Form of AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT among WILMINGTON TRUST CORPORATION, as Sponsor WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Property Trustee WELLS FARGO DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY, as Delaware Trustee the Administrators named herein and the...
Exhibit 4.11
Form of
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
among
WILMINGTON TRUST CORPORATION,
as Sponsor
as Sponsor
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Property Trustee
as Property Trustee
the Administrators named herein
and the several Holders of the Trust Securities
Dated as of
CROSS REFERENCE TABLE 1
Section of Trust | ||||
Indenture Act of | Section of | |||
1939, as amended | Agreement | |||
310 (a)(1)
|
8.7 | |||
(a) (2)
|
8.7 | |||
(a) (3)
|
8.9 | |||
(a) (4)
|
2.7(a) (ii)(E) | |||
(b)
|
8.8; 10.10 | |||
(c)
|
Inapplicable | |||
311(a)
|
8.13 | |||
(b)
|
8.13 | |||
(c)
|
Inapplicable | |||
312(a)
|
5.7; 10.10 | |||
(b)
|
5.7; 10.10 | |||
(c)
|
5.7 | |||
313(a)
|
8.15 (a) | |||
(b)
|
8.15(b) | |||
(c)
|
10.8 | |||
(d)
|
Inapplicable | |||
314(a)
|
8.16 | |||
(b)
|
Inapplicable | |||
(c) (1)
|
8.17 | |||
(c) (2)
|
8.17 | |||
(c) (3)
|
Inapplicable | |||
(d)
|
Inapplicable | |||
(e)
|
1.1; 8.17 | |||
(f)
|
Inapplicable | |||
315(a)
|
8.1(a); 8.1(d); 8.1(e); 8.3(a) | |||
(b)
|
8.2; 10.8 | |||
(c)
|
8.1(a); 8.1(e)(iii) | |||
(d)
|
8.1; 8.3 | |||
(e)
|
Inapplicable | |||
316 (a)(1)
|
5.14(b) | |||
(a) (2)
|
Inapplicable | |||
(b)
|
5.14(c) | |||
(c)
|
6.7 | |||
317(a)
|
8.14 | |||
(b)
|
5.9 | |||
318(a)
|
10.10 |
This Cross-Reference Table does not constitute part of the Agreement and shall not have any bearing
upon the interpretation of any of its terms or provisions.
Table of Contents
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ARTICLE 1 DEFINED TERMS |
1 | |||
SECTION 1.1. Definitions |
1 | |||
ARTICLE 2 CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST |
10 | |||
SECTION 2.1. Name |
10 | |||
SECTION 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business |
10 | |||
SECTION 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses |
10 | |||
SECTION 2.4. Issuance of the Preferred Securities |
11 | |||
SECTION 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Debentures |
11 | |||
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust |
12 | |||
SECTION 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions |
12 | |||
SECTION 2.8. Assets of Trust |
15 | |||
SECTION 2.9. Title to Trust Property |
16 | |||
ARTICLE 3 PAYMENT ACCOUNT |
16 | |||
SECTION 3.1. Payment Account |
16 | |||
ARTICLE 4 DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION |
16 | |||
SECTION 4.1. Distributions |
16 | |||
SECTION 4.2. Redemption |
17 | |||
SECTION 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities |
19 | |||
SECTION 4.4. Payment Procedures |
20 | |||
SECTION 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports |
20 | |||
SECTION 4.6. Payment of Expenses of the Issuer Trust |
20 | |||
SECTION 4.7. Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions |
21 | |||
ARTICLE 5 TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES |
21 | |||
SECTION 5.1. Initial Ownership |
21 | |||
SECTION 5.2. Trust Securities Certificates |
21 | |||
SECTION 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates |
21 | |||
SECTION 5.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates |
22 | |||
SECTION 5.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost, or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates |
22 | |||
SECTION 5.6. Persons Deemed Holders |
23 | |||
SECTION 5.7. Access to List of Holders’ Names and Addresses |
23 | |||
SECTION 5.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency |
24 | |||
SECTION 5.9. Appointment of Paying Agent |
24 | |||
SECTION
5.10. Ownership of Common Securities by Sponsor |
24 | |||
SECTION
5.11. Global Preferred Securities Certificates; Common Securities Certificate |
25 | |||
SECTION
5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency |
25 |
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SECTION
5.13. Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates |
26 | |||
SECTION
5.14. Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults |
27 | |||
SECTION
5.15. CUSIP Numbers |
29 | |||
ARTICLE 6 ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING |
29 | |||
SECTION 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights |
29 | |||
SECTION 6.2. Notice of Meetings |
30 | |||
SECTION 6.3. Meetings of Holders of the Preferred Securities |
30 | |||
SECTION 6.4. Voting Rights |
30 | |||
SECTION 6.5. Proxies |
30 | |||
SECTION 6.6. Holder Action by Written Consent |
31 | |||
SECTION 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes |
31 | |||
SECTION 6.8. Acts of Holders |
31 | |||
SECTION 6.9. Inspection of Records |
32 | |||
ARTICLE 7 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
32 | |||
SECTION 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee |
32 | |||
SECTION 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Sponsor |
34 | |||
ARTICLE 8 THE ISSUER TRUSTEES AND ADMINISTRATORS |
34 | |||
SECTION 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities |
34 | |||
SECTION 8.2. Certain Notices |
36 | |||
SECTION 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee |
37 | |||
SECTION 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities |
38 | |||
SECTION 8.5. May Hold Securities |
39 | |||
SECTION 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees |
39 | |||
SECTION 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Issuer Trustees and
Administrators |
40 | |||
SECTION 8.8. Conflicting Interests |
40 | |||
SECTION 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee |
41 | |||
SECTION 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor |
42 | |||
SECTION 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor |
43 | |||
SECTION 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation, or Succession to Business |
44 | |||
SECTION 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Sponsor or Issuer Trust |
44 | |||
SECTION 8.14. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim |
44 | |||
SECTION 8.15. Reports by Property Trustee |
45 | |||
SECTION 8.16. Reports to the Property Trustee |
46 | |||
SECTION 8.17. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent |
46 | |||
SECTION 8.18. Number of Issuer Trustees |
46 | |||
SECTION 8.19. Delegation of Power |
46 | |||
ARTICLE 9 DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER |
47 | |||
SECTION 9.1. Dissolution Upon Expiration Date |
47 | |||
SECTION 9.2. Early Dissolution |
47 | |||
SECTION 9.3. Dissolution |
47 | |||
SECTION 9.4. Liquidation |
48 |
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SECTION 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations, or Replacements of Issuer Trust |
49 | |||
ARTICLE 10 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS |
50 | |||
SECTION 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Holders |
50 | |||
SECTION 10.2. Amendment |
50 | |||
SECTION 10.3. Separability |
52 | |||
SECTION 10.4. Governing Law |
52 | |||
SECTION 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day |
52 | |||
SECTION 10.6. Successors |
52 | |||
SECTION 10.7. Headings |
52 | |||
SECTION 10.8. Reports, Notices, and Demands |
53 | |||
SECTION 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition |
54 | |||
SECTION 10.10. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act |
54 | |||
SECTION 10.11. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee Agreement, and Indenture |
54 | |||
SECTION 10.12. Counterparts |
55 |
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of among WILMINGTON TRUST
CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (including any successors or assigns, the “Sponsor”),
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as property trustee (in
that capacity, the “Property Trustee”), XXXXX FARGO DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY, a Delaware
banking corporation, as Delaware trustee (in that capacity, the “Delaware Trustee”, and
together with the Property Trustee, the “Issuer
Trustees”), Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx, an individual,
and Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx, an individual, each of whose address is c/o Wilmington Trust Corporation,
Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000 as the initial Administrators
(as hereinafter defined), and (v) the several Holders, as hereinafter defined.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the Sponsor, the Delaware Trustee, and the Administrators have heretofore duly
declared and established a statutory trust pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (the
“Issuer Trust”) by entering into that certain Trust
Agreement, dated as of December 5, 2008 (the “Original Trust
Agreement”), and by the execution and filing by the Delaware
Trustee with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of that certain Certificate of Trust,
filed on December 5, 2008, attached as Exhibit A (the “Certificate of Trust”);
and
WHEREAS, the Sponsor, the Issuer Trustees, and the Administrators desire to amend and restate
the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other
things: (a) the issuance of the Common Securities by the Issuer Trust to the Sponsor; (b) the
issuance and sale of the Preferred Securities by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Underwriting
Agreement; and (c) the acquisition by the Issuer Trust from the Sponsor of all of the right, title,
and interest in the Debentures;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set forth herein and for
other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the other parties and for the benefit of the Holders,
hereby amends and restates the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINED TERMS
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires:
(a) The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and
include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) All other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly
or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
(c) The words “include,” “includes,” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation;”
(d) All accounting terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in
accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles;
(e) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article,” a “Section,” or an
“Exhibit” refers to an Article, a Section, or an Exhibit, as the case may be, of or to this Trust
Agreement; and
(f) The words “hereby,” “herein,” “hereof,” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import
refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section, or other
subdivision.
“Acceleration Event of Default” means any “Event of Default” specified in clauses (iv)
through (vi) of Section 5.01 of the Indenture.
“Act” has the meaning specified in Section 6.8.
“Additional Amount” means, with respect to Trust Securities of a given Liquidation
Amount and/or a given period, the amount of Additional Interest (as defined in the Indenture) paid
by the Sponsor on a Like Amount of Debentures for that period.
“Additional Sums” has the meaning specified in Section 10.6 of the Indenture.
“Administrator” means each of the individuals identified as an “Administrator” in the
preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in that individual’s capacity as Administrator of the
Issuer Trust and not in that individual’s individual capacity, that Administrator’s successor in
interest in that capacity, or any successor Administrator appointed as provided herein.
“Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control with that specified Person.
For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to any specified Person means
the power to direct the management and policies of that Person, directly or indirectly, whether
through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise; and the terms “controlling”
and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a
Global Preferred Security, the rules and procedures of the Clearing Agency for that Global
Preferred Security, in each case to the extent applicable to that transaction and as in effect from
time to time.
“Bankruptcy Event” means, with respect to any Person:
(a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises judging that
Person a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjudication, composition of or in respect of that Person under any applicable Federal
or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar law,
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appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator, or other similar
official of that Person or of any substantial part of that Person’s property, or ordering the
winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed
and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(b) the institution by that Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent,
the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, the filing
by it of a petition, answer, or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable
Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar law, the consent by it to
the filing of any such petition, the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, or
sequestrator (or similar official) of that Person or of any substantial part of that Person’s
property, the making by that Person of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, the admission by
that Person in writing of that Person’s inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and
its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of action by the governing body or
owners of that Person in furtherance of any such action.
“Bankruptcy Laws” has the meaning specified in Section 10.9.
“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Sponsor or any duly
authorized committee of the board of directors of the Sponsor.
“Business Day” means a day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a day on which
banking institutions in Wilmington, Delaware are authorized or required by law or executive order
to remain closed, or (c) a day on which the Property Trustee’s Corporate Trust Office or the
Corporate Trust Office of the Debenture Trustee is closed for business.
“Certificate of Trust” has the meaning specified in the recitals hereof, as amended
from time to time.
“Clearing Agency” means an organization registered as a “clearing agency” pursuant to
Section 17A of the Exchange Act. DTC will be the initial Clearing Agency.
“Clearing Agency Participant” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial
institution, or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing Agency effects book-entry
transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.
“Closing Date” means the Time of Delivery, which date is also the date of execution
and delivery of this Trust Agreement.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as constituted from time to
time, created under the Exchange Act or, if at any time after the
execution of this instrument that
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture
Act, the body performing those duties at that time.
“Common Securities Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Common
Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B.
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“Common Securities Subscription Agreement” means the subscription agreement executed
and delivered by the Sponsor and the Issuer Trust contemporaneously with the execution and delivery
of this Trust Agreement, pursuant to which the Sponsor will agree to buy and the Issuer Trust will
agree to sell the Common Securities.
“Common Security” means a common undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the
Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in this
Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution to the
extent provided herein.
“Corporate Trust Office” means (i) when used with respect to the Property Trustee, the
office of the Property Trustee located in Wilmington, Delaware, and (ii) when used with respect to
the Debenture Trustee, the office of the Debenture Trustee located in Wilmington, Delaware.
“Debenture Event of Default” means any “Event of Default” specified in Section 5.1 of
the Indenture.
“Debenture Purchase Agreement” means the debenture purchase agreement executed and
delivered by the Sponsor and the Issuer Trust contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of
this Trust Agreement, pursuant to which the Sponsor will agree to issue and the Issuer Trust will
agree to purchase the Debentures.
“Debenture Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Debentures to be redeemed under
the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption of those Debentures under the Indenture.
“Debenture Trustee” means Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, solely in its
capacity as trustee pursuant to the Indenture and not in its individual capacity, or its successor
in interest in that capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as provided in the Indenture.
“Debentures” means the Sponsor’s % Junior Subordinated Debentures due
20___, issued pursuant to the Indenture.
“Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates” means either or both (as the context
requires) of: (i) Preferred Securities issued as Global Preferred Securities Certificates as
provided in Section 5.11; and (ii) Preferred Securities Certificates issued in
certificated, fully registered form as provided in Section 5.13.
“Delaware Statutory Trust Act” means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code,
12 Del. C. ss.3801 et seq., as it may be amended from time to time.
“Delaware Trustee” means the Person identified as the “Delaware Trustee” in the
preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Issuer Trust
and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in that capacity, or any successor
Delaware trustee appointed as provided herein.
“Direct Action” has the meaning specified in Section 5.14(c).
“Distribution Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a)(i).
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“Distribution Period” means the period of time beginning on any Distribution Date and
ending on the day immediately preceding the next succeeding Distribution Date.
“Distributions” means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided
in Section 4.1.
“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.
“Early Dissolution Event” has the meaning specified in Section 9.2.
“Event of Default” means any one of the following events, whatever the reason for that
event and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or effected by operation of law or pursuant
to any judgment, decree, or order of any court or any order, rule, or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body:
(a) the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default;
(b) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any Distribution when it becomes due and
payable, and continuation of that default for a period of 30 days;
(c) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of any Trust Security
when it becomes due and payable;
(d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of any covenant or
warranty of the Issuer Trustees in this Trust Agreement other than those specified in clause (b) or
(c) above and continuation of that default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has been
given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer Trustees and to the Sponsor by the Holders of
at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities a written
notice specifying that default or breach, requiring it to be remedied, and stating that such notice
is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or
(e) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property Trustee if a successor
Property Trustee has not been appointed within 90 days thereof.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended and in effect from time to time.
“Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 9.1.
“Federal Reserve Board” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as
constituted from time to time, or if at any time after the execution of this Trust Agreement the
Federal Reserve Board is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it, the body
performing those duties at that time.
“Global Preferred Securities Certificate” means a Preferred Securities Certificate
issued to a Clearing Agency pursuant to Section 2.4 evidencing record ownership of Preferred
Securities substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
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“Global Preferred Security” means a Preferred Security, the ownership and transfers of
which shall be made through book-entry by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 5.11.
“Guarantee” means the Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered by the Sponsor and
Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, as guarantee trustee, contemporaneously with the execution
and delivery of this Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the holders of the Preferred Securities,
as amended from time to time.
“Holder” means a Person in whose name a Trust Security or Trust Securities are
registered in the Securities Register; any such Person shall be deemed to be a beneficial owner
within the meaning of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.
“Indemnified Person” has the meaning specified in Section 8.6(c).
“Indenture” means the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of ___, 20___,
between the Sponsor and the Debenture Trustee, as trustee, as amended or supplemented from time to
time.
“Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, or any successor
statute thereto, in each case as amended and in effect from time to time.
“Issuer Letter of Representations” means the agreement among the Issuer Trust and DTC,
as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the Closing Date, or such other agreement as may be
entered into from time to time among the Issuer Trust, the Sponsor, and DTC, as the same be amended
or supplemented from time to time.
“Issuer Trust” means the Delaware statutory trust known as “Wilmington Trust
Capital A” which was created under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act pursuant to the Original Trust
Agreement and the filing of the Certificate of Trust and the Original Trust Agreement, and
continued pursuant to this Trust Agreement.
“Issuer Trustees” means, collectively, the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee.
“Lien” means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of trust, adverse
ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest, preference, priority, or other
security agreement.
“Like Amount” means (a) with respect to a redemption of any Trust Securities, Trust
Securities having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal amount of Debentures to be
contemporaneously redeemed in accordance with the Indenture, the proceeds of which will be used to
pay the Redemption Price of those Trust Securities, (b) with respect to a distribution of Debentures
to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of the Issuer Trust,
Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the
Holder to whom those Debentures are distributed, and (c) with respect to any distribution of
Additional Amounts to Holders of Trust Securities, Debentures having a principal amount equal to
the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities in respect of which that distribution is made.
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“Liquidation Amount” means the stated amount of $1,000 per Trust Security.
“Liquidation Date” means the date of the termination of the Issuer Trust pursuant to
Section 9.4.
“Liquidation Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d).
“Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities” or “Majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities” means, except as provided by the Trust Indenture
Act, Preferred Securities or Common Securities, as the case may be, representing more than 50% of
the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all then Outstanding Preferred Securities or Common Securities,
as the case may be.
“Majority Holders” means the Owners of Preferred Securities Certificates representing
beneficial interests aggregating at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities.
“Officers’ Certificate” means, with respect to any Person, a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, the President, a Vice Chairman of the Board, or a Vice President of that
Person, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, an Assistant Controller, the
Secretary, or an Assistant Secretary of that Person. Any Officers’ Certificate delivered with
respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall
include:
(a) a statement by each officer signing the Officers’ Certificate that such officer has read
the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or investigation undertaken
by that officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate;
(c) a statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as, in that
officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable that officer to express an informed opinion as to whether
or not that covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of that officer, that condition or covenant has
been complied with.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or an
employee of the Sponsor or any Affiliate of the Sponsor.
“Original Trust Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Trust
Agreement.
“Outstanding,” when used with respect to Trust Securities, means, as of the date of
determination, all Trust Securities theretofore executed and delivered under this Trust Agreement,
except:
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(a) Trust Securities theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee or delivered to the Property
Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Trust Securities for whose redemption funds in the necessary amount has been theretofore
deposited with the Property Trustee or any Paying Agent; provided that, if those Trust Securities
are to be redeemed, notice of that redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Trust Agreement;
and
(c) Trust Securities that have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Preferred Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to Sections 5.4,
5.5, 5.11, and 5.13; provided, however, that in determining whether the
Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver hereunder, Preferred
Securities owned by the Sponsor, any Administrator, any Issuer Trustee, or any Affiliate of the
Sponsor or any Issuer Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that
(a) in determining whether any Issuer Trustee or Administrator is protected in relying upon any
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, or waiver, only Preferred
Securities that such Issuer Trustee or Administrator knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded,
and (b) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of the outstanding Preferred Securities
are owned by the Sponsor, one or more of the Issuer Trustees, one or more of the Administrators,
and/or any such Affiliate. Preferred Securities so owned that have been pledged in good faith may
be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrators the
pledgee’s right so to act with respect to those Preferred Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Sponsor or any Affiliate of the Sponsor.
“Owner” means each Person who is the beneficial owner of Global Preferred Securities
as reflected in the records of the Clearing Agency or, if a Clearing Agency Participant is not the
Owner, then as reflected in the records of a Person maintaining an account with that Clearing
Agency (directly or indirectly, in accordance with the rules of that Clearing Agency).
“Paying Agent” means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed pursuant to
Section 5.9 and shall initially be the Property Trustee.
“Payment Account” means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust account
established for the Property Trustee with the Paying Agent for the benefit of the Holders in which
all amounts paid in respect of the Debentures will be held and from which the Property Trustee,
through the Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Holders in accordance with
Sections 4.1 and 4.2.
“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association,
joint stock company, company, limited liability company, trust, statutory or business trust,
unincorporated organization, or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any
other entity of any nature whatsoever.
“Preferred Securities Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of
Preferred Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
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“Preferred Security” means a preferred undivided beneficial interest in the assets of
the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor in
this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution
to the extent provided herein.
“Property Trustee” means the Person identified as the “Property Trustee” in the
preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Issuer Trust
and not in its individual capacity, its successor in interest in that capacity, or any successor
property trustee appointed as provided herein.
“Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Trust Security to be redeemed, the date
fixed for that redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement; provided that each Debenture
Redemption Date and the stated maturity of the Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a Like
Amount of Trust Securities.
“Redemption Price” means, with respect to any Trust Security, the Liquidation Amount
of that Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions to the Redemption Date, plus the
related amount of the premium, if any, required to be paid by the Sponsor upon the concurrent
redemption of a Like Amount of Debentures.
“Relevant Trustee” shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.10.
“Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Property Trustee, means any
officer of the Property Trustee with direct responsibility for the administration of this Trust
Agreement and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer of
the Property Trustee to whom that matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity
with the particular subject.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, and any successor statute thereto,
in each case as amended and in effect from time to time.
“Securities Register” has the meaning specified in Section 5.4.
“Securities Registrar” has the meaning specified in Section 5.4.
“Sponsor” has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement.
“Successor Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 9.5.
“Time of Delivery” has the meaning specified in the Underwriting Agreement.
“Trust Agreement” means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as the same may be
modified, amended, or supplemented in accordance with the applicable provisions hereof, including:
(a) all exhibits; and (b) for all purposes of this Trust Agreement and any such modification,
amendment, or supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a part of
and govern this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment, or supplement, respectively.
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“Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date as
of which this instrument was executed; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 is amended after that date, to the extent required by any such amendment, “Trust Indenture
Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
“Trust Property” means (a) the Debentures, (b) any cash on deposit in, or owing to,
the Payment Account, and (c) all proceeds and rights in respect of the foregoing and any other
property and assets for the time being held or deemed to be held by the Property Trustee pursuant
to the trusts of this Trust Agreement.
“Trust Security” means any one of the Common Securities or the Preferred Securities.
“Trust Securities Certificate” means any one of the Common Securities Certificates or
the Preferred Securities Certificates.
“Underwriting Agreement” means the Underwriting Agreement, dated as of
, among the Issuer Trust, the Sponsor, and , as
representative of the underwriters named therein, and also shall include any related pricing
agreement.
“Vice President,” when used with respect to the Sponsor, means any duly appointed vice
president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title
“vice president.”
ARTICLE 2
CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST
CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST
SECTION 2.1. Name.
The trust continued hereby shall be known as “Wilmington Trust Capital A,” as such name may be
modified from time to time by the Administrators following written notice to the Holders and the
Issuer Trustees, in which name the Administrators and the Issuer Trustees may conduct the business
of the Issuer Trust, make and execute contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Issuer
Trust, and xxx and be sued.
SECTION 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.
The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx
0000, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust Services, or such other address in the State
of Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Sponsor, the Property
Trustee, and the Administrators. The principal executive office of the Issuer Trust is Xxxxxx
Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000.
SECTION 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses.
The Issuer Trustees acknowledge receipt from the Sponsor in connection with the Original Trust
Agreement of the sum of $10, which constituted the initial Trust Property. The Sponsor shall pay
organizational expenses of the Issuer Trust as they arise or shall, upon request
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of any Issuer Trustee, promptly reimburse that Issuer Trustee for any such expenses paid by
that Issuer Trustee. The Sponsor shall make no claim upon the Trust Property for the payment of
such expenses.
SECTION 2.4. Issuance of the Preferred Securities.
On , the Sponsor, both on its own behalf and on behalf of the Issuer Trust
pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement, executed and delivered the Underwriting Agreement.
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, an Administrator, on
behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall execute in accordance with Sections 5.2, 5.3, and
8.9(a) and deliver to the Property Trustee for authentication and the Property Trustee will
deliver to the Underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement a Global Preferred Securities
Certificate, registered in the name of the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, in an aggregate
number of Preferred Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of
$ , against payment of the purchase price therefor in immediately available
funds, which funds that Administrator shall promptly deliver to the Property Trustee (or the Paying
Agent on behalf of the Property Trustee, if a Paying Agent has been appointed). On any one or more
dates after the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, additional Global Preferred
Securities Certificates representing Preferred Securities may be issued in accordance with
Section 5.3, registered in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency, against receipt
by the Property Trustee of payment of the purchase price determined by the Sponsor.
SECTION 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of
Debentures.
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, an Administrator,
on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall execute in accordance with Section 5.3 and deliver to
the Sponsor Common Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the Sponsor, in an aggregate
amount of Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $ ,
against payment by the Sponsor of the purchase price therefor in immediately available funds, which
amount that Administrator shall promptly deliver to the Property Trustee. Contemporaneously
therewith, an Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall subscribe to and purchase from
the Sponsor Debentures registered in the name of the Issuer Trust and having an aggregate principal
amount equal to $ and deliver to the Sponsor the purchase price therefor in an
amount equal to the sum of the amounts delivered to the Property Trustee pursuant to (i) the second
sentence of Section 2.4 and (ii) the first sentence of this Section 2.5. In
connection with any subsequent issuance of Preferred Securities as set forth in the last sentence
of Section 2.4, an Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall, contemporaneously
with any such additional issuance, subscribe to and purchase from the Sponsor Debentures,
registered in the name of the Issuer Trust, having an aggregate principal amount equal to the
aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities being issued by the Issuer Trust pursuant to
the last sentence of Section 2.4 against payment of a purchase price equal to the aggregate
purchase price of the Preferred Securities being so issued.
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SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust.
The exclusive purposes and functions of the Issuer Trust are: (a) to issue and sell Trust
Securities; (b) use the proceeds from that sale to acquire the Debentures; and (c) to engage in
those activities necessary, convenient, or incidental thereto. The Sponsor hereby appoints the
Issuer Trustees as trustees of the Issuer Trust, to have all the rights, powers, and duties to the
extent set forth herein, and the Issuer Trustees hereby accept that appointment. The Sponsor
hereby appoints the Administrators as agents of the Issuer Trust, to have all the rights, powers,
and duties to the extent set forth herein, and the administrators hereby accept that appointment.
The Property Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Property in trust upon and subject
to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and the Holders. The
Administrators shall have all rights, powers, and duties set forth herein and in accordance with
applicable law with respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Issuer Trust. The Delaware
Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee have any of
the duties and responsibilities of the Property Trustee or the Administrators set forth herein.
The Delaware Trustee shall be one of the trustees of the Issuer Trust for the sole and limited
purpose of fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act and for
taking those actions as are required to be taken by a Delaware trustee under the Delaware Statutory
Trust Act.
SECTION 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.
(a) The Property Trustee and Administrators shall conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations set forth in
paragraph (b) of this Section, and in accordance with the following provisions (i) and (ii), the
Property Trustee and Administrators shall have the authority to enter into all transactions and
agreements determined by the Property Trustee or Administrators to be appropriate in exercising the
authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Property
Trustee or that Administrator
under this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof, including the
following:
(i) Each Administrator shall have the power and authority to act on behalf of the Issuer Trust
with respect to the following matters:
(A) the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;
(B) causing the Issuer Trust to enter into and execute, deliver, and perform on behalf of the
Issuer Trust the Underwriting Agreement, the Common Securities Subscription Agreement, the
Debenture Purchase Agreement, the Issuer Letter of Representations
and those other agreements as may
be necessary or desirable in connection with the purposes and function of the Issuer Trust;
(C) assisting in the registration of the Preferred Securities under the Securities Act and
under state securities or blue sky laws, and the qualification of this Trust Agreement under the
Trust Indenture Act;
(D) assisting in the listing of the Preferred Securities upon such securities exchange or
exchanges as shall be determined by the Sponsor, with the registration of
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the Preferred Securities under the Exchange Act, if required, and with the preparation and
filing of all periodic and other reports and other documents pursuant to the foregoing;
(E) assisting in the sending of notices (other than notices of default) and other information
regarding the Trust Securities and the Debentures to the Holders in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;
(F) the appointment of a Paying Agent and Securities Registrar in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;
(G) execution of the Trust Securities on behalf of the Issuer Trust in accordance with this
Trust Agreement;
(H) execution and delivery of closing certificates, if any, pursuant to the Underwriting
Agreement and application for a taxpayer identification number for the Issuer Trust;
(I) unless otherwise determined by the Sponsor, the Property Trustee, or the Administrators or
as otherwise required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act or the Trust Indenture Act, executing on
behalf of the Issuer Trust (either acting alone or together with any or all of the Administrators)
any documents that the Administrators have the power to execute pursuant to this Trust Agreement;
and
(J) taking any action incidental to the foregoing as the Administrators or the Issuer Trustees
may from time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust
Agreement.
