PRIVATEBANCORP, INC. and as Indenture Trustee INDENTURE Dated as of _______________
EXHIBIT 4.12
PRIVATEBANCORP, INC.
and
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as Indenture Trustee
Dated as of
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION | 1 | |||||||
Section 1.1 | Definitions | 1 | ||||||
Section 1.2 | Compliance Certificate and Opinions | 6 | ||||||
Section 1.3 | Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee | 7 | ||||||
Section 1.4 | Acts of Holders | 7 | ||||||
Section 1.5 | Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company | 9 | ||||||
Section 1.6 | Notice to Holders; Waiver | 9 | ||||||
Section 1.7 | Conflict with Trust Indenture Act | 10 | ||||||
Section 1.8 | Effect of Headings and Table of Contents | 10 | ||||||
Section 1.9 | Successors and Assigns | 10 | ||||||
Section 1.10 | Separability Clause | 10 | ||||||
Section 1.11 | Benefits of Indenture | 10 | ||||||
Section 1.12 | Governing Law | 10 | ||||||
Section 1.13 | Legal Holidays | 10 | ||||||
ARTICLE II SECURITY FORMS | 10 | |||||||
Section 2.1 | Forms Generally | 10 | ||||||
Section 2.2 | Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication | 11 | ||||||
ARTICLE III THE SECURITIES | 11 | |||||||
Section 3.1 | Amount Unlimited Issuable in Series | 11 | ||||||
Section 3.2 | Denominations | 13 | ||||||
Section 3.3 | Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating | 13 | ||||||
Section 3.4 | Temporary Securities | 14 | ||||||
Section 3.5 | Registration, Transfer and Exchange | 14 | ||||||
Section 3.6 | Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities | 17 | ||||||
Section 3.7 | Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved | 17 | ||||||
Section 3.8 | Persons Deemed Owners | 18 | ||||||
Section 3.9 | Cancellation | 19 | ||||||
Section 3.10 | Computation of Interest | 19 | ||||||
Section 3.11 | Agreed Tax Treatment | 19 | ||||||
Section 3.12 | CUSIP Numbers | 19 | ||||||
ARTICLE IV SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE | 19 | |||||||
Section 4.1 | Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture | 19 | ||||||
Section 4.2 | Application of Trust Money | 20 | ||||||
ARTICLE V REMEDIES | 20 | |||||||
Section 5.1 | Events of Default | 20 | ||||||
Section 5.2 | Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment | 21 | ||||||
Section 5.3 | Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee | 22 | ||||||
Section 5.4 | Trustee May File Proofs of Claim | 23 | ||||||
Section 5.5 | Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities | 23 | ||||||
Section 5.6 | Application of Money Collected | 23 | ||||||
Section 5.7 | Limitation on Suits | 24 | ||||||
Section 5.8 | Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest | 24 | ||||||
Section 5.9 | Restoration of Rights and Remedies | 24 |
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Section 5.10 | Rights and Remedies Cumulative | 25 | ||||||
Section 5.11 | Delay or Omission Not Waiver | 25 | ||||||
Section 5.12 | Control by Holders | 25 | ||||||
Section 5.13 | Waiver of Past Defaults | 25 | ||||||
Section 5.14 | Undertaking for Costs | 26 | ||||||
Section 5.15 | Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws | 26 | ||||||
ARTICLE VI THE TRUSTEE | 26 | |||||||
Section 6.1 | Certain Duties and Responsibilities | 26 | ||||||
Section 6.2 | Notice of Defaults | 26 | ||||||
Section 6.3 | Certain Rights of Trustee | 26 | ||||||
Section 6.4 | Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities | 28 | ||||||
Section 6.5 | May Hold Securities | 28 | ||||||
Section 6.6 | Money Held in Trust | 28 | ||||||
Section 6.7 | Compensation and Reimbursement | 28 | ||||||
Section 6.8 | Disqualification; Conflicting Interests | 28 | ||||||
Section 6.9 | Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility | 29 | ||||||
Section 6.10 | Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor | 29 | ||||||
Section 6.11 | Acceptance of Appointment by Successor | 30 | ||||||
Section 6.12 | Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business | 31 | ||||||
Section 6.13 | Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company | 31 | ||||||
Section 6.14 | Appointment of Authenticating Agent | 32 | ||||||
ARTICLE VII HOLDER’S LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY | 33 | |||||||
Section 7.1 | Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders | 33 | ||||||
Section 7.2 | Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders | 33 | ||||||
Section 7.3 | Reports by Trustee | 34 | ||||||
Section 7.4 | Reports by Company | 34 | ||||||
ARTICLE VIII CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE | 34 | |||||||
Section 8.1 | Company May Consolidate, Etc., only on Certain Terms | 34 | ||||||
Section 8.2 | Successor Corporation Substituted | 35 | ||||||
ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES | 35 | |||||||
Section 9.1 | Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders | 35 | ||||||
Section 9.2 | Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders | 36 | ||||||
Section 9.3 | Execution of Supplemental Indentures | 37 | ||||||
Section 9.4 | Effect of Supplemental Indentures | 37 | ||||||
Section 9.5 | Conformity with Trust Indenture Act | 37 | ||||||
Section 9.6 | Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures | 37 | ||||||
ARTICLE X COVENANTS | 37 | |||||||
Section 10.1 | Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest | 37 | ||||||
Section 10.2 | Maintenance of Office or Agency | 37 | ||||||
Section 10.3 | Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust | 38 | ||||||
Section 10.4 | Statement as to Compliance | 39 | ||||||
Section 10.5 | Waiver of Certain Covenants | 39 | ||||||
Section 10.6 | Additional Covenants | 39 | ||||||
ARTICLE XI REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES | 40 |
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Section 11.1 | Applicability of this Article | 40 | ||||||
Section 11.2 | Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee | 40 | ||||||
Section 11.3 | Selection of Securities to be Redeemed | 40 | ||||||
Section 11.4 | Notice of Redemption | 40 | ||||||
Section 11.5 | Deposit of Redemption Price | 41 | ||||||
Section 11.6 | Payment of Securities Called for Redemption | 41 | ||||||
ARTICLE XII SINKING FUNDS | 42 | |||||||
Section 12.1 | Applicability of Article | 42 | ||||||
Section 12.2 | Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities | 42 | ||||||
Section 12.3 | Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund | 42 | ||||||
ARTICLE XIII REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS | 44 | |||||||
Section 13.1 | Applicability of Article | 44 | ||||||
Section 13.2 | Repayment of Securities | 44 | ||||||
Section 13.3 | Exercise of Option; Notice | 44 | ||||||
Section 13.4 | Securities Payable on the Repayment Date | 44 |
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PRIVATEBANCORP, INC.
Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to Sections 310 through 318, inclusive, of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939:
TRUST INDENTURE ACT SECTION | INDENTURE SECTION | |
§ 310(a)(1), (2) and (5) |
6.9 | |
(a)(3) |
Not Applicable | |
(a)(4) |
Not Applicable | |
(b) |
6.8 | |
6.10 | ||
(c) |
Not Applicable | |
§ 311(a) |
6.13 | |
(b) |
6.13 | |
§ 312(a) |
7.1 | |
7.2(a) | ||
(b) |
7.2(b) | |
(c) |
7.2(c) | |
§ 313(a) |
7.3(a) | |
7.3(b) | ||
(b) |
7.3(b) | |
(c) |
7.3(a), 7.3(b) | |
(d) |
7.3(c) | |
§ 314(a)(1), (2) and (3) |
7.4 | |
(a)(4) |
10.4 | |
(b) |
Not Applicable | |
(c)(1) |
1.2 | |
(c)(2) |
1.2 | |
(c)(3) |
Not Applicable | |
(d) |
Not Applicable | |
(e) |
1.2 | |
(f) |
Not Applicable | |
§ 315(a) |
6.1 | |
(b) |
6.2 | |
(c) |
6.1 | |
(d) |
6.1 | |
(e) |
5.14 | |
§ 316(a) |
1.1 | |
(a)(1)(A) |
5.12 | |
(a)(1)(B) |
5.13 | |
(a)(2) |
Not Applicable | |
(b) |
5.8 | |
(c) |
1.4(f) | |
§ 317(a)(1) |
5.3 | |
(a)(2) |
5.4 | |
(b) |
10.3 | |
§ 318(a) |
1.7 |
Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of the
Indenture.
