AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT among GREENE COUNTY BANCSHARES, INC., as Depositor WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Property Trustee WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Delaware Trustee and THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN as Administrative Trustees...
Exhibit
10.1
AMENDED
AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
among
XXXXXX
COUNTY BANCSHARES, INC.,
as
Depositor
WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY,
as
Property Trustee
WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY,
as
Delaware Trustee
and
THE
ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN
as
Administrative Trustees
________________
Dated
as
of May 16, 2007
GREENBANK
CAPITAL TRUST I
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Page |
ARTICLE I. Defined Terms | 1 | ||
SECTION 1.1. | Definitions. | 1 | |
ARTICLE II. The Trust | 11 | ||
SECTION 2.1. | Name. | 11 | |
SECTION 2.2. |
Office
of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.
|
11 | |
SECTION
2.3.
|
Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Fees, Costs and Expenses. | 11 | |
SECTION
2.4.
|
Purposes
of Trust.
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11 | |
SECTION
2.5.
|
Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions. | 12 | |
SECTION
2.6.
|
Assets
of Trust.
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14 | |
SECTION 2.7. | Title to Trust Property. | 14 | |
ARTICLE III. Payment Account; Paying Agents | 15 | ||
SECTION
3.1.
|
Payment
Account.
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15 | |
SECTION
3.2.
|
Appointment of Paying Agents. | 15 | |
ARTICLE IV. Distributions; Redemption | 16 | ||
SECTION
4.1.
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Distributions.
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16 | |
SECTION
4.2.
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Redemption.
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17 | |
SECTION
4.3.
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Subordination
of Common Securities.
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20 | |
SECTION
4.4.
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Payment
Procedures.
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21 | |
SECTION
4.5.
|
Withholding
Tax.
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21 | |
SECTION
4.6.
|
Tax
Returns and Other Reports.
|
21 | |
SECTION
4.7.
|
Payment
of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Trust.
|
22 | |
SECTION
4.8.
|
Payments
under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.
|
22 | |
SECTION
4.9.
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Exchanges.
|
22 | |
SECTION
4.10.
|
Calculation
Agent.
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23 | |
SECTION
4.11.
|
Certain
Accounting Matters.
|
23 | |
ARTICLE V. Securities | 24 | ||
SECTION
5.1.
|
Initial
Ownership.
|
24 | |
SECTION
5.2.
|
Authorized
Trust Securities.
|
24 | |
SECTION
5.3.
|
Issuance
of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of
Notes.
|
24 | |
SECTION
5.4.
|
The Securities Certificates. | 24 | |
SECTION
5.5.
|
Rights
of Holders.
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25 | |
SECTION
5.6.
|
Book-Entry
Preferred Securities.
|
25 | |
SECTION
5.7.
|
Registration
of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities
Certificates.
|
27 | |
SECTION
5.8.
|
Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities Certificates.
|
28 | |
SECTION
5.9.
|
Persons
Deemed Holders.
|
29 | |
SECTION
5.10.
|
Cancellation.
|
29 | |
SECTION
5.11.
|
Ownership
of Common Securities by Depositor.
|
30 | |
SECTION
5.12.
|
Restricted
Legends.
|
30 | |
SECTION
5.13.
|
Form
of Certificate of Authentication.
|
33 | |
ARTICLE VI. Meetings; Voting; Acts of Holders | 33 | ||
SECTION
6.1.
|
Notice
of Meetings.
|
33 |
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SECTION
6.2.
|
Meetings
of Holders of the Preferred Securities.
|
33 | |
SECTION
6.3.
|
Voting
Rights.
|
34 | |
SECTION
6.4.
|
Proxies
|
34 | |
SECTION 6.5 |
Holder
Action by Written Consent.
|
34 | |
SECTION
6.6.
|
Record
Date for Voting and Other Purposes.
|
35 | |
SECTION
6.7.
|
Acts
of Holders.
|
35 | |
SECTION
6.8.
|
Inspection
of Records.
|
36 | |
SECTION
6.9.
|
Limitations
on Voting Rights.
|
36 | |
SECTION
6.10.
|
Acceleration
of Maturity; Rescission of Annulment; Waivers of Past
Defaults.
|
37 | |
ARTICLE VII. Representations and Warranties | 39 | ||
SECTION
7.1.
|
Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee. | 39 | |
SECTION
7.2.
|
Representations and Warranties of Depositor. | 40 | |
ARTICLE VIII. The Trustees | 41 | ||
SECTION
8.1.
|
Number
of Trustees.
|
41 | |
SECTION
8.2.
|
Property
Trustee Required.
|
41 | |
SECTION
8.3.
|
Delaware
Trustee Required.
|
41 | |
SECTION
8.4.
|
Appointment
of Administrative Trustees.
|
42 | |
SECTION
8.5.
|
Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustees. | 42 | |
SECTION
8.6.
|
Notices of Defaults and Extensions. | 44 | |
SECTION
8.7.
|
Certain
Rights of Property Trustee.
|
44 | |
SECTION
8.8.
|
Delegation
of Power.
|
46 | |
SECTION
8.9.
|
May
Hold Securities.
|
47 | |
SECTION
8.10.
|
Compensation;
Reimbursement; Indemnity.
|
47 | |
SECTION
8.11.
|
Resignation
and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
|
48 | |
SECTION
8.12.
|
Acceptance
of Appointment by Successor.
|
49 | |
SECTION
8.13.
|
Merger,
Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
|
49 | |
SECTION
8.14.
|
Not
Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
|
50 | |
SECTION 8.15. |
Property
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
|
50 | |
SECTION
8.16.
|
Reports
to and from the Property Trustee.
|
51 | |
ARTICLE IX. Termination, Liquidation and Merger | 51 | ||
SECTION
9.1.
|
Dissolution
Upon Expiration Date.
|
51 | |
SECTION
9.2.
|
Early
Termination.
|
51 | |
SECTION
9.3.
|
Termination.
|
52 | |
SECTION
9.4.
|
Liquidation.
|
52 | |
SECTION 9.5. | Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of Trust. | 53 | |
ARTICLE X. Information to Purchaser | 55 | ||
SECTION
10.1.
|
Depositor
Obligations to Purchaser.
|
55 | |
SECTION
10.2.
|
Trustee’s Obligations to Purchaser. | 55 | |
ARTICLE XI. Miscellaneous Provisions | 55 | ||
SECTION
11.1.
|
Limitation of Rights of Holders. | 55 | |
SECTION
11.2.
|
Agreed
Tax Treatment of Trust and Trust Securities.
|
55 | |
SECTION
11.3.
|
Amendment.
|
56 | |
SECTION
11.4.
|
Separability.
|
57 | |
SECTION 11.5. |
Governing
Law.
|
57 | |
SECTION
11.6.
|
Successors.
|
57 | |
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SECTION
11.7.
|
Headings.
|
57 | |
SECTION 11.8. |
Reports,
Notices and Demands.
|
58 | |
SECTION 11.9. | Agreement Not to Petition. | 58 |
Exhibit A | Certificate of Trust of GreenBank Capital Trust I |
Exhibit B | Form of Common Securities Certificate |
Exhibit C | Form of Preferred Securities Certificate |
Exhibit D | Junior Subordinated Indenture |
Exhibit E | Form of Transferee Certificate to be Executed by Transferees other than QIBs |
Exhibit F | Form of Transferee Certificate to be Executed by QIBs |
Exhibit G | Form of Officer’s Certificate |
Schedule A | Calculation of LIBOR |
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AMENDED
AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of May 16, 2007, among (i) Xxxxxx County
Bancshares, Inc., a Tennessee corporation (including any successors or permitted
assigns, the “Depositor”), (ii) Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking
corporation, as property trustee (in such capacity, the “Property Trustee”),
(iii) Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as Delaware
trustee (in such capacity, the “Delaware Trustee”), (iv) R. Xxxx Xxxxxxx, an
individual, Xxxx Xxxxxx, an individual, Xxxxx X. Xxxxx, an individual and Xxxx
Xxxxx, an individual, each of whose address is c/x Xxxxxx County Bancshares,
Inc., 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000, as administrative
trustees (in such capacities, each an “Administrative Trustee” and,
collectively, the “Administrative Trustees” and, together with the Property
Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, the “Trustees”) and (v) the several Holders,
as hereinafter defined.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS,
the Depositor, the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee have heretofore
created a Delaware statutory trust pursuant to the Delaware Statutory Trust
Act,
as hereinafter defined, by entering into a Trust Agreement, dated as of May
14,
2007 (the “Original Trust Agreement”), and by executing and filing with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware the Certificate of Trust,
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS,
the Depositor and the Trustees desire to amend and restate the Original Trust
Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among other
things, (i) the issuance of the Common Securities by the Trust to the Depositor,
(ii) the issuance and sale of the Preferred Securities by the Trust pursuant
to
the Subscription Agreement and (iii) the acquisition by the Trust from the
Depositor of all of the right, title and interest in and to the Notes (as
defined herein);
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 (as defined herein), hereby amends and restates the
Original Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:
ARTICLE
I.
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 I have the meanings assigned to them in
this Article I;
(b) the
words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by
the phrase “without limitation”;
(c) all
accounting terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to
them
in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting
principles;
(d) unless
the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article”, a “Section”, a
“Schedule” or an “Exhibit” refers to an Article, a Section, a Schedule or an
Exhibit, as the case may be, of or to this Trust Agreement;
(e) 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;
(f) a
reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and
(g) the
masculine, feminine or neuter genders used herein shall include the masculine,
feminine and neuter genders.
“Act”
has
the meaning specified in Section 6.7.
“Additional
Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.
“Additional
Interest Amount” means, with respect to Trust Securities of a given Liquidation
Amount and/or a given period, the amount of Additional Interest paid by the
Depositor on a Like Amount of Notes for such period.
“Additional
Taxes” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.
“Additional
Tax Sums” has the meaning specified in Section 10.5 of the
Indenture.
“Administrative
Trustee” means each of the Persons identified as an “Administrative Trustee” in
the preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in each such Person’s capacity as
Administrative Trustee of the Trust and not in such Person’s individual
capacity, or any successor Administrative Trustee appointed as herein
provided.
“Affiliate”
of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with
such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control”
when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the
management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through
the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms
“controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
“Applicable
Depositary Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction
involving a Book-Entry Preferred Security, the rules and procedures of the
Depositary for such Book-Entry Preferred Security, in each case to the extent
applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.
“Bankruptcy
Event” means, with respect to any Person:
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(a) the
entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises (i)
adjudging such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, (ii) approving as properly filed
a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjudication or composition
of
or in respect of such Person under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, (iii) appointing a custodian,
receiver, conservator, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other
similar official of such Person or of any substantial part of its property
or
(iv) 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 sixty (60)
consecutive days; or
(b) the
institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency
proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent
seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or state
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the consent
by
it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a custodian,
receiver, conservator, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar
official of such Person or of any substantial part of its property, or the
making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission
by
it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due
and
its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the taking of
corporate action by such Person in furtherance of any such action.
“Bankruptcy
Laws” means all Federal and state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and
other similar laws, including the United States Bankruptcy Code.
“Book-Entry
Preferred Security” means a Preferred Security, the ownership and transfers of
which shall be made through book entries by a Depositary.
“Business
Day” means a day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a day on which banking
institutions in the City of New York are authorized or required by law or
executive order to remain closed or (c) a day on which the Corporate Trust
Office is closed for business.
“Calculation
Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 4.10.
“Capital
Disqualification Event” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.
“Closing
Date” has the meaning specified in the Placement Agreement.
“Code”
means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Commission”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted,
created under the Exchange Act or, if at any time after the execution of this
Trust Agreement such Commission is not existing and performing the duties
assigned to it, then the body performing such duties at such 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
Security” means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust,
having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor
in
this Trust Agreement.
“Corporate
Trust Office” means the principal office of the Property Trustee at which any
particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office
at the date of this Trust Agreement is located at Xxxxxx Square North, 0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration.
“Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates” means Preferred Securities issued in
certificated, fully registered form that are not Global Preferred
Securities.
“Delaware
Statutory Trust Act” means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware Code, 12 Del.
Code § 3801 et seq., or any successor statute thereto, in each case as 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
Trust
and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such
capacity, or any successor Delaware Trustee appointed as herein
provided.
“Depositary”
means an organization registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act
that is designated as Depositary by the Depositor or any successor
thereto. DTC will be the initial Depositary.
“Depositary
Participant” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or other
Person for whom from time to time the Depositary effects book-entry transfers
and pledges of securities deposited with the Depositary.
“Depositor”
has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust Agreement and any
successors and permitted assigns.
“Depositor
Affiliate” has the meaning specified in Section 4.9.
“Distribution
Date” has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a)(i).
“Distributions”
means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in
Section 4.1.
“DTC”
means The Depository Trust Company or any successor thereto.
“Early
Termination Event” has the meaning specified in Section 9.2.
“Event
of
Default” means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
event and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by
operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court
or
any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental
body):
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(a) the
occurrence of a Note Event of Default; or
(b) default
by the Trust in the payment of any Distribution when it becomes due and payable,
and continuation of such default for a period of thirty (30) days (subject
to
the deferral of any due date in the case of any Extension Period);
or
(c) default
by the Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of any Trust Security when
it becomes due and payable; or
(d) default
in the performance, or breach, in any material respect of any covenant or
warranty of the Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other than those specified
in
clause (b) or (c) above) and continuation of such default or breach for a period
of thirty (30) days after there has been given, by registered or certified
mail,
to the Trustees and to the Depositor by the Holders of at least twenty five
percent (25%) in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Preferred
Securities a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring
it
to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;
or
(e) the
occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property Trustee if a
successor Property Trustee has not been appointed within ninety (90) days
thereof.
“Exchange
Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
“Expiration
Date” has the meaning specified in Section 9.1.
“Extension
Period” has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a)(ii).
“Federal
Reserve” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the staff
thereof, or a Federal Reserve Bank, acting through delegated authority, in
each
case under the rules, regulations and policies of the Federal Reserve System,
or
if at any time after the execution of this Trust Agreement any such entity
is
not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it, any successor body
performing similar duties or functions.
“Fiscal
Year” shall be the fiscal year of the Trust, which shall be the calendar year,
or such other period as is required by the Code.
“Global
Preferred Security” means a Preferred Securities Certificate evidencing
ownership of Book-Entry Preferred Securities.
“Guarantee
Agreement” means the Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered by the Depositor
and Wilmington Trust Company, 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 a beneficial owner within
the meaning of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.
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“Indemnified
Person” has the meaning specified in Section 8.10(c).
“Indenture”
means the Junior Subordinated Indenture executed and delivered by the Depositor
and the Note Trustee contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this
Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the holders of the Notes, a copy of which
is
attached hereto as Exhibit D, as amended or supplemented from time to
time.
“Indenture
Redemption Price” has the meaning specified in Section
4.2(c).
“Interest
Payment Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.
“Investment
Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, or any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
“Investment
Company Event” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.
“LIBOR”
has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“LIBOR
Business Day” has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“LIBOR
Determination Date” has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“Lien”
means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of trust, adverse
ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest or preference,
priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind
or
nature whatsoever.
“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 Notes
to
be contemporaneously redeemed or paid at maturity in accordance with the
Indenture, the proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption Price of
such Trust Securities, (b) with respect to a distribution of Notes to Holders
of
Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution of the Trust, Notes having
a
principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of
the
Holder to whom such Notes are distributed and (c) with respect to any
distribution of Additional Interest Amounts to Holders of Trust Securities,
Notes having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust
Securities in respect of which such distribution is made.
“Liquidation
Amount” means the stated amount of $1,000 per Trust Security.
“Liquidation
Date” means the date on which assets are to be distributed to Holders in
accordance with Section 9.4(a) hereunder following dissolution of the
Trust.
“Liquidation
Distribution” has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d).
“Majority
in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities” means Preferred Securities
representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate Liquidation Amount
of all (or a specified group of) then Outstanding Preferred
Securities.
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“Note
Event of Default” means any “Event of Default” specified in Section 5.1
of the Indenture.
“Note
Redemption Date” means, with respect to any Notes to be redeemed under the
Indenture, the date fixed for redemption of such Notes under the
Indenture.
“Note
Trustee” means the Person identified as the “Trustee” in the Indenture, solely
in its capacity as Trustee pursuant to the Indenture and not in its individual
capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor
Trustee appointed as provided in the Indenture.
“Notes”
means the Depositor’s Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes issued pursuant to
the Indenture.
“Office
of Thrift Supervision” means the Office of Thrift Supervision, as from time to
time constituted or, if at any time after the execution of this Trust Agreement
such Office is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it, then
the body performing such duties at such time.
“Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chief Executive Officer or the
President, and by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or an Assistant
Treasurer, of the Depositor, and delivered to the Trustees. Any Officers’
Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Trust Agreement (other than the Officers’ Certificate
provided pursuant to Section 8.16(a)) 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 such officer in rendering the Officers’ Certificate;
(c)
a
statement that such officer has made such examination or investigation as,
in
such officer’s opinion, is necessary to enable such officer to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with; and
(d)
a
statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer, such condition or
covenant has been complied with.
“Operative
Documents” means the Placement Agreement, the Indenture, the Trust Agreement,
the Guarantee Agreement, the Subscription Agreement, the Notes and the Trust
Securities.
“Opinion
of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for, or an
employee of, the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.
“Original
Issue Date” means the date of original issuance of the Trust
Securities.
“Original
Trust Agreement” has the meaning specified in the recitals to this Trust
Agreement.
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“Outstanding,”
when used with respect to any Trust Securities, means, as of the date of
determination, all Trust Securities theretofore executed and delivered under
this Trust Agreement, except:
(a)
Trust
Securities theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee or delivered to the
Property Trustee for cancellation;
(b)
Trust
Securities for which payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has
been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or any Paying Agent in
trust for the Holders of such Trust Securities; provided, that if such Trust
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such 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
Trust Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to the provisions
of
this Trust Agreement, unless proof satisfactory to the Property Trustee is
presented that any such Trust Securities are held by Holders in whose hands
such
Trust Securities are valid, legal and binding obligations of the
Trust;
provided,
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 Depositor, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor
or of any Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except
that (i) in determining whether any Trustee shall be protected in relying upon
any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver,
only Preferred Securities that such Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded and (ii) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of
the
Outstanding Preferred Securities are owned by the Depositor, one or more of
the
Trustees 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 Administrative Trustees the pledgee’s right so to act
with respect to such Preferred Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Depositor, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor or of any
Trustee.
“Owner”
means each Person who is the beneficial owner of Book-Entry Preferred Securities
as reflected in the records of the Depositary or, if a Depositary Participant
is
not the beneficial owner, then the beneficial owner as reflected in the records
of the Depositary Participant.
“Paying
Agent” means any Person authorized by the Administrative Trustees to pay
Distributions or other amounts in respect of any Trust Securities on behalf
of
the Trust.
“Payment
Account” means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate trust account
maintained by the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Holders in which
all
amounts paid in respect of the Notes will be held and from which the Property
Trustee, through the Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Holders in
accordance with Sections 3.1, 4.1 and 4.2.
“Person”
means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, company, limited
liability company, trust,
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“Placement
Agent” means SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc., as Placement Agent pursuant to the
Placement Agreement, whose address is 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 24th Floor, Mail
Code 3950, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000.
“Placement
Agreement” means the Placement Agreement, dated as of May 16, 2007, executed and
delivered by the Trust, the Depositor and SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc., as
placement agent.
“Preferred
Security” means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust,
having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the rights provided therefor
in
this Trust Agreement.
“Preferred
Securities Certificate” means a certificate evidencing ownership of Preferred
Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
“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
Trust
and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such
capacity, or any successor Property Trustee appointed as herein
provided.
“Purchaser”
means SunTrust Equity Funding , LLC, as purchaser of the Preferred Securities
pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, whose address is 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
XX, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000.
“QIB”
means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act.
“Redemption
Date” means, with respect to any Trust Security to be redeemed, the date fixed
for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust Agreement; provided, that
each
Note Redemption Date and the stated maturity (or any date of principal repayment
upon early maturity) of the Notes 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 such
Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions to the Redemption
Date, plus the related amount of the premium, if any, paid by the Depositor
upon
the concurrent redemption or payment at maturity of a Like Amount of
Notes.
“Reference
Banks” has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“Responsible
Officer” means, with respect to the Property Trustee, any Senior Vice President,
any Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant
Secretary, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, any Financial Services
Officer or Assistant Financial Services Officer or any other officer of the
Corporate Trust Department of the Property Trustee and also means, with respect
to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to
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“Securities
Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, and any successor statute thereto, in
each case as amended from time to time.
“Securities
Certificate” means any one of the Common Securities Certificates or the
Preferred Securities Certificates.
“Securities
Register” and “Securities Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in
Section 5.7.
“Special
Event Redemption Price” has the meaning specified in Section 11.2 of the
Indenture.
“Subscription
Agreement” means the Preferred Securities Subscription Agreement, dated as of
May 16, 2007, by and among the Depositor, the Trust, the Purchaser and SunTrust
Capital Markets, Inc. (as to certain provisions thereof).
“Successor
Securities” has the meaning specified in Section 9.5(a).
“Tax
Event” has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.
“Trust”
means the Delaware statutory trust known as “GreenBank Capital Trust I,” which
was created on May 14, 2007, under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act pursuant
to
the Original Trust Agreement and the filing of the Certificate of Trust, and
continued pursuant to this Trust Agreement.
“Trust
Agreement” means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, including all
Schedules and Exhibits, as the same may be modified, amended or supplemented
from time to time in accordance with the applicable provisions
hereof.
“Trustees”
means the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Delaware
Trustee, each as defined in this Article I.
“Trust
Property” means (a) the Notes, (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.
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ARTICLE
II.
THE
TRUST
SECTION
2.1. Name.
The
trust
continued hereby shall be known as “GreenBank Capital Trust I,” as such name may
be modified from time to time by the Administrative Trustees following written
notice to the Holders of Trust Securities and the other Trustees, in which
name
the Trustees may conduct the business of the Trust, make and execute contracts
and other instruments on behalf of the 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 Xxxxxx Square North,
1100 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or such other address in
the State of Delaware as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice
to
the Holders, the Depositor, the Property Trustee and the Administrative
Trustees. The principal executive office of the Trust is c/x Xxxxxx County
Bancshares, Inc., 100 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000,
Attention: Chief Financial Officer, as such address may be changed from time
to
time by the Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Holders
and
the other Trustees.
SECTION
2.3. Initial
Contribution of Trust Property; Fees, Costs and Expenses.
The
Property Trustee acknowledges receipt from the Depositor in connection with
the
Original Trust Agreement of the sum of ten dollars ($10), which constituted
the
initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay all fees, costs and expenses
of
the Trust (except with respect to the Trust Securities) as they arise or shall,
upon request of any Trustee, promptly reimburse such Trustee for any such fees,
costs and expenses paid by such Trustee. The Depositor shall make no claim
upon
the Trust Property for the payment of such fees, costs or expenses.
SECTION
2.4. Purposes
of Trust.
(a) The
exclusive purposes and functions of the Trust are to (i) issue and sell Trust
Securities and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the Notes and
(ii) engage in only those activities necessary or incidental thereto.
The Delaware Trustee, the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees
are
trustees of the Trust, and have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent
set forth herein. The Trustees hereby acknowledge that they are
trustees of the Trust.
(b) So
long
as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust (or the Trustees acting
on
behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any business, activities or transaction
except as expressly provided herein or contemplated hereby. In particular,
the
Trust (or the Trustees acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not (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) incur any indebtedness for borrowed
money or issue any other debt, (iv) take or consent to any action that would
result in the placement of a Lien on
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SECTION
2.5. Authorization
to Enter into Certain Transactions.
(a) The
Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in accordance with and subject
to the terms of this Trust Agreement. In accordance with the following
provisions (i) and (ii), the Trustees shall have the authority to enter into
all
transactions and agreements determined by the Trustees to be appropriate in
exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the Trustees,
under this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof,
including the following:
(i) As
among
the Trustees, each Administrative Trustee shall severally have the power and
authority to act on behalf of the Trust with respect to the following
matters:
(A) the
issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;
(B) to
cause
the Trust to enter into, and to execute, deliver and perform on behalf of the
Trust, such agreements as may be necessary or desirable in connection with
the
purposes and function of the Trust, including, without limitation, a common
securities subscription agreement and a junior subordinated note subscription
agreement and to cause the Trust to perform in accordance with the Placement
Agreement and the Subscription Agreement;
(C) assisting
in the sale of the Preferred Securities in one or more transactions exempt
from
registration under the Securities Act, and in compliance with applicable state
securities or blue sky laws;
(D) assisting
in the sending of notices (other than notices of default) and other information
regarding the Trust Securities and the Notes to the Holders in accordance with
this Trust Agreement;
(E) the
appointment of a Paying Agent, Calculation Agent and Securities Registrar in
accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(F) execution
of the Trust Securities on behalf of the Trust in accordance with this Trust
Agreement;
(G) execution
and delivery of closing certificates, if any, pursuant to the Placement
Agreement and application for a taxpayer identification number for the
Trust;
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(H) preparation
and filing of all applicable tax returns and tax information reports that are
required to be filed on behalf of the Trust;
(I) the
taking of all action that may be necessary for the preservation and continuance
of the Trust’s valid existence, rights, franchises and privileges as a statutory
trust under the laws of the State of Delaware;
(J) establishing
a record date with respect to all actions to be taken hereunder that require
a
record date to be established, except as provided in Section
6.10(a);
(K) unless
otherwise required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act to execute on behalf
of
the Trust (either acting alone or together with the other Administrative
Trustees) any documents that such Administrative Trustee has the power to
execute pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(L) the
taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as such Administrative Trustee
may from time to time determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to
the
terms of this Trust Agreement.
(ii) As
among
the Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the power, duty and authority
to
act on behalf of the Trust with respect to the following matters:
(A) the
receipt and holding of legal title of the Notes;
(B) the
establishment of the Payment Account;
(C) the
collection of interest, principal and any other payments made in respect of
the
Notes and the holding of such 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 Notes
in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(F) the
sending of notices of default and other information regarding the Trust
Securities and the Notes 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;
(H) to
the
extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the winding up of the affairs of and
liquidation of the Trust and the preparation, execution and filing of the
certificate of cancellation of the Trust with the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware; and
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(I) the
taking of any action incidental to the foregoing as the Property Trustee may
from time to time determine is necessary or advisable 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).
(b) In
connection with the issue and sale of the Preferred Securities, the Depositor
shall have the right and responsibility to assist the Trust with respect to,
or
effect on behalf of the Trust, the following (and any actions taken by the
Depositor in furtherance of the following prior to the date of this Trust
Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects):
(i) the
negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and delivery of, the Placement
Agreement and the Subscription Agreement providing for the sale of the Preferred
Securities in one or more transactions exempt from registration under the
Securities Act, and in compliance with applicable state securities or blue
sky
laws; and
(ii) the
taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to carry out any of the
foregoing activities.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative Trustees are authorized
and
directed to conduct the affairs of the Trust and to operate the Trust so that
the Trust will not be taxable as a corporation or classified as other than
a
grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes, so that the Notes
will be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States federal
income tax purposes and so that the Trust will not be deemed to be an
“investment company” required to be registered under the Investment Company Act.
In this connection, each Administrative Trustee is authorized to take any
action, not inconsistent with applicable law, the Certificate of Trust or this
Trust Agreement, that such Administrative Trustee determines in his or her
discretion to be necessary or desirable for such purposes, as long as such
action does not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the
Holders of the Outstanding Preferred Securities. In no event shall
the Administrative Trustees be liable to the Trust or the Holders for any
failure to comply with this Section 2.5 to the extent that such failure
results solely from a change in law or regulation or in the interpretation
thereof.
(d) Any
action taken by a Trustee in accordance with its powers shall constitute the
act
of and serve to bind the Trust. In dealing with any Trustee acting on
behalf of the Trust, no Person shall be required to inquire into the authority
of such Trustee to bind the Trust. Persons dealing with the Trust are
entitled to rely conclusively on the power and authority of any Trustee as
set
forth in this Trust Agreement.
SECTION
2.6. Assets
of
Trust.
The
assets of the Trust shall consist of the Trust Property.
SECTION
2.7. Title
to
Trust Property.
(a) Legal
title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the Property Trustee
and shall be held and administered by the Property Trustee in trust for the
benefit of the Trust and the Holders in accordance with this Trust
Agreement.
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(b) The
Holders shall not have any right or title to the Trust Property other than
the
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust conferred by their
Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for any partition or
division of property, profits or rights of the 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.
ARTICLE
III.
PAYMENT
ACCOUNT;
PAYING
AGENTS
SECTION
3.1. Payment
Account.
(a) On
or
prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall establish the Payment
Account. 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 in
the
Payment Account for the exclusive benefit of the Holders and for Distribution
as
herein provided.
(b) The
Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account, promptly upon receipt,
all payments of principal of or interest on, and any other payments with respect
to, the Notes. Amounts held in the Payment Account shall not be invested by
the
Property Trustee pending distribution thereof.
SECTION
3.2. Appointment
of Paying Agents.
The
Paying Agent shall initially be the Property Trustee. The Paying Agent shall
make Distributions to Holders from the Payment Account and shall report the
amounts of such Distributions to the Property Trustee and the Administrative
Trustees. 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 Administrative Trustees may revoke such power and remove the
Paying Agent in their sole discretion. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall
be permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon thirty (30) days’ written notice to
the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee. If the Property Trustee
shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign
or
its authority to act be revoked, the Administrative Trustees shall appoint
a
successor (which shall be a bank or trust company) to act as Paying
Agent. Such successor Paying Agent appointed by the Administrative
Trustees shall execute and deliver to the Trustees an instrument in which such
successor Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustees that as Paying Agent,
such
successor 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 such
sums
shall be paid to such Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed
funds
to the Property Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent
shall also return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The
provisions of Article VIII shall apply to the Property Trustee also in
its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Property Trustee shall act as
Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other Paying Agent appointed
hereunder.
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ARTICLE
IV.
DISTRIBUTIONS;
REDEMPTION
SECTION
4.1. Distributions.
(a) The
Trust
Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in the Trust Property,
and
Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts) will be made on the
Trust Securities at the rate and on the dates that payments of interest
(including any Additional Interest) are made on the Notes.
