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Exhibit 4.4
DRAFT
DESIGNER HOLDINGS LTD., as Issuer
and
IBJ XXXXXXXX BANK & TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee
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Indenture
Dated as of November [ ], 1996
$103,092,800*
__% Convertible Subordinated Debentures Due 2016
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* Subject to increase to up to $118,556,750 in the event
an over-allotment option is exercised.
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Designer Holdings Ltd.
Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to
Sections 310 through 318 of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
Trust Indenture Indenture
Act Section Section
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Section310 (a)(1) ............................... 609
(a)(2) ............................... 609
(a)(3) ............................... Not Applicable
(a)(4) ............................... Not Applicable
(b) ............................... 608, 610
Section 311(a) ............................... 613
(b) ............................... 613
Section 312(a) ............................... 701
............................... 702(a)
(b) ............................... 702(b)
(c) ............................... 702(c)
Section 313(a) ............................... 703(a)
(a)(4) ............................... 101, 1004
(b) ............................... 703(a)
(c) ............................... 703(a)
(d) ............................... 703(b)
Section 314(a) ............................... 704
(b) ............................... Not Applicable
(c)(1) ............................... 102
(c)(2) ............................... 102
(c)(3) ............................... Not Applicable
(d) ............................... Not Applicable
(e) ............................... 102
Section 315(a) ............................... 601
(b) ............................... 602
(c) ............................... 601
(d) ............................... 601
(e) ............................... 514
Section 316(a) ............................... 101
(a)(1)(A) ............................... 502
............................... 512
(a)(1)(B) ............................... 513
(a)(2) ............................... Not Applicable
(b) ............................... 508
(c) ............................... 104(c)
Section 317(a)(1) ............................... 503
(a)(2) ............................... 504
(b) ............................... 1003
Section 318(a) ............................... 107
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be
deemed to be a part of the Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Recitals of the Company.................................................. 1
ARTICLE ONE
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
SECTION 101. Definitions.......................................... 3
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions................. 12
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee............... 12
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates........................ 14
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and the
Company............................................ 15
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver............................ 16
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.................... 17
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of
Contents.......................................... 17
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns............................... 17
SECTION 110. Separability Clause.................................. 17
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture................................ 17
SECTION 112. Governing Law........................................ 18
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays....................................... 18
ARTICLE TWO
Security Forms
SECTION 201. Forms Generally...................................... 18
SECTION 202. Initial Issuance to Property Trustee................. 19
ARTICLE THREE
The Securities
SECTION 301. Title and Terms...................................... 19
SECTION 302. Denominations........................................ 21
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and
Dating............................................ 21
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities................................. 22
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer
and Exchange...................................... 22
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities........................................ 24
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved......................................... 25
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SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners......................... 27
SECTION 309. Cancellation.................................. 27
SECTION 310. Right of Set Off.............................. 28
SECTION 311. CUSIP Numbers................................. 28
SECTION 312. Option to Extend Interest Payment
Period..................................... 28
SECTION 313. Paying Agent, Security Registrar and
Conversion Agent........................... 30
SECTION 314. Global Security............................... 30
ARTICLE FOUR
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture....... 33
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.................... 34
ARTICLE FIVE
Remedies
SECTION 501. Events of Default............................. 35
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment.................................. 36
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee..................... 37
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.............. 38
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without
Possession of Securities................... 39
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected................ 39
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits........................... 40
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to
Receive Principal and Interest
and Convert................................ 40
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies............ 41
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative................ 41
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.................. 41
SECTION 512. Control by Holders............................ 42
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults....................... 43
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs......................... 43
SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.............. 43
SECTION 516. Enforcement by Holders of Preferred
Securities.................................. 43
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ARTICLE SIX
The Trustee
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities...................... 44
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults....................................... 44
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee................................ 45
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance
of Securities......................................... 46
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities...................................... 46
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust...................................... 46
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement........................... 47
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.................. 47
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.................. 47
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor............................................. 48
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor................... 50
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business................................ 50
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims
Against Company.......................................... 51
ARTICLE SEVEN
Holders' Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and
Addresses of Holders.......................... 51
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information;
Communications to Holders..................... 51
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee............................... 52
SECTION 704. Reports by Company............................... 52
ARTICLE EIGHT
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on
Certain Terms................................. 53
SECTION 802. Successor Substituted............................ 54
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ARTICLE NINE
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without
Consent of Holders....................................... 55
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
Holders.................................................. 56
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures........................ 57
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures........................... 58
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act......................... 58
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures............................................... 58
ARTICLE TEN
Covenants; Representations and Warranties
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal and Interest........................... 58
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency............................. 59
SECTION 1003. Money for Security Payments to Be Held
in Trust................................................. 59
SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default......................... 60
SECTION 1005. Limitation on Dividends; Transactions
with Affiliates; Covenants as to
the Trust................................................... 61
SECTION 1006. Payment of Expenses of the Trust............................ 62
ARTICLE ELEVEN
Redemption of Securities
SECTION 1101. Optional Redemption ........................................ 63
SECTION 1102. Tax Event Optional Redemption............................... 64
SECTION 1103. Applicability of Article.................................... 64
SECTION 1104. Election to Redeem; Notice to
Trustee..................................................... 65
SECTION 1105. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be
Redeemed.................................................... 65
SECTION 1106. Notice of Redemption ....................................... 66
SECTION 1107. Deposit and Payment of Redemption Price..................... 66
SECTION 1108. Securities Payable on Redemption Date....................... 67
SECTION 1109. Securities Redeemed in Part................................. 67
SECTION 1110. No Sinking Fund............................................. 68
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ARTICLE TWELVE
Subordination of Securities
SECTION 1201. Agreement to Subordinate................................... 68
SECTION 1202. Default on Senior Indebtedness............................. 69
SECTION 1203. Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy....................... 69
SECTION 1204. Subrogation................................................ 71
SECTION 1205. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination........................ 72
SECTION 1206. Notice by the Company...................................... 73
SECTION 1207. Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior
Indebtedness............................................ 74
SECTION 1208. Subordination May Not Be Impaired.......................... 75
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
Conversion of Securities
SECTION 1301. Conversion Rights.......................................... 76
SECTION 1302. Conversion Procedures...................................... 76
SECTION 1303. Conversion Price Adjustments............................... 79
SECTION 1304. Reclassification, Consolidation,
Merger or Sale of Assets................................ 85
SECTION 1305. Notice of Adjustments of
Conversion Price........................................ 86
SECTION 1306. Prior Notice of Certain Events............................. 86
SECTION 1307. Certain Defined Terms...................................... 87
SECTION 1308. Dividend or Interest Reinvestment Plans.................... 88
SECTION 1309. Certain Additional Rights.................................. 88
SECTION 1310. Trustee Not Responsible for Determining
Conversion Price or Adjustments......................... 89
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
Immunity of Incorporators, Stockholders,
Officers and Directors
SECTION 1401. No Recourse................................................ 91
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EXHIBIT AND ANNEX
EXHIBIT A Form of Security
ANNEX A Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust
among the Company, as trust sponsor, IBJ
Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company, as property
trustee, Delaware Trust Capital Management,
Inc., as Delaware trustee and Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
and Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, as regular trustees,
dated as of November [ ], 1996.
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Note: This table of contents shall not, for any purpose,
be deemed to be a part of the Indenture.
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INDENTURE, dated as of November [ ], 1996, between Designer
Holdings Ltd., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office at
0000 Xxxxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, and IBJ Xxxxxxxx Bank &
Trust Company, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (herein called the
"Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
WHEREAS, Designer Finance Trust, a Delaware business trust (the
"Trust"), formed under the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust among the
Company, as trust sponsor, IBJ Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company, as property
trustee (the "Property Trustee"), Delaware Trust Capital Management, Inc., as
Delaware trustee (the "Delaware Trustee") and Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx and Xxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxx, as regular trustees (the "Regular Trustees"), dated as of November [ ],
1996 (the "Declaration"), pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (the "Purchase
Agreement") dated October [ ], 1996, among the Company and the underwriters
named therein, will issue and sell up to 2,000,000 (or 2,300,000 if the
over-allotment option is exercised) of its [ ]% Convertible Preferred Securities
(the "Preferred Securities") with a liquidation amount of $50 per Preferred
Security, having an aggregate liquidation amount with respect to the assets of
the Trust of $100,000,000 (or $115,000,000 if the over-allotment option is
exercised);
WHEREAS, the trustees of the Trust, on behalf of the Trust, will
execute and deliver to the Company [ ]% Convertible Common Securities (the
"Common Securities") of the Trust, registered in the name of the Company, in an
aggregate amount equal to three percent of the capitalization of the Trust,
equivalent to 61,856 Common Securities (or 71,135 Common Securities if the
over-allotment option is exercised), with a liquidation amount of $50 per Common
Security, having an aggregate liquidation amount with respect to the assets of
the Trust of $3,092,800 (or $3,556,750 if the over-allotment option is
exercised) (the "Common Securities");
WHEREAS, the Trust will use the proceeds from the sale of the
Preferred Securities and the Common Securities to purchase from the Company [ ]%
Convertible Subordinated Debentures Due 2016 (the "Securities") of the Company
in an
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aggregate principal amount of $103,092,800 (or $118,556,750 if the
over-allotment option is exercised);
WHEREAS, the Company is guaranteeing the payment of distributions
on the Preferred Securities, and payment of the Redemption Price and payments on
liquidation with respect to the Preferred Securities, to the extent provided in
the Preferred Securities Guarantee Agreement (the "Guarantee") dated November [
], 1996 between the Company and IBJ Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company, as guarantee
trustee, for the benefit of the holders of the Preferred Securities from time to
time;
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the creation of the
Securities of the tenor and amount herein set forth and to provide therefor the
Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture;
WHEREAS, so long as the Trust is a Holder of Securities, and any
Preferred Securities are outstanding, the Declaration provides that the holders
of Preferred Securities may cause the Conversion Agent to (a) exchange such
Preferred Securities for Securities held by the Trust and (b) immediately
convert such Securities into Common Stock of the Company; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Securities, when
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly
issued by the Company, the valid obligations of the Company, and to make this
Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with their and its
terms, have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities, as follows:
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ARTICLE ONE
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
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SECTION 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have
the meanings assigned to them in this Article and
include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the
Trust Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the
meanings assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein
have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles; and
(4) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and
other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and
not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"Additional Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 301.
"Additional Payments" means Compounded Interest and Additional
Interest, if any.
"Affiliate" has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405
of the Securities Act or any successor rule thereunder.
"Agent" means any Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent or
co-registrar.
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"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of the
Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day on which banking institutions in The
City of New York or in Wilmington, Delaware are authorized or required by law to
close.
"Closing Price" has the meaning specified in Section 1307.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or,
if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not
existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture
Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
"Common Securities" has the meaning specified in the recitals to
this Instrument.
"Common Securities Guarantee" means any guarantee that the Company
may enter into that operate directly or indirectly for the benefit of holders of
Common Securities of the Trust.
"Common Stock" includes any stock of any class of the Company
which has no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the
event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of
the Company and which is not subject to redemption by the Company. However,
subject to the provisions of Article Thirteen, shares issuable on conversion of
Securities shall include only shares of the class designated as Common Stock of
the Company at the date of this instrument or shares of any class or classes
resulting from any reclassification or reclassifications thereof and which have
no preference in respect of dividends or of amounts payable in the event of any
voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company
and which are not subject to
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redemption by the Company; provided, that if at any time there shall be more
than one such resulting class, the shares of each such class then so issuable on
conversion shall be substantially in the proportion which the total number of
shares of such class resulting from all such reclassifications bears to the
total number of shares of all such classes resulting from all such
reclassifications.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or
order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its Vice
Chairman of the Board, its President or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer,
an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered
to the Trustee.
"Compounded Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 312.
"Conversion Agent" means the Person appointed to act on behalf of
the holders of Preferred Securities in effecting the conversion of Preferred
Securities as and in the manner set forth in the Declaration and Section 1302
hereof.
"Conversion Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1302.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee
in New York, New York, at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be administered and which at the date of this Indenture is Xxx
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000.
"Declaration" has the meaning specified in the Recitals of this
instrument.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Delaware Trustee" has the meaning given it in the Recitals of
this instrument.
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"Depositary" means, with respect to any Securities issued in the
form of one or more Global Security, a clearing agency registered under the
Exchange Act that is dedicated to act as Depositary for the Securities.
"Direct Action" means a proceeding directly instituted by a holder
of Preferred Securities for enforcement of payment to such holder of the
principal of or interest on the Securities having a principal amount equal to
the aggregate liquidation amount of the Preferred Securities of such holder on
or after the respective due date specified in the Securities, if an Event of
Default under the Declaration has occurred and is continuing and such event is
attributable to the failure of the Company to pay interest or principal on the
Securities on the date such interest or principal is otherwise payable (or in
the case of redemption, on the redemption date.)
"Dissolution Event" means that, as a result of the occurrence and
continuation of a Special Event, the Trust is to be dissolved in accordance with
the Declaration and the Securities held by the Property Trustee are to be
distributed to the holders of Trust Securities issued by the Trust pro rata in
accordance with the Declaration.
"Dissolution Tax Opinion" has the meaning specified in the
Declaration.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder,
or any successor legislation.
"Extension Period" has the meaning specified in Section 312.
"Global Security" has the meaning specified in Section 314.
"Guarantee" has the meaning specified in the Recitals to this
instrument.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in
the Security Register.
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"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it
may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,
including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental
indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a
part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture,
respectively.
"Interest Payment Date" has the meaning specified in Section 301.
"Investment Company Event" has the meaning specified in Annex I
to the Declaration.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the date
on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein or
herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Ministerial Action" has the meaning specified in Section 1102.
"90-Day Period" has the meaning specified in Section 1102.
