WILLIS GROUP HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, as Issuer WILLIS NETHERLANDS HOLDINGS B.V. WILLIS INVESTMENT UK HOLDINGS LIMITED TA I LIMITED TRINITY ACQUISITION PLC WILLIS GROUP LIMITED, and WILLIS NORTH AMERICA INC. as Guarantors and THE BANK OF NEW...
Exhibit 4.2
XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY,
as Issuer
XXXXXX NETHERLANDS HOLDINGS B.V.
XXXXXX INVESTMENT UK HOLDINGS LIMITED
XXXXXX INVESTMENT UK HOLDINGS LIMITED
TA I LIMITED
TRINITY ACQUISITION PLC
XXXXXX GROUP LIMITED, and
XXXXXX NORTH AMERICA INC.
as Guarantors
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON
as Trustee
Dated as of March 17, 2011
to the Indenture dated as of March 17, 2011
Creating two series of Securities designated
4.125% Senior Notes Due 2016
5.750% Senior Notes Due 2021
5.750% Senior Notes Due 2021
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I |
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4.125% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2016 AND |
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5.750% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2021 |
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SECTION 1.01. Creation of Series; Establishment of Form |
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SECTION 1.02. Definitions |
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SECTION 1.03. Payment of Principal and Interest |
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SECTION 1.04. Global Securities |
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SECTION 1.05. Redemption |
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SECTION 1.06. Additional Covenants |
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SECTION 1.07. Early Redemption for Tax Reasons |
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SECTION 1.08. Additional Amounts |
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SECTION 1.09. Events of Default |
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SECTION 1.10. Notice of Defaults |
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SECTION 1.11. Legal Defeasance and Discharge and Covenant Defeasance |
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ARTICLE II |
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MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS |
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SECTION 2.01. Integral Part |
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SECTION 2.02. Adoption, Ratification and Confirmation |
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SECTION 2.03. Counterparts |
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SECTION 2.04. Governing Law |
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SECTION 2.05. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act |
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SECTION 2.06. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents |
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SECTION 2.07. Separability Clause |
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SECTION 2.08. Successors and Assigns |
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SECTION 2.09. Benefit of Indenture |
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SECTION 2.10. The Trustee |
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EXHIBIT A A-1 Form of 2016 Note |
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EXHIBIT B B-1 Form of 2021 Note |
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FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of March 17, 2011, among XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS PUBLIC
LIMITED COMPANY, a company organized and existing under the laws of Ireland (the “Issuer”), XXXXXX
NETHERLANDS HOLDINGS B.V., a company organized and existing under the laws of the Netherlands,
XXXXXX INVESTMENT UK HOLDINGS LIMITED, a company organized and existing under the laws of England
and Wales, TA I LIMITED, a company organized and existing under the laws of England and Wales,
TRINITY ACQUISITION PLC, a company organized and existing under the laws of England and Wales,
XXXXXX GROUP LIMITED, a company organized and existing under the laws of England and Wales and
XXXXXX NORTH AMERICA INC., a Delaware corporation (collectively, the “Guarantors”) and THE BANK OF
NEW YORK MELLON, a New York banking corporation, as trustee (the “Trustee”).
RECITALS OF THE ISSUER AND THE GUARANTORS
WHEREAS, the Issuer and the Guarantors have heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee
an Indenture, dated as of March 17, 2011 (the “Original Indenture”), providing for the issuance
from time to time of its unsecured senior debentures, notes or other evidences of Indebtedness (the
“Securities”), to be issued in one or more series as provided in the Original Indenture;
WHEREAS, Section 10.01 of the Original Indenture provides that the Issuer, each Guarantor and
the Trustee may from time to time enter into one or more indentures supplemental thereto to
establish a new series of Securities and add certain provisions to the Original Indenture;
WHEREAS, Sections 2.01 and 3.01 of the Original Indenture provide that the Issuer may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental thereto to establish the form and terms of a series of
Securities issued pursuant to the Original Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Issuer, pursuant to the foregoing authority, proposes in and by this First
Supplemental Indenture (this “Supplemental Indenture” and, together with the Original Indenture,
the “Indenture”) to supplement the Original Indenture insofar as it will apply only to two series
of securities to be known as the Issuer’s 4.125% Senior Notes due 2016 (the “2016 Notes”) and the
5.750% Senior Notes due 2021 (the “2021 Notes” and together with the 2016 Notes, the “Notes”)
issued hereunder (and not to any other series);
WHEREAS, the Issuer and the Guarantors have duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Supplemental Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary have been done to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid
agreement of the Issuer and the Guarantors, in accordance with its terms and the terms of the
Original Indenture.
NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the premises and the covenants and agreements
contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
4.125% Senior Notes due 2016 and 5.750% Senior Notes due 2021
SECTION 1.01. Creation of Series; Establishment of Form.
(1) There is hereby established two new series of Securities under the Indenture entitled
“4.125% Senior Notes due 2016” and “5.750% Senior Notes due 2021”.
(2) The Notes, including the form of the certificate of authentication, shall be in
substantially the respective forms attached hereto as Exhibits A and B.
(3) The Trustee shall authenticate and deliver the Notes for original issue in an aggregate
principal amount of $300,000,000 for the 2016 Notes and $500,000,000 for the 2021 Notes upon an
Issuer Order for the authentication and delivery of the Notes. The Issuer may from time to time
issue additional Notes in accordance with Sections 3.01 and 10.01 of the Original Indenture. Any
additional Notes of either series subsequently issued shall not be limited by the aggregate
principal amount of this Supplemental Indenture. Each series of Notes issued originally hereunder,
together with any additional Notes of such series subsequently issued, shall be treated as a single
series for purposes of the Indenture.
(4) The Notes shall be issued in registered form without coupons.
(5) The Notes shall not have a sinking fund.
