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FLEXTRONICS INTERNATIONAL LTD.
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SERIES A AND SERIES B
8 3/4% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2007
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U.S.$150,000,000 aggregate principal amount
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INDENTURE
Dated as of October 15, 1997
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State Street Bank and Trust Company of California, N.A.
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Trustee
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE........................1
Section 1.01. Definitions....................................................1
Section 1.02. Other Definitions.............................................12
Section 1.03. Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.............12
Section 1.04. Rules of Construction.........................................13
ARTICLE 2. THE NOTES........................................................13
Section 2.01. Form and Dating...............................................13
Section 2.02. Execution and Authentication..................................14
Section 2.03. Registrar and Paying Agent....................................14
Section 2.04. Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust...........................14
Section 2.05. Holder Lists..................................................15
Section 2.06. Transfer and Exchange.........................................15
Section 2.07. Replacement Notes.............................................21
Section 2.08. Outstanding Notes.............................................22
Section 2.09. Treasury Notes................................................22
Section 2.10. Temporary Notes...............................................22
Section 2.11. Cancellation..................................................22
Section 2.12. Defaulted Interest............................................23
ARTICLE 3. REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT........................................23
Section 3.01. Notices to Trustee............................................23
Section 3.02. Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed.............................23
Section 3.03. Notice of Redemption..........................................23
Section 3.04. Effect of Notice of Redemption................................24
Section 3.05. Deposit of Redemption Price...................................24
Section 3.06. Notes Redeemed in Part........................................25
Section 3.07. Optional Redemption...........................................25
Section 3.08. Mandatory Redemption..........................................26
Section 3.09. [Intentionally Omitted].......................................26
Section 3.10. Offer to Purchase by Application of Excess Proceeds...........26
ARTICLE 4. COVENANTS........................................................27
Section 4.01. Payment of Notes..............................................27
Section 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency...............................29
Section 4.03. Reports.......................................................29
Section 4.04. Compliance Certificate........................................29
Section 4.05. Taxes.........................................................30
Section 4.06. Stay, Extension and Usury Laws................................30
Section 4.07. Restricted Payments...........................................30
Section 4.08. Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting
Subsidiaries..................................................32
Section 4.09. Incurrence of debt and Issuance of Preferred Stock............32
Section 4.10. Asset Sales...................................................34
Section 4.11. Transactions with Affiliates..................................35
Section 4.12. Liens.........................................................36
Section 4.13. Corporate Existence...........................................36
Section 4.14. Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of Control....................36
Section 4.15. No Senior Subordinated Debt...................................37
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Section 4.16. Sale and Leaseback Transactions...............................37
Section 4.17. No Payments for Consents......................................37
ARTICLE 5. SUCCESSORS.......................................................37
Section 5.01. Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets......................37
Section 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted.............................39
ARTICLE 6. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES............................................39
Section 6.01. Events of Default.............................................39
Section 6.02. Acceleration..................................................41
Section 6.03. Other Remedies................................................41
Section 6.04. Waiver of Past Defaults.......................................41
Section 6.05. Control by Majority...........................................42
Section 6.06. Limitation on Suits...........................................42
Section 6.07. Rights of Holders of Notes to Receive Payment.................42
Section 6.08. Collection Suit by Trustee....................................42
Section 6.09. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim..............................43
Section 6.10. Priorities....................................................43
Section 6.11. Undertaking for Costs.........................................43
ARTICLE 7. TRUSTEE..........................................................44
Section 7.01. Duties of Trustee.............................................44
Section 7.02. Rights of Trustee.............................................45
Section 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee..................................45
Section 7.04. Trustee's Disclaimer..........................................45
Section 7.05. Notice of Defaults............................................46
Section 7.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders of the Notes....................46
Section 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity....................................46
Section 7.08. Replacement of Trustee........................................47
Section 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger, etc..............................48
Section 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification.................................48
Section 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.............48
ARTICLE 8. LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE.........................48
Section 8.01. Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance......48
Section 8.02. Legal Defeasance and Discharge................................48
Section 8.03. Covenant Defeasance...........................................49
Section 8.04. Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance....................49
Section 8.05. Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust;
Other Miscellaneous Provisions................................50
Section 8.06. Repayment to Company..........................................51
Section 8.07. Reinstatement.................................................51
ARTICLE 9. AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER.................................51
Section 9.01. Without Consent of Holders of Notes...........................51
Section 9.02. With Consent of Holders of Notes..............................52
Section 9.03. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act...........................53
Section 9.04. Revocation and Effect of Consents.............................53
Section 9.05. Notation on or Exchange of Notes..............................54
Section 9.06. Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc...............................54
ARTICLE 10. SUBORDINATION...................................................54
Section 10.01. Agreement to Subordinate.....................................54
Section 10.02. Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy.........................54
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Section 10.03. Default on Designated Senior Debt............................55
Section 10.04. Acceleration of Notes........................................55
Section 10.05. When Distribution Must Be Paid Over..........................55
Section 10.06. Notice by Company............................................56
Section 10.07. Subrogation..................................................56
Section 10.08. Relative Rights..............................................56
Section 10.09. Subordination May Not Be Impaired by Company.................56
Section 10.10. Distribution or Notice to Representative.....................56
Section 10.11. Rights of Trustee and Paying Agent...........................57
Section 10.12. Authorization to Effect Subordination........................57
Section 10.13. Amendments...................................................57
ARTICLE 11. MISCELLANEOUS...................................................57
Section 11.01. Trust Indenture Act Controls.................................57
Section 11.02. Notices......................................................57
Section 11.03. Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders
of Notes.....................................................59
Section 11.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent...........59
Section 11.05. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion................59
Section 11.06. Rules by Trustee and Agents..................................59
Section 11.07. No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and
Stockholders.................................................59
Section 11.08. Governing Law................................................60
Section 11.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements................60
Section 11.10. Successors...................................................60
Section 11.11. Severability.................................................60
Section 11.12. Counterpart Originals........................................60
Section 11.13. Table of Contents, Headings, etc.............................60
Section 11.14. Bermuda Branch; Full Recourse Obligations....................61
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A FORM OF NOTE
Exhibit B CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFEROR
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INDENTURE dated as of October 15, 1997 between Flextronics
International Ltd., a Singapore corporation (the "Company"), and State Street
Bank and Trust Company of California, N.A., as trustee (the "Trustee").
The Company and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each
other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company's 8
3/4% Series A Senior Subordinated Notes due 2007 (the "Series A Notes") and 8
3/4% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes due 2007 (the "Series B Notes" and,
together with the Series A Notes, the "Notes"):
ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION
BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.01. DEFINITIONS.
"Acquired Debt" means, with respect to any specified Person, (i) Debt of
any other Person existing at the time such other Person is merged with or into
or became a Subsidiary of such specified Person, including, without limitation,
Debt incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other Person
merging with or into or becoming a Subsidiary of such specified Person, and (ii)
Debt secured by a Lien encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person
which, in each case, is not repaid at or within five days following the date of
such acquisition.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For purposes of this definition, "control"
(including, with correlative meanings, the terms "controlling," "controlled by"
and "under common control with"), as used with respect to any Person, shall mean
the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by agreement or otherwise.
"Agent" means any Registrar, Paying Agent or co-registrar.
"Asset Sale" means (i) the sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other
disposition of any assets or rights (including, without limitation, by way of a
sale and leaseback) other than in the ordinary course of business (provided that
the sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole will be governed by the provisions of Section 4.14 and/or the provisions
of Section 5.01 and not by the provisions of Section 4.10), and (ii) the issue
or sale by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Equity Interests of any of
the Company's Subsidiaries, in the case of either clause (i) or (ii), whether in
a single transaction or a series of related transactions (a) that have a fair
market value in excess of $5.0 million or (b) net proceeds in excess of $5.0
million. Notwithstanding the foregoing: (v) a transfer of assets by the Company
to a Subsidiary or by a Subsidiary to the Company or to another Subsidiary, (w)
a disposition of goods held for sale in the ordinary course of business or
obsolete equipment in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practices of the Company and its Subsidiaries, (x) assets transferred or
disposed of in connection with a Receivables Program, (y) an issuance of Equity
Interests by a Subsidiary to the Company or to another Subsidiary, and (z) a
Restricted Payment or Permitted Investment that is permitted by Section 4.07
will not be deemed to be Asset Sales.
"Attributable Debt" in respect of a sale and leaseback transaction means,
at the time of determination, the present value (discounted at the rate of
interest implicit in such transaction,
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determined in accordance with GAAP) of the obligation of the lessee for net
rental payments during the remaining term of the lease included in such sale and
leaseback transaction (including any period for which such lease has been
extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended).
"Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar federal or
state law for the relief of debtors.
"Borrowing Base" means an amount equal to the sum of (i) 85% of the value
of accounts receivable (before giving effect to any related reserves) shown on
the Company's most recent consolidated balance sheet that are not more than 90
days past due in accordance with GAAP and (ii) 60% of the value of the inventory
shown on the Company's consolidated balance sheet in accordance with GAAP.
"Business Day" means any day other than a Legal Holiday.
"Capital Lease Obligation" means, at the time any determination thereof is
to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a capital lease that would
at such time be required to be capitalized on a balance sheet in accordance with
GAAP.
"Capital Stock" means (i) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock,
(ii) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares,
interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of
corporate stock, (iii) in the case of a partnership or limited liability
company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited) and
(iv) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to
receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the
issuing Person.
"Cash Equivalents" means (i) United States dollars, (ii) securities issued
or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government or
any agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than six
months from the date of acquisition, (iii) certificates of deposit and
eurodollar time deposits with maturities of six months or less from the date of
acquisition, bankers' acceptances with maturities not exceeding six months and
overnight bank deposits, in each case with any lender party to the Credit
Facility or with any domestic commercial bank having capital and surplus in
excess of $500 million and a Xxxxx Bank Watch Rating of "B" or better, (iv)
repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven days for underlying
securities of the types described in clauses (ii) and (iii) above entered into
with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause
(iii) above and (v) commercial paper having the highest rating obtainable from
Moodys Investors Service, Inc. or Standard & Poor's Corporation and in each case
maturing within six months after the date of acquisition.
"Change of Control" means the occurrence of any of the following: (i) the
sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of
merger or consolidation), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole to any "person" (as such term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange
Act), (ii) the adoption by the Company of a plan relating to the liquidation or
dissolution of the Company, (iii) the consummation of any transaction
(including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which
is that any "person" (as defined above) becomes the "beneficial owner" (as such
term is defined in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act), directly
or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of the Company (measured by
voting power rather than number of shares), or (iv) the first day on which a
majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the company are not
Continuing Directors.
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"Consolidated Cash Flow" means, with respect to any Person for any period,
the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period plus (i) an amount
equal to any extraordinary loss plus any net loss realized in connection with an
Asset Sale (to the extent such losses were deducted in computing such
Consolidated Net Income), plus (ii) provision for taxes based on income or
profits of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent that
such provision for taxes was included in computing such Consolidated Net Income,
plus (iii) consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Subsidiaries for
such period, whether paid or accrued and whether or not capitalized (including,
without limitation, amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue
discount, non-cash interest payments, the interest component of any deferred
payment obligations, the interest component of all payments associated with
Capital Lease Obligations, imputed interest with respect to Attributable Debt,
commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter
of credit or bankers' acceptance financings, and net payments (if any) pursuant
to Hedging Obligations), to the extent that any such expense was deducted in
computing such Consolidated Net Income, plus (iv) depreciation, amortization
(including amortization of goodwill and other intangibles but excluding
amortization of prepaid cash expenses that were paid in a prior period) and
other non-cash expenses (excluding any such non-cash expense to the extent that
it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash expenses in any future period or
amortization of a prepaid cash expense that was paid in a prior period) of such
Person and its Subsidiaries for such period to the extent that such
depreciation, amortization and other non-cash expenses were deducted in
computing such Consolidated Net Income, minus (v) other non-recurring non-cash
items increasing such Consolidated Net Income for such period (which will be
added back to Consolidated Cash Flow in any subsequent period to the extent cash
is received in respect of such item in such subsequent period), in each case, on
a consolidated basis and determined in accordance with GAAP. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the provision for taxes on the income or profits of, and the
depreciation and amortization and other non-cash charges of, a Subsidiary of the
referent Person shall be added to Consolidated Net Income to compute
Consolidated Cash Flow only to the extent that a corresponding amount would be
permitted at the date of determination to be dividended to the Company by such
Subsidiary without prior governmental approval (that has not been obtained), and
without direct or indirect restriction pursuant to the terms of its charter and
all agreements, instruments, judgments, decrees, orders, statutes, rules and
governmental regulations applicable to that Subsidiary or its stockholders.
"Consolidated Net Income" means, with respect to any Person for any
period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person and its Subsidiaries for
such period, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP;
provided that (i) the Net Income (but not loss) of any Person that is not a
Subsidiary or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting shall be
included only to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions paid in
cash to the referent Person or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary thereof, (ii) the Net
Income of any Subsidiary shall be excluded to the extent that the declaration or
payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of that Net
Income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior
governmental approval (that has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly,
by operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment,
decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that
Subsidiary or its stockholders, (iii) the Net Income of any Person acquired in a
pooling of interests transaction for any period prior to the date of such
acquisition shall be excluded and (iv) the cumulative effect of a change in
accounting principles shall be excluded.
"Consolidated Net Worth" means, with respect to any Person as of any date,
the sum of (i) the consolidated equity of the ordinary shareholders common
stockholders of such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date
plus (ii) the respective amounts reported on such Person's balance sheet as of
such date with respect to any series of preferred stock (other than Disqualified
Stock)
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that by its terms is not entitled to the payment of dividends unless such
dividends may be declared and paid only out of net earnings in respect of the
year of such declaration and payment, but only to the extent of any cash
received by such Person upon issuance of such preferred stock, less (x) all
write-ups (other than write-ups resulting from foreign currency translations and
write-ups of tangible assets of a going concern business made within 12 months
after the acquisition of such business) subsequent to the date of the Indenture
in the book value of any asset owned by such Person or a consolidated Subsidiary
of such Person, (y) all investments as of such date in unconsolidated
Subsidiaries and in Persons that are not Subsidiaries (except, in each case,
Permitted Investments), and (z) all unamortized debt discount and expense and
unamortized deferred charges as of such date, all of the foregoing determined in
accordance with GAAP.
"Continuing Director" means, as of any date of determination, any member
of the Board of Directors of the Company who (i) was a member of such Board of
Directors on the date of this Indenture or (ii) was nominated for election or
elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of a majority of the
Continuing Directors who were members of such Board at the time of such
nomination or election and who voted with respect to such nomination or
election; provided that a majority of the members of the Board voting with
respect thereto shall at the time have been Continuing Directors.
"Credit Facility" means, collectively, the Revolving Credit and Term Loan
Agreement dated as of March 27, 1997 by and among the Company, the lending
institutions which may from time to time be parties thereto and BankBoston, N.A.
(formerly known as The First National Bank of Boston), as lead agent and a
lender thereunder, and the Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of March 27, 1997
by and among the Company's United States Subsidiary, the lending institutions
which may from time to time be parties thereto and BankBoston, N.A., as agent,
and in each case as amended, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced
from time to time.
"Credit Facilities" means, with respect to the Company or any Subsidiary,
one or more debt facilities (including, without limitation, the Credit Facility)
or commercial paper facilities with banks or other institutional lenders
providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables financing
(including through the sale of receivables to such lenders or to special purpose
entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables) or letters
of credit, in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded,
replaced or refinanced in whole or in part from time to time. Debt under Credit
Facilities outstanding on the date on which Notes are first issued and
authenticated hereunder shall be deemed to have been incurred on such date in
reliance on the exception provided by clause (i) of the definition of Permitted
Debt, as defined in Section 4.09.
"Debt" means, with respect to any Person, and without duplication, any
indebtedness of such Person, whether or not contingent, in respect of borrowed
money or evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters
of credit (or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof) or banker's
acceptances or representing Capital Lease Obligations or the balance deferred
and unpaid of the purchase price of any property or representing any Hedging
Obligations, except any such balance that constitutes an accrued expense or
trade payable, if and to the extent any of the foregoing indebtedness (other
than letters of credit and Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability upon
a balance sheet of such Person prepared in accordance with GAAP, as well as all
Debt of others secured by a Lien on any asset of such Person (whether or not
such Debt is assumed by such Person) and, to the extent not otherwise included,
the Guarantee by such Person of any Debt of any other Person. The amount of any
Debt outstanding as of any date shall be (i) the accreted value thereof, in the
case of any Debt that does not require current payments of interest, and (ii)
the principal amount thereof, together with any interest thereon that is more
than 30 days past due, in the case of any other Debt.
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"Default" means any event that is or with the passage of time or the
giving of notice or both would be an Event of Default.
"Definitive Note" means Notes that are in the form of the Notes attached
hereto as Exhibit A, that do not include the information called for by footnotes
1 and 2 thereof.
"Designated Senior Debt" means (i) any Debt under the Credit Facility (and
any guarantees thereof) and (ii) any other Senior Debt otherwise designated by
the Company (which designation shall have been approved in writing by the Senior
Debt Representative, and such approval shall have been delivered to the Trustee,
so long as (A) the Credit Facility is in effect and (B) the Company shall not
then be a party to a credit facility or similar arrangement (other than the
Credit Facility) that provides for loans in an aggregate principal amount that
is greater than the aggregate principal amount of loans to the Company that may
be made under the Credit Facility and that are not entered into in violation of
the Credit Facility) and the Senior Debt Representative, as "Designated Senior
Debt" and, in the case of the designation by the Company, certified in an
Officer's Certificate delivered to the Trustee; provided that not less than $5.0
million aggregate principal amount is outstanding under Designated Senior Debt
at the date of the designation and at the date of determination.
"Disqualified Stock" means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the
terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is
exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily
redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at
the option of the Holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior to the date
that is 91 days after the date on which the Notes mature.
"Equity Interests" means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other
rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is
convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock).
"Equity Offering" means the Company's public offering of Ordinary Shares,
which closed on October 6, 1997, including the Ordinary Shares issued and sold
thereafter by the Company pursuant to the underwriters' over-allotment option in
connection therewith.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Exchange Offer" means the offer that may be made by the Company pursuant
to the Registration Rights Agreement to exchange Series B Notes for Series A
Notes.
"Existing Debt" means the Debt of the Company and its Subsidiaries (other
than Debt under the Credit Facility) in existence on the date of the Indenture,
until such amounts are repaid.
"Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio" means with respect to any Person for any
period, the ratio of the Consolidated Cash Flow of such Person for such period
to the Fixed Charges of such Person for such period. In the event that the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries incurs, assumes, Guarantees or redeems any
Debt (other than revolving credit borrowings) or issues preferred stock
subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Fixed Charge Coverage
Ratio is being calculated but prior to the date on which the event for which the
calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (the "Calculation Date"),
then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect
to such incurrence, assumption, Guarantee or redemption of Debt, or such
issuance or redemption of preferred stock, as if the same had occurred at the
beginning of the applicable four-quarter reference
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period. In addition, for purposes of making the computation referred to above,
(i) acquisitions that have been made by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries,
including through mergers or consolidations and including any related financing
transactions, during the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such
reference period and on or prior to the Calculation Date shall be deemed to have
occurred on the first day of the four-quarter reference period and Consolidated
Cash Flow for such reference period shall be calculated without giving effect to
clause (iii) of the proviso set forth in the definition of Consolidated Net
Income, and (ii) the Consolidated Cash Flow attributable to discontinued
operations, as determined in accordance with GAAP, and operations or businesses
disposed of prior to the Calculation Date, shall be excluded, and (iii) the
Fixed Charges attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in
accordance with GAAP, and operations or businesses disposed of prior to the
Calculation Date, shall be excluded, but only to the extent that the obligations
giving rise to such Fixed Charges will not be obligations of the referent Person
or any of its Subsidiaries following the Calculation Date.
"Fixed Charges" means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum,
without duplication, of (i) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and
its Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued (including, without
limitation, amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue discount,
non-cash interest payments, the interest component of any deferred payment
obligations, the interest component of all payments associated with Capital
Lease Obligations, imputed interest with respect to Attributable Debt,
commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter
of credit or bankers' acceptance financings, and net payments (if any) pursuant
to Hedging Obligations) and (ii) the consolidated interest expense of such
Person and its Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period, and (iii)
any interest expense on Debt of another Person that is Guaranteed by such Person
or one of its Subsidiaries or secured by a Lien on assets of such Person or one
of its Subsidiaries (whether or not such Guarantee or Lien is called upon) and
(iv) the product of (a) all dividend payments, whether or not in cash, on any
series of preferred stock of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, other than
dividend payments on Equity Interests payable solely in Equity Interests of the
Company, times (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator
of which is one minus the then current combined federal, state and local
statutory tax rate of such Person, expressed as a decimal, in each case, on a
consolidated basis and in accordance with GAAP.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in the
opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of
the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements by such
other entity as have been approved by a significant segment of the accounting
profession, which are in effect.
"Global Note" means a Note that contains the paragraph referred to in
footnote 1 and the additional schedule referred to in footnote 2 to the form of
Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
"Government Securities" means direct obligations of, or obligations
guaranteed by, the United States of America for the payment of which guarantee
or obligations the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged.
"Guarantee" means a guarantee (other than by endorsement of negotiable
instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business), direct or
indirect, in any manner (including, without limitation, letters of credit and
reimbursement agreements in respect thereof), of all or any part of any Debt.
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"Hedging Obligations" means, with respect to any Person, the obligations
of such Person under (i) currency exchange or interest rate swap agreements,
interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements and (ii) other
agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations
in interest rates or currency exchange rates.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Note is registered.
"Indenture" means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time
to time.
"Initial Purchasers" means BancAmerica Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx and
BancBoston Securities Inc.
"Investments" means, with respect to any Person, all investments by such
Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the forms of direct or
indirect loans (including guarantees of Debt or other obligations), advances or
capital contributions (excluding commission, travel and similar advances to
officers and employees made in the ordinary course of business), purchases or
other acquisitions for consideration of Debt, Equity Interests or other
securities, together with all items that are or would be classified as
investments on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP. If the Company
or any Subsidiary of the Company sells or otherwise disposes of any Equity
Interests of any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company such that, after
giving effect to any such sale or disposition, such Person is no longer a
Subsidiary of the Company, the Company shall be deemed to have made an
Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition equal to the fair market
value of the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary not sold or disposed of in an
amount determined as provided in the final paragraph of Section 4.07 hereof.
"Legal Holiday" means a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking
institutions in the City of New York, the city in which the principal corporate
trust office of the Trustee is located or at a place of payment are authorized
by law, regulation or executive order to remain closed. If a payment date is a
Legal Holiday at a place of payment, payment may be made at that place on the
next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue
for the intervening period.
"Lien" means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge,
charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset,
whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law
(including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in
the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to sell or give a security
interest in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under
the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction).
"Net Income" means, with respect to any Person, the net income (loss) of
such Person, determined in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in
respect of preferred stock dividends, excluding, however, (i) any gain (but not
loss), together with any related provision for taxes on such gain (but not
loss), realized in connection with (a) any Asset Sale (including, without
limitation, dispositions pursuant to sale and leaseback transactions) or (b) the
disposition of any securities by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or the
extinguishment of any Debt of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii)
any extraordinary or nonrecurring gain (but not loss), together with any related
provision for taxes on such extraordinary or nonrecurring gain (but not loss).
"Net Proceeds" means the aggregate cash proceeds received by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of any Asset Sale (including, without
limitation, any cash received upon the sale or other disposition of any non-cash
consideration received in any Asset Sale), net of (i) the direct costs
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relating to such Asset Sale (including, without limitation, legal, accounting
and investment banking fees, and sales commissions) and any relocation expenses
incurred as a result thereof, (ii) taxes paid or payable as a result thereof
(after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax
sharing arrangements), (iii) any reserve for adjustment in respect of the sale
price of such asset or assets established in accordance with GAAP, or against
any liabilities associated with the Asset Sale, or the assets subject thereto,
and retained by the Company or any Subsidiary, and (iv) amounts required to be
applied to the repayment of Debt secured by a Lien on the asset or assets that
were the subject of such Asset Sale, or to the satisfaction of contractual
obligations either existing at the date of the Indenture, or entered into after
the date of the Indenture in connection with the payment of deferred purchase
price of the properties or assets that were the subject of such Asset Sale.
"Note Custodian" means the Trustee, as custodian with respect to the
Global Notes, or any successor or entity thereto.
"Obligations" means any principal, interest, penalties, fees,
indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities payable under
the documentation governing any Debt.
"Offering" means the offer and sale of the Notes as contemplated by the
Offering Memorandum.
"Offering Memorandum" means the Offering Memorandum, dated October 9,
1997, relating to the Company's offering and placement of the Notes.
"Officer" means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the Board,
the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the
Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller,
the Secretary, any Vice-President or any Director of such Person.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed on behalf of the
Company by two Officers of the Company, one of whom must be the principal
executive officer, the principal financial officer, the treasurer or the
principal accounting officer of the Company, that meets the requirements of
Section 11.05 hereof.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion from legal counsel who is reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee, that meets the requirements of Section 11.05 hereof.
The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, any Subsidiary of
the Company or the Trustee.
"Pari Passu Debt" shall mean (i) any Debt of the Company that is pari
passu in right of payment to the Notes and (ii) with respect to any Guarantee of
the Notes, Debt which ranks pari passu in right of payment to such Guaranty.
"Permitted Investments" means (a) any Investment in the Company or in a
Subsidiary of the Company that is engaged in the same or a similar line of
business as the Company and its Subsidiaries (or reasonable extensions or
expansions thereof); (b) any Investment in Cash Equivalents; (c) any Investment
by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in a Person, if as a result of
such Investment (i) such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Company that is
engaged in the same or a similar line of business as the Company and its
Subsidiaries (or reasonable extensions or expansions thereof) or (ii) such
Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or
conveys substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Company
or a Subsidiary of the Company that is engaged in the same or a similar line of
business as the Company and its Subsidiaries (or reasonable extensions or
expansions thereof); (d) any Restricted Investment made as a result of the
receipt of non-
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cash consideration from an Asset Sale that was made pursuant to and in
compliance with Section 4.10; (e) any acquisition of assets solely in exchange
for the issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the
Company; (f) Investments made in exchange for accounts receivable arising in the
ordinary course of business which have not been collected for 120 days and which
are, in the good faith of the Company, substantially impaired, provided that any
such investments in excess of $5.0 million shall be approved by the Board of
Directors (evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors set forth in an
officers' certificate delivered to the Trustee), (g) Investments in Permitted
Joint Ventures, and Investments in suppliers to the Company and its
Subsidiaries, in an aggregate amount when taken together with all other
investments pursuant to this clause (g) does not exceed the greater of $10.0
million or 10% of Total Assets at any one time outstanding, (h) other
Investments in any Person having an aggregate fair market value (measured on the
date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent
changes in value), when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant
to this clause (h) that are at the time outstanding, not to exceed $7.5 million.
For purposes of calculating the aggregate amount of Permitted Investments
permitted to be outstanding at any one time pursuant to clauses (g) and (h) of
the preceding sentence, (i) to the extent the consideration for any such
Investment consists of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the
Company, the value of the Equity Interests so issued will be ignored in
determining the amount of such Investment and (ii) the aggregate amount of such
Investments made by the Company and its Subsidiaries on or after the date hereof
will be decreased (but not below zero) by an amount equal to the lesser of (y)
the cash return of capital to the Company or a Subsidiary with respect to such
Investment that is sold for cash or otherwise liquidated or repaid for cash
(less the cost of disposition, including applicable taxes, if any) and (z) the
initial amount of such Investment.
"Permitted Joint Venture" means any Person which is, directly or
indirectly through it subsidiaries or otherwise, engaged principally in the
principal business of the Company, or a reasonably related business, and the
Capital Stock (or securities convertible into Capital Stock) of which is owned
by the Company and one or more Persons other than the Company or any affiliate
of the Company.
"Permitted Junior Securities" means Equity Interests in the Company or
debt securities that are subordinated to all Senior Debt (and any debt
securities issued in exchange for Senior Debt) to substantially the same extent
as, or to a greater extent than, the Notes are subordinated to Senior Debt
pursuant to Article 10 hereof.
"Permitted Refinancing Debt" means any Debt of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to
extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund other Debt of the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that: (i) the principal amount (or accreted
value, if applicable) of such Permitted Refinancing Debt does not exceed the
principal amount of (or accreted value, if applicable), plus accrued interest
on, the Debt so extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded
(plus the amount of reasonable expenses incurred in connection therewith); (ii)
such Permitted Refinancing Debt has a final maturity date later than the final
maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or
greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Debt being extended,
refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded; (iii) if the Debt being
extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded is subordinated in
right of payment to the Notes, such Permitted Refinancing Debt has a final
maturity date later than the final maturity date of, and is subordinated in
right of payment to, the Notes on terms at least as favorable to the Holders of
Notes as those contained in the documentation governing the Debt being extended,
refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded; and (iv) such Debt is
incurred either by the Company or by the Subsidiary who is the obligor on the
Debt being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded.
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"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.
"Purchase Money Obligations" of a Person means Debt of such Person
incurred in connection with the purchase, construction or improvement of
property, plant or equipment used in the business of such Person.
"Receivables Program" means, with respect to any Person, an agreement or
other arrangement or program providing for the advance of funds to such Person
against the pledge, contribution, sale or other transfer of encumbrances of
Receivables Program Assets of such Person or such Person and/or one or more of
its Subsidiaries.
"Receivables Program Assets" mean all of the following property and
interests in property, whether now existing or existing in the future or
hereafter arising or acquired: (i) accounts, (ii) accounts receivable, general
intangibles, instruments, contract rights, documents and chattel paper
(including, without limitation, all rights to payment created by or arising from
sales of goods, leases of goods, or the rendition of services, no matter how
evidenced, whether or not earned by performance), (iii) all unpaid seller's or
lessor's rights (including, without limitation, rescission, replevin,
reclamation and stoppage in transit) relating to any of the foregoing or arising
therefrom, (iv) all rights to any goods or merchandise represented by any of the
foregoing (including, without limitation, returned or repossessed goods), (v)
all reserves and credit balances with respect to any such accounts receivable or
account debtors, (vi) all letters of credit, security or guarantees of any of
the foregoing, (vii) all insurance policies or reports relating to any of the
foregoing, (viii) all collection or deposit accounts relating to any of the
foregoing, (ix) all books and records relating to any of the foregoing, (x) all
instruments, contract rights, chattel paper, documents and general intangibles
related to any of the foregoing and (xi) all proceeds of any of the foregoing.
"Receivables Program Debt" means, with respect to any Person, the
unreturned portion of the amount funded by the investors under a Receivables
Program of such Person.
"Registration Rights Agreement" means the Registration Rights Agreement,
dated as of October 9, 1997, by an among the Company and the Initial Purchasers.
"Restricted Investment" means an Investment other than a Permitted
Investment.
"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Senior Debt" means (i) all Debt of the Company outstanding under Credit
Facilities and all Hedging Obligations with respect thereto, (ii) any other Debt
permitted to be incurred by the Company under the terms of the Indenture, unless
the instrument under which such Debt is incurred expressly provides that it is
on a parity with or subordinated in right of payment to the Notes and (iii) all
Obligations with respect to the foregoing. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in the foregoing, Senior Debt will not include (w) any liability for
federal, state, local or other taxes owed or owing by the Company, (x) any Debt
of the Company to any of its Subsidiaries or other Affiliates, (y) any trade
payables or (z) any Debt that is incurred in violation of this Indenture.
"Senior Debt Representative" means the "Agent" as such term is defined in
the Credit Facility.
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"Significant Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary that would be a "significant
subsidiary" as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated
pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Regulation is in effect on the date
hereof.
"Stated Maturity" means, with respect to any installment of interest or
principal on any series of Debt, the date on which such payment of interest or
principal was scheduled to be paid in the original documentation governing such
Debt, and shall not include any contingent obligations to repay, redeem or
repurchase any such interest or principal prior to the date originally scheduled
for the payment thereof.
"Subject Country" shall mean any jurisdiction other than the country of
Singapore and the United States of America, or any state thereof or the District
of Columbia.
"Subordinated Debt" means any Debt of the Company which is by its terms
subordinated in right of payment to the Notes.
"Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, (i) any corporation,
association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting
power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of
any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees
thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such
Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person (or a combination
thereof) and (ii) any partnership (a) the sole general partner or the managing
general partner of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person or (b)
the only general partners of which are such Person or of one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person (or any combination thereof).
"Total Assets" means, with respect to any date of determination, the total
assets of the Company shown on the Company's consolidated balance sheet in
accordance with GAAP on the last day of the fiscal quarter prior to the date of
determination.
"Transfer Restricted Security" means any Note that bears or is required to
bear the legend set forth in Section 2.06(g).
"Voting Stock" of any Person means Capital Stock of such Person which
ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors (or persons performing
similar functions) of such Person, whether at all times or only so long as no
senior class of securities has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
"Weighted Average Life to Maturity" means, when applied to any Debt at any
date, the number of years obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the products
obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment,
sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including
payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (b) the number of years
(calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and
the making of such payment, by (ii) the then outstanding principal amount of
such Debt.
"Wholly Owned Subsidiary" of any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person
all of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of which
(other than directors' qualifying shares) shall at the time be owned by such
Person or by one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person and one or
more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
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SECTION 1.02. OTHER DEFINITIONS.
Term Defined in
Section
"Additional Amounts"............................... 4.01
"Affiliate Transaction"............................ 4.11
"Asset Sale Offer"................................. 4.10
"Asset Sale Offer Date"............................ 4.10
"Asset Sale Offered Price"......................... 4.10
"Asset Sale Pari Passu Offer"...................... 4.10
"Change in Tax Law"................................ 3.07
"Change of Control Offer".......................... 4.14
"Change of Control Payment"........................ 4.14
"Change of Control Payment Date" .................. 4.14
"Covenant Defeasance".............................. 8.03
"Custodian"........................................ 4.13
"DTC".............................................. 2.03
"Equity Sale"...................................... 3.07
"Event of Default"................................. 6.01
"Excess Proceeds".................................. 4.10
"Incur"............................................ 4.09
"Legal Defeasance"................................. 8.02
"Note Amount"...................................... 4.10
"Offer Period"..................................... 3.10
"Other Jurisdiction"............................... 4.01
"Pari Passu Debt Amount"........................... 4.10
"Paying Agent"..................................... 2.03
"Payment Blockage Notice".......................... 10.03
"Payment Default".................................. 6.01
"Permitted Debt"................................... 4.09
"Purchase Date".................................... 3.10
"Registrar"........................................ 2.03
"Representative"................................... 10.05
"Restricted Payments".............................. 4.07
"Subject Transaction............................... 5.01
"Successor Corporation"............................ 5.01
"Tax Redemption Price"............................. 3.07
"Taxes"............................................ 4.01
SECTION 1.03. INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the
provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture.
The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following
meanings:
"indenture securities" means the Notes;
"indenture security Holder" means a Holder of a Note;
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"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture;
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Trustee;
"obligor" on the Notes means the Company and any successor
obligor upon the Notes.
All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule under the TIA
have the meanings so assigned to them.
SECTION 1.04. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
Unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;
(3) "or" is not exclusive;
(4) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural
include the singular;
(5) provisions apply to successive events and transactions; and
(6) references to sections of or rules under the Securities Act
shall be deemed to include substitute, replacement of successor sections or
rules adopted by the SEC from time to time.
ARTICLE 2.
THE NOTES
SECTION 2.01. FORM AND DATING.
The Notes and the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be
substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, which is part of this Indenture.
The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock
exchange rule or usage. Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.
The Notes shall be in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples thereof
except in the case of Definitive Notes held by institutional accredited
investors, which shall be held in minimum denominations of $100,000.
The terms and provisions contained in the Notes shall constitute,
and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and the Company and the
Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to
such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.
Each Global Note shall represent such of the outstanding Notes as
shall be specified therein and each shall provide that it shall represent the
aggregate amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and
that the aggregate amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time
to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges and
redemptions. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any
increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby
shall be made by the Trustee or the Note Custodian, at the
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direction of the Trustee, in accordance with instructions given by the Holder
thereof as required by Section 2.06 hereof.
SECTION 2.02. EXECUTION AND AUTHENTICATION.
Two Officers shall sign the Notes for the Company by manual or
facsimile signature.
If an Officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that
office at the time a Note is authenticated, the Note shall nevertheless be
valid.
A Note shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual
signature of an authorized signatory of the Trustee. The signature shall be
conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture.
