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EXHIBIT 4(D)
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
AMONG
THE COLONIAL BANCGROUP, INC.,
as Depositor
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Property Trustee
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Delaware Trustee
THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN
and the several Holders of the Trust Securities
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Dated as of ____________, 1997
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COLONIAL CAPITAL II
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COLONIAL CAPITAL II
Certain Sections of this Trust Agreement relating to
Sections 310 through 318 of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
Trust Indenture Trust Agreement
Act Section Section
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310 (a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.7
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.7
(a)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.9
(a)(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.7(a)(ii)
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.8
311 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.13
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.13
312 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.7
313 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.15(a)
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.15(b)
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.8
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.15(c)
314 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.16
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(c)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.16
(c)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.16
(c)(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.16
315 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1(a), 8.3(a)
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2, 10.8
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1(a)
(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1, 8.3
(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
316 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(a)(1)(A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(a)(1)(B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.13
(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.7
317 (a)(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(a)(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not Applicable
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.9, 5.10
318 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.10
Note: This reconciliation and tie sheet shall not, for any purpose, be deemed
to be a part of the Trust Agreement.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1 Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ARTICLE II
CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST
SECTION 2.1 Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 2.2 Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 2.3 Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational
Expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 2.4 Issuance of the Capital Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 2.5 Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and
Purchase of Debentures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.6 Continuation of Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.7 Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SECTION 2.8 Assets of Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SECTION 2.9 Title to Trust Property . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
SECTION 3.1 Payment Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
SECTION 4.1 Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 4.2 Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 4.3 Subordination of Common Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 4.4 Payment Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 4.5 Tax Returns and Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 4.6 Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Issuer Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 4.7 Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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SECTION 4.8 Liability of the Holder of Common Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
SECTION 5.1 Initial Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 5.2 The Trust Securities Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 5.3 Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 5.4 Book-Entry Capital Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 5.5 Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain
Transfers and Exchanges; Securities Act Legends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 5.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities
Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 5.7 Persons Deemed Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
SECTION 5.8 Access to List of Holders' Names and Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 5.9 Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 5.10 Appointment of Paying Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 5.11 Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 5.12 Notices to Clearing Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 5.13 Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
SECTION 6.1 Limitations on Voting Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 6.2 Notice of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 6.3 Meetings of Holders of the Capital Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 6.4 Voting Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 6.5 Proxies, etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 6.6 Holder Action by Written Consent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 6.7 Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 6.8 Acts of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 6.9 Inspection of Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 7.1 Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and
the Delaware Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 7.2 Representations and Warranties of Depositor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
ARTICLE VIII
THE ISSUER TRUSTEES; PAYING AGENTS
SECTION 8.1 Certain Duties and Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 8.2 Certain Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 8.3 Certain Rights of Property Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 8.4 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 8.5 May Hold Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 8.6 Compensation; Indemnity; Fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 8.7 Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Issuer
Trustees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 8.8 Conflicting Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 8.9 Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 8.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 8.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
SECTION 8.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 8.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or
Issuer Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 8.14 Property Trustee May File Proofs of Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 8.15 Reports by Property Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
SECTION 8.16 Reports to the Property Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 8.17 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 8.18 Number of Issuer Trustees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 8.19 Delegation of Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 8.20 Appointment of Administrative Trustees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION 9.1 Termination Upon Expiration Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 9.2 Early Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 9.3 Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 9.4 Liquidation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
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SECTION 9.5 Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements
of Issuer Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.1 Limitation of Rights of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
SECTION 10.2 Amendment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
SECTION 10.3 Separability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 10.4 Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 10.5 Payments Due on Non-Business Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 10.6 Successors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 10.7 Headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 10.8 Reports, Notices and Demands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SECTION 10.9 Agreement Not to Petition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 10.10 Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SECTION 10.11 Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee
Agreement, Indenture and Registration Rights Agreement . . . . . . . . . . 62
Exhibit A Certificate of Trust
Exhibit B Form of Certificate Depository Agreement
Exhibit C Form of Common Securities Certificate
Exhibit D Form of Expense Agreement
Exhibit E Form of Capital Securities Certificate
Exhibit F Form of Restricted Securities Certificate
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of __________, 1997,
among (i) The Colonial BancGroup, Inc., a Delaware corporation (including any
successors or assigns, the "Depositor"), (ii) Wilmington Trust Company, a
banking corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of
Delaware, as property trustee (in such capacity, the "Property Trustee" and, in
its separate corporate capacity and not in its capacity as Property Trustee,
the "Bank"), (iii) Wilmington Trust Company, a banking corporation duly
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, as Delaware
trustee (in such capacity, the "Delaware Trustee"), (iv) X. Xxxxx Oakely, an
individual, and Young X. Xxxxxx, III, an individual, each of whose address is
c/o The Colonial BancGroup, Inc., Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
00000 (each an "Administrative Trustee"), (the Property Trustee, the Delaware
Trustee and the Administrative Trustees being referred to collectively as the
"Issuer Trustees"), and (v) the several Holders, as hereinafter defined.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Delaware Trustee have heretofore duly
declared and established a business trust pursuant to the Delaware Business
Trust Act by entering into the Trust Agreement, dated as of February 14, 1997
(the "Original Trust Agreement"), and by the execution and filing by the
Delaware Trustee with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware of the
Certificate of Trust, filed on February 14, 1997, attached as Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Issuer Trustees desire to amend and
restate the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to
provide for, among other things, (i) the issuance of the Common Securities by
the Issuer Trust to the Depositor, (ii) the issuance and sale of the Capital
Securities by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement,
(iii) the acquisition by the Issuer Trust from the Depositor of all of the
right, title and interest in the Debentures, and (iv) the appointment of the
Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set
forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit of the
other parties and for the benefit of the Holders, hereby amends and restates
the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees as follows:
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ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) The terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) All other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(c) The words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be deemed to
be followed by the phrase "without limitation";
(d) All accounting terms used but not defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting
principles;
(e) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
"Article", a "Section" or an "Exhibit" refers to an Article, a Section or an
Exhibit, as the case may be, of or to this Trust Agreement; and
(f) The words "hereby", "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
words of similar import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act" has the meaning specified in Section 6.8.
"Additional Distributions" means, with respect to Trust Securities of
a given Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of Additional
Interest (as defined in the Indenture) paid by the Depositor on a Like Amount
of Debentures for such period.
"Additional Sums" has the meaning specified in Section 10.6 of the
Indenture.
"Administrative Trustee" means each Person appointed in accordance
with Section 8.20 solely in such Person's capacity as Administrative Trustee of
the Issuer Trust heretofore created and continued hereunder and not in such
Person's individual capacity, or any successor Administrative Trustee appointed
as herein provided.
"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
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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.
"Applicable Procedures" means, with respect to any transfer or
transaction involving a Book-Entry Capital Security, the rules and procedures
of the Clearing Agency for such Book-Entry Capital Security, in each case to
the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from time to time.
"Bank" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Bankruptcy Event" means, with respect to any Person:
(a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in
the premises judging such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as
properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjudication or
composition of or in respect of such Person under any applicable Federal or
State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or
appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other
similar official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of
any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days; or
(b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a
bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or
insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer
or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Federal or
State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the
consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of
such Person or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of
an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing
of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due and its
willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of corporate action by
such Person in furtherance of any such action.
"Bankruptcy Laws" has the meaning specified in Section 10.9.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Depositor or
the Executive Committee of the board of directors of the Depositor (or any
other committee of the board of directors of the Depositor performing similar
functions) or a committee designated by the board of directors of the Depositor
(or any such committee), comprised of two or more members of the board of
directors of the Depositor or officers of the Depositor, or both.
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"Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate" means a Capital Securities
Certificate evidencing ownership of Book-Entry Capital Securities.
"Book-Entry Capital Security" means a Capital Security, the ownership
and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency
as described in Section 5.4.
"Business Day" means a day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a
day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or
required by law or executive order to remain closed, or (c) a day on which the
Property Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or the Corporate Trust Office of the
Debenture Trustee is closed for business.
"Capital Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the
assets of the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having
the rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to
receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution to the extent provided
herein, and designated as 8.92% Capital Securities, Series A.
"Capital Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Capital Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
E.
"Certificate Depository Agreement" means the agreement among the
Issuer Trust, the Depositor and DTC, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as
of the Closing Date, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B, as the
same may be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "clearing
agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. DTC will be the initial Clearing Agency.
"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with
the Clearing Agency.
"Closing Date" means the Time of Delivery, which date is also the date
of execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Colonial Capital I" means the Delaware Business trust formed on
January 24, 1997, by the Depositor in accordance with an Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement dated as of January 29, 1997.
"Common Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Common Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
C.
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"Common Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets
of the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $1,000 and having the
rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to
receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution to the extent provided
herein.
"Corporate Trust Office" means (i) when used with respect to the
Property Trustee, the principal office of the Property Trustee located in
Wilmington, Delaware, and (ii) when used with respect to the Debenture Trustee,
the principal office of the Debenture Trustee located in Wilmington, Delaware.
"Debenture Event of Default" means any "Event of Default" specified in
Section 5.1 of the Indenture.
"Debenture Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Debentures to
be redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption of such
Debentures under the Indenture.
"Debenture Trustee" means the Person identified as the "Trustee" in
the Indenture, solely in its capacity as Trustee pursuant to the Indenture and
not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity,
or any successor Trustee appointed as provided in the Indenture.
"Debentures" means the Depositor's 8.92% Junior Subordinated
Deferrable Interest Debentures, Series A, issued pursuant to the Indenture and
the Registration Rights Agreement.
"Definitive Capital Securities Certificates" means either or both (as
the context requires) of (i) Capital Securities Certificates issued as
Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificates as provided in Section 5.2 or 5.4,
and (ii) Capital Securities Certificates issued in certificated, fully
registered form as provided in Section 5.2, 5.4 or 5.5.
"Delaware Business Trust Act" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the
Delaware Code, 12 Del. Code Section 3801 et seq., or any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Delaware Trustee" means the Person identified as the "Delaware
Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as
Delaware Trustee of the trust heretofore created and continued hereunder and
not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity,
or any successor Delaware trustee appointed as herein provided.
"Depositor" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Distribution Date" has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a).
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"Distributions" means amounts payable in respect of the Trust
Securities as provided in Section 4.1.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company.
"Early Termination Event" has the meaning specified in Section 9.2.
"Event of Default" means any one of the following events (whatever the
reason for such event and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be
effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of
any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or
governmental body):
(a) the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default; or
(b) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any
Distribution when it becomes due and payable, and continuation of such
default for a period of 30 days; or
(c) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any
Redemption Price of any Trust Security when it becomes due and
payable; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material
respect, of any covenant or warranty of the Issuer Trustees in this
Trust Agreement (other than those specified in clause (b) or (c)
above) and continuation of such default or breach for a period of 60
days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Issuer Trustees and to the Depositor by the Holders of at least
25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Capital
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
(e) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the
Property Trustee if a successor Property Trustee has not been
appointed within 90 days thereof.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and any successor statute thereto.
"Exchange Offer" means the offer to exchange Capital Securities for
the Original Capital Securities pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
"Expense Agreement" means the Agreement as to Expenses and
Liabilities, dated as of the Closing Date, between The Colonial BancGroup, Inc.
and the Issuer Trust, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit D, as
amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 9.1.
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"Guarantee Agreement" means the Guarantee Agreement executed and
delivered by the Depositor and Wilmington Trust Company, as guarantee trustee,
contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, for
the benefit of the Holders of the Capital Securities, as amended from time to
time.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Trust Security or Trust
Securities are registered in the Securities Register; any such Person shall be
deemed to be a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Business
Trust Act.
"Indenture" means the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of
January 29, 1997, between the Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, as trustee,
as amended or supplemented from time to time.
"Issuer Trust" means the Delaware business trust known as "Colonial
Capital II", which was created on February 14, 1997, under the Delaware
Business Trust Act pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement and is continued
pursuant to this Trust Agreement.
"Issuer Trustees" means, collectively, the Property Trustee, the
Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees.
"Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940, or
any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Lien" means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of
trust, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest
or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement
of any kind or nature whatsoever.
"Like Amount" means (a) with respect to a redemption of any Trust
Securities, Trust Securities having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal
amount of Debentures to be contemporaneously redeemed in accordance with the
Indenture, the proceeds of which will be used to pay the Redemption Price of
such Trust Securities, (b) with respect to a distribution of Debentures to
Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution or liquidation of
the Issuer Trust, Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation
Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Debentures are
distributed, and (c) with respect to any distribution of Additional
Distributions to Holders of Trust Securities, Debentures having a principal
amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities in respect of
which such distribution is made.
"Liquidation Amount" means the stated amount of $1,000 per Trust
Security.
"Liquidation Date" means the date of the dissolution, winding-up or
termination of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4.
"Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning specified in Section
9.4(d).
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"Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities" means,
except as provided by the Trust Indenture Act, Capital Securities representing
more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all then Outstanding
Capital Securities.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or one of the Executive
Vice Presidents, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary, of the Depositor, and delivered to the Issuer Trustees.
