COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES INC. (a Delaware corporation) Senior Debt Securities, Debt Warrants and Currency Warrants UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT
COCA-COLA
ENTERPRISES INC.
(a
Delaware corporation)
Senior
Debt Securities,
Debt
Warrants
and
Currency
Warrants
[ ],
2008
To the
Underwriters
named in
the applicable
Terms
Agreement
supplemental
hereto
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
In
accordance with the authorization granted by the Board of Directors, or a
committee thereof, of Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. (the “Company”), the Company
proposes to sell from time to time, pursuant to the joint registration statement
filed by the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Coca-Cola Enterprises
Finance LT 1 Commandite S.C.A. (“CCE Luxembourg”), on Form S-3 (No. 333-144967),
an indeterminate aggregate principal amount, in domestic or such foreign
currencies or units of two or more currencies as the Company shall designate at
the time of offering, of its (a) senior debt securities (the “Senior Debt
Securities”) and/or (b) warrants to purchase Senior Debt Securities (“Debt
Warrants”) and/or (c) warrants to receive from the Company the cash value in
U.S. dollars of the right to purchase (“Currency Call Warrants”)
and/or to receive from the Company the cash value in U.S. dollars of
the right to sell (“Currency Put Warrants” and, together with the Currency Call
Warrants, the “Currency Warrants”) such foreign currencies or units of two or
more currencies as shall be designated by the Company at the time of offering in
one or more offerings on terms determined at the time of sale. The
Senior Debt Securities will be issued under an Indenture dated as of July 30,
2007 (the “Original Indenture”), as supplemented by the Supplemental Indenture
to be dated as of May 12, 2008 (the “Supplemental Indenture” and, collectively
with the Original Indenture, the “Indenture”) between the Company, and Deutsche
Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee (the “Trustee”). The Debt
Warrants and/or Currency Warrants (together, the “Warrants”) will be issued
under one or more warrant agreements (the warrant agreement relating to any
issue of Warrants to be sold pursuant to this Agreement will be identified in
the applicable Terms Agreement (as hereinafter defined) and is referred to
herein as the “Warrant Agreement”) among the Company and the Warrant Agent
identified in such Warrant Agreement (the “Warrant Agent”). Each
issue of Senior Debt Securities and Warrants may vary, where applicable, as to
aggregate principal amount, maturity, interest rate or rates and timing of
payments thereof, redemption provisions and sinking fund requirements, if any,
exercise provisions and any other variable terms which the Indenture or any
Warrant Agreement, as the case may be, contemplates may be set forth in the Debt
Securities and Warrants as issued from time to time. The Senior Debt
Securities and the Warrants may be offered either together or
separately. As used herein, “Securities” shall mean
the
securities (whether Senior Debt Securities, Warrants or both) covered by the
applicable Terms Agreement, and “Warrant Securities” shall mean the Senior Debt
Securities issuable upon exercise of Debt Warrants.
Whenever
the Company determines to make an offering of Securities through one or more
investment banking firms, it will enter into a Terms Agreement (a “Terms
Agreement”) with such firm or firms providing for the sale of such Securities
to, and the purchase and offering thereof by, such firm or firms. The
Terms Agreement shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto and shall
specify such applicable information as is indicated in such
Exhibit. The Terms Agreement will incorporate by reference the
provisions of this Agreement. Each offering of Securities will be
governed by this Agreement, as supplemented by the applicable Terms Agreement,
and this Agreement and such Terms Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be
binding upon each Underwriter participating in the offering of such
Securities. Unless the context otherwise requires, as used
hereinafter (a) the term “Agreement” shall refer to this Underwriting Agreement
which has been executed by the Company as of
[ ], 2008 and
to the Terms Agreement supplemental hereto with respect to the offering of
specific Securities as executed by or on behalf of the Company and by or on
behalf of the Underwriter or Underwriters which are parties thereto; (b) the
term “Terms Agreement” shall refer to the Terms Agreement applicable to a
specific offering; (c) the term “Underwriter” or “Underwriters” shall each refer
to the one or more investment banking firms which are parties to the applicable
Terms Agreement; and (d) “you” or “your” shall refer to any manager or
co-managers of an underwriting syndicate so specified in the applicable Terms
Agreement on its own behalf and on behalf of the other Underwriters, or, if none
is or are so named, to the Underwriter or Underwriters.
SECTION
1. Representations and
Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to each
Underwriter, as of the date of the Terms Agreement, as of the Applicable Time
referred to in Section 1(e) hereof and as of the Closing Time referred to in
Section 2 hereof (each, a “Representation Date”), as follows:
(a) The
Company meets the requirements for use of Form S-3 under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), and the Company has prepared and filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) an “automatic shelf
registration statement” as defined in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act on Form S-3
(No. 333-144967) not earlier than three years prior to the date
hereof in respect of the Securities, such registration statement relating to the
Securities and the offering thereof from time to time by the Company or CCE
Luxembourg in accordance with Rule 415 under the 1933 Act, and has filed such
amendments thereto as may have been required to the date hereof. Such
registration statement and any amendment thereto became effective under the 1933
Act upon filing with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(e) under the 1933 Act,
and the Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended (the “1939 Act”). Such registration statement and the
exhibits thereto (and, if amended, as amended) and the base prospectuses
relating to the sale of Securities by the Company or CCE Luxembourg constituting
a part thereof, including all documents incorporated therein by reference, as
from time to time amended or supplemented pursuant to the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), the 1933 Act or otherwise, are
collectively referred to herein as the “Registration Statement” and the “Base
Prospectus”, respectively. The Company has not received from
the
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Commission
any notice pursuant to Rule 401(g)(2) under the 1933 Act objecting to the use of
the automatic shelf registration statement form. No stop order
suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued under
the 1933 Act and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are
pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, are contemplated by the Commission,
and any request on the part of the Commission for additional information has
been complied with. The Company may have filed with the Commission,
as part of an amendment to the Registration Statement or pursuant to Rule 424(b)
under the 1933 Act, one or more preliminary prospectus supplements (including
the documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, a
“Preliminary Prospectus”) relating to the Securities, each of which has been
previously furnished to you. The Company will file with the
Commission a final prospectus supplement (including the documents incorporated
or deemed to be incorporated by reference therein, the “Final Prospectus
Supplement”) relating to the Securities in accordance with Rule 424(b), and as
contemplated by Section 3(a) hereof. As filed, such Final Prospectus
Supplement shall be deemed to have supplemented the Base Prospectus only with
respect to the offering of Securities to which it relates. Such Final
Prospectus Supplement shall contain all information required by the 1933 Act and
the rules thereunder, and, except to the extent you shall agree in writing to a
modification, shall be in all substantive respects in the form furnished to you
at or prior to the date of the applicable Terms Agreement, shall contain only
such specific additional information and other changes (beyond that contained in
the Base Prospectus and any Preliminary Prospectus) as the Company has advised
you, at or prior to the date of the applicable Terms Agreement, will be included
or made therein.
(b) The
Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus and the Indenture, at the time the
Registration Statement became effective and as of each Representation Date did
or will, and, when the Final Prospectus Supplement is first filed in accordance
with Rule 424(b) and at the Closing Time, the Final Prospectus Supplement (and
any supplement thereto) will, comply in all material respects with the
applicable requirements of the 1933 Act, the rules and regulations thereunder
(the “Regulations”) and the 1939 Act. The Registration Statement, at
the time the Registration Statement became effective and as of each
Representation Date, did not, and will not, contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. The Base
Prospectus, at the time the Registration Statement became effective and as of
each Representation Date, did not, and will not, include an untrue statement of
a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading; and on the date of any filing pursuant to Rule 424(b) and
at the Closing Time, the Final Prospectus Supplement (together with any
supplement thereto) will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in light
of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided, however, that the
Company makes no representations and warranties as to information contained in
or omitted from the Registration Statement, Base Prospectus or Final Prospectus
Supplement (or any supplement thereto) made in reliance upon and in conformity
with information furnished to the Company in writing by any Underwriter through
you expressly for use in the Registration Statement, Base Prospectus or Final
Prospectus
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Supplement
or to that part of the Registration Statement which shall constitute the
Statement of Eligibility and Qualification under the 1939 Act (Form T-1) of the
Trustee under the Indenture.
(c) This
Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the
Company.
(d) The
documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference in the
Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus and
Final Prospectus Supplement, at the time they were or hereafter are filed with
the Commission, complied or when so filed will comply in all material respects
with the requirements of the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations thereunder
and, when read together with the other information in the Base Prospectus, at
the time the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto became or become
effective, did not and will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact
or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to
make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
are made, not misleading.
(e) With
respect to any issue of Securities, the “Applicable Time” will be such time and
date as is specified in the related Terms Agreement as the Applicable Time; and
the “Disclosure Package” will be (i) The Base Prospectus as amended or
supplemented immediately prior to the Applicable Time, (ii) the Preliminary
Prospectus used most recently prior to the Applicable Time (iii) issuer free
writing prospectuses, as defined in Rule 433 under the 1933 Act (“Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus”), if any, identified in Schedule I to the Terms Agreement,
(iv) the final term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 3(b) hereto, if
any, and (v) any other free writing prospectus, as defined in Rule 405 under the
1933 Act (“Free Writing Prospectus”), that the parties to the Terms Agreement
shall expressly agree in writing, as identified in Schedule I to the Terms
Agreement, to treat as part of the Disclosure Package; the Disclosure Package
and each electronic road show, when taken together as a whole with the
Disclosure Package, as of the Applicable Time, does not include any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in
order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not
apply to statements in or omissions from the Disclosure Package based upon and
in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by any
Underwriter through you specifically for use therein.