(ii) The Property Trustee shall have the power, duty, and authority to act on behalf of the
Issuer Trust with respect to the following matters:
(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;
(B) the receipt of the Debentures;
(C) the collection of interest, principal, and any other payments made in respect of the
Debentures and holding those amounts in the Payment Account;
(D) the distribution through the Paying Agent of amounts distributable to the Holders in
respect of the Trust Securities;
(E) the exercise of all of the rights, powers, and privileges of a holder of the Debentures;
(F) the sending of notices of default and other information regarding the Trust Securities and
the Debentures to the Holders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(G) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with the terms of this Trust
Agreement;
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(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding up of the affairs of and
liquidation of the Issuer Trust and the preparation, execution, and filing of a certificate of
cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware;
(I) after an Event of Default (other than under paragraph (b), (c),
(d), or (e) of the definition of that term if that Event of Default is by or with
respect to the Property Trustee) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the
Property Trustee may determine is necessary or advisable from time to time to give effect to the
terms of this Trust Agreement and protect and conserve the Trust Property for the benefit of the
Holders (without consideration of the effect of any such action on any particular Holder); and
(J) except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.7(a)(ii), the Property Trustee
shall have none of the duties, liabilities, powers, or the authority of the Administrators set
forth in Section 2.7(a)(i).
(b) As long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Issuer Trust (or the Issuer
Trustees or Administrators acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall not undertake any business,
activities, or transactions except as expressly provided herein or contemplated hereby. In
particular, neither the Issuer Trustees nor the Administrators, in each case acting on behalf of
the Issuer Trust, shall: (i) acquire any investments or engage in any activities not authorized
by this Trust Agreement; (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, set-off, or
otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests therein, including to Holders, except
as expressly provided herein; (iii) take any action that would reasonably be expected to cause the
Issuer Trust to become taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust for
United States Federal income tax purposes; (iv) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue
any other debt; (v) take or consent to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on
any of the Trust Property; (vi) invest any proceeds received by the Issuer Trust from holding the
Debentures, but shall distribute all such proceeds to Holders of Trust Securities pursuant to the
terms of this Trust Agreement and the Trust Securities; (vii) acquire any assets other than the
Trust Property; (viii) possess any power or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the Trust
Property; (ix) possess any power or otherwise act in such a way as to vary the terms of the Trust
Securities in any way whatsoever (except to the extent expressly authorized in this Trust Agreement
or by the terms of the Trust Securities); or (x) issue any securities or other evidences of
beneficial ownership of, or beneficial interest in, the Issuer Trust other than the Trust
Securities. The Administrators on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall defend all claims and demands
of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust Property adverse to the interests
of the Issuer Trust or the Holders in their capacity as Holders.
(c) In connection with the issuance and sale of the Preferred Securities, the Sponsor shall
have the right and responsibility to assist the Issuer Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf
of the Issuer Trust, the following, and any actions taken by the Sponsor in furtherance of the
following prior to the date of this Trust Agreement hereby are ratified and confirmed in all
respects:
(i) the preparation and filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission and the execution on
behalf of the Issuer Trust of a registration statement on the appropriate form in relation to the
Preferred Securities, including any amendments thereto and the taking of any
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action necessary or desirable to sell the Preferred Securities in a transaction or a series of
transactions pursuant thereto;
(ii) the determination of the states in which to take appropriate action to qualify or
register for sale all or part of the Preferred Securities and the determination of any and all such
actions, other than actions that must be taken by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the advice
to the Issuer Trust of actions they must take on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the preparation
for execution and filing of any documents to be executed and filed by the Issuer Trust or on behalf
of the Issuer Trust, as the Sponsor deems necessary or advisable in order to comply with the
applicable laws of any such states;
(iii) the preparation for filing by the Issuer Trust and execution on behalf of the Issuer
Trust of an application to the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq Global Market, or any other national
stock exchange or automated quotation system for listing upon notice of issuance of any Preferred
Securities and filing with that exchange or self-regulatory organization such notification and
documents as may be necessary from time to time to maintain this listing;
(iv) if applicable, the preparation for filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission and the
execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of a registration statement on Form 8-A relating to the
registration of the Preferred Securities under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act,
including any amendments thereto;
(v) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery of, the Underwriting
Agreement providing for the sale of the Preferred Securities; and
(vi) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to carry out any of the foregoing
activities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each of the Administrators is authorized
and directed to conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust and to operate the Issuer Trust so that the
Issuer Trust will not be deemed to be an “investment company” required to be registered under the
Investment Company Act, will not be taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor
trust for United States Federal income tax purposes, and so that the Debentures will be treated as
indebtedness of the Sponsor for United States Federal income tax purposes. In this connection, the
Sponsor and the Administrators are authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with applicable
law, the Certificate of Trust, or this Trust Agreement, that they determine in their discretion to
be necessary or desirable for such purposes, as long as that action does not adversely affect in
any material respect the interests of the Holders of the Outstanding Preferred Securities. In no
event shall the Sponsor, the Issuer Trustees or the Administrators be liable to the Issuer Trust or
the Holders for any failure to comply with this section that results from a change in law or
regulation or the interpretation thereof.
SECTION 2.8. Assets of Trust.
The assets of the Issuer Trust shall consist solely of the Trust Property.
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SECTION 2.9. Title to Trust Property.
Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee (in its
capacity as such) and shall be held and administered by the Property Trustee in trust for the
benefit of the Issuer Trust and the Holders in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE 3
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
SECTION 3.1. Payment Account.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall establish the Payment Account
with the Paying Agent. The Property Trustee and the Paying Agent shall have exclusive control and
sole right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits in
and withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance with this Trust Agreement. All monies and
other property deposited or held from time to time in the Payment Account shall be held by the
Property Trustee or the Paying Agent (on behalf of the Property Trustee) in the Payment Account for
the exclusive benefit of the Holders and for distribution as provided herein, including and subject
to any priority of payments provided for herein.
(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit or cause to be deposited in the Payment Account,
promptly upon receipt, all payments of principal of or interest on, and any other payments or
proceeds with respect to, the Debentures. Amounts held in the Payment Account shall not be
invested by the Property Trustee pending distribution thereof.
ARTICLE 4
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
SECTION 4.1. Distributions.
(a) The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in the Trust Property, and
Distributions (including of Additional Amounts) will be made on the Trust Securities at the rate
and on the dates that payments of interest (including of Additional Interest, as defined in the
Indenture) are made on the Debentures. Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative,
and will accumulate whether or not there are funds of the Issuer Trust available for the payment of
Distributions.
(i) Distributions shall accumulate from and, except in the event and to the
extent that the Sponsor exercises its right to defer the payment of interest on the Debentures
pursuant to the Indenture, shall be payable in arrears on and
of each year, commencing on . If any date on which a
Distribution is otherwise payable on the Trust Securities is not a Business Day, then the payment
of that Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day, without any
interest or other payment in respect of any such delay, with the same force and effect as if made
on the date on which that payment was originally payable (each date on which distributions are
payable in accordance with this Section 4.1(a), a “Distribution Date”).
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(ii) In the event and to the extent the Sponsor exercises its right under the Indenture to
defer the payment of interest on the Debentures, Distributions on the Preferred Securities shall be
deferred but shall continue to accumulate. Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be payable
at a rate per annum equal to the applicable rate of interest on the Debentures. The amount of
Distributions payable for any full period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months. The amount of Distributions for any partial period shall be computed on the
basis of the actual number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The amount
of Distributions payable for any period shall include the Additional Amounts, if any.
(iii) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Paying Agent from the Payment
Account and shall be payable on each Distribution Date only to the extent the Issuer Trust has
funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the payment of those Distributions.
(b) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a Distribution Date shall be payable
to the Holders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities at the
close of business on the relevant record date for that Distribution Date, which shall be one
Business Day prior to that Distribution Date; provided, however, that in the event the Preferred
Securities do not remain in the form of Global Preferred Securities Certificates, the relevant
record date for a Distribution Date shall be the date 15 days prior to that Distribution Date.
Distributions payable on any Trust Securities that are not punctually paid on any Distribution Date
as a result of the Sponsor having failed to make an interest payment under the Debentures will
cease to be payable to the Person in whose name those Trust Securities are registered on the
relevant record date, and that defaulted Distribution will instead be payable to the Person in
whose name those Trust Securities are registered on the special record date or other specified date
for determining Holders entitled to those defaulted Distributions.
SECTION 4.2. Redemption.
(a) On each Debenture Redemption Date and on the stated maturity of the Debentures, the Issuer
Trust will be required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder
of Trust Securities to be redeemed, at that Holder’s address appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price, or if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to the time
the notice is required to be sent, an estimate of the Redemption Price together with a statement
that it is an estimate, that the actual Redemption Price will be calculated on the third Business
Day prior to the Redemption Date, and a statement of how the actual Redemption Price will be
calculated (and if an estimate is provided, a further notice shall be sent of the actual Redemption
Price on the date that such Redemption Price is calculated);
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(iii) the CUSIP number or CUSIP numbers (if then generally in use) of the Preferred Securities
affected;
(iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed, the identification
and the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the particular Trust Securities to be redeemed;
(v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each
such Trust Security to be redeemed and that Distributions thereon will cease to accumulate on and
after that date, except as provided in Section 4.2(d) below; and
(vi) if the Preferred Securities are no longer in the form of Global Preferred Securities
Certificates, the place or places where the Preferred Securities Certificates are to be surrendered
for payment of the Redemption Price.
(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption
Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous redemption of Debentures. Redemptions of the
Trust Securities shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date
only to the extent the Issuer Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for
the payment of that Redemption Price.
(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of any Preferred
Securities, then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, subject to
Section 4.2(c), the Property Trustee or the Paying Agent (on behalf of the Property
Trustee) will, with respect to Global Preferred Securities, irrevocably deposit with the Clearing
Agency for those Global Preferred Securities, to the extent available therefor, funds sufficient to
pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give that Clearing Agency irrevocable instructions and
authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Preferred Securities. With respect to
Preferred Securities that are not Global Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee, subject to
Section 4.2(c), will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent, to the extent available
therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give the Paying Agent
irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Preferred
Securities upon surrender of their Preferred Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, Distributions payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called
for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of those Trust Securities as they appear on the
Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record dates for the related
Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption has been given and funds deposited as required, then
upon the date of that deposit, all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities so called for
redemption will cease, except the right of those Holders to receive the Redemption Price and any
Distribution payable in respect of the Trust Securities on or prior to the Redemption Date, but
without interest, and those Trust Securities will cease to be outstanding. In the event any date on
which any Redemption Price is payable is not a Business Day, then payment of the Redemption Price
payable on that date will be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (without any
interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), except that, if that Business Day falls in
the next calendar year, that payment will be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in
each case, with the same force and effect as if made on that date. In the event payment of the
Redemption Price in respect of any Trust Securities called for redemption is
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improperly withheld or refused and not paid either by the Issuer Trust or by the Sponsor
pursuant to the Guarantee, Distributions on those Trust Securities will continue to accumulate, as
set forth in Section 4.1, from the Redemption Date originally established by the Issuer
Trust for those Trust Securities to the date that Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case
the actual payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the
Redemption Price.
(e) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are
to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to
be redeemed shall be allocated pro rata to the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities based
upon the relative Liquidation Amounts of those classes. The particular Preferred Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected on a pro rata basis based upon their respective Liquidation Amounts not
more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Property Trustee from the Outstanding
Preferred Securities not previously called for redemption, provided that so long as the Preferred
Securities are in the form of Global Preferred Securities Certificates, that selection shall be
made in accordance with the customary procedures for the Clearing Agency for the Preferred
Securities. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the
Preferred Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Preferred Securities selected
for partial redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this
Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption
of Preferred Securities shall relate, in the case of any Preferred Securities redeemed or to be
redeemed only in part, to the portion of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities
that has been or is to be redeemed.
SECTION 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities.
(a) Payment of Distributions (including any Additional Amounts) on, the Redemption Price of,
and the Liquidation Distribution in respect of the Trust Securities, as applicable, shall be made,
subject to Section 4.2(e), pro rata among the Common Securities and the Preferred
Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities; provided, however, that if on
any Distribution Date, Redemption Date, or Liquidation Date any Event of Default resulting from a
Debenture Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(i) or 5.01(ii) of the Indenture has occurred
and is continuing, no payment of any Distribution (including any Additional Amounts) on, Redemption
Price of, or Liquidation Distribution in respect of any Common Security, and no other payment on
account of the redemption, liquidation, or other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made
unless payment in full in cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions, including any
Additional Amounts, on all Outstanding Preferred Securities for all Distribution Periods
terminating on or prior thereto, or in the case of payment of the Redemption Price the full amount
of that Redemption Price on all Outstanding Preferred Securities then called for redemption, or in
the case of payment of the Liquidation Distribution the full amount of that Liquidation
Distribution on all Outstanding Preferred Securities, shall have been made or provided for, and all
funds immediately available to the Property Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full
in cash of all Distributions, including any Additional Amounts on, or the Redemption Price of, the
Preferred Securities then due and payable.
(b) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting from any Debenture Event
of Default, the Holders of the Common Securities shall have no right to act
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with respect to any such Event of Default under this Trust Agreement until the effect of all
such Events of Default with respect to the Preferred Securities have been cured, waived, or
otherwise eliminated. Until all such Events of Default under this Trust Agreement with respect to
the Preferred Securities have been so cured, waived, or otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee
shall act solely on behalf of the Holders of the Preferred Securities and not on behalf of the
Holders of the Common Securities, and only the Holders of the Preferred Securities will have the
right to direct the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.
SECTION 4.4. Payment Procedures.
Payments of Distributions, including any Additional Amounts, in respect of the Preferred
Securities, shall, at the option of the Sponsor, be made by check mailed to the address of the
Person entitled thereto as that address appears on the Securities Register or be paid by wire
transfer to an account designated by that Person in writing not later than ten days prior to the
date of that payment; provided, that if the Preferred Securities are held by a Clearing Agency,
those Distributions shall be made to the Clearing Agency by wire transfer in immediately available
funds. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall be made in such manner as shall be
mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the Holders of the Common Securities.
SECTION 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports.
The Administrators shall prepare or cause to be prepared, at the Sponsor’s expense, and file
all United States Federal, state, and local tax and information returns and reports required to be
filed by or in respect of the Issuer Trust. In this regard, the Administrators shall (a) prepare
and file or cause to be prepared and filed all Internal Revenue Service forms required to be filed
in respect of the Issuer Trust in each taxable year of the Issuer Trust, and (b) prepare and
furnish or cause to be prepared and furnished to each Holder all Internal Revenue Service forms
required to be provided by the Issuer Trust. The Administrators shall provide the Sponsor and the
Property Trustee with a copy of all such returns and reports promptly
after that filing or
furnishing. The Administrators, the Paying Agent, and the Property Trustee shall comply with United
States Federal withholding and backup withholding tax laws and information reporting requirements
with respect to any payments to Holders under the Trust Securities.
SECTION 4.6. Payment of Expenses of the Issuer Trust.
