Exhibit 4.15
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INDENTURE
between
AMERUS LIFE HOLDINGS, INC.
and
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
as Trustee
Dated as of July 27, 1998
Providing for the Issuance of
Subordinated Debt Securities in Series
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisionsof General Application
Section 1.01. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Section 1.02. Compliance Certificate and Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Section 1.03. Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Section 1.04. Acts of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 1.05. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Section 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Section 1.07. Headings and Table of Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.08. Successors and Assigns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.09. Separability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.10. Benefits of Indenture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.11. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.12. Legal Holidays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
ARTICLE II
Security Forms
Section 2.01. Forms Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication. . . . . . 21
Section 2.03. Securities in Global Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 2.04. Form of Legend for Securities in Global
Form. . . . . . 22
ARTICLE IIIThe Securities
Section 3.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Section 3.02. Denominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Section 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. . . . . 28
Section 3.04. Temporary Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Section 3.05. Registration, Transfer and Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Section 3.06. Replacement Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Section 3.07. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. . . . . . 39
Section 3.08. Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Section 3.09. Cancellation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Section 3.10. Computation of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Section 3.11. CUSIP Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Section 3.12. Currency and Manner of Payment in Respect of Securities. 43
Section 3.13. Appointment and Resignation of Exchange Rate Agent . . . 48
ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance
Section 4.01. Termination of Company's Obligations
Under the Indenture. 49
Section 4.02. Application of Trust Funds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Section 4.03. Applicability of Defeasance Provisions;
Company's Option to Effect Defeasance
or Covenant Defeasance51
Section 4.04. Defeasance and Discharge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Section 4.05. Covenant Defeasance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Section 4.06. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance . . . . . 53
Section 4.07. Deposited Money and Government
Obligations to Be Held in Trust55
Section 4.08. Repayment to Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Section 4.09. Indemnity for Government Obligations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Section 4.10. Reinstatement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
ARTICLE V
Defaults and Remedies
Section 5.01. Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Section 5.02. Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Section 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits
for Enforcement by Trustee61
Section 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Section 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without
Possession of Securities62
Section 5.06. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 5.07. Waiver of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 5.08. Control by Majority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 5.09. Limitation on Suits by Holders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Section 5.10. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 5.11. Application of Money Collected. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 5.12. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Section 5.13. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Section 5.14. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Section 5.15. Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Section 5.16. Judgment Currency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ARTICLE VI
The Trustee
Section 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities
of the Trustee . . . 68
Section 6.02. Rights of Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Section 6.03. Trustee May Hold Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Section 6.04. Money Held in Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Section 6.05. Trustee's Disclaimer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 6.06. Notice of Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 6.07. Reports by Trustee to Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 6.08. Securityholder Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 6.09. Compensation and Indemnity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Section 6.10. Replacement of Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Section 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Section 6.12. Eligibility; Disqualification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Section 6.13. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business76
Section 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
ARTICLE VII
Consolidation, Merger or Sale by the Company
Section 7.01. Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets
Permitted . . . 78
ARTICLE VIII
Supplemental Indentures
Section 8.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent
of Holders. . . 79
Section 8.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders . . . . 81
Section 8.03. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Section 8.04. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Section 8.05. Effect of Supplemental Indentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Section 8.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures. . . 83
Section 8.07. Effect on Senior Indebtedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
ARTICLE IX
Covenants
Section 9.01. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest. . 83
Section 9.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Section 9.03. Money for Securities Payments to be
Held in Trust; Unclaimed Money85
Section 9.04. Corporate Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Section 9.05. Reports by the Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Section 9.06. Annual Review Certificate; Notice of
Defaults or Events of Default88
Section 9.07. Books of Record and Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
ARTICLE X
Redemption
Section 10.01. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Section 10.02. Election to Redeem Notice to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Section 10.03. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Section 10.04. Notice of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Section 10.05. Deposit of Redemption Price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Section 10.06. Securities Payable on Redemption Date. . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Section 10.07. Securities Redeemed in Part. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
ARTICLE XI
Sinking Funds
Section 11.01. Applicability of Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Section 11.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments
with Securities94
Section 11.03. Redemption of Securities for
Sinking Fund . . . . 94
ARTICLE XII
Subordination of Securities
Section 12.01. Agreement to Subordinate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Section 12.02. Distribution on Dissolution, Liquidation
and Reorganization95
Section 12.03. Prior Payment to Senior Indebtedness
Upon Acceleration of Securities97
Section 12.04. No Payment on Securities in Event of
Default on Senior Indebtedness98
Section 12.05. Payments on Securities Permitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Section 12.06. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of
Senior Indebtedness99
Section 12.07. Provisions Solely to Define Relative
Rights. . . . .100
Section 12.08. Authorization of Holders of Securities
to Trustee to Effect Subordination100
Section 12.09. Notices to Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Section 12.10. Trustee as Holder of Senior
Indebtedness . . . .101
Section 12.11. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions. . . . . . . . . . . . .102
Section 12.12. Reliance on Judicial Order or
Certificate of Liquidating Agent102
Section 12.13. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of
Senior Indebtedness103
Section 12.14. Article Applicable to Paying Agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Section 12.15. Certain Conversions or Exchanges
Deemed Payment.103
INDENTURE, dated as of July 27, 1998 from AMERUS LIFE HOLDINGS, INC.,
an Iowa corporation (the "Company"), to FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK (the
"Trustee").
RECITALS
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured and
subordinated debentures, notes or other evidences of subordinated indebtedness
("Securities") to be issued in one or more series as herein provided.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as
follows for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities:
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
Section 1.01. 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, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP (as hereinafter defined);
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.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by, or under direct or indirect common
control, with such specified Person. For 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.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper of general circulation, in
the official language of the country of publication or in the English language,
customarily published on each Business Day whether or not published on
Saturdays, Sundays or holidays. Whenever successive publications in an
Authorized Newspaper are required hereunder they may be made (unless otherwise
expressly provided herein) on the same or different days of the week and in the
same or different Authorized Newspapers.
"Bearer Security" means any Security issued hereunder which is payable
to bearer.
"Board" or "Board of Directors" means the Board of Directors of the
Company or any duly authorized committee of the Board of Directors of the
Company.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution of the Board of
Directors, certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company
to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and
effect on the date of the certificate, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day", when used with respect to any Place of Payment or any
other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the Securities,
means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to
Section 3.01, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not
a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or particular
location are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 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.
"Company" means the party named as the Company in the first paragraph
of this Indenture until a successor corporation shall have become such pursuant
to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter means such
successor.
"Company Order" and "Company Request" mean, respectively, a written
order or request signed in the name of the Company by two Officers, one of whom
must be the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Chief Financial Officer,
the Treasurer, the Assistant Treasurer, the Controller or a Vice President of
the Company.
"Conversion Event" means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign
Currency both by the issuer of such currency and for the settlement of
transactions by a central bank or other public institutions of or within the
international banking community, (ii) the ECU both within the European Monetary
System and for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or
within the European Communities or (iii) any currency unit other than the ECU
for the purposes for which it was established.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee in which at
any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally
administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate
Trust Dept.
"Currency Unit" or "currency unit" for all purposes of this Indenture
shall mean any composite currency.
"Debt" means indebtedness for money borrowed.
"Default" means any event which is, or after notice or passage of
time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.
"Depository" when used with respect to the Securities of or within any
series issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, means the Person
designated as Depository by the Company pursuant to Section 3.01 until a
successor Depository shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter shall mean or include each Person
which is then a Depository hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one
such Person, shall be a collective reference to such Persons.
"Dollar" means the currency of the United States as at the time of
payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
"ECU" means the European Currency Unit as defined and revised from
time to time by the Council of the European Communities.
"European Communities" means the European Economic Community, the
European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
"European Monetary System" means the European Monetary System
established by the Resolution of December 5, 1978 of the Council of the European
Communities.
"Exchange Rate Agent", when used with respect to Securities of or
within any series, means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, a bank designated pursuant to Section 3.01
or Section 3.13 (which may include any such bank acting as Trustee hereunder).
"Exchange Rate Officer's Certificate" means a certificate setting
forth (i) the applicable Market Exchange Rate or the applicable bid quotation
and (ii) the Dollar or Foreign Currency amounts of principal (and premium, if
any) and interest, if any (on an aggregate basis and on the basis of a Security
having the lowest denomination principal amount in the relevant currency or
currency unit), payable with respect to a Security of any series on the basis of
such Market Exchange Rate or the applicable bid quotation, signed by the Chief
Financial Officer, the Treasurer, the Controller, any Vice President or the
Assistant Treasurer of the Company.
"Foreign Currency" means any currency issued by the government of one
or more countries other than the United States or by any recognized
confederation or association of such governments.
"GAAP" means United States generally accepted accounting principles,
in effect as of the date of this Indenture, as set forth in the statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other
statements by such other entity as is approved by a significant segment of the
accounting profession.
"Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States or, if specified as contemplated by Section
3.01, the government which issued the currency in which the Securities of a
particular series are payable, 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 or, if specified
as contemplated by Section 3.01, such government which issued the foreign
currency in which the Securities of such series are payable, the payment of
which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the
United States or such other government, which, in either case, are not callable
or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a
depository 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 depository 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 depository receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the Government Obligation evidenced by such depository
receipt.
"Holder" means, with respect to a Bearer Security, a bearer thereof or
of a coupon appertaining thereto and, with respect to a Registered Security, a
person in whose name a Security 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
particular series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.
"Indexed Security" means a Security the terms of which provide that
the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or less than
the principal face amount thereof at original issuance.
"Interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date", when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"Market Exchange Rate" means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, (i) for any conversion involving a
currency unit on the one hand and Dollars or any Foreign Currency on the other,
the exchange rate between the relevant currency unit and Dollars or such Foreign
Currency calculated by the method specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for the
Securities of the relevant series, (ii) for any conversion of Dollars into any
Foreign Currency, the noon buying rate for such Foreign Currency for cable
transfers quoted in New York City as certified for customs purposes by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and (iii) for any conversion of one Foreign
Currency into Dollars or another Foreign Currency, the spot rate at noon local
time in the relevant market at which, in accordance with normal banking
procedures, the Dollars or Foreign Currency into which conversion is being made
could be purchased with the Foreign Currency from which conversion is being made
from major banks located in New York City, London or any other principal market
for Dollars or such purchased Foreign Currency, in each case determined by the
Exchange Rate Agent. Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 3.01, in the event of the unavailability of any of the
exchange rates provided for in the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), the
Exchange Rate Agent shall use, in its sole discretion and without liability on
its part, such quotation of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as of the most
recent available date, or quotations from one or more major banks in New York
City, London or other principal market for such currency or currency unit in
question (which may include any such bank acting as Trustee under this
Indenture), or such other quotations as the Exchange Rate Agent shall deem
appropriate. If there is more than one market for dealing in any currency or
currency unit by reason of foreign exchange regulations or otherwise, the market
to be used in respect of such currency or currency unit shall be that upon which
a nonresident issuer of securities designated in such currency or currency unit
would purchase such currency or currency unit in order to make payments in
respect of such securities.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security 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.
"Officer" means the Chairman of the Board, the President, any Vice
President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, the Assistant Treasurer,
the Controller, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company.
"Officers' Certificate", when used with respect to the Company, means
a certificate signed by two Officers, one of whom must be the Chairman of the
Board, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, the Assistant
Treasurer, the Controller or a Vice President of the Company.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion from the general counsel
of the Company or other legal counsel who is reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee. Such counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides
for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 5.02.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment or redemption
money in the necessary amount and in the required currency or Currency Unit
has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other
than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust (if the
Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, provided that, if such
Securities 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) Securities, except to the extent provided in Sections 4.04, with
respect to which the Company has effected defeasance as provided in Article
IV; and
(iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.06 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Securities in
respect which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof
satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a bona fide purchaser
in whose hands such Securities are valid obligations of the Company;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, 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, (W) the principal amount of any Original Issue Discount
Securities that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and
that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the
amount of principal thereof that would be (or shall have been declared to be)
due and payable, at the time of such Determination, upon a declaration of
acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02, (X) the principal
amount of any Security denominated in a Foreign Currency that may be counted in
making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed Outstanding
for such purpose shall be equal to the Dollar equivalent, determined as of the
date such Security is originally issued by the Company as set forth in an
Exchange Rate Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee, of the principal
amount (or, in the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar
equivalent as of such date of original issuance of the amount determined as
provided in clause (W) above) of such Security, (Y) the principal amount of any
Indexed Security that may be counted in making such determination or calculation
and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the
principal face amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless
otherwise provided with respect to such security pursuant to Section 3.01, and
(Z) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or
any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and
deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in making such calculation or in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities which the Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be
regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securities and that
the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of, premium, if any, or interest and any other payments on any
Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Periodic Offering" means an offering of Securities of a series from
time to time the specific terms of which Securities, including, without
limitation, the rate or rates of interest or formula for determining the rate or
rates of interest thereon, if any, the Maturity thereof and the redemption
provisions, if any, with respect thereto, are to the determined by the Company
upon the issuance of such Securities.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
"Place of Payment", when used with respect to the Securities of or
within any series, means the place or places where the principal of, premium, if
any, and interest and any other payments on such Securities are payable as
specified as contemplated by Sections 3.01.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.06 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"Principal Amount", when used with respect to any Security, means the
amount of principal, if any, payable in respect thereof at Maturity; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that when used with respect to an Indexed Security in any context other
than the making of payments at Maturity, "principal amount" means the principal
face amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, in whole or in part, means the price at which it is to be redeemed
pursuant to this Indenture.
"Registered Security" means any Security issued hereunder and
registered as to principal and interest in the Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Securities of or within any series means the date specified for that
purpose as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, shall
mean 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
officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by the persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively,
or to whom any corporate trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of
and familiarity with a particular subject.