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INDENTURE, dated as of ______, 2008, between PRIVATEBANCORP, INC., a Delaware corporation
(hereinafter called the “Company”), and ______, as Trustee (hereinafter called the
“Trustee”).
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to provide for
the issuance from time to time of its unsecured debentures, notes and other evidences of
indebtedness in series (hereinafter called the “Securities”) and to provide the terms and
conditions upon which the Securities are to be authenticated, issued and delivered.
All things necessary to make the Securities, when executed by the Company and authenticated
and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the Company, the valid obligations of the Company, and
to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with their and its terms,
have been done.
NOW THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: For and in consideration of the premises and the
purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof, as
follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1 Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article, and
include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act, either directly
or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the term “generally accepted
accounting principles” with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean
such accounting principles that are generally accepted at the date or time of such computation;
provided that when two or more principles are so generally accepted, it shall mean that set of
principles consistent with those in use by the Company;
(4) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and
(5) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article,” a “Section” or a
“Subsection” refers to an Article, Section or Subsection, as the case may be, of this Indenture.
“Act” when used with respect to any Holder has the meaning specified in Section 1.4(a).
“Additional Interest” means the interest, if any, that shall accrue on any interest on the
Securities of any series the payment of which has not been made on the applicable Interest Payment
Date and that shall accrue at the rate per annum specified or determined as specified in such
Security.
“Additional Sums” has the meaning specified in Section 10.6.
“Additional Taxes” means the sum of any additional taxes, duties, assessments or governmental
charges of whatever nature, other than withholding taxes, imposed by the United States, or any
other taxing authority.
“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; provided,
however, no PrivateBancorp Trust to which Securities have been issued shall be deemed to be an
Affiliate of the Company. For the purposes of this definition, “control” when used with respect to
any specified Person means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly
or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and
the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.14 to
act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series.
“Board of Directors” means either the board of directors of the Company or any committee of
that board duly authorized to act hereunder.
“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors, or such committee of
the Board of Directors or officers of the Company to which authority to act on behalf of the Board
of Directors has been delegated, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday, or any other day on which banking
institutions and trust companies in New York, New York or Chicago, Illinois, are permitted or
required by any applicable law to close.
“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted,
created under the Exchange Act, or if at any time after the execution of this instrument such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture
Act, then the body performing such duties on such date.
“Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument
until a successor corporation shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor corporation.
“Company Request” and “Company Order” mean, respectively, the written request or order signed
in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Board of Directors, a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive
Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, a Vice Chairman or a Vice President, the
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary or the Comptroller of the
Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any particular
time its corporate trust business shall be administered.
“corporation” includes a corporation, association, company, joint-stock company or business
trust.
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“Debt” means with respect to any Person, whether recourse is to all or a portion of the assets
of such Person and whether or not contingent, (i) every obligation of such Person for money
borrowed; (ii) every obligation of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other
similar instruments, including obligations incurred in connection with the acquisition of property,
assets or businesses; (iii) every reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect to letters
of credit, bankers’ acceptances or similar facilities issued for the account of such Person; (iv)
every obligation of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or
services (but excluding trade accounts payable or accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary
course of business); (v) every capital lease obligation of such Person; and (vi) every obligation
of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (vi) of another Person and all dividends of another
Person the payment of which, in either case, such Person has guaranteed or is responsible or
liable, directly or indirectly, as obligor or otherwise.
“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 3.7.
“Depositary” means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable or issued in whole
or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the
Company pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to such series (or any successor thereto).
“Dollar” means the currency of the United States of America that, as at the time of payment,
is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.
“Event of Default” unless otherwise specified in a supplemental indenture creating a series of
Securities has the meaning specified in Article V.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in
each case as amended from time to time.
“Federal Reserve” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as from time to
time constituted, or if at any time after the execution of this Indenture the Federal Reserve is
not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it, then the bodies performing such duties
at such time.
“Global Security” means a Security evidencing all or part of a series of securities, issued to
the Depositary or its nominee for such series, and registered in the name of such Depositary or its
nominee.
“Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Securities Register.
“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the
applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of each particular series of Securities
established as contemplated by Section 3.1.
“Interest Payment Date” means as to each series of Securities the Stated Maturity of an
installment of interest on such Securities.
“Maturity” when used with respect to any Security means the date on which the principal of
such Security or an installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided,
whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, repayment at
the option of the Holder or otherwise.
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“Notice of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 6.2.
“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors,
the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, the
President, the Chief Operating Officer, a Vice Chairman or a Vice President, the Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary or the Comptroller of the Company, and
delivered to the Trustee.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or an employee
of the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.
“Original Issue Date” means the date of issuance specified as such in each Security.
“Outstanding” means, when used in reference to any Securities, as of the date of
determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
(ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such
Securities; and
(iii) Securities in substitution for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered or that have been paid pursuant to Section 3.6, unless proof
satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Securities are held by Holders in
whose hands such Securities are valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver hereunder, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities that the
Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned that have been pledged
in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not
the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other
obligor. Upon the written request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee
promptly an Officers’ Certificate listing and identifying all Securities, if any, known by the
Company to be owned or held by or for the account of the Company, or any other obligor on the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such obligor, and, subject to the provisions of
Section 6.1, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers’ Certificate as conclusive
evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Securities not listed therein are
Outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
“Paying Agent” means the Trustee or any Person authorized by the Company to pay the principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.
“Person” means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership,
joint venture, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof or any other entity of whatever nature.
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“Place of Payment” means, with respect to the Securities of any series, the place or places
where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities of such series are
payable pursuant to Sections 3.1 and 3.11.
“Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all
or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security; and, for the purposes
of this definition, any security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.6 in exchange for or
in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same
debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
“Redemption Date,” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the date fixed
for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
“Redemption Price,” when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, means the price at
which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date with respect to
the Securities of a series means, unless otherwise provided pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to
Securities of a series, the date that is the last day of the month immediately preceding the month
in which such Interest Payment Date falls (whether or not a Business Day).
“Repayment Date,” when used with respect to any Security to be repaid upon exercise of an
option for repayment by the Holder, means the date fixed for such repayment pursuant to this
Indenture.
“Repayment Price,” when used with respect to any Security to be repaid upon exercise of an
option for repayment by the Holder, means the price at which it is to be repaid pursuant to this
Indenture.
“Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer assigned to
the Corporate Trust Office with direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture,
including any managing director, vice president, assistant vice president, assistant treasurer,
assistant secretary, any financial services officer or any other officer of the Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers, and also,
with respect to a particular matter, any other officer, to whom such matter is referred because of
such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
“Securities” or “Security” means any debt securities or debt security, as the case may be,
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 (or any successor statute), as it may be
amended from time to time.
“Securities Register” and “Securities Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in
Section 3.5.
“Senior Debt” means, whether recourse is to all or a portion of assets of the Company and
whether or not contingent, (a) every obligation of the Company for money borrowed; (b) every
obligation of the Company evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments,
including obligations incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or
businesses; (c) every reimbursement obligation of the Company with respect to letters of credit,
bankers’ acceptances or similar facilities issued for account of the Company; (d) every obligation
of the Company issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services (but
excluding trade accounts payable or accrued liabilities
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arising in the ordinary course of business); (e) every capital lease obligation of the
Company; (f) every obligation of the Company for claims (as defined in Section 101(4) of the United
States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended) in respect of derivative products such as interest and
foreign exchange rate contracts, commodity contracts and similar arrangements; and (g) every
obligation of the type referred to in clauses (a) through (f) of another person and all dividends
of another person the payment of which, in either case, the Company has guaranteed or is
responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, as obligor or otherwise. Senior debt shall not
include (a) any obligations which, by their terms, are expressly stated to rank on pari passu in
right of payment with, or to not be superior in right of payment to, the Debentures, (b) any senior
debt of the Company which when incurred and without respect to any election under Section 1111(b)
of the United States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, was without recourse to the Company, (c)
any senior debt of the Company to any of the Company’s subsidiaries, (d) senior debt to any
executive officer or director of the Company, (e) any debt in respect of debt securities issued to
any trust, or a trustee of such trust, partnership or other entity affiliated with the Company that
is a financing entity of the Company in connection with the issuance of such financing entity of
securities that are similar to the Capital Securities.
