FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND AMENDMENT TO SECURITY AND PLEDGE AGREEMENT Dated as of February 9, 2024 to the INDENTURE among UPHEALTH, INC., THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS and WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee and Collateral Agent Dated...
Exhibit 4.1
Execution Version
FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND AMENDMENT TO
SECURITY AND PLEDGE AGREEMENT
Dated as of February 9, 2024
to the
INDENTURE
among
THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS
and
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee and Collateral Agent
Dated as of August 18, 2022
and the
SECURITY AND PLEDGE AGREEMENT
Dated as of August 18, 2022
by and among
each Grantor from time to time party thereto
and
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as the Collateral Agent for the Secured Parties
Variable Rate Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2025
FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND AMENDMENT TO SECURITY AND PLEDGE AGREEMENT, dated as of February 9, 2023 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or modified from time to time, this “Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement”), among UPHEALTH, INC., a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the “Company”), the Grantors (as defined in the Security Agreement (as defined below)) party hereto and WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”) and as collateral agent for the Secured Parties (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”).
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
WHEREAS, (i) the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent are parties to that certain Indenture, dated as of August 18, 2022 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or modified from time to time, the “Indenture”), relating to the Company’s Variable Rate Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2025 and (ii) the Grantors and the Collateral Agent are parties to that certain Security and Pledge Agreement, dated as of August 18, 2022 (as amended by that certain Amendment to Security and Pledge Agreement, dated as of November 23, 2022, and as further amended by that certain Second Amendment to Security and Pledge Agreement, dated as of May 11, 2023, the “Security Agreement”);
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 10.02 of the Indenture, the Company, at any time and from time to time may, with the consent of the Holders of at least 70% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes outstanding, enter into an indenture supplemental thereto, or an amendment to any Related Collateral Document, for the purpose of adding provisions to or changing or eliminating certain provisions of the Indenture;
WHEREAS, the Company has received consent to the amendments contained herein and the execution of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement from Holders of at least 75.76% of the principal amount of the Notes currently outstanding;
WHEREAS, the Company and the Grantors party hereto intend to enter into this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement for the purpose of modifying the Indenture and the Security Agreement as set forth herein.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the mutual agreements contained herein, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders as follows:
Section 1. Defined Terms. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings assigned thereto in the Indenture or the Security Agreement, as applicable.
Section 2. Amendments to the Indenture.
With effect on and after the date hereof, the Indenture is hereby amended to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example:
stricken text) and to add the underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following
example: double-underlined text) as set forth in Annex A
hereto.
Section 3. Amendments to the Security Agreement.
Section 3.1. With effect on and after the date hereof, each reference to “twenty (20) Business Days” in Sections 6(a)(i), (b)(i), (e), (f), (g)(iv) and (h)(i) of the Security Agreement is hereby replaced with “seven (7) Business Days”.
Section 3.2. With effect on and after the date hereof, Section 15(a) of the Security Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
“(a) Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default, (i) the Collateral Agent may, at its option, and with notice to any Grantor including details of the Event of Default, and in addition to all rights and remedies available to the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any other agreement, at law, in equity, or otherwise, exercise all voting rights, or any other ownership or consensual rights (including any dividend or distribution rights) in respect of the Pledged Interests owned by such Grantor, but under no circumstances is the Collateral Agent obligated by the terms of this Agreement to exercise such rights, and (ii) if the Collateral Agent duly exercises its right to vote any of such Pledged Interests, each Grantor hereby appoints the Collateral Agent as such Grantor’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact and IRREVOCABLE PROXY to vote such Pledged Interests in any manner the Collateral Agent deems advisable for or against all matters submitted or which may be submitted to a vote of shareholders, partners or members, as the case may be. The power-of-attorney and proxy granted hereby is coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable and shall automatically terminate upon termination of this Agreement.”
Section 4. Conditions Precedent. The amendments set forth in Section 2 and Section 3 hereof shall become effective as of the date upon which (i) a counterpart of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement, executed and delivered by the Company and the Grantors party hereto, has been delivered to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, which shall be the date set forth above, and (ii) the Company shall have paid all reasonable costs and expenses (including, without limitation, reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Trustee’s and Collateral Agent’s counsel and administrative fees), disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee and the Collateral Agent in connection with the preparation of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement to the extent due and payable pursuant to Section 7.06 of the Indenture and Section 21 of the Security Agreement.
Section 5. Effect on Debtors and Debtors in Possession. Each party hereto agrees that, notwithstanding anything set forth herein to the contrary and for the avoidance of doubt, this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement will be deemed not to affect any rights or obligations of any Subsidiary of the Company that is, as of the date hereof, a debtor or debtor in possession in any bankruptcy proceeding (including the chapter 11 proceedings pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware under caption In re UpHealth Holdings, Inc., Case No. 23-11476-LSS).
Section 6. Miscellaneous.
Section 6.1. Governing Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND AMENDMENT TO SECURITY AGREEMENT AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE AND AMENDMENT TO SECURITY AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
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Section 6.2. Counterparts. This Supplement Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement and of signature pages by facsimile, PDF or other electronic transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile, PDF or other electronic means shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes. Unless otherwise provided in this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement, the words “execute,” “execution,” “signed” and “signature” and words of similar import used in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated hereby (including amendments, waivers, consents and other modifications) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures and the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature in ink or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as applicable, to the fullest extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act and any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent is under any obligation to agree to accept electronic signatures in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, pursuant to procedures approved by the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be.
Section 6.3. Effect of Headings. The titles and headings of the sections of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
Section 6.4. Complete Agreement. This Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement sets forth the entire understanding of the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and cancels any prior communications, understandings and agreements among the parties hereto in respect thereof.
Section 6.5. Documents Otherwise Unchanged. Except as herein provided, the Indenture and the Security Agreement shall remain unchanged and continue to be in full force and effect, and each reference to the Indenture and the Security Agreement and words of similar import in the Indenture, the Security Agreement and any other transaction document shall be a reference to the Indenture or the Security Agreement, as the case may be, as amended hereby and as the same may be further amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented and otherwise modified and in effect from time to time.
Section 6.6. Confirmation of Security. The Company and each Grantor party hereto hereby confirms and agrees that to the extent that the Indenture, the Security Agreement or any other transaction document purports to assign or pledge to the Collateral Agent, or to grant to the Collateral Agent a security interest in or lien on, any property as security for the obligations of the Company from time to time existing in respect of the Indenture or the Notes, such pledge, assignment and/or grant of the security interest or lien is hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects.
Section 6.7. Concerning the Trustee. The recitals contained in this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be responsible or accountable in any way whatsoever for or with
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respect to the validity, execution or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement and makes no representation with respect thereto. In entering into this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to the benefit of every provision of the Indenture and the Security Agreement, as the case may be, limiting the liability of, limiting the obligations of, or affording rights, benefits, protections, immunities or indemnities to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent as if they were set forth herein mutatis mutandis.
Section 6.8. Waiver and Direction to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent. The Company and each Grantor party hereto, by executing and delivering a counterpart of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement, agrees that the execution of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement is authorized and permitted by the Indenture and the Security Agreement, as the case may be, and hereby waives all conditions precedent to the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement pursuant to the Indenture and the Security Agreement, as the case may be, and consents to and directs the Trustee and the Collateral Agent to execute this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement and acknowledges and agrees that the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall be fully protected in relying upon the foregoing consent and direction and hereby releases the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and their respective officers, directors, agents, employees and shareholders, as applicable, from any liability for complying with such direction, including but not limited to any claim that this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement is not authorized or permitted by the Indenture or the Security Agreement, as the case may be, or any claim that some or all of the conditions precedent to the execution of this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement have not been complied with.
Section 6.9. Execution, Delivery and Validity. The Company and each Grantor party hereto represents and warrants to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent that this Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security Agreement has been duly and validly executed and delivered by the Company and each Grantor party hereto and constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against the Company and each Grantor party hereto in accordance with its terms, and that the Indenture, as amended hereby, and the Security Agreement, as amended hereby, in each case, constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable against the Company and each Grantor party hereto in accordance with its terms.
[Signature Pages Follow]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have set our hands as of the date first set forth above.