"No Recognition Opinion" has the meaning specified in Annex I to
the Declaration.
"Notice of Conversion" means the notice to be given by a holder of
Preferred Securities to the Conversion Agent directing the Conversion Agent to
exchange such Preferred Securities for Securities and to convert such Securities
into Common Stock on behalf of such holder.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman
of the Board, the Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice President,
and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers
signing an Officers' Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall be the
principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.
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"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may
be counsel for the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities, means, as of
the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except: (i) Securities theretofore cancelled by
the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; (ii) Securities for
whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been theretofore
deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust
or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as
its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Securities; provided, that if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given
pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has
been made; and (iii) Securities that have been paid pursuant to Section 307,
converted into Common Stock pursuant to Section 1301, or in exchange for or in
lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to
this Indenture, other than any such Securities in respect of which there shall
have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities
are held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
obligations of the Company, provided, however, that in determining whether the
Holders of the requisite principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have
given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
hereunder, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the
Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any
other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such
other obligor.
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"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay
the principal of or interest on any Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any legal person, including any individual,
corporation, estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock
company, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity
of whatever nature.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any
Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in
lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to
evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"Preferred Securities" has the meaning specified in the Recitals
to this instrument.
"Property Trustee" has the meaning specified in the Recitals of
this instrument.
"Purchase Agreement" has the meaning specified in the Recitals to
this instrument.
"Purchased Shares" has the meaning specified in Section 1303(e).
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Tax Opinion" has the meaning set forth in Annex I to
the Declaration.
"Reference Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1303(c).
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"Regular Record Date" has the meaning specified in Section 301.
"Regular Trustees" has the meaning specified in the Recitals of
this instrument.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee,
means, with respect to the Property Trustee, any vice-president, any assistant
vice-president, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, any trust officer or
assistant trust officer or any other officer in the Corporate Trust Department
of the Property Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect
to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is
referred because of that officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
"Securities" has the meaning specified in the Recitals to this
instrument.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"Senior Indebtedness" means in respect of the Company (i) the
principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect of (A) indebtedness of such
obligor for money borrowed and (B) indebtedness evidenced by securities,
debentures, bonds or other similar instruments issued by such obligor, (ii) all
capital lease obligations of such obligor, (iii) all obligations of such obligor
issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all conditional
sale obligations of such obligor and all obligations of such obligor under any
title retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable arising in the
ordinary course of business), (iv) all obligations of such obligor for the
reimbursement of any letter of credit, banker's acceptance, security purchase
facility or similar credit transaction, (v) all obligations of the type referred
to in clauses (i) through (iv) above of other Persons for the payment of which
such obligor is responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, and
(vi) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (v) above of
other Persons secured by any lien on any property or asset of such obligor
(whether or not such obligation is assumed by such obligor), except for (1) any
such indebtedness that is by its terms subordinated to or pari passu with the
Securities and
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(2) any indebtedness between or among such obligor or its affiliates, including
all other debt securities and guarantees in respect of those debt securities
issued to any other trust, or a trustee of such trust, partnership, or other
entity affiliated with the Company that is, directly or indirectly, a financing
vehicle of the Company (a "Financing Entity") in connection with the issuance by
such Financing Entity of preferred securities or other securities which rank
pari passu with, or junior to, the Preferred Securities. Such Senior
Indebtedness shall continue to be Senior Indebtedness and entitled to the
benefits of the subordination provisions irrespective of any amendment,
modification or waiver of any term of such Senior Indebtedness.
"Special Event" has the meaning specified in Annex I to the
Declaration.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest
means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of interest thereon, means the date specified in such Security as
the fixed date on which the principal, together with any accrued and unpaid
interest (including Compounded Interest), of such Security or such installment
of interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" of any Person means (i) a corporation more than 50%
of the outstanding Voting Stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by
such Person or by one or more other Subsidiaries of such Person or by such
Person and one or more Subsidiaries thereof or (ii) any other Person (other than
a corporation) in which such Person, or one or more other Subsidiaries of such
Person or such Person and one or more other Subsidiaries thereof, directly or
indirectly, has at least a majority ownership and power to direct the policies,
management and affairs thereof.
"Tax Event" has the meaning specified in Annex I to the
Declaration.
"Trading Day" has the meaning specified in Section 1307.
"Trust" has the meaning specified in the Recitals to this
instrument.
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"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean such successor Trustee.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder,
or any successor legislation.
"Trust Securities" means Common Securities and Preferred
Securities.
"Vice President," when used with respect to the Company or the
Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a
word or words added before or after the title "vice president".
"Voting Stock" of any Person means capital stock of such Person
which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors (or Persons
performing similar functions) of such Person, whether at all times or only so
long as no senior class of securities has such voting power by reason of any
contingency.
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to
take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish
to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under the Trust
Indenture Act or reasonably requested by the Trustee in connection with such
application or request. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the
form of an Officers' Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company,
or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the
applicable requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other applicable
requirement set forth in this Indenture.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include
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(a) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating
thereto;
(b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained
in such certificate or opinion are based;
(c) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he
has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has
been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by,
or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
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Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered
to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of
a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and
the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which the Trustee or the Company, as the case may be, deems
sufficient.
(c) The Company may, in the circumstances permitted by the Trust
Indenture Act, fix any day as the record date for the purpose of determining the
Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to give, make or take any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
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other action, or to vote on any action, authorized or permitted to be given or
taken by Holders. If not set by the Company prior to the first solicitation of a
Holder made by any Person in respect of any such action, or, in the case of any
such vote, prior to such vote, the record date for any such action or vote shall
be the 30th day (or, if later, the date of the most recent list of Holders
required to be provided pursuant to Section 701) prior to such first
solicitation or vote, as the case may be. With regard to any record date, only
the Holders on such date (or their duly designated proxies) shall be entitled to
give or take, or vote on, the relevant action.
(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security
Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon
the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof
in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or
the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Security.
(f) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to
give or take any such action with regard to any particular Security may do so
with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such Security or by
one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such
appointment with regard to all or any different part of such principal amount.
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and the Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this
Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in
writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention:
Corporate Trust & Agency Department, or
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(b) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company
addressed to it at the address of its principal office specified in the first
paragraph of this instrument or at any other address previously furnished in
writing to the Trustee by the Company.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event,
such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder
affected by such event, at such Holder's address as it appears in the Security
Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the
earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case
where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such
notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Any notice
when mailed to a Holder in the aforesaid manner shall be conclusively deemed to
have been received by such Holder whether or not actually received by such
Holder. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may
be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either
before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such
notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such
filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in
reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail,
then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall
constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a
provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such Act to be a
part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any
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provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust
Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be
deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case
may be.
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents
are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company
shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 110. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities shall
be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability
of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired
thereby.
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or
implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their
successors hereunder, the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the holders of
Preferred Securities (to the extent provided herein) and the Holders of
Securities, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under
this Indenture.
SECTION 112. Governing Law.
THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD
TO ITS PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS.
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SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or
Stated Maturity of any Security or the last date on which a Holder has the right
to convert his Securities shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any
other provision of this Indenture or of the Securities) payment of interest or
principal or conversion of the Securities need not be made on such date, but may
be made on the next succeeding Business Day (except that, if such Business Day
is in the next succeeding calendar year, such Interest Payment Date, Redemption
Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, shall be the immediately preceding
Business Day) with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment
Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity or on such last day for
conversion, provided, that no interest shall accrue for the period from and
after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the
case may be.
ARTICLE TWO
Security Forms
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.
The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of authentication
shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A, which is hereby incorporated in
and expressly made a part of this Indenture. The Securities may have may have
letters, numbers, notations or other marks of identification or designation and
such legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to
which the Company is subject, if any, or usage (provided that any such notation,
legend or endorsement is in a form acceptable to the Company). The Company shall
furnish any such legend not contained in Exhibit A to the Trustee in writing.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms and
provisions of the Securities set forth in Exhibit A are part of the terms of
this Indenture and to the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by
their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms
and provisions and to be bound thereby.
The definitive Securities shall be typewritten or printed,
lithographed or engraved or produced by any combi-
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nation of these methods on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which the
Securities may be listed, all as determined by the officers executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
SECTION 202. Initial Issuance to Property Trustee.
The Securities initially issued to the Property Trustee of the
Trust shall be in the form of one or more individual certificates in definitive,
fully registered form without coupons.
ARTICLE THREE
The Securities
SECTION 301. Title and Terms.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to the sum of (a)
$103,092,800 and (b) such aggregate principal amount (which may not exceed
$118,556,750 if the over-allotment option is exercised) of Securities, if any,
as shall be purchased by the Trust pursuant to an over-allotment option in
accordance with the terms and provisions of the Purchase Agreement, except for
Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in
exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306,
906, 1109 or 1301.
The Securities shall be known and designated as the "[ ]%
Convertible Subordinated Debentures Due 2016" of the Company. Their Stated
Maturity shall be [ ], 2016, and they shall bear interest at the rate of [ ]%
per annum, from November [ ], 1996 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date
to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be,
payable quarterly (subject to deferral as set forth herein), in arrears, on
March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 (each an "Interest Payment
Date") of each year, commencing December 31, 1996, until the principal thereof
is paid or made available for payment, and they shall be paid to the Person in
whose name the Security is registered at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the
regular record date for such interest in-
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stallment, which shall be the March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15
next preceding such Interest Payment Date (the "Regular Record Date"). Interest
will compound quarterly and will accrue at the rate of [ ]% per annum on any
interest installment in arrears for more than one quarter or during an extension
of an interest payment period as set forth in Section 312 hereof.
The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed on the
basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Except as provided in the
following sentence, the amount of interest payable for any period shorter than a
full quarterly period for which interest in computed, will be computed on the
basis of the actual number of days elapsed. In the event that any date on which
interest is payable on the Securities is not a Business Day, then payment of
interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a
Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such
delay), except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar
year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in
each case with the same force and effect as if made on such date.
If at any time while the Property Trustee is the Holder of any
Securities, the Trust or the Property Trustee is required to pay any taxes,
duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature (other than
withholding taxes) imposed by the United States, or any other taxing authority,
then, in any such case, the Company will pay as additional interest ("Additional
Interest") on the Securities held by the Property Trustee, such amounts as shall
be required so that the net amounts received and retained by the Trust and the
Property Trustee after paying any such taxes, duties, assessments or other
governmental charges will be not less than the amounts the Trust and the
Property Trustee would have received had no such taxes, duties, assessments or
other governmental charges been imposed.
The principal of and interest on the Securities shall be payable at the
office or agency of the Company in the United States maintained for such purpose
and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose in
such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment
is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that
at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by
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check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall
appear in the Security Register.
The Securities shall be redeemable as provided in Article Eleven
hereof.
The Securities shall be subordinated in right of payment to Senior
Indebtedness as provided in Article Twelve hereof.
The Securities shall be convertible as provided in Article Thirteen
hereof.
SECTION 302. Denominations.
The Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without
coupons and only in denominations of $50 and integral multiples thereof.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its President or one of
its Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its
Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these
officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities executed by the Company to
the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities; and the Trustee in accordance
with such Company Order shall authenticate and make available for delivery such
Securities as in this Indenture provided and not otherwise.
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No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any
Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security
has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 304. Temporary Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may
execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver,
temporary Securities which are typewritten, printed, lithographed or otherwise
produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the
definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers
executing such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities.
If temporary Securities are issued, the Company will cause definitive
Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of
definitive Securities, the temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for
definitive Securities upon surrender of the temporary Securities at any office
or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 1002, without charge to
the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary
Securities the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make
available for delivery in exchange therefor a like principal amount of
definitive Securities of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the
temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Securities.
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other
office or agency designated pursuant to Section 1002 being herein sometimes
collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of
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Securities and of transfers of Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed
"Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities and transfers of
Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at an
office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 1002 for such
purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more
new Securities of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal
amount.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other
Securities of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal
amount, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at such office or
agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 304, 906, 1109 or 1301 not involving any transfer.
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SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number
not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii)
such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them and
any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security
of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
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SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in
whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered
at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Regular Record Date.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called
"Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the
relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such
Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as
provided in Clause (a) or (b) below:
(a) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Special Record
Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the
following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount
of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security and the date of the
proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in
respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to
the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such
money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause (a) provided. Thereupon the Trustee
shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which
shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of
the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee
of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the
Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the
Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest
and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid,
to each Holder at his address as it appears in the Security Register, not less
than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of
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the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the
Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such Special
Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (b).
(b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange
on which the Securities may be listed, and, if so listed, upon such notice as
may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the
Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause (B), such manner of
payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 307, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue (including in each such case Additional Payments, if
any), which were carried by such other Security.
In the case of any Security which is converted after any Regular Record
Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date (other than
any Security whose Maturity is prior to such Interest Payment Date), interest
whose Stated Maturity is on such Interest Payment Date shall be payable on such
Interest Payment Date notwithstanding such conversion, and such interest
(whether or not punctually paid or duly provided for) shall be paid to the
Person in whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such Regular Record Date. Except
as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence, in the
case of any Security that is converted, interest whose Stated Maturity is after
the date of conversion of such Security shall not be payable, and the Company
shall not make nor be required to make any other payment, adjustment or
allowance with respect to accrued but unpaid interest (including Additional
Payments, if any) on the Securities being converted, which shall be deemed to be
paid in full. Subject to any right of the Holder of such Security or any
Predecessor Security to receive interest as provided in this paragraph and the
second paragraph of Clause (a) of Section
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1302, the Company's delivery upon conversion of the fixed number of shares of
Common Stock into which the Securities are convertible (together with the cash
payment, if any, in lieu of fractional shares) shall be deemed to satisfy the
Company's obligation to pay the principal amount at Maturity of the portion of
Securities so converted and any unpaid interest (including Additional Payments,
if any) accrued on such Securities at the time of such conversion. If any
Security called for redemption is converted, any money deposited with the
Trustee or with any Paying Agent or so segregated and held in trust for the
redemption of such Security shall (subject to any right of the Holder of such
Security or any Predecessor Security to receive interest as provided in this
paragraph) be paid to the Company upon Company Request or, if then held by the
Company, shall be discharged from such trust.