(6) The principal of the 2016 Notes shall be due on March 15, 2016 and the principal of the
2021 Notes shall be due on March 15, 2021.
(7) The outstanding principal amount of the 2016 Notes shall bear interest at the rate of
4.125% per annum, and the outstanding principal amount of the 2021 Notes shall bear interest at
the rate of 5.750% per annum, both from September 15, 2011 or from the most recent Interest Payment
Date (as defined below) to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be,
payable semi-annually in arrears on March 15 and September 15 (each, an “Interest Payment Date”),
commencing on September 15, 2011, to the Persons in whose names the Notes are registered at the
close of business on the Regular Record Date (as defined in Section 1.02) for such interest and at
the Stated Maturity of the Notes, until the principal thereof is paid or made available for
payment. Interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve
30-day months. Any such interest due on an Interest Payment Date
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that is not so punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the
Holders on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person or Persons in whose name
the Notes are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee (“Special Record Date”), notice whereof shall be
given to Holders of the Notes not less than ten (10) days prior to such Special Record Date, or be
paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange, if any, on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be
required by any such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Original Indenture.
(8) The Notes shall be issued in denominations of $2,000 or any integral multiple of $1,000 in
excess thereof.
(9) The Notes shall be redeemable, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, at the
option of the Issuer on any date (a “Redemption Date”), at a Redemption Price equal to the greater
of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (ii) the sum of the present
values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon (exclusive of interest
accrued to such Redemption Date) discounted to such Redemption Date on a semi-annual basis
(assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 35 basis
points, with respect to the redemption of the 2016 Notes and 40 basis points with respect to the
redemption of the 2021 Notes plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest on the principal
amount being redeemed to such Redemption Date.
SECTION 1.02. Definitions. The following defined terms used herein shall, unless the context
otherwise requires, have the meanings specified below. Each capitalized term that is used in this
Supplemental Indenture but not defined herein shall have the meaning specified in the Original
Indenture.
“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by an
Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to
be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary
financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to
the remaining term of such Notes.
“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date for the Notes, (1) the
average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the
highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Independent Investment
Banker obtains fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such
quotations.
“Depositary” means The Depository Trust Company or any successor thereto.
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“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Issuer
appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.
“Interest Payment Date” means March 15 and September 15 of each year.
“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (1) each of Barclays Capital Inc., Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. and
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any
of the foregoing ceases to be a primary dealer of U.S. government securities in the United States
(a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Issuer shall substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer and (2)
any other Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Issuer.
“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer
and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, of the
bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of
its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker by such Reference
Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the third (3rd) Business Day preceding such
Redemption Date.
“Regular Record Date” means, with respect to each Interest Payment Date, the close of business
on the respective March 1 and September 1 (whether or not a Business Day) prior to such Interest
Payment Date.
“Security Register” means the register, at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or in any
office or agency to be maintained by the Issuer in accordance with Section 3.05 of the Original
Indenture, in which the Issuer shall, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe,
provide for the registration of Securities and of registration of transfers and exchanges of
Securities.
“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (a) the yield, under the heading
that represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently
published statistical release designated “H.15 (519)” or any successor publication that is
published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and that establishes
yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption
“Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the applicable Comparable
Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within three (3) months before or after the remaining term of the
respective series of Notes being redeemed, yields for the two published maturities most closely
corresponding to the applicable Comparable Treasury Issue will be determined and the Treasury Rate
will be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight line basis, rounding to the
nearest month); or (b) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week
preceding the calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the
semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of the applicable Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated
using a price for the applicable
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Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the
related Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate shall be calculated
on the third (3rd) Business Day preceding the Redemption Date.
SECTION 1.03. Payment of Principal and Interest.
(1) If any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or the Stated Maturity of the Notes is not a
Business Day, the payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest, as applicable, will be made
on the next succeeding Business Day. No interest will accrue on the amount so payable for the
period from such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, to
the next succeeding Business Day. “Business Day” means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York are authorized or
obligated by law or executive order to close.
(2) Payments of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on either series of the Notes
represented by a Global Security shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to
the Holder of such Global Security; provided, however, that in the case of payments of principal
and premium, if any, such Global Security is first surrendered to the Paying Agent. If any of
either series of the Notes are no longer represented by a Global Security, (i) payments of
principal, premium, if any, and interest due at the Stated Maturity or on a Redemption Date, if
any, (except, in the case of interest, where the Redemption Date is an Interest Payment Date) shall
be made at the office of the Paying Agent upon surrender of such Notes to the Paying Agent and (ii)
payments of interest shall be made, at the option of the Issuer, subject to such surrender where
applicable, (A) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall
appear in the Security Register or (B) by wire transfer at such place and to such account at a
banking institution in the United States as may be designated in writing to the Trustee at least
sixteen (16) days prior to the date for payment by the Person entitled thereto.
(3) The Trustee shall initially serve as the Paying Agent with respect to the Notes, with the
Place of Payment initially being the Corporate Trust Office.
SECTION 1.04. Global Securities. Each series of the Notes shall initially be issued in the
form of one or more Global Securities registered in the name of a nominee of the Depositary.
Except under the limited circumstances described below, Notes represented by such Global Security
or Global Securities shall not be exchangeable for, and shall not otherwise be issuable as, Notes
in definitive form. The Global Securities described above may not be transferred except as a whole
by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the
Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or to a successor Depositary or its nominee or by
the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor
Depositary, unless and until the Notes are exchanged in whole or in part for Notes in definitive
form.
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Subject to the procedures of the Depositary, a Global Security representing the Notes of
either series shall be exchangeable for Notes of such series registered in the names of Persons
other than the Depositary or its nominee only if (i) the Depositary notifies the Trustee and the
Issuer that it is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities as a
Depositary for such Global Security and no qualified successor Depositary shall have been appointed
by the Issuer within ninety (90) days of receipt by the Issuer of such notification, or if at any
time the Depositary ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act at a time when
the Depositary is required to be so registered to act as such Depositary and no qualified successor
Depositary shall have been appointed by the Issuer within ninety (90) days after it becomes aware
of such cessation, (ii) the Issuer executes and delivers to the Trustee an Issuer Order stating
that the Issuer elects to terminate the book-entry system through the Depositary, or (iii) there
shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with respect to such Global Security. Any
Global Security that is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be exchangeable for
the Notes it represents, as provided in the Original Indenture.
SECTION 1.05. Redemption.
(1) The Issuer shall mail notice of any redemption pursuant to Section 1.01(9) not less than
30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed.
The Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate setting forth the Redemption Price
with respect to the foregoing redemption no later than two (2) Business Days prior to the
Redemption Date. The Trustee shall have no responsibility for determining said Redemption Price
(2) On the Redemption Date, and from and after such date (unless the Issuer shall default in
the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such Notes shall cease to bear interest.
(3) Section 12.03 (Selection by Trustee of Securities to Be Redeemed) of the Original
Indenture is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:
If less than all the 4.125% Senior Notes due 2016 and/or the 5.750% Senior Notes due
2021 (together, the “Notes”) are to be redeemed, the particular Notes to be redeemed shall
be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the
Outstanding Notes not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall
deem fair and appropriate, and which may provide for the selection for redemption of
portions (equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of
Notes of a denomination larger than $2,000; provided, however, that Notes registered in the
name of the Issuer shall be excluded from any such selection for redemption until all Notes
being redeemed and that are not so registered shall have been previously selected for
redemption.
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The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuer in writing of the Notes selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Notes selected for partial redemption, the principal
amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all
provisions relating to the redemption of Notes shall relate, in the case of any Notes
redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such
Notes which has been or is to be redeemed.
SECTION 1.06. Additional Covenants. The following shall be additional covenants to the
covenants set forth in the Original Indenture for the benefit of the Notes only and shall be
effective only so long as the Notes are Outstanding:
(1) Limitation on Liens. The Issuer shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, directly or indirectly, incur or suffer to exist any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien (an
“Initial Lien”), securing Indebtedness upon any Capital Stock of any Significant Subsidiary of the
Issuer that is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Issuer or any of its Subsidiaries, in each
case whether owned at the date of the original issuance of the Notes or thereafter acquired, or any
interest therein or any income or profits therefrom unless it has made or will make effective
provision whereby the Outstanding Notes will be secured by such Lien equally and ratably with (or
prior to) all other Indebtedness of the Issuer or any Subsidiary secured by such Lien. Any Lien
created for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes pursuant to the preceding sentence shall
provide by its terms that such Lien will be automatically and unconditionally released and
discharged upon release and discharge of the Initial Lien.
“Permitted Lien” means a Lien on the Capital Stock of a Significant Subsidiary to secure
Indebtedness incurred to finance the purchase price of such Capital Stock; provided that any such
Lien may not extend to any other property of the Issuer or any other Subsidiary of the Issuer; and
provided further that such Indebtedness matures within 180 days from the date such Indebtedness was
incurred.
(2) Limitation on Dispositions of Significant Subsidiaries. The Issuer shall not, and shall
not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose
of, and will not permit any Significant Subsidiary to issue, any Capital Stock of any Significant
Subsidiary. Notwithstanding the foregoing limitation, (a) the Issuer and its Subsidiaries may
sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of, and any Significant Subsidiary may issue, any such Capital
Stock to any Subsidiary of the Issuer, (b) any Subsidiary of the Issuer may sell, transfer or
otherwise dispose of, and any Significant Subsidiary may issue, any such securities to the Issuer
or another Subsidiary of the Issuer, (c) the Issuer and its Subsidiaries may sell, transfer or
otherwise dispose of, and any Significant Subsidiary may issue, any such Capital Stock if the
consideration received is at least equal to the fair market value (as determined by the Board of
Directors acting in good faith) of such Capital Stock, and (d) the Issuer and its Subsidiaries may
sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of, and any Significant Subsidiary may issue, any such
securities if required by law or any regulation or order of any
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governmental or regulatory authority. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuer may merge or
consolidate any of its Significant Subsidiaries into or with another one of its Significant
Subsidiaries and may otherwise convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets pursuant to
Article NINE of the Original Indenture.
SECTION 1.07. Early Redemption for Tax Reasons.
(a) The Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Issuer in whole, but not in part, at any
time upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice delivered electronically or by
first-class mail, with a copy to the Trustee, to the registered address of each Holder or otherwise
delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary, if:
(i) on the occasion of the next payment due under the Notes, the Issuer has or will become
obliged to pay Additional Amounts (as defined in Section 1.08) as a result of any change in, or
amendment to, the laws or regulations of the Taxing Jurisdiction (as defined in Section 1.08), or
any change in the official application or official interpretation of such laws or regulations,
which change or amendment is announced and becomes effective on or after the date of issuance of
the Notes (a “Change in Law”); and
(ii) such obligation cannot be avoided by the Issuer taking reasonable measures available to
it;
provided that no such notice of redemption shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the
earliest date on which the Issuer would be obliged to pay such Additional Amounts were a payment in
respect of the Notes then due.
(b) Prior to the giving of any notice of redemption pursuant to the Indenture, the Issuer
shall deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel relating to a Change in Law (in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee) and an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer stating that the Issuer is
entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the
conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer so to redeem have occurred. Notes redeemed pursuant
to this Section 1.07 will be redeemed at a Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount
of the Notes being redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to the date of redemption and
all Additional Amounts due on the date of redemption.
SECTION 1.08. Additional Amounts. With respect to any payments made by or on behalf of the
Issuer or a Guarantor in respect of the Notes or any Guarantee of the Notes, as applicable, the
Issuer or such Guarantor will make all payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest
(whether on scheduled payment dates or upon acceleration) and the Redemption Price, if any, payable
in respect of any Note without deduction or withholding for or on account of any present or future
tax, duty, levy, import, assessment or governmental charge (including penalties, interest and
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other liabilities related thereto (“Taxes”) imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed
by or on behalf of the jurisdiction in which the Issuer or such Guarantor is organized or otherwise
resident for tax purposes or any political subdivision thereof or taxing authority therein and any
jurisdiction through which any payment is made on behalf of the Issuer or any Guarantor (“Taxing
Jurisdiction”), upon or as a result of such payments, unless required by law or by the official
interpretation or administration thereof.
