder or the Trustee or (iii) in the Trustee’s reasonable
judgment, may involve the Trustee in personal liability (unless the Trustee is offered indemnity,
reasonably satisfactory to it, against the costs, expenses and liabilities the Trustee may incur to
comply with such request or demand). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trustee may take any other
action deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with any such direction.
Section 5.9. Limitation on Suits by Holders. No Holder of any Note shall have any
right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for
the appointment of a Custodian, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) the Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of
Default with respect to the Notes;
(2) the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes have
made a 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 indemnity and security satisfactory
to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense to be, or which may be, incurred by the
Trustee in complying with such request;
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(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and the offer of
indemnity has failed to institute any such proceedings; and
(5) during such 60-day period, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Notes have not given to the Trustee a direction inconsistent with such written
request.
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 of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other of
such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and
for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
Section 5.10. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment and to Convert. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Indenture, any Holder of a Note shall have the right, which is absolute
and unconditional, to receive payment of principal of, premium, if any, and, subject to Section 3.5
and Section 3.7, interest on the Note, on or after the Stated Maturity expressed in the Note (or,
in case of redemption, on the Redemption Dates), to convert the Note in accordance with Article 12
or, subject to Section 5.9, to bring suit for the
enforcement of any such payment or the right to convert on or after such respective dates,
shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.
Section 5.11. Application of Money Collected. If the Trustee collects any money
pursuant to this Article 5, it shall pay out the money 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,
premium, if any, or interest, upon presentation of the Notes and the notation thereon of the
payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: to the Trustee for amounts due under Section 6.9;
Second: to Holders of Notes in respect of which or for the benefit of which such
money has been collected for amounts due and unpaid on such Notes for principal of, premium, if
any, and interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
due and payable on such Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and
Third: to the Company.
Section 5.12. 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 5.13. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise provided with
respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes in the last
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paragraph of Section 3.6, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or
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 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 5.14. 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 party litigant, in
the manner and to the extent provided in Section 315(e) of 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 or the Trustee.
Section 5.15. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent that it
may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, nor or at
any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture;
and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or
advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of
any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such
power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE 6
The Trustee
Section 6.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically
set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this
Indenture against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions
expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions which by
any provision 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 to the requirements
of this Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Notes,
the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture with
respect to the Notes, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a
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prudent
person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability
for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct,
except that:
(1) this subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of subsection (a) of this
Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a
Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was grossly negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable 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 a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Notes relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Notes.
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own
funds or otherwise incur any financial liability 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 against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(e) 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 this Section.
Section 6.2. Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is continuing with respect
to the Notes and if it is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall, within the earlier of 90 days
after it occurs or 30 days after it actually becomes known to the Trustee, transmit, to the
Holders, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act,
notice of such Default; provided, however, that, in the case of a Default other
than a Default in any payment on the Notes, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as
the board of directors, the executive committee or a committee of its Responsible Officers in good
faith determines that withholding such notice is in the interests of Holders of Notes;
provided further that, in the case of any Default or breach of the character
specified in Section 5.1(4) with respect to the Notes, no such notice to Holders shall be given
until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof.
Section 6.3. Rights of Trustee. Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1 and Sections
313, 315 and 317 of the Trust Indenture Act:
(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, bond, debenture, note or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties.
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(b) Any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently
evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order (other than delivery of any Note, to the Trustee
for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 3.3, which shall be sufficiently evidenced
as provided therein) and any resolution of the Board of Directors may 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 gross negligence or willful misconduct on its part, rely upon an Officers’
Certificate.
(d) The Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection 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 security or indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might
be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
(f) 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 or other paper or document, unless requested in
writing to do so by the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Notes at the time Outstanding, 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 and the Guarantor, personally or by agent or
attorney.
(g) The Trustee may act through agents or attorneys and shall not be responsible for the
misconduct or negligence of any agent or attorney appointed with reasonable care by it
hereunder.
(h) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith
which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers; provided,
however, that the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct or gross
negligence.
(i) The Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur
any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of
its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such
funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
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Section 6.4. Trustee May Hold Notes. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Registrar or
any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Notes and, subject to Sections 310(b) and 311 of the Trust Indenture Act, may otherwise
deal with the Company, an Affiliate or Subsidiary with the same rights it would have if it were not
Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar or such other agent.
Section 6.5. Money Held in Trust. Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need
not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be
under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed
with the Company.
Section 6.6. Trustee’s Disclaimer. The recitals contained herein and in the Notes,
except the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the
Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes. The Trustee shall not
be accountable for the Company’s use of the proceeds from the Notes or for monies paid over to the
Company pursuant to the Indenture.
Section 6.7. Reports by Trustee to the Holders. Within 60 days after each May 15 of
each year commencing with the first May 15 after the first issuance of Notes pursuant to this
Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Notes as provided in Section 313(c)
of the Trust Indenture Act a brief report dated as of such May 15 if required by Section 313(a) of
the Trust Indenture Act. The Trustee also shall comply with Section 313(b) and (d) of the Trust
Indenture Act; provided that the Company will have provided prompt written notice to the Trustee
that any such Notes are listed on a stock exchange within a reasonable period of time prior to the
issuance of any such reports by the Trustee and at all other times the Company will reasonably
promptly notify the Trustee when any Notes are listed on any stock exchange.
Section 6.8. Securityholder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as
is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of
Holders of Notes. Every Holder of Notes, 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 Section 312(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. If the Trustee is not the
Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee semiannually on or before the last day of June
and December in each year, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list,
in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require, containing all the
information in the possession of the Registrar, the Company or any of its Paying Agents other than
the Trustee as to the names and addresses of Holders of Notes.
Section 6.9. Compensation and Indemnity. (a) Other than as provided in the Fee
Agreement, dated as of ___, by and among the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee, the Company
covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to,
such compensation as shall be agreed to in writing between the Company and the Trustee for all
services rendered by it hereunder. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on
compensation of a
trustee of an express trust. The Company shall pay or reimburse the Trustee upon request for
all reasonable out-of-pocket costs or expenses or other
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charges, fees, fines or advances incurred
or made by it in connection with the performance of its duties under this Indenture, except any
such expense as may be attributable to its gross negligence or intentional or willful misconduct.
Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the Trustee’s agents and
counsel.
(b) The Company and the Guarantor shall indemnify the Trustee (including in its individual
capacity, and its officers, agents, directors and employees) for, and hold it harmless against,
any loss, liability or expense incurred by it without gross negligence or intentional or willful
misconduct on its part arising out of or in connection with its acceptance or administration of
the trust or trusts hereunder. The Trustee shall notify the Company reasonably promptly of any
claim for which it may seek indemnity. The Company or the Guarantor shall defend the claim and
the Trustee shall reasonably cooperate in the defense (it being understood that the Company will
promptly upon request by the Trustee reimburse the Trustee for any out-of-pocket costs or
expenses incurred by the Trustee in connection with such claim). The Trustee may have separate
counsel and the Company or the Guarantor shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such
counsel. Neither the Company nor the Guarantor need pay for any settlement made without its
consent.
(c) The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability
incurred by the Trustee through gross negligence or intentional or willful misconduct.
(d) When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of
Default specified in Section 5.1(6) or Section 5.1(7), the expenses (including the reasonable
charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Bankruptcy Law.
(e) The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this Indenture.
Section 6.10. Replacement of Trustee. (a) The resignation or removal of the Trustee
and the appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee’s
acceptance of appointment as provided in Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Notes by giving written notice
thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by
Section 6.11 shall not have been delivered to the 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 with respect to the Notes.
(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may
remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the Company and may appoint a successor
Trustee with the Company’s consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed).
(d) If at any time:
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(1) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Note for at least six months;
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder of a
Note who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months; or
(3) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting, is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or a
Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by or pursuant to a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee with respect to all Notes, or (ii) subject to Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act,
any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months may, on behalf of
itself and all other similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee with respect to all Notes and the appointment of a successor Trustee or
Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee
for any reason, with respect to Notes, the Company, by or pursuant to Board Resolution, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes (it being understood that any
such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Notes and that at any time there
shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Notes) and shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 6.11. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or
incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes
has not been appointed by the Company and accepted such appointment, then a successor Trustee
shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Notes 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 6.11, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Notes
and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor
Trustee with respect to the Notes shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and
accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Note for at least six months may, on behalf of itself and all others similarly
situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Notes.
Section 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. (a) In case of the appointment
hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Notes, every such successor Trustee shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment. Thereupon, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective, and the successor Trustee, without further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested
with all the rights, powers and duties of the retiring
Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the 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
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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.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes,
the Company, the retiring Trustee and such successor Trustee shall execute and deliver an
indenture supplemental hereto wherein such successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and
which (i) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and
confirm to, and to vest in, such successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of
the retiring Trustee with respect to the Notes and (ii) shall add to or change any of the
provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that
nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of
the same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder
separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee and
upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or removal of the
retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each 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 with respect to the Notes of that or those
series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the
Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver
to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Notes of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee
relates.
(c) 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 referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case
may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance
such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under Section 310 of the Trust Indenture
Act.
(e) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with
respect to the Notes and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes in
the manner provided for notices to the Holders of Notes in Section 1.6 . Each notice shall
include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the Notes and the address of its
Corporate Trust office.
Section 6.12. Disqualification; Eligibility. (a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire
a conflicting interest within the meaning of Section 310(b) 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 provision of Section
310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
(b) There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be eligible pursuant to
Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act to act as Trustee and shall have a combined capital and
surplus of at least $100,000,000. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at
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least
annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of Federal, State, Territorial or District of
Columbia supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such corporation 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 6.
Section 6.13. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. Any
corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which 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 6, without the execution or filing of
any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Notes 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 Notes so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Notes.