(f) (i)
At the time of the most recent amendment to the Registration Statement for the
purposes of complying with Section 10(a)(3) of the 1933 Act (whether such
amendment was by post-effective amendment, incorporated report filed pursuant to
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or form of prospectus), (ii) at the time
the Company or any person acting on its behalf (within the meaning, for this
clause only, of Rule 163(c) under the 0000 Xxx) made any offer relating to the
Securities in reliance on the exemption in Rule 163 under the 1933 Act, and
(iii) at the Applicable Time (with such time being used as the determination
date for purposes of this clause (iii)), the Company was or is (as the case may
be) a “well-known seasoned issuer” as defined in Rule 405 under the 1933
Act.
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(g) The
Company was not, at the earliest time after the filing of the Registration
Statement that the Company or another offering participant made a bona fide offer (within the
meaning of Rule 164(h)(2) under the 1933 Act), and is not an “ineligible issuer”
(as defined in Rule 405 under the 1933 Act).
(h) Each
Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and the final term sheet prepared and filed
pursuant to Section 3(b) hereto does not include any information that conflicts
with the information contained in the Registration Statement, including any
document incorporated therein by reference and any prospectus supplement deemed
to be a part thereof that has not been superseded or modified. The
foregoing sentence does not apply to statements in or omissions from any Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus based upon and in conformity with written information
furnished to the Company by any Underwriter specifically for use therein, it
being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by or on
behalf of any Underwriter consists of the information described as such in
Section 6 hereof.
(i) With
respect to an issuance of Securities, the Company has not made and will not
make, prior to the Closing Time for such Securities and the completion of the
Underwriters’ distribution of such Securities, any offer that would constitute a
“free writing prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405 under the Act), without the
prior consent of the Underwriters; and the Company has complied and will comply
with the requirements of Rule 433 under the Act applicable to any such free
writing prospectus, including timely filing with the Commission or retention
where required and legending.
(j) The
Company maintains a consolidated system of internal control over financial
reporting (as such term is defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act)
that complies with the requirements of the Exchange Act and has been designed
by, or under the supervision of, the Company’s principal executive officer and
principal financial officer to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements
for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles (“GAAP”). Except as disclosed in the Disclosure Package,
the Company’s internal control over financial reporting is effective and the
Company is not aware of any material weaknesses in its internal control over
financial reporting.
(k) The
Company has established and maintains “disclosure controls and procedures” (as
defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the 0000 Xxx) that are designed
to ensure that information (both financial and non-financial) required to be
disclosed by the Company in reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act
is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods
specified in the rules and regulations of the Commission, and that all such
information required to be disclosed is accumulated and communicated to the
Company’s management as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required
disclosure and to make the certifications of the Chief Executive Officer and
Chief Financial Officer of the Company required under the Exchange Act with
respect to such reports.
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(l) The
financial statements included or incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by
reference in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package and the Final
Prospectus Supplement, together with the related schedules and notes, present
fairly the financial position of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries
at the dates indicated and the statement of operations, shareowners’ equity and
cash flows of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries for the periods
specified; said financial statements have been prepared in conformity with GAAP
applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved. The
supporting schedules, if any, present fairly in accordance with GAAP the
information required to be stated therein. The selected financial
data and the summary financial information included or incorporated or deemed to
be incorporated by reference in the Final Prospectus Supplement present fairly
the information shown therein and have been compiled on a basis consistent with
that of the audited financial statements included or incorporated or deemed to
be incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement. All
disclosures contained in the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or
the Final Prospectus Supplement, if any, regarding “non-GAAP financial measures”
(as such term is defined by the rules and regulations of the Commission) comply
with Regulation G under the 1934 Act and Item 10 of Regulation S-K of the
Regulations, to the extent applicable.
(m) The
Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a corporation in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has corporate power and
authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business
as described in the Final Prospectus Supplement and to enter into and perform
its obligations under this Agreement; and the Company is duly qualified as a
foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in each other
jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the
ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the
failure so to qualify or to be in good standing would not result in a material
adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings,
business affairs or business prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries
considered as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of
business (a “Material Adverse Effect”).
(n) The
Securities have been duly authorized and, at the Closing Time, will have been
duly executed by the Company and, when authenticated, issued and delivered in
the manner provided for in the Indenture and delivered against payment of the
purchase price therefor as provided in this Agreement, will constitute valid and
binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the Company in
accordance with their terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws relating to
fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting
enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is
subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), and will be in the form
contemplated by, and entitled to the benefits of, the Indenture. The
Indenture has been duly qualified under the 1939 Act and has been duly
authorized by the Company and, at the Closing Time, will constitute a valid and
legally binding agreement, enforceable against the Company in accordance with
its terms, except as the enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency (including, without limitation, all laws
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relating
to fraudulent transfers), reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting
enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and except as enforcement thereof is
subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is
considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).
(o) The
Securities and the Indenture will conform in all material respects to the
respective statements relating thereto contained in the Final Prospectus
Supplement and will be in substantially the respective forms filed or
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference, as the case may be, as
exhibits to the Registration Statement.
(p) Neither
the Company nor any of its significant subsidiaries (as defined in Rule 1-02 of
Regulation S-X promulgated under the 1933 Act) (“Significant Subsidiaries”) is
in violation of its charter or by-laws or in default in the performance or
observance of any obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any
contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit agreement, note,
lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its
Significant Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound,
or to which any of the property or assets of the Company or any subsidiary is
subject (collectively, “Agreements and Instruments”) except for such defaults
that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect; and the execution, delivery
and performance of this Agreement by the Company, the Indenture and the
Securities and the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and
compliance by the Company with its obligations hereunder and thereunder have
been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and do not and will not,
whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or both,
conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or Repayment Event (as
defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien,
charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any
subsidiary pursuant to, the Agreements and Instruments (except for such
conflicts, breaches, defaults or Repayment Events or liens, charges or
encumbrances that would not result in a Material Adverse Effect), nor will such
action result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or bylaws of the
Company or any subsidiary or any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation,
judgment, order, writ or decree of any government, government instrumentality or
court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary or any of their assets, properties or
operations. As used herein, a “Repayment Event” means any event or
condition which gives the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of
indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require
the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness
by the Company or any subsidiary.
(q) The
Company and its Significant Subsidiaries own or possess, or can acquire on
reasonable terms, adequate patents, patent rights, licenses, inventions,
copyrights, know how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or
unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures),
trademarks, service marks, trade names or other intellectual property
(collectively, “Intellectual Property”) necessary to carry on the business now
operated by them, except where the failure to own or possess such right would
not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, and neither the
Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice or is
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otherwise
aware of any infringement of or conflict with asserted rights of others with
respect to any Intellectual Property or of any facts or circumstances which
would render any Intellectual Property invalid or inadequate to protect the
interest of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries therein, and
which infringement or conflict (if the subject of any unfavorable decision,
ruling or finding) or invalidity or inadequacy, singly or in the aggregate,
would result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(r) No
filing with, or authorization, approval, consent, license, order, registration,
qualification or decree of, any court or governmental authority or agency is
necessary or required for the performance by the Company of its obligations
hereunder, in connection with the offering, issuance or sale of the Securities
hereunder or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, except such as have been already obtained or as may be required under
the 1933 Act or the Regulations or state securities laws and except for the
qualification of the Indenture under the 1939 Act.
(s) The
Company and its Significant Subsidiaries possess such permits, licenses,
approvals, consents and other authorizations (collectively, “Governmental
Licenses”) issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory
agencies or bodies necessary to conduct the business now operated by them,
except where the failure so to possess would not, singly or in the aggregate,
result in a Material Adverse Effect; the Company and its subsidiaries are in
compliance with the terms and conditions of all such Governmental Licenses,
except where the failure so to comply would not, singly or in the aggregate,
result in a Material Adverse Effect; all of the Governmental Licenses are valid
and in full force and effect, except when the invalidity of such Governmental
Licenses or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to be in full force and
effect would not, singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse
Effect; and neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any
notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such
Governmental Licenses which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an
unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would result in a Material Adverse
Effect.
(t) Neither
the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the
Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or
any of its Significant Subsidiaries is aware of or has taken any action,
directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such persons of the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, and the rules and regulations
thereunder (the “FCPA”), including, without limitation, making use of the mails
or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce corruptly in furtherance
of an offer, payment, promise to pay or authorization of the payment of any
money, or other property, gift, promise to give, or authorization of the giving
of anything of value to any “foreign official” (as such term is defined in the
FCPA) or any foreign political party or official thereof or any candidate for
foreign political office, in contravention of the FCPA; and the Company, its
Significant Subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Company, its affiliates
have conducted their businesses in compliance with the FCPA and have instituted
and maintained policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are
reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance
therewith.