SIGNED AND DELIVERED AS A DEED for and on behalf of | ||
UPHEALTH, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
CARENECTION LABS, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
CARENECTION, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
CLOUDBREAK HEALTH, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
FREEDOM NOW, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security and Pledge Agreement]
INTEGRITY WAY, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
LANGUAGE ACCESS NETWORK, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
OLYMPUS RECOVERY LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
PINNACLE TESTING, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
SUMMIT DETOX, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
SUPPORTIVE HEALTHCARE, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security and Pledge Agreement]
TRANSFORMATIONS MENDING FENCES, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
TRANSFORMATIONS TREATMENT CENTER, INC | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
TTC HEALTHCARE, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
WRIGLEY HEALTHCARE SERVICES, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Name: | Xxxxxx X.X. Xxxx | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security and Pledge Agreement]
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | ||
as the Trustee | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | ||
as the Collateral Agent | ||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | |
Name: Xxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx | ||
Title: Senior Vice President |
[Signature Page to First Supplemental Indenture and Amendment to Security and Pledge Agreement]
Annex A
Amendments to the Indenture
[Attached]
Annex A to Supplemental Indenture
THE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS
AND
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee and Collateral Agent
INDENTURE
Dated as of August 18, 2022
Variable Rate Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2025
Supplemented on February 9, 2024
Annex A to Supplemental Indenture
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE | ||||||
ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS |
1 | |||||
Section 1.01 |
Definitions | 1 | ||||
Section 1.02 |
References to Interest | 29 | ||||
ARTICLE 2 ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES |
29 | |||||
Section 2.01 |
Designation and Amount | 29 | ||||
Section 2.02 |
Form of Notes | 29 | ||||
Section 2.03 |
Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts | 30 | ||||
Section 2.04 |
Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes | 31 | ||||
Section 2.05 |
Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary | 32 | ||||
Section 2.06 |
Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes | 37 | ||||
Section 2.07 |
Temporary Notes | 38 | ||||
Section 2.08 |
Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc. | 38 | ||||
Section 2.09 |
CUSIP Numbers | 39 | ||||
Section 2.10 |
Additional Notes; Repurchases | 39 | ||||
ARTICLE 3 SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE |
39 | |||||
Section 3.01 |
Satisfaction and Discharge | 39 | ||||
ARTICLE 4 PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY |
40 | |||||
Section 4.01 |
Payment of Principal and Interest | 40 | ||||
Section 4.02 |
Maintenance of Office or Agency | 43 | ||||
Section 4.03 |
Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office | 43 | ||||
Section 4.04 |
Provisions as to Paying Agent | 43 | ||||
Section 4.05 |
Corporate Existence | 45 | ||||
Section 4.06 |
Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports | 45 | ||||
Section 4.07 |
Stay, Extension and Usury Laws | 46 | ||||
Section 4.08 |
Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults | 46 | ||||
Section 4.09 |
[Reserved] | 46 | ||||
Section 4.10 |
Compliance with Laws | 46 | ||||
Section 4.11 |
Payment of Taxes and Other Claims | 46 | ||||
Section 4.12 |
Further Instruments and Acts | 47 | ||||
Section 4.13 |
[Reserved] | 47 | ||||
Section 4.14 |
Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness | 47 | ||||
Section 4.15 |
Limitation on Liens | 48 | ||||
Section 4.16 |
Limitation on Restricted Payments | 48 | ||||
Section 4.17 |
Limitation on Asset Sales | 51 | ||||
Section 4.18 |
Further Assurances | 56 | ||||
Section 4.19 |
Additional Subsidiary Guarantors | 57 |
Annex A to Supplemental Indenture
ARTICLE 5 LISTS OF HOLDERS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE |
57 | |||||
Section 5.01 |
Lists of Holders | 57 | ||||
Section 5.02 |
Preservation and Disclosure of Lists | 58 | ||||
ARTICLE 6 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES |
58 | |||||
Section 6.01 |
Events of Default | 58 | ||||
Section 6.02 |
Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment | 59 | ||||
Section 6.03 |
Additional Interest | 60 | ||||
Section 6.04 |
Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor | 61 | ||||
Section 6.05 |
Application of Monies Collected by Trustee | 62 | ||||
Section 6.06 |
Proceedings by Holders | 63 | ||||
Section 6.07 |
Proceedings by Trustee | 64 | ||||
Section 6.08 |
Remedies Cumulative and Continuing | 64 | ||||
Section 6.09 |
Direction of Proceedings and Xxxxxx of Defaults by Majority of Holders | 64 | ||||
Section 6.10 |
Notice of Defaults | 65 | ||||
Section 6.11 |
Undertaking to Pay Costs | 65 | ||||
Section 6.12 |
Company’s Failure to Timely Convert | 66 | ||||
ARTICLE 7 CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE |
67 | |||||
Section 7.01 |
Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee | 67 | ||||
Section 7.02 |
Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc | 68 | ||||
Section 7.03 |
No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc | 70 | ||||
Section 7.04 |
Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Note Registrar May Own Notes | 70 | ||||
Section 7.05 |
Monies and Shares of Common Stock to Be Held in Trust | 70 | ||||
Section 7.06 |
Compensation and Expenses of Trustee | 70 | ||||
Section 7.07 |
Officer’s Certificate as Evidence | 71 | ||||
Section 7.08 |
Eligibility of Trustee | 71 | ||||
Section 7.09 |
Resignation or Removal of Trustee | 72 | ||||
Section 7.10 |
Acceptance by Successor Trustee | 72 | ||||
Section 7.11 |
Succession by Xxxxxx, Etc | 73 | ||||
Section 7.12 |
Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company | 73 | ||||
Section 7.13 |
Limitation on Duty of Trustee in Respect of Collateral | 74 | ||||
ARTICLE 8 CONCERNING THE HOLDERS |
74 | |||||
Section 8.01 |
Action by Holders | 74 | ||||
Section 8.02 |
Proof of Execution by Holders | 74 | ||||
Section 8.03 |
Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners | 74 | ||||
Section 8.04 |
Company-Owned Notes Disregarded | 75 | ||||
Section 8.05 |
Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound | 75 | ||||
ARTICLE 9 HOLDERS’ MEETINGS |
75 | |||||
Section 9.01 |
Purpose of Meetings | 75 | ||||
Section 9.02 |
Call of Meetings by Trustee | 76 | ||||
Section 9.03 |
Call of Meetings by Company or Holders | 76 | ||||
Section 9.04 |
Qualifications for Voting | 76 | ||||
Section 9.05 |
Regulations | 76 |
Annex A to Supplemental Indenture
Section 9.06 |
Voting | 77 | ||||
Section 9.07 |
No Delay of Rights by Meeting | 77 | ||||
ARTICLE 10 SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES |
77 | |||||
Section 10.01 |
Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders | 77 | ||||
Section 10.02 |
Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders | 79 | ||||
Section 10.03 |
Effect of Supplemental Indentures | 80 | ||||
Section 10.04 |
Notation on Notes | 80 | ||||
Section 10.05 |
Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee | 80 | ||||
ARTICLE 11 CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE |
80 | |||||
Section 11.01 |
Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms | 80 | ||||
Section 11.02 |
Subsidiary Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms | 81 | ||||
Section 11.03 |
Successor Corporation to Be Substituted | 82 | ||||
Section 11.04 |
Opinion of Counsel to Be Given to Trustee | 83 | ||||
ARTICLE 12 IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS |
83 | |||||
Section 12.01 |
Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations | 83 | ||||
ARTICLE 13 [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED] |
83 | |||||
ARTICLE 14 CONVERSION OF NOTES |
83 | |||||
Section 14.01 |
Conversion Privilege | 83 | ||||
Section 14.02 |
Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion | 84 | ||||
Section 14.03 |
[Reserved] | 86 | ||||
Section 14.04 |
Adjustment of Conversion Rate | 86 | ||||
Section 14.05 |
Adjustments of Prices | 94 | ||||
Section 14.06 |
Shares to Be Fully Paid | 94 | ||||
Section 14.07 |
Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Common Stock | 94 | ||||
Section 14.08 |
Certain Covenants | 95 | ||||
Section 14.09 |
Responsibility of Trustee | 96 | ||||
Section 14.10 |
Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions | 96 | ||||
Section 14.11 |
Stockholder Rights Plans | 97 | ||||
Section 14.12 |
Exchange in Lieu of Conversion | 97 | ||||
Section 14.13 |
Limits Upon Issuance of Shares of Common Stock Upon Conversion | 97 | ||||
Section 14.14 |
Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes | 99 | ||||
ARTICLE 15 REPURCHASE OF NOTES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS |
101 | |||||
Section 15.01 |
[Intentionally Omitted] | 101 | ||||
Section 15.02 |
Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change | 101 | ||||
Section 15.03 |
Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice | 103 | ||||
Section 15.04 |
Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price | 104 | ||||
Section 15.05 |
Covenant to Comply with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes | 105 |
Annex A to Supplemental Indenture
ARTICLE 16 OPTIONAL REDEMPTION |
105 | |||||
Section 16.01 |
Optional Redemption | 105 | ||||
Section 16.02 |
Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes | 105 | ||||
Section 16.03 |
Payment of Notes Called for Redemption | 106 | ||||
Section 16.04 |
Restrictions on Redemption | 107 | ||||
ARTICLE 17 COLLATERAL AND SECURITY |
107 | |||||
Section 17.01 |
Security Interest; Collateral Agent | 107 | ||||
Section 17.02 |
Recording and Opinion | 109 | ||||
Section 17.03 |
Authorization of Actions to Be Taken by the Trustee or the Collateral Agent Under the Related Collateral Documents | 109 | ||||
Section 17.04 |
Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee under the Related Collateral Documents | 110 | ||||
Section 17.05 |
Termination of Security Interest; Release of Collateral | 110 | ||||
Section 17.06 |
Maintenance of Collateral | 111 | ||||
Section 17.07 |
Concerning the Collateral Agent | 111 | ||||
ARTICLE 18 GUARANTEES |
112 | |||||
Section 18.01 |
Note Guarantee | 112 | ||||
Section 18.02 |
Limitation on Guarantor Liability | 113 | ||||
Section 18.03 |
Execution and Delivery | 113 | ||||
Section 18.04 |
Subrogation | 114 | ||||
Section 18.05 |
Benefits Acknowledged | 114 | ||||
Section 18.06 |
Release of Note Guarantees | 114 | ||||
ARTICLE 19 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS |
115 | |||||
Section 19.01 |
Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors | 115 | ||||
Section 19.02 |
Official Acts by Successor Corporation | 115 | ||||
Section 19.03 |
Addresses for Notices, Etc | 115 | ||||
Section 19.04 |
Governing Law; Jurisdiction | 115 | ||||
Section 19.05 |
Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee | 116 | ||||
Section 19.06 |
Legal Holidays | 116 | ||||
Section 19.07 |
[Reserved] | 116 | ||||
Section 19.08 |
Benefits of Indenture | 116 | ||||