Section 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. The Trustee may appoint an
Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to the Notes which shall be authorized to act on behalf
of the Trustee to authenticate Notes issued upon original issue and upon exchange, registration of
transfer or partial redemption thereof, and Notes 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. Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing
signed by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, a copy of which instrument shall be promptly
furnished to the Company. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and
delivery of Notes 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 bank or trust company or corporation organized and doing business and in good standing
under the laws of the United States of America or of any State or the District of Columbia,
authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of
not less that $100,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal, State, Territorial
or District of Columbia authorities. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition
at least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of the aforesaid 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. In case 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 corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it
may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to
which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding
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to all or
substantially all of the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent
shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise
eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or further act on the
part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent for the Notes may at any time resign by giving written notice of
resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of
an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of termination 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 qualified and 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 give notice of such appointment to all Holders of Notes with
respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve in the manner set forth in Section 1.6. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder 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 herein. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be
appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation including reimbursement of its reasonable expenses for its services under this
Section.
If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section, the Notes may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to or in lieu of the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of
authentication substantially in the following form:
This is one of the Notes issued under the within-mentioned Indenture.
The Bank of New York, not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as Trustee, | ||||||
By: | ||||||
as Authenticating Agent | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Authorized Officer |
Section 6.15. Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company. Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company may, at the option
of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee
under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission
shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken by, or omission of, the
Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified
in such application (which date shall not be less than fifteen Business Days after the date any
officer of the Company actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have
consented in writing to any earlier date) unless prior to taking any such action (or the effective
date in the case
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of an omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in response
to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.
Section 6.16. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company. If and when the
Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or the Guarantor or any other obligor upon
the Notes), the Trustee shall comply with the provisions of Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act regarding the collection of claims against the Company (or the Guarantor or any such other
obligor).
ARTICLE 7
Consolidation, Merger or Sale by the Company
Section 7.1. Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets Only on Certain Terms. The
Company shall not merge or consolidate with or into any other Person, or sell, convey, transfer or
otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets to any Person, whether in a single
transaction or a series of transactions unless (i) (A) in the case of a merger or consolidation,
the Company is the surviving Person or (B) in the case of a merger or consolidation where the
Company is not the surviving Person and in the case of any such sale, conveyance or other
disposition, the successor or acquiring corporation is a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of the United States or a State thereof and such corporation expressly assumes by
supplemental indenture all the obligations of the Company under the Notes and under this Indenture
(including the conversion rights set forth in Section 12.6), (ii) if, as a result of such
transaction, the Notes became convertible or exchangeable into common stock or securities issued by
a third party, such third party fully and unconditionally guarantees all obligations under the
Notes and this Indenture, (iii) immediately thereafter, giving effect to such merger or
consolidation, or such sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and (iv) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such merger or consolidation, or
such sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition complies with this Article 7 and, if a
supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture
complies with, this Article 7 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for or relating to
such transaction have been complied with. Subject to the mandatory redemption provisions of
Section 10.8, in the event of the assumption by a successor corporation of the obligations of the
Company as provided in clause (i)(B) of the immediately preceding sentence, such successor
corporation shall succeed to and be substituted for the
Company hereunder and under the Notes and all such obligations of the Company shall terminate.
ARTICLE 8
Supplemental Indentures
Section 8.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. Without the consent
of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Guarantor and the Trustee,
at any time and from time to time, may enter into indentures supplemental hereto, in form
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
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(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or the Guarantor and the
assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company or the Guarantor, as the case
may be, herein and in the Notes or the Note Guarantee, respectively;
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender
any right or power herein conferred upon the Company;
(3) to add any additional Events of Default;
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such extent as shall be
necessary to facilitate the issuance of Notes in global form;
(5) [RESERVED]
(6) to secure the Notes or Guarantee thereof;
(7) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain
qualification of this Indenture under the TIA;
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor
Trustee with respect to the Notes and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.10;
(9) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights of the Holders pursuant to the
requirements of Section 12.6 or the obligations of a successor to the Company pursuant to the
requirements of Section 7.1; or
(10) to increase the Conversion Rate or increase the consideration payable to any Holder,
provided that no such increase individually or in the aggregate with all other such increases
has or will have an adverse effect on the interests of the Holders; or
(11) to cure any ambiguity, correct any mistake or correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein 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 such other provisions
shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Notes.
Section 8.2. With Consent of Holders. With the written consent of the Holders of not
less than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes affected by such
supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the
Company when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Guarantor and the Trustee may enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto to add any provisions to or to change or eliminate any
provisions of this Indenture or of any other indenture supplemental hereto or to modify the rights
of the Holders of Notes and Note Guarantee; provided, however, that without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby, an amendment under this Section
may not:
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(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of principal of or
interest on, any Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or
any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change the coin or currency in which, any
Notes or any premium or the 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);
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, 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;
(3) change any obligation of the Company to maintain an office or agency in the places and
for the purposes specified in Section 9.2;
(4) make any change in Section 5.7 or this Section 8.2 except to increase any percentage or
to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without
the consent of the Holders of each Outstanding Note affected thereby;
(5) impair the right to convert the Notes into shares of Common Stock on and subject to the
terms set forth herein, including Section 12.6, or reduce the number of shares of Common Stock
or other property into which the Notes may be converted other than as expressly contemplated by
Section 12.4 or Section 12.5;
(6) modify the ranking or priority of any Note or the Note Guarantee in respect thereof of
the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, in any manner adverse to the Holders of the
Notes;
(7) release the Guarantor from any of its obligations under its Note Guarantee or this
Indenture;
(8) reduce the Redemption Price of any Notes;
(9) make the Notes payable in money or securities other than as stated in the Note;
(10) make any change to this Section 8.2;
(11) make any change that materially adversely affects the right of a Holder to require the
Company to purchase the Notes in accordance with the terms of Section 10.8; or
(12) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment with respect to
the Notes or under the Note Guarantee of the Guarantor.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment or modification of any of the rights or
obligations of the Trustee or any of its agents under this Indenture shall be effective unless
consented to by the Trustee in writing.
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It is not necessary under this Section 8.2 for the Holders to consent to the particular form
of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it is sufficient if they consent to the substance
thereof.
Section 8.3. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. Every supplemental indenture
executed pursuant to this Article 8 shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act
as then in effect.
Section 8.4. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing or accepting the
additional trusts created by any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article 8 or the
modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the
execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee
may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 8.5. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture under this Article 8, 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 Notes theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be
bound thereby.
Section 8.6. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes authenticated and
delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article 8 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 Notes 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 authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.
Section 8.7. Notice. After an amendment or supplement under this Article 8 becomes
effective, the Company shall notify the Trustee and the Trustee shall promptly mail to the Holders
affected thereby a notice briefly describing the amendment or supplement. Any failure of the
Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect
the validity of any such amendment or supplement.
ARTICLE 9
Covenants
Section 9.1. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest. The Company
covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders that it will duly and punctually pay on the
dates and in the manner provided in the Notes the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on
the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this Indenture. An installment of principal
or interest shall be considered paid on the date it is due if the Trustee or Paying Agent holds on
that date money or Common Stock (if such installment is payable in Common Stock) designated for and
sufficient to pay the installment (as permitted by the terms of the Notes).
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Section 9.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain in each Place
of Payment for Notes an office or agency where Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment,
where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes 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 such Place of Payment. 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, 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 Notes 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 obligation to maintain an office or
agency in each Place of Payment for Notes 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.
The Trustee shall initially serve as Paying Agent and Conversion Agent.
Section 9.3. Money for Notes to Be Held in Trust; Unclaimed Property. If the Company
shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to the Notes, it will, on or before
12:00 noon, Chicago, Illinois time on each due date of the principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on any of the Notes, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal, 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 in writing of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for the Notes, it will, prior to
each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest on any Notes deposit with the
applicable Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as provided by
Section 317(b) of 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 for any Notes other than the Trustee 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:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on Notes of that series 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;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any Default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Notes of that series) in the making of any payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on
the Notes; and
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(3) at any time during the continuance of any such Default, upon the written request of the
Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
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 or Common Stock deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the
Company, in trust for the payment of any principal, premium or interest on any Note and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium, if any, or interest has become due and
payable shall be paid or delivered to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an
unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company and the Guarantor 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 Chicago, Illinois, or cause to be mailed to such Holder, 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 9.4. Corporate Existence. Subject to Article 7, and without limiting any of,
and subject to, the Company’s obligations under Article 10, each of the Company and the Guarantor
will at all times do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force
and effect its respective corporate existence; provided that nothing in this Section 9.4
shall prevent the abandonment or termination of any right or franchise of the Company or the
Guarantor if the Board of Directors of the Company or of the Guarantor, as the case may be, shall
determine that such abandonment or termination is in the best interests of the Company or the
Guarantor, as the case may be, and does not materially adversely affect the ability of the Company
or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to operate its business or to fulfill its obligations
hereunder.
Section 9.5. Reports by the Company. The Company covenants:
(a) Whether or not required to be filed or otherwise provided by the rules and regulations
of the Commission, so long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company will furnish to the
Trustee, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and regulations:
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(A) all quarterly and annual reports that would be required to be filed with the Commission
on Forms 10-Q and 10-K, and all amendments thereto, if the Company were required to file such
reports; and
(B) all current reports that would be required to be filed with the Commission on Form 8-K,
and all amendments thereto, if the Company were required to file such reports;
(b) to file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with the rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional information,
documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and
covenants provided for in this Indenture, as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations; and
(c) to transmit to all Holders of Notes within 30 days after the filing thereof with the
Trustee, in the manner and to the extent provided in section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act,
such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the Company
pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this Section 9.5, as may be required by rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
Section 9.6. Notice of Default. The Company shall file with the Trustee written notice of occurrence of any Event of
Default within 30 Business Days of its becoming aware of any such Event of Default.
Section 9.7. Provision of Financial Statements. If the Company is not required to
file with the Commission periodic reports and other information pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c) or
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act, the Company shall furnish without cost to each Holder and
file with the Trustee (i) within 135 days after the end of each fiscal year, annual reports
containing the information required to be contained in Items 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of Form 10-K
promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act or substantially the same information required to be
contained in comparable items of any successor form, (ii) within 60 days after the end of each of
the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year, quarterly reports containing the information
required to be contained in Form 10-Q promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act or
substantially the same information required to be contained in any successor form and (iii)
promptly from the time after the occurrence of an event required to be therein reported, such other
reports containing information required to be contained in Form 8-K promulgated under the
Securities Exchange Act or substantially the same information required to be contained in any
successor form. The Company shall also make such reports available to prospective purchasers of
the Notes, securities analysts and broker-dealers upon their request.