Any Officers' Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition
or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall include:
(a) a statement by each officer signing the Officers'
Certificate that such officer has read the covenant or condition and
the definitions relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation undertaken by such officer in rendering
the Officers' Certificate;
(c) a statement that such officer has made such examination or
investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to enable
such officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such
covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such officer,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for or an employee of the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.
"Original Trust Agreement" has the meaning specified in the recitals
to this Trust Agreement.
"Original Capital Securities" means the capital securities in the
aggregate amount of $70,000,000, issued by Colonial Capital I on January 29,
1997, pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Trust Securities, means, as
of the date of determination, all Trust Securities theretofore executed and
delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:
(a) Trust Securities theretofore cancelled by the Property
Trustee or delivered to the Property Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Trust Securities for whose payment or redemption money in
the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Property
Trustee or any Paying
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Agent; provided that, if such Trust Securities are to be redeemed,
notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this Trust
Agreement; and
(c) Trust Securities that have been paid or in exchange for or
in lieu of which other Capital Securities have been executed and
delivered pursuant to Sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and 5.11;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Capital Securities have given any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,
Capital Securities owned by the Depositor, any Issuer Trustee or any Affiliate
of the Depositor or any Issuer Trustee shall be disregarded and deemed not to
be Outstanding, except that (a) in determining whether any Issuer Trustee shall
be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Capital Securities that such Issuer
Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded, and (b) the foregoing
clause (a) shall not apply at any time when all of the Outstanding Capital
Securities are owned by the Depositor, one or more of the Issuer Trustees
and/or any such Affiliate. Capital Securities so owned that have been pledged
in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Administrative Trustees the pledgee's right so to act with
respect to such Capital Securities and that the pledgee is not the Depositor or
any Affiliate of the Depositor.
"Owner" means each Person who is the beneficial owner of Book-Entry
Capital Securities as reflected in the records of the Clearing Agency or, if a
Clearing Agency Participant is not the Owner, then as reflected in the records
of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing Agency (directly or
indirectly, in accordance with the rules of such Clearing Agency).
"Paying Agent" means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed
pursuant to Section 5.10 and shall initially be the Bank.
"Payment Account" means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate
trust account maintained by the Property Trustee with the Bank in its trust
department for the benefit of the Holders in which all amounts paid in respect
of the Debentures will be held and from which the Property Trustee, through the
Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Holders in accordance with Sections
4.1 and 4.2.
"Person" means a legal person, including any individual, corporation,
estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, company,
limited liability company, trust, unincorporated association, or government or
any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever
nature.
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"Plan" means an employee benefit or other plan subject to Title I of
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or Section
4975 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
"Plan Asset Entity" means any Person whose underlying assets include
"plan assets" by reason of any Plan's investment in such Person.
"Property Trustee" means the Person identified as the "Property
Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as
Property Trustee of the trust heretofore created and continued hereunder and
not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity,
or any successor property trustee appointed as herein provided.
"PTCE" means a U.S. Department of Labor Prohibited Transaction Class
Exemption.
"Purchase Agreement" means the Purchase Agreement, dated as of January
24,1997, among Colonial Capital I, the Depositor and the Purchasers.
"Purchasers" has the meaning specified in the Purchase Agreement.
"Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Trust Security to be
redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust
Agreement; provided that each Debenture Redemption Date and the stated maturity
of the Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of Trust
Securities.
"Redemption Price" means, with respect to any Trust Security, the
Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid
Distributions to the Redemption Date, plus the related amount of the premium,
if any, paid by the Depositor upon the concurrent redemption of a Like Amount
of Debentures.
"Registration Rights Agreement" means the Exchange and Registration
Rights Agreement among the Depositor, Colonial Capital I and the Purchasers,
dated as of January 29, 1997.
"Relevant Trustee" has the meaning specified in Section 8.10.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, and any successor
statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 5.5.
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"Successor Capital Securities" of any particular Capital Securities
Certificate means every Capital Securities Certificate issued after, and
evidencing all or a portion of the same beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust
as that evidenced by, such particular Capital Securities Certificate; and, for
the purposes of this definition, any Capital Securities Certificate executed
and delivered under Section 5.6 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Capital Securities Certificate shall be deemed to
evidence the same beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust as the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Capital Securities Certificate.
"Time of Delivery" means the date and time at which the Capital
Securities are issued in exchange for the Original Capital Securities.
"Trust Agreement" means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as
the same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the
applicable provisions hereof, including (i) all Exhibits, and (ii) for all
purposes of this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or
supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a
part of and govern this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or
supplement, respectively.
"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 if 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.
"Trust Property" means (a) the Debentures, (b) any cash on deposit in,
or owing to, the Payment Account, and (c) all proceeds and rights in respect of
the foregoing and any other property and assets for the time being held or
deemed to be held by the Property Trustee pursuant to the trusts of this Trust
Agreement.
"Trust Security" means any one of the Common Securities or the Capital
Securities.
"Trust Securities Certificate" means any one of the Common Securities
Certificates or the Capital Securities Certificates.
ARTICLE II
CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST
SECTION 2.1. Name.
The trust continued hereby shall be known as "Colonial Capital II", as
such name may be modified from time to time by the Administrative Trustees
following written notice to the Holders of Trust Securities and the other
Issuer Trustees, in which name the Issuer
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Trustees may conduct the business of the Issuer Trust, make and execute
contracts and other instruments on behalf of the Issuer Trust and xxx and be
sued.
SECTION 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of
Business.
The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is Xxxxxx
Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration, or such other address in the State of Delaware
as the Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Holders, the
Depositor, the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. The principal
executive office of the Issuer Trust is c/o The Colonial BancGroup, Inc., Xxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, Attention: X. Xxxxx Oakley.
SECTION 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational
Expenses.
The Property Trustee acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor
in connection with the Original Trust Agreement of the sum of $10, which
constituted the initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay organizational
expenses of the Issuer Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of any Issuer
Trustee, promptly reimburse such Issuer Trustee for any such expenses paid by
such Issuer Trustee. The Depositor shall make no claim upon the Trust Property
for the payment of such expenses.
SECTION 2.4. Issuance of the Capital Securities.
As of January 29, 1997, the Depositor, both on its own behalf and on
behalf of Colonial Capital I, executed and delivered the Registration Rights
Agreement. Contemporaneously with the consummation of the Exchange Offer, an
Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall manually execute
in accordance with Section 5.2 and 5.3 and the Property Trustee shall deliver
Capital Securities Certificates, evidencing an aggregate of 70,000 Capital
Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $70,000,000, in accordance
with the terms of the Exchange Offer and any related letters of transmittal
which form a part thereof.
SECTION 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and
Purchase of Debentures.
Upon completion of the Exchange Offer, an Administrative Trustee, on
behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall execute in accordance with Section 5.2 and
5.3 and the Property Trustee shall deliver to the Depositor Common Securities
Certificates, registered in the name of the Depositor, evidencing up to an
aggregate of 2,165 Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of
up to $2,165,000. Contemporaneously therewith, the Depositor shall issue to
the Issuer Trust, and the Issuer Trust shall acquire from the Depositor,
Debentures having an aggregate principal amount equal to a maximum of
$72,165,000 registered in the
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name of the Property Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust and, in satisfaction
of the Registration Rights Agreement.
SECTION 2.6. Continuation of Trust.
The exclusive purposes and functions of the Issuer Trust are (a) to
issue and sell Trust Securities and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire
the Debentures in accordance with the Registration Rights Agreement, and (b) to
engage in only those activities necessary or incidental thereto. The Depositor
hereby appoints the Issuer Trustees as trustees of the Issuer Trust, to have
all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth herein, and the
respective Issuer Trustees hereby accept such appointment. The Property Trustee
hereby declares that it will hold the Trust Property in trust upon and subject
to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and the
Holders. The Administrative Trustees shall have all rights, powers and duties
set forth herein and in accordance with applicable law. The Delaware Trustee
shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee
have any of the duties and responsibilities, of the Property Trustee or the
Administrative Trustees set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one of
the trustees of the Issuer Trust for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling
the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Business Trust Act and for
taking such actions as are required to be taken by a Delaware trustee under the
Delaware Business Trust Act.
SECTION 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.
(a) The Issuer Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Issuer Trust
in accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement. Subject to the
limitations set forth in paragraph (b) of this Section 2.7, and in accordance
with the following provisions (i) and (ii), the Issuer Trustees shall have the
authority to enter into all transactions and agreements determined by the
Issuer Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the authority, express or
implied, otherwise granted to the Issuer Trustees, as the case may be, under
this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof, including
the following:
(i) Each Administrative Trustee shall have the power and
authority to act on behalf of the Issuer Trust with respect to the
following matters:
(A) the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;
(B) causing the Issuer Trust to enter into, and to
execute, deliver and perform on behalf of the Issuer Trust,
the Expense Agreement, and such other agreements as may be
necessary or desirable in connection with the purposes and
function of the Issuer Trust;
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(C) assisting in compliance with the duties and
obligations of the Issuer Trust under the Registration Rights
Agreement and the Securities Act and under applicable state
securities or blue sky laws (including by means of
registration of the Capital Securities thereunder from time to
time), and the Trust Indenture Act;
(D) registering the Capital Securities under the
Exchange Act, if required, and the preparation and filing of
all periodic and other reports and documents pursuant to the
foregoing, and assisting in obtaining the registration or
listing of the Capital Securities on any securities exchange
or national trading market;
(E) assisting in the sending of notices (other than
notices of default) and other information regarding the Trust
Securities and the Debentures to the Holders in accordance
with this Trust Agreement;
(F) consenting to the appointment of a Paying Agent,
authenticating agent and Securities Registrar in accordance
with this Trust Agreement (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld);
(G) executing the Trust Securities on behalf of the
Issuer Trust in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(H) executing and delivering closing certificates, if
any, and application for a taxpayer identification number for
the Issuer Trust;
(I) unless otherwise determined by the Property
Trustee or Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Capital Securities or as otherwise required by
the Delaware Business Trust Act or the Trust Indenture Act,
executing on behalf of the Issuer Trust (either acting alone
or together with any other Administrative Trustee) any
documents that the Administrative Trustees have the power to
execute pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(J) taking any action incidental to the foregoing as
the Issuer Trustees may from time to time determine is
necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this
Trust Agreement.
(ii) The Property Trustee shall have the power, duty and
authority to act on behalf of the Issuer Trust with respect to the
following matters:
(A) establishing the Payment Account;
(B) receiving the Debentures;
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(C) collecting interest, principal and any other
payments made in respect of the Debentures and the holding of
such amounts in the Payment Account;
(D) distributing through any Paying Agent of amounts
distributable to the Holders in respect of the Trust
Securities;
(E) exercising all of the rights, powers and
privileges of a holder of the Debentures;
(F) sending notices of default and other information
regarding the Trust Securities and the Debentures to the
Holders in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(G) distributing the Trust Property in accordance
with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement,
winding up the affairs of and liquidating the Issuer Trust and
preparing, executing and filing the certificate of
cancellation with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware;
(I) after an Event of Default (other than under
paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) of the definition of such term
if such Event of Default is by or with respect to the Property
Trustee) taking any action incidental to the foregoing as
the Property Trustee may from time to time determine is
necessary or advisable to give effect to the terms of this
Trust Agreement and to protect and conserve the Trust Property
for the benefit of the Holders (without consideration of the
effect of any such action on any particular Holder);
(J) performing any of the duties, liabilities, powers
or the authority of the Administrative Trustees set forth in
Section 2.7(a)(i)(D), (E) and (I).
(b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Issuer
Trust (or the Issuer Trustees acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust) shall not
undertake any business, activities or transaction except as expressly provided
herein or contemplated hereby. In particular, the Issuer Trustees shall not (i)
acquire any investments or engage in any activities not authorized by this
Trust Agreement, (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge,
set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests therein,
including to Holders, except as expressly provided herein, (iii) take any
action that would reasonably be expected to cause the Issuer Trust to become
taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust for United
States Federal income tax purposes, (iv) incur any indebtedness for borrowed
money or issue any other debt, or (v) take or consent to any
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action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of the Trust
Property. The Administrative Trustees shall defend all claims and demands of
all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust Property adverse
to the interest of the Issuer Trust or the Holders in their capacity as
Holders.
