Exhibit 4.1
XXXX
HOLDING CORPORATION
and
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated as
of ,
Providing for Issuance of Senior Debt Securities in Series
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application
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Section 1.01
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Definitions
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1
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Section 1.02
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Compliance Certificates and Opinions
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Section 1.03
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Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee
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Section 1.04
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Acts of Securityholders
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Section 1.05
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Notices, etc., to Trustee and Company
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Section 1.06
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Notices to Securityholders; Waiver
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Section 1.07
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Conflict with Trust Indenture Act
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Section 1.08
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Effect of Headings and Table of Contents
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Section 1.09
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Successors and Assigns
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Section 1.10
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Separability Clause
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Section 1.11
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Benefits of Indenture
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Section 1.12
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Governing Law; Waiver of Jury Trial
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Section 1.13
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Counterparts
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Section 1.14
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Judgment Currency
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Section 1.15
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U.S.A. Patriot Act
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Section 1.16
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Force Majeure
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ARTICLE II Security Forms
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Section 2.01
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Forms Generally
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Section 2.02
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Forms of Securities
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Section 2.03
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Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication
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Section 2.04
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Securities Issuable in the Form of a Global Security
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ARTICLE III The Securities
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Section 3.01
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General Title; General Limitations; Issuable in Series; Terms of
Particular Series
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Section 3.02
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Denominations
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Section 3.03
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Execution, Authentication and Delivery and Dating
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Section 3.04
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Temporary Securities
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Section 3.05
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Registration, Transfer and Exchange
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Section 3.06
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Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities
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Section 3.07
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Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved
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Section 3.08
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Persons Deemed Owners
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Section 3.09
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Cancellation
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Section 3.10
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Computation of Interest
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Section 3.11
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Delayed Issuance of Securities
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Section 3.12
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CUSIP Numbers
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ARTICLE IV Satisfaction and Discharge; Defeasance
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Section 4.01
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Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
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Section 4.02
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Application of Trust Money
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Section 4.03
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Defeasance Upon Deposit of Funds or Government Obligations
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Section 4.04
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Reinstatement
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ARTICLE V Remedies
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Section 5.01
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Events of Default
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Section 5.02
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Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment
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Section 5.03
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Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee
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Section 5.04
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Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
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Section 5.05
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Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities
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Section 5.06
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Application of Money Collected
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Section 5.07
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Limitation on Suits
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Section 5.08
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Unconditional Right of Securityholders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest
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Section 5.09
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Restoration of Rights and Remedies
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Section 5.10
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Rights and Remedies Cumulative
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Section 5.11
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Delay or Omission Not Waiver
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Section 5.12
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Control by Securityholders
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Section 5.13
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Waiver of Past Defaults
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Section 5.14
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Undertaking for Costs
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Section 5.15
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Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws
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ARTICLE VI The Trustee
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Section 6.01
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Certain Duties and Responsibilities
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Section 6.02
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Notice of Defaults
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Section 6.03
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Certain Rights of Trustee
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Section 6.04
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Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities
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Section 6.05
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May Hold Securities
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Section 6.06
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Money Held in Trust
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Section 6.07
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Compensation and Reimbursement
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Section 6.08
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Disqualification; Conflicting Interests
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Section 6.09
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Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility
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Section 6.10
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Resignation and Removal
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Section 6.11
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Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
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Section 6.12
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Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business
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Section 6.13
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Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company
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Section 6.14
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Appointment of Authenticating Agent
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ARTICLE VII Securityholders’ Lists and Reports by Trustee
and Company
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Section 7.01
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Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Securityholders
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Section 7.02
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Preservation of Information; Communications to Securityholders
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Section 7.03
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Reports by Trustee
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Section 7.04
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Reports by Company
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ARTICLE VIII Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance or Transfer
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Section 8.01
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Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance or Transfer on Certain Terms
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Section 8.02
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Successor Person Substituted
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Section 9.01
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Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Securityholders
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Section 9.02
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Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Securityholders
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Section 9.03
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Execution of Supplemental Indentures
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Section 9.04
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Effect of Supplemental Indentures
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Section 9.05
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Conformity with Trust Indenture Act
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Section 9.06
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Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures
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ARTICLE X Covenants
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Section 10.01
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Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest
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Section 10.02
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Maintenance of Office or Agency
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Section 10.03
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Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust
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Section 10.04
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Statement as to Compliance
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Section 10.05
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Legal Existence
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Section 10.06
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Waiver of Certain Covenants
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ARTICLE XI Redemption of Securities
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Section 11.01
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Applicability of Article
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Section 11.02
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Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee
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Section 11.03
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Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed
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Section 11.04
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Notice of Redemption
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Section 11.05
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Deposit of Redemption Price
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Section 11.06
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Securities Payable on Redemption Date
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Section 11.07
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Securities Redeemed in Part
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Section 11.08
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Provisions with Respect to Any Sinking Funds
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Section 11.09
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Rescission of Redemption
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ARTICLE XII Conversion
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Section 12.01
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Conversion Privilege
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Section 12.02
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Conversion Procedure; Rescission of Conversion; Conversion
Price; Fractional Shares
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Section 12.03
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Adjustment of Conversion Price for Common Stock or Marketable
Securities
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Section 12.04
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Consolidation or Merger of the Company
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Section 12.05
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Notice of Adjustment
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Section 12.06
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Notice in Certain Events
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Section 12.07
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Company to Reserve Stock or other Marketable Securities;
Registration; Listing
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Section 12.08
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Taxes on Conversion
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Section 12.09
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Conversion After Record Date
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Section 12.10
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Corporate Action Regarding Par Value of Common Stock
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Section 12.11
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Company Determination Final
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Section 12.12
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Trustee’s Disclaimer
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ARTICLE XIII Guarantees
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Section 13.01
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Guarantees
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iii
Table
Showing Reflection in Indenture of Certain Provisions
of Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended by the Trust Indenture Reform Act of
1990
Reflected
in Indenture
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Trust Indenture Act Section
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Indenture Section
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§ 310
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(a)(1)
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6.09
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(a)(2)
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6.09
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(a)(3)
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Not Applicable
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(a)(4)
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Not Applicable
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(a)(5)
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6.09
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(b)
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6.08
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§ 311
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(a)
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6.13(a)
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(b)
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6.13(b)
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(b)(2)
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7.03(a)
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7.03(b)
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§ 312
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(a)
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7.01
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7.02(a)
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(b)
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7.03(b)
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(c)
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7.02(c)
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§ 313
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(a)
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7.03(a)
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(b)
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7.03(b)
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(c)
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7.03(a)
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7.03(b)
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(d)
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7.03(c)
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§ 314
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(a)(1)
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7.04
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(a)(2)
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7.04
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(a)(3)
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7.04
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(a)(4)
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10.04
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(b)
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Not Applicable
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(c)(1)
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1.02
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(c)(2)
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1.02
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(c)(3)
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Not Applicable
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(d)
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Not Applicable
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(e)
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1.02
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§ 315
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(a)
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6.01(a)
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6.01(c)
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(b)
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6.02
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7.03(a)
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(c)
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6.01(b)
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(d)
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6.01
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(d)(1)
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6.01(a)
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(d)(2)
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6.01(c)(2)
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(d)(3)
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6.01(c)(3)
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(e)
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5.14
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Trust Indenture Act Section
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Indenture Section
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§ 316
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(a)
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1.01
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(a)(1)(A)
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5.02
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5.12
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(a)(1)(B)
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5.13
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(a)(2)
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Not Applicable
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(b)
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5.08
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(c)
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1.04(d)
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§ 317
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(a)(1)
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5.03
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(a)(2)
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5.04
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(b)
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10.03
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§ 318
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(a)
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1.07
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Note: This table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
part of the Indenture.
Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act provides
that the provisions of Sections 310 to and including 317 of
the Trust Indenture Act are a part of and govern every
qualified indenture, whether or not physically contained therein.
v
THIS INDENTURE between XXXX HOLDING CORPORATION, a Delaware
corporation (hereinafter called the “Company”)
having its principal office at 0000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx,
Xxxx 00000, and XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a
national banking association, as trustee (hereinafter called the
‘‘Trustee”), is made and entered into as
of , .
Recitals
of the Company
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance of its debentures,
notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, in an unlimited
aggregate principal amount, to be issued in one or more fully
registered series.
This Indenture is subject to the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be incorporated into
this Indenture and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed
by such provisions.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of
the Company in accordance with its terms have been done.
Agreements
of the Parties
To set forth or to provide for the establishment of the terms
and conditions upon which the Securities are and are to be
authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the
premises and the purchase of Securities by the Holders thereof,
it is mutually agreed as follows, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of a
series thereof, as the case may be:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
and Other Provisions
of
General Application
Section 1.01 Definitions. For
all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental
hereto, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article, and include the plural as well
as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the
Trust Indenture Act or by Commission rule under the
Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference
therein, have the meanings assigned to them herein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have
the meanings assigned to them in accordance with GAAP and,
except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term
“generally accepted accounting principles” with
respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall
mean such accounting principles and any accounting rules or
interpretations promulgated by the Commission as are generally
accepted in the United States of America at the date of this
Indenture; and
(4) all references in this instrument to designated
“Articles”, “Sections” and other
subdivisions are to the designated Articles, Sections and other
subdivisions of this instrument as originally executed. The
words “herein”, “hereof” and
“hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article,
Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms, used principally in Article VI, are defined
in that Article.
‘‘Act”, when used with respect to
any Securityholder, has the meaning specified in
Section 1.04.
“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
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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.
“Authenticating Agent” means any Person
authorized by the Company to authenticate Securities under
Section 6.14.
“Board of Directors” means (i) the
board of directors of the Company, (ii) any duly authorized
committee of such board, (iii) any committee of officers of
the Company or (iv) any officer of the Company acting, in
the case of clauses (iii) or (iv), pursuant to authority
granted by the board of directors of the Company or any
committee of such board.
“Board Resolution” means a copy of a
resolution certified by the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary
of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of
Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Business Day” means, with respect to
any series of Securities, unless otherwise specified in a Board
Resolution, in an indenture supplemental hereto or an
Officer’s Certificate with respect to a particular series
of Securities, each day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or other
day on which banking institutions in the pertinent Place or
Places of Payment or the city in which the Corporate
Trust Office is located are authorized or required by law
or executive order to be closed.
“Closing Price” of the Common Stock or
other Marketable Security, as the case may be, shall mean the
last reported sale price of such stock or other Marketable
Security (regular way) as shown on the Composite Tape of the
NYSE (or, if such stock or other Marketable Security is not
listed or admitted to trading on the NYSE, on the principal
national securities exchange on which such stock or other
Marketable Security is listed or admitted to trading, including
the NASDAQ), or, in case no such sale takes place on such day,
the average of the closing bid and asked prices on the NYSE (or,
if such stock or other Marketable Security is not listed or
admitted to trading on the NYSE, on the principal national
securities exchange on which such stock or other Marketable
Security is listed or admitted to trading, including the
NASDAQ), or if such stock or other Marketable Security is not so
reported, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as
furnished by any member of the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority, selected from time to time by the Company for that
purpose.
“Commission” means the Securities and
Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or, if at any time
after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not
existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the
Trust Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties
at such time.
“Common Stock” shall mean the Common
Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company authorized at
the date of this Indenture as originally signed, or any other
class of stock resulting from successive changes or
reclassifications of such Common Stock, and in any such case
including any shares thereof authorized after the date of this
Indenture.
“Company” means the Person named as the
“Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument
until a successor shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
“Company” shall mean such successor.
“Company Request”, “Company
Order” and ‘‘Company
Consent” mean a written request, order or consent,
respectively, signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman
of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief
Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, any
Assistant Treasurer, Controller, any Assistant Controller,
General Counsel, Secretary, any Assistant Secretary or any Vice
President, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Conversion Agent” means any Person
authorized by the Company to receive Securities to be converted
into Common Stock or other Marketable Securities on behalf of
the Company. The Company initially authorizes the Trustee to act
as Conversion Agent for the Securities on its behalf. The
Company may at any time and from time to time authorize one or
more Persons to act as Conversion Agent in addition to or in
place of the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities
issued under this Indenture.
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“Conversion Price” means, with respect
to any series of Securities which are convertible into Common
Stock or other Marketable Securities, the price per share of
Common Stock or the price per designated unit of other
Marketable Security at which the Securities of such series are
so convertible as set forth in the Board Resolution or indenture
supplemental hereto with respect to such series (or in any
indenture supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to
Section 9.01(9) with respect to such series), as the same
may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with
Section 12.03 (or such indenture supplemental hereto).
“Converting Holder” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 12.02(c) of this Indenture.
“Corporate Trust Office” means the
office of the Trustee at which at any particular time its
corporate trust business shall be principally administered,
which office at the date hereof is located at 000 Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, XXX X0000-000, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000,
Attn: Corporate Trust Services — Administrator for
Xxxx Holding Corporation.
“Current Market Price” on any date shall
mean the average of the daily Closing Prices per share of Common
Stock or of such other Marketable Securities for any 30
consecutive Trading Days selected by the Company prior to the
day in question, which 30 consecutive Trading Day period shall
not commence more than 45 Trading Days prior to the day in
question; provided that with respect to Section 12.03(3),
the “Current Market Price” of the Common Stock or of
such other Marketable Securities shall mean the average of the
daily Closing Prices per share of Common Stock or of such other
Marketable Securities for the five consecutive Trading Days
ending on the date of the distribution referred to in
Section 12.03(3) (or if such date shall not be a Trading
Day, on the Trading Day immediately preceding such date).
“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning
specified in Section 3.07.
“Depository” means, unless otherwise
specified by the Company pursuant to either Section 2.04 or
3.01, with respect to Securities of any series issuable or
issued as a Global Security, The Depository Trust Company,
New York,
New York, or any successor thereto registered as a
clearing agency under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, or other applicable statute or regulation.
“Discharged” has the meaning specified
in Section 4.03.
“Event of Default” has the meaning
specified in Article V.
“Federal Bankruptcy Act” has the meaning
specified in Section 5.01(5).
“GAAP” means generally accepted
accounting principles as such principles are in effect in the
United States as of the date of this Indenture.
“Global Security”, when used with
respect to any series of Securities issued hereunder, means a
Security which is executed by the Company and authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee to the Depository or pursuant to the
Depository’s instruction, all in accordance with this
Indenture and an indenture supplemental hereto, if any, or Board
Resolution and pursuant to a Company Request, which shall be
registered in the name of the Depository or its nominee and
which shall represent, and shall be denominated in an amount
equal to the aggregate principal amount of, all of the
Outstanding Securities of such series or any portion thereof, in
either case having the same terms, including, without
limitation, the same original issue date, date or dates on which
principal is due, and interest rate or method of determining
interest.
“Guarantee” means the guarantees
specified in Section 13.01(a).
“Guarantor” means any Person who
guarantees any series of Securities issued hereunder as
specified in Section 13.01(a).
“Holder”, when used with respect to any
Security, means a Securityholder, which means a Person in whose
name a security is registered in the Security Register.
“Indenture” or “this
Indenture” means this instrument as originally
executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or
amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered
into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall
include the terms of particular series of Securities established
as contemplated by Section 3.01.
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“Interest”, when used with respect to an
Original Issue Discount Security which by its terms bears
interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after
Maturity.
“Interest Payment Date”, when used with
respect to any series of Securities, means the Stated Maturity
of any installment of interest on those Securities.
“Marketable Security” means any common
stock, debt security or other security of a Person which is (or
will, upon distribution thereof, be) listed on the NYSE, the
American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ or any other national securities
exchange registered under Section 6 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or approved for quotation in
any system of automated dissemination of quotations of
securities prices in the United States or for which there is a
recognized market maker or trading market.
“Maturity”, when used with respect to
any Securities, means the date on which the principal of any
such Security becomes due and payable as therein or herein
provided, whether on a Repayment Date, at the Stated Maturity or
by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
“NASDAQ” shall mean the NASDAQ Global
Select Market, the NASDAQ Global Market or the NASDAQ Capital
Market.
“NYSE” shall mean the
New York Stock
Exchange, Inc.