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(u) The
operations of the Company and its Significant Subsidiaries are and have been
conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and
reporting requirements and the money laundering statutes and the rules and
regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or
guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency
(collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by
or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator
involving the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries with respect to the
Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company,
threatened.
(v) Neither
the Company nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries nor, to the knowledge of the
Company, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company or
any of its subsidiaries is currently subject to any sanctions administered by
the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”);
and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of the
offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any
subsidiary, joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of
financing the activities of any person currently subject to any U.S. sanctions
administered by OFAC.
(w) The
Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the
Securities and the application of the net proceeds thereof as described in the
Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus Supplement, will not be an
“investment company” as defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended (the “1940 Act”).
Any
certificate signed by any officer of the Company and delivered to you or counsel
for the Underwriters in connection with an offering of Securities shall be
deemed a representation and warranty by the Company to each Underwriter as to
the matters covered thereby on the date of such certificate.
SECTION
2. Purchase
and Sale. The several commitments of the Underwriters to
purchase Securities pursuant to the Terms Agreement shall be deemed to have been
made on the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained and
shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth.
Payment
of the purchase price for, and delivery of, any Securities to be purchased by
the Underwriters shall be made at such place as shall be set forth in the Terms
Agreement (which, in the case of Securities in bearer form, shall be at a place
located outside of the United States), at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the
third business day (unless postponed in accordance with the provisions of
Section 9) following the date of the Terms Agreement or such other time as shall
be agreed upon by you and the Company (such time and date being referred to as
the “Closing Time”). Payment shall be made to the Company by wire
transfer in immediately available funds to the order of the Company against
delivery to you for the respective accounts of the Underwriters of the
Securities to be purchased by them (unless such Securities are issuable only in
the form of a single global Security registered in the name of a depository or a
nominee of a depository, in which event the Underwriters’ interest in such
global certificate shall be noted in a manner satisfactory to the Underwriters
and their counsel). Such Securities shall be in such denominations
and registered in such names as you may request in writing at least two
business
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days
prior to the Closing Time. Such Securities, which may be in temporary
form, will be made available for examination and packaging by you on or before
the first business day prior to the Closing Time.
If
authorized by the Terms Agreement, the Underwriters may solicit offers to
purchase Senior Debt Securities from the Company pursuant to delayed delivery
contracts (“Delayed Delivery Contracts”) substantially in the form of Exhibit B
hereto with such changes therein as the Company may approve. As
compensation for arranging Delayed Delivery Contracts, the Company will pay to
you at Closing Time, for the accounts of the Underwriters, a fee relating to the
principal amount of Senior Debt Securities for which Delayed Delivery Contracts
are made at Closing Time as is specified in the Terms Agreement. Any
Delayed Delivery Contracts are to be with institutional investors, including
commercial and savings banks, insurance companies, pension funds, investment
companies and educational and charitable institutions. At Closing
Time the Company will enter into Delayed Delivery Contracts (for not less than
the minimum principal amount of Senior Debt Securities per Delayed Delivery
Contract specified in the Terms Agreement) with all purchasers proposed by the
Underwriters and previously approved by the Company as provided below, but not
for an aggregate principal amount of Senior Debt Securities in excess of that
specified in the Terms Agreement. The Underwriters will not have any
responsibility for the validity or performance of Delayed Delivery
Contracts.
You are
to submit to the Company, at least two business days prior to Closing Time, the
name of any institutional investors with which it is proposed that the Company
will enter into Delayed Delivery Contracts and the principal amount of Senior
Debt Securities to be purchased by each of them, and the Company will advise
you, at least two business days prior to Closing Time, of the names of the
institutions with which the making of Delayed Delivery Contracts is approved by
the Company and the principal amount of Senior Debt Securities to be covered by
each such Delayed Delivery Contact.
The
principal amount of Senior Debt Securities agreed to be purchased by the
respective Underwriters pursuant to the Terms Agreement shall be reduced by the
principal amount of Senior Debt Securities covered by Delayed Delivery
Contracts, as to each Underwriter as set forth in a written notice delivered by
you to the Company; provided, however, that the total principal amount of Senior
Debt Securities to be purchased by all Underwriters shall be the total amount of
Senior Debt Securities covered by the Terms Agreement, less the principal amount
of Senior Debt Securities covered by Delayed Delivery Contracts.
SECTION
3.
Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants with each
Underwriter as follows:
(a) Immediately
following the execution of the Terms Agreement, the Company will prepare a Final
Prospectus Supplement setting forth the principal amount of Senior Debt
Securities and/or the number of Warrants covered thereby and their terms not
otherwise specified in the Indenture or Warrant Agreement, as the case may be,
the names of the Underwriters participating in the offering and the principal
amount of Senior Debt Securities and/or number of Warrants which each severally
has agreed to purchase, the names of the Underwriters acting as co-managers in
connection with the offering, if any, the price at which the Securities are to
be purchased by the Underwriters
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from the
Company, the initial public offering price, the selling concession and
reallowance, if any, any delayed delivery arrangements, and such other
information as you and the Company deem appropriate in connection with the
offering of the Securities. The Company will promptly transmit copies
of the Final Prospectus Supplement to the Commission for filing pursuant to Rule
424(b) of the Regulations, and will furnish to the Underwriters as many copies
of the Base Prospectus and such Final Prospectus Supplement as you shall
reasonably request.
(b) The
Company shall prepare a final term sheet, containing solely a description of
final terms of the Securities and the offering thereof, in the form approved by
the Underwriters and attached as Schedule II to the Terms Agreement and to file
such term sheet pursuant to Rule 433 of the 1933 Act within the time required by
such Rule.
(c) If,
at any time prior to the filing of the Final Prospectus Supplement pursuant to
Rule 424(b), any event occurs as a result of which the Disclosure Package as of
the Applicable Time would include any untrue statement of a material fact or
omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made or the circumstances then
prevailing not misleading, the Company will (i) notify promptly the Underwriters
so that any use of the Disclosure Package may cease until it is amended or
supplemented; (ii) amend or supplement the Disclosure Package to correct such
statement or omission; and (iii) supply any amendment or supplement to you in
such quantities as you may reasonably request.
(d) If
at any time when a prospectus is required by the 1933 Act (including in
circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied pursuant to Rule 172 of
the 0000 Xxx) to be delivered in connection with sales of the Securities, any
event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary, in
the view of your counsel or counsel for the Company, to further amend or
supplement the Final Prospectus Supplement in order that the Final Prospectus
Supplement as then supplemented will not include an untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading in the light of circumstances existing at the
time it is delivered to a purchaser or if it shall be necessary, in the view of
either such counsel, at any such time to amend or supplement the Registration
Statement, file a new registration statement or supplement the Final Prospectus
Supplement in order to comply with the requirements of the 1933 Act or the
Regulations, including in connection with use or delivery of the Final
Prospectus Supplement, the Company will (i) promptly prepare and file with the
Commission such amendment or supplement or new registration statement, whether
by filing documents pursuant to the 1934 Act or otherwise, as may be necessary
to correct such untrue statement or omission or to make the Registration
Statement comply with such requirements and (ii) use its best efforts to have
any amendment to the Registration Statement or new registration statement
declared effective as soon as practicable in order to avoid any disruption in
use of the Final Prospectus Supplement.
(e) With
respect to each sale of Securities, the Company will make generally available to
its security holders as soon as practicable, but not later than 90 days after
the close of the period covered thereby, earnings statements (in form complying
with the
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provisions
of Rule 158 under the 0000 Xxx) (other than any such earnings statement
available via the Commission’s XXXXX database).
(f) The
Company, during the period when a prospectus is required to be delivered under
the 1933 Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied
pursuant to Rule 172), will give you notice of its intention to file any
amendment to the Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement to the
Final Prospectus Supplement, whether pursuant to the 1934 Act, the 1933 Act or
otherwise, will furnish you with copies of any such amendment or supplement or
other documents proposed to be filed a reasonable time in advance of filing to
afford you a reasonable opportunity to comment on such proposed amendment or
supplement, and will not file any such amendment or supplement or other
documents in a form to which you or your counsel shall reasonably
object.
(g) The
Company, during the period when a prospectus is required to be delivered under
the 1933 Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied
pursuant to Rule 172), will notify each of you immediately, and confirm the
notice in writing, (i) of the mailing or the delivery to the Commission for
filing of any supplement to the Final Prospectus Supplement or any document to
be filed pursuant to the 1934 Act, (ii) of the receipt of any comments from the
Commission with respect to the Registration Statement, the Base Prospectus or
the Final Prospectus Supplement, (iii) of any request by the Commission for any
amendment to the Registration Statement or any supplement to the Final
Prospectus Supplement or for additional information, and (iv) of the issuance by
the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement or of any notice objecting to its use or the initiation
of any proceedings for that purpose. The Company will make every
reasonable effort to prevent the issuance of any stop order or the occurrence of
any objection to the use of the Registration Statement and, upon such issuance
or notice of objection, to obtain at the earliest possible moment the lifting of
such stop order or relief from such objection, including, if necessary, by
filing an amendment to the Registration Statement or a new registration
statement and using its best efforts to have such amendment or new registration
statement declared effective as soon as practicable.
