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FUISZ TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
INDENTURE
Dated as of October 22, 1997
$86,250,000
7% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2004
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Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to
Sections 310 through 318 of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
Section 310(a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
(a)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(a)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(a)(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
Section 311(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
Section 312(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 701
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702(a)
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702(b)
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 702(c)
Section 313(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703(a)
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703(a)
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703(a)
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703(b)
Section 314(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 704
(a)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1004
(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)(1)(A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
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(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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ARTICLE ONE DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS GENERAL APPLICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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SECTION 102. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
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SECTION 103. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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SECTION 104. ACTS OF HOLDERS; RECORD DATES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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SECTION 105. NOTICES, ETC., TO TRUSTEE AND COMPANY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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SECTION 106. NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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SECTION 107. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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SECTION 108. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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SECTION 109. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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SECTION 110. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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SECTION 111. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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SECTION 112. GOVERNING LAW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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SECTION 113. LEGAL HOLIDAYS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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SECTION 114. NO SECURITY INTEREST CREATED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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SECTION 115. LIMITATION ON INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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ARTICLE TWO SECURITY FORMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 201. FORMS GENERALLY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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SECTION 202. FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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SECTION 203. FORM OF REVERSE OF GLOBAL SECURITIES AND DEFINITIVE SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . 17
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SECTION 204. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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ARTICLE THREE THE SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 301. TITLE AND TERMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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SECTION 302. DENOMINATIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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SECTION 303. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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SECTION 304. TEMPORARY SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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SECTION 305. REGISTRATION, REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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SECTION 306. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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SECTION 307. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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SECTION 308. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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SECTION 309. CANCELLATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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SECTION 310. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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SECTION 311. CUSIP NUMBERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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ARTICLE FOUR SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 401. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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SECTION 402. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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SECTION 403. REINSTATEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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SECTION 404. PAYING AGENT TO REPAY MONIES HELD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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ARTICLE FIVE REMEDIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 501. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
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SECTION 502. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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SECTION 503. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY TRUSTEE. . . . . . . . 47
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SECTION 504. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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SECTION 505. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . . 48
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SECTION 506. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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SECTION 507. LIMITATION ON SUITS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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SECTION 508. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST AND TO
CONVERT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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SECTION 509. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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SECTION 510. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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SECTION 511. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
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SECTION 512. CONTROL BY HOLDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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SECTION 513. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
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SECTION 514. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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ARTICLE SIX THE TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 601. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
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SECTION 602. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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SECTION 603. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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SECTION 604. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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SECTION 605. MAY HOLD SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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SECTION 606. MONEY HELD IN TRUST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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SECTION 607. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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SECTION 608. DISQUALIFICATION; CONFLICTING INTERESTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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SECTION 609. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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SECTION 610. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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SECTION 611. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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SECTION 612. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS. . . . . . . . . . . 58
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SECTION 613. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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SECTION 614. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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ARTICLE SEVEN HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 701. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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SECTION 702. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATION TO HOLDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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SECTION 703. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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SECTION 704. REPORTS BY COMPANY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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SECTION 705. RULE 144A INFORMATION REQUIREMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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ARTICLE EIGHT CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 801. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
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SECTION 802. SUCCESSOR SUBSTITUTED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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ARTICLE NINE SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
SECTION 901. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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SECTION 902. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
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SECTION 903. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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SECTION 904. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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SECTION 905. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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SECTION 906. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
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SECTION 907. NOTICE OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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ARTICLE TEN COVENANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
SECTION 1001. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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SECTION 1002. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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SECTION 1003. MONEY FOR SECURITY PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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SECTION 1004. STATEMENT BY OFFICERS AS TO DEFAULT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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SECTION 1005. EXISTENCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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SECTION 1006. WAIVER OF CERTAIN COVENANTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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ARTICLE ELEVEN REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 1101. RIGHT OF REDEMPTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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SECTION 1102. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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SECTION 1103. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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SECTION 1104. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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SECTION 1105. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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SECTION 1106. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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SECTION 1107. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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SECTION 1108. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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ARTICLE TWELVE SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 1201. SECURITIES SUBORDINATED TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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SECTION 1202. PAYMENT OVER OF PROCEEDS UPON DISSOLUTION, ETC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
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SECTION 1203. PRIOR PAYMENT TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS UPON ACCELERATION OF SECURITIES. . . . . . . 71
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SECTION 1204. NO PAYMENT WHEN SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS IN DEFAULT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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SECTION 1205. PAYMENT PERMITTED IF NO DEFAULT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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SECTION 1206. SUBROGATION TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS. . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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SECTION 1207. PROVISIONS SOLELY TO DEFINE RELATIVE RIGHTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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SECTION 1208. TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE SUBORDINATION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
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SECTION 1209. NO WAIVER OF SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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SECTION 1210. NOTICE TO TRUSTEE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
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SECTION 1211. RELIANCE ON JUDICIAL ORDER OR CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING AGENT. . . . . . . . . . 75
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SECTION 1212. TRUSTEE NOT FIDUCIARY FOR HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS. . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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SECTION 1213. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE AS HOLDER OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS; PRESERVATION OF TRUSTEE'S
RIGHTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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SECTION 1214. ARTICLE APPLICABLE TO PAYING AGENTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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SECTION 1215. CERTAIN CONVERSIONS DEEMED PAYMENT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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SECTION 1216. NO SUSPENSION OF REMEDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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EXHIBIT 4.2
-INDENTURE, dated as of October 22, 1997 between FUISZ TECHNOLOGIES
LTD., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its principal executive offices
at 0000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000 and THE BANK OF NEW
YORK, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (herein called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of its 7%
Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2004 (herein called the "Securities")
of substantially the tenor and amount hereinafter set forth, and to provide
therefor the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture.
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:
ARTICLE ONE
Definitions and Other Provisions
General Application
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, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the
term "generally accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation
required and permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are
generally accepted and accepted and adopted by the Company at the date of this
Indenture;
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(4) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and
other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and
(5) all references to any law, rule or regulation shall
mean such provision, as such may have been amended, and any successor provision
thereto.
Certain terms used in Articles Twelve, Thirteen and Fourteen are
defined in such Articles.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly
or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 614 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities.
The term "Beneficial Owner" is determined in accordance with Rule
13d-3, promulgated by the Commission under the Exchange Act.
"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 each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York
are authorized or obligated to close by law or executive order.
"Cedel" means Cedel Bank societe anonyme.
"Change in Control" has the meaning specified in Section 1406.
"Closing Date" means October 22, 1997.
"Closing Price" has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
"Commencement Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
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"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission as from
time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time
after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and
performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then
the body performing such duties at such time.
"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 Section 1311, 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 Indenture 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 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 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 President
or a Vice President, and by its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which at
any particular time its corporate trust business shall principally be
administered, which office is, at the date as of which this Indenture is dated,
located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 21 West, New York, New York 10286,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration.
"Corporation" means a corporation, association, company, joint-stock
company or business trust.
"Current Market Price" has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
"DTC" has the meaning specified in Section 305.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Definitive Security" or "Definitive Securities" means a Security or
Securities that are in the form of the Security set forth in Sections 202 and
203 hereof, containing the legend specified for a Definitive Security.
"Depositary" has the meaning specified in Section 305.
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"Euroclear" means Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels
office, as operator of the Euroclear System.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Global Security" or "Global Securities" means a Security or
Securities in the form of the Security set forth in Sections 202, 203 and 204
hereof containing the legend specified for a Global Security.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,
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.
"Initial Purchasers" means Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc., Credit Suisse First
Boston Corporation and Xxxxxx Brothers Inc.
"Interest Payment Date" means the Stated Maturity of an installment
of interest on the Securities.
"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 thereof or by declaration of
acceleration, redemption or otherwise.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, 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.
"144A Global Security" has the meaning specified in Section 201.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for or an employee of the Company, and who shall be reasonably
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 canceled by the
Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities, or portions thereof, for the
payment or redemption of
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which moneys in the necessary amount have 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, or portions thereof, 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 which have been paid pursuant to
Section 306 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 as to which a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee has actual knowledge of such ownership 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.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of and premium, if any, or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"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.
"Purchase Agreement" means that certain Purchase Agreement dated
October 17, 1997 between the Company and the Initial Purchasers.
"Record Date" means either a Regular Record Date or a Special Record
Date, as applicable.
"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.
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"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 on the applicable Redemption Date.
"Registration Rights Agreement" means that certain Registration
Rights Agreement dated as of October 17, 1997 between the Company and the
Initial Purchasers.
"Regular Record Date", for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date means the March 31 or September 30 (whether or not a Business
Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
"Regulation S" means Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended.
"Regulation S Global Security" has the meaning specified in Section
201.
"Repurchase Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1401.
"Repurchase Event" has the meaning specified in Section 1406.
"Repurchase Price" has the meaning specified in Section 1401.
"Resale Restriction Termination Date" means, with respect to any
Security, the date which is two years after the later of (i) the original issue
date of such Security and (ii) the last date on which the Company or any
Affiliate of the Company was the owner of such Security (or any Predecessor
Security).
"Responsible Officer" means, when used with respect to the Trustee,
an officer or employee of the Trustee assigned and duly authorized by the
Trustee to administer its corporate trust matters.
"Securities Custodian" means the Trustee, as custodian with respect
to the Securities in global form, or any successor entity thereto.
"Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"Senior Indebtedness" means the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on (a) all indebtedness of the Company for money borrowed, whether
outstanding on the date of execution of the Indenture or thereafter created,
incurred or assumed, except any such other indebtedness that by the terms of
the instrument or instruments by which such indebtedness was created or
incurred expressly provides that it (i) is junior in right of payment to the
Debentures or (ii) ranks pari passu in right of payment with the Debentures,
and (b) any amendments, renewals, extensions, modifications, refinancings and
refundings of the foregoing. For the purposes of this definition,
"indebtedness for money borrowed" when used with respect to the Company means
(i) any obligation of, or any obligation guaranteed by, the Company for the
repayment of borrowed money (including without limitation fees, penalties or
other obligations in respect thereof), whether or not evidenced by bonds,
debentures, notes or other written instruments, (ii) any deferred payment
obligation of, or any such obligation guaranteed by, the Company for the
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payment of the purchase price of property or assets evidenced by a note or
similar instrument, and (iii) any obligation of, or any such obligation
guaranteed by, the Company for the payment of rent or other amounts under a
lease of property or assets which obligation is required to be classified and
accounted for as a capitalized lease on the balance sheet of the Company under
generally accepted accounting principles.
"Shelf Registration Statement" means the Registration Statement with
respect to the Debentures and the Common Stock the Issuer is required to file
pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
"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 of such Security or such installment of
interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the outstanding
voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or by
one or more other Subsidiaries or by the Company and one or more other
Subsidiaries. For the purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock
which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all
times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by
reason of any contingency.
"Termination of Trading" has the meaning specified in Section 1406.
"Trading Day" has the meaning specified in Section 1304.
"Transfer Restricted Securities" means Securities that bear or are
required to bear the legend set forth in Section 305 hereof.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in
force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided, however,
that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such date,
"Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment, the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"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.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company means any
vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added
before or after the title "vice president".
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
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and opinions as may be required under the Trust Indenture Act. Each such
certificate or opinion shall be given in the form of an Officers' Certificate,
if to be given by an officer of the Company, or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be
given by counsel, and shall comply with the requirements of the Trust Indenture
Act and any other 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:
(1) a statement that each individual or firm signing such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in
such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such
individual or such firm, he has or they have made such examination or
investigation as is necessary to enable him or them to express an informed
opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with;
and
(4) statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual or such firm, 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 Person may certify to
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 certification 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 of public officials or upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the
Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in
the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
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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 agents duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments, whether in
their original or facsimile form, 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.
(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 entitled to give or take any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or 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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not
set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply
with respect to, any Act by the Holders pursuant to Section 501, 502 or 512.
(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the
Security Register.
(e) Any 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 therefor 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 action hereunder with regard to any particular
Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of
such Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so
pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any different part of such
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principal amount.
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
Any Act of Holders or other documents provided or permitted by this
Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) 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 Administration, or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Holders and the Company by the
Trustee; or
(2) 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 executive offices specified in the first paragraph of this
instrument or at any other address previously furnished in writing to
the Trustee by the Company.
All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given:
at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; two Business Days after
being deposited in the mail, first class postage prepaid, if mailed; when
receipt acknowledged, if telecopied; and the next Business Day after timely
delivery to the courier, if sent by nationally recognized overnight air courier
guaranteeing next day delivery.
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 made, given, mailed or otherwise furnished or filed in writing to
each Holder affected by such event, at his 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.
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. All such notices and communications shall be deemed
to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally
delivered; two Business Days after being deposited in the mail, first class
postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt acknowledged, if telecopied; and the
next Business Day after timely delivery to the courier, if sent by nationally
recognized overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery.
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.
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SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a
provision of the Trust Indenture Act or another provision that would be
required or deemed under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture if
this Indenture were subject thereto, the latter provision shall control. If
any provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust
Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall
be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the
case may be.
SECTION 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 and the
Trustee shall bind each of their respective 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 Securities and, with respect to priority of payment
as provided in Article Twelve, the holders of Senior Indebtedness, any benefit
or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 112. Governing Law.
This Indenture and, except as may otherwise be required by mandatory
provisions of law, the Securities shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York, but without regard to the
principles of conflicts of laws thereof.
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 and premium if any, or conversion of the
Securities need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next
succeeding 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
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period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated
Maturity, as the case may be, to the next succeeding Business Day.
SECTION 114. No Security Interest Created.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall be construed to constitute a security interest under the Uniform
Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or hereafter enacted and in
effect in any jurisdiction where property of the Company or its Subsidiaries is
or may be located.
SECTION 115. Limitation on Individual Liability.
No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement
contained in this Indenture or in any Security, or for any claim based thereon
or otherwise in respect thereof, shall be had against any incorporator,
shareholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the
Company or any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company,
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, shareholders,
officers or directors, as such, of the Company or any successor Person, 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 Security 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, shareholder, 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 Security 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 Security.
ARTICLE TWO
Security Forms
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.
The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall
be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article, with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks
of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with any organizational document, any applicable law or with
the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities are listed or as
may, consistently herewith, be determined by the Company officers executing
such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.
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The Securities issued in definitive form shall be substantially in
the form set forth in Section 202 hereof.