"Security" or "Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital
of this Indenture and more particularly means a Security or Securities of the
Company issued, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Senior Indebtedness" means the principal of, premium, if any, and
unpaid interest on (i) all indebtedness of the Company, whether outstanding on
the date of this Indenture or thereafter created, incurred or assumed, which is
for money borrowed, or which is evidenced by a note or similar instrument given
in connection with the acquisition of any business, properties or assets,
including securities; (ii) any indebtedness of others of the kinds described in
the preceding clause (i) the payment of which the Company is responsible for or
liable as guarantor or otherwise; and (iii) amendments, renewals, extensions and
refundings of any such indebtedness, unless in any instrument or instruments
evidencing or securing such indebtedness or pursuant to which the same is
outstanding, it is provided that such indebtedness is not senior in right of
payment to, or that such indebtedness is pari passu in right of payment with or
junior to, the Securities.
Senior Indebtedness does not include (a) any indebtedness of the
Company to any of its Subsidiaries, (b) liabilities of the Company incurred in
the ordinary course of its business, or (c) any indebtedness which by its terms
is expressly made pari passu in right of payment with or subordinated to the
8.85% Junior Subordinated Debentures, Series A of AmerUs Capital I, a trust
formed under the laws of the State of Delaware, or the Company's guarantee
thereof.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means
a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.07.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
on such Security or on a coupon representing such installment of interest as the
fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, (i) a corporation more
than 50% of the combined voting power of the outstanding Voting Stock of which
is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more other
Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more Subsidiaries
thereof, (ii) any other Person (other than a corporation) in which such Person,
or one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person or such Person and one or more
other Subsidiaries thereof, directly or indirectly, has at least a majority
ownership and power to direct the policies, management and affairs thereof, or
(iii) any other Person which is otherwise controlled by such Person or by one or
more other Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more other
Subsidiaries of such Person.
"Total Assets" means, at any date, the total assets appearing on the
most recently prepared consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries as of the end of a fiscal quarter of the Company,
prepared in accordance with GAAP.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in
effect on the date of this Indenture, except as provided in Section 8.03.
"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 and
if, at any time, there is more than one Trustee, "Trustee" as used with respect
to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that series.
"United States" means, unless otherwise specified with respect to the
Securities of any series as contemplated by Section 3.01, the United States of
America (including the States and the District of Columbia), its territories,
its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"U.S. Person" means, unless otherwise specified with respect to the
Securities of any series as contemplated by Section 3.01, a citizen, national or
resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership or other entity
created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political
subdivision thereof, or an estate or trust, the income of which is subject to
United States federal income taxation regardless of its source.
"Voting Stock" of any Person means capital stock of such Person which
ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors (or persons performing
similar functions) of such Person, whether at all times or only so long as no
senior class of securities has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
(b) The following terms shall have the meanings specified in the
Sections referred to opposite such term below:
TERM Section
"Act" 1.04(a)
"Additional Amount" 3.01(17)
"Bankruptcy Law" 5.01
"Component Currency" 3.12(h)
"Conversion Date" 3.12(d)
"Custodian" 5.01
"Defaulted Interest" 3.07(b)
"Election Date" 3.12(h)
"Event of Default" 5.01
"Judgment Date" 5.16
"Notice of Default" 5.01(3)
"Register" 3.05
"Registrar" 3.05
"Substitute Date" 5.16
"Valuation Date" 3.12(c)
Section 1.02. Compliance Certificate and Opinions. Upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take an action under any
provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided
for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with
and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than pursuant to
Sections 2.03 and 9.06) shall include:
(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such condition or covenant and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(b) 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;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such condition or covenant
has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.03. Forms 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.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an Officer of the Company or
of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of
accountants in the employ of the Company, unless such Officer or counsel, as the
case may be, knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the accounting matters
upon which his certificate, statement or opinion is based 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.
Section 1.04. 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 agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise
expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly
required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution
of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such Agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and conclusive in favor of the
Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where
such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Bearer Securities may be proved by the
production of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed by any trust
company, bank, banker or other depository, wherever situated if such certificate
shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory, showing that at the date
therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depository, or exhibited
to it, the Bearer Securities therein described; or such facts may be proved by
the certificate or affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer Securities, if
such certificate or affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory. The
Trustee and the Company may assume that such ownership of any Bearer Security
continues until (i) another such certificate or affidavit bearing a later date
issued in respect of the same Bearer Security is produced, (ii) such Bearer
Security is produced to the Trustee by some other Person, (iii) such Bearer
Security is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security or (iv) such
Bearer Security is no longer Outstanding. The ownership of Bearer Securities
may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient; and
the Trustee may in any instance require further proof with respect to any of the
matters referred to in this Section.
(d) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the
Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder
of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer 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 Security.
(f) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of any series any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act,
the Company may, at its option, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, fix in
advance a record date for the determination of Holders of such series entitled
to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so, provided that
the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph
shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any notice,
declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. 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 Securities have authorized or agreed or
consented to such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities 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 this Indenture not later
than six months after the record date.
(g) The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of
determining the Holders of any series entitled to join in the giving or making
of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to
in Section 5.02, (iii) any direction referred to in Section 5.08 or (iv) any
request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 5.09(2), and (v) any
waiver of past defaults pursuant to Section 5.07, in each case with respect to
Securities of such series. If such a record date is fixed pursuant to this
paragraph, the relevant action may be taken or 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 of a series for the purpose of determining
whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Securities of such
series have authorized or agreed or consented to such action, and for that
purpose the Outstanding Securities of such series shall be computed as of such
record date; PROVIDED that no such action by Holders on such record date shall
be deemed effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions
of this Indenture not later than six months after the record date. Nothing in
this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new
record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set
pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall
automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect),
and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any
action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly
after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the
Company's expense, shall cause notice of such record date and the proposed
action by Holders to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of
Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 1.06.
Section 1.05. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company. 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,
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) in
writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Trustee at its
Corporate Trust Office at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or
(b) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) in
writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company addressed
to it at AmerUs Life Holdings, Inc., 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx, Xxxx
00000, Attention: General Counsel or at any other address previously
furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
Section 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of an event (i) if any of the Securities affected
by such event are Registered Securities, such notice to the Holders thereof
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 his address as it appears in the Register within the time
prescribed for the giving of such notice and, (ii) if any of the Securities
affected by such event are Bearer Securities, notice to the Holders thereof
shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein or in the terms of such
Bearer Securities expressly provided) if published once in an Authorized
Newspaper in New York, New York, and in such other city or cities, if any, as
may be specified as contemplated by Section 3.01.
In any case where notice to Holders of Registered Securities is given
by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice
so mailed, to any particular Holder of a Registered Security shall affect the
sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders of Registered
Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to Holders of Bearer Securities
given as provided herein. In any case where notice is given to Holders of
Bearer Securities by publication, neither the failure to publish such notice,
nor any defect in any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Holders of Bearer Securities or the sufficiency of
any notice with respect to any Holders of Registered Securities 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 with respect to
a Holder of Registered Securities. 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
with respect to a Holder of Bearer Securities.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the
country of publication.
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 1.07. Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and
Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.08. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements
in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether
so expressed or not.
Section 1.09. Separability. In case any provision of this Indenture
or the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity,
legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.10. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in
the Securities, 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 Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto 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 any provision of the Trust
Indenture Act, which is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this
Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this
Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which
may be so modified or excluded the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to
this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be. Whether or
not this Indenture is required to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act,
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act required to be included in an
indenture in order for such indenture to be so qualified shall be deemed to be
included in this Indenture with the same effect as if such provisions were set
forth herein and any provisions hereof which may not be included in an indenture
which is so qualified shall be deemed to be deleted or modified to the extent
such provisions would be required to be deleted or modified in an indenture so
qualified.
Section 1.12. Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment
Date, Redemption Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or Maturity of
any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of any Security or
coupon other than a provision in the Securities of an series which specifically
states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section) payment of
principal, premium, if any, or interest need not be made at such Place of
Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at
such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made on such date;
provided that to the extent such payment is made on such next succeeding
Business Day, no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period
from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, sinking fund payment
date, Stated Maturity or Maturity, as the case may be.
ARTICLE II
Security Forms
Section 2.01. Forms Generally. The Securities of each series and the
coupons, if any, to be attached thereto shall be in substantially such form as
shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by
this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or Depository
therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers
executing such Securities and coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution
of the Securities and coupons, if any. If temporary Securities of any series
are issued as permitted by Section 3.04, the form thereof also shall be
established as provided in the preceding sentence. If the forms of Securities
and coupons, if any, of any series are established by, or by action taken
pursuant to, a Board Resolution, a copy of the Board Resolution together with an
appropriate record of any such action taken pursuant thereto, including a copy
of the approved form of Securities or coupons, if any, shall be certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee
at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.03
for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, Bearer
Securities shall have interest coupons attached.
The definitive Securities and coupons, if any, shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved boarders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities and
coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities and coupons,
if any.
Section 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication. The
Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following
form:
This is one of the Securities of the series described in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
--------------------------,
as Trustee
By: --------------------------
Authorized Signatory
Section 2.03. Securities in Global Form. If Securities of or within
a series are issuable in whole or in part in global form, any such Security of
such series may provide that it shall represent the aggregate or specified
amount of Outstanding Securities of such series from time to time endorsed
thereon and may also provide that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities
of such series represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased
to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect
the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, or changes in the rights
of Holders, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby, shall be made in such
manner and by such Person or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the
Company Order to be delivered to the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.03 or 3.04.
Subject to the provisions of Section 3.03 and, if applicable, Section 3.04, the
Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global form in the
manner and upon instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or
in the applicable Company Order. Any instructions by the Company with respect
to endorsement or delivery or redelivery of a Security in global form shall be
in writing but need not comply with Section 1.02 hereof and need not be
accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
The provisions of the last paragraph of Section 3.03 shall apply to
any Security in global form if such Security was never issued and sold by the
Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the Security in global form
together with written instructions (which need not comply with Section 1.02 and
need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the reduction
in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby, together with the
written statement contemplated by the last paragraph of Section 3.03.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.01 and 3.07, unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, payment of principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on any Security in permanent global form shall be
made to the Person or Persons specified therein.
Section 2.04. Form of Legend for Securities in Global Form. Any
Registered Security in global form authenticated and delivered hereunder shall
bear a legend in substantially the following form with such changes as may be
required by the Depository:
THIS SECURITY IS IN GLOBAL FORM WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF A DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITORY. UNLESS
AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES
IN CERTIFICATED FORM IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED
IN THE INDENTURE, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED
EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITORY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY TO THE
DEPOSITORY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE
DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR
A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY.
ARTICLE III
The Securities
Section 3.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. (a) The
aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued from
time to time in one or more series.
(b) The following matters shall be established with respect to each
series of Securities issued hereunder (i) by a Board Resolution, (ii) by action
taken pursuant to a Board Resolution and (subject to Section 3.03) set forth, or
determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate or (iii) in one
or more indentures supplemental hereto:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which title shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from all other series of
Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
(which limit shall not pertain to Securities authenticated and delivered
upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other
securities of the series pursuant to Section 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 8.06, or
10.07);
(3) the date or dates on which the principal of and premium, if any,
on the Securities of the series is payable or the method of determination
thereof;
(4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall
bear interest, if any, or the method of calculating such rate or rates of
interest, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue or the
method by which such date or dates shall be determined, the Interest
Payment Dates on which any such interest shall be payable and, with respect
to Registered Securities, the Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest
payable on any Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date;
(5) the place or places where the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest, if any, on Securities of the series shall be payable;
(6) the right, if any, of the Company to defer payment of interest on
the Securities, as the maximum length of any such deferral period and any
related terms, conditions or covenants;
(7) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which,
the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in which, and
the other terms and conditions upon which, Securities of the series may be
redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company and, if other
than as provided in Section 10.03, the manner in which the particular
Securities of such series (if less than all Securities of such series are
to be redeemed) are to be selected for redemption;
(8) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase
Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provisions or upon the happening of a specified event or at the option of a
Holder thereof and the period or periods within which, the price or prices
at which, and the other terms and conditions upon which, Securities of the
series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to
such obligation;
(9) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
thereof, if Registered Securities, and if other than the denomination of
$5,000 and any integral multiple thereof, if Bearer Securities, the
denominations in which Securities of the series shall be issuable;
(10) if other than Dollars, the currency or currencies (including
currency unit or units) in which the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be payable, or in
which the Securities of the series shall be denominated, and the particular
provisions applicable thereto in accordance with, in addition to, or in
lieu of the provisions of Section 3.12;
(11) if the payments of principal of, premium, if any, or interest, if
any, on the Securities of the series are to be made, at the election of the
Company or a Holder, in a currency or currencies (including currency unit
or units) other than that in which such Securities are denominated or
designated to be payable, the currency or currencies (including currency
unit or units) in which such payments are to be made, the terms and
conditions of such payments and the manner in which the exchange rate with
respect to such payments shall be determined, and the particular provisions
applicable thereto in accordance with, in addition to, or in lieu of the
provisions of Section 3.12;
(12) if the amount of payments of principal of, premium, if any, and
interest, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be determined with
reference to an index, formula or other method (which index, formula or
method may be based, without limitation, on a currency or currencies
(including currency unit or units) other than that in which the Securities
of the series are denominated or designated to be payable), the index,
formula or other method by which such amounts shall be determined;
(13) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the
principal amount of such Securities of the series which shall be payable
upon declaration of acceleration thereof pursuant to Section 5.02 or the
method by which such portion shall be determined;
(14) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of any
Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one or more
dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall be deemed to be
the principal amount of such Securities as of any such date for any purpose
thereunder or hereunder, including the principal amount thereof which shall
be due and payable upon any Maturity other than the Stated Maturity or
which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date prior to the Stated
Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in which such amount deemed to
be the principal amount shall be determined);
(15) if other than as provided in Section 3.07, the Person to whom any
interest on any Registered Security of the series shall be payable and the
manner in which, or the Person to whom, any interest on any Bearer
Securities of the series shall be payable;
(16) provisions, if any, granting special rights to the Holders of
Securities of the series upon the occurrence of such events as may be
specified;
(17) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the Events
of Default set forth in Section 5.01 or covenants of the Company set forth
in Article IX pertaining to the Securities of the series;
(18) under what circumstances, if any, the Company will pay additional
amounts on the Securities of that series held by a Person who is not a U.S.