Section 19.09 |
Table of Contents, Headings, Etc | 117 | ||||
Section 19.10 |
Authenticating Agent | 117 | ||||
Section 19.11 |
Execution in Counterparts | 118 | ||||
Section 19.12 |
Severability | 118 | ||||
Section 19.13 |
Waiver of Jury Trial | 118 | ||||
Section 19.14 |
Force Majeure | 118 | ||||
Section 19.15 |
Calculations | 118 | ||||
Section 19.16 |
USA PATRIOT Act | 119 | ||||
Section 19.17 |
Tax Withholding | 119 |
Annex A to Supplemental Indenture
EXHIBIT
Exhibit A |
Form of Note | A-1 | ||||
Exhibit B |
Form of Security Agreement | B-1 |
INDENTURE dated as of August 18, 2022 and supplemented on February 9, 2024 among UPHEALTH, INC., a Delaware corporation, as issuer (the “Company,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01), the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party hereto and WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01) and as collateral agent (the “Collateral Agent,” as more fully set forth in Section 1.01).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has duly authorized the issuance of its Variable Rate Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”), initially in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $67,500,000, and in order to provide the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are to be authenticated, issued and delivered, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, the Form of Note, the certificate of authentication to be borne by each Note, the Form of Notice of Conversion, the Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice and the Form of Assignment and Transfer to be borne by the Notes are to be substantially in the forms hereinafter provided; and
WHEREAS, all acts and things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent, as provided in this Indenture, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and this Indenture the valid, binding and legal agreement of the Company, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, have been done and performed, and the execution of this Indenture and the issuance hereunder of the Notes have in all respects been duly authorized.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
That in order to declare the terms and conditions upon which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated, issued and delivered, and in consideration of the premises and of the purchase and acceptance of the Notes by the Holders thereof, each of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors covenants and agrees with the Trustee and the Collateral Agent for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders from time to time of the Notes (except as otherwise provided below), as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.01 Definitions. The terms defined in this Section 1.01 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01. The words “herein,” “hereof,” “hereunder” and words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. The terms defined in this Article include the plural as well as the singular.
“1934 Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.
“Action” shall have the meaning specified in Section 17.01(e).
“Additional
Assets” means:
(a) any
assets (other than cash, Cash Equivalents, securities and notes) to be owned by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor and used or useful in a Permitted Business; or
(b) Capital Stock of a Person that becomes a Subsidiary
Guarantor as a result of the acquisition of such Capital Stock by the Company or another Subsidiary Guarantor from any Person other than the Company or
a Subsidiary; provided, however, that, in the case of this clause (b), such new Subsidiary Guarantor is primarily engaged in a Permitted Business.
“Additional Interest” means all amounts, if any, payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d) and Section 6.03, as applicable.
“Additional Shares” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.14(a).
“Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct or cause the direction of 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. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the determination of whether one Person is an “Affiliate” of another Person for purposes of this Indenture shall be made based on the facts at the time such determination is made or required to be made, as the case may be, hereunder.
“After-Acquired Collateral” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.18(a).
“Applicable Interest Rate” means, with respect to any Interest Period, the Benchmark for such Interest Period, plus 9.0%; provided, however, that in no event will the Applicable Interest Rate on the Notes be less than 10.5%. The Applicable Interest Rate for the first Interest Period is 11.73671%.
“Applicable Percentage” means the percentages of principal amount set forth below for the applicable periods:
Period |
Applicable Percentage |
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June 16, 2024 through, and including, December 15, 2024 |
112.50 | % | ||
December 16, 2024 through, and including, June 15, 2025 |
106.50 | % | ||
After June 15, 2025 |
102.75 | % |
“Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to a Depositary, as to any matter at any time, the policies and procedures of such Depositary, if any, that are applicable to such matter at such time.
“Asset Sale” means:
(a) the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of any assets or rights (whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions) outside of the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Subsidiaries; provided that the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole will be governed under Article 11; and
(b) the issuance of Capital Stock by any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or the sale of Capital Stock in any of the Company’s Subsidiaries (other than directors’ qualifying Capital Stock or Capital Stock required by applicable law to be held by a Person other than the Company or one of its Subsidiaries).
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding paragraph, none of the following items will be deemed to be an Asset Sale:
(a) a transfer of assets between or among (i) the Company and its
Subsidiary
Guarantors,
and (ii) Subsidiaries of the Company that are not Subsidiary Guarantors and other Subsidiaries of the Company that are not Subsidiary Guarantors, and (iii) the Company and its Subsidiary Guarantors, on the one hand, and
Subsidiaries of the Company that are not Subsidiary Guarantors, on the other; provided that transfers of assets to Subsidiaries of the Company that are not Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to this clause (iii) shall be limited to assets having a Fair
Market Value not to exceed $5,000,000 in any fiscal year;;
(b) an issuance of Capital Stock by any Subsidiary of the Company to the Company or to a Subsidiary Guarantor;
(c) any sale or other disposition of damaged, worn-out or obsolete assets or assets otherwise unsuitable or no longer required for use in the ordinary course of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries (including the abandonment or other disposition of property that is, in the reasonable judgment of the Company, no longer profitable, economically practicable to maintain or useful in the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole);
(d) a Restricted Payment that is not prohibited under Section 4.16 or a Permitted Investment;
(e) the sale, lease, sublease, non-exclusive license or sublicense, consignment, conveyance or other disposition of products, services, inventory and other assets in the ordinary course of business, including leases with respect to facilities that are temporarily not in use or pending their disposition; provided that any such leases, subleases, licenses or sublicenses of other property do not materially interfere with the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, determined in good faith by the Company;
(f) a disposition of leasehold improvements or leased assets in connection with the termination of any operating lease;
(g) dispositions constituting casualty events;
(h) (i) dispositions of receivables in connection with the compromise, settlement or collection thereof in the ordinary course of business or in bankruptcy or similar proceedings and exclusive of factoring or similar arrangements; or (ii) the sale or other disposition of hedging obligations or other financial instruments in the ordinary course of business;
(i) any foreclosure or any similar action with respect to the property or other assets of the Company or any Subsidiary;
(j) the sublease or assignment to third parties of leased facilities in the ordinary course of business;
(k) the creation of or realization on a Lien to the extent that the granting of such Lien was not prohibited under Section 4.15;
(l) any surrender or waiver of contract rights in the ordinary course of business or settlement, release, recovery on or surrender of contract, tort or other claims;
(m) the sale or other disposition of cash, Cash Equivalents or marketable securities in the ordinary course of business;
(n) sales, transfers and other dispositions of Investments in joint ventures made in the ordinary course of business or to the extent required by, or made pursuant to, customary buy/sell arrangements between the joint venture parties set forth in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements; and
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(o) dispositions of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property that is useful in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Subsidiaries or (ii) the proceeds (determined on an after-tax basis) of such disposition are applied to the purchase price of similar replacement property that is useful in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Subsidiaries within one hundred and eighty (180) days of such disposition.
“Asset Sale Offer” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.17(c)(i).
“Asset Sale Offer Company Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.17(c)(iv).
“Asset Sale Offer Consideration Amount” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.17(c)(i).
“Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.17(c)(i).
“Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.17(c)(iii).
“Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.17(c)(i).
“Asset Sale Trigger” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.17(c)(i).
“Attribution Parties” means, collectively, the following Persons and entities: (i) any investment vehicle, including, any funds, feeder funds or managed accounts, currently, or from time to time after the issue date of the Notes, directly or indirectly managed or advised by a Holder’s investment manager or any of its Affiliates or principals, (ii) any direct or indirect Affiliates of such Holder or any of the foregoing, (iii) any Person acting or who could be deemed to be acting as a Group together with such Holder or any of the foregoing and (iv) any other Persons whose beneficial ownership of the Common Stock would or could be aggregated with such Holder’s and the other Attribution Parties for purposes of Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act. For clarity, the purpose of the foregoing is to subject collectively such Holder and all other Attribution Parties to the Maximum Percentage.
“Benchmark” means, initially, SOFR for a tenor comparable to the applicable period between Interest Payment Dates; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as determined by the Company (or its designee), then “Benchmark” shall mean the applicable Benchmark Replacement.