(c) In connection with the issue and sale of the Capital Securities,
the Depositor shall have the right and responsibility to assist the Issuer
Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the following
(and any actions taken by the Depositor in furtherance of the following prior
to the date of this Trust Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all
respects):
(i) the preparation by the Issuer Trust of a prospectus and
registration statement under the Securities Act and the Trust
Indenture Act in relation to the Capital Securities, including any
amendments thereto and the taking of any action necessary or desirable
to effect the Exchange Offer;
(ii) the determination of the States, or other jurisdictions,
if any, in which to take appropriate action to qualify or register for
sale all or part of the Capital Securities and the determination of
any and all such acts, other than actions that must be taken by or on
behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the advice to the Issuer Trustees of
actions they must take on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the
preparation for execution and filing of any documents to be executed
and filed by the Issuer Trust or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, as the
Depositor deems necessary or advisable in order to comply with the
applicable laws of any such States in connection with the sale of the
Capital Securities;
(iii) the compliance by the Issuer Trust with the Registration
Rights Agreement;
(iv) the preparation and filing by the Issuer Trust with the
Commission and the execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust of a
registration statement on the appropriate form in relation to the
Capital Securities, including any amendments thereto and the taking of
any action necessary or desirable to sell the Capital Securities in a
transaction or a series of transactions pursuant thereto;
(v) if so determined by the Depositor, the preparation for
filing by the Issuer Trust and execution on behalf of the Issuer Trust
of an application to the New York Stock Exchange or any other national
stock exchange or the Nasdaq National Market for listing upon notice
of issuance of any Capital Securities;
(vi) if so determined by the Depositor, the preparation for
filing by the Issuer Trust with the Commission and the execution on
behalf of the Issuer Trust of a registration statement on Form 8-A
relating to the registration of the Capital
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Securities under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, including
any amendments thereto; and
(vii) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable
to carry out any of the foregoing activities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the
Administrative Trustees are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of
the Issuer Trust and to operate the Issuer Trust so that the Issuer Trust will
not be deemed to be an "investment company" required to be registered under the
Investment Company Act, and will not be taxable as a corporation or classified
as other than a grantor trust for United States Federal income tax purposes and
so that the Debentures will be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for
United States Federal income tax purposes. In this connection, each
Administrative Trustee and the Holder of the Common Securities are authorized
to take any action, not inconsistent with applicable law, the Certificate of
Trust or this Trust Agreement, that such Administrative Trustee or Holder of
the Common Securities determines in its discretion to be necessary or desirable
for such purposes, as long as such action does not adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of the Holders of the Outstanding Capital
Securities. In no event shall the Issuer Trustees be liable to the Issuer Trust
or the Holders for any failure to comply with this section that results from a
change in law or regulation or in the interpretation thereof.
SECTION 2.8. Assets of Trust.
The assets of the Issuer Trust shall consist of the Trust Property.
SECTION 2.9. Title to Trust Property.
Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the
Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) and shall be held and administered
by the Property Trustee in trust for the benefit of the Issuer Trust and the
Holders in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
SECTION 3.1. Payment Account.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall
establish the Payment Account. The Property Trustee and its agents shall have
exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment
Account for the purpose of making deposits in and withdrawals from the Payment
Account in accordance with this Trust Agreement. All monies and other property
deposited or held from time to time in the Payment Account
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shall be held by the Property Trustee in the Payment Account for the exclusive
benefit of the Holders and for distribution as herein provided, including (and
subject to) any priority of payments provided for herein.
(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account,
promptly upon receipt, all payments of principal of or interest on, and any
other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Debentures. Amounts held in the
Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending
distribution thereof.
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
SECTION 4.1. Distributions.
(a) The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in
the Trust Property, and Distributions (including any Additional Distributions)
will be made on the Trust Securities at the rate and on the dates that payments
of interest (including any Additional Interest, as defined in the Indenture)
are made on the Debentures. Accordingly:
(i) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative,
and shall accumulate whether or not there are funds of the Issuer
Trust available for the payment of Distributions. Distributions shall
accumulate from January 29, 1997, and, except in the event (and to the
extent) that the Depositor exercises its right to defer the payment of
interest on the Debentures pursuant to the Indenture, shall be payable
semi-annually in arrears on January 15 and July 15 of each year,
commencing on July 15, 1997. If any date on which a Distribution is
otherwise payable on the Trust Securities is not a Business Day, then
the payment of such Distribution shall be made on the next succeeding
day that is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment
in respect of any such delay), with the same force and effect as if
made on the date on which such payment was originally payable (each
date on which distributions are payable in accordance with this
Section 4.1(a), a "Distribution Date").
(ii) The Trust Securities shall be entitled to Distributions
payable at a rate, not including Additional Distributions, of 8.92%
per annum of the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities. The
amount of Distributions payable for any period less than a full
Distribution period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months and the actual number of days elapsed in a
partial month in a period. Distributions payable for each full
Distribution period will be computed by dividing the rate per annum by
two. The amount of Distributions payable for any period shall include
any Additional Distributions in respect of such period.
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(iii) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by
the Property Trustee from the Payment Account and shall be payable on
each Distribution Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has
funds then on hand and available in the Payment Account for the
payment of such Distributions.
(b) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a
Distribution Date shall be payable to the Holders thereof as they appear on the
Securities Register for the Trust Securities at the close of business on the
relevant record date, which shall be at the close of business on the fifteenth
day (whether or not a Business Day) next preceding the relevant Distribution
Date.
SECTION 4.2. Redemption.
(a) On each Debenture Redemption Date and on the stated maturity of
the Debentures, the Issuer Trust will be required to redeem a Like Amount of
Trust Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60
days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be
redeemed, at such Holder's address appearing in the Security Register. All
notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price or if the Redemption Price cannot be
calculated prior to the time the notice is required to be sent, the
estimate of the Redemption Price provided pursuant to (and as defined
in) the Indenture together with a statement that it is an estimate and
that the actual Redemption Price will be calculated on the third
Business Day prior to the Redemption Date (and, if an estimate is
provided, that a further notice shall be sent of the actual Redemption
Price on the date on which such Redemption Price is calculated);
(iii) the CUSIP number or CUSIP numbers of the Capital
Securities affected;
(iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to
be redeemed, the identification and the aggregate Liquidation Amount
of the particular Trust Securities to be redeemed;
(v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be redeemed
and that Distributions thereon will cease to accumulate on and after
such date, except as provided in Section 4.2(d) below; and
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(vi) the place or places where the Trust Securities are to be
surrendered for the payment of the Redemption Price.
The Issuer Trust in issuing the Trust Securities may use "CUSIP"
numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Property Trustee shall
indicate the "CUSIP" numbers of the Trust Securities in notices of redemption
and related materials 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 Trust Securities or as contained in any notice
of redemption and related materials.
(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be
redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous
redemption of Debentures. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made and
the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date only to the
extent that the Issuer Trust has funds then on hand and available in the
Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of
any Capital Securities, then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the
Redemption Date, subject to Section 4.2(c), the Property Trustee will, with
respect to Book-Entry Capital Securities, irrevocably deposit with the Clearing
Agency for such Book-Entry Capital Securities, to the extent available
therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give
such Clearing Agency irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the
Redemption Price to the Holders of the Capital Securities. With respect to
Capital Securities that are not Book-Entry Capital Securities, the Property
Trustee, subject to Section 4.2(c), will irrevocably deposit with the Paying
Agent or Paying Agents, to the extent available therefor, funds sufficient to
pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give the Paying Agent or Paying
Agents irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to
the Holders of the Capital Securities upon surrender of their Capital
Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions payable
on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called for
redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust Securities as they
appear on the Securities Register on the relevant record dates for the related
Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall have been given and funds
deposited as required, then upon the date of such deposit, all rights of
Holders holding Trust Securities so called for redemption will cease, except
the right of such Holders to receive the Redemption Price and any Distribution
payable in respect of the Trust Securities on or prior to the Redemption Date,
but without interest, and such Securities will cease to be Outstanding. In the
event that any date on which any Redemption Price is payable is not a Business
Day, then payment of the Redemption Price payable on such date will be made on
the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (without any interest or other
payment in respect of any such delay), except that, if such Business Day falls
in the next calendar year, such payment will be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same force and effect as if made
on such date. In the event that payment of the Redemption Price in respect of
any Trust Securities called for redemption is improperly
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withheld or refused and not paid either by the Issuer Trust or by the Depositor
pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement, Distributions on such Trust Securities
will continue to accumulate, as set forth in Section 4.1, from the Redemption
Date originally established by the Issuer Trust for such Trust Securities to
the date such Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case the actual
payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating
the Redemption Price.
(e) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Trust
Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated pro
rata to the Common Securities and the Capital Securities based upon the
relative Liquidation Amounts of such classes. The particular Capital Securities
to be redeemed shall be selected on a pro rata basis based upon their
respective Liquidation Amounts not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date by the Property Trustee from the Outstanding Capital Securities not
previously called for redemption, provided that so long as the Capital
Securities are in book-entry-only form, such selection shall be made in
accordance with the customary procedures for the Clearing Agency for the
Capital Securities, and provided further that, after giving effect to such
redemption, no Holder shall hold Capital Securities with an aggregate
Liquidation Amount of less than $100,000. The Property Trustee shall promptly
notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the Capital Securities selected
for redemption and, in the case of any Capital Securities selected for partial
redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of
this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions
relating to the redemption of Capital Securities shall relate, in the case of
any Capital Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of Capital Securities that has been or is
to be redeemed.
SECTION 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities.
(a) Payment of Distributions (including any Additional Distributions)
on, the Redemption Price of, and the Liquidation Distribution in respect of the
Trust Securities, as applicable, shall be made, subject to Section 4.2(e), pro
rata among the Common Securities and the Capital Securities based on the
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities; provided, however, that if on any
Distribution Date, Redemption Date or Liquidation Date any Event of Default
resulting from a Debenture Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(1) or
5.1(2) of the Indenture shall have occurred and be continuing, no payment of
any Distribution (including any Additional Distributions) on, Redemption Price
of, or Liquidation Distribution in respect of any Common Security, and no other
payment on account of the redemption, liquidation or other acquisition of
Common Securities, shall be made unless payment in full in cash of all
accumulated and unpaid Distributions (including any Additional Distributions)
on all Outstanding Capital Securities for all Distribution periods terminating
on or prior thereto, or in the case of payment of the Redemption Price the full
amount of such Redemption Price on all Outstanding Capital Securities then
called for redemption, or in the case of payment of the Liquidation
Distribution the full amount of such Liquidation Distribution on all
Outstanding Capital
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Securities, shall have been made or provided for, and all funds immediately
available to the Property Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full
in cash of all Distributions (including any Additional Distributions) on, the
Redemption Price of or the Liquidation Distribution in respect of the Capital
Securities then due and payable.
(b) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting
from any Debenture Event of Default, the Holder of the Common Securities shall
have no right to act with respect to any such Event of Default under this Trust
Agreement until the effect of all such Events of Default with respect to the
Capital Securities have been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated. Until all
such Events of Default under this Trust Agreement with respect to the Capital
Securities have been so cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property
Trustee shall act solely on behalf of the Holders of the Capital Securities and
not on behalf of the Holder of the Common Securities, and only the Holders of
the Capital Securities will have the right to direct the Property Trustee to
act on their behalf.
SECTION 4.4. Payment Procedures.
Payments of Distributions (including any Additional Distributions) or
of the Redemption Price, Liquidation Amount or any other amounts in respect of
the Capital Securities shall be made by check mailed to the address of the
Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the Securities Register
or, if the Capital Securities are held by a Clearing Agency, such Distributions
shall be made to the Clearing Agency in immediately available funds. Payments
in respect of the Common Securities shall be made in such manner as shall be
mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the Holder of all the Common
Securities.
SECTION 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports.
The Administrative Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared),
at the Depositor's expense, and file all United States Federal, state and local
tax and information returns and reports required to be filed by or in respect
of the Issuer Trust. In this regard, the Administrative Trustees shall (a)
prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed) all Internal Revenue
Service forms required to be filed in respect of the Issuer Trust in each
taxable year of the Issuer Trust, and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to be
prepared and furnished) to each Holder all Internal Revenue Service forms
required to be provided by the Issuer Trust. The Administrative Trustees shall
provide the Depositor and the Property Trustee with a copy of all such returns
and reports promptly after such filing or furnishing. The Issuer Trustees
shall comply with United States Federal withholding and backup withholding tax
laws and information reporting requirements with respect to any payments to
Holders under the Trust Securities.
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SECTION 4.6. Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of the Issuer Trust.
Upon receipt under the Debentures of Additional Sums, the Property
Trustee shall promptly pay any taxes, duties or governmental charges of
whatsoever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed on the Issuer Trust by
the United States or any other taxing authority.
SECTION 4.7. Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.
Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Capital Securities (or
any Owner with respect thereto) shall be reduced by the amount of any
corresponding payment such Holder (or Owner) has directly received pursuant to
Section 5.8 of the Indenture or Section 5.13 of this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
SECTION 5.1. Initial Ownership.
Upon the formation of the Issuer Trust and the contribution by the
Depositor pursuant to Section 2.3 and until the issuance of the Trust
Securities, and at any time during which no Trust Securities are Outstanding,
the Depositor shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Issuer Trust.
SECTION 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates.
(a) The Capital Securities Certificates shall be issued in fully
registered form in minimum denominations of $100,000 Liquidation Amount (and in
blocks of at least 100 Capital Securities) and integral multiples of $1,000 in
excess thereof, and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in
denominations of $1,000 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples thereof. The
Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust
by manual signature of at least one Administrative Trustee. Trust Securities
Certificates bearing the manual signatures of individuals who were, at the time
when such signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of
the Issuer Trust, shall be validly issued and entitled to the benefits of this
Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them shall
have ceased to be so authorized prior to the delivery of such Trust Securities
Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of delivery of such Trust
Securities Certificates. A transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall
become a Holder, and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the
obligations of a Holder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust
Securities Certificate in such transferee's name pursuant to Section 5.5.