“Officers’ Certificate” means a
certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief
Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer,
the Chief Financial Officer or any Vice President of the
Company, and by the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the
Controller, any Assistant Controller, the General Counsel, the
Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company, and
delivered to the Trustee. Wherever this Indenture requires that
an Officers’ Certificate be signed also by a financial
expert or an accountant or other expert, such financial expert,
accountant or other expert (except as otherwise expressly
provided in this Indenture) may be in the employ of the Company,
and shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written
opinion of counsel, who may (except as otherwise expressly
provided in this Indenture) be an employee of or of counsel to
the Company, which is delivered to the Trustee.
“Original Issue Discount Security” means
(i) any Security which provides for an amount less than the
principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof, and
(ii) any other security which is issued with “original
issue discount” within the meaning of Section 1273(a)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the
regulations thereunder.
“Outstanding”, when used with respect to
the Securities or Securities of any series, means, as of the
date of determination, all such Securities theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) such Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) such Securities for whose payment or redemption money
in the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the
Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust 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 reasonably satisfactory
to the Trustee has been made; and
(iii) such Securities in exchange for or in lieu of which
other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant
to this Indenture, or which shall have been paid pursuant to the
terms of Section 3.06 (except with respect to any such
Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is
presented that such Security is held by a Person in whose hands
such Security is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the
Company).
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of such Securities Outstanding have given any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
hereunder, (i) the principal amount of any Original Issue
Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall
be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and
payable as of the date of the taking of such action upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof, and
(ii) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor
upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such
other obligor shall be disregarded and
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deemed not to be Outstanding. In determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually
knows to be owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor
shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the
pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the
pledgee’s right to act as owner 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.
“Paying Agent” means any Person
authorized by the Company to pay the principal of (and premium,
if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.
The Company initially authorizes the Trustee to act as Paying
Agent for the Securities on its behalf. The Company may at any
time and from time to time authorize one or more Persons to act
as Paying Agent in addition to or in place of the Trustee with
respect to any series of Securities issued under this Indenture.
“Person” means any individual,
corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
“Place of Payment” means with respect to
any series of Securities issued hereunder the city or political
subdivision so designated with respect to the series of
Securities in question in accordance with the provisions of
Section 3.01.
“Predecessor Securities” of any
particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all
or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition,
any Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.06
in lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed
to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen
Security.
“Redemption Date”, when used with
respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed for
such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
“Redemption Price”, when used with
respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price
specified in the Security at which it is to be redeemed pursuant
to this Indenture.
“Redemption Rescission Event” shall
mean the occurrence of (a) any general suspension of
trading in, or limitation on prices for, securities on the
principal national securities exchange on which shares of Common
Stock or Marketable Securities are registered and listed for
trading (or, if shares of Common Stock or Marketable Securities
are not registered and listed for trading on any such exchange,
in the
over-the-counter
market) for more than
six-and-one-half
(61/2)
consecutive trading hours, (b) any decline in either the
Dow Xxxxx Industrial Average or the S&P 500 Index (or any
successor index published by Dow Xxxxx & Company, Inc.
or S&P) by either (i) an amount in excess of 10%,
measured from the close of business on any Trading Day to the
close of business on the next succeeding Trading Day during the
period commencing on the Trading Day preceding the day notice of
any redemption of Securities is given (or, if such notice is
given after the close of business on a Trading Day, commencing
on such Trading Day) and ending at the time and date fixed for
redemption in such notice or (ii) an amount in excess of
15% (or if the time and date fixed for redemption is more than
15 days following the date on which such notice of
redemption is given, 20%), measured from the close of business
on the Trading Day preceding the day notice of such redemption
is given (or, if such notice is given after the close of
business on a Trading Day, from such Trading Day) to the close
of business on any Trading Day at or prior to the time and date
fixed for redemption, (c) a declaration of a banking
moratorium or any suspension of payments in respect of banks by
Federal or state authorities in the United States or
(d) the occurrence of an act of terrorism or commencement
of a war or armed hostilities or other national or international
calamity directly or indirectly involving the United States
which in the reasonable judgment of the Company could have a
material adverse effect on the market for the Common Stock or
Marketable Securities.
“Regular Record Date” for the interest
payable on any Security on any Interest Payment Date means the
date specified in such Security as the Regular Record Date.
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“Repayment Date”, when used with respect
to any Security to be repaid, means the date fixed for such
repayment pursuant to such Security.
“Repayment Price”, when used with
respect to any Security to be repaid, means the price at which
it is to be repaid pursuant to such Security.
“Required Currency”, when used with
respect to any Security, has the meaning set forth in
Section 1.14.
“Responsible Officer”, when used with
respect to the Trustee, means any officer of the Trustee with
direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture
and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust
matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred
because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject. “Responsible Officer”, when used with respect
to the Company, means any of the Chairman of the Board, Chief
Executive Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief
Financial Officer, Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer,
Controller, General Counsel, Secretary or any Vice President of
the Company (or any equivalent of the foregoing officers).
“S&P” means Standard &
Poor’s Rating Service or any successor to the rating agency
business thereto.
“Security” or
“Securities” means any note or notes,
bond or bonds, debenture or debentures, or any other evidences
of indebtedness, as the case may be, of any series authenticated
and delivered from time to time under this Indenture.
“Security Register” shall have the
meaning specified in Section 3.05.
“Security Registrar” means the Person
who keeps the Security Register specified in Section 3.05.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as Security
Registrar for the Securities on its behalf. The Company may at
any time and from time to time authorize any Person to act as
Security Registrar in place of the Trustee with respect to any
series of Securities issued under this Indenture.
“Securityholder” means a Person in whose
name a security is registered in the Security Register.
“Significant Subsidiary” means any
Subsidiary which would be a “significant subsidiary”
as defined in Article 1,
Rule 1-02
of
Regulation S-X,
promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as in effect
on the date of this Indenture.
“Special Record Date” for the payment of
any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 3.07.
“Stated Maturity” when used with respect
to any Security or any installment of principal thereof or
interest thereon means the date specified in such Security as
the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such
installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any
Person, any corporation more than 50% of the voting stock of
which is owned directly or indirectly by such Person, and any
partnership, association, joint venture or other entity in which
such Person owns more than 50% of the equity interests or has
the power to elect a majority of the board of directors or other
governing body.
“Trading Day” shall mean, with respect
to the Common Stock or a Marketable Security, so long as the
common stock or such Marketable Security, as the case may be, is
listed or admitted to trading on the NYSE, a day on which the
NYSE is open for the transaction of business, or, if the Common
Stock or such Marketable Security, as the case may be, is not
listed or admitted to trading on the NYSE, a day on which the
principal national securities exchange on which the Common Stock
or such Marketable Security, as the case may be, is listed is
open for the transaction of business, or, if the Common Stock or
such Marketable Security, as the case may be, is not so listed
or admitted for trading on any national securities exchange, a
day on which the member of the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority selected by the Company to provide pricing information
for the Common Stock or such Marketable Security is open for the
transaction of business.
“Trust Indenture Act” or
“TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 as in force at the date as of which this instrument was
executed; provided, however, that, in the event the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended
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after such date, “Trust Indenture Act” or
“TIA” means, to the extent required by any such
amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
“Trustee” means the Person named as the
Trustee in the first paragraph of this instrument until a
successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
“Trustee” shall mean and include each Person who is
then a Trustee hereunder. If at any time there is more than one
such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to the
Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.
“Vice President” when used with respect
to the Company or the Trustee means any vice president, whether
or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or
after the title “vice president”, including without
limitation, an assistant vice president.
“Voting Stock”, as applied to the stock
of any corporation, means stock of any class or classes (however
designated) having by the terms thereof ordinary voting power to
elect a majority of the members of the board of directors (or
other governing body) of such corporation other than stock
having such power only by reason of the happening of a
contingency.
“Yield to Maturity” means the yield to
maturity on a series of Securities, calculated by the Company at
the time of issuance of such series of Securities, or, if
applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on
such series, in accordance with accepted financial practice.
Section 1.02 Compliance
Certificates and Opinions. Upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating
that all conditions precedent, if any (including any covenants
compliance with which constitutes a condition precedent),
provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action
have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that
in the opinion of such Counsel all such conditions precedent, if
any (including any covenants compliance with which constitutes a
condition precedent), have been complied with, except that in
the case of any such application or request as to which the
furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any
provision of this Indenture relating to such particular
application or request, no additional certificate or opinion
need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than
annual statements of compliance provided pursuant to
Section 10.04) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and
the definitions herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or
opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such
individual, he has made such examination or investigation as is
necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to
whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied
with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.03 Form
of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any
case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not
necessary that all such matters be certified by, or covered by
the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so
certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person
may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and
one or more other such Persons may certify or give an opinion as
to the other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an
opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel,
unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care
should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion
of
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Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters,
upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an
officer or officers of the Company stating that the information
with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such Counsel knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements,
opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may,
but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 1.04 Acts
of Securityholders. (a) Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Securityholders or Securityholders of any series may be embodied
in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially
similar tenor signed by such Securityholders in person or by an
agent duly appointed in writing or may be embodied in or
evidenced by an electronic transmission which identifies the
documents containing the proposal on which such consent is
requested and certifies such Securityholders’ consent
thereto and agreement to be bound thereby; and, except as herein
otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective
when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company. If any Securities are denominated in coin or currency
other than that of the United States, then for the purposes of
determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Securities have taken any action as herein described,
the principal amount of such Securities shall be deemed to be
that amount of United States dollars that could be obtained for
such principal amount on the basis of the spot rate of exchange
into United States dollars for the currency in which such
Securities are denominated (as evidenced to the Trustee by an
Officers’ Certificate) as of the date the taking of such
action by the Holders of such requisite principal amount is
evidenced to the Trustee as provided in the immediately
preceding sentence. If any Securities are Original Issue
Discount Securities, then for the purposes of determining
whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Securities have taken any action as herein described, the
principal amount of such Original Issue Discount Securities
shall be deemed to be the amount of the principal thereof that
would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of
the Maturity thereof as of the date the taking of such action by
the Holders of such requisite principal amount is evidenced to
the Trustee as provided in the first sentence of this
Section 1.04(a). Such instrument or instruments (and the
action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein
sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the
Securityholders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any
such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture
and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of the
Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this
Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a
witness to 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 the execution
thereof. Where such execution is by an officer of a corporation
or a member of a partnership, on behalf of such corporation or
partnership, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the
execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of
the person executing the same, may also be proved in any other
manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the
Security Register.
(d) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action, the Company may, at its option, fix in
advance a record date for the determination of Holders entitled
to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action, but the Company shall have no
obligation to do so. Such record date shall be the later of
10 days prior to the first solicitation of such action or
the date of the most recent list of Holders furnished to the
Trustee pursuant to Section 7.01. If such a record date is
fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action may be given before or after the
record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of
business on the record date shall be deemed to be Holders for
the purposes
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of determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of
Securities outstanding have authorized or agreed or consented to
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action, and for that purpose the Securities
outstanding shall be computed as of the record date; provided
that no such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders
on the record date shall be deemed effective unless it shall
become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture
not later than six months after the record date, and that no
such authorization, agreement or consent may be amended,
withdrawn or revoked once given by a Holder, unless the Company
shall provide for such amendment, withdrawal or revocation in
conjunction with such solicitation of authorizations, agreements
or consents or unless and to the extent required by applicable
law.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Security
shall bind 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.
Section 1.05 Notices,
etc., to Trustee and Company. Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act
of Securityholders or other document provided or permitted by
this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed
with:
(1) the Trustee by any Securityholder or by the Company
shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given,
furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its
Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration; or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Securityholder
shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (except as
provided in Section 5.01(4) or, in the case of a request
for repayment, as specified in the Security carrying the right
to repayment) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its
principal office specified in the first paragraph of this
instrument, Attention: Office of the General Counsel, or at the
address last furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company.
Section 1.06 Notices
to Securityholders; Waiver. Where this
Indenture or any Security provides for notice to Securityholders
of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless
otherwise herein or in such Security expressly provided) if in
writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each
Securityholder affected by such event, at his address as it
appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest
date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the
giving of such notice. In any case where notice to
Securityholders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail
such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any
particular Securityholder shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Securityholders. Where this
Indenture or any Security 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 Securityholders 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.
In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as
a result of a strike, work stoppage or otherwise, it shall be
impractical to mail notice of any event to any Securityholder
when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any
provision of this Indenture, then any method of notification as
shall be satisfactory to the Trustee and the Company shall be
deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice.
Section 1.07 Conflict
with Trust Indenture Act. If and to the
extent that any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts
with the duties imposed by, or with another provision (an
“incorporated provision”) included in this
Indenture by operation of, any of Sections 310 to 318,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties
or incorporated provision shall control.
Section 1.08 Effect
of Headings and Table of Contents. The
Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents
are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction
hereof.
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Section 1.09 Successors
and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in
this Indenture by the Company and the Guarantors, if any, shall
bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so
expressed or not.
Section 1.10 Separability
Clause. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
Section 1.11 Benefits
of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in
any Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person,
other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder,
any Authenticating Agent or Paying Agent, the Security Registrar
and the Holders of Securities (or such of them as may be
affected thereby), any benefit or any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 1.12 Governing
Law; Waiver of Jury Trial. This Indenture
shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws
of the State of
New York. EACH OF THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE
SECURITIES OR THE TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
Section 1.13 Counterparts. 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. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of
signature pages by facsimile or PDF transmission shall
constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as
to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original
Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto
transmitted by facsimile or PDF shall be deemed to be their
original signatures for all purposes.
Section 1.14 Judgment
Currency. The Company agrees, to the fullest
extent that it may effectively do so under applicable law, that
(a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court
it is necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the
principal of, or premium or interest, if any, on the Securities
of any series (the “
Required Currency”) into a
currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the
‘‘
Judgment Currency”), the rate of
exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with
normal banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in the City
of
New York the Required Currency with the Judgment Currency on
the
New York Banking Day preceding that on which a final
unappealable judgment is given and (b) its obligations
under this Indenture to make payments in the Required Currency
(i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or
any recovery pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in
accordance with subsection (a)), in any currency other than the
Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or
recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee, of
the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable
in respect of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as
an alternative or additional cause of action for the purpose of
recovering in the Required Currency the amount, if any, by which
such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount of the
Required Currency so expressed to be payable and
(iii) shall not be affected by judgment being obtained for
any other sum due under this Indenture. For purposes of the
foregoing, “
New York Banking Day” means any day
except a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday in the City of
New
York or a day on which banking institutions in the City of
New
York are authorized or required by law or executive order to
close.
Section 1.15 U.S.A.
Patriot Act. The parties hereto acknowledge
that in accordance with Section 326 of the U.S.A. Patriot
Act, the Trustee, like all financial institutions and in order
to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is
required to obtain, verify, and record information that
identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a
relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The parties
to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee with
such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to
satisfy the requirements of the U.S.A. Patriot Act.
Section 1.16 Force
Majeure. In no event shall the Trustee be
responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the
performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or
caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control,
including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages,
accidents, acts of war or terrorism, civil or military
disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God,
and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities,
communications or computer (software and hardware) services; it
being understood
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that the Trustee shall use reasonable efforts which are
consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to
resume performance as soon as practicable under the
circumstances.
ARTICLE II
Security
Forms
Section 2.01 Forms Generally. The
Securities shall have such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted
by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other
marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed
thereon, as may be required to comply with the rules of any
securities exchange, or as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
evidenced by their execution of the Securities. Any portion of
the text of any Security may be set forth on the reverse
thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face of
the Security.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on
steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner,
all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities, subject, with
respect to the Securities of any series, to the rules of any
securities exchange on which such Securities are listed.
Section 2.02 Forms
of Securities. Each Security shall be in one
of the forms approved from time to time by or pursuant to a
Board Resolution, or established in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto. Prior to the delivery of a Security to the
Trustee for authentication in any form approved by or pursuant
to a Board Resolution, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
the Board Resolution by or pursuant to which such form of
Security has been approved, which Board Resolution shall have
attached thereto a true and correct copy of the form of Security
which has been approved thereby or, if a Board Resolution
authorizes a specific officer or officers to approve a form of
Security, a certificate of such officer or officers approving
the form of Security attached thereto. Any form of Security
approved by or pursuant to a Board Resolution must be acceptable
as to form to the Trustee, such acceptance to be evidenced by
the Trustee’s authentication of Securities in that form or
a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee and
delivered to the Company.