To the extent that any such Taxes are so levied or imposed, the Issuer or such Guarantor will
pay such additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) in order that every net amount received by each
holder (including Additional Amounts), after withholding for or on account of such Taxes imposed
upon or as a result of such payment, will not be less than the amount provided for in the Notes to
be then due and payable; except that no such Additional Amounts shall be payable with respect to a
payment made to a Holder or beneficial owner of a Note:
(a) to the extent that such Taxes would not have been so imposed, levied or assessed but for
the existence of some connection between such Holder or beneficial owner of such Note and the
Taxing Jurisdiction imposing such Taxes other than the mere holding or enforcement of such Note or
receipt of payments thereunder; or
(b) to the extent that such Taxes would not have been so imposed, levied or assessed but for
the failure of the Holder or beneficial owner of such Note upon reasonable request by the Issuer
(provided pursuant to Section 1.06 of the Original Indenture) to make a declaration of
non-residence or any other claim or filing for exemption to which it is entitled ; or
(c) presented for payment (when the Notes are in the form of definitive Notes) more than 30
days after the date on which such payment became due and payable or the date on which payment of
the Note is duly provided for and notice is given to Holders, whichever occurs later, except to the
extent that the Holder or beneficial owner of such Note would have been entitled to such Additional
Amounts on presenting such Note on any date during such 30-day period; or
(d) where such withholding or deduction is imposed on a payment to or for an individual and is
required to be made pursuant to Council Directive 2003/48/EC or any law implementing or complying
with, or introduced in order to conform to, such Directive; or
(e) presented for payment (when the Notes are in the form of definitive Notes) by or on behalf
of the Holder of such Note to any Paying Agent if such withholding or deduction of such Taxes could
have been avoided by presenting such Note to another Paying Agent in a member state of the European
Union; or
(f) with respect to any United States withholding taxes, so long as the Issuer or such
Guarantors (pursuant to Section 1.06 of the Original Indenture) provides
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notice regarding potential United States withholding taxes and requests Holders and beneficial
owners to provide applicable U.S. tax forms; or
(g) any combination of the above.
As used herein and for purposes of the Indenture and the Notes, any reference to the principal
of and interest on the Notes and the Redemption Price, if any, shall be deemed to include a
reference to any related Additional Amounts payable in respect of such amounts. The Issuer will
also pay any stamp, registration, excise or property taxes and any other similar levies imposed by
any Taxing Jurisdiction on the execution, delivery, registration or enforcement of any of the
Notes, the Indenture or any other document or instrument referred to therein.
SECTION 1.09. Events of Default. Section 6.01 of the Original Indenture setting forth the
“Events of Default” is hereby amended and restated in its entirety for the benefit of the Notes
only as follows:
“Event of Default,” whenever used herein with respect to the Notes of each series, means any
one of the following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be
voluntary or involuntary or be affected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or
order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) a default in payment of interest (including Additional Amounts) upon any Note of
such series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period
of 30 days; or
(2) a default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on any Note of
such series at its Maturity; or
(3) a default in the performance, or breach, of any other covenant of the Issuer or
any Guarantor (other than a covenant a default in whose performance or whose breach is
elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with or which has been expressly included in
the Indenture solely for the benefit of Securities other than the Notes of such series),
and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been
given, by registered or certified mail, to the Issuer or such Guarantor by the Trustee or
to the Issuer or such Guarantor and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Notes a written notice specifying such default or breach and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a “Notice of Default”
hereunder; or
(4) a default under any Indebtedness by the Issuer, any Guarantor or any of their
respective subsidiaries that results in acceleration of the maturity of such Indebtedness,
or failure to pay any such Indebtedness at maturity, in an aggregate amount greater than
$30.0 million or its foreign currency equivalent at
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the time, provided that the cure of such default shall remedy such Event of Default
under this Section 6.01(4); or
(5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a decree or order
for relief in respect of the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Bankruptcy Law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the
Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly
filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in
respect of the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary under any applicable Bankruptcy Law, or
appointing a Custodian of the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary or of any substantial
part of their property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the
continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order
unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or
(6) the commencement by the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary of a voluntary case
or proceeding under any applicable Bankruptcy Law or of any other case or proceeding to be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or order
for relief in respect of the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary in an involuntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Bankruptcy Law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or
insolvency case or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer or
consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable Bankruptcy Law, or the
consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking possession
by a Custodian of the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary 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,
or the taking of corporate action by the Issuer or any Significant Subsidiary in
furtherance of any such action, or the taking of any comparable action under any foreign
laws relating to insolvency; or
(7) any Guarantee with respect to the Notes of such series shall for any reason cease
to be, or shall for any reason be asserted in writing by any Guarantor not to be, in full
force and effect and enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as contemplated by
the Indenture and any such Guarantee.
SECTION 1.10. Notice of Defaults.
Section 7.02 (Notice of Defaults) of the Original Indenture is hereby amended and restated in
its entirety for the benefit of the Notes only as follows:
Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with respect to the Notes of a
series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of such Notes, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee,
unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of
a default in the payment of the principal of,
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premium, if any, or interest on any such Note or in the payment of any sinking fund or
analogous obligation installment with respect to such Notes, the Trustee shall be protected in
withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a
trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that
the withholding of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of such Notes; and provided,
further, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section 6.01(3) with respect
to such Notes, no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence
thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term “default” means any event which is, or after
notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to such Notes.
SECTION 1.11. Legal Defeasance and Discharge and Covenant Defeasance. Section 5.03 and
Section 5.04 of the Original Indenture do hereby apply to all of the outstanding Notes; provided,
that, solely with respect to the Notes, the reference to Section 6.01(4) in Section 5.04 shall be
amended to be a reference to Section 6.01(3) and provided, further, that clause (4) of Section
6.01, as such Section 6.01 shall have been amended by this Supplemental Indenture, shall be subject
to Covenant Defeasance under Section 5.04 of the Original Indenture.
ARTICLE II
Miscellaneous Provisions
SECTION 2.01. Integral Part. This Supplemental Indenture constitutes an integral part of the
Original Indenture.
SECTION 2.02. Adoption, Ratification and Confirmation. The Original Indenture, as
supplemented and amended by this Supplemental Indenture, is in all respects hereby adopted,
ratified and confirmed, and this Supplemental Indenture shall be deemed part of the Original
Indenture in the manner and to the extent herein and therein provided. The provisions of this
Supplemental Indenture shall, subject to the terms hereof, supersede the provisions of the Original
Indenture to the extent the Original Indenture is inconsistent herewith.
SECTION 2.03. Counterparts. This Supplemental Indenture 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.
SECTION 2.04. Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE
PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS LAW.