“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 3.7.
“Stated Maturity” when used with respect to any Security or any installment of principal
thereof or interest thereon means the date specified pursuant to the terms of such Security as the
date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of interest is due and payable, in
the case of such principal, as such date may be shortened or extended as provided pursuant to the
terms of such Security and this Indenture.
“Subsidiary” means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding voting stock of which is
owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the
Company and one or more other Subsidiaries. The term Subsidiary shall not include any
PrivateBancorp Trust. For purposes of this definition, “voting stock” means stock that ordinarily
has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior
class of stock has such voting power by reason of any contingency.
“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this instrument
until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee
hereunder and, if at any time there is more than one such Person, “Trustee” as used with respect to
the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to Securities of that series.
“Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbb), as
amended and as in effect on the date as of this Indenture, except as provided in Section 9.5.
Section 1.2 Compliance Certificate and Opinions. Upon any application or request by the
Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture
Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers’ Certificate, if
to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by Counsel, and
shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirements set forth
in this Indenture.
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Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided
for in this Indenture (other than the certificates provided pursuant to Section 10.4) shall
include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such
covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon
which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has made such examination or
investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not
such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or
covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3 Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any case where several matters are
required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary
that all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that
they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an
opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and
any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it relates to
legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such
officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion
or representations with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to
factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of
the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession
of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that
the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests,
consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may,
but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 1.4 Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders may be embodied in
and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in
person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly
provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments is or are
delivered to the Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein
sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of
execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for
any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.1) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and
the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be
proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by the certificate of any notary
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public or other officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that
the individual signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where
such execution is by a Person acting in other than his individual capacity, such certificate or
affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his authority.
(c) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing, or the
authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner that the Trustee
deems sufficient.
(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the
Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every
Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu
thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company
in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
(f) The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of
Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to give, make or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided or permitted by this
Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities of such series, provided that the
Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with
respect to, the giving or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in
the next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of
Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be
entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record
date, provided that no such action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the
applicable Expiration Date (as hereinafter in this Section provided) by Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing in this
paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new record date for any action
for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record
date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no
effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by
Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the
date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the
Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders
and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of
Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 1.6.
The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of
Outstanding Securities of any series entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of
Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 5.2, (iii) any request to
institute proceedings referred to in Section 5.7(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section
5.12, in each case with respect to Securities of such series. If any record date is set pursuant
to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date, and no
other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether
or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date, provided that no such action shall be
effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the
requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of such series on such record date. Nothing
in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any
action for which a record date has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the
record date previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of
no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any
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action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Securities of the
relevant series on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant
to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company’s expense, shall cause notice of such record date,
the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Company in
writing and to each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section
1.6.
With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto that sets such
record dates may designate any day as the “Expiration Date” and from time to time may change the
Expiration Date to any earlier or later day, provided that no such change shall be effective unless
notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to
each Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section 1.6, on or
prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any
record date set pursuant to this Section, the party hereto that set such record date shall be
deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the
Expiration Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as
provided in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be later than
the 180th day after the applicable record date.
(g) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take any action hereunder
with regard to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal
amount of such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to
such appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
Section 1.5 Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company. Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by
this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder
if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose (except as
otherwise provided in Section 5.1) hereunder if in writing and mailed, first class, postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the
first paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the
Trustee by the Company.
Section 1.6 Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of
any event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if
in writing and mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at the
address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register, not later than the latest date,
and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case
where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect
in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Holders. In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular
mail service or for any other reason, it shall be impossible or impracticable to mail notice of any
event to Holders when said notice is required to be given pursuant to any provision of this
Indenture or of the relevant Securities, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. Where this
Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person
entitled to receive such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such
filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.
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Section 1.7 Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or
conflicts with a provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such Act to be a part
of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any provision of this
Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act that may be so modified or
excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be
excluded, as the case may be.
Section 1.8 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and Section headings herein
and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.9 Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the
Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.10 Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Indenture or in the
Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.11 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express
or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder
and the Holders of the Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
under this Indenture.
Section 1.12 Governing Law. This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois.
Section 1.13 Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date,
Repayment Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of
Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities (other
than a provision of any Security that specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu
of this Section) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be made on such
date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment (and no interest
shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date, Repayment
Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, until such next succeeding Business Day except that,
if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the
immediately preceding Business Day (in each case with the same force and effect as if made on the
Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Repayment Date or at the Stated Maturity).
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
Section 2.1 Forms Generally. The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form
as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers
or other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required
to comply with applicable tax laws or the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary therefor
or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
evidenced by their execution thereof. If the form of Securities of any series is established by
action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall
be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee
at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.3 with respect to the
authentication and delivery of such Securities.
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The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or produced by any
combination of these methods, if required by any securities exchange on which the Securities may be
listed, on a steel engraved border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner
permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, all as
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities.
Section 2.2 Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication. The Trustee’s certificate of
authentication shall be substantially in the following form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.
________________________________________, Not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee |
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By: | ||||
AUTHORIZED OFFICER | ||||
ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.1 Amount Unlimited Issuable in Series. The aggregate principal amount of Securities
that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be established in or pursuant
to a Board Resolution, and, subject to Section 3.3, set forth, or determined in the manner
provided, in an Officers’ Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of any series:
(a) the title of the Securities of such series, which shall distinguish the Securities of the
series from all other Securities;
(b) the limit, if any, upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series
that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated
and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities
of the series pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 9.6, 11.6 or 14.3 and except for any Securities
that, pursuant to Section 3.3, are deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered
hereunder); provided, however, that the authorized aggregate principal amount of such series may be
increased above such amount by a Board Resolution to such effect;
(c) the Stated Maturity or Maturities on which the principal of the Securities of such series
is payable or the method of determination thereof;
(d) the rate or rates, if any, at which the Securities of such series shall bear interest, the
rate or rates and extent to which Additional Interest, if any, shall be payable in respect of any
Securities of such series, or the method or methods by which such rate or rates may be determined,
whether payment of interest will be contingent in any respect and/or the interest rate reset, the
date or dates from which such interest or Additional Interest shall accrue, the Interest Payment
Dates on which
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such interest shall be payable, and the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any
Security on any Interest Payment Date or the method by which any of the foregoing shall be
determined;
(e) if applicable, the remarketing or extension features of the Securities of the series;
(f) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Securities of such series shall be payable, the place or places where the Securities of such series
may be presented for registration of transfer or exchange, and the place or places where notices
and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of such series may be made;
(g) the period or periods within or the date or dates on which, if any, the price or prices at
which and the terms and conditions upon which the Securities of such series may be redeemed, in
whole or in part, at the option of the Company;
(h) the obligation or the right, if any, of the Company to redeem, repay or purchase the
Securities of such series pursuant to any sinking fund, amortization or analogous provisions, or at
the option of a Holder thereof, and the period or periods within which, the price or prices at
which, the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in which and the other terms
and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed, repaid or purchased, in whole
or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(i) the denominations in which any Securities of such series shall be issuable, if other than
denominations of $___ and any integral multiple of
$___ in excess thereof;
(j) if other than Dollars, the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) in
which the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on the Securities of the series
shall be payable, or in which the Securities of the series shall be denominated and the manner of
determining the equivalent thereof in Dollars for purposes of the definition of Outstanding;
(k) the additions, modifications or deletions, if any, in the Events of Default or covenants
of the Company set forth herein with respect to the Securities of such series;
(l) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the principal amount of
Securities of such series that shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof;
(m) any index or indices used to determine the amount of payments of principal of and premium,
if any, on the Securities of such series or the manner in which such amounts will be determined;
(n) whether the Securities of the series, or any portion thereof, shall initially be issuable
in the form of a temporary Global Security representing all or such portion of the Securities of
such series and provisions for the exchange of such temporary Global Security for definitive
Securities of such series;
(o) if applicable, that any Securities of the series shall be issuable in whole or in part in
the form of one or more Global Securities and, in such case, the respective Depositaries for such
Global Securities, the form of any legend or legends that shall be borne by any such Global
Security and any circumstances in addition to or in lieu of those set forth in Section 3.5 in which
any such Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and any
transfer of such Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name or names of
Persons other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof;
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(p) the appointment of any Paying Agent or Agents for the Securities of such series;
(q) the terms of any right to convert or exchange Securities of such series into any other
securities or property of the Company, and the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with
respect to the Securities of such series to permit or facilitate such conversion or exchange;
(r) the relative degree, if any, to which the Securities of the series shall be senior to or
be subordinated to other series of Securities in right of payment, whether such other series of
Securities are Outstanding or not;
(s) any other terms of the Securities of such series (which terms shall not be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as to denomination
and except as may otherwise be provided herein or in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and set
forth in such Officers’ Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a Board
Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of
the Officers’ Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
Section 3.2 Denominations. The Securities of each series shall be in registered form without
coupons and shall be issuable in denominations of $___ and any integral multiple of
$___ in
excess thereof, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1.