The Sponsor shall pay to the Issuer Trust, and reimburse the Issuer Trust for, the full amount
of any costs, expenses, or liabilities of the Issuer Trust other than obligations of the Issuer
Trust to pay the Holders of any Preferred Securities or other similar interests in the Issuer Trust
the amounts due those Holders pursuant to the terms of the Preferred Securities or such other
similar interests, as the case may be, including, without limitation, any taxes, duties, or other
governmental charges of whatever nature other than withholding taxes imposed on the Issuer Trust by
the United States or any other taxing authority and all costs, expenses, and liabilities relating
to the offering and sale of the Trust Securities or the operation, maintenance, or dissolution of
the Trust. That payment obligation includes any such costs, expenses, or liabilities of the Issuer
Trust that are required by applicable law to be satisfied in connection with a dissolution of the
Issuer Trust.
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SECTION 4.7. Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.
Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Preferred Securities or any Owner with respect
thereto shall be reduced by the amount of any corresponding payment that Holder or Owner has
directly received pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Indenture or Section 5.14 of this Trust
Agreement.
ARTICLE 5
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
SECTION 5.1. Initial Ownership.
Upon the formation of the Issuer Trust and the contribution by the Sponsor pursuant to
Section 2.3 and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at any time during which no
Trust Securities are outstanding, the Sponsor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Issuer
Trust.
SECTION 5.2. Trust Securities Certificates.
The Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of $1,000
Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof, and the Common Securities
Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations of $1,000 Liquidation Amount and integral
multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. The Trust Securities Certificates shall be (i) executed on
behalf of the Issuer Trust by manual or facsimile signature of at least one Administrator and
(ii) authenticated by the Property Trustee by manual signature of an authorized signatory thereof.
Trust Securities Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were,
at the time when those signatures were affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Issuer Trust
shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that
those individuals or any of them has ceased to be so authorized prior
to the delivery of those Trust
Securities Certificates or did not hold those offices at the date of
delivery of those Trust
Securities Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall become a Holder, and
shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Holder hereunder, upon due
registration of that Trust Securities Certificate in that transferee’s name pursuant to
Sections 5.4, 5.11 and 5.13.
SECTION 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates.
At the Time of Delivery, the Administrators shall cause Trust Securities Certificates, in an
aggregate Liquidation Amount as provided in Sections 2.4 and 2.5, to be executed on
behalf of the Issuer Trust, authenticated in accordance with Section 5.2, and delivered to
or upon the written order of the Sponsor, executed by one authorized officer thereof, without
further corporate action by the Sponsor, in authorized denominations. After the Time of Delivery,
the Administrators may cause additional Preferred Securities to be executed on behalf of the Issuer
Trust and delivered to or upon the written order of the Sponsor, that written order executed by an
authorized officer thereof, without further corporate action by the Sponsor, in authorized
denominations; provided, however, that no such additional Preferred Securities shall be issued
unless the Administrators have received an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the
effect that such issuance will not cause the Issuer Trust to be classified as other than one or
more grantor trusts or agency arrangements or to be classified as an association or partnership for
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U.S. federal income tax purposes or affect the Issuer Trust’s exemption from status as an
“investment company” under the Investment Company Act. Each Preferred Securities Certificate shall
be dated the date of its authentication.
SECTION 5.4. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities
Certificates.
The Sponsor shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 5.8, a register or registers for the purpose of registering Trust Securities
Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates (the “Securities
Register”) in which the transfer agent and registrar designated by the Sponsor (the
“Securities Registrar”), subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall
provide for the registration of Preferred Securities Certificates and Common Securities
Certificates (subject to Section 5.10 in the case of the Common Securities
Certificates) and registration of transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates as
provided herein. Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association shall be the initial Securities Registrar.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred Securities Certificate at the
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.8, the Administrators or any one of them
shall execute on behalf of the Issuer Trust and deliver to the Property Trustee, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Preferred Securities Certificates in
authorized denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount dated the date of execution by that
Administrator. The Securities Registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of any
Preferred Securities that have been called for redemption during a period beginning at the opening
of business 15 days before the day of selection for that redemption.
Every Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or exchange shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to an
Administrator and the Securities Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly
authorized in writing. Each Preferred Securities Certificate surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by an Administrator or the
Securities Registrar in accordance with that Person’s customary practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of Preferred
Securities Certificates, but the Securities Registrar may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any expense, tax, or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer
or exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates.
SECTION 5.5. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost, or Stolen Trust Securities Certificates.
If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be surrendered to the Securities
Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss, or theft of any Trust Securities Certificate, and (b) there is delivered to the
Securities Registrar and the Administrators such security or indemnity as may be required by them
to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice that such Trust Securities Certificate
has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Administrators, or any one of them, shall, on
behalf of the Issuer Trust, execute and make available for delivery, in exchange for or in
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lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost, or stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new
Trust Securities Certificate of like class, tenor, and denomination. In connection with the
issuance of any new Trust Securities Certificate under this Section 5.5, the Administrators
or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any expense, tax,
or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust
Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section shall constitute conclusive evidence of an
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust corresponding to that evidenced by
the lost, stolen, or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate, as if originally issued, whether or
not the lost, stolen, or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate is found at any time.
SECTION 5.6. Persons Deemed Holders.
The Issuer Trustees, the Administrators, and the Securities Registrar shall each treat the
Person in whose name any Trust Securities Certificate is registered in the Securities Register as
the owner of that Trust Securities Certificate for the purpose of receiving Distributions and all
other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Issuer Trustees, the Administrators, or the Securities
Registrar shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION 5.7. Access to List of Holders’ Names and Addresses.
Each of the Securities Registrar and any one of the Administrators will furnish or cause to be
furnished to the Property Trustee:
(a) quarterly or semi-annually, as the case may be, not more than 15 days after each record
date with respect to scheduled Distributions, a list, in such form as the Property Trustee may
reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders of Trust Securities as of that record
date with respect to scheduled Distributions, and
(b) at such other times as the Property Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after
the receipt by the Sponsor and the Administrators of any such request, a list of similar form and
content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time
that list is furnished, excluding from
any such list names and addresses received by the Property Trustee at any time it is acting as
Securities Registrar.
The Property Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the
names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Property Trustee
as provided in this Section 5.7 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the
Property Trustee at any time it is acting as Securities Registrar. The Property Trustee may destroy
any list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.7 upon receipt of a new list so
furnished.
By its acquisition of any Trust Securities or any interest therein, each Holder and each Owner
shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold the Sponsor, the Property Trustee, the Securities
Registrar, the Delaware Trustee, or either Administrator accountable by reason of the disclosure of
its name and address, regardless of the source from which that information was derived.
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SECTION 5.8. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Administrators shall designate an office or offices or agency or agencies where Preferred
Securities Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where
notices and demands to or upon the Issuer Trustees or the Administrators in respect of the Trust
Securities Certificates may be served. The Administrators initially designate the Corporate Trust
Office of the Property Trustee as its office and agency for those purposes. The Administrators
shall give prompt written notice to the Sponsor, the Property Trustees, and the Holders of any
change in the location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 5.9. Appointment of Paying Agent.
The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Holders from the Payment Account and shall report
the amounts of those Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrators. Any Paying Agent
shall have the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account solely for the purpose of
making the Distributions referred to above. The Property Trustee may revoke that power and remove
the Paying Agent in its sole discretion. The Paying Agent shall initially be the Property Trustee.
Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days’
written notice to the Administrators and the Property Trustee.
If the Property Trustee is no longer the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent resigns or
its authority to act is revoked, the Property Trustee shall appoint a successor, which shall be a
bank or trust company, that is reasonably acceptable to the Administrators to act as Paying Agent.
That successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent shall execute and deliver to the Issuer
Trustees and the Administrators an instrument in which that successor Paying Agent or additional
Paying Agent shall agree with the Issuer Trustees and the Administrators that, as Paying Agent,
that successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for
payment to the Holders in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto until those sums
shall be paid to those Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Property
Trustee as promptly as reasonably practicable and upon removal of a Paying Agent, that Paying Agent
also shall return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions of
Sections 8.1, 8.3, and 8.6 herein shall apply to the Property Trustee in
its role as Paying Agent as long as the Property Trustee acts as Paying Agent and, to the extent
applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any reference in this Agreement to the
Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 5.10. Ownership of Common Securities by Sponsor.
At the Time of Delivery, the Sponsor shall acquire, and thereafter shall retain, beneficial
and record ownership of the Common Securities. To the fullest extent permitted by law, other than
(a) a transfer in connection with a consolidation or merger of the Sponsor into another Person, or
any conveyance, transfer, or lease by the Sponsor of its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, pursuant to Section 8.01 of the Indenture, or (b) to an Affiliate of the
Sponsor in compliance with applicable law, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities shall be
void. The Administrators shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Sponsor to
contain a legend stated “THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT TO THE SPONSOR OR AN AFFILIATE
OF THE SPONSOR IN
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COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.10 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT.”
SECTION 5.11. Global Preferred Securities Certificates; Common Securities Certificate.
(a) The Preferred Securities Certificates, upon original issuance, will be issued in the form
of a typewritten Global Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates, to be delivered to DTC,
the initial Clearing Agency, by or on behalf of the Issuer Trust. That Global Preferred Securities
Certificate or Certificates shall initially be registered on the Securities Register in the name of
Cede & Co., the nominee of the initial Clearing Agency, and no Owner will receive a Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificate representing that Owner’s interest in those Preferred Securities,
except as provided in Section 5.13. Unless and until Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates have been issued to Owners pursuant to Section 5.13:
(i) the provisions of this Section 5.11(a) shall be in full force and effect;
(ii) the Securities Registrar, the Issuer Trustees, the Administrators, and the Paying Agent
shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Trust Agreement
relating to the Global Preferred Securities Certificates, including the payment of the Liquidation
Amount of Distributions on the Preferred Securities evidenced by Global Preferred Securities
Certificates and the giving of instructions or directions to Owners of Preferred Securities
evidenced by Global Preferred Securities Certificates, as the sole Holder of Preferred Securities
evidenced by Global Preferred Securities Certificates, and shall have no obligations to the Owners
thereof;
(iii) to the extent the provisions of this Section 5.11 conflict with any other
provisions of this Trust Agreement, the provisions of this Section 5.11 shall control; and
(iv) the rights of the Owners of the Global Preferred Securities shall be exercised only
through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between
those Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants.
Pursuant to the Issuer Letter of Representations, unless and until Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificates are issued pursuant to Section 5.13, the initial Clearing Agency
will make book-entry transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit
payments on the Global Preferred Securities to those Clearing Agency Participants.
(b) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common Securities shall be issued
to the Sponsor in the form of a definitive Common Securities Certificate.
SECTION 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency.
To the extent a notice or other communication to the Holders is required under this Trust
Agreement, for as long as Preferred Securities are represented by one or more Global Preferred
Securities Certificates, the Administrators and the Issuer Trustees shall give all such notices and
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communications specified herein to be given to the Clearing Agency holding those Global
Preferred Securities Certificates, and shall have no obligations to the Owners.
SECTION 5.13. Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates.
(a) If (i) the Sponsor advises the Administrators in writing that the Clearing Agency is no
longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Global
Preferred Securities Certificates, and the Sponsor is unable to locate a qualified successor,
(ii) the Sponsor at its option advises the Administrators in writing that it elects to terminate
the book-entry system through the Clearing Agency, or (iii) after the occurrence of a Debenture
Event of Default, upon written notice of the Majority Holders to the Administrators, then in each
case the Administrators shall notify the Clearing Agency and the Issuer Trustees, and the Clearing
Agency, in accordance with its customary rules and procedures, shall notify all Clearing Agency
Participants for whom it holds Preferred Securities of the occurrence of any such event and of the
availability of the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates to Owners of that class or
classes, as applicable, requesting the same. Upon surrender to the Administrators of the
typewritten Preferred Securities Certificate or Certificates representing the Global Preferred
Securities Certificates held by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the
Administrators, or any one of them, shall execute, and the Property Trustee shall authenticate, the
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing
Agency. Neither the Securities Registrar, the Administrators, nor the Issuer Trustees shall be
liable for any delay in delivery of those instructions and may conclusively rely on, and be
protected in relying on, those instructions. Upon the issuance of Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates, the Issuer Trust shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates as Trust Security holders. The Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates shall be
typewritten, printed, lithographed, or engraved or may be produced in any other manner as is
reasonably acceptable to the Administrators that meets the requirements of Delaware law and the
rules of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which the Preferred Securities are
then listed or approved for trading, as evidenced by the execution thereof by the Administrators or
any one of them.
(b) If any Global Preferred Securities Certificate is to be exchanged for Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificates or cancelled in part, or if any other Preferred Securities Certificate is
to be exchanged in whole or in part for Preferred Securities represented by a Global Preferred
Securities Certificate, then either (i) that Global Preferred Securities Certificate shall be so
surrendered for exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article 5 or (ii) the
aggregate Liquidation Amount represented by that Global Preferred Securities Certificate shall be
reduced or increased by an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount represented by that portion of
the Global Preferred Securities Certificate to be so exchanged or cancelled, or equal to the
Liquidation Amount represented by those Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates to be so
exchanged for Global Preferred Securities represented thereby, as the case may be, by means of an
appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Securities Registrar, whereupon the Property
Trustee, in accordance with the Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Clearing Agency or its
authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records. Upon surrender to the
Administrators or the Securities Registrar of the Global Preferred Securities Certificate or
Certificates by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Administrators,
or any one of them, shall execute the Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates
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in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. None of the Securities Registrar,
the Issuer Trustees, or the Administrators shall be liable for any delay in delivery of those
instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, those instructions.
SECTION 5.14. Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults.
(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the Property Trustee (in
its capacity as such) in accordance with Section 2.9, and the Holders shall not have any
right or title therein other than the undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer
Trust conferred by their Trust Securities or right to call for any partition or division of
property, profits, or rights of the Issuer Trust except as described below. The Trust Securities
shall be personal property giving only the rights specifically set forth therein and in this Trust
Agreement. The Trust Securities shall have no preemptive or similar rights and, when issued and
delivered to Holders against payment of the purchase price therefor, will be fully paid and
nonassessable by the Issuer Trust. The Holders of the Trust Securities, in their capacities as
such, shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of
private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware.
(b) For as long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, if, upon an Acceleration Event
of Default under Section 5.01(vi) of the Indenture, the Debenture Trustee fails, or the holders of
not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Debentures fail, to declare the principal
of all of the Debentures immediately due and payable, the Holders of at least 25% of the
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities then Outstanding shall have the right to make that
declaration by a notice in writing to the Property Trustee, the Sponsor, and the Debenture Trustee.