“Benchmark Determination Date” means, with respect to any Interest Period, (i) if the Benchmark is SOFR, the second U.S. Government Securities Business Day preceding the first day of such Interest Period; or (ii) if the Benchmark is not SOFR, the time determined by the Company in the Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes.
“Benchmark Replacement” means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Company or its designee as of the Benchmark Replacement Date; provided that if the Benchmark Replacement cannot be determined in accordance with clause (1) below as of the Benchmark Replacement Date and the Company or its designee shall have determined that the ISDA Fallback Rate determined in accordance with clause (2) below is not an industry-accepted rate of interest as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar-denominated floating rate notes at such time, then clause (2) below shall be disregarded, and the Benchmark Replacement shall be determined in accordance with clause (3) below:
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(1) the sum of: (a) an alternate rate of interest that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment;
(2) the sum of: (a) the ISDA Fallback Rate and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; or
(3) the sum of: (a) the alternate rate of interest that has been selected by the Company or its designee as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark giving due consideration to any industry-accepted rate of interest as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark for U.S. dollar denominated floating rate notes at such time and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Company or its designee as of the Benchmark Replacement Date:
(1) the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero), or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement;
(2) if the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement is equivalent to the ISDA Fallback Rate, the ISDA Fallback Adjustment; or
(3) the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Company or its designee giving due consideration to any industry-accepted spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the then-current Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar denominated floating rate notes at such time.
“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definitions or interpretations of Interest Period, the timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, the rounding of amounts or tenors, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Company (or its designee) (in consultation with a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company) decide may be appropriate to reflect the adoption of such Benchmark Replacement in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Company or its designee (in consultation with such investment banking firm) decides (as determined in consultation with the Calculation Agent) that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Company (or its designee) (in consultation with such investment banking firm) determines that no market practice for use of the Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner as the Company (or its designee) (in consultation with such investment banking firm) determines is reasonably practicable and administratively feasible (as determined in consultation with the Calculation Agent)). The Company shall communicate such changes in writing to the Calculation Agent and the Trustee on or prior to the Benchmark Determination Date pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate (upon which the Trustee and Calculation Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely).
“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark (including any daily published component used in the calculation thereof):
(1) in the case of clause (1) or (2) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (a) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (b) the date on which the administrator of the Benchmark permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide the Benchmark (or such component); or
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(2) in the case of clause (3) of the definition of “Benchmark Transition Event,” the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein.
For the avoidance of doubt, if the event giving rise to the Benchmark Replacement Date occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the Reference Time in respect of any determination, the Benchmark Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the Reference Time for such determination.
“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark (including the daily published component used in the calculation thereof):
(1) a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of the Benchmark (or such component) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide the Benchmark (or such component), permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Benchmark (or such component);
(2) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the Benchmark (or such component), the central bank for the currency of the Benchmark (or such component), an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for the Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for the Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of the Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide the Benchmark (or such component) permanently or indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide the Benchmark (or such component); or
(3) a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of the Benchmark announcing that the Benchmark is no longer representative.
“Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11 of the United States Code and any similar federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership law for the relief of debtors.
“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or a committee of such board duly authorized to act for it hereunder.
“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, however, for clarification, commercial banks shall not be deemed to be authorized or required by law to remain closed due to “stay at home”, “shelter-in-place”, “non-essential employee” or any other similar orders or restrictions or the closure of any physical branch locations at the direction of any governmental authority so long as the electronic funds transfer systems (including for wire transfers) of commercial banks in The City of New York generally are open for use by customers on such day.
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“Calculation Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.01(c).
“Capital Lease” means any lease that is required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. GAAP (with the amount of any Indebtedness in respect of a Capital Lease being the capitalized amount of the obligations under such Capital Lease determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP); provided that such determination shall be made without giving effect to Accounting Standards Codification 842, Leases (or any other Accounting Standards Codification having similar result or effect) (and related interpretations under U.S. GAAP) to the extent any lease (or similar arrangement) would be required to be treated as a Capital Lease thereunder where such lease (or arrangement) would have been treated as an operating lease under U.S. GAAP as in effect immediately prior to the effectiveness of such Accounting Standards Codification.
“Capital Lease Obligations” of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as Capital Leases, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP; provided that such determination shall be made without giving effect to Accounting Standards Codification 842, Leases (or any other Accounting Standards Codification having similar result or effect) (and related interpretations under U.S. GAAP) to the extent any lease (or similar arrangement) would be required to be treated as a Capital Lease thereunder where such lease (or arrangement) would have been treated as an operating lease under U.S. GAAP as in effect immediately prior to the effectiveness of such Accounting Standards Codification.
“Capital Stock” means, for any entity, any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) stock issued by that entity; provided that debt securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for Capital Stock shall not constitute Capital Stock prior to their conversion or exchange, as the case may be.
“Cash Equivalents” means:
(a) any evidence of Indebtedness issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof with a final maturity not exceeding five years from the date of acquisition;
(b) deposits, certificates of deposit or acceptances of any financial institution that is a member of the Federal Reserve System and whose unsecured long term debt is rated at least “A” by Standard & Poor’s Ratings, a division of McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. (“S&P”), or at least “A2” by Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”) or any respective successor agency;
(c) commercial paper with a maturity of 365 days or less issued by a corporation (other than an affiliate of the Company) organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and rated at least “A-1” by S&P and at least “P-1” by Moody’s or any respective successor agency;
(d) repurchase agreements and reverse repurchase agreements relating to marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States maturing within 365 days from the date of acquisition;
(e) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within 365 days from the date of acquisition and, at the time of acquisition, having one of the two highest ratings obtainable from either S&P or Moody’s or any respective successor agency;
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(f) demand deposits, savings deposits, time deposits and certificates of deposit of any commercial bank having, or which is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia having, capital and surplus aggregating in excess of $500,000,000 and a rating of “A” (or such other similar equivalent rating) or higher by at least one “nationally recognized statistical rating organization” (as defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act) with maturities of not more than 365 days from the date of acquisition;
(g) money market funds which invest substantially all of their assets in securities described in the preceding clauses (a) through (f); and
(h) in the case of a Foreign Subsidiary, instruments equivalent to those referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above denominated in a foreign currency, which are (i) substantially equivalent in tenor, (ii) issued by, or entered into with, foreign Persons with credit quality generally accepted by businesses in the jurisdictions in which such Foreign Subsidiary operates and (iii) customarily used by businesses for short-term cash management purposes in any jurisdiction outside of the United States to the extent reasonably required in connection with any business conducted by such Foreign Subsidiary.
“CFC” means any “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
“Clause A Distribution” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Clause B Distribution” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Clause C Distribution” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“close of business” means 5:00 p.m. (New York City time).
“Cloudbreak ” means Cloudbreak Health, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
“Cloudbreak Purchase Agreement” means that certain Membership Interest Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 16, 2023, by and among Forest Buyer, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as buyer, Cloudbreak and the Company, as seller.
“Cloudbreak Sale” means the sale of Cloudbreak and its Subsidiaries pursuant to the Cloudbreak Purchase Agreement.
“Collateral” means the rights, property and assets securing the Notes over which a Lien has been granted pursuant to the Related Collateral Documents, and any rights, property or assets over which a Lien has been granted to secure the Note Obligations of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors under the Notes, the Note Guarantees and this Indenture.
“Collateral Agent” means the Person named as the “Collateral Agent” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor collateral agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Collateral Agent” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Collateral Agent hereunder.
“Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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“Common Equity” of any Person means Capital Stock of such Person that is generally entitled (a) to vote in the election of directors of such Person or (b) if such Person is not a corporation, to vote or otherwise participate in the selection of the governing body, partners, managers or others that will control the management or policies of such Person.
“Common Stock” means the Common Stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share, at the date of this Indenture, subject to Section 14.07.
“Company” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of this Indenture, and subject to the provisions of Article 11, shall include its successors and assigns.
“Company Order” means a written order of the Company, signed on behalf of the Company by an Officer and delivered to the Trustee.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the Consolidated Net Income (or loss) of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period as determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, adjusted to the extent included in calculating such net income, by excluding, without duplication:
(a) all extraordinary gains or losses;
(b) any gain or loss realized as a result of the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles;
(c) any unrealized gains or losses in respect of hedging obligations (including obligations under Swap Contracts); and
(d) any gains or losses resulting from non-ordinary course dispositions of assets or discontinued operations.
“Conversion Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
“Conversion Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(c).
“Conversion Obligation” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01.
“Conversion Price” means as of any time,
$1,000, divided by the Conversion Rate as of such time.
“Conversion Rate” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.01.
“Corporate Trust Office” means the corporate trust office of the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, at which at any time its corporate trust business relating to this Indenture shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at Wilmington Trust, National Association, Global Capital Markets, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: UpHealth Notes Administrator, or such other address as the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the principal corporate trust office of any successor trustee or successor collateral agent (or such other address as such successor trustee or collateral agent may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company).
“Custodian” means the Trustee, as custodian for The Depository Trust Company, with respect to the Global Notes, or any successor entity thereto.