Section 9.8. Compliance Certificates. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee,
within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (beginning with the fiscal year
ending December 31, 2006), an Officers’ Certificate as to the signer’s knowledge of the Company’s
compliance with all conditions and covenants on its part contained in this Indenture and stating
whether or not the signer knows of any Default or Event of Default. If such signer knows of such a
Default or Event of Default, the Officers’ Certificate shall describe the Default or Event of
Default and the efforts to remedy the same. For the purposes of this Section 9.7,
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compliance shall
be determined without regard to any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the
terms of this Indenture.
Section 9.9. Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee, each of the
Company and the Guarantor will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further
acts as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out the purposes of this Indenture.
Section 9.10. Payments for Consents. The Company shall not, directly or indirectly,
pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any
Holder of any Notes for or as inducement to any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or
provisions of this Indenture or the Notes unless such consideration is offered to be paid or is
paid to all Holders of the Notes that consent, waiver or agree to amend in the time frame set forth
in the solicitation documents relating to such consent, waiver or agreement.
ARTICLE 10
Redemption and Repurchase
Section 10.1. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The election of the Company to
redeem any Notes pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of Section 10.7 hereof, or the
requirement that the Company offer to redeem the Notes pursuant to the mandatory redemption
provisions in Section 10.8, shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or an Officers’
Certificate. In the case of any optional redemption of less than all the Notes, the Company shall,
at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall
be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date, of the principal
amount of Notes to be redeemed, of the clause of this Indenture pursuant to which the redemption
shall occur, and the Redemption Price. In the case of any mandatory redemption, the Company shall,
as soon as reasonably practicable, notify the Trustee that the Company is obligated to offer to
redeem the Notes pursuant to Section 10.8.
Section 10.2. Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed. If less than all the Notes are to be
redeemed pursuant to Section 10.7, the Trustee, at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to
the Redemption Date, shall select the Notes to be redeemed in such manner as the Trustee shall deem
fair and appropriate. The Trustee shall make the selection from Notes that are Outstanding and
that have not previously been called for redemption and may provide for the selection for
redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Notes or any integral
multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Notes of a denomination larger than the minimum
authorized denomination for Notes. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Notes selected by the Trustee for redemption and, in the case of any Notes selected for partial
redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating
to the redemption of Notes shall relate, in the case of any Notes redeemed or to be redeemed only
in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Notes which has been or is to be redeemed.
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Section 10.3. Notice of Redemption. If the Company elects to redeem any Notes
pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of Section 10.7 hereof, or if the Company is
required to offer to redeem the Notes pursuant to the mandatory redemption provisions of Section
10.8, notice of redemption shall be given in the manner provided in Section 1.6 not less than 30
days nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to the Holders of the Notes to be redeemed.
All notices of redemption shall identify the Notes to be redeemed and shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price and accrued interest to, but excluding, the Redemption Date;
(3) if fewer than all the Outstanding Notes are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in
the case of partial redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular Note or Notes to be
redeemed;
(4) in case any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the notice which relates to such Note
shall state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Note, the Holder will
receive, without a charge, a new Note or Notes of authorized denominations for the principal
amount thereof remaining unredeemed;
(5) the Place or Places of Payment where such Notes maturing after the Redemption Date may
be surrendered for payment for the Redemption Price and accrued interest to, but excluding, the
Redemption Date;
(6) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect the
Redemption Price;
(7) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price and accrued interest to, but
excluding, the Redemption Date will become due and payable upon each such Note, or the portion
thereof, to be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and
after said date;
(8) the clause of this Indenture pursuant to which the redemption shall occur;
(9) the CUSIP Number; provided that no representation is made as to the correctness or
accuracy of the CUSIP number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes;
(10) the current Conversion Rate;
(11) the date on which the right to convert such Notes or portions thereof into Common
Stock will expire (which date shall be the close of business on the second Business Day prior to
the Redemption Date);
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(12) whether the Company has elected to satisfy all or a portion of its Conversion
Obligation with cash in lieu of delivery of shares of Common Stock with respect to any Notes (or
portions thereof) to be redeemed;
(13) if the Company has determined to satisfy all or any portion of the Conversion
Obligation in cash, the dollar amount of the Conversion Obligation to be satisfied in cash
(which must be expressed either as 100% of the Conversion Obligation or as a fixed dollar
amount); and
(14) the name and address of each Paying Agent and Conversion Agent.
Notice of redemption of Notes to be redeemed shall be given by the Company or, at the
Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
Section 10.4. Deposit of Redemption Price. On or prior to noon, Chicago, Illinois
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 9.3) an amount of cash in immediately available funds (or shares of Common Stock if such
shares are used to satisfy payment) sufficient to pay on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price
of, and interest accrued to but not including the Redemption Date on, all Notes or portions thereof
which are to be redeemed on that date (other than those theretofore surrendered for conversion into
Common Stock). The Trustee or the Paying Agent shall promptly return to the Company any money
deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent by the Company in excess of the amounts necessary to
pay the Redemption Price of, and accrued interest on, all Notes to be redeemed. If any Note (or
portion thereof) called for redemption is converted into Common Stock prior to such Redemption
Date, any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent or so set aside, segregated and held
in trust for the redemption of such Note shall be paid to the Company upon its written request, or,
if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.
Section 10.5. Notes Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of redemption having been
given as aforesaid, the Notes so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, unless converted
into Common Stock pursuant to the terms hereof, 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 Notes shall cease to bear interest, such Notes (or
portions thereof) shall cease to be convertible into Common Stock and shall cease to be entitled to
any benefit or security under this Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no right in
respect of such Notes (or portions thereof) except the right to receive the Redemption Price
thereof pursuant to this Indenture. Upon surrender of any such Note for redemption in accordance
with said notice, such Note shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with
accrued interest to but not including the Redemption Date; provided, however, that
installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable to the Holders of such Notes, 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 3.7.
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If any Note called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for redemption,
the principal and any premium shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate
prescribed therefor in the Note, and such Note shall remain convertible into Common Stock until the
principal and interest shall have been paid or duly provided for.
Section 10.6. Notes Redeemed in Part. Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed in
part at any Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company so requires, due endorsement by, or a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the Holder
thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing), the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of that Note, without service charge, a new Note or
Notes, the same form and the same Stated Maturity in any authorized denomination equal in aggregate
principal amount to the
unredeemed portion of the principal of the Note surrendered. If any Note selected for partial
redemption is submitted for conversion in part after such selection, the portion of such Note
submitted for conversion shall be deemed (so far as may be possible) to be from the portion
selected for redemption. The Notes (or portions thereof) so selected shall be deemed duly selected
for redemption for all purposes hereof, notwithstanding that any such Note is submitted for
conversion in part before the mailing of the Redemption Notice.
Upon any redemption of less than all of the outstanding Notes, the Company and the Trustee may
(but need not), solely for purposes of determining the pro rata allocation among such Notes as are
unconverted and outstanding at the time of redemption, treat as outstanding any Notes surrendered
for conversion during the period of 15 days preceding the mailing of a Redemption Notice and may
(but need not) treat as outstanding any Note authenticated and delivered during such period in
exchange for the unconverted portion of any Note converted in part during such period.
Section 10.7.
Optional Redemption. At any time on or after
[___],2 the
Company may redeem all or a part of the Notes upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice,
at a Redemption Price of 100% of the principal amount of such Notes plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon to but not including the applicable Redemption Date. Any redemption pursuant to
this Section 10.7 shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.1 through Section 10.6
hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may, at its election, pay any Redemption Price
owed pursuant to this Section 10.7 in Common Stock; if the Common Stock has traded at no less than
125% of the Conversion Price for the 60 consecutive trading days prior to the Redemption Date.
Section 10.8. Mandatory Redemption. Upon any Change in Ownership or Fundamental
Change, the Company shall offer to redeem all of the Notes that are Outstanding at a Redemption
Price of 100% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued but unpaid interest thereon to but not
including the applicable Redemption Date. Any offer of redemption pursuant to this Section 10.8
shall be made in accordance with Section 10.3. Each Holder electing to have
2 | Insert date that is fifth anniversary of Issuance Date. |
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Notes redeemed must deliver to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) the form attached to the
Notes labeled OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT REDEMPTION no later than five Business Days immediately
preceding the Redemption Date. The Company shall notify the Trustee at least 30 days prior to the
Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) of the principal
amount of Notes that each Holder has elected to redeem. Such notice shall indicate whether the
Company elects to pay such Redemption Price in cash, in shares of Common Stock or a combination
thereof, specifying the percentage or amount of each and, if the Company elects to pay any portion
of such Redemption Price in shares of Common Stock, the Market Price of the Common Stock. Such
notice shall also indicate that Notes as to which an OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT REDEMPTION form has
been given by the Holder may be converted 2 Insert date that is fifth anniversary of Issuance
Date. only if the election has been withdrawn by the Holder in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture and such Notes are otherwise convertible in accordance with Section 12.1. Any redemption
pursuant to this Section 10.8 shall be made in compliance with the provisions of Sections 10.1,
10.3, 10.4 and 10.6 hereof.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Trustee (or
other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) an OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT REDEMPTION shall have the
right to withdraw such election at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day
immediately preceding the Redemption Date (or any such later time as may be required by applicable
law) by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed
by the Company) and the Company specifying:
(i) the certificate number, if any, of the Notes in respect of which such notice of
withdrawal is being submitted, or the appropriate Depositary information if the Notes in
respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted is represented by a Global
Note,
(ii) the principal amount of the Notes with respect to which such notice of withdrawal
is being submitted, and
(iii) the principal amount, if any, of such Notes which remain subject to the original
OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT REDEMPTION and which has been or will be delivered for redemption
by the Company.
ARTICLE 11
Note Guarantee
Section 11.1. Guarantee.