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such
Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and (subject to
Section 307) interest (including Additional Payments, if any) on such Security
and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue,
and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 309. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange or conversion shall, if surrendered to any Person other
than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by
it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any
Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company
may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered
shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated
in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this
Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled
Securities held by the Trustee shall be disposed of as directed by a Company
Order; provided, however, that the Trustee shall
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not be required to destroy the certificates representing such cancelled
Securities.
SECTION 310. Right of Set Off.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, the Company
shall have the right to set off any payment it is otherwise required to make
hereunder to the extent the Company has theretofore made, or is concurrently on
the date of such payment making, a payment under the Guarantee.
SECTION 311. CUSIP Numbers.
The Company in issuing the Securities may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then
generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices
of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided, that any such notice may
state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers
either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a
redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification
numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected
by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
SECTION 312. Option to Extend Interest Payment Period.
(a) The Company shall have the right at any time during the term of the
Securities to defer interest payments (including Additional Payments) from time
to time by extending the interest payment period for successive periods (each,
an "Extension Period") not exceeding 20 consecutive quarters for each such
period; provided, no Extension Period may extend beyond the maturity date of the
Securities. At the end of each Extension Period, the Company shall pay all
interest then accrued and unpaid (including Additional Interest) together with
interest thereon compounded quarterly at the rate specified for the Securities
to the extent permitted by applicable law ("Compounded Interest"); provided,
that during any Extension Period, the Company shall (i) not declare or pay
dividends on, or make a distribution with respect to, or redeem or purchase or
acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock
(other than (A) purchases or acquisitions of shares of Common Stock in
connection with the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any
employee benefit plans or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations
pursu-
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ant to any contract or security requiring the Company to purchase shares of
Common Stock, (B) as a result of a re- classification of the Company's capital
stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of the Company's
capital stock for another class or series of the Company's capital stock or (C)
the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company's capital stock
pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the
security being converted or exchanged (or make any guarantee payments with
respect to the foregoing)), (ii) not make any payment of interest, principal or
premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities
(including guarantees) issued by the Company that rank pari passu with or junior
to the Securities and (iii) not make any guarantee payments with respect to the
foregoing (other than pursuant to the Guarantee). Prior to the termination of
any such Extension Period, the Company may further extend such Extension Period;
provided, that such Extension Period, together with all such previous and
further extensions thereof, may not exceed 20 consecutive quarters or extend
beyond the maturity date of the Securities. Upon the termination of any
Extension Period and the payment of all amounts then due, the Company may
commence a new Extension Period, subject to the above requirements. No interest
during an Extension Period shall be due and payable.
(b) If the Property Trustee is the sole Holder of the Securities at the
time the Company selects an Extension Period, the Company shall give written
notice to the Regular Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Trustee of its
selection of such Extension Period at least one Business Day prior to the
earlier of (i) the date the distributions on the Preferred Securities are
payable or (ii) if the Preferred Securities are listed on the New York Stock
Exchange or other stock exchange or quotation system, the date the Trust is
required to give notice to the New York Stock Exchange or other applicable
self-regulatory organization or to holders of the Preferred Securities of the
record date or the date such distributions are payable, but in any event not
less than 10 Business Days prior to such record date.
(c) If the Property Trustee is not the sole holder of the Securities at
the time the Company selects an Extension Period, the Company shall give the
Holders of the Securities and the Trustee written notice of its selection of
such Extension Period at least 10 Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the
next succeeding Interest Payment Date
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or (ii) if the Preferred Securities are listed on the New York Stock Exchange or
other stock exchange or quotation system, the date the Company is required to
give notice to the New York Stock Exchange or other applicable self-regulatory
organization or to holders of the Securities on the record or payment date of
such related interest payment, but in any event not less than two Business Days
prior to such record date.
(d) The quarter in which any notice is given pursuant to paragraphs (b)
and (c) hereof shall be counted as one of the 20 quarters permitted in the
maximum Extension Period permitted under paragraph (a) hereof.
SECTION 313. Paying Agent, Security Registrar and Conversion Agent.
The Trustee will initially act as Paying Agent, Security Registrar and
Conversion Agent. The Company may change any Paying Agent, Security Registrar,
co-registrar or Conversion Agent without prior notice. The Company or any of its
Affiliates may act in any such capacity. The Trustee is entitled to the
protections of Article VI in its capacity as Paying agent, Registrar and
Conversion Agent.
SECTION 314. Global Security.
(a) In connection with a Dissolution Event,
(1) the Securities in certificated form may be presented to the
Trustee by the Property Trustee in exchange for a global Security in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all
outstanding Securities (a "Global Security"), to be registered in the name of
the Depositary, or its nominee, and delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary
for crediting to the accounts of its participants pursuant to the instructions
of the Regular Trustees. The Company upon any such presentation shall execute a
Global Security in such aggregate principal amount and deliver the same to the
Trustee for authentication and delivery in accordance with this Indenture.
Payments on the Securities issued as a Global Security will be made to the
Depositary; and
(2) if any Preferred Securities are held in non book-entry
certificated form, the Securities in certificated form may be presented to the
Trustee by the Property
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Trustee and any Preferred Security Certificate which represents Preferred
Securities other than Preferred Securities held by the Depositary or its nominee
("Non Book-Entry Preferred Securities") will be deemed to represent beneficial
interests in Securities presented to the Trustee by the Property Trustee having
an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of the
Non Book-Entry Preferred Securities until such Preferred Security Certificates
are presented to the Security Registrar for transfer or reissuance at which time
such Preferred Security Certificates will be cancelled and a Security,
registered in the name of the holder of the Preferred Security Certificate or
the transferee of the holder of such Preferred Security Certificate, as the case
may be, with an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate liquidation
amount of the Preferred Security Certificate cancelled, will be executed by the
Company and delivered to the Trustee for authentication and delivery in
accordance with this Indenture. On issue of such Securities, Securities with an
equivalent aggregate principal amount that were presented by the Property
Trustee to the Trustee will be deemed to have been cancelled.
(b) A Global Security may be transferred, in whole but not in part,
only to another nominee of the Depositary, or to a nominee of such successor
Depositary.
(c) If (i) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or
unable to continue as a depositary for such Global Security and no successor
depositary shall have been appointed, (ii) the Depositary, at any time, ceases
to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act at which time the
Depositary is required to be so registered to act as such depositary and no
successor depositary shall have been appointed, (iii) the Company, in its sole
discretion, determines that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable or
(iv) there shall have occurred an Event of Default with respect to such
Securities, as the case may be, the Company will execute, and, subject to
Article Three of this Indenture, the Trustee, upon written notice from the
Company and receipt of a Company Order, will authenticate and deliver the
Securities in definitive registered form without coupons, in authorized
denominations, and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal
amount of the Global Security in exchange for such Global Security. In addition,
upon an Event of Default or if the Company may at any time determine that the
Securities shall no longer be
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represented by a Global Security, in such event the Company will execute, and
subject to Section 305 of this Indenture, the Trustee, upon receipt of an
Officers' Certificate evidencing such determination by the Company, will
authenticate and make available for delivery the Securities in definitive
registered form without coupons, in authorized denominations, and in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Security
in exchange for such Global Security. Upon the exchange of the Global Security
for such Securities in definitive registered form without coupons, in authorized
denominations, the Global Security shall be cancelled by the Trustee. Such
Securities in definitive registered form issued in exchange for the Global
Security shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations
as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect
participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver
such Securities to the Depositary for delivery to the Persons in whose names
such Securities are so registered.
(c) Every Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall
bear a legend in substantially the following form, in capital letters and
bold-face type:
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR
A SECURITY REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART
MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE
INDENTURE.
(d) If the Depositary is the Depository Trust Company, the Global
Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall also bear a legend in
substantially the following form, in capital letters and bold-face type:
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY ("DTC") TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED
IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS
REQUESTED
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BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE &
CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY
OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE &
CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
ARTICLE FOUR
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to any
surviving rights of conversion, registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, on demand of and at
the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(a) either
(i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other
than (A) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which
have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 306 and (B) Securities
for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or
segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the
Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have
been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(ii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation have become due and payable, and the Company has deposited
or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the
purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness
on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, for principal and interest (including Additional Payments, if
any) to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have
become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date,
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as the case may be, along with an accountants certificate stating
such funds are sufficient;
(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein
provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have
been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607 and, if money shall
have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (ii) of Clause (a) of
this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last
paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003, all
money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held in trust
and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for
whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee. All moneys
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 (and held by it or any Paying
Agent) for the payment of Securities subsequently converted shall be returned to
the Company upon Company Request.
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ARTICLE FIVE
Remedies
SECTION 501. Events of Default.
"Event of Default," wherever used herein, means any one of the
following events that has occurred and is continuing (whatever the reason for
such Event of Default and whether it shall be occasioned by the provisions of
Article Twelve or be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law
or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) failure for 30 days to pay interest on the Securities, including
any Additional Payments in respect thereof, when due; provided that a valid
extension of an interest payment period will not constitute a default in the
payment of interest (including Additional Payments, if any) for this purpose;
(b) failure to pay principal of or premium, if any, on the Securities
when due, whether at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration or otherwise;
(c) failure by the Company to deliver shares of its Common Stock upon
an election by a holder of Preferred Securities to convert such Preferred
Securities;
(d) failure to observe or perform any other covenant contained in the
Indenture for 90 days after notice to the Company by the Trustee or by the
holders of not less than 25% in aggregate outstanding principal amount of the
Securities;
(e) entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (i) a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or (ii) a decree or order adjudging the
Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect
of the Company under any applicable federal or state law, or appointing a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Company or
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of substantially all of the property of the Company, or ordering the winding up
or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order
for relief or any such other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period
of 60 consecutive days;
(f) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding
under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or
other similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a
bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by the Company or to the entry of a decree
or order for relief in respect of itself in an involuntary case or proceeding
under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or
other similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or
proceeding against the Company, or the filing by the Company of a petition or
answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable federal
or state law, or the consent by the Company to the filing of such petition or to
the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of
substantially all of the property of the Company, or the making by the Company
of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Company
in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or
the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action;
or
(g) the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, winding up or termination
of the Trust, except in connection with (i) the distribution of Securities to
holders of Preferred Securities in liquidation of the Trust upon the redemption
of all of the outstanding Preferred Securities of the Trust or (ii) certain
mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as permitted by the
Declaration.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, then and in every such
case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities may declare the principal of all the Securities and any
other amounts payable hereunder to be due and payable immediately, by a notice
in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any
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declaration such principal and all accrued interest shall become immediately due
and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made and
before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by
the Trustee as provided in this Article, the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by written notice to the Company
and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(a) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient
to pay
(i) all overdue interest (including Additional Payments, if
any) on all Securities,
(ii) the principal of any Securities which have become due
otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at
the rate borne by the Securities, and
(iii) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel;
and
(b) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the principal
of Securities which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration,
have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Company covenants that if:
(a) default is made in the payment of any interest (including
Additional Interest Payments, if any) on any Security when such interest becomes
due and payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
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(b) default is made in the payment of the principal of any Security
at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such
Securities for principal and interest (including Additional Payments, if any)
and, to the extent that payment thereof shall be legally enforceable, interest
on any overdue principal and on any overdue interest (including Additional
Payments, if any), at the rate borne by the Securities, and, in addition
thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act
in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such
proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and
receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims
and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee,
liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial
proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 607.
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No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee
to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan
of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of
the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and
any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name
as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.
Subject to Article Twelve, any money collected by the Trustee pursuant
to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates
fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account
of principal or interest (including Additional Payments, if any), upon
presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only
partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 607;
and
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal
of and interest (including Additional Payments, if any) on the Securities
in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been
collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according
to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal and
interest (including Additional Payments, if any), respectively.
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SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.
Subject to Section 516, no Holder of any Security shall have any right
to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless
(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default;
(b) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
compliance with such request;
(d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given
to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders,
or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders
or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest
and Convert.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of and (subject to Section 307) interest
(including Additional Payments, if any) on such Security on the re-
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spective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to convert such Security in accordance
with Article Thirteen and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment and right to convert, and such rights shall not be impaired without the
consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce
any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment
of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in the last paragraph of
Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee
or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and
every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and
in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any
such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an
acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to
the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may
be.
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SECTION 512. Control by Holders.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising
any trust or power conferred on the Trustee; provided, that
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture; and
(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee
which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
Subject to Section 902 hereof, the Holders of not less than a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities may on behalf of the Holders
of all the Securities waive any past default hereunder and its consequences,
except a default
(a) in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest
(including Additional Payments, if any) on any Security (unless such default has
been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and
principal due otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the
Trustee); or
(b) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under Article
Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected; provided, however, that if the Securities are
held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust, such waiver shall not be effective
until the holders of a majority in liquidation amount of Trust Securities shall
have consented to such waiver; provided, further, that if the consent of the
Holder of each outstanding Security is required, such waiver shall not be
effective until each holder of the Trust Securities shall have consented to such
waiver.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
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SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs.
In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or
omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in such suit to
file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and may assess costs against
any such party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust
Indenture Act; provided, that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act
shall be deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make
such an assessment in any suit instituted by the Company or the Trustee or in
any suit for the enforcement of the right to receive the principal of and
interest (including Additional Payments, if any) on any Security or to convert
any Security in accordance with Article Thirteen.
SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim
or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted,
now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law
and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any
power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of
every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
SECTION 516. Enforcement by Holders of Preferred Securities.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing and such event is attributable to the failure of the Company to
pay interest or principal on the Securities on the date such interest or
principal is otherwise payable, the Company acknowledges that, in such event, a
holder of Preferred Securities may institute a Direct Action for payment on or
after the respective due date specified in the Securities. The Company may not
amend this Indenture to remove the foregoing right to bring a Direct Action
without the prior written consent of all the holders of Preferred Securities.
Notwithstanding
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any payment made to such holder of Preferred Securities by the Company in
connection with a Direct Action, the Company shall remain obligated to pay the
principal of and interest on the Securities (including Additional Payments, if
any) held by the Trust or the Property Trustee and the Company shall be
subrogated to the rights of the holder of such Preferred Securities with respect
to payments on the Preferred Securities to the extent of any payments made by
the Company to such holder in any Direct Action. The holders of Preferred
Securities will not be able to exercise directly any other remedy available to
the Holders of the Securities.
ARTICLE SIX
The Trustee
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided by
the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this
Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise
incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in
the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds
for believing that the repayment of such funds or liability is not reasonably
assured to it under the terms of this Indenture or indemnity reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section 601.
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.
The Trustee shall give the Holders notice of any default hereunder as
and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided, however, that
in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 501(d), no such
notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence
thereof. For the purpose of this Section 602, the term "default" means any event
which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of
Default.
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SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining
from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other
evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution
of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence
be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its choice and the advice
of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete
authorization and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of
any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have
offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the
Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into
such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to
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make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to reasonable
examination of the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by
agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder; and
(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken, suffered, or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith, without negligence or willful
misconduct, and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the
discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness.
The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use
or application by the Company of the Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other
agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may
otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were
not Trustee, Paying Agent, Security Registrar, or such other agent.
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be
under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as
otherwise agreed with the Company.
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SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees
(a) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation as the
Company and the Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing for all
services rendered by it hereunder;
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, fees, disbursements and
advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of
this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement
or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(c) to indemnify the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee for, and to
hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred without
negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the
acceptance or administration of this trust, including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the exercise
or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with
an Event of Default specified in Section 501(f) or Section 501(g), the expenses
(including the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the
compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this
Indenture.
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest within the
meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either eliminate such
interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by, and subject to
the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
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There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person
that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 and has its Corporate Trust
Office in New York, New York. If such Person publishes reports of condition at
least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital
and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at
any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof
to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not
have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, delivered to the
Trustee and to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor
Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the
giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a
bona
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fide Holder of a Security for at least six months, or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by
any such Holder, or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (A) the Company by Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, or (B) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, the
Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. If,
within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the
occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee shall be appointed by Act of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so
appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment, become the
successor Trustee and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.
If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed by the Company or the
Holders and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any Holder
who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all Holders in the
manner provided
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in Section 106. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and
the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge
and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further
act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the retiring Trustee; provided, that on request of the Company or
the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges,
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the
rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by
such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the
Company shall execute any and all instruments required to more fully and
certainly vest in and confirm to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers
and trusts.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated,
but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger,
conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such
authentication and deliver the Secu-
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rities so authenticated with the same effect as if such successor Trustee had
itself authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Company (or any such other obligor).
ARTICLE SEVEN
Holders' Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee
(a) semiannually, not later than February 15 and August 15 in each
year, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names
and addresses of the Holders as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the
delivery thereof, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar
form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list
is furnished;
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar.
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list
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furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a
new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and the
corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the
Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee
nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any
disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to
the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each year, commencing May 15, 1997,
the Trustee shall transmit by mail to Holders such reports concerning the
Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the
Trust Indenture Act in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company
will notify the Trustee when the Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
SECTION 704. Reports by Company.
The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, and
transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such
summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the
times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act; provided, that any such
information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the
Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the
Commission.
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is
for informational purposes only and
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the Trustee's receipt of such shall not constitute constructive notice of any
information contained therein or determinable from information contained
therein, including the Company's compliance with any of its covenants hereunder
(as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers'
Certificates).
The Company shall also provide to the Trustee on a timely basis
such information as the Trustee requires to enable the Trustee to prepare and
file any form required to be submitted by the Company with the Internal Revenue
Service and the Holders of the Securities relating to original issue discount,
if any, including, without limitation, Form 1099-OID or any successor form.
ARTICLE EIGHT
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into any
other Person or, directly or indirectly, convey, transfer or lease all or
substantially all of its properties and assets on a consolidated basis to any
Person, unless:
(a) the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the
Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease,
all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company on a
consolidated basis shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, shall be
organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States of America,
any State thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an
indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including Additional Payments,
if any) on all the Securities and the performance or observance of every
covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or
observed and shall have provided for conversion rights in accordance with
Article Thirteen;
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(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction and
treating any indebtedness which becomes an obligation of the Company or a
Subsidiary as a result of such transaction as having been incurred by the
Company or such Subsidiary at the time of such transaction, no Event of Default,
and no event which, after notice or lapse of time or both, would become an Event
of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation,
merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a supplemental indenture is
required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture,
comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such transaction have been complied with.
This Section shall only apply to a merger or consolidation in
which the Company is not the surviving corporation and to conveyances, leases
and transfers by the Company as transferor or lessor.
SECTION 802. Successor Substituted.
Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the
Company into, any other Person or any conveyance, transfer or lease of all or
substantially all the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated
basis in accordance with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance,
transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may
exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the
same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein,
and thereafter the predecessor Person shall be relieved of all obligations and
covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
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ARTICLE NINE
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized
by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may
enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to
the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company
and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein
and in the Securities; or
(b) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company;
or
(c) to make provision with respect to the conversion rights of
Holders pursuant to the requirements of Article Thirteen; or
(d) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any
other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
Indenture which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture;
provided, that such action pursuant to this Clause (d) shall not adversely
affect the interests of the Holders of the Securities or, so long as any of the
Preferred Securities shall remain outstanding, the holders of the Preferred
Securities;
(e) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order
to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust
Indenture Act; or
(f) to make provision for transfer procedures, certification,
book-entry provisions, the form of restricted securities legends, if any, to be
placed on Securities, and all other matters required pursuant to Section 305(b)
or otherwise necessary, desirable or appropriate in connection with the issuance
of Securities to holders of Preferred
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Securities in the event of a distribution of Securities by the Trust if a
Special Event occurs and is continuing.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by Act of said Holders delivered
to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders under this Indenture;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(a) extend the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of interest (including Additional Payments, if any) on, any
Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend
the time for payment of interest thereon, or extend the Extension Period, or
reduce any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change the place of
payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or interest
thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of
any such payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or adversely affect the right to
convert any Security as provided in Article Thirteen (except as permitted by
Section 901(c)), or modify the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the
subordination of the Securities in a manner adverse to the Holders,
(b) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental
indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of
compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults
hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture, or
(c) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 513,
except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other
provisions of this Indenture
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cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby;
provided that if the Securities are held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust,
such supplemental indenture shall not be effective until the holders of a
majority in liquidation amount of Trust Securities shall have consented to such
supplemental indenture; provided, further, that if the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security is required, such supplemental indenture shall not be
effective until each holder of the Trust Securities of the Trust shall have
consented to such supplemental indenture.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date
for the purpose of determining the Persons entitled to consent to any indenture
supplemental hereto. If a record date is fixed, the Holders on such record date,
or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to
consent to such supplemental indenture, whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date; provided that unless such consent shall have
become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having been obtained
prior to the date which is 90 days after such record date, any such consent
previously given shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be
cancelled and of no further effect.
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
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SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this
Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and
every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered
hereunder shall be bound thereby. No such supplemental indenture shall directly
or indirectly modify the provisions of Article Twelve in any manner which might
terminate or impair the rights of the Senior Indebtedness pursuant to such
subordination provisions.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article
shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 906. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the
Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the
Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for
Outstanding Securities.
ARTICLE TEN
Covenants; Representations and Warranties
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal and Interest.
The Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of and
interest on the Securities and Additional Payments, if any in accordance with
the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
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SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in the United States an office or agency
where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities
may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices
and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this
Indenture may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or
agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required
office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof,
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the
Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies (in the United States) where the Securities may be presented
or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind
such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission
shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office
or agency in the United States for such purposes. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any
change in the location of any such other office or agency.
SECTION 1003. Money for Security Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent, it
will, on or before each due date of the principal of or interest on any of the
Securities, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal or interest so becoming due until
such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein
provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to
act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it
will, prior to each due date of the principal of or interest on any Securities,
deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be
held as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying
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Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action
or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent
shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section, that
such Paying Agent will (i) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (ii) during the continuance of any
default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making
of any payment in respect of the Securities, upon the written request of the
Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying
Agent as such.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then
held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or interest on
(including Additional Payments, if any) any Security and remaining unclaimed for
two years after such principal or interest has become due and payable shall be
paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall
be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of any such Security shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for
payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease.
SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the
end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an
Officers' Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the
signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance and
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observance of any of the material terms, provisions and conditions of this
Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice
provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such
defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
SECTION 1005. Limitation on Dividends; Covenants as to the Trust.
(a) The Company covenants that so long as the Securities are
outstanding, if (i) there shall have occurred and be continuing any event that
with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both, would constitute an
Event of Default, (ii) the Company shall be in default with respect to its
payment of any obligations under the Guarantee, or (iii) the Company has
exercised its option to defer interest payments on the Securities by extending
the interest payment period and such period, or any extension thereof, shall be
continuing, then the Company shall (A) not declare or pay dividends on, or make
a distribution with respect to, or redeem or purchase or acquire, or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock (other than (x)
purchases or acquisitions of shares of Common Stock in connection with the
satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any employee benefit plans
or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract
or security requiring the Company to purchase shares of Common Stock, (y) as a
result of a reclassification of the Company's capital stock or the exchange or
conversion of one class or series of the Company's capital stock for another
class or series of the Company's capital stock or (z) the purchase of fractional
interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or
exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or
exchanged (or make any guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing)), (B)
not make any payment of interest, principal or premium, if any, on or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities (including guarantees) issued by the
Company that rank pari passu with or junior to the Securities and (C) not make
any guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing (other than pursuant to the
Guarantee).
(b) The Company also covenants and agrees (i) that it shall
directly or indirectly maintain 100% ownership of the Common Securities of the
Trust; provided,
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however, that any permitted successor of the Company hereunder may succeed to
the Company's ownership of such Common Securities and (ii) that it shall use its
reasonable efforts, consistent with the terms and provisions of the Declaration,
to cause the Trust (x) to remain a statutory business trust, except in
connection with the distribution of the Securities to the holders of Trust
Securities in liquidation of the Trust, the redemption of all of the Trust
Securities of the Trust, or certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations,
each as permitted by the Declaration, and (y) to otherwise continue to be
classified as a grantor trust for United States Federal income tax purposes.
SECTION 1006. Payment of Expenses of the Trust.
In connection with the offering, sale and issuance of the
Securities to the Property Trustee in connection with the sale of the Trust
Securities by the Trust, the Company shall:
(a) pay for all costs, fees and expenses relating to the offering,
sale and issuance of the Securities, including commissions, discounts and
expenses payable pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and compensation of the
Trustee under the Indenture in accordance with the provisions of Section 607 of
the Indenture;
(b) be responsible for and pay for all debts and obligations
(other than with respect to the Trust Securities) of the Trust, pay for all
costs and expenses of the Trust (including, but not limited to, costs and
expenses relating to the organization of the Trust, the offering, sale and
issuance of the Trust Securities (including commissions, discounts and expenses
in connection therewith), the fees and expenses of the Property Trustee and the
Delaware Trustee, the costs and expenses relating to the operation of the Trust,
including without limitation, costs and expenses of accountants, attorneys,
statistical or bookkeeping services, expenses for printing and engraving and
computing or accounting equipment, paying agent(s), registrar(s), transfer
agent(s), duplicating, travel and telephone and other telecommunications
expenses and costs and expenses incurred in connection with the acquisition,
financing, and disposition of Trust assets); and
(c) pay any and all taxes (other than United States withholding
taxes attributable to the Trust or its
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assets) and all liabilities, costs and expenses with respect to such taxes of
the Trust.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
Redemption of Securities
SECTION 1101. Optional Redemption.
(a) The Company shall have the right to redeem the Securities, in
whole or in part, at any time or from time to time on or after [ ] upon not less
than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at a redemption price equal to [ ]% of
the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed plus any accrued and
unpaid interest (including Additional Payments, if any) to the Redemption Date,
if redeemed on or before [ ], and at the following optional redemption prices
(expressed as a percentage of the principal amount of Securities), if redeemed
during the 12- month period beginning [ ]:
Percentage of
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plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Payments,
if any) to the Redemption Date. Any redemption pursuant to this Section 1101
shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Sections 1103 through 1108 hereof.
(b) If a partial redemption of the Securities would result in the
delisting of the Preferred Securities issued by the Trust from any national
securities exchange or other organization on which the Preferred Securities are
listed, the Company shall not be permitted to effect such partial redemption and
may only redeem the Securities in whole.
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SECTION 1102. Tax Event Optional Redemption.