Section 3.3 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. The Securities shall be executed
on behalf of the Company by its President or one of its Vice Presidents and attested by its
Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on the
Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the
proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any
of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such
Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities. At any time and from time
to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of
any series executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order
for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the
Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the
Securities of the series have been established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as
permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1, in authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional
responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled
to receive, and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of
Counsel stating,
(1) if the form of such Securities has been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution as
permitted by Section 2.1, that such form has been established in conformity with the provisions of
this Indenture;
(2) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or pursuant to Board Resolution
as permitted by Section 3.1, that such terms have been established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture; and
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(3) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and issued by the
Company in the manner and subject to any conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will
constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance with
their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and
similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and to general
equity principles.
If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be required to authenticate
such Securities if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the
Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in
a manner that is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.1 and of the preceding paragraph, if all
Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to
deliver the Officers’ Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 3.1 or the Company Order
and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to such preceding paragraph at or prior to the
authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the
authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be issued.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory
for any purpose, unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of
one of its authorized officers, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and
delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such
Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 3.9, for all purposes of this
Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder
and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 3.4 Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of definitive Securities of any
series, the Company may execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
temporary Securities that are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise
produced, in any denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities of such
series in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities
of such series to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive
Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities upon surrender
of the temporary Securities at the office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose
without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary
Securities, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor one or more definitive Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations
having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same terms as such temporary
Securities. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
Section 3.5 Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Company shall cause to be kept at each
office or agency maintained for registrations of transfers and exchanges in a Place of Payment
pursuant to Section 10.2 with respect to the Securities of each series a register in which, subject
to such
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reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of
Securities and of transfers of Securities. Each such register is herein sometimes referred to as
the “Securities Register.” The Company shall designate one Person to maintain the Securities
Register for the Securities of each series on a consolidated basis, and such Person is referred to
herein, with respect to such series, as the “Securities Registrar.” The Company appoints the
Trustee as Securities Registrar unless otherwise specified with respect to any particular series in
accordance with Section 3.1. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may
designate one or more of its offices as an office in which a register with respect to the
Securities of one or more series shall be maintained, and the Company may designate itself the
Securities Registrar with respect to one or more of such series. The Company may revoke any
designation of a Securities Registrar theretofore made by it. The Securities Register shall be
open for inspection by the Trustee and the Company at all reasonable times.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at the office or agency of the
Company designated for that purpose the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of
the same series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, of the same
Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same terms.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of the same
series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, of the same Original
Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same terms, upon surrender of the Securities to be
exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any securities are so surrendered for exchange, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities that the
Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid
obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall (if so required by the
Company or the Securities Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer or exchange of Securities, but
the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Securities.
The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below shall apply only to Global Securities:
(1) Each Global Security authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of
the Depositary designated for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such
Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall
constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged
in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in
part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global
Security or a nominee thereof unless (A) such Depositary (i) has notified the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security and no successor Depository
has been appointed within 90 days of this notice or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency
registered under the Exchange Act at a
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time when the Depositary is required to be so registered to act as depositary and no successor
Depository has been appointed within 90 days after the Company has learned that the Depositary has
ceased to be so registered, (B) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default
with respect to such Global Security, (C) the Company in its sole discretion determines that such
Global Security will be so exchangeable or transferable or (D) there shall exist such
circumstances, if any, in addition to or in lieu of the foregoing as have been specified for this
purpose as contemplated by Section 3.1.
(3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Security for other Securities may be
made in whole or in part, and all Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security or any
portion thereof shall be registered in such names as the Depositary for such Global Security shall
direct.
(4) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in
exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this
Section, Section 3.4, 3.6, 9.6, 11.6 or 14.3 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and delivered in
the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a
Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
(5) Neither any members of, or participants in, the Depositary nor any other Persons on whose
behalf such members or participants may act shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect
to any Global Security registered in the name of the Depositary or any nominee thereof, and the
Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any
agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner and holder of such Global Security for
all purposes whatsoever. None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Securities
Registrar, any authenticating agent or any other agent of the Company or any agent of the Trustee
shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments
made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Security in the form of a Global Security,
or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership
interests. The Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Securities Registrar and any other
agent of the Company and any agent of the Trustee shall be entitled to deal with any depositary
(including any Depositary), and any nominee thereof, that is the holder of any such Global Security
for all purposes of this Indenture relating to such Global Security (including the payment of
principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, and the giving of instructions or directions by
or to the owner or holder of a beneficial ownership interest in such Global Security) as the sole
holder of such Global Security and shall have no obligations to the beneficial owners thereof.
None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Securities Registrar or any other agent of
the Company or any agent of the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any acts or
omissions of any such depositary with respect to such Global Note, for the records of any such
depositary, including records in respect of beneficial ownership interests in respect of any such
Global Security, for any transactions between such depositary and any members or participants in
the Depositary or other participant in such depositary or between or among any such depositary, any
such member or participant in the Depositary or other participant and/or any holder or owner of a
beneficial interest in such Global Security or for any transfers of beneficial interests in any
such Global Security. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the
Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification,
proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or such nominee, as the case may be, or
impair, as between the Depositary, members or participants of the Depositary and any other Person
on whose behalf a member or participant of the Depositary may act, the operation of customary
practices of such Persons governing the exercise of the rights of a beneficial holder of any Global
Security.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required, pursuant to the provisions of this
Section, (a) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security of any series during a
period beginning at the
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opening of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of Securities pursuant
to Article XI and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing of notice of redemption or
(b) to transfer or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in
the case of any Security to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.
Section 3.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities. If any mutilated Security is
surrendered to the Trustee, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a new Security of the same issue and series of like tenor and
principal amount, having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity, and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee (i) evidence to their
satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and (ii) such security or indemnity
as may be required by them to save each of them and any agent of them harmless, then, in the
absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any
such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of the same issue and series of like tenor
and principal amount, having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity as such destroyed,
lost or stolen Security, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to
become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay
such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company and the Trustee may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee)
connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed,
lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the
Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately
with any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all
other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Securities.
Section 3.7 Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. Interest on any Security of any
series that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date,
shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest in respect of
Securities of such series, except that, unless otherwise provided in the Securities of such series,
interest payable on the Stated Maturity of the principal of a Security shall be paid to the Person
to whom principal is paid. The initial payment of interest on any Security of any series that is
issued between a Regular Record Date and the related Interest Payment Date shall be payable as
provided in such Security or in the Board Resolution pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to the
related series of Securities.
Any interest on any Security that is payable, but is not timely paid or duly provided for, on
any Interest Payment Date for Securities of such series (herein called “Defaulted Interest”), shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by
virtue of having been
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such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose
names the Securities of such series in respect of which interest is in default (or their respective
Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner.