(a) Subject to this Article 11, the Guarantor hereby unconditionally guarantees to each
Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its
successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of this
Indenture, the Notes or the obligations of the Company hereunder or thereunder, that:
(1) the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes will be promptly paid in
full when due, whether at Maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, and interest on
the overdue principal of and interest on the Notes, if any, if lawful, and all other
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obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder will be promptly paid in
full or performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and
(2) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such
other obligations, that same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance
with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration,
redemption or otherwise.
Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed or any performance so guaranteed for
whatever reason, the Guarantor will be obligated to pay the same immediately. The Guarantor agrees
that this is a guarantee of payment and not a guarantee of collection.
(b) The Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations hereunder are unconditional,
irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes or this Indenture, the
absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of the Notes with
respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company,
any action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a
legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor or surety. The Guarantor hereby waives
filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company and any
right to require a proceeding first against the Company or any other Person, and covenants that
this Note Guarantee will not be discharged except by complete performance of the obligations
contained in the Notes and this Indenture.
(c) If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the
Company, the Guarantor or any Custodian acting in relation to either the Company or the
Guarantor, any amount paid by either to the Trustee or such Holder, or any such amount paid is
rescinded or reduced in amount, this Note Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, will
continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, and be in full force and effect
all as though such amount had not been paid.
(d) The Guarantor agrees that it will not be entitled to any right of subrogation in
relation to the Holders in respect of any obligations guaranteed hereby until payment and
performance in full of all obligations guaranteed hereby. The Guarantor further agrees that, as
between the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (1)
the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 5
hereof for the purposes of this Note Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other
prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby, and
(2) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article 5
hereof, such obligations (whether or not due and payable) will forthwith become due and payable
by the Guarantor for the purpose of this Note Guarantee.
(e) The Guarantor hereby agrees to pay any and all costs and expenses incurred by the
Holders in enforcing their respective rights under any Note.
(f) The Note Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective
should any petition be filed by or against the Company for liquidation or reorganization, should
the Company become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit
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of creditors or should a
receiver or trustee be appointed for all or any significant part of the Company’s assets.
Section 11.2. Limitation on Guarantor Liability. The Guarantor and, by its acceptance
of Notes, each Holder hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that the Note
Guarantee of the Guarantor not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of
Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent
Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar federal or state law to the
extent applicable to any Note Guarantee. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Trustee, the
Holders and the Guarantor hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations of the Guarantor under its
Note Guarantee and this Article 11 shall be limited to the greater of (i) the amount of any value
received by the Guarantor and (ii) the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to such maximum
amount and all other contingent and fixed liabilities of the Guarantor that are relevant under such
laws, result in the obligations of the Guarantor under its Note Guarantee not constituting a
fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
Section 11.3. Execution and Delivery of a Note Guarantee. To evidence the Note
Guarantee, the Guarantor hereby agrees that a notation of such Note Guarantee substantially in the
form attached as Exhibit B hereto will be endorsed by an Officer of the Guarantor on each Note
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and that this Indenture will be executed on behalf of
the Guarantor by one of its Officers.
The Guarantor hereby agrees that the Note Guarantee will remain in full force and effect
notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Note a notation of such Note Guarantee.
If an Officer whose signature is on this Indenture or on the Note Guarantee no longer holds
that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note on which a Note Guarantee is endorsed,
the Note Guarantee will be valid nevertheless.
The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, will
constitute due delivery of the Note Guarantee set forth in this Indenture on behalf of the
Guarantor.
Section 11.4. Guarantor May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms. Except as otherwise
provided in this Section 11.4, the Guarantor may not sell, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of
all or substantially all of its property or assets to, or consolidate with or merge with or into
another Person, other than the Company, unless:
(1) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of
Default exists; and
(2) either:
(a) the Guarantor is the surviving Person; or
(b) the Person acquiring the property or assets in any such sale, conveyance, transfer or
disposition or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger
unconditionally assumes all the obligations of the Guarantor pursuant to a supplemental
indenture executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the
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Trustee, under the Notes, this Indenture and the Note Guarantee on the terms set forth herein or therein.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or disposition and upon
the assumption by the successor Person, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the
Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the Note Guarantee endorsed upon the Notes and
the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be
performed by the Guarantor, such successor Person will succeed to and be substituted for the
Guarantor with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the Guarantor. Such successor
Person thereupon may cause to be signed any or all of the Note Guarantees to be endorsed upon all
of the Notes issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and
delivered to the Trustee. All the Note Guarantees so issued will in all respects have the same
legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Note Guarantees theretofore and thereafter
issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Note Guarantees had
been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Notes will prevent any consolidation or
merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company, or will prevent any sale or conveyance of the
property of the Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to the Company.
Section 11.5. Release of Guarantee. Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such consolidation, merger, sale
or conveyance was made by the Guarantor in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, the
Trustee will execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of the
Guarantor from its obligations under its Note Guarantee.
ARTICLE 12
Conversion of Notes
Section 12.1. Right to Convert.
(a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Indenture, the Holder of any
Note shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to convert the principal amount of such
Note, or any portion of such principal amount which is an integral multiple of $1,000, into
fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock (as such shares shall then be constituted)
at the Conversion Rate in effect at such time at any time prior to the earlier of (1) the close
of business on the second Business Day prior to the Redemption Date and (2) the close of
business on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Final Maturity Date, by surrender
of the Note so to be converted in whole or in part, together with any required funds, under the
circumstances described in this Section 12.1 and in the manner provided in Section 12.2.
(b) A Note in respect of which a Holder is electing to exercise its option to require
redemption upon a Change in Ownership or Fundamental Change pursuant to Section 10.8 may be
converted only if such Holder withdraws its election in accordance with Section 10.8. A Holder
of Notes is not entitled to any rights of a holder of Common Stock until such
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Holder has converted its Notes to Common Stock, and only then to the extent such Notes are
deemed to have been converted to Common Stock under this Article 12.
Section 12.2. Exercise of Conversion Privilege; Issuance of Common Stock on Conversion; No
Adjustment for Interest or Dividends; Settlement of Cash or Common Stock upon Conversion.
(a) In order to exercise the conversion privilege with respect to any Note in certificated
form, the Company must receive at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that
purpose or, at the option of such Holder, the Corporate Trust Office, such Note with the
original or facsimile of the form entitled “Form of Conversion Notice” on the reverse
thereof, duly completed and manually signed, together with such Notes duly endorsed for
transfer, accompanied by the funds, if any, required by paragraph (d) of this Section 12.2.
Such notice shall also state the name or names (with address or addresses) in which the
certificate or certificates (or other evidence permissible pursuant to applicable state law) for
shares of Common Stock which shall be issuable on such conversion shall be issued, and shall be
accompanied by transfer or similar taxes, if required pursuant to Section 12.7.
In order to exercise the conversion privilege with respect to any interest in a Global
Note, the beneficial holder must complete, or cause to be completed, the appropriate instruction
form for conversion pursuant to the Depositary’s book-entry conversion program, deliver, or
cause to be delivered, by book-entry delivery an interest in such Global Note, furnish
appropriate endorsements and transfer documents if required by the Company or the Trustee or the
Conversion Agent, and pay the funds, if any, required by Section 12.2(d) and any transfer or
similar taxes if required pursuant to Section 12.7.
(b) As promptly as practicable after satisfaction of the requirements for conversion set
forth above, subject to compliance with any restrictions on transfer if shares issuable on
conversion are to be issued in a name other than that of the Holder (as if such transfer were a
transfer of the Note (or portion thereof) so converted), the Company shall issue and shall
deliver to such Holder at the office or agency maintained by the Company for that purpose or, at
the option of such Holder, the Corporate Trust Office, a certificate or certificates (or other
evidence permissible pursuant to applicable state law) for the number of full shares of Common
Stock issuable upon the conversion of such Note or portion thereof as determined by the Company
in accordance with the provisions of this ARTICLE 12 and a check or cash in respect of any
fractional interest in respect of a share of Common Stock arising upon such conversion,
calculated by the Company as provided in Section 12.3. In case any Note of a denomination
greater than $1,000 shall be surrendered for partial conversion, subject to Sections 3.2 and
3.3, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the holder of
the Note so surrendered, without charge to such Holder, a new Note or Notes in authorized
denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the
surrendered Note.
(c) Each conversion shall be deemed to have been effected as to any such Note (or portion
thereof) on the date on which the requirements set forth above in this Section 12.2
have been satisfied as to such Note (or portion thereof) (such date, the “Conversion
Date”), and the Person in whose name any certificate or certificates (or other evidence
permissible
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pursuant to applicable state law) for shares of Common Stock shall be issuable upon
such conversion shall be deemed to have become on said date the holder of record of the shares
represented thereby; provided that any such surrender on any date when the stock
transfer books of the Company shall be closed shall constitute the Person in whose name the
certificates (or other evidence permissible pursuant to applicable state law) are to be issued
as the record holder thereof for all purposes on the next succeeding day on which such stock
transfer books are open, but such conversion shall be at the Conversion Rate in effect on the
date upon which such requirements shall have been satisfied.
(d) Notwithstanding paragraph (f) below, any Note or portion thereof surrendered for
conversion during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the
opening of business on the next succeeding Interest Payment Date that has not been called for
redemption during such period shall be accompanied by payment, in immediately available funds or
other funds acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the interest otherwise payable on
such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount being converted; provided that no such
payment need be made (1) if the Company has specified a Redemption Date that is after a Regular
Record Date and on or prior to a date that is two Business Days after the corresponding Interest
Payment Date, (2) if the Company has specified a Change in Ownership or Fundamental Change
repurchase date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the date that is one
Business Day after the corresponding Interest Payment Date or (3) to the extent of any overdue
interest, if any overdue interest exists at the time of conversion with respect to such Note.
Except as provided above in this Section 12.2, no payment or other adjustment shall be made for
interest accrued on any Note (or portion thereof) converted or for dividends on any shares
issued upon the conversion of such Note (or portion thereof) as provided in this Article 12.
(e) Upon the conversion of an interest in a Global Note, the Trustee (or other Conversion
Agent appointed by the Company), or the Custodian at the direction of the Trustee (or other
Conversion Agent appointed by the Company), shall make a notation on such Global Note as to the
reduction in the principal amount represented thereby. The Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of any conversions of Notes effected through any Conversion Agent other than the
Trustee.