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“Daily VWAP” means the per share volume-weighted average price as displayed under the heading “Bloomberg VWAP” on Bloomberg page “UPH <equity> AQR” (or its equivalent successor if such page is not available) in respect of the period from the scheduled open of trading until the scheduled close of trading of the primary trading session on such Trading Day (or if such volume-weighted average price is unavailable, the market value of one share of the Common Stock on such Trading Day determined, using a volume-weighted average method, by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company). The “Daily VWAP” shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of the regular trading session trading hours.
“Default” means any event that is, or after notice or passage of time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.
“Defaulted Amounts” means any amounts on any Note (including, without limitation, the Redemption Price, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, principal and interest) that are payable but are not punctually paid or duly provided for.
“Depositary” means, with respect to each Global Note, the Person specified in Section 2.05(b) as the Depositary with respect to such Notes, until a successor shall have been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter, “Depositary” shall mean or include such successor.
“Distributed Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized or existing under the laws of the United States, or any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Effective Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.14(c), except that, as used in Section 14.04 and Section 14.05, “Effective Date” means the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, reflecting the relevant share split or share combination, as applicable. For the avoidance of doubt, any alternative trading convention on the applicable exchange or market in respect of shares of the Common Stock under a separate ticker symbol or CUSIP number will not be considered “regular way” for this purpose.
“Event of Default” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
“Ex-Dividend Date” means the first date on which shares of the Common Stock trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive the issuance, dividend or distribution in question, from the Company or, if applicable, from the seller of Common Stock on such exchange or market (in the form of due bills or otherwise) as determined by such exchange or market. For the avoidance of doubt, any alternative trading convention on the applicable exchange or market in respect of shares of the Common Stock under a separate ticker symbol or CUSIP number will not be considered “regular way” for this purpose.
“Excess Shares” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.13.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Exchange Election” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.12.
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“Excluded Subsidiary” means, as of any date, (i) any Foreign Subsidiary, any Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company, or any Subsidiaries of any Foreign Subsidiary, and (ii) any Subsidiary that is prohibited or restricted from providing a Note Guarantee or granting security by (A) applicable law or (B) any contractual obligation with non-affiliated third-parties existing on
the Issue Date or at the time such Subsidiary becomes a Subsidiary and that was not implemented in contemplation of such Subsidiary becoming a Subsidiary in order to avoid granting a Note Guarantee or security; provided, however, that
an “Excluded Subsidiary” will not include any Domestic Subsidiary that Guarantees any Indebtedness of the
Company, provided, notwithstanding the foregoing each of Glocal Healthcare Systems Private Limited and UPH
Digital Health Services Private Limited shall continue to be an Excluded Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture.
“Existing Notes” means the Company’s 6.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026.
“Expiration Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(e).
“Fair Market Value” means the value that would be paid by a willing buyer or licensor to an unaffiliated willing seller or licensee in a transaction not involving distress or necessity of either party, determined in good faith by the Company.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“Foreign Subsidiary Holding Company” means any Subsidiary all of the material assets of which consist of: (a) equity interests in one or more CFCs or
other entities that are described in this definition (or are treated as consisting of such assets for U.S. federal income tax purposes) and/or (b) Indebtedness or accounts receivable owed by any CFC or other entity that is described in this
definition (or treated as owed by any such entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes).
“Form of Assignment and Transfer” means the “Form of Assignment and Transfer” attached as Attachment 4 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” means the “Form of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” attached as Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“Form of Note” means the “Form of Note” attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“Form of Notice of Conversion” means the “Form of Notice of Conversion” attached as Attachment 1 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
“Freely Tradable” means, with respect to any security of the Company, that such security would be eligible to be offered, sold or otherwise transferred pursuant to Rule 144 if held by a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Company, and that has not been an Affiliate of the Company during the immediately preceding three months, without any requirements as to volume, manner of sale, availability of current public information or notice under the Securities Act (except that any such requirement as to the availability of current public information will be disregarded if the same is satisfied at that time).
“Fundamental Change” shall be deemed to have occurred at the time after the Notes are originally issued if any of the following occurs prior to the Maturity Date:
(a) a “person” or “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, other than the Company and its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, files a Schedule TO (or any successor schedule, form or report) or any schedule, form or report under the Exchange Act disclosing that such person or group has become the direct or indirect “beneficial owner,” as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of the Common Stock representing more than 50% of the voting power of the Common Stock;
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(b) the consummation of (A) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than changes resulting from a subdivision or combination or changes solely in par value) as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets; (B) any share exchange, consolidation or merger of the Company pursuant to which the Common Stock will be converted into cash, securities or other property or assets; or (C) any sale, lease or other transfer in one transaction or a series of transactions of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person other than one or more of the Company’s direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiaries; provided, however, that neither (x) a transaction described in clause (A) or (B) in which the holders of all classes of the Company’s Common Equity immediately prior to such transaction own, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of all classes of Common Equity of the continuing or surviving corporation or transferee or the parent thereof immediately after such transaction in substantially the same proportions (relative to each other) as such ownership immediately prior to such transaction nor (y) any merger of the Company solely for the purpose of changing its jurisdiction of incorporation that results in a reclassification, conversion or exchange of outstanding shares of Common Stock solely into shares of Common Stock of the surviving entity shall be a Fundamental Change pursuant to this clause (b);
(c) the Company’s stockholders approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company; or
(d) the Common Stock (or other Common Equity underlying the Notes) ceases to be listed or quoted on any of The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors);
provided, however, that a transaction or transactions described in clauses (a) or (b) above shall not constitute a Fundamental Change, if at least 90% of the consideration received or to be received by the common stockholders of the Company, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments made in respect of dissenters’ appraisal rights, in connection with such transaction or transactions consists of shares of common stock that are listed or quoted on any of The New York Stock Exchange, The NASDAQ Global Select Market or The NASDAQ Global Market (or any of their respective successors) or will be so listed or quoted when issued or exchanged in connection with such transaction or transactions and as a result of such transaction or transactions such consideration becomes Reference Property for the Notes, excluding cash payments for fractional shares and cash payments made in respect of dissenters’ appraisal rights (subject to the provisions of Section 14.02(a)). Any event, transaction or series of related transactions that constitute a Fundamental Change under both clause (a) and clause (b) above (determined without regard to the proviso in clause (b) above) shall be deemed to be a Fundamental Change solely under clause (b) above (and, for the avoidance of doubt, shall be subject to the proviso in clause (b) above). If any transaction in which the Common Stock is replaced by the equity securities of another entity occurs, references to the Company in this definition shall instead be references to such other entity.
“Fundamental Change Company Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(c).
“Fundamental Change Repurchase Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(a).
“Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(b)(i).
“Fundamental Change Repurchase Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 15.02(a).
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“Global Note” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b).
“Glocal” shall have the meaning specified in the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness.”
“Group” means a “group” as that term is used in Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act and as defined in Rule 13d-5 thereunder.
“Guarantee” means a guarantee other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of business, direct or indirect, in any manner including, without limitation, by way of a pledge of assets or through letters of credit or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof, of all or any part of any Indebtedness (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreements to keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take or pay or to maintain financial statement conditions or otherwise).
“Holder”, as applied to any Note, or other similar terms, means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Note is registered on the Note Register (and in the case of a Global Note and solely with respect to Section 6.12 and Section 14.13, the indirect holder of Notes held through its participant).
“Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with U.S. GAAP:
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;
(b) all direct or contingent obligations of such Person arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, bank guarantees, surety bonds and similar instruments;
(c) net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;
(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade accounts and accrued expenses payable in the ordinary course of business, obligations in respect of licenses and operating leases, payroll liabilities and deferred compensation and severance, pension, health and welfare retirement and equivalent benefits to current or former employees, directors or managers of such Person and its subsidiaries);
(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements but excluding trade accounts and accrued expenses payable in the ordinary course of business and licenses and operating leases), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;
(f) all attributable indebtedness in respect of Capital Leases and synthetic lease obligations;
(g) all obligations in respect of Redeemable Equity; and
(h) all guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing paragraph, the term “Indebtedness” will not include (i) in connection with any Investment, acquisition or any Asset Sale or other disposition, purchase price adjustments, indemnities or royalty, earn-out, contingent or other deferred payments of a similar nature, unless such payments are required under U.S. GAAP to appear as a liability on the balance
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sheet (excluding the footnotes); provided that at the time of closing, the amount of any such payment is not determinable or, to the extent such payment has become fixed and determined, the amount is paid within 30 days thereafter; (ii) contingent obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business and not in respect of borrowed money; (iii) deferred or prepaid revenues; or (iv) any Capital Stock other than Redeemable Equity.
Indebtedness shall be calculated without giving effect to the effects of Accounting Standards Codification 815—Derivatives and Hedging and related interpretations to the extent such effects would otherwise increase or decrease an amount of Indebtedness for any purpose under this Indenture as a result of accounting for any embedded derivatives created by the terms of such Indebtedness.
“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented.
“Intercreditor Agreement” means that certain Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of February 9, 2024, by and among the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the trustee in respect of the Existing Notes and the collateral agent in respect of the Existing Notes, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the terms thereof.
“Interest Payment Date” means each March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 of each year, beginning on September 15, 2022.