Person in respect of taxes or similar charges withheld or deducted
("Additional Amounts") and, if so, whether the Company will have the option
to redeem such Securities rather than pay such additional amounts (and the
terms of any such option);
(19) whether Securities of the series shall be issuable as Registered
Securities or Bearer Securities (with or without interest coupons), or
both, and any restrictions applicable to the offering, sale or delivery of
Bearer Securities and, if other than as provided in Section 3.05, the terms
upon which Bearer Securities of a series may be exchanged for Registered
Securities of the same series and vice versa;
(20) the date as of which any Bearer Securities of the series and any
temporary global Security representing Outstanding Securities of the series
shall be dated if other than the date of original issuance of the first
Security of the series to be issued;
(21) the forms of the Securities and coupons, if any, of the series;
(22) the applicability, if any, to the Securities of or within the
series of Sections 4.04 and 4.05, or such other means of defeasance or
covenant defeasance as may be specified for the Securities and coupons, if
any, of such series, and, if the Securities are payable in a currency other
than Dollars, whether, for the purpose of such defeasance or covenant
defeasance the term "Government Obligations" shall include obligations
referred to in the definition of such term which are not obligations of the
United States or an agency or instrumentality of the United States;
(23) if other than the Trustee, the identity of the Registrar and any
Paying Agent;
(24) the designation of the initial Exchange Rate Agent, if any;
(25) if the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or in
part in global form (i) the Depository for such global Securities, (ii) the
form of any legend in addition to or in lieu of that in Section 2.04 which
shall be borne by such global Security, (iii) whether beneficial owners of
interests in any Securities of the series in global form may exchange such
interests for certificated Securities of such series and of like tenor of
any authorized form and nomination, and (iv) if other than as provided in
Section 3.05, the circumstances under which any such exchange may occur;
(26) any addition to, deletion from or change in Article XII with
respect to Securities of the Series; and
(27) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture) including any terms
which may be required by or advisable under United States laws or
regulations or advisable (as determined by the Company) in connection with
the marketing of Securities of the series.
(c) All Securities of any one series and coupons, if any,
appertaining to any Bearer Securities of such series shall be substantially
identical except, in the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and
except as may otherwise be provided (i) by a Board Resolution, (ii) by action
taken pursuant to a Board Resolution and (subject to Section 3.03) set forth or
determined in the manner provided, in the related Officers' Certificate or (iii)
in an indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not
be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be
reopened, without the consent of the Holders, for issuances of additional
Securities of such series.
(d) If any of the terms of the Securities of any series are
established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of such Board
Resolution shall be certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the
delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth, or providing the manner for
determining, the terms of the Securities of such series, and an appropriate
record of any action taken pursuant thereto in connection with the issuance of
any Securities of such series shall be delivered to the Trustee prior to the
authentication and delivery thereof.
(e) The Securities shall be subordinated and subject in right of
payment to Senior Indebtedness as provided in Article XII.
Section 3.02. Denominations. Unless otherwise provided as
contemplated by Section 3.01, any Registered Securities of a series shall be
issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and any
Bearer Securities of a series shall be issuable in the denomination of $5,000
and any integral multiples thereof.
Section 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by two Officers. The
Company's seal shall be reproduced on the Securities. The signatures of any of
these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile. The coupons, if
any, of Bearer Securities shall bear the facsimile signature of two Officers.
Securities and coupons bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or
did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time, the Company may deliver Securities,
together with any coupons appertaining thereto, of any series executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance
with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that in the case of Securities offered in a Periodic Offering, the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver such Securities from time to time in
accordance with such other procedures (including without limitation, the receipt
by the Trustee of oral or electronic instructions from the Company or its duly
authorized agents, promptly confirmed in writing) acceptable to the Trustee as
may be specified by or pursuant to a Company Order delivered to the Trustee
prior to the time of the first authentication of Securities of such series.
If the form or terms of the Securities of a series have been
established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by
Sections 2.01 and 3.0l, in authenticating such Securities and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities,
the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 315(a) through
(d) of the Trust Indenture Act) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating,
(1) if the forms of such Securities and any coupons have been
established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by Section
2.01, that such forms have been established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture;
(2) if the terms of such Securities and any coupons have been
established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by Section
3.01, that such terms have been, or in the case of Securities of a series
offered in a Periodic Offering, will be, established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture, subject in the case of Securities offered in
a Periodic Offering, to any conditions specified in such Opinion of
Counsel; and
(3) that such Securities together with any coupons appertaining
thereto, when authenticated and delivered by the trustee and issued by the
Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such
Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding obligations
of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to
bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
other similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the
enforcement of creditors' rights and to general equity principles and
except further as enforcement thereof may be limited by (A) requirements
that a claim with respect to any Securities denominated other than in
Dollars (or a Foreign Currency or currency unit judgment in respect of such
claim) be converted into Dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a date
determined pursuant to applicable law or (B) governmental authority to
limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments in Foreign Currencies or
currency units or payments outside the United States.
Notwithstanding that such form or terms have been so established, the
Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate such Securities if, in
the written opinion of counsel to the Trustee (which counsel may be an employee
of the Trustee) reasonably acceptable to the Company, the issue of such
Securities pursuant to this Indenture will adversely affect the Trustee's own
rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which
is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Notwithstanding the generality of
the foregoing, the Trustee will not be required to authenticate Securities
denominated in a Foreign Currency if the Trustee reasonably believes that it
would be unable to perform its duties with respect to such Securities.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.01 and of the two
preceding paragraphs, if all of the Securities of any series are not to be
issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers'
Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 3.01 or the Company Order and
Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to the two preceding paragraphs
in connection with the authentication of each Security of such series if such
documents, with appropriate modifications to cover such future issuances, are
delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first
Security of such series to be issued.
With respect to Securities of a series offered in a Periodic Offering,
the Trustee may rely, as to the authorization by the Company of any of such
securities, the form and terms thereof and the legality, validity, binding
effect and enforceability thereof, upon the Opinion of Counsel and the other
documents delivered pursuant to Sections 2.01 and 3.01 and this Section, as
applicable, in connection with the first authentication of Securities of such
series.
If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 3.01 that the
Securities of a series 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 series, authenticate and deliver one
or more Securities of such series in global form that (i) shall represent and
shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series to be represented by such Security or
Securities in global form, (ii) shall be registered, if a Registered Security,
in the name of the Depository for such Security or Securities in global form or
the nominee of such Depository, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such
Depository or pursuant to such Depository's instruction and (iv) shall bear the
legends set forth in Section 2.04 and the terms of the Board Resolution or
supplemental indenture relating to such series.
Each Depository designated pursuant to Section 3.01 for a Registered
Security in global form must, at the time of its designation and at all times
while it serves as Depository, be a clearing agency registered under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any other applicable statute or
regulation. The Trustee shall have no responsibility to determine if the
Depository is so registered. Each Depository shall enter into an agreement with
the Trustee and the Company governing the respective duties and rights of such
Depository, the Company and the Trustee with regard to Securities issued in
global form.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its authentication
and each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified as contemplated
by Section 3.01.
No Security or coupon appertaining thereto shall be entitled to any
benefits under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose until
the certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided herein is
executed by the manual signature of one of the authorized signatories of the
Trustee or an Authenticating Agent and no coupon shall be valid until the
Security to which it appertains has been so authenticated. Such signature upon
any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered under this Indenture and is
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture. Except as permitted by Section 3.06
or 3.07, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any Bearer Security
unless all appurtenant coupons for interest then matured have been detached and
canceled.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company,
and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as
provided in Section 3.09 together with a written statement (which need not
comply with Section 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel)
stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for
all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall not be entitled to the benefits
of this Indenture.
Section 3.04. Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute and, upon Company
Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver temporary Securities of such
series which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise
produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor and form,
with or without coupons, of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are
issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Securities and coupons, if
any. In the case of Securities of any series, such temporary Securities may be
in global form, representing all or a portion of the Outstanding Securities of
such series.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form, each of
which shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions thereof, if temporary
Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive
Securities of such series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After
preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the temporary Securities of
such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon
surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or agency of
the Company pursuant to Section 9.02 in a Place of Payment for such series,
without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or
more temporary Securities of any series (accompanied by any unmatured coupons
appertaining thereto), the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of
definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations and of like
tenor; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no definitive Bearer Security, except as may be
provided pursuant to Section 3.01, shall be delivered in exchange for a
temporary Registered Security; and provided further that no definitive Bearer
Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Bearer Security unless
the Trustee shall have received from the person entitled to receive the
definitive Bearer Security a certificate substantially in the form approved in
or pursuant to the Board Resolutions relating thereto and such delivery shall
occur only outside the United States. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Securities of any series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01.
Section 3.05. Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Company
shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or in any
office or agency to be maintained by the Company in accordance with Section 9.02
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 Registered Securities and the registration of transfers of
Registered Securities. The Register shall be in written form or any other form
capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time. The
Trustee is hereby appointed "Registrar" for the purpose of registering
Registered Securities and transfers of Registered Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered Security
of any series at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 9.02 in a
Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Registered Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount containing
identical terms and provisions.
Bearer Securities or any coupons appertaining thereto shall be
transferable by delivery.
At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any series
(except a Registered Security in global form) may be exchanged for other
Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of
a like aggregate principal amount containing identical terms and provisions,
upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be exchanged at such office or
agency. Whenever any Registered Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Registered Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive. Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, Bearer
Securities may not be issued in exchange for Registered Securities.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, at the
option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of such series may be exchanged for
Registered Securities (if the Securities of such series are issuable in
registered form) or Bearer Securities (if Bearer Securities of such series are
issuable in more than one denomination and such exchanges are permitted by such
series) of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor
and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Bearer Securities to be
exchanged at any such office or agency, with all unmatured coupons and all
matured coupons in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder of a Bearer
Security is unable to produce any such unmatured coupon or coupons or matured
coupon or coupons in default, such exchange may be effected if the Bearer
Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company and the
Trustee in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing coupon or coupons,
or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company
and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they
may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter
the Holder of such Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any such missing
coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made, such Holder
shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that, except as otherwise provided in Section 9.02, interest represented by
coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of those coupons
at an office or agency located outside the United States.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case any Bearer Security of any
series is surrendered at any such office or agency in exchange for a Registered
Security of the same series after the close of business at such office or agency
on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business at such office
or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date
and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the related date
for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered
without the coupon relating to such Interest Payment Date or proposed date of
payment, as the case may be (or, if such coupon is so surrendered with such
Bearer Security, such coupon shall be returned to the person so surrendering the
Bearer Security), and interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will
not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as
the case may be, in respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for
such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon,
when due in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Each Security issued in global form authenticated under this Indenture
shall be registered in the name of the Depository designated for such series or
a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depository or a nominee thereof or
custodian therefor, and each such Security issued in global form shall
constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, unless and until
it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in certificated form in the
circumstances described below, a Security in global form representing all or a
portion of the Securities of a series may not be transferred except as a whole
by the Depository for such series to a nominee of such Depository or by a
nominee of such Depository to such Depository or another nominee of such
Depository or by such Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository
for such series or a nominee of such successor Depository.
If at any time the Depository for the Securities of a series notifies
the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for the
Securities of such series or defaults in the performance of its duties as
Depository or if at any time the Depository for the Securities of such series
shall no longer be eligible under Section 3.03, the Company shall appoint a
successor Depository with respect to the Securities of such series. If a
successor Depository for the Securities of such series is not appointed by the
Company within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware
of such ineligibility, the Company selection pursuant to Section 3.01(b)(24)
shall no longer be effective with respect to the Securities of such series and
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for
the authentication and delivery of certificated Securities of such series of
like tenor, shall authenticate and deliver Securities of such series of like
tenor in certificated form, in authorized denominations and in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Security or Securities of
such series of like tenor in global form in exchange for such Security or
Securities in global form.
The Company may at any time in its sole discretion determine that
Securities issued in global form shall no longer be represented by such a
Security or Securities 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 Securities of such series of like tenor, shall
authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series of like tenor in
certificated form, in authorized denominations and in an aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of the Security or Securities of such
series of like tenor in global form in exchange for such Security or Securities
in global form.
If specified by the Company pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to a
series of Securities, the Depository for such series may surrender a Security in
global form of such series in exchange in whole or in part for Securities of
such series in certificated form on such terms as are acceptable to the Company
and such Depository. Thereupon, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge,
(i) to each Person specified by such Depository a new certificated
Security or Securities of the same series 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
Security in global form; and
(ii) to such Depository a new Security in global form of like tenor in
a denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal
amount of the surrendered Security in global form and the aggregate
principal amount of certificated Securities delivered to Holders thereof.
Upon the exchange of a Security in global form for Securities in
certificated form, such Security in global form shall be canceled by the
Trustee. Unless expressly provided with respect to the Securities of any series
that such Security may be exchanged for Bearer Securities, Securities in
certificated form issued in exchange for a Security in global form pursuant to
this Section shall be registered in such names and in such authorized
denominations as the Depository for such Security in global form, pursuant to
instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall
instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver such Securities to the Persons
in whose names such Securities are so registered.
Whenever any Securities are surrendered for exchange, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities
which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or upon any
exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing
the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the
Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Registered Security 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 the Company, the Registrar and the Trustee duly
executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
for any exchange of Securities, 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 Securities, other
than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, 8.06 or 10.07 not involving any
transfer.
If the Securities of any series (or of any series and specified tenor)
are to be redeemed in part, the Company shall not be required (i) to issue,
register the transfer of, or exchange any Securities of that series for a period
beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a
notice of redemption of any such Securities selected for redemption under
Section 10.03 and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing;
(ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Registered Security so selected
for redemption, in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any
Security being redeemed in part; or (iii) to exchange any Bearer Security so
selected for redemption, except that such a Bearer Security may be exchanged for
a Registered Security of that series and like tenor; PROVIDED that such
Registered Security shall be simultaneously surrendered for redemption.