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(b) Upon their original issuance, Capital Securities Certificates may
be issued in the form of one or more Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificates
registered in the name of DTC, as Clearing Agency, or its nominee and deposited
with DTC or a custodian for DTC for credit by DTC to the respective accounts of
the Owners thereof (or such other accounts as they may direct).
(c) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common
Securities shall be issued to the Depositor in the form of a definitive Common
Securities Certificate.
SECTION 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates.
At the Time of Delivery, the Administrative Trustees shall cause Trust
Securities Certificates, in an aggregate Liquidation Amount as provided in
Sections 2.4 and 2.5, to be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust and
delivered to or upon the written order of the Depositor, executed by an
authorized officer thereof, without further corporate action by the Depositor,
in authorized denominations.
SECTION 5.4. Book-Entry Capital Securities.
(a) Each Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate issued under this
Trust Agreement shall be registered in the name of the Clearing Agency or a
nominee thereof and delivered to such Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof or
custodian therefor, and each such Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate
shall constitute a single Capital Securities Certificate for all purposes of
this Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust Agreement, no
Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate may be exchanged in whole or in part
for Capital Securities Certificates registered, and no transfer of a Book-Entry
Capital Securities Certificate in whole or in part may be registered, in the
name of any Person other than the Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof unless
(i) the Clearing Agency advises the Property Trustee in writing that the
Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities with respect to the Book-Entry Capital Securities
Certificates, and the Property Trustee is unable to locate a qualified
successor, (ii) the Issuer Trust at its option advises the Clearing Agency in
writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Clearing
Agency, or (iii) a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
Upon the occurrence of any event specified in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above,
the Property Trustee shall notify the Clearing Agency and instruct the Clearing
Agency to notify all Owners of Book-Entry Capital Securities, the Delaware
Trustee and the Administrative Trustees of the occurrence of such event and of
the availability of the Definitive Capital Securities Certificates to Owners of
the Capital Securities requesting the same; provided, however, that no
Definitive Capital Securities Certificate shall be issued in an amount
representing less than 100 Capital Securities.
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(c) If any Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate is to be
exchanged for other Capital Securities Certificates or canceled in whole, it
shall be surrendered by or on behalf of the Clearing Agency or its nominee for
exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article V. If any Book-Entry
Capital Securities Certificate is to be exchanged for other Capital Securities
Certificates or canceled in part, or if any other Capital Securities
Certificate is to be exchanged in whole or in part for Book-Entry Capital
Securities represented by a Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate, then
either (i) such Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate shall be so
surrendered for exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article V or (ii)
the aggregate Liquidation Amount represented by such Book-Entry Capital
Securities Certificate shall be reduced, subject to Section 5.2, or increased
by an amount equal to that portion of the Liquidation Amount represented by the
Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate to be so exchanged or cancelled, or
equal to that portion of the Liquidation Amount represented by such other
Capital Securities Certificates to be so exchanged for Book-Entry Capital
Securities represented thereby, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate
adjustment made on the records of the Securities Registrar with notice to the
Property Trustee, whereupon the Property Trustee, in accordance with the
Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Clearing Agency or its authorized
representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records. Upon any such
surrender or adjustment of a Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate by the
Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions, the Administrative
Trustees, or any one of them, shall, subject to Section 5.5(b) and as otherwise
provided in this Article V, execute the Definitive Capital Securities
Certificates issuable in exchange for such Book-Entry Capital Securities
Certificate (or any portion thereof) in accordance with the instructions of the
Clearing Agency; provided, however, that no Definitive Capital Securities
Certificate shall be issued in an amount representing less than 100 Capital
Securities. None of the Securities Registrar or the Issuer Trustees shall be
liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely
on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions. The Definitive
Capital Securities Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or
may be produced in any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Trustees, as evidenced by the execution thereof by the
Administrative Trustees or any one of them.
(d) Every Capital Securities Certificate executed and delivered upon
registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Book-Entry
Capital Securities Certificate or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this
Article V or Section 4.2 or otherwise, shall be executed and delivered in the
form of, and shall be, a Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate, unless such
Capital Securities Certificate is registered in the name of a Person other than
the Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof.
(e) The Clearing Agency or its nominee, as registered owner of a
Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate, shall be the Holder of such
Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate for all purposes under this Agreement
and the Capital Securities, and Owners with respect to a Book-Entry Capital
Securities Certificate shall hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable
Procedures. The Securities Registrar and the Issuer Trustees shall be entitled
to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Trust Agreement
relating to the
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Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificates (including the payment of the
Liquidation Amount of and Distributions on the Book-Entry Capital Securities
represented thereby and the giving of instructions or directions by or to
Owners of Book-Entry Capital Securities represented thereby) as the sole
Holder of the Book-Entry Capital Securities represented thereby and shall have
no obligations to the Owners thereof. None of the Depositor, the Issuer
Trustees nor the Securities Registrar shall have any liability in respect of
any transfers effected by the Clearing Agency.
(f) The rights of the Owners of the Book-Entry Capital Securities
shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to
those established by law, the Applicable Procedures and agreements between such
Owners and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants.
SECTION 5.5. Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain
Transfers and Exchanges.
(a) The Property Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office
or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.9, a register or registers (the
"Securities Register") in which the registrar and transfer agent with respect
to the Trust Securities (the "Securities Registrar"), subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for the registration
of Capital Securities Certificates and (subject to Section 5.11) Common
Securities Certificates and of transfers and exchanges of Capital Securities
Certificates as herein provided. The Property Trustee is hereby appointed
Securities Registrar for the purpose of registering Capital Securities
Certificates and (subject to Section 5.11) Common Securities and transfers and
exchanges thereof as provided herein.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Capital Securities
Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 5.9, the
Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute and deliver to the
Property Trustee, and the Property Trustee shall deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Capital Securities
Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount
and bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Agreement,
dated the date of execution by such Administrative Trustee or Trustees;
provided that no Holder may transfer any Capital Security if giving effect to
such transfer would cause any Holder to hold less than $100,000 aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Capital Securities. Any purported transfer prohibited by
the preceding proviso shall be null and void and of no force or effect and the
purported transferee of the affected Capital Securities shall be deemed to have
no interest whatsoever in such Capital Securities.
At the option of the Holder, Capital Securities Certificates may be
exchanged for other Capital Securities Certificates of the same series of any
authorized denominations, of like tenor and aggregate Liquidation Amount,
bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by this Agreement and
bearing a number not contemporaneously Outstanding, upon surrender of the
Capital Securities Certificates to be exchanged at such office or
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agency. Whenever any Capital Securities Certificates are so surrendered for
exchange, the Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute and
deliver to the Property Trustee, and the Property Trustee shall deliver, the
Capital Securities Certificates that the Holder making the exchange is entitled
to receive.
All Capital Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Capital
Securities shall evidence the same interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust,
and entitled to the same benefits under this Agreement, as the Capital
Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
The Securities Registrar shall not be required, (i) to issue, register
the transfer of or exchange any Capital Security during a period beginning at
the opening of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of
such Capital Securities pursuant to Article IV and ending at the close of
business on the day of mailing of the notice of redemption, or (ii) to register
the transfer of or exchange any Capital Security so selected for redemption in
whole or in part, except, in the case of any such Capital Security to be
redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.
Every Capital Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed, or be accompanied
by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to an Administrative
Trustee and the Securities Registrar duly executed by the Holder or such
Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing. Each Capital Securities
Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be
cancelled and subsequently disposed of by the Property Trustee in accordance
with its customary practice.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Capital Securities Certificates, but the Issuer Trust may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Capital Securities
Certificates.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust Agreement,
transfers and exchanges of Capital Securities Certificates and Book-Entry
Capital Securities shall be made only in accordance with this Section 5.5(b).
(i) Non-Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate to
Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate. If the Holder of a Capital
Securities Certificate (other than a Book-Entry Capital Securities
Certificate) wishes at any time to transfer all or any portion of such
Capital Securities Certificate to a Person who wishes to take delivery
thereof in the form of a beneficial interest in a Book-Entry Capital
Securities Certificate, such transfer may be effected only in
accordance with the provisions of this Clause (b)(i) and subject to
the Applicable Procedures. Upon receipt by the Securities Registrar of
(A) such Capital Securities Certificate as provided in Section 5.5(a)
and instructions satisfactory to the Securities Registrar directing
that
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a specified number of Book-Entry Capital Securities to be represented
by such Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate not greater than the
number of Capital Securities represented by such Capital Securities
Certificate be credited to a specified Clearing Agency Participant's
account and (B) if the Capital Securities Certificate to be
transferred evidences Restricted Capital Securities, a Restricted
Securities Certificate duly executed by such Holder or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing, then the Securities Registrar
shall cancel such Capital Securities Certificate (and issue a new
Capital Securities Certificate in respect of any untransferred portion
thereof) as provided in Section 5.5(a) and increase the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of the Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate by
the Liquidation Amount of such Capital Securities so transferred as
provided in Section 5.4(c).
(ii) Non-Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate to
Non-Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate. A Capital Securities
Certificate that is not a Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate
may be transferred, in whole or in part, to a Person who takes
delivery in the form of another Capital Securities Certificate that is
not a Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate as provided in Section
5.5(a), provided that if the Capital Securities Certificate to be
transferred evidences Restricted Capital Securities, then the
Securities Registrar shall have received a Restricted Securities
Certificate duly executed by the transferor Holder or such Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing.
(iii) Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate to
Non-Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate. A beneficial interest
in a Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate may be exchanged for a
Capital Securities Certificate that is not a Book-Entry Capital
Securities Certificate as provided in Section 5.4.
(iv) Certain Initial Transfers of Non-Book-Entry Capital
Securities Certificates. In the case of Capital Securities
Certificates initially issued other than in global form, an initial
transfer or exchange of such Capital Securities Certificates that does
not involve any change in beneficial ownership may be made to an
Institutional Accredited Investor or Investors as if such transfer or
exchange were not an initial transfer or exchange, provided that
written certification shall be provided by the transferor and
transferee of such Capital Securities to the Securities Registrar that
such transfer or exchange does not involve a change in beneficial
ownership.
(v) Limitations Relating to Size of Blocks. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Trust Agreement, Capital Securities may be
transferred or exchanged only in blocks having a Liquidation Amount of
not less than $100,000, and only if, following such transfer or
exchange, each Holder would hold Capital Securities with an aggregate
Liquidation Amount of not less than $100,000. Any transfer, exchange
or other disposition of Capital Securities in contravention of this
Section 5.5(b)(v) shall be deemed to be void and of no legal effect
whatsoever, any such transferee shall be deemed not to be the Holder
or Owner of such Capital
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Security for any purpose, including but not limited to the receipt of
Distributions on such Capital Securities, and such transferee shall be
deemed to have no interest whatsoever in such Capital Securities.
(c) The Depositor or an Administrative Trustee shall inform the
Property Trustee in writing of the effective date of any registration statement
registering the Capital Securities under the Securities Act and shall notify
the Property Trustee at any time when prospectuses may not be delivered with
respect to Capital Securities to be sold pursuant to such registration
statement. The Property Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the aforementioned
registration statement.
(d) Any purchaser or Holder of any Capital Securities or any interest
therein will be deemed to have represented by its purchase and holding thereof
that it either (i) is not a Plan or a Plan Asset Entity and is not purchasing
such Capital Securities on behalf of or with "plan assets" of any Plan, or (ii)
is eligible for the exemptive relief available under PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38,
90-1 or 84-14 or another applicable exemption with respect to such purchase or
holding. The Securities Registrar may, and if the Depositor shall so request,
the Securities Registrar shall, before registering for transfer or exchange any
Capital Securities Certificates as provided in Sections 5.2, 5.4 or 5.5 of this
Trust Agreement, (A) require the purchaser or Holder of such Capital Securities
Certificates to confirm that it either (x) is not a Plan, a Plan Asset Entity
or a Person investing "plan assets" of any Plan or (y) is eligible for the
exemptive relief available under PTCE 96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 or 84-14, and
(B) if such purchaser or Holder does not provide such confirmation, require an
Opinion of Counsel or other evidence satisfactory to the Depositor of the
availability to such purchaser or Holder of another applicable exemption with
respect to such purchase or holding.
SECTION 5.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities
Certificates.
If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be surrendered
to the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall receive
evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust
Securities Certificate, and (b) there shall be delivered to the Securities
Registrar and the Administrative Trustees such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice
that such Trust Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the
Issuer Trust shall execute and make available for delivery, in exchange for or
in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Securities
Certificate, a new Trust Securities Certificate of like class, tenor and
denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new Trust Securities
Certificate under this Section 5.6, the Administrative Trustees or the
Securities Registrar may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection therewith.
Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued pursuant to this Section 5.6
shall constitute conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest
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in the assets of the Issuer Trust corresponding to that evidenced by the lost,
stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate, as if originally issued,
whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities Certificate shall
be found at any time.
SECTION 5.7. Persons Deemed Holders.
The Issuer Trustees and the Securities Registrar shall each treat the
Person in whose name any Trust Securities Certificate shall be registered in
the Securities Register as the owner of such Trust Securities Certificate for
the purpose of receiving Distributions and for all other purposes whatsoever,
and none of the Issuer Trustees and the Securities Registrar shall be bound by
any notice to the contrary.
SECTION 5.8. Access to List of Holders' Names and Addresses.
Each Holder and each Owner shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold
the Depositor or the Issuer Trustees accountable by reason of the disclosure of
its name and address, regardless of the source from which such information was
derived.
SECTION 5.9. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Administrative Trustees shall maintain an office or offices or
agency or agencies where Capital Securities Certificates may be surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Issuer Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities Certificates may be
served. The Administrative Trustees initially designate The Colonial BancGroup,
Inc., Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000 as its office and agency
for such purposes. The Administrative Trustees shall give prompt written notice
to the Depositor, the Property Trustee and to the Holders of any change in the
location of the Securities Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 5.10. Appointment of Paying Agents.
The Paying Agent or Agents shall make Distributions to Holders from
the Payment Account and shall report the amounts of such Distributions to the
Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have
the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account solely for the
purpose of making the Distributions referred to above. The Administrative
Trustees may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent in its sole
discretion. The Paying Agent shall initially be the Bank and any co-paying
agent chosen by the Property Trustee and acceptable to the Administrative
Trustees and the Depositor. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be
permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the
Administrative Trustees and the Property Trustee. If the Bank shall no longer
be the Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign or its authority
to act be revoked, the Administrative Trustees shall appoint a successor (which
shall be a bank or trust company) that is reasonably acceptable to the
Depositor to act as Paying Agent. Such successor Paying Agent or any additional
Paying Agent shall execute
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and deliver to the Issuer Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying
Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Issuer Trustees that as
Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold
all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Holders in trust for the
benefit of the Holders entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such
Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Property
Trustee and upon removal of a Paying Agent such Paying Agent shall also return
all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions of
Sections 8.1, 8.3 and 8.6 herein shall apply to the Bank also in its role as
Paying Agent, for so long as the Bank shall act as Paying Agent and, to the
extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any reference
in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying agent unless
the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 5.11. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor.
At the Time of Delivery, the Depositor shall acquire, and thereafter
shall retain, beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. Neither
the Depositor nor any successor Holder of the Common Securities may transfer
less than all the Common Securities, and the Depositor or any such successor
Holder may transfer the Common Securities only (i) in connection with a
consolidation or merger of the Depositor into another corporation, or any
conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person, pursuant to Section 8.1 of the
Indenture, or (ii) to the Depositor or an Affiliate of the Depositor in
compliance with applicable law (including the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and applicable state securities and blue sky laws). To the fullest
extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities other
than as set forth in the next proceeding sentence shall be void. The
Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued
to the Depositor to contain a legend stating substantially "THIS CERTIFICATE IS
NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT TO THE DEPOSITOR OR AN AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR IN
COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 5.11 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT."
SECTION 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency.
To the extent that a notice or other communication to the Holders is
required under this Trust Agreement, for so long as Capital Securities are
represented by a Book-Entry Capital Securities Certificate, the Issuer Trustees
shall give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to
the Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations to the Owners.
SECTION 5.13. Rights of Holders; Waivers of Past Defaults.
(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the
Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in accordance with Section 2.9, and
the Holders shall not have any right or title therein other than the undivided
beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer
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Trust conferred by their Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call
for any partition or division of property, profits or rights of the Issuer
Trust except as described below. The Trust Securities shall be personal
property giving only the rights specifically set forth therein and in this
Trust Agreement. The Trust Securities shall have no preemptive or similar
rights and when issued and delivered to Holders against payment of the purchase
price therefor will be fully paid and nonassessable by the Issuer Trust. The
Holders of the Trust Securities, in their capacities as such, shall be entitled
to the same limitation of personal liability extended to stockholders of
private corporations for profit organized under the General Corporation Law of
the State of Delaware.
(b) For so long as any Capital Securities remain Outstanding, if, upon
a Debenture Event of Default, the Debenture Trustee fails or the holders of not
less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Debentures fail to declare
the principal of all of the Debentures to be immediately due and payable, the
Holders of at least 25% in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities then
Outstanding shall have the right to make such declaration by a notice in
writing to the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the Debenture Trustee.
At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the
Debentures has been made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the
money due has been obtained by the Debenture Trustee as provided in the
Indenture, if the Property Trustee fails to annul any such declaration and
waive such default, the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of
the Capital Securities, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the
Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and
its consequences if:
(i) the Depositor has paid or deposited with the Debenture
Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue installments of interest on all of
the Debentures,
(B) any accrued Additional Interest on all of the
Debentures,
(C) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Debentures that have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and interest and Additional
Interest thereon at the rate borne by the Debentures, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Debenture
Trustee under the Indenture and the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Debenture Trustee
and the Property Trustee, their agents and counsel; and
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(ii) all Events of Default with respect to the Debentures,
other than the non-payment of the principal of the Debentures that has
become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or waived as
provided in Section 5.13 of the Indenture.
The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Capital Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Trust Securities,
waive any past default or Event of Default under the Indenture, except a
default or Event of Default in the payment of principal or interest (unless
such default or Event of Default has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all
matured installments of interest and principal due otherwise than by
acceleration has been deposited with the Debenture Trustee) or a default or
Event of Default in respect of a covenant or provision that under the Indenture
cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each
outstanding Debenture. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default
or impair any right consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice declaring such
an acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of any part of
the Capital Securities, a record date shall be established for determining
Holders of Outstanding Capital Securities entitled to join in such notice,
which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the Property
Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly
designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such
notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date;
provided, that, unless such declaration of acceleration, or rescission and
annulment, as the case may be, shall have become effective by virtue of the
requisite percentage having joined in such notice prior to the day that is 90
days after such record date, such notice of declaration of acceleration, or
rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall automatically and without
further action by any Holder be canceled and of no further effect. Nothing in
this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of a Holder, from giving,
after expiration of such 90-day period, a new written notice of declaration of
acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, as the case may be, that is
identical to a written notice that has been canceled pursuant to the proviso to
the preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established
pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.13(b).
(c) For so long as any Capital Securities remain Outstanding, to the
fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Trust
Agreement and the Indenture, upon a Debenture Event of Default specified in
Section 5.1(1) or 5.1(2) of the Indenture, any Holder of Capital Securities
shall have the right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor,
pursuant to Section 5.8 of the Indenture, for enforcement of payment to such
Holder of any amounts payable in respect of Debentures having an aggregate
principal amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital
Securities of such Holder (a "Direct Action"). Except as set forth in Section
5.13(b) and this Section 5.13(c), the Holders of Capital Securities shall have
no right to exercise directly any right or remedy available to the holders of,
or in respect of, the Debentures.
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(d) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of
this Section 5.13, the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of
the Capital Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Trust
Securities, waive any past default or Event of Default and its consequences.
Upon such waiver, any such default or Event of Default shall cease to exist,
and any default or Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have
been cured, for every purpose of this Trust Agreement, but no such waiver shall
extend to any subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
SECTION 6.1. Limitations on Voting Rights.
(a) Except as expressly provided in this Trust Agreement and in the
Indenture and as otherwise required by law, no Holder of Capital Securities
shall have any right to vote or in any manner otherwise control the
administration, operation and management of the Issuer Trust or the obligations
of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth, or contained in the
terms of the Trust Securities Certificates, be construed so as to constitute
the Holders from time to time as partners or members of an association.
(b) So long as any Debentures are held by the Property Trustee on
behalf of the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee shall not (i) direct the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Debenture Trustee, or execute any trust or power conferred on the Property
Trustee with respect to the Debentures, (ii) waive any past default that may be
waived under Section 5.13 of the Indenture, (iii) exercise any right to rescind
or annul a declaration that the principal of all the Debentures shall be due
and payable, or (iv) consent to any amendment, modification or termination of
the Indenture or the Debentures, where such consent shall be required, without,
in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders of at least a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities, provided, however,
that where a consent under the Indenture would require the consent of each
Holder of Debentures affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the
Property Trustee without the prior written consent of each Holder of Capital
Securities. The Property Trustee shall not revoke any action previously
authorized or approved by a vote of the Holders of the Capital Securities,
except by a subsequent vote of the Holders of the Capital Securities. The
Property Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Capital Securities of any
notice of default received with respect to the Debentures. In addition to
obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Capital Securities,
prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Issuer Trustees shall, at the
expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such
matters to the effect that such action shall not cause the Issuer Trust to be
taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust for United
States Federal income tax purposes.
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(c) If any proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for, or
the Issuer Trustees otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would
adversely affect in any material respect the powers, preferences or special
rights of the Capital Securities, whether by way of amendment to the Trust
Agreement or otherwise, or (ii) the dissolution, winding-up or termination of
the Issuer Trust, other than pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement,
then the Holders of Outstanding Capital Securities as a class will be entitled
to vote on such amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not
be effective except with the approval of the Holders of at least a Majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Trust Agreement, no amendment to this Trust Agreement may be
made if, as a result of such amendment, it would cause the Issuer Trust to be
taxable as a corporation or classified as other than a grantor trust for United
States Federal income tax purposes.
SECTION 6.2. Notice of Meetings.
Notice of all meetings of the Holders of the Capital Securities,
stating the time, place and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the
Property Trustee pursuant to Section 10.8 to each Holder of Capital Securities,
at such Holder's registered address, at least 15 days and not more than 90 days
before the meeting. At any such meeting, any business properly before the
meeting may be so considered whether or not stated in the notice of the
meeting. Any adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 6.3. Meetings of Holders of the Capital Securities.
No annual meeting of Holders is required to be held. The
Administrative Trustees, however, shall call a meeting of the Holders of the
Capital Securities to vote on any matter upon the written request of the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding
Capital Securities and the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee may,
at any time in their discretion, call a meeting of the Holders of the Capital
Securities to vote on any matters as to which such Holders are entitled to
vote.
The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Capital Securities, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at
any meeting of the Holders of the Capital Securities.
If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the
Holders present, in person or by proxy, holding Capital Securities representing
at least a majority of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital
Securities held by the Holders present, either in person or by proxy, at such
meeting shall constitute the action of the Holders of the Capital Securities,
unless this Trust Agreement requires a greater number of affirmative votes.
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SECTION 6.4. Voting Rights.
Holders shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 of Liquidation
Amount represented by their Outstanding Trust Securities in respect of any
matter as to which such Holders are entitled to vote.
SECTION 6.5. Proxies, etc.
At any meeting of Holders, any Holder entitled to vote thereat may
vote by proxy, provided that no proxy shall be voted at any meeting unless it
shall have been placed on file with the Administrative Trustees, or with such
other officer or agent of the Issuer Trust as the Administrative Trustees may
direct, for verification prior to the time at which such vote shall be taken.
Pursuant to a resolution of the Property Trustee, proxies may be solicited in
the name of the Property Trustee or one or more officers of the Property
Trustee. Only Holders of record shall be entitled to vote. When Trust
Securities are held jointly by several persons, any one of them may vote at any
meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust Securities, but if more
than one of them shall be present at such meeting in person or by proxy, and
such joint owners or their proxies so present disagree as to any vote to be
cast, such vote shall not be received in respect of such Trust Securities. A
proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a Holder shall be deemed
valid unless challenged at or prior to its exercise, and the burden of proving
invalidity shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than
three years after its date of execution.
SECTION 6.6. Holder Action by Written Consent.
Any action that may be taken by Holders of Capital Securities at a
meeting may be taken without a meeting if Holders holding at least a Majority
in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities entitled to vote in respect of
such action (or such larger proportion thereof as shall be required by any
other provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to the action in
writing. Any action that may be taken by the Holder of all the Common
Securities may be taken if such Holder shall consent to the action in writing.
SECTION 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.
For the purposes of determining the Holders who are entitled to notice
of and to vote at any meeting or by written consent, or to participate in any
distribution on the Trust Securities in respect of which a record date is not
otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the purpose of any other
action, the Administrative Trustees may from time to time fix a date, not more
than 90 days prior to the date of any meeting of Holders or the payment of a
distribution or other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the
determination of the identity of the Holders of record for such purposes.
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SECTION 6.8. Acts of Holders.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other action provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be given, made
or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments
of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by an agent
duly appointed in writing; and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein,
such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are
delivered to an Administrative Trustee. 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 Trust Agreement and (subject to
Section 8.1) conclusive in favor of the Issuer Trustees, if made in the manner
provided in this Section 6.8.
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 such signer's
individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of such signer's authority. The fact and date of the execution
of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the
same, may also be proved in any other manner that any Issuer Trustee receiving
the same deems sufficient.