Unless issued in definitive form, Securities issued and sold in
reliance on Rule 144A shall be issued in the form of one or more global
securities (the "144A Global Security"), the face of which shall be
substantially in the form set forth in Section 202 hereof and the reverse of
which shall be substantially in the form set forth in Section 203 hereof, which
144A Global Security shall be deposited on behalf of the holders of the
Securities represented thereby with the Trustee, as custodian for the
Depositary, and registered in the name of the nominee of the Depositary, duly
executed by the Company and authenticated as provided for herein.
Securities offered and sold outside the United States in reliance on
Regulation S shall be issued in the form of one or more global securities (the
"Regulation S Global Security"), the face of which shall be substantially in
the form set forth in Section 202 hereof and the reverse of which shall be
substantially in the form set forth in Section 203 hereof, which Regulation S
Global Security shall be deposited on behalf of the holders of the Securities
represented thereby with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depositary, and
registered in the name of a nominee of the Depositary, duly executed by the
Company and authenticated as provided herein, for credit to the accounts of the
respective depositaries for Euroclear and Cedel (or such other accounts as they
may direct). Prior to or on the 40th day after the later of the commencement
of the offering of the Securities and the Closing Date (the "Restricted
Period"), beneficial interests in the Regulation S Global Security may only be
held through Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Brussels office, as
operator of Euroclear or Cedel or another agent member of the Euroclear System
and Cedel acting for and on behalf of them, unless delivery is made though the
144A Global Security in accordance with the certification requirements hereof.
During the Restricted Period, interests in the Regulation S Global Security may
be exchanged for interests in the 144A Global Security or for Definitive
Securities only in accordance with the certification requirements described in
Section 305 below.
Each Global Security shall represent such of the outstanding
Securities as shall be specified therein and each shall provide that it shall
represent the aggregate amount of outstanding Securities from time to time
endorsed thereon and that the aggregate amount of outstanding Securities
represented thereby may from time to time be reduced or increased, as
appropriate, to reflect exchanges and redemptions. Any endorsement of a Global
Security to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of
outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the
Securities Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in accordance with
instructions given by the Holder thereof.
The Definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved
or produced by any combination 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 of such
Securities.
SECTION 202. Form of Face of Security.
LEGENDS FOR GLOBAL SECURITY:
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UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES
IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY
THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY
TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR
ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR
DEPOSITARY. UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (55 XXXXX XXXXXX, XXX XXXX, XXX XXXX) ("XXX"),
TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT,
AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER
NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS
MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR 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.
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER
THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD,
ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE
ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT
SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES LAWS.
THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES NOT TO
OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE "RESALE
RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE") WHICH IS TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATER OF THE
ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY
AFFILIATED PERSON OF THE COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY
PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY) UNLESS SUCH OFFER, SALE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS (A)
TO THE COMPANY OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION
STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR
SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A
PERSON WHO IS OR WHO THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT
PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON
RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED
STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (E)
PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE
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REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY'S AND
THE TRUSTEE'S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO
CLAUSES (C), (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL,
CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM, AND IN
EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES PROVIDED THAT A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM
APPEARING ON THIS SECURITY IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE
TRUSTEE AND SUBJECT TO ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS LEGEND WILL
BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE THEN HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AFTER THE
RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.
LEGENDS FOR DEFINITIVE SECURITY:
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER
THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD,
ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE
ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT
SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE
SECURITIES LAWS.
THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES NOT TO
OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE "RESALE
RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE") WHICH IS TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATER OF THE
ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY
AFFILIATED PERSON OF THE COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY
PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY) UNLESS SUCH OFFER, SALE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS (A)
TO THE COMPANY OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION
STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR
SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A
PERSON WHO IS OR WHO THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT
PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON
RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED
STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (E)
PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF
THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY'S AND THE TRUSTEE'S RIGHT PRIOR TO
ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSES (C), (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE
THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION
SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM, AND IN EACH OF THE
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FOREGOING CASES PROVIDED THAT A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING
ON THIS SECURITY IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE TRUSTEE
AND SUBJECT TO ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS LEGEND WILL BE
REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE THEN HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY AFTER THE RESALE
RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.
FUISZ TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
7% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2004
No. ________ $____________
Fuisz Technologies 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 its registered assigns, the principal sum of ________________ Dollars on
October 15, 2004 and to pay interest thereon from the date of initial issuance
of Securities pursuant to the Indenture or from and including the most recent
Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for,
semi-annually on April 15 and October 15 in each year, commencing April 15,
1998 at the rate of 7% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made
available for payment and promises to pay any liquidated damages which may be
payable pursuant to Section 4 of the Registration Rights Agreement on the
Interest Payment Dates. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture,
be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest, which shall be the March 31 or September 30 (whether or not
a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith
cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be
paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee or be paid at
any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said
Indenture. Notice of a Special Record Date shall be given to Holders of
Securities not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Payment of
the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this Security will be
made (i) in respect of Securities held of record by the Depositary or its
nominee in same day funds on or prior to the respective payment dates and (ii)
in respect of Securities held of record by Holders other than the Depositary or
its nominee in same day funds at the office or agency of the Company maintained
for that purpose pursuant to Section 1002 of the Indenture, in each case in
such coin or currency of the United States of America as of 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 in respect of Securities
held of record by Holders other than the Depositary or its nominee may be made
by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address
shall appear in the Security Register.
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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.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
Dated: FUISZ TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
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By
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Attest:
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SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Global Securities and Definitive
Securities.
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of Securities of the
Company designated as its 7% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2004
(herein called the "Securities"), limited in aggregate principal amount to
$86,250,000 (including Securities issuable pursuant to the Initial Purchasers'
over-allotment option, as provided for in the Purchase Agreement dated October
17, 1997 between the Company and the Initial Purchasers), issued and to be
issued under an Indenture, dated as of October 22, 1997 (herein called the
"Indenture"), between the Company and The Bank of New York, 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 Company, the Trustee, the
holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities and of the
terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Indenture,
the Holder of this Security is entitled, at his option, at any time following
the date of initial issuance of Securities pursuant to the Indenture and on or
before the close of business on October 15, 2004, or in case this Security or a
portion hereof is called for redemption, then in respect of this Security or
such portion hereof until and including, but (unless the Company defaults in
making the payment due upon redemption) not after, the close of business on the
second business day preceding the Redemption Date, to convert this Security (or
any portion of the principal amount hereof which is $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof), at the principal amount hereof, or of such portion, into
fully paid and non-assessable shares (calculated as to each conversion to the
nearest 1/100th of a share) of Common Stock at a conversion price equal to
$13.25 principal amount for
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each share of Common Stock (or at the current adjusted conversion price if an
adjustment has been made as provided in the Indenture) by surrender of this
Security, duly endorsed or assigned to the Company or in blank, to the Company
at its office or agency maintained for that purpose pursuant to Section 1002 of
the Indenture, accompanied by written notice to the Company in the form
provided in this Security (or such other notice as is acceptable to the
Company) that the Holder hereof elects to convert this Security, or if less
than the entire principal amount hereof is to be converted, the portion hereof
to be converted, and, in case such surrender shall be made during the period
from the opening of business on any Regular Record Date next preceding any
Interest Payment Date to the close of business on such Interest Payment Date
(unless this Security or the portion thereof being converted has been called
for redemption), also accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company
of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date on the
principal amount of this Security then being converted. Subject to the
aforesaid requirement for payment and, in the case of a conversion after the
Regular Record Date next preceding any Interest Payment Date and on or before
such Interest Payment Date, to the right of the Holder of this Security (or any
Predecessor Security) of record at such Regular Record Date to receive an
installment of interest (with certain exceptions provided in the Indenture), no
payment or adjustment is to be made upon conversion on account of any interest
accrued hereon or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon
conversion. No fractional shares or scrip representing fractions of shares
will be issued on conversion, but instead of any fractional share the Company
shall pay a cash adjustment as provided in the Indenture. The conversion price
is subject to adjustment as provided in the Indenture. In addition, the
Indenture provides that in case of certain consolidations or mergers to which
the Company is a party or the sale or transfer of all or substantially all of
the assets of the Company, a supplemental indenture shall be executed and
delivered to the Trustee, which supplemental indenture shall provide that this
Security, if then outstanding, will be convertible thereafter, during the
period this Security shall be convertible as specified above, only into the
kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon the
consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by a holder of the number of shares of
Common Stock into which this Security might have been converted immediately
prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer (assuming such holder of
Common Stock failed to exercise any rights of election and received per share
the kind and amount received per share by a plurality of non-electing shares).
The Securities are subject to redemption upon not less than 30 and
not more than 60 days' notice by mail, at any time on or after October 19,
2000, as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption
Prices set forth below (expressed as percentages of the principal amount), plus
accrued interest to the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of
record on the relevant Regular Record Date to receive interest due on an
Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Redemption Date).
If redeemed during the 12-month period beginning October 15, in the
year indicated (October 19, in the case of 2000), the redemption price shall
be:
Redemption Redemption
Year Price Year Price
---- ----- ---- -----
2000 104.00% 2002 102.00%
2001 103.00% 2003 101.00%
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In certain circumstances involving the occurrence of a Repurchase
Event (as defined in the Indenture), the Holder hereof shall have the right to
require the Company to repurchase this Security at 100% of the principal amount
hereof, together with accrued interest to the Repurchase Date, but interest
installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Repurchase Date will
be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates
referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.
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.
The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, in all respects,
subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all
Senior Indebtedness, and this Security is issued subject to the provisions of
the Indenture with respect thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by accepting
the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes
and directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary
or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided, and (c) appoints
the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the principal
of all the Securities may be declared due and payable in the manner and with
the effect provided in the Indenture.
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 not
less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the
time Outstanding, and, under certain limited circumstances, by the Company and
the Trustee without the consent of the Holders. 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.
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
premium, if any, 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.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations
therein set forth, the transfer of this Security
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is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Security for
registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in any place
where the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security are
payable, 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 fully registered form without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities
of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering
the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer
or exchange except as provided in the Indenture, and 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, except as provided in this Security, 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.
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 and/or the Registration Rights Agreement.
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[FORM OF CONVERSION NOTICE]
TO FUISZ TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
The undersigned registered owner of this Security hereby irrevocably
exercises the option to convert this Security, or the portion hereof (which is
$1,000 or a multiple thereof) designated below, into shares of Common Stock in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Security, and
directs that the shares issuable and deliverable upon the conversion, together
with any check in payment for a fractional share and any Security representing
any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the
registered owner hereof unless a different name has been provided below. If
this Notice is being delivered on a date after the close of business on a
Regular Record Date and prior to the close of business on the related Interest
Payment Date, this Notice is accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the
Company, of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment
Date on the principal of this Security to be converted (unless this Security
has been called for redemption). If shares or any portion of this Security not
converted 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. Any
amount required to be paid by the undersigned on account of interest
accompanies this Security.
Dated:
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Signature
Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor
institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations
and credit unions with membership in an approved signature
guarantee medallion program) pursuant to S.E.C. Rule 17Ad-15, if
shares of Common Stock are to be delivered, or Securities to be
issued, other than to and in the name of the registered owner.
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Signature Guarantee
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Fill in for registration of shares of Common Stock if they are to
be delivered, or Securities if they are to be issued, other than
to and in the name of the registered owner:
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Signature Guarantee
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(Name)
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(Street Address)
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(City, State and zip code)
(Please print name and address)
Register: _____ Common Stock
_____ Securities
(Check appropriate line(s))
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Principal amount to be converted (if less
than all):
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Social Security or other Taxpayer
Identification Number of owner
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[ASSIGNMENT FORM]
If you the holder want to assign this Security, fill in the form below and have
your signature guaranteed:
I or we assign and transfer this Security to
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(Insert assignee's social security or tax ID number)
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(Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code) and irrevocably appoint
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agent to transfer this Security on the books of the Company. The agent may
substitute another to act for him.
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Date: Your signature:
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(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the face of this
Security)
Signature Guarantee:
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The signature to this assignment should be guaranteed by an
stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit
unions with membership in an approved signature guarantee
medallion program) pursuant to S.E.C. Rule 17Ad-15.
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[FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER
OF SECURITIES]
CERTIFICATE FOR EXCHANGE OR TRANSFER
Re: 7% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2004
This Certificate relates to $_________ principal amount of Securities
held in *____________ book-entry or *____________ definitive form by _________
(the "Transferor").
The Transferor(1):
[] has requested the Trustee by written order to deliver
in exchange for its beneficial interest in a Global Security held by the
Depositary a Security or Securities in definitive, registered form of
authorized denominations and an aggregate principal amount equal to its
beneficial interest in such Global Security (or the portion thereof indicated
above); or
[] has requested the Trustee by written order to deliver
in exchange for its Security or Securities a beneficial interest in a Global
Security held by the Depositary in a principal amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of such Security or Securities; or
[] has requested the Trustee by written order to
exchange or register the transfer of a Security or Securities.
In connection with such request and in respect of each such security,
the Transferor does hereby certify to the Company and the Trustee that
Transferor is familiar with the Indenture relating to the above captioned
Debentures and, as provided in Section 305 of such Indenture, the transfer of
this Security does not require registration under the Securities Act (as
defined below) because*:
[] Such Security is being acquired for the Transferor's
own account, without transfer (in satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(A) or
Section 305(f)(i)(A) of the Indenture).
[] Such Security is being transferred to a "qualified
institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the "Securities Act")) in reliance on Rule 144A or pursuant to an
exemption from registration in accordance with Regulation S under the
Securities Act (in satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(B), Section 305(c)(i),
Section 305(d)(i), Section 305(f)(i)(B), Section 305(g)(iii) or Section
305(h)(iii) of the Indenture). An opinion of counsel to the effect that such
transfer does not require registration under the Securities Act accompanies
this Certificate (in satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(B), Section 305(c)(i),
Section 305(d)(i), Section 305(f)(i)(B), Section 305(g)(iii) or Section
305(h)(iii) of the Indenture).
[] Such Security is being transferred in accordance with
Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act (in satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(B),
Section 305(f)(i)(B) or Section 305(k)(ii) of the Indenture).
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1 Check applicable box.
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If such Security is being transferred in accordance with Rule 144 under the
Securities Act, an opinion of counsel to the effect that such transfer does not
require registration under the Securities Act accompanies this Certificate (in
satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(B), Section 305(f)(i)(B) or Section
305(k)(ii) of the Indenture).
[] Such Security is being transferred in reliance on and
in compliance with an exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act, other than Rule 144A, 144 or Regulation S under the Securities
Act. An opinion of counsel to the effect that such transfer does not require
registration under the Securities Act accompanies this Certificate (in
satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(C) or Section 305(f)(i)(C) of the
Indenture).