(h) The
Company will deliver to you one signed and as many conformed copies of the
Registration Statement (as originally filed) and of each amendment thereto
(including exhibits thereto), and as many copies of each Preliminary Prospectus,
the Final Prospectus Supplement and each Issuer Free Writing Prospectus and any
supplement thereto as you may reasonably request and will also deliver to you a
conformed copy of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereto for each
of the Underwriters.
(i) The
Company will endeavor, in cooperation with you, to qualify the Securities for
offering and sale under the applicable securities laws of such states and other
jurisdictions of the United States as you may designate and will maintain such
qualifications in effect for as long as may be required for the distribution of
the Securities; provided that in no event shall the Company be obligated to
qualify to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not now so qualified or
to take action which would subject it to general service of process in any
jurisdiction where it is not now so subject
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or to
conduct its business in a manner in which it is not currently so conducting its
business. The Company will file such statements and reports as may be
required by the laws of each jurisdiction in which the Securities have been
qualified as above provided.
(j) The
Company agrees that, unless it has or shall have obtained the prior written
consent of the Underwriters, and each Underwriter, severally and not jointly,
agrees with the Company that, unless it has or shall have obtained, as the case
may be, the prior written consent of the Company, it has not made and will not
make any offer relating to the Securities that would constitute an Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus or that would otherwise constitute a “free writing
prospectus” (as defined in Rule 405) required to be filed by the Company with
the Commission or retained by the Company under Rule 433, other than a free
writing prospectus containing the information contained in the final term sheet
prepared and filed pursuant to Section 3(b) hereto; provided that the prior
written consent of the parties hereto shall be deemed to have been given in
respect of the Free Writing Prospectuses included in Schedule I hereto and any
electronic road show and provided, further that each of the
Underwriters may use one or more term sheets relating to the Securities
containing customary information, not inconsistent with the form of the final
term sheet prepared and filed pursuant to Section 3(b) hereto, without the prior
consent of the Company. Any such free writing prospectus consented to
by you or the Company is hereinafter referred to as a “Permitted Free Writing
Prospectus.” The Company agrees that (x) it has treated and will treat, as the
case may be, each Permitted Free Writing Prospectus as an Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus and (y) it has complied and will comply, as the case may be, with the
requirements of Rules 164 and 433 applicable to any Permitted Free Writing
Prospectus, including in respect of timely filing with the Commission, legending
and record keeping.
(k) The
Company, during the period when a prospectus is required to be delivered under
the 1933 Act (including in circumstances where such requirement may be satisfied
pursuant to Rule 172), will file promptly all documents required to be filed
with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 14 of the 1934 Act.
(l) Between
the date of the Terms Agreement and the Closing Time, the Company will not,
without your prior consent, offer or sell, or enter into any agreement to sell,
any new issue of currency call warrants, currency put warrants or debt
securities of the Company with a maturity of more than one year, including
additional Senior Debt Securities (except for any debt securities issued upon
exercise of warrants or in connection with acquisitions), or any warrants for
the purchase of debt securities of the Company with a maturity of more than one
year.
(m) During
the period of five years after the date of any Terms Agreement, the Company will
furnish to the Underwriters (i) as soon as publicly available, a copy of each
Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Report on Form l0-Q, Current Report on
Form 8-K, annual report to share owners and definitive proxy statement of the
Company filed with the Commission under the 1934 Act or mailed to share owners
(other than any such report or statement available via the Commission’s XXXXX
database) and (ii) from time to time, such other information concerning the
Company as the Underwriters may reasonably request.
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SECTION
4.
Conditions of Underwriters’ Obligation. The obligations of the
Underwriters to purchase Securities pursuant to the Terms Agreement are subject
to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company
herein contained, to the accuracy of the statements of the Company’s officers
made in any certificate furnished pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the
performance by the Company of all of its covenants and other obligations
hereunder and to the following further conditions:
(a) At
the Closing Time (i) no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement, or, to the knowledge of the Company, proceedings
therefor initiated or threatened by the Commission, nor any notice objecting to
its use shall have been issued under the 1933 Act, no order suspending trading
or striking or withdrawing any Securities to be listed on a national securities
exchange from listing and registration under the 1934 Act shall be in effect,
and no proceedings under the 1933 Act or 1934 Act therefor shall have been
initiated or threatened by the Commission, or, with respect to the filing of any
Form 8-A under the 1934 Act, by any national securities exchange, (ii) the Final
Prospectus Supplement, and any supplement thereto, have been filed in the manner
and within the time period required by Rule 424(b), (iii) the final term sheet
contemplated by Section 3(b) hereto, and any other material required to be filed
by the Company pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the 1933 Act, shall have been filed
with the Commission within the applicable time periods prescribed for such
filings by Rule 433, (iv) the rating assigned by any nationally recognized
securities rating agency to any debt securities, preferred stock or other
obligations of the Company as of the Applicable Time shall not have been lowered
since the Applicable Time, and (v) any Securities for which application has been
made to list on a national securities exchange shall have been approved for
listing, subject to official notice of issuance.
(b) At
the Closing Time you shall have received:
(1) The
opinion, dated as of the Closing Time, of the General Counsel of the Company or
another counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, in form and
substance satisfactory to you, to the effect that:
(i)
The Registration Statement is effective under the 1933 Act; any required filing
of the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary Prospectus and the Final Prospectus
Supplement, and any supplements thereto, pursuant to Rule 424(b) has been made
in the manner and within the time period required by Rule 424(b); to the
knowledge of such counsel, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the
Registration Statement or any notice objecting to its use has been issued, no
proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or threatened, and the
Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus Supplement (other than the
financial statements and other financial information contained therein, as to
which such counsel need express no opinion) comply as to form in all material
respects with the applicable requirements of the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act and the
1939 Act and the respective rules thereunder.
(ii) Such
counsel has no reason to believe that the Disclosure Package, as of the
Applicable Time, contained any untrue statement of a material fact
or
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omitted
to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in
the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (other
than the financial statements and other financial information contained therein,
as to which such counsel need express no opinion).
(iii) Each
of the Company and its Significant Subsidiaries (as set forth in a schedule to
such opinion) has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a
corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is
chartered or organized, with corporate power and authority to own its properties
and conduct its business as described in the Disclosure Package and the Final
Prospectus Supplement, and, to the best of such counsel’s knowledge, is duly
qualified to do business as a foreign corporation and is in good standing under
the laws of each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of substantial
properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification and in
which the failure so to qualify and be in good standing would have a material
adverse effect upon the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a
whole.
(iv) The
Company’s authorized equity capitalization is as set forth in the Disclosure
Package and the Final Prospectus Supplement, and the Securities and the
Indenture conform to the descriptions thereof contained in the Disclosure
Package and the Final Prospectus Supplement.
(v) To
the best knowledge of such counsel, there is no pending or threatened action,
suit or proceeding before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or
any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries of a character
required to be disclosed in the Registration Statement which is not adequately
disclosed in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus Supplement, and
there is no franchise, contract or other document of a character required to be
described in the Registration Statement, or to be filed as an exhibit, which is
not described or filed as required.
(vi) This
Agreement (including the Terms Agreement), any Warrant Agreement, any Delayed
Delivery Contracts and the Indenture have been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Company; and the Indenture has been duly qualified under the
1939 Act; and the Securities (including the Warrant Securities, if any) have
been duly authorized for issuance and sale by the Company.
(vii) The
Indenture and any Warrant Agreement constitute valid and binding agreements
enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms,
except to the extent enforcement thereof may be limited by (i) bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws now or hereafter in
effect relating to creditors’ rights generally and (ii) general equity
principles (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a proceeding at
law or in equity) and except further as enforcement thereof shall be limited by
(A) requirements that a claim with respect to any Securities denominated
other than in U.S. dollars (or a foreign currency or foreign currency
unit judgment in
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respect
of such claim) be converted into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange
prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable law or (B) governmental
authority to limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments in a foreign
currency or currency units or payments outside the United States; and the
Securities are in the form contemplated by the Indenture and the Securities,
when executed and authenticated in accordance with the provisions of the
Indenture or the Warrant Agreement, as the case may be, and when issued and
delivered to you and paid for by you pursuant to the Terms Agreement, including
the provisions of this Agreement, or by purchasers proposed by the Underwriters
and previously approved by the Company pursuant to any Delayed Delivery
Contracts, will be valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable
against the Company in accordance with their terms and entitled to the benefits
of the Indenture, except to the extent enforcement of the Securities may be
limited by (i) bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other
similar laws now or hereafter in effect relating to creditors’ rights generally
and (ii) general equity principles (regardless of whether enforcement is
considered in a proceeding at law or in equity) and except further as
enforcement thereof shall be limited by (A) requirements that a claim with
respect to any Securities denominated other than in U.S. dollars (or a foreign
currency or foreign currency unit judgment in respect of such claim) be
converted into U.S. dollars at a rate of exchange prevailing on a
date determined pursuant to applicable law or (B) governmental authority to
limit, delay or prohibit the making of payments in foreign currency or currency
units or payments outside the United States.
(viii) No
filing with, consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or
governmental agency or body is required for the consummation of the transactions
contemplated herein, except such as have been obtained under the 1933 Act, the
1934 Act, and the 1939 Act and such as may be required under the blue sky laws
of any jurisdiction in connection with the purchase and distribution of the
Securities by the Underwriters and such other approvals (specified in such
opinion) as have been obtained.