“Interest Payment Determination Date” means the date five Business Days before the Interest Payment Date.
“Interest Period” means (i) the period commencing on any Interest Payment Date (or with respect to the initial Interest Period only, commencing on August 18, 2022) to but excluding the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, (ii) in the case of the last such period, from and including the Interest Payment Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date to, but excluding, the Maturity Date or (iii) in the event of any repurchase or redemption of any Notes, from and including the Interest Payment Date immediately preceding the applicable Redemption Date or date of repurchase to, but excluding, such Redemption Date or date of repurchase.
“Investments” means, with respect to any specified Person, all direct or indirect investments by such specified Person in other Persons (including affiliates) in the forms of loans (including guarantees of Indebtedness or other obligations), advances or capital contributions (excluding (i) commission, travel and similar advances to officers and employees made in the ordinary course of business and (ii) extensions of credit to customers or advances, deposits or payment to or with suppliers, lessors or utilities or for workers’ compensation, in each case, that are incurred in the ordinary course of business), or purchases or other acquisitions for consideration of Indebtedness, Capital Stock or other securities. The acquisition by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company of a Person that holds an Investment in a third Person that was acquired in contemplation of the acquisition of such Person will be deemed to be an Investment by the Company or such Subsidiary in such third Person in an amount equal to the Fair Market Value of the Investments held by the acquired Person in such third Person determined as provided in this Indenture. Except as otherwise provided in this Indenture, the amount of an Investment will be determined at the time the Investment is made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value but after giving effect (without duplication) to all subsequent reductions in the amount of such Investment as a result of the repayment or disposition thereof for cash, not to exceed the original amount of such Investment.
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“ISDA Definitions” means the 2006 ISDA Definitions published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. or any successor thereto, as amended or supplemented from time to time, or any successor definitional booklet for interest rate derivatives published from time to time.
“ISDA Fallback Adjustment” means the spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that would apply for derivatives transactions referencing the ISDA Definitions to be determined upon the occurrence of an index cessation event with respect to the Benchmark for the applicable tenor.
“ISDA Fallback Rate” means the rate that would apply for derivatives transactions referencing the ISDA Definitions to be effective upon the occurrence of an index cessation date with respect to the Benchmark for the applicable tenor excluding the applicable ISDA Fallback Adjustment.
“Issue Date” means August 18, 2022.
“Last Original Issue Date” means, (a) with respect to the Notes issued pursuant to the Subscription Agreements, and any Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof, the date of this Indenture, or (b) with respect to any other Notes issued under this Indenture, such other date as is specified in an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee before the original issuance of such Notes.
“Last Reported Sale Price” of the Common Stock (or other security for which a closing sale price must be determined) on any date means the closing sale price per share (or if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average bid and the average ask prices) on that date as reported in composite transactions for the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is traded. If the Common Stock (or such other security) is not listed for trading on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange on the relevant date, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the last quoted bid price per share for the Common Stock (or such other security) in the over-the-counter market on the relevant date as reported by OTC Markets Group Inc. or a similar organization. If the Common Stock (or such other security) is not so quoted, the “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be the average of the mid-point of the last bid and ask prices per share for the Common Stock (or such other security) on the relevant date from each of at least three nationally recognized independent investment banking firms selected by the Company for this purpose. The “Last Reported Sale Price” shall be determined without regard to after-hours trading or any other trading outside of regular trading session hours.
“Liens” means, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in the nature of a security interest in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under applicable law, including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement or any lease in the nature thereof. A license shall not constitute a “Lien” for purposes of Section 4.15.
“Make-Whole Fundamental Change” means any transaction or event that constitutes a Fundamental Change (as defined above and determined after giving effect to any exceptions to or exclusions from such definition, but without regard to the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof).
“Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.14(a).
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“Market Disruption Event” means, for the purposes of determining amounts due upon conversion (a) a failure by the primary U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading to open for trading during its regular trading session or (b) the occurrence or existence prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on any Scheduled Trading Day for the Common Stock for more than one half-hour period in the aggregate during regular trading hours of any suspension or limitation imposed on trading (by reason of movements in price exceeding limits permitted by the relevant stock exchange or otherwise) in the Common Stock or in any options contracts or futures contracts relating to the Common Stock.
“Maturity Date” means December 15, 2025.
“Maximum Percentage” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.13.
“Net Proceeds” means the aggregate cash proceeds and Cash Equivalents received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of any Asset Sale (including, without limitation, any cash or Cash Equivalents received upon the sale or other disposition of any non-cash consideration received in any Asset Sale), net of the direct costs relating to such Asset Sale, including, without limitation, any legal, accounting and investment banking fees and sales commissions, and any relocation expenses incurred as a result of the Asset Sale, taxes paid or payable as a result of the Asset Sale, in each case, after taking into account, without duplication, (1) any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements, and amounts required to be applied to the repayment of Indebtedness secured by a Permitted Lien on the asset or assets that were the subject of such Asset Sale and any reserve for adjustment in respect of the sale price of such asset or assets established in accordance with U.S. GAAP, (2) any prohibition or delay by applicable local law or organizational document restrictions (including financial assistance, corporate benefit, restrictions on dividends and the fiduciary and statutory duties of directors of the applicable Foreign Subsidiaries and as a result of minority ownership in the applicable Foreign Subsidiaries) from being repatriated to the United States, (3) any adverse tax consequence (taking into account any foreign tax credit or benefit received in connection with such repatriation) that would result from being repatriated to the United States, (4) any reserve or payment with respect to liabilities associated with such asset or assets and retained by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries after such sale or other disposition thereof, including, without limitation, severance costs, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations associated with such transaction, (5) any cash escrows in connection with purchase price adjustments, reserves or indemnities (until released) and (6) in the case of any Asset Sale by a Subsidiary, payments to holders of Capital Stock in such Subsidiary in such capacity (other than such Capital Stock held by the Company or any Subsidiary) to the extent that such payment is required to permit the distribution of such proceeds in respect of the Capital Stock in such Subsidiary held by the Company or any Subsidiary.
“Net Proceeds Deficiency” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.17(c)(ii).
“Note” or “Notes” shall have the meaning specified in the first paragraph of the recitals of this Indenture.
“Note Guarantee” means the guarantee by any Subsidiary Guarantor of the Company’s Note Obligations under the Notes and this Indenture, as set forth in this Indenture.
“Note Obligations” means the Obligations of the Company and the other obligors (including the Subsidiary Guarantors) under this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents to pay principal, premium, if any, and interest (including all interest accruing after the commencement of any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar proceeding, whether or not a claim for such post-petition interest is allowed or allowable in such proceeding), fees, expenses and indemnities when due and payable, and all other amounts due or to become due under or in connection with this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents and the performance of all other obligations of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors under this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents, according to the respective terms thereof.
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“Note Register” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).
“Note Registrar” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a).
“Notice of Conversion” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(b).
“Obligations” means any principal, interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements (including, without limitation, reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), damages and other liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.
“Observation Period” means, in respect of each Interest Period, the period from, and including, the first date in such Interest Period to, but excluding, the Interest Payment Date for such Interest Period (or in the final Interest Period, the Maturity Date).
“Officer” means, with respect to the Company, the President, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the
Treasurer, the Secretary, any
assistantAssistant
Treasurer, any assistantAssistant Secretary, General Counsel, any Assistant General Counsel, any
Executive or Senior Vice President or any Vice President (whether or not designated by a number or numbers or word or words added before or after the title “Vice President”).
“Officer’s Certificate,” when used with respect to the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, means a certificate that is delivered to the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, and that is signed on behalf of the Company by an Officer of the Company that meets the requirements of Section 19.05.
“open of business” means 9:00 a.m. (New York City time).
“Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, that is delivered to the Trustee.
“Optional Redemption” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.01.
“outstanding,” when used with reference to Notes, shall, subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, mean, as of any particular time, all Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:
(a) Notes theretofore canceled by the Trustee or accepted by the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Notes, or portions thereof, that have become due and payable and in respect of which monies in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent);
(c) Notes that have been paid pursuant to Section 2.06 or Notes in lieu of which, or in substitution for which, other Notes shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.06 unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Notes are held by protected purchasers in due course;
(d) Notes surrendered for purchase in accordance with Article 15 for which Paying Agent holds money sufficient to pay the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, in accordance with Section 15.04(b);
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(e) Notes converted pursuant to Article 14 and required to be cancelled pursuant to Section 2.08;
(f) Notes redeemed pursuant to Article 16; and
(g) Notes repurchased by the Company pursuant to the last sentence of Section 2.10 after the Company surrenders them to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08.
“Paying Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.02.
“Permitted Business” means any
business conducted by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on the Issue Date and any business that, in the good faith judgment of the Company, is similar or reasonably related, ancillary, supplemental or complementary thereto or a reasonable
extension, development or expansions thereof.
“Permitted Credit Facility” shall have the meaning specified in the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness.”