Section 2.03 Form
of Trustee’s Certificate of
Authentication. The form of Trustee’s
Certificate of Authentication for any Security issued pursuant
to this Indenture shall be substantially as follows:
TRUSTEE’S
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
by
Authorized Signatory
Section 2.04 Securities
Issuable in the Form of a Global
Security. (a) If the Company shall
establish pursuant to Sections 2.02 and 3.01 that the
Securities of a particular series are to be issued in whole or
in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, then the
Company shall execute and the Trustee or its agent shall, in
accordance with Section 3.03 and the Company Order
delivered to the Trustee or its agent thereunder, authenticate
and deliver, such Global Security or Securities, which
(i) shall represent, and shall be denominated in an amount
equal to the aggregate principal amount of, the Outstanding
Securities of such series to be represented by such Global
Security or Securities, or such portion thereof as the Company
shall specify in a
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Company Order, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the
Depository for such Global Security or Securities or its
nominee, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee or its
agent to the Depository or pursuant to the Depository’s
instruction and (iv) shall bear a legend substantially to
the following effect: “Unless this certificate is presented
by an authorized representative of the Depository to Issuer or
its agent for registration of transfer, exchange, or payment,
and any certificate issued is registered in the name of the
nominee of the Depository or in such other name as is requested
by an authorized representative of the Depository (and any
payment is made to the nominee of the Depository or to such
other entity as is requested by an authorized representative of
the Depository), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as
the registered owner hereof, the nominee of the Depository, has
an interest herein.”
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Section 2.04 or of Section 3.05, and subject to the
provisions of paragraph (c) below, unless the terms of a
Global Security expressly permit such Global Security to be
exchanged in whole or in part for individual Securities, a
Global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part and
in the manner provided in Section 3.05, only to a nominee
of the Depository for such Global Security, or to the
Depository, or a successor Depository for such Global Security
selected or approved by the Company, or to a nominee of such
successor Depository.
(c) (i) If at any time the Depository for a Global
Security notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to
continue as Depository for such Global Security or if at any
time the Depository for the Securities for such series shall no
longer be eligible or in good standing under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or other applicable statute or
regulation, the Company shall appoint a successor Depository
with respect to such Global Security. If a successor Depository
for such Global Security is not appointed by the Company within
90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes
aware of such ineligibility, the Company will execute, and the
Trustee or its agent, upon receipt of a Company Request for the
authentication and delivery of individual Securities of such
series in exchange for such Global Security, will authenticate
and deliver, individual Securities of such series of like tenor
and terms in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of the Global Security in exchange for such
Global Security.
(ii) The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion
determine that the Securities of any series or portion thereof
issued or issuable in the form of one or more Global Securities
shall no longer be represented by such Global Security or
Securities. In such event the Company will execute, and the
Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Request for the
authentication and delivery of individual Securities of such
series in exchange in whole or in part for such Global Security,
will authenticate and deliver individual Securities of such
series of like tenor and terms in definitive form in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such
Global Security or Securities representing such series or
portion thereof in exchange for such Global Security or
Securities.
(iii) If specified by the Company pursuant to
Sections 2.02 and 3.02 with respect to Securities issued or
issuable in the form of a Global Security, the Depository for
such Global Security may surrender such Global Security in
exchange in whole or in part for individual Securities of such
series of like tenor and terms in definitive form on such terms
as are acceptable to the Company and such Depository. Thereupon
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee or its agent shall
authenticate and deliver, without service charge, (1) to
each Person specified by such Depository a new Security or
Securities of the same series of like tenor and terms and of any
authorized denomination as requested by such Person in aggregate
principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person’s
beneficial interest as specified by such Depository in the
Global Security; and (2) to such Depository a new Global
Security of like tenor and terms and in an authorized
denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the
principal amount of the surrendered Global Security and the
aggregate principal amount of Securities delivered to Holders
thereof.
(iv) In any exchange provided for in any of the preceding
three paragraphs, the Company will execute and the Trustee or
its agent will authenticate and deliver individual Securities in
definitive registered form in authorized denominations. Upon the
exchange of the entire principal amount of a Global Security for
individual Securities, such Global Security shall be canceled by
the Trustee or its agent. Except as provided in the preceding
paragraph, Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security
pursuant to this Section shall be
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registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as
the Depository for such Global Security, pursuant to
instructions from its direct or indirect participants or
otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee or the Security Registrar.
The Trustee or the Security Registrar shall deliver at its
Corporate Trust Office such Securities to the Persons in
whose names such Securities are so registered.
ARTICLE III
The
Securities
Section 3.01 General
Title; General Limitations; Issuable in Series; Terms of
Particular Series. The aggregate principal
amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered
and Outstanding under this Indenture is not limited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series as from time
to time may be authorized by the Board of Directors. There shall
be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in an
indenture supplemental hereto, subject to Section 3.11,
prior to the issuance of Securities of any such series:
(1) the title of the Securities of such series (which shall
distinguish the Securities of such series from Securities of any
other series);
(2) the Person to whom any interest on a Security of such
series shall be payable, if other than 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;
(3) the date or dates on which the principal of the
Securities of such series is payable;
(4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of such
series shall bear interest, if any, the date or dates from which
such interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which
any such interest shall be payable and the Regular Record Date
for any interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
(5) the place or places where the principal of and any
premium and interest on Securities of such series shall be
payable;
(6) the period or periods within which, the
Redemption Price or Prices or the Repayment Price or
Prices, as the case may be, at which and the terms and
conditions upon which Securities of such series may be redeemed
or repaid (including the applicability of Section 11.09),
as the case may be, in whole or in part, at the option of the
Company or the Holder;
(7) the obligation, if any, of the Company to purchase
Securities of such series pursuant to any sinking fund or
analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and
the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which
and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of such
series shall be purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such
obligation;
(8) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof, the denominations in which Securities of such
series shall be issuable;
(9) provisions, if any, with regard to the conversion or
exchange of the Securities of such series, at the option of the
Holders thereof or the Company, as the case may be, for or into
new Securities of a different series, Common Stock or other
securities;
(10) if other than U.S. dollars, the currency or
currencies or units based on or related to currencies in which
the Securities of such series shall be denominated and in which
payments of principal of, and any premium and interest on, such
Securities shall or may be payable;
(11) if the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest,
if any, on the Securities of such series are to be payable, at
the election of the Company or a Holder thereof, in a coin or
currency (including a composite currency) other than that in
which the Securities are stated to be payable, the period or
periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which,
such election may be made;
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(12) if the amount of payments of principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of such
series may be determined with reference to an index based on a
coin or currency (including a composite currency) other than
that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the
manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(13) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of such series which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or
in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of such series
pursuant to Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06, 11.07 and
12.02 and except for any Securities which, pursuant to
Section 3.03, are deemed never to have been authenticated
and delivered hereunder);
(14) provisions, if any, with regard to the exchange of
Securities of such series, at the option of the Holders thereof,
for other Securities of the same series of the same aggregate
principal amount or of a different authorized series or
different authorized denomination or denominations, or both;
(15) provisions, if any, with regard to the appointment by
the Company of an Authenticating Agent in one or more places
other than the location of the office of the Trustee with power
to act on behalf of the Trustee and subject to its direction in
the authentication and delivery of the Securities of any one or
more series in connection with such transactions as shall be
specified in the provisions of this Indenture or in or pursuant
to such Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto;
(16) the portion of the principal amount of Securities of
the series, if other than the principal amount thereof, which
shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the
Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02 or provable in
bankruptcy pursuant to Section 5.04;
(17) any Event of Default with respect to the Securities of
such series, if not set forth herein, and any additions,
deletions or other changes to the Events of Default set forth
herein that shall be applicable to the Securities of such series;
(18) any covenant solely for the benefit of the Securities
of such series and any additions, deletions or other changes to
the provisions of Article VIII, Article X or
Section 1.01 or any definitions relating to such Article
that would otherwise be applicable to the Securities of such
series;
(19) if Section 4.03 of this Indenture shall not be
applicable to the Securities of such series and if
Section 4.03 shall be applicable to any covenant or Event
of Default established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution or
in an indenture supplemental hereto as described above that has
not already been established herein;
(20) if the Securities of such series shall be issued in
whole or in part in the form of a Global Security or Securities,
the terms and conditions, if any, upon which such Global
Security or Securities may be exchanged in whole or in part for
other individual Securities; and the Depository for such Global
Security or Securities;
(21) if the Securities of such series shall be guaranteed,
the terms and conditions of such Guarantees and provisions for
the accession of the guarantors to certain obligations
hereunder; and
(22) any other terms of such series, including, without
limitations, any restrictions on transfer related thereto.
all upon such terms as may be determined in or pursuant to such
Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto with respect
to such series.
The form of the Securities of each series shall be established
pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture in or pursuant to
the Board Resolution or in the indenture supplemental hereto
creating such series. The Securities of each series shall be
distinguished from the Securities of each other series in such
manner, reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, as the Board of
Directors may determine.
Unless otherwise provided with respect to Securities of a
particular series, the Securities of any series may only be
issuable in registered form, without coupons.
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Any terms or provisions in respect of the Securities of any
series issued under this Indenture may be determined pursuant to
this Section by providing for the method by which such terms or
provisions shall be determined.
Section 3.02 Denominations. The
Securities of each series shall be issuable in such
denominations and currency as shall be provided in the
provisions of this Indenture or in or pursuant to the Board
Resolution or the indenture supplemental hereto creating such
series. In the absence of any such provisions with respect to
the Securities of any series, the Securities of that series
shall be issuable only in fully registered form in denominations
of $2,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 3.03 Execution,
Authentication and Delivery and Dating. The
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its Chief Executive Officer, its
President, its Chief Operating Officer, its Chief Financial
Officer, its Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, its Controller,
its General Counsel, its Secretary or any Vice President and
attested by its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries.
The signature of any of these officers on the Securities may be
manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the
Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices
prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or
did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and
delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities
executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication; and
the Trustee shall, upon Company Order, authenticate and deliver
such Securities as in this Indenture provided and not otherwise.
Prior to any such authentication and delivery, the Trustee shall
be provided with the Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of
Counsel required to be furnished to the Trustee pursuant to
Section 1.02, and the Board Resolution and any certificate
relating to the issuance of the series of Securities required to
be furnished pursuant to Section 2.02, an Opinion of
Counsel substantially to the effect that:
(1) all instruments furnished to the Trustee conform to the
requirements of the Indenture and constitute sufficient
authority hereunder for the Trustee to authenticate and deliver
such Securities;
(2) the form and terms of such Securities have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture;
(3) all laws and requirements with respect to the execution
and delivery by the Company of such Securities have been
complied with, the Company has the corporate power to issue such
Securities and such Securities have been duly authorized and
delivered by the Company and, assuming due authentication and
delivery by the Trustee, constitute legal, valid and binding
obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with their
terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable
bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, moratorium or other laws
and legal principles affecting creditors’ rights generally
from time to time in effect and to general equitable principles,
whether applied in an action at law or in equity) and entitled
to the benefits of this Indenture, equally and ratably with all
other Securities, if any, of such series Outstanding;
(4) when applicable, the Indenture is qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act; and
(5) such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably
request;
and, if the authentication and delivery relates to a new series
of Securities created by an indenture supplemental hereto, also
stating that all laws and requirements with respect to the form
and execution by the Company of the supplemental indenture with
respect to that series of Securities have been complied with,
the Company has corporate power to execute and deliver any such
supplemental indenture and has taken all necessary corporate
action for those purposes and any such supplemental indenture
has been duly executed and delivered and constitutes the legal,
valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable in
accordance with its terms (subject, as to enforcement of
remedies, to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency,
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moratorium or other laws and legal principles affecting
creditors’ rights generally from time to time in effect and
to general equitable principles, whether applied in an action at
law or in equity).
The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such
Securities if the issue thereof will adversely affect the
Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the
Securities and this Indenture.
Unless otherwise provided in the form of Security for any
series, all Securities shall be dated the date of their
authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there
appears on such Security a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the
Trustee by manual or facsimile signature, and such certificate
upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and
delivered hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any
Security shall have been authenticated and delivered hereunder
but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall
deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as
provided in Section 3.09, for all purposes of this
Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall never be
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 3.04 Temporary
Securities. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute,
and, upon receipt of the documents required by
Section 3.03, together with a Company Order, the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are
printed, lithographed, typewritten or otherwise produced, in any
authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the
definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with
such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as the officers executing such Securities may
determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company
will cause definitive Securities of such series to be prepared
without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive
Securities, the temporary Securities of such series shall be
exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series upon
surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, without
charge to the Holder; and 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
a like principal amount of definitive Securities of such series
of authorized denominations and of like tenor and terms. Until
so exchanged the temporary Securities of such series shall in
all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
Section 3.05 Registration,
Transfer and Exchange. The Company shall keep
or cause to be kept a register or registers (herein sometimes
referred to as the ‘‘Security Register”)
in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of
Securities, or of Securities of a particular series, and of
transfers of Securities or of Securities of such series. Any
such register shall be in written form or in any other form
capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable
time. At all reasonable times the information contained in such
register or registers shall be available for inspection by the
Trustee at the office or agency to be maintained by the Company
as provided in Section 10.02. There shall be only one
Security Register per series of Securities.
Subject to Section 2.04, upon surrender for registration of
transfer of any Security of any series at the office or agency
of the Company maintained for such purpose in a Place of
Payment, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of such
series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate
principal amount and Stated Maturity and of like tenor and terms.
Subject to Section 2.04, at the option of the Holder,
Securities of any series may be exchanged for other Securities
of such series of any authorized denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity and of like tenor
and terms, 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
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shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the
Securityholder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the
Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities surrendered
upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or 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 Trustee duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing.
Unless otherwise provided in the Security to be registered for
transfer or exchanged, no service charge shall be made on any
Securityholder for any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities, but the Company may (unless otherwise provided in
such Security) require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04,
9.06 or 11.07 not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register
the transfer of or exchange any Security of any series during a
period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before
the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities
of such series selected for redemption under Section 11.03
and ending at the close of business on the date of such mailing,
or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any
Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part.
None of the Company, the Trustee, any agent of the Trustee, any
Paying Agent or the Security Registrar 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 for maintaining, supervising
or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership
interests.
Section 3.06 Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. If
(i) any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee,
or the Company and the Trustee receive evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security,
and (ii) there is delivered to the Company and the Trustee
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
protected purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its
written request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in
exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Security, a new Security of like tenor, series, Stated
Maturity and principal amount, bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in
its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such
Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses
of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of
any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an
original additional contractual obligation of the Company,
whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be
at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all
the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities of the same series duly issued
hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude
(to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with
respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Securities.
Section 3.07 Payment
of Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved. Unless otherwise provided with
respect to such Security pursuant to Section 3.01, interest
on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the
Person in whose name that Security (or
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one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close
of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date (herein called “Defaulted Interest”) shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on the
relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of his having been such
Holder; and, except as hereinafter provided, such Defaulted
Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in clause (1) or clause (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names any such Securities (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the
close of business on a special record date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following
manner (the “Special Record Date”). The Company
shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted
Interest proposed to be paid on each such Security and the date
of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such
Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date
of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted
Interest as in this clause (1) provided. Thereupon the
Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 nor less than
10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the
notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly
notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name
and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special
Record Date therefor to be mailed, first class postage prepaid,
to the Holder of each such Security at his address as it appears
in the Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to
such Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having
been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid
to the Persons in whose names such Securities (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered on such
Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to
the following clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest
in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which such Securities
may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such
exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee
of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause (2), such manner
of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
If any installment of interest the Stated Maturity of which is
on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Security called
for redemption pursuant to Article XI is not paid or duly
provided for on or prior to the Redemption Date in
accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section, such
interest shall be payable as part of the Redemption Price
of such Securities.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each
Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of
transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security
shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to
accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 3.08 Persons
Deemed Owners. The Company, the Trustee and
any agent of the Company or the Trustee may 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 premium, if any), and (subject to Section 3.07)
interest on, such Security and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither
the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the
Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the
Security Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for
any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on
account of beneficial ownership interests in a Global Security
or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records
relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
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Section 3.09 Cancellation. All
Securities surrendered for payment, conversion, redemption,
registration of transfer, exchange or credit against a sinking
fund shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee,
be delivered to the Trustee and, if not already canceled, shall
be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver
to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so
delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Security
shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any
Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as
expressly permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee shall dispose
of all canceled Securities in accordance with its standard
procedures and deliver a certificate of such disposition to the
Company upon its written request therefor.