At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Debentures has been made
and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Debenture
Trustee as provided in the Indenture, if the Property Trustee fails to annul any such declaration
and waive that default, the Majority Holders, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the
Sponsor, and the Debenture Trustee, may rescind and annul that declaration and its consequences if:
(i) the Sponsor has paid or deposited with the Debenture Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:
(A) all overdue installments of interest on all of the Debentures,
(B) any accrued Additional Interest on all of the Debentures,
(C) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Debentures that have become due otherwise
than by that declaration of acceleration and interest and Additional Interest thereon at the rate
borne by the Debentures, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Debenture Trustee under the Indenture and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Debenture Trustee and the Property
Trustee, their agents, and their counsel; and
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(ii) the applicable Acceleration Event of Default with respect to the Debentures, other than
the non-payment of the principal of the Debentures that has become due solely by that acceleration,
has been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13 of the Indenture.
The Majority Holders may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any
past default under the Indenture, except a default in the payment of principal or interest (unless
that default has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and
principal due otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the Debenture Trustee) or a
default in respect of a covenant or provision that under the Indenture cannot be modified or
amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding Debenture. No such waiver shall
affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice declaring such an acceleration, or the
rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of any part of the Preferred Securities, a record date
shall be established for determining Holders of Outstanding Preferred Securities entitled to join
in that notice, which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Property Trustee
receives that notice. The Holders on that record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only
those Persons, shall be entitled to join in that notice, whether or not those Holders remain Holders
after that record date; provided that, unless that declaration of acceleration, or rescission and
annulment, as the case may be, has become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having
joined in that notice prior to the day that is 90 days after that record date, that notice of
declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically
and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in this
paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder (as provided in Section 6.5), from
giving, after expiration of that 90-day period, a new written notice of declaration of
acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is identical to a
written notice that has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which
event a new record date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 5.14(b).
(c) For as long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, to the fullest extent
permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Trust Agreement and the Indenture, upon a
Debenture Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(i) or 5.01(ii) of the Indenture, any Holder of
Preferred Securities shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Sponsor,
pursuant to Section 5.08 of the Indenture, for enforcement of payment to that Holder of any amounts
payable in respect of Debentures having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities of that Holder (a “Direct Action”). Except
as set forth in Section 5.14(b) and this Section 5.14(c), the Holders of Preferred
Securities shall have no right to exercise directly any right or remedy available to the holders
of, or in respect of, the Debentures.
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(d) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 5.14, the Majority Holders may, on
behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any past default or Event of Default
and its consequences. Upon that waiver, any such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist,
and any default or Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Trust Agreement, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default
or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 5.15. CUSIP Numbers.
The Administrators in issuing the Preferred Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then
generally in use), and, if so, the Property 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 those numbers either as printed on the Preferred
Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption, that reliance may be placed only on the
other identification numbers printed on the Preferred Securities, and that any such redemption
shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Administrators will
promptly notify the Property Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers.
ARTICLE 6
ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
SECTION 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights.
(a) Except as expressly provided in this Trust Agreement and in the Indenture and as otherwise
required by law, no Holder of Preferred Securities shall have any right to vote or in any manner
otherwise control the administration, operation, or management of the Issuer Trust or the
obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything set forth herein, or contained in the terms
of the Trust Securities Certificates, be construed to constitute the Holders from time to time as
partners or members of an association.
(b) As long as any Debentures are held by the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust,
neither the Issuer Trustees nor the Administrators shall: (i) direct the time, method, or place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Debenture Trustee, or execute any trust
or power conferred on the Debenture Trustee with respect to the Debentures; (ii) waive any past
default that may be waived under Section 5.13 of the Indenture; (iii) exercise any right to rescind
or annul a declaration that the principal of all the Debentures is due and payable; or (iv) consent
to any amendment, modification, or termination of the Indenture or the Debentures, where that
consent is required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Majority Holders;
provided, however, that where a consent under the Indenture would require the consent of each
holder of Debentures affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the Property Trustee
without the prior written consent of each Holder of Preferred Securities. The Property Trustee
shall not revoke any action previously authorized or approved by a vote of the Holders of the
Preferred Securities, except by a subsequent vote of the Holders of the Preferred Securities. The
Property Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Preferred Securities of any notice of default
received with respect to the Debentures. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the
Holders of the Preferred Securities, prior to, and as a condition precedent to, taking any of the
foregoing actions, the Issuer Trustees shall, at the expense of the
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Sponsor, obtain an Opinion of
Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Sponsor and experienced in those matters to the effect that
such action shall not cause the Issuer Trust to be taxable as a corporation or classified as other
than a grantor trust for United States Federal income tax purposes.
SECTION 6.2. Notice of Meetings.
Notice of all meetings of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, stating the time, place,
and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 10.8
to each Holder of Preferred Securities, at that Holder’s registered address, at least 15 days and
not more than 90 days before the meeting.
At any such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so considered whether or
not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without
further notice.
SECTION 6.3. Meetings of Holders of the Preferred Securities.
No annual meeting of Holders is required to be held. The Property Trustee, however, shall
call a meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities to vote on any matter upon the written
request of the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred
Securities, and the Administrators or the Property Trustee may, at any time in their discretion,
call a meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities to vote on any matters as to which those
Holders are entitled to vote.
The Majority Holders, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting
of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Holders present, in person or
by proxy, holding Preferred Securities representing at least a Majority in aggregate Liquidation
Amount of the Preferred Securities held by the Holders present, either in person or by proxy, at
that meeting shall constitute the action of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, unless this
Trust Agreement requires a greater number of affirmative votes.
SECTION 6.4. Voting Rights.
Holders shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 of Liquidation Amount represented by
their Outstanding Trust Securities in respect of any matter as to which such Holders are entitled
to vote.
SECTION 6.5. Proxies.
At any meeting of Holders, any Holder entitled to vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided
that no proxy shall be voted at any meeting unless it has been placed on file with the Property
Trustee, or with that other officer or agent of the Issuer Trust as the Property Trustee may
direct, for verification prior to the time at which that vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a
resolution of the Property Trustee, proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property Trustee or
one or more officers of the Property Trustee. Only Holders of record shall be entitled to vote.
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When Trust Securities are held jointly by several Persons, any one of them may vote at any meeting
in person or by proxy in respect of those Trust Securities, but if more than one of them is present
at that meeting in person or by proxy, and those joint owners or their proxies so present disagree
as to any vote to be cast, that vote shall not be received in respect of those Trust Securities. A
proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a Holder shall be
deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the burden of proving invalidity shall rest
on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years after its date of execution.
SECTION 6.6. Holder Action by Written Consent.
Any action that may be taken by Holders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if Holders
holding at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of all Preferred Securities entitled to vote in
respect of that action (or such larger proportion thereof as shall be required by any other
provision of this Trust Agreement) consent to the action in writing.
SECTION 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.
For the purposes of determining the Holders who are entitled to notice of and to vote at any
meeting or by written consent, to participate in any Distribution on the Trust Securities in
respect of which a record date is not otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the
purpose of any other action, the Administrators may from time to time fix a date, not more than 90
days and not less than 15 days prior to the date of any meeting of Holders or the payment of a
Distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the determination of the
identity of the Holders of record for those purposes.
SECTION 6.8. Acts of Holders.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other action
provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be given, made, or taken by Holders may be
embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by those
Holders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, that action shall become effective when that instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Property Trustee. That instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein
and evidenced thereby) are sometimes referred to herein as the “Act” of the Holders signing
that 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 Trust Agreement and (subject
to Section 8.1) conclusive in favor of the Issuer Trustees or the Administrators, if made
in the manner provided in this Section 6.8.
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 that 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 that instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where that execution
is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual capacity, that certificate or
affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority.
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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 any Issuer Trustee or
Administrator receiving the same deems sufficient.
The ownership of Trust Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, or other Act of the
Holder of any Trust Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Trust Security and the
Holder of every Trust Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof, in exchange
therefor, or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted, or suffered to be done by the
Issuer Trustees, the Administrators, or the Issuer Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of that action is made upon that Trust Security.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled to take any action hereunder with regard to
any particular Trust Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount of
that Trust Security or by one or more duly appointed agents, each of which may do so pursuant to
that appointment with regard to all or any part of that Liquidation Amount.
If any dispute arises between or among the Holders and the Issuer Trustees or the
Administrators with respect to the authenticity, validity, or binding nature of any request,
demand, authorization, direction, consent, waiver, or other Act of that Holder, Issuer Trustee, or
Administrator under this Article 6, the determination of that matter by the Property
Trustee shall be conclusive with respect to that matter.
SECTION 6.9. Inspection of Records.
Upon reasonable notice to the Administrators and the Property Trustee, the records of the
Issuer Trust shall be open to inspection by Holders during normal business hours for any purpose
reasonably related to that Holder’s interest as a Holder.
ARTICLE 7
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware
Trustee.
The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on behalf of and as to itself,
hereby represents and warrants to the Issuer Trust and for the benefit of the Sponsor, the
Administrators, and the Holders that:
(a) the Property Trustee is a national banking association, duly organized, validly existing,
and in good standing under the laws of the United States;
(b) the Property Trustee has full corporate power, authority, and legal right to execute,
deliver, and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action
to authorize the execution, delivery, and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
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(c) the Delaware Trustee is a Delaware limited purpose trust company, duly organized, validly
existing, and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and satisfies each of the
requirements for a Delaware trustee under Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act,
including trust powers and principal place of business;
(d) the Delaware Trustee has full corporate power, authority, and legal right to execute,
deliver, and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and has taken all necessary action
to authorize the execution, delivery, and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(e) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed, and delivered by the Property
Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and constitutes the valid and legally binding agreement of each of
the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee enforceable against each of them, respectively, in
accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium, and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights
and general equity principles;
(f) the execution, delivery, and performance of this Trust Agreement have been duly authorized
by all necessary corporate or other action on the part of the Property Trustee and the Delaware
Trustee, and do not require any approval of stockholders of the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee, and that execution, delivery, and performance will not: (i) violate the Charter or By-laws
of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee; (ii) violate any provision of, or constitute, with
or without notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of,
any Lien on any properties included in the Trust Property pursuant to the provisions of any
indenture, mortgage, credit agreement, license or other agreement, or instrument to which the
Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee is a party or by which it is bound; or (iii) violate any
law, governmental rule, or regulation of the United States or the State of Delaware, as the case
may be, governing the banking, trust, or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee (as appropriate in context) or any order, judgment, or decree applicable to the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee;
(g) neither the authorization, execution, or delivery by the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions by the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as the case may be) contemplated herein requires the consent or
approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with, or the taking of any other action with
respect to any governmental authority or agency under any existing law of the United States or the
State of Delaware governing the banking, trust, or general powers of the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee (as appropriate in context); and
(h) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of each of the Property Trustee’s and the
Delaware Trustee’s knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee in any court or before any governmental authority, agency, or arbitration board or tribunal
that, individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the Issuer Trust or
would question the right, power, or authority of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as
the case may be, to enter into or perform its obligations as one of the Issuer Trustees under this
Trust Agreement.
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SECTION 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Sponsor.
The Sponsor hereby represents and warrants to the Issuer Trust and for the benefit of the
Holders that:
(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued at the Time of Delivery on behalf of the Issuer
Trust have been duly authorized and, upon their execution, authentication, delivery, and issuance
in accordance with the terms hereof, the Underwriting Agreement, and the Common Securities
Subscription Agreement (as applicable), will have been duly and validly executed, issued, and
delivered by an Administrator on behalf of the Issuer Trust pursuant to the terms and provisions
of, and in accordance with the requirements of, this Trust Agreement, and the Holders will be, as
of that date, entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement; and
(b) there are no taxes, fees, or other governmental charges payable by the Issuer Trust (or
the Issuer Trustees on behalf of the Issuer Trust) under the laws of the State of Delaware or any
political subdivision thereof in connection with the execution, delivery, and performance by any
Issuer Trustee of this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE 8
THE ISSUER TRUSTEES AND ADMINISTRATORS
THE ISSUER TRUSTEES AND ADMINISTRATORS
SECTION 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees and the Administrators shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement, subject to Section 10.10 hereof. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, but subject to Section 8.1(c), no provision of this Trust Agreement shall
require any of the Issuer Trustees or the Administrators to expend or risk its or their own funds
or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its or their duties
hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its or their rights or powers, if it or they has reasonable
grounds to believe that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against that risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
Whether or not expressly so provided therein, every provision of this Trust Agreement relating
to the conduct, affecting the liability of, or affording protection to the Issuer Trustees or the
Administrators shall be subject to the provisions of this Section 8.1. Nothing in this
Trust Agreement shall be construed to release an Issuer Trustee from liability for his or her own
negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or his or her own willful misconduct. To the
extent that, at law or in equity, an Issuer Trustee or an Administrator has duties and liabilities
relating to the Issuer Trust or the Holders, that Issuer Trustee or Administrator shall not be
liable to the Issuer Trust or to any Holder for that Issuer Trustee’s or Administrator’s good faith
reliance on the provisions of this Trust Agreement. The provisions of this Trust Agreement, to the
extent that they restrict or eliminate the duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees or the
Administrators otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Sponsor and the Holders to
replace those other duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees and the Administrators.
(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in respect of the Trust
Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the
extent that there shall be sufficient revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to
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enable the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms
hereof. Each Holder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it will look solely to the
revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally available for distribution to it
as provided herein, and that none of the Issuer Trustees is personally liable to that Holder for
any amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security or any other liability in respect of any
Trust Security. This Section 8.1(b) does not limit the liability of the Issuer Trustees
expressly set forth elsewhere in this Trust Agreement or, in the case of the Property Trustee, in
the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall enforce
this Trust Agreement for the benefit of the Holders in accordance with Section 8.1(d).
(d) The Property Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing
of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only those duties as are
specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 10.10), and
no implied covenants shall be read into this Trust Agreement against the Property Trustee. If an
Event of Default has occurred that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 5.14,
the Property Trustee shall exercise those of the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust
Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof as a prudent person
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.
(e) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Property Trustee
from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all
those Events of Default that may have occurred:
(A) the duties and obligations of the Property Trustee shall be determined solely by the
express provisions of this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 10.10), and the
Property Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of those duties and obligations as
are specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 10.10);
and
(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Property Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Trust Agreement; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by
any provision hereof or of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically required to be furnished to the
Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine
whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Trust Agreement.
(ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by
an authorized officer of the Property Trustee, unless it is proved that the Property Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
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(iii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to
be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Majority Holders relating to
the time, method, or place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Property
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Trust
Agreement;
(iv) the Property Trustee’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safekeeping, and physical
preservation of the Debentures and the Payment Account (if held by the Property Trustee) shall be
to deal with that Property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee deals with similar property
for its own account, subject to the protections and limitations on liability afforded to the
Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement and the Trust Indenture Act;
(v) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any money received by it
except as it may otherwise agree with the Sponsor; and money held by the Property Trustee need not
be segregated from other funds held by it except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by
the Property Trustee (if maintained by the Property Trustee) pursuant to Section 3.1 or to
the extent otherwise required by law;
(vi) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by the
Administrators or the Sponsor with the respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall the
Property Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Issuer Trustee, the
Administrators, or the Sponsor; and
(vii) Subject to Sections 8.1(c) and (d), no provision of this Trust Agreement
shall require the Property Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights
or powers, if the Property Trustee has reasonable grounds to believe that the repayment of those
funds or liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Trust Agreement or
adequate indemnity against that risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(f) The Administrators and the Delaware Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the
compliance by the other Administrators, the other Issuer Trustees, or the Sponsor with their
respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall either Administrator or the Delaware
Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Administrator, other Issuer Trustee,
or the Sponsor.
SECTION 8.2. Certain Notices.
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default actually known by a Responsible
Officer of the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the
extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of that Event of Default to the Holders and the
Administrators, unless that Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.
Within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Sponsor’s exercise of its right
to defer the payment of interest on the Debentures pursuant to the Indenture, the Property Trustee
shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of that
exercise to the Holders and the Administrators, unless that exercise shall have been revoked.
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SECTION 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.1:
(a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting
in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written representation of a
Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors, or any other certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, other evidence
of indebtedness, or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed,
sent, or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee is
required to decide between alternative courses of action, (ii) in construing any of the provisions
of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with any
other provision contained herein, or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the application of any
provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any matter as to which the Holders of the
Preferred Securities are entitled to vote under the terms of this Trust Agreement, the Property
Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Sponsor requesting the Sponsor’s opinion as to the course of
action to be taken and the Property Trustee shall take that action, or refrain from taking that
action, and shall be fully protected in relying on the Sponsor’s opinion, in which event the
Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad faith, negligence, or willful
misconduct;
(c) any direction or act of the Sponsor contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be
sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate;
(d) any direction or act of an Administrator contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a certificate executed by that Administrator and setting forth that
direction or act;
(e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording, filing, or registration
of any instrument (including any financing or continuation statement or any filing under tax or
securities laws) or any rerecording, refilling, or re-registration thereof;
(f) the Property Trustee may consult with legal counsel (which counsel may be counsel to the
Sponsor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees) and the written advice of
that legal counsel with respect to legal matters shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action taken, suffered, or omitted by it hereunder in good faith, in
reliance thereon, and in accordance with that advice or opinion; and the Property Trustee shall
have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Trust
Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction;
(g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers
vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to
this Trust Agreement, unless those Holders have offered to the Property Trustee reasonable security
or indemnity against the costs, expenses, and liabilities that might be incurred by it in
compliance with that request or direction; provided that, nothing contained in this
Section 8.3(g) shall be taken to relieve the Property Trustee, upon the occurrence of an
Event
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of Default, of its obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust
Agreement as provided in Sections 8.1(c) and (d);
(h) the Property 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, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness, or other
paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Holders, but the Property
Trustee, in its discretion, may make those further inquiry or investigation into those facts or
matters as it may see fit;
(i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any
duties hereunder either directly or by or through its agents or attorneys, and the Property Trustee
shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney
appointed by it with due care hereunder; provided, that the Property Trustee shall be responsible
for its own negligence or misconduct with respect to selection of any agent or attorney appointed
by it hereunder;
(j) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall deem it
desirable to receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other
action hereunder, the Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders (which
instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in Liquidation Amount of the
Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust
Securities in respect of that remedy, right, or action), (ii) may refrain from enforcing that
remedy or right or taking that other action until those instructions are received, and (iii) shall
be protected in acting in accordance with those instructions; and
(k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall
not be under any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under the provisions of this
Trust Agreement.
No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on any
Issuer Trustee or Administrator to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty, or
obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in which it is illegal, or in which that
Person is unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or
acts, or to exercise any such right, power, duty, or obligation. No permissive power or authority
available to any Issuer Trustee or Administrator shall be construed to be a duty.
Whether or not expressly provided therein, every provision of this Trust Agreement relating to
the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Property Trustee shall
extend to each of the Security Registrar, the Paying Agent, and the Delaware Trustee and be subject
to this Article 8.
SECTION 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates shall be taken as the
statements of the Issuer Trust and the Sponsor, and neither the Issuer Trustees nor the
Administrators assumes any responsibility for their correctness. Neither the Issuer Trustees nor
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the Administrators shall be accountable for the use or application by the Sponsor of the
proceeds of the Debentures.
SECTION 8.5. May Hold Securities.
Any Issuer Trustee or Administrator, any other agent of any Issuer Trustee or Administrator,
or the Issuer Trust, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Trust Securities and, subject to Sections 8.8 and 8.13, and except as provided in
the definition of the term “Outstanding” in Article 1, may otherwise deal with the Issuer Trust
with the same rights it would have if it were not Issuer Trustee or that other agent.
SECTION 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.
The Sponsor agrees:
(a) to pay to the Issuer Trustees from time to time such reasonable compensation for all
services rendered by them hereunder as may be agreed by the Sponsor and the Issuer Trustees from
time to time in writing (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard
to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Issuer Trustees and the
Administrators upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements, and advances incurred or
made by the Issuer Trustees or the Administrators in accordance with any provision of this Trust
Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of their agents
and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement, or advance as may be attributable to their
negligence, bad faith, or willful misconduct; and
(c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and hold harmless (i) each
Issuer Trustee or Administrator, (ii) any Affiliate of any Issuer Trustee or Administrator,
(iii) any officer, director, shareholder, employee, representative, or agent of any Issuer Trustee,
(iv) any Family member, heir, or legal representative of any Administrator, and (v) any employee or
agent of the Issuer Trust (referred to herein as an “Indemnified Person”) from and against
any loss, damage, liability, tax, penalty, expense, or claim of any kind or nature whatsoever
incurred by that Indemnified Person by reason of the creation, operation, or dissolution of the
Issuer Trust or any act or omission performed or omitted by that Indemnified Person in good faith
on behalf of the Issuer Trust and in a manner that Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be
within the scope of authority conferred on that Indemnified Person by this Trust Agreement, except
that no Indemnified Person shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of any loss, damage, or
claim incurred by that Indemnified Person by reason of negligence (or gross negligence, in the case
of the Delaware Trustee), bad faith, or willful misconduct with respect to those acts or omissions.
The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the termination of this Trust
Agreement and the removal or resignation of any Issuer Trustee or Administrator.
No Issuer Trustee may claim any Lien on any Trust Property as a result of any amount due
pursuant to this Section 8.6.
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The Sponsor, any Administrator, and any Issuer Trustee may engage in or possess an interest in
other business ventures of any nature or description, independently or with others, similar or
dissimilar to the business of the Issuer Trust, the Issuer Trust and the Holders of Trust
Securities shall have no rights by virtue of this Trust Agreement in and to those independent
ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit of any such venture, even if
competitive with the business of the Issuer Trust, shall not be deemed wrongful or improper.
Neither the Sponsor, any Administrator, nor any Issuer Trustee shall be obligated to present any
particular investment or other opportunity to the Issuer Trust even if that opportunity is of a
character that, if presented to the Issuer Trust, could be taken by the Issuer Trust, and the
Sponsor, any Administrator, and any Issuer Trustee shall have the right to take for its own account
(individually or as a partner or fiduciary) or to recommend to others any such particular
investment or other opportunity. Any Issuer Trustee or Administrator may engage or be interested
in any financial or other transaction with the Sponsor or any Affiliate of the Sponsor, or may act
as depositary for, trustee or agent for, or act on any committee or body of holders of, securities
or other obligations of the Sponsor or its Affiliates.
SECTION 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Issuer Trustees and
Administrators.
(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust
Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that is a national or state chartered bank,
eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such, and that has a combined capital and
surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section 8.7 and to the extent permitted by the Trust Indenture
Act, the combined capital and surplus of that Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the
Property Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities ceases to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 8.7, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect hereinafter specified in this Article 8. At the time of appointment, the Property
Trustee must have securities rated in one of the three highest rating categories by a nationally
recognized statistical rating organization.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrators hereunder with respect to the Trust
Securities. Each Administrator shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or
a legal entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that entity.
(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities. The
Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a
resident of the State of Delaware or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in
the State of Delaware and that otherwise meets the requirements of applicable Delaware law,
including Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, and that shall act through one or more
persons authorized to bind that entity.
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SECTION 8.8. Conflicting Interests.
(a) If the Property Trustee has or acquires a conflicting interest within the meaning of the
Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall either eliminate that interest or resign, to the
extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and
this Trust Agreement.
(b) The Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture shall be deemed to be specifically described in
this Trust Agreement for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in
Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.
Unless and until a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, at any time or
times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the Trust Indenture Act or of any
jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust Property may be located at the time, the Holder of
Common Securities and the Administrators shall have the power to appoint one or more Persons either
to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any part of that Trust Property,
or to the extent required by law to act as separate trustee of any such property, in either case
with such powers as may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in that Person or
Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right, or power deemed necessary or
desirable, subject to the other provisions of this Section. If a Debenture Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall have the sole power to appoint such a
co-trustee or separate trustee, and upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Sponsor
and the Administrators shall for that purpose join with the Property Trustee in the execution,
delivery, and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint that
co-trustee or separate trustee. Any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this
Section shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the
United States or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the United States that
shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that entity.
Should any written instrument from the Sponsor be required by any co-trustee or separate
trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to that co-trustee or separate trustee that
property, title, right, or power, any and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed,
acknowledged, and delivered by the Sponsor.
Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted by law, but to that extent
only, be appointed subject to the following terms:
(a) The Trust Securities shall be executed by one or more Administrators, and the Trust
Securities shall be delivered by the Property Trustee, and all rights, powers, duties, and
obligations hereunder in respect of the custody of securities, cash, and other personal property
held by, or required to be deposited or pledged with, the Property Trustee specified hereunder
shall be exercised solely by the Property Trustee and not by that co-trustee or separate trustee.
(b) The rights, powers, duties, and obligations conferred hereby or imposed upon the Property
Trustee in respect of any property covered by that appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon
and exercised or performed by the Property Trustee or the Property Trustee and
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that co-trustee or
separate trustee jointly, as shall be provided in the instrument
appointing that co-trustee or separate trustee, except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in
which any particular act is to be performed, the Property Trustee shall be incompetent or
unqualified to perform that act, in which event those rights, powers, duties, and obligations shall
be exercised and performed by that co-trustee or separate trustee.
(c) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing executed by it, with the
written concurrence of the Sponsor, may accept the resignation of or remove any co-trustee or
separate trustee appointed under this Section 8.9, and, in case a Debenture Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall have power to accept the
resignation of, or remove, any such co-trustee or separate trustee without the concurrence of the
Sponsor. Upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Sponsor shall join with the
Property Trustee in the execution, delivery, and performance of all instruments and agreements
necessary or proper to effectuate that resignation or removal. A successor to any co-trustee or
separate trustee so resigning or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this
Section 8.9.
(d) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be personally liable by reason of any
act or omission of the Property Trustee or any other trustee hereunder.
(e) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act of a co-trustee or separate
trustee.
(f) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee shall be deemed to have been
delivered to each such co-trustee and separate trustee.
SECTION 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of any Issuer Trustee (the “Relevant Trustee”) or
Administrator (the “Relevant Administrator”, each of the Relevant Trustee or a Relevant
Administrator a “Relevant Person”) and no appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee or
successor Administrator pursuant to this Article 8 shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Issuer Trustee or Administrator in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 8.11.
(b) Subject to paragraph (a) above, the Relevant Trustee may resign at any time by giving
written notice thereof to the Holders and by appointing a successor Relevant Trustee. The Relevant
Trustee shall appoint a successor by requesting from at least three Persons meeting the eligibility
requirements its expenses and charges to serve as the Relevant Trustee, and selecting the Person
who agrees to the lowest expenses and charges. If the instrument of acceptance by the successor
Issuer Trustee required by Section 8.11 has not been delivered to the Relevant Trustee
within 60 days after the giving of that notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition,
at the expense of, in the case of the Property Trustee, the Sponsor, any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.
(c) The Administrators, or any of them, may be appointed, removed, or replaced by Act of the
Holders of Common Securities delivered to the Relevant Trustee. The Administrators may resign at
any time by giving written notice thereof to the Holders of Common Securities.
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(d) The Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be appointed, removed,
or replaced by Act of the Majority Holders, delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its individual
capacity and, in the case of the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust) (i) for cause
(including upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in subparagraph (d) of the
definition thereof with respect to the Relevant Trustee), or (ii) if a Debenture Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing at any time. Unless and until an event described in clauses (i) or
(ii) of the previous sentence has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee, or both of them, may be appointed, removed, or replaced at any time by Act of the Holders
of the Common Securities.
(e) If a resigning Issuer Trustee fails to appoint a successor, if an Issuer Trustee is
removed or become incapable of acting as Issuer Trustee, or if a vacancy occurs in the office of
any Issuer Trustee for any reason, the Holders of the Common Securities, by Act of those Holders
delivered to the Relevant Trustee, or if a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Holders of the Preferred Securities, by Act of the Holders of not less than 25% in
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities then Outstanding delivered to that
Relevant Trustee, may appoint a successor Relevant Trustee or Trustees, and that successor Issuer
Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor
Relevant Trustee has been so appointed by the Holders of the Common Securities or the Preferred
Securities, as the case may be, and accepted appointment in the manner required by
Section 8.11, any Holder, on behalf of that Holder and all others similarly situated, or
any other Issuer Trustee, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Relevant Trustee.
(f) The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of an Issuer
Trustee and each appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in
Section 10.8, and shall give notice to the Sponsor and the Administrators. Each notice
shall include the name of the successor Relevant Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust
Office if it is the Property Trustee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust Agreement, if any Delaware
Trustee who is a natural person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Holders of the Common
Securities, incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy created by that death, incompetence, or
incapacity may be filled by the Property Trustee following the procedures regarding expenses and
charges set forth above, with the successor being a Person who satisfies the eligibility
requirements for the Delaware Trustee set forth in Section 8.7.