SECTION 2.05. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If and to the extent that any provision of
the Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with a provision required
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under the terms of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trust Indenture Act provision shall control.
SECTION 2.06. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and Section headings
herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction
hereof.
SECTION 2.07. Separability Clause. In case any provision in the Indenture or in the Notes
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 2.08. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in the Indenture by the
parties hereto shall bind their respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 2.09. Benefit of Indenture. Nothing in this Supplemental Indenture or in the Notes,
express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto, any Security
Registrar, any Paying Agent, any Authenticating Agent and their successors hereunder, and the
Holders of the Notes, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim hereunder or
under the Indenture.
SECTION 2.10. The Trustee. The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for
or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of
the recitals contained herein, all of which are made solely by the Issuer and the Guarantors.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly
executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
The COMMON SEAL
of XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS
PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
was hereto affixed and this DEED was
DELIVERED in the presence of:
of XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS
PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
was hereto affixed and this DEED was
DELIVERED in the presence of:
/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx |
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Title: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | ||||
/s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx |
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Title: Member of the Sealing Committee |
Xxxxxx Netherlands Holdings B.V. |
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By: | /s/ Adriaan Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx |
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Name: | Adriaan Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Managing Director A | |||
Xxxxxx Investment UK Holdings Limited |
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By: | /s/ Xxxx X.
Xxxxxxxx |
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Name: | Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Group General Counsel | |||
TA I Limited |
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By: | /s/ Xxxx X.
Xxxxxxxx |
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Name: | Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Group General Counsel | |||
Trinity Acquisition plc |
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By: | /s/ Xxxx X.
Xxxxxxxx |
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Name: | Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Group General Counsel | |||
Xxxxxx Group Limited |
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By: | /s/ Xxxx X.
Xxxxxxxx |
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Name: | Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Group General Counsel | |||
Xxxxxx North America Inc. |
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By: | /s/ Xxxx X.
Xxxxxxxx |
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Name: | Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||
Title: | Group General Counsel | |||
[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture]
The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee |
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By: | /s/ Xxxxxxxx
Xxxxx |
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Name: | Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx | |||
Title: | Vice President | |||
[Signature Page to Supplemental Indenture]
Exhibit A
[FORM OF FACE OF 2016 NOTE]
THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND
IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED
IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN CERTIFICATED FORM IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN
THE INDENTURE, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A
NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF
THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF
SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH
OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE
& CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL
INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
4.125% Senior Note due 2016
CUSIP No.: 00000XXX0
ISIN No.: US97063PAA21
ISIN No.: US97063PAA21
No. | $ | |
Dated:
XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, a company organized and existing under the laws
of Ireland (herein called the “Issuer”, which term includes any successor Person under the
Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or
its registered assigns, the principal sum of $ on March 15, 2016, and to pay interest thereon from
September 15, 2011 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or
duly provided for, semi-annually on March 15 and September 15 in each year, commencing September
15, 2011 and at the Stated Maturity of this Note, at the rate of 4.125% per annum, until the
principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. The interest so payable, and punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be
paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at
the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be March 1 or
September 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest
Payment Date. Any such interest due on an Interest Payment Date not so punctually paid or duly
provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may
either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice
whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such
Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and
upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Note will be made at
the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for that purpose in the City and State of New York,
or at such other agency as the Issuer may determine, in such coin or currency of the United States
of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts;
provided, however, that at the option of the Issuer payment of interest may be made (subject to
surrender where applicable) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the Security Register or by wire transfer at such place and to such account
at a banking institution in the United States as may be designated in writing to the Trustee
referred to on the reverse hereof at least sixteen (16) days prior to the date of payment by the
Person entitled
thereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, payment of any amount payable in respect of a Global
Security will be made in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary.
The Trustee shall act as Paying Agent with respect to the Securities of this series.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse
hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at
this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to
on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its
corporate seal as of the date first written above.
The COMMON SEAL
of XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS
PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
was hereto affixed and this DEED was
DELIVERED in the presence of:
of XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS
PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
was hereto affixed and this DEED was
DELIVERED in the presence of:
Title: | ||||
Title: |
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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein issued under the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated: | THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON as Trustee |
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By: | ||||
Authorized Signatory | ||||
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
4.125% Senior Note due 2016
This global security certificate represents one of a duly authorized issue of securities of
the Issuer (herein called the “Securities”), issued and to be issued in one or more series under an
Indenture, dated as of March 17, 2011 (herein called the “Original Indenture”), as supplemented by
the First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 17, 2011 (herein called the “First Supplemental
Indenture”) (such Original Indenture, together with the First Supplemental Indenture, the
“Indenture”), among the Issuer, Xxxxxx Netherlands Holdings B.V., Xxxxxx Investment UK Holdings
Limited, TA I Limited, Trinity Acquisition plc, Xxxxxx Group Limited and Xxxxxx North America Inc.
(each, a “Guarantor,” and collectively, the “Guarantors”) and The Bank of New York Mellon, as
Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the
Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights,
limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee
and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof (herein
called the “Notes”).
The Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Issuer in whole, but not in part, at any time
upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice delivered electronically or by
first-class mail, with a copy to the Trustee, to the registered address of each Holder or otherwise
delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary, if:
(i) on the occasion of the next payment due under the Notes, the Issuer has or will become
obliged to pay Additional Amounts (as defined below) as a result of any change in, or amendment to,
the laws or regulations of the Taxing Jurisdiction (defined below), or any change in the official
application or official interpretation of such laws or regulations, which change or amendment is
announced and becomes effective on or after the date of issuance of the Notes (a “Change in Law”);
and
(ii) such obligation cannot be avoided by the Issuer taking reasonable measures available to
it; provided that no such notice of redemption shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the
earliest date on which the Issuer would be obliged to pay such Additional Amounts were a payment in
respect of the Notes then due.
Prior to the giving of any notice of redemption pursuant to the Indenture, the Issuer shall
deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel relating to a Change in Law (in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee) and an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer stating that the Issuer is
entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the
conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer so to redeem have
occurred. Notes redeemed pursuant to this provision will be redeemed at a Redemption Price
equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to
the date of redemption and all Additional Amounts due on the date of redemption.