Section 3.10 Computation
of Interest. Unless otherwise provided as
contemplated in Section 3.01, interest on the Securities
shall be calculated on the basis of a
360-day year
of twelve
30-day
months.
Section 3.11 Delayed
Issuance of Securities. Notwithstanding any
contrary provision herein, if all Securities of a series are not
to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary
for the Company to deliver to the Trustee an Officers’
Certificate, Board Resolution, indenture supplemental hereto,
opinion of counsel or Company Order otherwise required pursuant
to Sections 1.02, 2.02, 3.01 and 3.03 at or prior to the
time of authentication of each Security of such series if such
documents are delivered to the Trustee or its agent at or prior
to the authentication upon original issuance of the first
Security of such series to be issued; provided that any
subsequent request by the Company to the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of such series upon original issuance shall
constitute a representation and warranty by the Company that as
of the date of such request, the statements made in the
Officers’ Certificate or other certificates delivered
pursuant to Sections 1.02 and 2.02 shall be true and
correct as if made on such date.
A Company Order, Officers’ Certificate or Board Resolution
or indenture supplemental hereto delivered by the Company to the
Trustee in the circumstances set forth in the preceding
paragraph may provide that Securities which are the subject
thereof will be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or
its agent on original issue from time to time in the aggregate
principal amount, if any, established for such series pursuant
to such procedures reasonably acceptable to the Trustee as may
be specified from time to time by Company Order upon the
telephonic, electronic or written order of Persons designated in
such Company Order, Officers’ Certificate, indenture
supplemental hereto or Board Resolution (any such telephonic or
electronic instructions to be promptly confirmed in writing by
such Persons) and that such Persons are authorized to determine,
consistent with such Company Order, Officers’ Certificate,
indenture supplemental hereto or Board Resolution, such terms
and conditions of said Securities as are specified in such
Company Order, Officers’ Certificate, indenture
supplemental hereto or Board Resolution.
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 as a convenience to Holders;
provided that any such notice may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers
either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any
notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on
the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and
any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or
omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the
Trustee in writing of any change in the “CUSIP”
numbers.
ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction
and Discharge; Defeasance
Section 4.01 Satisfaction
and Discharge of Indenture. Unless pursuant
to Section 3.01 provision is made that this Section shall
not be applicable to the Securities of any series, this
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to
any series of Securities (except as to any surviving rights of
conversion or registration of transfer or exchange of Securities
of such series expressly provided for herein or in the form of
Security for such series), and the Trustee, on receipt of a
Company Request and at the expense of the
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Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to such series,
when:
(1) either
(A) all Securities of that series theretofore authenticated
and delivered (other than (i) Securities of such series
which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.06, and
(ii) Securities of such series for whose payment money in
the Required Currency 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 10.03) have been delivered to the Trustee
canceled or for cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities of that series not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee canceled or for cancellation:
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity
within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for the
giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and
at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or
(iii) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the
purpose an amount in the Required Currency sufficient to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee canceled or for
cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest
to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which
have become due and payable), or to the Stated Maturity or
Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other
sums payable hereunder by the Company with respect to the
Securities of such series; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each
stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
with respect to the Securities of such series have been complied
with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
with respect to any series of Securities, the obligations of the
Company to the Trustee with respect to that series under
Section 6.07 shall survive and the obligations of the
Company and the Trustee under Sections 3.05, 3.06, 4.02,
10.02 and 10.03 shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.
Section 4.02 Application
of Trust Money. Subject to the
provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all
money, property and securities deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 4.01 or Section 4.03 shall be held
in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of
the series of Securities in respect of which it was deposited
and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through
any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying
Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled
thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any) and interest for
whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee;
but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to
the extent required by law.
Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon
Company Request any money, property or securities deposited with
and held by it as provided in Section 4.03 and this
Section 4.02 which, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in
excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be
deposited to effect an equivalent satisfaction and discharge,
Discharge (as defined below) or covenant defeasance, provided
that the Trustee shall not be required to liquidate any
securities in order to comply with the provisions of this
paragraph.
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Section 4.03 Defeasance
Upon Deposit of Funds or Government
Obligations. Unless pursuant to
Section 3.01 provision is made that this Section shall not
be applicable to the Securities of any series, at the
Company’s option, either (a) the Company and the
Guarantors, if any, shall be deemed to have been Discharged (as
defined below) from its obligations with respect to any series
of Securities after the applicable conditions set forth below
have been satisfied or (b) the Company shall cease to be
under any obligation to comply with any term, provision or
condition set forth in Section 10.05 and Article VIII
(and any other Sections or covenants applicable to such
Securities that are determined pursuant to Section 3.01 to
be subject to this provision), the Guarantors, if any, shall be
released from the Guarantees and clause (4) of
Section 5.01 of this Indenture (and any other Events of
Default applicable to such Securities that are determined
pursuant to Section 3.01 to be subject to this provision)
shall be deemed not to be an Event of Default with respect to
any series of Securities at any time after the applicable
conditions set forth below have been satisfied:
(1) the Company shall have deposited or caused to be
deposited irrevocably with the Trustee as trust funds,
specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to,
the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such series,
(i) money in an amount, or (ii) the equivalent in
securities of the government which issued the currency in which
the Securities are denominated or government agencies backed by
the full faith and credit of such government which through the
payment of interest and principal in respect thereof in
accordance with their terms will provide freely available funds
on or prior to the due date of any payment, money in an amount,
or (iii) a combination of (i) and (ii), sufficient, in
the opinion (with respect to (ii) and (iii)) of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the
Trustee, to pay and discharge each installment of principal
(including mandatory sinking fund payments) and any premium of,
interest on and any repurchase or redemption obligations with
respect to the outstanding Securities of such series on the
dates such installments of interest or principal or repurchase
or redemption obligations are due (before such a deposit, if the
Securities of such series are then redeemable or may be redeemed
in the future pursuant to the terms thereof, in either case at
the option of the Company, the Company may give to the Trustee,
in accordance with Section 11.02, a notice of its election
to redeem all of the Securities of such series at a future date
in accordance with Article XI);
(2) no Event of Default or event (including such deposit)
which with notice or lapse of time would become an Event of
Default with respect to the Securities of such series shall have
occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit (other
than an Event of Default resulting from the borrowing of funds
to be applied to such deposit);
(3) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that Holders of the Securities
of such series will not recognize income, gain or loss for
Federal income tax purposes as a result of the Company’s
exercise of its option under this Section 4.03 and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amount and in the same
manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such
option had not been exercised, and, in the case of Securities
being Discharged, accompanied by a ruling to that effect from
the Internal Revenue Service, unless, as set forth in such
Opinion of Counsel, there has been a change in the applicable
Federal income tax law since the date of this Indenture such
that a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service is no longer
required;
(4) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate stating that the deposit referred to
in paragraph (1) above was not made by the Company with the
intent of preferring the Holders over other creditors of the
Company or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or
defrauding creditors of the Company or others; and
(5) the Company shall have 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
with respect to the Securities of such series have been complied
with.
If the Company, at its option, with respect to a series of
Securities, satisfies the applicable conditions pursuant to
either clause (a) or (b) of the first sentence of this
Section, then (x), in the event the Company satisfies the
conditions to clause (a) and elects clause (a) to be
applicable, each of the Guarantors, if any, shall be deemed to
have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by,
and obligations under, its
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respective guarantee of the Securities of such series and to
have satisfied all the obligations under this Indenture relating
to the Securities of such series and (y) in either case,
each of the Guarantors, if any, shall cease to be under any
obligation to comply with any term, provision or condition set
forth in any covenants applicable to such Securities that are
determined pursuant to Section 3.01 to be subject to this
provision), and any Events of Default applicable to such series
of Securities that are determined pursuant to Section 3.01
to be subject to this provision shall be deemed not to be an
Event of Default with respect to such series of Securities at
any time thereafter.
“Discharged” means that the Company
shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire
indebtedness represented by, and obligations under, the
Securities of such series and to have satisfied all the
obligations under this Indenture relating to the Securities of
such series (and the Trustee, on receipt of a Company Request
and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging the same), except (A) the rights
of Holders of Securities to receive, from the trust fund
described in clause (1) above, payment of the principal and
any premium of and any interest on such Securities when such
payments are due; (B) the Company’s obligations with
respect to such Securities under Sections 3.05, 3.06, 4.02,
6.07, 10.02 and 10.03; (C) the Company’s right of
redemption, if any, with respect to any Securities of such
series pursuant to Article XI, in which case the Company
may redeem the Securities of such series in accordance with
Article XI by complying with such Article and depositing
with the Trustee, in accordance with Section 11.05, an
amount of money sufficient, together with all amounts held in
trust pursuant to Section 4.02 with respect to Securities
of such series, to pay the Redemption Price of all the
Securities of such series to be redeemed; and (D) the
rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee
hereunder. A “Discharge” shall mean the meeting
by the Company of the foregoing requirements.
Section 4.04 Reinstatement. If
the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money,
property or securities in accordance with Section 4.02 of
this Indenture, by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason
of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority
enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such
application, the Company’s and, if applicable, the
Guarantors’ obligations under this Indenture and the
Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit
had occurred pursuant to Section 4.01 or 4.03 of this
Indenture, as the case may be, until such time as the Trustee or
Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such money, property or
securities in accordance with Section 4.02 of this
Indenture; provided that, if the Company has made any payment of
principal of or interest on any Securities because of the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be
subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities to
receive such payment from the money, property or securities held
by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
ARTICLE V
Remedies
Section 5.01 Events
of Default. “Event of
Default”, wherever used herein, means with respect to
any series of 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), unless such event is either inapplicable to
a particular series or it is specifically deleted or modified in
or pursuant to the indenture supplemental hereto or Board
Resolution creating such series of Securities or in the form of
Security for such series:
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any
Security of that series when it becomes due and payable, and
continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any, on) any Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund
or analogous obligation when the same becomes due by the terms
of the Securities of such series; or
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(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant
or warranty of the Company in this Indenture in respect of the
Securities of such series (other than a covenant or warranty in
respect of the Securities of such series a default in the
performance of which or the breach of which is elsewhere in this
Section specifically dealt with), all of such covenants and
warranties in the Indenture which are not expressly stated to be
for the benefit of a particular series of Securities being
deemed in respect of the Securities of all series for this
purpose, and continuance of such default or breach for a period
of 90 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
331/3%
in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
such series, a written notice specifying such default or breach
and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is
a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or
(5) the entry of an order for relief against the Company or
any Significant Subsidiary thereof under Title 11, United
States Code (the “Federal Bankruptcy Act”) by a
court having jurisdiction in the premises or a decree or order
by a court having jurisdiction in the premises adjudging the
Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof a bankrupt or
insolvent under any other applicable Federal or State law, or
the entry of a decree or order approving as properly filed a
petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition of or in respect of the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary thereof under the Federal Bankruptcy Act or any other
applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar
official) of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof
or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the
winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of
any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of
90 consecutive days; or
(6) the consent by the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary thereof 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 the Federal Bankruptcy Act or any other applicable Federal
or State law, or the consent by it to the filing of any such
petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of
the Company or any Significant Subsidiary thereof 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, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or
any Significant Subsidiary thereof in furtherance of any such
action; or
(7) any other Event of Default provided in the indenture
supplemental hereto or Board Resolution under which such series
of Securities is issued or in the form of Security for such
series.
Section 5.02 Acceleration
of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an
Event of Default described in paragraph (1), (2), (3),
(4) or (7) (if the Event of Default under clause (4)
or (7) is with respect to less than all series of
Securities then Outstanding) of Section 5.01 occurs and is
continuing with respect to any series, then and in each and
every such case, unless the principal of all the Securities of
such series shall have already become due and payable, either
the Trustee or the Holders of not less than
331/3%
in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series
then Outstanding hereunder (each such series acting as a
separate class), by notice in writing to the Company (and to the
Trustee if given by Holders), may declare the principal amount
(or, if the Securities of such series are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may
be specified in the terms of that series) of all the Securities
of such series and all accrued interest thereon to be due and
payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same
shall become and shall be immediately due and payable, anything
in this Indenture or in the Securities of such series contained
to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default
described in clause (4) or (7) (if the Event of Default
under clause (4) or (7) is with respect to all series
of Securities then Outstanding), of Section 5.01 occurs and
is continuing, then and in each and every such case, unless the
principal of all the Securities shall have already become due
and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than
331/3%
in aggregate principal amount of all the Securities then
Outstanding hereunder (treated as one class), by notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders),
may declare the principal amount (or, if any Securities are
Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the
principal amount as may be specified in the terms thereof) of
all the Securities then Outstanding and all accrued interest
thereon to be due and payable
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immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become
and shall be immediately due and payable, anything in this
Indenture or in the Securities contained to the contrary
notwithstanding. If an Event of Default of the type set forth in
clause (5) or (6) of Section 5.01 occurs and is
continuing, the principal of and any interest on the Securities
then outstanding shall become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been
made with respect to the Securities of any or all series, as the
case may be, and before a judgment or decree for payment of the
money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in
this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the outstanding Securities of such series, by written
notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul
such declaration and its consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a
sum sufficient to pay:
(A) all overdue installments of interest on the Securities
of such series; and
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Securities of such series which have become due otherwise than
by such declaration of acceleration, and interest thereon at the
rate or rates prescribed therefor by the terms of the Securities
of such series, to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful; and
(C) interest upon overdue installments of interest at the
rate or rates prescribed therefor by the terms of the Securities
of such series to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful; and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and all other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.07; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to such series of
Securities, other than the nonpayment of the principal of the
Securities of such series which have become due solely by such
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair
any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.03 Collection
of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee. The Company covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of
interest on any Security of any series when such interest
becomes due and payable; or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity
thereof; or
(3) default is made in the payment of any sinking or
purchase fund or analogous obligation when the same becomes due
by the terms of the Securities of any series;
and any such default continues for any period of grace provided
with respect to the Securities of such series, the Company will,
upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holder of any such Security (or the Holders of any such series
in the case of clause (3) above), the whole amount then due
and payable on any such Security (or on the Securities of any
such series in the case of clause (3) above) for principal
(and premium, if any) and interest, with interest, to the extent
that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon
the overdue principal (and premium, if any) and upon overdue
installments of interest, at such rate or rates as may be
prescribed therefor by the terms of any such Security (or of
Securities of any such series in the case of clause (3)
above); and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall
be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection,
including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements
and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and all
other amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.07.
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 final decree, and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities of
such series and collect the money adjudged or decreed to
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be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of
the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever
situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to any series of 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 of such series by such appropriate
judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to
protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in
aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce
any other proper remedy.
Section 5.04 Trustee
May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the
pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition
or other judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any
other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the Company
or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee
(irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall
then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration
or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have
made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue
principal or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by
intervention in such proceedings or otherwise:
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
principal (or portion thereof determined pursuant to
Section 3.01(16) to be provable in bankruptcy) (and
premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the
Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be
necessary and advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel and all other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 6.07) and of the Securityholders allowed in such
judicial proceeding; and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the
same;
and any receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator
(or other similar official) in any such judicial proceeding is
hereby authorized by each Securityholder to make such payment to
the Trustee and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to
the making of such payments directly to the Securityholders, to
pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the
Trustee under Section 6.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf
of any Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition affecting the Securities or the rights
of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Securityholder in any such
proceeding.
Section 5.05 Trustee
May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities. All rights of action and claims
under this Indenture or the Securities of any series may be
prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of
any of the Securities of such series 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,
after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agent
and counsel and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 6.07, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of
the Securities of the series in respect of which such judgment
has been recovered.