The Trustee shall, upon a written order of the Company signed by an
Officer, authenticate Notes for original issue up to U.S.$150,000,000 aggregate
principal amount. The aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding at any
time may not exceed such amount except as provided in Section 2.07 hereof.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the
Company to authenticate Notes. An authenticating agent may authenticate Notes
whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to
authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An
authenticating agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company or
an Affiliate of the Company.
SECTION 2.03. REGISTRAR AND PAYING AGENT.
The Company shall maintain an office or agency where Notes may be
presented for registration of transfer or for exchange ("Registrar") and an
office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment ("Paying Agent"). The
Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange.
The Company may appoint one or more co-registrars and one or more additional
paying agents. The term "Registrar" includes any co-registrar and the term
"Paying Agent" includes any additional paying agent. The Company may change any
Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company shall notify
the Trustee in writing of the name and address of any Agent not a party to this
Indenture. If the Company fails to appoint or maintain another entity as
Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such. The Company or any of
its Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or Registrar or co-registrar.
The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company ("DTC")
to act as Depository with respect to the Global Notes.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as the Registrar
and Paying Agent and to act as Note Custodian with respect to the Global Notes.
SECTION 2.04. PAYING AGENT TO HOLD MONEY IN TRUST.
The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee
to agree in writing that the Paying Agent will hold in trust for the benefit of
Holders or the Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of
principal, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes, and will notify the
Trustee of any default by the Company in making any such payment. While any such
default continues,
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the Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the
Trustee. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to pay all money
held by it to the Trustee. Upon payment over to the Trustee, the Paying Agent
(if other than the Company or a Subsidiary) shall have no further liability for
the money. If the Company or a Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall
segregate and hold in a separate trust fund for the benefit of the Holders all
money held by it as Paying Agent. Upon any bankruptcy or reorganization
proceedings relating to the Company, the Trustee shall serve as Paying Agent for
the Notes.
SECTION 2.05. HOLDER LISTS.
The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of
all Holders and shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a). If the Trustee
is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee at least seven
Business Days before each interest payment date and at such other times as the
Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the
Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders of
Notes and the Company shall otherwise comply with TIA Section 312(a).
SECTION 2.06. TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
(a) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Notes. When Definitive Notes are
presented by a Holder to the Registrar with a request:
(x) to register the transfer of the Definitive Notes; or
(y) to exchange such Definitive Notes for an equal principal
amount of Definitive Notes of other authorized denominations,
the Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if
its requirements for such transactions are met; provided, however, that the
Definitive Notes presented or surrendered for register of transfer or exchange:
(i) shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instruction
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Registrar duly
executed by such Holder or by his attorney, duly authorized in
writing; and
(ii) in the case of a Definitive Note that is a Transfer Restricted
Security, such request shall be accompanied by the following
additional information and documents, as applicable:
(A) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being delivered
to the Registrar by a Holder for registration in the
name of such Holder, without transfer, a certification
to that effect from such Holder (in substantially the
form of Exhibit B hereto); or
(B) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being
transferred (1) to a "qualified institutional buyer" (as
defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) in
accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act or
(2) pursuant to an exemption from registration in
accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act (and
based on an Opinion of Counsel if the Company so
requests) or (3) pursuant to an effective registration
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statement under the Securities Act, a certification to
that effect from such Holder (in substantially the form
of Exhibit B hereto); or
(C) if such Transfer Restricted Note is being transferred to
an institutional "accredited investor," within the
meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the
Securities Act pursuant to a private placement exemption
from the registration requirements of the Securities Act
(and based on an Opinion of Counsel if the Company so
requests), a certification to that effect from such
Holder (in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto)
and a certification from the applicable transferee; or
(D) if such Transfer Restricted Note is being transferred
pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance
with Rule 904 under the Securities Act (and based on an
Opinion of Counsel if the Company so requests),
certifications to that effect from such Holder (in
substantially the form of Exhibit B); or
(E) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being
transferred in reliance on another exemption from the
registration requirements of the Securities Act (and
based on an Opinion of Counsel if the Company so
requests), a certification to that effect from such
Holder (in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto).
(b) Transfer of a Definitive Note for a Beneficial Interest in a Global
Note. A Definitive Note may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a
Global Note except upon satisfaction of the requirements set forth below. Upon
receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly endorsed or accompanied by
appropriate instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Trustee,
together with:
(i) if such Definitive Note is a Transfer Restricted Security, a
certification from the Holder thereof (in substantially the
form of Exhibit B hereto) to the effect that such Definitive
Note is being transferred by such Holder to a "qualified
institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A under the
Securities Act; and
(ii) whether or not such Definitive Note is a Transfer Restricted
Security, written instructions from the Holder thereof
directing the Trustee to make, or to direct the Note Custodian
to make, an endorsement on the Global Note to reflect an
increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Notes
represented by the Global Note,
the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Note in accordance with Section 2.11
hereof and cause, or direct the Note Custodian to cause, in accordance with the
standing instructions and procedures existing between the Depository and the
Note Custodian, the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by the
Global Note to be increased accordingly. If no Global Notes are then
outstanding, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of an authentication
order in accordance with Section 2.02 hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate a
new Global Note in the appropriate principal amount.
(c) Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes. The transfer and exchange of
Global Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the
Depository, in accordance with this Indenture
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and the procedures of the Depository therefor, which shall include restrictions
on transfer comparable to those set forth herein to the extent required by the
Securities Act.
(d) Transfer of a Beneficial Interest in a Global Note for a Definitive
Note.
(i) Any Person having a beneficial interest in a Global Note
may upon request exchange such beneficial interest for a
Definitive Note. Upon receipt by the Trustee of written
instructions or such other form of instructions as is
customary for the Depository, from the Depository or its
nominee on behalf of any Person having a beneficial
interest in a Global Note, and, in the case of a Transfer
Restricted Security, the following additional information
and documents (all of which may be submitted by facsimile):
(A) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to the
Person designated by the Depository as being the
beneficial owner, a certification to that effect from
such Person (in substantially the form of Exhibit B
hereto); or
(B) if such beneficial interest is being transferred (1) to
a "qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule
144A under the Securities Act) in accordance with Rule
144A under the Securities Act or (2) pursuant to an
exemption from registration in accordance with Rule 144
or (3) pursuant to an effective registration statement
under the Securities Act, a certification to that effect
from the transferor (in substantially the form of
Exhibit B hereto); or
(C) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to an
institutional "accredited investor," within the meaning
of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), or (3) or (7) under the
Securities Act pursuant to a private placement exemption
from the registration requirements of the Securities Act
(and based on an Opinion of Counsel if the Company so
requests), a certification to that effect from such
Holder (in substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto)
and a certification from the applicable transferee; or
(D) if such beneficial interest in being transferred
pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance
with Rule 904 under the Securities Act (and based on an
Opinion of Counsel if the Company so requests),
certifications to that effect from such Holder (in
substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto); or
(E) if such beneficial interest is being transferred in
reliance on another exemption from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act (and based on an
Opinion of Counsel if the Company so requests), a
certification to that effect from the transferor (in
substantially the form of Exhibit B hereto).
The Trustee or the Note Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee,
shall, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures
existing between the Depository and the Note Custodian, cause the
aggregate principal amount of Global Notes to be reduced
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accordingly and, following such reduction, the Company shall execute
and, upon receipt of an authentication order in accordance with
Section 2.02 hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to
the transferee a Definitive Note in the appropriate principal
amount.
(ii) Definitive Notes issued in exchange for a beneficial
interest in a Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.06(d)
shall be registered in such names and in such authorized
denominations as the Depository, pursuant to instructions
from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise,
shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver such
Definitive Notes to the Persons in whose names such Notes
are so registered.
(e) Restrictions on Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Indenture (other than the provisions set forth in
subsection (f) of this Section 2.06), a Global Note may not be transferred as a
whole except by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of
the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository or by the
Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such
successor Depository.
(f) Authentication of Definitive Notes in Absence of Depository. If at any
time:
(i) the Depository for the Notes notifies the Company that the
Depository is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository
for the Global Notes and a successor Depository for the Global
Notes is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after
delivery of such notice; or
(ii) the Company, at its sole discretion, notifies the Trustee in
writing that it elects to cause the issuance of Definitive
Notes under this Indenture,
then the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall, upon receipt of an
authentication order in accordance with Section 2.02 hereof, authenticate and
deliver, Definitive Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of the Global Notes in exchange for such Global Notes.
(g) Legends.
(i) Except as permitted by the following paragraphs (ii) and
(iii), each Note certificate evidencing Global Notes and
Definitive Notes (and all Notes issued in exchange therefor or
substitution thereof) shall bear legends in substantially the
following form:
"THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR
ANY STATE OR FOREIGN SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY
NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED,
ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN
APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM, EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS
HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON
THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE
SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.
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THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO
OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE
DATE (THE "RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE") WHICH IS TWO
YEARS AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND
THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE
COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF
SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY, (B) PURSUANT TO A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE
ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON IT
REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" AS
DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT PURCHASES
FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER
IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS
AND SALES THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE
MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN
INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE
501(A) (1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS
ACQUIRING THE SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT
OF SUCH AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN
A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $100,000, FOR
INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR
SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE
SECURITIES ACT, OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION
FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT,
SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY'S AND THE TRUSTEE'S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY
SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER (i) PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (C), (D),
(E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL,
CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF
THEM, AND (ii) IN THE CASE OF THE FOREGOING CLAUSE (E), TO
REQUIRE THAT A TRANSFER NOTICE IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY
THE TRANSFEROR TO THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE. THIS LEGEND
WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE
RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.."
(ii) Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Security
(including any Transfer Restricted Security represented by a
Global Note) pursuant to an effective registration statement
under the Securities Act or pursuant to Rule 144 under the
Securities Act or pursuant to an Opinion of Counsel reasonably
satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar that no legend
is required:
(A) in the case of any Transfer Restricted Security that is
a Definitive Note, the Registrar shall permit the Holder
thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security
for a Definitive Note that does not bear the first
legend set forth in (i) above and rescind any
restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted
Security; and
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(B) in the case of any Transfer Restricted Security
represented by a Global Note, such Transfer Restricted
Security shall not be required to bear the legend set
forth in (i) above if all other interests in such Global
Note have been or are concurrently being sold or
transferred pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities
Act or pursuant to an effective registration statement
under the Securities Act, but such Transfer Restricted
Security shall continue to be subject to the provisions
of Section 2.06(c) hereof; provided, however, that with
respect to any request for an exchange of a Transfer
Restricted Security that is represented by a Global Note
for a Definitive Note that does not bear the legend set
forth in (i) above, which request is made in reliance
upon Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the Holder
thereof shall certify in writing to the Registrar that
such request is being made pursuant to Rule 144 (such
certification to be substantially in the form of Exhibit
B hereto).
(iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, upon consummation of the
Exchange Offer, the Company shall issue and, upon receipt of
an authentication order in accordance with Section 2.02
hereof, the Trustee shall authenticate Series B Notes in
exchange for Series A Notes accepted for exchange in the
Exchange Offer, which Series B Notes shall not bear the legend
set forth in (i) above, and the Registrar shall rescind any
restriction on the transfer of such Notes, in each case unless
the Holder of such Series A Notes is either (A) a
broker-dealer, (B) a Person participating in the distribution
of the Series A Notes or (C) a Person who is an affiliate (as
defined in Rule 144A) of the Company.
(h) Cancellation and/or Adjustment of Global Notes. At such time as all
beneficial interests in Global Notes have been exchanged for Definitive Notes,
redeemed, repurchased or canceled, all Global Notes shall be returned to or
retained and canceled by the Trustee in accordance with Section 2.11 hereof. At
any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Note
is exchanged for Definitive Notes, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the
principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced
accordingly and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee
or the Notes Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such
reduction.
(i) General Provisions Relating to Transfers and Exchanges.
(i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate
Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the Registrar's
request.
(ii) No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any
registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax
or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith
(other than any such transfer taxes or similar governmental
charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Sections
3.07, 4.10, 4.14 and 9.05 hereof).
(iii) The Registrar shall not be required to register the transfer
of or exchange any Note selected for redemption in whole or in
part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed
in part.
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(iv) All Definitive Notes and Global Notes issued upon any
registration of transfer or exchange of Definitive Notes or
Global Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Company,
evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture, as the Definitive Notes or Global Notes
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
(v) The Company shall not be required:
(A) to issue, to register the transfer of or to exchange
Notes during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the day of any selection of
Notes for redemption under Section 3.02 hereof and
ending at the close of business on the day of selection;
or
(B) to register the transfer of or to exchange any Note so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the
unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part;
or
(C) to register the transfer of or to exchange a Note
between a record date and the next succeeding interest
payment date.
(vi) Prior to due presentment for the registration of a transfer of
any Note, the Trustee, any Agent and the Company may deem and
treat the Person in whose name any Note is registered as the
absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving
payment of principal of and interest on such Notes, and
neither the Trustee, any Agent nor the Company shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
(vii) The Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes and Global
Notes in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.02
hereof.
SECTION 2.07. REPLACEMENT NOTES.
If any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee, or the Company and
the Trustee receives evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or
theft of any Note, the Company shall issue and the Trustee, upon the written
order of the Company signed by two Officers of the Company, shall authenticate a
replacement Note if the requirements set forth herein are met. If required by
the Trustee or the Company, an indemnity bond must be supplied by the Holder
that is sufficient in the judgment of the Trustee and the Company to protect the
Company, the Trustee, any Agent and any authenticating agent from any loss that
any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced. The Company may charge for its
expenses in replacing a Note.
Every replacement Note is an additional obligation of the Company and
shall be entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
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SECTION 2.08. OUTSTANDING NOTES.
The Notes outstanding at any time are all the Notes authenticated by
the Trustee except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for
cancellation, those reductions in the interest in a Global Note effected by the
Trustee in accordance with the provisions hereof, and those described in this
Section as not outstanding. Except as set forth in Section 2.09 hereof, a Note
does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company holds the Note.
If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.07 hereof, it ceases to
be outstanding unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the
replaced Note is held by a bona fide purchaser.
If the principal amount of any Note is considered paid under Section
4.01 hereof, it ceases to be outstanding and interest on it ceases to accrue.
If the Paying Agent (other than the Company, a Subsidiary or an
Affiliate of any thereof) holds, on a redemption date or maturity date, money
sufficient to pay Notes payable on that date, then on and after that date such
Notes shall be deemed to be no longer outstanding and shall cease to accrue
interest.
SECTION 2.09. TREASURY NOTES.
In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount
of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes owned by the
Company, or by any Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or
under direct or indirect common control with the Company, shall be considered as
though not outstanding, except that for the purposes of determining whether the
Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent,
only Notes that a Trustee knows are so owned shall be so disregarded.
SECTION 2.10. TEMPORARY NOTES.
Until Definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may
prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Notes upon a written order
of the Company signed by two Officers of the Company. Temporary Notes shall be
substantially in the form of Definitive Notes but may have variations that the
Company considers appropriate for temporary Notes and as shall be reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare
and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes in exchange for temporary
Notes.
Holders of temporary Notes shall be entitled to all of the benefits
of this Indenture.
SECTION 2.11. CANCELLATION.
The Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Registrar and Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any
Notes surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The
Trustee and no one else shall cancel all Notes surrendered for registration of
transfer, exchange, payment, replacement or cancellation and shall destroy
canceled Notes (subject to the record retention requirement of the Exchange
Act). Certification of the destruction of all canceled Notes shall be delivered
to the Company. The Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes that it has
paid or that have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
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SECTION 2.12. DEFAULTED INTEREST.
If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, it
shall pay the defaulted interest in any lawful manner plus, to the extent
lawful, interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the Persons who are
Holders on a subsequent special record date, in each case at the rate provided
in the Notes and in Section 4.01 hereof. The Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the amount of defaulted interest proposed to be paid on each Note and
the date of the proposed payment. The Company shall fix or cause to be fixed
each such special record date and payment date, provided that no such special
record date shall be less than 10 days prior to the related payment date for
such defaulted interest. At least 15 days before the special record date, the
Company (or, upon the written request of the Company, the Trustee in the name
and at the expense of the Company) shall mail or cause to be mailed to Holders a
notice that states the special record date, the related payment date and the
amount of such interest to be paid.
ARTICLE 3.
REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT
SECTION 3.01. NOTICES TO TRUSTEE.
If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to the optional
redemption provisions of Section 3.07 hereof, it shall furnish to the Trustee,
at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date, an
Officers' Certificate setting forth (i) the clause of this Indenture pursuant to
which the redemption shall occur, (ii) the redemption date, (iii) the principal
amount of Notes to be redeemed and (iv) the redemption price.
SECTION 3.02. SELECTION OF NOTES TO BE REDEEMED.
If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at any time, the
Trustee shall select the Notes to be redeemed among the Holders of the Notes in
compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange,
if any, on which the Notes are listed or, if the Notes are not so listed, on a
pro rata basis, by lot or in accordance with any other method the Trustee
considers fair and appropriate. In the event of partial redemption by lot, the
particular Notes to be redeemed shall be selected, unless otherwise provided
herein, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption date by
the Trustee from the outstanding Notes not previously called for redemption.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of any Note selected for partial
redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. Notes and portions of
Notes selected shall be in amounts of $1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000 or in
the case of Notes held by institutional accredited investors, multiples of
$1,000 in excess of $100,000; except that if all of the Notes of a Holder are to
be redeemed, the entire outstanding amount of Notes held by such Holder, even if
not a multiple of $1,000, shall be redeemed. Except as provided in the preceding
sentence, provisions of this Indenture that apply to Notes called for redemption
also apply to portions of Notes called for redemption.
SECTION 3.03. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a redemption date,
the Company shall mail or cause to be mailed, by first class mail, a notice of
redemption to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered
address.
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The notice shall identify the Notes to be redeemed and shall state:
(a) the redemption date;
(b) the redemption price;
(c) if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal
amount of such Note to be redeemed and that, after the redemption date upon
surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion shall be issued upon cancellation of the original Note;
(d) the name and address of the Paying Agent;
(e) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying
Agent to collect the redemption price;
(f) that, unless the Company defaults in making such redemption payment,
interest on Notes called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the
redemption date;
(g) the paragraph of the Notes and/or Section of this Indenture pursuant
to which the Notes called for redemption are being redeemed; and
(h) that no representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of
the CUSIP number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes.