With respect to any payments made by or on behalf of the Issuer or a Guarantor in respect of
the Notes or any Guarantee of the Notes, as applicable, the Issuer or such Guarantor will make all
payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest (whether on scheduled payment dates or upon
acceleration) and the Redemption Price, if any, payable in respect of any Note without deduction or
withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, duty, levy, import, assessment or
governmental charge (including penalties, interest and other liabilities related thereto (“Taxes”)
imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or on behalf of the jurisdiction in which the
Issuer or such Guarantor is organized or otherwise resident for tax purposes or any political
subdivision thereof or taxing authority therein and any jurisdiction through which any payment is
made on behalf of the Issuer or any Guarantor (“Taxing Jurisdiction”), upon or as a result of such
payments, unless required by law or by the official interpretation or administration thereof.
To the extent that any such Taxes are so levied or imposed, the Issuer or such Guarantor will
pay such additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) in order that every net amount received by each
holder (including Additional Amounts), after withholding for or on account of such Taxes imposed
upon or as a result of such payment, will not be less than the amount provided for in the Notes to
be then due and payable; except that no such Additional Amounts shall be payable with respect to a
payment made to a Holder or beneficial owner of a Note:
(a) to the extent that such Taxes would not have been so imposed, levied or assessed but for
the existence of some connection between such Holder or beneficial owner of such Note and the
Taxing Jurisdiction imposing such Taxes other than the mere holding or enforcement of such Note or
receipt of payments thereunder; or
(b) to the extent that such Taxes would not have been so imposed, levied or assessed but for
the failure of the Holder or beneficial owner of such Note upon reasonable request by the Issuer
(provided pursuant to the applicable notice provision) to make a declaration of non-residence or
any other claim or filing for exemption to which it is entitled ; or
(c) presented for payment (when the Notes are in the form of definitive Notes) more than 30
days after the date on which such payment became due and payable or the date on which payment of
the Note is duly provided for and notice is given to Holders, whichever occurs later, except to the
extent that the Holder or beneficial owner of such Note would have been entitled to such Additional
Amounts on presenting such Note on any date during such 30-day period; or
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(d) where such withholding or deduction is imposed on a payment to or for an individual and is
required to be made pursuant to Council Directive 2003/48/EC or any law implementing or complying
with, or introduced in order to conform to, such Directive; or
(e) presented for payment (when the Notes are in the form of definitive Notes) by or on behalf
of the Holder of such Note to any Paying Agent if such withholding or deduction of such Taxes could
have been avoided by presenting such Note to another Paying Agent in a member state of the European
Union; or
(f) with respect to any United States withholding taxes, so long as the Issuer or such
Guarantors (pursuant to the applicable notice provision) provides notice regarding potential United
States withholding taxes and requests Holders and beneficial owners to provide applicable U.S. tax
forms; or
(g) any combination of the above.
As used herein and for purposes of this Note, any reference to the principal of and interest
on the Notes and the Redemption Price, if any, shall be deemed to include a reference to any
related Additional Amounts payable in respect of such amounts. The Issuer will also pay any stamp,
registration, excise or property taxes and any other similar levies imposed by any Taxing
Jurisdiction on the execution, delivery, registration or enforcement of any of the Notes, the
Indenture or any other document or instrument referred to therein.
The Issuer may, from time to time, without notice to or the consent of the Holders of the
Notes, increase the principal amount of the Notes under the Indenture and issue such increased
principal amount (or any portion thereof), in which case any additional Notes so issued will have
the same form and terms (other than the date of issuance and the issue price and, under certain
circumstances, the date from which interest thereon will begin to accrue and the initial Interest
Payment Date), and will carry the same right to receive accrued and unpaid interest, as the Notes
previously issued, and such additional Notes will form a single series with the previously issued
Notes, including for voting purposes.
No sinking fund is provided for the Notes. The Notes are subject to redemption upon not less
than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice given as provided in the Indenture, as a whole at any time,
or in part from time to time, at the election of the Issuer, at the Redemption Price, which shall
be equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (ii)
the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon
(exclusive of interest accrued to such Redemption Date) discounted to such Redemption Date on a
semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate
plus 35 basis points, plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount
being redeemed to such Redemption Date.
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In the case of any such redemption, the Issuer will also pay accrued and unpaid interest, if
any, to the Redemption Date.
The definitions of certain terms used in the paragraph above are listed below.
“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the
Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to
be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary
financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to
the remaining term of such Notes.
“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date for the Notes, (1) the
average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the
highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Independent Investment
Banker obtains fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such
quotations.
“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Issuer
appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.
“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (1) each of Barclays Capital Inc., Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. and
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any
of the foregoing ceases to be a primary dealer of U.S. government securities in the United States
(a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Issuer shall substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer and (2)
any other Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Issuer.
“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer
and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, of the
bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of
its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker at 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date: (a) the yield, under the heading
that represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently
published statistical release designated “H.15 (519)” or any successor publication that is
published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and that establishes
yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption
“Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if
no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Notes yields for the
two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue will be
determined and the Treasury Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields
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on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month); or (b) if such release (or any
successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not
contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of
the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such
Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate will be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the
Redemption Date.
In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or Notes of like tenor for
the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation
hereof.
The Issuer shall mail notice of redemption not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date, to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed, all as provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire Indebtedness of
this Note or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each
case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal
of the Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantors and the rights of
the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the
Issuer, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority
in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal
amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all
Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the
Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent
or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in
exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon
this Note.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Note shall
not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment
of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have
previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Notes, the Holders of not less than a
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majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and
offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of Notes at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with
such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of
such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted
by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof (or premium, if
any) or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of and any premium and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the
coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the
transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Issuer in any place where the principal of
and any premium and interest on this Note are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the Security Registrar duly
executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or
more new Notes of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal
amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 or
any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to
certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal
amount of Notes of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder
surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the
Issuer or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Issuer, any Guarantor,
the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, any Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose
name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes (subject to Section 3.07 of the
Original Indenture), whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Issuer, any Guarantor,
the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Note that are not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning
assigned to them in the Indenture.
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Exhibit B
[FORM OF FACE OF 2021 NOTE]
THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND
IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED
IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN CERTIFICATED FORM IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN
THE INDENTURE, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A
NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF
THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF
SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY.
UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST
COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER,
EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH
OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE
& CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL
INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
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XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
5.750% Senior Note due 2021
CUSIP No.: 00000XXX0
XXXX No.: US97063PAB04
XXXX No.: US97063PAB04
No. | $ | |
Dated:
XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, a company organized and existing under the laws
of Ireland (herein called the “Issuer”, which term includes any successor Person under the
Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to CEDE & CO., or
its registered assigns, the principal sum of $ on March 15, 2021, and to pay interest thereon from
September 15, 2011 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or
duly provided for, semi-annually on March 15 and September 15 in each year, commencing September
15, 2011 and at the Stated Maturity of this Note, at the rate of 5.750% per annum, until the
principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. The interest so payable, and punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be
paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at
the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be March 1 or
September 1 (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest
Payment Date. Any such interest due on an Interest Payment Date not so punctually paid or duly
provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may
either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice
whereof shall be given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such
Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this series may be listed, and
upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Note will be made at
the office or agency of the Issuer maintained for that purpose in the City and State of New York,
or at such other agency as the Issuer may determine, in such coin or currency of the United States
of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts;
provided, however, that at the option of the Issuer payment of interest may be made (subject to
surrender where applicable) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address shall appear in the Security Register or by wire transfer at such place and to such account
at a banking institution in
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the United States as may be designated in writing to the Trustee referred to on the reverse
hereof at least sixteen (16) days prior to the date of payment by the Person entitled thereto.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, payment of any amount payable in respect of a Global Security will
be made in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary.
The Trustee shall act as Paying Agent with respect to the Securities of this series.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse
hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at
this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee referred to
on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the
Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Issuer has caused this instrument to be duly executed under its
corporate seal as of the date first written above.
The COMMON SEAL
of XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS
PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
was hereto affixed and this DEED was
DELIVERED in the presence of:
of XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS
PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
was hereto affixed and this DEED was
DELIVERED in the presence of:
Title: | ||||
Title: |
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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein issued under the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated: | THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON as Trustee |
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By: | ||||
Authorized Signatory | ||||
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
XXXXXX GROUP HOLDINGS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
5.750% Senior Note due 2021
This global security certificate represents one of a duly authorized issue of securities of
the Issuer (herein called the “Securities”), issued in one or more series under an Indenture, dated
as of March 17, 2011, (herein called the “Original Indenture”), as supplemented by the First
Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 17, 2011 (herein called the “First Supplemental
Indenture”) (such Original Indenture, together with the First Supplemental Indenture, the
“Indenture”), among the Issuer, Xxxxxx Netherlands Holdings B.V., Xxxxxx Investment UK Holdings
Limited, TA I Limited, Trinity Acquisition plc, Xxxxxx Group Limited and Xxxxxx North America Inc.
(each, a “Guarantor,” and collectively, the “Guarantors”) and The Bank of New York Mellon, as
Trustee (herein called the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the
Indenture), and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for a statement of the respective rights,
limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee
and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered. This Note is one of the series designated on the face hereof (herein
called the “Notes”).
The Notes may be redeemed at the option of the Issuer in whole, but not in part, at any time
upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior notice delivered electronically or by
first-class mail, with a copy to the Trustee, to the registered address of each Holder or otherwise
delivered in accordance with the applicable procedures of the Depositary, if:
(i) on the occasion of the next payment due under the Notes, the Issuer has or will become
obliged to pay Additional Amounts (as defined below) as a result of any change in, or amendment to,
the laws or regulations of the Taxing Jurisdiction (defined below), or any change in the official
application or official interpretation of such laws or regulations, which change or amendment is
announced and becomes effective on or after the date of issuance of the Notes (a “Change in Law”);
and
(ii) such obligation cannot be avoided by the Issuer taking reasonable measures available to
it; provided that no such notice of redemption shall be given earlier than 90 days prior to the
earliest date on which the Issuer would be obliged to pay such Additional Amounts were a payment in
respect of the Notes then due.
Prior to the giving of any notice of redemption pursuant to the Indenture, the Issuer shall
deliver to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel relating to a Change in Law (in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee) and an Officer’s Certificate of the Issuer stating that the Issuer is
entitled to effect such redemption and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the
conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer so to redeem have
occurred. Notes redeemed pursuant to this provision will be redeemed at a Redemption Price
equal to 100% of the principal amount of Notes redeemed plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon to
the date of redemption and all Additional Amounts due on the date of redemption.
With respect to any payments made by or on behalf of the Issuer or a Guarantor in respect of
the Notes or any Guarantee of the Notes, as applicable, the Issuer or such Guarantor will make all
payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest (whether on scheduled payment dates or upon
acceleration) and the Redemption Price, if any, payable in respect of any Note without deduction or
withholding for or on account of any present or future tax, duty, levy, import, assessment or
governmental charge (including penalties, interest and other liabilities related thereto (“Taxes”)
imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by or on behalf of the jurisdiction in which the
Issuer or such Guarantor is organized or otherwise resident for tax purposes or any political
subdivision thereof or taxing authority therein and any jurisdiction through which any payment is
made on behalf of the Issuer or any Guarantor (“Taxing Jurisdiction”), upon or as a result of such
payments, unless required by law or by the official interpretation or administration thereof.