[] You are entitled to rely upon this certificate and
you are irrevocably authorized to produce this certificate or a copy hereof to
any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official
inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.
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[INSERT NAME OF TRANSFEROR]
By:
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Date:
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[OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE]
If you wish to have this Security purchased by the Company pursuant
to Section 1401 of the Indenture, check the Box: [ ]
If you wish to have a portion of this Security (which is $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof) purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 1401 of
the Indenture, state the amount you wish to have purchased:
$____________________
Date: Your Signature(s):
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Tax Identification No.:
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Security)
Signature Guarantee:
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The signature to this option of holder to elect purchase
should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution
(banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and
credit unions with membership in an approved signature
guarantee medallion program) pursuant to S.E.C. Rule
17Ad-15.
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SECTION 204. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially
the following form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By
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Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE THREE
The Securities
SECTION 301. Title and Terms.
The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to $86,250,000
(including $11,250,000 aggregate principal amount of Securities that may be
sold to the Initial Purchasers by the Company upon exercise of the
over-allotment option granted pursuant to 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, 1108, 1302 or 1405.
The Securities shall be known and designated as the "7% Convertible
Subordinated Debentures due 2004" of the Company. Their Stated Maturity shall
be October 15, 2004 and they shall bear interest at the rate of 7% per annum,
from the date of initial issuance of Securities pursuant to this Indenture or
from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or
duly provided for, as the case may be, payable semi-annually on April 15 and
October 15, commencing April 15, 1998, until the principal thereof is paid or
made available for payment.
The principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities
shall be payable (i) in respect of Securities held of record by the Depositary
or its nominee in same day funds on or prior to the respective payment dates
and (ii) in respect of Securities held of record by Holders other than the
Depositary or its nominee in same day funds at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for such purpose pursuant to Section 1002; provided,
however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest to Holders of
record other than the Depositary may be made by check mailed to the address of
the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security
Register.
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The Securities shall be subject to the transfer restrictions set forth
in Section 305.
The Securities shall be redeemable as provided in Article Eleven.
The Securities shall be subordinated in right of payment to Senior
Indebtedness as provided in Article Twelve.
The Securities shall be convertible as provided in Article Thirteen.
The Securities shall be subject to repurchase at the option of the
Holder as provided in Article Fourteen.
SECTION 302. Denominations.
The Securities shall be issuable only in fully registered form
without coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple
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 Chief Executive Officer, its President or one of its
Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal or a facsimile thereof 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 either at one time or from time to time pursuant
to such instructions as may be described therein authenticate and deliver such
Securities as in this Indenture provided and not otherwise. Such Company Order
shall specify the amount of Securities to be authenticated and the date on
which the original issue of Securities is to be authenticated, and shall
certify that all conditions precedent to the issuance of such Securities
contained in this Indenture have been complied with. The aggregate principal
amount of Securities Outstanding at any time may not exceed the amount set
forth above except as provided in Section 306.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or
be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
duly 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 and is entitled to
the benefits
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of the Indenture. The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent pursuant to
the terms of Section 614.
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 printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed
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. Every such temporary Security shall be executed
by the Company and shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee upon the
same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect,
as the Definitive Security or Securities in lieu of which it is issued.
Not including Global 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 deliver in exchange
therefor one or more Definitive Securities of a like principal amount 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.
(a) 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 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. At all reasonable
times the Security
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as Securities
Custodian with respect to the Global Security(ies).
(b) With respect to the transfer and exchange of Definitive
Securities, when Definitive Securities are presented to the Security Registrar
with the request (x) to register the transfer of the Definitive Securities or
(y) to exchange such Definitive Securities for an equal principal amount of
Definitive Securities of other authorized denominations, the Security Registrar
shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its
requirements for such transactions are met; provided, however, that the
Definitive Securities presented or surrendered for register of transfer or
exchange:
(i) shall be duly endorsed or accompanied
by a written instruction
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of transfer in form satisfactory to the Security
Registrar duly executed by the Holder thereof or by its
attorney, duly authorized in writing; and
(ii) shall, in the case of Transfer
Restricted Securities that are Definitive Securities, be
accompanied by the following additional information and
documents, as applicable:
(A) if such Transfer Restricted
Security is being delivered to the Security
Registrar by a Holder for registration in the
name of such Holder, without transfer, a
certification from such Holder to that effect
(in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto);
or
(B) if such Transfer Restricted
Security is being transferred to a "qualified
institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A
under the Securities Act) in reliance on Rule
144A under the Securities Act or pursuant to an
exemption from registration in accordance with
Rule 144 or Regulation S under the Securities
Act or pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act, a
certification to that effect (in substantially
the form of Exhibit A hereto) and, in the case
of a transfer in accordance with Rule 144A, Rule
144 or Regulation S under the Securities Act, an
Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the
Company to the effect that such transfer is in
compliance with the Securities Act; or
(C) if such Transfer Restricted
Security is being transferred in reliance on
another exemption from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act, a
certification to that effect (in substantially
the form of Exhibit A hereto) and an Opinion of
Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company to
the effect that such transfer is in compliance
with the Securities Act.
(c) The following restrictions apply to any transfer of a
Definitive Security for a beneficial interest in a 144A Global Security. A
Definitive Security may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest in a 144A
Global Security except until and upon satisfaction of the requirements set forth
below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive Security, duly endorsed or
accompanied by appropriate instruments of transfer, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, together with:
(i) if such Definitive Security is a
Transfer Restricted Security, certification,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, that such
Definitive Security is being transferred to a "qualified
institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act) in accordance with Regulation S and an
Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company
to the effect that such transfer is in compliance with
the Securities Act; and
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(ii) whether or not such Definitive Security
is a Transfer Restricted Security, written instructions
directing the Trustee to make, or to direct the
Securities Custodian to make, an endorsement on the 144A
Global Security to reflect an increase in the aggregate
principal amount of the Securities represented by the
144A Global Security,
then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Security and cause, or direct the
Securities Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and
procedures existing between the Depositary and the Securities Custodian, the
aggregate principal amount of Securities represented by the 144A Global
Security to be increased accordingly. If no 144A Global Securities are then
outstanding, the Company shall execute and, upon receipt of an authentication
order in the form of a Company Order in accordance with Section 303, the
Trustee shall authenticate a new 144A Global Security in the appropriate
principal amount.
(d) The following restrictions apply to any transfer of a
Definitive Security for a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global
Security. A Definitive Security may not be exchanged for a beneficial interest
in a Regulation S Global Security except until and upon satisfaction of the
requirements set forth below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive
Security, duly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instruments of transfer,
in form satisfactory to the Trustee, together with:
(i) if such Definitive Security is a
Transfer Restricted Security, certification,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, that such
Definitive Security is being transferred in accordance
with Regulation S and an Opinion of Counsel reasonably
acceptable to the Company to the effect that such
transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act; and
(ii) whether or not such Definitive Security
is a Transfer Restricted Security, written instructions
directing the Trustee to make, or to direct the
Securities Custodian to make, an endorsement on the
Regulations Global Security to reflect an increase in the
aggregate principal amount of the Securities represented
by the Regulation S Global Security,
then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Security and cause, or direct the
Securities Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and
procedures existing between the Depositary and the Securities Custodian, the
aggregate principal amount of Securities represented by the Regulation S Global
Security to be increased accordingly. If no Regulation S Global Securities are
then outstanding, the Company shall execute and, upon receipt of an
authentication order in the form of a Company Order in accordance with Section
303, the Trustee shall authenticate a new Regulation S Global Security in the
appropriate principal amount.
(e) The transfer and exchange of Global Securities or
beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the Depositary, in
accordance with this Indenture (including the restrictions on transfer set forth
herein) and the procedures of the Depositary therefor.
(f) With respect to the transfer of a beneficial interest in a
144A Global Security or a Regulation S Global Security for a Definitive
Security:
(i) Any person having a beneficial interest
in a 144A Global
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Security or a Regulation S Global Security may upon
request exchange such beneficial interest for a
Definitive Security. Upon receipt by the Trustee of
written instructions or such other form of instructions
as is customary for the Depositary or its nominee on
behalf of any person having a beneficial interest in a
144A Global Security or a Regulation S Global Security
constituting a Transfer Restricted Security only, and
receipt by the Trustee of the following additional
information and documents (all of which may be submitted
by facsimile):
(A) if such beneficial interest is
being transferred to the person designated by
the Depositary as being the beneficial owner, a
certification from such person to that effect
(in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto);
or
(B) if such beneficial interest is
being transferred to a "qualified institutional
buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A
under the Securities Act or pursuant to an
exemption from registration in accordance with
Rule 144 or Regulation S under the Securities
Act or pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act, a
certification to that effect from the transferor
(in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto)
and, in the case of a transfer in accordance
with Rule 144A, Rule 144 or Regulation S under
the Securities Act, an Opinion of Counsel
reasonably acceptable to the Company to the
effect that such transfer is in compliance with
the Securities Act; or
(C) if such beneficial interest is
being transferred in reliance on another
exemption from the registration requirements of
the Securities Act, a certification to that
effect from the transferee or transferor (in
substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto) and
an Opinion of Counsel from the transferee or
transferor reasonably acceptable to the Company
to the effect that such transfer is in
compliance with the Securities Act, then the
Trustee or the Securities Custodian, at the
direction of the Trustee, will cause, in
accordance with the standing instructions and
procedures existing between the Depositary and
the Securities Custodian, the aggregate
principal amount of the Global Security to be
reduced and, following such reduction, the
Company will execute and, upon receipt of an
authentication order in the form of a Company
Order in accordance with Section 303, the
Trustee will authenticate and deliver to the
transferee a Definitive Security.
(ii) Definitive Securities issued in exchange for a
beneficial interest in a 144A Global Security or a
Regulation S Global Security pursuant to this Section 305
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
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shall deliver such Definitive Securities to the persons in
whose names such Securities are so registered.
(g) With respect to the transfer of a beneficial interest in a
Regulation S Global Security for a beneficial interest in a 144A Global
Security, any person having a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global
Security may upon request exchange such beneficial interest for an interest in a
144A Global Security. Upon receipt by the Trustee of written instructions or
such other form of instructions as is customary for the Depositary or its
nominee on behalf of any person having a beneficial interest in a Regulation S
Global Security constituting a Transfer Restricted Security only, and receipt by
the Trustee of the following additional information and documents (all of which
may be submitted by facsimile):
(i) instructions given in accordance with
the procedures of Euroclear or Cedel, the Depositary and
the Securities Custodian, as the case may be, from or on
behalf of a beneficial owner of an interest in the
Regulations S Global Security directing the Trustee, as
transfer agent, to credit or cause to be credited a
beneficial interest in the 144A Global Security in an
amount equal to the beneficial interest in the Regulation
S Global Security to be exchanged or transferred,
(ii) a written order given in accordance with
the procedures of Euroclear or Cedel, the Depositary and
the Securities Custodian, as the case may be, containing
information regarding the account with the Depositary to
be credited with such increase and the name of such
account, and
(iii) a certification from the transferor (in
substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto) to the effect
that such beneficial interest is being transferred to a
"qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A
under the Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A
under the Securities Act and an Opinion of Counsel
reasonably acceptable to the Company to the effect that
such transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act,
then the Trustee, as transfer agent, shall promptly deliver appropriate
instructions to the Depositary, its nominee, or the custodian for the
Depositary, as the case may be, to reduce or reflect on its records a reduction
of the Regulation S Global Security by the aggregate principal amount of the
beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global Security to be exchanged or
transferred, and the Trustee, as transfer agent, shall promptly deliver
appropriate instructions to the Depositary, its nominee, or the custodian for
the Depositary, as the case may be, concurrently with such reduction, increase
or reflect on its records an increase of the principal amount of the 144A
Global Security by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in
the Regulation S Global Security to be so exchanged or transferred, and to
credit or cause to be credited to the account of the person specified in such
instructions a beneficial interest in the 144A Global Security equal to the
reduction in the principal amount of the Regulation S Global Security.
(h) With respect to the transfer of a beneficial interest in a
144A Global Security for a beneficial interest in a Regulation S Global
Security, any person having a beneficial interest
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in a 144A Global Security may upon request exchange such beneficial interest
for an interest in a Regulation S Global Security. Upon receipt by the Trustee
of written instructions or such other form of instructions as is customary for
the Depositary or its nominee on behalf of any person having a beneficial
interest in a 144A Global Security constituting a Transfer Restricted Security
only, and receipt by the Trustee of the following additional information and
documents (all of which may be submitted by facsimile):
(i) instructions given in accordance with
the procedures of the Depositary and the Securities
Custodian, as the case may be, from or on behalf of a
holder of a beneficial interest in the 144A Global
Security, directing the Trustee, as transfer agent, to
credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in
the Regulation S Global Security in an amount equal to
the beneficial interest in the 144A Global Security to be
exchanged or transferred,
(ii) a written order given in accordance with
the procedures of the Depositary and the Securities
Custodian, as the case may be, containing information
regarding the Euroclear or Cedel account to be credited
with such increase and the name of such account, and
(iii) a certification from the transferor (in
substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto) to the effect
that such beneficial interest is being transferred in
accordance with Regulation S and an Opinion of Counsel
reasonably acceptable to the Company to the effect that
such transfer is in compliance with the Securities Act,
then the Trustee, as transfer agent, shall promptly deliver appropriate
instructions to the Depositary, its nominee, or the custodian for the
Depositary, as the case may be, to reduce or reflect on its records a reduction
of the 144A Global Security by the aggregate principal amount of the beneficial
interest in such 144A Global Security to be so exchanged or transferred from
the relevant participant, and the Trustee, as transfer agent, shall promptly
deliver appropriate instructions to the Depositary, its nominee, or the
custodian for the Depositary, as the case may be, concurrently with such
reduction, to increase or reflect on its records an increase of the principal
amount of such Regulation S Global Security by the aggregate principal amount
of the beneficial interest in such 144A Global Security to be so exchanged or
transferred, and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the person
specified in such instructions (who shall be Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of
New York, Brussels office, as operator of Euroclear or Cedel or another agent
member of Euroclear or Cedel, or both, as the case may be, acting for and on
behalf of them) a beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global Security
equal to the reduction in the principal amount of such 144A Global Security.
(i) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture
(other than the provisions set forth in subsection (j) of this Section 305), a
Global Security may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a
nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary
or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee
to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.