The ownership of Trust Securities shall be proved by the Securities
Register.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act of the Holder of any Trust Security shall bind every future Holder
of the same Trust Security and the Holder of every Trust Security issued upon
the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof
in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Issuer
Trustees, the Depositor or the Issuer Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled hereunder to take
any action hereunder with regard to any particular Trust Security may do so
with regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security
or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to
such appointment with regard to all or any part of such Liquidation Amount.
If any dispute shall arise among the Holders or the Issuer Trustees
with respect to the authenticity, validity or binding nature of any request,
demand, authorization, direction, consent, waiver or other Act of such Holder
or Issuer Trustee under this Article VI, then the determination of such matter
by the Property Trustee shall be conclusive with respect to such matter.
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SECTION 6.9. Inspection of Records.
Upon reasonable notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property
Trustee, the records of the Issuer Trust shall be open to inspection by Holders
during normal business hours for any purpose reasonably related to such
Holder's interest as a Holder.
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee
and the Delaware Trustee.
The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on
behalf of and as to itself, hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of
the Depositor and the Holders that:
(a) the Property Trustee is a banking corporation, duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware;
(b) the Property Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal
right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust
Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(c) the Delaware Trustee is a banking corporation, duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware;
(d) the Delaware Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal
right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust
Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(e) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and constitutes the
valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Property Trustee and the
Delaware Trustee enforceable against each of them in accordance with its terms,
subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors' rights and to general equity principles;
(f) the execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement
has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other action on the part
of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and does not require any
approval of stockholders of the Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee and
such execution, delivery and performance
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will not (i) violate the Charter or By-laws of the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee, (ii) violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without
notice or lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or
imposition of, any Lien on any properties included in the Trust Property
pursuant to the provisions of, any indenture, mortgage, credit agreement,
license or other agreement or instrument to which the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee is a party or by which it is bound, or (iii) violate any law,
governmental rule or regulation of the United States or the State of Delaware,
as the case may be, governing the banking, trust or general powers of the
Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as appropriate in context) or any
order, judgment or decree applicable to the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee;
(g) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of
any of the transactions by the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee (as
appropriate in context) contemplated herein requires the consent or approval
of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the taking of any other
action with respect to any governmental authority or agency under any existing
law of the United States or the State of Delaware governing the banking, trust
or general powers of the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case
may be; and
(h) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of each of the
Property Trustee's and the Delaware Trustee's knowledge, threatened against or
affecting the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee in any court or before
any governmental authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal that,
individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the
Issuer Trust or would question the right, power and authority of the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, to enter into or perform
its obligations as one of the Issuer Trustees under this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Depositor.
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the
Holders that:
(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued at the Time of Delivery
on behalf of the Issuer Trust have been duly authorized and will have been duly
and validly executed, issued and delivered by the Issuer Trustees pursuant to
the terms and provisions of, and in accordance with the requirements of, this
Trust Agreement and the Holders will be, as of such date, entitled to the
benefits of this Trust Agreement; and
(b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable by
the Issuer Trust (or the Issuer Trustees on behalf of the Issuer Trust) under
the laws of the State of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in
connection with the execution, delivery and performance by either Issuer
Trustee of this Trust Agreement.
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ARTICLE VIII
THE ISSUER TRUSTEES; PAYING AGENTS
SECTION 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Property Trustee, by
the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, but subject to Section
8.1(c), no provision of this Trust Agreement shall require any of the Issuer
Trustees to expend or risk its or their own funds or otherwise incur any
financial liability in the performance of any of its or their duties hereunder,
or in the exercise of any of its or their rights or powers, if it or they shall
have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it or
them. Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Trust Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Issuer Trustees shall be subject to the provisions
of this Section 8.1. Nothing in this Trust Agreement shall be construed to
release an Administrative Trustee from liability for his or her own gross
negligent action, his or her own gross negligent failure to act, or his or her
own wilful misconduct. To the extent that, at law or in equity, an Issuer
Trustee has duties and liabilities relating to the Issuer Trust or to the
Holders, such Issuer Trustee shall not be liable to the Issuer Trust or to any
Holder for such Issuer Trustee's good faith reliance on the provisions of this
Trust Agreement. The provisions of this Trust Agreement, to the extent that
they restrict the duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees otherwise
existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Depositor and the Holders to
replace such other duties and liabilities of the Issuer Trustees.
(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in
respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and
proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be
sufficient revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property
Trustee or a Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof.
Each Holder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it will look
solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent
legally available for distribution to it as herein provided and that the Issuer
Trustees are not personally liable to it for any amount distributable in
respect of any Trust Security or for any other liability in respect of any
Trust Security. This Section 8.1(b) does not limit the liability of the Issuer
Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Trust Agreement or, in the case
of the Property Trustee, in the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Property Trustee shall enforce this Trust Agreement for the benefit of the
Holders.
(d) The Property Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of
Default and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred,
shall undertake to perform only
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such duties as are specifically set forth in this Trust Agreement (including
pursuant to Section 10.10), and no implied covenants shall be read into this
Trust Agreement against the Property Trustee. If an Event of Default has
occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to Section 5.13), the
Property Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by
this Trust Agreement, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise
thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in
the conduct of his or her own affairs.
(e) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve
the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee from liability for its own
negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own wilful
misconduct, except that:
(i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after
the curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have
occurred:
(A) the duties and obligations of the Property
Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions
of this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 10.10),
and the Property Trustee shall not be liable except for the
performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically
set forth in this Trust Agreement (including pursuant to
Section 10.10); and
(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the
Property Trustee, the Property Trustee may conclusively rely,
as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the
opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions
furnished to the Property Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Trust Agreement; but in the case of any
such certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof or
of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically required to be
furnished to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall
be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or
not they conform to the requirements of this Trust Agreement.
(ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by an authorized officer of the Property
Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Property Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of the Holders of at least a Majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available
to the Property Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement;
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(iv) the Property Trustee's sole duty with respect to the
custody, safe keeping and physical preservation of the Debentures and
the Payment Account shall be to deal with such Property in a similar
manner as the Property Trustee deals with similar property for its own
account, subject to the protections and limitations on liability
afforded to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement and the
Trust Indenture Act;
(v) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest
on any money received by it except as it may otherwise agree with the
Depositor; and money held by the Property Trustee need not be
segregated from other funds held by it except in relation to the
Payment Account maintained by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section
3.1 and except to the extent otherwise required by law; and
(vi) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for
monitoring the compliance by the Administrative Trustees or the
Depositor with their respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor
shall the Property Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of
any other Issuer Trustee or the Depositor.
(f) The Administrative Trustees shall not be responsible for
monitoring the compliance by the Issuer Trustees or the Depositor with their
respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall either Administrative
Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Issuer Trustee or
the Depositor.
SECTION 8.2. Certain Notices.
Within five Business Days after the occurrence of any Event of Default
actually known to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in
the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of such Event of
Default to the Holders and the Administrative Trustee, unless such Event of
Default shall have been cured or waived.
Within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the
Depositor's exercise of its right to defer the payment of interest on the
Debentures pursuant to the Indenture, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in
the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of such exercise
to the Holders and the Administrative Trustees, unless such exercise shall have
been revoked.
The Property Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any
Event of Default unless the Property Trustee shall have received written
notice, or a Responsible Officer charged with the administration of this Trust
Agreement shall have obtained actual knowledge, of such Event of Default.
SECTION 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.1:
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(a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of Counsel,
certificate, written representation of a Holder or transferee, certificate of
auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, other
evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action,
(ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the Property
Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions
contained herein, or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the application of
any provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any matter as to
which the Holders of the Capital Securities are entitled to vote under the
terms of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice to
the Depositor requesting the Depositor's opinion as to the course of action to
be taken and the Property Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from
taking such action, as the Property Trustee shall be instructed in writing to
take, or to refrain from taking, by the Depositor; provided, however, that if
the Property Trustee does not receive such instructions of the Depositor within
ten Business Days after it has delivered such notice, or such reasonably
shorter period of time set forth in such notice (which to the extent
practicable shall not be less than two Business Days), it may, but shall be
under no duty to, take or refrain from taking such action not inconsistent with
this Trust Agreement as it shall deem advisable and in the best interests of
the Holders, in which event the Property Trustee shall have no liability except
for its own bad faith, negligence or wilful misconduct;
(c) any direction or act of the Depositor contemplated by this Trust
Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate;
(d) any direction or act of an Administrative Trustee contemplated by
this Trust Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by a certificate executed
by such Administrative Trustee and setting forth such direction or act;
(e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any recording,
filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing or
continuation statement or any filing under tax or securities laws) or any
rerecording, refiling or re-registration thereof;
(f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel (which counsel may
be counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of
its employees) and the advice of such 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 and in accordance
with such advice; the Property Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek
instructions concerning the administration of this Trust Agreement from any
court of competent jurisdiction;
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(g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, unless such
Holders shall have offered to the Property Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by
it in compliance with such request or direction; provided that, nothing
contained in this Section 8.3(g) shall be taken to relieve the Property
Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its obligation to
exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement;
(h) the Property 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, consent, order, approval, bond,
debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document,
unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Holders, but the Property
Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or
matters as it may see fit;
(i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its
agents or attorneys, provided that the Property Trustee shall be responsible
for its own negligence, bad faith or wilful misconduct with respect to
selection of any agent or attorney appointed by it hereunder;
(j) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect
to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the
Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders (which
instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the
Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust Securities in respect of such
remedy, right or action), (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right
or taking such other action until such instructions are received, and (iii)
shall be protected in acting in accordance with such instructions; and
(k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement,
the Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action that
is discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement.
No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any
duty or obligation on any Issuer Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise
any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any
jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which it shall be unqualified
or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or
acts, or to exercise any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive
power or authority available to any Issuer Trustee shall be construed to be a
duty.
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SECTION 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates
shall be taken as the statements of the Issuer Trust, and the Issuer Trustees
do not assume any responsibility for their correctness. The Issuer Trustees
shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of the
proceeds of the Debentures.
The Property Trustee may conclusively assume that any funds held by it
hereunder are legally available unless an officer of the Property Trustee
assigned to its Corporate Trust Administration department shall have received
written notice from the Depositor, any Holder or any other Issuer Trustee that
such funds are not legally available.
SECTION 8.5. May Hold Securities.
Any Issuer Trustee or any agent of any Issuer Trustee or the Issuer
Trust, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee
of Trust Securities and, subject to Sections 8.8 and 8.13 and, except as
provided in the definition of the term "Outstanding" in Article I, may
otherwise deal with the Issuer Trust with the same rights it would have if it
were not an Issuer Trustee or such agent.
SECTION 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.
The Depositor agrees:
(a) to pay to each Issuer Trustee and Paying Agent from time to time
such reasonable compensation for all services rendered by them hereunder as may
be agreed by the Depositor and such Issuer Trustee or Paying Agent, as the case
may be, from time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust);
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse each
Issuer Trustee and Paying Agent upon request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by each Issuer Trustee and Paying
Agent in accordance with any provision of this Trust Agreement (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of their agents and
counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be
attributable to their negligence, bad faith or wilful misconduct; and
(c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify
and hold harmless (i) each Issuer Trustee, (ii) each Paying Agent, (iii) any
Affiliate of any Issuer Trustee, (iv) any officer, director, shareholder,
employee, representative or agent of any Issuer Trustee, and (v) any employee
or agent of the Issuer Trust (referred to herein as an "Indemnified Person")
from and against any loss, damage, liability, tax, penalty, expense or claim of
any kind or nature whatsoever incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of
the creation, operation or termination of the Issuer Trust or any act or
omission performed
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or omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith on behalf of the Issuer
Trust and in a manner such Indemnified Person reasonably believed to be within
the scope of authority conferred on such Indemnified Person by this Trust
Agreement, except that no Indemnified Person shall be entitled to be
indemnified in respect of any loss, damage or claim incurred by such
Indemnified Person by reason of negligence, bad faith or wilful misconduct with
respect to such acts or omissions.
The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the termination of
this Trust Agreement.
No Issuer Trustee or Paying Agent may claim any Lien on any Trust
Property as a result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 8.6.
The Depositor, any Issuer Trustee and any Paying Agent may engage in
or possess an interest in other business ventures of any nature or description,
independently or with others, similar or dissimilar to the business of the
Issuer Trust, and the Issuer Trust and the Holders of Trust Securities shall
have no rights by virtue of this Trust Agreement in and to such independent
ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit of any
such venture, even if competitive with the business of the Issuer Trust, shall
not be deemed wrongful or improper. Neither the Depositor, any Paying Agent nor
any Issuer Trustee shall be obligated to present any particular investment or
other opportunity to the Issuer Trust even if such opportunity is of a
character that, if presented to the Issuer Trust, could be taken by the Issuer
Trust, and the Depositor, any Issuer Trustee or any Paying Agent shall have the
right to take for its own account (individually or as a partner or fiduciary)
or to recommend to others any such particular investment or other opportunity.