To the extent that any such Taxes are so levied or imposed, the Issuer or such Guarantor will
pay such additional amounts (“Additional Amounts”) in order that every net amount received by each
holder (including Additional Amounts), after withholding for or on account of such Taxes imposed
upon or as a result of such payment, will not be less than the amount provided for in the Notes to
be then due and payable; except that no such Additional Amounts shall be payable with respect to a
payment made to a Holder or beneficial owner of a Note:
(a) to the extent that such Taxes would not have been so imposed, levied or assessed but for
the existence of some connection between such Holder or beneficial owner of such Note and the
Taxing Jurisdiction imposing such Taxes other than the mere holding or enforcement of such Note or
receipt of payments thereunder; or
(b) to the extent that such Taxes would not have been so imposed, levied or assessed but for
the failure of the Holder or beneficial owner of such Note upon reasonable request by the Issuer
(provided pursuant to the applicable notice provision) to make a declaration of non-residence or
any other claim or filing for exemption to which it is entitled ; or
(c) presented for payment (when the Notes are in the form of definitive Notes) more than 30
days after the date on which such payment became due and payable or the date on which payment of
the Note is duly provided for and notice is given to Holders, whichever occurs later, except to the
extent that the Holder or beneficial owner of such Note would have been entitled to such Additional
Amounts on presenting such Note on any date during such 30-day period; or
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(d) where such withholding or deduction is imposed on a payment to or for an individual and is
required to be made pursuant to Council Directive 2003/48/EC or any law implementing or complying
with, or introduced in order to conform to, such Directive; or
(e) presented for payment (when the Notes are in the form of definitive Notes) by or on behalf
of the Holder of such Note to any Paying Agent if such withholding or deduction of such Taxes could
have been avoided by presenting such Note to another Paying Agent in a member state of the European
Union; or
(f) with respect to any United States withholding taxes, so long as the Issuer or such
Guarantors (pursuant to the applicable notice provision) provides notice regarding potential United
States withholding taxes and requests Holders and beneficial owners to provide applicable U.S. tax
forms; or
(g) any combination of the above.
As used herein and for purposes of this Note, any reference to the principal of and interest
on the Notes and the Redemption Price, if any, shall be deemed to include a reference to any
related Additional Amounts payable in respect of such amounts. The Issuer will also pay any stamp,
registration, excise or property taxes and any other similar levies imposed by any Taxing
Jurisdiction on the execution, delivery, registration or enforcement of any of the Notes, the
Indenture or any other document or instrument referred to therein.
The Issuer may, from time to time, without notice to or the consent of the Holders of the
Notes, increase the principal amount of the Notes under the Indenture and issue such increased
principal amount (or any portion thereof), in which case any additional Notes so issued will have
the same form and terms (other than the date of issuance and the issue price and, under certain
circumstances, the date from which interest thereon will begin to accrue and the initial Interest
Payment Date), and will carry the same right to receive accrued and unpaid interest, as the Notes
previously issued, and such additional Notes will form a single series with the previously issued
Notes, including for voting purposes.
No sinking fund is provided for the Notes. The Notes are subject to redemption upon not less
than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice given as provided in the Indenture, as a whole at any time,
or in part from time to time, at the election of the Issuer, at the Redemption Price, which shall
be equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (ii)
the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon
(exclusive of interest accrued to such Redemption Date) discounted to such Redemption Date on a
semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate
plus 40 basis points, plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest on the principal amount
being redeemed to such Redemption Date.
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In the case of any such redemption, the Issuer will also pay accrued and unpaid interest, if
any, to the Redemption Date.
The definitions of certain terms used in the paragraph above are listed below.
“Comparable Treasury Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the
Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to
be redeemed that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary
financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to
the remaining term of such Notes.
“Comparable Treasury Price” means, with respect to any Redemption Date for the Notes, (1) the
average of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption Date, after excluding the
highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (2) if the Independent Investment
Banker obtains fewer than five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such
quotations.
“Independent Investment Banker” means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers that the Issuer
appoints to act as the Independent Investment Banker from time to time.
“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (1) each of Barclays Capital Inc., Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. and
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated and their respective successors; provided, however, that if any
of the foregoing ceases to be a primary dealer of U.S. government securities in the United States
(a “Primary Treasury Dealer”), the Issuer shall substitute another Primary Treasury Dealer and (2)
any other Primary Treasury Dealers selected by the Issuer.
“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer
and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the Independent Investment Banker, of the
bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of
its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker at 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption Date.
“Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any Redemption Date: (a) the yield, under the heading
that represents the average for the immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently
published statistical release designated “H.15 (519)” or any successor publication that is
published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and that establishes
yields on actively traded U.S. Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption
“Treasury Constant Maturities,” for the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if
no maturity is within three months before or after the remaining term of the Notes yields for the
two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue will be
determined and the Treasury Rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields
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on a straight line basis, rounding to the nearest month); or (b) if such release (or any
successor release) is not published during the week preceding the calculation date or does not
contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity of
the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such
Redemption Date. The Treasury Rate will be calculated on the third Business Day preceding the
Redemption Date.
In the event of redemption of this Note in part only, a new Note or Notes and of like tenor
for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the
cancellation hereof.
The Issuer shall mail notice of redemption not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date, to each Holder of the Notes to be redeemed, all as provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of the entire Indebtedness of
this Note or certain restrictive covenants and Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each
case upon compliance with certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
If an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall occur and be continuing, the principal
of the Notes may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and
the modification of the rights and obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantors and the rights of
the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the
Issuer, the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority
in principal amount of the Securities at the time Outstanding of each series to be affected. The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal
amount of the Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all
Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the Issuer with certain provisions of the
Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent
or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all
future Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in
exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon
this Note.
As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder of this Note shall
not have the right to institute any proceeding with respect to the Indenture or for the appointment
of a receiver or trustee or for any other remedy thereunder, unless such Holder shall have
previously given the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the
Notes, the Holders of not less than a
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majority in principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding shall have made written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default as Trustee and
offered the Trustee reasonable indemnity, and the Trustee shall not have received from the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of Notes at the time Outstanding a direction inconsistent with
such request, and shall have failed to institute any such proceeding, for 60 days after receipt of
such notice, request and offer of indemnity. The foregoing shall not apply to any suit instituted
by the Holder of this Note for the enforcement of any payment of principal hereof (or premium, if
any) or interest hereon on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for herein.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of the Indenture shall
alter or impair the obligation of the Issuer, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the
principal of and any premium and interest on this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the
coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the
transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security Register, upon surrender of this Note for
registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Issuer in any place where the principal of
and any premium and interest on this Note are payable, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Issuer and the Security Registrar duly
executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or
more new Notes and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal
amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form without coupons in denominations of $2,000 or
any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to
certain limitations therein set forth, the Notes are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal
amount of Notes of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder
surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the
Issuer or the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the Issuer, any Guarantor,
the Trustee and any agent of the Issuer, any Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose
name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes (subject to Section 3.07 of the
Original Indenture), whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Issuer, any Guarantor,
the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
All terms used in this Note that are not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning
assigned to them in the Indenture.
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