Section 5.06 Application
of Money Collected. Any money collected by
the Trustee with respect to a series of Securities pursuant to
this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the
date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the
distribution of such money on account of principal (or premium,
if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Securities of such
series and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially
paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the
Trustee under Section 6.07.
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due
and unpaid upon the Securities of that series for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest, in respect of which or for the
benefit of which such
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money has been collected, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable
on such Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and
interest, respectively.
THIRD: To the Company.
Section 5.07 Limitation
on Suits. No Holder of any Security of any
series shall have any right to institute any proceeding,
judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for
the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to
Securities of such series;
(2) the Holders of not less than
331/3%
in principal amount of the outstanding Securities of such series
shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute
proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name
as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs,
expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such
request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute
any such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such
60-day
period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of
Securities of such series shall have any right in any manner
whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this
Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any
other Holders of Securities of such series, or to obtain or to
seek to obtain priority or preference over any other such
Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and proportionate
benefit of all the Holders of all Securities of such series (it
being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative
duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances
are unduly predjudicial to such Holder).
Section 5.08 Unconditional
Right of Securityholders to Receive Principal, Premium and
Interest. Notwithstanding any other
provisions in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall
have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject
to Section 3.07) interest on such Security on the
respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in
the case of redemption or repayment, on the Redemption Date
or Repayment Date, as the case may be) and to institute suit for
the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be
impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 5.09 Restoration
of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any
Securityholder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any
right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has
been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, then and in every
such case the Company, the Trustee and the Securityholders
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
and the Securityholders shall continue as though no such
proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.10 Rights
and Remedies Cumulative. No right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the
Securityholders 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 or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any
right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair
any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such
Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and
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remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the
Securityholders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the
Securityholders, as the case may be.
Section 5.12 Control
by Securityholders. The Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series
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 with respect to the Securities of such series, provided
that:
(1) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow
any such direction if the Trustee, being advised by counsel,
determines that the action so directed may not lawfully be taken
or would conflict with this Indenture or if the Trustee in good
faith shall, by a Responsible Officer, determine that the
proceedings so directed would involve it in personal liability
or be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not taking part in
such direction, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by
the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Section 5.13 Waiver
of Past Defaults. The Holders of not less
than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the
Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder with
respect to such series and its consequences, except a default
not theretofore cured:
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any)
or interest on any Security of such series, or in the payment of
any sinking or purchase fund or analogous obligation with
respect to the Securities of such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which
under Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such
series.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any
Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been
cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver
shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
Section 5.14 Undertaking
for Costs. All parties to this Indenture
agree, and each Holder of any Security by his 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 such suit of an undertaking to
pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in
such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the
claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the
provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit
instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any
Securityholder, or group of Securityholders, holding in the
aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series to which the suit relates, or to any
suit instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the
payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on
an Security on or after the respective Stated Maturities
expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or
repayment, on or after the Redemption Date or Repayment
Date, as the case may be).
Section 5.15 Waiver
of Stay or Extension Laws. The Company
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it
will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner
whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay
or extension law wherever enacted, 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.
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ARTICLE VI
The
Trustee
Section 6.01 Certain
Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except
during the continuance of an Event of Default with respect to
any series of Securities:
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only
such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture with
respect to the Securities of such series, and no implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee
may, with respect to Securities of such series, conclusively
rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions
furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or
opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required
to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a
duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they
conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not
confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations
or other facts stated therein).
(b) In case an Event of Default with respect to any series
of Securities has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall
exercise with respect to the Securities of such series such of
the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and any
indenture supplemental hereto or Board Resolution relating to
such series of Securities, and use the same degree of care and
skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use
under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to
relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action,
its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct,
except that:
(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the
effect of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it
shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining
the pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series
relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under
this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such
series; and
(4) 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.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting
the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be
subject to the provisions of this Section.
Section 6.02 Notice
of Defaults. Within 90 days after the
occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to Securities
of any series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all
Securityholders of such series, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register, notice of such default
hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such default shall have
been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the
case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series or
in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund installment or
analogous obligation with respect to Securities of such series,
the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and
so long as it in good faith determines that the withholding of
such notice is in the interests of the Securityholders of such
series; and provided, further, that in the case of any default
of the character specified in Section 5.01(4) with respect
to Securities of such series no such notice to Securityholders
of such series shall be given until at least 90 days after
the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the
term “default”, with respect to Securities of
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any series, means any event which is, or after notice or lapse
of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect
to Securities of such series.
Section 6.03 Certain
Rights of Trustee. Except as otherwise
provided in Section 6.01:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully
protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or
other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have
been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or
Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may
be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or
established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action
hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein
specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its
part, rely upon an Officers’ Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection
and the written advice of such counsel or an Opinion of Counsel
shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder
in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at
the request or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant
to this Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have
offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably
satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities
which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture or
other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may
make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or
matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine
to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be
entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the
Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by
or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any
agent or attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(h) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any
default (as defined in Section 6.02) or Event of Default
with respect to the Securities of any series for which it is
acting as Trustee unless either (1) a Responsible Officer
of the Trustee assigned to the corporate trust department
of the Trustee (or any successor division or department of the
Trustee) shall have actual knowledge of such default or Event of
Default or (2) written notice of such default or Event of
Default shall have been given to the Trustee by the Company or
any other obligor on such Securities or by any Holder of such
Securities;
(i) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it in good faith and believed by it to be
authorized or within the discretion or rights or powers
conferred upon it by this Indenture;
(j) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and
benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation,
its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be
enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder,
and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act
hereunder;
(k) in no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable
for special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any
kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit)
irrespective of whether the Trustee has been advised of the
likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of
action; and
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(l) the Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any
Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities of a
series, except an Event of Default under Section 5.01(1),
Section 5.01(2) or Section 5.01(3) hereof (provided
that the Trustee is the principal Paying Agent with respect to
the Securities of such series), unless a Responsible Officer of
the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written
notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received
by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee, and such notice references the Securities and this
Indenture.
Section 6.04 Not
Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities. The recitals contained herein and
in the Securities, except the certificates of authentication,
shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee
assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee
makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of
this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be
accountable for the use or application by the Company of
Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 6.05 May
Hold Securities. The Trustee, any
Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, the Security Registrar,
any Conversion Agent or any other agent of the Company, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 6.08 and
6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company or any Guarantor, if
applicable, with the same rights it would have if it were not
Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Security Registrar,
Conversion Agent or such other agent.
Section 6.06 Money
Held in Trust. Subject to the provisions of
Section 10.03 hereof, all moneys in any currency or
currency received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as
herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which
they were received, but need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under
no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder
except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
Section 6.07 Compensation
and Reimbursement. The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such
compensation as agreed in writing for all services rendered by
it hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of
an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, 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 shall be determined to have
been caused by its own negligence, willful misconduct or bad
faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless
against, any and all loss, liability, damage claim or expense
incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on
its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this trust, 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.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the
Company under this Section the Trustee shall have a lien prior
to the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected
by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the
payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on
particular Securities.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in
Section 5.01(5) or (6), the expenses and the compensation
for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any bankruptcy law.
The Company’s obligations under this Section 6.07 and
any lien arising hereunder shall survive the resignation or
removal of any Trustee, the discharge of the Company’s
obligations pursuant to Article IV of this Indenture
and/or the
termination of this Indenture.
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Section 6.08 Disqualification;
Conflicting Interests. The Trustee for the
Securities of any series issued hereunder shall be subject to
the provisions of Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act during the period of time provided for
therein. In determining whether the Trustee has a conflicting
interest as defined in Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act with respect to the Securities of any
series, there shall be excluded this Indenture with respect to
Securities of any particular series of Securities other than
that series. Nothing herein shall prevent the Trustee from
filing with the Commission the application referred to in the
second to last paragraph of Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act.
Section 6.09 Corporate
Trustee Required; Eligibility. There shall at
all times be a Trustee hereunder with respect to each series of
Securities, which shall be either:
(i) a corporation organized and doing business under the
laws of the United States of America or of any State, authorized
under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and subject
to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authority, or
(ii) a corporation or other Person organized and doing
business under the laws of a foreign government that is
permitted to act as Trustee pursuant to a rule, regulation or
order of the Commission, authorized under such laws to exercise
corporate trust powers, and subject to supervision or
examination by authority of such foreign government or a
political subdivision thereof substantially equivalent to
supervision or examination applicable to United States
institutional trustees;
in either case having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000. If such corporation publishes reports of condition
at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the
aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of
such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published. Neither the Company nor any Person directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control
with the Company shall serve as trustee for the Securities of
any series issued hereunder. If at any time the Trustee with
respect to any series of Securities shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified
in Section 6.10.
Section 6.10 Resignation
and Removal. (a) No resignation or
removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under
Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign with respect to any series of
Securities at any time by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee
shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days
after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning
Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed with respect to any series
of Securities at any time by Act of the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the outstanding Securities of that series,
delivered to the Trustee and to the Company. If an instrument of
acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered
to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of removal, the removed Trustee may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with
Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act pursuant to
Section 6.08 with respect to any series of Securities after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Securityholder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of that series for
at least six months, unless the Trustee’s duty to resign is
stayed in accordance with the provisions of Section 310(b)
of the Trust Indenture Act, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under
Section 6.09 with respect to any series of Securities and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the
Company or by any such Securityholder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with
respect to any series of Securities, or
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(4) the Trustee shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent
or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be
appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of
the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in any such
case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, with respect to the series, or in the case of clause
(4), with respect to all series, or (ii) subject to
Section 5.14, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may,
on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the
Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to the series, or, in the case of clause (4), with respect to
all series.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting with respect to any series of Securities, or
if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the Trustee with
respect to any series of Securities for any cause, the Company,
by Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee
for that series of Securities.
If, within one year after such resignation, removal or
incapacity, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor
Trustee with respect to such series of Securities shall be
appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to
the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such
appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to such
series and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the
Company with respect to such series. If no successor Trustee
with respect to such series shall have been so appointed by the
Company or the Securityholders of such series and accepted
appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, subject to
Section 5.14, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security of that series for at least six months may,
on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and
each removal of the Trustee with respect to any series and each
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to any series by
mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, to the Holders of Securities of that series as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Each
notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the
address of its principal Corporate Trust Office.
Section 6.11 Acceptance
of Appointment by Successor. Every successor
Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and
deliver to the Company and to the predecessor Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the predecessor Trustee shall become
effective with respect to any series as to which it is resigning
or being removed as Trustee, and such successor Trustee, without
any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor
Trustee with respect to any such series; but, on request of the
Company or the successor Trustee, such predecessor Trustee
shall, upon payment of its reasonable charges, if any, execute
and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee
all the rights, powers and trusts of the predecessor Trustee,
and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such predecessor trustee
hereunder with respect to all or any such series, subject
nevertheless to its lien, if any, provided for in
Section 6.07. Upon request of any such successor Trustee,
the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully
and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor
Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series,
the Company, the predecessor Trustee and each successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any applicable series shall
execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or
desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of any series as to which the predecessor Trustee is not being
succeeded shall continue to be vested in the predecessor
Trustee, and shall add to or change any of the provisions of
this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or
facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more
than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in
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such indenture supplemental hereto shall constitute such
Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Trustee shall be Trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate
and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any
other such Trustee.
No successor Trustee with respect to any series of Securities
shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible with respect to that series under this Article.
Section 6.12 Merger,
Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business. Any corporation into which the
Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all
of the corporate trust business of the Trustee, shall be the
successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation
shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act
on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities
shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee
then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or
consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such
authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with
the same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself
authenticated such Securities.
Section 6.13 Preferential
Collection of Claims Against Company. The
Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 311(a), excluding any
creditor relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A
Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA
Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.
Section 6.14 Appointment
of Authenticating Agent. At any time when any
of the Securities remain Outstanding the Trustee, with the
approval of the Company, may appoint an Authenticating Agent or
Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities which
shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original
issuance, exchange, registration of transfer or partial
redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 3.06, and
Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of
this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all
purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever
reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and
delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by
an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication
executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.
Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and
shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America, any State
thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws
to act as an Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and
surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and, if other than the
Company itself, subject to supervision or examination by Federal
or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to
the requirements of said supervising or examining authority,
then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and
surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. If at any time an
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged
or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any
corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all
the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an
Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an Authenticating
Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper
or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Trustee and, if other than the Company, 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, if other than the Company, 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
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Section, the Trustee, with the approval of the Company, may
appoint a successor Authenticating Agent which shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of such
appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders
of Securities of the series with respect to which such
Authenticating Agent will serve, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register. 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. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be
appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time
to time reasonable compensation for its services under this
Section.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made
pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have
endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate
of authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in
the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
[Name of Authenticating Agent]
by
As Authenticating Agent
by
As Authorized Agent
ARTICLE VII
Securityholders’
Lists and Reports by
Trustee
and Company
Section 7.01 Company
to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Securityholders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(1) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after
December 15 and June 15 in each year in such form as the Trustee
may reasonably require, a list of the names and addresses of the
Holders of Securities of each series as of such December 15 and
June 15, as applicable, and
(2) at such other times as the Trustee may request in
writing, within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of
any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a
date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list is
furnished; provided, however, that if and so long as the Trustee
shall be the Security Registrar for Securities of a series, no
such list need be furnished with respect to such series of
Securities.
Section 7.02 Preservation
of Information; Communications to
Securityholders. (a) The Trustee shall
preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the
names and addresses of Holders of Securities contained in the
most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in
Section 7.01 and the names and addresses of Holders of
Securities received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in Section 7.01 upon receipt of
a new list so furnished.
(b) If three or more Holders of Securities of any series
(hereinafter referred to as ‘‘applicants”)
apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee
reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security
of such series for a period of at least six months preceding the
date of such application, and such
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application states that the applicants desire to communicate
with other Holders of Securities of such series or with the
Holders of all Securities with respect to their rights under
this Indenture or under such Securities and is accompanied by a
copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such
applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within
five Business Days after the receipt of such application, at its
election, either:
(1) afford such applicants access to the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with
Section 7.02(a), or
(2) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of
Holders of Securities of such series or all Securities, as the
case may be, whose names and addresses appear in the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with
Section 7.02(a), and as to the approximate cost of mailing
to such Securityholders the form of proxy or other
communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access
to such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request
of such applicants, mail to each Holder of a Security of such
series or to all Securityholders, as the case may be, whose
names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the
time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a), a
copy of the form of proxy or other communication which is
specified in such request, with reasonable promptness after a
tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed and of
payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable
expenses of mailing, unless, within five days after such tender,
the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the
Commission, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a
written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the
Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of
the Holders of Securities of such series or all Securityholders,
as the case may be, or would be in violation of applicable law.
Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion.
If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon the
objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall
enter an order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if,
after the entry of an order sustaining one or more of such
objections, the Commission shall find, after notice and
opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained
have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee
shall mail copies of such material to all Securityholders of
such series or all Securityholders, as the case may be, with
reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the
renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved
of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
application.
(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 shall be held accountable by reason
of the disclosure of any such information as to the names and
addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with
Section 7.02(b), regardless of the source from which such
information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held
accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a
request made under Section 7.02(b).
Section 7.03 Reports
by Trustee. (a) Within 60 days
after May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 after
the issuance of Securities, the Trustee shall transmit by mail,
at the Company’s expense, to all Holders as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, as provided in
Trust Indenture Act 313(c), a brief report dated as of May
15 in accordance with and with respect to the matters required
by Trust Indenture Act Section 313(a).
(b) The Trustee shall transmit by mail, at the
Company’s expense, to all Holders as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, as provided in
Trust Indenture Act 313(c), a brief report in accordance
with and with respect to the matters required by
Trust Indenture Act Section 313(b).
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be furnished to the Company and, in
accordance with Trust Indenture Act Section 313(d), be
filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the
Securities are listed, and also with the Commission. The Company
shall promptly notify the Trustee when the Securities are listed
on any stock exchange or any delisting thereof.