(f) Upon the conversion of a Note (or portion thereof), that portion of the accrued and
unpaid interest with respect to the converted Note (or portion thereof) to (but excluding) the
Conversion Date shall not be cancelled, extinguished or forfeited, but rather shall be deemed to
be paid in full to the Holder thereof through delivery of the Common Stock (together with the
cash payment, if any, in lieu of fractional shares) (or cash or a combination of cash and Common
Stock) in exchange for the Note (or portion thereof) being converted pursuant to the provisions
hereof; and the fair market value of such shares of Common Stock (together with any such cash
payment in lieu of fractional shares) (or cash or a combination of cash and Common Stock) shall
be treated as issued, to the extent thereof, first in exchange for and in satisfaction of the
Company’s obligation to pay the principal amount of the converted Note (or portion thereof) and
the accrued and unpaid interest to (but excluding) the Conversion Date, and the balance, if any,
of such fair market value of such Common Stock
(and any such cash payment) (or cash or a combination of cash and Common Stock) shall be
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treated as issued in exchange for and in satisfaction of the right to convert the Note (or
portion thereof) being converted pursuant to the provisions hereof.
(g) In the event that the Company receives a Form of Conversion Notice on or prior to the
date on which the Company gives a Redemption Notice, the following procedures shall apply:
(A) If the Company elects to satisfy all or any portion of its obligation to convert the
Notes (the “Conversion Obligation”) in cash, the Company shall notify Holders through
the Trustee of the dollar amount to be satisfied in cash (which must be expressed either as 100%
of the Conversion Obligation or as a fixed dollar amount) at any time on or before the date that
is two Business Days following the Conversion Date (the “Cash Settlement Notice
Period”), unless the Company already has informed Holders of its election in connection with
its Redemption of the Notes under Section 10.1. If the Company timely elects to pay cash for
any portion of the Common Stock otherwise issuable to Holders upon conversion, Holders may
retract the Conversion Notice at any time during the two Business Days following the final day
of the Cash Settlement Notice Period (the “Conversion Retraction Period”). No such
retraction can be made (and a Form of Conversion Notice shall be irrevocable) if the Company
does not elect to deliver cash (other than cash in lieu of fractional shares) in lieu of all or
a portion of the Common Stock otherwise to be issued. Upon the expiration of a Conversion
Retraction Period, a Form of Conversion Notice shall be irrevocable. If the Company elects to
satisfy all or any portion of the Conversion Obligation in cash, and the applicable Form of
Conversion Notice has not been retracted, then settlement (in cash or in cash and shares of
Common Stock) will be made through the Conversion Agent no later than the 10th Business Day
following the Conversion Date to Holders timely surrendering Notes.
(B) If the Company does not elect to satisfy any part of the Conversion Obligation in cash
(other than cash in lieu of any fractional shares), delivery of the Common Stock into which the
Notes are converted (and cash in lieu of any fractional shares) shall occur through the
Conversion Agent no later than the fifth Business Day following the Conversion Date to Holders
timely surrendering Notes.
(h) Settlement amounts will be computed as follows:
(A) If the Company elects to satisfy the entire Conversion Obligation in Common Stock, it
shall deliver to Holders that have delivered the Conversion Notice giving rise to the Conversion
Obligation a number of shares of Common Stock equal to (i) the aggregate principal amount of
Notes to be converted divided by 1,000, multiplied by (ii) the Conversion Rate. In addition,
the Company shall pay cash for any fractional shares of Common Stock based on the Last Reported
Sale Price of the Common Stock on the last Trading Day immediately preceding the Conversion
Date.
(B) If the Company elects to satisfy the entire Conversion Obligation in cash, it shall
deliver to Holders that have delivered the Conversion Notice giving rise to the Conversion
Obligation cash in an amount equal to the product of:
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(A) a number equal to (i) the aggregate principal amount of
Notes to be converted divided by 1,000, multiplied by (ii) the
Conversion Rate; and
(B) the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common
Stock for the five consecutive Trading Days (x) immediately
following the date of the Company’s notice of its election to
deliver cash, if the Company has not given a Redemption Notice, or
(y) ending on the third Trading Day prior to the Conversion Date, in
the case of a conversion following a Redemption Notice specifying
that the Company intends to deliver cash upon conversion (each a
“Cash Settlement Averaging Period”).
(C) If the Company elects to satisfy a fixed portion (other than 100%) of the Conversion
Obligation in cash, it will deliver to Holders the specified cash amount (the “Cash
Amount”) and a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the greater of (i) zero and (ii)
the excess, if any, of the number of shares of Common Stock calculated as if the Company elected
to satisfy the entire Conversion Obligation in shares over the number of shares equal to the
sum, for each day of the applicable Cash Settlement Averaging Period, of (x) 20% of the Cash
Amount, divided by (y) the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on such day. In
addition, the Company shall pay cash for all fractional shares of Common Stock based on the Last
Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the last Trading Day immediately preceding the
Conversion Date.
In no event shall the amount of cash delivered upon conversion of Notes exceed $1,000 per
$1,000 principal amount of Notes to be converted. Any such excess amount shall be paid by the
Company in shares of Common Stock.
The Company must determine whether or not it will satisfy all or a portion of the Conversion
Obligation in cash at the time it issues a Redemption Notice, and such notices will state the
amount of the Conversion Obligation to be settled in cash. If a Form of Conversion Notice is
received from Holders of Notes after the date that a Redemption Notice has been issued, such
Holders may not retract their Conversion Notice. In such case, settlement (in cash and/or Common
Stock) will occur no later than the 10th Business Day following the Conversion Date.
(i) The Company may irrevocably elect, in its sole discretion and without the consent of
Holders of the Notes, by notice to the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes, to satisfy in cash
100% of the principal amount of the Notes converted after the date of such election.
Notwithstanding such election, the Company may satisfy a Conversion Obligation to the extent it
exceeds the principal amount in cash or Common Stock or combination of cash or Common Stock
pursuant to this Section 12.2. If a Form of Conversion Notice is received from Holders of Notes
after the date that a Redemption Notice has been issued, such Holders may not retract their
Conversion Notice. In such case, settlement (in cash and/or Common Stock) will occur no later
than the 10th Business Day following the Conversion Date.
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Section 12.3. Cash Payments in Lieu of Fractional Shares. No fractional shares of
Common Stock or scrip certificates representing fractional shares shall be issued upon conversion
of Notes. If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same
Holder, the number of full shares that shall be issuable upon conversion shall be computed on the
basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof to the extent
permitted hereby) so surrendered. If any fractional share of stock would be issuable upon the
conversion of any Note or Notes, the Company shall make an adjustment and payment therefor in cash
to the Holder thereof at the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the last Trading Day
immediately preceding the day on which the Notes (or the specified portions thereof) are deemed to
have been converted.
Section 12.4. Conversion Rate. Each $1,000 principal amount of the Notes shall be
convertible into the number of shares of Common Stock specified in the form of Note (herein called
the “Conversion Rate”) set forth in Exhibit A hereto, subject to adjustment as provided in
this ARTICLE 12. References to Conversion Rate, applicable Conversion Rate, current Conversion
Rate and Conversion Rate then in effect mean the Conversion Rate in effect on the relevant date.
Section 12.5. Adjustment of Conversion Rate. The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted
from time to time by the Company as follows:
(a) If shares of Common Stock are issued as a dividend or distribution on shares of Common
Stock, or if a share split or share combination is effected, the Conversion Rate will be
adjusted based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to such event | ||||
CR' | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after such event | ||||
OS0 | = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such event | ||||
OS' | = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event |
An adjustment made pursuant to this subsection (a) shall become effective on the date
immediately after (x) the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
dividend or other distribution or (y) the date on which such split or combination becomes
effective, as applicable. If any dividend or distribution described in this subsection (a) is
declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to the
Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been
declared.
(b) If any rights, warrants, options or other securities (other than any rights or warrants
issued pursuant to the a stockholder rights plan (commonly referred to as a “poison
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pill” plan) referred to in Section 12.5(c)) are issued to all or substantially all of the Holders of shares
of Common Stock entitling them for a period of not more than 60 days after the date of issuance
thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock, or securities convertible into
shares of Common Stock within 60 days after the date of issuance thereof, in either case at an
exercise price per share or a conversion price per share less than the Last Reported Sale Price
of the Common Stock on the Business Day immediately preceding the time of announcement of such
issuance, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:
where,
CR0
|
= | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to such event | ||
CR'
|
= | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after such event | ||
OS0
|
= | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such event, including Common Stock that would be outstanding upon exercise or conversion of all options and convertible securities whether or not such options or convertible securities are actually exercisable or convertible at such time | ||
X
|
= | the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities | ||
Y
|
= | the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate exercise price or conversion price payable to exercise or convert such rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities divided by the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Days prior to the Business Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the issuance of such rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities |
An adjustment made pursuant to this subsection (b) shall be made successively whenever such
rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities are issued, and shall become
effective on the day following the date of announcement of such issuance. If, at the end of the
period during which such rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities are
exercisable or convertible, not all rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible
securities have been exercised or converted, as the case may be, the adjusted
Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted to what it would have been based upon the
number of additional shares of Common Stock actually issued (or the number of shares of Common
Stock actually issued upon conversion of convertible securities actually issued).
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For purposes of Section 12.1 and this Section 12.5, in determining whether such rights,
warrants, options, other securities or convertible securities entitle the Holder to subscribe for
or purchase or exercise a conversion right for shares of Common Stock at less than the average Last
Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock, and in determining the aggregate exercise or conversion
price payable for such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration
received by the Company for such rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible
securities and any amount payable on exercise or conversion thereof, with the value of such
consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors and such
determination shall be provided to the Trustee in a Board Resolution.