The foregoing provisions relating to registration, transfer and
exchange may be modified, supplemented or superseded with respect to any series
of Securities by a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental
hereto.
Section 3.06. Replacement Securities. If a mutilated Security or a
Security with a mutilated coupon appertaining to it is surrendered to the
Trustee, together with, in proper cases, 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 Registered Security, if such surrendered Security was a Registered
Security, or a replacement Bearer Security with coupons corresponding to the
coupons appertaining to the surrendered Security, if such surrendered Security
was a Bearer Security, of the same series and date of maturity, if the Trustee's
requirements are met, containing identical terms and of like tenor and of like
principal amount.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security
or coupon and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of
notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or coupon has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security or in exchange for the Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen
coupon appertains (with all appurtenant coupons not destroyed, lost or stolen),
a replacement Registered Security, if such Holder's Claim appertains to a
Registered Security, or a replacement Bearer Security with coupons corresponding
to the coupons appertaining to the destroyed, lost or stolen Bearer Security or
the Bearer Security to which such lost, destroyed or stolen coupon appertains,
if such Holder's claim appertains to a Bearer Security, of the same series and
principal amount, containing identical terms and provisions and bearing a number
not contemporaneously outstanding with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if
any, appertaining to the destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security or
coupon has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its
discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security or coupon, pay such Security
or coupon; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that payment of principal of and any premium or
interest on Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise provided in Section
9.02, be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States
and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, any interest on
Bearer Securities shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the
coupons appertaining thereto.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require that 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, its agents and
counsel) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series with its coupons, if any, issued
pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security, or
in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen coupon
appertains, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of
the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security and its
coupon, if any, or the destroyed, lost or stolen coupon, shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this
Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that
series and their coupons, if any, 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 Securities or coupons.
Section 3.07. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. (a)
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to any
series of Securities, interest, if any, on any Registered Security which is
payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect
to any series of Securities, (i) interest, if any, on Bearer Securities shall be
paid only against presentation and surrender of the coupons for such interest
installments as are evidenced thereby as they mature and (ii) original issue
discount, if any, on Bearer Securities shall be paid only against presentation
and surrender of such Securities; in either case at the office of a Paying Agent
located outside the United States, unless the Company shall have otherwise
instructed the Trustee in writing, provided that any such instruction for
payment in the United States does not cause any Bearer Security to be treated as
a "registration-required obligation" under United States laws and regulations.
The interest, if any, on any temporary Bearer Security shall be paid, as to any
installment of interest evidenced by a coupon attached thereto only upon
presentation and surrender of such coupon and, as to other installments of
interest, only upon presentation of such Security for notation thereon of the
payment of such interest. If at the time a payment of principal of or interest,
if any, on a Bearer Security or coupon shall become due, the payment of the full
amount so payable at the office or offices of all the Paying Agents outside the
United States is illegal or effectively precluded because of the imposition of
exchange controls or other similar restrictions on the payment of such amount in
Dollars, then the Company may instruct the Trustee in writing to make such
payments at a Paying Agent located in the United States, provided that provision
for such payment in the United States would not cause such Bearer Security to be
treated as a "registration-required obligation" under United States laws and
regulations.
(b) Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 with
respect to any series of Securities, any interest on Registered Securities of
any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for, on
any Interest Payment Date for such Registered Securities (herein called
"Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holders on the
relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of their having been such Holders, 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 such Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names such Registered Securities (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close
of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company
shall 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.
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 less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and
not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice
of the proposed payment. The 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 such Registered
Securities at his address as it appears in the Register, not less 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 such Registered Securities (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable
pursuant to the following clause (2). In case a Bearer Security of
any series is surrendered at the office or agency in a Place of
Payment for such series in exchange for a Registered Security of such
series after the close of business at such office or agency on the
related proposed date for payment of Defaulted Interest, such Bearer
Security shall be surrendered without the coupon relating to such
proposed date of payment in respect of the Registered Security issued
in exchange for such Bearer Security, but will be payable only to the
Holder of such coupon when due in accordance with the provisions of
this Indenture.
(2) The Company may make payment of such Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names such Registered Securities (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 Registered Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may
be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to
the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause (2), such
manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
(c) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and Section
3.05, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer
of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other
Security.
Section 3.08. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment of any
Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and
any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such
Registered Security is registered as the owner of such Registered Security for
the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, premium, if any, and (subject
to Sections 3.05 and 3.07) interest on and Additional Amounts with respect to
such Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not
such Registered Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor
any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the bearer of any Bearer Security and the bearer of any coupon as the
absolute owner of such Bearer Security or coupon for the purpose of receiving
payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes whatsoever,
whether or not such Bearer Security or coupon 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
Security in global form, or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any
records relating to such beneficial ownership interests. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, with respect to any Security 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 Depository (or its nominee) as a Holder, with respect to such
Security in global form or impair, as between such Depository and owners of
beneficial interests in such Security in global form, the operation of customary
practices governing the exercise of the rights of such Depository (or its
nominee) as Holder of such Security in global form.
Section 3.09. Cancellation. The Company at any time may deliver
Securities and coupons to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and any
Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities and coupons surrendered
to them for replacement, for registration of transfer, or for exchange or
payment. The Trustee shall cancel all Securities and coupons surrendered for
replacement, for registration of transfer, or for exchange, payment, redemption
or cancellation and may, but shall not be required to, dispose of canceled
Securities and coupons and issue a certificate of destruction to the Company.
The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has paid
or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
Section 3.10. Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 3.01, interest on the Securities of each series 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 Securities
may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then generally in use), and, in such case, the
Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers 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 Securities or as
contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on
the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such
redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
Section 3.12. Currency and Manner of Payment in Respect of
Securities. (a) Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 3.01, with respect to Registered Securities of any series
not permitting the election provided for in paragraph (b) below or the Holders
of which have not made the election provided for in paragraph (b) below, and
with respect to Bearer Securities of any series, except as provided in paragraph
(d) below, payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any,
on any Registered or Bearer Security of such series will be made in the currency
or currencies or currency unit or units in which such Registered Security or
Bearer Security, as the case may be, is payable. The provisions of this Section
3.12 may be modified or superseded pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to any
Securities.
(b) It may be provided pursuant to Section 3.01, with respect to
Registered Securities of any series, that Holders shall have the option, subject
to paragraphs (d) and (e) below, to receive payments of principal of, premium,
if any, or interest, if any, on such Registered Securities in any of the
currencies or currency units which may be designated for such election by
delivering to the Trustee (or the applicable Paying Agent) a written election
with signature guarantees and in the applicable form established pursuant to
Section 3.01, not later than the close of business on the Election Date
immediately preceding the applicable payment date. If a Holder so elects to
receive such payments in any such currency or currency unit, such election will
remain in effect for such Holder or any transferee of such Holder until changed
by such Holder or such transferee by written notice to the Trustee (or any
applicable Paying Agent) for such series of Registered Securities (but any such
change must be made not later than the close of business on the Election Date
immediately preceding the next payment date to be effective for the payment to
be made on such payment date, and no such change of election may be made with
respect to payments to be made on any Registered Security of such series with
respect to which an Event of Default has occurred or with respect to which the
Company has deposited funds pursuant to Article IV or with respect to which a
notice of redemption has been given by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to
Article X). Any Holder of any such Registered Security who shall not have
delivered any such Election to the Trustee (or any applicable Paying Agent) not
later than the close of business on the applicable Election Date will be paid
the amount due on the applicable payment date in the relevant currency or
currency unit as provided in Section 3.12(a). The Trustee (or the applicable
Paying Agent) shall notify the Exchange Rate Agent as soon as practicable after
the Election Date of the aggregate principal amount of Registered Securities for
which Holders have made such written election.
(c) If the election referred to in paragraph (b) above has been
provided for with respect to any Registered Securities of a series pursuant to
Section 3.01, then, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 with
respect to any such Registered Securities, not later than the fourth Business
Day after the Election Date for each payment date for such Registered
Securities, the Exchange Rate Agent will deliver to the Company a written notice
specifying, in the currency or currencies or currency unit or units in which
Registered Securities of such series are payable, the respective aggregate
amounts of principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such
Registered Securities to be paid on such payment date, and specifying the
amounts in such currency or currencies or currency unit or units so payable in
respect of such Registered Securities as to which the Holders of Registered
Securities denominated in any currency or currencies or currency unit or units
shall have elected to be paid in another currency or currency unit as provided
in paragraph (b) above. If the election referred to in paragraph (b) above has
been provided for with respect to any Registered Securities of a series pursuant
to Section 3.01, and if at least one Holder has made such election, then, unless
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01, on the second Business Day
immediately preceding such payment date the Company will deliver to the Trustee
(or the applicable Paying Agent) an Exchange Rate Officers' Certificate in
respect of the Dollar, Foreign Currency or Currencies, ECU or other currency
unit payments to be made on such payment date. Unless otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 3.01, the Dollar, Foreign Currency or Currencies, ECU or
other currency unit amount receivable by Holders of Registered Securities who
have elected payment in a currency or currency unit as provided in paragraph (b)
above shall be determined by the Company on the basis of the applicable Market
Exchange Rate in effect on the second Business Day (the "Valuation Date")
immediately preceding each payment date, and such determination shall be
conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(d) If a Conversion Event occurs with respect to a Foreign Currency,
ECU or any other currency unit in which any of the Securities are denominated or
payable otherwise than pursuant to an election provided for pursuant to
paragraph (b) above, then, with respect to each date for the payment of
principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the applicable
Securities denominated or payable in such Foreign Currency, ECU or such other
currency unit occurring after the last date on which such Foreign Currency, ECU
or such other currency unit was used (the "Conversion Date"), the Dollar shall
be the currency of payment for use on each such payment date (but such Foreign
Currency, ECU or such other currency unit that was previously the currency of
payment shall, at the Company's election, resume being the currency of payment
on the first such payment date preceded by 15 Business Days during which the
circumstances which gave rise to the Dollar becoming such currency no longer
prevail). Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01, the Dollar
amount to be paid by the Company to the Trustee or any applicable Paying Agent
and by the Trustee or any applicable Paying Agent to the Holders of such
Securities with respect to such payment date shall be, in the case of a Foreign
Currency other than a currency unit, the Dollar Equivalent of the Foreign
Currency or in the case of a Foreign Currency that is a currency unit, the
Dollar Equivalent of the Currency limit, in each case as determined by the
Exchange Rate Agent in the manner provided in paragraph (f) or (g) below.
(e) Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01, if the Holder
of a Registered Security denominated in any currency or currency unit shall have
elected to be paid in another currency or currency unit or in other currencies
as provided in paragraph (b) above, and (i) a Conversion Event occurs with
respect to any such elected currency or currency unit, such Holder shall receive
payment in the currency or currency unit in which payment would have been made
in the absence of such election and (ii) if a Conversion Event occurs with
respect to the currency or currency unit in which payment would have been made
in the absence of such election, such Holder shall receive payment in Dollars as
provided in paragraph (d) of this Section 3.12 (but, subject to any contravening
valid election pursuant to paragraph (b) above, the elected payment currency or
currency unit, in the case of the circumstances described in clause (i) above,
or the payment currency or currency unit in the absence of such election, in the
case of the circumstances described in clause (ii) above, shall, at the
Company's election, resume being the currency or currency unit of payment with
respect to Holders who have so elected, but only with respect to payments on
payment dates preceded by 15 Business Days during which the circumstances which
gave rise to such currency or currency unit, in the case of the circumstances
described in clause (i) above, or the Dollar, in the case of the circumstances
described in clause (ii) above, as applicable, becoming the currency or currency
unit of payment, no longer prevail).
(f) The "Dollar Equivalent of the Foreign Currency" shall be
determined by the Exchange Rate Agent and shall be obtained for each subsequent
payment date by the Exchange Rate Agent by converting the specified Foreign
Currency into Dollars at the Market Exchange Rate on the Conversion Date.
(g) The "Dollar Equivalent of the Currency Unit" shall be determined
by the Exchange Rate Agent and, subject to the provisions of paragraph (h)
below, shall be the sum of each amount obtained by converting the specified
amount of each Component Currency (as each such term is defined in paragraph (h)
below) into Dollars at the Market Exchange Rate for such Component Currency on
the Valuation Date with respect to each payment.
(h) For purposes of this Section 3.12 the following terms shall have
the following meanings:
A "Component Currency" shall mean any currency which, on the
Conversion Date, was a component currency of the relevant currency
unit, including, but not limited to, ECU.
"Election Date" shall mean the Regular Record Date for the
applicable series of Registered Securities as specified pursuant to
Section 3.01 by which the written election referred to in Section
3.12(b) may be made.
A "Specified Amount" of a Component Currency shall mean the
number of units of such Component Currency or fractions thereof which
such Component Currency represented in the relevant currency unit,
including, but not limited to, ECU, on the Conversion Date. If after
the Conversion Date the official unit of any Component Currency is
altered by way of combination or subdivision, the Specified Amount of
such Component Currency shall be divided or multiplied in the same
proportion. If after the Conversion Date two or more Component
Currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the respective
Specified Amounts of such Component Currencies shall be replaced by an
amount in such single currency equal to the sum of the respective
specified Amounts of such consolidated Component Currencies expressed
in such single currency, and such amount shall thereafter be a
Specified Amount and such single currency shall thereafter be a
Component Currency. If after the Conversion Date any Component
Currency shall be divided into two or more currencies, the Specified
Amount of such Component Currency shall be replaced by specified
amounts of such two or more currencies, the sum of which, at the
Market Exchange Rate of such two or more currencies on the date of
such replacement, shall be equal to the Specified Amount of such
former Component Currency and such amounts shall thereafter be
Specified Amounts and such currencies shall thereafter be Component
Currencies. If, after the Conversion Date of the relevant currency
unit, including, but not limited to, ECU, a Conversion Event (other
than any event referred to above in this definition of "Specified
Amount") occurs with respect to any Component Currency of such
currency unit and is continuing on the applicable Valuation Date, the
Specified Amount of such Component Currency shall, for purposes of
calculating the Dollar Equivalent of the Currency Unit, be converted
into Dollars at the Market Exchange Rate in effect on the Conversion
Date of such Component Currency.