Accordingly:
(i) Distributions
on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative, and shall accumulate whether or
not
there are funds of the Trust available for the payment of Distributions.
Distributions shall accumulate from May 16, 2007, and, except as provided in
clause (ii) below, shall be payable quarterly in arrears on March 15, June
15,
September 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing on June 15,
2007. If any date on which a Distribution is otherwise payable on the
Trust Securities is not a Business Day, then the payment of such Distribution
shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day (and no interest shall accrue
in respect of the amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period
from and after each such date until the next succeeding Business Day), except
that, if such Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar year, such
payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case,
with the same force and effect as if made on such date (each date on which
Distributions are payable in accordance with this Section 4.1(a)(i), a
“Distribution Date”);
(ii) in
the
event (and to the extent) that the Depositor exercises its right under the
Indenture to defer the payment of interest on the Notes, Distributions on the
Trust Securities shall be deferred. Under the Indenture, so long as
no Note Event of Default pursuant to paragraphs (c), (e) or (f) of Section
5.1 of the Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the Depositor shall
have the right, at any time and from time to time during the term of the Notes,
to defer the payment of interest on the Notes for a period of up to twenty
(20)
consecutive quarterly interest payment periods (each such extended interest
payment period, an “Extension Period”). No interest on the Notes
shall be due and payable during an Extension Period (except any Additional
Tax
Sums that may be due and payable), except at the end thereof, but each
installment of interest that would otherwise have been due and payable during
such Extension Period shall bear Additional Interest (to the extent payment
of
such interest would be legally enforceable) a variable rate per annum, reset
quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 1.65% thereafter, compounded quarterly, from
the
dates on which such amounts would have otherwise been due and payable until
paid
or until funds for the payment thereof have been made available for
payment. If Distributions are deferred, the deferred Distributions
(including Additional Interest Amounts) shall be paid on the date that the
related Extension Period terminates,
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(iii) Distributions
shall accumulate and be payable in respect of the Trust Securities at an annual
rate equal to [___]% beginning on (and including) the date of original
issuance and ending on (but excluding) June 15, 2007 and at an annual rate
for
each successive period beginning on (and including) June 15, 2007, and each
successive Distribution Date, and ending on (but excluding) the next succeeding
Distribution Date, at a variable rate per annum, reset quarterly, equal to
LIBOR
plus 1.65% of the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities, such rate being
the rate of interest payable on the Notes. LIBOR shall be determined
by the Calculation Agent in accordance with Schedule A. The amount of
Distributions payable for any period less than a full Distribution period shall
be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed
in the relevant Distribution period. The amount of Distributions
payable for any period shall include any Additional Interest Amounts in respect
of such period; and
(iv) 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 that
the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the
payment of such 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, which shall
be
at the close of business on the fifteenth day (whether or not a Business Day)
preceding the relevant Distribution Date. Distributions
payable on any Trust Securities that are not punctually paid on any Distribution
Date as a result of the Depositor having failed to make an interest payment
under the Notes will cease to be payable to the Person in whose name such Trust
Securities are registered on the relevant record date, and such defaulted
Distributions and any Additional Interest Amounts will instead be payable to
the
Person in whose name such Trust Securities are registered on the special record
date, or other specified date for determining Holders entitled to such defaulted
Distribution and Additional Interest Amount, established in the same manner,
and
on the same date, as such is established with respect to the Notes under the
Indenture.
SECTION
4.2. Redemption.
(a) On
each
Note Redemption Date and on the stated maturity (or any date of principal
repayment upon early maturity) of the Notes and on each other date on (or in
respect of) which any principal on the Notes is repaid, the 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 thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days prior
to
the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed (unless
a
shorter notice shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee), at such
Holder’s address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of redemption
shall state:
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(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, the estimate of the Redemption Price
provided pursuant to the Indenture, as calculated by the Depositor, together
with a statement that it is an estimate and that the actual Redemption Price
will be calculated by the Calculation Agent on the fifth Business Day prior
to
the Redemption Date (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);
(iii) if
less
than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be redeemed, the identification
(and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective liquidation amounts)
and
Liquidation Amounts of the particular Trust Securities to be
redeemed;
(iv) that
on
the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon
each
such Trust Security, or portion thereof, to be redeemed and that Distributions
thereon will cease to accumulate on such Trust Security or such portion, as
the
case may be, on and after said date, except as provided in Section
4.2(d);
(v) the
place
or places where the Trust Securities are to be surrendered for the payment
of
the Redemption Price; and
(vi) such
other provisions as the Property Trustee deems relevant.
(c) The
Trust
Securities (or portion thereof) redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be
redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous
redemption or payment at maturity of Notes. Redemptions of the Trust Securities
(or portion thereof) shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable
on
each Redemption Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand
and available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption
Price. Under the Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed by the
Depositor on any Interest Payment Date, at the Depositor’s option, on or after
June 15, 2012, in whole or in part, from time to time at a redemption price
equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount thereof, together,
in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including any
Additional Interest, to but excluding the date fixed for redemption (the
“Indenture Redemption Price”); provided, that the Depositor shall have received
the prior approval of the Federal Reserve if then required. The Notes
may also be redeemed by the Depositor, at its option, in whole but not in part,
upon the occurrence of a Capital Disqualification Event, an Investment Company
Event or a Tax Event at the Special Event Redemption Price (as set forth in
the
Indenture).
(d) If
the
Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of any Preferred
Securities, then by 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the Redemption Date,
the
Depositor shall deposit sufficient funds with the Property Trustee to pay the
Redemption Price. If such deposit has been made by such time, then by
12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption Date, the Property Trustee
will, with respect to Book-Entry Preferred Securities, irrevocably deposit
with
the Depositary for such Book-Entry Preferred Securities, to the extent available
therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will
give
such
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(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 aggregate
Liquidation Amounts of the Common Securities and the Preferred
Securities. The Preferred Securities to be redeemed shall be redeemed
on a pro rata basis based upon their respective Liquidation Amounts not more
than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date by the Property Trustee from
the Outstanding Preferred Securities not previously called for redemption;
provided, however, that with respect to Holders that would be required to hold
less than one hundred (100) but more than zero (0) Trust Securities as a result
of such redemption, the Trust shall redeem Trust Securities of each such Holder
so that after such redemption such Holder shall hold either one hundred (100)
Trust Securities or such Holder no longer holds any Trust Securities, and shall
use such method (including, without limitation, by lot) as the Trust shall
deem
fair and appropriate; and provided, further, that so long as the Preferred
Securities are Book-Entry Preferred Securities, such selection shall be made
in
accordance with the Applicable Depositary Procedures for the Preferred
Securities by such Depositary. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the
Securities Registrar in writing of the Preferred Securities (or portion thereof)
selected for redemption and, in the case of any Preferred
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(f) The
Trust
in issuing the Trust Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in
use), and, if so, the Property Trustee shall indicate the “CUSIP” numbers of the
Trust Securities in notices of redemption and related materials as a convenience
to Holders; provided, that any such notice may state that no representation
is
made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Trust
Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and related
materials.
SECTION
4.3. Subordination
of Common Securities.
(a) Payment
of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts) on, the Redemption
Price of and the Liquidation Distribution in respect of, the Trust Securities,
as applicable, shall be made, pro rata among the Common Securities and the
Preferred Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of the respective Trust
Securities; provided, that if on any Distribution Date, Redemption Date or
Liquidation Date an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
no
payment of any Distribution (including any Additional Interest 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
Interest 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 such 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 such 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
Interest Amounts) on, or the Redemption Price of or the Liquidation Distribution
in respect of, the Preferred Securities then due and payable.
(b) In
the
case of the occurrence of any Event of Default, the Holders of the Common
Securities shall have no right to act with respect to any such Event of Default
under this Trust Agreement until 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 a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities will have the
right to direct the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.
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SECTION
4.4. Payment
Procedures.
Payments
of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts), the Redemption
Price, Liquidation Amount or any other amounts in respect of the Preferred
Securities shall be made by wire transfer at such place and to such account
at a
banking institution in the United States as may be designated in writing at
least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment by the Person
entitled thereto unless proper written transfer instructions have not been
received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments shall be
made
by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall appear
in
the Securities Register. If any Preferred Securities are held by a
Depositary, such Distributions thereon shall be made to the Depositary 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 Holder of all the Common Securities.
SECTION
4.5. Withholding
Tax.
The
Trust
and the Administrative Trustees shall comply with all withholding and backup
withholding tax requirements under United States federal, state and local
law. The Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall
request, and the Holders shall provide to the Trust, such forms or certificates
as are necessary to establish an exemption from withholding and backup
withholding tax with respect to each Holder and any representations and forms
as
shall reasonably be requested by the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the
Trust to assist it in determining the extent of, and in fulfilling, its
withholding and backup withholding tax obligations. The
Administrative Trustees shall file required forms with applicable jurisdictions
and, unless an exemption from withholding and backup withholding tax is properly
established by a Holder, shall remit amounts withheld with respect to the Holder
to applicable jurisdictions. To the extent that the Trust is required
to withhold and pay over any amounts to any jurisdiction with respect to
Distributions or allocations to any Holder, the amount withheld shall be deemed
to be a Distribution in the amount of the withholding to the
Holder. In the event of any claimed overwithholding, Holders shall be
limited to an action against the applicable jurisdiction. If the
amount required to be withheld was not withheld from actual Distributions made,
the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust may reduce subsequent
Distributions by the amount of such required withholding.
SECTION
4.6. Tax
Returns and Other Reports.
(a) The
Administrative Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared) at the principal
office of the Trust in the United States, as defined for purposes of Treasury
regulations section 301.7701-7, at the Depositor’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 Trust. The Administrative
Trustees shall prepare at the principal office of the Trust in the United
States, as defined for purposes of Treasury regulations section 301.7701-7,
and
furnish (or cause to be prepared and furnished), by January 31 in each taxable
year of the Trust to each Holder all Internal Revenue Service forms and returns
required to be provided by the Trust. The Administrative Trustees shall provide
the Depositor and the Property Trustee with a copy of all such returns and
reports promptly after such filing or furnishing.
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(b) So
long
as the Property Trustee is the holder of the Notes, the Administrative Trustees
will cause the Depositor’s reports on Form FR Y-9C to be delivered to the
Property Trustee promptly following their filing with the Federal
Reserve.
SECTION
4.7. Payment
of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Trust.
Upon
receipt under the Notes of Additional Tax Sums and upon the written direction
of
the Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee shall promptly pay, solely
out
of monies on deposit pursuant to this Trust Agreement, any Additional Taxes
imposed on the Trust by the United States or any other taxing
authority.
SECTION
4.8. Payments
under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.
Any
amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Preferred Securities shall be reduced
by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or any Owner with
respect thereto) has directly received pursuant to Section 5.8 of the
Indenture or Section 6.10(b) of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION
4.9. Exchanges.
(a) If
at any
time the Depositor or any of its Affiliates (in either case, a “Depositor
Affiliate”) is the Owner or Holder of any Preferred Securities, such Depositor
Affiliate shall have the right to deliver to the Property Trustee all or such
portion of its Preferred Securities as it elects and receive, in exchange
therefor, a Like Amount of Notes. Such election (i) shall be
exercisable effective on any Distribution Date by such Depositor Affiliate
delivering to the Property Trustee a written notice of such election specifying
the Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities with respect to which such
election is being made and the Distribution Date on which such exchange shall
occur, which Distribution Date shall be not less than ten (10) Business Days
after the date of receipt by the Property Trustee of such election notice and
(ii) shall be conditioned upon such Depositor Affiliate having delivered or
caused to be delivered to the Property Trustee or its designee the Preferred
Securities that are the subject of such election by 10:00 A.M. New York time,
on
the Distribution Date on which such exchange is to occur. After the
exchange, such Preferred Securities will be canceled and will no longer be
deemed to be Outstanding and all rights of the Depositor Affiliate with respect
to such Preferred Securities will cease.
(b) In
the
case of an exchange described in Section 4.9(a), the Property Trustee on
behalf of the Trust will, on the date of such exchange, exchange Notes having
a
principal amount equal to a proportional amount of the aggregate Liquidation
Amount of the Outstanding Common Securities, based on the ratio of the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities exchanged pursuant to Section
4.9(a) divided by the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities Outstanding immediately prior to such exchange, for such proportional
amount of Common Securities held by the Depositor (which contemporaneously
shall
be canceled and no longer be deemed to be Outstanding); provided, that the
Depositor delivers or causes to be delivered to the Property Trustee or its
designee the required amount of Common Securities to be exchanged by 10:00
A.M.
New York time, on the Distribution Date on which such exchange is to
occur.
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SECTION
4.10. Calculation
Agent.
(a) The
Property Trustee shall initially, and for so long as it holds any of the Notes,
be the Calculation Agent for purposes of determining LIBOR for each Distribution
Date. The Calculation Agent may be removed by the Administrative
Trustees at any time. If the Calculation Agent is unable or unwilling
to act as such or is removed by the Administrative Trustees, the Administrative
Trustees will promptly appoint as a replacement Calculation Agent the London
office of a leading bank which is engaged in transactions in three-month
Eurodollar deposits in the international Eurodollar market and which does not
control or is not controlled by or under common control with the Administrative
Trustees or their Affiliates. The Calculation Agent may not resign
its duties without a successor having been duly appointed.
(b) The
Calculation Agent shall be required to agree that, as soon as possible after
11:00 a.m. (London time) on each LIBOR Determination Date, but in no event
later
than 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Business Day immediately following each
LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will calculate the distribution
rate (rounded to the nearest cent, with half a cent being rounded upwards)
for
the related Distribution Date, and will communicate such rate and amount to
the
Depositor, Trustee, each Paying Agent and the Depositary. The Calculation Agent
will also specify to the Administrative Trustees the quotations upon which
the
foregoing rates and amounts are based and, in any event, the Calculation Agent
shall notify the Administrative Trustees before 5:00 p.m. (London time) on
each
LIBOR Determination Date that either: (i) it has determined or is in
the process of determining the foregoing rates and amounts or (ii) it has not
determined and is not in the process of determining the foregoing rates and
amounts, together with its reasons therefor. The Calculation Agent’s
determination of the foregoing rates and amounts for any Distribution Date
will
(in the absence of manifest error) be final and binding upon all
parties. For the sole purpose of calculating the distribution rate
for the Trust Securities, “Business Day” shall be defined as any day on which
dealings in deposits in Dollars are transacted in the London interbank
market.
SECTION
4.11. Certain
Accounting Matters.
(a) At
all
times during the existence of the Trust, the Administrative Trustees shall
keep,
or cause to be kept at the principal office of the Trust in the United States,
as defined for purposes of Treasury Regulations section 301.7701-7, full books
of account, records and supporting documents, which shall reflect in reasonable
detail each transaction of the Trust. The books of account shall be
maintained on the accrual method of accounting, in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles, consistently applied.
(b) The
Administrative Trustees shall either (i), if the Depositor is then subject
to
such reporting requirements, cause each Form 10-K and Form 10-Q prepared by
the
Depositor and filed with the Commission in accordance with the Exchange Act
to
be delivered to each Holder, with a copy to the Property Trustee, within thirty
(30) days after the filing thereof or (ii) cause to be prepared at the principal
office of the Trust in the United States, as defined for purposes of Treasury
Regulations section 301.7701-7, and delivered to each of the Holders, with
a
copy to the Property Trustee, within ninety (90) days after the end of each
Fiscal Year, annual financial statements of the Trust, including a balance
sheet
of the Trust as of the end of such Fiscal Year, and the related statements
of
income or loss.
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(c) The
Trust
shall maintain one or more bank accounts in the United States, as defined for
purposes of Treasury Regulations section 301.7701-7, in the name and for the
sole benefit of the Trust; provided, however, that all payments of
funds in respect of the Notes held by the Property Trustee shall be made
directly to the Payment Account and no other funds of the Trust shall be
deposited in the Payment Account. The sole signatories for such
accounts (including the Payment Account) shall be designated by the Property
Trustee.
ARTICLE
V.
SECURITIES
SECTION
5.1. Initial
Ownership.
Upon
the
creation of the Trust and the contribution by the Depositor referred to in
Section 2.3 and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at any
time during which no Trust Securities are Outstanding, the Depositor shall
be
the sole beneficial owner of the Trust.
SECTION
5.2. Authorized
Trust Securities.
The
Trust
shall be authorized to issue one series of Preferred Securities having an
aggregate Liquidation Amount of $56,000,000 and one series of Common Securities
having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $1,732,000.
SECTION
5.3. Issuance
of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase of Notes.
On
the
Closing Date, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute
and deliver to the Depositor Common Securities Certificates, registered in
the
name of the Depositor, evidencing an aggregate of 1,732 Common Securities having
an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $1,732,000, against receipt by the Trust
of
the aggregate purchase price of such Common Securities of $1,732,000.
Contemporaneously therewith and with the sale by the Trust to the Holders of
an
aggregate of 56,000 Preferred Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount
of $56,000,000, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall
subscribe for and purchase from the Depositor Notes, to be registered in the
name of the Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust and having an aggregate
principal amount equal to $57,732,000, and, in satisfaction of the purchase
price for such Notes, the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall
deliver to the Depositor the sum of $57,732,000 (being the aggregate amount
paid
by the Holders for the Preferred Securities and the amount paid by the Depositor
for the Common Securities).
SECTION
5.4. The
Securities Certificates.
(a) The
Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations
of
$100,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof,
and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum denominations
of $10,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof. The Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of
the Trust by manual or facsimile signature of at least one Administrative
Trustee. Securities Certificates bearing the signatures of
individuals who
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(b) On
the
Closing Date, upon the written order of an authorized officer of the Depositor,
the Administrative Trustees shall cause Securities Certificates to be executed
on behalf of the Trust and delivered, without further corporate action by the
Depositor, in authorized denominations.
(c) The
Preferred Securities issued to QIBs shall be, except as provided in
Section 5.6, Book-Entry Preferred Securities issued in the form of
one or more Global Preferred Securities registered in the name of the
Depositary, or its nominee and deposited with the Depositary or a custodian
for
the Depositary for credit by the Depositary to the respective accounts of the
Depositary Participants thereof (or such other accounts as they may
direct). The Preferred Securities issued to a Person other than a QIB
shall be issued in the form of Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificate.
(d) A
Preferred Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual
signature of an Authorized Officer of the Property Trustee. Such
signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Preferred Security has been
authenticated under this Trust Agreement. Upon written order of the
Trust signed by one Administrative Trustee, the Property Trustee shall
authenticate the Preferred Securities for original issue. The
Property Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent that is a U.S. Person
acceptable to the Trust to authenticate the Preferred Securities. A
Common Security need not be so authenticated and shall be valid upon execution
by one or more Administrative Trustees. The form of this certificate
of authentication can be found in Section 5.13.
SECTION
5.5. Rights
of
Holders.
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 non-assessable by the Trust. Except as provided in
Section 5.11(b), 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.
SECTION
5.6. Book-Entry
Preferred Securities.
(a) A
Global
Preferred Security may be exchanged, in whole or in part, for Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the names of the Owners only
if
such exchange complies with Section 5.7 and (i) the Depositary advises
the Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee in writing that the
Depositary is no longer willing or able properly to discharge its
responsibilities with respect to the Global Preferred Security, and no qualified
successor is appointed by the Administrative Trustees within ninety (90) days
of
receipt of such notice, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency
registered under the Exchange Act and the
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(b) If
any
Global Preferred Security is to be exchanged for Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates or canceled in part, or if any Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificate is to be exchanged in whole or in part for any Global Preferred
Security, then either (i) such Global Preferred Security shall be so surrendered
for exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article V or (ii)
the aggregate Liquidation Amount represented by such Global Preferred Security
shall be reduced, subject to Section 5.4, or increased by an amount equal
to the Liquidation Amount represented by that portion of the Global Preferred
Security to be so exchanged or canceled, or equal to the Liquidation Amount
represented by such Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates to be so
exchanged for any Global Preferred Security, 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 Depositary
Procedures, shall instruct the Depositary or its authorized representative
to
make a corresponding adjustment to its records. Upon any such surrender to
the
Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar of any Global Preferred
Security or Securities by the Depositary, accompanied by registration
instructions, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, shall execute
the
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates in accordance with the instructions
of the Depositary. None of the Securities Registrar or the Trustees
shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may
conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying on, such
instructions.
(c) Every
Securities Certificate executed and delivered upon registration or transfer
of,
or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Preferred Security or any portion
thereof shall be executed and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global
Preferred Security, unless such Securities Certificate is registered in the
name
of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Preferred Security or
a
nominee thereof.
(d) The
Depositary or its nominee, as registered owner of a Global Preferred Security,
shall be the Holder of such Global Preferred Security for all purposes under
this Trust
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(e) The
rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Preferred Securities shall be exercised
only through the Depositary and shall be limited to those established by law,
the Applicable Depositary Procedures and agreements between such Owners and
the
Depositary and/or the Depositary Participants; provided, solely for the purpose
of determining whether the Holders of the requisite amount of Preferred
Securities have voted on any matter provided for in this Trust Agreement, to
the
extent that Preferred Securities are represented by a Global Preferred Security,
the Trustees may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying
on, any written instrument (including a proxy) delivered to the Property Trustee
by the Depositary setting forth the Owners’ votes or assigning the right to vote
on any matter to any other Persons either in whole or in part. To the
extent that Preferred Securities are represented by a Global Preferred Security,
the initial Depositary will make book-entry transfers among the Depositary
Participants and receive and transmit payments on the Preferred Securities
that
are represented by a Global Preferred Security to such Depositary Participants,
and none of the Depositor or the Trustees shall have any responsibility or
obligation with respect thereto.
(f) To
the
extent that a notice or other communication to the Holders is required under
this Trust Agreement, for so long as Preferred Securities are represented by
a
Global Preferred Security, the Trustees shall give all such notices and
communications to the Depositary, and shall have no obligations to the
Owners.
SECTION
5.7. Registration
of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates.
(a) The
Property Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept, at the Corporate Trust Office,
a register or registers (the “Securities Register”) in which the registrar and
transfer agent with respect to the Trust Securities (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 and registration of transfers and exchanges of Preferred
Securities Certificates as herein provided. The Person acting as the Property
Trustee shall at all times also be the Securities Registrar. The
provisions of Article VIII shall apply to the Property Trustee in its
role as Securities Registrar.
(b) Upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred Securities Certificate
at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.7(f), the
Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute by manual or facsimile
signature and deliver to the Property Trustee, and the Property Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee
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(c) The
Securities Registrar shall not be required, (i) to issue, register the transfer
of or exchange any Preferred Security during a period beginning at the opening
of business fifteen (15) days before the day of selection for redemption of
such
Preferred Securities pursuant to Article IV and ending at the close of
business on the day of mailing of the notice of redemption or (ii) to register
the transfer of or exchange any Preferred Security so selected for redemption
in
whole or in part, except, in the case of any such Preferred Security to be
redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.
(d) Every
Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for registration
of
transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Securities Registrar duly
executed by the Holder or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing and
(i) if such Preferred Securities Certificate is being transferred otherwise
than
to a QIB, accompanied by a certificate of the transferee substantially in the
form set forth as Exhibit E hereto or (ii) if such Preferred Securities
Certificate is being transferred to a QIB, accompanied by a certificate of
the
transferor substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit F
hereto.
(e) No
service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of
Preferred Securities Certificates, but the Property Trustee on behalf of the
Trust may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of
Preferred Securities Certificates.
(f) The
Administrative Trustees shall designate an office or offices or agency or
agencies where Preferred Securities Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange, and initially designate the Corporate
Trust Office as its office and agency for such purposes. The Administrative
Trustees shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, the Property Trustee
and to the Holders of any change in the location of any such office or
agency.
SECTION
5.8. Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Securities Certificates.
(a) If
any
mutilated Securities Certificate shall be surrendered to the Securities
Registrar together with such security or indemnity as may be required by the
Securities Registrar and the Administrative Trustees to save each of them
harmless, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the
Trust, shall execute and make available for delivery in exchange therefor a
new
Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination.
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(b) If
the
Securities Registrar shall receive evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Securities Certificate and there shall be
delivered to the Securities Registrar and the Administrative Trustees such
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless,
then in the absence of notice that such Securities Certificate shall have been
acquired by a protected purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one
of
them, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute and make available for delivery,
and, with respect to Preferred Securities, the Property Trustee shall
authenticate, in exchange for or in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Securities Certificate, a new Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and
denomination.
(c) In
connection with the issuance of any new Securities Certificate under this
Section 5.8, the Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection therewith.
(d) Any
duplicate Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 5.8
shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in
the
assets of the Trust corresponding to that evidenced by the mutilated, lost,
stolen or destroyed Securities Certificate, as if originally issued, whether
or
not the lost, stolen or destroyed Securities Certificate shall be found at
any
time.
(e) If
any
such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to
become due and payable, the Depositor in its discretion may, instead of issuing
a new Security, pay such Security.
(f) The
provisions of this Section 5.8 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement
of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities Certificates.
SECTION
5.9. Persons
Deemed Holders.
The
Trustees and the Securities Registrar shall each treat the Person in whose
name
any Securities Certificate shall be registered in the Securities Register as
the
owner of such Securities Certificate for the purpose of receiving Distributions
and for all other purposes whatsoever, and none of the Trustees and the
Securities Registrar shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION
5.10. Cancellation.
All
Preferred Securities Certificates surrendered for registration of transfer
or
exchange or for payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the
Property Trustee, be delivered to the Property Trustee, and any such Preferred
Securities Certificates and Preferred Securities Certificates surrendered
directly to the Property Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly canceled
by it. The Administrative Trustees may at any time deliver to the
Property Trustee for cancellation any Preferred Securities Certificates
previously delivered hereunder that the Administrative Trustees may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Preferred Securities Certificates
so
delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Property Trustee. No
Preferred Securities Certificates shall be executed and delivered in lieu of
or
in exchange for any Preferred Securities Certificates canceled as provided
in
this Section 5.10, except as expressly
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SECTION
5.11. Ownership
of Common Securities by Depositor.
(a) On
the
Closing Date, the Depositor shall acquire, and thereafter shall retain,
beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. Neither the Depositor
nor any successor Holder of the Common Securities may transfer less than all
the
Common Securities, and the Depositor or any such successor Holder may transfer
the Common Securities only (i) in connection with a consolidation or merger
of
the Depositor into another Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by
the
Depositor of its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any
Person (in which event such Common Securities will be transferred to such
surviving entity, transferee or lessee, as the case may be), pursuant to
Section 8.1 of the Indenture or (ii) to the Depositor or an Affiliate of
the Depositor, in each such case in compliance with applicable law (including
the Securities Act, and applicable state securities and blue sky laws). To
the
fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities
other than as set forth in the immediately preceding sentence shall be void.
The
Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued
to
the Depositor to contain a legend stating substantially “THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT
TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE
TRUST AGREEMENT.”
(b) Any
Holder of the Common Securities shall be liable for the debts and obligations
of
the Trust in the manner and to the extent set forth herein with respect to
the
Depositor and agrees that it shall be subject to all liabilities to which the
Depositor may be subject and, prior to becoming such a Holder, shall deliver
to
the Administrative Trustees an instrument of assumption satisfactory to such
Trustees.
SECTION
5.12. Restricted
Legends.
(a) Each
Preferred Security Certificate shall bear a legend in substantially the
following form:
“THIS
PREFERRED SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST
AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”) OR A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS PREFERRED
SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A PERSON
OTHER
THAN DTC OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE
TRUST
AGREEMENT, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS PREFERRED SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER
OF
THIS PREFERRED SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY A NOMINEE
OF
DTC TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES.
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UNLESS
THIS PREFERRED SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC
TO
GREENBANK CAPITAL TRUST I OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR
PAYMENT, AND ANY PREFERRED SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE
& CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON 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 ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH
AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED
IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN, MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF
SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH
PURCHASER OF ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT.
THE
HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES
MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE TRUST OR THE
DEPOSITOR, (II) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (III) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL
“ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (a) (1), (2), (3) OR
(7) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS ACQUIRING THE SECURITY FOR
ITS
OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR,” FOR INVESTMENT
PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY
DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (IV) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (V) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION
FROM THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE
SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE
JURISDICTION AND, IN THE CASE OF (III) OR (V), SUBJECT TO THE RIGHT OF THE
TRUST
AND THE DEPOSITOR TO REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL AND OTHER INFORMATION
SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF
ANY
PREFERRED SECURITIES FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A)
ABOVE.
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THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING
AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES,
OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION
AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL
BE
DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT
TO BE
THE HOLDER OF SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF THE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF OR DISTRIBUTIONS ON SUCH
PREFERRED SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE
SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH PREFERRED
SECURITIES.
THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE
HEREOF OR THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT
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”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS
INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO
PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS PREFERRED
SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE
FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF AVAILABLE UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED
TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR ANOTHER
APPLICABLE EXEMPTION OR ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY
INTEREST THEREIN, IS NOT PROHIBITED BY SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER
OR HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED
TO
HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT EITHER (i) IT IS
NOT
AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A
PLAN
TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON
ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR
ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH
PURCHASE, OR (ii) SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED
TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE FOR WHICH
THERE IS NO APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION.
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THIS
OBLIGATION IS NOT A DEPOSIT AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY
AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION (THE “FDIC”).”
(b) The
above
legend shall not be removed from any of the Preferred Securities Certificates
unless there is delivered to the Property Trustee and the Depositor satisfactory
evidence, which may include an opinion of counsel, as may be reasonably required
to ensure that any future transfers thereof may be made without restriction
under the provisions of the Securities Act and other applicable
law. Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence, one or more of the
Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust shall execute and deliver to
the
Property Trustee, and the Property Trustee shall deliver, at the written
direction of the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor, Preferred Securities
Certificates that do not bear the legend.
SECTION
5.13. Form
of
Certificate of Authentication.
The Property
Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following
form:
This
is
one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Trust
Agreement.
Dated:
|
WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Property
Trustee
By: ________________________________
Authorized
officer
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ARTICLE
VI.
MEETINGS;
VOTING;
ACTSOF
HOLDERS
SECTION
6.1. 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 11.8 to each Holder of Preferred Securities, at such Holder’s
registered address, at least fifteen (15) days and not more than ninety (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
6.2. Meetings
of Holders of the Preferred Securities.