Section 7.04 Reports
by Company. The Company shall file with the
Trustee, and transmit to Holders, such information, documents
and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be
required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times
and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act; provided that
any such
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information, documents or reports required to be filed with the
Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 shall be filed with the Trustee
within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed
with the Commission. The Company also shall comply with the
other provisions of Trust Indenture Act
Section 314(a). Delivery of such reports, information and
documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and
the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute
constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including the
Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder
(as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on
Officers’ Certificates).
ARTICLE VIII
Consolidation,
Merger, Conveyance or Transfer
Section 8.01 Consolidation,
Merger, Conveyance or Transfer on Certain
Terms. Except as otherwise set forth in an
indenture supplemental hereto or Board Resolution creating such
series of Securities or in the form of security for such Series,
the Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other
Person or convey or transfer its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless:
(1) the Person formed by such consolidation or into which
the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance
or transfer the properties and assets of the Company
substantially as an entirety shall be organized and existing
under the laws of the United States of America or any State
thereof or the District of Columbia, and shall expressly assume,
by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to
the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the
due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on all the Securities and the performance of
every covenant of this Indenture (as supplemented from time to
time) on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of
time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have
happened and be continuing; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each
stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer
and such indenture supplemental hereto comply with this Article
and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating
to such transaction have been complied with.
Section 8.02 Successor
Person Substituted. Upon any consolidation or
merger, or any conveyance or transfer of the properties and
assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance
with Section 8.01, the successor Person formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which
such conveyance or transfer 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 had been named as the Company herein. In the event of
any such conveyance or transfer, the Company as the predecessor
shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under
this Indenture and the Securities and may be dissolved, wound up
or liquidated at any time thereafter.
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental
Indentures
Section 9.01 Supplemental
Indentures Without Consent of
Securityholders. Except as otherwise set
forth in an indenture supplemental hereto or Board Resolution
creating such series of Securities or in the form of Security
for such series, without the consent of the Holders of any
Securities, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution,
and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or
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more indentures supplemental hereto, in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation or
Person to the Company or any Guarantor, if any, and the
assumption by any such successor of the respective covenants of
the Company or any Guarantor herein and in the Securities
contained; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company or any
Guarantor, if any, or to surrender any right or power herein
conferred upon the Company or any Guarantor, for the benefit of
the Holders of the Securities of any or all series (and if such
covenants or the surrender of such right or power are to be for
the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that
such covenants are expressly being included or such surrenders
are expressly being made solely for the benefit of one or more
specified series); or
(3) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other
provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect
to matters or questions arising under this Indenture; or
(4) to add to this Indenture such provisions as may be
expressly permitted by the TIA, excluding, however, the
provisions referred to in Section 316(a)(2) of the TIA as
in effect at the date as of which this instrument was executed
or any corresponding provision in any similar federal statute
hereafter enacted; or
(5) to establish any form of Security, as provided in
Article II, to provide for the issuance of any series of
Securities as provided in Article III and to set forth the
terms thereof,
and/or to
add to the rights of the Holders of the Securities of any
series; or
(6) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of
appointment by another corporation as a successor Trustee
hereunder with respect to one or more series of Securities and
to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as
shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee,
pursuant to Section 6.11; or
(7) to add any additional Events of Default in respect of
the Securities of any or all series (and if such additional
Events of Default are to be in respect of less than all series
of Securities, stating that such Events of Default are expressly
being included solely for the benefit of one or more specified
series); or
(8) to provide for uncertificated Securities in addition to
or in place of certificated Securities and to provide for bearer
Securities; provided that uncertificated Securities are issued
in registered form for purposes of Section 163(f) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or in a manner such
that the uncertificated Securities are described in
Section 163(f)(2)(B) of such Internal Revenue Code; or
(9) to provide for the terms and conditions of conversion
into Common Stock or other Marketable Securities of the
Securities of any series which are convertible into Common Stock
or other Marketable Securities, if different from those set
forth in Article XII; or
(10) to secure the Securities of any series; or
(11) to add Guarantees in respect of any series or all of
the Securities; or
(12) to make any other change that does not adversely
affect the rights of the Holders of any or all series of
Securities; or
(13) to make any change necessary to comply with any
requirement of the Commission in connection with the
qualification of this Indenture or any supplemental indenture
under the Trust Indenture Act.
No supplemental indenture for the purposes identified in clauses
(2), (3) or (5) above may be entered into if to do so
would adversely affect the rights of the Holders of Outstanding
Securities of any series in any material respect.
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Section 9.02 Supplemental
Indentures with Consent of
Securityholders. Except as otherwise set
forth in an indenture supplemental hereto or Board Resolution
creating such series of Securities or in the form of security
for such Series, with the consent of the Holders of not less
than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of all series affected by such supplemental indenture
or indentures (acting as one class), by Act of said Holders
delivered to the Company and the Trustee (in accordance with
Section 1.04 hereof), 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 the Securities of each such series
under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such
supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder
of each Outstanding Security affected thereby:
(1) change the Maturity of the principal of, or the Stated
Maturity of any premium on, or any installment of interest on,
any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the
interest or any premium thereon, or change the method of
computing the amount of principal thereof or interest thereon on
any date or change any Place of Payment where, or the coin or
currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest
thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for
the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Maturity or
the Stated Maturity, as the case may be, thereof (or, in the
case of redemption or repayment, on or after the
Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as the case may be),
or alter the provisions of this Indenture so as to affect
adversely the terms, if any, of conversion of any Securities
into Common Stock or other securities; or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, the consent of whose
Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the
consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver of
compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences, provided for in this
Indenture; or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section 9.02,
Section 5.13 or Section 10.06, except to increase any
such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of
this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent
of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby; or
(4) impair or adversely affect the right of any Holder to
institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on, or with
respect to, the Securities of any series on or after the Stated
Maturity of such Securities (or in the case of redemption, on or
after the Redemption Date); or
(5) amend or modify Section 13.01 of this Indenture in
any manner adverse to the rights of the Holders of the
Outstanding Securities of any series.
For purposes of this Section 9.02, if the Securities of any
series are issuable upon the exercise of warrants, each holder
of an unexercised and unexpired warrant with respect to such
series shall be deemed to be a Holder of Outstanding Securities
of such series in the amount issuable upon the exercise of such
warrant. For such purposes, the ownership of any such warrant
shall be determined by the Company in a manner consistent with
customary commercial practices. The Trustee for such series
shall be entitled to rely on an Officers’ Certificate as to
the principal amount of Securities of such series in respect of
which consents shall have been executed by holders of such
warrants.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture which has
expressly been included solely for the benefit of one or more
particular series of Securities, or which modifies the rights of
the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the
rights under this Indenture of Holders of Securities of any
other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Securityholders under
this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed
supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act
shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 9.03 Execution
of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby
of the trusts
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created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and (subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully
protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel and an
Officers’ Certificate stating that the execution of such
supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture and that such supplemental indenture is the legal,
valid and binding obligation of the Company in accordance with
its terms. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter
into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this
Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.04 Effect
of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this
Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for
all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or
thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound
thereby to the extent provided therein.
Section 9.05 Conformity
with Trust Indenture Act. Every
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of TIA as then in effect.
Section 9.06 Reference
in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures. Securities authenticated and
delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the
Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to
any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the
Company shall so determine, new Securities so modified as to
conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board of
Directors, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared
and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.
ARTICLE X
Covenants
Section 10.01 Payment
of Principal, Premium and Interest. With
respect to each series of Securities, the Company will duly and
punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on such Securities in accordance with their terms and
this Indenture, and will duly comply with all the other terms,
agreements and conditions contained in, or made in the Indenture
for the benefit of, the Securities of such series.
Section 10.02 Maintenance
of Office or Agency. The Company will
maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment where
Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where
Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange, where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served and
where any Securities with conversion privileges may be presented
and surrendered for conversion. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of the location, and of any change
in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the
Company shall fail to maintain such office or agency or shall
fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or
served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and
the Company hereby appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
Unless otherwise set forth in, or pursuant to, a Board
Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto with respect to a
series of Securities, the Company hereby initially designates as
the Place of Payment for each series of Securities, the Borough
of Manhattan, the City and State of
New York, and initially
appoints the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office as the
Company’s office or agency for each such purpose in such
city.
Section 10.03 Money
for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust. If
the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent for
any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of
the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, any of
the Securities of such series, segregate and hold in trust for
the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to
pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming
due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the
Trustee of its action or failure to act.
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Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for
any series of Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date
of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, any
Securities of such series, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum
sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or
interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal (and premium,
if any) or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the
Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its
action or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee
for any series of Securities to execute and deliver to the
Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree
with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section,
that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of such
series in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto
until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities of such series) in the
making of any such payment of principal (and premium, if any) or
interest on the Securities of such series; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to any
series of Securities 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 in
respect of each and every series of Securities as to which it
seeks to discharge this Indenture or, if for any other purpose,
all sums so held in trust by the Company in respect of all
Securities, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the same
trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to
the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or
then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security
of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such
principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and
payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if
then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust;
and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter as an unsecured
general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof,
and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as
trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease. The Trustee or such
Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment,
may at the expense of the Company mail to the Holders of the
Securities as to which the money to be repaid was held in trust,
as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a
notice that such moneys remain unclaimed and that, after a date
specified in the notice, which shall not be less than
30 days from the date on which the notice was first mailed
to the Holders of the Securities as to which the money to be
repaid was held in trust, any unclaimed balance of such moneys
then remaining will be paid to the Company free of the trust
formerly impressed upon it.
Section 10.04 Statement
as to Compliance. The Company will deliver to
the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal
year, a written statement signed by the principal executive
officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting
officer of the Company stating that:
(1) a review of the activities of the Company during such
year and of performance under this Indenture and under the terms
of the Securities has been made under his supervision; and
(2) to the best of his knowledge, based on such review, the
Company has fulfilled all its obligations under this Indenture
and has complied with all conditions and covenants on its part
contained in this Indenture through such year, or, if there has
been a default in the fulfillment of any such obligation,
covenant or condition, specifying each such default known to him
and the nature and status thereof.
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For the purpose of this Section 10.04, default and
compliance shall be determined without regard to any grace
period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms
of this Indenture.
Section 10.05 Legal
Existence. Subject to Article VIII, the
Company will do or cause to be done all things necessary to
preserve and keep in full force and effect its legal existence.
Section 10.06 Waiver
of Certain Covenants. The Company may omit in
respect of any series of Securities, in any particular instance,
to comply with any covenant or condition set forth in
Section 10.05 or set forth in a Board Resolution or
indenture supplemental hereto with respect to the Securities of
such series, unless otherwise specified in such Board Resolution
or indenture supplemental hereto, if before or after the time
for such compliance the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all series
affected by such waiver (voting as one class) shall, by Act of
such Securityholders delivered to the Company and the Trustee
(in accordance with Section 1.04 hereof), either waive such
compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with
such covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to
or affect such covenant or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective,
the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in
respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full
force and effect. Nothing in this Section 10.06 shall
permit the waiver of compliance with any covenant or condition
set forth in such Board Resolution or indenture supplemental
hereto which, if in the form of an indenture supplemental
hereto, would not be permitted by Section 9.02 without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby.
ARTICLE XI
Redemption
of Securities
Section 11.01 Applicability
of Article. The Company may reserve the right
to redeem and pay before Stated Maturity all or any part of the
Securities of any series, either by optional redemption, sinking
or purchase fund or analogous obligation or otherwise, by
provision therefor in the form of Security for such series
established and approved pursuant to Section 2.02 and on
such terms as are specified in such form or in the Board
Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto with respect to
Securities of such series as provided in Section 3.01.
Redemption of Securities of any series shall be made in
accordance with the terms of such Securities and, to the extent
that this Article does not conflict with such terms, the
succeeding Sections of this Article. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary in this Indenture, except in the case of redemption
pursuant to a sinking fund, the Trustee shall not make any
payment in connection with the redemption of Securities until
the close of business on the Redemption Date.
Section 11.02 Election
to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The election of
the Company to redeem any Securities redeemable at the election
of the Company shall be evidenced by, or pursuant to authority
granted by, a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the
election of the Company, the Company shall, at least
45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the
Company (unless a shorter notice shall be reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such
Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities
of such series and the Tranche (as defined in
Section 11.03) to be redeemed.
In the case of any redemption of Securities (i) prior to
the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in
the terms of such Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, or
(ii) pursuant to an election of the Company which is
subject to a condition specified in the terms of such
Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an
Officers’ Certificate evidencing compliance with such
restriction or condition.
Section 11.03 Selection
by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed. If
less than all the Securities of like tenor and terms of any
series (a ‘‘Tranche”) are to be redeemed,
the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not
more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by the
Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such Tranche not
previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee
shall deem fair and appropriate and which may include provision
for the selection for redemption of portions of the principal of
Securities of such Tranche of a denomination larger than the
minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series.
Unless otherwise provided in the terms of a particular series of
Securities, the portions of the principal of Securities so
selected for partial redemption shall be equal to the minimum
authorized
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denomination of the Securities of such series, or an integral
multiple thereof, and the principal amount which remains
outstanding shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination for Securities of such series. If less than all the
Securities of unlike tenor and terms of a series are to be
redeemed, the particular Tranche of Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected by the Company.
If any convertible Security selected for partial redemption is
converted in part before the termination of the conversion right
with respect to the portion of the Security so selected, the
converted portion of such Security shall be deemed (so far as
may be) to be the portion selected for redemption.
Upon any redemption of fewer than all the Securities of a
series, the Company and the Trustee may treat as Outstanding any
Securities surrendered for conversion during the period of
fifteen days next preceding the mailing of a notice of
redemption, and need not treat as Outstanding any Security
authenticated and delivered during such period in exchange for
the unconverted portion of any Security converted in part during
such period.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any
Security selected for partial redemption, the principal amount
thereof to be redeemed.
Securities shall be excluded from eligibility for selection for
redemption if they are identified by registration and
certificate number in a written statement signed by an
authorized officer of the Company and delivered to the Trustee
at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date (unless
a shorter period shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustee) as being owned of record and beneficially by, and not
pledged or hypothecated by either, (a) the Company or
(b) an entity specifically identified in such written
statement as being an Affiliate of the Company.
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 of
such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 11.04 Notice
of Redemption. Notice of redemption shall be
given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than
15 (unless otherwise provided in the Board Resolution or
indenture supplemental hereto establishing the relevant series)
nor more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date, to
each holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his address
appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall identify the Securities to be
redeemed including CUSIP number(s) and shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price;
(3) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series
are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of
partial redemption, the respective principal amounts) of the
Securities to be redeemed;
(4) that on the Redemption Date the
Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each such
Security, and that interest, if any, thereon shall cease to
accrue from and after said date;
(5) the place where such Securities are to be surrendered
for payment of the Redemption Price, which shall be the
office or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment;
(6) that the redemption is on account of a sinking or
purchase fund, or other analogous obligation, if that be the
case;
(7) if such Securities are convertible into Common Stock or
other securities, the Conversion Price or other conversion price
and the date on which the right to convert such Securities into
Common Stock or other securities will terminate; and
(8) if applicable, that the redemption may be rescinded by
the Company, at its sole option, pursuant to Section 11.09
of this Indenture upon the occurrence of a Redemption Rescission
Event.
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Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the
election of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the
Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the
expense of the Company; provided that if the Trustee is asked to
give such notice it shall be given at least five Business Days
prior notice.
Section 11.05 Deposit
of Redemption Price. On or prior to any
Redemption Date and subject to Section 11.09, the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent
(or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate
and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.03) an amount
of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all the
Securities which are to be redeemed on that date. If any
Security to be redeemed is converted into Common Stock or other
securities, any money so deposited with the Trustee or a Paying
Agent shall be paid to the Company upon Company Request or, if
then so segregated and held in trust by the Company, shall be
discharged from such trust.
Section 11.06 Securities
Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of
redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to
be redeemed shall, subject to Section 11.09, on the
Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified and from and after such
date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of the
Redemption Price) such Securities shall cease to bear
interest and any rights to convert such Securities shall
terminate. Upon surrender of such Securities for redemption in
accordance with the notice and subject to Section 11.09,
such Securities shall be paid by the Company at the
Redemption Price. Unless otherwise provided with respect to
such Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, installments of
interest the Stated Maturity of which is on or prior to the
Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such
Securities registered as such on the relevant Regular Record
Dates according to their terms and the provisions of
Section 3.07.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until
paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate
borne by the Security, or as otherwise provided in such Security.