The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed
to be paid on each Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company
shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid
in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for
such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in
trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause
provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest that shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the
proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the
proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and,
in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first class, postage prepaid,
to each Holder of a Security of such series at the address of such Holder as it appears in the
Securities Register not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed
as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of
such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on
such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of the series
in respect of which interest is in default may be listed and, upon such notice as may be required
by such exchange (or by the Trustee if the Securities are not listed), if, after notice given by
the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such payment shall be
deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security delivered under this
Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the
rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 3.8 Persons Deemed Owners. The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or
the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name any Security is registered as the owner of such
Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and any premium and (subject to
Section 3.7) any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not
such Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the
Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No holder of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on its behalf by a Depositary
shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to such Global Security, and such
Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
as the owner of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee
from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by a
Depositary or impair, as between a Depositary
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and such holders of beneficial interests, the operation of customary practices governing the
exercise of the rights of the Depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of any Security.
Section 3.9 Cancellation. All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, repayment,
transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to
the Trustee, and any such Securities and Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee for any
such purpose shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee
for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Company
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly
cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any
Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture.
All cancelled Securities shall be destroyed by the Trustee and the Trustee shall deliver to the
Company a certificate of such destruction.
Section 3.10 Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 3.1 for Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series for any partial
period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the actual days
elapsed in a partial month in such period.
Section 3.11 Agreed Tax Treatment. Each Security issued hereunder shall provide that the
Company and, by its acceptance of a Security or a beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and
any Person that acquires a beneficial interest in, such Security agree to treat for U.S. federal,
state and local tax purposes such Security as indebtedness of the Company and to treat for U.S.
federal income tax purposes stated interest on the Security as ordinary interest income that is
includible in gross income to such Holder or other Person at the time the interest is paid or
accrued in accordance with its regular method of tax accounting.
Section 3.12 CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if
then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee or its designee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in
notices of redemption or other related material as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such
notice or other related material may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of
such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption or
other related material and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or
omission of such numbers. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP
numbers.
ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall, upon Company
Request, cease to be of further effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of
transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided for and as otherwise provided in this
Section) and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (i) Securities
that have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 3.6 and (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in
trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the
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Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.3) have been delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation:
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year of
the date of deposit, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption within one year by the Trustee in the
name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of Clause (B)(i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for such purpose an amount in the currency or
currencies in which the Securities of such series are payable sufficient to pay and discharge the
entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation,
for principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest) to the date of
such deposit (in the case of Securities that have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity
or Redemption Date, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company;
and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to
the Trustee under Section 6.7, the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under
Section 6.14 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of
clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.2 and the last paragraph
of Section 10.3 shall survive.
Section 4.2 Application of Trust Money. Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of
Section 10.3, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust
and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this Indenture,
to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its
own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal
(and premium, if any) and interest for the payment of which such money or obligations have been
deposited with or received by the Trustee.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
Section 5.1 Events of Default. “Event of Default,” wherever used herein with respect to the
Securities of any series, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event
of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or
pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
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(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that series, including any
Additional Interest in respect thereof, when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such
default for a period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Security of that
series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company with
respect to that series contained in such Securities or otherwise established with respect to that
series of Securities pursuant to Section 3.1 or contained in this Indenture (other than a covenant
or warranty a default in the performance of which or the breach of which is specifically dealt with
elsewhere in this Section or which expressly has been included in this Indenture solely for the
benefit of Securities of a series other than such series) and such default or breach has not been
cured or waived within 90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the
Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount (or, if the Securities of that series are Discount Securities, such portion of the
principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of the Outstanding Securities of
such series, a written notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and
stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder; or
(4) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the premises adjudging
the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any
applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or
appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of
the Company or of any substantial part of its property or ordering the winding up or liquidation of
its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of
90 consecutive days; or
(5) the institution by the Company of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent,
or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the
filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any
applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the
consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or of any substantial
part of its property, or the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its
willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in
furtherance of any such action; or
(6) any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities of that series.
Section 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an Event of Default (other
than an Event of Default) specified in Section 5.1(4) or 5.1(6)with respect to Securities of any
series at the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or
the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series
may declare the principal amount (or, if the Securities of that series are Discount Securities,
such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of all the
Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company
(and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or
specified portion thereof) of and the accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) on all
the Securities of such series shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default
specified in Section 5.1(4) or 5.1(5) and with respect to Securities of any series at the time
Outstanding occurs, the principal amount of all the Securities of that series (or, if the
Securities of that series are Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount of such
Securities as may be specified by the terms of that series) shall automatically,
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and without any declaration or other action on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, become
immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities of any series
has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the
Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may
rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:
(A) all overdue installments of interest (including any Additional Interest) on all
Securities of that series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities of that series that have
become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the
rate borne by the Securities, and
(C) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that series, other than the
non-payment of the principal of Securities of that series that has become due solely by such
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee. The Company
covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for
a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Security
at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of
such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal, including
any sinking fund payment or analogous obligations (and premium, if any) and interest (including any
Additional Interest); and, in addition thereto, all amounts owing the Trustee under Section 6.7.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own
name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of
the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Company or any other obligor upon the Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and is continuing, the
Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders of
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Securities of such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or
to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 5.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any receivership,
insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the
property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors:
(a) the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities of any series shall
then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of
whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal
(and premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest)) shall be entitled and
empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and premium, if any)
and interest (including any Additional Interest) owing and unpaid in respect to the
Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable and
to take any and all actions as are authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have
the claims of the Holders and any predecessor to the Trustee under Section 6.7 allowed in
any such judicial proceedings; and
(ii) in particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys
or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same in
accordance with Section 5.6; and
(b) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar
official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments
to the Trustee for distribution in accordance with Section 5.6, 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 and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7.
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 Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided, however,
that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a trustee in bankruptcy or
similar official and be a member of a creditors’ or other similar committee.
Section 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities. All rights of action
and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee
without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding
relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own
name or as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the
payment of all the amounts owing the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.7, its
agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which
such judgment has been recovered.
Section 5.6 Application of Money Collected. Any money or property collected or to be applied
by the Trustee with respect to a series of Securities pursuant to this Article shall be applied in
the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of
such money or property on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest (including any
Additional Interest), upon
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presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid
and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.7;
SECOND: The payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon such series of Securities for
principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest), in respect of
which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such series of Securities for
principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest), respectively; and
THIRD: The balance, if any, to the Company or any other Person entitled thereto.
Section 5.7 Limitation on Suits. Subject to Section 5.8, no Holder of any Securities of any
series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to
this Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator
(or other similar official) or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of
Default with respect to the Securities of that series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such
Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity
has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during
such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of that series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any
manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision of this Indenture to affect,
disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Securities, or to obtain or to seek to
obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this
Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders.
Section 5.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium and Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the
right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if
any) and (subject to Section 3.7) interest (including any Additional Interest) on such Security on
the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or
repayment, on the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as the case may be) and to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent
of such Holder.
Section 5.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted
any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or such
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Holder, then and in every such case the Company, the Trustee, the Holders shall, subject to
any determination in such proceeding, be restored severally and respectively to their former
positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise provided in the last
paragraph of Section 3.6, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to
the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy
shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and
remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The
assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the
concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 5.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the Trustee or any Holder
of any Security to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any
such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence
therein.
Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or the
Holders, as the case may be.
Section 5.12 Control by Holders. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power
conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that:
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture,
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not
inconsistent with such direction, and
(3) subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to
follow such direction if a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee shall, in good faith,
determine that the proceeding so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not joining
in any such direction or would involve the Trustee in personal liability.
Section 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of not less than a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series:
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (including any
Additional Interest, if any) on any Security of such series, or
(2) in respect of a provision hereof that under Article IX cannot be modified or amended
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
Any such waiver shall be deemed to be on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such
series.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising
therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
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Section 5.14 Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of
any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its
discretion require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or
in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any
party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court
may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any
party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or
defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any
suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding
in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, or
to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security on or after the
respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption or
repayment, on or after the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as the case may be).
Section 5.15 Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner
whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance
of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly
waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the
execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities. The duties and responsibilities of the
Trustee shall be as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no
provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise
incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise
of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of
such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the
conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to
the provisions of this Section.