(a) 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
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(b) The
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any
meeting of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
(c) 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 Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities held by the Holders
present, either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the
action of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, unless this Trust Agreement
requires a lesser or greater number of affirmative votes.
SECTION
6.3. Voting
Rights.
Holders
shall be entitled to one vote for each $10,000 of Liquidation Amount represented
by their Outstanding Trust Securities in respect of any matter as to which
such
Holders are entitled to vote.
SECTION
6.4. 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 shall have
been
placed on file with the Administrative Trustees, or with such other officer
or
agent of the Trust as the Administrative Trustees may direct, for verification
prior to the time at which such 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. 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 such Trust Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present
at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies
so
present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received
in
respect of such 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
6.5. Holder
Action by Written Consent.
Any
action that may be taken by Holders at a meeting may be taken without a meeting
and without prior notice if Holders holding at least a Majority in Liquidation
Amount of all Preferred Securities entitled to vote in respect of such action
(or such lesser or greater proportion thereof as shall be required by any other
provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to the action in writing;
provided, that notice of such action is promptly provided to the Holders of
Preferred Securities that did not consent to such action. Any action
that may be taken by the Holders of all the Common Securities may be taken
without a meeting and without prior notice if such Holders shall consent to
the
action in writing.
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SECTION
6.6. Record
Date for Voting and Other Purposes.
Except
as
provided in Section 6.10(a), for the purposes of determining the Holders
who are entitled to notice of and to vote at any meeting or to act by written
consent, or 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 Administrative Trustees
may from time to time fix a date, not more than ninety (90) 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 such purposes.
SECTION
6.7. Acts
of
Holders.
(a) 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 such Holders in person or by an agent
thereof duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments
are delivered to an Administrative Trustee. Such instrument or instruments
(and
the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred
to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent
shall
be sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and conclusive in favor
of
the Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this Section
6.7.
(b) The
fact
and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may
be
proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by a certificate
of a
notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of
deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing
acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer
acting in a capacity other than such signer’s individual capacity, such
certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of such signer’s
authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or writing,
or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any
other manner that any Trustee receiving the same deems sufficient.
(c) The
ownership of Trust Securities shall be proved by the Securities
Register.
(d) 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 or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof
in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustees, the
Administrative Trustees or the Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
(e) Without
limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder 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 such Trust Security or by one or more duly
appointed agents each of
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(f) If
any
dispute shall arise among the Holders or the Trustees with respect to the
authenticity, validity or binding nature of any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of such Holder or Trustee under
this Article VI, then the determination of such matter by the Property
Trustee shall be conclusive with respect to such matter.
SECTION
6.8. Inspection
of Records.
Upon
reasonable written notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property
Trustee, the records of the Trust shall be open to inspection by any Holder
during normal business hours for any purpose reasonably related to such Holder’s
interest as a Holder.
SECTION
6.9. 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 and management
of the Trust or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein
set forth, or contained in the terms of the Securities Certificates, be
construed so as to constitute the Holders from time to time as partners or
members of an association.
(b) So
long
as any Notes are held by the Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust, the
Property Trustee shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting
any proceeding for any remedy available to the Note Trustee, or exercise any
trust or power conferred on the Property Trustee with respect to the Notes,
(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 Notes shall be due and payable or (iv) consent to any
amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Notes, where
such
consent shall be required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval
of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities; provided, that where a consent under the Indenture would require
the
consent of each holder of Notes (or each Holder of Preferred Securities)
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. In addition to obtaining the
foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, prior to taking
any of the foregoing actions, the Property Trustee shall, at the expense of
the
Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the
effect that such action shall not cause the Trust to be taxable as a corporation
or classified as other than a grantor trust for United States federal income
tax
purposes.
(c) If
any
proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for, or the Trustees
otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would adversely affect in
any
material respect the powers, preferences or special rights of the Preferred
Securities, whether by way of amendment
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SECTION
6.10. Acceleration
of Maturity; Rescission of Annulment; Waivers of Past Defaults.
(a) For
so
long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, if, upon a Note Event
of
Default pursuant to paragraphs (c), (e) or (f) of Section 5.1 of the
Indenture, the Note Trustee fails or the holders of not less than twenty five
percent (25%) in principal amount of the outstanding Notes fail to declare
the
principal of all of the Notes to be immediately due and payable, the Holders
of
at least twenty-five percent (25%) in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities then Outstanding shall have the right to make such declaration by
a
notice in writing to the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the Note
Trustee. At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect
to the Notes has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the
money due has been obtained by the Note Trustee as provided in the Indenture,
the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the
Note Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences
if:
(i) the
Depositor has paid or deposited with the Note Trustee a sum sufficient to
pay:
(A) all
overdue installments of interest on all of the Notes;
(B) any
accrued Additional Interest on all of the Notes;
(C) the
principal of and any premium on any Notes that have become due otherwise than
by
such declaration of acceleration and interest and Additional Interest thereon
at
the rate borne by the Notes; and
(D) all
sums
paid or advanced by the Note Trustee under the Indenture and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Note Trustee, the
Property Trustee and their agents and counsel; and
(ii) all
Note
Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the principal of the Notes
that
has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as
provided in Section 5.13 of the Indenture.
Upon
receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice requesting such an
acceleration, or 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 such notice, which
record date shall be at the close of business on the day the
Property
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(b) For
so
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 Note Event of Default specified in paragraph (a), (b) or
(c)
of Section 5.1 of the Indenture, any Holder of Preferred Securities shall
have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor,
pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Indenture, for enforcement of payment to
such Holder of any amounts payable in respect of Notes having an aggregate
principal amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities of such Holder. Except as set forth in
Section 6.10(a) and this Section 6.10(b), 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 Notes.
(c) Notwithstanding
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6.10, the Holders of at least a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities may, on behalf of
the
Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any Note Event of Default, except
any Note Event of Default arising from the failure to pay any principal of
or
any premium or interest on (including any Additional Interest) the Notes (unless
such Note Event of Default has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all
matured installments of interest and all principal and premium on all Notes
due
otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the Note Trustee) or
a
Note Event of 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 Note. Upon any such waiver, such Note Event of
Default shall cease to exist and any Note Event of Default arising therefrom
shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of the Indenture; but
no
such waiver shall affect any subsequent Note Event of Default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
(d) Notwithstanding
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6.10, the Holders of at least a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities may, on behalf of
the
Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive any past Event of Default and
its
consequences. Upon such waiver, any such Event of Default shall cease
to exist, and any 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 Event of Default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
(e) The
Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities shall
have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Property Trustee in respect of this Trust
Agreement or the Notes or exercising
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ARTICLE
VII.
REPRESENTATIONSAND
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 for the benefit of the Depositor and
the
Holders that:
(a) the
Property Trustee is a Delaware banking corporation, duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware;
(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;
(c) the
Delaware Trustee is a Delaware banking corporation, duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware;
(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 legal, valid and binding
agreement of each of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee enforceable
against each of them in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable
bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally
and to general principles of equity;
(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 and the Delaware Trustee and such
execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate the Certificate of
Incorporation or By-laws of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee or
(ii)
violate any applicable 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
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(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 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 the case may be; and
(h) to
the
best of each of the Property Trustee’s and the Delaware Trustee’s knowledge,
there are no proceedings pending or 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 Trust or would question
the
right, power and 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 Trustees
under this Trust Agreement.
SECTION
7.2. Representations
and Warranties of Depositor.
The
Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the Holders
that:
(a) the
Depositor is a corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of its state of incorporation;
(b) the
Depositor 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;
(c) this
Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Depositor and constitutes the legal, valid and binding agreement of the
Depositor enforceable against the Depositor in accordance with its terms,
subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws affecting
creditors’ rights generally and to general principles of equity;
(d) the
Securities Certificates issued at the Closing Date on behalf of the Trust have
been duly authorized and will have been duly and validly executed, issued and
delivered by the applicable Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of,
and in accordance with the requirements of, this Trust Agreement and the Holders
will be, as of such date, entitled to the benefits of this Trust
Agreement;
(e) 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
Depositor and do not require any approval of stockholders of the Depositor
and
such execution, delivery and performance will not (i) violate the articles
or
certificate of incorporation or by-laws (or other organizational documents)
of
the Depositor or (ii) violate any applicable law, governmental rule or
regulation governing the Depositor or any material portion of its property
or
any order, judgment or decree applicable to the Depositor or any material
portion of its property;
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(f) neither
the authorization, execution or delivery by the Depositor of this Trust
Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions by the Depositor
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 governing the Depositor
or any material portion of its property; and
(g) there
are
no proceedings pending or, to the best of the Depositor’s knowledge, threatened
against or affecting the Depositor or any material portion of its property
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 Trust or would question the right, power and authority of the
Depositor, as the case may be, to enter into or perform its obligations under
this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE
VIII.
THE
TRUSTEES
SECTION
8.1. Number
of
Trustees.
The
number of Trustees shall be six (6), provided, that the Property Trustee and
the
Delaware Trustee may be the same Person, in which case the number of Trustees
shall be five (5). The number of Trustees may be increased or
decreased by Act of the Holder of the Common Securities subject to Sections
8.2, 8.3, and 8.4. The death, resignation,
retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence or incapacity to perform the
duties of a Trustee shall not operate to annul, dissolve or terminate the
Trust.
SECTION
8.2. Property
Trustee Required.
There
shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust
Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a corporation organized and doing
business under the laws of the United States or of any state thereof, authorized
to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of
at
least fifty million dollars ($50,000,000), subject to supervision or examination
by federal or state authority and having an office within the United
States. 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 8.2, the combined
capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital
and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published.
If
at any time the Property Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section 8.2, it shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article
VIII.
SECTION
8.3. Delaware
Trustee Required.
(a) If
required by the Delaware Statutory Trust Act, 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 that has its principal
place of business in the State of Delaware, otherwise meets the requirements
of
applicable Delaware law and shall act through one or more persons authorized
to
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(b) 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 Administrative Trustees set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee
shall be one of the trustees of the Trust for the sole and limited purpose
of
fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Statutory Trust
Act
and for taking such actions as are required to be taken by a Delaware trustee
under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act. The duties (including
fiduciary duties), liabilities and obligations of the Delaware Trustee shall
be
limited to (a) accepting legal process served on the Trust in the State of
Delaware and (b) the execution of any certificates required to be filed with
the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware that the Delaware Trustee is
required to execute under Section 3811 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act
and
there shall be no other duties (including fiduciary duties) or obligations,
express or implied, at law or in equity, of the Delaware Trustee.
SECTION
8.4. Appointment
of Administrative Trustees.
(a) There
shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees hereunder with respect
to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee 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. Each of the
individuals identified as an “Administrative Trustee” in the preamble of this
Trust Agreement hereby accepts his or her appointment as such.
(b) Except
where a requirement for action by a specific number of Administrative Trustees
is expressly set forth in this Trust Agreement, any act required or permitted
to
be taken by, and any power of the Administrative Trustees may be exercised
by,
or with the consent of, any one such Administrative Trustee. Whenever
a vacancy in the number of Administrative Trustees shall occur, until such
vacancy is filled by the appointment of an Administrative Trustee in accordance
with Section 8.11, the Administrative Trustees in office, regardless of
their number (and notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement),
shall have all the powers granted to the Administrative Trustees and shall
discharge all the duties imposed upon the Administrative Trustees by this Trust
Agreement.
SECTION
8.5. Duties
and Responsibilities of the Trustees.
(a) The
rights, immunities, duties and responsibilities of the Trustees shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement and there shall be no other duties (including
fiduciary duties) or obligations, express or implied, at law or in equity,
of
the Trustees; provided, however, that if an Event of Default known to the
Property Trustee has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall,
prior to the receipt of directions, if any, from the Holders of at least a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, exercise such of
the
rights and powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement, and use the same degree
of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use
under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own
affairs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Trust
Agreement shall require any of the Trustees to expend or risk its own funds
or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the
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(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 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 herein provided and that the Trustees are not personally
liable to it for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security
or
for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This Section
8.5(b) does not limit the liability of the Trustees expressly set forth
elsewhere in this Trust Agreement.
(c) No
provisions of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Property
Trustee from liability with respect to matters that are within the authority
of
the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement for its own negligent action,
negligent failure to act or willful misconduct, except that:
(i) the
Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error or judgment made in good
faith by an authorized officer of the Property Trustee, unless it shall be
proved that the Property Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts;
(ii) 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 Holders
of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Property Trustee hereunder or under the Indenture,
or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property Trustee under this
Trust Agreement;
(iii) the
Property Trustee’s sole duty with respect to the custody, safe keeping and
physical preservation of the Notes and the Payment Account shall be to deal
with
such 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;
(iv) the
Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any money received
by
it except as it may otherwise agree with the Depositor; and money held
by
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(v) the
Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring the compliance by
the
Administrative Trustees or the Depositor with their respective duties under
this
Trust Agreement, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for the default or
misconduct of any other Trustee or the Depositor.
SECTION
8.6. Notices
of Defaults and Extensions.
(a) Within
ninety (90) days after the occurrence of a default actually known to the
Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall transmit notice of such default
to
the Holders, the Administrative Trustees and the Depositor, unless such default
shall have been cured or waived; provided, that, except in the case of a default
in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest (including any
Additional Interest) on any Trust Security, the Property Trustee shall be fully
protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors,
the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or Responsible
Officers of the Property Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding
of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Trust
Securities. For the purpose of this Section 8.6, the term
“default” means any event that is, or after notice or lapse of time or both
would become, an Event of Default.
(b) Within
three (3) Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Depositor’s exercise
of its right to defer the payment of interest on the Notes pursuant to the
Indenture, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent
provided in Section 11.8, notice of such exercise to the Holders and the
Administrative Trustees, unless such exercise shall have been
revoked.
(c) The
Property Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default
unless the Property Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from
the
Depositor, any Administrative Trustee or any Holder or unless an officer of
the
Property Trustee charged with the administration of this Trust Agreement shall
have obtained actual knowledge of such Event of Default.
(d) The
Property Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Preferred Securities of any
notice of default received with respect to the Notes.
SECTION
8.7. Certain
Rights of Property Trustee.
Subject
to the provisions of Section 8.5:
(a) the
Property Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith and in accordance with the terms hereof
upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel, certificate, written representation
of
a Holder or transferee, certificate of auditors or any other resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
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
or presented by the proper party or parties;
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(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 a provision
ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions 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 Depositor
requesting the Depositor’s written instruction as to the course of action to be
taken and the Property Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from taking
such action, as the Property Trustee shall be instructed in writing to take,
or
to refrain from taking, by the Depositor; provided, that if the Property Trustee
does not receive such instructions of the Depositor within ten (10) Business
Days after it has delivered such notice or such reasonably shorter period of
time set forth in such notice, the Property Trustee may, but shall be under
no
duty to, take such action, or refrain from taking such action, as the Property
Trustee shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the Holders, in which
event the Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct;
(c) any
direction or act of the Depositor contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall
be
sufficiently evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate unless otherwise expressly
provided herein;
(d) any
direction or act of an Administrative Trustee contemplated by this Trust
Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by a certificate executed by such
Administrative Trustee and setting forth such 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 re-recording,
re-filing or re-registration thereof;
(f) the
Property Trustee may consult with counsel (which counsel may be counsel to
the
Property Trustee, the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any
of
its employees) and the advice of such counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and in accordance with
such advice; 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 such Holders shall
have
offered to the Property Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the
costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) and
liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction, including reasonable advances as may be requested by the Property
Trustee;
(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, direction, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture,
note or 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
may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts
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(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, attorneys,
custodians or nominees and the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for
any
negligence or misconduct on the part of any such agent, attorney, custodian
or
nominee appointed with due care 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
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 this Trust Agreement in respect of such remedy, right
or
action), (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such
other action until such instructions are received and (iii) shall be protected
in acting in accordance with such instructions;
(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;
(l) without
prejudice to any other rights available to the Property Trustee under applicable
law, when the Property Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection
with a Bankruptcy Event, such expenses (including legal fees and expenses of
its
agents and counsel) and the compensation for such services are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy law or law relating
to creditors rights generally; and
(m) whenever
in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property Trustee shall deem
it
desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering
or
omitting any action hereunder, the Property Trustee (unless other evidence
be
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
request and rely on an Officers’ Certificate which, upon receipt of such
request, shall be promptly delivered by the Depositor.
No
provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or
obligation on any Trustee 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 shall be illegal, or in which such Person shall be 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.
SECTION
8.8. Delegation
of Power.
Any
Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent with applicable law, delegate
to
any other natural person over the age of 21 its, his or her power for the
purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section
2.5. The Trustees shall have power to delegate from time to time
to such of their number or to the Depositor the doing of such things and the
execution of such instruments either in the name of the Trust or the names
of
the Trustees or otherwise as the
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SECTION
8.9. May
Hold
Securities.
Any
Trustee or any other agent of any Trustee or the Trust, in its individual or
any
other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and except
as provided in the definition of the term “Outstanding” in Article I, may
otherwise deal with the Trust with the same rights it would have if it were
not
a Trustee or such other agent.
SECTION
8.10. Compensation;
Reimbursement; Indemnity.
The
Depositor agrees:
(a) to
pay to
the Trustees from time to time such reasonable compensation for all services
rendered by them hereunder as may be agreed by the Depositor and the Trustees
from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision
of
law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust);
(b) to
reimburse the Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements
and advances incurred or made by the Trustees 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 Trustee, (ii) any Affiliate of any Trustee, (iii) any officer, director,
shareholder, employee, representative or agent of any Trustee or any Affiliate
of any Trustee and (iv) any employee or agent of the Trust (referred to herein
as an “Indemnified Person”) from and against any loss, damage, liability, tax
(other than income, franchise or other taxes imposed on amounts paid pursuant
to
Section 8.10(a) or (b) hereof), penalty, expense, suit or claim of
any kind or nature whatsoever incurred without negligence, bad faith or willful
misconduct on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance
or
administration of the Trust hereunder, including the advancement of funds to
cover the reasonable costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim
or
liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers
or
duties hereunder.
The
Trust
shall have no payment, reimbursement or indemnity obligations to the Trustees
under this Section 8.10. The provisions of this Section
8.10 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement and the earlier
removal or resignation of any Trustee.
No
Trustee may claim any Lien on any Trust Property whether before or after
termination of the Trust as a result of any amount due pursuant to this
Section 8.10.
To
the
fullest extent permitted by law, in no event shall the Property Trustee and
the
Delaware Trustee be liable for any indirect, special, punitive or consequential
loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including, but not limited to, lost
profits, even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss
or
damage and regardless of the form of action.
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In
no
event shall the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee be liable for any
failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder because of
circumstances beyond its control, including, but not limited to, acts of God,
flood, war (whether declared or undeclared), terrorism, fire, riot, embargo,
government action, including any laws, ordinances, regulations, governmental
action or the like which delay, restrict or prohibit the providing of the
services contemplated by this Trust Agreement.
SECTION
8.11. Resignation
and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No
resignation or removal of any Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article VIII shall become effective until the acceptance
of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 8.12.
(b) A
Trustee
may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Depositor and,
in
the case of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, to the
Holders.
(c) Unless
an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee
or
the Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed (with or without cause)
at
any time by Act of the Holder of Common Securities. If an Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee, or both of them, may be removed (with or without cause) at
such time by Act of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount
of
the Preferred Securities, delivered to the removed Trustee (in its individual
capacity and on behalf of the Trust). An Administrative Trustee may
be removed (with or without cause) only by Act of the Holder of the Common
Securities at any time.
(d) If
any
Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Trustee,
or if
a vacancy shall occur in the office of any Trustee for any reason, at a time
when no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holder
of
the Common Securities, by Act of the Holder of the Common Securities, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees, and such successor Trustee
and
the retiring Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section
8.12. If the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall
resign, be removed or become incapable of continuing to act as the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, at a time when an Event
of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holders of the Preferred
Securities, by Act of the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities, shall promptly appoint a successor Property Trustee or
Delaware Trustee, and such successor Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee and
the retiring Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section 8.12. If an Administrative
Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Administrative
Trustee, at a time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Holder of the Common Securities by Act of the Holder of Common
Securities shall promptly appoint a successor Administrative Trustee and such
successor Administrative Trustee and the retiring Administrative Trustee shall
comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.12. If no
successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Holder of the Common
Securities or Holders of the Preferred Securities, as the case may be, and
accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.12 within thirty
(30) days after the giving of a notice of resignation by a Trustee, the removal
of a Trustee, or a Trustee becoming incapable of acting as such Trustee, any
Holder who has been a Holder of Preferred Securities for at least
six
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(e) The
Depositor shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee and each appointment of a successor Property
Trustee or Delaware Trustee to all Holders in the manner provided in Section
11.8. Each notice shall include the name of the successor
Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust
Office if it is the Property Trustee.
(f) Notwithstanding
the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust Agreement, in the event
any
Administrative Trustee or a Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or
becomes, in the opinion of the Holder of Common Securities, incompetent or
incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity
may
be filled by (i) the unanimous act of the remaining Administrative Trustees
if
there are at least two of them or (ii) otherwise by the Holder of the Common
Securities (with the successor in each case being a Person who satisfies the
eligibility requirement for Administrative Trustees or Delaware Trustee, as
the
case may be, set forth in Sections 8.3 and 8.4).
(g) Upon
the
appointment of a successor Delaware Trustee, such successor Delaware Trustee
shall file a Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Trust in accordance
with Section 3810 of the Delaware Statutory Trust Act.
SECTION
8.12. Acceptance
of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In
case
of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee, each successor Trustee
shall execute and deliver to the Depositor and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal
of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and each such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request
of
the Trust or any successor Trustee such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment
of
its charges, duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all
Trust Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust.
(b) Upon
request of any such successor Trustee, the Trust (or the retiring Trustee if
requested by the Depositor) shall execute any and all instruments for more
fully
and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such
rights, powers and trusts referred to in the preceding paragraph.
(c) No
successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this
Article VIII.
SECTION
8.13. 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 such Trustee shall be a party,
or
any Person succeeding to
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SECTION
8.14. Not
Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The
recitals contained herein and in the Securities Certificates shall be taken
as
the statements of the Trust and the Depositor, and the Trustees do not assume
any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustees make no
representations as to the title to, or value or condition of, the property
of
the Trust or any part thereof, nor as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Trust Agreement, the Notes or the Trust Securities. The Trustees
shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of the
proceeds of the Notes.
SECTION
8.15. Property
Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
(a) In
case
of any Bankruptcy Event (or event that with the passage of time would become
a
Bankruptcy Event) relative to the Trust or any other obligor upon the Trust
Securities or the property of the Trust or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions
on
the Trust Securities shall then be due and payable and irrespective of whether
the Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the Trust for the payment
of
any past due Distributions) shall be entitled and empowered, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise:
(i) to
file
and prove a claim for the whole amount of any Distributions owing and unpaid
in
respect of the Trust Securities and to file such other papers or documents
as
may be necessary or advisable in order 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 such judicial proceeding; and
(ii) to
collect and receive any monies 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 proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder
to
make such payments to the Property Trustee and, in the event the Property
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders,
to
pay to the Property Trustee first 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.
(b) Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Property Trustee to authorize
or consent to or 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.
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SECTION
8.16. Reports
to and from the Property Trustee.
(a) The
Depositor and the Administrative Trustees shall deliver to the Property Trustee,
not later than forty five (45) days after the end of each of the first three
fiscal quarters of the Depositor and not later than ninety (90) days after
the
end of each fiscal year of the Depositor ending after the date of this Trust
Agreement, an Officers’ Certificate covering the preceding fiscal period,
stating whether or not to the knowledge of the signers thereof the Depositor
and
the Trust are in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms,
provisions and conditions of this Trust Agreement (without regard to any period
of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Depositor
or
the Trust shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature
and
status thereof of which they have knowledge.
(b) The
Depositor shall furnish to (i) the Property Trustee, (ii) the Purchaser,
(iii) any Owner of the Preferred Securities reasonably identified to the
Depositor or the Trust (which identification may be made either by such Owner
or
by the Placement Agent or Purchaser), and (iv) any designee of (i), (ii) or
(iii) above, a duly completed and executed certificate in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit G, including the financial statements referenced in such
Exhibit, which certificate and financial statements shall be so furnished by
the
Depositor not later than forty five (45) days after the end of each of the
first
three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Depositor and not later than
ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Depositor.
(c) The
Property Trustee shall obtain all reports, certificates and information, which
it is entitled to receive under each of the Operative Documents, and deliver
to
(i) the Purchaser, (ii) the Placement Agent and (iii) a designee of (i) or
(ii)
above, all such reports, certificates or information promptly upon receipt
thereof.
ARTICLE
IX.
TERMINATION,
LIQUIDATIONAND
MERGER
SECTION
9.1. Dissolution
Upon Expiration Date.
Unless
earlier dissolved, the Trust shall automatically dissolve on June 15, 2038
(the
“Expiration Date”), and the Trust Property shall be liquidated in accordance
with Section 9.4.
SECTION
9.2. Early
Termination.
The
first
to occur of any of the following events is an “Early Termination Event,” upon
the occurrence of which the Trust shall be dissolved:
(a) the
occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the dissolution or
liquidation of, the Depositor, in its capacity as the Holder of the Common
Securities, unless the Depositor shall have transferred the Common Securities
as
provided by Section 5.11, 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 Holder of the Common
Securities at any time to dissolve the Trust and, after satisfaction of any
liabilities of the Trust as required by applicable law, to distribute the Notes
to Holders in exchange for the Preferred
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(c) the
redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in connection with the payment
at
maturity or redemption of all the Notes; and
(d) the
entry
of an order for dissolution of the Trust by a court of competent
jurisdiction.
SECTION
9.3. Termination.
The
respective obligations and responsibilities of the Trustees and the Trust 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 Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or upon the
redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2;
(b) the satisfaction of any expenses owed by the Trust; and (c) the discharge
of
all administrative duties of the Administrative Trustees, including the
performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the Trust or the
Holders.
SECTION
9.4. Liquidation.
(a) If
an
Early Termination Event specified in Section 9.2(a), (b) or
(d) occurs or upon the Expiration Date, the Trust shall
be liquidated by
the Property Trustee as expeditiously as the Property Trustee shall determine
to
be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors
of
the Trust as provided by applicable law, to each Holder a Like Amount of Notes,
subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by the
Property Trustee not less than thirty (30) nor more than sixty (60) days prior
to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of Trust Securities at such Holder’s
address appearing in the Securities Register. All such notices of liquidation
shall:
(i) state
the
Liquidation Date;
(ii) state
that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust Securities will no longer
be
deemed to be Outstanding and (subject to Section 9.4(d)) any Securities
Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like
Amount of Notes; and
(iii) provide
such information with respect to the mechanics by which Holders may exchange
Securities Certificates for Notes, or if Section 9.4(d) applies, receive
a Liquidation Distribution, as the Property Trustee shall deem
appropriate.
(b) Except
where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect the
liquidation of the Trust and distribution of the Notes 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 such distribution
(which shall not be more than forty-five (45) days prior to the Liquidation
Date
nor prior to the date on which notice of such liquidation is given to
the
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(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 Notes will be issued to Holders
of
Securities Certificates, upon surrender of such Securities Certificates to
the
exchange agent for exchange, (iii) the Depositor shall use its best efforts
to
have the Notes listed on the New York Stock Exchange or on such other exchange,
interdealer quotation system or self-regulatory organization on which the
Preferred Securities are then listed, if any, (iv) Securities Certificates
not
so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Notes
bearing accrued and unpaid interest in an amount equal to the accumulated and
unpaid Distributions on such Securities Certificates until such certificates
are
so surrendered (and until such certificates are so surrendered, no payments
of
interest or principal will be made to Holders of Securities Certificates with
respect to such Notes) and (v) all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities
will cease, except the right of such Holders to receive Notes upon surrender
of
Securities Certificates.
(d) Notwithstanding
the other provisions of this Section 9.4, if distribution of the Notes in
the manner provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee not to be
permitted or practical, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Trust
shall be wound up by the Property Trustee in such manner as the Property Trustee
determines. In such event, Holders will be entitled to receive out of
the assets of the Trust available for distribution to Holders, after
satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the 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 (such amount
being the “Liquidation Distribution”). If, upon any such winding up the
Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because the 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 Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based
upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holder of the Common Securities will be entitled
to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such winding up pro rata (based
upon Liquidation Amounts) with Holders of all Trust Securities, except that,
if
an Event of Default 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 Trust.
The
Trust
may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by, or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
to, any Person except pursuant to this Article IX. At the request of the
Holders of the Common Securities, without the consent of the Holders of the
Preferred Securities, the 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:
(a) such
successor entity either (i) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the
Trust under this Trust Agreement with respect to the Preferred Securities or
(ii) substitutes for the Preferred Securities other securities having
substantially the same terms as the Preferred
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(b) a
trustee
of such successor entity possessing substantially the same powers and duties
as
the Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Notes;
(c) if
the
Preferred Securities or the Notes are rated, such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not cause the
Preferred Securities or the Notes (including any Successor Securities) to be
downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization that
then assigns a rating to the Preferred Securities or the Notes;
(d) the
Preferred Securities are listed, or any Successor Securities will be listed
upon
notice of issuance, on any national securities exchange or interdealer quotation
system on which the Preferred Securities are then listed, if any;
(e) 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;
(f) such
successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to that of the
Trust;
(g) prior
to
such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer
or
lease, the Depositor has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
(i)
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; (ii) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation,
replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Trust nor such successor
entity will be required to register as an “investment company” under the
Investment Company Act and (iii) following such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Trust (or the
successor entity) will continue to be classified as a grantor trust for U.S.
federal income tax purposes; and
(h) the
Depositor or its permitted transferee owns all of the common securities of
such
successor entity and guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under
the Successor Securities at least to the extent provided by the Guarantee
Agreement.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Trust shall not, except with the consent of Holders of all
of
the Preferred Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be
replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially
as an entirety to any other Person or permit any other entity to consolidate,
amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace, the Trust if such consolidation,
amalgamation, merger, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would cause
the
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 or
cause the Notes to be treated as other than indebtedness of the Depositor for
United States federal income tax purposes.
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ARTICLE
X.
INFORMATIONTO
PURCHASER
SECTION
10.1. Depositor
Obligations to Purchaser.