(j) The following relates to the authentication of Definitive
Securities in absence
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of the Depositary. If at any time: (i) the Depositary for the Securities
notifies the Company that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as
Depositary for the Global Securities and a successor Depositary for the Global
Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after delivery of
such notice; or (ii) the Company, at its sole discretion, notifies the Trustee
in writing that it elects to cause the issuance of Definitive Securities under
this Indenture, then the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of
a Company Order in accordance with Section 303 requesting the authentication
and delivery of Definitive Securities, will authenticate and deliver Definitive
Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of
the Global Securities, in exchange for such Global Securities.
(k) (i) Except as permitted by the following paragraph
(ii), each Security certificate evidencing the Global Securities and the
Definitive Securities (and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or
substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES
LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION
HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED,
ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH
REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT
SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND ANY
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.
THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF AGREES NOT
TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY PRIOR TO THE
DATE (THE "RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE") WHICH IS TWO
YEARS AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE
LAST DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATED PERSON OF THE
COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF
SUCH SECURITY) UNLESS SUCH OFFER, SALE OR OTHER TRANSFER IS (A)
TO THE COMPANY OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES, (B) PURSUANT TO A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE SECURITIES ARE
ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, TO A PERSON WHO IS OR
WHO THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT
PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS
BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND
SALES THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF
REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (E) PURSUANT
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TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS
OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY'S AND THE TRUSTEE'S
RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO
CLAUSES (C), (D) OR (E) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF
COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO
EACH OF THEM, AND IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES PROVIDED THAT A
CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THIS SECURITY IS
COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO THE TRUSTEE AND
SUBJECT TO ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS LEGEND
WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE THEN HOLDER OF THIS
SECURITY AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.
(ii) Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer
Restricted Security (including any Transfer Restricted
Security represented by a Global Security) pursuant to
Rule 144 under the Securities Act or an effective
registration statement under the Securities Act
(including the Shelf Registration Statement) or on or
after the Resale Restriction Termination Date:
(A) in the case of any Transfer
Restricted Security that is a Definitive
Security, the Security Registrar shall permit
the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer
Restricted Security for a Definitive Security
that does not bear the legend set forth above
and rescind any restriction on the transfer of
such Transfer Restricted Security; provided,
however, that with respect to a transfer made in
reliance upon Rule 144 or an effective
registration statement, the Holders thereof
shall certify in writing to the Security
Registrar that such request is being made
pursuant to Rule 144 or an effective
registration statement (such Certification to be
substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto)
and, in the case of a transfer made in reliance
upon Rule 144, shall be accompanied by an
Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the
Company to the effect that such transfer is in
compliance with the Securities Act; and
(B) any such Transfer Restricted
Security represented by a Global Security shall
not be subject to the provisions set forth in
(i) above (such sales or transfers being subject
only to the provisions of Section 305(e)
hereof); provided, however, that with respect to
any request for an exchange of a Transfer
Restricted Security that is represented by a
Global Security for a Definitive Security that
does not bear a legend, which request is made in
reliance upon Rule 144 or an effective
registration statement, the Holder thereof shall
certify in writing to the Security Registrar
that such request is being made pursuant to Rule
144 or an effective registration statement (such
certification to be substantially in the form of
Exhibit A hereto) and,
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in the case of a transfer made in reliance upon
Rule 144, shall be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Company to
the effect that such transfer is in compliance
with the Securities Act.
(l) At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global
Security have either been exchanged for Definitive Securities, redeemed,
repurchased or cancelled, such Global Security shall be returned to or retained
and cancelled by the Trustee. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any
beneficial interest in a Global Security is exchanged for Definitive
Securities, redeemed, repurchased or cancelled, the principal amount of
Securities represented by such Global Security shall be reduced and an
endorsement shall be made on such Global Security, by the Trustee or the
Securities Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such
reduction.
(m) All Definitive Securities and Global Securities issued
upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Definitive Securities or
Global Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the
same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the
Definitive Securities or Global Securities surrendered upon such registration
of transfer or exchange.
(n) To the extent requested by the Trustee, all Securities the
transfer, exchange and/or registration of which is effectuated pursuant to this
Section 305 shall be accompanied by an Officers' Certificate of the Company,
certifying that such transfer, exchange and/or registration is authorized by
the Company and permitted hereunder.
To permit registrations of transfer and exchanges, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Securities and Global
Securities at the Security Registrar's request.
No service charge to a Holder shall be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Securities except as provided in Section 306. 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, 1108 or 1302 not involving any transfer.
The Company or the Security Registrar shall not be required (i) to
issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security during a period
beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the mailing of a
notice of redemption of Securities selected for redemption under Section 1104
and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing or (ii) to
register the transfer of or exchange any Definitive Security or beneficial
interest in any Global Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part,
except the unredeemed portion of any Definitive Security being redeemed in
part.
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.
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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. The Trustee may charge the Company
for the Trustee's expenses in replacing such Security.
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.
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 the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest. Payment
of interest will be made (i) in respect of Securities held by the Depositary or
its nominee, in same day funds on or prior to the respective Interest Payment
Dates and (ii) in respect of Securities held of record by Holders other than
the Depositary or its nominee, in same day funds at the office of the Trustee
in New York, New York or at such other office or agency of the Company as it
shall maintain for that purpose pursuant to Section 1002, provided, however,
that, at the option of the Company, interest on any Security held of record by
Holders other than the Depositary or its nominee may be paid by mailing checks
to the addresses of the Holders thereof as such addresses appear in the
Securities Register.
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 (1) or (2) below:
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(1) 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 the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be
fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing
of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security and
the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount
proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of
the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause
provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest 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 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 the close of
business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to
the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted
Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and 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, such
manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, 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, 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 the close of business on such Regular Record Date provided,
however, that Securities so surrendered for conversion shall (except in the
case of Securities or portions thereof called for redemption) be accompanied by
payment in funds acceptable to the Company of an amount equal to the interest
payable on such Interest Payment Date on the principal amount being surrendered
for conversion. Except as otherwise expressly 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.
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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 premium, if
any, and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 309. Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer, exchange or conversion shall, if surrendered to any Person other than
the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly canceled 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 canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided
in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled
Securities held by the Trustee shall be returned to the Company.
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest.
Interest on the Securities shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
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. The Company will
promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the "CUSIP" numbers.
ARTICLE FOUR
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as
expressly provided for in this Article Four), and the Trustee, upon Company
Request at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
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(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated
and delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or
paid as provided in Section 306 and (ii) Securities for
whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in
trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and
thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such
trust, as provided in Section 1003) have been delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at
their Stated Maturity within one year, or
(iii) are to be called for redemption
within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the
Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
or
(iv) are delivered to the Trustee
for Conversion in accordance with Article Thirteen,
and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv)
above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for
the purpose an amount in cash sufficient (without
consideration of any investment of such cash) to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for
principal and premium, if any, and interest 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, as the case may be; provided that the
Trustee shall have been irrevocably instructed to apply
such amount to said payments with respect to the
Securities;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other
sums payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
following rights or obligations under the Securities and this Indenture shall
survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) Article
Thirteen, Article Fourteen and the Company's obligations under Sections 304,
305, 306, 1002 and 1003, in each case with respect to any
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Securities described in subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, (b) this
Article Four, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder, including the obligations of the Company to the Trustee
under Section 607, and the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating
Agent under Section 614 and (d) if money shall have been deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this Section, the rights of
Holders of any Securities described in subclause (B) of Clause (1) of this
Section to receive, solely from the trust fund described in such subclause (B),
payments in respect of the principal of, and premium (if any) and interest on,
such Securities when such payment are due.
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 1003 and
Section 506, 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
premium, if any, 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.
SECTION 403. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any money in
accordance with this Article Four by reason of any order or judgment of any
court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting
such application, then the Company's obligations under this Indenture and the
Securities shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred
pursuant to this Article Four until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is
permitted to apply all money held in trust with respect to the Securities;
provided, however, that if the Company makes any payment of principal of or any
premium or interest on any Security following the reinstatement of its
obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of
the Securities to receive such payment from the money so held in trust.
SECTION 404. Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held.
Upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, all monies
then held by any Paying Agent for the Securities (other than the Trustee)
shall, upon written request of the Company, be repaid to the Company or paid to
the Trustee, and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such monies.
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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 (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);
(1) default in the payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, on any Security at its Maturity, whether or not
such payment is prohibited by the provisions of Article Twelve;
or
(2) default in the payment of any interest upon any
Security when it becomes due and payable, whether or not such
payment is prohibited by the provisions of Article Twelve, and
continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
(3) failure to provide timely notice of a Repurchase
Event as required in accordance with the provisions of Article
Fourteen; or
(4) default in the payment of the Repurchase Price
in respect of any Security on the Repurchase Date therefor in
accordance with the provisions of Article Fourteen, whether or
not such payment is prohibited by the provisions of Article
Twelve; or
(5) default in the performance, or breach, of any
covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than
a covenant or warranty a default in whose performance or whose
breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), and
continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days
after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by
the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities a written notice specifying such default
or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(6) default under one or more bonds, debentures,
notes or other evidences of indebtedness for money borrowed by
the Company or any Subsidiary or under one or more mortgages,
indentures or instruments under which there may be issued or by
which there may be secured or evidenced any indebtedness for
money borrowed by the Company or any Subsidiary, whether such
indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, which
default individually or in the aggregate shall constitute a
failure to pay the principal of indebtedness in excess of
$5,000,000 when due and
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payable after the expiration of any applicable grace period with
respect thereto or shall have resulted in indebtedness in excess
of $5,000,000 becoming or being declared due and payable prior to
the date on which it would otherwise have become due and payable,
without such indebtedness having been discharged, or such
acceleration having been rescinded or annulled, within a period
of 30 days after there shall have been given, by registered or
certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company
and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities a written notice specifying
such default and requiring the Company to cause such indebtedness
to be discharged or cause such acceleration to be rescinded or
annulled and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder; or
(7) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the
premises of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the
Company or any Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding
under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law or (B) a decree or order
adjudging the Company or any Subsidiary a bankrupt or insolvent,
or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the
Company or any Subsidiary under any applicable Federal or State
law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or
any Subsidiary or of any substantial part of its property, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the
continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such
other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 90
consecutive days; or
(8) the commencement by the Company or any
Subsidiary 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 it to the entry of a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any
Subsidiary 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 it, or the
filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking
reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or State
law, or the consent by it 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 any Subsidiary or of any substantial
part of its property, or the making by it of a general assignment
for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing
of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due,
or the taking of corporate action by the Company or any
Subsidiary in furtherance of any such action.
Upon receipt by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of any Notice of Default
pursuant to this Section 501, a record date shall automatically and without any
other action by any Person be set for the purpose of determining the Holders of
Outstanding Securities entitled to join in such Notice of Default, which record
date shall be the close of business on the day the Trustee receives such Notice
of Default. The Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date (or
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their duly appointed agents), and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join
in such Notice of Default, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after
such record date; provided, that unless such Notice of Default shall have
become effective by virtue of the Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities on such record date (or their duly appointed agents)
having joined therein on or prior to the 90th day after such record date, such
Notice of Default shall automatically and without any action by any Person be
canceled and of no further force or effect.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default (other than as specified in subparagraph (7)
or (8) of Section 501) 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 to be
due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the
Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal plus
any interest accrued on the securities to the date of declaration shall become
immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in subparagraph
(7) or (8) of Section 501 occurs and is continuing, then the principal of,
premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all of the
Securities shall ipso facto become and be immediately due and payable without
any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Holder of
Securities.
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 hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a
majority in 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
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a
sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities,
(B) the principal of and premium, if any, on any
Securities which have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate
borne by the Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest
is lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate borne by
the Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee and
each predecessor Trustee, their respective agents and counsel
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee, their respective agents and counsel;
and
(2) all Events of Default, other than the nonpayment of
the principal of,
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premium, if any, and interest on the Securities that has become due solely by
such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 513.
No such rescission and waiver shall affect any subsequent default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any declaration of acceleration, or
any rescission and annulment of any such declaration, pursuant to this Section
502, a record date shall automatically and without any other action by any
Person be set for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding
Securities entitled to join in such declaration, or rescission and annulment,
as the case may be, which record date shall be the close of business on the day
the Trustee receives such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case
may be. The Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date (or their
duly appointed agents), and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in
such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, whether or
not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that unless
such declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have
become effective by virtue of Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities on such record date (or their duly appointed agents)
having joined therein on or prior to the 90th day after such record date, such
declaration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall
automatically and without any action by any Person be canceled and of no
further force or effect.
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee.
The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any
interest on any Security when such interest becomes due and
payable and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the
principal of or premium, if any, on 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 premium, if any, and interest, and, to the extent
that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any
overdue principal and premium, if any, and on any overdue interest, 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
and each predecessor Trustee, their respective agents and counsel, and any
other amounts due the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee under Section 607.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute
a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid and may
prosecute any such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce the
same against the Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) and collect
the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner
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provided by law out of the property of the Company (or any other obligor upon
the Securities), wherever situated.
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 the 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 and
each predecessor Trustee for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and
their respective agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee
under Section 607.
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; provided,
however, that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election
of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and may be a member of the
Creditors' Committee.
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 and each predecessor
Trustee and their respective agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of
the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been
recovered.
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SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.
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 premium,
if any, or interest, 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 payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
Section 607;
SECOND: Subject to Article Twelve, to the holders of
Senior Indebtedness;
THIRD: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid
for principal of and premium, if any, and interest 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 premium, if any, and interest,
respectively; and
FOURTH: The balance, if any, to the Company or any other
Person or Persons determined to be entitled thereto upon
provision of an Officer's Certificate or other evidence
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee by the Company or such
other person verifying such entitlement.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.
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
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to
the Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in 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;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
reasonable indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses
and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such
notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any
such proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request
has been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities;
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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, Premium
and Interest and to 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 premium, if any, and (subject to
Section 307) interest on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities
expressed in such Security (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption
Date or, in the case of a repurchase pursuant to Article Fourteen, on the
Repurchase 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 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
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule
of law or with this Indenture; and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper
by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(3) subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee
shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the
Trustee in good faith shall determine that the action so directed
would involve the Trustee in personal liability or would be unduly
prejudicial to Holders not joining in such direction.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any such direction, a record date
shall automatically and without any other action by any Person be set for the
purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to join
in such direction, which record date shall be the close of business on the day
the Trustee receives such direction. The Holders of Outstanding Securities on
such record date (or their duly appointed agents), and only such Persons, shall
be entitled to join in such direction, whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date; provided, that unless such direction shall have
become effective by virtue of Holders of the requisite principal amount of
Outstanding Securities on such record date (or their duly appointed agents)
having joined therein on or prior to the 90th day after such record date, such
direction shall automatically and without any action by any Person be canceled
and of no further force or effect.