All decisions and determinations of the Exchange Rate Agent regarding
the Dollar Equivalent of the Foreign Currency, the Dollar Equivalent of the
Currency Unit, the Market Exchange Rate and changes in the Specified Amounts as
specified above shall be in its sole discretion and shall, in the absence of
manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and irrevocably binding upon the
Company, the Trustee (and any applicable Paying Agent) and all Holders of
Securities denominated or payable in the relevant currency, currencies or
currency units. The Exchange Rate Agent shall promptly give written notice to
the Company and the Trustee of any such decision or determination.
In the event that the Company determines in good faith that a
Conversion Event has occurred with respect to a Foreign Currency, the Company
will promptly give written notice thereof to the Trustee of the appropriate
series of Securities (or any applicable Paying Agent) and to the Exchange Rate
Agent (and the Trustee (or such Paying Agent) will promptly thereafter give
notice in the manner provided in Section 1.06 to the affected Holders)
specifying the Conversion Date. In the event the Company so determines that a
Conversion Event has occurred with respect to ECU or any other currency unit in
which Securities are denominated or payable, the Company will promptly give
written notice thereof to the Trustee (or any applicable Paying Agent) and to
the Exchange Rate Agent (and the Trustee (or such Paying Agent) will promptly
thereafter give notice in the manner provided in Section 1.06 to the affected
Holders) specifying the Conversion Date and the Specified Amount of each
Component Currency on the Conversion Date. In the event the Company determines
in good faith that any subsequent change in any Component Currency as set forth
in the definition of Specified Amount above has occurred, the Company will
similarly give written notice to the Trustee (or any applicable Paying Agent)
and to the Exchange Rate Agent.
The Trustee of the appropriate series of Securities shall be fully
justified and protected in relying and acting upon information received by it
from the Company and the Exchange Rate Agent and shall not otherwise have any
duty or obligation to determine the accuracy or validity of such information
independent of the Company or the Exchange Rate Agent.
Section 3.13. Appointment and Resignation of Exchange Rate Agent.
(a) Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01, if and so long as the
Securities of any series (i) are denominated in a currency other than Dollars or
(ii) may be payable in a currency other than Dollars, or so long as it is
required under any other provision of this Indenture, then the Company will
maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so required, at
least one Exchange Rate Agent. The Company will cause the Exchange Rate Agent
to make the necessary foreign exchange determinations at the time and in the
manner specified pursuant to Section 3.12 for the purpose of determining the
applicable rate of exchange and, if applicable, for the purpose of converting
the issued currency or currencies or currency unit or units into the applicable
payment currency or currency unit for the payment of principal, premium, if any,
and interest, if any, pursuant to Section 3.12.
(b) No resignation of the Exchange Rate Agent and no appointment of a
successor Exchange Rate Agent pursuant to this Section shall become effective
until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Exchange Rate Agent as
evidenced by a written instrument delivered to the Company and the Trustee of
the appropriate series of Securities accepting such appointment executed by the
successor Exchange Rate Agent.
(c) If the Exchange Rate Agent shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Exchange
Rate Agency for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more series,
the Company, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a
successor Exchange Rate Agent or Exchange Rate Agents with respect to the
Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor
Exchange Rate Agent may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or
more or all of such series and that, unless otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 3.01 at any time there shall only be one Exchange Rate Agent with
respect to the Securities of any particular series that are originally issued by
the Company on the same date and that are initially denominated and/or payable
in the same currency or currencies or currency unit or units).
ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction, Discharge and Defeasance
Section 4.01. Termination of Company's Obligations Under the
Indenture. This Indenture shall upon a Company Request cease to be of further
effect with respect to Securities of or within any series and any coupons
appertaining thereto (except as to any surviving rights of registration of
transfer or exchange of such Securities and replacement of such Securities which
may have been lost, stolen or mutilated as herein expressly provided for) and
the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture (including but not
limited to Article XII) with respect to such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto when (1) either
(A) all such Securities previously authenticated and delivered and all
coupons appertaining thereto (other than (i) such coupons appertaining to
Bearer Securities surrendered in exchange for Registered Securities and
maturing after such exchange, surrender of which is not required or has
been waived as provided in Section 3.05, (ii) such Securities and coupons
which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or
paid, as provided in Section 3.06, (iii) such coupons appertaining to
Bearer Securities called for redemption and maturing after the relevant
Redemption Date, surrender of which has been waived as provided in Section
10.06 and (iv) such Securities and coupons 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 9.03) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(B) all Securities of such series and, in the case of (i) or (ii)
below, any coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation (i) have become due and payable, or (ii) will
become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year, or (iii)
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 irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee
as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount in the currency or
currencies or currency unit or units in which the Securities of such series
are payable, sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on
such Securities and such coupons not theretofore delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation, for principal, premium, if any, and interest, and any
Additional Amounts payable as specified pursuant to Section 3.01(b)(17)
with respect thereto, to the date of such deposit (in the case of
Securities which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or
Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(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 as to
such series 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 6.09, 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 of the Trustee
under Section 4.02 and the last paragraph of Section 9.03 shall survive.
Section 4.02. Application of Trust Funds. Subject to the provisions
of the last paragraph of Section 9.03, all money deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 4.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance
with the provisions of the Securities, the coupons 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 4.03. Applicability of Defeasance Provisions; Company's
Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. If pursuant to Section 3.01
provision is made for either or both of (i) defeasance of the Securities of or
within a series under Section 4.04 or (ii) covenant defeasance of the Securities
of or within a series under Section 4.05, then the provisions of such Section or
Sections, as the case may be, together with the provisions of Sections 4.06
through 4.09 inclusive, with such modifications thereto as may be specified
pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to any Securities, shall be applicable to
such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, and the Company may at its
option by or pursuant to Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, elect to have Section 4.04 (if
applicable) or Section 4.05 (if applicable) be applied to such Outstanding
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto upon compliance with the
conditions set forth below in this Article.
Section 4.04. Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company's exercise
of the option specified in Section 4.03 applicable to this Section with respect
to the Securities of or within a series, the Company shall be deemed to have
been discharged from its obligations with respect to such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto on and after the date the conditions set forth in
Section 4.06 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 Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto which shall thereafter be deemed to be "Outstanding" only
for the purposes of Section 4.07 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 Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto and this
Indenture insofar as such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto are
concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall on a 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 such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto to
receive solely from the trust funds described in Section 4.06(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 Securities or any coupons
appertaining thereto when such payments are due; (ii) the Company's obligations
with respect to such Securities under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.02 and 9.03
and with respect to the payment of additional amounts, if any, payable with
respect to such Securities as specified pursuant to Section 3.01(b)(17); (iii)
the rights, powers trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and
(iv) this Article IV. Subject to compliance with this Article IV, the Company
may exercise its option under this Section notwithstanding the prior exercise of
its option under Section 4.05 with respect to such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto. Following a defeasance, payment of such Securities may
not be accelerated because of an Event of Default.
Section 4.05. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company's exercise of
the option specified in Section 4.03 applicable to this Section with respect to
any Securities of or within a series, the Company shall be released from its
obligations under Sections 7.01(3), 7.01(4) and 9.07 and, if specified pursuant
to Section 3.01, its obligations under any other covenant, with respect to such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto on and after the date the
conditions set forth in Section 4.06 are satisfied (hereinafter, "covenant
defeasance"), and such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto 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 Sections 7.01(3), 7.01(4)and 9.07 or such other
covenant but shall continue to be deemed "Outstanding" for all other purposes
hereunder. For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect
to such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, 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 or such other covenant, 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 5.01(3) or 5.01(7), or otherwise, as the case may be, but, except
as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto shall be unaffected thereby.
Section 4.06. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The
following shall be the conditions to application of Section 4.04 or Section 4.05
to any Securities of or within a series and any coupons appertaining thereto:
(a) The Company shall have deposited or caused to be deposited
irrevocably with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the
requirements of Section 6.12 who shall agree to comply with and shall be
entitled to the benefits of, the provisions of Sections 4.03 through 4.09
inclusive and the last paragraph of Section 9.03 applicable to the Trustee,
for purposes of such Sections also a "Trustee") as trust funds in trust for
the purpose of making the payments referred to in clauses (x) and (y) of
this Section 4.06(a), specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated
solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto, with instructions to the Trustee as to the
application thereof, (A) money in an amount (in such currency, currencies
or currency unit or units in which such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at Maturity), or (B) if
Securities of such series are not subject to repayment at the option of
Holders, Government Obligations which through the payment of interest,
principal, premium, if any, and any Additional Amounts in respect thereof
in accordance with their terms will provide not later than one day before
the due date of any payment referred to in clause (x) or (y) of this
Section 4.06(a), money in an amount or (C) a combination thereof in an
amount, sufficient, without reinvestment, 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
(x) the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, and any
Additional Amounts on such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto
on the Maturity of such principal or installment of principal or interest
and (y) any mandatory sinking fund payments applicable to such Securities
on the day on which such payments are due and payable in accordance with
the terms of this Indenture and such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto. Before such a deposit, the Company may make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of Securities
at a future date or dates in accordance with Article X 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 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 4.04, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect 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
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto 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 4.05, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto will not
recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result
of such 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, each stating that all conditions
precedent to the defeasance under Section 4.04 or the covenant defeasance
under Section 4.05 (as the case may be) including those contained in this
Section 4.06 other than the 90 day period specified in Section 4.06(g),
have been complied with.
(f) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officer's
Certificate to the effect that neither such Securities nor any other
Securities of the same series, if then listed on any securities exchange,
will be delisted as a result of such deposit.
(g) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would
become, an Event of Default with respect to such Securities or any other
Securities shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such
deposit or, with regard to any such event specified in Sections 5.01(5) and
(6), at any time on or prior to the 90th day after the date of such deposit
(it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied
until after such 90th day).
(h) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in the
trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within
the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 unless such trust shall
be registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
(i) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in
compliance with any additional or substitute terms, conditions or
limitations which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith as
contemplated by Section 3.01.
(j) No event or condition shall exist that, pursuant to Article XII,
would prevent the Company from making payments of principal of, premium, if
any, interest, if any and any Additional Amounts on the Securities.
Section 4.07. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held
in Trust. Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 9.03, all
money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided pursuant
to Section 3.01) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 4.06 in respect of any Securities of any series and any
coupons appertaining thereto shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee,
in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto 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 Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of
principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, and any Additional Amounts,
but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Security pursuant to
Section 3.01, if, after a deposit referred to in Section 4.06(a) has been made,
(i) the Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was made is
entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 3.12(b) or the terms of such
Security to receive payment in a currency or currency unit other than that in
which the deposit pursuant to Section 4.06(a) has been made in respect of such
Security, or (ii) a Conversion Event occurs as contemplated in Section 3.12(d)
or 3.12(e) or by the terms of any Security in respect of indebtedness which the
deposit pursuant to Section 4.06(a) has been made, the indebtedness represented
by such Security and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be deemed to have
been, and will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such Security as the
same becomes due out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as
specified below in the case of any such election) the amount or other property
deposited in respect of such Security into the currency or currency unit in
which such Security becomes payable as a result of such election or Conversion
Event based on the applicable Market Exchange Rate for such currency or currency
unit in effect on the second Business Day prior to each payment date, except,
with respect to a Conversion Event, for such currency or currency unit in effect
(as nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion Event.
Section 4.08. Repayment to Company. Subject to the last paragraph of
Section 9.03, the Trustee (and any Paying Agent) shall promptly pay to the
Company upon Company Request any excess money or securities held by them at any
time.
Section 4.09. Indemnity for Government Obligations. The Company
shall pay, and shall indemnify the Trustee against, any tax, fee or other charge
imposed on or assessed against Government Obligations deposited pursuant to this
Article or the principal and interest and any other amount received on such
Government Obligations.
Section 4.10. Reinstatement. If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is
unable to apply any money or Government Obligations, as the case may be, in
accordance with this Article with respect to any Securities by reason of any
order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining
or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the obligations under this
Indenture, such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto from which the
Company has been discharged or released pursuant to Section 4.04 or 4.05 shall
be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this
Article with respect to such Securities, until such time as the Trustee or
Paying Agent is permitted to apply all money or Government Obligations, as the
case may be, held in trust pursuant to Section 4.07 with respect to such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto in accordance with this Article;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any
premium or interest on any such Security following such reinstatement of its
obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights (if any) of the
Holders of such Securities or coupons to receive such payment from the money or
Government Obligations, as the case may be, so held in trust.