Notwithstanding
any other provision herein, the Depositor shall furnish to (a) the
Purchaser, (b) any Owner of the Preferred Securities reasonably identified
to the Depositor or the Trust (which identification may be made either by such
Owner or by the Placement Agent or Purchaser) and (c) any designee of (a)
or (b) above, copies of all correspondence, notices, forms, filings, reports
and
other documents required to be provided by the Depositor, whether acting through
an Administrative Trustee or otherwise, to the Property Trustee or Delaware,
Trustee under this Trust Agreement.
SECTION
10.2. Trustee’s
Obligations to Purchaser.
Notwithstanding
any other provision herein, the Property Trustee shall furnish to (a) the
Purchaser, (b) the Placement Agent and (c) a designee of (a) or (b)
above, copies of all (i) correspondence, notices, forms, filings, reports and
other documents required to be provided to the Property Trustee or Delaware
Trustee by the Depositor, whether acting through an Administrative Trustee
or
otherwise, under this Trust Agreement, and (ii) correspondence, notices, forms,
filings, reports and other documents required to be provided to the Depositor
or
a Holder by the Property Trustee or Delaware Trustee under this Trust
Agreement.
ARTICLE
XI.
MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
SECTION
11.1. Limitation
of Rights of Holders.
Except
as
set forth in Section 9.2, the death, bankruptcy, termination, dissolution
or incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in
Trust Securities shall not operate to terminate this Trust Agreement, nor annul,
dissolve or terminate the Trust nor entitle the legal representatives or heirs
of such Person or any Holder for such 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
and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.
SECTION
11.2. Agreed
Tax Treatment of Trust and Trust Securities.
The
parties hereto and, by its acceptance or acquisition of a Trust Security or
a
beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a
beneficial interest in, such Trust Security intend and agree to treat the Trust
as a grantor trust for United States federal, state and local tax purposes,
and
to treat the Trust Securities (including all payments and proceeds with respect
to such Trust Securities) as undivided beneficial ownership interests in the
Trust Property (and payments and proceeds therefrom, respectively) for United
States federal, state and local tax purposes. The provisions of this
Trust Agreement shall be interpreted to further this intention and agreement
of
the parties.
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SECTION
11.3. Amendment.
(a) This
Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Property Trustee, the
Administrative Trustees and the Holder of all the Common Securities, without
the
consent of any Holder of the Preferred Securities, (i) to cure any ambiguity,
correct or supplement any provision herein that may be defective or inconsistent
with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect
to
matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement, which shall not be
inconsistent with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement, (ii) to modify,
eliminate or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as
shall be necessary to ensure that the Trust will neither be taxable as a
corporation nor be classified as other than a grantor trust for United States
federal income tax purposes at all times that any Trust Securities are
Outstanding or to ensure that the Notes are treated as indebtedness of the
Depositor for United States federal income tax purposes, or to ensure that
the
Trust will not be required to register as an “investment company” under the
Investment Company Act or (iii) to add to the covenants, restrictions or
obligations of the Depositor; provided, that in the case of clauses (i), (ii)
or
(iii), such action shall not adversely affect in any material respect the
interests of any Holder.
(b) Except
as
provided in Section 11.3(c), any provision of this Trust Agreement may be
amended by the Property Trustee, the Administrative Trustees and the Holder
of
all of the Common Securities and with (i) the consent of Holders of at least
a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities and (ii) receipt
by
the Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment or
the
exercise of any power granted to the Trustees in accordance with such amendment
will not cause the Trust to be taxable as a corporation or classified as other
than a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes or affect
the
treatment of the Notes as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States
federal income tax purposes or affect the Trust’s exemption from status (or from
any requirement to register) as an “investment company” under the Investment
Company Act.
(c) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Trust Agreement, without the consent of each Holder,
this Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the accrual rate, amount,
currency or timing of any Distribution on or the redemption price of the Trust
Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of any Distribution or
other
payment required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a specified
date, (ii) restrict or impair the right of a Holder to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after such date, (iii) reduce the
percentage of aggregate Liquidation Amount of Outstanding Preferred Securities,
the consent of whose Holders is required for any such amendment, or the consent
of whose Holders is required for any waiver of compliance with any provision
of
this Trust Agreement or of defaults hereunder and their consequences provided
for in this Trust Agreement; (iv) impair or adversely affect the rights and
interests of the Holders in the Trust Property, or permit the creation of any
Lien on any portion of the Trust Property; or (v) modify the definition of
“Outstanding,” this Section 11.3(c), Sections 4.1, 4.2,
4.3, 6.10(e) or Article IX.
(d) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Trust Agreement, no Trustee shall enter into or
consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement that would cause the Trust
to
be taxable as a corporation or to be classified as other than a grantor trust
for United States federal income tax purposes or that would cause the Notes
to
fail or cease to be treated as indebtedness
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(e) If
any
amendment to this Trust Agreement is made, the Administrative Trustees or the
Property Trustee shall promptly provide to the Depositor a copy of such
amendment.
(f) No
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 Trustees 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 and all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such action have been
met.
(g) No
amendment or modification to this Trust Agreement that adversely affects in
any
material respect the rights, duties, liabilities, indemnities or immunities
of
the Delaware Trustee hereunder shall be permitted without the prior written
consent of the Delaware Trustee.
SECTION
11.4. Separability.
If
any
provision in this Trust Agreement or in the 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,
and there shall be deemed substituted for the provision at issue a valid, legal
and enforceable provision as similar as possible to the provision at
issue.
SECTION
11.5. Governing
Law.
THIS
TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE HOLDERS, THE
TRUST, THE DEPOSITOR AND THE TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT
AND
THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND
GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICTS
OF LAWS PROVISIONS.
SECTION
11.6. Successors.
This
Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of any
successor to the Depositor, the Trust and any Trustee, including any successor
by operation of law. Except in connection with a transaction involving the
Depositor that is permitted under Article VIII of the Indenture and
pursuant to which the assignee agrees in writing to perform the Depositor’s
obligations hereunder, the Depositor shall not assign its obligations
hereunder.
SECTION
11.7. 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
11.8. Reports,
Notices and Demands.
(a) 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 Depositor may be given or served in writing delivered in person,
or by reputable, overnight courier, by telecopy or by deposit thereof,
first-class postage prepaid, in the United States mail, addressed, (a) in the
case of a Holder of Preferred Securities, to such Holder as such Holder’s name
and address may appear on the Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the
Holder of all the Common Securities or the Depositor, to Xxxxxx County
Bancshares, Inc., 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000,
Attention: Chief Financial Officer, or to such other address as may be specified
in a written notice by the Holder of all the Common Securities or the Depositor,
as the case may be, to the Property Trustee. Such report, notice, demand or
other communication to or upon a Holder or the Depositor shall be deemed to
have
been given when received in person, within one (1) Business Day following
delivery by overnight courier, when telecopied with receipt confirmed, or within
three (3) Business Days following delivery by mail, except that if a notice
or
other document is refused delivery or cannot be delivered because of a changed
address of which no notice was given, such notice or other document shall be
deemed to have been delivered on the date of such refusal or inability to
deliver.
(b) 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 Property
Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees, the Trust, the
Placement Agent, or the Purchaser shall be given in writing by deposit thereof,
first-class postage prepaid, in the U.S. mail, personal delivery or facsimile
transmission, addressed to such Person as follows: (a) with respect to the
Property Trustee to Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration, facsimile no. (000) 000-0000; (b) with respect to the
Delaware Trustee, to Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration, facsimile no. (000) 000-0000; (c) with respect to the
Administrative Trustees, to them at the address above for notices to the
Depositor, marked “Attention: Administrative Trustees of GreenBank Capital Trust
I,” (d) with respect to the Trust, to its principal executive office
specified in Section 2.2, with a copy to the Property Trustee,
(e) with respect to the Placement Agent, to SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc.,
000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, N.E., 24th Floor,
Mail Code
3950, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, facsimile no. (000) 000-0000, and
(f) with respect to the Purchaser, to SunTrust Equity Funding, LLC, 000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, facsimile no. (000)
000-0000. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the Trust,
the
Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the writing by the Trust,
the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees.
SECTION
11.9. Agreement
Not to Petition.
Each
of
the Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the Holders that, until
at least one year and one day after the Trust has been terminated in accordance
with Article IX, they shall not file, or join in the filing of, a
petition against the Trust under any Bankruptcy Law or otherwise join in the
commencement of any proceeding against the Trust under any Bankruptcy Law.
If
the Depositor takes action in violation of this Section 11.9, the
Property
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This
instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, 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 as of the day and year first above written.
Green County Bancshares, Inc., | |
as Depositor | |
By: | /s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxx |
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Title: Chief Financial Officer |
Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee | Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee | ||
By: | /s/ W. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, II | By: | /s/ W. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, II |
Name: W. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, II | Name: W. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, II | ||
Title: Assistant Vice President | Title: Assistant Vice President | ||
/s/ R. Xxxx Xxxxxxx | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx | ||
Name: R. Xxxx Xxxxxxx | Name: Xxxx Xxxxxx | ||
Administrative Trustee | Administrative Trustee | ||
/s/ Xxxxx X. Xxxxx | /s/ Xxxx Xxxxx | ||
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxx | Name: Xxxx Xxxxx | ||
Administrative Trustee | Administrative Trustee | ||
Exhibit
A
CERTIFICATE
OF TRUST
OF
GreenBank
Capital Trust I
This
Certificate of Trust of GreenBank Capital Trust I (the “Trust”) is
being duly executed and filed on behalf of the Trust by the undersigned, as
trustee, to form a statutory trust under the Delaware Statutory Trust Act (12
Del. C. §3801 etseq.) (the “Act”).
1. Name. The
name of the statutory trust formed by this Certificate of Trust
is: GreenBank Capital Trust I.
2. Trustee. The
name and business address of the trustee of the Trust with its principal place
of business in the State of Delaware are Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx Square
North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration.
3. Effective
Date. This Certificate of Trust shall be effective upon its
filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has duly executed this Certificate of Trust
in
accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.
Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity, but solely as trustee | |
By: | |
Name: | |
Title: |
A-1
Exhibit
B
[FORM
OF
COMMON SECURITIES CERTIFICATE]
THIS
COMMON SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS
AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT PURSUANT
TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION. THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT
TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE
TRUST AGREEMENT
Certificate
Number
C-
|
1,732,000
Common Securities
|
Certificate
Evidencing Common Securities
of
GreenBank
Capital Trust I
Floating
Rate Common Securities
(liquidation
amount $1,000 per Common Security)
GreenBank
Capital Trust I, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of
Delaware (the “Trust”), hereby certifies that Xxxxxx County Bancshares, Inc.
(the “Holder”) is the registered owner of 1,732 common securities of the Trust
representing undivided common beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust
and designated the GreenBank Capital Trust I Floating Rate Common Securities
(liquidation amount $1,000 per Common Security) (the “Common Securities”).
Except in accordance with Section 5.11 of the Trust Agreement (as defined
below), the Common Securities are not transferable and, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, 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 and shall in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of,
the
Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated as of May 16, 2007,
as
the same may be amended from time to time (the “Trust Agreement”), among Xxxxxx
County Bancshares, Inc., as Depositor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property
Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative
Trustees named therein and the Holders, from time to time, of Trust Securities.
The Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the Holder without
charge upon written request to the 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.
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This
Common Securities Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of Delaware.
Terms
used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the Trust
Agreement.
IN
WITNESS
WHEREOF,
one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has executed on behalf of the
Trust this certificate this 16th day of May 2007.
GreenBank Capital Trust I | |
By: | |
Name: R. Xxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Administrative Trustee |
B-2
Exhibit
C
[FORM
OF
PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE]
“THIS
PREFERRED SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE TRUST
AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”) OR A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS PREFERRED
SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR PREFERRED SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
A
PERSON OTHER THAN DTC OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED
IN THE TRUST AGREEMENT, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS PREFERRED SECURITY (OTHER THAN
A
TRANSFER OF THIS PREFERRED SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR
BY
A NOMINEE OF DTC TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT
IN
LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.
UNLESS
THIS PREFERRED SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC
TO
GREENBANK CAPITAL TRUST I OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE
OR
PAYMENT, AND ANY PREFERRED SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE
& CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON 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 ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH
AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED
IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF
SUCH
REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF
ANY PREFERRED SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THE PREFERRED
SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5
OF
THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
THE
HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE TRUST AND THE DEPOSITOR THAT (A) SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES
MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE TRUST OR THE
DEPOSITOR, (II) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (III) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL
“ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (a) (1), (2), (3) OR
(7) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS ACQUIRING THE SECURITY FOR
ITS
OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE
C-1
THE
PREFERRED SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING
AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES
OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF
LESS THAN $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED
TO
BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE
HOLDER OF SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, THE RECEIPT OF THE LIQUIDATION AMOUNT OF OR DISTRIBUTIONS ON SUCH PREFERRED
SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, AND SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE
DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH PREFERRED SECURITIES.
THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR
THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT,
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT 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”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON
OF ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF
ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS PREFERRED SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN,
UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF AVAILABLE
UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 96-23,
95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION OR ITS PURCHASE
AND
HOLDING OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN IS NOT PROHIBITED BY SECTION
406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PURCHASE OR
HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF
THAT EITHER (i) IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION
3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION
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THIS
OBLIGATION IS NOT A DEPOSIT AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY
AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION (THE “FDIC”).
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Certificate
Number
|
56,000
Preferred Securities
$56,000,000
Aggregate Liquidation Amount
|
CUSIP
NO.
[_______________]
Certificate
Evidencing Preferred Securities
of
GreenBank
Capital Trust I
Floating
Rate Preferred Securities
(liquidation
amount $1,000 per Preferred Security)
GreenBank
Capital Trust I, a statutory trust created under the laws of the State of
Delaware (the “Trust”), hereby certifies that Cede & Co. (the “Holder”) is
the registered owner of 56,000 Preferred Securities, or such other number of
Preferred Securities represented hereby as may be set forth in the records
of
the Securities Registrar hereinafter referred to in accordance with the Trust
Agreement (as defined below), of the Trust representing an undivided preferred
beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust and designated the GreenBank
Capital Trust I Floating Rate Preferred Securities (liquidation amount $1,000
per Preferred Security) (the “Preferred Securities”). The Preferred Securities
are transferable on the books and records of the 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 5.7 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 and shall in all respects be subject to the terms
and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust, dated
as of May 16, 2007, as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Trust
Agreement”), among Xxxxxx County Bancshares, Inc., a Tennessee corporation, as
Depositor, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust
Company, as Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees named therein and
the
Holders, from time to time, of Trust Securities. The Holder is entitled to
the
benefits of the Guarantee Agreement entered into by Xxxxxx County Bancshares,
Inc. and Wilmington Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee, dated as of May 16,
2007, as the same may be amended from time to time (the “Guarantee Agreement”),
to the extent provided therein. The Trust will furnish a copy of each of the
Trust Agreement and the Guarantee Agreement to the Holder without charge upon
written request to the Property Trustee 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.
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This
Preferred Securities Certificate shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware.
All
capitalized terms used but not defined in this Preferred Securities Certificate
are used with the meanings specified in the Trust Agreement, including the
Schedules and Exhibits thereto.
IN
WITNESS
WHEREOF,
one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust has executed on behalf of the
Trust this certificate this 16th day of May 2007.
GreenBank Capital Trust I | |
By: | |
Name: R. Xxxx Xxxxxxx | |
Administrative Trustee |
This
is
one of the Preferred Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Trust
Agreement.
Dated:
May 16, 2007
Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Property Trustee | |
By: | ____________________________ |
Authorized officer | |
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[FORM
OF
REVERSE OF SECURITY]
The
Trust
promises to pay Distributions from May 16, 2007, or from the most recent
Distribution Date to which Distributions have been paid or duly provided for,
quarterly (subject to deferral as set forth herein) in arrears on March 15,
June
15, September 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing on June 15, 2007,
at
an annual rate equal to [_______]% beginning on (and including) the date of
original issuance and ending on (but excluding) June 15, 2007 and for each
successive period beginning on (and including) June 15, 2007, and each
successive Distribution Date, at a variable rate per annum, reset quarterly,
and
ending on (but excluding) the next succeeding Distribution Date equal to LIBOR
plus 1.65% of the Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities represented
by
this Preferred Securities Certificate, together with any Additional Interest
Amounts, in respect to such period.
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 that
the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the
payment of such Distributions.
In
the
event (and to the extent) that the Depositor exercises its right under the
Indenture to defer the payment of interest on the Notes, Distributions on the
Preferred Securities shall be deferred.
Under
the
Indenture, so long as no Note Event of Default pursuant to paragraphs (c),
(e)
or (f) of Section 5.1 of the Indenture has occurred and is continuing,
the Depositor shall have the right, at any time and from time to time during
the
term of the Notes, to defer the payment of interest on the Notes for a period
of
up to twenty (20) consecutive quarterly interest payment periods (each such
extended interest payment period, an “Extension Period”), during which Extension
Period no interest shall be due and payable (except any Additional Tax Sums
that
may be due and payable). No interest on the Notes shall be due and
payable during an Extension Period, except at the end thereof, but each
installment of interest that would otherwise have been due and payable during
such Extension Period shall bear Additional Interest (to the extent payment
of
such interest would be legally enforceable) at a variable rate per annum, reset
quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 1.65%, compounded quarterly, from the dates
on
which amounts would have otherwise been due and payable until paid or until
funds for the payment thereof have been made available for
payment. If Distributions are deferred, the deferred Distributions
(including Additional Interest Amounts) shall be paid on the date that the
related Extension Period terminates to Holders (as defined in the Trust
Agreement) of the Trust Securities as they appear on the books and records
of
the Trust on the record date immediately preceding such termination
date.
Distributions
on the Securities must be paid on the dates payable (after giving effect to
any
Extension Period) to the extent that the Trust has funds available for the
payment of such Distributions in the Payment Account of the
Trust. The Trust’s funds available for Distribution to the Holders of
the Preferred Securities will be limited to payments received from the
Depositor. The payment of Distributions out of moneys held by the
Trust is guaranteed by the Depositor pursuant to the Guarantee
Agreement.
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During
any such Extension Period, the Depositor shall not (i) declare or pay any
dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Depositor’s capital stock or
(ii) make any payment of principal of or any interest or premium on or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Depositor that rank pari passu
in all respects with or junior in interest to the Notes (other than (a)
repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital stock of
the
Depositor in connection with (1) any employment contract, benefit plan or other
similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees,
officers, directors or consultants, (2) a dividend reinvestment or stockholder
stock purchase plan or (3) the issuance of capital stock of the Depositor (or
securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as
consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the applicable
Extension Period, (b) as a result of a reclassification of the Guarantor’s
capital stock or the exchange or conversion of any class or series of the
Depositor’s capital stock (or any capital stock of a Subsidiary (as defined in
the Indenture) of the Depositor) for any class or series of the Depositor’s
capital stock or of any class or series of the Depositor’s indebtedness for any
class or series of the Depositor’s capital stock, (c) the purchase of fractional
interests in shares of the Depositor’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion
or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted
or
exchanged, (d) any declaration of a dividend or distribution in connection
with
any Rights Plan (as defined in the Indenture), the issuance of rights, stock
or
other property under any Rights Plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights
pursuant thereto or (e) any dividend or distribution in the form of stock,
warrants, options or other rights where the dividend or distribution stock
or
the stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights
is
the same stock as that on which the dividend or distribution is being paid
or
ranks pari passu with or junior to such stock).
On
each
Note Redemption Date, on the stated maturity (or any date of principal repayment
upon early maturity) of the Notes and on each other date on (or in respect
of)
which any principal on the Notes is repaid, the Trust will be required to redeem
a Like Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption Price. Under the
Indenture, the Notes may be redeemed by the Depositor on any Interest Payment
Date, at the Depositor’s option, on or after June 15, 2012 in whole or in part
from time to time at a redemption price equal to one hundred percent (100%)
of
the principal amount thereof or the redeemed portion thereof, as applicable,
together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including
any Additional Interest, to but excluding the date fixed for redemption;
provided, that the Depositor shall have received the prior approval of the
Federal Reserve if then required. The Notes may also be redeemed by
the Depositor, at its option, at any time, in whole but not in part, upon the
occurrence of a Capital Disqualification Event, an Investment Company Event
or a
Tax Event at the Special Event Redemption Price.
The
Trust
Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be redeemed at the Redemption
Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous redemption or payment at
maturity of Notes. Redemptions of the Trust Securities (or portion thereof)
shall be made and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption
Date
only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand and available in the
Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
Payments
of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amounts), the Redemption
Price, Liquidation Amount or any other amounts in respect of the Preferred
Securities shall be
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The
indebtedness evidenced by the Notes is, to the extent provided in the Indenture,
subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of
all
Senior Debt (as defined in the Indenture), and this Security is issued subject
to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR
VALUE
RECEIVED,
the undersigned assigns and transfers this Preferred Securities Certificate
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 Securities Certificate on the books of the 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 Securities 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 S.E.C. Rule
17Ad-15.
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Exhibit
D
Junior
Subordinated Indenture
JUNIOR
SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
between
XXXXXX
COUNTY BANCSHARES, INC.
and
WILMINGTON
TRUST COMPANY,
as
Trustee
_____________________
Dated
as of May 16, 2007
_____________________
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE I Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application |
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SECTION 1.1. Definitions. |
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SECTION 1.2. Compliance Certificate and Opinions. |
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SECTION 1.3. Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee. |
11
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SECTION 1.4. Acts of Holders. |
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SECTION 1.5. Notices, Etc. |
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SECTION 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver. |
14
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SECTION 1.7. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. |
14
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SECTION 1.8. Successors and Assigns. |
14
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SECTION 1.9. Separability Clause. |
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SECTION 1.10. Benefits of Indenture. |
15
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SECTION 1.11. Governing Law. |
15
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SECTION 1.12. Submission to Jurisdiction. |
15
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SECTION 1.13. Non-Business Days. |
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ARTICLE II Security Forms |
16
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SECTION 2.1. Form of Security. |
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SECTION 2.2. Restrictive Legend. |
21
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SECTION 2.3. Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication. |
23
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SECTION 2.4. Temporary Securities. |
23
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SECTION 2.5. Definitive Securities. |
24
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ARTICLE III The Securities |
24
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SECTION 3.1. Payment of Principal and Interest. |
24
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SECTION 3.2. Denominations. |
26
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SECTION 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. |
26
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SECTION 3.4. Global Securities. |
27
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SECTION 3.5. Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally. |
29
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SECTION 3.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. |
30
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SECTION 3.7. Persons Deemed Owners. |
30
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SECTION 3.8. Cancellation. |
31
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SECTION 3.9. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates. |
31
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SECTION 3.10. Right of Set-Off. |
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SECTION 3.11. Agreed Tax Treatment. |
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XXXXXXX 3.12. CUSIP Numbers. |
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ARTICLE IV Satisfaction and Discharge |
32
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SECTION 4.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. |
32
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SECTION 4.2. Application of Trust Money. |
34
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ARTICLE V Remedies |
34
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SECTION 5.1. Events of Default. |
34
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SECTION 5.2. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. |
35
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SECTION 5.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. |
36
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SECTION 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. |
37
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SECTION 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities. |
37
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SECTION 5.6. Application of Money Collected. |
37
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SECTION 5.7. Limitation on Suits. |
38
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SECTION 5.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest; Direct Action by Holders of Preferred Securities. |
39
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SECTION 5.9. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. |
39
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SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. |
39
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SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. |
39
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SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders. |
40
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SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults. |
40
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SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs. |
40
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SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. |
41
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ARTICLE VI The Trustee |
41
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SECTION 6.1. Corporate Trustee Required. |
41
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SECTION 6.2. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. |
41
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SECTION 6.3. Notice of Defaults. |
43
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SECTION 6.4. Certain Rights of Trustee. |
43
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SECTION 6.5. May Hold Securities. |
45
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SECTION 6.6. Compensation; Reimbursement; Indemnity. |
45
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SECTION 6.7. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. |
46
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SECTION 6.8. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. |
47
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SECTION 6.9. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. |
47
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SECTION 6.10. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. |
47
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SECTION 6.11. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. |
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ARTICLE VII Holder’s Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company |
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SECTION 7.1. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders. |
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SECTION 7.2. Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders. |
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SECTION 7.3. Reports by Company and Trustee. |
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ARTICLE VIII Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease |
50
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SECTION 8.1. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms. |
50
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SECTION 8.2. Successor Company Substituted. |
51
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ARTICLE IX Supplemental Indentures |
52
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SECTION 9.1. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders. |
52
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SECTION 9.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. |
52
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SECTION 9.3. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. |
53
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SECTION 9.4. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. |
53
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SECTION 9.5. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures. |
53
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ARTICLE X Covenants |
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SECTION 10.1. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. |
54
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SECTION 10.2. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust. |
54
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SECTION 10.3. Statement as to Compliance. |
55
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SECTION 10.4. Calculation Agent. |
55
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SECTION 10.5. Additional Tax Sums. |
56
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SECTION 10.6. Additional Covenants. |
56
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SECTION 10.7. Waiver of Covenants. |
57
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SECTION 10.8. Treatment of Securities. |
57
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ARTICLE XI Redemption of Securities |
58
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SECTION 11.1. Optional Redemption. |
58
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SECTION 11.2. Special Event Redemption. |
58
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SECTION 11.3. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. |
58
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SECTION 11.4. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. |
58
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SECTION 11.5. Notice of Redemption. |
59
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SECTION 11.6. Deposit of Redemption Price. |
60
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SECTION 11.7. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. |
60
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ARTICLE XII Subordination of Securities |
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SECTION 12.1. Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt. |
61
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SECTION 12.2. No Payment When Senior Debt in Default; Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc. |
61
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SECTION 12.3. Payment Permitted If No Default. |
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SECTION 12.4. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt. |
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SECTION 12.5. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights. |
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SECTION 12.6. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination. |
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SECTION 12.7. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions. |
64
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SECTION 12.8. Notice to Trustee. |
64
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SECTION 12.9. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent. |
65
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SECTION 12.10. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt. |
65
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SECTION 12.11. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee’s Rights. |
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SECTION 12.12. Article Applicable to Paying Agents. |
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SCHEDULES
Schedule A | Determination of LIBOR |
Exhibit A | Form of Officer’s Certificate |
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Junior
Subordinated Indenture, dated as of May 16, 2007, between Xxxxxx County
Bancshares, Inc., a Tennessee corporation (the “Company”), and
Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking corporation, as Trustee (in
such
capacity, the “Trustee”).
Recitals
of the Company
Whereas,
the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture
to
provide for the issuance of its unsecured junior subordinated deferrable
interest notes (the “Securities”) issued to evidence loans made to the
Company of the proceeds from the issuance by GreenBank Capital Trust I, a
Delaware statutory trust (the “Trust”), of undivided preferred
beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust (the “Preferred
Securities”) and undivided common beneficial interests in the assets of the
Trust (the “Common Securities” and, collectively with the Preferred
Securities, the “Trust Securities”), and to provide the terms and
conditions upon which the Securities are to be authenticated, issued and
delivered; and
Whereas,
all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company,
in
accordance with its terms, have been done.
Now,
therefore, this Indenture Witnesseth:
For
and
in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the
Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE
I
Definitions
and Other Provisions of General Application
SECTION
1.1. Definitions.
For
all
purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless
the
context otherwise requires:
(a) the
terms
defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to them in this
Article I;
(b) the
words
“include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation”;
(c) all
accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned
to them
in accordance with GAAP;
(d) unless
the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section”
refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this
Indenture;
(e) the
words
“hereby,” “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import
refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section
or
other subdivision;
1
(f) a
reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and
(g) the
masculine, feminine or neuter genders used herein shall include the masculine,
feminine and neuter genders.
“Act”
when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section
1.4.
“Administrative
Trustee” means, with respect to the Trust, a Person identified as an
“Administrative Trustee” in the Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as
Administrative Trustee of the Trust under the Trust Agreement and not in
its
individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor Administrative Trustee appointed as therein provided.
“Additional
Interest” means the interest, if any, that shall accrue on any amounts
payable on the Securities, the payment of which has not been made on the
applicable Interest Payment Date and which shall accrue at the rate per annum
specified or determined as specified in such Security.
“Additional
Tax Sums” has the meaning specified in Section 10.5.
“Additional
Taxes” means taxes, duties or other governmental charges imposed on the
Trust as a result of a Tax Event (which, for the sake of clarity, does not
include amounts required to be deducted or withheld by the Trust from payments
made by the Trust to or for the benefit of the Holder of, or any Person that
acquires a beneficial interest in, the Securities).
“Affiliate”
of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with
such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used
with respect to any specified Person, means the power to direct the management
and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms
“controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
“Applicable
Depository Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction
involving a Global Security or beneficial interest therein, the rules and
procedures of the Depositary for such Security, in each case to the extent
applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.
“Authenticating
Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section
6.11 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate the
Securities.
“Bankruptcy
Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code or any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
“Board
of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or any duly
authorized committee of that board.
“Board
Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board
of
Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification.
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“Business
Day” means any day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) a day on which
banking institutions in the City of New York are authorized or required by
law
or executive order to remain closed or (iii) a day on which the Corporate
Trust
Office of the Trustee is closed for business.
“Calculation
Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 10.4.
“Capital
Disqualification Event” means the receipt by the Company of an Opinion of
Counsel experienced in such matters that, as a result of an amendment to
or a
change in law, rule or regulation (including any announced prospective change)
or a change in interpretation or application of law, rule or regulation by
any
legislative body, court, governmental agency or regulatory authority, there
is
more than an insubstantial risk that within ninety (90) days of the date
of such
opinion, the aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities will
not
be eligible to be treated by the Company as “Tier 1 Capital” (or the then
equivalent) for purposes of the capital adequacy guidelines of the Federal
Reserve or other “appropriate Federal banking agency” as such term is defined in
12 U.S.C. 1813(q), which amendment, change or prospective change becomes
effective or would become effective, as the case may be, on or after the
date of
issuance of the Securities; provided, however, that the inability of
the Company to treat all or any portion of the liquidation amount of the
Preferred Securities as Tier 1 Capital shall not constitute the basis for
a
Capital Disqualification Event if such inability results from the Company
having
such Preferred Securities outstanding in an amount that for any reason is
in
excess of the amount which may now or hereafter qualify for treatment as
Tier 1
Capital under applicable capital adequacy guidelines.