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
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
(1) in the payment of the principal of or premium, if
any, or interest on any Security, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which
under Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent
of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected.
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, in any suit instituted by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder pursuant to
Section 508, or a suit by a Holder or Holders of more than 10% in principal
amount of the outstanding Securities.
ARTICLE SIX
The Trustee
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as provided
by this Indenture and the Trust Indenture Act for securities issued pursuant to
indentures qualified thereunder. Except as otherwise provided herein,
notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability or risk in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds
for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity satisfactory
to it 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. The Trustee
shall not be liable (x) for any error of judgment made in good faith by a
Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be
proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts or
(y) with respect to any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith
in accordance with the direction of the holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding relating
to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding or any remedy
available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the
Trustee, under this Indenture. Prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default
and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have
occurred: (i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Indenture and in the Trust Indenture
Act, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such
duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and in
the Trust Indenture Act, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read
in to this Indenture against the Trustee; and (ii) in the absence of bad faith
on the part of the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth
of the statements and the correctness of the opinions therein, upon any
statements, certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to
the requirements of this Indenture and believed by the Trustee to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties; but in the
case of any such statements, certificates or options which by any provisions
hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee
shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they
conform on their face to the
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requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the
accuracy of mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein). If a
default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee
shall exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the
same degree of care and skill in its exercise thereof as a prudent person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.
The Trustee shall give the Holders notice of any default hereunder of
which it has actual knowledge 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(5), no such notice to Holders shall be given
until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this
Section, the term "default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse
of time or both would become, an Event of Default.
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively 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, whether in its original or facsimile
form, 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 conclusively upon an Officers'
Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel
and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full
and complete authorization and protection 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 satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction;
(f) before the Trustee acts or refrains
from acting with respect to any matter contemplated by this Indenture, it may
require an Officers' Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel, which shall conform
to the provisions of Section 102, and the Trustee shall be protected and shall
not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith and
without gross
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negligence in reliance on such certificate or opinion;
(g) the Trustee shall not be required to
give any bond or surety in respect of the performance of its power and duties
hereunder;
(h) 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 make such further inquiry
or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records and
premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney; and
(i) 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.
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee and any Authenticating Agent assume 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 and any Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 605. May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, 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, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent,
Security Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust hereunder need
not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The
Trustee or any Paying Agent shall be under no liability for interest on any
money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder (including its services
as Security Registrar or Paying Agent, if
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so appointed by the Company) as may be mutually agreed upon in writing by the
Company and the Trustee (which compensation shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on
behalf of it in connection with the performance of its duties under any
provision of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the
expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel and all other persons not
regularly in its employ) except to the extent any such expense, disbursement or
advance may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee
(each an "indemnitee") for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss,
liability, claim, damage or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on
its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration
of this Indenture or the trusts hereunder and its duties hereunder (including
its services as Security Registrar or Paying Agent, if so appointed by the
Company), including enforcement of this Section 607 and including the costs and
expenses of defending itself against or investigating any claim or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties
hereunder. The Company shall defend any claim or threatened claim asserted
against an indemnitee for which it may seek indemnity, and the indemnitee shall
cooperate in the defense unless, in the reasonable opinion of the indemnitee's
counsel, the indemnitee has an interest adverse to the Issuer or a potential
conflict of interest exists between the indemnitee and the Company, in which
case the indemnitee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the
reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel; provided that the Company shall
only be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of one law firm (in
addition to local counsel) in any one action or separate substantially similar
actions in the same jurisdiction arising out of the same general allegations or
circumstances, such law firm to be designated by the indemnitee.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company
under this Section 607, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities
upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such, except
funds held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Securities,
and the Securities are hereby subordinated to such prior lien. The obligations
of the Company under this Section to compensate and indemnify the Trustee and
any predecessor Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and any predecessor
Trustee for expenses, disbursements and advances, and any other amounts due the
Trustee or any predecessor Trustee under Section 607, shall constitute an
additional obligation hereunder and shall survive the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture.
When the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee incurs expenses or
renders services in connection with the performance of its obligations
hereunder (including its services as Security Registrar or Paying Agent, if so
appointed by the Company) after an Event of Default specified in Section 501(7)
or (8) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended
to constitute expenses of administration under any applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar federal or state law to the extent provided in
Section 503(b)(5) of Title 11 of the United States Code, as now or hereafter in
effect.
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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.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
Person that (i) is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such,
(ii) has (or, in the case of a corporation included in a bank holding company
system, whose related bank holding company has) a combined capital and surplus
of at least $50,000,000 and (iii) has an office where it provides corporate
trust services, or at which it is authorized to receive notices hereunder, in
the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, or a designated agent. If such
Person publishes reports of conditions at least annually, pursuant to law or to
the requirements of a Federal or state 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 in
accordance with the applicable requirements of 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 required by Section 611 shall not have been delivered to the resigning
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 an Act of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
delivered to the Trustee and to the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(1) 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 fide Holder of a Security for the
last six months, or
(2) 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
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(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting
or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of
the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any
public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or
of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation,
conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, or (ii) 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 and such successor Trustee shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 611. 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 in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 611
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 required by
Section 611, 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 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; but, 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 for more
fully and certainly vesting in and confirming 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.
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SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with 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 Securities 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).
SECTION 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents acceptable
to and at the expense of the Company which shall be authorized to act on behalf
of the Trustee to authenticate Securities issued upon original issue and upon
exchange, registration of transfer, partial conversion or partial redemption or
pursuant to Section 306, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all
purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is
made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the
Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be
deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and shall at all times be a Person organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State
thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as
Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at
least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined
capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to
be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such
Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
specified in this Section.
Any Person into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from
any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to
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the corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent,
shall continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such Person shall be
otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any
paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice
thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a
notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail notice of such
appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders as their names
and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any successor Authenticating
Agent upon acceptance of its appointment under this Section shall become vested
with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like
effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor
Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible to act as such under
the provisions of this Section.
Any Authenticating Agent by the acceptance of its appointment shall
be deemed to have represented to the Trustee that it is eligible for
appointment as Authenticating Agent under this Section and to have agreed with
the Trustee that: it will perform and carry out the duties of an
Authenticating Agent as herein set forth, including among other things the
duties to authenticate Securities when presented to it in connection with the
original issuance and with exchanges, registrations of transfer or redemptions
or conversions thereof or pursuant to Section 306; it will keep and maintain,
and furnish to the Trustee from time to time as requested by the Trustee,
appropriate records of all transactions carried out by it as Authenticating
Agent and will furnish the Trustee such other information and reports as the
Trustee may reasonably require; and it will notify the Trustee promptly if it
shall cease to be eligible to act as Authenticating Agent in accordance with
the provisions of this Section. Any Authenticating Agent by the acceptance of
its appointment shall be deemed to have agreed with the Trustee to indemnify
the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense incurred by the Trustee and
to defend any claim asserted against the Trustee by reason of any acts or
failures to act of such Authenticating Agent, but such Authenticating Agent
shall have no liability for any action taken by it in accordance with the
specific written direction of the Trustee.
The Trustee shall not be liable for any act or any failure of the
Authenticating Agent to perform any duty either required herein or authorized
herein to be performed by such person in accordance with this Indenture.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section.
If an appointment is made pursuant to this Section, the Securities
may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following
form:
This is one of the Securities described in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
As Trustee
By
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As Authenticating Agent
By
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Authorized Signatory
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) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each Regular
Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the
names and addresses of the Holders as of such Regular Record Date, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time
such list is furnished.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the Trustee is the Security
Registrar, no such list shall be required to be furnished.
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communication 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 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 or otherwise in accordance with this
Indenture.
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SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) Not later than 60 days following each May 15, the Trustee
shall transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions
under this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at
the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) 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.
SECTION 705. Rule 144A Information Requirement.
If at any time prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date the
Company is no longer subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the
Securities are not eligible for resale pursuant to Rule 144(k), the Company
will furnish to the Holders or beneficial holders of the Securities and
prospective purchasers of the Securities designated by the Holders of the
Securities, upon their request, information required to be delivered pursuant
to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act until the earlier of (i) the date
on which the Securities and the underlying Common Stock are registered under
the Securities Act or (ii) the Resale Restriction Termination Date.
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 into any other Person
or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, and the Company shall not permit any Person to
consolidate with or merge into the Company, unless:
(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into
another Person or convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its
properties and assets to any Person, the Person formed by such consolidation or
into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires by conveyance or
transfer, or which leases, all or substantially all of the properties and
assets of the Company shall be a corporation, partnership or trust, shall be
organized and validly
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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 (which shall not require consent of the Holders), executed
and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest 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 Section 1311;
(2) immediately after giving effect to 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;
(3) such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or
lease does not adversely affect the validity or enforceability of the
Securities; and
(4) the Company or the successor Person 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.
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 of the properties and assets of the Company 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, except
in the case of a transfer by lease, the predecessor Person shall be relieved of
all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
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 provisions hereunder, at any time and from time to
time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to cause this Indenture to be qualified under the
Trust Indenture Act; or
(2) to evidence the succession of another Person to the
Company and the
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assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in
the Securities; or
(3) to add to the covenants of the Company for the
benefit of the Holders or an additional Event of Default, or to surrender any
right or power conferred herein or in the Securities upon the Company; or
(4) to secure the Securities; or
(5) to make provision with respect to the conversion
rights of Holders pursuant to the requirements of Section 1311; or
(6) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of
appointment hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities; or
(7) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein or in the Securities which may be defective or inconsistent
with any other provision herein or in the Securities, 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 (7) shall not adversely
affect the interests of the Holders in any material respect and the Trustee may
rely upon an opinion of counsel to that effect.
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,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or
any installment of interest on, any Security, or reduce the principal amount
thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable upon the
redemption thereof, or change the place of payment where, or the coin or
currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest thereon is payable,
or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment
on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, 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(5)), or modify the provisions of Article Fourteen, or the provisions of
this Indenture with respect to the subordination of the Securities, in a manner
adverse to the Holders, or
(2) 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
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section
513 or Section 1006,
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except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other
provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent
of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby; provided, however,
that this Clause shall not be deemed to require the consent of any Holder with
respect to changes in the references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes
in this Section and Section 1006, or the deletion of this proviso, in
accordance with the requirements of Section 901(6).
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.
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 Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution
of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture.
The Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such
supplemental indenture which adversely affects the Trustee's own rights, duties
or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
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.
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 Company, bear a notation in form approved by the Company as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so
determine, new Securities so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the
Company and (at the specific direction of the Company) authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.
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SECTION 907. Notice of Supplemental Indenture.
Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 902, the Company shall transmit to
the Holders a notice setting forth the substance of such supplemental
indenture.
ARTICLE TEN
Covenants
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of and
premium, if any, and interest on the Securities in accordance with the terms of
the Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in New York, New York an office or agency
where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities
may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities may be
surrendered for exchange or conversion 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 any 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 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 New
York, New York 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 and premium, if any, 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 and
premium, if any, or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to
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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,
on or prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on each due date of the
principal of and premium, if any, or interest on any Securities, deposit with a
Paying Agent a sum in same day funds sufficient to pay the principal and any
premium and interest so becoming due, such sum to be held as provided by the
Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying 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 or
the Company 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 and this Indenture applicable to it as a Paying Agent and
hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of or any premium or
interest on the Securities in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of
as herein provided; (ii) give the Trustee written notice of any default by the
Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any payment
in respect of the Securities; and (iii) at any time 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 for payment in respect of the Securities, and account for any funds
disbursed.
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.
The Trustee shall not be liable for any act or failure to act of
any Paying Agent (other than the Trustee acting in such capacity) to perform
any duty either required herein or authorized herein to be performed by such
person in accordance with this Indenture.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then
held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of and premium,
if any, or interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two years after
such principal and premium, if any, or interest has become due and payable
shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security
shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company
for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or such
Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in New York,
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New York, notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date
specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such
publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid
to the Company.
SECTION 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 observance of
any of the 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. Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence,
rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that the
Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if the
Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer
desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss
thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 1006. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
covenant or condition set forth in Section1005, if before the time for such
compliance the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such
compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such covenant or
condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant or
condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver
shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the
Trustee in respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full force
and effect.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
Redemption of Securities
SECTION 1101. Right of Redemption.
The Securities may be redeemed at the election of the Company, in
whole or from time to time in part, at any time on or after October 19, 2000,
at the Redemption Prices specified in the form of Security herein before set
forth, together with accrued interest, to the Redemption Date.
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SECTION 1102. Applicability of Article.
Redemption of Securities at the election of the Company as permitted
by any provision of this Indenture shall be made in accordance with such
provision and this Article.
SECTION 1103. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities pursuant to
Section 1101 shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. In case of any
redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities, the
Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the
Company (unless a shorter period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify
the Trustee in writing of such Redemption Date and of the principal amount of
Securities to be redeemed. In case of any redemption at the election of the
Company of all of the Securities, the Company shall, at least 45 days prior to
the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter period shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee in writing of such Redemption
Date.
SECTION 1104. Selection by Trustee of Securities to be Redeemed.
If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular
Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities not previously
called for redemption, by lot.
If any Security selected for partial redemption is converted in part
before termination of the conversion right with respect to the portion of the
Security so selected, the converted portion of such Security shall be deemed
(so far as may be) to be the portion selected for redemption. Securities which
have been converted during a selection of Securities to be redeemed shall be
treated by the Trustee as Outstanding for the purpose of such selection. In
any case where more than one Security is registered in the same name, the
Trustee in its discretion may treat the aggregate principal amount so
registered as if it were represented by one Security.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company and each Security
Registrar in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case
of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof
to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any 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.
SECTION 1105. 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 the Trustee and to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at his
address appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
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(a) the Redemption Date,
(b) the Redemption Price,
(c) if less than all the Outstanding Securities are
to be redeemed, the identification (and in the case of partial
redemption of any Securities, the principal amounts) of the
particular Securities to be redeemed,
(d) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price
will become due and payable upon each such Security to be
redeemed and that (unless the Company shall default in payment of
the Redemption Price) interest thereon will cease to accrue on
and after said date,
(e) the conversion price, the date on which the
right to convert the Securities to be redeemed will terminate and
the place or places where such Securities may be surrendered for
conversion, and
(f) 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 received
by the Trustee at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date, by the Trustee in
the name and at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 1106. Deposit of Redemption Price.