(ix) Neither
the issuance and sale of the Securities, nor the consummation of any other of
the transactions herein contemplated nor the fulfillment of the terms hereof
will conflict with, result in a breach of, or constitute a default under the
certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or the terms of any
indenture or other agreement or instrument known to such counsel and to which
the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or bound and which are
material to the business, operations or financial condition of the Company and
its subsidiaries taken as a whole, or any applicable law, statute, rule, order
or regulation known to such counsel to be applicable to the Company or any of
its subsidiaries of any court, regulatory body, administrative agency,
governmental body or arbitrator having jurisdiction over the Company or any of
its subsidiaries.
(x) Each
document, if any, filed pursuant to the 1934 Act (other than the financial
statements and other financial and statistical information included
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therein,
as to which no opinion need be rendered) and incorporated by reference in the
Base Prospectus or the Final Prospectus Supplement complied when so filed as to
form in all material respects with the 1934 Act and the rules and regulations
thereunder.
(xi) The
Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the
Securities and the application of the net proceeds thereof as described in the
Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus Supplement, will not be an
“investment company” as defined in the 1940 Act.
In
rendering the above opinion, such counsel shall additionally state that, based
on his examination of the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package, the
Final Prospectus Supplement and each amendment thereof or supplement thereto and
his discussions with officers and representatives of the Company in the course
of participating in the preparation of such documents, although he is not
passing upon and does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy,
completeness or fairness of the statements contained in the Registration
Statement, the Disclosure Package, the Final Prospectus Supplement and each
amendment thereof or supplement thereto (except to the extent provided in
subsections (b)(1)(iii) and (b)(1)(iv) of this Section), on the basis of the
foregoing, nothing has come to his attention that would lead him to believe that
the Registration Statement, at each deemed effective date with respect to the
Underwriters pursuant to Rule 430B(f)(2) under the 1933 Act and at the date of
any Terms Agreement contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted
to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to
make the statements therein not misleading or that the Disclosure Package, as of
the Applicable Time, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements
therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading or that the Final Prospectus Supplement or any amendment or
supplement thereto, at the time the Final Prospectus Supplement was issued, at
the time any such amended or supplemented prospectus was issued or at the
Closing Time, included or includes an untrue statement of a material fact or
omitted or omits to state a material fact necessary in order to make the
statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were
made, not misleading (except that no such statement need be made by such counsel
with respect to the financial statements and other financial data included in
the Registration Statement, the Final Prospectus Supplement or in any amendment
or supplement thereto, or any statement contained in or omitted from the
documents referred to therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written
information furnished by the Underwriters through you specifically for use in
the Registration Statement or Final Prospectus Supplement).
In
rendering the opinion required by subsection (b)(1) of this Section, such
counsel may rely (A) as to matters involving the application of laws of any
jurisdiction other than the state of his jurisdiction, the Delaware General
Corporation Law or the United States and as to any other matter to which you
consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), to the extent
specified in such opinion, upon the opinion of other counsel of good standing
whom such counsel believes to be reliable (including Sidley Austin llp, counsel
for the Underwriters) and who are satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters
and (B) as to matters of fact on certificates of officers and representatives of
the Company and of public officials, and will not be required to verify
independently the accuracy or completeness of information or documents furnished
to
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such
counsel with respect to the Registration Statement, the Disclosure Package or
the Final Prospectus Supplement.
(2) The
opinion, dated as of the Closing Time, of Sidley Austin llp, counsel to the
Underwriters, in form and substance satisfactory to you, with respect to the
issuance and sale of the Securities, the Indenture, the Registration Statement,
the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus Supplement and other related
matters as you may reasonably require.
(3) The
opinion, dated as of the Closing Time, of Shearman & Sterling LLP, as tax
counsel to the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to you, to the effect
that the statements under the caption “Certain United States Federal Income Tax
Considerations” in each document comprising an element of the Disclosure Package
and the Final Prospectus Supplement, insofar as such statements constitute
summaries of the legal matters referred to therein, fairly present the
information called for with respect to such legal matters in all material
respects and fairly summarize the matters referred to therein in all material
respects.
(c) You
shall have received from Ernst & Young LLP, independent auditors for the
Company, a letter dated as of the Applicable time to the effect
that:
(i) they
are independent auditors with respect to the Company within the meaning of the
1933 Act and the Regulations;
(ii) in
their opinion the audited financial statements and schedules of the Company and
its subsidiaries incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement, any
Preliminary Prospectus and, in the case of the letter to be provided pursuant to
subsection (d) below, the Final Prospectus Supplement and examined by them
comply in form in all material respects with the applicable accounting
requirement of the 1933 Act and the Regulations and the 1934 Act and the related
published rules and regulations;
(iii) on
the basis of a reading of the latest unaudited financial statements made
available by the Company, if any, carrying out certain specified procedures (but
not an examination in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards)
which would not necessarily reveal matters of significance with respect to the
comments set forth in such letter; a reading of the minutes of the meetings of
the Board of Directors, or a committee thereof, of the Company; and inquiries of
certain officials of the Company who have responsibility for financial and
accounting matters as to transactions and events subsequent to the date of the
latest audited consolidated financial statements included in the Registration
Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and, in the case of the letter to be
provided pursuant to subsection (d) below, the Final Prospectus Supplement,
nothing came to their attention that caused them to believe that:
(1) the
unaudited financial statements, if any, included in or incorporated into the
Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus
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and, in
the case of the letter to be provided pursuant to subsection (d) below, the
Final Prospectus Supplement do not comply in form in all material respects with
the applicable accounting requirements of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act and the
related published rules and regulations; and said unaudited financial
statements, if any, are not in conformity with GAAP in the United States applied
on a basis substantially consistent with that of the audited financial
statements incorporated in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary
Prospectus and, in the case of the letter to be provided pursuant to subsection
(d) below, the Final Prospectus Supplement; or
(2) with
respect to the period subsequent to the date of the latest unaudited financial
statements included in or incorporated into the Registration Statement, any
Preliminary Prospectus and, in the case of the letter to be provided pursuant to
subsection (d) below, the Final Prospectus Supplement there were any changes, at
a specified date not more than five business days prior to the date of such
letter, in the common stock, par value $1.00 per share, of the Company (the
“Common Stock”) and paid in capital, or total debt, of the Company and its
subsidiaries or any decrease in the consolidated net assets of the Company and
its subsidiaries as compared with the amounts shown on the most recent
consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its subsidiaries included in or
incorporated into the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and, in
the case of the letter to be provided pursuant to subsection (d) below, the
Final Prospectus Supplement, except in all instances for changes or decreases
set forth in or contemplated by the Registration Statement, any Preliminary
Prospectus or, in the case of the letter to be provided pursuant to subsection
(d) below, the Final Prospectus Supplement or except for such exceptions
enumerated in such letter as shall have been agreed to by you and the
Company;
(iv) they
have performed certain other specified procedures as a result of which they
determined that certain information specified by you of an accounting, financial
or statistical nature (which is limited to accounting, financial or statistical
information derived from the general accounting records of the Company set forth
in the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus and, in the case of
the letter to be provided pursuant to subsection (d) below, the Final Prospectus
Supplement and in Exhibit 12.1 to the Registration Statement) agrees with the
audited financial statements, the accounting records or analysis of the Company
and its subsidiaries, excluding any questions of legal interpretation;
and
(v) on
the basis of a reading of any unaudited pro forma financial information included
in or incorporated into the Registration Statement, any Preliminary Prospectus
or, in the case of the letter to be provided pursuant to subsection (d) below,
the Final Prospectus Supplement (the “pro forma financial information”);
carrying out certain specified procedures; inquiries of certain officials who
have responsibility for relevant financial and accounting matters;
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and
proving the arithmetic accuracy of the application of any pro forma adjustments
to the historical amounts in the pro forma financial information, nothing came
to their attention which caused them to believe that the pro forma financial
information, if any, does not comply in form in all material respects with the
applicable accounting requirements of Rule 11-02 of Regulation S-X or that the
pro forma adjustments, if any, have not been properly applied to the historical
amounts in the compilation of such statements.
(d) You
shall have received from Ernst & Young or other independent auditors
acceptable to you a letter, dated as of the Closing Time, reconfirming or
updating the letter required by subsection (c) hereof.