“Common
Securities” has the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Indenture.
“Common
Stock” means the common stock, par value $0.50 per share, of the
Company.
“Company”
means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this
Indenture until a successor corporation shall have become such pursuant to
the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall
mean such successor corporation.
“Company
Request” and “Company Order” mean, respectively, the written
request or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the
Board
of Directors, its Chief Executive Officer or President, and by its Chief
Financial Officer, Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Corporate
Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any
particular time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which
office
at the date of this Indenture is located at Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration.
“Debt”
means, with respect to any Person, whether recourse is to all or a portion
of
the assets of such Person, whether currently existing or hereafter incurred
and
whether or not contingent and without duplication, (i) every obligation of
such
Person for money borrowed; (ii) every obligation of such Person evidenced
by
bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments, including obligations
incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or businesses;
(iii) every reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect to letters
of
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“Defaulted
Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 3.1.
“Delaware
Trustee” means, with respect to the Trust, the Person identified as the
“Delaware Trustee” in the Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Delaware
Trustee of the Trust under the Trust Agreement and not in its individual
capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor
Delaware Trustee appointed as therein provided.
“Depositary”
means an organization registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange
Act
that is designated as Depositary by the Company or any successor
thereto. DTC will be the initial Depositary.
“Depository
Participant” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or
other Person for whom from time to time a Depositary effects book-entry
transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the Depositary.
“Distributions”
means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities as provided in the
Trust Agreement and referred to therein as “Distributions.”
“Dollar”
or “$” means the currency of the United States of America that, as at the time
of payment, is legal tender for the payment of public and private
debts.
“DTC”
means The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation.
“Event
of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Exchange
Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any statute successor
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
“Expiration
Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
“Extension
Period” has the meaning specified in Section 3.9.
“Federal
Reserve” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the
staff thereof, or a Federal Reserve Bank, acting through delegated authority,
in
each case under the rules, regulations and policies of the Federal Reserve
System, or if at any time after the
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“GAAP”
means United States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently
applied, from time to time in effect.
“Global
Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities,
the ownership and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by
a
Depositary.
“Government
Obligation” means (a) any security that is (i) a direct obligation of the
United States of America of which the full faith and credit of the United
States
of America is pledged or (ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised
by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of America
or
the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i) or
(ii),
is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (b)
any
depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the
Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any Government Obligation that
is
specified in clause (a) above and held by such bank for the account of the
holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment
of
principal of or interest on any Government Obligation that is so specified
and
held, provided, that (except as required by law) such custodian is not
authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of
such
depositary receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of
the
Government Obligation or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced
by such depositary receipt.
“Guarantee
Agreement” means the Guarantee Agreement executed by the Company and
Wilmington Trust Company, as Guarantee Trustee, contemporaneously with the
execution and delivery of this Indenture, for the benefit of the holders
of the
Preferred Securities, as modified, amended or supplemented from time to
time.
“Holder”
means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Securities
Register.
“Indenture”
means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time
be
amended or supplemented by one or more amendments or indentures supplemental
hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
“Interest
Payment Date” means March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each
year, commencing on June 15, 2007, during the term of this
Indenture.
“Investment
Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940 or any successor
statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
“Investment
Company Event” means the receipt by the Company of an Opinion of Counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of the occurrence
of
a change in law, rule or regulation (including any announced prospective
change)
or a written change in interpretation or application of law, rule or regulation
by any legislative body, court, governmental agency or regulatory authority,
there is more than an insubstantial risk that the Trust is or, within ninety
(90) days of the date of such opinion will be, considered an “investment
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“LIBOR”
has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“LIBOR
Business Day” has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“LIBOR
Determination Date” has the meaning specified in Schedule
A.
“Maturity,”
when used with respect to any Security, means the date on which the principal
of
such Security or any installment of principal becomes due and payable as
therein
or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
“Notice
of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section
5.1(d).
“Office
of Thrift Supervision” means the Office of Thrift Supervision, as from time
to time constituted or, if at any time after the execution of this Indenture
such Office is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it,
then
the body performing such duties at such time.
“Officers’
Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, the
Chief Executive Officer or President, and by the Chief Financial Officer,
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary,
of
the Company and delivered to the Trustee.
“Opinion
of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or
an employee of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
“Original
Issue Date” means the date of original issuance of each
Security.
“Outstanding”
means, when used in reference to any Securities, as of the date of
determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under
this
Indenture, except:
(i) Securities
theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
(ii) Securities
for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the
Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if
the
Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities;
provided, that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such
redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor
satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; and
(iii) Securities
that have been paid, or in substitution for or in lieu of which other Securities
have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any
such
Securities
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provided,
that, in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount
of
Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned by the Company or any
other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such
other
obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that,
in
determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows to be
so
owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned that have been pledged
in
good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such
Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon
the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Securities initially issued
to
the Trust that are owned by the Trust shall be deemed to be Outstanding
notwithstanding the ownership by the Company or an Affiliate of any beneficial
interest in the Trust.
“Paying
Agent” means the Trustee or any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of or any premium or interest on, or other amounts in respect of,
any
Securities on behalf of the Company.
“Person”
means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, limited liability
company, trust, unincorporated association, government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever
nature.
“Place
of Payment” means, with respect to the Securities, the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee.
“Placement
Agent” has the meaning specified in the Trust Agreement.
“Preferred
Securities” has the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Indenture.
“Predecessor
Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security
evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security. For the purposes of this definition, any security
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.6 in lieu of a mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt
as
the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
“Proceeding”
has the meaning specified in Section 12.2.
“Property
Trustee” means the Person identified as the “Property Trustee” in the Trust
Agreement, solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Trust under
the
Trust Agreement and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest
in such capacity, or any successor Property Trustee appointed as therein
provided.
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“Purchaser”
means SunTrust Equity Funding, LLC, as purchaser of the Preferred Securities
pursuant to the Subscription Agreement.
“Redemption
Date” means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, the
date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
“Redemption
Price” means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, in
whole or in part, the price at which such security or portion thereof is
to be
redeemed as fixed by or pursuant to this Indenture.
“Reference
Banks” has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“Regular
Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date with
respect to the Securities means the date that is fifteen (15) days preceding
such Interest Payment Date (whether or not a Business Day).
“Responsible
Officer” means, with respect to the Trustee, any Senior Vice President, any
Vice President, any Assistant Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant
Secretary, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, any Financial Services
Officer or Assistant Financial Services Officer, or any other officer of
the
Corporate Trust Department of the Trustee and also means, with respect to
a
particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter
is
referred because of that officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
“Rights
Plan” means a plan of the Company providing for the issuance by the Company
to all holders of its Common Stock of rights entitling the holders thereof
to
subscribe for or purchase shares of any class or series of capital stock
of the
Company which rights (i) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of
such
Common Stock and (ii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of such
Common Stock, in each case until the occurrence of a specified event or
events.
“Securities”
or “Security” means any debt securities or debt security, as the case
may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
“Securities
Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 or any successor statute thereto, in
each case as amended from time to time.
“Securities
Register” and “Securities Registrar” have the respective meanings
specified in Section 3.5.
“Senior
Debt” means the principal of and any premium and interest on (including
interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or
for
reorganization relating to the Company, whether or not such claim for
post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding) all Debt of the Company,
whether incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture or thereafter
incurred, unless it is provided in the instrument creating or evidencing
the
same or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, that such obligations
are not
superior in right of payment to the Securities; provided, however, that
if the Company is subject to the regulation and supervision of an "appropriate
Federal banking agency" within the meaning of 12 U.S.C. 1813(q), the Company
shall have received the approval of such appropriate Federal banking agency
prior to issuing any
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“Special
Event” means the occurrence of a Capital Disqualification Event, an
Investment Company Event or a Tax Event.
“Special
Event Redemption Price” has the meaning specified in Section
11.2.
“Special
Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed
by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1.
“Stated
Maturity” means June 15, 2037.
“Subscription
Agreement” means the Preferred Securities Subscription Agreement, dated as
of May 16, 2007, by and among the Company, the Trust, the Purchaser and SunTrust
Capital Markets, Inc. (as to certain provisions thereof).
“Subsidiary”
means a Person more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding voting stock
or
other voting interests of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the
Company
or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more other
Subsidiaries. For purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means stock that
ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all
times
or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by reason
of
any contingency.
“Tax
Event” means the receipt by the Company of an Opinion of Counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of (a) any amendment
to or change (including any announced prospective change) in the laws, rules
or
any regulations thereunder of the United States or any political subdivision
or
taxing authority thereof or therein or (b) any judicial decision or any official
administrative pronouncement (including any private letter ruling, technical
advice memorandum or field service advice) or regulatory procedure, including
any notice or announcement of intent to adopt any such pronouncement or
procedure (an “Administrative Action”), regardless of whether such judicial
decision or Administrative Action is issued to or in connection with a
proceeding involving the Company or the Trust and whether or not subject
to
review or appeal, which amendment, change, judicial decision or Administrative
Action is enacted, promulgated or announced, in each case, on or after the
date
of issuance of the Securities, there is more than an insubstantial risk that
(i)
the Trust is, or will be within ninety (90) days of the date of such opinion,
subject to United States federal income tax with respect to income received
or
accrued on the Securities, (ii) interest payable by the Company on the
Securities is not, or within ninety (90) days of the date of such opinion,
will
not be, deductible by
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“Trust”
has the meaning specified in the first recital of this Indenture.
“Trust
Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement executed and
delivered by the Company, the Property Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company,
as
Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees named therein,
contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Indenture, for
the
benefit of the holders of the Trust Securities, as amended or supplemented
from
time to time.
“Trustee”
means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this
instrument, solely in its capacity as such and not in its individual capacity,
until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and, thereafter, “Trustee” shall mean or
include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.
“Trust
Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended and as in
effect on the date as of this Indenture.
“Trust
Securities” has the meaning specified in the first recital of this
Indenture.
SECTION
1.2. Compliance
Certificate and Opinions.
(a) Upon
any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under
any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee
an
Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent (including covenants
compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent), if any, provided
for
in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with
and an
Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of such counsel all such
conditions precedent (including covenants compliance with which constitutes
a
condition precedent), if any, have been complied with, except that, in the
case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need
be
furnished.
(b) Every
certificate with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided
for
in this Indenture (other than the certificate provided pursuant to Section
10.3) shall include:
(i) a
statement by each individual signing such certificate or opinion that such
individual has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(ii) a
brief
statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation
upon
which the statements or opinions of such individual contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
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(iii) a
statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he or she has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express
an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with; and
(iv) a
statement as to whether, in the opinion of such individual, such condition
or
covenant has been complied with.
SECTION
1.3. Forms
of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
(a) In
any
case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by
an
opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters
be
certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that
they
be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may
certify
or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such
Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion
as to such matters in one or several documents.
(b) Any
certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar
as it
relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations
by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or after reasonable inquiry should
know,
that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to matters
upon
which his or her certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such
certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to
factual
matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer
or
officers of the Company stating that the information with respect to such
factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel
knows,
or after reasonable inquiry should know, that the certificate or opinion
or
representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
(c) Where
any
Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests,
consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this
Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one
instrument.
(d) Whenever,
subsequent to the receipt by the Trustee of any Board Resolution, Officers’
Certificate, Opinion of Counsel or other document or instrument, a clerical,
typographical or other inadvertent or unintentional error or omission shall
be
discovered therein, a new document or instrument may be substituted therefor
in
corrected form with the same force and effect as if originally received in
the
corrected form and, irrespective of the date or dates of the actual execution
and/or delivery thereof, such substitute document or instrument shall be
deemed
to have been executed and/or delivered as of the date or dates required with
respect to the document or instrument for which it is
substituted. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any
Securities issued under the authority of such defective document or instrument
shall nevertheless be the valid obligations of the Company entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture equally and ratably with all other Outstanding
Securities.
SECTION
1.4. Acts
of Holders.
(a) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided by this Indenture to be given to or taken by Holders may
be
embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar
tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent thereof duly appointed
in
writing; and, except as herein otherwise
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(b) The
fact
and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing
may be
proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by the certificate
of
any notary public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments
of
deeds, certifying that the individual signing such instrument or writing
acknowledged to him or her the execution thereof. Where such execution is
by a
Person acting in other than his or her individual capacity, such certificate
or
affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his or her
authority. The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the
same,
may also be proved in any other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient
and in
accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine.
(c) The
ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.
(d) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action by the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the
same
Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Security.
(e) Without
limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled to take any action hereunder with
regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part
of
the principal amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents
each of which may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or
any
part of such principal amount.
(f) Except
as
set forth in paragraph (g) of this Section 1.4, the Company may set any
day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding
Securities entitled to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted
by this
Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities. If any record
date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities
on
such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant
action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date;
provided, that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken
on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date (as defined below) by Holders
of
the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities on such record
date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the
Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record
date
has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record
date
previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled
and of no effect). Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to
this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such
record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration
Date
to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Securities in
the
manner set forth in Section 1.6.
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(g) The
Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the
Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to join in the giving or making
of
(i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration or rescission
or
annulment thereof referred to in Section 5.2, (iii) any request to
institute proceedings referred to in Section 5.7(b) or (iv) any direction
referred to in Section 5.12. If any record date is set pursuant to this
paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date, and
no
other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request
or
direction, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date;
provided, that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken
on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing in
this
paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record
date for any action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant
to
this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically
and
with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect). Promptly
after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Trustee, at
the
Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action
by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company
in
writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section
1.6.
(h) With
respect to any record date set pursuant to paragraph (f) or (g) of this
Section 1.4, the party hereto that sets such record date may designate
any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the
Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided, that no such
change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration Date
is
given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each Holder of Securities
in
the manner set forth in Section 1.6, on or prior to the existing
Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to
any
record date set pursuant to this Section 1.4, the party hereto that set
such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the ninetieth
(90th) day
after such record date as the Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject
to
its right to change the Expiration Date as provided in this paragraph.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than the
one
hundred and eightieth (180th) day
after the
applicable record date.
SECTION
1.5. Notices,
Etc.
Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, Act of
Holders, or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be
made
upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
(a) the
Trustee by any Holder, any holder of Preferred Securities or the Company
shall
be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed
in
writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
(b) the
Company by the Trustee, any Holder or any holder of Preferred Securities
shall
be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed, first
class,
postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at 000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000 Attn: Chief Financial Officer, or at any other
address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
Company,
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(c) the
Placement Agent by the Trustee, the Company, any Holder or any holder or
beneficial owner of the Preferred Securities, shall be sufficient for every
purpose hereunder if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid to
the
Placement Agent at 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, N.E., 24th Floor,
Mail
Code 3950, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 or any other address previously furnished
by
the Placement Agent, or
(d) the
Purchaser by the Trustee, the Company, any Holder or any holder or beneficial
owner of the Preferred Securities, shall be sufficient for every purpose
hereunder if in writing and mailed first-class postage prepaid to the Purchaser
at 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx XX, 00xx Xxxxx,
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx 00000, or any other address previously furnished by the
Purchaser.
SECTION
1.6. Notice
to Holders; Waiver.
Where
this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall
be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing
and mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such
event
to the address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register, not
later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed
for the giving of such notice. If, by reason of the suspension of or
irregularities in regular mail service or for any other reason, it shall
be
impossible or impracticable to mail notice of any event to Holders when said
notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture,
then
any manner of giving such notice as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee
shall
be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. In any case where notice
to
Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any
defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the
sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this Indenture
provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by
the
Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event,
and
such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by
Holders
shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition
precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
SECTION
1.7. Effect
of Headings and Table of Contents.
The
Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction of this
Indenture.
SECTION
1.8. Successors
and Assigns.
This
Indenture shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of any successor
to the Company and the Trustee, including any successor by operation of
law. Except in connection with a transaction involving the Company
that is permitted under Article VIII and pursuant to which the assignee
agrees in writing to perform the Company’s obligations hereunder, the Company
shall not assign its obligations hereunder.
SECTION
1.9. Separability
Clause.
If
any
provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal
or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in
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SECTION
1.10. Benefits
of Indenture.
Nothing
in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to
any
Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors and assigns, the
holders of Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities and, to the extent
expressly provided in Sections 5.2, 5.8, 5.9, 5.11,
5.13, 9.2 and 10.7, the holders of
Preferred Securities,
any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
Indenture.
SECTION
1.11. Governing
Law.
This
Indenture and the rights and obligations of each of the Holders, the Company
and
the Trustee shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed
by
the laws of the State of New York without reference to its conflict of laws
provisions (other than Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations
Law).
SECTION
1.12. Submission
to Jurisdiction.
ANY
LEGAL
ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY OR AGAINST ANY PARTY HERETO OR WITH RESPECT TO OR
ARISING OUT OF THIS INDENTURE MAY BE BROUGHT IN OR REMOVED TO THE COURTS
OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, OR OF THE UNITED STATES
OF
AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK (IN EACH CASE SITTING IN THE
BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN). BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS INDENTURE, EACH
PARTY
ACCEPTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS (AND COURTS OF
APPEALS
THEREFROM) FOR LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
INDENTURE.
SECTION
1.13. Non-Business
Days.
If
any
Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security
shall
not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture or the Securities) payment of interest, premium or principal or
other
amounts in respect of such Security shall not be made on such date, but shall
be
made on the next succeeding Business Day (and no interest shall accrue in
respect of the amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period from and
after
such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case
may
be, until such next succeeding Business Day) except that, if such Business
Day
falls in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on
the
immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and
effect
as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date or at the Stated
Maturity.
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ARTICLE
II
Security
Forms
SECTION
2.1. Form
of Security.
Any
Security issued hereunder shall be in substantially the following
form:
Xxxxxx
County Bancshares, Inc.
Floating
Rate Junior Subordinated Note due 2037
No.
001 $57,732,000
Xxxxxx
County Bancshares, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws
of
Tennessee (hereinafter called the “Company,” which term includes any
successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value
received, hereby promises to pay to Wilmington Trust Company, not in its
individual capacity but solely as Property Trustee for GreenBank Capital
Trust
I, a Delaware statutory trust (the “Holder”), or registered assigns, the
principal sum of Fifty Seven Million Seven Hundred and Thirty-Two ($57,732,000)
Dollars or such other principal amount represented hereby as may be set forth
in
the records of the Securities Registrar hereinafter referred to in accordance
with the Indenture on June 15, 2037. The Company further promises to
pay interest on said principal sum from May 16, 2007, or from the most recent
Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for,
quarterly (subject to deferral as set forth herein) in arrears on March 15,
June
15, September 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing on June 15, 2007,
or
if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day
(and
no interest shall accrue in respect of the amounts whose payment is so delayed
for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date until such next
succeeding Business Day), except that, if such Business Day falls in the
next
succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same force and effect as if
made
on the Interest Payment Date, at an annual rate equal to [___]% beginning
on
(and including) the Original Issue Date and ending on (but excluding) June
15,
2007 and at an annual rate for each successive period beginning on (and
including) June 15, 2007, and each successive Interest Payment Date, and
ending
on (but excluding) the next succeeding Interest Payment Date equal to LIBOR
plus
1.65%, together with Additional Tax Sums, if any, as provided in Section
10.5 of the Indenture, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided
for or made available for payment; provided, that any overdue
principal, premium or Additional Tax Sums and any overdue installment of
interest shall bear Additional Interest (to the extent that the payment of
such
interest shall be legally enforceable) at a variable rate per annum, reset
quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 1.65%, compounded quarterly, from the dates
such
amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment, and such
interest shall be payable on demand.
The
amount of interest payable shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
and
the actual number of days elapsed in the relevant interest period, computed
by
dividing the actual number of days elapsed in the period by 360 and multiplying
the result by the applicable per annum rate in effect for the period. The
interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided
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So
long
as no Event of Default pursuant to Sections 5.1(c), (e) or (f) of the
Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right,
at
any time and from time to time during the term of this Security, to defer
the
payment of interest on this Security for a period of up to twenty (20)
consecutive quarterly interest payment periods (each such period, an
“Extension Period”), during which Extension Period(s), no interest
shall be due and payable (except any Additional Tax Sums that may be due
and
payable). No Extension Period shall end on a date other than an
Interest Payment Date, and no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated
Maturity of the principal of this Security. No interest shall be due
and payable during an Extension Period (except any Additional Tax Sums that
may
be due and payable), except at the end thereof, but each installment of interest
that would otherwise have been due and payable during such Extension Period
shall bear Additional Interest (to the extent payment of such interest would
be
legally enforceable) at a variable rate per annum, reset quarterly, equal
to
LIBOR plus 1.65%, compounded quarterly, from the dates on which amounts would
have otherwise been due and payable until paid or made available for
payment. At the end of any such Extension Period, the Company shall
pay all interest then accrued and unpaid on this Security, together with
such
Additional Interest. Prior to the termination of any such Extension
Period, the Company may further defer the payment of interest;
provided, that (i) all such previous and further extensions comprising
such Extension Period do not exceed twenty (20) quarterly interest payment
periods, (ii) no Extension Period shall end on a date other than an Interest
Payment Date and (iii) no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated
Maturity of the principal of this Security. Upon the termination of
any such Extension Period and upon the payment of all accrued and unpaid
interest and any Additional Interest then due on any Interest Payment Date,
the
Company may elect to begin a new Extension Period; provided, that (i)
such Extension Period does not exceed twenty (20) quarterly interest payment
periods, (ii) no Extension Period shall end on a date other than an Interest
Payment Date and (iii) no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated
Maturity of the principal of this Security. The Company shall give
the Holder of this Security and the Trustee written notice of its election
to
begin any such Extension Period at least five Business Days prior to the
next
succeeding Interest Payment Date on which interest on this Security would
be
payable but for such deferral or, so long as this Security is held by the
Trust,
at least five Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding
date
on which Distributions on the Preferred Securities of GreenBank Capital Trust
I
would be payable but for such deferral and (ii) the date on which the Property
Trustee of such Trust is required to give notice to any securities exchange
or
other applicable self-regulatory organization or to holders of such Preferred
Securities of the record date for the payment of such
Distributions.
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During
any such Extension Period, the Company shall not (i) declare or pay any
dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company’s capital stock or (ii)
make any payment of principal of or any interest or premium on or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company that rank pari
passu in all respects with or junior in interest to this Security (other
than (a) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital
stock of the Company in connection with (1) any employment contract, benefit
plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more
employees, officers, directors or consultants, (2) a dividend reinvestment
or
stockholder stock purchase plan or (3) the issuance of capital stock of the
Company (or securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock)
as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the
applicable Extension Period, (b) as a result of a reclassification of the
Guarantor’s capital stock or the exchange or conversion of any class or series
of the Company’s capital stock (or any capital stock of a Subsidiary of the
Company) for any class or series of the Company’s capital stock or of any class
or series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of the Company’s
capital stock, (c) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the
Company’s capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of
such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (d) any
declaration of a dividend or distribution in connection with any Rights Plan,
the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any Rights Plan, or
the
redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto or (e) any dividend or
distribution in the form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where
the
dividend or distribution stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of such
warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the
dividend or distribution is being paid or ranks pari passu with or
junior to such stock).
Payment
of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Security shall be
made in
such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment
is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. Payments of
principal, premium, if any, and interest due at the Maturity of this Security
shall be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that
purpose
in the Place of Payment upon surrender of such Securities to the Paying Agent,
and payments of interest shall be made, subject to such surrender where
applicable, by wire transfer at such place and to such account at a banking
institution in the United States as may be designated in writing to the Paying
Agent at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date for payment by the
Person entitled thereto unless proper written transfer instructions have
not
been received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments shall
be
made by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall
appear
in the Security Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as
the holder of this Security is the Property Trustee, the payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including any overdue
installment of interest and Additional Tax Sums, if any) on this Security
will
be made at such place and to such account as may be designated by the Property
Trustee.
The
indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided in the
Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment
in
full of all Senior Debt, and this Security is issued subject to the provisions
of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by
accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions,
(b)
authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such actions
as
may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided
and
(c) appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or her acceptance
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Unless
the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee
by
manual signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under
the
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
This
Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (the
“Securities”) issued under the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as
of May 16, 2007 (the “Indenture”), between the Company and Wilmington
Trust Company, as Trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee,” which term
includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and
all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement
of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder
of
the Company, the Trustee, the holders of Senior Debt and the Holders of the
Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered.
All
terms
used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture or in the Amended
and
Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of May 16, 2007 (as modified, amended
or
supplemented from time to time, the “Trust Agreement”), relating to
GreenBank Capital Trust I (the “Trust”), among the Company, as
Depositor, the Trustees named therein and the Holders from time to time of
the
Trust Securities issued pursuant thereto, shall have the meanings assigned
to
them in the Indenture or the Trust Agreement, as the case may be.
The
Company may, on any Interest Payment Date, at its option, upon not less than
thirty (30) days’ nor more than sixty (60) days’ written notice to the Holders
of the Securities (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to
the
Trustee) on or after June 15, 2012 and subject to the terms and conditions
of
Article XI of the Indenture, redeem this Security in whole at any time or
in part from time to time at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred percent
(100%) of the principal amount hereof, together, in the case of any such
redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest, to
but
excluding the date fixed for redemption; provided, that the Company
shall have received the prior approval of the Federal Reserve if then
required.
In
addition, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Special Event,
the Company may, at its option, upon not less than thirty (30) days’ nor more
than sixty (60) days’ written notice to the Holders of the Securities (unless a
shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), redeem this
Security, in whole but not in part, subject to the terms and conditions of
Article XI of the Indenture at the Special Event Redemption Price;
provided, that the Company shall have received the prior approval
of
the Federal Reserve if then required.
In
the
event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities
for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder
hereof upon the cancellation hereof. If less than all the Securities
are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected
not more than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee
from
the Outstanding Securities not previously called for redemption, by such
method
as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for
the
selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any
Security.
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The
Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the Company
and
the Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental indenture or indentures
for
the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights and obligations of the
Company
and of the Holders of the Securities, with the consent of the Holders of
not
less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of specified percentages
in principal amount of the Securities, on behalf of the Holders of all
Securities, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of
the
Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.
Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive
and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security
and of
any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange
herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver
is
made upon this Security.
No
reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of
the
Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute
and unconditional, to pay the principal of and any premium and interest,
including any Additional Interest, on this Security at the times, place and
rate, and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth,
the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Securities Register,
upon
surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or
agency
of the Company maintained for such purpose, duly endorsed by, or accompanied
by
a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and
the
Securities Registrar and duly executed by, the Holder hereof or such Holder’s
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities,
of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal
amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The
Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum
denominations of $100,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set
forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount
of
Securities and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No
service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange,
but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or
other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
The
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the
Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for
all
purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company,
the
Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
The
Company and, by its acceptance of this Security or a beneficial interest
therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a beneficial interest
in,
this Security agree that, for United States federal, state and local tax
purposes, it is intended that this Security constitute
indebtedness.
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This
Security shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed
by the
laws of the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of laws
provisions (other than Section 5-1401 of the General Obligations
Law).
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
Xxxxxx County Bancshares, Inc. | |
By: | |
Name: | Xxxxx X. Xxxxx |
Title:
|
Chief
Financial Officer
|
SECTION
2.2. Restrictive
Legend.
(a) Any
Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following
form:
“THE
SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND SUCH SECURITIES, AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN,
MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH
REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF
ANY SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THE SECURITIES MAY BE
RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES
ACT
PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
THE
HOLDER OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE COMPANY THAT (A) SUCH SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE COMPANY, (II) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY
BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (III)
TO
AN INSTITUTIONAL “ACCREDITED INVESTOR” WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (a)
(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS ACQUIRING
THE
SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF AN “ACCREDITED INVESTOR,”
FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN
CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (IV)
PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OR (V)
PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH CASE IN ACCORDANCE
WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR
ANY
OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION
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AND,
IN
THE CASE OF (III) OR (V), SUBJECT TO THE RIGHT OF THE COMPANY TO REQUIRE
AN
OPINION OF COUNSEL AND OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT AND (B) THE HOLDER
WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF ANY SECURITIES FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS
REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE.
THE
SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING AN
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN, IN A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000
AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND
OF NO
LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY
SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH
SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF
PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST ON SUCH SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, AND
SUCH
PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH
SECURITIES.
THE
HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF
OR
THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT,
INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT 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”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE
UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN
THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR
HOLD THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER
IS
ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF AVAILABLE UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14
OR
ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION OR ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF THIS SECURITY,
OR
ANY INTEREST THEREIN, IS NOT PROHIBITED BY SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION
4975
OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER
OF
THE SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED
BY ITS
PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT EITHER (i) IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN
WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION 4975
OF
THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE ASSETS
OF
ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE, OR (ii) SUCH
PURCHASE OR HOLDING WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION
406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE
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CODE
FOR
WHICH THERE IS NO APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION.
THIS
OBLIGATION IS NOT A DEPOSIT AND IS NOT INSURED BY THE UNITED STATES OR ANY
AGENCY OR FUND OF THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING THE FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE
CORPORATION (THE “FDIC”).”
(b) The
above
legend shall not be removed from any Security unless there is delivered to
the
Company satisfactory evidence, which may include an opinion of counsel, as
may
be reasonably required to ensure that any future transfers thereof may be
made
without restriction under the provisions of the Securities Act and other
applicable law. Upon provision of such satisfactory evidence, the
Company shall execute and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee shall deliver,
at the written direction of the Company, a Security that does not bear the
legend.
SECTION
2.3. Form
of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
The
Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following
form:
This
is
one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
Dated:
May 16, 2007
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee | |
By: | |
Authorized officer |
SECTION
2.4. Temporary
Securities.
(a) Pending
the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may execute, and upon
Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities
that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced,
in any denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities
in
lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities
may
determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
(b) If
temporary Securities are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities
to
be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive
Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for definitive
Securities upon surrender of the temporary Securities at the office or agency
of
the Company designated for that purpose without charge to the Holder. Upon
surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor one or more definitive Securities of any authorized denominations
having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same
terms as such temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities
shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture
as
definitive Securities.