(c) If shares of the Company’s capital stock, evidences of the Company’s indebtedness,
shares of the capital stock of the Company’s subsidiaries or other assets or property of the
Company or its subsidiaries are distributed to all or substantially all of the Holders of shares
of Common Stock, excluding:
(A) dividends, distributions and rights, warrants, options, other securities or convertible
securities referred to in clause (a) or (b) above;
(B) dividends or distributions in cash referred to in clause (d) below; and
(C) spin-offs described below in this clause (c);
then the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:
where,
CR0
|
= | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to such distribution | ||
CR'
|
= | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after such distribution | ||
SP0
|
= | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the ten (10) consecutive Trading Days prior to the Business Day immediately preceding the record date for such distribution | ||
FMV
|
= | the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company) of the shares of capital stock, evidences of indebtedness, assets or property distributed with respect to each outstanding share of Common Stock on the record date for such distribution |
An adjustment made pursuant to the above paragraph shall be made successively whenever any
such distribution is made and shall become effective on the day immediately after the dated fixed
for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such distribution.
With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this clause (c) where there has been a payment of a
dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock of shares of capital stock of any class or
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series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a subsidiary or other business unit of the
Company (referred to as a “spin-off”), the Conversion Rate in effect immediately before the
close of business on the record date fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to receive
the distribution will be increased based on the following formula:
where,
CR0
|
= | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to such distribution | ||
CR'
|
= | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after such distribution | ||
FMV0
|
= | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the capital stock or similar equity interest distributed to Holders of shares of Common Stock applicable to one share of our Common Stock over the first 10 consecutive Trading Days after the effective date of the spin-off | ||
MP0
|
= | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the first 10 consecutive Trading Days after the effective date of the spin-off |
The adjustment to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph will occur on the 10th
Trading Day after the effective date of the spin-off.
If any such dividend or distribution described in this subsection (c) is declared but not paid
or made, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to be the Conversion Rate that would then be
in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
Rights or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of Common Stock entitling the
holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Company’s capital stock (either
initially or under certain circumstances), which rights or warrants, until the occurrence of a
specified event or events specified in such rights or warrants or related instruments or agreements
governing the same (a “Trigger Event”):
(A) | are deemed to be transferred with such shares of Common Stock; | ||
(B) | are not exercisable; and | ||
(C) | are also issued in respect of future issuances of Common Stock; |
shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 12.5(c) (and no
adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 12.5(c) will be required) until the occurrence
of the earliest Trigger Event. If such right or warrant is subject to subsequent events, upon the
occurrence of which such right or warrant shall become exercisable to purchase different
distributed assets, evidences of indebtedness or other assets or entitle the Holder
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purchase a different number or amount of the foregoing or to purchase any of the foregoing at a different
purchase price, then the occurrence of each such event shall be deemed to be the date of issuance
and the Conversion Record Date with respect to a new right or warrant (and a termination or
expiration of the existing right or warrant 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 or other event (of the type described in the preceding sentence) with respect thereto, that
resulted in an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 12.5(c):
(1) in the case of any such rights or warrants which shall all have been redeemed or
purchased without exercise by any Holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted upon
such final redemption or purchase to give effect to such distribution or Trigger Event, as
applicable, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or purchase
price received by a holder 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 purchase; and
(2) in the case of such rights or warrants which shall have expired or been terminated
without exercise, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights and warrants had
never been issued.
For purposes of this Section 12.5(c) and Sections 12.5(a) and 12.5(b), any dividend or
distribution to which this Section 12.5(c) is applicable that also includes shares of Common Stock,
a subdivision or combination of Common Stock to which Section 12.5(a) applies, or rights or
warrants to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock to which Section 12.5(b) applies (or
any combination thereof), shall be deemed instead to be:
(3) a dividend or distribution of the evidence of indebtedness, shares of capital stock or
other assets or property, other than such shares of Common Stock, such subdivision or
combination or such rights, warrants, options or other securities to which Sections 12.5(a) and
12.5(b) apply, respectively (and any Conversion Rate reduction required by this Section 12.5(c)
with respect to such dividend or distribution shall then be made), immediately followed by
(4) a dividend or distribution of such shares of Common Stock, such subdivision or
combination or such rights, warrants, options or other securities (and any further Conversion
Rate reduction required by Sections 12.5(a) and 12.5(b) with respect to such dividend or
distribution shall then be made), except:
(A) the effective date of such dividend or distribution shall be “the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution” or “the
date on which such split or combination becomes effective,” as applicable for purposes of
Section 12.5(a) and the “time of announcement of such issuance” for purposes of Section 12.5(b);
and
(B) any shares of Common Stock included in such dividend or distribution shall not be
deemed “outstanding immediately prior to such event” for purposes of Section 12.5(a) and
any reduction or increase in the number of shares of Common Stock
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resulting from such subdivision or combination shall be disregarded in connection with such dividend or
distribution.
(d) If any cash dividend or distribution is paid or made to all or substantially all of the
holders of Common Stock, the Conversion Rate will be adjusted based on the following formula:
where,
CR0
|
= | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the record date for such distribution | ||
CR'
|
= | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the record date for such distribution | ||
SP0
|
= | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Days prior to the Business Day immediately preceding the record date of such distribution | ||
C
|
= | the amount in cash per share the Company distributes to Holders of shares of Common Stock |
An adjustment made pursuant to this subsection (d) shall become effective on the date
immediately after the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such
dividend or distribution. If any dividend or distribution described in this subsection (d) is
declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall again be adjusted to the Conversion
Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
(e) The reclassification of Common Stock into securities other than Common Stock (other
than any reclassification upon an event to which Section 12.6 applies) shall be deemed to
involve (a) 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 receive such distribution” within the meaning of
Section 12.5(c)), and (b) a subdivision, split or 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 split or combination becomes
effective” within the meaning of Section 12.5(a)).
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of Section 12.5, no adjustment shall be made
thereunder, nor shall an adjustment be made to the ability of a Holder of a Note to convert, for
any distribution described therein if the Holder will otherwise participate in the distribution
without conversion of such Xxxxxx’s Notes.
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(g) The Company may make such increases in the Conversion Rate, in addition to those
required by clauses (a) through (e) of this Section 12.5, as the Board of Directors deems
advisable to avoid or diminish any income tax to Holders of shares of capital stock of the
Company (or rights to acquire such capital stock) resulting from any dividend or distribution of
such capital stock (or rights to acquire common stock) or from any event treated as such for
income tax purposes.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Company from time to time may increase the
Conversion Rate by any amount for any period of time if the increase is irrevocable during the
period and the Board of Directors shall have made a determination that such increase would be in
the best interests of the Company, which determination shall be conclusive. Whenever the
Conversion Rate is increased pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Company shall mail to Holders
of record of the Notes a notice of the increase at least 20 days prior to the date the increased
Conversion Rate takes effect and in accordance with applicable law, and such notice shall state the
increased Conversion Rate and the period during which it will be in effect.
(h) No adjustment to the Conversion Rate need be made:
(A) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future plan
providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on securities of the Company and
the investment of additional optional amounts in shares of Common Stock under any plan;
(B) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase shares
of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future employee, director or consultant incentive
benefit plan or program of or assumed by the Company or any of its subsidiaries;
(C) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right,
or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security not described in (ii) above;
(D) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to this Indenture or the
indentures governing the PBGC 6% Senior Notes, the PBGC 8% Contingent Notes and the Employee
Notes;
(E) upon the repurchase by the Company of shares of Common Stock from any employee deferred
compensation trusts or members of its management upon their resignation or termination of
employment;
(F) for a change in the par value of the Common Stock;
(G) for accrued and unpaid interest;
(H) upon any issuance or sale (or deemed issuance or sale) of any securities issued or sold
pursuant to or in connection with the Plan or upon conversion, exercise or exchange of any such
securities; or
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(I) upon any distribution of assets pursuant to or in connection with the Plan.
No adjustment to the Conversion Rate will be required pursuant to this Indenture in connection
with any event, transaction or other occurrence unless the terms of this Indenture specifically
require that such an adjustment be made in connection with such event, transaction or other
occurrence.
(i) All adjustments to the Conversion Rate under this Article 12 shall be made by the
Company and shall be calculated to the nearest one ten thousandth (1/10,000) of a share.
(j) Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly
file with the Trustee and any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of
the facts requiring such adjustment. Unless and until a Trust Officer of the Trustee shall have
received such Officers’ Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any
adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume that the last Conversion Rate of which it has
knowledge is still in effect. Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall
prepare a notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate
setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date on which each adjustment becomes
effective and shall mail such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to the Holder of
each Note at its last address appearing on the Register, within 20 days after execution thereof.
Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such
adjustment.
(k) In any case in which this Section 12.5 provides that an adjustment shall become
effective immediately after (1) a record date or Stock Record Date for an event, (2) the date
fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive a dividend or distribution
pursuant to Section 12.5(a) or (3) a date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled
to receive rights, warrants, options or other securities pursuant to Section 12.5(b), (each a
“Determination Date”), the Company may elect to defer until the occurrence of the
applicable Adjustment Event (as hereinafter defined) (x) issuing to the Holder of any Note (or
portion thereof) converted after such Determination Date and before the occurrence of such
Adjustment Event, the additional shares of Common Stock or other securities issuable upon such
conversion by reason of the adjustment required by such Adjustment Event over and above the
Common Stock issuable upon such conversion before giving effect to such adjustment and (y)
paying to such Holder any amount in cash in lieu of any fraction pursuant to Section 12.3;
provided that in the case of an adjustment made pursuant to Section 12.5(d) with respect
to a distribution of shares of capital stock of, or similar equity interest in, a subsidiary or
other business unit of the Company, the Company may defer the issuance of such additional shares
and cash payment, if any, until the 3rd Business Day immediately following the last day of the
20 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on the 5th Trading Day after the Ex-Dividend Date.
For purposes of this Section 12.5(k), the term “Adjustment Event” shall mean:
(A) in any case referred to in clause (1) hereof, the occurrence of such event;
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(B) in any case referred to in clause (2) hereof, the date any such dividend or
distribution is paid or made; and
(C) in any case referred to in clause (3) hereof, the date of expiration of such rights,
warrants, options or other securities (or the conversion period of any convertible securities
issued upon exercise thereof).
(l) For purposes of this Section 12.5, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time
outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but shall include
shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common
Stock. The Company will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock
held in the treasury of the Company.