SECTION 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant Person, the retiring Relevant
Person and each successor Relevant Person with respect to the Trust Securities shall execute and
deliver an amendment hereto wherein each successor Relevant Person shall accept that appointment
and which shall (i) contain those provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer, confirm
to, and vest in each successor Relevant Person all the rights, powers, trusts, and duties of the
retiring Relevant Person with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust; and (ii) add to
or change any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement as shall be necessary to provide for or
facilitate the administration of the Issuer Trust by more than one
Relevant Person,
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it being understood that nothing herein or in that amendment shall constitute
those Relevant Persons co-trustees and upon the execution and delivery of that amendment the
resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant Person shall become effective to the extent
provided therein and each such successor Relevant Person, without any further act, deed, or
conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts, and duties of the retiring
Relevant Person; provided, however, that on request of the Issuer Trust or any successor Relevant
Person that retiring Relevant Person shall duly assign, transfer, and deliver to that successor
Relevant Person all Trust Property, all proceeds thereof, and money held by that retiring Relevant
Person hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Relevant Person, the Issuer Trust shall execute any and
all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to that successor Relevant
Person all such rights, powers, and trusts referred to in the preceding paragraph.
(c) No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of that
acceptance that successor Relevant Trustee is qualified and eligible under this Article 8.
(d) Any successor Delaware trustee shall promptly file an amendment to the Certificate of
Trust with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware identifying the name and principal place
of business of that Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware.
SECTION 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation, or Succession to Business.
Any Person into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion, or
consolidation to which that Relevant Trustee is a party, or any Person succeeding to all or
substantially all the corporate trust business of that Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of
that Relevant Trustee hereunder, provided that such Person shall otherwise be qualified and
eligible under this Article 8, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of any of the parties hereto except may be required under the Delaware Statutory
Trust Act.
SECTION 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Sponsor or Issuer Trust.
If and when the Property Trustee is or becomes a creditor of the Sponsor or the Issuer Trust
or any other obligor upon the Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Sponsor, the
Issuer Trust, or any such other obligor.
SECTION 8.14. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment, composition, or other similar judicial proceeding relative to the Issuer Trust or any
other obligor upon the Trust Securities or the property of the Issuer Trust or of that other
obligor or their creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions on the
Trust Securities are due and payable and irrespective of whether the Property Trustee has made any
demand on the Issuer Trust for the payment of any past due Distributions) shall be
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entitled and empowered (but not obligated), to the fullest extent permitted by law, by
intervention in that proceeding or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any Distributions owing and unpaid in
respect of the Trust Securities and file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or
advisable to have the claims of the Property Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents, and
counsel) and of the Holders allowed in that judicial proceeding, and
(b) 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 those payments to the Property Trustee and, in the event the Property Trustee
consents to the making of those payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Property Trustee any
amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements, and advances of the
Property Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Property Trustee.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Property Trustee to authorize,
consent to, accept, or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment, or compensation affecting the Trust Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or
to authorize the Property Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding.
SECTION 8.15. Reports by Property Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after of each year commencing with , the Property
Trustee shall transmit to all Holders in accordance with Section 10.8 and the Sponsor a
brief report dated as of the immediately preceding with respect to:
(i) its eligibility under Section 8.7 or, in lieu thereof, if to the best of its
knowledge it has continued to be eligible under that Section, a written statement to that effect;
(ii) a statement that the Property Trustee has complied with all of its obligations under this
Trust Agreement during the twelve-month period (or, in the case of the initial report, the period
since the Closing Date) ending with such or, if the Property Trustee has not complied in
any material respect with those obligations, a description of that noncompliance; and
(iii) any change in the property or funds in its possession as Property Trustee since the date
of its last report and any action taken by the Property Trustee in the performance of its duties
hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its opinion materially affects the
Trust Securities.
(b) In addition, the Property Trustee shall transmit to Holders those reports concerning the
Property Trustee and its actions under this Trust Agreement as may be required pursuant to the
Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
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(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of that transmission to Holders, be filed by
the Property Trustee with the Sponsor for filing with the Commission and each national stock
exchange or interdealer quotation system or self-regulatory organization upon which the Preferred
Securities are listed or quoted, if any.
SECTION 8.16. Reports to the Property Trustee.
Each of the Sponsor and the Administrators shall provide to the Property Trustee those
documents, reports, and information as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act (if any)
and the compliance certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act in the form,
in the manner, and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Sponsor
and the Administrators shall annually file with the Property Trustee a certificate specifying
whether that Person is in compliance with all of the terms and covenants applicable to that Person
hereunder.
SECTION 8.17. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.
Each of the Sponsor and the Administrators shall provide to the Property Trustee such evidence
of compliance with any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement that
relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any
certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the
Trust Indenture Act shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate.
SECTION 8.18. Number of Issuer Trustees.
(a) The number of Issuer Trustees shall be two, unless the Property Trustee also acts as the
Delaware Trustee, in which case the number of Issuer Trustees may be one.
(b) The number of Administrators shall be two.
(c) If an Issuer Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason, a vacancy shall occur. The
vacancy shall be filled with an Issuer Trustee appointed in accordance with Section 8.10.
(d) If an Administrator ceases to hold office for any reason, a vacancy shall occur. The
vacancy shall be filled with an Administrator appointed in accordance with Section 8.10(c).
(e) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence, or incapacity to
perform the duties of an Issuer Trustee or Administrator shall not operate to annul or dissolve the
Issuer Trust.
SECTION 8.19. Delegation of Power.
(a) Any Administrator may, by power of attorney consistent with applicable law, delegate to
any other natural person over the age of 21 his or her power for the purpose of executing any
documents contemplated in Section 2.7(a) or making any governmental filing; and
(b) The Administrators shall have power to delegate from time to time to such of their number
the doing of those things and the execution of those instruments either in the name of the
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Issuer Trust, the names of the Administrators, or otherwise as the Administrators may deem
expedient, to the extent that delegation is not prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the
provisions of this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE 9
DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION 9.1. Dissolution Upon Expiration Date.
Unless earlier dissolved, the Issuer Trust shall automatically dissolve, and its affairs shall
be wound up, on (the “Expiration Date”), following the
distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with Section 9.4.
SECTION 9.2. Early Dissolution.
The first to occur of any of the following events is an “Early Dissolution Event”:
(a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the dissolution or liquidation of,
the Sponsor in its capacity as the Holder of the Common Securities, unless the Sponsor transfers
the Common Securities as provided by Section 5.10, in which case this provision shall refer
instead to any such successor Holder of the Common Securities;
(b) the written direction to the Property Trustee from the Holders of all of the Common
Securities at any time to dissolve the Issuer Trust and distribute the Debentures to Holders in
exchange for the Preferred Securities (which direction is optional and wholly within the discretion
of the Holders of the Common Securities);
(c) the redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in connection with the redemption of all
the Debentures; and
(d) the entry of an order for dissolution of the Issuer Trust by a court of competent
jurisdiction.
SECTION 9.3. Dissolution.
The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees, the Administrators,
and the Issuer Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to occur of the
following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee to Holders of all amounts required to be
distributed hereunder upon the liquidation of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or
upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2; (b) the payment
of any expenses owed by the Issuer Trust in accordance with Section 3803 of the Delaware Statutory
Trust Act; (c) the discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrators, including the
performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the Issuer Trust or the Holders; and
(d) the filing of a certificate of cancellation with the Delaware Secretary of State in accordance
with the Delaware Statutory Trust Act. Promptly after the latest to occur of the foregoing, the
Property Trustee will notify the Delaware Trustee in writing that the Delaware Trustee’s
obligations and responsibilities with respect to the Issuer Trust have terminated.
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SECTION 9.4. Liquidation.
(a) If an Early Dissolution Event specified in clause (a), (b), or (d)
of Section 9.2 occurs or upon the Expiration Date, the Issuer Trust shall be liquidated by
the Property Trustee as expeditiously as the Property Trustee determines to be possible by
distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to known creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided
by applicable law as to which the Property Trustee has received notice of amounts owing, to each
Holder a Like Amount of Debentures, subject to Section 9.4(d).
Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not fewer than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each
Holder of Trust Securities at that Holder’s address appearing in
the Securities Register. All those notices of liquidation shall state:
(i) the CUSIP Number of the Trust Securities;
(ii) the Liquidation Date;
(iii) that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed
to be Outstanding and any Trust Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed
to represent a Like Amount of Debentures; and
(iv) that
information with respect to the mechanics by which Holders may exchange Trust
Securities Certificates for Debentures, or if Section 9.4(d) applies, receive a Liquidation
Distribution, as the Property Trustee (after consultation with the Administrators) deems
appropriate.
(b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, to effect the liquidation
of the Issuer Trust and distribution of the Debentures to Holders, the Property Trustee, either
itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall
establish a record date for that distribution (which shall not be more than 30 days prior to the
Liquidation Date) and, establish such procedures as it shall deem appropriate to effect the
distribution of Debentures in exchange for the Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.
(c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the Liquidation Date:
(i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding; (ii) certificates representing
a Like Amount of Debentures will be issued to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates, upon
surrender of those Certificates to the exchange agent for exchange; (iii) any Trust Securities
Certificates not so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of
Debentures bearing accrued and unpaid interest in an amount equal to the accumulated and unpaid
Distributions on those Trust Securities Certificates until those certificates are so surrendered, and
until those certificates are so surrendered, no payments of interest or principal will be made to
Holders of Trust Securities Certificates with respect to those Debentures, and (iv) all rights of
Holders holding Trust Securities will cease, except the right of those Holders to receive Debentures
upon surrender of Trust Securities Certificates.
(d) If, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 9.4, whether because of
an order for dissolution entered by a court of competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of
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Debentures in the manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee not to be
practical, or if an Early Dissolution Event specified Section 9.2(c) occurs, the Trust
Property shall be liquidated, and the Issuer Trust shall be dissolved and its affairs wound-up, by
the Property Trustee in such manner as the Property Trustee determines. In that event, on the date
of the dissolution, winding-up, or other termination of the Issuer Trust, Holders will be entitled
to receive out of the assets of the Issuer Trust available for distribution to Holders, after
satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, an
amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions
thereon to the date of payment (that amount being the “Liquidation Distribution”). If,
upon any such dissolution, winding up, or termination, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid
only in part because the Issuer Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the
aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the amounts
payable by the Issuer Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis based upon
Liquidation Amounts. The Holders of the Common Securities will be entitled to receive Liquidation
Distributions upon any such dissolution, winding-up, or termination pro rata (determined as
aforesaid) with Holders of Preferred Securities, except that, if a Debenture Event of Default
specified in Section 5.01(i) or 5.01(ii) of the Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the
Preferred Securities shall have a priority over the Common Securities as provided in
Section 4.3.
SECTION 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations, or Replacements of Issuer Trust.
The Issuer Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, be replaced by, convey,
transfer, or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any corporation or
other body, except pursuant to this Section 9.5. At the request of the Holders of the
Common Securities, with the consent of the Administrators, and without the consent of the Issuer
Trustees or the Holders of the Preferred Securities, the Issuer Trust may merge with or into,
consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or convey, transfer, or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such under the laws of any state; provided,
that: (i) such successor entity either (A) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Issuer
Trust with respect to the Preferred Securities, or (B) substitutes for the Preferred Securities
other securities having substantially the same terms as the Preferred Securities (the
“Successor Securities”) as long as the Successor Securities have the same priority as the
Preferred Securities with respect to distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption, and
otherwise; (ii) a trustee of that successor entity possessing the same powers and duties as the
Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Debentures; (iii) that merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer, or lease does not cause the Preferred Securities
(including any Successor Securities) to be downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical
rating organization; (iv) that merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance,
transfer, or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences, and privileges of the holders
of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material respect; (v) that
successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the Issuer Trust; (vi) prior to
that merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer, or lease, the Property
Trustee has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (A) such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer, or lease does not adversely affect the rights,
preferences, and privileges of the Holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in
any material respect, and (B) following that merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement,
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conveyance, transfer, or lease, neither the Issuer Trust nor that successor entity will be required
to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act, (vii) the Sponsor or its
permitted transferee owns all of the Common Securities of that successor entity and guarantees the
obligations of that successor entity under the Successor Securities at least to the extent provided
by the Guarantee Agreement; and (viii) if the Preferred Securities are listed on a national
securities exchange or interdealer quotation system, the Successor Securities are listed, or any
Successor Securities will be listed on notification of issuance, on that national securities
exchange or interdealer quotation system. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuer Trust shall
not, except with the consent of Holders of all of the Preferred Securities, consolidate,
amalgamate, merge with or into, be replaced by, or convey, transfer, or lease its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to any other entity or permit any other entity to consolidate,
amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it if that consolidation, amalgamation, merger,
replacement, conveyance, transfer, or lease would cause the Issuer Trust or the successor entity to
be taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust for United States Federal
income tax purposes.
ARTICLE 10
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Holders.
Except as set forth in Section 9.2, the death, termination, dissolution, occurrence of
a Bankruptcy Event, or incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in
Trust Securities shall not operate to terminate this Trust Agreement, nor entitle the legal
representatives or heirs of that person or any Holder for that person, to claim an accounting, take
any action, or bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding up of the arrangements
contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations, or liabilities of the parties
hereto or any of them.
All parties to this Trust Agreement agree, and each Holder of any Trust Securities by that
Holder’s acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion
require, in any suit against any Issuer Trustee or Administrator for any action taken or omitted by
it as Issuer Trustee or Administrator, the filing by any party litigant in that suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of that suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in that suit,
having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by that party
litigant; but the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to any suit instituted by any Issuer
Trustee or Administrator or to any suit instituted by any Holder or group of Holders of more than
10% in aggregate Liquidation Preference of the outstanding Trust Securities.
SECTION 10.2. Amendment.
(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Administrators and the
Holders of all of the Common Securities, without the consent of any Holder of the Preferred
Securities to: (i) cure any ambiguity or correct or supplement any provision herein that
may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provision with
respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement, which shall not be inconsistent
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the other provisions of this Trust Agreement; (ii) modify, eliminate, or add to any provision
of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that (A) the Issuer Trust
will not be taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust for United States
Federal income tax purposes at all times any Trust Securities are outstanding, (B) the Issuer Trust
will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act, or
(C) the treatment of the Preferred Securities as Tier 1 regulatory capital under the prevailing
Federal Reserve Board rules and regulations; or (iii) conform the terms of this Trust Agreement to
the description of this Trust Agreement and the Preferred Securities in the relevant prospectus
filed or to be filed with the Commission with respect to the offer
and sale of those Preferred
Securities; provided, however, that in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), that action shall not
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holder; provided further, that in the
case of clause (iii), the Sponsor shall deliver to the Property Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel (who may be counsel to the Issuer Trust), in each case confirming that
such amendment has the effect of conforming the terms of this Trust Agreement to the descriptions
of this Trust Agreement in that prospectus. Any such amendment shall become effective when notice
is given to the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, and the Holders of the Preferred
Securities.