At or prior to 9:00 a.m. (New York City time) on any 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 in same day funds sufficient to
pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an
Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities or portions
thereof which are to be redeemed on that date other than any Securities called
for redemption on that date which have been converted prior to the date of such
deposit.
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 1107. 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
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of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) 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 interest to the Redemption Date;
provided, however, that installments of interest whose 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 the close of business
on the relevant Record Dates according to their 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 and premium, if any, shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the
Security.
SECTION 1108. Securities Redeemed in Part.
Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be
surrendered at an office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose
pursuant to Section 1002 (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 deliver 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.
ARTICLE TWELVE
Subordination of Securities
SECTION 1201. Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by
his acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, at all times and
in all respects, the indebtedness represented by the Securities and the payment
of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on each and all of the
Securities are hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in right of
payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 1202. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc.
In the event of (a) any insolvency or bankruptcy case or proceeding,
or any receivership, liquidation, reorganization or other similar case or
proceeding, relative to the Company or to its creditors, as such, or to a
substantial part of its assets, or (b) any proceeding for the liquidation,
dissolution or other winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or
involuntary and whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy, or (c) any
general assignment for the benefits of creditors or any other marshalling of
assets and liabilities of the Company, then and in any such event the holders
of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all
amounts due or to become due on or in respect of all Senior Indebtedness; or
provision shall be made for such payment in money or money's worth, before
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the Holders of the Securities are entitled to receive any payment or
distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities,
on account of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities,
and to that end the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled to
receive, for application to the payment thereof, any payment or distribution of
any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any
such payment or distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of
the payment of any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the
payment of the Securities, which may be payable or deliverable in respect of
the Securities in any such case, proceeding, dissolution, liquidation or other
winding up or event.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this
Section, the Trustee or the Holder of any Security shall have received any
payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character,
whether in cash, property or securities, including any such payment or
distribution which may be payable or deliverable by reason of the payment of
any other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the
Securities, before all Senior Indebtedness is paid in full or payment thereof
provided for, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such payment
or distribution, have been made known to the Trustee or such Holder, as the
case may be, then and in such event such payment or distribution shall be paid
over or delivered forthwith to the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating
trustee, custodian, assignee, agent or other Person making payment or
distribution of assets of the Company for application to the payment of all
Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay all Senior
Indebtedness in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or
distribution to or for the holders of Senior Indebtedness.
For purposes of this Article only, the words "cash, property or
securities" shall not be deemed to include securities 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, which are
subordinated in right of payment to all Senior Indebtedness which may at the
time be outstanding to substantially the same extent as, or to a greater extent
than, the Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article. The
consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company into, another
Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the
conveyance or transfer of its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to another Person upon the terms and conditions set forth in Article
Eight shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding up, liquidation,
reorganization, general assignment for the benefit of creditors or marshalling
of assets and liabilities of the Company for the purposes of this Section if
the Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or
which acquires by conveyance or transfer such properties and assets
substantially as an entirety, as the case may be, shall, as a part of such
consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, comply with the conditions set
forth in Article Eight.
SECTION 1203. Prior Payment to Senior Indebtedness upon Acceleration of
Securities.
In the event that any Securities are declared due and payable before
their Stated Maturity, then and in such event the holders of Senior
Indebtedness outstanding at the time such Securities so become due and payable
shall be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due on or in
respect of such Senior Indebtedness, or provision shall be made for such
payment in money or money's worth, before the Holders of the Securities are
entitled to receive any payment
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(including any payment which may be payable by reason of the payment of any
other indebtedness of the Company being subordinated to the payment of the
Securities) by the Company on account of the principal of or premium, if any,
or interest on the Securities or on account of the purchase or other
acquisition of Securities.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall
make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited by the
foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to
the time of such payment, have been made known to the Trustee or such Holder,
as the case may be, then and in such event such payment shall be paid over the
delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment with
respect to which Section 1202 would be applicable.
SECTION 1204. No Payment When Senior Indebtedness in Default.
(a) In the event and during the continuation of any
default in the payment of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any
Senior Indebtedness beyond any applicable grace period with respect thereto, or
in the event that any event of default with respect to any Senior Indebtedness
shall have occurred and be continuing and shall have resulted in such Senior
Indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on
which it would otherwise have become due and payable, unless and until such
event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist
and such acceleration shall have been rescinded or annulled, or (b) in the
event any judicial proceeding shall be pending with respect to any such default
in payment or event of default, then no payment (including any payment which
may be payable by reason of the payment of any other indebtedness of the
Company being subordinated to the payment of the Securities) shall be made by
the Company on account of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
the Securities or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of
Securities.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall
make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited by the
foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior to
the time of such payment, have been made known to the Trustee or such Holder,
as the case may be, then and in such event such payment shall be paid over and
delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment with
respect to which Section 1202 would be applicable.
SECTION 1205. Payment Permitted If No Default.
Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or
in any of the Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time except
during the pendency of any case, proceeding, dissolution, liquidation or other
winding up, general assignment for the benefit of creditors or other
marshalling of assets and liabilities of the Company referred to in Section
1202 or under the conditions described in Section 1203 or 1204, from making
payments at any time of principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities, or (b) the application by the Trustee of any money deposited with
it hereunder to the payment of or on account of the
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principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the Securities or the
retention of such payment by the Holders, if, at the time of such application
by the Trustee, it did not have knowledge that such payment would have been
prohibited by the provisions of this Article.
SECTION 1206. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
Subject to the payment in full of all amounts due on or in respect of
Senior Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the
extent of the payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness pursuant to the provisions of this Article (equally and ratably
with the holders of all indebtedness of the Company which by its express terms
is subordinated to other indebtedness of the Company to substantially the same
extent as the Securities are subordinated and is entitled to like rights of
subrogation) to the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to
receive payments and distributions of cash, property and securities applicable
to the Senior Indebtedness until the principal of and premium, if any, and
Interest on the Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes of such
subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the Holders of the
Securities or the Trustee would otherwise be entitled except for the provisions
of this Article, and no payments over pursuant to the provisions of this
Article to the holders of Senior Indebtedness by Holders of the Securities or
the Trustee, shall, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of
Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be a
payment or distribution by the Company to or on account of the Senior
Indebtedness.
SECTION 1207. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the
purpose of defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the
one hand and the holders of Senior Indebtedness on the other hand. Nothing
contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities
is intended to or shall (a) impair, as among the Company, its creditors other
than 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 on
the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in accordance
with their terms; or (b) affect the relative rights against the Company of the
Holders of the Securities and creditors of the Company other than the holders
of Senior Indebtedness; or (c) 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 of the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive cash, property and
securities otherwise payable or deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
SECTION 1208. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each holder of a Security by his acceptance thereof authorizes and
directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in this Article and
appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
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SECTION 1209. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
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 any such holder may have or be
otherwise 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
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,
Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner Senior
Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which
Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii)Sell, exchange, release or otherwise
deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior
Indebtedness; (iii)Release any Person liable in any manner for the collection
of Senior Indebtedness; and (iv)Exercise or refrain from exercising any rights
against the Company and any other Person.
SECTION 1210. Notice to Trustee.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
fact known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to or
by the Trustee in respect of the Securities. Notwithstanding the provisions of
this Article 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 to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, unless
and until the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the
Company or a holder of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and,
prior to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Section 601, 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 at least four 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 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 purpose for
which such money was received and shall not be affected by any notice to the
contrary which may be received by it within four Business Days prior to such
date.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601, the Trustee 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
therefor) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of Senior
Indebtedness (or a trustee therefor). 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, 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 rights of such Person under
this Article, 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 1211. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating
Agent.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to
in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, and the
Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree
entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such insolvency,
bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization, dissolution, winding up
or similar case or proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in
bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit
of creditors, agent or other person making such payment or distribution,
delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of
ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate in such payment or
distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and other indebtedness of
the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid
or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this
Article.
SECTION 1212. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness and shall not be liable to any such holders if
it shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of
Securities or to the Company or to any other Person cash, property or
securities to which holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue
of this Article or otherwise. With respect to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its
covenants and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article, and no
implied covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness shall be read into this Article against the Trustee.
SECTION 1213. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Indebtedness;
Preservation of Trustee's Rights.
The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the
rights set forth in this Article with respect to any Senior Indebtedness which
may at any time be 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.
Nothing in this Article shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the
Trustee under or pursuant to Section 607.
SECTION 1214. Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall
have been appointed by the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term
"Trustee" as used in this Article shall in such case (unless the context
otherwise requires) be construed as extending to
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and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for all intents and
purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this Article in addition to or
in place of the Trustee; provided, however, that Section 1213 shall not apply
to the Company or any Affiliate of the Company if it or such Affiliate acts as
Paying Agent.
SECTION 1215. Certain Conversions Deemed Payment.
For the purposes of this Article only, (1) the issuance and delivery
of junior securities upon conversion of Securities in accordance with Article
Thirteen shall not be deemed to constitute a payment or distribution on account
of the principal of or premium or interest on Securities or on account of the
purchase or other acquisition of Securities, and (2) the payment, issuance or
delivery of cash, property or securities (other than junior securities) upon
conversion of a Security shall be deemed to constitute payment on account of
the principal of such Security. For the purposes of this Section, the term
"junior securities" means (a) shares of any class of capital stock of the
Company and (b) securities of the Company which are subordinated in right of
payment to all Senior Indebtedness which may be outstanding at the time of
issuance or delivery of such securities to substantially the same extent as, or
to a greater extent than, the Securities are so subordinated as provided in
this Article. Nothing contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture
or in the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as among the Company, its
creditors other than holders of Senior Indebtedness and the Holders of the
Securities, the right, which is absolute and unconditional, of the Holder of
any Security to convert such Security in accordance with Article Thirteen.
SECTION 1216. No Suspension of Remedies.
Nothing contained in this Article shall limit the right of the
Trustee or the Holders of the Securities to take any action to accelerate the
maturity of the Securities pursuant to the provisions described under Article
Five and as set forth in this Indenture or to pursue any rights or remedies
hereunder or under applicable law, subject to the rights, if any, under this
Article of the holders, from time to time, of Senior Indebtedness to receive
the cash, property or securities receivable upon the exercise of such rights or
remedies.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
Conversion of Securities
SECTION 1301. Conversion Privilege and Conversion Price.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article, at the
option of the Holder thereof, any Security or any portion of the principal
amount thereof which equals $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof may be
converted at any time after the date of initial issuance of Securities under
this Indenture at the principal amount thereof, or of such portion thereof,
into fully paid and nonassessable shares (calculated as to each conversion to
the nearest 1/100 of a share) of Common Stock, at the conversion price,
determined as hereinafter provided, in effect at the time of conversion. Such
conversion right shall expire at the close of business on October 15, 2004. 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 the close
of business on the second
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business day preceding the applicable Redemption Date, unless the Company
defaults in making the payment due upon redemption. A Holder of Securities is
not entitled to any rights of a holder of Common Stock until such Holder has
converted such Securities to Common Stock, and only to the extent such
Securities are deemed to have been converted to Common Stock under this Article
Thirteen.
The price at which shares of Common Stock shall be delivered upon
conversion (herein called the "conversion price") shall be initially $13.25 per
share of Common Stock. The conversion price shall be adjusted in certain
instances as provided in paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (i) of
Section 1304.
SECTION 1302. Exercise of Conversion Privilege.
In order to exercise the conversion privilege, the Holder of any
Security shall surrender such Security, duly endorsed or assigned to the
Company or in blank, at any office or agency of the Company maintained pursuant
to Section 1002, accompanied by written notice to the Company in the form
provided in the Security (or such other notice as is acceptable to the Company)
at such office or agency that the Holder elects to convert such Security or, if
less than the entire principal amount thereof is to be converted, the portion
thereof to be converted. Securities surrendered for conversion during the
period from the opening of business on any Regular Record Date next preceding
any Interest Payment Date to the close of business on such Interest Payment
Date shall (except in the case of Securities or portions thereof which have
been called for redemption) be accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to
the Company of an amount equal to the interest payable on such Interest Payment
Date on the principal amount being surrendered for conversion. Except as
provided in the immediately preceding sentence and subject to the fourth
paragraph of Section 307, no payment or adjustment shall be made upon any
conversion on account of any interest accrued on the Securities surrendered for
conversion or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon
conversion.
Securities shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior
to the close of business on the day of surrender of such Securities for
conversion in accordance with the foregoing provisions, and at such time the
rights of the Holders of such Securities as Holders shall cease, and the Person
or Persons entitled to receive the Common Stock issuable upon conversion shall
be treated for all purposes of the record holder or holders of such Common
Stock as and after such time. As promptly as practicable on or after the
conversion date, the Company shall issue and shall deliver at such office or
agency a certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of Common
Stock issuable upon conversion, together with payment in lieu of any fraction
of a share, as provided in Section 1303.
In the case of any Security which is converted in part only, upon
such conversion the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate
and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new
Security or Securities of authorized denominations in aggregate principal
amount equal to the unconverted portion of the principal amount of such
Security.
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SECTION 1303. Fractions of Shares.
No fractional share of Common Stock shall be issued upon conversion
of Securities. If more than one Security shall be surrendered for conversion
at one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares which shall be
issuable upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the basis of the
aggregate principal amount of the Securities (or specified portions thereof) so
surrendered. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock which would
otherwise be issuable upon conversion of any Security or Securities (or
specified portions thereof), the Company shall pay a cash adjustment in respect
of such fraction in an amount equal to the same fraction of the Closing Price
(as hereinafter defined) at the close of business on the day of conversion (or,
if such day is not a Trading Day (as hereafter defined), on the Trading Day
immediately preceding such day).
SECTION 1304. Adjustment of Conversion Price.
(a) In case the Company shall pay or make a dividend or other
distribution on the Common Stock exclusively in Common Stock or shall pay or
make a dividend or other distribution on any other class of capital stock of
the Company which dividend or distribution includes Common Stock, the
conversion price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the
date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such
dividend or other distribution shall be reduced by multiplying such conversion
price by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares and
the total number of shares constituting such dividend or other distribution,
such reduction to become effective immediately after the opening of business on
the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purpose of
this paragraph (a), 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 pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common
Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
(b) Subject to paragraph (g) of this Section, in case the
Company shall pay or make a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock
consisting exclusively of, or shall otherwise issue to all holders of the
Common Stock, rights or warrants entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for
or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the Current
Market Price (determined as provided in paragraph(h) of this Section) on the
date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such
rights or warrants, the conversion price in effect at the opening of business
on the day following the date fixed for such determination shall be reduced by
multiplying such conversion price by a fraction of which the numerator shall be
the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on
the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock
which the aggregate of the offering price of the total number of shares of
Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase would purchase at such
Current Market Price and the denominator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock so offered for
subscription or purchase, such reduction to become effective immediately after
the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such
determination. For the purposes of this paragraph (b), the number of shares of
Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the
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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.