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SECTION
2.5. Definitive
Securities.
The
Securities issued on the Original Issue Date shall be in definitive
form. The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or
engraved, or produced by any combination of these methods, if required by
any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, on a steel engraved
border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner
permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities
may be
listed, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
ARTICLE
III
The
Securities
SECTION
3.1. Payment
of Principal and Interest.
(a) The
unpaid principal amount of the Securities shall bear interest at an annual
rate
equal to [_____]% beginning on (and including) the Original Issue Date and
ending on (but excluding) June 15, 2007 and at a variable rate per annum,
reset
quarterly, for each successive period beginning on (and including) June 15,
2007, and each successive Interest Payment Date, and ending on (but excluding)
the next succeeding Interest Payment Date equal to LIBOR plus 1.65%, and
any
overdue principal, premium or Additional Tax Sums and any overdue installment
of
interest shall bear Additional Interest (to the extent payment of such interest
would be legally enforceable) at a variable rate per annum, reset quarterly,
equal to LIBOR plus 1.65%, from the dates such amounts are due until they
are
paid or funds for the payment thereof are made available for
payment.
(b) Interest
and Additional Interest on any Security that is payable, and is punctually
paid
or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person
in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such
interest, except that interest and any Additional Interest payable on the
Stated
Maturity (or any date of principal repayment upon early maturity) of the
principal of a Security or on a Redemption Date shall be paid to the Person
to
whom principal is paid. The initial payment of interest on any Security that
is
issued between a Regular Record Date and the related Interest Payment Date
shall
be payable as provided in such Security.
(c) Any
interest on any Security that is due and payable, but is not timely paid
or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for Securities (herein called
“Defaulted Interest”) shall forthwith cease to be payable to the
registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having
been
such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its
election in each case, as provided in paragraph (i) or (ii) below:
(i) The
Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons
in
whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are
registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment
of
such Defaulted Interest (a “Special Record Date”), which shall be fixed
in the following manner. At least thirty (30) days prior to the date
of the proposed payment, the Company
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(ii) The
Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner
not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which
the
Securities may be listed and, upon such notice as may be required by such
exchange (or by the Trustee if the Securities are not listed), if, after
notice
given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
clause, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
(d) Payments
of interest on the Securities shall include interest accrued to but excluding
the respective Interest Payment Dates. The amount of interest payable shall
be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed
in
the relevant interest period, computed by dividing the actual number of days
elapsed in the period by 360 and multiplying the result by the applicable
per
annum rate in effect for the period.
(e) Payment
of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities shall be
made
in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of
payment is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts. Payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest due at
the Maturity of such Securities shall be made at the Place of Payment upon
surrender of such Securities to the Paying Agent and payments of interest
shall
be made subject to such surrender where applicable, by wire transfer at such
place and to such account at a banking institution in the United States as
may
be designated in writing to the Paying Agent at least ten (10) Business Days
prior to the date for payment by the Person entitled thereto unless proper
written transfer instructions have not been received by the relevant record
date, in which case such payments shall be made by check mailed to the address
of such Person as such address shall appear in the Security
Register. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the holder of the
Security is the Property Trustee, the payment of the principal of (and premium
if any) and interest (including any overdue installment of interest and
Additional Tax Sums, if any) on the
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(f) Subject
to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.1, each Security delivered
under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any
other
Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue,
that were carried by such other Security.
SECTION
3.2. Denominations.
The
Securities shall be in registered form without coupons and shall be issuable
in
minimum denominations of $100,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in
excess
thereof.
SECTION
3.3. Execution,
Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
(a) At
any
time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities in an aggregate
principal amount (including all then Outstanding Securities) not in excess
of
$57,732,000 executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together
with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities,
and
the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver
such Securities. In authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the
Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying
upon:
(i) a
copy of
any Board Resolution relating thereto; and
(ii) an
Opinion of Counsel stating that such Securities, when authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject
to
any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid
and
legally binding obligations of the Company, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity
principles.
(b) The
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of
the
Board or its President. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities
may be manual or facsimile. Securities bearing the manual or
facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers
of
the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals
or any
of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and
delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such
Securities.
(c) No
Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid
or
obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Security a certificate
of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed
by the
Trustee by the manual signature of one of its authorized officers, and such
certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company,
and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation
as
provided in Section 3.8, for all purposes of this
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(d) Each
Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
SECTION
3.4. Global
Securities.
(a) Upon
the
election of the Holder after the Original Issue Date, which election need
not be
in writing, the Securities owned by such Holder shall be issued in the form
of
one or more Global Securities registered in the name of the Depositary or
its
nominee. Each Global Security issued under this Indenture shall be registered
in
the name of the Depositary designated by the Company for such Global Security
or
a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or
custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single
Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding
any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged
in
whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security
in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than
the
Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof unless (i) such
Depositary advises the Trustee and the Company in writing that such Depositary
is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities as
Depositary with respect to such Global Security, and no qualified successor
is
appointed by the Company within ninety (90) days of receipt by the Company
of
such notice, (ii) such Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered
under the Exchange Act and no successor is appointed by the Company within
ninety (90) days after obtaining knowledge of such event, (iii) the Company
executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order stating that the Company
elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Depositary or (iv)
an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Upon the
occurrence of any event specified in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) above,
the
Trustee shall notify the Depositary and instruct the Depositary to notify
all
owners of beneficial interests in such Global Security of the occurrence
of such
event and of the availability of Securities to such owners of beneficial
interests requesting the same. Upon the issuance of such Securities
and the registration in the Securities Register of such Securities in the
names
of the Holders of the beneficial interests therein, the Trustees shall recognize
such holders of beneficial interests as Holders.
(c) If
any
Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities or canceled in part,
or
if another Security is to be exchanged in whole or in part for a beneficial
interest in any Global Security, then either (i) such Global Security shall
be
so surrendered for exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article
III or (ii) the principal amount thereof shall be reduced or increased by
an
amount equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged or canceled, or equal
to
the principal amount of such other Security to be so exchanged for a beneficial
interest therein, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment
made
on the records of the Securities Registrar, whereupon the Trustee, in accordance
with the Applicable Depository Procedures, shall instruct the Depositary
or its
authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records.
Upon any such surrender or adjustment of a Global Security by the Depositary,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver any Securities issuable in exchange
for
such Global Security (or any portion thereof) in accordance with the
instructions of the Depositary. The Trustee shall not be
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(d) Every
Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or
in
exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof shall
be
authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security,
unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than the
Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
(e) Securities
distributed to holders of Book-Entry Preferred Securities (as defined in
the
applicable Trust Agreement) upon the dissolution of the Trust shall be
distributed in the form of one or more Global Securities registered in the
name
of a Depositary or its nominee, and deposited with the Securities Registrar,
as
custodian for such Depositary, or with such Depositary, for credit by the
Depositary to the respective accounts of the beneficial owners of the Securities
represented thereby (or such other accounts as they may
direct). Securities distributed to holders of Preferred Securities
other than Book-Entry Preferred Securities upon the dissolution of the Trust
shall not be issued in the form of a Global Security or any other form intended
to facilitate book-entry trading in beneficial interests in such
Securities.
(f) The
Depositary or its nominee, as the registered owner of a Global Security,
shall
be the Holder of such Global Security for all purposes under this Indenture
and
the Securities, and owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security shall
hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable Depository Procedures.
Accordingly, any such owner’s beneficial interest in a Global Security shall be
shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be effected only through,
records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or its Depositary
Participants. The Securities Registrar and the Trustee shall be
entitled to deal with the Depositary for all purposes of this Indenture relating
to a Global Security (including the payment of principal and interest thereon
and the giving of instructions or directions by owners of beneficial interests
therein and the giving of notices) as the sole Holder of the Security and
shall
have no obligations to the owners of beneficial interests
therein. Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall have
any liability in respect of any transfers effected by the
Depositary.
(g) The
rights of owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security shall be exercised
only through the Depositary and shall be limited to those established by
law and
agreements between such owners and the Depositary and/or its Depositary
Participants.
(h) No
holder
of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on its behalf by a
Depositary shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to such
Global Security, and such Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the owner of such Global Security
for all purposes whatsoever. None of the Company, the Trustee, nor
any agent of the Company or the Trustee will have any responsibility or
liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account
of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Security or maintaining,
supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership
interests. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the
Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving
effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished
by a
Depositary or impair, as between a Depositary and such holders of beneficial
interests, the operation of
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SECTION
3.5. Registration,
Transfer and Exchange Generally.
(a) The
Trustee shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the
“Securities Register”) in which the registrar and transfer agent with
respect to the Securities (the “Securities Registrar”), subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for the registration
of Securities and of transfers and exchanges of Securities. The Trustee shall
at
all times also be the Securities Registrar. The provisions of
Article VI shall apply to the Trustee in its role as Securities
Registrar.
(b) Upon
surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at the offices or
agencies of the Company designated for that purpose the Company shall execute,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of any authorized
denominations of like tenor and aggregate principal amount.
(c) At
the
option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of
any
authorized denominations, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon
surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever
any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute,
and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities that the Holder
making the exchange is entitled to receive.
(d) All
Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the
valid
obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the
same
benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer
or exchange.
(e) Every
Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall (if so required
by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities
Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly
authorized in writing.
(f) No
service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer or exchange of
Securities, but the Company and the Trustee may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in
connection with any transfer or exchange of Securities.
(g) Neither
the Company nor the Trustee shall be required pursuant to the provisions
of this
Section 3.5, (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any
Security during a period beginning at the opening of business fifteen (15)
days
before the day of selection for redemption of Securities pursuant to Article
XI and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of the notice
of redemption or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security
so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any such
Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be
redeemed.
(h) The
Company shall designate an office or offices or agency or agencies where
Securities may be surrendered for registration or transfer or
exchange. The Company initially
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SECTION
3.6. Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
(a) If
any
mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee together with such security
or
indemnity as may be required by the Company or the Trustee to save each of
them
harmless, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of like tenor and aggregate
principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
(b) If
there
shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i) evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless,
then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security
has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute
and upon its written request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
in lieu
of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of like tenor
and
aggregate principal amount as such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
(c) If
any
such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about
to
become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing
a
new Security, pay such Security.
(d) Upon
the
issuance of any new Security under this Section 3.6, the Company may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including
the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
(e) Every
new
Security issued pursuant to this Section 3.6 in lieu of any mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall
be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately
with
any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
(f) The
provisions of this Section 3.6 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement
or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION
3.7. Persons
Deemed Owners.
The
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall treat
the
Person in whose name any Security is registered as the owner of such Security
for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any interest on
such
Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Company,
the
Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by
notice
to the contrary.
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SECTION
3.8. Cancellation.
All
Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer or exchange shall,
if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee,
and any such Securities and Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee
for
any such purpose shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any
time
deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated
and delivered hereunder that the Company may have acquired in any manner
whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by
the
Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for
any
Securities canceled as provided in this Section 3.8, except as expressly
permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities shall be disposed of
by the
Trustee in accordance with its customary practices and the Trustee shall
deliver
to the Company a certificate of such disposition.
SECTION
3.9. Deferrals
of Interest Payment Dates.
(a) So
long
as no Event of Default pursuant to Sections 5.1(c), (e) or (f) has
occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right, at any time
and
from time to time during the term of the Security, to defer the payment of
interest on the Securities for a period of up to twenty (20) consecutive
quarterly interest payment periods (each such period, an “Extension
Period”), during which Extension Period(s), the Company shall have the
right to make no payments or partial payments of interest on any Interest
Payment Date (except any Additional Tax Sums that otherwise may be due and
payable). No Extension Period shall end on a date other than an
Interest Payment Date and no Extension Period shall extend beyond the Stated
Maturity of the principal of the Securities. No interest shall be due
and payable during an Extension Period, except at the end thereof, but each
installment of interest that would otherwise have been due and payable during
such Extension Period shall bear Additional Interest (to the extent payment
of
such interest would be legally enforceable) at a variable rate per annum,
reset
quarterly, equal to LIBOR plus 1.65%, compounded quarterly, from the dates
on
which amounts would have otherwise been due and payable until paid or until
funds for the payment thereof have been made available for
payment. At the end of any such Extension Period, the Company shall
pay all interest then accrued and unpaid on the Securities together with
such
Additional Interest. Prior to the termination of any such Extension
Period, the Company may extend such Extension Period and further defer the
payment of interest; provided, that (i) all such previous and further
extensions comprising such Extension Period do not exceed twenty (20) quarterly
interest payment periods, (ii) no Extension Period shall end on a date other
than an Interest Payment Date and (iii) no Extension Period shall extend
beyond
the Stated Maturity of the principal of the Securities. Upon the
termination of any such Extension Period and upon the payment of all accrued
and
unpaid interest and any Additional Interest then due on any Interest Payment
Date, the Company may elect to begin a new Extension Period; provided,
that (i) such Extension Period does not exceed twenty (20) quarterly interest
payment periods, (ii) no Extension Period shall end on a date other than
an
Interest Payment Date and (iii) no Extension Period shall extend beyond the
Stated Maturity of the principal of the Securities. The Company shall
give (i) the Holders of the Securities, (ii) the Trustee, (iii) the Property
Trustee and (iv) any beneficial owner of the Preferred Securities reasonably
identified to the Company (which identification may be made either by such
beneficial owner or by the Placement Agent or the Purchaser) written notice
of
its election to begin any such Extension Period at least five (5)
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(b) In
connection with any such Extension Period, the Company shall be subject to
the
restrictions set forth in Section 10.6(a).
SECTION
3.10. Right
of Set-Off.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, the Company shall have the right to set
off any
payment it is otherwise required to make in respect of any Security to the
extent the Company has theretofore made, or is concurrently on the date of
such
payment making, a payment under the Guarantee Agreement relating to such
Security or to a holder of Preferred Securities pursuant to an action undertaken
under Section 5.8 of this Indenture.
SECTION
3.11. Agreed
Tax Treatment.
Each
Security issued hereunder shall provide that the Company and, by its acceptance
or acquisition of a Security or a beneficial interest therein, the Holder
of,
and any Person that acquires a direct or indirect beneficial interest in,
such
Security, intend and agree to treat such Security as indebtedness of the
Company
for United States Federal, state and local tax purposes and to treat the
Preferred Securities (including but not limited to all payments and proceeds
with respect to the Preferred Securities) as an undivided beneficial ownership
interest in the Securities (and payments and proceeds therefrom, respectively)
for United States Federal, state and local tax purposes. The
provisions of this Indenture shall be interpreted to further this intention
and
agreement of the parties.
SECTION
3.12. CUSIP
Numbers.
The
Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in
use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption
and other similar or related materials as a convenience to Holders;
provided, that any such notice or other materials may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed
on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption or other materials
and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed
on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect
in or omission of such numbers.
ARTICLE
IV
Satisfaction
and Discharge
SECTION
4.1. Satisfaction
and Discharge of Indenture.
This
Indenture shall, upon Company Request, cease to be of further effect (except
as
to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities
herein expressly provided for and as otherwise provided in this Section
4.1) and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall
execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, when
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(a) either
(i) all
Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (A) Securities
that have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced
or paid as provided in Section 3.6 and (B) Securities for whose payment
money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust
by
the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such
trust
as provided in Section 10.2) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(ii) all
such
Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation
(A)
|
have
become due and payable, or
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(B)
|
will
become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year
of the
date of deposit, or
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(C)
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are
to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption
by the
Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the
Company,
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and
the
Company, in the case of subclause (ii)(A), (B) or (C) above, has deposited
or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for such
purpose
(x) an amount in the currency or currencies in which the Securities are payable,
(y) Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal
and
interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide,
not
later than the due date of any payment, money in an amount or (z) a combination
thereof, in each case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm
of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on
such
Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for
principal and any premium and interest (including any Additional Interest)
to
the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities that have become due
and
payable) or to the Stated Maturity (or any date of principal repayment upon
early maturity) or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(b) the
Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by
the
Company; and
(c) the
Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating
to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied
with.
Notwithstanding
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the
Company
to the Trustee under Section 6.6, the obligations of the Company to any
Authenticating Agent under Section 6.11 and, if money shall have been
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (a)(ii) of this Section
4.1, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.2 and Section
10.2(e) shall survive.
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SECTION
4.2. Application
of Trust Money.
Subject
to the provisions of Section 10.2(e), all money deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by the
Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture,
to the payment in accordance with Section 3.1, either directly or through
any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as
the
Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal
and any
premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) for the payment
of
which such money or obligations have been deposited with or received by the
Trustee. Moneys held by the Trustee under this Section 4.2
shall not be subject to the claims of holders of Senior Debt under Article
XII.
ARTICLE
V
Remedies
SECTION
5.1. Events
of Default.
“Event
of Default” means, wherever used herein with respect to the Securities, any
one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default
and
whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation
of law
or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule
or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) default
in the payment of any interest upon any Security, including any Additional
Interest in respect thereof, when it becomes due and payable, and continuance
of
such default for a period of thirty (30) days (subject to the deferral of
any
due date in the case of an Extension Period); or
(b) default
in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security at its
Maturity; or
(c) default
in the payment of any interest upon any Security, including any Additional
Interest in respect thereof, following the nonpayment of any such interest
for
twenty (20) or more consecutive quarterly interest payment periods;
or
(d) default
in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company
in
this Indenture and continuance of such default or breach for a period of
thirty
(30) days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the
Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of
at
least twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring
it
to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;
or
(e) the
entry
by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of a decree or order
adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed
a
petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of
or in
respect of the Company under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or
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(f) the
institution by the Company of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by the Company to the institution of bankruptcy
or
insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by the Company of a petition
or
answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal
or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or
the
consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or
taking
possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator
or other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its
property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors,
or
the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally
as
they become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent,
or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such
action; or
(g) the
Trust
shall have voluntarily or involuntarily liquidated, dissolved, wound-up its
business or otherwise terminated its existence, except in connection with
(1)
the distribution of the Securities to holders of the Preferred Securities
in
liquidation of their interests in the Trust, (2) the redemption of all of
the
outstanding Preferred Securities or (3) certain mergers, consolidations or
amalgamations, each as and to the extent permitted by the Trust
Agreement.
SECTION
5.2. Acceleration
of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
(a) If
an
Event of Default pursuant to Sections 5.1(c), (e) or (f) occurs and is
continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not
less
than twenty five percent (25%) in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
may declare the principal amount of all the Securities to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if
given
by Holders), provided, that if, upon an Event of Default pursuant to Sections
5.1(c), (e) or (f), the Trustee or the Holders of not less than twenty five
percent (25%) in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities fail to declare
the principal of all the Outstanding Securities to be immediately due and
payable, the holders of at least twenty five percent (25%) in aggregate
Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the Preferred
Securities then outstanding shall have the right to make such declaration
by a
notice in writing to the Property Trustee, the Company and the Trustee; and
upon
any such declaration the principal amount of and the accrued interest (including
any Additional Interest) on all the Securities shall become immediately due
and
payable.
(b) At
any
time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities
has
been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has
been
obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article V, the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities,
by
written notice to the Indenture Trustee, or the Holders of a majority in
aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities, by written notice
to
the Property Trustee, the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul
such
declaration and its consequences if:
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(i) the
Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to
pay:
(A)
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all
overdue installments of interest on all
Securities,
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(B)
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any
accrued Additional Interest on all
Securities,
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(C)
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the
principal of and any premium on any Securities that have become
due
otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest
(including
any Additional Interest) thereon at the rate borne by the Securities,
and
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(D)
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all
sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
the
Property Trustee and their agents and counsel;
and
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(ii) all
Events of Default with respect to Securities, other than the non-payment
of the
principal of Securities that has become due solely by such acceleration,
have
been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13;
provided,
that if the Holders of such Securities fail to annul such declaration and
waive
such default, the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate Liquidation
Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the Preferred Securities then
outstanding shall also have the right to rescind and annul such declaration
and
its consequences by written notice to the Property Trustee, the Company and
the
Trustee, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in paragraph
(b) of this Section 5.2. No such rescission shall affect any
subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION
5.3. Collection
of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
(a) The
Company covenants that if:
(i) default
is made in the payment of any installment of interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and
such
default continues for a period of thirty (30) days, or
(ii) default
is made in the payment of the principal of and any premium on any Security
at
the Maturity thereof,
the
Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit
of
the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on
such
Securities for principal and any premium and interest (including any Additional
Interest) and, in addition thereto, all amounts owing the Trustee under
Section 6.6.
(b) If
the
Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee,
in
its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial
proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute
such proceeding to judgment or
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(c) If
an
Event of Default with respect to Securities occurs and is continuing, the
Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and
the
rights of the Holders of Securities by such appropriate judicial proceedings
as
the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights,
whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this
Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce
any other proper remedy.
SECTION
5.4. Trustee
May File Proofs of Claim.
In
case
of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment, composition or similar judicial proceeding relative
to
the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its
creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in
such
proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized hereunder
in
order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such
proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and
receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims
and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee,
liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial
proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of
such
payments directly to the Holders, to first pay to the Trustee any amount
due it
for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts owing the Trustee,
any
predecessor Trustee and other Persons under Section 6.6.
SECTION
5.5. Trustee
May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities.
All
rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be
prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto,
and any
such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name
as
trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, subject
to
Article XII and after provision for the payment of all the amounts owing
the Trustee, any predecessor Trustee and other Persons under Section 6.6,
be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of
which
such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION
5.6. Application
of Money Collected.
Any
money
or property collected or to be applied by the Trustee with respect to the
Securities pursuant to this Article V shall be applied in the following
order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the
distribution of such money or property on account of principal or any premium
or
interest (including any Additional Interest), upon presentation of the
Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid
and
upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
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FIRST:
To
the payment of all amounts due the Trustee, any predecessor Trustee and other
Persons under Section 6.6;
SECOND:
To the payment of all Senior Debt of the Company if and to the extent required
by Article XII;
THIRD: Subject
to Article XII, to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon
the Securities for principal and any premium and interest (including any
Additional Interest) in respect of which or for the benefit of which such
money
has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Securities for principal
and any
premium and interest (including any Additional Interest), respectively;
and
FOURTH:
The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto.
SECTION
5.7. Limitation
on Suits.
Subject
to Section 5.8, no Holder of any Securities shall have any right to
institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture
or for the appointment of a custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator,
sequestrator (or other similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder,
unless:
(a) such
Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing
Event
of Default with respect to the Securities;
(b) the
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name
as
Trustee hereunder;
(c) such
Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against
the
costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such
request;
(d) the
Trustee after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity
has
failed to institute any such proceeding for sixty (60) days; and
(e) no
direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee
during such sixty (60)-day period by the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities;
it
being
understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any
right
in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision
of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders
of Securities, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over
any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except
in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders.
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SECTION
5.8. Unconditional
Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest; Direct Action
by
Holders of Preferred Securities.
Notwithstanding
any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have
the
right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal
of and any premium on such Security at its Maturity and payment of interest
(including any Additional Interest) on such Security when due and payable
and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall
not
be impaired without the consent of such Holder. Any registered holder of
the
Preferred Securities shall have the right, upon the occurrence of an Event
of
Default described in Section 5.1(a), Section 5.1(b) or Section
5.1(c), to institute a suit directly against the Company for enforcement of
payment to such holder of principal of and any premium and interest (including
any Additional Interest) on the Securities having a principal amount equal
to
the aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the
Preferred Securities held by such holder.
SECTION
5.9. Restoration
of Rights and Remedies.
If
the
Trustee, any Holder or any holder of Preferred Securities has instituted
any
proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such
proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been
determined adversely to the Trustee, such Holder or such holder of Preferred
Securities, then and in every such case the Company, the Trustee, such Holders
and such holder of Preferred Securities shall, subject to any determination
in
such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former
positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee,
such
Holder and such holder of Preferred Securities shall continue as though no
such
proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION
5.10. Rights
and Remedies Cumulative.
Except
as
otherwise provided in Section 3.6(f), no right or remedy herein conferred
upon or reserved to the Trustee or the Holders is intended to be exclusive
of
any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and
remedy
given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise.
The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise,
shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION
5.11. Delay
or Omission Not Waiver.
No
delay
or omission of the Trustee, any Holder of any Securities or any holder of
any
Preferred Security to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event
of
Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any
such
Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy
given by this Article V or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders and
the right and remedy given to the holders of Preferred Securities by Section
5.8 may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by the Trustee, the Holders or the holders of Preferred Securities,
as the case may be.
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SECTION
5.12. Control
by Holders.
The
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method and
place
of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or
exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee; provided,
that:
(a) such
direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this
Indenture,
(b) the
Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not
inconsistent with such direction, and
(c) subject
to the provisions of Section 6.2, the Trustee shall have the right to
decline to follow such direction if a Responsible Officer or Officers of
the
Trustee shall, in good faith, reasonably determine that the proceeding so
directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not joining in any
such
direction or would involve the Trustee in personal liability.
SECTION
5.13. Waiver
of Past Defaults.
(a) The
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities or the Holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation
Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the Preferred Securities may
waive
any past Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except an Event of
Default:
(i) in
the
payment of the principal of or any premium or interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any Security (unless such Event of Default has been cured and
the
Company has paid to or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
all
installments of interest (including any Additional Interest) due and past
due
and all principal of and any premium on all Securities due otherwise than
by
acceleration), or
(ii) in
respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under Article IX cannot be
modified or amended without the consent of each Holder of any Outstanding
Security.
(b) Any
such
waiver shall be deemed to be on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities
or,
in the case of a waiver by holders of Preferred Securities issued by such
Trust,
by all holders of Preferred Securities.
(c) Upon
any
such waiver, such Event of Default shall cease to exist and any Event of
Default
arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of
this
Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Event
of
Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION
5.14. Undertaking
for Costs.
All
parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his or
her
acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in
its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy
under
this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or
omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in
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SECTION
5.15. Waiver
of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
The
Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will
not at
any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take
the
benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted,
now
or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such
law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution
of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution
of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE
VI
The
Trustee
SECTION
6.1. Corporate
Trustee Required.
There
shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder with respect to the
Securities. The Trustee shall be a corporation organized and doing
business under the laws of the United States or of any state thereof, authorized
to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus
of at
least $50,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by Federal or state
authority and having an office within the United States. If such corporation
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of such supervising or examining authority, then, for the purposes
of this Section 6.1, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its
most
recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section
6.1, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
hereinafter specified in this Article VI.
SECTION
6.2. Certain
Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) Except
during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the
Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee;
and
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(ii) in
the
absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to
the
truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein,
upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to
the
requirements of this Indenture; provided, that in the case of any such
certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof are specifically required
to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine
the
same to determine whether or not they substantially conform on their face
to the
requirements of this Indenture.
(b) If
an
Event of Default known to the Trustee has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall, prior to the receipt of directions, if any, from the Holders
of
at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities,
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and
use
the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own
affairs.
(c) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the
performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of
its
rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability
is
not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided,
every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the
liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of this Section 6.2. To the extent that, at law or
in equity, the Trustee has duties and liabilities relating to the Holders,
the
Trustee shall not be liable to any Holder for the Trustee’s good faith reliance
on the provisions of this Indenture. The provisions of this
Indenture, to the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of
the
Trustee otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Company
and
the Holders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the
Trustee.
(d) No
provisions of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from
liability with respect to matters that are within the authority of the Trustee
under this Indenture for its own negligent action, negligent failure to act
or
willful misconduct, except that:
(i) the
Trustee shall not be liable for any error or judgment made in good faith
by an
authorized officer of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee
was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(ii) the
Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to
be
taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders
of at
least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee under this Indenture; and
(iii) the
Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by
it
hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company and money held by the
Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except
to the
extent required by law.
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SECTION
6.3. Notice
of Defaults.
Within
ninety (90) days after the occurrence of any default actually known to the
Trustee, the Trustee shall give the Holders notice of such default unless
such
default shall have been cured or waived; provided, that except in the
case of a default in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest
on any Securities, the Trustee shall be fully protected in withholding the
notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee
or a
trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in
good
faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interest of holders
of
Securities; and provided, that in the case of any default of the
character specified in Section 5.1(d), no such notice to Holders shall be
given until at least thirty (30) days after the occurrence thereof. For the
purpose of this Section 6.3, the term “default” means any event which is,
or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of
Default.
SECTION
6.4. Certain
Rights of Trustee.
Subject
to the provisions of Section 6.2:
(a) the
Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith and in accordance with the terms hereof
upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note or other
paper
or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented
by
the proper party or parties;
(b) if
(i) in
performing its duties under this Indenture the Trustee is required to decide
between alternative courses of action, (ii) in construing any of the provisions
of this Indenture the Trustee finds ambiguous or inconsistent with any other
provisions contained herein or (iii) the Trustee is unsure of the application
of
any provision of this Indenture, then, except as to any matter as to which
the
Holders are entitled to decide under the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee
shall deliver a notice to the Company requesting the Company’s written
instruction as to the course of action to be taken and the Trustee shall
take
such action, or refrain from taking such action, as the Trustee shall be
instructed in writing to take, or to refrain from taking, by the Company;
provided, that if the Trustee does not receive such instructions from
the Company within ten Business Days after it has delivered such notice or
such
reasonably shorter period of time set forth in such notice the Trustee may,
but
shall be under no duty to, take such action, or refrain from taking such
action,
as the Trustee shall deem advisable and in the best interests of the Holders,
in
which event the Trustee shall have no liability except for its own negligence,
bad faith or willful misconduct;
(c) any
request or direction of the Company shall be sufficiently evidenced by a
Company
Request or Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may
be
sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(d) the
Trustee may consult with counsel (which counsel may be counsel to the Trustee,
the Company or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees)
and
the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and
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(e) the
Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers
vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the
Holders
pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the
Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs,
expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) and liabilities
that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction,
including reasonable advances as may be requested by the Trustee;
(f) the
Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters
stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, indenture, note or other
paper
or document, but the Trustee in its discretion may make such inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee
shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled
to
examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by
agent
or attorney;
(g) the
Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any
duties
hereunder either directly or by or through agents, attorneys, custodians
or
nominees and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any such agent, attorney, custodian or nominee
appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(h) whenever
in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable
to
receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking
any
other action with respect to enforcing any remedy or right hereunder, the
Trustees (i) may request instructions from the Holders (which instructions
may
only be given by the Holders of the same aggregate principal amount of
Outstanding Securities as would be entitled to direct the Trustee under this
Indenture in respect of such remedy, right or action), (ii) may refrain from
enforcing such remedy or right or taking such action until such instructions
are
received and (iii) shall be protected in acting in accordance with such
instructions;
(i) except
as
otherwise expressly provided by this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be
under
any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under the provisions
of
this Indenture;
(j) without
prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law,
when the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with any
bankruptcy, insolvency or other proceeding referred to in clauses (e) or
(f) of
the definition of Event of Default, such expenses (including legal fees and
expenses of its agents and counsel) and the compensation for such services
are
intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy laws
or
law relating to creditors rights generally;
(k) whenever
in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable
that
a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting
any
action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, conclusively rely
upon
an Officers’ Certificate addressing such matter, which, upon receipt of such
request, shall be promptly delivered by the Company;
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(l) the
Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Event of Default unless
either (i) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have actual knowledge
or
(ii) the Trustee shall have received notice thereof from the Company or a
Holder; and
(m) in
the
event that the Trustee is also acting as Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent
or
Securities Registrar hereunder, the rights and protections afforded to the
Trustee pursuant to this Article VI shall also be afforded such Paying
Agent, Authenticating Agent, or Securities
Registrar.