ARTICLE V
Defaults and Remedies
Section 5.01. Events of Default. An "Event of Default" occurs with
respect to the Securities of any series 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 payment, decree or order of any court or any
order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) the Company defaults in the payment of interest on any
Security of that series or any coupon appertaining thereto or any
additional amount payable with respect to any Security of that series
as specified pursuant to Section 3.01(b)(17) 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 Security of that series when the same becomes due
and payable at its Maturity or on redemption or otherwise, or in the
payment of a mandatory sinking fund payment when and as due by the
terms of the Securities of that series;
(3) the Company fails to comply with any of its agreements or
covenants in, or any of the provisions of, this Indenture with respect
to any Security of that series (other than an agreement, covenant or
provision for which non-compliance is elsewhere in this Section
specifically dealt with), and such non-compliance continues for a
period of 60 days after there has been given by registered or
certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and
the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of the series, 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;
(4) a default under any mortgage, agreement, indenture or
instrument under which there may be issued, or by which there may be
secured, guaranteed or evidenced any Debt of the Company (including
this Indenture) whether such Debt now exists or shall hereafter be
created, in an aggregate principal amount then outstanding of
$25,000,000 or more, which default (a) shall constitute a failure to
pay any portion of the principal of such Debt when due and payable
after the expiration of an applicable grace period with respect
thereto or (b) shall result in such Debt becoming or being declared
due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise become
due and payable, and such acceleration shall not be rescinded or
annulled, or such Debt shall not be paid in full within a period of 30
days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series a written notice specifying such
event of default and requiring the Company to cause such acceleration
to be rescinded or annulled or to pay in full such Debt and stating
that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; (it being
understood however, that the Trustee shall not be deemed to have
knowledge of such default under such agreement or instrument unless
either (A) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have actual
knowledge of such default or (B) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
shall have received written notice thereof from the Company, from any
Holder, from the holder of any such indebtedness or from the trustee
under any such agreement or other instrument); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
if such default under such agreement or instrument is remedied or
cured by the Company or waived by the holders of such indebtedness,
then the Event of Default hereunder by reason thereof shall be deemed
likewise to have been thereupon remedied, cured or waived without
further action upon the part of either the Trustee or any of such
Holders; PROVIDED, FURTHER, that the foregoing shall not apply to any
secured Debt under which the obligee has recourse (exclusive of
recourse for ancillary matters such as environmental indemnities,
misapplication of funds, costs of enforcement and the like) only to
the collateral pledged for repayment so long as the fair market value
of such collateral does not exceed 2% of Total Assets at the time of
the default;
(5) the Company, pursuant to or within the meaning of any
Bankruptcy Law, (A) commences a voluntary case or proceeding, (B)
consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an
involuntary case or proceeding, (C) consents to the appointment of a
Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property, (D)
makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, (E) makes
an admission in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as
they become due or (F) takes corporate action in furtherance of any
such action;
(6) 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) adjudges the Company as bankrupt or
insolvent, or approves as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, and adjustment or composition of or in
respect of the Company, or 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 decree remains unstayed and in
effect for 60 days; or
(7) any other Event of Default provided as contemplated by
Section 3.01 with respect to Securities of that series.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after the
occurrence thereof, written notice in the form of an Officers' Certificate of
any event which is or with the giving of notice or the lapse of time would
become an event which is or with the giving of notice or the lapse of time would
become an Event of Default, its status and what action the Company is taking or
proposes to take with respect thereto.
As used in the Indenture, the term "Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11,
U.S. Code, or any similar federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other law for the relief of debtors. As used in the
Indenture, the term "Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee,
liquidator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
Section 5.02. Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment. If an Event of
Default with respect to the Securities of any series 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 Securities of that series
by written notice to the Company (and if given by the Holders, to the Trustee),
may declare the principal (or, if the Securities of that series are Original
Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the Original
principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of and accrued
interest, if any, on all the Securities of that series to be due and payable and
upon any such declaration such principal (or, in the case of Original Issue
Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such specified amount) and interest,
if any, shall be immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before a judgement or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this
Article provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Trustee, may
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(A) in the currency or currency unit in which that series of
Securities is payable, all overdue interest on all Securities of that
series and any related coupons and any Additional Amounts,
(B) in the currency or currency unit in which that series of
Securities is payable, the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and any interest thereon at the rate or
rates prescribed therefor in such Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest at the rate or rates prescribed
therefor in such Securities and any Additional Amounts payable, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel;
and
(2) all existing Defaults and Events of Default with respect to
Securities of that series, other than the non-payment of the principal of
Securities of that series which have become due solely by such declaration
of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.07. No
such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
Section 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee. The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any
Security or coupon, if any, when such interest or any Additional
Amounts becomes due and payable and such default continues for a
period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities and coupons, if any, the whole amount then due and
payable on such Securities and coupons for principal, premium, if any, and
interest and any Additional Amounts, and, to the extent that payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal,
premium, if any, and on any overdue interest and any Additional Amounts, at the
rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities or coupons, if any, 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 an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series 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 secure any other proper remedy.
Section 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. The Trustee may file
such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and take such actions
authorized under the Trust Indenture Act as may be necessary or advisable in
order to have the claims of the Trustee and the Holders of Securities allowed in
any judicial proceedings relating to the Company, its creditors or its property.
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 6.09.
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 of
a Security or coupon any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to
authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder of a
Security or coupon in any such proceeding; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Trustee
may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy
or similar official and be a member of a creditors' or other similar committee.
Section 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee, in its own name as an
express trust, without the possession of any of the Securities or coupons or the
production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto and any recovery of
judgment shall, after provision for the reasonable fees and expenses of the
Trustee and its counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Securities and coupons in respect to which judgment was recovered.
Section 5.06. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission by
the Trustee or any Holder of any Securities 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 or by law to the Trustee or to the
Holders of Securities or coupons may be exercised from time to time, and as
often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of Securities
or coupons, as the case may be.
Section 5.07. Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of Outstanding Securities of any series by written
notice to the Trustee may waive on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of
such series and any related coupons a past Default or Event of Default with
respect to that series and its consequences except (i) a Default or Event of
Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest or any
Additional Amounts on any Security of such series or any coupon appertaining
thereto or (ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which pursuant to
Section 8.02 cannot be amended or modified without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security of such series 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.
Section 5.08. Control by Majority. The Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected
(with each such series voting as a class) 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
Securities of that series; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (i) the Trustee may refuse to
follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture (ii) the Trustee
may refuse to follow any direction that is unduly prejudicial to the rights of
the Holders of Securities of such series not consenting or of any other series
for which the Trustee is trustee, or that would in the good faith judgment of
the Trustee have a substantial likelihood of involving the Trustee in personal
liability and (iii) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction. Prior to the taking of
any action hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled to reasonable
indemnification satisfactory to the Trustee against all losses and expenses
caused by taking or not taking such action. This paragraph shall be in lieu of
Section 316(a)(1)(A) of the Trust Indenture Act and such Section 316(a)(1)(A) is
hereby expressly excluded from this Indenture, as permitted By the Trust
Indenture Act.
Section 5.09. Limitation on Suits by Holders. No Holder of any
Security of any series or any coupons appertaining thereto shall have any right
to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) the Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee
of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of
that series;
(2) the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of that series 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
satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense to
be, or which may be, incurred by the Trustee in pursuing the remedy;
(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 Securities of that
series 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. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder of a Security or
coupon to receive payment of principal of, premium, if any, and, subject to
Sections 3.05 and 3.07, interest on the Security and any Additional Amounts, on
or after the respective due dates expressed in the Security (or, in case of
redemption, on the redemption dates), and the right of any Holder of a coupon to
receive payment of interest due as provided in such coupon, or, subject to
Section 5.09, to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment 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, 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, and any Additional Amounts upon presentation of the Securities or
coupon or both 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 6.09;
SECOND: Subject to the provisions of Article XII, to Holders of
Securities and coupons in respect of which or for the benefit of which such
money has been collected for amounts due and unpaid on such Securities for
principal of, premium, if any, and interest or any Additional Amounts,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal, premium, if any,
and interest, respectively; and
THIRD: to the Company.
The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment to
Holders pursuant to this Section 5.11. At least 15 days before such record
date, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder and the Company a notice that states
the record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid.
Section 5.12. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or
any Holder of a Security or coupon 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 of Securities and coupons
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 Securities or coupons in the last paragraph of Section 3.06, 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 existing right or
remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 5.14. Waiver of Usury, 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 usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now
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.
Section 5.15. 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 or omitted by it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may
require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay
the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable
costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, against any party litigant in the
suit having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses
made by the party litigant 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 by the Trustee.
Section 5.16. Judgment Currency. If, for the purpose of obtaining a
judgment in any court with respect to any obligation of the Company hereunder or
under any Security or any related coupon, it shall become necessary to convert
into any other currency or currency unit any amount in the currency or currency
unit due hereunder or under such Security or coupon, then such conversion shall
be made by the Exchange Rate Agent at the Market Exchange Rate as in effect on
the date of entry of the judgment (the "Judgment Date"). If pursuant to any
such judgment, conversion shall be made on a date (the "Substitute Date") other
than the Judgment Date and there shall occur a change between the Market
Exchange Rate as in effect on the Judgment Date and the Market Exchange Rate as
in effect on the Substitute Date, the Company agrees to pay such additional
amounts (if any) as may be necessary to ensure that the amount paid is equal to
the amount in such other currency or currency unit which, when converted at the
Market Exchange Rate as in effect on the Judgment Date, is the amount due
hereunder or under such Security or coupon. Any amount due from the Company,
under this Section 5.16 shall be due as a separate debt and is not to be
affected by or merged into any judgment being obtained for any other sums due
hereunder or in respect of any Security or coupon. In no event, however, shall
the Company be required to pay more in the currency or currency unit due
hereunder under such Security or coupon at the Market Exchange Rate as in effect
on the Judgment Date than the amount of currency or currency unit stated to be
due hereunder or under such Security or coupon so that in any event the
Company's obligations hereunder or under such Security or coupon will be
effectively maintained as obligations in such currency or currency unit, and the
Company shall be entitled to withhold (or be reimbursed for, as the case may be)
any excess of the amount actually realized upon any such conversion on the
Substitute Date over the amount due and payable on the Judgment Date.
ARTICLE VI
The Trustee
Section 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee.
(a) The Trustee's duties and responsibilities under this Indenture shall be
governed by the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and
shall use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
Section 6.02. Rights of Trustee. Subject to the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act:
(a) The Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any document believed by it to be genuine and to
have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties. The Trustee need
not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
(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 Security, together with any coupons appertaining thereto, to the
Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 3.03 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) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may consult
with counsel of its selection and/or require an Officers' Certificate. The
Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good
faith in reliance on a Board Resolution, the written or oral advice of counsel
reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Trustee (which advice, if oral,
counsel shall promptly confirm in writing to the Trustee), a certificate of an
Officer or Officers delivered pursuant to Section 1.02, an Officers' Certificate
or an Opinion of Counsel.
(d) 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 due care.
(e) 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.
(f) 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.
(g) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the
Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into
such facts or matters as it may seem fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to
make such further inquiry or investigation it shall be entitled to examine the
books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney.
(h) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of
any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have
offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction.
(i) 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 6.02.
Section 6.03. Trustee May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any Paying
Agent, any Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its in individual or
any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and coupons
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 6.04. 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 upon in writing with
the Company.
Section 6.05. Trustee's Disclaimer. The recitals contained herein
and in the Securities, except the Trustee's certificate of authentication, shall
be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no
responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representation as to
the validity or accuracy of this Indenture or the Securities or any coupon. The
Trustee shall not be accountable for the Company's use of the proceeds from the
Securities or for monies paid over to the Company pursuant to the Indenture.
Section 6.06. Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is
continuing with respect to the Securities of any series and if it is known to a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall, within 90 days after it
occurs, transmit by mail to the Holders of Securities of such series, in the
manner and to the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act,
notice of all Defaults known to it unless such Default shall have been cured or
waived; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that except in the case of a Default in payment on
the Securities of any series, 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 Securities of that series; and PROVIDED, FURTHER,
that in the case of any Default of the character specified in Section 5.01(3)
with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holders shall be
given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof.
Section 6.07. Reports by Trustee to Holders. Within 60 days after
each May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 after the first
issuance of Securities pursuant to this Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by
mail to all Holders of Securities as provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust
Indenture Act a brief report dated as of such May 15 if required by and in
compliance with Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act. A copy of each such
report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the
Trustee with each stock exchange, if any, upon which the Securities are listed,
with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will promptly notify the
Trustee when the Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
Section 6.08. 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 Securities of each series. 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 or control of the Registrar, the Company or any of
its Paying Agents other than the Trustee as to the names and addresses of
Holders of Securities of each such series. If there are Bearer Securities of
any series Outstanding, even if the Trustee is the Registrar, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee such a list containing such information with respect to
Holders of such Bearer Securities only.
Section 6.09. Compensation and Indemnity. (a) The Company shall pay
to the Trustee from time to time such reasonable compensation for its services
as the Company and the Trustee shall agree in writing from time to time. The
Trustee's compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a
trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon
request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by it in connection
with the performance of its duties under this Indenture, except any such expense
as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith. Such expenses shall
include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the Trustee's agents and
counsel.
(b) The Company shall indemnify the Trustee and any Predecessor
Trustee, for and hold it harmless against, any loss or liability damage, claim
or reasonable expense including taxes (other than taxes based upon or determined
or measured by the income of the Trustee) incurred by it arising out of or in
connection with its acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts
hereunder, including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself
against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of its powers or duties hereunder. The Trustee shall notify the Company
promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. The Company shall defend
the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee may have
separate counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of
such counsel. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its
consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
(c) The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against
any loss or liability incurred by the Trustee through negligence or bad faith.
(d) To secure the payment obligations of the Company pursuant to this
Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities of any series on
all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that held in
trust to pay principal, premium, if any, any interest and any Additional
Amounts, on particular Securities.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection
with an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(5) or Section 5.01(6), 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 Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this
Indenture or the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
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 Securities
of any series by giving written notice thereof to the Company.
(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series may remove the Trustee with respect to that
series by so notifying the Trustee and the Company and may appoint a successor
Trustee for such series with the Company's consent.
(d) If at any time:
(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 Security for any least six
months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.12 of
this Indenture or 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 Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six
months; or
(3) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting, is adjudged a
bankrupt or an insolvent or a receiver 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
Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act,
any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six
months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated,
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee
with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee
or Trustees.
(e) 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 or removal, the Trustee resigning or
being removed may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series.
(f) If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Trustee for any reason, with respect to Securities of one or more
series, the Company, by or pursuant to Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint
a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities to that or those series (it
being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed with respect
to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at any time
there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular
series) 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 Securities
of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series 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 Securities of such series and to that extent supersede the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series 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 Security of such
series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series.
Section 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. (a) In case of
the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities,
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 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 Securities of one or more (but not all) series, 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 Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such
successor Trustee relates, (ii) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with
respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed
necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties
or the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series
as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in
the retiring Trustee, and (iii) 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 another 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 Securities 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 Securities 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 the 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 the Trust Indenture Act.
(e) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment
of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series in the
manner provided for notices to the Holders of Securities in Section 1.06. Each
notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 6.12. Eligibility; Disqualification. There shall at all
times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be eligible to act as Trustee under
Section 310(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act and shall have a combined capital
and surplus of at least $100,000,000. If such Trustee publishes reports of
condition at 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
Trustee 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 heretofore specified
in this Article.