At the Company's request, the Trustee shall give the notice of
redemption in the Company's name and at its expense; provided, however, that the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee, at least 45 days prior to the
redemption date, an Officers' Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such
notice and setting forth the information to be stated in such notice as provided
in the preceding paragraph.
SECTION 3.04. EFFECT OF NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 3.03
hereof, Notes called for redemption become irrevocably due and payable on the
redemption date at the redemption price. A notice of redemption may not be
conditional.
SECTION 3.05. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.
On or prior to 10:00 am.m on the redemption date, the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee or with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay the
redemption price of and accrued and unpaid interest on all Notes to be redeemed
on that date. The Trustee or the Paying Agent shall promptly return to the
Company any money deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent by the Company
in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the redemption price of, and accrued
and unpaid interest on, all Notes to be redeemed.
If the Company complies with the provisions of the preceding
paragraph, on and after the redemption date, interest shall cease to accrue on
the Notes or the portions of Notes called for redemption. If a Note is redeemed
on or after an interest record date but on or prior to the related interest
payment date, then any accrued and unpaid interest shall be paid to the Person
in whose name such Note was registered at the close of business on such record
date. If any Note called for redemption shall not
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be so paid upon surrender for redemption because of the failure of the Company
to comply with the preceding paragraph, interest shall be paid on the unpaid
principal, from the redemption date until such principal is paid, and to the
extent lawful on any interest not paid on such unpaid principal, in each case at
the rate provided in the Notes and in Section 4.01 hereof.
SECTION 3.06. NOTES REDEEMED IN PART.
Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed in part, the Company shall
issue and, upon the Company's written request, the Trustee shall authenticate
for the Holder at the expense of the Company a new Note equal in principal
amount to the unredeemed portion of the Note surrendered.
SECTION 3.07. OPTIONAL REDEMPTION.
(a) Except as set forth in clause (b) or (c) of this Section 3.07, the
Company shall not have the option to redeem the Notes pursuant to this Section
3.07 prior to October 15, 2002. Thereafter, the Company shall have the option to
redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, at the redemption prices (expressed as
percentages of principal amount) set forth below plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon, if any, to the applicable redemption date, if redeemed during
the twelve-month period beginning on October 15 of the years indicated below:
YEAR PERCENTAGE
2002.......................... 104.375%
2003.......................... 102.917%
2004.......................... 101.459%
2005 and thereafter........... 100.000%
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (a) of this Section 3.07,
at any time prior to October 15, 2000, the Company may on any one or more
occasions redeem up to an aggregate of $52.5 million in aggregate principal
amount of the Notes at a redemption price of 108.75% of the principal amount
thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date, with
the net cash proceeds of a public or private offering of Ordinary Shares of the
Company (other than the Equity Offering) (an "Equity Sale"); provided that at
least $97.5 million in aggregate principal amount of Notes remain outstanding
immediately after the occurrence of such redemption; and provided, further, that
such redemption shall occur within 90 days of the date of the closing of such
Equity Sale.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (a) of this Section 3.07,
if, as a result of any change in or any amendment to the laws, including any
applicable double taxation treaty or convention, of Singapore (or any Other
Jurisdiction, as defined in Section 4.01), or of any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof, affecting taxation, or any change in the application
or interpretation of such laws, double taxation treaty or convention (a "Change
in Tax Law"), which change or amendment becomes effective on or after the
original issuance date of the Notes (or such later date on which any assignee of
the Company or a successor corporation to the Company becomes such, as permitted
by Section 5.01 hereof), it is determined, by the Company or such assignee
(which terms, for purposes of the remainder of this clause (c), include any
successor thereto) and (i) the Company or its assignee would be required to make
payments of Additional Amounts on the next succeeding date for the payment
thereof and (ii) the effect of such Change in Tax Law cannot be avoided through
any reasonable measures available to the Company, the Company may, at its
option, redeem the Notes in whole at any
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time at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof plus
accrued and unpaid interest to the date fixed for redemption (the "Tax
Redemption Price").
(d) Any redemption pursuant to this Section 3.07 shall be made pursuant
to the provisions of Sections 3.01 through 3.06 hereof.
SECTION 3.08. MANDATORY REDEMPTION.
Except as set forth under Sections 4.10 and 4.14 hereof, the Company
shall not be required to make mandatory redemption payments with respect to the
Notes.
SECTION 3.09. [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]
SECTION 3.10. OFFER TO PURCHASE BY APPLICATION OF EXCESS PROCEEDS.
In the event that, pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof, the Company
shall be required to commence an Asset Sale Offer, it shall follow the
procedures specified below.
The Asset Sale Offer shall remain open for a period of 20 Business
Days following its commencement and no longer, except to the extent that a
longer period is required by applicable law (the "Offer Period"). No later than
five Business Days after the termination of the Offer Period (the "Purchase
Date"), the Company shall purchase the principal amount of Notes required to be
purchased pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof, or, if less than the Note Amount has
been tendered, all Notes tendered in response to the Asset Sale Offer. Payment
for any Notes so purchased shall be made in the same manner as interest payments
are made.
If the Purchase Date is on or after an interest record date and on
or before the related interest payment date, any accrued and unpaid interest
shall be paid to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close of
business on such record date, and no additional interest shall be payable to
Holders who tender Notes pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer.
Upon the commencement of an Asset Sale Offer, the Company shall
send, by first class mail, a notice to the Trustee and each of the Holders, with
a copy to the Depository. The notice shall contain all instructions and
materials necessary to enable such Holders to tender Notes pursuant to the Asset
Sale Offer. The Asset Sale Offer shall be made to all Holders. The notice, which
shall govern the terms of the Asset Sale Offer, shall state:
(a) that the Asset Sale Offer is being made pursuant to this Section
3.10 and Section 4.10 hereof and the length of time the Asset Sale Offer shall
remain open;
(b) the Note Amount, the purchase price and the Purchase Date;
(c) that any Note not tendered or accepted for payment shall continue
to accrue interest;
(d) that, unless the Company defaults in making such payment, any Note
accepted for payment pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer shall cease to accrue
interest after the Purchase Date;
(e) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any Asset
Sale Offer shall be required to surrender the Note, with the form entitled
"Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the Note completed, or
transfer by book-entry transfer, to the Company, a depository, if
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appointed by the Company, or a Paying Agent at the address specified in the
notice at least three days before the Purchase Date;
(f) that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the
Company, the depository or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives, not
later than the expiration of the Offer Period, a telegram, telex, facsimile
transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal
amount of the Note the Holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such
Holder is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased;
(g) that, if the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered by
Holders exceeds the Note Amount, the Company shall select the Notes to be
purchased on a pro rata basis (with such adjustments as may be deemed
appropriate by the Company so that only Notes in denominations of $1,000, or
integral multiples thereof, shall be purchased); and
(h) that Holders whose Notes were purchased only in part shall be issued
new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes
surrendered (or transferred by book-entry transfer).
On or before the Purchase Date, the Company shall, to the extent
lawful, accept for payment, on a pro rata basis to the extent necessary, the
Note Amount of Notes or portions thereof tendered pursuant to the Asset Sale
Offer, or if less than the Note Amount has been tendered, all Notes tendered,
and shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that such
Notes or portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Company in accordance
with the terms of this Section 3.10. The Company, the Depository or the Paying
Agent, as the case may be, shall promptly (but in any case not later than five
days after the Purchase Date) mail or deliver to each tendering Holder an amount
equal to the purchase price of the Notes tendered by such Holder and accepted by
the Company for purchase, and the Company shall promptly issue a new Note, and
the Trustee, upon written request from the Company shall authenticate and mail
or deliver such new Note to such Holder, in a principal amount equal to any
unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered. Any Note not so accepted shall be
promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the Holder thereof. The Company
shall publicly announce the results of the Asset Sale Offer on the Purchase
Date.
Other than as specifically provided in this Section 3.10, any
purchase pursuant to this Section 3.10 shall be made pursuant to the provisions
of Sections 3.01 through 3.06 hereof.
ARTICLE 4.
COVENANTS
SECTION 4.01. PAYMENT OF NOTES.
(a) The Company shall pay or cause to be paid the principal of, premium,
if any, and interest on the Notes on the dates and in the manner provided in the
Notes. Principal, premium, if any, and interest shall be considered paid on the
date due if the Paying Agent, if other than the Company or a Subsidiary thereof,
holds as of 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the due date money deposited by the
Company in immediately available funds and designated for and sufficient to pay
all principal, premium, if any, and interest then due. All references herein to
payments of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes shall be
deemed to include any applicable Additional Amounts that may become payable in
respect of the Notes pursuant to clause (c) of this Section 4.01.
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(b) The Company shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in
any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal at the rate equal
to 1% per annum in excess of the then applicable interest rate on the Notes to
the extent lawful; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in
any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest and
Liquidated Damages (without regard to any applicable grace period) at the same
rate to the extent lawful.
(c) Any amounts paid, or caused to be paid, by the Company or its
assignee (or any successor to the Company or such assignee as permitted under
Section 5.01) hereunder will be paid without deduction or withholding for any
and all present and future taxes, levies, imposts or other governmental charges
whatsoever imposed, assessed, levied or collected by or for the account of
Singapore (including any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof) or
the jurisdiction of incorporation or residence (other than the United States or
any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof) of any assignee of the
Company or any successor to the Company, or any subsidiary, branch, division or
other entity through which the Company may from time to time direct any payments
of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof (an "Other Jurisdiction"), or, if
deduction or withholding of any taxes, levies, imposts or other governmental
charges ("Taxes") shall at any time be required by Singapore or an Other
Jurisdiction, the Company, its assignee or any relevant successor will (subject
to timely compliance by the Holders or beneficial owners of the relevant Notes
with any relevant administrative requirements) pay or cause to be paid such
additional amounts ("Additional Amounts") in respect of principal of, premium,
if any, or interest, as may be necessary in order that the net amounts paid to
the Holders of the Notes or the Trustee hereunder, as the case may be, after
such deduction or withholding, shall equal the respective amounts that the
Holder would have received if such Taxes had not been withheld or deducted;
provided, however, that the foregoing shall not apply to (i) any present or
future Taxes, which would not have been so imposed, assessed, levied or
collected but for the fact that the Holder or beneficial owner of the relevant
Note is or has been a domiciliary, national or resident of, engages or has been
engaged in business, maintains or has maintained a permanent establishment, or
is or has been physically present in Singapore or the Other Jurisdiction, or
otherwise has or has had some connection with Singapore or the Other
Jurisdiction (other than the holding or ownership of a Note, or the collection
of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, or the enforcement of, a
Note), (ii) any present or future Taxes, which would not have been so imposed,
assessed, levied or collected but for the fact that, where presentation is
required, the relevant Note was presented more than thirty days after the date
such payment became due or was provided for, whichever is later, (iii) any
present or future Taxes, which are payable otherwise than by deduction or
withholding on or in respect of the relevant Note, (iv) any present or future
Taxes, which would not have been so imposed, assessed, levied or collected but
for the failure to comply, on a sufficiently timely basis, with any
certification, identification or other reporting requirements concerning the
nationality, residence, identity or connection with Singapore or the Other
jurisdiction or any other relevant jurisdiction of the Holder or beneficial
owner of the relevant Note, if such compliance is required by a statute or
regulation of Singapore, the Other Jurisdiction or any other relevant
jurisdiction, or by a relevant treaty, as a condition to relief or exemption
from such taxes, levies, imposts or other governmental charges, (v) any present
or future Taxes, (A) which would not have been so imposed, assessed, levied or
collected if the beneficial owner of the relevant Note had been the Holder of
such Note, or (B) which, if the beneficial owner of such Note had held the Note
as the Holder of such Note, would have been excluded pursuant to clauses (i)
through (iv) above, or (vi) any estate, inheritance, gift, sale, transfer,
personal property or similar tax, assessment or other government charge.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall require the
Company to pay any Additional Amounts due to any deduction or withholding
requirement imposed by any government unit other than Singapore, an Other
Jurisdiction or a taxing authority or political subdivision thereof.
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SECTION 4.02. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Company shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York, an office or agency (which may be an office of the Trustee or an
affiliate of the Trustee, Registrar or co-registrar) where Notes may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be
served. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the
location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any
time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or
shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or
all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided,
however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the
Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York for such purposes. The Company shall give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any
change in the location of any such other office or agency.
The Company hereby designates the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee as one such office or agency of the Company in accordance with Section
2.03.
SECTION 4.03. REPORTS.
(a) Whether or not required by the rules and regulations of the SEC, so
long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee and
to all Holders of Notes (i) all quarterly and annual financial information that
would be required to be contained in a filing with the SEC on Forms 10-Q and
10-K if the Company were required to file such Forms, including a "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" and,
with respect to the annual information only, a report thereon by the Company's
certified independent accountants and (ii) all current reports that would be
required to be filed with the SEC on Form 8-K if the Company were required to
file such reports. In addition, whether or not required by the rules and
regulations of the SEC, the Company shall file a copy of all such information
and reports with the SEC for public availability (unless the SEC will not accept
such a filing) and shall promptly make such information available to securities
analysts and prospective investors upon request. The Company shall at all times
comply with TIA Section 314(a).
(i) For so long as any Notes remain outstanding, the Company shall
furnish to the Holders and to securities analysts and prospective purchasers of
the Notes designated by the Holders of Notes, promptly upon their request, the
information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the
Securities Act.
SECTION 4.04. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE.
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after the
end of each fiscal year, an Officers' Certificate stating that a review of the
activities of the Company and its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year
has been made under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to
determining whether the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its
obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer
signing such certificate, that to the best of his
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or her knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each
and every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the
performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this
Indenture (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing
all such Defaults or Events of Default of which he or she may have knowledge and
what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto) and
that to the best of his or her knowledge no event has occurred and remains in
existence by reason of which payments on account of the principal of or
interest, if any, on the Notes is prohibited or if such event has occurred, a
description of the event and what action the Company is taking or proposes to
take with respect thereto.
(b) So long as not contrary to the then current recommendations of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the year-end financial
statements delivered pursuant to Section 4.03(a) above shall be accompanied by a
written statement of the Company's independent public accountants (who shall be
a firm of established national reputation) that in making the examination
necessary for certification of such financial statements, nothing has come to
their attention that would lead them to believe that the Company has violated
any provisions of Section 4.07 or 4.09 hereof or, if any such violation has
occurred, specifying the nature and period of existence thereof, it being
understood that such accountants shall not be liable directly or indirectly to
any Person for any failure to obtain knowledge of any such violation.
(c) The Company shall, so long as any of the Notes are outstanding,
deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon any Officer becoming aware of any Default
or Event of Default, an Officers' Certificate specifying such Default or Event
of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with
respect thereto.
SECTION 4.05. TAXES.
The Company shall pay, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to
pay, prior to delinquency, all material taxes, assessments, and governmental
levies except such as are contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings
or where the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material
respect to the Holders of the Notes.
SECTION 4.06. STAY, EXTENSION AND USURY LAWS.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so)
that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that 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 shall not, by resort to any such law,
hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the
Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though
no such law has been enacted.
SECTION 4.07. RESTRICTED PAYMENTS.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, directly or indirectly: (i) declare or pay any dividend or make any other
payment or distribution on account of the Company's or any of its Subsidiaries'
Equity Interests (including, without limitation, any payment in connection with
any merger or consolidation involving the Company) or to the direct or indirect
holders of the Company's or any of its Subsidiaries' Equity Interests in their
capacity as such (other than dividends or distributions payable in Equity
Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company),
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except to the extent the entirety of such dividend or distribution is actually
paid to the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company (and in the case of a
dividend or distribution by any non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Company, to
any other holder of Equity Interests of such non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary on a
pro rata basis); (ii) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value
(including without limitation, in connection with any merger or consolidation
involving the Company) any Equity Interests of the Company or any direct or
indirect parent of the Company, (iii) make any payment on or with respect to, or
purchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value any
Subordinated Debt, except a payment of interest or principal at Stated Maturity;
or (iv) make any Restricted Investment (all such payments and other actions set
forth in clauses (i) through (iv) above being collectively referred to as
"Restricted Payments"), unless, at the time of and after giving effect to such
Restricted Payment:
(a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing or would occur as a consequence thereof;
(b) the Company would, at the time of such Restricted Payment and after
giving pro forma effect thereto as if such Restricted Payment had been made at
the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, have been permitted to
incur at least $1.00 of additional Debt under Section 4.09; and
(c) such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate amount of all
other Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Subsidiaries after the
date hereof (excluding Restricted Payments permitted by clause (ii) of the next
succeeding paragraph), is less than the sum of (i) 50% of the Consolidated Net
Income (or if Consolidated Net Income shall be a loss, minus 100% of such loss)
of the Company for the period (taken as one accounting period) from (and
including) the fiscal quarter commencing January 1, 1998 to the end of the
Company's most recently ended fiscal quarter for which internal financial
statements are available at the time of such Restricted Payment (or, if such
Consolidated Net Income for such period is a deficit, less 100% of such
deficit), plus (ii) 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds received by the
Company from the issue or sale since the date of this Indenture of Equity
Interests of the Company (other than the net cash proceeds to be received in the
Equity Offering and other than Disqualified Stock) or of Disqualified Stock or
debt securities of the Company that have been converted into such Equity
Interests (other than Equity Interests (or Disqualified Stock or convertible
debt securities) sold to a Subsidiary of the Company and other than Disqualified
Stock or convertible debt securities that have been converted into Disqualified
Stock).
The foregoing provisions shall not prohibit (i) the payment of any
dividend within 60 days after the date of declaration thereof, if at said date
of declaration such payment would have complied with the provisions hereof; (ii)
the redemption, repurchase, retirement or other acquisition of any Equity
Interests of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or any Subordinated
Debt, in each case in exchange for, or out of the net proceeds of, the
substantially concurrent sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) of
other Equity Interests of the Company (other than any Disqualified Stock);
provided, however, that the amount of any such net proceeds that are utilized
for any redemption, repurchase, retirement or other acquisition shall be
excluded from clause (ii) of the preceding paragraph; and (iii) the redemption,
repurchase, refinancing or defeasance of Subordinated Debt in exchange for, or
with the net cash proceeds from, an incurrence of Permitted Refinancing Debt.
The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) shall be the
fair market value on the date of the Restricted Payment of the asset(s) or
securities proposed to be transferred or issued by the Company or such
Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to the Restricted Payment. The fair
market value of any non-cash Restricted Payment having a fair market value in
excess of $5.0 million shall be
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determined by the Board of Directors whose resolution with respect thereto shall
be delivered to the Trustee. Not later than the date of making any Restricted
Payment, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
stating that such Restricted Payment is permitted and setting forth the basis
upon which the calculations required by this Section 4.07 were computed.