SECTION
6.5. May
Hold Securities.
The
Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Securities Registrar
or
any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity,
may
become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the
Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee,
Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Securities Registrar or such other
agent.
SECTION
6.6. Compensation;
Reimbursement; Indemnity.
(a) The
Company agrees
(i) to
pay to
the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered
by it hereunder in such amounts as the Company and the Trustee shall agree
from
time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of
law in
regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(ii) to
reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance
with
any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and
the
expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence, bad faith
or
willful misconduct; and
(iii) to
the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify the Trustee and
its
Affiliates, and their officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives
and employees for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, damage, action,
suit, liability, tax (other than income, franchise or other taxes imposed
on
amounts paid pursuant to (i) or (ii) hereof), penalty, expense or claim of
any
kind or nature whatsoever incurred without negligence, bad faith or willful
misconduct on its part arising out of or in connection with the acceptance
or
administration of this trust or the performance of the Trustee’s duties
hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any
of its
powers or duties hereunder.
(b) The
obligations of the Company under this Section 6.6 shall survive the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the earlier resignation
or
removal of the Trustee.
(c) In
no
event shall the Trustee be liable for any indirect, special, punitive or
consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including, but not limited
to, lost profits,
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(d) In
no
event shall the Trustee be liable for any failure or delay in the performance
of
its obligations hereunder because of circumstances beyond its control,
including, but not limited to, acts of God, flood, war (whether declared
or
undeclared), terrorism, fire, riot, embargo, government action, including
any
laws, ordinances, regulations, governmental action or the like which delay,
restrict or prohibit the providing of the services contemplated by this
Indenture.
SECTION
6.7. Resignation
and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No
resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article VI shall become effective until the acceptance
of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 6.8.
(b) The
Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the
Company.
(c) Unless
an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee may be
removed at any time by the Company by a Board Resolution. If an Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee may be removed
by
Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.
(d) If
the
Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy
shall occur in the office of Trustee for any reason, at a time when no Event
of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company, by a Board
Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee, and such successor
Trustee and the retiring Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements
of Section 6.8. If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee
for
any reason, at a time when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Holders, by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, shall promptly appoint a
successor Trustee, and such successor Trustee and the retiring Trustee shall
comply with the applicable requirements of Section 6.8. If no successor
Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted
appointment within sixty (60) days after the giving of a notice of resignation
by the Trustee or the removal of the Trustee in the manner required by
Section 6.8, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for
at least six months may, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly
situated, and any resigning Trustee may, at the expense of the Company, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
(e) The
Company shall give notice to all Holders in the manner provided in Section
1.6 of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee and each appointment
of a successor Trustee. Each notice shall include the name of the
successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
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SECTION
6.8. Acceptance
of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In
case
of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee, each successor Trustee
so
appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the
retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon
the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and
such
successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee;
but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring
Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument
transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts
of the
retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder.
(b) Upon
request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and
all
instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such
successor Trustee all rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph
(a) of
this Section 6.8.
(c) No
successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this
Article VI.
SECTION
6.9. Merger,
Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any
Person into which the 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 the Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding
to
all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee,
shall
be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, without the execution or filing
of
any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto,
provided, that such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible
under this Article VI. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation or as otherwise provided above in
this
Section 6.9 to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication
and deliver the Securities so authenticated, and in case any Securities shall
not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate
such
Securities either in the name of any predecessor Trustee or in the name of
such
successor Trustee, and in all cases the certificate of authentication shall
have
the full force which it is provided anywhere in the Securities or in this
Indenture that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
SECTION
6.10. Not
Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The
recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s
certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company,
and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility
for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity
or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee
nor
any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application
by the
Company of the Securities or the proceeds thereof.
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SECTION
6.11. Appointment
of Authenticating Agent.
(a) The
Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to the
Securities, which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities issued upon original issue and upon exchange,
registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section
3.6, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of
this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if
authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this
Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee
or the
Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America, or of any State or Territory
thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as
Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or state
authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at
least
annually pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.11 the combined
capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition
so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.11, such
Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect
specified in this Section 6.11.
(b) Any
Person into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a
party,
or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of an Authenticating Agent shall be the successor Authenticating
Agent
hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise eligible under this
Section 6.11, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
(c) An
Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to
the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the
agency
of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 6.11, the Trustee may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent eligible under the provisions of this Section 6.11,
which shall be acceptable to the Company, and shall give notice of such
appointment to all Holders. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance
of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers
and
duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named
as
an Authenticating Agent.
(d) The
Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services under this Section 6.11 in such amounts as
the Company and the Authenticating Agent shall agree from time to
time.
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(e) If
an
appointment of an Authenticating Agent is made pursuant to this Section
6.11, the Securities may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s
certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication
in
the following form:
This
is
one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned
Indenture.
Dated:
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee | |
Authenticating Agent | |
By: | |
Authorized Officer |
ARTICLE
VII
Holder’s
Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
SECTION
7.1. Company
to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The
Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semi-annually,
on or before June 15 and December 15 of each year, a list, in such form as
the
Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders
as of
a date not more than fifteen (15) days prior to the delivery thereof,
and
(b) at
such
other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within thirty (30) days
after
the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and
content as of a date not more than fifteen (15) days prior to the time such
list
is furnished, in each case to the extent such information is in the possession
or control of the Company and has not otherwise been received by the Trustee
in
its capacity as Securities Registrar.
SECTION
7.2. Preservation
of Information, Communications to Holders.
(a) The
Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
the
names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished
to
the Trustee as provided in Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of
Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Securities Registrar.
The
Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 7.1
upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
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(b) The
rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their
rights
under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights
and
privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture
Act.
(c) Every
Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the
Company
and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of
either
of them shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of information
as
to the names and addresses of the Holders made pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act.
SECTION
7.3. Reports
by Company and Trustee.
(a) The
Company shall furnish to the Holders and to prospective purchasers of
Securities, upon their request, the information required to be furnished
pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act. The Company
shall furnish to the Trustee and, so long as the Property Trustee holds any
of
the Securities, the Company shall furnish to the Property Trustee, reports
on
Form FR Y-9C promptly following their filing with the Federal
Reserve.
(b) The
Company shall furnish to (i) the Holders, (ii) the Purchaser, (iii) any
beneficial owner of the Securities reasonably identified to the Company (which
identification may be made either by such beneficial owner or by the Placement
Agent or the Purchaser) and (iv) any designee of (i), (ii) or (iii) above,
a
duly completed and executed certificate in the form attached hereto as Exhibit
A, including the financial statements referenced in such Exhibit, which
certificate and financial statements shall be so furnished by the Company
not
later than forty five (45) days after the end of each of the first three
fiscal
quarters of each fiscal year of the Company and not later than ninety (90)
days
after the end of each fiscal year of the Company.
(c) The
Trustee shall obtain all reports, certificates and information which it is
entitled to receive under each of the Operative Documents (as defined in
the
Trust Agreement), and deliver to (i) the Purchaser, (ii) the Placement
Agent and (iii) a designee of (i) or (ii) above, all such reports,
certificates or information promptly upon receipt thereof.
ARTICLE
VIII
Consolidation,
Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
SECTION
8.1. Company
May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The
Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey,
transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
to any
Person, and no Person shall consolidate with or merge into the Company or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety
to the Company, unless:
(a) if
the
Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer
or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person,
the entity formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged
or
the Person that acquires by conveyance or transfer, or that leases, the
properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be
an
entity organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America
or
any State or Territory thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly
assume,
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(b) immediately
after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event
that,
after notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default,
shall have happened and be continuing; and
(c) the
Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer
or
lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in connection with such
transaction, any such supplemental indenture comply with this Article
VIII and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with; and the Trustee may rely upon such
Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that such
transaction complies with this Section 8.1.
SECTION
8.2. Successor
Company Substituted.
(a) Upon
any
consolidation with or merger by the Company into any other Person, or any
conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company of its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section 8.1
and the execution and delivery to the Trustee of the supplemental indenture
described in Section 8.1(a), the successor entity formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance,
transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may
exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with
the
same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein;
and in the event of any such conveyance or transfer, following the execution
and
delivery of such supplemental indenture, the Company shall be discharged
from
all obligations and covenants under the Indenture and the
Securities.
(b) Such
successor Person may cause to be executed, and may issue either in its own
name
or in the name of the Company, any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder
that theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered
to the
Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor Person instead of the Company
and
subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture
prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities
that
previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company
to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities that such successor
Person
thereafter shall cause to be executed and delivered to the Trustee on its
behalf. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same
legal
rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or
thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
(c) In
case
of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease, such changes
in
phraseology and form may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued
as
may be appropriate to reflect such occurrence.
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ARTICLE
IX
Supplemental
Indentures
SECTION
9.1. Supplemental
Indentures without Consent of Holders.
Without
the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution,
and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or
more
indentures supplemental hereto, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee,
for any of the following purposes:
(a) to
evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and the assumption
by
any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities;
or
(b) to
cure
any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein that may be
defective or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any
other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture,
which shall not be inconsistent with the other provisions of this Indenture,
provided, that such action pursuant to this clause (b) shall not
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holders or
the
holders of the Preferred Securities; or
(c) to
add to
the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the Company or to add to the
Events of Default, provided, that such action pursuant to this clause
(c) shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
Holders or the holders of the Preferred Securities; or
(d) to
modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of the Indenture or the Securities
to
such extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Securities are treated
as
indebtedness of the Company for United States Federal income tax purposes,
provided, that such action pursuant to this clause (d) shall not
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holders or
the
holders of the Preferred Securities.
SECTION
9.2. Supplemental
Indentures with Consent of Holders.
(a) With
the
consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount
of the Outstanding Securities, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company
and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and
the
Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for
the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any
of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights
of
the Holders of Securities under this Indenture; provided, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security,
(i) change
the Stated Maturity of the principal or any premium of any Security or change
the date of payment of any installment of interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the
rate of
interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof or change
the place of payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security
or
interest thereon is payable, or restrict or impair the right to institute
suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date, or
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(ii) reduce
the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities,
the
consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture,
or the
consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver of compliance with any
provision of this Indenture or of defaults hereunder and their consequences
provided for in this Indenture, or
(iii) modify
any of the provisions of this Section 9.2, Section 5.13 or
Section 10.7, except to increase any percentage in aggregate
principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required
for any reason, or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture
cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each
Security;
provided,
further, that, so long as any Preferred Securities remain outstanding, no
amendment under this Section 9.2 shall be effective until the holders of
a majority in Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement) of the
Trust Securities shall have consented to such amendment; provided,
further, that if the consent of the holder of each Outstanding Security is
required for any amendment under this Indenture, such amendment shall not
be
effective until the holder of each Outstanding Trust Security shall have
consented to such amendment.
(b) It
shall
not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 9.2 to approve
the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be
sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION
9.3. Execution
of Supplemental Indentures.
In
executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article IX or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and shall be fully protected in conclusively relying upon, an Officers’
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such
supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and
that
all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such action have
been
complied with. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into
any
such supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties,
indemnities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. Copies
of the final form of each supplemental indenture shall be delivered by the
Trustee at the expense of the Company to each Holder, and, if the Trustee
is the
Property Trustee, to each holder of Preferred Securities, promptly after
the
execution thereof.
SECTION
9.4. Effect
of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon
the
execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article IX, this
Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every
Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.
SECTION
9.5. Reference
in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article IX may, and shall, if required by
the Company, bear a notation in form
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ARTICLE
X
Covenants
SECTION
10.1. Payment
of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The
Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Securities that it will
duly
and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest (including
any
Additional Interest) on the Securities in accordance with the terms of the
Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION
10.2. Money
for Security Payments to be Held in Trust.
(a) If
the
Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to the
Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of and any
premium or interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities,
segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto
a
sum sufficient to pay the principal and any premium or interest (including
Additional Interest) so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such
Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify
the Trustee in writing of its failure so to act.
(b) Whenever
the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will, prior to 10:00
a.m.,
New York City time, on each due date of the principal of or any premium or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Securities, deposit with
a
Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as
provided in the Trust Indenture Act and (unless such Paying Agent is the
Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its failure so to
act.
(c) The
Company will cause each Paying Agent for the Securities other than the Trustee
to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying
Agent
shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section
10.2, that such Paying Agent will (i) comply with the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (ii) during the
continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Securities) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities, upon
the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held
in
trust by such Paying Agent for payment in respect of the
Securities.
(d) The
Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company
Order
direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by
the
Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the
same
terms as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such Paying
Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying
Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
money.
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(e) Any
money
deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company
in
trust for the payment of the principal of and any premium or interest (including
any Additional Interest) on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two
years
after such principal and any premium or interest has become due and payable
shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable escheat
or
abandoned or unclaimed property law) be paid on Company Request to the Company,
or (if then held by the Company) shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory
provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law) be
discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter,
as
an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof,
and
all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust
money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
cease; provided, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being
required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause
to
be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily
published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough
of
Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed
and
that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than thirty
(30)
days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money
then
remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION
10.3. Statement
as to Compliance.
The
Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within one hundred and twenty (120)
days
after the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof,
an Officers’ Certificate covering the preceding fiscal year, stating whether or
not to the knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in default in
the
performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions
of this
Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice
provided hereunder), and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all
such
defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have
knowledge.
SECTION
10.4. Calculation
Agent.
(a) The
Company hereby agrees that for so long as any of the Securities remain
Outstanding, there will at all times be an agent appointed to calculate LIBOR
in
respect of each Interest Payment Date in accordance with the terms of
Schedule A (the “Calculation Agent”). The Company has
initially appointed the Trustee as Calculation Agent for purposes of determining
LIBOR for each Interest Payment Date. The Calculation Agent may be
removed by the Company at any time. So long as the Property Trustee
holds any of the Securities, the Calculation Agent shall be the Property
Trustee. If the Calculation Agent is unable or unwilling to act
as such or is removed by the Company, the Company will promptly appoint as
a
replacement Calculation Agent the London office of a leading bank which is
engaged in transactions in Eurodollar deposits in the international Eurodollar
market and which does not control or is not controlled by or under common
control with the Company or its Affiliates. The Calculation Agent may
not resign its duties without a successor having been duly
appointed.
(b) The
Calculation Agent shall be required to agree that, as soon as possible after
11:00 a.m. (London time) on each LIBOR Determination Date (as defined in
Schedule A), but in no event later than 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the
Business Day immediately following each LIBOR Determination Date, the
Calculation Agent will calculate the interest (rounded to the
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SECTION
10.5. Additional
Tax Sums.
So
long
as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, if (a) the Trust is
the
Holder of all of the Outstanding Securities and (b) a Tax Event described
in
clause (i) or (iii) in the definition of Tax Event in Section 1.1 hereof
has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall pay to the Trust (and its
permitted successors or assigns under the related Trust Agreement) for so
long
as the Trust (or its permitted successor or assignee) is the registered holder
of the Outstanding Securities, such amounts as may be necessary in order
that
the amount of Distributions (including any Additional Interest Amount (as
defined in the Trust Agreement)) then due and payable by the Trust on the
Preferred Securities and Common Securities that at any time remain outstanding
in accordance with the terms thereof shall not be reduced as a result of
any
Additional Taxes arising from such Tax Event (additional such amounts payable
by
the Company to the Trust, the “Additional Tax Sums”). Whenever in this
Indenture or the Securities there is a reference in any context to the payment
of principal of or interest on the Securities, such mention shall be deemed
to
include mention of the payments of the Additional Tax Sums provided for in
this
Section 10.5 to the extent that, in such context, Additional Tax Sums
are, were or would be payable in respect thereof pursuant to the provisions
of
this Section 10.5 and express mention of the payment of Additional Tax
Sums (if applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be construed as
excluding Additional Tax Sums in those provisions hereof where such express
mention is not made; provided, that the deferral of the payment of
interest pursuant to Section 3.9 on the Securities shall not defer the
payment of any Additional Tax Sums that may be due and payable.
SECTION
10.6. Additional
Covenants.
(a) The
Company covenants and agrees with each Holder of Securities that if an Event
of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing or the Company shall have given
notice of its election to begin an Extension Period with respect to the
Securities and shall not have rescinded such notice, or such Extension Period,
or any extension thereof, shall be continuing, it shall not (i) declare or
pay
any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of the Company’s capital stock,
or (ii) make any payment of principal of or any interest or premium on or
repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company that rank pari passu
in all respects with or junior in interest to the Securities (other
than
(A) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of
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(b) The
Company also covenants with each Holder of Securities (i) to hold, directly
or
indirectly, one hundred percent (100%) of the Common Securities of the Trust,
provided, that any permitted successor of the Company hereunder may
succeed to the Company’s ownership of such Common Securities, (ii) as holder of
such Common Securities, not to voluntarily dissolve, wind-up or liquidate
the
Trust other than (A) in connection with a distribution of the Securities
to the
holders of the Preferred Securities in liquidation of the Trust or (B) in
connection with certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations permitted
by
the Trust Agreement and (iii) to use its reasonable commercial efforts,
consistent with the terms and provisions of the Trust Agreement, to cause
the
Trust to continue to be taxable as a grantor trust and not as a corporation
for
United States Federal income tax purposes.
SECTION
10.7. Waiver
of Covenants.
The
Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant or
condition contained in Section 10.6 if, before or after the time for such
compliance, the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount
of
the Outstanding Securities shall, by Act of such Holders, and at least a
majority of the aggregate Liquidation Amount (as defined in the Trust Agreement)
of the Preferred Securities then outstanding, by consent of such holders,
either
waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with
such
covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such
covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until
such
waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company in respect
of any
such covenant or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
SECTION
10.8. Treatment
of Securities.
The
Company will treat the Securities as indebtedness, and the amounts payable
in
respect of the principal amount of such Securities as interest, for all U.S.
federal income tax purposes. All payments in respect of the
Securities will be made free and clear of U.S.
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ARTICLE
XI
Redemption
of Securities
SECTION
11.1. Optional
Redemption.
The
Company may, at its option, on any Interest Payment Date, on or after June
15,
2012, redeem the Securities in whole at any time or in part from time to
time,
at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal
amount thereof (or of the redeemed portion thereof, as applicable), together,
in
the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional
Interest, to but excluding the date fixed for redemption; provided,
that the Company shall have received the prior approval of the Federal Reserve
with respect to such redemption if then required.
SECTION
11.2. Special
Event Redemption.
Upon
the
occurrence and during the continuation of a Special Event, the Company may,
at
its option, redeem the Securities, in whole but not in part, at a redemption
price equal to the Redemption Price specified in Section 11.1 above,
together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including
any Additional Interest, to but excluding the date fixed for redemption (the
“Special Event Redemption Price”); provided, that the Company shall
have received the prior approval of the Federal Reserve with respect to such
redemption if then required.
SECTION
11.3. Election
to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The
election of the Company to redeem any Securities, in whole or in part, shall
be
evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any
redemption at the election of the Company, the Company shall, not less than
forty five (45) days and not more than seventy five (75) days prior to the
Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee),
notify the Trustee and the Property Trustee under the Trust Agreement in
writing
of such date and of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed
and
provide the additional information required to be included in the notice
or
notices contemplated by Section 11.5. In the case of any redemption of
Securities, in whole or in part, (a) prior to the expiration of any restriction
on such redemption provided in this Indenture or the Securities or (b) pursuant
to an election of the Company which is subject to a condition specified in
this
Indenture or the Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance with such
restriction or condition.
SECTION
11.4. Selection
of Securities to be Redeemed.
(a) If
less
than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to
be
redeemed shall be selected not more than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption
Date by the Trustee from the Outstanding Securities not previously called
for
redemption, by such method as
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(b) The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected
for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial
redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes
of
this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating
to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security
redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal
amount
of such Security that has been or is to be redeemed.
(c) The
provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 11.4 shall not apply
with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether
such
Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such
redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the
Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less
than
the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
SECTION
11.5. Notice
of Redemption.
(a) Notice
of
redemption shall be given not later than the thirtieth (30th) day, and not
earlier than the sixtieth (60th) day, prior to the Redemption Date to each
Holder of Securities to be redeemed, in whole or in part (unless a shorter
notice shall be satisfactory to the Property Trustee under the related Trust
Agreement).
(b) With
respect to Securities to be redeemed, in whole or in part, each notice 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, the estimate of the Redemption Price,
as
calculated by the Company, together with a statement that it is an estimate
and
that the actual Redemption Price will be calculated on the fifth Business
Day
prior to the Redemption Date (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);
(iii) if
less
than all Outstanding Securities are to be redeemed, the identification (and,
in
the case of partial redemption, the respective principal amounts) of the
particular Securities to be redeemed;
(iv) that
on
the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon
each
such Security or portion thereof, and that any interest (including any
Additional Interest) on such Security or such portion, as the case may be,
shall
cease to accrue on and after said date; and
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(v) the
place
or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the
Redemption Price.
(c) Notice
of
redemption of Securities to be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the election
of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable.
The notice if mailed in the manner provided above shall be conclusively presumed
to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice.
In any
case, a failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the notice to
the
Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall
not
affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other
Security.
SECTION
11.6. Deposit
of Redemption Price.
Prior
to
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Redemption Date specified in the notice
of redemption given as provided in Section 11.5, the Company will deposit
with the Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents (or if the Company is
acting
as its own Paying Agent, the Company will segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.2) an amount of money sufficient to pay the
Redemption Price of, and any accrued interest (including any Additional
Interest) on, all the Securities (or portions thereof) that are to be redeemed
on that date.
SECTION
11.7. Payment
of Securities Called for Redemption.
(a) If
any
notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 11.5, the
Securities or portion of Securities with respect to which such notice has
been
given shall become due and payable on the date and at the place or places
stated
in such notice at the applicable Redemption Price, together with accrued
interest (including any Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date. On
presentation and surrender of such Securities at a Place of Payment specified
in
such notice, the Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid
and
redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price, together with
accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) to the Redemption
Date.
(b) Upon
presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Company shall execute
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder thereof, at
the
expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities, of authorized
denominations, in aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion
of
the Security so presented and having the same Original Issue Date, Stated
Maturity and terms.
(c) If
any
Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof
for
redemption, the principal of and any premium on such Security shall, until
paid,
bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in
the
Security.
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ARTICLE
XII
Subordination
of Securities
SECTION
12.1. Securities
Subordinate to Senior Debt.
The
Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by its acceptance
thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth in this Article XII, the payment of the principal
of and any premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) on each
and
all of the Securities are hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in
right
of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt.
SECTION
12.2. No
Payment When Senior Debt in Default; Payment Over of Proceeds upon Dissolution,
Etc.
(a) In
the
event and during the continuation of any default by the Company in the payment
of any principal of or any premium or interest on any Senior Debt (following
any
grace period, if applicable) when the same becomes due and payable, whether
at
maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration of acceleration
or
otherwise, then, upon written notice of such default to the Company by the
holders of such Senior Debt or any trustee therefor, unless and until such
default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist, no
direct
or indirect payment (in cash, property, securities, by set-off or otherwise)
shall be made or agreed to be made on account of the principal of or any
premium
or interest (including any Additional Interest) on any of the Securities,
or in
respect of any redemption, repayment, retirement, purchase or other acquisition
of any of the Securities.
(b) In
the
event of a bankruptcy, insolvency or other proceeding described in clause
(e) or
(f) of the definition of Event of Default (each such event, if any, herein
sometimes referred to as a “Proceeding”), all Senior Debt (including
any interest thereon accruing after the commencement of any such proceedings)
shall first be paid in full before any payment or distribution, whether in
cash,
securities or other property, shall be made to any Holder of any of the
Securities on account thereof. Any payment or distribution, whether in cash,
securities or other property (other than securities of the Company or any
other
entity provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment the payment
of
which is subordinate, at least to the extent provided in these subordination
provisions with respect to the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities,
to the
payment of all Senior Debt at the time outstanding and to any securities
issued
in respect thereof under any such plan of reorganization or readjustment),
which
would otherwise (but for these subordination provisions) be payable or
deliverable in respect of the Securities shall be paid or delivered directly
to
the holders of Senior Debt in accordance with the priorities then existing
among
such holders until all Senior Debt (including any interest thereon
accruing after the commencement of any Proceeding) shall have been paid in
full.
(c) In
the
event of any Proceeding, after payment in full of all sums owing with respect
to
Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities, together with the holders of
any
obligations of the Company ranking on a parity with the Securities, shall
be
entitled to be paid from the remaining assets of the Company the amounts
at the
time due and owing on account of unpaid principal of and any premium and
interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities
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(d) The
Trustee and the Holders, at the expense of the Company, shall take such
reasonable action (including the delivery of this Indenture to an agent for
any
holders of Senior Debt or consent to the filing of a financing statement
with
respect hereto) as may, in the opinion of counsel designated by the holders
of a
majority in principal amount of the Senior Debt at the time outstanding,
be
necessary or appropriate to assure the effectiveness of the subordination
effected by these provisions.
(e) The
provisions of this Section 12.2 shall not impair any rights, interests,
remedies or powers of any secured creditor of the Company in respect of any
security interest the creation of which is not prohibited by the provisions
of
this Indenture.
(f) The
securing of any obligations of the Company, otherwise ranking on a parity
with
the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities, shall not be deemed to
prevent such obligations from constituting, respectively, obligations ranking
on
a parity with the Securities or ranking junior to the Securities.
SECTION
12.3. Payment
Permitted If No Default.
Nothing
contained in this Article XII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of
the Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time, except during
the
pendency of the conditions described in paragraph (a) of Section 12.2 or
of any Proceeding referred to in Section 12.2, from making payments
at any time of principal of and any premium or interest (including any
Additional Interest) on the Securities or (b) the application by the Trustee
of
any moneys deposited with it hereunder to the payment of or on account of
the
principal of and any premium or interest (including any Additional Interest)
on
the Securities or the retention of such payment by the Holders, if, at the
time
of such application by the Trustee, it did not have knowledge (in accordance
with Section 12.8) that such payment would have been prohibited by the
provisions of this Article XII, except as provided in Section
12.8.
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SECTION
12.4. Subrogation
to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt.
Subject
to the payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on all Senior
Debt,
or the provision for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise
in a
manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities
shall be subrogated to the extent of the payments or distributions made to
the
holders of such Senior Debt pursuant to the provisions of this Article
XII (equally and ratably with the holders of all indebtedness of the Company
that by its express terms is subordinated to Senior Debt of the Company to
substantially the same extent as the Securities are subordinated to the Senior
Debt and is entitled to like rights of subrogation by reason of any payments
or
distributions made to holders of such Senior Debt) to the rights of the holders
of such Senior Debt to receive payments and distributions of cash, property
and
securities applicable to the Senior Debt until the principal of and any premium
and interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities shall
be paid
in full. For purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to
the
holders of the Senior Debt of any cash, property or securities to which the
Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Article XII, and no payments made pursuant to the
provisions of this Article XII to the holders of Senior Debt by Holders
of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as among the Company, its creditors
other than holders of Senior Debt, and the Holders of the Securities, be
deemed
to be a payment or distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior
Debt.
SECTION
12.5. Provisions
Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The
provisions of this Article XII are and are intended solely for the
purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities
on the
one hand and the holders of Senior Debt on the other hand. Nothing contained
in
this Article XII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is
intended to or shall (a) impair, as between the Company and the Holders of
the
Securities, the obligations of the Company, which are absolute and
unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of and
any
premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities
as
and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms,
(b) affect the relative rights against the Company of the Holders of the
Securities and creditors of the Company other than their rights in relation
to
the holders of Senior Debt or (c) prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any
Security (or to the extent expressly provided herein, the holder of any
Preferred Security) from exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by
applicable law upon default under this Indenture, including filing and voting
claims in any Proceeding, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article
XII of the holders of Senior Debt to receive cash, property and securities
otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
SECTION
12.6. Trustee
to Effectuate Subordination.
Each
Holder of a Security by his or her acceptance thereof authorizes and directs
the
Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article XII and appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any
and all such purposes.
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SECTION
12.7. No
Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
(a) No
right
of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt to enforce subordination
as
herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by
any
act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure
to
act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company
with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of
any
knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or be otherwise charged
with.
(b) Without
in any way limiting the generality of paragraph (a) of this Section 12.7,
the holders of Senior Debt may, at any time and from to time, without the
consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, without
incurring responsibility to such Holders of the Securities and without impairing
or releasing the subordination provided in this Article XII or the
obligations hereunder of such Holders of the Securities to the holders of
Senior
Debt, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place or
terms
of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior Debt,
or
otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior Debt or any instrument
evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior Debt is outstanding,
(ii) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property pledged,
mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Debt, (iii) release any Person liable
in
any manner for the payment of Senior Debt and (iv) exercise or refrain from
exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person.
SECTION
12.8. Notice
to Trustee.