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 to the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same
effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
Section 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. The Trustee may
appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of
Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue, exchange,
registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof, and Securities so
authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be
valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee
hereunder. 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 Securities by the Trustee or the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and, except as may otherwise be provided pursuant to
Section 3.01, 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 than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by
Federal or State 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 to 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 any series of Securities may at any time
resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee for such series
and to the Company. The Trustee for any series of Securities 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 eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee for such series may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give
notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of the series with
respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve in the manner set forth in
Section 1.06. 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 with respect to one or more series is made pursuant
to this Section, the Securities of such series 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 Securities of the series described in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
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As Trustee
By: ----------------------------------
as Authenticating Agent
By: ----------------------------------
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE VII
Consolidation, Merger or Sale by the Company
Section 7.01. Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets Permitted. The
Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into, or transfer or lease
all or substantially all of its assets to, any Person unless:
(1) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or
any merger (if other than the Company), or to which such transfer or lease
shall have been made, is a corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia;
(2) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or
merger (if other than the Company), or to which such transfer or lease
shall have been made, expressly assumes by supplemental indenture hereto
executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee,
the due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, interest,
if any and any Additional Amounts, with respect to all of the Securities
and the performance or observance of every covenant under this Indenture
and the Securities on the part of the Company to be performed under the
Securities, the coupons and this Indenture;
(3) immediately after giving effect to the transaction and
treating any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company or a
Subsidiary of the Company as a result of such transaction as having been
incurred by the Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction,
no Default or Event of Default exists and is continuing; and
(4) if, as a result of any such consolidation or merger or such
conveyance, transfer or lease, properties or assets of the Company would
become subject to a mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest or other
encumbrance which would not be permitted by the Securities of any series,
the Company or such successor Person, as the case may be, shall take such
steps as shall be necessary effectively to secure such Securities equally
and ratably with all indebtedness secured thereby.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the proposed
transaction an Officers' Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of
Counsel stating that the proposed transaction and such supplemental indenture
comply with this Indenture and that all conditions precedent to the consummation
of the transaction under this Indenture have been met.
In the event of the assumption by a successor corporation as provided
in clause (2) above, such successor corporation shall succeed to and be
substituted for the Company hereunder and under the Securities with the same
effect as if it had been named hereunder and thereunder and any coupons
appertaining thereto and, except in the case of a lease, all such obligations of
the Company shall terminate.
ARTICLE VIII
Supplemental Indentures
Section 8.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee at any time and from time to time, may enter into
indentures supplemental hereto, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee,
for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants and
obligations of the Company herein and in the Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants are
to be for the benefit less than all series of Securities, stating that such
covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such
series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to all
or any series of Securities (and if such Events of Default are to be for
the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such Events
of Default are expressly included solely for the benefit of such series);
or
(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 Bearer
Securities (including, without limitation to provide that Bearer Securities
may be registrable as to principal only) or to facilitate the issuance of
Securities in global form; or
(5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination shall become
effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created
prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled to
the benefit of such provision; or
(6) to secure the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or
more series 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 6.11; or
(9) if allowed without penalty under applicable laws and
regulations, to permit payment in the United states (including any of the
States and District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and
other areas subject to its jurisdiction of principal, premium, if any, or
interest, if any, on Bearer Securities or coupons, if any; or
(10) to correct or supplement any provision herein which may be
inconsistent with any other provision herein or to make any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
Indenture, provided such action shall not adversely affect the interests of
the Holders of Securities of any series; or
(11) to cure an ambiguity or correct any mistake, provided such
action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of any series.
Section 8.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. With
the written consent of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series adversely affected by such
supplemental indenture (with the Securities of each series voting as a class),
the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, 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 such
Securities; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby, a supplemental indenture under this
Section may not:
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or premium,
if any, on, or any installment of principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on, or any Additional Amounts on, any Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium
payable upon the redemption, repurchase or repayment thereof, or change the
manner in which the amount of any principal thereof or premium, if any, or
interest or Additional Amounts thereon is determined or reduce the amount
of the principal of any Original Issue Discount Security or Indexed
Security that would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration
of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02, or change the Place of
Payment where or the currency in which any Securities or any premium or the
interest or Additional Amounts 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
Securities affected thereby, 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 9.02; or
(4) make any change in Section 5.07 or this 8.02 except to
increase any percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this
Indenture cannot be modified or waived with the consent of the Holders of
each Outstanding Security affected thereby.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for
the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies
the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It is not necessary under this Section 8.02 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 8.03. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. Every amendment
to this Indenture or the Securities of one or more series shall be set forth in
a supplemental indenture that complies with the Trust Indenture Act as then in
effect.
Section 8.04. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted
by this Article 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 8.05. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution
of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be
modified in accordance therewith and such supplemental indenture shall form a
part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder and of any
coupon appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby.
Section 8.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities, including any coupons, of any series authenticated and delivered
after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may,
and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the
Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the
Company shall so determine, new Securities including any coupons of any series
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
Securities including any coupons of such series.
Section 8.07. Effect on Senior Indebtedness. No supplemental
indenture shall adversely affect the rights of any holder of Senior Indebtedness
under Article XII without the consent of such holder.
ARTICLE IX
Covenants
Section 9.01. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each series
of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of, premium, if
any, and interest together with Additional Amounts, if any, on the Securities of
that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities of such series, any
coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture. An installment of principal,
premium, if any, or interest, if any, of any Additional Amounts shall be
considered paid on the date it is due if the Trustee or Paying Agent holds on
that date money designated for and sufficient to pay the installment.
Section 9.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. If Securities of a
series are issued as Registered Securities, the Company will maintain in each
Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where
Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where
securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. If Securities of a
series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Company will maintain, (i) subject
to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, an office or agency in a Place of
Payment for that series which is located outside the United States where
Securities of that series and related coupons may be presented and surrendered
for payment; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the Securities of that series are listed
on The International Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of
Ireland Limited, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange
located outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the
Company will maintain a Paying Agent for the Securities of that series in
London, Luxembourg or any other required city located outside the United States,
as the case may be, so long as the Securities of that series are listed on such
exchange, and (ii) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, an
office or agency in a Place by Payment for that series which is located outside
the United States, where Securities of that series may be surrendered for
exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities of that series and this Indenture maybe served. The Company will
give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the
location, of any such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail
to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the
Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and
the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, no payment
of principal, premium or interest on Bearer Securities shall be made at any
office or agency of the Company in the United States, by check mailed to any
address in United States, by transfer to an account located in the United States
or upon presentation or surrender in the United States of a Bearer Security or
coupon for payment, even if the payment would be credited to an account located
outside the United States; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that, if the Securities of a
series are denominated and payable in Dollars, payment of principal of and any
premium or interest on any such Bearer Security shall be made at the office of
the Company's Paying Agent located within the United States, if (but only if)
payment in Dollars of the full amount of such principal, premium or interest, as
the case may be, at all offices or agencies outside the United States maintained
for the purpose by the Company in accordance with this Indenture is illegal or
effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities (including any coupons, if any) of one
or more series 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 an agency in each Place of Payment for
Securities (including any coupons, if any) of any series 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. Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, the Trustee
shall initially serve as Paying Agent.
If and so long as the Securities of any series (i) are denominated in
a currency other than Dollars or (ii) may be payable in currency other than
Dollars, or so long as it is required under any other provision of this
Indenture, then the Company will maintain with respect to each such series of
Securities or as so required, an Exchange Rate Agent.
Section 9.03. Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust;
Unclaimed Money. If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent
with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of
the principal of, premium, if any, or interest or any Additional Amount, on any
of the Securities of that series, 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.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
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 or Additional Amounts on Securities 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 Securities of that series) in the making to any
payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest or Additional Amounts on
the Securities; and
(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 or defeasance 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 terms as those upon which such sums were held by
the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to
the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of any principal, premium or interest
on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such
principal, premium, if any, or interest or Additional Amount has become due and
payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security
and coupon, if any, shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look
only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or
such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the
Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the
Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment,
may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper
published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day
and of general circulation in The City of New York, 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 9.04. Corporate Existence. Subject to Article VII, the
Company will at all times do or cause to be done all things necessary to
preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and its
rights and franchises; PROVIDED that nothing in this Section 9.04 shall prevent
the abandonment or termination of any right or franchise of the Company if, in
the opinion of the Company, such abandonment or termination is in the best
interests of the Company and not prejudicial in any material respect to the
Holders of the Securities.
Section 9.05. Reports by the Company. The Company covenants:
(a) to file with the Trustee, within 30 days after the Company is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and
of the information, documents and other reports (or copies of such portions of
any of the foregoing as the Commission may from time to time by rules and
regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required to file with the
Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended; or, if the Company is not required to file information,
documents or reports pursuant to either of such Sections, then to file with the
Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic
information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, in respect of a security
listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed
from time to time in such rules and regulations;
(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 Securities, 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 9.05, as may be required by rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for
informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including information
concerning the Company's compliance with any of its covenants hereunder,
PROVIDED that the foregoing shall not relieve the Trustee of any of its
responsibilities hereunder.
Section 9.06. Annual Review Certificate; Notice of Defaults or Events
of Default. The Company covenants and agrees to deliver to the Trustee, within
120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date
hereof, a certificate from the principal executive officer, principal financial
officer or principal accounting officer of the Company, covering the preceding
calendar year, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signer(s)
thereof the Company is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment
of or compliance with any of the terms, provisions, covenants and conditions of
this Indenture, and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such
defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
For the purposes of this Section 9.06, compliance shall be determined without
regard to any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the
terms of this Indenture.
Section 9.07. Books of Record and Account. The Company will keep
proper books of record and account, either on a consolidated or individual
basis. The Company shall cause its books of record and account to be examined
either on a consolidated or individual basis, by one or more firms of
independent public accountants not less frequently than annually. The Company
shall prepare its financial statements in accordance with GAAP.
ARTICLE X
Redemption
Section 10.01. Applicability of Article. Securities (including
coupons, if any) of any series which are redeemable before their Stated Maturity
shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of any series) in
accordance with this Article.
Section 10.02. Election to Redeem Notice to Trustee. The election of
the Company to redeem any Securities, including coupons, if any, shall be
evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at
the election of the Company of less than all the Securities or coupons, if any,
of any series, 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 and Redemption Price, of
the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed and, if
applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In the case of any
redemption of Securities (i) prior to the expiration of any restriction on such
redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this
Indenture or (ii) pursuant to an election of the Company which is subject to a
condition specified in the terms of such Securities, the Company shall furnish
the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such
restriction or condition.
Section 10.03. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. Unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, if less than all the
Securities (including coupons, if any) of a series with the same terms are to be
redeemed, the Trustee, not more than 45 days prior to the redemption date, shall
select the Securities of the series to be redeemed in such manner as the Trustee
shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for
redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series,
provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security
shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum
authorized denomination) for such Security. The Trustee shall make the
selection from Securities of the series 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
Securities, including coupons, if any, of that series or any integral multiple
thereof) of the principal amount of Securities, including coupons, if any, of
such series of a denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination
for Securities of that series. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in
writing of the Securities selected by the Trustee for redemption and, in the
case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount
thereof to be redeemed. If the Company shall so direct, Securities registered in
the name of the Company, any Affiliate or any Subsidiary thereof shall not be
included in the Securities selected for redemption. If less than all the
Securities of any series with differing issue dates, interest rates and stated
maturities are to be redeemed, the Company in its sole discretion shall select
the particular Securities to be redeemed and shall notify the Trustee in writing
thereof at least 45 days prior to the relevant redemption date.
For purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires,
all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities (including coupons, if
any) shall relate, in the case of any Securities (including coupons, if any)
redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount
of such Securities (including coupons, if any) which has been or is to be
redeemed.
Section 10.04. Notice of Redemption. Unless otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01, notice of redemption shall be given in the manner
provided in Section 1.06 not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days prior to
the Redemption Date to the Holders of the Securities to be redeemed.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price;
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of a series are
to be redeemed, the identification (and in the case of partial redemption,
the principal amounts) of the particular Security or Securities to be
redeemed;
(4) in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the
notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the
Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the Holder will receive,
without a charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations
for the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed;
(5) the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities,
together in the case of Bearer Securities with all coupons appertaining
thereto, if any, maturing after the Redemption Date, are to surrendered for
payment for the Redemption Price;
(6) that Securities of the series called for redemption and all
unmatured coupons, if any, appertaining thereto must be surrendered to the
Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price;
(7) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Security, or the portion thereof, to
be redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue
on and after said date;
(8) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case;
(9) that unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer
Securities of any series, if any, surrendered for redemption must be
accompanied by all coupons maturing subsequent to the Redemption Date or
the amount of any such missing coupon or coupons will be deducted from the
Redemption Price, unless security or indemnity satisfactory to the Company,
the Trustee and any Paying Agent is furnished; and
(10) the CUSIP number, if any, of the Securities.
Notice of redemption of Securities 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 10.05. Deposit of Redemption Price. On or prior to 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, which it may not do in the case of a sinking fund payment under Article
XI, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 9.03) an amount of money
in the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in which the
Securities of such series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to
Section 3.01 for the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay on the
Redemption Date the Redemption Price of, and (unless the Redemption Date shall
be an Interest Payment Date) interest accrued to the Redemption Date on, all
Securities or portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date.
Unless any Security by its terms prohibits any sinking fund payment
obligation from being satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities
(including Securities redeemed otherwise than through a sinking fund), the
Company may deliver such Securities to the Trustee for crediting against such
payment obligation in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this
Indenture.