SECTION 4.08. DIVIDEND AND OTHER PAYMENT RESTRICTIONS AFFECTING
SUBSIDIARIES.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or
become effective any encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Subsidiary
to (i)(a) pay dividends or make any other distributions to the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries (1) on its Capital Stock or (2) with respect to any other
interest or participation in, or measured by, its profits, or (b) pay any
indebtedness owed to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) make loans or
advances to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (iii) transfer any of its
properties or assets to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, except for such
encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (a) Existing Debt as
in effect on the date hereof, (b) the Credit Facility as in effect as of the
date hereof, and any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals,
increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings thereof,
provided that such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases,
supplements, refundings, replacement or refinancings are not more restrictive
taken as a whole with respect to such dividend and other payment restrictions
than those contained in the Credit Facility as in effect on the date hereof (as
determined by the Board of Directors of the Company in its reasonable and good
faith judgment), (c) the Indenture and the Notes, (d) applicable law, (e) any
instrument governing Debt or Capital Stock of a Person acquired by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries as in effect at the time of such acquisition (except
to the extent such Debt was incurred in connection with or in contemplation of
such acquisition), which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any
Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the Person, or the
property or assets of the Person, so acquired, provided that, in the case of
Debt, such Debt was permitted by the terms hereof to be incurred, (f) customary
non-assignment provisions in leases and other agreements entered into in the
ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices, restricting
assignment or restricting transfers of non-cash assets, (g) Purchase Money
Obligations for property acquired in the ordinary course of business that impose
restrictions of the nature described in clauses (iii) above on the property so
acquired, (h) Permitted Refinancing Debt, provided that the restrictions
contained in the agreements governing such Permitted Refinancing Debt are not
more restrictive taken as a whole than those contained in the agreements
governing the Debt being refinanced (as determined by the Board of Directors of
the Company in its reasonable and good faith judgment), (i) contracts for the
sale of assets, or (j) customary provisions in agreements with respect to
Permitted Joint Ventures.
SECTION 4.09. INCURRENCE OF DEBT AND ISSUANCE OF PREFERRED STOCK.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise
become directly or indirectly liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to
(collectively, "incur") any Debt (including Acquired Debt) and that the Company
will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to issue any shares of preferred stock;
provided, however, that the Company and any Subsidiary may incur Debt (including
Acquired Debt) if the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company's and its
Subsidiaries' most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal
financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such
additional Debt is incurred would have been at least 2.0 to 1.0, determined on a
pro forma basis (including a pro forma application of the net proceeds
therefrom), as if the additional Debt had been incurred at the beginning of such
four-quarter period.
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The provisions of the first paragraph of this Section 4.09 will not apply
to the incurrence of any of the following items of Debt (collectively,
"Permitted Debt"):
(i) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
revolving credit Debt and letters of credit (with letters of credit being deemed
to have a principal amount equal to the maximum potential liability of the
Company and its Subsidiaries thereunder) under Credit Facilities; provided that
the aggregate principal amount of all revolving credit Debt outstanding under
all Credit Facilities and incurred pursuant to this clause (i), after giving
effect to such incurrence, including all Permitted Refinancing Debt incurred to
refund, refinance or replace any other Debt incurred pursuant to this clause
(i), together with all amounts outstanding under clause (ii) below, does not
exceed the greater of $125.0 million and the Borrowing Base;
(ii) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
Receivables Program Debt in an aggregate amount at any one time outstanding not
to exceed, together with the amounts outstanding under clause (i) above, the
greater of $125.0 million and the Borrowing Base;
(iii) the incurrence by the Company and its Subsidiaries of Existing
Debt;
(iv) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Debt
represented by the Notes and permissible Debt under the Credit Facility as in
effect on the date hereof;
(v) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
Permitted Refinancing Debt in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are
used to refund, refinance or replace, Debt that was permitted pursuant to this
Section 4.09 to be incurred;
(vi) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
intercompany Debt between or among the Company and any of its Wholly Owned
Subsidiaries; provided, however, that (i) if the Company is the obligor on such
Debt, such Debt is expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash
of all Obligations with respect to the Notes and (ii)(A) any subsequent issuance
or transfer of Equity Interests that results in any such Debt being held by a
Person other than the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary and (B) any sale or
other transfer of any such Debt to a Person that is not either the Company or a
Wholly Owned Subsidiary shall be deemed, in each case, to constitute an
incurrence of such Debt by the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be;
(vii) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Hedging
Obligations that are incurred for the purpose of fixing or hedging interest rate
risk with respect to any floating rate Debt that is permitted by the terms of
this Indenture to be outstanding or for the purpose of fixing or hedging
currency exchange risk with respect to any currency exchanges;
(viii) Capitalized Lease Obligations and Purchase Money Obligations of the
Company and its Subsidiaries not to exceed 7.5% of Total Assets in aggregate
principal amount (or accreted value, as applicable) at any time outstanding;
(ix) Guarantees by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of Debt of the
Company or any Subsidiary permitted to be incurred under another clause of this
Section 4.09;
(x) Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary in respect of
performance bonds, bankers' acceptances, trade letters of credit, surety bonds
and guarantees provided by the Company or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course
of business, not to exceed at any given time $5.0 million outstanding in the
aggregate; and
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(xi) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of
additional Debt in an aggregate principal amount (or accreted value, as
applicable) at any time outstanding, including all Permitted Refinancing Debt
incurred to refund, refinance or replace any other Debt incurred pursuant to
this clause (xi), not to exceed $10.0 million.
For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.09, in
the event that an item of Debt meets the criteria of more than one of the
categories of Permitted Debt described in clauses (i) through (xi) above or is
entitled to be incurred pursuant to the first paragraph of this Section 4.09,
the Company shall, in its sole discretion, classify such item of Debt in any
manner that complies with this Section 4.09 and such item of Debt will be
treated as having been incurred pursuant to only one of such clauses or pursuant
to the first paragraph hereof. Accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted
value and the payment of interest in the form of additional Debt will not be
deemed to be an incurrence of Debt for purposes of this Section 4.09.
SECTION 4.10. ASSET SALES.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to,
consummate an Asset Sale unless (i) the Company (or the Subsidiary, as the case
may be) receives consideration at the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to
the fair market value (evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors set
forth in an Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee) of the assets or
Equity Interests issued or sold or otherwise disposed of and (ii) at least 75%
of the consideration therefor received by the Company or such Subsidiary is in
the form of cash; provided that the amount of (x) any liabilities (as shown on
the Company's or such Subsidiary's most recent balance sheet) of the Company or
any Subsidiary (other than contingent liabilities and liabilities that are by
their terms subordinated to the Notes or any guarantee thereof) that are assumed
by the transferee of any such assets pursuant to a customary novation agreement
or other agreement that releases or indemnifies the Company or such Subsidiary
from further liability and (y) any securities, notes or other obligations
received by the Company or any such Subsidiary from such transferee that are
immediately converted by the Company or such Subsidiary into cash (to the extent
of the cash received), shall be deemed to be cash for purposes of this
provision.
Within 270 days after the receipt of any Net Proceeds from an Asset Sale,
the Company may apply such Net Proceeds at its option, (a) to permanently repay,
reduce or secure letters of credit in respect of Senior Debt (and to
correspondingly reduce commitments with respect thereto in the case of revolving
borrowings), and/or (b) to the acquisition of a controlling interest in another
business, the making of a capital expenditure or Permitted Investment or the
acquisition of other assets, in each case, for use in the same or a similar line
of business as the Company was engaged in on the date of such Asset Sale or
reasonable extensions thereof. Pending the final application of any such Net
Proceeds, the Company may temporarily reduce indebtedness under the Credit
Facility (or any alternative or subsequent revolving credit agreement where
borrowings thereunder constitute Senior Debt or Debt of a Subsidiary) or
otherwise invest such Net Proceeds in any manner that is not prohibited by the
Indenture. Any Net Proceeds from Asset Sales that are not applied or invested as
provided in the first sentence of this paragraph will be deemed to constitute
"Excess Proceeds."
When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $10.0 million,
the Company will be required to make an offer (an "Asset Sale Offer") to all
Holders of Notes and holders of any other Pari Passu Debt outstanding with
provisions requiring the Company to make an offer to purchase or redeem such
indebtedness with the proceeds from any Asset Sale as follows: (A) the Company
will make an offer to purchase from all holders of the Notes, in accordance with
the procedures set forth in
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Section 3.10 hereof, the maximum principal amount (expressed as a multiple of
$1,000) of Notes that may be purchased out of an amount (the "Note Amount")
equal to the product of such Excess Proceeds multiplied by a fraction, the
numerator of which is the outstanding principal amount of the Notes, and the
denominator of which is the sum of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes
and such Pari Passu Debt (subject to proration in the event such amount is less
than the aggregate Asset Sale Offered Price (as defined herein) of all Notes
tendered), and (B) to the extent required by such Pari Passu Debt to permanently
reduce the principal amount of such Pari Passu Debt, the Company will make an
offer to purchase or otherwise repurchase or redeem Pari Passu Debt (an "Asset
Sale Pari Passu Offer") in an amount (the "Pari Passu Debt Amount") equal to the
excess of the Excess Proceeds over the Note Amount; provided that in no event
will the Company be required to make an Asset Sale Pari Passu Offer in a Pari
Passu Debt Amount exceeding the principal amount of such Pari Passu Debt plus
accrued and unpaid interest thereon plus the amount of any premium required to
be paid to repurchase such Pari Passu Debt. The offer price for the Notes will
be payable in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount of the
Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date (the "Asset Sale
Offer Date") such Asset Sale Offer is consummated (the "Asset Sale Offered
Price"), in accordance with the procedures set forth herein. To the extent that
the aggregate Asset Sale Offered Price of the Notes tendered pursuant to the
Asset Sale Offer is less than the Note Amount relating thereto or the aggregate
amount of Pari Passu Debt that is purchased in an Asset Sale Pari Passu Offer is
less than the Pari Passu Debt Amount, the Company may use any remaining Excess
Proceeds for general corporate purposes. If the aggregate principal amount of
Notes and Pari Passu Debt surrendered by holders thereof exceeds the amount of
Excess Proceeds, the Trustee shall select the Notes to be purchased on a pro
rata basis. Upon the completion of the purchase of all the Notes tendered
pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer and the completion of a Pari Passu Offer, the
amount of Excess Proceeds, if any, shall be reset at zero.
If the Company becomes obligated to make an Asset Sale Offer
pursuant to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Notes and the Pari Passu
Debt shall be purchased by the Company, at the option of the holders thereof, in
whole or in part in integral multiples of $1,000, on a date that is not earlier
than 30 days and not later than 60 days from the date the notice of the Asset
Sale Offer is given to holders, or such later date as may be necessary for the
Company to comply with the requirements under the Exchange Act.
The Company shall comply with the applicable tender offer rules,
including Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act, and any other applicable securities
laws or regulations in connection with an Asset Sale Offer.
SECTION 4.11. TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of
its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter
into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan,
advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate (each of the
foregoing, an "Affiliate Transaction"), unless (i) such Affiliate Transaction is
on terms that are no less favorable to the Company or the relevant Subsidiary
than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the
Company or such Subsidiary with an unrelated Person and (ii) the Company
delivers to the Trustee, with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of
related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of
$1.0 million, a resolution of the Board of Directors set forth in an Officers'
Certificate certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with clause (i)
above and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the
disinterested members of the Board of Directors; provided that (w) any
employment agreement or compensation arrangement entered
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into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of
business and consistent with the past practice of the Company or such Subsidiary
that is not otherwise prohibited by the provisions hereof, (x) transactions
between or among the Company and/or its Subsidiaries that are not otherwise
prohibited by the provisions hereof, and (y) Restricted Payments and Permitted
Investments that are permitted under Section 4.07 hereof, and (z)
indemnification of officers and directors, in each case, shall not be deemed
Affiliate Transactions.
SECTION 4.12. LIENS.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, directly or indirectly create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien
that secures obligations under any Pari Passu Debt or Subordinated Debt on any
asset or property of the Company or such Subsidiary, or any income or profits
therefrom, or assign or convey any right to receive income therefrom, unless the
Notes are equally and ratably secured with the obligations so secured or until
such time as such obligations are no longer secured by a Lien.
SECTION 4.13. CORPORATE EXISTENCE.
Subject to Article 5 hereof, the Company shall do or cause to be
done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect (i) its
corporate existence, and the corporate, partnership or other existence of each
of its Subsidiaries, in accordance with the respective organizational documents
(as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Company or any such
Subsidiary and (ii) the rights (charter and statutory), licenses and franchises
of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall
not be required to preserve any such right, license or franchise, or the
corporate, partnership or other existence of any of its Subsidiaries, if the
Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer
desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material
respect to the Holders of the Notes.
SECTION 4.14. OFFER TO REPURCHASE UPON CHANGE OF CONTROL.
(a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder of Notes
shall have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part (equal
to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of such Holder's Notes pursuant to
the offer described below (the "Change of Control Offer") at an offer price in
cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof, plus accrued and
unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the date of repurchase (the "Change of
Control Payment"). Within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Company
will mail a notice to each Holder describing the transaction or transactions
that constitute the Change of Control and offering to repurchase Notes on the
date specified in such notice, which date shall be no earlier than 30 days and
no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed (the "Change of
Control Payment Date"), pursuant to the procedures required by the Indenture and
described in such notice. The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule
14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations
thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection
with the repurchase of the Notes as a result of a Change of Control.
(b) On the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the
extent lawful, (i) accept for payment all Notes or portions thereof properly
tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, (ii) deposit with the Paying
Agent an among equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or
portions thereof so tendered and (iii) deliver or cause to be delivered to the
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Trustee the Notes so accepted together with an Officers' Certificate stating the
aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions thereof being purchased by the
Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to each Holder of Notes so
tendered the Change of Control Payment for such Notes, and the Trustee shall
promptly authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book entry) to
each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of
the Notes surrendered, if any; provided that each such new Note will be in a
principal amount of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof. Prior to complying
with the provisions of this Section 4.14, but in any event within 90 days
following a Change of Control, the Company shall either repay in full in cash
all outstanding Senior Debt or obtain the requisite consents, if any, under all
agreements governing outstanding Senior Debt to permit the repurchase of Notes
required by this covenant. The Company shall publicly announce the results of
the Change of Control Offer on or as soon as practicable after the Change of
Control Payment Date.
SECTION 4.15. NO SENIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4.09 hereof, the Company
shall not incur, create, issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become liable for
any Debt that is subordinate or junior in right of payment to any Senior Debt
and senior in any respect in right of payment to the Notes.
SECTION 4.16. SALE AND LEASEBACK TRANSACTIONS.
The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, enter into any sale and leaseback transaction; provided that the Company may
enter into a sale and leaseback transaction if (i) the Company could have (a)
incurred Debt in an amount equal to the Attributable Debt relating to such sale
and leaseback transaction pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set
forth in the first paragraph of Section 4.09 hereof and (b) incurred a Lien to
secure such Debt pursuant to Section 4.12 hereof, (ii) the gross cash proceeds
of such sale and leaseback transaction are at least equal to the fair market
value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors and set forth in an
Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee) of the property that is the
subject of such sale and leaseback transaction and (iii) the transfer of assets
in such sale and leaseback transaction is permitted by, and the Company applies
the proceeds of such transaction in compliance with Section 4.10 hereof.
SECTION 4.17. NO PAYMENTS FOR CONSENTS.
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall, directly or
indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of
interest, fee or otherwise, to any Holder of any Notes for or as an inducement
to any consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or provisions of this
Indenture or the Notes unless such consideration is offered to be paid or is
paid to all Holders of the Notes that consent, waive or agree to amend in the
time frame set forth in the solicitation of documents relating to such consent,
waiver or agreement.
ARTICLE 5.
SUCCESSORS
SECTION 5.01. MERGER, CONSOLIDATION, OR SALE OF ASSETS.
(a) The Company shall not consolidate or merge with or into (whether
or not the Company is the surviving corporation) or sell, assign, transfer,
lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties
or assets in one or more related transactions (a "Subject Transaction") to,
another corporation, Person or entity unless (i) the Company is the surviving
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corporation or the entity or the Person formed by or surviving any such
consolidation or merger (if other than the Company) or to which such sale,
assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been
made is a corporation organized or existing under the laws of either (A) the
United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia or Singapore or (B) a
Subject Country, in which case the Company will have satisfied its obligations
as set forth in clause (b) of this Section 5.01 below; (ii) the entity or Person
formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the
Company) or the entity or Person to which such sale, assignment, transfer,
lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made assumes all the
obligations of the Company under the Notes and this Indenture pursuant to a
supplemental indenture in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, (iii)
immediately after such transaction, no Default or Event of Default exists; and
(iv) except in the case of a merger of the Company with or into a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary of the Company, the Company or the entity or Person formed by or
surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Company), or to
which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition
shall have been made (A) shall have Consolidated Net Worth immediately after the
transaction equal to or greater than the Consolidated Net Worth of the Company
immediately preceding the transaction and (B) shall, at the time of such
transaction and after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such transaction had
occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, be permitted to
incur at least $1.00 of additional Debt pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage
Ratio test set forth in the first paragraph of Section 4.09 hereof.
(b) If the surviving or resulting transferee, lessee or successor
Person (the "Successor Corporation") in a Subject Transaction is incorporated in
a Subject Country, then the Company shall satisfy the conditions specified in
paragraphs (A), (B) and (C) below as promptly as practicable but no later than
60 days following the date of such Subject Transaction:
(A) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee a
written opinion, in form and substance satisfactory to
the Trustee, of independent legal counsel of recognized
standing, as to the continued validity, binding effect
and enforceability of the Indenture and the Notes and to
the further effect that such counsel is not aware of any
pending change in, or amendment to, the laws (or any
regulations promulgated thereunder) of any Subject
Country in which the proposed Successor Corporation is
incorporated or maintains its principal place of
business or principal executive office, or any taxing
authority thereof or therein, affecting taxation, or any
pending execution of or amendment to, or any pending
change in application of or official position regarding,
any treaty or treaties affecting taxation to which any
such Subject Country is a party, which, in any such
case, would permit the Company to redeem the Notes
pursuant to Section 3.07(c) hereof, it being understood
that such counsel may, in rendering such opinion, rely,
to the extent appropriate, on opinions of independent
local counsel of recognized standing and the Company may
instead deliver two or more opinions of counsel which
together cover all of the foregoing matters;
(B) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee a
certificate, in form and substance satisfactory to the
Trustee, signed by two executive officers of the
Successor Corporation, as to the continued validity,
binding effect and enforceability of the Indenture and
the Notes; and
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(C) The Successor Corporation shall, promptly but no later
than 60 days following the date of such Subject
Transaction, consent to the jurisdiction of the Courts
of the State of New York.