Section 6.2 Notice of Defaults. Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder
with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of
Securities of such series, as their names and addresses appear in the Securities Register, notice
of such default, unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that,
except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest
(including any Additional Interest) on any Security of such series, the Trustee shall be protected
in withholding such notice if and so long as the Board of Directors, the executive committee or a
trust committee of directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines
that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of Securities of such
series. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event that is, or after
notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of
such series.
Section 6.3 Certain Rights of Trustee. Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent,
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order, bond, debenture, Security or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and
to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced
by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be
sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that
a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith
on its part, rely upon an Officers’ Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the advice of such counsel or any Opinion of
Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in
it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture,
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;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated
in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, indenture, security or other paper or document, but the Trustee in its
discretion may make such inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit,
and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to
examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties
hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be
responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with
due care by it hereunder;
(h) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee,
including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be
enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and each agent, custodian and
other Person employed to act hereunder; and
(i) in the exercise of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, the Trustee shall
use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use
under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs. No provision of this
Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability with respect to matters that are
within the authority of the Trustee under this Indenture for its own negligent action, negligent
failure to act or willful misconduct, except that:
(j) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error or judgment made in good faith by an
authorized officer of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(k) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by
it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Company or the Holders of at least a
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majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee under this
Indenture.
Section 6.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities. The recitals contained
herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of authentication, shall be taken
as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any
responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating
Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the Securities or the
proceeds thereof.
Section 6.5 May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any
Securities Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity,
may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 6.8 and 6.13, may otherwise
deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating
Agent, Paying Agent, Securities Registrar or such other agent.
Section 6.6 Money Held in Trust. Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the
Company.
Section 6.7 Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services rendered
by it hereunder in such amounts as the Company and the Trustee shall agree from time to time (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Trustee upon its request
for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the
expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or
advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability, claim,
action, suit, cost or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of
or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust or the performance of its
duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or
liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in
Section 5.1(3) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 or any successor
statute.
Section 6.8 Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
(a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust
Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the
manner provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
To the extent permitted by such Act, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have a conflicting interest
by virtue of being a trustee under this Indenture with respect to Securities of more than one
series if all such series rank equally at the time of issuance.
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(b) The Trust Agreement and the PrivateBancorp Guarantee shall be deemed to be specifically
described in this Indenture for the purposes of clause (i) of the first proviso contained in
Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 6.9 Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. There shall at all times be a Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Securities of each series, which may be Trustee hereunder for
Securities of one or more other series. Each Trustee shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant
to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and shall be:
(a) a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America
or of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise
corporate trust powers and subject to supervision or examination by Federal, State, Territorial or
District of Columbia authority, or
(b) a corporation or other Person organized and doing business under the laws of a foreign
government that is permitted to act as Trustee pursuant to a rule, regulation or order of the
Commission, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, and subject to
supervision or examination by authority of such foreign government or a political subdivision
thereof substantially equivalent to supervision or examination applicable to United States
institutional trustees,
in either case having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, subject to
supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such corporation publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or
examining authority, then, for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of
such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee with respect to the Securities
of any series shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
Neither the Company nor any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under
common control with the Company shall serve as Trustee for the Securities of any series issued
hereunder.
Section 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Trustee under Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of one or more series by
giving written notice thereof to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor
Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice
of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities of any series by Act
of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series,
delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.8 after written request therefor by
the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six
months, or
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(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.9 and shall fail to resign
after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or
insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any public
officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the
purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company, acting pursuant to the authority of a Board Resolution,
may remove the Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section 5.14, any Holder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and
all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the
Trustee with respect to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy
shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause with respect to the Securities of one or more
series, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees
with respect to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such successor
Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and
that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any particular
series) and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11. If, within one year
after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to
the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders
and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, subject to Section 5.14, on behalf
of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any series by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to the Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in the
Securities Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, every such successor Trustee so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor
Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring
Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and
money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder.
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(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an instrument in
writing or an indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such
appointment and that (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to
transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with
respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable
to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to
the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall
continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (3) shall add to or change any of the provisions
of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the
trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such
instrument in writing or supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the
same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and
apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee; and upon the
execution and delivery of such instrument in writing or supplemental indenture the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such
successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts, and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of the
Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to
such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect
to the Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee
relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all
instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all
rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance
such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
Section 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. Any corporation
into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any
corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of
the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such corporation shall be
otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper
or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have
been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger,
conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and
deliver the Securities so authenticated, and in case any Securities shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of
any predecessor Trustee or in the name of such successor Trustee, and in all cases the certificate
of authentication shall have the full force that it is provided anywhere in the Securities or in
this Indenture that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
Section 6.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company. If and when the Trustee shall
be or become a creditor of the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee
shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims
against the Company (or any such other obligor).
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Section 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent. The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating
Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of Securities that shall be authorized to act on
behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue and upon
exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 3.6, and
Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid
and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference
is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the
Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication
and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of
authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating
Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States of America, or of any State or Territory or the
District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined
capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by
Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it
may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to
which such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or
substantially all of the corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent shall be the successor
Authenticating Agent hereunder, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible under this
Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee
or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Trustee
and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by
giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such
a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating
Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee may
appoint a successor Authenticating Agent that shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give
notice of such appointment in the manner provided in Section 1.6 to all Holders of Securities of
the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve. Any successor
Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the
rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as
an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible
under the provision of this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services under this Section, and the Trustee shall be entitled to be
reimbursed for such payments, subject to the provisions of Section 6.7.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant to this Section, the
Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of
authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to in the within
mentioned Indenture.
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Dated:
, Not in its individual capacity but solely as Trustee |
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By: | ||||
AS AUTHENTICATING AGENT | ||||
By: | ||||
AUTHORIZED OFFICER | ||||
ARTICLE VII
HOLDER’S LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
Section 7.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders. The Company will
furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) monthly, quarterly or semi-annually, as the case may be, not more than 15 days after each
Regular Record Date in each year, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of
the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of each series as of such Regular Record Date,
and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after the
receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not
more than 15 days prior to the time such list is furnished,
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Securities Registrar.
Section 7.2 Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names
and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in
Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Securities Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 7.1
upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under
this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee,
shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and
the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held
accountable by reason of the disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of the Holders
made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
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Section 7.3 Reports by Trustee.
(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions
under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act, at the times and in
the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) Reports so required to be transmitted at stated intervals of not more than 12 months
shall be transmitted no later than days after in each calendar year, commencing with
the first after the first issuance of Securities under this Indenture.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by
the Trustee with each securities exchange upon which any Securities are listed, with the Commission
and with the Company. The Company will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any
securities exchange.
Section 7.4 Reports by Company. The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission,
and transmit to Holders, copies of such information, documents and other reports, and such
summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the
manner provided in the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such information, documents or
reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Exchange Act shall be filed with the Trustee within 15 days after the same are filed with the
Commission.
ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
Section 8.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc., only on Certain Terms. The Company shall not
consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, and no Person shall consolidate with or merge
into the Company or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to the Company, unless:
(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey,
transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the Person
formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person that acquires by
conveyance or transfer, or that leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as
an entirety shall be organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any
State or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional
Interest) on all the Securities and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part
of the Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event
that, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened
and be continuing; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and any such
supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with.
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Section 8.2 Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any consolidation or merger by the
Company with or into any other Person, or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company of its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section 8.1,
the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which
such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may
exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor Person had been named as the Company herein; and in the event of any such conveyance,
transfer or lease the Company shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants under the
Indenture and the Securities and may be dissolved and liquidated.