Section 11.07 Securities
Redeemed in Part. Any Security which is to be
redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at the office or
agency of the Company in the Place of Payment with respect to
that series (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires,
due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by,
the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing)
and the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service
charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and
Stated Maturity and of like tenor and terms, of any authorized
denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate principal
amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of
the principal of the Security so surrendered.
Section 11.08 Provisions
with Respect to Any Sinking Funds. Unless the
form or terms of any series of Securities shall provide
otherwise, in lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory
sinking fund payment with respect to such series of Securities
in cash, the Company may at its option (1) deliver to the
Trustee for cancellation any Securities of such series
theretofore acquired by the Company or converted by the Holder
thereof into Common Stock or other securities, or
(2) receive credit for any Securities of such series (not
previously so credited) acquired by the Company (including by
way of optional redemption (pursuant to the sinking fund or
otherwise but not by way of mandatory sinking fund redemption)
or converted by the Holder thereof into Common Stock or other
securities and theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, and if it does so then (i) Securities so
delivered or credited shall be credited at the applicable
sinking fund Redemption Price with respect to
Securities of such series, and (ii) on or before the
60th day next preceding each sinking
fund Redemption Date with respect to such series of
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee (A) an
Officers’ Certificate specifying the portions of such
sinking fund payment to be satisfied by payment of cash and by
delivery or credit of Securities of such series acquired by the
Company or converted by the Holder thereof, and (B) such
Securities, to the extent not previously surrendered. Such
Officers’ Certificate shall also state the basis for such
credit and that the Securities for which the Company elects to
receive credit have not been previously so credited and were not
acquired by the Company through operation of the mandatory
sinking fund, if any, provided with respect to such Securities
and shall also state that no
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Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series has
occurred and is continuing. All Securities so delivered to the
Trustee shall be canceled by the Trustee and no Securities shall
be authenticated in lieu thereof.
If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional)
with respect to any series of Securities made in cash plus any
unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments with
respect to Securities of such series made in cash shall exceed
$50,000 (or a lesser sum if the Company shall so request),
unless otherwise provided by the terms of such series of
Securities, that cash shall be applied by the Trustee on the
sinking fund Redemption Date with respect to
Securities of such series next following the date of such
payment to the redemption of Securities of such series at the
applicable sinking fund Redemption Price with respect
to Securities of such series, together with accrued interest, if
any, to the date fixed for redemption, with the effect provided
in Section 11.06. The Trustee shall select, in the manner
provided in Section 11.03, for redemption on such sinking
fund Redemption Date a sufficient principal amount of
Securities of such series to utilize that cash and shall
thereupon cause notice of redemption of the Securities of such
series for the sinking fund to be given in the manner provided
in Section 11.04 (and with the effect provided in
Section 11.06) for the redemption of Securities in part at
the option of the Company. Any sinking fund moneys not so
applied or allocated by the Trustee to the redemption of
Securities of such series shall be added to the next cash
sinking fund payment with respect to Securities of such series
received by the Trustee and, together with such payment, shall
be applied in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 11.08. Any and all sinking fund moneys with respect
to Securities of any series held by the Trustee at the Maturity
of Securities of such series, and not held for the payment or
redemption of particular Securities of such series, shall be
applied by the Trustee, together with other moneys, if
necessary, to be deposited sufficient for the purpose, to the
payment of the principal of the Securities of such series at
Maturity.
On or before each sinking fund Redemption Date
provided with respect to Securities of any series, the Company
shall pay to the Trustee in cash a sum equal to all accrued
interest, if any, to the date fixed for redemption on Securities
to be redeemed on such sinking fund Redemption Date
pursuant to this Section 11.08.
Section 11.09 Rescission
of Redemption. In the event that this
Section 11.09 is specified to be applicable to a series of
Securities pursuant to Section 3.01 and a
Redemption Rescission Event shall occur following any day
on which a notice of redemption shall have been given pursuant
to Section 11.04 hereof but at or prior to the time and
date fixed for redemption as set forth in such notice of
redemption, the Company may, at its sole option, at any time
prior to the earlier of (i) the close of business on that
day which is two Trading Days following such
Redemption Rescission Event and (ii) the time and date
fixed for redemption as set forth in such notice, rescind the
redemption to which such notice of redemption shall have related
by making a public announcement of such rescission (the date on
which such public announcement shall have been made being
hereinafter referred to as the ‘‘Rescission
Date”). The Company shall be deemed to have made such
announcement if it shall issue a release to the Dow Xxxxx New
Service, Reuters Information Services or any successor news wire
service. From and after the making of such announcement, the
Company shall have no obligation to redeem Securities called for
redemption pursuant to such notice of redemption or to pay the
Redemption Price therefor and all rights of Holders of
Securities shall be restored as if such notice of redemption had
not been given. As promptly as practicable following the making
of such announcement, the Company shall telephonically notify
the Trustee and the Paying Agent of such rescission. The Company
shall give notice of any such rescission by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, mailed as promptly as practicable but in no
event later than the close of business on that day which is five
Trading Days following the Rescission Date to each Holder of
Securities at the close of business on the Rescission Date, to
any other Person that was a Holder of Securities and that shall
have surrendered Securities for conversion following the giving
of notice of the subsequently rescinded redemption and to the
Trustee and the Paying Agent. Each notice of rescission shall
(w) state that the redemption described in the notice of
redemption has been rescinded, (x) state that any
Converting Holder shall be entitled to rescind the conversion of
Securities surrendered for conversion following the day on which
notice of redemption was given but on or prior to the date of
the mailing of the Company’s notice of rescission,
(y) be accompanied by a form prescribed by the Company to
be used by any Converting Holder rescinding the conversion of
Securities so surrendered for
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conversion (and instructions for the completion and delivery of
such form, including instructions with respect to any payment
that may be required to accompany such delivery) and
(z) state that such form must be properly completed and
received by the Company no later than the close of business on a
date that shall be 15 Trading Days following the date of
the mailing of such notice of rescission.
ARTICLE XII
Conversion
Section 12.01 Conversion
Privilege. In the event that this
Article XII is specified to be applicable to a series of
Securities pursuant to Section 3.01, the Holder of a
Security of such series shall have the right, at such
Holder’s option, to convert, in accordance with the terms
of such series of Securities and this Article XII, all or
any part (in a denomination of, unless otherwise specified in a
Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto with respect
to Securities of such series, $1,000 in principal amount or any
integral multiple thereof) of such Security into shares of
Common Stock or other Marketable Securities specified in such
Board Resolution or any indenture supplement hereto at any time
or, as to any Securities called for redemption, at any time
prior to the time and date fixed for such redemption (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the
Redemption Price, in which case such right shall not
terminate at such time and date).
Section 12.02 Conversion
Procedure; Rescission of Conversion; Conversion Price;
Fractional Shares. (a) Each Security to
which this Article is applicable shall be convertible at the
office of the Conversion Agent, and at such other place or
places, if any, specified in a Board Resolution with respect to
the Securities of such series, into fully paid and nonassessable
shares (calculated to the nearest 1/100th of a share) of
Common Stock or other Marketable Securities. The Securities will
be converted into shares of Common Stock or such other
Marketable Securities at the Conversion Price therefor. No
payment or adjustment shall be made in respect of dividends on
the Common Stock or such other Marketable Securities, or accrued
interest on a converted Security except as described in
Section 12.09. The Company may, but shall not be required,
in connection with any conversion of Securities, to issue a
fraction of a share of Common Stock or of such other Marketable
Security, and, if the Company shall determine not to issue any
such fraction, the Company shall, subject to
Section 12.03(4), make a cash payment (calculated to the
nearest cent) equal to such fraction multiplied by the Closing
Price of the Common Stock or such other Marketable Security on
the last Trading Day prior to the date of conversion.
(b) Before any Holder of a Security shall be entitled to
convert the same into Common Stock or other Marketable
Securities, such Holder shall surrender such Security duly
endorsed to the Company or in blank, at the office of the
Conversion Agent or at such other place or places, if any,
specified in a Board Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto
with respect to the Securities of such series, and shall give
written notice to the Company at said office or place that he
elects to convert the same and shall state in writing therein
the principal amount of Securities to be converted and the name
or names (with addresses) in which he wishes the certificate or
certificates for Common Stock or for such other Marketable
Securities to be issued; provided, however, that no Security or
portion thereof shall be accepted for conversion unless the
principal amount of such Security or such portion, when added to
the principal amount of all other Securities or portions thereof
then being surrendered by the Holder thereof for conversion,
exceeds the then effective Conversion Price with respect
thereto. If more than one Security shall be surrendered for
conversion at one time by the same Holder, the number of full
shares of Common Stock or such other Marketable Securities which
shall be deliverable upon conversion shall be computed on the
basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities (or
specified portions thereof to the extent permitted thereby) so
surrendered. Subject to the next succeeding sentence, the
Company will, as soon as practicable thereafter, issue and
deliver at said office or place to such Holder of a Security, or
to his nominee or nominees, certificates for the number of full
shares of Common Stock or other Marketable Security to which he
shall be entitled as aforesaid, together, subject to the last
sentence of paragraph (a) above, with cash in lieu of any
fraction of a share to which he would otherwise be entitled. The
Company shall not be required to deliver certificates for shares
of Common Stock or other Marketable Securities while the stock
transfer books for such stock or the transfer books for such
Marketable Securities, as the case may be, or the Security
Register are duly closed for any purpose, but certificates for
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shares of Common Stock or other Marketable Securities shall be
issued and delivered as soon as practicable after the opening of
such books or Security Register. A Security shall be deemed to
have been converted as of the close of business on the date of
the surrender of such Security for conversion as provided above,
and the person or persons entitled to receive the Common Stock
or other Marketable Securities issuable upon such conversion
shall be treated for all purposes as the record Holder or
Holders of such Common Stock or other Marketable Securities as
of the close of business on such date. In case any Security
shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or
upon the written order of the Holder of the Securities so
surrendered, without charge to such Holder (subject to the
provisions of Section 12.08), a new Security or Securities
in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount
equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Security.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, in the event the Company shall have rescinded a
redemption of Securities pursuant to Section 11.09 hereof,
any Holder of Securities that shall have surrendered Securities
for conversion following the day on which notice of the
subsequently rescinded redemption shall have been given but
prior to the later of (a) the close of business on the
Trading Day next succeeding the date on which public
announcement of the rescission of such redemption shall have
been made and (b) the date of the mailing of the notice of
rescission required by Section 11.09 hereof (a
“Converting Holder”) may rescind the conversion
of such Securities surrendered for conversion by
(i) properly completing a form prescribed by the Company
and mailed to Holders of Securities (including Converting
Holders) with the Company’s notice of rescission, which
form shall provide for the certification by any Converting
Holder rescinding a conversion on behalf of any beneficial owner
(within the meaning of
Rule 13d-3
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) of Securities
that the beneficial ownership (within the meaning of such Rule)
of such Securities shall not have changed from the date on which
such Securities were surrendered for conversion to the date of
such certification and (ii) delivering such form to the
Company no later than the close of business on that date which
is fifteen Trading Days following the date of the mailing of the
Company’s notice of rescission. The delivery of such form
by a Converting Holder shall be accompanied by (x) any
certificates representing shares of Common Stock or other
securities issued to such Converting Holder upon a conversion of
Securities that shall be rescinded by the proper delivery of
such form (the ‘‘Surrendered Securities”),
(y) any securities, evidences of indebtedness or assets
(other than cash) distributed by the Company to such Converting
Holder by reason of such Converting Holder being a record holder
of Surrendered Securities and (z) payment in New York
Clearing House funds or other funds acceptable to the Company of
an amount equal to the sum of (I) any cash such Converting
Holder may have received in lieu of the issuance of fractional
Surrendered Securities and (II) any cash paid or payable by
the Company to such Converting Holder by reason of such
Converting Holder being a record holder of Surrendered
Securities. Upon receipt by the Company of any such form
properly completed by a Converting Holder and any certificates,
securities, evidences of indebtedness, assets or cash payments
required to be returned by such Converting Holder to the Company
as set forth above, the Company shall instruct the transfer
agent or agents for shares of Common Stock or other securities
to cancel any certificates representing Surrendered Securities
(which Surrendered Securities shall be deposited in the treasury
of the Company) and shall instruct the Registrar to reissue
certificates representing Securities to such Converting Holder
(which Securities shall be deemed to have been outstanding at
all times during the period following their surrender for
conversion). The Company shall, as promptly as practicable, and
in no event more than five Trading Days following the receipt of
any such properly completed form and any such certificates,
securities, evidences of indebtedness, assets or cash payments
required to be so returned, pay to the Holder of Securities
surrendered to the Company pursuant to a rescinded conversion or
as otherwise directed by such Holder any interest paid or other
payment made to Holders of Securities during the period from the
time such Securities shall have been surrendered for conversion
to the rescission of such conversion. All questions as to the
validity, form, eligibility (including time of receipt) and
acceptance of any form submitted to the Company to rescind the
conversion of Securities, including questions as to the proper
completion or execution of any such form or any certification
contained therein, shall be resolved by the Company, whose
determination shall be final and binding.
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Section 12.03 Adjustment
of Conversion Price for Common Stock or Marketable
Securities. The Conversion Price with respect
to any Security which is convertible into Common Stock or other
Marketable Securities shall be adjusted from time to time as
follows:
(1) In case the Company shall, at any time or from time to
time while any of such Securities are outstanding, (i) pay
a dividend in shares of its Common Stock or other Marketable
Securities, (ii) combine its outstanding shares of Common
Stock or other Marketable Securities into a smaller number of
shares or securities, (iii) subdivide its outstanding
shares of Common Stock or other Marketable Securities or
(iv) issue by reclassification of its shares of Common
Stock or other Marketable Securities any shares of stock or
other Marketable Securities of the Company, then the Conversion
Price in effect immediately before such action shall be adjusted
so that the Holders of such Securities, upon conversion thereof
into Common Stock or other Marketable Securities immediately
following such event, shall be entitled to receive the kind and
amount of shares of capital stock of the Company or other
Marketable Securities which they would have owned or been
entitled to receive upon or by reason of such event if such
Securities had been converted immediately before the record date
(or, if no record date, the effective date) for such event. An
adjustment made pursuant to this Section 12.03(1) shall
become effective retroactively immediately after the record date
in the case of a dividend or distribution and shall become
effective retroactively immediately after the effective date in
the case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification. For
the purposes of this Section 12.03(1), each Holder of Securities
shall be deemed to have failed to exercise any right to elect
the kind or amount of securities receivable upon the payment of
any such dividend, subdivision, combination or reclassification
(provided that if the kind or amount of securities receivable
upon such dividend, subdivision, combination or reclassification
is not the same for each nonelecting share, then the kind and
amount of securities or other property receivable upon such
dividend, subdivision, combination or reclassification for each
nonelecting share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so
receivable per share by a plurality of the nonelecting shares).
(2) In case the Company shall, at any time or from time to
time while any of such Securities are outstanding, issue rights
or warrants to all holders of shares of its Common Stock or
other Marketable Securities entitling them (for a period
expiring within 45 days after the record date for such
issuance) to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or
other Marketable Securities (or securities convertible into
shares of Common Stock or other Marketable Securities) at a
price per share less than the Current Market Price of the Common
Stock or other Marketable Securities at such record date
(treating the price per share of the securities convertible into
Common Stock or other Marketable Securities as equal to
(x) the sum of (i) the price for a unit of the
security convertible into Common Stock or other Marketable
Securities plus (ii) any additional consideration initially
payable upon the conversion of such security into Common Stock
or other Marketable Securities divided by (y) the number of
shares of Common Stock or other Marketable Securities initially
underlying such convertible security), the Conversion Price with
respect to such Securities shall be adjusted so that it shall
equal the price determined by dividing the Conversion Price in
effect immediately prior to the date of issuance of such rights
or warrants by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the
number of shares of Common Stock or other Marketable Securities
outstanding on the date of issuance of such rights or warrants
plus the number of additional shares of Common Stock or other
Marketable Securities offered for subscription or purchase (or
into which the convertible securities so offered are initially
convertible), and the denominator of which shall be the number
of shares of Common Stock or other Marketable Securities
outstanding on the date of issuance of such rights or warrants
plus the number of shares or securities which the aggregate
offering price of the total number of shares or securities so
offered for subscription or purchase (or the aggregate purchase
price of the convertible securities so offered plus the
aggregate amount of any additional consideration initially
payable upon conversion of such Securities into Common Stock or
other Marketable Securities) would purchase at such Current
Market Price of the Common Stock or other Marketable Securities.