“Permitted Indebtedness” means, without duplication, each of the following:
(a) Indebtedness in respect of the Existing Notes;
(b) Indebtedness in respect of Permitted Junior Indebtedness;
(c) Indebtedness in respect of the Notes and any Note Guarantees in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $67,500,000 and any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof;
(d) Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in
respect of purchase money Indebtedness, Capital Lease Obligations, synthetic lease obligations or mortgage financings in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$10,000,0002,500,000
at any one time outstanding;
(e) hedging obligations (including obligations under Swap Contracts) entered into in the ordinary course of business by the Company or its Subsidiaries to hedge or mitigate commercial risk;
(f) intercompany Indebtedness between the Company and any of its Subsidiaries or between any of the Company’s
Subsidiaries; provided that any such Indebtedness provided by the Company and Subsidiary Guarantors, on the one hand, to Subsidiaries that are not Subsidiary
Guarantors, on the other, shall be subject to the limit set forth in clause (a)(iii) of the definition of Permitted Investments; may only be provided to
the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor and any Indebtedness provided by a Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor to the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor must be contractually subordinated to the Note Obligations;
(g) Indebtedness incurred as a result of endorsing negotiable instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business;
(h) Indebtedness in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees, surety or performance bonds and similar instruments issued for the Company’s account or the account of any of the Company’s Subsidiaries in order to provide security for (i) workers’ compensation claims, unemployment insurance and other types of social security and employee health and disability benefits, or casualty-liability insurance, payment obligations in connection with self-insurance or similar requirements, and (ii) tenders, completion guarantees, statutory obligations, surety, environmental or appeal bonds, court costs, bids, leases, government contracts, contracts (other than for borrowed money), performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature;
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(i) Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries providing for the indemnification, adjustment of purchase price, earn-out, royalty, milestone or similar obligations, in each case incurred or assumed with the acquisition or disposition of any business, assets or Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, other than, in the case of any such disposition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, guarantees of Indebtedness incurred by any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or Capital Stock; provided, that such Indebtedness comprised of earn-outs and other deferred purchase price adjustments entered into on or after February 9, 2024 must be contractually subordinated to the Note Obligations.
(j) Indebtedness incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries consisting of (i) the financing of insurance premiums in the ordinary course of business or (ii) take-or-pay obligations contained in supply agreements in the ordinary course of business;
(k) Indebtedness incurred by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business arising from treasury, payment processing services, cash pooling, depository, over-draft and cash management services;
(l) to the extent constituting Indebtedness, Indebtedness representing any taxes, assessments or governmental charges to the extent such taxes are being contested in good faith and adequate reserves have been provided therefor in conformity with U.S. GAAP;
(m) Indebtedness of a Person existing at the time such Person was acquired by the Company or became its Subsidiary or assets
were acquired from such Person; provided that (i) such Indebtedness was not incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such Person becoming a Subsidiary or the acquisition of such assets, (ii) neither the Company nor any of its
Subsidiaries other than the Person (and its Subsidiaries) or assets acquired has any liability or obligation with respect to such Indebtedness, and (iii) the aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding of Indebtedness under this clause
(m) shall not exceed
$25,000,0006,250,000
at any time;
(n) customer deposits and advance payments received in the ordinary course of business from customers or vendors for goods or services purchased in the ordinary course of business;
(o) Indebtedness not to exceed
$5,000,0001,250,000
at any time outstanding in the form of (i) guarantees of loans and advances to officers, directors and employees and (ii) reimbursements owed to officers, directors and employees of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(p) performance guarantees by the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to the performance of any obligation of any other Subsidiary;
(q) Indebtedness incurred in connection with judgments, writs, orders, decrees, attachments or awards that do not constitute an Event of Default; and
(r) Indebtedness of the Company’s Indian Subsidiary, Glocal Healthcare Systems Private Limited and its Subsidiaries (“Glocal”), to the extent in existence on the date hereof, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $20,000,000 outstanding at any time (such facility, a “Permitted Credit Facility”); provided that (i) such Indebtedness may be Guaranteed by, or recourse in respect to, the Company and its Subsidiaries; and (ii) such Indebtedness shall be expressly subordinated in right of payment or contractually subordinated to the Notes or the Note Guarantees, as applicable, with respect to the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor that has Guaranteed or granted a Lien on any of its property with respect to the Permitted Credit Facility.
In the event that an item of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Indebtedness, the Company may, in its sole discretion, classify, reclassify or divide such item of Indebtedness and will only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in one of the above clauses.
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“Permitted Investments” means:
(a) any Investment (i) in the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, or (ii) by a Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor in any other such Subsidiary or (iii) by the Company or
any Subsidiary Guarantor in any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor; provided that the aggregate amount of Investments made pursuant to this clause (iii) shall not exceed $10,000,000, net of any cash return of capital with respect to
such Investments received by the Company or applicable Subsidiary Guarantor;;
(b) any Investment in Cash Equivalents;
(c) any Investment by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in a Person, if, as a result of, or in connection with, such Investment:
(i) such Person becomes or will become a Subsidiary Guarantor; or
(ii) such Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys all or substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor;
(d) any Investment made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from an Asset Sale that was made pursuant to and in compliance with Section 4.17 or from a sale or other disposition of assets not constituting an Asset Sale;
(e) any Investments to the extent made in exchange for the issuance of Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Equity) of the Company;
(f) any Investments received in compromise or resolution of (i) obligations of trade creditors or customers that were incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of any trade creditor or customer; or (ii) litigation, arbitration or other disputes;
(g) Investments represented by hedging obligations;
(h) advances to officers, directors and employees in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice, for travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes;
(i) any Investment of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries existing on the Issue Date, and any extension, modification or renewal of such existing Investments, to the extent not involving any additional Investment other than as the result of the accrual or accretion of interest or original issue discount or the issuance of pay-in-kind securities, in each case, pursuant to the terms of such Investments as in effect on the Issue Date; provided that the amount of any such Investment may be increased as otherwise permitted under this Indenture;
(j) guarantees of Indebtedness and leases and other ordinary course obligations otherwise permitted by the terms of this Indenture; provided that, any such guarantee must be subordinated to the Note Obligations to the same extent as the underlying obligations;
(k) receivables owing to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, prepaid expenses, and lease, utility, workers’ compensation and other deposits, if created, acquired or entered into in the ordinary course of business;
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(l) Investments consisting of purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, material or equipment pursuant to joint marketing, joint development or similar arrangements with other Persons in the ordinary course of business and entered with bona fide counterparties operating in the same industry as the Company;
(m) advances, loans, rebates and extensions of credit (including the creation of receivables and endorsements for collection and deposit) to suppliers, customers and vendors, and performance guarantees, in each case in the ordinary course of business;
(n) Investments resulting from the acquisition of a Person otherwise permitted by this Indenture, which Investments at the time of such acquisition were held by the acquired Person and were not acquired in contemplation of the acquisition of such Person;
(o) stock, obligations or securities received in satisfaction of judgments and any renewal or replacement thereof;
(p) repurchase of any Notes or Existing Notes, provided that such Notes or Existing Notes are promptly cancelled pursuant to the terms of the applicable indenture;
(q)
other Investments in any Person having an aggregate Fair Market Value (measured on the Issue Date for any Investments existing on the Issue Date and on the date of
investment for each Investment made after the Issue Date and in each case and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value) that, when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (q), do not, at any time
outstanding, exceed $10,000,000, net of any cash return of capital with respect to such Investments received by the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company;[reserved];
(r) (i) lease, utility and other similar deposits, (ii) prepaid expenses, negotiable instruments held for collection and lease, utility and workers’ compensation, performance and other similar deposits, and (iii) guarantees of business obligations owed to landlords, suppliers, customers, franchisees and licensees of the Company and its Subsidiaries, in each case, in the ordinary course of business; and
(s) Investments consisting of xxxxxxx money deposits required in connection with a purchase agreement, or letter of intent, or
other acquisitions to the extent not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture;
and.
(t) Investments in joint ventures, corporate
collaborations or strategic alliances in the ordinary course of business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries otherwise permitted by this Indenture; provided that any such cash Investments do not exceed $10,000,000.
“Permitted Junior Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of the Company, provided that: (a) the stated final maturity of such Indebtedness shall not be earlier than the 366th day after the Maturity Date; (b) such Indebtedness shall not be required to be repaid, prepaid, redeemed, repurchased or defeased, in whole or in part, whether on one or more fixed dates, upon the occurrence of one or more events or at the option of any holder thereof (except, in each case, upon the occurrence of an event of default, the occurrence of a change in control or fundamental change that would also constitute a Fundamental Change under this Indenture, the occurrence of an Asset Sale that would also require an Asset Sale Offer under this Indenture, or, in the case of convertible notes, upon conversion) prior to the date that is the 366th day after the Maturity Date; (c) such Indebtedness shall be expressly subordinated in right of payment or contractually subordinated to the Notes or the Note Guarantees, as applicable; (d) such Indebtedness shall not constitute an obligation (including pursuant to a guarantee) of any Subsidiary of the Company; and (e) such Indebtedness shall not be secured by any Lien on any asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.