If a Tax Event has occurred and is continuing and:
(a) the Company has received a Redemption Tax Opinion; or
(b) after receiving a Dissolution Tax Opinion, the Regular
Trustees shall have been informed by tax counsel rendering the Dissolution Tax
Opinion that a No Recognition Opinion cannot be delivered to the Trust,
then, notwithstanding Section 1101(a) but subject to Section 1101(b), the
Company shall have the right upon not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days
notice to the Holders of the Securities to redeem the Securities in whole (but
not in part) for cash at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal
amount of the Securities plus accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional
Payments), if any, within 90 days following the occurrence of such Tax Event
(the "90-Day Period"); provided, however, that if, at the time there is
available to the Company or the Trust the opportunity to eliminate within the
90-Day Period, the Tax Event by taking some ministerial action ("Ministerial
Action"), such as filing a form or making an election, or pursuing some other
similar reasonable measure which, in the sole judgment of the Company, has or
will cause no adverse effect on the Company, the Trust or the Holders of the
Trust Securities and will involve no material cost, the Company or the Trust
shall pursue such Ministerial Action or other measure in lieu of redemption, and
provided, further, that the Company shall have no right to redeem the Securities
while the Trust is pursuing any Ministerial Action or other similar measure
pursuant to its obligations under the Declaration.
SECTION 1103. Applicability of Article.
Redemption of Securities at the election of the Company, as
permitted by Sections 1101 and 1102, shall be made in accordance with such
provision and this Article.
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SECTION 1104. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem Securities pursuant to
Section 1101 or 1102 shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any
redemption at the election of the Company, the Company shall, at least 45 days
and no more than 90 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company,
notify the Trustee in writing of such Redemption Date and of the principal
amount of Securities to be redeemed and provide a copy of the notice of
redemption given to Holders of Securities to be redeemed pursuant to Section
1105.
SECTION 1105. Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed (unless such
redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date by
the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities not previously called for
redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and
which may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to $50 or
any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of the Securities.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption as aforesaid and, in case of any Securities
selected for partial redemption as aforesaid, the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed.
The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs shall not apply
with respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such
Security is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In the case of any such
redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the
Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than
the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.
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SECTION 1106. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at such Holder's address
appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall identify the Securities to be
redeemed (including, if relevant, CUSIP number or ISSN) and shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date,
(b) the Redemption Price,
(c) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become
due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and that interest thereon
will cease to accrue on and after said date, and
(d) the place or places where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election
of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by
the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 1107. Deposit and Payment of Redemption Price.
Prior to 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the Redemption Date,
the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of, plus (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest Payment Date)
accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Payments, if any) on all the
Securities which are to be redeemed on that date. Such redemption payment shall
be made to the Holders prior to 12:00 noon (New York City time) on the
Redemption Date or such earlier time as the Company determines.
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If any Security called for redemption is converted, any money
deposited with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent or so segregated and held in
trust for the redemption of such Security shall (subject to any right of the
Holder of such Security or any Predecessor Security to receive interest as
provided in the last paragraph of Section 307) be paid to the Company upon
Company Request or, if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such
trust.
SECTION 1108. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the
Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and
payable at the Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date
(unless the Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and
accrued and unpaid interest, including Additional Payments, if any) such
Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any such Security for
redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the
Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued and unpaid interest
(including Additional Payments, if any) to the Redemption Date; provided,
however, that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to
the Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one
or more Predecessor Securities, registered as such at 5:00 p.m. (New York City
time) on the relevant Record Dates according to the terms and the provisions of
Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid, bear interest
from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Security.
SECTION 1109. Securities Redeemed in Part.
In the event of any redemption in part, the Company shall not be
required to (i) issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security during
a period beginning at 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) 15 Business Days before any
selection for redemption of Securities and ending at 5:00 p.m. (New York City
time) on the earliest date in which the relevant notice of redemption is deemed
to have been given to all holders of Securities to be so redeemed and (ii)
register the transfer of or exchange any Securities so
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selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except for the unredeemed portion
of any Securities being redeemed in part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be
surrendered at a place of payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee
so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof
or his attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and
the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder of
such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities, of any
authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal
amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of
the Security so surrendered.
SECTION 1110. No Sinking Fund.
The Securities are not entitled to the benefit of any sinking
fund.
ARTICLE TWELVE
Subordination of Securities
SECTION 1201. Agreement to Subordinate.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of Securities by
such Holder's acceptance thereof likewise covenants and agrees, that all
Securities shall be issued subject to the provisions of this Article Twelve; and
each Holder of a Security, whether upon original issue or upon transfer or
assignment thereof, accepts and agrees to be bound by such provisions. The
payment by the Company of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest
(including Additional Payments, if any) on all Securities issued hereunder
shall, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth, be subordinated
and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all existing and
future Senior Indebtedness, whether outstanding at the date of this Indenture or
thereafter incurred; provided however, that no provision of this Article Twelve
shall prevent the occurrence of any default or Event of Default hereunder.
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SECTION 1202. Default on Senior Indebtedness.
In the event and during the continuation of any default by the
Company in the payment of principal, premium, interest or any other payment due
on any Senior Indebtedness continuing beyond the period of grace, if any,
specified in the instrument evidencing such Senior Indebtedness, unless and
until such default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to
exist, and in the event that the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness has been
accelerated because of a default, then no payment shall be made by the Company
with respect to the principal of (including redemption payments, if any),
premium, if any, or interest on the Securities.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment
shall be received by the Trustee when such payment is prohibited by the
preceding paragraph of this Section 1202, such payment shall be held in trust
for the benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders of
Senior Indebtedness or their respective representatives, or to the trustee or
trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, but only to the
extent that the holders of the Senior Indebtedness (or their representative or
representatives or a trustee) notify the Trustee in writing within 90 days of
such payment of the amounts then due and owing on the Senior Indebtedness and
only the amounts specified in such notice to the Trustee shall be paid to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 1203. Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy.
Upon any payment by the Company or distribution of assets of the
Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to
creditors upon any dissolution or winding up or liquidation or reorganization of
the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, or in bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other proceedings, all principal of, and premium, if any, and
interest due or to become due on, all Senior Indebtedness must be paid in full
before any payment is made on account of the principal (and premium, if any) or
interest (including Additional Payments, if any) on the Securities; and upon any
such dissolution or winding up or liquidation or reorganization, any payment by
the Company, or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or
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character, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the Holders of the
Securities or the Trustee would be entitled, except for the provisions of this
Article Twelve, shall be paid by the Company or by any receiver, trustee in
bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or other Person making such payment or
distribution, or by the Holders of the Securities or by the Trustee under this
Indenture if received by them or it, directly to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness (pro rata to such holders on the basis of the respective amounts of
Senior Indebtedness held by such holders, as calculated by the Company) or their
representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any
indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, to the extent
necessary to pay such Senior Indebtedness in full, in money or money's worth,
after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness, before any payment or distribution is made
to the Holders of Securities or to the Trustee.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or
distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities, prohibited by the foregoing, shall be received by the
Trustee or the Holders of the Securities before all Senior Indebtedness is paid
in full, or provision is made for such payment in money in accordance with its
terms, such payment or distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of
and shall be paid over or delivered to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or
their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any
indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, and their respective interests may appear, as calculated
by the Company, for application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness
remaining unpaid to the extent necessary to pay such Senior Indebtedness in full
in money in accordance with its terms, after giving effect to any concurrent
payment or distribution to or for the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
For purposes of this Article Twelve, the words, "cash, property or
securities" shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as
reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation
provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which
is subordinated at least to the
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extent provided in this Article Twelve with respect to the Securities to the
payment of all Senior Indebtedness which may at the time be outstanding;
provided, that (i) such Senior Indebtedness is assumed by the new corporation,
if any, resulting from any such reorganization or readjustment, and (ii) the
rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness are not, without the consent
of such holders, altered by such reorganization or readjustment. The
consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company with or into,
another Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the
conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all its properties and
assets on a consolidated basis to another Person upon the terms and conditions
provided for in Article Eight hereof shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding
up, liquidation or reorganization for the purposes of this Section 1203 if such
other Person shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, conveyance,
transfer or lease, comply with the conditions stated in Article Eight hereof.
Nothing in Section 1202 or in this Section 1203 shall apply to claims of, or
payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 607 hereof.
SECTION 1204. Subrogation.
Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness, the
rights of the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of
cash, property or securities of the Company, as the case may be, applicable to
such Senior Indebtedness until the principal of (and premium, if any,) and
interest (including Additional Payments, if any) on the Securities shall be paid
in full; and, for the purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions
to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities
to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except
for the provisions of this Article Twelve, and no payment over pursuant to the
provisions of this Article Twelve, to or for the benefit of the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as
between the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness,
and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to
or on account of such Senior Indebtedness. It is understood that the provisions
of this Article Twelve are and are intended solely for the purposes of defining
the relative rights of the Holders of
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the Securities, on the one hand, and the holders of such Senior Indebtedness on
the other hand.
Nothing contained in this Article Twelve or elsewhere in this
Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as between the
Company, its creditors other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness, and the
Holders of the Securities, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest (including Additional Payments, if any) on the
Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance with
their terms, or is intended to or shall affect the relative rights of the
Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company, as the case may be,
other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness, nor shall anything herein or
therein prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all
remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this
Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article Twelve of the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities
of the Company, as the case may be, received upon the exercise of any such
remedy.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred
to in this Article Twelve, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section
603, and the Holders of the Securities, shall be entitled to rely upon any order
or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such dissolution,
winding up, liquidation or reorganization proceedings are pending, or a
certificate of the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidation trustee, agent
or other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or
to the Holders of the Securities, for the purposes of ascertaining the Persons
entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness and other indebtedness of the Company, as the case may be, the
amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed
thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article Twelve.
SECTION 1205. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each Holder of Securities by such Holder's acceptance thereof
authorizes and directs the Trustee on such Holder's behalf to take such action
as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in
this
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Article Twelve and appoints the Trustee as such Holder's attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.
SECTION 1206. Notice by the Company.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee of any fact known to the Company which would prohibit the
making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee in respect of the
Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Article Twelve. Notwithstanding
the provisions of this Article Twelve or any other provision of this Indenture,
the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts
which would prohibit the making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee in
respect of the Securities pursuant to the provision of this Article Twelve,
unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received
written notice thereof at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee from the
Company or a holder or holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee
therefor; and before the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee,
subject to the provisions of Section 603 hereof, shall be entitled in all
respects to assume that no such facts exist; provided, however, that if the
Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section 1206 at
least two Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any
money may become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including
Additional Payments, if any) on any Security), then, anything herein contained
to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority
to receive such money and to apply the same to the purposes for which they were
received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary which may be
received by it within two Business Days prior to such date.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 603, shall be
entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a Person
representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness (or a trustee on
behalf of such holder) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder
of such Senior Indebtedness or a trustee on behalf of any such holder or
holders. In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of
Senior Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to
this Article Twelve, the Trustee
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may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of
the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Indebtedness held by such Person, the
extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or
distribution and any other facts pertinent to the right of such Person under
this Article Twelve, and, if such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may
defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the right
of such Person to receive such payment.
SECTION 1207. Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all
the rights set forth in this Article Twelve in respect of any Senior
Indebtedness at any time held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of
Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of
any of its rights as such holder.
With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company,
the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and
obligations as are set forth in this Article Twelve, and no implied covenants or
obligations with respect to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed to
owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness and, subject
to the provisions of Section 603, the Trustee shall not be liable to any holder
of such Senior Indebtedness if it shall pay over or deliver to Holders of
Securities, the Company or any other Person money or assets to which any holder
of such Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article Twelve
or otherwise. With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee
undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants or obligations as
are specifically set forth in this Article Twelve and no implied covenants or
obligations with respect to holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be read into
this Indenture against the Trustee.
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SECTION 1208. Subordination May Not Be Impaired.
No right of any present or future holder of any Senior
Indebtedness to enforce subordination as herein provided shall at any time in
any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of
the Company or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder,
or by any noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and covenants
of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof which any such holder may
have or otherwise be charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing
paragraph, the holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to
time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Holders of the
Securities, without incurring responsibility to the holders of the Securities
and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article
Twelve or the obligations hereunder of the Holders of the Securities to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (i) change
the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew
or alter, such Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any
manner such Senior Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any
agreement under which such Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell,
exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or
otherwise securing such Senior Indebtedness; (iii) release any Person liable in
any manner for the collection of such Senior Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or
refrain from exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person.
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ARTICLE THIRTEEN
Conversion of Securities
SECTION 1301. Conversion Rights.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this
Article, the Securities are convertible, at the option of the Holder, at any
time on or before 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Business Day immediately
preceding the date of repayment of such Securities, whether at maturity or upon
redemption (either at the option of the Company or pursuant to a Tax Event),
into fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock of the Company at an
initial conversion rate of [ ] shares of Common Stock for each $50 in aggregate
principal amount of Securities (equal to a conversion price of $[ ] per share of
Common Stock), subject to adjustment as described in this Article Thirteen. A
Holder of Securities may convert any portion of the principal amount of the
Securities into that number of fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common
Stock (calculated as to each conversion to the nearest 1/100th of a share)
obtained by dividing the principal amount of the Securities to be converted by
such conversion price. In case a Security or portion thereof is called for
redemption, such conversion right in respect of the Security or portion so
called shall expire at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Business Day
immediately preceding the corresponding Redemption Date, unless the Company
defaults in making the payment due upon redemption.
SECTION 1302. Conversion Procedures.