(c) In case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be
subdivided into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the conversion
price in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon
which such subdivision becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, and,
conversely, in case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be combined into a
smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the conversion price in effect at the
opening of business on the day following the day upon which such combination
becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, such reduction or
increase, as the case may be, to become effective immediately after the opening
of business on the day following the day upon which subdivision or combination
becomes effective.
(d) Subject to the last sentence of this paragraph (d) and to
paragraph (g) of this Section, in case the Company shall, by dividend or
otherwise, distribute to all holders of the Common Stock evidences of its
indebtedness, shares of any class of its capital stock, cash or other assets
(including securities, but excluding any rights or warrants referred to in
paragraph (b) of this Section, excluding any dividend or distribution paid
exclusively in cash and excluding any dividend or distribution referred to in
paragraph (a) of this Section), the conversion price shall be reduced by
multiplying the conversion price in effect immediately prior to the close of
business on the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to
such distribution by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the Current
Market Price (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section) on such
date less the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose
determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) on such
date of the portion of the evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock,
cash and other assets to be distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock
and the denominator shall be such Current Market Price, such reduction to
become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day
following such date. If the Board of Directors determines the fair market
value of any distribution for purposes of this paragraph (d) by reference to
the actual or when-issued trading market for any securities comprising part or
all of such distribution, it must in doing so consider the prices in such
market over the same period used in computing the Current Market Price pursuant
to paragraph (h) of this Section, to the extent possible. For purposes of this
paragraph (d), any dividend or distribution that includes shares of Common
Stock, rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock
or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock shall
be deemed to be (x) a dividend or distribution of the evidences of
indebtedness, cash, assets or shares of capital stock other than such shares of
Common Stock, such rights or warrants or such convertible or exchangeable
securities (making any conversion price reduction required by this paragraph
(d)) immediately followed by (y) in the case of such shares of Common Stock or
such rights or warrants, a dividend or distribution thereof (making any further
conversion price reduction required by paragraph (a) and (b) of this Section,
except any shares of Common Stock included in such dividend or distribution
shall not be deemed "outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for
such determination" within the meaning of paragraph (a) of this Section), or
(z) in the case of such convertible or exchangeable securities, a dividend or
distribution of the number of shares of Common Stock as would then be issuable
upon the conversion or exchange thereof, whether or not the conversion or
exchange of such securities is subject to any conditions (making any further
conversion price reduction required by paragraph (a) of this Section, except
the shares deemed to constitute such
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dividend or distribution shall not be deemed "outstanding at the close of
business on the date fixed for such determination" within the meaning of
paragraph (a) of this Section).
(e) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, at
any time distribute to all holders of the Common Stock cash (excluding any cash
that is distributed as part of a distribution referred to in paragraph (d) of
this Section or in connection with a transaction to which Section 1311 applies)
in an aggregate amount that, together with (A) the aggregate amount of any
other distributions to all holders of the Common Stock made exclusively in cash
within the 12 months preceding the date fixed for the determination of
shareholders entitled to such distribution and in respect of which no
conversion price adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (e) has been made
previously and (B) the aggregate of any cash plus the fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive
and described in a Board Resolution) as of such date of determination of
consideration payable in respect of any tender offer by the Company or a
Subsidiary for all or any portion of the Common Stock consummated within the
12 months preceding such date of determination and in respect of which no
conversion price adjustment pursuant to paragraph (f) of this Section has been
made previously, exceeds the greater of (I) 12.5% of the product of the Current
Market Price (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section) on such
date of determination times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on
such date or (II) the Company's retained earnings on the date fixed for
determining the stockholders entitled to such distribution the conversion price
shall be reduced by multiplying the conversion price in effect immediately
prior to the close of business on such date of determination by a fraction of
which the numerator shall be the Current Market Price (determined as provided
in paragraph (h) of this Section) on such date less the amount of cash to be
distributed at such time applicable to one share of Common Stock and the
denominator shall be such Current Market Price, such reduction to become
effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day after such
date.
(f) In case a tender offer made by the Company or any
Subsidiary for all or any portion of the Common Stock shall be consummated and
such tender offer shall involve an aggregate consideration having a fair market
value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be
conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) as of the last time (the
"Expiration Time") that tenders may be made pursuant to such tender offer (as
it shall have been amended) that, together with (A) the aggregate of the cash
plus the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose
determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) as of
the Expiration Time of the other consideration paid in respect of any other
tender offer by the Company or a Subsidiary for all or any portion of the
Common Stock consummated within the 12 months preceding the Expiration Time and
in respect of which no conversion price adjustment pursuant to this paragraph
(f) has been made previously and (B) the aggregate amount of any distributions
to all holders of the Common Stock made exclusively in cash within the 12
months preceding the Expiration Time and in respect of which no conversion
price adjustment pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section has been made
previously, exceeds the greater of (I) 12.5% of the product of the Current
Market Price
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(determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this Section) immediately prior to
the Expiration Time times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
(including any tendered shares) at the Expiration Time or (II) the Company's
retained earnings as of the Expiration Time, the conversion price shall be
reduced by multiplying the conversion price in effect immediately prior to the
Expiration Time by a fraction of which the numerator shall be (x) the product
of the Current Market Price (determined as provided in paragraph (h) of this
Section) immediately prior to the Expiration Time times the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares at the Expiration Time
minus (y) the fair market value (determined as aforesaid) of the aggregate
consideration payable to shareholders upon consummation of such tender offer
and the denominator shall be the product of (A) such Current Market Price times
(B) such number of outstanding shares at the Expiration Time minus the number
of shares accepted for payment in such tender offer (the "Purchased Shares"),
such reduction to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business
on the day following the Expiration Time; provided, that if the number of
Purchased Shares or the aggregate consideration payable therefor have not been
finally determined by such opening of business, the adjustment required by this
paragraph (f) shall, pending such final determination, be made based upon the
preliminarily announced results of such tender offer, and, after such final
determination shall have been made, the adjustment required by this paragraph
(f) shall be made based upon the number of Purchased Shares and the aggregate
consideration payable therefor as so finally determined.
(g) The reclassification of Common Stock into securities which
include securities other than Common Stock (other than any reclassification
upon a consolidation or merger to which Section 1311 applies) shall be deemed
to involve (i) a distribution of such securities other than Common Stock to all
holders of Common Stock (and the effective date of such reclassification shall
be deemed to be "the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled
to such distribution" within the meaning of paragraph (d) of this Section), and
(ii) a subdivision or combination, as the case may be, of the number of shares
of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such reclassification into the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately thereafter (and the
effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be "the day upon
which such subdivision becomes effective" or "the day upon which such
combination becomes effective", as the case may be, and "the day upon which
such subdivision or combination becomes effective" within the meaning of
paragraph (c) of this Section).
Rights or warrants issued by the Company to all holders of the Common
Stock entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase shares of
Common Stock (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights or
warrants (i) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of Common Stock,
(ii) are not exercisable and (iii) are also issued in respect of future
issuances of Common Stock, in each case in clauses (i) through (iii) until the
occurrence of a specified event or events ("Trigger Event"), shall for purposes
of this Section 1304 not be deemed issued until the occurrence of the earliest
Trigger Event. If any such rights or warrants, including any such existing
rights or warrants distributed prior to the date of this Indenture are subject
to subsequent events, upon the occurrence of each of which such rights or
warrants shall become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences
of indebtedness or other assets, then the occurrence of each such event shall
be deemed to be such date of issuance and record date with respect to new
rights or warrants (and a termination or expiration of the existing rights or
warrants without exercise by the holder thereof). In addition, in the event of
any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights or warrants, or any Trigger
Event with respect thereto, that was counted for purposes of calculating a
distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Price under this
Section 1304 was made, (1) in the case of any such rights or warrant which
shall all have been redeemed or repurchased without exercise by any holders
thereof, the Conversion Price shall be readjusted upon such final redemption or
repurchase to give effect to
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such distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a
cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or repurchase price
received by a holder or holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights or
warrants (assuming such holder had retained such rights or warrants), made to
all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or repurchase,
and (2) in the case of such rights or warrants which shall have expired or been
terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Price shall
be readjusted as if such rights and warrants had not been issued.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 1304 to the
contrary, rights, warrants, evidences of indebtedness, other securities, cash
or other assets (including, without limitation, any rights distributed pursuant
to any stockholder rights plan) shall be deemed not to have been distributed
for purposes of this Section 1304 if the Company makes proper provision so that
each holder of Securities who converts a Security (or any portion thereof)
after the date fixed for determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
distribution shall be entitled to receive upon such conversion, in addition to
the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversions, the amount and kind
of such distributions that such holder would have been entitled to receive if
such holder had, immediately prior to such determination date, converted such
Security into Common Stock.
(h) For the purpose of any computation under this paragraph
and paragraphs (b), (d) and (e) of this Section, the current market price per
share of Common Stock (the "Current Market Price") on any date shall be deemed
to be the average of the daily Closing Prices for the 5 consecutive Trading
Days selected by the Company commencing not more than 20 Trading Days before,
and ending not later than, the date in question; provided, however, that (i) if
the "ex" date for any event (other than the issuance or distribution requiring
such computation) that requires an adjustment to the conversion price pursuant
to paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above occurs on or after the 20th
Trading Day prior to the date in question and prior to the "ex" date for the
issuance or distribution requiring such computation, the Closing Price for each
Trading Day prior to the "ex" date for such other event shall be adjusted by
multiplying such Closing Price by the same fraction by which the conversion
price is so required to be adjusted as a result of such other event, (ii) if
the "ex" date for any event (other than the issuance or distribution requiring
such computation) that requires an adjustment to the conversion price pursuant
to paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above occurs on or after the "ex"
date for the issuance or distribution requiring such computation and on or
prior to the date in question, the Closing Price for each Trading Day on and
after the "ex" date for such other event shall be adjusted by multiplying such
Closing Price by the reciprocal of the fraction by which the conversion price
is so required to be adjusted as a result of such other event, and (iii) if the
"ex" date for the issuance or distribution requiring such computation is on or
prior to the date in question, after taking into account any adjustment
required pursuant to clause (ii) of this proviso, the Closing Price for each
Trading Day on or after such "ex" date shall be adjusted by adding thereto the
amount of any cash and the fair market value on the date in question (as
determined by the Board of Directors in a manner consistent with any
determination of such value for purposes of paragraph (d) or (e) of this
Section, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board
Resolution) of the evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock or assets
being distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock as of the close of
business on the day before such "ex" date. For the purpose of any computation
under paragraph (f) of this Section, the Current Market Price on any date shall
be deemed to be the average of the daily
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Closing Prices for the 5 consecutive Trading Days selected by the Company
commencing on or after the latest (the "Commencement Date") of (i) the date 20
Trading Days before the date in question, (ii) the date of commencement of the
tender offer requiring such computation and (iii) the date of the last
amendment, if any, of such tender offer involving a change in the maximum
number of shares for which tenders are sought or a change in the consideration
offered, and ending not later than the Expiration Time of such tender offer;
provided, however, that if the "ex" date for any event (other than the tender
offer requiring such computation) that requires an adjustment to the conversion
price pursuant to paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above occurs on or
after the Commencement Date and prior to the Expiration Time for the tender
offer requiring such computation, the Closing Price for each Trading Day prior
to the "ex" date for such other event shall be adjusted by multiplying such
Closing Price by the same fraction by which the conversion price is so required
to be adjusted as a result of such other event. The closing price for any
Trading Day (the "Closing Price") shall be the last reported sales price
regular way or, in case no such reported sale takes place on such day, the
average of the reported closing bid and asked prices regular way, in either
case on the New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not listed or
admitted to trading on such exchange, on the principal national securities
exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading or, if not
listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, on the
Nasdaq Stock Market's National Market or, if the Common Stock is not listed or
admitted to trading on any national securities exchange or quoted on such
National Market, the average of the closing bid and asked prices in the
over-the-counter market as furnished by any New York Stock Exchange member firm
selected from time to time by the Company for that purpose. For purposes of
this paragraph, the term "Trading Day" means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, other than any day on which securities are generally not
traded on the applicable securities exchange or in the applicable securities
market and 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 relevant exchange or in the relevant market from which the Closing
Prices were obtained without the right to receive such issuance or
distribution, (ii) when used with respect to any subdivision or combination of
shares of Common Stock, means the first date on which the Common Stock trades
regular way on such exchange or in such market after the time at which such
subdivision or combination becomes effective, and (iii) when used with respect
to any tender offer means the first date on which the Common Stock trades
regular way on such exchange or in such market after the last time that tenders
may be made pursuant to such tender offer (as it shall have been amended).
(i) The Company may make such reductions in the conversion
price, in addition to those required by paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and
(f) of this Section, (i) to the extent permitted by law, by any amount for any
period of at least 20 days or (ii) as it considers to be advisable (as
evidenced by a Board Resolution) in order that any event treated for federal
income tax purposes as a dividend of stock or stock rights shall not be taxable
to the recipients or, if that is not possible, to diminish any income taxes
that are otherwise payable because of such event.
(j) No adjustment in the conversion price shall be required
unless such adjustment (plus any other adjustments not previously made by
reason of this paragraph (j)) would require an increase or decrease of at least
1% in the conversion price; provided, however, that any adjustments which by
reason of this paragraph (j) are not required to be made shall be carried
forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment.
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(k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 1304,
no adjustment to the conversion price shall reduce the conversion price below
the then par value per share of the Common Stock, and any such purported
adjustment shall instead reduce the conversion price to such par value. The
Company hereby covenants not to take any action to increase the par value per
share of the Common Stock.
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 in
accordance with Section 1304 and shall prepare an Officers' Certificate signed
by 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 a copy to the Trustee) at each
office or agency maintained for the purpose of conversion of Securities
pursuant to Section 1002; and
(b) a notice stating that the conversion price has been
adjusted and setting forth the adjusted conversion price shall forthwith be
prepared, and as soon as practicable after it is prepared, such notice shall be
mailed by the Company to all Holders at their last addresses as they shall
appear in the Security Register. In the case of any adjustment pursuant to
Section 1304(i)(i), such notice shall be mailed at least 15 days before the
date the reduced conversion price shall take effect and shall state the reduced
conversion price and the period it will be in effect.