Such successor Person may cause to be executed, and may issue either in its own name or in the
name of the Company, any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder that theretofore shall not
have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor
Person instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this
Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities that
previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for
authentication pursuant to such provisions and any Securities that such successor Person thereafter
shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee on its behalf for the purpose pursuant to
such provisions. All the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and
benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with
the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date of the
execution hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease, such changes in
phraseology and form may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 9.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. Without the consent of any
Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from
time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to
the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and the assumption by any
such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities contained; or
(2) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any property to or with the Trustee or to
surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as permitted by Section 2.1 or
3.1; or
(4) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series
of Securities (and if such covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of
Securities, stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit of such
series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(5) to add any additional Events of Default for the benefit of the Holders of all or any
series of Securities (and if such additional Events of Default are to be for the benefit of less
than all series
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of Securities, stating that such additional Events of Default are expressly being
included solely for the benefit of such series); or
(6) add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture in respect of one or
more series of Securities, provided that any such addition, change or elimination (a) shall become
effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution
of such supplemental indenture that is entitled to the benefit of such provision or (b) shall not
apply to any Outstanding Securities; or
(7) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein that may be defective
or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such action pursuant to this
clause (7) shall not adversely affect the interest of the Holders of Securities of any series in
any material respect;
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of one or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions
of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the
trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11(b); or
(9) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order to effect or maintain the
qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. With the consent of the Holders
of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series
affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing
in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner
the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided, however,
that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding
Security affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of interest (including
any Additional Interest) on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of
interest thereon or reduce any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change the place of
payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is
payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after
the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption or repayment, on or after the Redemption
Date or Repayment Date), or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series, the
consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose
Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or
certain defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13 or Section 10.5, except to
increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot
be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected
thereby; or
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular
form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve
the substance thereof.
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Section 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing or accepting the additional
trusts created by any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby
of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to
Section 6.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by
this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental
indenture that affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise.
Section 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any supplemental
indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of
Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 9.5 Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every supplemental indenture executed
pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act as then in
effect.
Section 9.6 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures. Securities of any series
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this
Article may, and shall if required by the Company, bear a notation in form approved by the Company
as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Company, to any such
supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered
by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
Section 10.1 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. The Company covenants and agrees for
the benefit of each series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities of that series
in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this Indenture.
Section 10.2 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain in each Place of
Payment for any series of Securities, an office or agency where Securities of that series may be
presented or surrendered for payment and an office or agency where Securities of that series may be
surrendered for transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. The Company initially
appoints the Trustee, acting through its Corporate Trust Office, as its agent for said purposes.
The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any change in the location of any
such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain such office or agency or
shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices
and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company
hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where
the Securities of one or more series may be presented or surrendered for any or all of 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 each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The Company will
give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation and any change in the location of
any such office or agency.
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Section 10.3 Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust. If the Company shall at any
time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before
each due date of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any of the Securities of such series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of
the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest) so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such
Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its
failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of Securities, it
will, prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on each due date of the principal (and premium, if
any) of or interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Securities of that series, deposit
with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so
becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such
principal (and premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest), and (unless such
Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other than the Trustee
to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on Securities of that series in trust for the benefit
of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed
of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Securities of that series) in the making of any payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest);
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the written request of the
Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent; and
(4) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay,
to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by
the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be
released from all further liability with respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in
trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including any
Additional Interest) on any Security of that series and remaining unclaimed for two years after
such principal (and premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest) has become due
and payable shall be paid on Company Request to the Company, or (if then held by the Company) shall
(unless otherwise required
by mandatory provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law) be
discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured
general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or
such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying Agent, before
being required to make any such
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repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to be published
once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day
and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, notice that such
money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30
days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be
repaid to the Company.
Section 10.4 Statement as to Compliance. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120
days after the end of each calendar year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers’
Certificate covering the preceding calendar year, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of
the signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of or
compliance with any of the terms, provisions, covenants and conditions of this Indenture, and if
the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of
which they may have knowledge. For the purpose of this Section, compliance shall be determined
without regard to any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture.
Section 10.5 Waiver of Certain Covenants. The Company may omit in any particular instance to
comply with any covenant or condition provided pursuant to Section 3.1, 9.1(3) or 9.1(4) with
respect to the Securities of any series, if before or after the time for such compliance the
Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive
compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such
covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become
effective, the obligations of the Company in respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain
in full force and effect. If the Securities of a series have not been registered under the
Securities Act, the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of such series, by Act of
such Holders, may waive compliance by the Company with the Trust Indenture Act with respect to such
series unless such compliance is otherwise required by the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 10.6 Additional Covenants. The Company covenants and agrees with each Holder of
Securities of each series that it shall not, and it shall not permit any Subsidiary of the Company
to, (x) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on any shares of the Company’s capital stock,
or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any shares of the
Company’s preferred stock, (y) make any payment of principal of or interest or premium, if any, on
or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt security of the Company that ranks pari passu in all
respects with or junior in interest to the Securities of such series (except for partial payments
of interest with respect to such series of Securities) or (z) make any guarantee payments with
respect to any guarantee by the Company of the debt securities of any Subsidiary of the Company
that by their terms rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the securities of
such series (other than (a) any repurchase, redemption or other acquisition of shares of the
Company’s capital stock in connection with (1) any employment contract, benefit plan or other
similar arrangement with or for the benefit of any one or more employees, officers, directors,
consultants or independent contractors, (2) a dividend reinvestment or stockholder purchase plan,
or (3) the issuance of the Company’s capital stock, or securities convertible into or exercisable
for such capital stock, as consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the
applicable Event of Default or default, as the case may be; (b) any exchange, redemption or
conversion of any class or series of the Company’s capital stock, or the capital stock of one of
its subsidiaries, for any other class or series of the Company’s capital stock, or any class or
series of the Company’s indebtedness for any class or series of its capital stock; (c) any purchase
of fractional interests in shares of the Company’s capital
stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the
securities being converted or exchanged; (d) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any
rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property under any rights plan, or the
redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto; or (e) any dividend in the form of stock,
warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or stock issuable upon exercise of such
warrants, options or other rights is the same stock
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as that on which the dividend is being paid or
ranks equally with or junior to such stock), if at such time there shall have occurred any event of
which the Company has actual knowledge that (A) with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or
both, would constitute an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such series and (B) in
respect of which the Company shall not have taken reasonable steps to cure.
ARTICLE XI
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 11.1 Applicability of this Article. Redemption of Securities of any series (whether
by sinking fund or otherwise) as permitted or required by any form of Security issued pursuant to
this Indenture shall be made in accordance with such form of Security and this Article; provided,
however, that if any provision of any such form of Security shall conflict with any provision of
this Article, the provision of such form of Security shall govern. Except as otherwise set forth
in the form of Security for such series, each Security of such series shall be subject to partial
redemption only in the amount of $___ or integral multiples thereof.
Section 11.2 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The election of the Company to redeem any
Securities shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at
the election of the Company of any of the Securities of any particular series and having the same
terms, the Company shall, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date
(unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such date and
of the principal amount of Securities of that series to be redeemed. In the case of any redemption
of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms
of such Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance with such restriction.
Section 11.3 Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. If less than all the Securities of any
series are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than
60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series
not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate
and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any
Security of such series, provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any
Security shall be in a denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination) for such Security. If less than all the Securities of such series and of a specified
tenor are to be redeemed (unless such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by
the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor not previously
called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for
partial redemption and the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this
Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of
Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to
the portion of the principal amount of such Security that has been or is to be redeemed. If the
Company shall so direct, Securities registered in the name of the Company, any Affiliate or any
Subsidiary thereof shall not be included in the Securities selected for redemption.
Section 11.4 Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, mailed not later than the thirtieth day, and not earlier than the sixtieth day,
prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at the address of such
Holder as it appears in the Securities Register.
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With respect to Securities of each series to be redeemed, each notice of redemption shall
state:
(a) the Redemption Date;
(b) the Redemption Price or if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to the time the
notice is required to be sent, the estimate of the Redemption Price provided pursuant to the
Indenture together with a statement that it is an estimate and that the actual Redemption Price
will be calculated on a specified day prior to the Redemption Date;
(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities of such particular series and having the same
terms are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the
respective principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(d) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each
such Security or portion thereof, and that interest thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and
after said date;
(e) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the
Redemption Price; and
(f) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of the Company shall be
given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of
the Company and shall not be irrevocable. The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall
be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice.
In any case, a failure to give such notice by mail or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any
Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the
proceedings for the redemption of any other Security.