Any Issuer Trustee or Paying Agent may engage or be interested in any financial
or other transaction with the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor, or
may act as depository for, trustee or agent for, or act on any committee or
body of holders of, securities or other obligations of the Depositor or its
Affiliates.
SECTION 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of
Issuer Trustees.
(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that is
a national or state chartered bank and eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act to act as such, and that has at the time of such appointment securities
rated in one of the three highest rating categories by a nationally recognized
statistical rating organization and a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000. If any such Person publishes reports of condition at least
annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of its supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section 8.7 and to the
extent permitted by the Trust Indenture Act, 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
Property Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 8.7, it shall resign
immediately in the manner and with
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the effect hereinafter specified in this Article. At the time of appointment,
the Property Trustee must have securities rated in one of the three highest
rating categories by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee
shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal
entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that
entity.
(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee with respect to the
Trust Securities. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural person who
is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of Delaware, or (ii) a
legal entity with its principal place of business in the State of Delaware and
that otherwise meets the requirements of applicable Delaware law and that shall
act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity.
SECTION 8.8. Conflicting Interests.
(a) If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting
interest within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Property 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
Trust Agreement.
(b) The Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture shall be deemed to be
specifically described in this Trust Agreement for the purposes of clause (i)
of the first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.
Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, at
any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the
Trust Indenture Act or of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust
Property may at the time be located, Depositor and the Administrative Trustees,
by agreed action of the majority of them shall have power to appoint, and upon
the written request of the Administrative Trustee and the Depositor shall for
such purpose join with the Administrative Trustees in the execution, delivery,
and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to
appoint, one or more Persons approved by the Property Trustee either to act as
co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any part of such
Trust Property, or to the extent required by law to act as separate trustee of
any such property, in either case with such powers as may be provided in the
instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or Persons in the
capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right or power deemed necessary or
desirable, subject to the other provisions of this Section 8.9. Any co-trustee
or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 8.9 shall either be (i)
a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the United
States, or (ii) a legal entity with its
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more persons authorized to bind such entity. If an Event of Default under the
Indenture shall have occurred and be continuing, the Property Trustee alone
shall have the power to make such appointment.
Should any written instrument from the Depositor be required by any
co-trustee or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to such
co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right, or power, any and
all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged and delivered
by the Depositor.
Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted by
law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following terms,
namely:
(a) The Trust Securities shall be executed by one or more
Administrative Trustees, and the Trust Securities shall be delivered by the
Property Trustee, and all rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereunder in
respect of the custody of securities, cash and other personal property held by,
or required to be deposited or pledged with, the Property Trustee specified
hereunder shall be exercised solely by the Property Trustee and not by such
co-trustee or separate trustee.
(b) The rights, powers, duties, and obligations hereby conferred or
imposed upon the Property Trustee in respect of any property covered by such
appointment shall be conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by
the Property Trustee or by the Property Trustee and such co-trustee or separate
trustee jointly, as shall be provided in the instrument appointing such
co-trustee or separate trustee, except to the extent that under any law of any
jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be performed, the Property
Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such act, in which event
such rights, powers, duties and obligations shall be exercised and performed by
such co-trustee or separate trustee.
(c) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in writing
executed by it, with the written concurrence of the Depositor, may accept the
resignation of or remove any co-trustee or separate trustee appointed under
this Section 8.9, and, in case a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Property Trustee shall have power to accept the resignation of,
or remove, any such co-trustee or separate trustee without the concurrence of
the Depositor. Upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor
shall join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and performance
of all instruments and agreements necessary or proper to effectuate such
resignation or removal. A successor to any co-trustee or separate trustee so
resigning or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section
8.9.
(d) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be personally
liable by reason of any act or omission of the Property Trustee or any other
trustee hereunder.
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(e) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act of a
co-trustee or separate trustee.
(f) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee shall be
deemed to have been delivered to each such co-trustee and separate trustee.
SECTION 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
No resignation or removal of any Issuer Trustee (the "Relevant
Trustee") and no appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee pursuant to this
Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Issuer Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of
Section 8.11.
Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant Trustee
may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Holders. If the
instrument of acceptance by the successor Issuer Trustee required by Section
8.11 shall not have been delivered to the Relevant Trustee within 60 days after
the giving of such notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition, at
the expense of the Depositor, any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee.
Unless a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, any Issuer Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Holder
of the Common Securities. If a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of
them, may be removed at such time by Act of the Holders of a Majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities, delivered to the Relevant Trustee
(in its individual capacity and, in the case of the Property Trustee, on behalf
of the Issuer Trust). An Administrative Trustee may be removed by the Holder of
the Common Securities at any time.
If any Issuer Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting as Issuer Trustee, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of any
Issuer Trustee for any cause, at a time when no Debenture Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holder of the Common Securities, by
Act delivered to the retiring Issuer Trustee, shall promptly appoint a
successor Issuer Trustee or Issuer Trustees, and such successor Issuer Trustee
shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If the Property
Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
continuing to act as the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case
may be, at a time when a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Holders of Capital Securities, by Act of the Holders of a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities delivered to the
retiring Relevant Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Relevant Trustee
or Trustees, and such successor Issuer Trustee shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 8.11. If an Administrative Trustee shall resign, be
removed or become incapable of acting as Administrative Trustee, at a time when
a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holder
of the
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Common Securities by Act delivered to the Administrative Trustee shall promptly
appoint a successor Administrative Trustee or Administrative Trustees and such
successor Administrative Trustee or Trustees shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor Relevant Trustee shall have been
so appointed by the Holder of the Common Securities or the Holders of a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities, as the case may be,
and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.11, any Holder who
has been a Holder of Trust Securities for at least six months may, on behalf of
such Holder and all others similarly situated, or any other Issuer Trustee, may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Relevant Trustee.
The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of an Issuer Trustee and each appointment of a successor Issuer Trustee
to all Holders in the manner provided in Section 10.8 and shall give notice to
the Depositor. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Relevant
Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the Property
Trustee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, if any Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or becomes, in
the opinion of the Depositor, incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy created
by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be filled by (a) the unanimous
act of the remaining Administrative Trustees if there are at least two of them
or (b) otherwise by the Depositor (with the successor in either case being a
Person who satisfies the eligibility requirement for the Delaware Trustee set
forth in Section 8.7).
SECTION 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant Trustee,
the retiring Relevant Trustee and each successor Relevant Trustee with respect
to the Trust Securities shall execute and deliver an amendment hereto wherein
each successor Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (a)
shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer
and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the
Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust, and (b) shall add to or change any of
the provisions of this Trust Agreement as shall be necessary to provide for or
facilitate the administration of the Issuer Trust by more than one Relevant
Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such amendment shall
constitute such Relevant Trustees co-trustees and upon the execution and
delivery of such amendment the resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant
Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such
successor Relevant Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall
become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Relevant Trustee; but, on request of the Issuer Trust or any successor Relevant
Trustee such retiring Relevant Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver
to such successor Relevant Trustee all Trust
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Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring Relevant Trustee
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer Trust.
Upon request of any Issuer Trustee or any such successor Relevant
Trustee, the retiring Relevant Trustee or the Issuer Trust, as the case may be,
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such successor Relevant Trustee all such rights, powers and
trusts referred to in the first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may
be.
No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at
the time of such acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee shall be qualified
and eligible under this Article.
SECTION 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business.
Any Person into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee 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 Relevant
Trustee shall be a party, or any Person, succeeding to all or substantially all
the corporate trust business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor
of such Relevant Trustee hereunder, provided that such Person 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.
SECTION 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or
Issuer Trust.
If and when the Property Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the
Depositor or the Issuer Trust (or any other obligor upon the Capital
Securities), the Property Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against the Depositor or
the Issuer Trust (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 8.14. Property Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other similar judicial
proceeding relative to the Issuer Trust or any other obligor upon the Trust
Securities or the property of the Issuer Trust or of such other obligor or
their creditors, the Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any
Distributions on the Trust Securities shall then be due and payable and
irrespective of whether the Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the
Issuer Trust for the payment of any past due Distributions) shall be entitled
and empowered, to the fullest extent permitted by law, by intervention in such
proceeding or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any
Distributions owing and unpaid in respect of the Trust Securities and to file
such other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to
have the claims of the Property Trustee (including any
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claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Property Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in
such judicial proceeding, and
(b) 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 Property Trustee and, in the event the
Property Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the
Holders, to pay to the Property Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its
agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Property Trustee.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Property
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement adjustment or compensation affecting
the Trust Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the
Property Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding.
SECTION 8.15. Reports by Property Trustee.
(a) Not later than January 31 of each year commencing with January 31,
1998, the Property Trustee shall transmit to all Holders in accordance with
Section 10.8, and to the Depositor, a brief report dated as of the immediately
preceding December 31 with respect to:
(i) its eligibility under Section 8.7 or, in lieu thereof, if
to the best of its knowledge it has continued to be eligible under
said Section, a written statement to such effect;
(ii) a statement that the Property Trustee has complied with
all of its obligations under this Trust Agreement during the
twelve-month period (or, in the case of the initial report, the period
since the Closing Date) ending with such December 31 or, if the
Property Trustee has not complied in any material respect with such
obligations, a description of such noncompliance; and
(iii) any change in the property and funds in its possession
as Property Trustee since the date of its last report and any action
taken by the Property Trustee in the performance of its duties
hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its
opinion materially affects the Trust Securities.
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(b) In addition the Property Trustee shall transmit to Holders such
reports concerning the Property Trustee and its actions under this Trust
Agreement as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times
and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Property Trustee with each national stock exchange,
the Nasdaq National Market or such other interdealer quotation system or
self-regulatory organization upon which the Trust Securities are listed or
traded, with the Commission and with the Depositor.
SECTION 8.16. Reports to the Property Trustee.
Each of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the
Issuer Trust shall provide to the Property Trustee such documents, reports and
information as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act (if any) and
the compliance certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the
Trust Indenture Act. The Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of
the Issuer Trust shall annually file with the Property Trustee a certificate
specifying whether such Person is in compliance with all of the terms and
covenants applicable to such Person hereunder.
SECTION 8.17. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.
Each of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the
Issuer Trust shall provide to the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance
with any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement
that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust
Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer
pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be given in the
form of an Officers' Certificate.
SECTION 8.18. Number of Issuer Trustees.
(a) The number of Issuer Trustees shall be four, provided that the
Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee may be the same Person.
(b) If an Issuer Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason, a
vacancy shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with an Issuer Trustee
appointed in accordance with Section 8.10.
(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy,
incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of an Issuer Trustee shall not
operate to annul, dissolve or terminate the Issuer Trust.
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SECTION 8.19. Delegation of Power.
(a) Any Administrative Trustee, by power of attorney consistent with
applicable law, delegate to any other natural person over the age of 21 such
Administrative Trustee's power for the purpose of executing any documents
contemplated in Section 2.7(a), including any registration statement or
amendment thereto filed with the Commission, or making any other governmental
filing; and
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from time
to time to such of their number or to the Depositor the doing of such things
and the execution of such instruments either in the name of the Issuer Trust or
the names of the Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the Administrative
Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not prohibited by
applicable law or contrary to the provisions of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 8.20. Appointment of Administrative Trustees.
(a) The Administrative Trustee shall initially be X. Xxxxx Oakley and
Young X. Xxxxxx, III, and their successors shall be appointed by the Holder of
all the Common Securities. The Administrative Trustees may resign or be removed
by the Holder of all the Common Securities at any time. Upon any resignation or
removal of an Administrative Trustee, the Depositor shall appoint a successor
Administrative Trustee. If at any time there is no Administrative Trustee, the
Property Trustee or any Holder who has been a Holder of Trust Securities for at
least six months may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of one or more Administrative Trustees.
(b) Whenever a vacancy in the number of Administrative Trustees shall
occur, until such vacancy is filled by the appointment of an Administrative
Trustee in accordance with this Section 8.20, the Administrative Trustees in
office, regardless of their number (and notwithstanding any other provision of
this Agreement), shall have all the powers granted to the Administrative
Trustees and shall discharge all the duties imposed upon the Administrative
Trustees by this Trust Agreement.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, if any Administrative Trustee who is a natural person dies or
becomes, in the opinion of the Holder of all the Common Securities, incompetent
or incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity
may be filled by the unanimous act of the remaining Administrative Trustees, if
there were at least two of them prior to such vacancy, and by the Depositor, if
there were not two such Administrative Trustees immediately prior to such
vacancy (with the successor being a Person who satisfies the eligibility
requirement for Administrative Trustees set forth in Section 8.7).
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ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION 9.1. Termination Upon Expiration Date.
Unless earlier terminated, the Issuer Trust shall automatically
terminate on January 15, 2027 (the "Expiration Date"), following the
distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with Section 9.4.
SECTION 9.2. Early Termination.