(a) In order to convert all or a portion of the Securities, the
Holder thereof shall deliver to the Conversion Agent an irrevocable Notice of
Conversion setting forth the principal amount of Securities to be converted,
together with the name or names, if other than the Holder, in which the shares
of Common Stock should be issued upon conversion and, if such Securities are
definitive Securities, surrender to the Conversion Agent the Securities to be
converted, duly endorsed or assigned to the Company or in blank. In addition, a
holder of Preferred Securities may exercise its right under the Declaration to
convert such Preferred Securities into Common Stock by delivering to the
Conversion Agent an irrevocable Notice of Conversion setting forth the
information called for by the preceding sentence and direct-
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ing the Conversion Agent (i) to exchange such Preferred Security for a portion
of the Securities held by the Trust (at an exchange rate of $50 liquidation
amount of Securities for each Preferred Security) and (ii) to immediately
convert such Securities, on behalf of such holder, into Common Stock of the
Company pursuant to this Article Thirteen and, if such Preferred Securities are
in definitive form, surrendering such Preferred Securities, duly endorsed or
assigned to the Company or in blank. So long as any Preferred Securities are
outstanding, the Trust shall not convert any Securities except pursuant to a
Notice of Conversion delivered to the Conversion Agent by a holder of Preferred
Securities.
If a Notice of Conversion is delivered on or after the Regular
Record Date and prior to the subsequent Interest Payment Date, the Holder will
be entitled to receive the interest payable on the subsequent Interest Payment
Date on the portion of Securities to be converted notwithstanding the conversion
thereof prior to such Interest Payment Date. Except as otherwise provided in the
immediately preceding sentence, in the case of any Security which is converted,
interest whose Stated Maturity is after the date of conversion of such Security
shall not be payable, and the Company shall not make nor be required to make any
other payment, adjustment or allowance with respect to accrued but unpaid
interest (including Additional Payments, if any) on the Securities being
converted, which shall be deemed to be paid in full. If any Security called for
redemption is converted, any money deposited with the Trustee or with any Paying
Agent or so segregated and held in trust for the redemption of such Security
shall (subject to any right of the Holder of such Security or any Predecessor
Security to receive interest as provided in the last paragraph of Section 307
and this paragraph) be paid to the Company upon Company Request or, if then held
by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.
Each conversion shall be deemed to have been effected
immediately prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the day on which the
Notice of Conversion was received (the "Conversion Date") by the Conversion
Agent from the Holder or from a holder of the Preferred Securities effecting a
conversion thereof pursuant to its conversion rights under the Declaration, as
the case may be. The Person or Persons entitled to receive the Common Stock
issuable upon such conversion shall be treated for all purposes as the record
holder or holders of such Common Stock as of the
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Conversion Date. As promptly as practicable on or after the Conversion Date, the
Company shall issue and deliver at the office of the Conversion Agent, unless
otherwise directed by the Holder in the Notice of Conversion, a certificate or
certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock issuable upon such
conversion, together with the cash payment, if any, in lieu of any fraction of
any share to the Person or Persons entitled to receive the same. The Conversion
Agent shall deliver such certificate or certificates to such Person or Persons.
(b) Subject to any right of the Holder of such Security or any
Predecessor Security to receive interest as provided in the last paragraph of
Section 307 and the second paragraph of Clause (a) of Section 1302, the
Company's delivery upon conversion of the fixed number of shares of Common Stock
into which the Securities are convertible (together with the cash payment, if
any, in lieu of fractional shares) shall be deemed to satisfy the Company's
obligation to pay the principal amount at Maturity of the portion of Securities
so converted and any unpaid interest (including Additional Payments, if any)
accrued on such Securities at the time of such conversion.
(c) No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued as a
result of conversion, but in lieu thereof, the Company shall pay to the
Conversion Agent a cash adjustment in an amount equal to the same fraction of
the last reported sale price of such fractional interest on the date on which
the Securities or Preferred Securities, as the case may be, were duly
surrendered to the Conversion Agent for conversion, or, if such day is not a
Trading Day, on the next Trading Day, and the Conversion Agent in turn will make
such payment, if any, to the Holder of the Securities or the holder of the
Preferred Securities so converted.
(d) In the event of the conversion of any Security in part only, a
new Security or Securities for the unconverted portion thereof will be issued in
the name of the Holder thereof upon the cancellation thereof in accordance with
Section 305.
(e) In effecting the conversion transactions described in this
Section, the Conversion Agent is acting as agent of the holders of Preferred
Securities (in the exchange of Preferred Securities for Securities) and as agent
of the Holders of Securities (in the conversion of Securi-
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ties into Common Stock), as the case may be, directing it to effect such
conversion transactions. The Conversion Agent is hereby authorized (i) to
exchange Securities held by the Trust from time to time for Preferred Securities
in connection with the conversion of such Preferred Securities in accordance
with this Article Thirteen and (ii) to convert all or a portion of the
Securities into Common Stock and thereupon to deliver such shares of Common
Stock in accordance with the provisions of this Article Thirteen and to deliver
to the Trust a new Security or Securities for any resulting unconverted
principal amount.
SECTION 1303. Conversion Price Adjustments.
The conversion price shall be subject to adjustment (without
duplication) from time to time as follows:
(a) In case the Company shall, while any of the Securities are
outstanding, (i) pay a dividend or make a distribution with respect to its
Common Stock in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide its outstanding shares of
Common Stock, (iii) combine its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
smaller number of shares or (iv) issue by reclassification of its shares of
Common Stock any shares of capital stock of the Company, the conversion price in
effect immediately prior to such action shall be adjusted so that the Holder of
any Securities thereafter surrendered for conversion shall be entitled to
receive the number of shares of capital stock of the Company which he would have
owned immediately following such action had such Securities been converted
immediately prior thereto. An adjustment made pursuant to this Section 1303(a)
shall become effective immediately after the record date in the case of a
dividend or other distribution and shall become effective immediately after the
effective date in case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification (or
immediately after the record date if a record date shall have been established
for such event). If, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to this Section
1303(a), the Holder of any Security thereafter surrendered for conversion shall
become entitled to receive shares of two or more classes or series of capital
stock of the Company, the Board of Directors (whose determination shall be
conclusive and shall be described in a Board Resolution filed with the Trustee)
shall determine the allocation of the adjusted conversion price between or among
shares of such classes or series of capital stock.
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(b) In case the Company shall, while any of the Securities are
outstanding, issue rights or warrants to all holders of its Common Stock
entitling them (for a period expiring within 45 days after the record date
mentioned in this Section 1303(b)) to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common
Stock at a price per share less than the current market price per share of
Common Stock (as determined pursuant to 1303(f) below) on such record date, the
conversion price for the Securities shall be adjusted so that the same shall
equal the price determined by multiplying the conversion price in effect
immediately prior to the date of issuance of such rights or warrants by a
fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding on the date of issuance of such rights or warrants plus the number
of shares which the aggregate offering price of the total number of shares so
offered for subscription or purchase would purchase at such current market
price, and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding on the date of issuance of such rights or warrants plus the
number of additional shares of Common Stock offered for subscription or
purchase. Such adjustment shall become effective immediately after the record
date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or
warrants. For the purposes of this subsection, the number of shares of Common
Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of
the Company. The Company shall not issue any rights or warrants in respect of
shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company. In case any rights
or warrants referred to in this subsection in respect of which an adjustment
shall have been made shall expire unexercised within 45 days after the same
shall have been distributed or issued by the Company, the conversion price shall
be read- justed at the time of such expiration to the conversion price that
would have been in effect if no adjustment had been made on account of the
distribution or issuance of such expired rights or warrants.
(c) Subject to the last sentence of this Section 1303(c), in case
the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its
Common Stock evidences of its indebtedness, shares of any class or series of
capital stock, cash or assets (including securities, but excluding any rights or
warrants referred to in Section 1303(b), any dividend or distribution paid
exclusively in cash and any dividend or distribution referred to in Section
1303(a)), the conversion price shall be reduced so that the
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same shall equal the price determined by multiplying the conversion price in
effect immediately prior to the effectiveness of the conversion price reduction
contemplated by Section 1303(c) by a fraction of which the numerator shall be
the current market price per share (determined as provided in Section 1303(f))
of the Common Stock on the date fixed for the payment of such distribution (the
"Reference Date") less the fair market value (as determined in good faith by the
Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a
resolution of the Board of Directors), on the Reference Date, of the portion of
the evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock, cash and assets so
distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock and the denominator shall be
such current market price per share of the Common Stock, such reduction to
become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day
following the Reference Date. In the event that such dividend or distribution is
not so paid or made, the conversion price shall again be adjusted to be the
conversion price which would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution
had not occurred. If the Board of Directors determines the fair market value of
any distribution for purposes of this Section 1303(c) by reference to the actual
or when issued trading market for any securities comprising such distribution,
it must in doing so consider the prices in such market over the same period used
in computing the current market price per share of Common Stock (determined as
provided in Section 1303(f)). For purposes of this Section 1303(c), any dividend
or distribution that includes shares of Common Stock or rights or warrants to
subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock shall be deemed instead to be
(1) a dividend or distribution of the evidences of indebtedness, shares of
capital stock, cash or assets other than such shares of Common Stock or such
rights or warrants (making any conversion price reduction required by this
Section 1303(c)) immediately followed by (2) a dividend or distribution of such
shares of Common Stock or such rights or warrants (making any further conversion
price reduction required by Section 1303(a) or 1303(b)), except (A) the
Reference Date of such dividend or distribution as defined in this 1303(c) shall
be substituted as (a) "the record date in the case of a dividend or other
distribution," and (b) "the record date for the determination of stockholders
entitled to receive such rights or warrants" and (c) "the date fixed for such
determination" within the meaning of Sections 1303(a) and 1303(b) and (B) any
shares of Common Stock included in such dividend or distribution
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shall not be deemed outstanding for purposes of computing any adjustment of the
conversion price in Section 1303(a).
(d) In case the Company shall pay or make a dividend or other
distribution on its Common Stock exclusively in cash (excluding all regular cash
dividends, if the annualized amount thereof per share of Common Stock does not
exceed 15% of the current market price per share determined as provided in
Section 1303(f) of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the
date of declaration of such dividend), the conversion price shall be reduced so
that the same shall equal the price determined by multiplying the conversion
price in effect immediately prior to the effectiveness of the conversion price
reduction contemplated by this Section 1303(d) by a fraction of which the
numerator shall be the current market price per share (determined as provided in
Section 1303(f)) of the Common Stock on the date fixed for the payment of such
distribution less the amount of cash so distributed and not excluded as provided
applicable to one share of Common Stock and the denominator shall be such
current market price per share of the Common Stock, such reduction to become
effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the
date fixed for the payment of such distribution; provided, however, that in the
event the portion of the cash so distributed applicable to one share of Common
Stock is equal to or greater than the current market price per share (as defined
in Section 1303(f)) of the Common Stock on the record date mentioned above, in
lieu of the foregoing adjustment, adequate provision shall be made so that each
Holder of shares of Securities shall have the right to receive upon conversion
the amount of cash such Holder would have received had such Holder converted
each share of the Securities immediately prior to the record date for the
distribution of the cash. In the event that such dividend or distribution is not
so paid or made, the conversion price shall again be adjusted to be the
conversion price which would then be in effect if such record date had not been
fixed.
(e) In case a tender or exchange offer (other than an odd-lot
offer) made by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company for all or any
portion of the Company's Common Stock shall expire and such tender or exchange
offer shall involve the payment by the Company or such Subsidiary of
consideration per share of Common Stock having a fair market value (as
determined in good faith by the Board of
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Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a resolution
of the Board of Directors) at the last time (the "Expiration Time") tenders or
exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (as it shall
have been amended) that exceeds 110% of the current market price per share
(determined as provided in Section 1303(f)) of the Common Stock on the Trading
Day next succeeding the Expiration Time, the conversion price shall be reduced
so that the same shall equal the price determined by multiplying the conversion
price in effect immediately prior to the effectiveness of the conversion price
reduction contemplated by this Section 1303(e) by a fraction of which the
numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including
any tendered or exchanged shares) at the Expiration Time multiplied by the
current market price per share (determined as provided in Section 1303(f)) of
the Common Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Time and the
denominator shall be the sum of (x) the fair market value (determined as
aforesaid) of the aggregate consideration payable to stockholders based on the
acceptance (up to any maximum specified in the terms of the tender or exchange
offer) of all shares validly tendered or exchanged and not withdrawn as of the
Expiration Time (the shares deemed so accepted, up to any such maximum, being
referred to as the "Purchased Shares") and (y) the product of the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding (less any Purchased Shares) at the Expiration
Time and the current market price per share (determined as provided in Section
1303(f)) of the Common Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration
Time, such reduction to become effective immediately prior to the opening of
business on the day following the Expiration Time.
(f) For the purpose of any computation under Section 1303(b),
1303(c), 1303(d) or 1303(e), the current market price per share of Common Stock
on any date in question shall be deemed to be the average of the daily Closing
Prices for the five consecutive Trading Days selected by the Company commencing
not more than 20 Trading Days before, and ending not later than, the earlier of
the day in question or, if applicable, the day before the "ex" date with respect
to the issuance or distribution requiring such computation; provided, however,
that if another event occurs that would require an adjustment pursuant to
Section 1303(a) through (e), inclusive, the Board of Directors may make such
adjustments to the Closing Prices during such five Trading Day period as it
deems appropriate to effectuate the intent of
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the adjustments in this Section 1303, in which case any such determination by
the Board of Directors shall be set forth in a Board Resolution and shall be
conclusive. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "ex" date, (i) when used
with respect to any issuance or distribution, means the first date on which the
Common Stock trades regular way on the New York Stock Exchange or on such
successor securities exchange as the Common Stock may be listed or in the
relevant market from which the Closing Prices were obtained without the right to
receive such issuance or distribution, and (ii) when used with respect to any
tender or exchange offer, means the first date on which the Common Stock trades
regular way on such securities exchange or in such market after the Expiration
Time of such offer.