In the event of any Subject Transaction in which the Successor
Corporation is organized and existing under the laws of a Subject Country, the
Company will indemnify and hold harmless the Holder of each Note from and
against any and all present and future taxes, levies, imposts, charges and
withholdings (including, without limitation, estate, inheritance, capital gains
and other similar taxes), and any and all present and future registration,
stamp, issue, documentary or other similar taxes, duties, fees or charges,
imposed, assessed, levied or collected by or for the account of any jurisdiction
or political subdivision or taxing or other governmental agency or authority
thereof or therein on or in respect of the Notes, the Indenture or any other
agreement relating to calculations to be performed with respect to the Notes or
any amount paid or payable under any of the foregoing which, in any such case,
would not have been imposed had such Subject Transaction not occurred.
SECTION 5.02. SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED.
Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment, transfer,
lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets
of the Company in accordance with Section 5.01 hereof, the successor corporation
formed by such consolidation or into or with which the Company is merged or to
which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition is
made shall succeed to, and be substituted for (so that from and after the date
of such consolidation, merger, sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition, the
provisions of this Indenture referring to the "Company" shall refer instead to
the successor corporation and not to the Company), and may exercise every right
and power of the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor Person had been named as the Company herein; provided, however, that
the predecessor Company shall not be relieved from the obligation to pay the
principal of and interest on the Notes except in the case of a sale of all of
the Company's assets that meets the requirements of Section 5.01 hereof.
ARTICLE 6.
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.01. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
An "Event of Default" occurs if:
(a) the Company defaults in the payment when due of interest on the
Notes (whether or not prohibited by Article 10 hereof) and such default
continues for a period of 30 days;
(b) the Company defaults in the payment when due of the principal of or
premium, if any, on the Notes (whether or not prohibited by the provisions
Article 10 hereof) when the same becomes due and payable at maturity, upon
redemption (including in connection with an offer to purchase) or otherwise;
(c) the Company fails to comply with any of the provisions of Section
3.10, 4.07, 4.09, 4.10, 4.14 or 5.01 hereof and such default continues for a
period of 30 days after notice from either the Trustee or the Holders of at
least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding;
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(d) the Company fails to observe or perform any other covenant,
representation, warranty or other agreement in this Indenture or the Notes for
60 days after notice to the Company by the Trustee or the Holders of at least
25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding;
(e) a default occurs under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under
which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Debt
for money borrowed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or the payment of
which is guaranteed by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), whether such
Debt or guarantee now exists, or is created after the date of this Indenture,
which default (i) is caused by a failure to pay principal of or premium, if any,
or interest on such Debt prior to the expiration of the grace period provided in
such Debt on the date of such default (a "Payment Default") or (ii) results in
the acceleration of such Debt prior to its express maturity and, in each case,
the principal amount of such Debt, together with the principal amount of any
other such Debt the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates $10.0
million or more;
(f) a final judgment or final judgments for the payment of money are
entered by a court or courts of competent jurisdiction against the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries and such judgment or judgments remain undischarged for a
period (during which execution shall not be effectively stayed) of 60 days,
provided that the aggregate of all such undischarged judgments exceeds $10.0
million;
(g) the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries or any group of
Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary
pursuant to or within the meaning of Bankruptcy Law:
(i) commences a voluntary case,
(ii) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an
involuntary case,
(iii) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or
substantially all of its property,
(iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors,
or
(v) generally is not paying its debts as they become due; or
(h) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under
any Bankruptcy Law that:
(i) is for relief against the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a
whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary in an
involuntary case;
(ii) appoints a Custodian of the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a
whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary or for all or
substantially all of the property of the Company or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that,
taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary;
or
(iii) orders the liquidation of the Company or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that,
taken as a whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary;
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and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive
days.
SECTION 6.02. ACCELERATION.
If any Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in
clause (g) or (h) of Section 6.01 hereof with respect to the Company, any
Significant Subsidiary or any group of Significant Subsidiaries that, taken as a
whole, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary) occurs and is continuing, the
Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then
outstanding Notes may declare all the Notes to be due and payable immediately.
Upon any such declaration, the Notes shall become due and payable immediately.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default specified in clause (g) or
(h) of Section 6.01 hereof occurs with respect to the Company, any of its
Significant Subsidiaries or any group of Subsidiaries that, taken as a whole,
would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, all outstanding Notes shall be due
and payable immediately without further action or notice. The Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes by notice
to the Trustee may on behalf of all of the Holders rescind an acceleration and
its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or
decree and if all existing Events of Default (except nonpayment of principal,
interest or premium that has become due solely because of the acceleration) have
been cured or waived.
If an Event of Default occurring by reason of any willful action (or
inaction) taken (or not taken) by or on behalf of the Company with the intention
of avoiding payment of the premium that the Company would have had to pay if the
Company then had elected to redeem the Notes on October 15, 2002, pursuant to
Section 3.07 hereof, an equivalent premium shall also become and be immediately
due and payable to the extent permitted by law upon acceleration of the Notes,
anything in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding. If
an Event of Default occurs prior to October 15, 2002 by reason of any willful
action (or inaction) taken (or not taken) by or on behalf of the Company with
the intention of avoiding the prohibition on redemption of the Notes prior to
October 15, 2002, then the premium specified in Section 3.07 hereof shall also
become and be immediately due and payable to the extent permitted by law upon
acceleration of the Notes
SECTION 6.03. OTHER REMEDIES.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may
pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of principal, premium, if
any, and interest on the Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of
the Notes or this Indenture.
The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess
any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or
omission by the Trustee or any Holder of a Note in exercising any right or
remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default. All remedies are
cumulative to the extent permitted by law.
SECTION 6.04. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.
Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the then outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the Holders
of all of the Notes waive an existing Default or Event of Default and its
consequences hereunder, except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the
payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, the Notes
(including in connection with an offer to purchase) (provided, however, that the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
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the then outstanding Notes may rescind an acceleration and its consequences,
including any related payment default that resulted from such acceleration).
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 6.05. CONTROL BY MAJORITY.
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding
Notes may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for
exercising any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power
conferred on it. However, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that
conflicts with law or this Indenture that the Trustee determines may be unduly
prejudicial to the rights of other Holders of Notes or that may involve the
Trustee in personal liability.
SECTION 6.06. LIMITATION ON SUITS.
A Holder of a Note may pursue a remedy with respect to this
Indenture or the Notes only if:
(a) the Holder of a Note gives to the Trustee written notice of a
continuing Event of Default;
(b) the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then
outstanding Notes make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy;
(c) such Holder of a Note or Holders of Notes offer and, if requested,
provide to the Trustee indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss,
liability or expense;
(d) the Trustee does not comply with the request within 60 days after
receipt of the request and the offer and, if requested, the provision of
indemnity; and
(e) during such 60-day period the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the then outstanding Notes do not give the Trustee a direction
inconsistent with the request.
A Holder of a Note may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another
Holder of a Note or to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder of a
Note.
SECTION 6.07. RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF NOTES TO RECEIVE PAYMENT.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of
any Holder of a Note to receive payment of principal, premium, if any, and
interest on the Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Note
(including in connection with an offer to purchase), or to bring suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be
impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 6.08. COLLECTION SUIT BY TRUSTEE.
If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a) or (b) occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee is authorized to recover judgment in its own name
and as trustee of an express trust against the Company for the whole amount of
principal of, premium, if any, and interest remaining unpaid on the Notes and
interest on overdue principal and, to the extent lawful, interest and such
further amount as
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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.
SECTION 6.09. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM.
The Trustee is authorized to file such proofs of claim and other
papers or documents as may be necessary or 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 the
Holders of the Notes allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Notes), its creditors or its property and shall
be entitled and empowered to collect, receive and distribute any money or other
property payable or deliverable on any such claims and any custodian in any such
judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to
the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of
such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due 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 7.07 hereof. To the extent that the payment of any such compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and
any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07 hereof out of the estate in
any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall
be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions,
dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Holders may be
entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan
of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise. Nothing herein contained shall be
deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on
behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 6.10. PRIORITIES.
If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article, it shall
pay out the money in the following order:
First: to the Trustee, its agents and attorneys for amounts due
under Section 7.07 hereof, including payment of all compensation, expense and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the costs and
expenses of collection;
Second: to Holders of Notes for amounts due and unpaid on the
Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable
on the Notes for principal, premium and Liquidated Damages, if any and
interest, respectively; and
Third: to the Company or to such party as a court of competent
jurisdiction shall direct.
The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment
to Holders of Notes pursuant to this Section 6.10.
SECTION 6.11. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by
it as a Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party
litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the
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discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good
faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section does
not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder of a Note pursuant to
Section 6.07 hereof, or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in principal amount
of the then outstanding Notes.
ARTICLE 7.
TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.01. DUTIES OF TRUSTEE.
(a) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee
shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and
use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent man would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the duties of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the
express provisions of this Indenture and the Trustee need
perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in
this Indenture and no others, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the
Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and
the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Indenture. However,
the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to
determine whether or not they conform to the requirements
of this Indenture.
(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liabilities for its own
negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(i) this paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b)
of this Section;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it is proved
that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts; and
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a
direction received by it pursuant to Section 6.05 hereof.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs
(a), (b), and (c) of this Section.
(e) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend
or risk its own funds or incur any liability. The Trustee shall be under no
obligation to exercise any of its rights and powers under this Indenture at the
request of any Holders, unless such Holder shall have offered to the Trustee
security and indemnity satisfactory to it against any loss, liability or
expense.
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(f) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received
by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company. Money held in
trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the
extent required by law.
SECTION 7.02. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely upon any document believed by it
to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The
Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an
Officers' Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both. The Trustee shall not be
liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on
such Officers' Certificate or Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee may consult with
counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall
be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of
any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in
reliance thereon.
(c) The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and shall not
be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due
care.
(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to
take in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within the rights or
powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.
(e) Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any
demand, request, direction or notice from the Company shall be sufficient if
signed by an Officer of the Company.
(f) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of
any of the Holders unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
SECTION 7.03. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the
owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or any
Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not
Trustee. However, in the event that the Trustee acquires any conflicting
interest it must eliminate such conflict within 90 days, apply to the SEC for
permission to continue as trustee or resign. Any Agent may do the same with like
rights and duties. The Trustee is also subject to Sections 7.10 and 7.11 hereof.
SECTION 7.04. TRUSTEE'S DISCLAIMER.
The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation
as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, it shall not be
accountable for the Company's use of the proceeds from the Notes or any money
paid to the Company or upon the Company's direction under any provision of this
Indenture, it shall not be responsible for the use or application of any money
received by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee, and it shall not be
responsible for any statement or recital herein or any statement in the Notes or
any other document in connection with the sale of the Notes or pursuant to this
Indenture other than its certificate of authentication.
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SECTION 7.05. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS.
If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if it
is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to Holders of Notes a notice of
the Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs. Except in the
case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of, premium, if
any, or interest on any Note, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long
as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that
withholding the notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Notes.
SECTION 7.06. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE TO HOLDERS OF THE NOTES.
Within 60 days after each May 15 beginning with the May 15 following
the date of this Indenture, and for so long as Notes remain outstanding, the
Trustee shall mail to the Holders of the Notes a brief report dated as of such
reporting date that complies with TIA Section 313(a) (but if no event described
in TIA Section 313(a) has occurred within the twelve months preceding the
reporting date, no report need be transmitted). The Trustee also shall comply
with TIA Section 313(b)(2). The Trustee shall also transmit by mail all reports
as required by TIA Section 313(c).
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to the Holders of
Notes shall be mailed to the Company and filed with the SEC and each stock
exchange on which the Notes are listed in accordance with TIA Section 313(d).
The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee when the Notes are listed on any
stock exchange.
SECTION 7.07. COMPENSATION AND INDEMNITY.
The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for its acceptance of this Indenture and services hereunder. The
Trustee's compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a
trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee promptly
upon request for all reasonable disbursements, advances and expenses incurred or
made by it in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses shall
include the reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the Trustee's
agents and counsel.
The Company shall indemnify the Trustee against any and all losses,
liabilities or expenses incurred by it arising out of or in connection with the
acceptance or administration of its duties under this Indenture, including the
costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture against the Company (including
this Section 7.07) and defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by
the Company or any Holder or any other person) or liability in connection with
the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, except to
the extent any such loss, liability or expense may be attributable to its
negligence or bad faith. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any
claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the
Company shall not relieve the Company of its obligations hereunder. The Company
shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The
Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees
and expenses of such counsel. The Company need not pay for any settlement made
without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.
The obligations of the Company under this Section 7.07 shall survive
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.
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To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section, the
Trustee shall have a Lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held or
collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay principal and
interest on particular Notes. Such Lien shall survive the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event
of Default specified in Section 6.01(g) or (h) hereof occurs, the expenses and
the compensation for the services (including the fees and expenses of its agents
and counsel) are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any
Bankruptcy Law.
The Trustee shall comply with the provisions of TIA Section
313(b)(2) to the extent applicable.
SECTION 7.08. REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEE.
A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the successor Trustee's
acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section.
The Trustee may resign in writing at any time and be discharged from
the trust hereby created by so notifying the Company. The Holders of Notes of a
majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may remove the
Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the Company in writing.
The Company may remove the Trustee if:
(a) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof;
(b) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an order for
relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law;
(c) a Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its
property; or
(d) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.
If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may appoint a
successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.
If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company, or
the Holders of Notes of at least 10% in principal amount of the then outstanding
Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a
successor Trustee.
If the Trustee, after written request by any Holder of a Note who
has been a Holder of a Note for at least six months, fails to comply with
Section 7.10, such Holder of a Note may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Thereupon, the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the
successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee
under this
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Indenture. The successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to
Holders of the Notes. The retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer all property
held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee, provided all sums owing to the
Trustee hereunder have been paid and subject to the Lien provided for in Section
7.07 hereof. Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section
7.08, the Company's obligations under Section 7.07 hereof shall continue for the
benefit of the retiring Trustee.
SECTION 7.09. SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE BY MERGER, ETC.
If the Trustee consolidates, merges or converts into, or transfers
all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another
corporation, the successor corporation without any further act shall be the
successor Trustee.
SECTION 7.10. ELIGIBILITY; DISQUALIFICATION.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a Person
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or
of any state thereof that is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate
trustee power, that is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state
authorities and that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $100 million
(or if such Person is a member of a bank holding system, its bank holding
company shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100 million) as
set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition.
This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the
requirements of TIA Section 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee is subject to
TIA Section 310(b).
SECTION 7.11. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.
The Trustee is subject to 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 therein.
ARTICLE 8.
LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.01. OPTION TO EFFECT LEGAL DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT
DEFEASANCE.
The Company may, at the option of its Board of Directors evidenced
by a resolution set forth in an Officers' Certificate, at any time, elect to
have either Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof be applied to all outstanding Notes upon
compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article 8.
SECTION 8.02. LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND DISCHARGE.
Upon the Company's exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option
applicable to this Section 8.02, the Company shall, subject to the satisfaction
of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, be deemed to have been
discharged from its obligations with respect to all outstanding Notes on the
date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "Legal
Defeasance"). For this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Company shall be
deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Debt represented by the
outstanding Notes, which shall thereafter be deemed to be "outstanding" only for
the purposes of Section 8.05 hereof and the other Sections of this Indenture
referred to in (a) and (b) below, and to have satisfied all its other
obligations under such Notes and this Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of
and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging the
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same), except for the following provisions which shall survive until otherwise
terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) the rights of Holders of outstanding
Notes to receive solely from the trust fund described in Section 8.04 hereof,
and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Notes when such payments are
due, (b) the Company's obligations with respect to such Notes under Article 2
and Section 4.02 hereof, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities
of the Trustee hereunder and the Company's obligations in connection therewith
and (d) this Article 8. Subject to compliance with this Article 8, the Company
may exercise its option under this Section 8.02 notwithstanding the prior
exercise of its option under Section 8.03 hereof.
SECTION 8.03. COVENANT DEFEASANCE.
Upon the Company's exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option
applicable to this Section 8.03, the Company shall, subject to the satisfaction
of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, be released from its
obligations under the covenants contained in Sections 4.07, 4.08, 4.09, 4.10,
4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15 and 4.16 hereof with respect to the outstanding
Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied
(hereinafter, "Covenant Defeasance"), and the Notes shall thereafter be deemed
not "outstanding" for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or
declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in
connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed "outstanding"
for all other purposes hereunder (it being understood that such Notes shall not
be deemed outstanding for accounting purposes). For this purpose, Covenant
Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes, the Company may
omit to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term,
condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or
indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or
by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or
in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default
or an Event of Default under Section 6.01 hereof, but, except as specified
above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Notes shall be unaffected
thereby. In addition, upon the Company's exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of
the option applicable to this Section 8.03 hereof, subject to the satisfaction
of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, Sections 6.01(d) through
6.01(f) hereof shall not constitute Events of Default.
SECTION 8.04. CONDITIONS TO LEGAL OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE.
The following shall be the conditions to the application of either
Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof to the outstanding Notes:
In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance:
(a) the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust, for
the benefit of the Holders, cash in United States dollars, non-callable
Government Securities, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be
sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the
outstanding Notes on the stated date for payment thereof or on the applicable
redemption date, as the case may be, and the Company shall specify whether the
Notes are being defeased to maturity or to a particular redemption date;
(b) in the case of an election under Section 8.02 hereof, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that (A) the Company has
received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a
ruling or (B) since the date of this Indenture, there has been a change in the
applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based
thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the
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Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for
federal income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be
subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the
same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had not
occurred;
(c) in the case of an election under Section 8.03 hereof, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders of the
outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax
purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to federal
income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as
would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;
(d) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
on the date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting
from the incurrence of Debt all or a portion of the proceeds of which will be
used to defease the Notes pursuant to this Article 8 concurrently with such
incurrence) or insofar as Sections 6.01(g) or 6.01(h) hereof is concerned, at
any time in the period ending on the 91st day after the date of deposit;
(e) such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a
breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any material agreement or
instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
bound;
(f) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that on and after the 91st day following the deposit, the
trust funds will not be subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally
insofar as the same may relate to the Company;
(g) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent
of preferring the Holders over any other creditors of the Company or with the
intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of
the Company; and
(h) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent provided for or relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant
Defeasance have been complied with.
SECTION 8.05. DEPOSITED MONEY AND GOVERNMENT SECURITIES TO BE HELD
IN TRUST; OTHER MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Subject to Section 8.06 hereof, all money and non-callable
Government Securities (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the
Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section
8.05, the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 8.04 hereof in respect of the
outstanding Notes shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in
accordance with the provisions of such Notes and this Indenture, to the payment,
either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as
Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes of all
sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, and
interest, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the
extent required by law.
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The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee
or other charge imposed on or assessed against the cash or non-callable
Government Securities deposited pursuant to Section 8.04 hereof or the principal
and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other
charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes.
Anything in this Article 8 to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the request
of the Company any money or non-callable Government Securities held by it as
provided in Section 8.04 hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion delivered under
Section 8.04(a) hereof), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be
required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Legal Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance.
SECTION 8.06. REPAYMENT TO COMPANY.
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, premium, if
any, or interest on any Note 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 its request or (if then held by the Company) shall be
discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as a
secured creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all
liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money,
and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease;
provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required
to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be
published once, in the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (national
edition), notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date
specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such
notification or publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining
will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 8.07. REINSTATEMENT.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any United States
dollars or non-callable Government Securities in accordance with Section 8.02 or
8.03 hereof, as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court
or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such
application, then the Company's obligations under this Indenture and the Notes
shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to
Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is
permitted to apply all such money in accordance with Section 8.02 or 8.03
hereof, as the case may be; provided, however, that, if the Company makes any
payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Note following the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights
of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the
Trustee or Paying Agent.
ARTICLE 9.
AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER
SECTION 9.01. WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS OF NOTES.
Notwithstanding Section 9.02 of this Indenture, the Company and the
Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes without the consent
of any Holder of a Note:
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(a) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;
(b) to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of
certificated Notes;
(c) to provide for the assumption of the Company's obligations to the
Holders of the Notes in the case of a merger or consolidation pursuant to
Article 5 hereof;
(d) to make any change that would provide any additional rights or
benefits to the Holders of the Notes or that does not adversely affect the legal
rights hereunder of any Holder of the Note; or
(e) to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or
maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.
Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a resolution of its
Board of Directors authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental
Indenture, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section
7.02 hereof, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of any
amended or supplemental Indenture authorized or permitted by the terms of this
Indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that
may be therein contained, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into
such amended or supplemental Indenture that affects its own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
SECTION 9.02. WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS OF NOTES.
Except as provided below in this Section 9.02, the Company and the
Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture and the Notes may be amended or
supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal
amount of the Notes then outstanding (including, without limitation, consents
obtained in connection with a purchase of, or a tender offer or exchange offer
for, the Notes), and, subject to Sections 6.04 and 6.07 hereof, any existing
Default or Event of Default (other than a Default or Event of Default in the
payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes, except a
payment default resulting from an acceleration that has been rescinded) or
compliance with any provision of this Indenture or the Notes may be waived with
the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then
outstanding Notes (including consents obtained in connection with a tender offer
or exchange offer for the Notes).
Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a resolution of its
Board of Directors authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental
Indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence satisfactory to the
Trustee of the consent of the Holders of Notes as aforesaid, and upon receipt by
the Trustee of the documents described in Section 7.02 hereof, the Trustee shall
join with the Company in the execution of such amended or supplemental Indenture
unless such amended or supplemental Indenture affects the Trustee's own rights,
duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the
Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such
amended or supplemental Indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Notes
under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment
or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance
thereof.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section becomes
effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders of Notes affected thereby a
notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of
the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein,
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however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such amended or
supplemental Indenture or waiver. Subject to Sections 6.04 and 6.07 hereof, the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding may waive compliance in a particular instance by the Company with
any provision of this Indenture or the Notes. However, without the consent of
each Holder affected, an amendment supplement or waiver may not (with respect to
any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder):
(a) reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent
to an amendment, supplement or waiver;
(b) reduce the principal of or change the fixed maturity of any Note or
alter or waive any of the provisions with respect to the redemption of the Notes
except with respect to Section 4.14 hereof;
(c) reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest,
including default interest, on any Note;
(d) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of principal of
or premium, if any, or interest on the Notes (except a rescission of
acceleration of the Notes by the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes and a waiver of the payment
default that resulted from such acceleration);
(e) make any Note payable in money other than that stated in the
Notes;
(f) make any change in the provisions of this Indenture relating to
waivers of past Defaults or the rights of Holders of Notes to receive payments
of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Notes; or
(g) make any change in Section 6.04 or 6.07 hereof or in the foregoing
amendment and waiver provisions.
In addition, any amendment or supplement to the provisions of
Article 10 of this Indenture will require the consent of the Holders of at least
75% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding if such
amendment or supplement would adversely affect the rights of the Holders.
SECTION 9.03. COMPLIANCE WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
Every amendment or supplement to this Indenture or the Notes shall
be set forth in a amended or supplemental Indenture that complies with the TIA
as then in effect.
SECTION 9.04. REVOCATION AND EFFECT OF CONSENTS.
Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a
consent to it by a Holder of a Note is a continuing consent by the Holder of a
Note and every subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences
the same debt as the consenting Holder's Note, even if notation of the consent
is not made on any Note. However, any such Holder of a Note or subsequent Holder
of a Note may revoke the consent as to its Note if the Trustee receives written
notice of revocation before the date the waiver, supplement or amendment becomes
effective. An amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective in accordance
with its terms and thereafter binds every Holder.
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SECTION 9.05. NOTATION ON OR EXCHANGE OF NOTES.
The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment,
supplement or waiver on any Note thereafter authenticated. The Company in
exchange for all Notes may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate new Notes
that reflect the amendment, supplement or waiver.
Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note shall
not affect the validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or waiver.
SECTION 9.06. TRUSTEE TO SIGN AMENDMENTS, ETC.
The Trustee shall sign any amended or supplemental Indenture
authorized pursuant to this Article 9 if the amendment or supplement does not
adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee.
The Company may not sign an amendment or supplemental Indenture until the Board
of Directors approves it. In executing any amended or supplemental indenture,
the Trustee shall be entitled to receive and (subject to Section 7.01) shall be
fully protected in relying upon, an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel stating that the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture.
ARTICLE 10.
SUBORDINATION
SECTION 10.01. AGREEMENT TO SUBORDINATE.
The Company agrees for itself and its successors, and each
Holder by accepting a Note agrees, that the Debt evidenced by the Note is
subordinated in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner provided in
this Article 10, to the prior payment in full in cash of all Senior Debt
(whether outstanding on the date hereof or hereafter created, incurred, assumed
or guaranteed), and that the subordination is for the benefit of the holders of
Senior Debt.
SECTION 10.02. LIQUIDATION; DISSOLUTION; BANKRUPTCY.
Upon any distribution to creditors of the Company in a
liquidation or dissolution of the Company or in a bankruptcy, reorganization,
insolvency, receivership or similar proceeding relating to the Company or its
property, in an assignment for the benefit of creditors or any marshaling of the
Company's assets and liabilities:
(a) holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to receive payment in full
in cash, of all Obligations due in respect of such Senior Debt (including
interest after the commencement of any such proceeding at the rate specified in
the applicable Senior Debt) before Holders shall be entitled to receive any
payment with respect to the Notes (except that Holders may receive (i) Permitted
Junior Securities and (ii) payments and other distributions made from any
defeasance trust created pursuant to Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof); and
(b) until all Obligations with respect to Senior Debt are paid in full
in cash, any distribution to which Holders would be entitled but for this
Article 10 shall be made to holders of Senior Debt (except that Holders may
receive (i) Permitted Junior Securities and (ii) payments and other
distributions made from any defeasance trust created pursuant to Section 8.02 or
8.03 hereof), as their interests may appear.
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SECTION 10.03. DEFAULT ON DESIGNATED SENIOR DEBT.
(a) The Company may not make any payment or distribution to the Trustee
or any Holder upon or in respect of the Notes (other than (x) Permitted Junior
Securities and (y) payments and other distributions made from any defeasance
trust created pursuant to Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof) or to repurchase or
redeem any of the Notes (including, without limitation, repurchases of Notes at
the option of a Holder upon a Change of Control) if: (i) a default in the
payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on Designated Senior
Debt occurs and is continuing beyond any applicable period of grace or (ii) any
other default occurs and is continuing with respect to Designated Senior Debt
that permits holders of the Designated Senior Debt as to which such default
relates to accelerate its maturity and, in the case of clause (ii), the Trustee
receives a notice of such default (a "Payment Blockage Notice") from the Senior
Debt Representative of any Designated Senior Debt. Payments on the Notes may and
shall be resumed (x) in the case of a payment default, upon the date on which
such default is cured or waived and (y) in the case of a nonpayment default, the
earlier of (a) the date on which such nonpayment default is cured or waived, (b)
179 days after the date on which the applicable Payment Blockage Notice is
received, (c) the date such Designated Senior Debt shall have been discharged or
paid in full in cash or (d) the date such Payment Blockage Period shall have
been terminated by written notice to the Company or the Trustee from the Senior
Debt Representative of Designated Senior Debt initiating such Payment Blockage
Period, after which, in the case of clauses (a), (b), (c) and (d), the Company
shall resume making any and all required payments in respect of the Notes,
including any payments not made to the Holders of the Notes during the Payment
Blockage Period due to the foregoing prohibitions, unless the provisions
described in clause (i) are then applicable. No new period of payment blockage
may be commenced unless and until 360 days have elapsed since the effectiveness
of the immediately prior Payment Blockage Notice. No nonpayment default that
existed or was continuing on the date of delivery of any Payment Blockage Notice
to the Trustee shall be, or be made, the basis for a subsequent Payment Blockage
Notice unless such default shall have been cured or waived for a period of not
less than 90 days.
SECTION 10.04. ACCELERATION OF NOTES.
If payment of the Notes is accelerated because of an Event of Default, the
Company shall promptly notify holders of Senior Debt of the acceleration.
SECTION 10.05. WHEN DISTRIBUTION MUST BE PAID OVER.
(a) In the event that the Trustee or any Holder receives any payment or
distribution of assets of the Company of any Obligations with respect to the
Notes at a time when the Trustee or such Holder, as applicable, has actual
knowledge that such payment is prohibited by Section 10.03 hereof, such payment
or distribution shall be received and held by the Trustee or such Holder in
trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid forthwith over and delivered, upon
written request, to, the holders of Senior Indebtedness as their interests may
appear or their representative (the "Representative") under the indenture or
other agreement (if any) pursuant to which Senior Debt may have been issued, as
their respective interests may appear, in cash for application to the payment in
cash of all principal of, premium, if any, or interest on Senior Debt remaining
unpaid to the extent necessary to pay such amounts in full in cash in accordance
with their terms, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution
to or for the holders of Senior Debt.
(b) With respect to the holders of Senior Debt, the Trustee undertakes
to perform only such obligations on the part of the Trustee as are specifically
set forth in this Article 10, and no implied
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covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of Senior Debt shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed to
owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt, and shall not be liable to
any such holders if the Trustee shall pay over or distribute to or on behalf of
Holders or the Company or any other Person money or assets to which any holders
of Senior Debt shall be entitled by virtue of this Article 10, except if such
payment is made as a result of the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the
Trustee.
SECTION 10.06. NOTICE BY COMPANY.
The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent of any
facts known to the Company that would cause a payment of any Obligations with
respect to the Notes to violate this Article, but failure to give such notice
shall not affect the subordination of the Notes to the Senior Debt as provided
in this Article.
SECTION 10.07. SUBROGATION.
After all Senior Debt is paid in full in cash and until the Notes are paid
in full, Holders shall be subrogated (equally and ratably with all other Debt
pari passu with the Notes) to the rights of holders of Senior Debt to receive
distributions applicable to Senior Debt to the extent that distributions
otherwise payable to the Holders have been applied to the payment of Senior
Debt. A distribution made under this Article to holders of Senior Debt that
otherwise would have been made to Holders is not, as between the Company and
Holders, a payment by the Company on the Notes.
SECTION 10.08. RELATIVE RIGHTS.
(a) This Article defines the relative rights of Holders and holders of
Senior Debt. Nothing in this Indenture shall: (i) impair, as between the Company
and Holders, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional,
to pay principal of and interest on the Notes in accordance with their terms;
(ii) affect the relative rights of Holders and creditors of the Company other
than their rights in relation to holders of Senior Debt; or (iii) prevent the
Trustee or any Holder from exercising its available remedies upon a Default or
Event of Default, subject to the rights of holders and owners of Senior Debt to
receive distributions and payments otherwise payable to Holders.
(b) If the Company fails because of this Article to pay principal of or
interest on a Note on the due date, the failure is still a Default or Event of
Default.
SECTION 10.09. SUBORDINATION MAY NOT BE IMPAIRED BY COMPANY.
No right of any holder of Senior Debt to enforce the subordination of the
Debt evidenced by the Notes shall be impaired by any act or failure to act by
the Company or any Holder or by the failure of the Company or any Holder to
comply with this Indenture.
SECTION 10.10. DISTRIBUTION OR NOTICE TO REPRESENTATIVE.
Whenever a distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders of
Senior Debt, the distribution may be made and the notice given to their
Representative.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in
this Article 10, the Trustee and the Holders shall be entitled to rely upon any
order or decree made by any court of
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competent jurisdiction or upon any certificate of such Representative or of the
liquidating trustee or agent or other Person making any distribution to the
Trustee or to the Holders for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled
to participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and other
Debt of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or
amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to
this Article 10.
SECTION 10.11. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE AND PAYING AGENT
Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article 10 or any other provision
of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the
existence of any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment or
distribution by the Trustee, and the Trustee and the Paying Agent may continue
to make payments on the Notes, unless the Trustee shall have received at its
Corporate Trust Office at least five Business Days prior to the date of such
payment written notice of facts that would cause the payment of any Obligations
with respect to the Notes to violate this Article. Only the Company or a
Representative may give the notice. Nothing in this Article 10 shall impair the
claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 7.07 hereof.
The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may hold Senior Debt
with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the
same with like rights.
SECTION 10.12. AUTHORIZATION TO EFFECT SUBORDINATION.
Each Holder of a Note by the Holder's acceptance thereof authorizes and
directs the Trustee on the Holder's behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination as provided in this
Article 10, and appoints the Trustee to act as the Holder's attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes. If the Trustee does not file a proper proof of claim
or proof of debt in the form required in any proceeding referred to in Section
6.09 hereof at least 30 days before the expiration of the time to file such
claim, the Holders are hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim.
SECTION 10.13. AMENDMENTS.
The provisions of this Article 10 shall not be amended or modified in a
manner adverse to holders of Senior Debt without the written consent of the
holders of all Senior Debt (in accordance with the provisions thereof).
ARTICLE 11.
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.01. TRUST INDENTURE ACT CONTROLS.
If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts
with the duties imposed by TIA Section 318(c), the imposed duties shall control.
SECTION 11.02. NOTICES.
Any notice or communication by the Company or the Trustee to the
others is duly given if in writing and delivered in Person or mailed by first
class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), telex,
telecopier or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the
others' address:
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If to the Company:
Flextronics International Ltd.
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx of America
Telecopier No.:(000) 000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxx
With a copy to:
Fenwick & West LLP
Xxx Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Telecopier No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
If to the Trustee:
State Street Bank and Trust Company of California
000 X. Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Telecopier No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Corporate Trust Department
The Company or the Trustee, by notice to the others, may designate
additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
All notices and communications (other than those sent to Holders)
shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if
personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail,
postage prepaid, if mailed; when answered back, if telexed; when receipt
acknowledged, if telecopied; and the next Business Day after timely delivery to
the courier, if sent by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery.
Any notice or communication to a Holder shall be mailed by first
class mail, certified or registered, return receipt requested, or by overnight
air courier guaranteeing next day delivery to its address shown on the register
kept by the Registrar. Any notice or communication shall also be so mailed to
any Person described in TIA ss. 313(c), to the extent required by the TIA.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall
not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders.
If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above
within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee
receives it.
If the Company mails a notice or communication to Holders, it shall
mail a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time.
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SECTION 11.03. COMMUNICATION BY HOLDERS OF NOTES WITH OTHER HOLDERS
OF NOTES.
Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other
Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes. The
Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of
TIA Section 312(c).
SECTION 11.04. CERTIFICATE AND OPINION AS TO CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.
Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to
take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:
(a) an Officers' Certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Trustee (which shall include the statements set forth in Section 11.05
hereof) stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent
and covenants, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed
action have been satisfied; and
(b) an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Trustee (which shall include the statements set forth in Section 11.05
hereof) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions
precedent and covenants have been satisfied.
SECTION 11.05. STATEMENTS REQUIRED IN CERTIFICATE OR OPINION.
Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate
provided pursuant to TIA Section 314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of
TIA Section 314(e) and shall include:
(a) a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion has
read such covenant or condition;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he or she 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
satisfied; and
(d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such Person, such
condition or covenant has been satisfied.
SECTION 11.06. RULES BY TRUSTEE AND AGENTS.
The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting
of Holders. The Registrar or Paying Agent may make reasonable rules and set
reasonable requirements for its functions.
SECTION 11.07. NO PERSONAL LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS,
EMPLOYEES AND STOCKHOLDERS.
No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator
or stockholder of the Company, as such, shall have any liability for any
obligations of the Company under the Notes, this Indenture or for any claim
based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.
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Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The
waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes.
SECTION 11.08. GOVERNING LAW.
THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED
TO CONSTRUE THIS INDENTURE AND THE NOTES, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAWS
PROVISIONS THEREOF. THE COMPANY AGREES THAT ANY SUIT FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THIS
INDENTURE OR THE NOTES MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK OR
ANY FEDERAL COURT SITTING THEREIN AND CONSENTS TO THE NONEXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION
OF SUCH COURT AND SERVICE OF PROCESS IN ANY SUCH SUIT BEING MADE UPON THE
CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY, THE COMPANY'S AGENT FOR SERVICE OF PROCESS. THE
COMPANY HEREBY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE
VENUE OF ANY SUCH SUIT OR ANY SUCH COURT OR THAT SUCH SUIT IS BROUGHT IN AN
INCONVENIENT COURT.
SECTION 11.09. NO ADVERSE INTERPRETATION OF OTHER AGREEMENTS.
This Indenture may not be used to interpret any other indenture,
loan or debt agreement of the Company or its Subsidiaries or of any other
Person. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret
this Indenture.
SECTION 11.10. SUCCESSORS.
All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Notes shall
bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind
its successors.
SECTION 11.11. SEVERABILITY.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 11.12. COUNTERPART ORIGINALS.
The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. Each
signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same
agreement.
SECTION 11.13. TABLE OF CONTENTS, HEADINGS, ETC.
The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and Headings of the
Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of
reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Indenture and shall in
no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 11.14. BERMUDA BRANCH; FULL RECOURSE OBLIGATIONS
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, all
payments of principal and interest by the Company with respect to the Notes will
be made by the Company through its Bermuda branch, provided, however, that
notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company acknowledges that its
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Obligations hereunder are full recourse to Flextronics International Ltd. and
are in no manner limited to any extent to any branch thereof and shall in no
manner impair the Trustee's ability to collect any Obligation from the Company.
[Signatures on following page]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all as of the day and year first
above written.
FLEXTRONICS INTERNATIONAL LTD.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
Attest:
/s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President of
Finance and Administration
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY OF
CALIFORNIA, N.A.
as Trustee
By: _______________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
(Face of Note)
8 3/4% Senior Subordinated Note Due 2007, Series A
No. U.S.$__________
FLEXTRONICS INTERNATIONAL LTD.
promises to pay to
or registered assigns,
the principal sum of
Dollars on October 15, 2007.
Interest Payment Dates: April 15, and October 15
Record Dates: April 1, and October 1
Dated: _________ ___, ____
FLEXTRONICS INTERNATIONAL LTD.
By: ___________________________________
Name:
Title:
Attest: _______________________________
Name:
Title:
This is one of the Global
Notes referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture:
State Street Bank and Trust Company of California,
as Trustee
By: ________________________________
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(Back of Note)
8 3/4% Senior Subordinated Note Due 2007
Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Notes in
definitive form, this Note may not be transferred except as a whole by the
Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to
the Depository or another nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or any
such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such successor
Depository. Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company (55 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx) ("XXX"),
to the issuer or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment,
and any certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or such other
name as may be requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment
is made to Cede & Co. or such other entity as may be requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner
hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE OR
FOREIGN SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED,
ENCUMBERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH
REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM, EACH PURCHASER OF THIS
NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON THE
EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED
BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.
THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES TO
OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE
"RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE") WHICH IS TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATER
OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY
OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY
PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY), ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY, (B) PURSUANT TO A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE
PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT
PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING
MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES THAT OCCUR
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR WITHIN THE
MEANING OF RULE 501(A) (1), (2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT
IS ACQUIRING THE SECURITY FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH
AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR, IN EACH CASE IN A MINIMUM PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF THE SECURITIES OF $100,000, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH
A VIEW TO OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH ANY DISTRIBUTION IN
VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE
EXEMPTION FROM THE
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REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY'S
AND THE TRUSTEE'S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER (i)
PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (C), (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN
OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO
EACH OF THEM, AND (ii) IN THE CASE OF THE FOREGOING CLAUSE (E), TO REQUIRE
THAT A TRANSFER NOTICE IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF
THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.
Capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings assigned to
them in the Indenture (as defined in paragraph 4 below) referred to below unless
otherwise indicated.
1. INTEREST. Flextronics International Ltd., a Singapore company (the
"Company"), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 8
3/4% per annum from October 15, 1997 until maturity. The Company will pay
interest semi-annually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year, or if
any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each an
"Interest Payment Date"). Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent
date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the
date of issuance; provided that if there is no existing Default in the payment
of interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a record date referred to
on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall
accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date; provided, further, that
the first Interest Payment Date shall be April 15, 1998. The Company shall pay
interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any
bankruptcy law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time on
demand at a rate that is 1% per annum in excess of the rate then in effect; it
shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any
bankruptcy law) on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any
applicable grace periods from time to time on demand at the same rate to the
extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months.
2. METHOD OF PAYMENT. The Company will pay interest on the Notes (except
defaulted interest) to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the
close of business on the April 1 or October 1 next preceding the Interest
Payment Date, even if such Notes are canceled after such record date and on or
before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.12 of the
Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. The Notes will be payable as to
principal, premium and interest at the office or agency of the Company
maintained for such purpose within or without The City and State of New York,
or, at the option of the Company, payment of interest may be made by check
mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders,
and provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will
be required with respect to principal of and interest and premium on, all Global
Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which shall have provided wire transfer
instructions to the Company or the Paying Agent. Such payment shall be in such
coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is
legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
3. PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, State Street Bank and Trust
Company of California, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent
and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without
notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such
capacity.
4. INDENTURE. The Company issued the Notes pursuant to an Indenture dated
as of October 15, 1997 ("Indenture") between the Company and the Trustee. The
terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of
the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended
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(15 U.S. Code Section 77aaa-77bbbb). The Notes are subject to all such terms,
and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such
terms.
5. OPTIONAL REDEMPTION.
(a) Except as set forth in clause (b) or (c) of this paragraph 5, the
Company shall not have the option to redeem the Notes pursuant to this paragraph
5 prior to October 15, 2002. Thereafter, the Company shall have the option to
redeem the Notes, in whole or in part, at the redemption prices (expressed as
percentages of principal amount) set forth below plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon, if any, to the applicable redemption date, if redeemed during
the twelve-month period beginning on October 15 of the years indicated below:
YEAR PERCENTAGE
2002.......................... 104.375%
2003.......................... 102.917%
2004.......................... 101.459%
2005 and thereafter........... 100.000%
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (a) of this paragraph 5, at
any time prior to October 15, 2000, the Company may on any one or more occasions
redeem up to an aggregate of $52.5 million in aggregate principal amount of the
Notes at a redemption price of 108.75% of the principal amount thereof, plus
accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the redemption date, with the net cash
proceeds of a public or private offering of Ordinary Shares of the Company
(other than the Equity Offering) (an "Equity Sale"); provided that at least
$97.5 million in aggregate principal amount of Notes remain outstanding
immediately after the occurrence of such redemption; and provided, further, that
such redemption shall occur within 90 days of the date of the closing of such
Equity Sale.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (a) of this paragraph 5, if,
as a result of any change in or any amendment to the laws, including any
applicable double taxation treaty or convention, of Singapore (or any Other
Jurisdiction, as defined in Section 4.01 of the Indenture), or of any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof, affecting taxation, or any change in
the application or interpretation of such laws, double taxation treaty or
convention (a "Change in Tax Law"), which change or amendment becomes effective
on or after the original issuance date of the Notes (or, in certain
circumstances, such later date on which any assignee of the Company or a
successor corporation to the Company becomes such as permitted by Section 5.01
of the Indenture), it is determined, by the Company or such assignee (which
terms, for purposes of the remainder of this clause (c), include any successor
thereto) that (i) the Company or its assignee would be required to make payments
of Additional Amounts on the next succeeding date for the payment thereof and
(ii) the effect of such Change in Tax Law cannot be avoided through any
reasonable measures available to the Company, the Company may, at its option,
redeem the Notes in whole at any time at a redemption price equal to 100% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest to the date fixed for
redemption (the "Tax Redemption Price").
6. MANDATORY REDEMPTION.
Except as set forth in paragraph 7 below, the Company shall not be
required to make mandatory redemption payments with respect to the Notes.
7. REPURCHASE AT OPTION OF HOLDER.
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(a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder of Notes will
have the right to require the Company to repurchase all or any part (equal to
$1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of such Holder's Notes pursuant to the
offer described below (the "Change of Control Offer") at an offer price in cash
equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon, if any, to the date of repurchase (the "Change of Control
Offer"). Within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Company will mail a
notice to each Holder describing the transaction or transactions that constitute
the Change of Control and offering to repurchase Notes on the date specified in
such notice, which date shall be no earlier than 30 days and no later than 60
days from the date such notice is mailed (the "Change of Control Payment Date"),
pursuant to the procedures required by the Indenture and described in such
notice.
(b) When the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $10.0 million, the
Company will be required to make an offer (an "Asset Sale Offer") to all Holders
of Notes and holders of any other Pari Passu Debt outstanding with provisions
requiring the Company to make an offer to purchase or redeem such indebtedness
with the proceeds from any Asset Sale as follows: (A) the Company will make an
offer to purchase from all holders of the Notes, in accordance with the
procedures set forth in Section 4.10 of the Indenture, the maximum principal
amount (expressed as a multiple of $1,000) of Notes that may be purchased out of
an amount (the "Note Amount") equal to the product of such Excess Proceeds
multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the outstanding principal
amount of the Notes, and the denominator of which is the sum of the outstanding
principal amount of the Notes and such Pari Passu Debt (subject to proration in
the event such amount is less than the aggregate Asset Sale Offered Price (as
defined herein) of all Notes tendered), and (B) to the extent required by such
Pari Passu Debt to permanently reduce the principal amount of such Pari Passu
Debt, the Company will make an offer to purchase or otherwise repurchase or
redeem Pari Passu Debt (an "Asset Sale Pari Passu Offer") in an amount (the
"Pari Passu Debt Amount") equal to the excess of the Excess Proceeds over the
Note Amount; provided that in no event will the Company be required to make an
Asset Sale Pari Passu Offer in a Pari Passu Debt Amount exceeding the principal
amount of such Pari Passu Debt plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the
date of such repurchase plus the amount of any premium required to be paid to
repurchase such Pari Passu Debt. The offer price for the Notes will be payable
in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus
accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the date (the "Asset Sale Offer Date")
such Asset Sale Offer is consummated (the "Asset Sale Offered Price"), in
accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture. To the extent that
the aggregate Asset Sale Offered Price of the Notes tendered pursuant to the
Asset Sale Offer is less than the Note Amount relating thereto or the aggregate
amount of Pari Passu Debt that is purchased in an Asset Sale Pari Passu Offer is
less than the Pari Passu Debt Amount, the Company may use any remaining Excess
Proceeds for general corporate purposes. If the aggregate principal amount of
Notes and Pari Passu Debt surrendered by holders thereof exceeds the amount of
Excess Proceeds, the Trustee shall select the Notes to be purchased on a pro
rata basis. Upon the completion of the purchase of all the Notes tendered
pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer and the completion of a Pari Passu Offer, the
amount of Excess Proceeds, if any, shall be reset at zero.
(c) If the Company becomes obligated to make an Asset Sale Offer pursuant
to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Notes and the Pari Passu Debt shall
be purchased by the Company, at the option of the holders thereof, in whole or
in part in integral multiples of $1,000, on a date that is not earlier than 30
days and not later than 60 days from the date the notice of the Asset Sale Offer
is given to holders, or such later date as may be necessary for the Company to
comply with the requirements under the Exchange Act.
8. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption will be mailed at least
30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date to each Holder
whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address. Notes in denominations
larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of
$1,000, unless all of the Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed. On and
after the redemption date interest ceases to accrue on Notes or portions thereof
called for redemption.
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9. DENOMINATIONS, TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form
without coupons in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. The
transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in
the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other
things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and the
Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes and fees required by law or
permitted by the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or register the
transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption, except for
the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, it need not
exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a
selection of Notes to be redeemed or during the period between a record date and
the corresponding Interest Payment Date.
10. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be
treated as its owner for all purposes.
11. AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. Subject to certain exceptions, the
Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the
Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding
Notes, and any existing default or compliance with any provision of the
Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including, without
limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer
or exchange offer for, Notes). Without the consent of any Holder of a Note, the
Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented to cure any ambiguity,
defect or inconsistency, to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or
in place of certificated Notes, to provide for the assumption of the Company's
obligations to Holders of the Notes in case of a merger or consolidation, to
make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the
Holders of the Notes or that does not adversely affect the legal rights under
the Indenture of any such Holder, or to comply with the requirements of the
Commission in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture
under the Trust Indenture Act.
12. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES. Events of Default include: (i) default for 30
days in the payment when due of interest on the Notes (whether or not prohibited
by the subordination provisions of the Indenture); (ii) default in payment when
due of principal of or premium, if any, on the Notes when the same becomes due
and payable at maturity, upon redemption (including in connection with an offer
to purchase) or otherwise (whether or not prohibited by the subordination
provisions of the Indenture), (iii) failure by the Company to comply with
Section 3.10, 4.07, 4.09, 4.10, 4.14 or 5.01 of the Indenture, which failure
remains uncured for 30 days after notice from either the Trustee or the Holders
of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding; (iv) failure
by the Company for 60 days after notice to the Company by the Trustee or the
Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to
comply with certain other agreements in the Indenture or the Notes; (v) default
under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or
by which there may be secured or evidenced any Debt for money borrowed by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is guaranteed by the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries) whether such Debt or guarantee now exists,
or is created after the date of the Indenture, which default (a) is caused by a
failure to pay principal of or premium, if any, or interest on such Debt prior
to the expiration of the grace period provided in such Debt, on the date of such
default (a "Payment Default") or (b) results in the acceleration of such Debt
prior to its express maturity and, in each case, the principal amount of any
such Debt, together with the principal amount of any other such Debt or the
maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates $10.0 million or more;
(vi) failure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to pay final judgments
aggregating in excess of $10.0 million, which judgments are not paid, discharged
or stayed for a period of 60 days; and (vi) certain events of bankruptcy or
insolvency with respect to the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries.
If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of
at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may declare all
the Notes to be due and payable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of
an Event of Default arising from certain events of bankruptcy or insolvency with
respect to the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any group of Subsidiaries
that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, all outstanding
Notes will become due and payable
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without further action or notice. Holders may not enforce the Indenture or the
Notes except as provided in the Indenture. Subject to certain limitations,
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may
direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may
withhold from Holders of the Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of
Default (except a Default or Event of Default relating to the payment of
principal or interest) if it determines that withholding notice is in their
interest. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the Holders of all of
the Notes waive any existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences
under the Indenture except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the
payment of interest on, or the principal of, the Notes. The Company is required
to deliver to the Trustee annually a statement regarding compliance with the
Indenture, and the Company is required upon becoming aware of any Default or
Event of Default, to deliver to the Trustee a statement specifying such Default
or Event of Default.
13. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY. The Trustee, in its individual or any
other capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform services
for the Company or its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the Company or
its Affiliates, as if it were not the Trustee.
14. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. A director, officer, employee,
incorporator or stockholder, of the Company, as such, shall not have any
liability for any obligations of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or
for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or
their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such
liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance
of the Notes.
15. AUTHENTICATION. This Note shall not be valid until authenticated by
the manual signature of the Trustee or an authenticating agent and the manual or
facsimile signature of two officers of the Company.
16. ABBREVIATIONS. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a
Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (=
tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts
to Minors Act).
17. ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF TRANSFER RESTRICTED SECURITIES. In
addition to the rights provided to Holders of Notes under the Indenture, Holders
of Transferred Restricted Securities shall have all the rights set forth in the
Registration Rights Agreement dated as of October 9, 1997, between the Company
and the parties named on the signature pages thereof (the "Registration Rights
Agreement").
18. CUSIP NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused
CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers
in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made
as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as
contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the
other identification numbers placed thereon.
The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and
without charge a copy of the Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement.
Requests may be made to:
Flextronics International Ltd.
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx of America
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
To assign this Note, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) assign
and transfer this Note to
_______________________________________________________________________________
(Insert assignee's soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.)
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
(Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code)
and irrevocably appoint _______________________________________________________
to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute
another to act for him.
_______________________________________________________________________________
Date:___________________________
Your Signature: ______________________________
(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the face of this
Note)
Signature Guarantee.
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.10 or 4.14 of the Indenture, check the box below:
[ ] Section 4.10 [ ] Section 4.14
If you want to elect to have only part of the Note purchased by the
Company pursuant to Section 4.10 or Section 4.14 of the Indenture, state the
amount you elect to have purchased: $___________
Date: _________________________ Your Signature: ___________________________
(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the Note)
Tax Identification No.: ___________________
Signature Guarantee.
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF DEFINITIVE NOTE
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note for Definitive Notes have
been made:
Principal
Amount of Amount of Amount of Signature of
decrease in increase in this Global authorized
Principal Principal Note following officer of
Amount of Amount of such Trustee or
Date of this Global this Global decrease (or Note
Exchange Note Note increase) Custodian
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EXHIBIT B
CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF NOTES
Re: 8 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes Due 2007 of Flextronics International
Ltd.
This Certificate relates to $_____ principal amount of Notes held in
* ________ book-entry or *_______ definitive form by ________________ (the
"Transferor").
The Transferor*:
[ ] has requested the Trustee by written order to deliver in
exchange for its beneficial interest in the Global Note held by the Depository a
Note or Notes in definitive, registered form of authorized denominations in an
aggregate principal amount equal to its beneficial interest in such Global Note
(or the portion thereof indicated above); or
[ ] has requested the Trustee by written order to exchange or
register the transfer of a Note or Notes.
In connection with such request and in respect of each such Note,
the Transferor does hereby certify that Transferor is familiar with the
Indenture relating to the above captioned Notes and as provided in Section 2.06
of such Indenture, the transfer of this Note does not require registration under
the Securities Act (as defined below) because:*
[ ] Such Note is being acquired for the Transferor's own account,
without transfer (in satisfaction of Section 2.06(a)(ii)(A) or Section
2.06(d)(i)(A) of the Indenture).
[ ] Such Note is being transferred to a "qualified institutional
buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended
(the "Securities Act")) in reliance on Rule 144A (in satisfaction of Section
2.06(a)(ii)(B), Section 2.06(b)(A) or Section 2.06(d)(i) (B) of the Indenture)
or pursuant to an exemption from registration in accordance with Rule 904 under
the Securities Act (in satisfaction of Section 2.06(a)(ii)(B) or Section
2.06(d)(i)(B) of the Indenture.)
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[ ] Such Note is being transferred in accordance with Rule 144 under
the Securities Act, or pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act (in satisfaction of Section 2.06(a)(ii)(B) or Section
2.06(d)(i)(B) of the Indenture).
[ ] Such Note is being transferred in reliance on and in compliance
with an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act,
other than Rule 144A, 144 or Rule 904 under the Securities Act. An Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that such transfer does not require registration under the
Securities Act accompanies this Certificate (in satisfaction of Section
2.06(a)(ii)(C) or Section 2.06(d)(i)(C) of the Indenture).
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[INSERT NAME OF TRANSFEROR]
By:
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Date:
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