The first to occur of any of the following events is an "Early
Termination Event":
(a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the
dissolution or liquidation of, the Holder of all the Common Securities;
(b) the written direction to the Property Trustee from the Holder of
all the Common Securities at any time to terminate the Issuer Trust and to
distribute the Debentures to Holders in exchange for the Capital Securities
(which direction is optional and wholly within the discretion of the Holder of
all the Common Securities);
(c) the redemption of all of the Capital Securities in connection with
the redemption of all the Debentures; and
(d) the entry of an order for dissolution of the Issuer Trust by a
court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 9.3. Termination.
The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees
and the Issuer Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the
latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee
to Holders of all amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the
liquidation of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or upon the redemption
of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2; (b) the payment of any
expenses owed by the Issuer Trust; and (c) the discharge of all administrative
duties of the Administrative Trustees, including the performance of any tax
reporting obligations with respect to the Issuer Trust or the Holders.
SECTION 9.4. Liquidation.
(a) If an Early Termination Event specified in clause (a), (b) or (d)
of Section 9.2 occurs or upon the Expiration Date, the Issuer Trust shall be
liquidated by the Issuer Trustees as expeditiously as the Issuer Trustees
determine to be possible by distributing,
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after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided
by applicable law, to each Holder a Like Amount of Debentures, subject to
Section 9.4(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee by
first-class mail, postage prepaid mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60
days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of Trust Securities at such
Holder's address appearing in the Securities Register. All such notices of
liquidation shall:
(i) state the Liquidation Date;
(ii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust
Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Trust
Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to
represent a Like Amount of Debentures; and
(iii) provide such information with respect to the mechanics
by which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates for
Debentures, or if Section 9.4(d) applies receive a Liquidation
Distribution, as the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees
shall deem appropriate.
(b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect
the liquidation of the Issuer Trust and distribution of the Debentures to
Holders, the Property Trustee, either itself acting as exchange agent or
through the appointment of a separate exchange agent, shall establish a record
date for such distribution (which shall be not more than 45 days prior to the
Liquidation Date) and establish such procedures as it shall deem appropriate to
effect the distribution of Debentures in exchange for the Outstanding Trust
Securities Certificates.
(c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the
Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be
Outstanding, (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Debentures will be
issued to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates, upon surrender of such
Trust Securities Certificates to the exchange agent for exchange, (iii) any
Trust Securities Certificates not so surrendered for exchange will be deemed to
represent a Like Amount of Debentures bearing accrued and unpaid interest in an
amount equal to the accumulated and unpaid Distributions on such Trust
Securities Certificates until such certificates are so surrendered (and until
such certificates are so surrendered, no payments of interest or principal will
be made to Holders of Trust Securities Certificates with respect to such
Debentures), and (iv) all rights of Holders holding Trust Securities will
cease, except the right of such Holders to receive Debentures upon surrender of
Trust Securities Certificates.
(d) If, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 9.4,
whether because of an order for dissolution entered by a court of competent
jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Debentures in the manner
provided herein is determined by the Property Trustee not to be practical, or
if an Early Termination Event specified in clause (c) of
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Section 9.2 occurs, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Issuer
Trust shall be dissolved, wound-up or terminated, by the Property Trustee in
such manner as the Property Trustee determines. In such event, on the date of
the dissolution, winding-up or other termination of the Issuer Trust, Holders
will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Issuer Trust available for
distribution to Holders, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the
Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation
Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to
the date of payment (such amount being the "Liquidation Distribution"). If,
upon any such dissolution, winding up or termination, the Liquidation
Distribution can be paid only in part because the Issuer Trust has insufficient
assets available to pay in full the aggregate Liquidation Distribution, then,
subject to the next succeeding sentence, the amounts payable by the Issuer
Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based upon
Liquidation Amounts). The Holder of all the Common Securities will be entitled
to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such dissolution, winding-up or
termination pro rata (determined as aforesaid) with Holders of Capital
Securities, except that, if a Debenture Event of Default specified in Section
5.1(1) or 5.1(2) of the Indenture has occurred and is continuing, the Capital
Securities shall have a priority over the Common Securities as provided in
Section 4.3.
SECTION 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of
Issuer Trust.
The Issuer Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate,
or be replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any corporation or other body, except pursuant
to this Section 9.5. At the request of the Holder of all the Common Securities,
with the consent of the Administrative Trustees, but without the consent of the
Holders of the Outstanding Capital Securities, the Issuer Trust may merge with
or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or
lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust
organized as such under the laws of any State; provided, that (i) such
successor entity either (a) expressly assumes all of the obligations of the
Issuer Trust with respect to the Capital Securities, or (b) substitutes for the
Capital Securities other securities having substantially the same terms as the
Capital Securities (the "Successor Securities") so long as the Successor
Securities have the same priority as the Capital Securities with respect to
distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise, (ii) a
trustee of such successor entity possessing the same powers and duties as the
Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Debentures, (iii) such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does
not cause the Capital Securities (including any Successor Securities) to be
downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization that
then assigns a rating to the Capital Securities, (iv) such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does
not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of
the Capital Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material
respect, (v) such successor entity has a purpose substantially identical to
that of the Issuer Trust, (vi) prior to such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Depositor has
received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (a) such
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merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease
does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders
of the Capital Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material
respect, and (b) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation,
replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Issuer Trust nor such
successor entity will be required to register as an "investment company" under
the Investment Company Act, and (vii) the Depositor or its permitted transferee
owns all of the Common Securities of such successor entity and guarantees the
obligations of such successor entity under the Successor Securities at least to
the extent provided by the Guarantee Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Issuer Trust shall not, except with the consent of holders of all of the
Capital Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced
by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any other entity or permit any other entity to consolidate,
amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it if such consolidation,
amalgamation, merger, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease would cause
the Issuer Trust or the successor entity to be taxable as a corporation or
classified as other than a grantor trust for United States Federal income tax
purposes.
The transactions contemplated by the Registration Rights
Agreement shall not be prohibited by this Section 9.5.
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Holders.
Except as set forth in Section 9.2, the death or incapacity of any
person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall
not operate to terminate this Trust Agreement, nor entitle the legal
representatives or heirs of such person or any Holder for such person, to claim
an accounting, take any action or bring any proceeding in any court for a
partition or winding up of the arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise
affect the rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of
them.
SECTION 10.2. Amendment.
(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the
Issuer Trustees and the Holder of the Common Securities, without the consent of
any Holder of the Capital Securities, (i) to cure any ambiguity, correct or
supplement any provision herein that may be inconsistent with any other
provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
questions arising under this Trust Agreement, which shall not be inconsistent
with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement, or (ii) to modify, eliminate
or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be
necessary to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be taxable as a corporation
or will be classified as a grantor trust for
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United States Federal income tax purposes at all times that any Trust
Securities are Outstanding or to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be
required to register as an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act; provided, however, that in either case (i) or (ii) such action shall not
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holder.
(b) Except as provided in Section 10.2(c) hereof, any provision of
this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Issuer Trustees and the Holder of
the Common Securities and with (i) the consent of Holders of at least a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities, and (ii) receipt by
the Issuer Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such amendment
or the exercise of any power granted to the Issuer Trustees in accordance with
such amendment will not cause the Issuer Trust to be taxable as a corporation
for United States Federal income tax purposes or affect the Issuer Trust's
exemption from status as an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act.
(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this
Trust Agreement, without the consent of each affected Holder (such consent
being obtained in accordance with Section 6.3 or 6.6 hereof), this Trust
Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any
Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount
of any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as
of a specified date, or (ii) restrict the right of a Holder to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date; and
notwithstanding any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of
the Holders (such consent being obtained in accordance with Section 6.3 or 6.6
hereof), this paragraph (c) of this Section 10.2 may not be amended.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, no
Issuer Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust
Agreement that would cause the Issuer Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the
exemption from status as an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act or to be taxable as a corporation or to be classified as other than a
grantor trust for United States Federal income tax purposes.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary,
without the consent of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees, this
Trust Agreement may not be amended in a manner that imposes any additional
obligation on the Depositor or the Administrative Trustees.
(f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made,
the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee shall promptly provide to
the Depositor a copy of such amendment.
(g) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be
required to enter into any amendment to this Trust Agreement that affects its
own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement. The Property
Trustee shall be entitled to receive
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an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers' Certificate stating that any amendment
to this Trust Agreement is in compliance with this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.3. Separability.
In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Trust
Securities Certificates 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 10.4. Governing Law.
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE
HOLDERS, THE ISSUER TRUST, THE DEPOSITOR AND THE ISSUER TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT
TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE WITHOUT
REFERENCE TO ITS CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS. THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 3540 OF
TITLE 12 OF THE DELAWARE CODE SHALL NOT APPLY TO THIS TRUST.
SECTION 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day.
If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a day
that is not a Business Day, then such payment need not be made on such date but
may be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (except as
otherwise provided in Sections 4.1(a) and 4.2(d)), with the same force and
effect as though made on the date fixed for such payment, and no Distributions
shall accumulate on such unpaid amount for the period after such date.
SECTION 10.6. Successors.
This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the
benefit of any successor to the Depositor, the Issuer Trust and any Issuer
Trustee, including any successor by operation of law. Except in connection with
a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Depositor that is permitted under
Article VIII of the Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee agrees in
writing to perform the Depositor's obligations hereunder, the Depositor shall
not assign its obligations hereunder.
SECTION 10.7. Headings.
The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall
not affect the construction of this Trust Agreement.
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SECTION 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands.
(a) Any report, notice, demand or other communication that by any
provision of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or
served to or upon any Holder or the Depositor may be given or served in writing
by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United States mail,
hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the
case of a Holder of Capital Securities, to such Holder as such Holder's name
and address may appear on the Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the
Holder of the Common Securities or the Depositor, to The Colonial BancGroup,
Inc., Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx 00000, Attention: X. Xxxxx
Oakley, facsimile no.: (000) 000-0000, or to such other address as may be
specified in a written notice by the Holder of the Common Securities or the
Depositor, as the case may be, to the Property Trustee. Such notice, demand or
other communication to or upon a Holder shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand delivery, mailing or
transmission. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon the
Depositor shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon
actual receipt of the writing by the Depositor.
(b) Any notice, demand or other communication that by any provision
of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or
upon the Issuer Trust or any Issuer Trustee may be given or served in writing
by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United States mail,
hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the
case of the Property Trustee to Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx Square North,
0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, facsimile (000) 000-0000,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration; (b) in the case of the Delaware
Trustee, to Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, facsimile (000) 000-0000, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration; (c) in the case of the Administrative Trustees,
to them at the address above for notices to the Depositor, marked "Attention:
Administrative Trustees of Colonial Capital II; and (d) in the case of the
Issuer Trust, to its principal executive office specified in Section 2.2, with
a copy to each of the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the
Administrative Trustees, or, in each such case, to such other address as may be
specified in a written notice by the applicable Person to the Property Trustee,
the Depositor and the Holders. Such notice, demand or other communication to or
upon the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrative Trustees or
the Issuer Trust shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only
upon actual receipt of the writing by the Property Trustee, the Delaware
Trustee, such Administrative Trustees or the Issuer Trust, as the case may be.
SECTION 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition.
Each of the Issuer Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of
the Holders that, until at least one year and one day after the Issuer Trust
has been terminated in accordance with Article IX, they shall not file, or join
in the filing of, a petition against the
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Issuer Trust under any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar
law (including the United States Bankruptcy Code) (collectively, "Bankruptcy
Laws") or otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against the
Issuer Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. The Property Trustee and the Depositor
agree, for the benefit of Holders, that if the Depositor or any Issuer Trustee
takes action in violation of this Section 10.9, then at the expense of the
Depositor, the Property Trustee or Depositor, as the case may be, shall file an
answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of
such petition by the Depositor against the Issuer Trust or the commencement of
such action and raise the defense that the Depositor has agreed in writing not
to take such action and should be estopped and precluded therefrom and such
other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Issuer Trustees or the Issuer Trust
may assert.
SECTION 10.10. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
(a) The Trust Indenture Act shall apply as a matter of contract to
this Trust Agreement for purposes of interpretation, construction and defining
the rights and obligations hereunder. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, if and to the extent that any provision of this Trust Agreement limits,
qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall control.
(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Issuer Trustee that is a
trustee for the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) The application of the Trust Indenture Act to this Trust Agreement
shall not affect the nature of the Trust Securities as equity securities
representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust.
SECTION 10.11. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee
Agreement, Indenture and Registration Rights Agreement.
THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN
BY OR ON BEHALF OF A HOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE OR
FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE
BY THE HOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH TRUST
SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT, THE GUARANTEE
AGREEMENT, AND THE INDENTURE, AND AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND
OTHER TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT AND THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE
THE AGREEMENT OF THE ISSUER TRUST, SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS
AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND
EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE ISSUER TRUST AND SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement as of the day and year first above written.
THE COLONIAL BANCGROUP, INC.
as Depositor
By:
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Name: X. Xxxxx Oakley
Title: Executive Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Property Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Delaware Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
By:
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Name: X. Xxxxx Oakley
as Administrative Trustee
By:
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Name: Young X. Xxxxxx, III
as Administrative Trustee
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