(e) You
shall have received a certificate of the Company, signed by two of the
president, any vice-president, the chief financial officer, the treasurer or the
secretary of the Company, one of whom shall be the president, the treasurer or a
vice-president of the Company, dated the Closing Time, to the effect that the
signers of such certificate have carefully examined the Registration Statement,
the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus Supplement and this Agreement
and that, to the best of their knowledge after reasonable
investigation:
(i) the
representations and warranties of the Company in this Agreement are true and
correct in all material respects on and as of the Closing Time with the same
effect as if made at the Closing Time and the Company has complied with all the
agreements and satisfied all the conditions on its part to be performed or
satisfied at or prior to the Closing Time;
(ii) no
stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any
notice objecting to its use has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose
have been instituted or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened;
(iii) since
the date of the most recent financial statements included in the Disclosure
Package and the Final Prospectus Supplement, there has been no material adverse
change in the condition (financial or other), earnings, business or business
prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not
arising in the ordinary course of business, except as set forth in or
contemplated in the Disclosure Package and the Final Prospectus
Supplement;
(iv) the
Company is not and, after giving effect to the sale of the Securities pursuant
to the Terms Agreement incorporating this Agreement and assuming the use of the
net proceeds therefrom as described in the Registration Statement, the Company
will not be in default under any instrument evidencing or relating to
indebtedness of the Company, and no event which, with lapse of time or giving of
notice or both, would constitute an event of default thereunder has occurred or
is continuing, which is material to the business, operations, or financial
condition of the Company and its subsidiaries taken as a whole;
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(v) the
aggregate amount of Debt of the Company issued and outstanding as of the Closing
Time is not, and after giving effect to the sale of the Securities pursuant to
the Terms Agreement incorporating this Agreement and assuming the use of the net
proceeds therefrom as described in the Final Prospectus Supplement will not be,
more than the aggregate amount at which the Company’s consolidated Debt, net of
Cash, would exceed 72% of the Company’s Total Capital (or the amount of any such
Debt of the Company in excess of such limit has been expressly authorized,
approved or ratified by the Board of Directors of the Company). As
used herein, “Debt” means long term debt and current maturities thereof, loans
and notes payable; “Cash” means cash and cash equivalents and interest bearing
assets with maturities of one year or less; “Total Capital” means the sum of
Share-Owners’ Equity, Deferred Income Taxes and Debt less Cash; and all such
terms shall be as they appear on the Company’s published consolidated financial
statements and calculated under the GAAP and practices applied by the Company in
the preparation of its consolidated financial statements; and
(vi) the
statistical and market-related data included in the Disclosure Package or the
Final Prospectus Supplement are based on or derived from reliable
sources.
(f) At
the Closing Time counsel for the Underwriters shall have been furnished with
such documents and opinions as they may reasonably require for the purpose of
enabling them to pass upon the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein
contemplated and related proceedings or in order to evidence the accuracy and
completeness of any of the representations and warranties, or the fulfillment of
any of the conditions, herein contained; and all proceedings taken by the
Company in connection with the issuance and sale of the Securities as herein
contemplated shall be satisfactory in form and substance to you.
(g) Prior
to the Closing Time, the Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters such
further information, certificates and documents as the Underwriters may
reasonably request.
If any
condition specified in this Section shall not have been fulfilled when and as
required to be fulfilled, the Terms Agreement may be terminated by you by notice
to the Company at any time at or prior to the Closing Time, and such termination
shall be without liability of any party to any other party except as provided in
Section 5.
SECTION
5. Payment of
Expenses. The Company will pay all expenses incident to the
performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including (i) the
preparation, printing or reproduction and filing with the Commission of the
Registration Statement (including financial statements and exhibits thereto),
each Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus Supplement and each Issuer
Free Writing Prospectus, and each amendment or supplement to any of them, and
the printing of this Agreement and the Terms Agreement, (ii) the preparation,
issuance and delivery of the Securities to the Underwriters, including any stamp
or transfer taxes in connection with the original issuance and sale of the
Securities, and the preparation, issuance and
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delivery
of any Warrant Securities upon exercise of Debt Warrants, (iii) the fees and
disbursements of the Company’s counsel and accountants, (iv) the qualification
of the Securities and any Warrant Securities under state securities laws in
accordance with the provisions of Section 3(g), including filing fees and the
reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters or the Company
in connection therewith and in connection with the preparation of any Blue Sky
Surveys and Legal Investment Surveys, (v) the printing (or reproduction) and
delivery to the Underwriters (including postage, air freight charges and charges
for counting and packaging) of such copies of the Registration Statement, each
Preliminary Prospectus, the Final Prospectus Supplement and each Issuer Free
Writing Prospectus, and all amendments or supplements to any of them in
quantities as hereinabove stated, (vi) the printing and delivery to the
Underwriters of copies of the Indenture, the applicable Warrant Agreement and
any Blue Sky Surveys and Legal Investment Surveys, (vii) the fees of rating
agencies, (viii) the fees and expenses, if any, incurred in connection with the
listing of the Securities and any Warrant Securities on the New York Stock
Exchange or any other national exchange, and (ix) the fees and expenses incurred
with respect to any filing with the Financial Industry Regulatory
Authority.
If the
purchase of Securities by the Underwriters pursuant to the Terms Agreement is
not consummated otherwise than by reason of a termination solely pursuant to
Sections 8(ii), 8(iii) and 9, the Company shall reimburse the Underwriters for
all of their out-of-pocket expenses, including the reasonable fees and
disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters.
SECTION
6. Indemnification and
Contribution.
(a) The
Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter and each person
who controls any Underwriter within the meanings of the 1933 Act against any and
all losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which they or
any of them may become subject under the 1933 Act, the 1934 Act or other Federal
or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as
such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof)
arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement as originally filed
or in any amendment thereof, or in the Base Prospectus, any Preliminary
Prospectus or any other preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the
Securities, the Final Prospectus Supplement, or any Issuer Free Writing
Prospectus, or the information contained in the final term sheet required to be
prepared and filed pursuant to Section 3(b) hereto, or in any amendment thereof
or supplement thereto, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and agrees to reimburse
each such indemnified party, as incurred, for any legal or other expenses
reasonably incurred by them in connection with investigating or defending any
such loss, claim, damage, liability or action; provided, however, that the
Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss,
claim, damage or liability arises out of or is based upon any such untrue
statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made
therein in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to
the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter through you specifically for use
in connection with the preparation thereof.
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This
indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company may
otherwise have.
(b) Each
Underwriter severally agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, each of
its directors, each of its officers who signs the Registration Statement, and
each person who controls the Company within the meaning of the 1933 Act, to the
same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to each Underwriter, but
only with reference to written information relating to such Underwriter
furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Underwriter through you
specifically for use in the preparation of the documents referred to in the
foregoing indemnity. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to
any liability which any Underwriter may otherwise have.
(c) Promptly
after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 6 of notice of the
commencement of any action, such indemnified party will, if a claim in respect
thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 6,
notify the indemnifying party in writing of the commencement thereof; but the
omission so to notify the indemnifying party will not relieve it from any
liability which it may have to any indemnified party otherwise than under this
Section 6. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified
party, and it notifies the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the
indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein, and to the extent
that it may elect by written notice delivered to the indemnified party promptly
after receiving the aforesaid notice from such indemnified party, to assume the
defense thereof, with counsel satisfactory to such indemnified party; provided, however, that if the
defendants in any such action include both the indemnified party and the
indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have reasonably concluded
that there may be legal defenses available to it and/or other indemnified
parties which are different from or additional to those available to the
indemnifying party, the indemnified party or parties shall have the right to
select separate counsel to assert such legal defenses and to otherwise
participate in the defense of such action on behalf of such indemnified party or
parties. Upon receipt of notice from the indemnifying party to such
indemnified party under this Section 6, the indemnifying party will not be
liable to the indemnified party for any legal or other expenses subsequently
incurred by such indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof unless
(i) the indemnified party shall have employed separate counsel in connection
with the assertion of legal defenses in accordance with the proviso to the next
preceding sentence (it being understood, however, that the indemnifying party
shall not be liable for the expenses of more than one separate counsel, approved
by you in the case of paragraph (a) of this Section 6, representing the
indemnified parties under such paragraph (a) who are parties to such action),
(ii) the indemnifying party shall not have employed counsel satisfactory to the
indemnified party to represent the indemnified party within a reasonable time
after notice of commencement of the action or (iii) the indemnifying party has
authorized the employment of counsel for the indemnified party at the expense of
the indemnifying party; and except that, if clause (i) or (iii) is applicable,
such liability shall be only in respect of the counsel referred to in such
clause (i) or (iii).
(d) In
order to provide for just and equitable contribution in circumstances in which
the indemnification provided for in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6 is
due
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in
accordance with its terms but is for any reason held by a court to be
unavailable from the Company on grounds of policy or otherwise, the Company and
the Underwriters shall contribute to the aggregate losses, claims, damages and
liabilities (including legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection
with investigating or defending same) to which the Company and one or more of
the Underwriters may be subject in such proportion so that the Underwriters are
responsible for that portion represented by the percentage that the Underwriter
discount appearing on the cover page of the Final Prospectus Supplement bears to
the public offering price appearing thereon and the Company is responsible for
the balance; provided that (y) in no case shall any Underwriter (except as may
be provided in the agreement among underwriters relating to the offering of the
Securities, if any) be responsible for any amount in excess of the underwriting
discount applicable to the Securities purchased by such Underwriter hereunder
and (z) no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of
Section 11(f) of the 0000 Xxx) shall be entitled to contribution from any person
who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes
of this Section 6, each person who controls an Underwriter within the meaning of
the 1933 Act shall have the same rights to contribution as the Company, subject
in each case to clause (y) of this paragraph (d). Any party entitled
to contribution will notify the Company, promptly after receipt of notice of
commencement of any action, suit or proceeding against such party in respect of
which a claim for contribution may be made against another party or parties from
whom contribution may be sought, but the omission to so notify such party or
parties shall not relieve the party or parties from whom contribution may be
sought from any other obligation it or they may have hereunder or otherwise than
under this paragraph (d).
SECTION
7.
Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive
Delivery. All representations, warranties and agreements,
including the agreement of the Company in Section 6 hereof with respect to
indemnity and contribution, contained in this Agreement or contained in
certificates of officers of the Company submitted pursuant hereto, shall remain
operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any termination of this
Agreement, or any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter or
controlling person, or by or on behalf of the Company, and shall survive
delivery of any Securities to the Underwriters.
SECTION
8.
Termination. You may terminate this Agreement, immediately
upon notice to the Company, at or any time prior to the Closing Time (i) if
there has been, on or after the Applicable Time relating to the Securities or
since the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration
Statement or the Disclosure Package, any material adverse change in the
condition, financial or otherwise, of the Company and its subsidiaries
considered as one enterprise, or in the earnings, business affairs or business
prospects of the Company and its subsidiaries considered as one enterprise,
whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, or (ii) if there has
occurred any material adverse change in the financial markets in the United
States or in the international financial markets, any outbreak or escalation of
hostilities or other calamity or crisis the effect of which on the financial
markets of the United States is such as to make it, in your reasonable judgment,
impracticable to market the Securities or enforce contracts for the sale of the
Securities, or (iii) if trading in the Common Stock of the Company has been
suspended by the Commission or a national securities exchange, or if trading
generally on either the American Stock Exchange or the New York Stock Exchange
has been
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suspended,
or minimum or maximum prices for trading have been fixed, or maximum ranges for
prices for securities have been required, by either of said exchanges or by
order of the Commission or any other governmental authority, if a banking
moratorium in the United States generally or in the City or State of New York
has been declared by either Federal or New York authorities or if a banking
moratorium has been declared by the relevant authorities in the county or
countries of origin of any foreign currency or currencies underlying the
Securities or if a material disruption has occurred in commercial banking or
securities settlement or clearance services in the United States. In
the event of any such termination, (x) the covenants set forth in Section 3 with
respect to any offering of Securities shall remain in effect so long as any
Underwriter owns any such Securities purchased from the Company pursuant to the
Terms Agreement and (y) the covenant set forth in Section 3(c), the provisions
of Section 5, the indemnity and contribution agreement set forth in Section 6,
and the provisions of Sections 8 and 13 shall remain in effect.
SECTION
9.
Default. If one or more of the Underwriters shall fail at the
Closing Time to purchase the Securities which it or they are obligated to
purchase hereunder and under the Terms Agreement (the “Defaulted Securities”),
then you shall have the right, within 36 hours thereafter, to make arrangements
for one or more of the non-defaulting Underwriters, or any other underwriters,
to purchase all, but not less than all, of the Defaulted Securities in such
amounts as may be agreed upon and upon the terms herein set
forth. If, however, during such 36 hours you shall not have completed
such arrangements for the purchase of all the Defaulted Securities
then:
(a) if
the aggregate amount of Defaulted Securities does not exceed 10% of the
aggregate amount of the Securities to be purchased pursuant to the Terms
Agreement, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall be obligated to purchase the
full amount thereof in the proportions that their respective underwriting
obligations hereunder bear to the underwriting obligations of all such
non-defaulting Underwriters, or
(b) if
the aggregate amount of Defaulted Securities exceeds 10% of the aggregate amount
of the Securities to be purchased pursuant to the Terms Agreement, this
Agreement shall terminate, without any liability on the part of any
non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company. As used in this Section
only, the “aggregate amount” of Securities shall mean the aggregate principal
amount of any Senior Debt Securities plus the public offering price of any
Warrants. No action taken pursuant to this Section shall relieve any
defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such
Underwriter under this Agreement.
In the
event of a default by any Underwriter or Underwriters as set forth in this
Section, either you or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing
Time for a period not exceeding seven days in order that any required changes in
the Registration Statement and the Final Prospectus Supplement or in any other
documents or arrangements may be effected.
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SECTION
10.
Covenants of the Underwriters. Each Underwriter severally
represents and agrees with the Company that:
(a) except
to the extent permitted under U.S. Treas. Reg. § 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D) (the
“D Rules”), (i) it has not offered or sold, and during the restricted
period will not offer or sell, Securities in bearer form to a person who is
within the United States or its possessions or to a United States person, and it
has not delivered and will not deliver within the United States or its
possessions definitive Securities in bearer form that are sold during the
restricted period;
(b) it
has and throughout the restricted period will have in effect procedures
reasonably designed to ensure that its employees or agents who are directly
engaged in selling Securities in bearer form are aware that such Securities may
not be offered or sold during the restricted period to a person who is within
the United States or its possessions or to a United States person, except as
permitted by the D Rules;
(c) if
it is a United States person, it represents that it is acquiring the Securities
in bearer form for purposes of resale in connection with its original issuance
and if it retains Securities in bearer form for its own account, it will only do
so in accordance with the requirements of U.S. Treas. Reg.
§ 1.163-5(c)(2)(i)(D)(6); and
(d) with
respect to each of its affiliates that acquires from it Securities in bearer
form for the purpose of offering or selling such Securities during the
restricted period, it either (i) repeats and confirms the representations and
agreements contained in clauses (a), (b) and (c) on such affiliate’s behalf or
agrees that it will obtain from such affiliates for the benefit of the Company
the representations and agreements contained in clauses (a), (b) and
(c).
In
addition, each Underwriter represents and covenants to the Company that it has
not entered and will not enter into any contractual arrangement with any
distributor (as that term is defined for purposes of the D Rules) with respect
to the distribution of the Securities, except with its affiliates or with the
prior written consent of the Company.
Terms
used in this paragraph have the meanings given to them by the U.S. Internal
Revenue Code and regulations thereunder, including the D Rules.
SECTION
11.
Notices. All notices and other communications hereunder shall
be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given if mailed or
transmitted by any standard form of telecommunication. Notices sent
to the Underwriters shall be directed to you at the address indicated in the
Terms Agreement; notices sent to the Company shall be directed to it at 0000
Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 (or, if by mail, Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxx
000000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000-0000), attention of the General Counsel with a
copy to the Treasurer.
SECTION
12.
Parties. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be
binding upon you and the Company, and their respective
successors. Nothing expressed or mentioned in this Agreement is
intended or shall be construed as given to any person, firm or corporation,
other than the parties hereto and their respective successors and the
controlling persons and officers and directors referred to in Section 6 and
their heirs and legal representatives, any legal
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or
equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any
provision herein contained. This Agreement and all conditions and
provisions hereof are intended to be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the
parties and their respective successors and said controlling persons and
officers and directors and their heirs and legal representatives, and for the
benefit of no other person, firm or corporation. No purchaser of
Securities from any Underwriter shall be deemed to be a successor by reason
merely of such purchase.
SECTION
13. No
Fiduciary Duty. The Company hereby acknowledges that (a) the
purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement is an
arm’s-length commercial transaction between the Company, on the one hand, and
the Underwriters and any affiliate through which it may be acting, on the other,
(b) the Underwriters are acting as principal and not as an agent or
fiduciary of the Company and (c) the Company’s engagement of the Underwriters in
connection with the offering and the process leading up to the offering is as
independent contractors and not in any other capacity. Furthermore,
the Company agrees that it is solely responsible for making its own judgments in
connection with the offering (irrespective of whether any of the Underwriters
has advised or is currently advising the Company on related or other
matters). The Company agrees that it will not claim that the
Underwriters have rendered advisory services of any nature or respect, or owe an
agency, fiduciary or similar duty to the Company, in connection with such
transaction or the process leading thereto.
SECTION
14.
Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in counterparts
(which may include counterparts delivered by any standard form of
telecommunication), each of which shall be an original, and all of which
together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
SECTION
15.
Amendments or Waivers. No amendments or waiver of any
provision of this Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure
therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing
and signed by the parties hereto.
SECTION
16.
Headings. The headings herein are included for convenience of
reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or
interpretation, this Agreement.
SECTION
17.
Governing Law. This Agreement and each Terms Agreement shall
be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New
York applicable to agreements made and to be performed in such
State.
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Dated as
of the date first written above.
COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES INC. | ||||
|
By: | |||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
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EXHIBIT
A
COCA-COLA
ENTERPRISES INC.
(a
Delaware corporation)
Senior
Debt Securities, Debt Warrants
and
Currency Warrants
TERMS
AGREEMENT
Date:
[ ]
TO:
COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES INC.
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx 00000
Re:
Underwriting Agreement dated
[ ],
2008.
SENIOR
DEBT SECURITIES
Title of
Senior Debt Securities:
Principal
amount to be issued: $
Current
ratings:
Interest
Rate: __________%
Interest
payment dates:
Date of
maturity:
[Currency
of Denomination:
Currency
of Payment:
Form and
Denomination:
Overseas
Paying Agent: ]
Redemption
provisions:
Sinking
fund requirements:
Delayed
Delivery Contracts: [Authorized] [Not authorized].
Delivery
Dated:
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Minimum
Contract:
Maximum
aggregate principal amount:
Fee:
____%.
Public
offering price: _________%, plus accrued interest, or amortized
original issue discount, if any, from
[ ].
Purchase
price: ______ %, plus accrued interest, or amortized original issue discount, if
any, from
[ ]
(payable in next day funds).