Section 11.5 Deposit of Redemption Price. Prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the
Redemption Date specified in the notice of redemption given as provided in Section 11.4, the
Company will deposit with the Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents (or if the Company is
acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company will segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section
10.3) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and any accrued interest
(including Additional Interest) on, all the Securities that are to be redeemed on that date.
Section 11.6 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. If any notice of redemption has
been given as provided in Section 11.4, the Securities or portion of Securities with respect to
which such notice has been given shall become due and payable on the date and at the place or
places stated in such notice at the applicable Redemption Price, together with accrued interest
(including any Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date. On presentation and surrender of such
Securities at a Place of Payment in said notice specified, the said Securities or the specified
portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price,
together with accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date;
provided, however, that, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, installments of
interest (including any Additional Interest) whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption
Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant record
dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.7.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new
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Security or Securities of the same series, of authorized denominations, in aggregate principal
amount equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented and having the same Original
Issue Date, Stated Maturity and terms. If a Global Security is so surrendered, such new Security
(subject to Section 3.5) will also be a new Global Security.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for
redemption, the principal of and premium, if any, on such Security shall, until paid, bear interest
from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.
ARTICLE XII
SINKING FUNDS
Section 12.1 Applicability of Article. The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to
any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities of any series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.1 for such Securities.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of any Securities of
any series is herein referred to as a “mandatory sinking fund payment,” and any sinking fund
payment in excess of such minimum amount that is permitted to be made by the terms of such
Securities of any series is herein referred to as an “optional sinking fund payment.” If provided
for by the terms of any Securities of any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may
be subject to reduction as provided in Section 12.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to
the redemption (or purchase by tender or otherwise) of Securities of any series as provided for by
the terms of such Securities.
Section 12.2 Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities. In lieu of making all or
any part of a mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to any Securities of a series in cash,
the Company may at its option, at any time no more than 16 months and no less than 45 days prior to
the date on which such sinking fund payment is due, deliver to the Trustee Securities of such
series (together with the unmatured coupons, if any, appertaining thereto) theretofore purchased or
otherwise acquired by the Company, except Securities of such series that have been redeemed through
the application of mandatory or optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of the
Securities of such series, accompanied by a Company Order instructing the Trustee to credit such
obligations and stating that the Securities of such series were originally issued by the Company by
way of bona fide sale or other negotiation for value; provided that the Securities to be so
credited have not been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received
and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price for such Securities, as
specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption through operation of the sinking fund
and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
Section 12.3 Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not less than 60 days prior to each
sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for such
Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by payment of cash in the currency in which the Securities of such series are payable
(except as provided pursuant to Section 3.1) and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 12.2 and will also deliver to
the Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Such
Officers’ Certificate shall be irrevocable and upon its delivery the Company shall be
obligated to make the cash payment or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the
succeeding sinking fund payment date. In the case of the failure of the Company to deliver such
Officers’ Certificate (or, as required by this Indenture, the Securities and coupons, if any,
specified in such Officers’ Certificate), the sinking fund payment due on the succeeding sinking
fund payment date for such series shall be paid
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entirely in cash and shall be sufficient to redeem
the principal amount of the Securities of such series subject to a mandatory sinking fund payment
without the right to deliver or credit securities as provided in Section 12.2 and without the right
to make the optional sinking fund payment with respect to such series at such time.
Any sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional) made in cash plus any unused
balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made with respect to the Securities of any
particular series shall be applied by the Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as
its own Paying Agent) on the sinking fund payment date on which such payment is made (or, if such
payment is made before a sinking fund payment date, on the sinking fund payment date immediately
following the date of such payment) to the redemption of Securities of such series at the
Redemption Price specified in such Securities with respect to the sinking fund. Any sinking fund
moneys not so applied or allocated by the Trustee (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent, segregated and held in trust by the Company as provided in Section 10.3) for such series and
together with such payment (or such amount so segregated) shall be applied in accordance with the
provisions of this Section. Any and all sinking fund moneys with respect to the Securities of any
particular series held by the Trustee (or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent,
segregated and held in trust as provided in Section 10.3) on the last sinking fund payment date
with respect to Securities of such series and not held for the payment or redemption of particular
Securities of such series shall be applied by the Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is
acting as its own Paying Agent), together with other moneys, if necessary, to be deposited (or
segregated) sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of the Securities of such
series at Maturity. The Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund
payment date in the manner specified in Section 11.3 and cause notice of the redemption thereof to
be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 11.4.
Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms
and in the manner stated in Section 11.6. On or before each sinking fund payment date, the Company
shall pay to the Trustee (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company shall
segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 10.3) in cash a sum in the currency in which
Securities of such series are payable (except as provided pursuant to Section 3.1) equal to the
principal, premium, if any, and any interest accrued to the Redemption Date for Securities or
portions thereof to be redeemed on such sinking fund payment date pursuant to this Section.
Neither the Trustee nor the Company shall redeem any Securities of a series with sinking fund
moneys or mail any notice of redemption of Securities of such series by operation of the sinking
fund for such series during the continuance of a default in payment of interest, if any, on any
Securities of such series or of any Event of Default (other than an Event of Default occurring as a
consequence of this paragraph) with respect to the Securities of such series, except that if the
notice of redemption shall have been provided in accordance with the provisions hereof, the Trustee
(or the Company, if the Company is then acting as its own Paying Agent) shall redeem such
Securities if cash sufficient for that purpose shall be deposited with the Trustee (or segregated
by the Company) for that purpose in accordance with the terms of this Article. Except as
aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for such series at the time when any such default or
Event of Default shall occur and any moneys thereafter paid into such sinking fund shall, during
the continuance of such default or Event of Default, be held as security for the payment of the
Securities and coupons, if any, of such series; provided, however, that in case such default or
Event of Default shall have been cured or waived herein, such moneys shall thereafter be applied on
the next
sinking fund payment date for the Securities of such series on which such moneys may be
applied pursuant to the provisions of this Section.
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ARTICLE XIII
REPAYMENT AT THE OPTION OF HOLDERS
Section 13.1 Applicability of Article. Securities of any series that are repayable at the
option of the Holders thereof before their Stated Maturity shall be repaid in accordance with their
terms and (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1 for Securities of such series) in
accordance with this Article.
Section 13.2 Repayment of Securities. Each Security that is subject to repayment in whole or
in part at the option of the Holder thereof on a Repayment Date shall be repaid at the applicable
Repayment Price together with interest accrued to such Repayment Date as specified pursuant to
Section 3.1.
Section 13.3 Exercise of Option; Notice. Each Holder desiring to exercise such Holder’s
option for repayment shall, as conditions to such repayment, surrender the Security to be repaid in
whole or in part together with written notice of the exercise of such option at any office or
agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, not less than 30 nor more than 45 days prior to the
Repayment Date. Such notice, which shall be irrevocable, shall specify the principal amount of
such Security to be repaid, which shall be equal to the minimum authorized denomination for such
Security or an integral multiple thereof, and shall identify the Security to be repaid and, in the
case of a partial repayment of the Security, shall specify the denomination or denominations of the
Security or Securities of the same series to be issued to the Holder for the portion of the
principal of the Security surrendered that is not to be repaid.
The Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver without service
charge to the Holder of any Security so surrendered a new Security or Securities of the same
series, of any authorized denomination specified in the foregoing notice, in an aggregate principal
amount equal to any portion of the principal of the Security so surrendered that is not to be
repaid.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions
relating to the repayment of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security repaid or to be
repaid only in part, to the portion of the principal of such Security that has been or is to be
repaid.
Section 13.4 Securities Payable on the Repayment Date. Notice of exercise of the option of
repayment having been given and the Securities so to be repaid having been surrendered as
aforesaid, such Securities shall, unless purchased in accordance with this Section, on the
Repayment Date become due and payable at the price therein specified and from and after the
Repayment Date such Securities shall cease to bear interest and shall be paid on the Repayment
Date, unless the Company shall default in the payment of such price in which case the Company shall
continue to be obligated for the principal amount of such Securities and shall be obligated to pay
interest on such principal amount at the rate borne by such Securities from time to time until
payment in full of such principal amount.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall
be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed and
attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
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