SECTION 1306. Notice of Certain Corporate Action.
In case:
(a) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other
distribution) on its Common Stock payable (i) otherwise than exclusively in
cash or (ii) exclusively in cash in an amount that would require a conversion
price adjustment pursuant to paragraph (e) of Section 1304; or
(b) the Company shall authorize the granting to the holders of
its Common Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares
of capital stock of any class or of any other rights (excluding shares of
capital stock or option for capital stock issued pursuant to a benefit plan for
employees, officers or directors of the Company); or
(c) of any reclassification of the Common Stock (other than a
subdivision or combination of the outstanding shares of Common Stock), or of
any consolidation, merger or share exchange to which the Company is a party and
for which approval of any stockholders of the Company is required, or of the
sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or
(d) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation
or winding up of the Company; or
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(e) the Company or any Subsidiary shall commence a tender
offer for all or a portion of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (or shall
amend any such tender offer to change the maximum number of shares being sought
or the amount or type of consideration being offered therefor);
then the Company shall cause to be filed (with a copy to the Trustee) at each
office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 1002, and shall cause to be
mailed to all Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear in the
Security Register, at least 21 days (or 11 days in any case specified in clause
(a), (b) or (e) above) prior to the applicable record, effective or expiration
date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is
to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution or granting of
rights or warrants, or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which
the holders of Common Stock of record who will be entitled to such dividend,
distribution, rights or warrants are to be determined, (y) the date on which
such reclassification, consolidation, merger, share exchange, sale, transfer,
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, share
exchange, sale, transfer, dissolution, liquidation or winding up, or (z) the
date on which such tender offer commenced, the date on which such tender offer
is scheduled to expire unless extended, the consideration offered and the other
material terms thereof (or the material terms of any amendment thereto).
Neither the failure to give any such notice nor any defect therein shall affect
the legality or validity of any action described in clauses (a) through (e) of
this Section 1306.
SECTION 1307. Company to Reserve Common Stock.
The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available, free from
preemptive rights, out of the authorized but unissued Common Stock or out of
the Common Stock held in treasury, for the purpose of effecting the conversion
of Securities, the full number of shares of Common Stock then issuable upon the
conversion of all outstanding Securities. Shares of Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of outstanding Securities shall be issued out of the Common Stock
held in Treasury to the extent available.
SECTION 1308. Taxes on Conversions.
The Company will pay any and all taxes that may be payable in respect
of the issue or delivery of shares of Common Stock on conversion of Securities
pursuant hereto. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax
which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and
delivery of shares of Common Stock in a name other than that of the Holder of
the Security or Securities to be converted, and no such issue or delivery shall
be made unless and until the Person requesting such issue has paid to the
Company the amount of any such tax, or has established to the satisfaction of
the Company that such tax has been paid.
SECTION 1309. Covenant as to Common Stock.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be
issued upon conversion of Securities will upon issue be fully paid and
nonassessable and, except as
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provided in Section 1308, the Company will pay all taxes, liens and charges
with respect to the issue thereof.
SECTION 1310. Cancellation of Converted Securities.
All Securities delivered for conversion shall be delivered to the
Trustee to be canceled by or at the direction of the Trustee, which shall
dispose of the same as provided in Section 309.
SECTION 1311. Provisions of Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets.
In case of 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 any reclassification, conversion,
exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock) or any sale or
transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, the Person
formed by such consolidation or resulting from such merger or which acquires
such assets, as the case may be, shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a
supplemental indenture providing that the Holder of each Security then
Outstanding shall have the right thereafter, during the period such Security
shall be convertible as specified in Section 1301, to convert such Security
only into the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property, if any,
receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by a holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock into which such Security might have been
converted immediately prior to such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer,
assuming such holder of Common Stock (i) is not a Person with which the Company
consolidated or into which the Company merged or which merged into the Company
or to which such sale or transfer was made, as the case may be (a "Constituent
Person"), or an Affiliate of a Constituent Person and (ii) failed to exercise
his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or amount of securities, cash
and other property receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer
(provided that if the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property
receivable upon such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer is not the same
for each share of Common Stock held immediately prior to such consolidation,
merger, sale or transfer by other than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate
thereof and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been
exercised ("nonelecting share"), then for the purpose of this Section the kind
and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such
consolidation, merger, sale or transfer by each nonelecting share shall be
deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the
nonelecting shares). Such supplemental indenture shall provide for adjustments
which, for events subsequent to the effective date of such supplemental
indenture, shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the
adjustments provided for in this Article. The above provisions of this Section
shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, sales or
transfers.
SECTION 1312. Trustee's Disclaimer.
The Trustee and any other conversion agent shall not at any time be
under any duty or responsibility to any holder of Securities to determine
whether any facts exist that may require any adjustment of the conversion price
or notice thereof, or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation 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
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same and shall be protected in relying upon the Officers' Certificate with
respect thereto which the Company is required to file with the Trustee pursuant
to Section 1305. The Trustee and any other conversion agent shall not be
accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of
any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities or property, that may at any
time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Security; and the
Trustee and any other conversion agent make no representations with respect
thereto or any actions or omission by the Company in such regard. Neither the
Trustee nor any conversion agent shall be responsible for any failure of the
Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock
certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any
debenture for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties,
responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article
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The Trustee shall not be under any responsibility to determine or
verify the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental
indenture executed pursuant to Section 1311, but may accept as conclusive
evidence of the correctness thereof, and shall be protected in relying upon,
the Officers' Certificate with respect thereto which the Company is obligated
to file with the Trustee pursuant to Section 1311.
ARTICLE FOURTEEN
Right to Require Repurchase
SECTION 1401. Right to Require Repurchase.
In the event that there shall occur a Repurchase Event (as defined in
Section 1406), then each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder's option,
to require the Company to purchase, and upon the exercise of such right, the
Company shall, subject to the provisions of Section 1203, purchase, all or any
part of such Holder's Securities on the date (the "Repurchase Date") that is 30
days after the date the Company gives notice of the Repurchase Event as
contemplated in Section 1402(a) at a price (the "Repurchase Price") equal to
100% of the principal amount thereof, together with accrued and unpaid interest
to the Repurchase Date.
SECTION 1402. Notice; Method of Exercising Repurchase Right.
(a) On or before the 15th day after the occurrence of a
Repurchase Event, the Company, or at the written request of the Company
received by the Trustee at least 40 days prior to the Repurchase Date, the
Trustee (in the name and at the expense of the Company), in its capacity as
tender agent (for which services it shall be reasonably compensated), shall
give notice of the occurrence of the Repurchase Event and of the repurchase
right set forth herein arising as a result thereof by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to the Trustee and to each Holder of the Securities at such Holder's
address appearing in the Security Register. The Company shall also deliver a
copy of such notice of a repurchase right to the Trustee.
Each notice of a repurchase right shall state:
(1) the event constituting the Repurchase Event and the
date thereof,
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(2) the Repurchase Date,
(3) the date by which the repurchase right must be
exercised,
(4) the Repurchase Price, and
(5) the instructions a Holder must follow to exercise a
repurchase right.
No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notice shall limit
any Holder's right to exercise a repurchase right. The Trustee shall have no
affirmative obligation to determine if there shall have occurred a Repurchase
Event.
(b) To exercise a repurchase right, a Holder shall
deliver to the Company (or an agent designated by the Company for such purpose
in the notice referred to in (a) above) and to the Trustee on or before the
close of business on the Repurchase Date (i) written notice of the Holder's
exercise of such right, which notice shall set forth the name of the Holder,
the principal amount of the Security or Securities (or portion of a Security)
to be repurchased, and a statement that an election to exercise the repurchased
right is being made thereby, and (ii) the Security or Securities with respect
to which the repurchase right is being exercised, duly endorsed for transfer to
the Company. Such written notice shall be irrevocable. If the Repurchase Date
falls between any Regular Record Date and the next succeeding Interest Payment
Date, Securities to be repurchased must be accompanied by payment from the
Holder of an amount equal to the interest thereon which the registered Holder
thereof is to receive on such Interest Payment Date.
In the event a repurchase right shall be exercised in accordance with
the terms hereof, the Company shall on the Repurchase Date pay or cause to be
paid in cash to the Holder thereof the Repurchase Price of the Security or
Securities as to which the repurchase right had been exercised. In the event
that a repurchase right is exercised with respect to less than the entire
principal amount of a surrendered Security, the Company shall execute and
deliver to the Trustee and the Trustee shall authenticate for issuance in the
name of the Holder a new Security or Securities in the aggregate principal
amount of the unrepurchased portion of such surrendered security.
SECTION 1403. Deposit of Repurchase Price.
On or prior to the Repurchase 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 in same day funds sufficient to pay the Repurchase Price of the
Securities which are to be repaid on the Repurchase Date.
SECTION 1404. Securities Not Repurchased on Repurchase Date.
If any Security surrendered for repurchase shall not be so paid on
the Repurchase Date, the principal shall, until paid, bear interest to the
extent permitted by applicable law from the Repurchase Date at the rate per
annum borne by such Security.
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SECTION 1405. Securities Repurchased in Part.
Any Security which is to be repurchased only in part shall be
surrendered at any office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose
pursuant to Section 1002 (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires, due
endorsement by, or 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 deliver 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 unrepurchased portion of the principal of the Security so
surrendered.
SECTION 1406. Certain Definitions.
For purposes of this Article:
(a) A "Repurchase Event" shall have occurred upon the
occurrence of a Change in Control or Termination of Trading after the date of
this Indenture and on or prior to October 15, 2004.
(b) A "Change in Control" shall occur when :
(i) all or substantially all of the Company's
assets are sold as an entirety to any person or related group
of persons;
(ii) there shall be consummated any consolidation
or merger of the Company (A) in which the Company is not the
continuing or surviving corporation (other than a
consolidation or merger with a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Company in which all shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately prior to the effectiveness thereof are changed
into or exchanged for the same consideration) or (B) pursuant
to which the Common Stock would be converted into cash,
securities or other property, in each case, other than a
consolidation or merger of the Company in which the holders of
the Common Stock immediately prior to the consolidation or
merger have, directly or indirectly, at least a majority of
the total voting power of all classes of capital stock
entitled to vote generally in the election of directors of the
continuing or surviving corporation immediately after such
consolidation or merger in substantially the same proportion
as their ownership of Common Stock immediately before such
transaction;
(iii) any person, or any persons acting together
which would constitute a "group" for purposes of Section 13(d)
of the Exchange Act (a "Group"), together with any Affiliates
thereof, shall beneficially own (as defined in Rule 13d-3
under the Exchange Act) at least 50% of the total voting power
of all classes of capital stock of the Company entitled to
vote generally in the election of directors of the Company; or
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(iv) at any time during any consecutive two-year
period, individuals who at the beginning of such period
constituted the Board of Directors of the Company (together
with any new directors whose election by such Board of
Directors or whose nomination for election by the stockholders
of the Company was approved by a vote of 66-2/3% of the
directors then still in office who were either directors at
the beginning of such period or whose election or nomination
for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason
to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the
Company then in office; or
(v) the Company is liquidated or dissolved or
adopts a plan of liquidation or dissolution.
(c) A "Termination of Trading" shall occur if the Common
Stock (or other common stock into which the Securities are then convertible) is
neither listed for trading on a U.S. national securities exchange nor approved
for trading on an established automated over-the-counter trading market in the
United States.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each
of which when 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.
FUISZ TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
By
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Name:
Title:
Attest:
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By
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Name:
Title:
Attest:
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER
OF SECURITIES]
CERTIFICATE FOR EXCHANGE OR TRANSFER
Re: 7% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2004
This Certificate relates to $_________ principal amount of Securities
held in *____________ book-entry or *____________ definitive form by _________
(the "Transferor").
The Transferor(2):
[] has requested the Trustee by written order to deliver
in exchange for its beneficial interest in a Global Security held by the
Depositary a Security or Securities in definitive, registered form of
authorized denominations and an aggregate principal amount equal to its
beneficial interest in such Global Security (or the portion thereof indicated
above); or
[] has requested the Trustee by written order to deliver
in exchange for its Security or Securities a beneficial interest in a Global
Security held by the Depositary in a principal amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of such Security or Securities; or
[] has requested the Trustee by written order to
exchange or register the transfer of a Security or Securities.
In connection with such request and in respect of each such security,
the Transferor does hereby certify to the Company and the Trustee that
Transferor is familiar with the Indenture relating to the above captioned
Debentures and, as provided in Section 305 of such Indenture, the transfer of
this Security does not require registration under the Securities Act (as
defined below) because*:
[] Such Security is being acquired for the Transferor's
own account, without transfer (in satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(A) or
Section 305(f)(i)(A) of the Indenture).
[] Such Security is being transferred to a "qualified
institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended (the "Securities Act")) in reliance on Rule 144A or pursuant to an
exemption from registration in accordance with Regulation S under the
Securities Act (in satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(B), Section 305(c)(i),
Section 305(d)(i), Section 305(f)(i)(B), Section 305(g)(iii) or Section
305(h)(iii) of the Indenture). An opinion of counsel to the effect that such
transfer does not require registration under the Securities Act accompanies
this Certificate (in satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(B), Section 305(c)(i),
Section 305(d)(i), Section 305(f)(i)(B), Section 305(g)(iii) or Section
305(h)(iii) of the Indenture).
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[] Such Security is being transferred in accordance with
Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act (in satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(B),
Section 305(f)(i)(B) or Section 305(k)(ii) of the Indenture). If such Security
is being transferred in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act, an
opinion of counsel to the effect that such transfer does not require
registration under the Securities Act accompanies this Certificate (in
satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(B), Section 305(f)(i)(B) or Section
305(k)(ii) of the Indenture).
[] Such Security is being transferred in reliance on and
in compliance with an exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act, other than Rule 144A, 144 or Regulation S under the Securities
Act. An opinion of counsel to the effect that such transfer does not require
registration under the Securities Act accompanies this Certificate (in
satisfaction of Section 305(b)(ii)(C) or Section 305(f)(i)(C) of the
Indenture).
[] You are entitled to rely upon this certificate and
you are irrevocably authorized to produce this certificate or a copy hereof to
any interested party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official
inquiry with respect to the matters covered hereby.
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[INSERT NAME OF TRANSFEROR]
By:
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Date:
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