(b) Except as provided in Section 10.2(c), any provision of this Trust Agreement may
be amended from time to time by the Administrators, the Property Trustee, and the Holders of all of
the Common Securities and (i) with the consent of the Majority Holders and (ii) upon receipt by the
Issuer Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment or the exercise of any
power granted to the Issuer Trustees or the Administrators in accordance with that amendment will
not affect the Issuer Trust’s status as a grantor trust, cause the Issuer Trust to be taxable as a
corporation or as other than a grantor trust for United States Federal income tax purposes, or
affect the Issuer Trust’s exemption from status as an “investment company” under the Investment
Company Act.
(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust Agreement, without
the consent of each affected Holder (that consent being obtained in accordance with
Section 6.3 or 6.6 hereof), this Trust Agreement may not be amended to: (i) change
the amount or timing of any Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the
amount of any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a specified
date; or (ii) restrict the right of a Holder set forth in this Trust Agreement to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after that date; and, notwithstanding any other
provision herein, without the unanimous consent of the Holders (that consent being obtained in
accordance with Section 6.3 or 6.6 hereof), this paragraph (c) of this
Section 10.2 may not be amended.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement, no Issuer Trustee or
Administrator shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement that would cause
the Issuer Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the exemption from status as an “investment
company” under the Investment Company Act, to be taxable as a corporation, or to be classified as
other than a grantor trust for United States Federal income tax purposes.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary, without the consent of
the Sponsor and the Administrators, this Trust Agreement may not be amended in a manner that
imposes any additional obligation on the Sponsor or the Administrators.
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(f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made, the Administrators or the
Property Trustee shall promptly provide to the Sponsor a copy of that amendment.
(g) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be required to enter into any
amendment to this Trust Agreement that affects its own rights, duties, or immunities under this
Trust Agreement. The Property Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an
Officers’ Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in compliance with this
Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.3. Separability.
In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Trust Securities Certificates 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 10.4. Governing Law.
This Trust Agreement and the rights and obligations of each of the Holders, the Issuer Trust,
the Sponsor, the Administrators, and the Issuer Trustees with respect to this Trust Agreement and
the Trust Securities shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of
Delaware without reference to its conflicts of laws provisions.
SECTION 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day.
If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security is a day that is not a Business Day,
that payment need not be made on that date but may be made on the next succeeding day that is a
Business Day (except as otherwise provided in Section 4.2(d)), with the same force and
effect as though made on the date fixed for that payment, and no Distributions shall accumulate on
that unpaid amount for the period after that date.
SECTION 10.6. Successors.
This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of any successor to the
Sponsor, the Issuer Trust, any Administrator, and any Issuer Trustee, including any successor by
operation of law. Except in connection with a consolidation, merger, or sale involving the Sponsor
that is permitted under Article Eight of the Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in
writing to perform the Sponsor’s obligations hereunder, the Sponsor shall not assign its
obligations hereunder.
SECTION 10.7. Headings.
The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not affect the
construction of this Trust Agreement.
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SECTION 10.8. Reports, Notices, and Demands.
Any report, notice, demand, or other communication that by any provision of this Trust
Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon any Holder or the Sponsor may
be given or served in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United States
mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the case of a Holder
of Preferred Securities, to that Holder as that Holder’s name and address may appear on the
Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the Holder of the Common Securities or the Sponsor, to
Wilmington Trust Corporation, Attention: [___], facsimile no.: (302) [___], or to such other
address as may be specified in a written notice by the Holder of the Common Securities or the
Sponsor, as the case may be, to the Property Trustee. That notice, demand, or other communication
to or upon a Holder shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon
hand delivery, mailing, or transmission.
That notice, demand, or other communication to or upon the Sponsor shall be deemed to have
been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the Sponsor.
Any notice, demand, or other communication that by any provision of this Trust Agreement is
required or permitted to be given or served to or upon the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, the
Delaware Trustee, the Administrators, or the Issuer Trust shall be given in writing addressed to
such Person as follows:
(a) with respect to the Property Trustee, to
Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association
45 Xxxxxxxx- 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Xttention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxx
45 Xxxxxxxx- 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Xttention: Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxxx
(b) with respect to the Delaware Trustee, to
Xxxxx Fargo Delaware Trust Company
910 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Xttention: Xxxxx X. XxXxxx
910 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Xttention: Xxxxx X. XxXxxx
with respect to the Administrators, to them at
Wilmington Trust Corporation
Xxxxxx Square North
1100 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000
Xttention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx and Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx Square North
1100 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000
Xttention: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx and Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxx
and
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(c) with respect to the Issuer Trust, to its principal office specified in
Section 2.2, with a copy to the Property Trustee. That notice, demand, or other
communication to or upon the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, or the Administrators shall be
deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the
Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, or that Administrator.
SECTION 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition.
Each of the Issuer Trustees, the Administrators, and the Sponsor agree for the benefit of the
Holders that, until at least one year and one day after the Issuer Trust has been dissolved in
accordance with Article 9, they shall not file, or join in the filing of, a petition
against the Issuer Trust under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or other similar law
(including the United States Bankruptcy Code) (collectively, “Bankruptcy Laws”), or
otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against the Issuer Trust under any Bankruptcy
Law.
If
the Sponsor takes action in violation of this Section 10.9, the Property Trustee
agrees, for the benefit of Holders, that, at the expense of the Sponsor, it shall file an answer
with the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of that petition by the Sponsor
against the Issuer Trust or the commencement of that action and raise the defense that the Sponsor
has agreed in writing not to take that action and should be stopped and precluded therefrom and
those other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Property Trustee or the Issuer Trust may assert.
SECTION 10.10. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
(a) This Trust Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are
required to be part of this Trust Agreement and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by
those provisions. If and to the extent any provision of this Trust Agreement limits, qualifies, or
conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act,
through operation of Section 318(c) thereof those imposed duties shall control. If any provision of
this Trust Agreement modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so
modified or excluded, the provision shall be deemed to apply to this Trust Agreement as so modified
or excluded, as the case may be.
(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Issuer Trustee that is a trustee for the purposes
of the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) The application of the Trust Indenture Act to this Trust Agreement shall not affect the
nature of the Trust Securities as equity securities representing undivided beneficial interests in
the assets of the Issuer Trust.
SECTION
10.11. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee Agreement, and Indenture.
THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY OR ON BEHALF OF A
HOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL
CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE BY THE HOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST
IN THAT TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE
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TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT, THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT, AND THE INDENTURE, AND
AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT AND THE
INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT OF THE ISSUER TRUST, THAT HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT
THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE, AND EFFECTIVE AS
BETWEEN THE ISSUER TRUST AND THAT HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.
SECTION 10.12. Counterparts.
This Trust Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts (including by means of
signature pages sent by facsimile), each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original,
but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement.
WILMINGTON TRUST CORPORATION | ||||||
as Sponsor | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | ||||||
as Property Trustee | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
XXXXX FARGO DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY | ||||||
as Delaware Trustee | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | ||||||
as Administrator | ||||||
By: | ||||||
as Administrator | ||||||
By: | ||||||
This Certificate of Trust of Wilmington Trust Capital A is being duly executed and filed by
the undersigned, as trustee, to form a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act
(12 Del. C. Section 3801 et seq.) (the “Act”):
1. NAME. The name of the statutory trust formed hereby is Wilmington Trust Capital A.
2. DELAWARE
TRUSTEE. The name and business address of the trustee of the Trust in the State
of Delaware are Xxxxx Fargo Delaware Trust Company, 910 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 Xttention: Corporate
Trust Administration.
3. DULY AUTHORIZED. The Trustee is duly authorized to sign this Certificate of Trust.
4. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon filing.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed this Certificate of Trust in accordance
with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.
XXXXX FARGO DELAWARE TRUST COMPANY, as Delaware Trustee | ||||||
By: | /s/ Xxx X. Xxxxxx | |||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | Vice President |
Exhibit B
FORM OF COMMON SECURITIES CERTIFICATE
FORM OF COMMON SECURITIES CERTIFICATE
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT TO THE SPONSOR OR AN AFFILIATE OF THE SPONSOR IN
COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.10 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT
Certificate Number
|
Number of Common Securities | |
[ ]
|
[___] |
Certificate Evidencing Common Securities
of
Wilmington Trust Capital A
[ %] Cumulative Common Securities
(liquidation amount $1,000 per Common Security)
of
Wilmington Trust Capital A
[ %] Cumulative Common Securities
(liquidation amount $1,000 per Common Security)
Wilmington Trust Capital A, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware
(the “Issuer Trust”), hereby certifies that Wilmington Trust Corporation (the “Holder”) is the
registered owner of [ ( )] Common Securities of the Issuer Trust,
representing undivided common beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust and designated
the Wilmington Trust Capital A [ ] Cumulative Common Securities (liquidation amount $1,000
per Common Security) (the “Common Securities”). Except in accordance with Section 5.10 of the
Trust Agreement (as defined below) and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the
Common Securities are not transferable and any attempted transfer hereof other than in accordance
therewith shall be void. The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences, and
other terms and provisions of the Common Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the
Common Securities represented hereby are issued under and shall in all respects be subject to the
terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Issuer Trust, dated as of
, 20___, as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), among
Wilmington Trust Corporation, as Sponsor, Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, a national
banking association (“Xxxxx Fargo”), as Property Trustee, Xxxxx Fargo Delaware Trust Company, as
Delaware Trustee, the Administrators, and the several holders of Trust Securities, including the
designation of the terms of the Common Securities as set forth therein. The Issuer Trust will
furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the Holder without charge upon written request to the
Issuer Trust at its principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled
to the benefits thereunder.
Terms used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Trust Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrators of the Issuer Trust has executed this
certificate this ___ day of , 20___.
WILMINGTON TRUST CAPITAL A | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | Administrator |
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Exhibit C
FORM OF GLOBAL PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE
This Preferred Securities Certificate is a Global Preferred Securities Certificate within the
meaning of the Trust Agreement referred to hereinafter and is registered in the name of a
Depositary or a nominee of a Depositary. This Preferred Securities Certificate is exchangeable for
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the name of a person other than the
Depositary or its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Trust Agreement, and
may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a
nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary, except in the
limited circumstances described in the Trust Agreement.
Unless this Global Preferred Security Certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) to Wilmington Trust Capital A or its agent for registration
of transfer, exchange, or payment, and any Global Preferred Security Certificate issued is
registered in the name of Cede & Co. or such other name as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC (and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is
requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO A PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner hereof, Cede &
Co., has an interest herein.
[NO EMPLOYEE BENEFIT OR OTHER PLAN SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME
SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986,
AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”) (EACH, A “PLAN”), NO ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS”
BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY (A “PLAN ASSET ENTITY”), AND NO PERSON INVESTING
“PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN, MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE OR ANY
INTEREST HEREIN, UNLESS THAT PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF AVAILABLE
UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION (“PTCE”) 96–23, 95–60, 91–38,
90–1, OR 84–14 OR ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION WITH RESPECT TO THAT PURCHASE OR HOLDING AND, IN THE
CASE OF ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER RELYING ON ANY EXEMPTION OTHER THAN PTCE 96–23, 95–60, 91–38, 90–1,
OR 84–14, HAS COMPLIED WITH ANY REQUEST BY THE SPONSOR OR THE ISSUER TRUST FOR AN OPINION OF
COUNSEL OR OTHER EVIDENCE WITH RESPECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THAT EXEMPTION. ANY PURCHASER OR
HOLDER OF THIS PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE OR ANY INTEREST HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE
REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING HEREOF THAT IT EITHER (A) IS NOT A PLAN OR A PLAN ASSET
ENTITY AND IS NOT PURCHASING SUCH SECURITIES ON BEHALF OF OR WITH “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN, OR
(B) IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF AVAILABLE UNDER PTCE 96–23, 95–60, 91–38, 90–1, 84–14, OR
ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION WITH RESPECT TO THAT PURCHASE OR HOLDING.]
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Certificate Number
|
Number of Preferred Securities | |
CUSIP NO. |
Certificate Evidencing Preferred Securities
of
Wilmington Trust Capital A
[ ] Cumulative Preferred Securities
(liquidation amount $1,000 per Preferred Security)
of
Wilmington Trust Capital A
[ ] Cumulative Preferred Securities
(liquidation amount $1,000 per Preferred Security)
Wilmington Trust Capital A, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware
(the “Issuer Trust”), hereby certifies that Cede & Co. (the “Holder”) is the registered owner
of ( ) Preferred Securities of the Issuer Trust representing an undivided
preferred beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust and designated the Wilmington Trust
Capital A [ ] Cumulative Preferred Securities (liquidation amount $1,000 per Preferred
Security) (the “Preferred Securities”). The Preferred Securities are transferable on the books and
records of the Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this
certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section 5.4 of the Trust
Agreement (as defined below). The designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences, and
other terms and provisions of the Preferred Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and
the Preferred Securities represented hereby are issued under and shall in all respects be subject
to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Issuer Trust, dated
as of , 20___, as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), among
Wilmington Trust Corporation, as Sponsor, Xxxxx Fargo Bank, National Association, a national
banking association (“Xxxxx Fargo”), as Property Trustee, Xxxxx Fargo Delaware Trust Company, as
Delaware Trustee, the Administrators, and the several holders of Trust Securities, including the
designation of the terms of the Preferred Securities set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to
the benefits of the Guarantee Agreement, dated as of , 20___, (the “Guarantee Agreement”),
by and between Wilmington Trust Corporation, as Guarantor, and Xxxxx Fargo, as Guarantee Trustee,
to the extent provided therein. The Issuer Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement and
the Guarantee Agreement to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Issuer Trust at
its principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust Agreement and is entitled
to the benefits thereunder. Terms used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the
Trust Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrators of the Issuer Trust has executed this
certificate this ___ day of , 20___.
WILMINGTON TRUST CAPITAL A | ||||||
By: | ||||||
Name: | ||||||
Title: | Administrator |
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PROPERTY TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the above mentioned Trust Agreement.
Dated:
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
not in its individual capacity but solely as Property Trustee
not in its individual capacity but solely as Property Trustee
By:
Name:
Title:
Name:
Title:
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ASSIGNMENT FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred Security
to:
(Insert assignee’s social security or tax identification number) | ||
(Insert address and zip code of assignee) | ||
and irrevocably appoints | ||
agent to transfer this Preferred Security Certificate on the books of the Issuer Trust. The
agent may substitute another to act for him or her.
Date:
Signature:
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Preferred Security Certificate)
The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks,
stockbrokers, savings and loan associations, and credit unions with membership in an approved
signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to SEC Rule 17Ad-15.
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