(g) The Company may make such reductions in the conversion price,
in addition to those required by Sections 1303 (a) through (e), as it considers
to be advisable to avoid or diminish any income tax to holders of Common Stock
or rights to purchase Common Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution
of stock (or rights to acquire stock) or from any event treated as such for
income tax purposes. The Company from time to time may reduce the conversion
price by any amount for any period of time if the period is at least 20 days,
the reduction is irrevocable during the period, and the Board of Directors of
the Company shall have made a determination that such reduction would be in the
best interest of the Company, which determination shall be conclusive. Whenever
the conversion price is reduced pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Company
shall mail to holders of record of the Securities a notice of the reduction at
least 15 days prior to the date the reduced conversion price takes effect, and
such notice shall state the reduced conversion price and the period it will be
in effect.
(h) No adjustment in the conversion price shall be required unless
such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% in the
conversion price; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of
this Section 1303(h) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and
taken into account in determining whether any subsequent adjustment shall be
required.
(i) If any action would require adjustment of the conversion price
pursuant to more than one of the provisions described above, only one adjustment
shall be made and
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such adjustment shall be the amount of adjustment that has the highest absolute
value to the Holder of the Securities.
SECTION 1304. Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets.
In the event that the Company shall be a party to any transaction
(including without limitation (a) any recapitalization or reclassification of
the Common Stock (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par
value, or from no par value to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or
combination of the Common Stock), (b) any consolidation of the Company with, or
merger of the Company into, any other Person, any merger of another Person into
the Company (other than a merger which does not result in a reclassification,
conversion, exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock of
the Company), (c) any sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company or (d) any compulsory share exchange) pursuant to which
the Common Stock is converted into the right to receive other securities, cash
or other property, then lawful provision shall be made as part of the terms of
such transaction whereby the Holder of each Security then outstanding shall have
the right thereafter to convert such Security only into the kind and amount of
securities, cash or other property receivable upon consummation of such
transaction by a holder of the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company
into which such Security could have been converted immediately prior to such
transaction.
The Company or the Person formed by such consolidation or
resulting from such merger or which acquired such assets or which acquires the
Company's shares, as the case may be, shall make provision in its certificate or
articles of incorporation or other constituent document to establish such right.
Such certificate or articles of incorporation or other constituent document
shall provide for adjustments which, for events subsequent to the effective date
of such certificate or articles of incorporation or other constituent document,
shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided
for in this Article Thirteen. The above provisions shall similarly apply to
successive transactions of the foregoing type.
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SECTION 1305. Notice of Adjustments of Conversion Price.
Whenever the conversion price is adjusted as herein provided:
(a) the Company shall compute the adjusted conversion price and
shall prepare a certificate signed by the Chief Financial Officer or the
Treasurer of the Company setting forth the adjusted conversion price and showing
in reasonable detail the facts upon which such adjustment is based, and such
certificate shall forthwith be filed with the Trustee, the Conversion Agent and
the transfer agent for the Preferred Securities and the Securities; and
(b) a notice stating the conversion price has been adjusted and
setting forth the adjusted conversion price shall as soon as practicable be
mailed by the Company to all record holders of Preferred Securities and the
Securities at their last addresses as they appear upon the stock transfer books
of the Company and the Trust.
SECTION 1306. Prior Notice of Certain Events.
In case:
(a) the Company shall (i) declare any dividend (or any other
distribution) on its Common Stock, other than (A) a dividend payable in shares
of Common Stock or (B) a dividend payable in cash that would not require an
adjustment pursuant to Section 1303(c) or 1303(d), or (ii) authorize a tender or
exchange offer that would require an adjustment pursuant to Section 1303(e);
(b) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of
Common Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of
stock of any class or series or of any other rights or warrants;
(c) of any reclassification of Common Stock (other than a
subdivision or combination of the outstanding Common Stock, or a change in par
value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value), or
of any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party and for which
approval of any stockholders of the Company shall be required, or of the sale or
transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or of any
compulsory
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share exchange whereby the Common Stock is converted into other securities, cash
or other property; or
(d) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or
winding up of the Company;
then the Company shall (1) if any Preferred Securities are outstanding, cause to
be filed with the transfer agent for the Preferred Securities, and shall cause
to be mailed to the holders of record of the Preferred Securities, at their last
addresses as they shall appear upon the stock transfer books the Trust or (2)
shall cause to be mailed to all Holders at their last addresses as they shall
appear in the Security Register, at least 15 days prior to the applicable record
or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which
a record (if any) is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution,
rights or warrants or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the
holders of Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distribution,
rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassi-
fication, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, share exchange, dissolution,
liquidation or winding up is expected to become effective, and the date as of
which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to
exchange their shares of Common Stock for securities, cash or other property
deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer,
share exchange, dissolution, liquidation or winding up (but no failure to mail
such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall affect the
validity of the corporate action required to be specified in such notice).
SECTION 1307. Certain Defined Terms.
The following definitions shall apply to terms used in this
Article Thirteen:
(a) "Closing Price" of any Common Stock on any day shall mean the
last reported sale price regular way on such day or, in case no such sale takes
place on such day, the average of the reported closing bid and asked prices
regular way of such Common Stock, in each case on the New York Stock Exchange
Composite Tape or, if the Common Stock is not listed or admitted to trading on
such exchange, on the principal national securities exchange on which such
common stock is listed or admitted to trading, or, if not
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listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, the average
of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by any New York Stock Exchange
member firm selected from time to time by the Board of Directors of the Company
for that purpose or, if not so available in such manner, as otherwise determined
in good faith by the Board of Directors.
(b) "Trading Day" shall mean a day on which securities are traded
on the national securities exchange or quotation system used to determine the
Closing Price.
SECTION 1308. Dividend or Interest Reinvestment Plans.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the issuance of any
shares of Common Stock pursuant to any plan providing for the reinvestment of
dividends or interest payable on securities of the Company and the investment of
additional optional amounts in shares of Common Stock under any such plan, and
the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase such
shares pursuant to any employee benefit plan or program of the Company or
pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable or
convertible security outstanding as of the date the Securities were first
issued, shall not be deemed to constitute an issuance of Common Stock or
exercisable, exchangeable or convertible securities by the Company to which any
of the adjustment provisions described above applies. There shall also be no
adjustment of the conversion price in case of the issuance of any stock (or
securities convertible into or exchangeable for stock) of the Company except as
specifically described in this Article Thirteen.
SECTION 1309. Certain Additional Rights.
In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, declare or
make a distribution on its Common Stock referred to in Section 1303(c) or
1303(d) (including, without limitation, dividends or distributions referred to
in the last sentence of Section 1303(c)), the Holder of the Securities, upon the
conversion thereof subsequent to the 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date
fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
distribution and prior to the effectiveness of the conversion price adjustment
in respect of such distribution, shall also be entitled to receive for each
share of Common Stock
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into which the Securities are converted, the portion of the shares of Common
Stock, rights, warrants, evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock,
cash and assets so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock;
provided, however, that, at the election of the Company (whose election shall be
evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors) with respect to all Holders
so converting, the Company may, in lieu of distributing to such Holder any
portion of such distribution not consisting of cash or securities of the
Company, pay such Holder an amount in cash equal to the fair market value
thereof (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors, whose
determination shall be conclusive and described in a resolution of the Board of
Directors). If any conversion of Securities described in the immediately
preceding sentence occurs prior to the payment date for a distribution to
holders of Common Stock which the Holder of Securities so converted is entitled
to receive in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence, the Company
may elect (such election to be evidenced by a resolution of the Board of
Directors) to distribute to such Holder a due xxxx for the shares of Common
Stock, rights, warrants, evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock,
cash or assets to which such Holder is so entitled, provided, that such due xxxx
(i) meets any applicable requirements of the principal national securities
exchange or other market on which the Common Stock is then traded and (ii)
requires payment or delivery of such shares of Common Stock, rights, warrants,
evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock, cash or assets no later than
the date of payment or delivery thereof to holders of shares of Common Stock
receiving such distribution.
SECTION 1310. Trustee Not Responsible for Determining Conversion Price or
Adjustments.
Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall at any time be
under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of any Security to determine
whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the conversion
price, or with respect to the nature or extent of any such adjustment when made,
or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental
indenture provided to be employed, in making the same. Neither the Trustee nor
any Conversion Agent shall be accountable with respect to the validity or value
(or the kind of account) of any shares of Common Stock or of any securities or
property, which may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of
any Security; and
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neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent makes any representation with
respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be
responsible for any failure of the Company to make any cash payment or to issue,
transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other
securities or property upon the surrender of any Security for the purpose of
conversion, or, except as expressly herein provided, to comply with any of the
covenants of the Company contained in Article Ten or this Article Thirteen.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
Immunity of Incorporators, Stockholders,
Officers and Directors
SECTION 1401. No Recourse.
No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of
this Indenture, or of any Security, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise
in respect thereof, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer
or director, past, present or future as such, of the Company or of any
predecessor or successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or
any such predecessor or successor corporation, whether by virtue of any
constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or
penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that this Indenture and the
obligations issued hereunder are solely corporate obligations, and that no such
personal liability whatever shall attach to, or is or shall be incurred by, the
incorporators, stockholders, officers or directors as such, of the Company or of
any predecessor or successor corporation, or any of them, because of the
creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason of the
obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture or in any of
the Securities or implied therefrom; and that any and all such personal
liability of every name and nature, either at common law or in equity or by
constitution or statute, of, and any and all such rights and claims against,
every such incorporator, stockholder, officer or director as such, because of
the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason of the
obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture or in any of
the Securities or implied therefrom, are hereby expressly waived and released as
a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and
the issuance of such Securities.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts,
each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture
to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereunto affixed
and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
DESIGNER HOLDINGS LTD.
By:
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Name:
Title:
IBJ XXXXXXXX BANK & TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF SECURITY
[FACE OF SECURITY]
[Include if Security is in global form: THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL
CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO
AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF.
THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A SECURITY
REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE
REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE
INDENTURE.]
[Include if Security is in global form and The Depository Trust Company
is the Depositary: UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED SIGNATORY OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY ("DTC") TO THE
TRUST OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT,
AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR
IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS
IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER,
PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.]
101
DESIGNER HOLDINGS LTD.
[ ]% Convertible Subordinated Debenture Due 2016
of
Designer Holdings Ltd.
No._________ $___________
CUSIP No. 000000XX0
DESIGNER HOLDINGS LTD., a corporation duly organized and existing
under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the "Company", which term
includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for
value received, hereby promises to pay to ___________, or registered assigns,
the principal sum of __________________ Dollars ($___________) on [ ], 2016 and
to pay interest thereon from November [ ], 1996 or from the most recent Interest
Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case
may be, payable quarterly (subject to deferral as set forth in the Indenture),
in arrears, on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 (each an
"Interest Payment Date") of each year, commencing December 31, 1996, until the
principal thereof is paid or made available for payment, and they shall be paid
to the Person in whose name the Security is registered at 5:00 p.m. (New York
City time) on the regular record date for such interest installment, which shall
be the March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 next preceding such
Interest Payment Date (the "Regular Record Date").
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed
by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this
Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be
duly executed under its corporate seal.
Dated:
DESIGNER HOLDINGS LTD.
By:_____________________________
Name:
Title:
[Seal]
Attest:
_____________________________
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
Dated: IBJ XXXXXXXX BANK & TRUST
COMPANY, as Trustee
By: _______________________
Authorized Signatory
The Securities are unsecured general obligations of the Company l
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of
the Company designated as its [ ]% Convertible Subordinated Debenture Due 2016
(herein called the "Securities"), limited in aggregate principal amount to
$103,092,800 in aggregate principal amount (or $118,556,750 if the
over-allotment option is exercised), issued and to be issued under an Indenture,
dated as of November [ ], 1996 (herein called the "Indenture"), between the
Company and IBJ Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company, as Trustee (herein called the
"Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to
which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made
for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and
immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the
Securities, and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. The terms of the Securities include those stated in
the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by the Trust Indenture Act of
1939 (15 U.S. Code Section 77aaa-77bbbb) ("TIA") as in effect on the date
of the Indenture. The Securities are subject to, and qualified by, all such
terms, certain of which are summarized hereon, and holders are referred to the
Indenture and the TIA for a statement of such terms. No reference herein to the
Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture shall alter or
impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to
pay the principal of and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate,
and in the coin or currency, herein prescribed or to convert this Security as
provided in the Indenture. All terms used in this Security which are defined in
the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. The
Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a
copy of the Indenture.
(1) Interest. The Securities shall bear interest at the rate of [
]% per annum, from November [ ], 1996 or from the most recent Interest Payment
Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be,
payable quarterly (subject to deferral as set forth herein), in arrears, on
March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 (each an "Interest Payment
Date") of each year, commencing December 31, 1996, until the principal thereof
is paid or made available for payment, and they shall be paid to the Person in
whose name the Security is registered at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the
regular record date for such interest installment, which shall be the March 15,
June 15, September 15 and December 15 next preceding such
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Interest Payment Date (the "Regular Record Date"). Interest will compound
quarterly and will accrue at the rate of [ ]% per annum on any interest
installment in arrears for more than one quarter or during an extension of an
interest payment period as set forth below.
The amount of interest payable for any period will be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Except as provided in the
following sentence, the amount of interest payable for any period shorter than a
full quarterly period for which interest in computed, will be computed on the
basis of the actual number of days elapsed. In the event that any date on which
interest is payable on the Securities is not a Business Day, then payment of
interest payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a
Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such
delay), except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar
year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in
each case with the same force and effect as if made on such date.
If at any time while the Property Trustee is the Holder of any
Securities, the Trust or the Property Trustee is required to pay any taxes,
duties, assessments or governmental charges of whatever nature (other than
withholding taxes) imposed by the United States, or any other taxing authority,
then, in any such case, the Company shall pay as additional interest
("Additional Interest") on the Securities held by the Property Trustee, such
amounts as shall be required so that the net amounts received and retained by
the Trust and the Property Trustee after paying any such taxes, duties,
assessments or other governmental charges will be not less than the amounts the
Trust and the Property Trustee would have received had no such taxes, duties,
assessments or other governmental charges been imposed.