Section 10.06. Securities Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of
redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed
shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price
therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall
default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such
Securities shall cease to bear interest and the coupons for any such interest
appertaining to any Bearer Security so to be redeemed, except to the extent
provided below, shall be void. Except as provided in the next succeeding
paragraph, upon surrender of any such Security, including coupons, if any, for
redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the
Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest (and any
Additional Amounts) to the Redemption Date; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that installments
of interest on Bearer Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Redemption Date shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside the
United States and its possessions (except as otherwise provided in Section 9.02)
and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, only upon
presentation and surrender to coupons for such interest; and PROVIDED, FURTHER
that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01, installments
of interest on Registered Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or
more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the
relevant Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section
3.07.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Bearer Security may be paid after deducting from the Redemption Price an amount
equal to the face amount of all such missing coupons, or the surrender of such
missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there
be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they may require to save each
of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Bearer
Security shall surrender to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing
coupon in respect of which a deduction shall have been made from the Redemption
Price, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount so deducted;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that interest (and any Additional Amounts) represented by
coupons shall be payable only at an office or agency located outside of the
United States (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 9.02) and,
unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01, only upon
presentation and surrender of those coupons.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed
therefor in the Security.
Section 10.07. Securities Redeemed in Part. Upon surrender of a
Registered Security that is redeemed in part at any Place of Payment therefor
(with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing), the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver to the Holder of that Security, without service charge a new Registered
Security or Securities of the same series, having the same form, terms and
Stated Maturity, in any authorized denomination equal in aggregate principal
amount to the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security
surrendered.
ARTICLE XI
Sinking Funds
Section 11.01. Applicability of Article. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities
of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for
Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking
fund payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by
the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of Securities of any
series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction
as provided in Section 11.02. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the
redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of
Securities of such series.
Section 11.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.
The Company (i) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any
previously called for redemption) together, in the case of Bearer Securities of
such series, with all unmatured coupons appertaining thereto and (ii) may apply
as a credit Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the
election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the
application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of
such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking
fund payment with respect to the Securities of such series required to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms of such
series; provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such
Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the
Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation
of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced
accordingly.
Section 11.03. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not less
than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series
pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied be delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 11.02 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so
delivered to the extent it has not previously done so. Not less than 30 days
before each such sinking fund payment date the Trustee shall select the
Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner
specified in Section 10.03 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to be
given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in
Section 10.04. Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such
Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Sections
10.06 and 10.07.
ARTICLE XII
Subordination of Securities
Section 12.01. Agreement to Subordinate. The Company, for itself,
its successors and assigns, covenants and agrees, and each Holder of Securities,
by his acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that the payment of
the principal of (and premium, if any), interest on and any Additional Amounts
payable in respect of each and all of the Securities is hereby expressly
subordinated, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth in this
Article XII (subject to the provisions of Article IV), in right of payment to
the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness.
Section 12.02. Distribution on Dissolution, Liquidation and
Reorganization. In the event of (i) any insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership,
liquidation, reorganization, readjustment, composition or other similar
proceeding relating to the Company or its property, (ii) any proceeding for the
liquidation, dissolution or other winding-up of the Company, voluntary or
involuntary, whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings,
(iii) any assignment by the Company for the benefit of creditors or (iv) any
other marshaling of the assets and liabilities of the Company then, and in any
such event specified in (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) (each such event, if any,
herein sometimes referred to as a "Proceeding") (subject to the power of a court
of competent jurisdiction to make other equitable provision reflecting the
rights conferred in this Indenture upon the Senior Indebtedness and the holders
thereof with respect to the Securities and the Holders thereof by a lawful plan
or reorganization under applicable Bankruptcy Law),
(a) the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall first be entitled to
receive payment in full of the principal thereof, premium, if any, any interest
or any additional amounts required in respect of certain taxes, and any interest
thereon, due thereon or provision must first be made for such payment in cash or
cash equivalents or any other manner acceptable to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness before any payment or distribution, whether in cash, securities or
property (including any payment or distribution which may be payable or
deliverable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company
subordinated to the payment of the Securities, such payment or distribution
being referred to as a "Junior Subordinated Payment", but excluding any payment
or distribution of securities of the Company provided for by a plan of
reorganization or readjustment authorized by an order or decree of a court of
competent jurisdiction in a reorganization proceeding under any applicable
Bankruptcy Law or of any other corporation provided for by such plan of
reorganization or readjustment which securities are subordinated in right of
payment to all then outstanding Senior Indebtedness to substantially the same
extent as the Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article), shall
be made by the Company on account of principal, premium, interest or Additional
Amounts of or on the Securities or interest on overdue amounts thereof; and
(b) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or
character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any Junior
Subordinated Payment, to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee
would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article (and excluding any
payment or distribution of securities of the Company provided for by a plan of
reorganization or readjustment authorized by an order or decree of a court of
competent jurisdiction in a reorganization proceeding under any applicable
Bankruptcy Law or of any other corporation provided for by such plan of
reorganization or readjustment which securities are subordinated in right of
payment to all then outstanding Senior Indebtedness to substantially the same
extent as the Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article) shall
be paid by the liquidating trustee or agent or other person making such payment
or distribution, whether a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver or liquidating
trustee or otherwise, directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their
representative or representatives or to the trustee or trustees under any
indenture under which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, ratably according to the aggregate amounts remaining
unpaid on account of the principal of, premium, if any, interest or additional
amounts required in respect of certain taxes, and any interest thereon, on the
Senior Indebtedness held or represented by each, to the extent necessary to make
payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, after giving effect
to any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness; and
(c) in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or dis-
tribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities, shall be received by the Trustee or the Holders of the
Securities before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full, then, and in such
event such payment or distribution shall be paid over to the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness or their representative or representatives or to the trustee
or trustees under any indenture under which any instruments evidencing any of
such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, ratably as aforesaid, for
application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid until all
such Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full, after giving effect to
any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness. As used in this Article, the phrase "payment in full" (or any
similar phrase), when used to refer to the payment of Senior Indebtedness, shall
mean payment in full of the aggregate amount of such Senior Indebtedness then
outstanding in cash, securities or other property.
The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company
with or into, another Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company
following the conveyance or transfer of all or substantially all of its
properties and assets as an entirety to another Person upon the terms and condi-
tions set forth in Article VII shall not be deemed a Proceeding for the purposes
of this Section if the Person formed by such consolidation with or into which
the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer
such properties and assets as an entirety, as the case may be, shall, as a part
of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the
conditions set forth in Article VII.
Section 12.03. Prior Payment to Senior Indebtedness Upon Acceleration
of Securities.
In the event that any Securities of a series are declared due and
payable before their Stated Maturity, then and in such event the holders of the
Senior Indebtedness outstanding at the time such Securities so become due and
payable shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due on or in
respect of such Senior Indebtedness (including any amounts due upon
acceleration), or provision shall be made for such payment in cash or cash
equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any
payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, properties or
securities (including any Junior Subordinated Payment) by the Company on account
of the principal of, or premium, if any, or any interest or Additional Amounts
on such Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of such
Securities by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall
make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited by the
foregoing provisions of this Section, then and in such event such payment shall
be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment with
respect to which Section 12.02 would be applicable.
Section 12.04. No Payment on Securities in Event of Default on Senior
Indebtedness. In the event and during the continuation of (i) a Company default
in the payment of any principal, interest, if any or premium, if any, or any
Additional Amounts on any Senior Indebtedness when the same becomes due and
payable, whether at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or declaration or
otherwise or (ii) an event of default with respect to any Senior Indebtedness
permitting the holders thereof to accelerate the maturity thereof and written
notice of such event of default (requesting that payments on the Securities
cease) is given to the Company by the holders of Senior Indebtedness, then
unless and until such default in payment or event of default shall have been
cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist, no direct or indirect payment (in
cash, property or securities, by set-off or otherwise) shall be made or agreed
to be made on account of the Junior Subordinated Debt or interest thereon or in
respect of any repayment, redemption, retirement, purchase or other acquisition
of Junior Subordinated Debt.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall
make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited by the
foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the
time of such payment, have been made known to the Trustee or, as the case may
be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment shall be paid over and
delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment with
respect to which Section 12.02 would be applicable.
Section 12.05. Payments on Securities Permitted. Nothing contained
in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall (a) affect the obligation of
the Company to make, or prevent the Company from making, at any time except
during the pendency of any Proceeding referred to in Section 12.02 or under the
conditions described in Sections 12.03 and 12.04, payments of principal,
premium, interest or Additional Amounts, and any interest thereon, of or on the
Securities or (b) prevent the application by the Trustee of any moneys deposited
with it hereunder to the payment of or on account of the principal, premium,
interest or Additional Amounts, and any interest thereon, of or on the
Securities unless the Trustee shall have received at its Corporate Trust Office
written notice of any event prohibiting the making of such payment more than two
Business Days prior to the date fixed for such payment or prior to the execution
of an instrument to satisfy and discharge this Indenture based upon the deposit
of funds under Section 4.01(l)(B).
Section 12.06. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior
Indebtedness. Subject to the payment in full of all amounts due or to become
due on all Senior Indebtedness, or the provision for such payment in cash or
cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the extent of
the payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness
pursuant to the provisions of this Article (equally and ratably with the holders
of all indebtedness of the Company which by its express terms is subordinated to
Senior Indebtedness of the Company to substantially the same extent as the
Securities are subordinated to the Senior Indebtedness and is entitled to like
rights of subrogation by reason of any payments or distributions made to holders
of such Senior Indebtedness) to all of the rights of the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness to receive payments and distributions of cash, property and
securities applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until the principal of (and
premium, if any) and any interest and Additional Amounts on the Securities shall
be paid in full. For purposes of such subrogation or assignment, no payments or
distributions to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or
securities to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be
entitled except for the provisions of this Article, and no payments over
pursuant to the provisions of this Article to the holders of Senior Indebtedness
by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as among the Company, its
creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the Holders of the
Securities, be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Company to or on
account of the Senior Indebtedness.
Section 12.07. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights. The
provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities any series on the
one hand and the holders of Senior Indebtedness on the other hand. Nothing
contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any Securities of
any series is intended to or shall (a) impair, as between the Company and the
Holders of the Securities of a series, the obligations of the Company, which are
absolute and unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the
principal of , premium, if any, and any interest and Additional Amounts on the
Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with
their terms; or (b) affect the relative rights against the Company of the
Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than their rights
in relation to the holders of Senior Indebtedness; or (c) prevent the Trustee or
the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by
applicable law upon default under this Indenture including, without limitation,
filing and voting claims in any Proceeding, subject to the rights, if any, under
this Article of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive cash, property and
securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
Section 12.08. Authorization of Holders of Securities to Trustee to
Effect Subordination. Each Holder of Securities by his acceptance thereof
authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination as provided in this
Article and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.
Section 12.09. Notices to Trustee. The Company shall give prompt
written notice to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee located at the Corporate
Trust Office of the Trustee of any fact known to the Company which would prevent
the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities.
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article or any other provisions of this
Indenture, neither the Trustee nor any Paying Agent (other than the Company)
shall be charged with knowledge of the existence of any Senior Indebtedness or
of any event which would prohibit the making of any payment of moneys to or by
the Trustee or such Paying Agent, unless and until the Trustee or such Paying
Agent shall have received (in the case of the Trustee, at its Corporate Trust
Office) written notice thereof from the Company or from the holder of any Senior
Indebtedness or from the trustee for any such holder, together with proof
satisfactory to the Trustee of such holding of Senior Indebtedness or of the
authority of such trustee; PROVIDED, however, that if at least two Business Days
prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any such moneys may become
payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the
principal, premium, interest or Additional Amounts, of or on any Security, or
any interest thereon) or the date on which the Trustee shall execute an
instrument acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
Trustee shall not have received with respect to such moneys or the moneys
deposited with it as a condition to such satisfaction and discharge the notice
provided for in this Section 12.09, then, anything herein contained to the
contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to
receive such moneys and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were
received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary, which may be
received by it on or after such two Business Days prior to such date. The
Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a
person representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee
on behalf of such holder) to establish that such a notice has been given by a
holder of Senior Indebtedness or a trustee on behalf of any such holder. In the
event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is
required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior
Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this
Article, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Indebtedness
held by such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate
in such payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of
such person under this Article and, if such evidence is not furnished, the
Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as
to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
Section 12.10. Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness. The Trustee
shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article in respect of any
Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it to the same extent as any other
holder of Senior Indebtedness and nothing in this Indenture shall be construed
to deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
Section 12.11. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions. No right of
any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness to enforce subordination
as herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any
act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to
act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company
with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any
knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or otherwise be charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the immediately
preceding paragraph, the holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and
from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the
Holders of the Securities, without incurring responsibility to such Holders of
the Securities and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in
this Article or the obligations hereunder of such Holders of the Securities to
the holders of Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following:
(i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment
of, or renew or alter, Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in
any manner Senior Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any
agreement under which Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange,
release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise
securing Senior Indebtedness; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for
the collection of Senior Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or refrain from
exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person.
Section 12.12. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of
Liquidating Agent. Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company
referred to in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article
VI, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order
or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such
Proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver,
liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or
other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to
the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled
to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or
payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other
facts pertinent thereto or to this Article.
Section 12.13. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior
Indebtedness. The Trustee, in its capacity as trustee under this Indenture,
shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness and shall not be liable to any such holders if it shall in good
faith mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of Securities or to the
Company or to any other Person cash, property or securities to which any holders
of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
Section 12.14. Article Applicable to Paying Agents. In case at any
time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by the
Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee" as used in this Article
shall in such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed as
extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for all
intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this Article in
addition to or in place of the Trustee.
Section 12.15. Certain Conversions or Exchanges Deemed Payment. For
the purposes of this Article only, (a) the issuance and delivery of junior
securities upon exchange of Securities shall not be deemed to constitute a
payment or distribution on account of the principal of , premium, if any, or any
interest or Additional Amounts, on Securities or on account of the purchase or
other acquisition of Securities, and (b) the payment, issuance or delivery of
cash, property or securities (other than junior securities) upon exchange of a
Security shall be deemed to constitute payment on account of the principal of
such security. For the purposes of this Section, the term "junior securities"
means (i) shares of any stock of any class of the Company and (ii) securities of
the Company which are subordinated in right of payment to all Senior
Indebtedness which may be outstanding at the time of issuance or delivery of
such securities to substantially the same extent as, or to a greater extent
than, Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article.
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.
AMERUS LIFE HOLDINGS, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer
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Attest:
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK
By: /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Vice President
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Attest:
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