Such adjustment shall become effective retroactively immediately
after the record date for the determination of stockholders
entitled to receive such rights or warrants.
(3) In case the Company shall, at any time or from time to
time while any of such Securities are outstanding, distribute to
all holders of shares of its Common Stock or other Marketable
Securities
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(including any such distribution made in connection with a
consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing
corporation and the Common Stock or other Marketable Securities
are not changed or exchanged) cash, evidences of its
indebtedness, securities or assets (excluding (i) regular
periodic cash dividends in amounts, if any, determined from time
to time by the Board of Directors, (ii) in dividends
payable in shares of Common Stock or other Marketable Securities
for which adjustment is made under Section 12.03(1) or
(iii) rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase
securities of the Company (excluding those referred to in
Section 12.03(2)), then in each such case the Conversion
Price with respect to such Securities shall be adjusted so that
it shall equal the price determined by dividing the Conversion
Price in effect immediately prior to the date of such
distribution by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the
Current Market Price of the Common Stock or other Marketable
Securities on the record date referred to below, and the
denominator of which shall be such Current Market Price of the
Common Stock or other Marketable Securities less the then fair
market value (as determined by the Board of Directors of the
Company, whose determination shall be conclusive) of the portion
of the cash or assets or evidences of indebtedness or securities
so distributed or of such subscription rights or warrants
applicable to one share of Common Stock or one other Marketable
Security (provided that such denominator shall never be less
than 1.0); provided, however, that no adjustment shall be made
with respect to any distribution of rights to purchase
securities of the Company if a Holder of Securities would
otherwise be entitled to receive such rights upon conversion at
any time of such Securities into Common Stock or other
Marketable Securities unless such rights are subsequently
redeemed by the Company, in which case such redemption shall be
treated for purposes of this Section as a dividend on the Common
Stock or other Marketable Securities. Such adjustment shall
become effective retroactively immediately after the record date
for the determination of stockholders or holders of Marketable
Securities entitled to receive such distribution; and in the
event that such distribution is not so made, the Conversion
Price shall again be adjusted to the Conversion Price which
would then be in effect if such record date had not been fixed.
(4) The Company shall be entitled to make such additional
adjustments in the Conversion Price, in addition to those
required by subsections 12.03(1), 12.03(2) and 12.03(3), as
shall be necessary in order that any dividend or distribution of
Common Stock or other Marketable Securities, any subdivision,
reclassification or combination of shares of Common Stock or
other Marketable Securities or any issuance of rights or
warrants referred to above shall not be taxable to the holders
of Common Stock or other Marketable Securities for United States
Federal income tax purposes.
(5) In any case in which this Section 12.03 shall
require that any adjustment be made effective as of or
retroactively immediately following a record date, the Company
may elect to defer (but only for five Trading Days following the
filing of the statement referred to in Section 12.05)
issuing to the Holder of any Securities converted after such
record date the shares of Common Stock and other capital stock
of the Company or other Marketable Securities issuable upon such
conversion over and above the shares of Common Stock and other
capital stock of the Company or other Marketable Securities
issuable upon such conversion on the basis of the Conversion
Price prior to adjustment; provided, however, that the Company
shall deliver to such Holder a due bill or other appropriate
instrument evidencing such Holder’s right to receive such
additional shares upon the occurrence of the event requiring
such adjustment.
(6) All calculations under this Section 12.03 shall be
made to the nearest cent or one-hundredth of a share or
security, with one-half cent and .005 of a share, respectively,
being rounded upward. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Section 12.03, the Company shall not be required to
make any adjustment of the Conversion Price unless such
adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1%
of such price. Any lesser adjustment shall be carried forward
and shall be made at the time of and together with the next
subsequent adjustment which, together with any adjustment or
adjustments so carried forward, shall amount to an increase or
decrease of at least 1% in such price. Any adjustments under
this Section 12.03 shall be made successively whenever an
event requiring such an adjustment occurs.
(7) In the event that at any time, as a result of an
adjustment made pursuant to this Section 12.03, the Holder
of any Security thereafter surrendered for conversion shall
become entitled to receive any
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shares of stock of or other Marketable Securities of the Company
other than shares of Common Stock or Marketable Securities into
which the Securities originally were convertible, the Conversion
Price of such other shares or Marketable Securities so
receivable upon conversion of any such Security shall be subject
to adjustment from time to time in a manner and on terms as
nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect
to Common Stock and Marketable Securities contained in
subparagraphs (1) through (6) of this
Section 12.03, and the provision of Sections 12.01,
12.02 and 12.04 through 12.09 with respect to the Common Stock
or other Marketable Securities shall apply on like or similar
terms to any such other shares or Marketable Securities and the
determination of the Board of Directors as to any such
adjustment shall be conclusive.
(8) No adjustment shall be made pursuant to this
Section (i) if the effect thereof would be to reduce the
Conversion Price below the par value (if any) of the Common
Stock or other Marketable Security, if any, or (ii) subject
to Section 12.03(5) hereof, with respect to any Security
that is converted prior to the time such adjustment otherwise
would be made.
Section 12.04 Consolidation
or Merger of the Company. In case of either
(a) any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a
party, other than a merger or consolidation in which the Company
is the surviving or continuing corporation and which does not
result in a reclassification of, or change (other than a change
in par value or from par value to no par value or from no par
value to par value, as a result of a subdivision or combination)
in, outstanding shares of Common Stock or other Marketable
Securities or (b) any sale or conveyance of all or
substantially all of the property and assets of the Company to
another Person, then each Security then Outstanding shall be
convertible from and after such merger, consolidation, sale or
conveyance of property and assets into the kind and amount of
shares of stock or other securities and property (including
cash) receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or
conveyance by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock
or other Marketable Securities into which such Securities would
have been converted immediately prior to such consolidation,
merger, sale or conveyance, subject to adjustments which shall
be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments
provided for in this Article XII (and assuming such holder
of Common Stock or other Marketable Securities failed to
exercise his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or
amount of securities, cash or other property (including cash)
receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance
(provided that, if the kind or amount of securities, cash or
other property (including cash) receivable upon such
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance is not the same for
each nonelecting share, then the kind and amount of securities,
cash or other property (including cash) receivable upon such
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance for each nonelecting
share, shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable
per share by a plurality of the nonelecting shares or
securities)). The Company shall not enter into any of the
transactions referred to in clause (a) or (b) of the
preceding sentence unless effective provision shall be made so
as to give effect to the provisions set forth in this
Section 12.04. The provisions of this Section 12.04
shall apply similarly to successive consolidations, mergers,
sales or conveyances.
Section 12.05 Notice
of Adjustment. Whenever an adjustment in the
Conversion Price with respect to a series of Securities is
required:
(1) the Company shall forthwith place on file with the
Trustee and any Conversion Agent for such Securities a
certificate of the Treasurer of the Company, stating the
adjusted Conversion Price determined as provided herein and
setting forth in reasonable detail such facts as shall be
necessary to show the reason for and the manner of computing
such adjustment, such certificate to be conclusive evidence that
the adjustment is correct; and
(2) a notice stating that the Conversion Price has been
adjusted and setting forth the adjusted Conversion Price shall
forthwith be mailed, first class postage prepaid, by the Company
to the Holders of record of such Outstanding Securities.
Section 12.06 Notice
in Certain Events. In case:
(1) of a consolidation or merger to which the Company is a
party and for which approval of any stockholders of the Company
is required, or of the sale or conveyance to another person or
entity or
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group of persons or entities acting in concert as a partnership,
limited partnership, syndicate or other group (within the
meaning of Rule
13d-3 under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) of all or
substantially all of the property and assets of the
Company; or
(2) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution,
liquidation or winding up of the Company; or
(3) of any action triggering an adjustment of the
Conversion Price pursuant to this Article XII;
then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be filed with the
Trustee and the Agent for the applicable Securities, and shall
cause to be mailed, first class postage prepaid, to the Holders
of record of applicable Securities, at least fifteen
(15) days prior to the applicable date hereinafter
specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record
is to be taken for the purpose of any distribution or grant of
rights or warrants triggering an adjustment to the Conversion
Price pursuant to this Article XII, or, if a record is not
to be taken, the date as of which the holders of record of
Common Stock or other Marketable Securities entitled to such
distribution, rights or warrants are to be determined, or
(y) the date on which any reclassification, consolidation,
merger, sale, conveyance, dissolution, liquidation or winding up
triggering an adjustment to the Conversion Price pursuant to
this Article XII is expected to become effective, and the
date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock or
other Marketable Securities of record shall be entitled to
exchange their Common Stock or other Marketable Securities for
securities or other property deliverable upon such
reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance,
dissolution, liquidation or winding up.
Failure to give such notice or any defect therein shall not
affect the legality or validity of the proceedings described in
clause (1), (2) or (3) of this Section.
Section 12.07 Company
to Reserve Stock or other Marketable Securities; Registration;
Listing. (a) The Company shall at all
times reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights,
out of its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock or
other Marketable Securities, for the purpose of effecting the
conversion of the Securities, such number of its duly authorized
shares of Common Stock or number or principal amount of other
Marketable Securities as shall from time to time be sufficient
to effect the conversion of all applicable outstanding
Securities into such Common Stock or other Marketable Securities
at any time (assuming that, at the time of the computation of
such number of shares or securities, all such Securities would
be held by a single Holder); provided, however, that nothing
contained herein shall preclude the Company from satisfying its
obligations in respect of the conversion of the Securities by
delivery of purchased shares of Common Stock or other Marketable
Securities which are held in the treasury of the Company. The
Company shall from time to time, in accordance with the laws of
the State of Delaware, use its commercially reasonable efforts
to cause the authorized amount of the Common Stock or other
Marketable Securities to be increased if the aggregate of the
authorized amount of the Common Stock or other Marketable
Securities remaining unissued and the issued shares of such
Common Stock or other Marketable Securities in its treasury
(other than any such shares reserved for issuance in any other
connection) shall not be sufficient to permit the conversion of
all Securities.
(b) If any shares of Common Stock or other Marketable
Securities which would be issuable upon conversion of Securities
hereunder require registration with or approval of any
governmental authority before such shares or securities may be
issued upon such conversion, the Company will in good faith and
as expeditiously as possible endeavor to cause such shares or
securities to be duly registered or approved, as the case may
be. The Company will endeavor to list the shares of Common Stock
or other Marketable Securities required to be delivered upon
conversion of the Securities prior to such delivery upon the
principal national securities exchange upon which the
outstanding Common Stock or other Marketable Securities is
listed at the time of such delivery.
Section 12.08 Taxes
on Conversion. The Company shall pay any and
all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes that
may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of shares of
Common Stock or other Marketable Securities on conversion of
Securities pursuant hereto. The Company shall not, however, be
required to pay any such tax which may be payable in respect of
any transfer involved in the issue or delivery of shares of
Common Stock or other Marketable Securities or the portion, if
any, of the Securities which are not so converted in a name
other than that in which the Securities so converted were
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registered, and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless
and until the person requesting such issue has paid to the
Company the amount of such tax or has established to the
satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.
Section 12.09 Conversion
After Record Date. If any Securities are
surrendered for conversion subsequent to the record date
preceding an Interest Payment Date but on or prior to such
Interest Payment Date (except Securities called for redemption
on a Redemption Date between such record date and Interest
Payment Date), the Holder of such Securities at the close of
business on such record date shall be entitled to receive the
interest payable on such securities on such Interest Payment
Date notwithstanding the conversion thereof. Securities
surrendered for conversion during the period from the close of
business on any record date next preceding any Interest Payment
Date to the opening of business on such Interest Payment Date
shall (except in the case of Securities which have been called
for redemption on a Redemption Date within such period) be
accompanied by payment in New York Clearing House funds or other
funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the
interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the Securities
being surrendered for conversion. Except as provided in this
Section 12.09, no adjustments in respect of payments of
interest on Securities surrendered for conversion or any
dividends or distributions or interest on the Common Stock or
other Marketable Securities issued upon conversion shall be made
upon the conversion of any Securities.
Section 12.10 Corporate
Action Regarding Par Value of Common
Stock. Before taking any action which would
cause an adjustment reducing the applicable Conversion Price
below the then par value (if any) of the shares of Common Stock
or other Marketable Securities deliverable upon conversion of
the Securities, the Company will take any corporate action which
may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary in order that
the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and
nonassessable shares of Common Stock or other Marketable
Securities at such adjusted Conversion Price.
Section 12.11 Company
Determination Final. Any determination that
the Company or the Board of Directors must make pursuant to this
Article is conclusive.
Section 12.12 Trustee’s
Disclaimer. The Trustee has no duty to
determine when an adjustment under this Article should be made,
how it should be made or what it should be. The Trustee makes no
representation as to the validity or value of any securities or
assets issued upon conversion of Securities. The Trustee shall
not be responsible for the Company’s failure to comply with
this Article. Each Conversion Agent other than the Company shall
have the same protection under this Section as the Trustee.
ARTICLE XIII
Guarantees
Section 13.01 Guarantees. (a) Any
series of Securities may be guaranteed by one or more of the
Subsidiaries of the Company or other Persons. The terms and the
form of any such Guarantee will be established in the manner
contemplated by Section 3.01 for the particular series of
Securities. Each Guarantor, as primary obligor and not merely as
surety, will fully, irrevocably and unconditionally guarantee,
to each Holder of Securities (including each Holder of
Securities issued under the Indenture after the date of this
Indenture) and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns
(i) the full and punctual payment of principal of and
interest on the Securities when due, whether at maturity, by
acceleration, by redemption or otherwise, and all other monetary
obligations of the Company under this Indenture (including
obligations to the Trustee) and the Securities and (ii) the
full and punctual performance within applicable grace periods of
all other obligations of the Company under this Indenture and
the Securities.
(b) Each of the Guarantors further agrees that its
obligations hereunder shall be unconditional irrespective of the
absence or existence of any action to enforce the same, the
recovery of any judgment against the Company or any other
Guarantor (except to the extent such judgment is paid) or any
waiver or amendment of the provisions of this Indenture or the
Securities to the extent that any such action or any similar
action would otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge
or defense of a guarantor (except that each such waiver or
amendment shall be effective in accordance with its terms).
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(c) Each of the Guarantors further agrees that each
Guarantee constitutes a guarantee of payment, performance and
compliance and not merely of collection.
(d) Each of the Guarantors further agrees to waive
presentment to, demand of payment from and protest to the
Company or any other Person, and also waives diligence, notice
of acceptance of its Guarantee, presentment, demand for payment,
notice of protest for nonpayment, the filing of claims with a
court in the event of merger or bankruptcy of the Company or any
other Person and any right to require a proceeding first against
the Company or any other Person. The obligations of the
Guarantors shall not be affected by any failure or policy on the
part of the Trustee to exercise any right or remedy under this
Indenture or the Securities of any series.
(e) The obligation of each Guarantor to make any payment
hereunder may be satisfied by causing the Company or any other
Person to make such payment. If any Holder of any Security or
the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to
the Company or any Guarantor, or any custodian, trustee,
liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to any
of the Company or any Guarantor, any amount paid by any of them
to the Trustee or such Holder, the Guarantee of such Guarantor,
to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in
full force and effect.
(f) Each Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all
reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable
attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee or
any Holder of Securities in enforcing any of their respective
rights under its Guarantees.
(g) Any term or provision of this Indenture to the contrary
notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount of each of the
Guarantees shall not exceed the maximum amount that can be
guaranteed by the relevant Guarantor without rendering the
relevant Guarantee under this Indenture voidable under
applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent
transfer or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors
generally.
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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.
XXXX HOLDING CORPORATION
Name:
Title:
XXXXX FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
Name:
Title: