EXHIBIT 4.7
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PREFERRED SECURITIES GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
COMMUNITY TRUST BANCORP, INC.
and
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
DATED AS OF _______________ ____, 1997
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
1. Definitions and Interpretation ....................................... 1
1.1 Definitions and Interpretations ................................. 1
2. Trust Indenture Act .................................................. 4
2.1 Trust Indenture Act; Application ................................ 4
2.2 Lists of Holders of Securities .................................. 4
2.3 Reports by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee ...................... 5
2.4 Periodic Reports to Preferred Guarantee Trustee ................. 5
2.5 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent ................ 5
2.6 Events of Default; Waiver ....................................... 5
2.7 Event of Default; Notice ........................................ 5
2.8 Conflicting Interests ........................................... 6
3. Powers, Duties And Rights Of Preferred Guarantee Trustee ............. 6
3.1 Powers and Duties of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee ............ 6
3.2 Certain Rights of Preferred Guarantee Trustee ................... 8
3.3 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Guarantee ........... 9
4. Preferred Guarantee Trustee .......................................... 10
4.1 Preferred Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility ........................ 10
4.2 Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Preferred Guarantee
Trustees ........................................................ 10
5. Guarantee ............................................................ 11
5.1 Guarantee ....................................................... 11
5.2 Waiver of Notice and Demand ..................................... 11
5.3 Obligations Not Affected ........................................ 11
5.4 Rights of Holders ............................................... 12
5.5 Guarantee of Payment ............................................ 13
5.6 Subrogation ..................................................... 13
5.7 Independent Obligations ......................................... 13
6. Limitation Of Transactions; Subordination ............................ 13
6.1 Limitation of Transactions ...................................... 13
6.2 Ranking ......................................................... 13
7. Termination .......................................................... 14
7.1 Termination ..................................................... 14
8. Indemnification ...................................................... 14
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section Page
8.1 Exculpation ..................................................... 14
8.2 Indemnification ................................................. 14
9. Miscellaneous ........................................................ 15
9.1 Successors and Assigns .......................................... 15
9.2 Amendments ...................................................... 15
9.3 Notices ......................................................... 15
9.4 Benefit ......................................................... 16
9.5 Governing Law ................................................... 16
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TRUST INDENTURE ACT
CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
Section of Trust Indenture
Acts of 1939, Amended Section of Indenture
310(a) ................................................................. 4.1(a)
310(b) ............................................................ 2.8, 4.1(c)
310(c) ......................................................... Not Applicable
311(a) ................................................................. 2.2(b)
311(b) ................................................................. 2.2(b)
311(c) ......................................................... Not Applicable
312(a) ................................................................. 2.2(a)
312(b) ................................................................. 2.2(b)
313 ....................................................................... 2.3
314(a) .................................................................... 2.4
314(b) ......................................................... Not Applicable
314(c) .................................................................... 2.5
314(d) ......................................................... Not Applicable
314(e) .......................................................... 1.1, 2.5, 3.2
314(f) ............................................................... 2.1, 3.2
315(a) ................................................................. 3.1(d)
315(b) .................................................................... 2.7
315(c) .................................................................... 3.1
315(d) ................................................................. 3.1(d)
316(a) ............................................................... 1.1, 5.4
316(b) .................................................................... 5.4
316(c) .................................................................... 8.2
317(a) ......................................................... Not Applicable
317(b) ......................................................... Not Applicable
318(a) ................................................................. 2.1(b)
318(b) .................................................................... 2.1
318(c) ................................................................. 2.1(a)
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PREFERRED SECURITIES GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
This Preferred Securities Guarantee Agreement (the "Preferred Securities
Guarantee"), dated as of _______________ ____, 1997, is executed by and between
Community Trust Bancorp, Inc. (the "Guarantor"), a Kentucky corporation, and
State Street Bank and Trust Company, as trustee (the "Preferred Guarantee
Trustee"), for the benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) from time to time
of the Preferred Securities (as defined herein) of CTBI Preferred Capital Trust
("CTBI Trust"), a Delaware statutory business trust.
RECITALS:
A. Whereas, pursuant to an Amended and Restated Trust Agreement (the "Trust
Agreement"), dated as of ________ __, 1997, among the trustees of CTBI Trust
named therein, the Guarantor, as sponsor, and the holders from time to time of
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of CTBI Trust, CTBI Trust is issuing
on the date hereof ________ preferred securities, having an aggregate
liquidation amount of $______________, designated the _____% Cumulative Trust
Preferred Securities (the "Preferred Securities");
B. Whereas, as incentive for the Holders to purchase the Preferred
Securities, the Guarantor desires irrevocably and unconditionally to agree, to
the extent set forth in this Preferred Securities Guarantee, to pay to the
Holders of the Preferred Securities the Guarantee Payments (as defined herein)
and to make certain other payments on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
AGREEMENT:
NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereby agree as follows: in consideration of
the purchase by each Holder of Preferred Securities, which purchase the
Guarantor hereby agrees shall benefit the Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and
delivers this Preferred Securities Guarantee for the benefit of the Holders.
1. Definitions And Interpretation.
1.1 Definitions and Interpretations.
(a) In this Preferred Securities Guarantee, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) Capitalized terms used in this Preferred Securities Guarantee
but not defined in the preamble above have the respective meanings
assigned to them in this Section 1.1;
(2) a term defined anywhere in this Preferred Securities
Guarantee has the same meaning throughout;
(3) all references to "the Preferred Securities Guarantee" or
"this Preferred Securities Guarantee" are to this Preferred Securities
Guarantee as modified, supplemented or amended from time to time;
(4) all references in this Preferred Securities Guarantee to
Sections are to Sections of this Preferred Securities Guarantee, unless
otherwise specified;
(5) a term defined in the Trust Indenture Act has the same
meaning when used in this Preferred Securities Guarantee, unless otherwise
defined in this Preferred Securities Guarantee or unless the context
otherwise requires; and
(6) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice
versa.
(b) "Affiliate" has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405
of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor rule thereunder.
(c) "Business Day" means any day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday,
(b) a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized
or required by law or executive order to remain closed, or (c) a day on which
Property Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or the Corporate Trust Office of the
Debenture Trustee is closed for business.
(d) "Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee at which the corporate trust business of the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee shall, at any particular time, be principally administered,
which office at the date of execution of this Agreement is located at Xxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx, XX 00000, Attn: Corporate Trust
Department.
(e) "Covered Person" means any Holder or beneficial owner of Preferred
Securities.
(f) "Debentures" means the series of convertible junior subordinated
debt securities of the Guarantor designated the __________% Cumulative
Subordinated Debentures due 2027 held by the Property Trustee (as defined in the
Trust Agreement) of CTBI Trust.
(g) "Event of Default" means a default by the Guarantor on any of its
payment or other obligations under this Preferred Securities Guarantee.
(h) "Guarantee Payments" means the following payments or distributions
without duplication, with respect to the Preferred Securities, to the extent not
paid or made by CTBI Trust: (i) any accrued and unpaid Distributions (as defined
in the Trust Agreement) that are required to be paid on such Preferred
Securities to the extent CTBI Trust shall have funds available therefor, (ii)
the redemption price, including all accrued and unpaid Distributions to the date
of redemption (the "Redemption Price") to the extent CTBI Trust has funds
available therefor, with respect to any Preferred Securities called for
redemption by CTBI Trust, and (iii) upon a voluntary or involuntary dissolution,
winding-up or termination of CTBI Trust (other than in connection with the
distribution of Debentures to the Holders in exchange for Preferred Securities
as provided in the Trust Agreement), the lesser of (a) the aggregate of the
liquidation amount and all accrued and unpaid Distributions on the Preferred
Securities to the date of payment, to the extent CTBI Trust shall have funds
available therefor and (b) the amount of assets
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of CTBI Trust remaining available for distribution to Holders in liquidation of
CTBI Trust (in either case, the "Liquidation Distribution").
(i) "Holder" shall mean any holder, as registered on the books and
records of CTBI Trust of any Preferred Securities; provided, however, that, in
determining whether the holders of the requisite percentage of Preferred
Securities have given any request, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, "Holder"
shall not include the Guarantor or any Affiliate of the Guarantor.
(j) "Indemnified Person" means the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, any
Affiliate of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, or any officers, directors,
shareholders, members, partners, employees, representatives, nominees,
custodians or agents of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(k) "Indenture" means the Indenture dated as of ______________, 1997
among the Guarantor (the "Debenture Issuer") and State Street Bank and Trust
Company, as trustee, and any indenture supplemental thereto pursuant to which
certain subordinated debt securities of the Debenture Issuer are to be issued to
the Property Trustee of CTBI Trust.
(l) "Majority in liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities"
means, except as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, a vote by Holder(s) of
Preferred Securities, voting separately as a class, of more than 50% of the
liquidation amount (including the stated amount that would be paid on
redemption, liquidation or otherwise, plus accrued and unpaid Distributions to
the date upon which the voting percentages are determined) of all Preferred
Securities.
(m) "Officers' Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a
certificate signed by two Authorized Officers of such Person. Any Officers'
Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Preferred Securities Guarantee shall include:
(1) a statement that each officer signing the Officers'
Certificate has read the covenant or condition and the definition relating
thereto;
(2) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation undertaken by each officer in rendering the Officers'
Certificate;
(3) a statement that each such officer has made such examination
or investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to enable such
officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant
or condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
officer, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
(n) "Person" means a legal person, including any individual,
corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock
company, limited liability company, trust,
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unincorporated association, or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature.
(o) "Preferred Guarantee Trustee" means State Street Bank and Trust
Company, until a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and
has accepted such appointment pursuant to the terms of this Preferred Securities
Guarantee and thereafter means each such Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(p) "Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee, any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee, including any vice-president, any assistant vice-
president, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer or
other officer of the Corporate Trust Officer of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above
designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust
matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of that
officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
(q) "Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee" means a successor
Preferred Guarantee Trustee possessing the qualifications to act as Preferred
Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1.
(r) "Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended.
2. Trust Indenture Act.
2.1 Trust Indenture Act; Application.
(a) This Preferred Securities Guarantee is subject to the provisions
of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Preferred
Securities Guarantee and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such
provisions; and
(b) If and to the extent that any provision of this Preferred
Securities Guarantee limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by
Section 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties
shall control.
2.2 Lists of Holders of Securities.
(a) The Guarantor shall provide the Preferred Guarantee Trustee with a
list, in such form as the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of
the names and addresses of the Holder of the Preferred Securities ("List of
Holders) as of such date, (i) within 1 Business Day after January 1 and June 30
of each year, and (ii) at any other time within 30 days of receipt by the
Guarantor of a written request for a List of Holders as of a date no more than
14 days before such List of Holders is given to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee
provided, that the Guarantor shall not be obligated to provide such List of
Holders at any time the List of Holders does not differ from the most recent
List of Holders given to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee by
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the Guarantor. The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may destroy any List of Holders
previously given to it on receipt of a new List of Holders.
(b) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall comply with its obligations
under Sections 311(a), 311(b) and Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
2.3 Reports by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee. Within 60 days after May 15
of each year, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall provide to the Holders of
the Preferred Securities such reports as are required by Section 313 of the
Trust Indenture Act, if any, in the form and in the manner provided by Section
313 of the Trust Indenture Act. The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall also
comply with the requirements of Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act.
2.4 Periodic Reports to Preferred Guarantee Trustee. The Guarantor shall
provide to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee such documents, reports and
information as required by Section 314 (if any) and the compliance certificate
required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act in the form, in the manner
and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act.
2.5 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent. The Guarantor shall
provide to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee such evidence of compliance with any
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Preferred Securities
Guarantee that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the
Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an
officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) may be given in the form of an Officers'
Certificate.
2.6 Events of Default; Waiver. The Holders of a Majority in liquidation
amount of Preferred Securities may, by vote, on behalf of the Holders of all of
the Preferred Securities, waive any past Event of Default and its consequences.
Upon such waiver, any such Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Preferred Securities Guarantee, but no such waiver shall extend
to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
2.7 Event of Default; Notice.
(a) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the
occurrence of an Event of Default, transmit by mail, first class postage
prepaid, to the Holders of the Preferred Securities, notices of all Events of
Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee, unless such defaults have been cured before the giving of such notice
provided, that, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in
withholding such notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer of the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice
is in the interests of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
(b) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to have
knowledge of any Event of Default unless the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
have received written notice, or of
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which a Responsible Officer of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee charged with the
administration of the Trust Agreement shall have obtained actual knowledge.
2.8 Conflicting Interests. The Trust Agreement shall be deemed to be
specifically described in this Preferred Securities Guarantee for the purposes
of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act.
3. Powers, Duties And Rights Of Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
3.1 Powers and Duties of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(a) This Preferred Securities Guarantee shall be held by the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities,
and the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not transfer this Preferred Securities
Guarantee to any Person except a Holder of Preferred Securities exercising his
or her rights pursuant to Section 5.4(b) or to a Successor Preferred Guarantee
Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee of its
appointment to act as Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee. The right, title
and interest of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall automatically vest in any
Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee, and such vesting and cessation of title
shall be effective whether or not conveyancing documents have been executed and
delivered pursuant to the appointment of such Successor Preferred Guarantee
Trustee.
(b) If an Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of
the Preferred Guarantee Trustee has occurred and is continuing, the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee shall enforce this Preferred Securities Guarantee for the
benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities.
(c) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of any
Event of Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have
occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set
forth in this Preferred Securities Guarantee, and no implied covenants shall be
read into this Preferred Securities Guarantee against the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee. In case an Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or
waived pursuant to Section 2.6) and is actually known to a Responsible Officer
of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Preferred Securities
Guarantee, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof, as
a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
his or her own affairs.
(d) No provision of this Preferred Securities Guarantee shall be
construed to relieve the Preferred Guarantee Trustee from liability for its own
negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(1) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the
curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have occurred:
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(A) the duties and obligations of the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this
Preferred Securities Guarantee, and the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as
are specifically set forth in this Preferred Securities Guarantee, and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Preferred
Securities Guarantee against the Preferred Guarantee Trustee; and
(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely,
as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions
expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this
Preferred Securities Guarantee; but in the case of any such certificates or
opinions that by any provision hereof are specifically required to be
furnished to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or
not they conform to the requirements of this Preferred Securities
Guarantee.
(2) the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any
error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts upon
which such judgment was made;
(3) the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with
respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a Majority in
liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities relating to the time, method
and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Preferred Guarantee Trustee under this Preferred Securities
Guarantee; and
(4) no provision of this Preferred Securities Guarantee shall
require the Preferred Guarantee Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or
otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of
its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the
Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have reasonable grounds for believing
that the repayment of such funds or liability is not reasonably assured to
it under the terms of this Preferred Securities Guarantee or indemnity,
reasonably satisfactory to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, against such
risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
3.2 Certain Rights of Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 3.1:
(1) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, and
shall be fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon, any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice,
request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note,
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other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to
be genuine and to have been signed, sent or presented by the proper party
or parties.
(2) Any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by this
Preferred Securities Guarantee shall be sufficiently evidenced by a
Direction or an Officers' Certificate.
(3) Whenever, in the administration of this Preferred Securities
Guarantee, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable that a
matter be proved or established before taking, suffering or omitting any
action hereunder, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its
part, request and conclusively rely upon an Officers' Certificate which,
upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor.
(4) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have no duty to see
to any recording, filing or registration of any instrument (or any
rerecording, refiling or registration thereof).
(5) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may consult with counsel,
and the written advice or opinion of such counsel with respect to legal
matters shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect
of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and
in accordance with such advice or opinion. Such counsel may be counsel to
the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may include any of its
employees. The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time
to seek instructions concerning the administration of this Preferred
Securities Guarantee from any court of competent jurisdiction.
(6) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation
to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Preferred
Securities Guarantee at the request or direction of any Holder, unless such
Holder shall have provided to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee such security
and indemnity, reasonably satisfactory to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee,
against the costs, expenses (including attorneys' fees and expenses and the
expenses of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee's agents, nominees or
custodians) and liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with
such request or direction, including such reasonable advances as may be
requested by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee; provided that, nothing
contained in this Section 3.2(a)(6) shall be taken to relieve the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its
obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Preferred
Securities Guarantee.
(7) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be bound to make
any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, requests,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation
into such facts or matters as it may see fit.
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(8) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts
or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by
or through agents, nominees, custodians or attorneys, and the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence
on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder.
(9) Any action taken by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee or its
agents hereunder shall bind the Holders of the Preferred Securities, and
the signature of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee or its agents alone shall
be sufficient and effective to perform any such action. No third party
shall be required to inquire as to the authority of the Preferred Guarantee
Trustee to so act or as to its compliance with any of the terms and
provisions of this Preferred Securities Guarantee, both of which shall be
conclusively evidenced by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee's or its agent's
taking such action.
(10) Whenever in the administration of this Preferred Securities
Guarantee the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable to
receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or
taking any other action hereunder, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee (i) may
request instructions from the Holders of a Majority in liquidation amount
of the Preferred Securities, (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or
right or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and
(iii) shall be protected in conclusively relying on or acting in accordance
with such instructions.
(b) No provision of this Preferred Securities Guarantee shall be
deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Preferred Guarantee Trustee to
perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or obligation
conferred or imposed on it in any jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or
in which the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in
accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts or to exercise
any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority
available to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be construed to be a duty.
3.3 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Guarantee. The recitals
contained in this Guarantee shall be taken as the statements of the Guarantor,
and the Preferred Guarantee Trustee does not assume any responsibility for their
correctness. The Preferred Guarantee Trustee makes no representation as to the
validity or sufficiency of this Preferred Securities Guarantee.
4. Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
4.1 Preferred Guarantee Trustee; Eligibility.
(a) There shall at all times be a Preferred Guarantee Trustee which
shall:
(1) not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and
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(2) be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws
of the United States of America or any State or Territory thereof or of the
District of Columbia, or a corporation or Person permitted by the
Securities and Exchange Commission to act as an institutional trustee under
the Trust Indenture Act, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate
trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least 50 million
U.S. dollars ($50,000,000), and subject to supervision or examination by
Federal, State, Territorial or District of Columbia authority. If such
corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to
law or to the requirements of the supervising or examining authority
referred to above, then, for the purposes of this Section 4.1(a)(2), the
combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published.
(b) If at any time the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be
eligible to so act under Section 4.1(a), the Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall
immediately resign in the manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.2(c).
(c) If the Preferred Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any
"conflicting interest" within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in all
respects comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture
Act.
4.2 Appointment, Removal and Resignation of Preferred Guarantee Trustees.
(a) Subject to Section 4.2(b), the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may be
appointed or removed without cause at any time by the Guarantor.
(b) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall not be removed in accordance
with Section 4.2(a) until a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee has been
appointed and has accepted such appointment by written instrument executed by
such Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Guarantor.
(c) The Preferred Guarantee Trustee appointed to office shall hold
office until a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed
or until its removal or resignation. The Preferred Guarantee Trustee may resign
from office (without need for prior or subsequent accounting) by an instrument
in writing executed by the Preferred Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the
Guarantor, which resignation shall not take effect until a Successor Preferred
Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such appointment by
instrument in writing executed by such Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee and
delivered to the Guarantor and the resigning Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(d) If no Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall have been
appointed and accepted appointment as provided in this Section 4.2 within 60
days after delivery to the Guarantor of an instrument of resignation, the
resigning Preferred Guarantee Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for appointment of a Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
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(e) No Preferred Guarantee Trustee shall be liable for the acts or
omissions to act of any Successor Preferred Guarantee Trustee.
(f) Upon termination of this Preferred Securities Guarantee or
removal or resignation of the Preferred Guarantee Trustee pursuant to this
Section 4.2, the Guarantor shall pay to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee all
amounts accrued to the date of such termination, removal or resignation.
5. Guarantee.
5.1 Guarantee. The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to
pay in full to the Holders the Guarantee Payments (without duplication of
amounts theretofore paid by CTBI Trust), as and when due, regardless of any
defense, right of set-off or counterclaim that CTBI Trust may have or assert.
The Guarantor's obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be satisfied by
direct payment of the required amounts by the Guarantor to the Holders or by
causing CTBI Trust to pay such amounts to the Holders.
5.2 Waiver of Notice and Demand. The Guarantor hereby waives notice of
acceptance of this Preferred Securities Guarantee and of any liability to which
it applies or may apply, presentment, demand for payment, any right to require a
proceeding first against CTBI Trust or any other Person before proceeding
against the Guarantor, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice of dishonor, notice
of redemption and all other notices and demands.
5.3 Obligations Not Affected. The obligations, covenants, agreements and
duties of the Guarantor under this Preferred Securities Guarantee shall in no
way be affected or impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of any
of the following:
(a) the release or waiver, by operation of law or otherwise, of the
performance or observance by CTBI Trust of any express or implied agreement,
covenant, term or condition relating to the Preferred Securities to be performed
or observed by CTBI Trust;
(b) the extension of time for the payment by CTBI Trust of all or any
portion of the Distributions, Redemption Price, Liquidation Distribution or any
other sums payable under the terms of the Preferred Securities or the extension
of time for the performance of any other obligation under, arising out of, or in
connection with, the Preferred Securities (other than an extension of time for
payment of Distributions, Redemption Price, Liquidation Distribution or other
sum payable that results from the extension of any interest payment period on
the Debentures or any extension of the maturity date of the Debentures permitted
by the Indenture);
(c) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of
the Holders to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege, power or remedy
conferred on the Holders
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pursuant to the terms of the Preferred Securities, or any action on the part of
CTBI Trust granting indulgence or extension of any kind;
(d) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of
any collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit
of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or readjustment of debt
of, or other similar proceedings affecting, CTBI Trust or any of the assets of
CTBI Trust;
(e) any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in, the Preferred
Securities;
(f) the settlement or compromise of any obligation guaranteed hereby
or hereby incurred; or
(g) any other circumstances whatsoever that might otherwise constitute
a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor, it being the intent of
this Section 5.3 that the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder shall be
absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances.
There shall be no obligation of the Holders to give notice to, or obtain
consent of, the Guarantor with respect to the happening of any of the foregoing.
5.4 Rights of Holders.
(a) The Holders of a Majority in liquidation amount of the Preferred
Securities have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting of
any proceeding for any remedy available to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee in
respect of this Preferred Securities Guarantee or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Preferred Guarantee Trustee under this Preferred Securities
Guarantee.
(b) Any Holder of Preferred Securities may institute a legal
proceeding directly against the Guarantor to enforce its rights under this
Preferred Securities Guarantee, without first instituting a legal proceeding
against CTBI Trust, the Preferred Guarantee Trustee or any other Person.
5.5 Guarantee of Payment. This Preferred Securities Guarantee creates a
guarantee of payment and not of collection.
5.6 Subrogation. The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all (if any) rights
of the Holders of Preferred Securities against CTBI Trust in respect of any
amounts paid to such Holders by the Guarantor under this Preferred Securities
Guarantee; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not (except to the extent
required by mandatory provisions of law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any
right that it may acquire by way of subrogation or any indemnity, reimbursement
or other agreement, in all cases as a result of payment under this Preferred
Securities Guarantee, if, at the time of any such payment, any amounts are due
and unpaid under this Preferred Securities
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Guarantee. If any amount shall be paid to the Guarantor in violation of the
preceding sentence, the Guarantor agrees to hold such amount in trust for the
Holders and to pay over such amount to the Holders.
5.7 Independent Obligations. The Guarantor acknowledges that its
obligations hereunder are independent of the obligations of CTBI Trust with
respect to the Preferred Securities, and that the Guarantor shall be liable as
principal and as debtor hereunder to make Guarantee Payments pursuant to the
terms of this Preferred Securities Guarantee notwithstanding the occurrence of
any event referred to in subsections (a) through (g), inclusive, of Section 5.3
hereof.
6. Limitation Of Transactions; Subordination.
6.1 Limitation of Transactions. So long as any Preferred Securities remain
outstanding, if there shall have occurred an Event of Default or an event of
default under the Trust Agreement, then (a) the Guarantor shall not declare or
pay any dividend on, make any distributions with respect to, or redeem,
purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its
capital stock, (b) the Guarantor shall not make any payment of interest,
principal or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt
securities (including guarantees) issued by the Guarantor which rank pari passu
with or junior to the Debentures or (c) the Guarantor shall not make any
guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing (other than pursuant to the
Preferred Securities Guarantee Agreement); provided, however, the Guarantor may
declare and pay a stock dividend where the dividend stock is the same stock as
that on which the dividend is being paid.
6.2 Ranking. This Preferred Securities Guarantee will constitute an
unsecured obligation of the Guarantor and will rank (i) subordinate and junior
in right of payment to all other liabilities of the Guarantor, (ii) pari passu
with the most senior preferred or preference stock now or hereafter issued by
the Guarantor and with guarantee now or hereafter entered into by the Guarantor
in respect of any preferred or preference stock of any Affiliate of the
Guarantor, and (iii) senior to the Guarantor's common stock.
7. Termination.
7.1 Termination. This Preferred Securities Guarantee shall terminate upon
(i) full payment of the Redemption Price of all Preferred Securities, (ii) upon
full payment of the amounts payable in accordance with the Trust Agreement upon
liquidation of CTBI Trust or (iii) upon distribution of the Debentures to the
holders of the Preferred Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this
Preferred Securities Guarantee will continue to be effective or will be
reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any Holder of Preferred
Securities must restore payment of any sums paid under the Preferred Securities
or under this Preferred Securities Guarantee.
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8. Indemnification.
8.1 Exculpation.
(a) No Indemnified Person shall be liable, responsible or accountable
in damages or otherwise to the Guarantor or any Covered Person for any loss,
damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission preformed or omitted
by such Indemnified Person in good faith in accordance with this Preferred
Securities Guarantee and in a manner that such Indemnified Person reasonably
believed to be within the scope of the authority conferred on such Indemnified
Person by this Preferred Securities Guarantee or by law, except that an
Indemnified Person shall be liable for any such loss, damage or claim incurred
by reason of such Indemnified Person's negligence or willful misconduct with
respect to such acts or omissions.
(b) An Indemnified Person shall be fully protected in relying in good
faith upon the records of the Guarantor and upon such information, opinions,
reports or statements presented to the Guarantor by any Person as to matters the
Indemnified Person reasonably believes are within such other Person's
professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care
by or on behalf of the Guarantor, including information, opinions, reports or
statements as to the value and amount of the assets, liabilities, profits,
losses, or any other facts pertinent to the existence and amount of assets from
which Distributions to Holders of Preferred Securities might properly be paid.
8.2 Indemnification. The Guarantor agrees to indemnify each Indemnified
Person for, and to hold each Indemnified Person harmless against, any loss,
liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part,
arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of the
trust or trusts hereunder, including the costs and expenses (including
reasonable legal fees and expenses) of defending itself against, or
investigating, any claim or liability in connection with the exercise or
performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The obligation to
indemnify as set forth in this Section 8.2 shall survive the termination of this
Preferred Securities Guarantee.
9. Miscellaneous.
9.1 Successors and Assigns. All guarantees and agreements contained in
this Preferred Securities Guarantee shall bind the successors, assigns,
receivers, trustees and representatives of the Guarantor and shall inure to the
benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities then outstanding.
9.2 Amendments. Except with respect to any changes that do not materially
adversely affect the rights of Holders (in which case no consent of Holders will
be required), this Preferred Securities Guarantee may only be amended with the
prior approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in liquidation amount
(including the stated amount that would be paid on redemption, liquidation or
otherwise, plus accrued and unpaid Distributions to the date upon which the
voting percentages are determined) of all the outstanding Preferred Securities.
The provisions of Section
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6 of the Trust Agreement with respect to meetings of Holders of the Securities
apply to the giving of such approval.
9.3 Notices. All notices provided for in this Preferred Securities
Guarantee shall be in writing, duly signed by the party giving such notice, and
shall be delivered, telecopied or mailed by registered or certified mail, as
follows:
(a) If given to the Preferred Guarantee Trustee, at the Preferred
Guarantee Trustee's mailing address set forth below (or such other address as
the Preferred Guarantee Trustee may give notice of to the Holders of the
Preferred Securities):
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Attn: Corporate Trust Department
(b) If given to the Guarantor, at the Guarantor's mailing address set
forth below (or such other address as the Guarantor may give notice of to the
Holders of the Preferred Securities):
Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.
000 Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attn: Chief Financial Officer
(c) If given to any Holder of Preferred Securities, at the address
set forth on the books and records of CTBI Trust.
All such notices shall be deemed to have been given when received in
person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail,
postage prepaid except that if a notice or other document is refused delivery or
cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice was given,
such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date
of such refusal or inability to deliver.
9.4 Benefit. This Preferred Securities Guarantee is solely for the
benefit of the Holders of the Preferred Securities and, subject to Section
3.1(a), is not separately transferable from the Preferred Securities.
9.5 Governing Law. THIS PREFERRED SECURITIES GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED
BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY.
In Witness Whereof, the parties have entered into this Agreement as of the
date first written above.
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Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.
as Guarantor
By:
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Title:
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State Street Bank and Trust Company, as
preferred guarantee Trustee
By:
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Title:
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