DEBT
WARRANTS
Number of
Debt Warrants to be issued:
Warrant
Agreement:
Form of
Debt Warrants: [Registered] [Bearer]
Issuable
jointly with Senior Debt Securities: [Yes] [No]
[Number
of Debt Warrants issued with each $ principal amount of Senior Debt Securities
____________:]
[Detachable
Date: ].
Date from
which Debt Warrants are exercisable:
Date on
which Debt Warrants expire:
Exercise
price(s) of Debt Warrants:
Public
offering price: $
Purchase
Price: $
Title of
Warrant Securities:
Principal
amount purchasable upon exercise of one Warrant:
Interest
Rate: ____________%
Interest
payment dates:
Date of
Maturity:
Redemption
provisions:
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Sinking
fund requirements:
CURRENCY
CALL WARRANTS
OR
CURRENCY
PUT WARRANTS
Title of
Currency Warrants:
Number of
Currency Warrants to be issued:
Warrant
Agreement:
Issuable
jointly with Senior Debt Securities: [Yes] [No]
[Number
of Currency Warrants issued with each $____________ principal amount of Senior
Debt Securities:]
[Detachable
Date: ]
Date from
which Currency Warrants are exercisable:
Date on
which Currency Warrants expire:
Circumstances
causing automatic exercise:
Strike
price(s) of Currency Warrants:
Public
offering price: $
Purchase
price: $
Cash
Settlement Value formula:
Applicable
Time: _____ A.M./P.M. on ______________
Closing
date and location with respect to registered Securities:
Closing
date and location with respect to bearer Securities:
Notice to
the Underwriters pursuant to Section 11 of the Underwriting Agreement shall be
given to: Manager or co-managers, if any:
Place of
delivery of Securities:
[Additional
Termination Event: To the list of termination events included in Section 8 of
the Underwriting Agreement is added the following:
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(iv) a
general moratorium in foreign exchange trading, or a moratorium in
_______________ or U.S. dollar trading, by major international banks
or persons has been declared, or exchange controls have been imposed or
proposed, affecting the _______________ or the U.S. dollar by any
competent governmental authority in the United States.]
[Additional
Agreement of the Underwriters: To the agreements of the Underwriters included in
Section 10 of the Underwriting Agreement is added the following:
The
Underwriters agree that they will not offer, sell, resell or deliver, directly
or indirectly, any Securities in or to residents of, or to others for the
reoffering, resale or delivery of any Securities directly or indirectly in or to
any resident of, ____________.]
Each
Underwriter severally agrees, subject to the terms and provisions of the above
referenced Underwriting Agreement, which is incorporated herein in its entirety
and made a part hereof, to purchase [the principal amount of Senior Debt
Securities] [and] [the number of Warrants] set forth opposite its
name.
Name
|
[Principal
Amount
of
Senior
Debt
Securities
|
[Number
of
Debt
Warrants
|
[Number
of
Currency
Call
Warrants
|
[Number
of
Currency
Put
Warrants
|
||||
$________
|
$________
|
$________
|
$________
|
|||||
$________]
|
$________]
|
$________]
|
$________]
|
By
[ ]
By
[ ]
|
|
[Acting
on behalf of themselves and the other named
Underwriters.]
|
Accepted:
COCA-COLA
ENTERPRISES INC.
By | ||
Title: |
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SCHEDULE
I
a. Issuer
Free Writing Prospectuses
b. Free
Writing Prospectuses
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SCHEDULE
II
FORM OF
FINAL TERM SHEET
FINAL
TERM SHEET
Dated
________________, 20__
COCA-COLA
ENTERPRISES INC.
________________
__% NOTES DUE 20__
Name of
Issuer: Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.
Title of
Securities:
Currency:
Aggregate
Principal Amount:
Issue
Price (Price to Public): ___% of principal amount
Maturity:
Coupon
(Interest Rate):
[Benchmark
Treasury: ]
[Spread
to Benchmark Treasury: _________ basis points (_____%)]
[Benchmark
Treasury Price and Yield: ___________%]
Yield to
Maturity: __________%
Interest
Payment Dates: ____________ and ____________ of each year, commencing on
_______________.
Interest
Payment Record Dates: _____________ and ____________ of each year
Redemption
Provisions:
Sinking
Fund Provisions:
Other
Provisions:
Legal
Format: SEC Registered
Proceeds
to Coca-Cola Enterprises
Inc.:
Settlement
Date: T + _____ days;
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Booking-Running
Manager[s]:
Co-Managers:
CUSIP:
ISIN:
Listing:
Ratings: /
Note: A
securities rating is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold securities and
may be subject to revision or withdrawal at any time.
The offer
and sale of the Securities to which this final term sheet relates have been
registered by Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. by means of a registration statement on
Form S-3 (SEC File No. 333-[___]).
The
issuer has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC
for the offering to which this communication relates. Before you
invest, you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and other
documents the issuer has filed with the SEC for more complete information about
the issuer and this offering. You may get these documents for free by
visiting XXXXX on the SEC website at xxx.xxx.xxx. Alternatively, the
issuer, any underwriter or any dealer participating in this offering will
arrange to send you the prospectus if you request it by calling [_______]
toll-free at [xx-xxx-xxxx].
ANY
DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER NOTICES THAT MAY APPEAR BELOW ARE NOT APPLICABLE TO THIS
COMMUNICATION AND SHOULD BE DISREGARDED. SUCH DISCLAIMERS OR OTHER
NOTICES WERE AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED AS A RESULT OF THIS COMMUNICATION BEING
SENT VIA BLOOMBERG OR ANOTHER EMAIL SYSTEM.
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EXHIBIT
B
COCA-COLA
ENTERPRISES INC.
(a
Delaware corporation)
Senior
Debt Securities
DELAYED
DELIVERY CONTRACT
_____________,
200_
COCA-COLA
ENTERPRISES INC.
0000
Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx 00000
Attention:
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
The
undersigned hereby agrees to purchase from Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. (the
“Company”), and the Company agrees to sell to the undersigned on ______________,
200__ (the “Delivery Date”), ___________ principal amount of the Company’s
[insert title of security] (the “Securities”), offered by the Company’s
Prospectus dated ______________, 200__, as supplemented by its Prospectus
Supplement dated ____________, 200__, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged,
at a purchase price of [________]% of the principal amount of Senior Debt
Securities, plus accrued interest from ____________, 200__, to the Delivery
Date] and on the further terms and conditions set forth in this
contract.
Payment
for the Securities which the undersigned has agreed to purchase on the Delivery
Date shall be made to the Company or its order by certified or official bank
check in New York clearing House funds, at the office of ______________, on the
Delivery Date, upon delivery to the undersigned of the Securities to be
purchased by the undersigned in definitive form and in such denominations
(consistent with the related terms of the Prospectus Supplement) and registered
in such names as the undersigned may designate by written or telegraphic
communication addressed to the Company not less than three full business days
prior to the Delivery Date.
The
obligation of the undersigned to take delivery of and make payment for the
Securities on the Delivery Date shall be subject to the conditions that (1) the
purchase of the Securities to be made by the undersigned shall not on the
Delivery Date be prohibited under the laws of the jurisdiction to which the
undersigned is subject and (2) the Company, on or before ____________, 200__
shall have sold to the Underwriters of the Securities (the “Underwriters”) such
principal amount of the Securities as is to be sold to them pursuant to the
Terms Agreement dated ____________, 200__, between the Company and the
Underwriters. The obligation of the undersigned to take delivery of
and make payment for the Securities shall not be affected by the failure of any
purchaser to take delivery of and make payment for the Securities pursuant to
other
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contracts
similar to this contract. The undersigned represents and warrants to
you that its investment in the Securities is not, as of the date hereof,
prohibited under the laws of any jurisdiction to which the undersigned is
subject and which govern such investment.
Promptly
after completion of the sale to the Underwriters, the Company will mail or
deliver to the undersigned at its address set forth below notice of completion
of such sale, accompanied by a copy of the opinion of counsel for the Company
delivered to the Underwriters in connection therewith.
By the
execution hereof, the undersigned represents and warrants to the Company that
all necessary corporate action for the due execution and delivery of this
contract and the payment for and purchase of the Securities has been taken by it
and no further authorization or approval of any governmental or other regulatory
authority is required for such execution, delivery, payment or purchase, and
that, upon acceptance hereof by the Company and mailing or delivery of a copy as
provided below, this contract will constitute a valid and binding agreement of
the undersigned in accordance with its terms.
This
contract will inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the parties hereto and
their respective successors, but will not be assignable by either party hereto
without the written consent of the other.
It is
understood that the Company will not accept Delayed Delivery Contracts for an
aggregate amount of Securities in excess of $_____________ and that the
acceptance of any Delayed Delivery Contracts is in the Company’s sole discretion
and, without limiting the foregoing, need not be on a first-come, first-served
basis. If this contract is acceptable to the Company, it is requested
that the Company sign the form of acceptance on a copy hereof and mail or
deliver a signed copy hereof to the undersigned at its address set forth
below. This will become a binding contract between the Company and
the undersigned when such copy is so mailed or delivered.
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This
Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
State of New York applicable to agreements made and to be performed in such
State.
Yours very truly, | ||
(Name of Purchaser) | ||
By | ||
(Title) | ||
(Address) | ||
Accepted
as of the date
first
above written:
COCA-COLA
ENTERPRISES INC.
By
Title
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