(a) The
Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee
of any fact known to the Company that would prohibit the making of any payment
to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Article XII or any other provision of this Indenture,
the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts
that would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect
of
the Securities, unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall
have
received written notice thereof from the Company or a holder of Senior Debt
or
from any trustee, agent or representative therefor; provided, that if
the Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section
12.8 at least two Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms
hereof any monies may become payable for any purpose (including, the payment
of
the principal of and any premium on or interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any Security), then, anything herein contained to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive
such
monies and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were received
and
shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be received
by it
within two Business Days prior to such date.
(b) The
Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice
by a
Person representing himself or herself to be a holder of Senior Debt (or
a
trustee, agent, representative or attorney-in-fact therefor) to establish
that
such notice has been given by a holder of Senior Debt (or a trustee, agent,
representative or attorney-in-fact therefor). In the event that the Trustee
determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect to
the
right of any Person as a holder of Senior Debt to participate in any payment
or
distribution pursuant to this Article XII, the Trustee may request such
Person to furnish evidence to the
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SECTION
12.9. Reliance
on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
Upon
any
payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article
XII, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to
conclusively rely upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent
jurisdiction in which such Proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the
trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for
the benefit of creditors, agent or other Person making such payment or
distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities, for
the
purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment
or
distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and other indebtedness of the
Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid
or
distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article
XII.
SECTION
12.10. Trustee
Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt.
The
Trustee, in its capacity as trustee under this Indenture, shall not be deemed
to
owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt and shall not be liable
to
any such holders if it shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or distribute
to
Holders of Securities or to the Company or to any other Person cash, property
or
securities to which any holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled by virtue
of
this Article XII or otherwise.
SECTION
12.11. Rights
of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee’s
Rights.
The
Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set
forth
in this Article XII with respect to any Senior Debt that may at any time
be held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Debt, and
nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights
as such
holder.
SECTION
12.12. Article
Applicable to Paying Agents.
If
at any
time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by
the
Company and be then acting hereunder, the term “Trustee” as used in
this Article XII shall in such case (unless the context otherwise
requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within
its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent
were
named in this Article XII in addition to or in place of the Trustee;
provided, that Sections12.8 and 12.11 shall not
apply to the Company or any Affiliate of the Company if the Company or such
Affiliate acts as Paying Agent.
This
instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, 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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* *
*
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly
executed as of the day and year first above written.
XXXXXX COUNTY BANCSHARES, INC. | |
By: | |
Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxx | |
Title: Chief Financial Officer | |
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee | |
By: | |
Name: | |
Title: |
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Schedule
A
DETERMINATION
OF LIBOR
With
respect to the Securities, the London interbank offered rate (“LIBOR”)
shall be determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the following
provisions (in each case rounded to the nearest .000001%):
(1) On
the second LIBOR Business Day (as defined below) prior to an Interest Payment
Date (except, with respect to the first Interest Payment Date, on May 14,
2007
(each such day, a “LIBOR Determination Date”), LIBOR for any given security
shall, for the following interest payment period, equal the rate, as obtained
by
the Calculation Agent from Bloomberg Financial Markets Commodities News,
for
three-month U.S. Dollar deposits in Europe, which appears on page “LIBOR 01” of
the Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service, or such other page as may replace
such
page “LIBOR 01” from time to time, as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such LIBOR
Determination Date.
(2) If,
on any LIBOR Determination Date, such rate does not appear on page “LIBOR 01” of
the Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service or such other page as may replace
such
page “LIBOR 01” from time to time, the Calculation Agent shall determine the
arithmetic mean of the offered quotations of the Reference Banks (as defined
below) to leading banks in the London interbank market for three-month U.S.
Dollar deposits in Europe in an amount determined by the Calculation Agent
by
reference to requests for quotations as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London
time) on the LIBOR Determination Date made by the Calculation Agent to the
Reference Banks. If, on any LIBOR Determination Date, at least two of
the Reference Banks provide such quotations, LIBOR shall equal such arithmetic
mean of such quotations. If, on any LIBOR Determination Date, only
one or none of the Reference Banks provide such quotations, LIBOR shall be
deemed to be the arithmetic mean of the offered quotations that leading banks
in
the City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent are quoting on the
relevant LIBOR Determination Date for three-month U.S. Dollar deposits in
Europe
in an amount determined by the Calculation Agent by reference to the principal
London offices of leading banks in the London interbank market; provided
that, if the Calculation Agent is required but is unable to determine
a
rate in accordance with at least one of the procedures provided above, LIBOR
shall be LIBOR as determined on the previous LIBOR Determination
Date.
(3) As
used herein: “Reference Banks” means four major banks in the London
interbank market selected by the Calculation Agent; and “LIBOR Business
Day” means a day on which commercial banks are open for business (including
dealings in foreign exchange and foreign currency deposits) in
London.
Schedule
A-1
Exhibit
A
Officer’s
Certificate
The
undersigned, the Chief Financial Officer hereby certifies, pursuant to Section
7.3(b) of the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of May 16, 2007, between
Xxxxxx County Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”) and Wilmington Trust Company, as
trustee, that, as of [date], [20__], the Company had the following
ratios and balances:
BANK
HOLDING COMPANY
As
of
[Quarterly Financial Dates]
Tier
1 Risk Weighted Assets
|
%
|
|
Ratio
of Double Leverage
|
%
|
|
Non-Performing
Assets to Loans and OREO
|
%
|
|
Tangible
Common Equity as a Percentage of Tangible Assets
|
%
|
|
Ratio
of Reserves to Non-Performing Loans
|
%
|
|
Ratio
of Net Charge-Offs to Loans
|
%
|
|
Return
on Average Assets (annualized)
|
%
|
|
Net
Interest Margin (annualized)
|
%
|
|
Efficiency
Ratio
|
%
|
|
Ratio
of Loans to Assets
|
%
|
|
Ratio
of Loans to Deposits
|
%
|
|
Total
Assets
|
$
|
|
Year
to Date Income
|
$
|
|
*
A table
describing the quarterly report calculation procedures is provided on page
__
[FOR
FISCAL YEAR END: Attached hereto are the audited consolidated financial
statements (including the balance sheet, income statement and statement of
cash
flows, and notes thereto, together with the report of the independent
accountants thereon) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for
the
three years ended _______, 20___.]
[FOR
FISCAL QUARTER END: Attached hereto are the unaudited consolidated and
consolidating financial statements (including the balance sheet and income
statement) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the fiscal
quarter] ended [date], 20__.
The
financial statements fairly present in all material respects, in accordance
with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), the financial position
of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries, and the results of operations
and changes in financial condition as of the date, and for the [___ quarter
interim] [annual] period ended [date], 20__, and such financial statements
have
been prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the
period
involved (except as otherwise noted therein).
Ex.
A-1
Exhibit
A
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Officer’s Certificate as of
this _____ day of _____________, 20__
Name: | |
Title: | |
Xxxxxx County Bancshares, Inc. | |
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx | |
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000 | |
(000) 000-0000 |
Ex.
A-2
Financial
Definitions
Report
Item
|
Corresponding
FRY-9C or LP Line Items with Line Item corresponding
Schedules
|
Description
of Calculation
|
Tier
1 Risk
Weighted
Assets
|
BHCK7206
Schedule
HC-R
|
Tier
1 Risk Ratio: Core Capital (Tier 1)/ Risk-Adjusted
Assets
|
Ratio
of Double Leverage
|
(BHCP0365)/(BCHCP3210)
Schedule
PC in the LP
|
Total
equity investments in subsidiaries divided by the total equity
capital.
This field is calculated at the parent company level. “Subsidiaries”
include bank, bank holding company, and non-bank
subsidiaries.
|
Non-Performing
Assets to Loans and OREO
|
(BHCK5525-BHCK3506+BHCK5526-BHCK3507+BHCK2744)/(BHCK2122+BHCK2744)
Schedules HC-C, HC-M & HC-N
|
Total
Nonperforming Assets (NPLs+Foreclosed Real Estate+Other Nonaccrual
&
Repossessed Assets)/Total Loans+Foreclosed Real Estate
|
Tangible
Common Equity as a Percentage of Tangible Assets
|
(BHDM3210-BHCK3163)/(BHCK2170-BHCK3163)
Schedule
HC
|
(Equity
Capital – Goodwill)/(Total Assets – Goodwill)
|
Ratio
of Reserves to Non-Performing Loans
|
(BHCK3123+BHCK3128)/(BHCK5525-BHCK3506+BHCK5526-BHCK3507)
Schedules
HC & HC-N & HC-R
|
Total
Loan Loss and Allocated Transfer Risk Reserves/ Total Nonperforming
Loans
(Nonaccrual
+ Restructured)
|
Ratio
of Net Charge-Offs to Loans
|
(BHCK4635-BHCK4605)/(BHCK3516)
Schedules
HC-B & HC-K
|
Net
charge offs for the period as a percentage of average
loans.
|
Return
on Average Assets (annualized)
|
(BHCK4340/BHCK3368)
Schedules
HI & HC-K
|
Net
Income as a percentage of Assets.
|
Net
Interest Margin (annualized)
|
(BHCK4519)/(BHCK3515+BHCK3365+BHCK3516+BHCK3401+BHCKB985)
Schedules
HI Memorandum and HC-K
|
(Net
Interest Income Fully Taxable Equivalent, if available/Average
Earning
Assets)
|
Efficiency
Ratio
|
(BHCK4093)/(BHCK4519+BHCK4079)
Schedule
HI
|
(Non-interest
Expense)/(Net Interest Income Fully Taxable Equivalent, if available,
plus
Non-interest Income)
|
Ratio
of Loans to Assets
|
(BHCKB528+BHCK5369)/(BHCK2170)
Schedule
HC
|
Total
Loans & Leases (Net of Unearned Income & Gross of Reserve)/Total
Assets
|
Ratio
of Loans to Deposits
|
(BHCKB528+BHCK5369)/(BHDM6631+BHDM6636+BHFN6631+BHFN6636)
Schedule
HC
|
Total
Loans & Leases (Net of Unearned Income & Gross of Reserve)/Total
Deposits (Includes Domestic and Foreign
Deposits)
|
1
Total
Assets
|
(BHCK2170)
Schedule
HC
|
The
sum of total assets. Includes cash and balances due from depository
institutions; securities; federal funds sold and securities purchased
under agreements to resell; loans and lease financing receivables;
trading
assets; premises and fixed assets; other real estate owned; investments
in
unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies; customer’s liability
on acceptances outstanding; intangible assets; and other
assets.
|
Net
Income
|
(BHCK4300)
Schedule
HI
|
The
sum of income (loss) before extraordinary items and other adjustments
and
extraordinary items; and other adjustments, net of income
taxes.
|
2
Financial
Definitions
THRIFT
HOLDING COMPANY
Report
Item
|
Corresponding
TFR
|
Description
of
Calculation
|
Tier
I Risk Weighted Assets -
|
Schedule
CCR – Consolidated Capital Requirement
CCR
830
|
Tier
1 Risk Ratio: Core Capital (Tier 1)/Risk-adjusted
assets
|
Ratio
of Double Leverage
|
Not
applicable
|
Not
applicable
|
Non-performing
assets to loans and OREO
|
Schedule
PD – Consolidated Past Due and Nonaccrual
Schedule
SC – Consolidated Statement of Condition
PD30/(SC23+SC30+SC34+SC40)
|
Total
Non-performing assets (NPLs + Foreclosed Real Estate+Other Non-accrual
& Repossessed assets+Foreclosed Real Estate)
|
Tangible
Common Equity as a Percentage of Total Assets
|
Schedule
CCR
CCR
840
|
(Equity
Capital-Goodwill) / (Total assets – Goodwill)
|
Ratio
of Reserves to Non-performing loans
|
SC283/PD30
|
Total
loan loss reserves / Total Non-performing loans
|
Ratio
of Net Charge-offs to Loans
|
Schedule
VA – Consolidated Valuation Allowances and Related Data
(VA155-VA135)/(SC23+SC30+SC34)
|
Net
charge offs for the period as a percentage of average
loans
|
Return
on Assets (annualized)
|
Schedule
SO – Consolidated Statements of Operations
SO91/SC60
|
Net
income as a percentage of assets
|
Net
interest margin (annualized)
|
SO311/((SC10-SC110)+SC20+SC23+SC30+SC34)
|
Net
interest income / Average earning assets
|
Efficiency
Ratio
|
(SO51/(SO311+SO40))
|
(Non-interest
expense) / (Net interest income + Non-interest income)
|
Ratio
of Loans to Assets
|
(SC23+SC30+SC34)/(SC60)
|
Total
Loan & Leases / Total assets
|
Ratio
of Loans to Deposits
|
(SC23+SC30+SC34)/(SC710)
|
Total
Loans & Leases / Total Deposits
|
Total
Assets
|
Schedule
SC
SC60
|
The
sum of total assets.
|
Net
Income
|
Schedule
SO
SO91
|
The
sum of income (loss).
|
3
Exhibit
E
FORM
OF
TRANSFEREE CERTIFICATE
TO
BE
EXECUTED BY TRANSFEREES OTHER THAN QIBS
__________,
[ ]
Xxxxxx
County Bancshares, Inc.
GreenBank
Capital Trust I
000
Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxx 00000
Re: Purchase
of $1,000
stated liquidation amount of Floating Rate Preferred Securities
(the “Preferred Securities”) of GreenBank Capital Trust I
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
In
connection with our purchase of the Preferred Securities we confirm
that:
1. We
understand that the Floating Rate Preferred Securities (the “Preferred
Securities”) of GreenBank Capital Trust I (the “Trust”) (including the guarantee
(the “Guarantee”) of Xxxxxx County Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”) executed in
connection therewith) and the Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2037
of the Company (the “Subordinated Notes”) (the Preferred Securities, the
Guarantee and the Subordinated Notes together being referred to herein as the
“Offered Securities”), have not been registered under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and may not be offered or sold except
as permitted in the following sentence. We agree on our own behalf and on behalf
of any investor account for which we are purchasing the Offered Securities
that,
if we decide to offer, sell or otherwise transfer any such Offered Securities,
(i) such offer, sale or transfer will be made only (a) to the Trust or the
Company, (b) to a person we reasonably believe is a “qualified institutional
buyer” (a “QIB”) (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) in a
transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A, (c) to an institutional
“accredited investor” within the meaning of subparagraph (a) (1), (2), (3) or
(7) of Rule 501 under the Securities Act that is acquiring Offered Securities
for its own account, or for the account of such an “accredited investor,” for
investment purposes and not with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection
with, any distribution thereof in violation of the Securities Act, (d) pursuant
to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, or (e) pursuant
to an exemption from the Securities Act, in each case in accordance with any
applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or any other
applicable jurisdiction and, in the case of (c) or (e), subject to the right
of
the Trust and the Company to require an opinion of counsel and other information
satisfactory to each of them. The foregoing restrictions on resale will not
apply subsequent to the date on which, in the written opinion of counsel, the
Preferred Securities are not “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule
144 under the Securities Act. If any resale or other transfer of the
Offered Securities is proposed to be made pursuant to clause (c) or (e) above,
the transferor shall deliver a letter from the transferee substantially in
the
form of this letter to the Company and the Property Trustee as Transfer Agent,
which shall provide as applicable, among other things, that the transferee
is an
“accredited investor” within the meaning of subparagraph (a) (1), (2), (3) or
(7) of Rule 501 under the Securities Act that is acquiring such Securities
for
investment purposes and not for
E-1
2. We
are an “accredited investor” within the meaning of subparagraph (a) (1), (2),
(3) or (7) of Rule 501 under the Securities Act purchasing for our own account
or for the account of such an “accredited investor,” and we are acquiring the
Offered Securities for investment purposes and not with view to, or for offer
or
sale in connection with, any distribution in violation of the Securities Act,
and we have such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters
as
to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the
Offered Securities, and we and any account for which we are acting are each
able
to bear the economic risks of our or its investment.
3. We
are acquiring the Offered Securities purchased by us for our own account (or
for
one or more accounts as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion
and have authority to make, and do make, the statements contained in this
letter) and not with a view to any distribution of the Offered Securities,
subject, nevertheless, to the understanding that the disposition of our property
will at all times be and remain within our control.
4. In
the event that we purchase any Preferred Securities or any Subordinated Notes,
we will acquire such Preferred Securities having an aggregate stated liquidation
amount of not less than $100,000 or such Subordinated Notes having an aggregate
principal amount not less than $100,000, for our own account and for each
separate account for which we are acting.
5. We
acknowledge that we either (A) are not a fiduciary of a employee benefit,
individual retirement account or other plan or arrangement 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”), or an entity whose underlying assets include “plan assets” by reason
of any Plan’s investment in the entity, and are not purchasing the Offered
Securities on behalf of or with “plan assets” by reason of any Plan’s investment
in the entity, (B) are eligible for the exemptive relief available under one
or
more of the following prohibited transaction class exemptions (“PTCEs”) issued
by the U.S. Department of Labor: PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 or
84-14 or another applicable exemption, or (C) our purchase and holding of this
security, or any interest therein, is not prohibited by Section 406 of ERISA
or
Section 4975 of the Code with respect to such purchase or holding.
6. We
acknowledge that the Trust and the Company and others will rely upon the truth
and accuracy of the foregoing acknowledgments, representations, warranties
and
agreements and agree that if any of the acknowledgments, representations,
warranties and agreements deemed to have been made by our purchase of the
Offered Securities are no longer accurate, we shall promptly notify the
Company. If we are acquiring any Offered Securities as a fiduciary or
agent for one or more investor accounts, we represent that we have sole
discretion with respect to each such investor account and that we have full
power to make the foregoing acknowledgments, representations and agreement
on
behalf of each such investor account.
E-2
(Name of Purchaser) | |
By: | |
Date: |
Upon
transfer, the Offered Securities would be registered in the name of the new
beneficial owner as follows.
Name: | |
Address: | |
Taxpayer ID Number: |
E-3
Exhibit
F
FORM
OF
TRANSFEROR CERTIFICATE
TO
BE
EXECUTED FOR QIBs
__________,
[ ]
Xxxxxx
County Bancshares, Inc.
GreenBank
Capital Trust I
000
Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxx 00000
|
Re:
|
Purchase
of a minimum aggregate of $100,000 stated liquidation amount of Floating
Rate Preferred Securities (the “Preferred Securities”) of GreenBank
Capital Trust I
|
Reference
is hereby made to the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of GreenBank Capital
Trust I, dated as of May 16, 2007 (the “Trust Agreement”), among R. Xxxx
Xxxxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxxx and Xxxxx X. Xxxxx, as Administrative Trustees, Wilmington
Trust Company, as Delaware Trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Property
Trustee, Xxxxxx County Bancshares, Inc., as Depositor, and the holders from
time
to time of undivided beneficial interests in the assets of GreenBank Capital
Trust I. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the
meanings given them in the Trust Agreement.
This
letter relates to $________________________ aggregate liquidation amount of
Preferred Securities which are held in the name of _____________ (the
“Transferor”).
In
accordance with Article V of the Trust Agreement, the Transferor hereby
certifies that such Preferred Securities are being transferred in accordance
with (i) the transfer restrictions set forth in the Preferred Securities and
(ii) Rule 144A under the Securities Act (“Rule 144A”), to a transferee that the
Transferor reasonably believes is purchasing the Preferred Securities for its
own account or an account with respect to which the transferee exercises sole
investment discretion and the transferee and any such account is a “qualified
institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A, in a transaction meeting
the requirements of Rule 144A and in accordance with applicable securities
laws
of any state of the United States or any other jurisdiction.
You
are
entitled to rely upon this letter and are irrevocably authorized to produce
this
letter or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal
proceeding or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered
hereby.
(Name of Transferor) | |
By: | |
Name: | |
Title: |
Date: |
F-1
Exhibit
G
Officer’s
Certificate
The
undersigned, the Chief Financial Officer hereby certifies, pursuant to Section
8.16(b) of the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of May 16, 2007,
among Xxxxxx County Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”), Wilmington Trust Company,
as property trustee, Wilmington Trust Company, as Delaware trustee and the
administrative trustees named therein, that, as of [date], [20__], the Company
had the following ratios and balances:
BANK
HOLDING COMPANY
As
of [Quarterly Financial Dates]
|
|
Tier
1 Risk Weighted Assets
|
_________
%
|
Ratio
of Double Leverage
|
_________
%
|
Non-Performing
Assets to Loans and OREO
|
_________
%
|
Tangible
Common Equity as a Percentage of Tangible Assets
|
_________
%
|
Ratio
of Reserves to Non-Performing Loans
|
_________
%
|
Ratio
of Net Charge-Offs to Loans
|
_________
%
|
Return
on Average Assets (annualized)
|
_________
%
|
Net
Interest Margin (annualized)
|
_________
%
|
Efficiency
Ratio
|
_________
%
|
Ratio
of Loans to Assets
|
_________
%
|
Ratio
of Loans to Deposits
|
_________
%
|
Total
Assets
|
$
|
Year
to Date Income
|
$
|
*
A table
describing the quarterly report calculation procedures is provided on page
__
[FOR
FISCAL YEAR END: Attached hereto are the audited consolidated financial
statements (including the balance sheet, income statement and statement of
cash
flows, and notes thereto, together with the report of the independent
accountants thereon) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the
three years ended _______, 20___.]
[FOR
FISCAL QUARTER END: Attached hereto are the unaudited consolidated and
consolidating financial statements (including the balance sheet and income
statement) of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the fiscal
quarter] ended [date], 20__.
The
financial statements fairly present in all material respects, in accordance
with
U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), the financial position
of the Company and its
G-1
consolidated
subsidiaries, and the results of operations and changes in financial condition
as of the date, and for the [___ quarter interim] [annual] period ended [date],
20__, and such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP
consistently applied throughout the period involved (expect as otherwise noted
therein).
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Officer’s Certificate as of
this _____ day of _____________, 20__
Name: | |
Title: | |
Xxxxxx County Bancshares, Inc. | |
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx | |
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000 | |
(000) 000-0000 | |
G-2
Financial
Definitions
Report
Item
|
Corresponding
FRY-9C or LP Line Items with Line Item corresponding
Schedules
|
Description
of Calculation
|
Tier
1 Risk Weighted Assets
|
BHCK7206
Schedule
HC-R
|
Tier
1 Risk Ratio: Core Capital (Tier 1)/ Risk-Adjusted
Assets
|
Ratio
of Double Leverage
|
(BHCP0365)/(BCHCP3210)
Schedule
PC in the LP
|
Total
equity investments in subsidiaries divided by the total equity capital.
This field is calculated at the parent company level. “Subsidiaries”
include bank, bank holding company, and non-bank
subsidiaries.
|
Non-Performing
Assets to Loans and OREO
|
(BHCK5525-BHCK3506+BHCK5526-BHCK3507+BHCK2744)/(BHCK2122+BHCK2744)
Schedules HC-C, HC-M & HC-N
|
Total
Nonperforming Assets (NPLs+Foreclosed Real Estate+Other Nonaccrual
&
Repossessed Assets)/Total Loans+Foreclosed Real Estate
|
Tangible
Common Equity as a Percentage of Tangible Assets
|
(BHDM3210-BHCK3163)/(BHCK2170-BHCK3163)
Schedule
HC
|
(Equity
Capital – Goodwill)/(Total Assets – Goodwill)
|
Ratio
of Reserves to Non-Performing Loans
|
(BHCK3123+BHCK3128)/(BHCK5525-BHCK3506+BHCK5526-BHCK3507)
Schedules
HC & HC-N & HC-R
|
Total
Loan Loss and Allocated Transfer Risk Reserves/ Total Nonperforming
Loans
(Nonaccrual + Restructured)
|
Ratio
of Net Charge-Offs to Loans
|
(BHCK4635-BHCK4605)/(BHCK3516)
Schedules
HC-B & HC-K
|
Net
charge offs for the period as a percentage of average
loans.
|
Return
on Average Assets (annualized)
|
(BHCK4340/BHCK3368)
Schedules
HI & HC-K
|
Net
Income as a percentage of Assets.
|
Net
Interest Margin (annualized)
|
(BHCK4519)/(BHCK3515+BHCK3365+BHCK3516+BHCK3401+BHCKB985)
Schedules
HI Memorandum and HC-K
|
(Net
Interest Income Fully Taxable Equivalent, if available/Average Earning
Assets)
|
G-3
Report
Item
|
Corresponding
FRY-9C or LP Line Items with Line Item corresponding
Schedules
|
Description
of Calculation
|
Efficiency
Ratio
|
(BHCK4093)/(BHCK4519+BHCK4079)
Schedule
HI
|
(Non-interest
Expense)/(Net Interest Income Fully Taxable Equivalent, if available,
plus
Non-interest Income)
|
Ratio
of Loans to Assets
|
(BHCKB528+BHCK5369)/(BHCK2170)
Schedule
HC
|
Total
Loans & Leases (Net of Unearned Income & Gross of Reserve)/Total
Assets
|
Ratio
of Loans to Deposits
|
(BHCKB528+BHCK5369)/(BHDM6631+BHDM6636+BHFN6631+BHFN6636)
Schedule
HC
|
Total
Loans & Leases (Net of Unearned Income & Gross of Reserve)/Total
Deposits (Includes Domestic and Foreign Deposits)
|
Total
Assets
|
(BHCK2170)
Schedule
HC
|
The
sum of total assets. Includes cash and balances due from depository
institutions; securities; federal funds sold and securities purchased
under agreements to resell; loans and lease financing receivables;
trading
assets; premises and fixed assets; other real estate owned; investments
in
unconsolidated subsidiaries and associated companies; customer’s liability
on acceptances outstanding; intangible assets; and other
assets.
|
Net
Income
|
(BHCK4300)
Schedule
HI
|
The
sum of income (loss)before extraordinary items and other
adjustments and extraordinary items; and other adjustments, net of
income
taxes.
|
G-4
Financial
Definitions
THRIFT
HOLDING COMPANY
Report
Item
|
Corresponding
TFR
|
Description
of Calculation
|
Tier
I Risk Weighted Assets
|
Schedule
CCR – Consolidated Capital Requirement
CCR
830
|
Tier
1 Risk Ratio: Core Capital (Tier 1)/Risk-adjusted
assets
|
Ratio
of Double Leverage
|
Not
applicable
|
Not
applicable
|
Non-performing
assets to loans and OREO
|
Schedule
PD – Consolidated Past Due and Nonaccrual
Schedule
SC – Consolidated Statement of Condition
PD30/(SC23+SC30+SC34+SC40)
|
Total
Non-performing assets (NPLs + Foreclosed Real Estate+Other Non-accrual
& Repossessed assets+Foreclosed Real Estate)
|
Tangible
Common Equity as a Percentage of Total Assets
|
Schedule
CCR
CCR
840
|
(Equity
Capital-Goodwill) / (Total assets – Goodwill)
|
Ratio
of Reserves to Non-performing loans
|
SC283/PD30
|
Total
loan loss reserves / Total Non-performing loans
|
Ratio
of Net Charge-offs to Loans
|
Schedule
VA – Consolidated Valuation Allowances and Related Data
(VA155-VA135)/(SC23+SC30+SC34)
|
Net
charge offs for the period as a percentage of average
loans
|
Return
on Assets (annualized)
|
Schedule
SO – Consolidated Statements of Operations
SO91/SC60
|
Net
income as a percentage of assets
|
Net
interest margin (annualized)
|
SO311/((SC10-SC110)+SC20+SC23+SC30+SC34)
|
Net
interest income / Average earning assets
|
Efficiency
Ratio
|
(SO51/(SO311+SO40))
|
(Non-interest
expense) / (Net interest income + Non-interest income)
|
Ratio
of Loans to Assets
|
(SC23+SC30+SC34)/(SC60)
|
Total
Loan & Leases / Total assets
|
Ratio
of Loans to Deposits
|
(SC23+SC30+SC34)/(SC710)
|
Total
Loans & Leases / Total Deposits
|
Total
Assets
|
Schedule
SC
SC60
|
The
sum of total assets.
|
Net
Income
|
Schedule
SO
SO91
|
The
sum of income (loss).
|
G-5
Schedule
A
DETERMINATION
OF LIBOR
With
respect to the Trust Securities, the London interbank offered rate (“LIBOR”)
shall be determined by the Calculation Agent in accordance with the following
provisions (in each case rounded to the nearest .000001%):
(1) On
the second LIBOR Business Day (as defined below) prior to an Interest Payment
Date (except, with respect to the first Interest Payment Date, on May 14, 2007
(each such day, a “LIBOR Determination Date”), LIBOR for any given security
shall, for the following interest payment period, equal the rate, as obtained
by
the Calculation Agent from Bloomberg Financial Markets Commodities News, for
three-month U.S. Dollar deposits in Europe, which appears on page “LIBOR 01” of
the Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service, or such other page as may replace
such
“LIBOR 01” page from time to time, as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such LIBOR
Determination Date.
(2) If,
on any LIBOR Determination Date, such rate does not appear on page “LIBOR 01” of
the Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service or such other page as may replace such
“LIBOR 01” page from time to time, the Calculation Agent shall determine the
arithmetic mean of the offered quotations of the Reference Banks (as defined
below) to leading banks in the London interbank market for three-month U.S.
Dollar deposits in Europe in an amount determined by the Calculation Agent
by
reference to requests for quotations as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London
time) on the LIBOR Determination Date made by the Calculation Agent to the
Reference Banks. If, on any LIBOR Determination Date, at least two of
the Reference Banks provide such quotations, LIBOR shall equal such arithmetic
mean of such quotations. If, on any LIBOR Determination Date, only
one or none of the Reference Banks provide such quotations, LIBOR shall be
deemed to be the arithmetic mean of the offered quotations that leading banks
in
the City of New York selected by the Calculation Agent are quoting on the
relevant LIBOR Determination Date for three-month U.S. Dollar deposits in Europe
in an amount determined by the Calculation Agent by reference to the principal
London offices of leading banks in the London interbank market; provided, that
if the Calculation Agent is required but is unable to determine a rate in
accordance with at least one of the procedures provided above, LIBOR shall
be
LIBOR as determined on the previous LIBOR Determination Date.
(3) As
used herein: “Reference Banks” means four major banks in the London interbank
market selected by the Calculation Agent; and “LIBOR Business Day” means a day
on which commercial banks are open for business (including dealings in foreign
exchange and foreign currency deposits) in London.
Schedule
A-1