The principal of and interest on the Securities shall be payable
at the office or agency of the Company in the United States maintained for such
purpose and at any other office or agency maintained by the Company for such
purpose in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time
of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided,
however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by
check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall
appear in the Security Register.
(2) Option to Extend Interest Payment Period. The Company shall
have the right at any time during the term
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of the Securities to defer interest payments (including Additional Payments)
from time to time by extending the interest payment period for successive
periods (each, an "Extension Period") not exceeding 20 consecutive quarters for
each such period; provided, no Extension Period may extend beyond the maturity
date of the Securities. At the end of each Extension Period, the Company shall
pay all interest then accrued and unpaid (including Additional Interest)
together with interest thereon compounded quarterly at the rate specified for
the Securities to the extent permitted by applicable law ("Compounded
Interest"); provided, that during any Extension Period, the Company shall (i)
not declare or pay dividends on, or make a distribution with respect to, or
redeem or purchase or acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to,
any of its capital stock (other than (A) purchases or acquisitions of shares of
Common Stock in connection with the satisfaction by the Company of its
obligations under any employee benefit plans or the satisfaction by the Company
of its obligations pursuant to any contract or security requiring the Company to
purchase shares of Common Stock, (B) as a result of a re- classification of the
Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of
the Company's capital stock for another class or series of the Company's capital
stock or (C) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company's
capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital
stock or the security being converted or exchanged (or make any guarantee
payments with respect to the foregoing)), (ii) not make any payment of interest,
principal or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt
securities (including guarantees) issued by the Company that rank pari passu
with or junior to the Securities and (iii) not make any guarantee payments with
respect to the foregoing (other than pursuant to the Guarantee). Prior to the
termination of any such Extension Period, the Company may further extend such
Extension Period; provided, that such Extension Period, together with all such
previous and further extensions thereof, may not exceed 20 consecutive quarters
or extend beyond the maturity date of the Securities. Upon the termination of
any Extension Period and the payment of all amounts then due, the Company may
commence a new Extension Period, subject to the above requirements. No interest
during an Extension Period shall be due and payable.
If the Property Trustee is the sole Holder of the Securities at
the time the Company selects an Extension Period, the Company shall give written
notice to the Regular Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Trustee of its
selection of such Extension Period at least one Business Day
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prior to the earlier of (i) the date the distributions on the Preferred
Securities are payable or (ii) if the Preferred Securities are listed on the New
York Stock Exchange or other stock exchange or quotation system, the date the
Trust is required to give notice to the New York Stock Exchange or other
applicable self-regulatory organization or to holders of the Preferred
Securities of the record date or the date such distributions are payable, but in
any event not less than 10 Business Days prior to such record date.
If the Property Trustee is not the sole holder of the Securities
at the time the Company selects an Extension Period, the Company shall give the
Holders of the Securities and the Trustee written notice of its selection of
such Extension Period at least 10 Business Days prior to the earlier of (i) the
next succeeding Interest Payment Date or (ii) if the Preferred Securities are
listed on the New York Stock Exchange or other stock exchange or quotation
system, the date the Company is required to give notice to the New York Stock
Exchange or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to holders of the
Securities on the record or payment date of such related interest payment, but
in any event not less than two Business Days prior to such record date.
The quarter in which any notice is given pursuant to paragraphs
second and third of this Section 2 shall be counted as one of the 20 quarters
permitted in the maximum Extension Period permitted under paragraph one of this
Section 2.
(3) Paying Agent and Security Registrar. The Trustee will act as
Paying Agent, Security Registrar and Conversion Agent. The Company may change
any Paying Agent, Security Registrar, co-registrar or Conversion Agent without
prior notice. The Company or any of its Affiliates may act in any such capacity.
(4) Redemption. The Securities are redeemable, in whole or in
part, at any time or from time to time on or after [ ] upon not less than 30 nor
more than 60 days' notice, at a redemption price equal to [ ]% of the principal
amount of the Securities to be redeemed plus any accrued and unpaid interest
(including Additional Payments, if any) to the Redemption Date, if redeemed on
or before [ ], and at the following optional redemption prices (expressed as a
percentage of the principal amount of Securities), if redeemed during the
12-month period beginning [ ]:
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Percentage of
Principal
Year Amount
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and thereafter.............................. %
plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest (including Additional Payments,
if any) to the Redemption Date. On and after the Redemption Date, interest
ceases to accrue on the Securities or portions of them called for redemption.
The Securities are subject to redemption in whole (but not in
part), at any time within 90 days, if a Tax Event (as defined in the
Declaration) shall occur and be continuing, at a redemption price equal to 100%
of the principal amount thereof plus accrued but unpaid interest (including
Additional Payments, if any) to the Redemption Date. On and after the Redemption
Date, interest ceases to accrue on the Securities or portions of them called for
redemption.
Notice of redemption shall be given by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at such Holder's address
appearing in the Security Register. The Securities in denominations larger than
$50 may be redeemed in part but only in integral multiples of $50. In the event
of a redemption of less than all of the Securities, the Securities will be
chosen for redemption by the Trustee in accordance with the Indenture.
If this Security is redeemed subsequent to a Regular Record Date
with respect to any Interest Payment Date specified above and on or prior to
such Interest Payment Date, then any accrued interest will be paid to the person
in whose name this Security is registered at the close of business on such
record date.
(5) Sinking Fund. The Securities are not entitled to the benefit
of any sinking fund.
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(6) Subordination. The payment of the principal of, premium, if
any, and interest (including Additional Payments, if any) on all Securities is
subordinated and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all
existing and future Senior Indebtedness, whether outstanding at the date of this
Indenture or thereafter incurred. Each holder, by accepting a Security, agrees
to such subordination and authorizes and directs the Trustee on its behalf to
take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination so provided and appoints the Trustee as its attorney-in-fact for
such purpose.
"Senior Indebtedness" means in respect of the Company (i) the
principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect of (A) indebtedness of such
obligor for money borrowed and (B) indebtedness evidenced by securities,
debentures, bonds or other similar instruments issued by such obligor, (ii) all
capital lease obligations of such obligor, (iii) all obligations of such obligor
issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all conditional
sale obligations of such obligor and all obligations of such obligor under any
title retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable arising in the
ordinary course of business), (iv) all obligations of such obligor for the
reimbursement of any letter of credit, banker's acceptance, security purchase
facility or similar credit transaction, (v) all obligations of the type referred
to in clauses (i) through (iv) above of other Persons for the payment of which
such obligor is responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, and
(vi) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (v) above of
other Persons secured by any lien on any property or asset of such obligor
(whether or not such obligation is assumed by such obligor), except for (1) any
such indebtedness that is by its terms subordinated to or pari passu with the
Securities and (2) any indebtedness between or among such obligor or its
affiliates, including all other debt securities and guarantees in respect of
those debt securities issued to any other trust, or a trustee of such trust,
partnership, or other entity affiliated with the Company that is, directly or
indirectly, a financing vehicle of the Company (a "Financing Entity") in
connection with the issuance by such Financing Entity of preferred securities or
other securities which rank pari passu with, or junior to, the Preferred
Securities. Such Senior Indebtedness shall continue to be Senior Indebtedness
and entitled to the benefits of the subordination provisions irrespective of any
amendment, modification or waiver of any term of such Senior Indebtedness.
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(7) Conversion. The Holder of any Security has the right,
exercisable at any time on or before 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the
Business Day immediately preceding the date of repayment of such Securities,
whether at maturity or upon redemption (either at the option of the Company or
pursuant to a Tax Event), to convert the principal amount thereof (or any
portion thereof that is an integral multiple of $50) into fully paid and
nonassessable shares of Common Stock of the Company at an initial conversion
rate of [ ] shares of Common Stock for each $50 in aggregate principal amount of
Securities (equal to a conversion price of $[ ] per share of Common Stock),
subject to adjustment under certain circumstances. The number of shares issuable
upon conversion of a Security is determined by dividing the principal amount of
the Security converted by the conversion price in effect on the Conversion Date.
No fractional shares will be issued upon conversion but a cash adjustment will
be made for any fractional interest. The outstanding principal amount of any
Security shall be reduced by the portion of the principal amount thereof
converted into shares of Common Stock.
To convert a Security, a Holder must (i) complete and sign a
conversion notice substantially in the form attached hereto, (ii) surrender the
Security to a Conversion Agent, (iii) furnish appropriate endorsements or
transfer documents if required by the Security Registrar or Conversion Agent and
(iv) pay any transfer or similar tax, if required. If a Notice of Conversion is
delivered on or after the Regular Record Date and prior to the subsequent
Interest Payment Date, the Holder will be entitled to receive the interest
payable on the subsequent Interest Payment Date on the portion of Securities to
be converted notwithstanding the conversion thereof prior to such Interest
Payment Date. Except as otherwise provided in the immediately preceding
sentence, in the case of any Security which is converted, interest whose Stated
Maturity is after the date of conversion of such Security shall not be payable,
and the Company shall not make nor be required to make any other payment,
adjustment or allowance with respect to accrued but unpaid interest (including
Additional Payments, if any) on the Securities being converted, which shall be
deemed to be paid in full. If any Security called for redemption is converted,
any money deposited with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent or so segregated
and held in trust for the redemption of such Security shall (subject to any
right of the Holder of such Security or any Predecessor Security to receive
interest as provided in the last paragraph of Section 307 and this paragraph) be
paid to the Company upon Company
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Request or, if then held by the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.
(8) Registration, Transfer, Exchange and Denominations. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security Register, upon
surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency
of the Company in New York, New York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the
Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities, of authorized
denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities are issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $50 and integral multiples thereof. No service
charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith. Prior to due presentment of
this Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any
agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name this
Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or not this
Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent
shall be affected by notice to the contrary. In the event of redemption or
conversion of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities for the
unredeemed or unconverted portion hereof will be issued in the name of the
Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
(9) Persons Deemed Owners. Except as provided in the Indenture,
the registered Holder of a Security may be treated as its owner for all
purposes.
(10) Unclaimed Money. If money for the payment of principal or
interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall
pay the money back to the Company at its written request. After that, holders of
Securities entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment unless an
abandoned property law designates another Person and all liability of the
Trustee and such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall cease.
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(11) Defaults and Remedies. The Securities shall have the Events
of Default as set forth in Section 501 of the Indenture. Subject to certain
limitations in the Indenture, if an Event of Default occurs and is continuing,
the Trustee by notice to the Company or the holders of at least 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Securities by notice to the Company and
the Trustee may declare all the Securities to be due and payable immediately.
The holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities
then outstanding by written notice to the Trustee may rescind an acceleration
and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or
decree and if all existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except
nonpayment of principal or interest that has become due solely because of the
acceleration. Holders may not enforce the Indenture or the Securities except as
provided in the Indenture. Subject to certain limitations, holders of a majority
in principal amount of the then outstanding Securities issued under the
Indenture may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The
Company must furnish annually compliance certificates to the Trustee. The above
description of Events of Default and remedies is qualified by reference to, and
subject in its entirety by, the more complete description thereof contained in
the Indenture.
(12) Amendments, Supplements and Waivers. The Indenture permits,
with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the
modification of the rights and obligations of the Company and the rights of the
Holders of the Securities under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the
Trustee with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all the Securities, to waive compliance by the Company with certain
provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and
their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security
shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of
this Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such
consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
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(13) Trustee Dealings with the Company. The Trustee, in its
individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of the
Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate with the same
rights it would have, as if it were not Trustee, subject to certain limitations
provided for in the Indenture and in the TIA. Any Agent may do the same with
like rights.
(14) No Recourse Against Others. A director, officer, employee or
stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any
obligations of the Company under the Securities or the Indenture or for any
claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their
creation. Each Holder of the Securities by accepting a Security waives and
releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issue of the Securities.
(15) Governing Law. THE INTERNAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
SHALL GOVERN THE INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF
LAW PROVISIONS THEREOF.
(16) Authentication. The Securities shall not be valid until
authenticated by the manual signature of an authorized officer of the Trustee or
an authenticating agent.
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ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this Security to:
(Insert assignee's social security or tax identification number)
(Insert address and zip code of assignee)
and irrevocably appoints
agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent
may substitute another to act for him or her.
Date: _______________________
__________________________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the
other side of this Security)
Signature Guarantee:* _______________________
* (Signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institu-
tion" that is, a bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association
or credit union meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which
requirements include membership or participation in the Securities
Transfer Agents Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signa-
ture guarantee program" as may be determined by the Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.)
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NOTICE OF CONVERSION
To: Designer Holdings Ltd.
The undersigned owner of this Security hereby irrevocably
exercises the option to convert this Security, or the portion below designated,
into Common Stock (the "Common Stock") of DESIGNER HOLDINGS LTD. (the "Company")
in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, between the Company and IBJ
Xxxxxxxx Bank & Trust Company, as Trustee, and directs that the shares issuable
and deliverable upon conversion, together with any check in payment for
fractional shares, be issued in the name of and delivered to the undersigned,
unless a different name has been indicated in the assignment below. If shares
are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the
undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto.
Date: ________________
Number of Securities to be converted ($50 or integral
multiples thereof): ___________________
If a name or names other than the undersigned, please indicate in the spaces
below the name or names in which the shares of Common Stock are to be issued,
along with the address or addresses of such person or persons.
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the
the Security) (for conversion only)
Please Print or Typewrite Name and Address,
Including Zip Code, and Social Security or
Other Identifying Number.
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
_________________________________________
Signature Guarantee:* ___________________
______________________
* (Signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institu-
tion" that is, a bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association
or credit union meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which
requirements include membership or participation in the Securities
Transfer Agents Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such other "signa-
ture guarantee program" as may be determined by the Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.)
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