(m) Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, in no event shall the
Conversion Rate be adjusted so that the Conversion Price would be less than $0.01.
Section 12.6. Effect of Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale. If there
shall occur (i) any reclassification or change of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (other
than a subdivision or combination to which Section 12.5(a) applies), (ii)
any consolidation, merger or combination of the Company with another Person as a result of
which Holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock, other securities or other
property or assets (including cash) with respect to or in exchange for such Common Stock, or (iii)
any sale or conveyance of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company to
any other Person as a result of which Holders of Common Stock shall be entitled to receive stock,
other securities or other property or assets (including cash) with respect to or in exchange for
such Common Stock, then the Company or the successor or purchasing Person, as the case may be,
shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture (which shall comply with the Trust
Indenture Act as in force at the date of execution of such supplemental indenture) providing that
each Note shall be convertible into the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or
other property or assets (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change,
consolidation, merger, combination, sale or conveyance by a Holder of a number of shares of Common
Stock issuable upon conversion of such Notes (assuming, for such purposes, a sufficient number of
treasury shares and authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock are available to convert all
such Notes) immediately prior to such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination,
sale or conveyance assuming such Holder of Common Stock did not exercise his rights of election, if
any, as to the kind or amount of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including
cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, combination, sale or
conveyance (provided that, if the kind or amount of stock, other securities or other
property or assets (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation,
merger, combination, sale or conveyance is not the same for each share of Common Stock in respect
of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised (a “non-electing share”),
then for the purposes of this Section 12.6 the kind and amount of stock, other securities or other
property or assets (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change, consolidation,
merger, combination, sale or conveyance for each non-electing share shall be deemed to be the kind
and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the non-electing shares). Such supplemental
indenture shall provide for adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable
to the adjustments provided for in this Article 12.
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The Company shall cause notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be mailed to
each Holder of Notes, at its address appearing on the Register, within 20 days after execution
thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such
supplemental indenture.
The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications,
changes, consolidations, mergers, combinations, sales and conveyances.
If this Section 12.6 applies to any event or occurrence, Section 12.5 shall not apply.
Section 12.7. Taxes on Shares Issued. The issue of stock certificates on conversions
of Notes shall be made without charge to the converting Noteholder for any documentary, stamp or
similar issue or transfer tax in respect of the issue thereof. The Company shall not, however, be
required to pay any such tax which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue
and delivery of such certificates in any name other than that of the Holder of any Note converted,
and the Company
shall not be required to issue or deliver any such stock certificate unless and until the
Person or Persons requesting the issue thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such
tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.
Section 12.8. Reservation of Shares, Shares to Be Fully Paid; Compliance with Governmental
Requirements; Listing of Common Stock. The Company shall provide out of its authorized but
unissued shares or shares held in treasury, sufficient shares of Common Stock to provide for the
conversion of the Notes from time to time as such Notes are presented for conversion.
Before taking any action which would cause an adjustment increasing the Conversion Rate to an
amount that would cause the Conversion Price to be reduced below the then par value, if any, of the
shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes, the Company will take all corporate
action which may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary in order that the Company may validly
and legally issue such shares of Common Stock at such adjusted Conversion Rate.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be issued upon conversion of
Notes will upon issue be fully paid and nonassessable by the Company and free from all taxes, Liens
and charges with respect to the issue thereof.
The Company further covenants that, prior to the issuance of any Common Stock hereunder, it
shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Common Stock to be listed on the Nasdaq
National Market or any national securities exchange or other automated quotation system. The
Company covenants to use its commercially reasonable efforts to list such Common Stock issuable
upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with the requirements of such market, exchange or
automated quotation system at such time.
Section 12.9. Responsibility of Trustee. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent
shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Notes to determine the
Conversion Rate or whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the Conversion Rate,
or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or
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with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed,
in making the same. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not be accountable with
respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any
securities or property, which may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any
Note; and the Trustee and any other Conversion Agent make no representations with respect thereto.
Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to
issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or
property or cash upon the surrender of any Note for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any
of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this ARTICLE 12. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be
under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any
supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 12.6 relating either to the kind or
amount of shares of stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Noteholders
upon the conversion of their Notes after any event referred to in such Section 12.6 or to any
adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions of Section 6.3, may
accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in
relying upon, the Officers’ Certificate (which the Company shall be obligated to file with the
Trustee prior to the execution of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto.
Section 12.10. Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions.
In case:
(a) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution) on its Common Stock
that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 12.5; or
(b) of any reclassification or reorganization of the Common Stock (other than a subdivision
or combination of the outstanding Common Stock, or a change in par value, or from par value to
no par value, or from no par value to par value), or of any consolidation or merger to which the
Company is a party and for which approval of any stockholders of the Company is required, or of
the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company;
(c) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company;
or
(d) the Company shall authorize the granting to all or substantially all of the holders of
its Common Stock of rights, warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of
any class of any other rights,
the Company shall cause to be filed with the Trustee and to be mailed to each Holder of Notes at
its address appearing on the Register, as promptly as possible but at least 10 days prior to the
applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified (but in no event prior to the date of the
notice provided to the holders of Common Stock), a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is
to be taken for the purpose of such dividend , distribution, rights, options or warrants, or, if a
record is not to be taken, the date as of which the Holders of Common Stock of record to be
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entitled to such dividend, distribution, rights, options or warrants are to be determined, or (y)
the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution,
liquidation or winding up is expected to become effective or occur, and the date as of which it is
expected that Holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their Common Stock
for securities or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger,
sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up. Failure to give such notice, or any defect
therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such dividend, distribution,
reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up.
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This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an
original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one instrument.
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.
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK, Not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as TRUSTEE | ||||||
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF NOTE]
[INSERT GLOBAL NOTE LEGEND AS SPECIFIED IN SECTION 2.4
IF APPLICABLE]
IF APPLICABLE]
CUSIP No.: [ ]
UAL CORPORATION
B[__]% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2021
No. [ ] | $[ ] |
UAL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Company,” which term includes any successor
entity), for value received promises to pay to
[ ] or registered assigns, the principal sum of
[ ] Dollars, on [ ], 2021.
Interest Payment Dates: [June 30] and [December 31].
Record Dates: [June 15] and [December 15].
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note contained herein, which will for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place, including, without limitation,
provisions giving the holder of this Note the right to convert this Note into Common Stock of the
Company on the terms and subject to the limitations referred to on the reverse hereof and as more
fully specified in the Indenture. Under the circumstances described in the Indenture, the Company
may fulfill all or part of its conversion obligation by delivering cash in lieu of shares of Common
Stock or a combination of cash and shares of Common Stock.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be signed manually or by facsimile by
its duly authorized officers and a facsimile of its corporate seal to be affixed hereto or
imprinted hereon.
UAL CORPORATION | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |
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Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the [___]% Senior Convertible Notes due 2021 referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, Not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity as TRUSTEE |
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Dated: [ ]
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By: | |||
Authorized Signatory |
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(REVERSE OF SECURITY)
[__]% SENIOR CONVERTIBLE NOTE DUE 2021
1. Interest. UAL Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), promises to pay
interest on the principal amount of this Note as follows: Interest will accrue on this Note at a
rate of [___]% per annum from the most recent date on which interest has been paid or, if no
interest has been paid, from [Effective Date] and shall be payable in cash (except as
provided below) semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, commencing June 30, 2006;
provided, that the Company may elect on any Interest Payment Date on or prior to December 31, 2011
to pay such interest in Common Stock having a Market Price as of the close of business on the
Business Day immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date equal to the amount of the
installment of interest which is due on such Interest Payment Date; such shares of Common Stock
shall be freely transferable by the Holders thereof, subject to any transfer restrictions contained
in the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation. The Company shall notify the Trustee and
the Holders within five days prior to an Interest Payment Date if the Company shall elect to pay
such interest in Common Stock on such Interest Payment Date and, in the case of payment in Common
Stock, the Company shall certify to the Trustee on such Interest Payment Date the Market Price of
the Common Stock as of the Close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding such
Interest Payment Date. All interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve
30-day months.
The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue installments of interest
from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes plus 1.0% per annum and on overdue
installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) to the extent lawful.
2. Method of Payment. The Company shall pay interest on the Notes (except Defaulted
Interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the close of business on the Record Date
immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date even if the Notes are cancelled on registration of
transfer or registration of exchange after such Record Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a
Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The Company shall pay principal, premium, if any, and
interest at the office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose under the Indenture, in
money (except as provided in paragraph 1 above) of the United States that at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts (“U.S. Legal Tender”). However, the Company
may pay interest by its check payable in such U.S. Legal Tender. The Company may deliver any such
interest payment to the Paying Agent or to a Holder at the Holder’s registered address.
3. Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially, The Bank of New York, a New York banking
corporation (the “Trustee”), will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any
Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to the Holders.
4. Indenture. The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture, dated as of [___],
2006 (the “Indenture”), by and among the Company, the Guarantor, and the Trustee. This Note is one
of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company designated as its [___]% Senior Convertible Notes
due 2021. Except as provided in paragraph 1 above, the Notes are
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limited in aggregate principal amount to $___. Capitalized terms herein are used as
defined in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein. The terms of the Notes include those
stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code §§ 77aaa—77bbbb) (the “TIA”), as in effect on the date of the Indenture.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and
Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. The Notes are
general unsecured obligations of the Company.
5. Optional Redemption. At any time on or after ___, 2011, the Notes will be
redeemable, at the Company’s option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, as set
forth below.
On or after the date ___, 2011, the Notes will be subject to redemption at 100% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to but not including the
applicable Redemption Date. The Company may elect to pay the Redemption Price in Common Stock if
the Common Stock has traded at no less than 125% of the Conversion Price for the 60 consecutive
Trading Days prior to the Redemption Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the notice of redemption is mailed prior to an Interest
Payment Date but the Redemption Date falls after such Interest Payment Date, then the applicable
interest shall be paid on such Interest Payment Date and the accrued and unpaid interest to the
Redemption Date shall be that interest accruing from such Interest Payment Date to the Redemption
Date.
6. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption shall be mailed at least 30 days but
not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed at such
Holder’s registered address. Notes in denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, if monies for the redemption of the Notes called for
redemption shall have been deposited with the Paying Agent for redemption on such Redemption Date,
then, unless the Company defaults in the payment of such Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if
any, the Notes called for redemption will cease to bear interest from and after such Redemption
Date and the only right of the Holders of such Notes will be to receive payment of the Redemption
Price plus accrued interest, if any.
7. Mandatory Redemption. Section 10.8 of the Indenture provides that, upon the
occurrence of a Change in Ownership or a Fundamental Change, and subject to further limitations
contained therein, the Company will make an offer to purchase the Notes in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the Indenture.
8. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange. The Notes are in registered form, without
coupons, in denominations of $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof. A Holder shall register the
transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder,
among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain
transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in
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connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the
transfer of or exchange of any Notes or portions thereof selected for redemption.
9. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered Holder of a Note shall be treated as the
owner of it for all purposes.
10. Unclaimed Property. If money or Common Stock for the payment of principal or
interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and/or the Paying Agent will pay the money or
deliver the Common Stock back to the Company. After that, all liability of the Trustee and such
Paying Agent with respect to such money or Common Stock shall cease.
11. Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity. If the Company at any time deposits
with the Trustee U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations sufficient to pay the principal
of and interest on the Notes to redemption or Maturity and complies with the other provisions of
the Indenture relating thereto, the Company will be discharged from certain provisions of the
Indenture and the Notes (including certain covenants, but excluding its obligation to pay the
principal of and interest on the Notes).
12. Amendment; Supplement; Waiver. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or
the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding, and any existing Default or
Event of Default or noncompliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes may be waived
with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes
then Outstanding. Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or
supplement the Indenture or the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity or correct or
supplement any provision in the Indenture which may be defective or inconsistent with any other
provision therein.
13. Restrictive Covenants. The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability
of the Company to, among other things, merge or consolidate with any other Person, sell, assign,
transfer, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its property or assets or
adopt a plan of liquidation. Such limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications
and exceptions.
14. Successors. When a successor assumes, in accordance with the Indenture, all the
obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the Indenture, the predecessor will be released
from those obligations.
15. Defaults and Remedies. If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the
Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then Outstanding may
declare all the Notes to be due and payable in the manner, at the time and with the effect provided
in the Indenture. Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in
the Indenture. The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it has
received indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it. The Indenture permits, subject to certain
limitations therein provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
Outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold
from Holders of Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of
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Default (except a Default in payment of principal or interest) in accordance with the
provisions of the Indenture if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.
16. Conversion. Subject to the occurrence of certain events and in compliance with
the provisions of the Indenture, prior to Stated Maturity, the Holder hereof has the right, at its
option, to convert each $1,000 principal amount of the Notes into such number of shares of the
Company’s Common Stock as is determined by dividing $1,000 by the Conversion Price (the “Conversion
Rate”), as such shares shall be constituted at the date of conversion and subject to adjustment
from time to time as provided in the Indenture, upon surrender of this Note with the form entitled
“Form of Conversion Notice” on the reverse hereof duly completed, to the Company at the office or
agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in accordance with the terms of the Indenture or,
at the option of such holder, the Corporate Trust Office, and, unless the shares issuable on
conversion are to be issued in the same name as this Note, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by
instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the holder or by its
duly authorized attorney. The Conversion Price means 125% of the Last Reported Sales Prices for
the 60 consecutive Trading Days following ___, 2006, rounded to the nearest cent.
If the Company (i) is a party to a consolidation, merger, binding share exchange or
combination, (ii) reclassifies the Common Stock or (iii) sells or conveys its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, the right to convert a Note into shares of Common Stock
may be changed into a right to convert it into securities, cash or other assets of the Company or
such other Person, in each case in accordance with the Indenture.
No adjustment in respect of interest on any Note converted or dividends on any shares issued
upon conversion of such Note will be made upon any conversion except as set forth in the next
sentence. If this Note (or portion hereof) is surrendered for conversion during the period from
the close of business on any record date for the payment of interest to the close of business on
the Business Day preceding the following Interest Payment Date and has not been called for
redemption by the Company on a Redemption Date that occurs during such period, this Note (or
portion hereof being converted) must be accompanied by payment, in immediately available funds or
other funds acceptable to the Company, of an amount equal to the interest otherwise payable on such
Interest Payment Date on the principal amount being converted; provided that no such payment shall
be required (1) if the Company has specified a Redemption Date that is after a record date and
prior to the next Interest Payment Date, (2) if the Company has specified a Repurchase Date
following a Change in Ownership or Fundamental Change that is during such period or (3) to the
extent of any overdue interest, if any overdue interest exists at the time of conversion with
respect to such Note.
No fractional shares will be issued upon any conversion, but an adjustment and payment in cash
will be made, as provided in the Indenture, in respect of any fraction of a share which would
otherwise be issuable upon the surrender of any Note or Notes for conversion.
A Note in respect of which a holder is exercising its right to require repurchase upon a
Change in Ownership or Fundamental Change or repurchase on a Repurchase Date may be converted only
if such holder withdraws its election to exercise such right in accordance with the terms of the
Indenture.
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Any Notes called for redemption, unless surrendered for conversion by the Holders thereof on
or before the close of business on the second Business Day preceding the Redemption Date, may be
deemed to be redeemed from the holders of such Notes for an amount equal to the applicable
Redemption Price by one or more investment banks or other purchasers who may agree with the Company
(i) to purchase such Notes from the holders thereof and convert them into shares of the Company’s
Common Stock and (ii) to make payment for such Notes as aforesaid to the Trustee in trust for the
Holders.
17. Trustee Dealings with Company. The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual
or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the
Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.
18. No Recourse Against Others. No stockholder, director, officer, employee or
incorporator, as such, of the Company or the Guarantor shall have any liability for any obligation
of the Company or the Guarantor under the Notes, the Note Guarantee or the Indenture or for any
claim based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of a
Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of
the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.
19. Authentication. This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee or Authenticating
Agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on this Note.
20. Governing Law. The laws of the State of New York shall govern this Note and the
Indenture, without regard to principles of conflicts of law.
21. Abbreviations and Defined Terms. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name
of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as: TEN CON (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by
the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common),
CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
22. CUSIP Numbers. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on
Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on
the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the Notes. No representation is made as to the
accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other
identification numbers printed hereon.
23. Indenture. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to be bound by all of the
terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended from time to time.
24. Guarantee. The Guarantor has unconditionally guaranteed, to the extent set forth
in the Indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest
on the Notes when due, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, and
interest on the overdue principal of and interest on the Notes, if any, if lawful, and all other
obligations of the Company to the Holders or the Trustee under the Indenture and the Notes.
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The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written request and without charge a
copy of the Indenture, which has the text of this Note in larger type. Requests may be made to: UAL
Corporation, P.O. Box 66919, Chicago, Illinois 60666, Attn: Treasurer.
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
If you the Holder want to assign this Note, fill in the form below and have your signature
guaranteed:
I or we assign and transfer this Note to:
(Print or type name, address and zip code and social security or tax ID number of assignee) |
and irrevocably appoint , agent to transfer this Note on the books of
the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
Dated:
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Signed: | |||||
(Sign exactly as name appears on the other side of this Note) |
Signature Guarantee:
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(OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT REDEMPTION)
If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 10.8 of
the Indenture, check the box below:
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If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to
Section 10.8 of the Indenture, state the amount you elect to have purchased:
$
Dated: |
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NOTICE: | The signature on this assignment must correspond with the name as it appears upon the face of the within Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever and be guaranteed by the endorser’s bank or broker. |
Signature Guarantee:
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FORM OF
CONVERSION NOTICE
CONVERSION NOTICE
TO: UAL CORPORATION
[Conversion
Agent]
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby irrevocably exercises the option to convert
this Note, or the portion thereof (which is $1,000 or a multiple thereof) below designated, into
shares of Common Stock of UAL CORPORATION, in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred
to in this Note, and requests and instructs the Company to issue and deliver to the undersigned
registered owner (unless a different name has been indicated below) the shares of Common Stock
issuable and deliverable upon such conversion (and/or, should the Company elect to deliver cash, or
a combination of cash and Common Stock in lieu thereof, a check for the cash amount payable),
together with (i) any Notes representing any unconverted principal amount hereof and (ii) any check
in payment for interest, if any, and fractional shares. Capitalized terms used herein but not
defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture. If shares of
Common Stock or any portion of the principal amount of this Note not converted are to be issued in
the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will provide the appropriate
information below and pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto.
Dated:
Signature(s) |
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Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Note Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other "signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Note Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. | ||
Signature Guarantee |
NOTICE: The above signatures of the holder(s) hereof must correspond with the name as written upon
the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change
whatsoever.
Fill in the registration of shares of Common Stock if to be issued, and Notes if to be
delivered, other than to and in the name of the registered holder:
(Name) |
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(Street Address) |
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(City, State and Zip Code) |
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Please print name and address |
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Principal amount to be converted
(if less than all): |
$
Social Security or Other Taxpayer
Identification Number:
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EXHIBIT B
[FORM OF NOTATION OF GUARANTEE]
For value received, the Guarantor (which term includes any successor Person under the Indenture)
has unconditionally guaranteed, to the extent set forth in the Indenture (the “Indenture”) among
UAL Corporation (the “Company”), the Guarantor and ___, as trustee (the “Trustee”),
(a) the due and punctual payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes
(as defined in the Indenture), whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, the
due and punctual payment of interest on overdue principal of and interest on the Notes, if any, if
lawful, and the due and punctual performance of all other obligations of the Company to the Holders
or the Trustee all in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and (b) in case of any extension
of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other obligations, that the same will be
promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or
renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. The obligations of the
Guarantor to the Holders of Notes and to the Trustee pursuant to the Note Guarantee and the
Indenture are expressly set forth in Article 11 of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to
the Indenture for the precise terms of the Note Guarantee. Each Holder of a Note, by accepting the
same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions and (b) appoints the Trustee
attorney-in-fact of such Holder for such purpose.
[NAME OF XXXXXXXXX] | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: |
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