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“Permitted Liens” means:
(a) any Liens on any or all of the following of Glocal securing any Permitted Credit Facility: (i) inventory, (ii) receivables and supporting obligations, chattel paper, documents and instruments relating thereto or in respect thereof, (iii) cash and cash equivalents located in the United States, including deposits accounts, (iv) and all payments and receivables in respect thereof or related thereto, (v) all books and records related to the foregoing, (vi) all other inventory and receivables related property customarily constituting collateral under an asset based credit facility, and (vii) all proceeds and products of the foregoing; provided that (A) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than Glocal) and (B) such Lien shall secure only obligations with respect to the Permitted Credit Facility;
(b) Liens to secure the performance of tenders, completion guarantees, statutory obligations, surety, environmental or appeal bonds, bids, leases, government contracts, contracts (other than for borrowed money), performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(c) leases or non-exclusive licenses or sublicenses or subleases as licensor, lessor, sublicensor or sublessor of any of its property;
(d) Liens on specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances, tender, bid, judgment, appeal, performance or governmental contract bonds and completion guarantees, surety, standby letters of credit and warranty and contractual service obligations of a like nature, trade letters of credit and documentary letters of credit and similar bonds or guarantees provided by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(e) Liens securing letters of credit, bank guarantees, surety or performance bonds and similar instruments constituting Permitted Indebtedness;
(f) Liens in favor of collecting or payor banks having a right of setoff, revocation, refund or chargeback with respect to money or instruments of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries on deposit with or in possession of such bank;
(g) Liens on any property in favor of domestic or foreign governmental bodies to secure partial, progress, advance or other payment pursuant to any contract or statute, not yet due and payable;
(h) any netting or set-off arrangements entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of its banking arrangements (including, for the avoidance of doubt, cash pooling arrangements) for the purposes of netting debit and credit balances of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, including pursuant to any cash management agreement;
(i) leases and subleases of real property which do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ business and other Liens incidental to the conduct of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ business that do not materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ business;
(j) Liens arising from UCC financing statement filings regarding operating leases entered into by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business or other precautionary UCC financing statement filings;
(k) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(l) Liens securing the Notes and any Note Guarantee;
(m) Liens securing purchase money Indebtedness, Capital Lease Obligations, synthetic lease obligations and mortgages permitted under this Indenture; provided that such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed thereby (together with any additions, accessions and improvements thereto and the proceeds or distributions thereof);
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(n) Liens securing reasonable and customary fees for services, over-draft liabilities and obligations in respect of treasury, payment processing, cash pooling, depositary, over-draft and cash management services in favor of banks, securities intermediaries and other depository institutions;
(o) customary Liens on insurance proceeds securing financed insurance premiums in the ordinary course of business;
(p) any Liens securing hedging obligations (including obligations under Swap Contracts);
(q) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under clause (m) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness; provided that (i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition (or such merger or consolidation), as the case may be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than, in the case of any such merger or consolidation, the assets of any Subsidiary without significant assets that was formed solely for the purpose of effecting such acquisition) and (iii) such Lien shall secure only those obligations which it secures on the date of such acquisition (or is so merged or consolidated), as the case may be;
(r) Liens incurred or pledges or deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security and employee health and disability benefits, or casualty-liability insurance or self-insurance;
(s) to the extent constituting a Lien, escrow arrangements securing indemnification
obligations in connection with an acquisition of a Person or a disposition that is otherwise permitted under this Indenture; and
(t) Liens (i) on advances of cash or Cash Equivalents in favor of the
seller of any property to be acquired, which are to be applied against the purchase price for such acquisition; provided that (x) the aggregate amount of such advances shall not exceed the purchase price of such acquisition and (y) the
property is acquired within 90 days following the date of the first such advance so made; and (ii) consisting of any agreement, grant or option to sell, transfer or dispose of any property in a disposition of assets, in each case, solely to the
extent such acquisition or disposition, as the case may be, would have been permitted on the date of the creation of such Liens.; and
(u) Liens securing obligations in respect of the Existing Notes, subject to the Intercreditor Agreement.
“Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Company that Refinances then outstanding Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to clause (c) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”; provided that:
(a) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness being Refinanced (plus accrued interest and premium (including tender premium) thereon, any committed or undrawn amounts associated with, original issue discount on, and underwriting discounts, fees, commissions and expenses incurred in connection with, such Refinancing);
(b) such Indebtedness is Refinanced substantially concurrently with receipt of the proceeds from such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness;
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(c) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a scheduled maturity on or after the 366th day immediately following the Maturity Date and such Indebtedness shall not be required to be repaid, prepaid, redeemed, repurchased or defeased, in whole or in part, whether on one or more fixed dates, upon the occurrence of one or more events or at the option of any holder thereof (except, in each case, upon the occurrence of an event of default, the occurrence of a change in control or fundamental change that would also constitute a Fundamental Change under this Indenture, the occurrence of an Asset Sale that would also require an Asset Sale Offer under this Indenture, or in the case of convertible notes, upon conversion) prior to the date that is 366 days after the Maturity Date;
(d) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment or contractually subordinated to the Notes or the Note Guarantees, as applicable, and is unsecured;
(e) no Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall have direct or contingent obligors that were not direct or contingent obligors (or that would not have been required to become direct or contingent obligors) in respect of the Indebtedness being renewed, refunded, refinanced, replaced, defeased or discharged; and
(f) the restrictions contained in the agreements governing such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness are not materially more restrictive, taken as a whole (as reasonably determined by the Company), than those contained in the agreements governing the Indebtedness being Refinanced.
“Person” means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, an association, a partnership, a joint venture, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization or a government or an agency or a political subdivision thereof.
“Physical Notes” means permanent certificated Notes in registered form issued in minimum denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples in excess thereof.
“Physical Settlement” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.02(a).
“Physical Settlement Method” means, with respect to any conversion of Notes, the Physical Settlement.
“Predecessor Note” of any particular Note means every previous Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Note; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in lieu of or in exchange for a mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen Note that it replaces.
“Record Date” means, with respect to any dividend, distribution or other transaction or event in which the holders of Common Stock (or other applicable security) have the right to receive any cash, securities or other property or in which the Common Stock (or such other security) is exchanged for or converted into any combination of cash, securities or other property, the date fixed for determination of holders of the Common Stock (or such other security) entitled to receive such cash, securities or other property (whether such date is fixed by the Board of Directors, by statute, by contract or otherwise).
“Redeemable Equity” means any equity security of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that by its terms (or by terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or otherwise (including by the passage of time or the happening of an event), is required to be redeemed (other than solely for common stock or another security that is not Redeemable Equity or Indebtedness and cash in lieu of fractional shares), is redeemable (other than solely for common stock and cash in lieu of fractional shares) at the option of the holder thereof in whole or in part (including by operation of a sinking fund), or is convertible or exchangeable for Indebtedness of such Person (with a scheduled maturity prior to the 366th day immediately following the Maturity Date), in each case, at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, at any time prior to the 366th day immediately following the Maturity Date (other than upon the occurrence of a fundamental change (that also constitutes a Fundamental Change as defined in this
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Indenture), change of control or Asset Sale); provided, however, that only the portion of such equity security which is required to be redeemed, is so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof before such date will be deemed to be Redeemable Equity. Redeemable Equity will not include any common stock issued by the Company or its Subsidiaries to its employees or directors that is subject to repurchase by the Company or its Subsidiaries pursuant to the terms of any employment agreement, benefit plan or other arrangement. The aggregate principal amount of Redeemable Equity deemed to be outstanding at any time for purposes of this Indenture will be the maximum amount that the Company or its Subsidiaries may become obligated to pay upon the maturity of, or pursuant to any mandatory redemption provisions of, such Redeemable Equity or portion thereof, exclusive of accrued dividends.
“Redemption Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.02.
“Redemption Notice” shall have the meaning specified in Section 16.02.
“Redemption Price” means, for any Notes to be redeemed pursuant to Section 16.01, the Applicable Percentage of the principal amount of such Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the Redemption Date (unless the Redemption Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the immediately succeeding Interest Payment Date, in which case interest accrued to the Interest Payment Date will be paid by the Company to Holders of record of such Notes as of the close of business on such Regular Record Date on, or at the Company’s election, before, such Interest Payment Date, and the Redemption Price will be equal to the Applicable Percentage of the principal amount of such Notes).
“Reference Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
“Reference Time” with respect to any determination of the Benchmark means (1) if the Benchmark is SOFR, the SOFR Determination Time, and (2) if the Benchmark is not SOFR, the time determined by the Company or its designee (in consultation with a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company) in accordance with the Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes.
“Refinance” means, in respect of any Indebtedness, to refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay, prepay, purchase, redeem, defease or retire, or to issue other Indebtedness in exchange or replacement for, such Indebtedness. The terms “Refinanced” and “Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings.
“Registrable Securities” shall have the
meaning set forth in the Subscription Agreement.
“Regular Record Date,” with respect to any Interest Payment Date, means the March 1, June 1, September 1 or December 1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day) immediately preceding the applicable March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 Interest Payment Date, respectively.
“Related Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, each control agreement and all other security agreements, pledge agreements, collateral assignments, patent, copyright and trademark security agreements, and other grants or transfers for security executed and delivered by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor creating (or purporting to create) a Lien upon Collateral in favor of the Collateral Agent, and all amendments, restatements, modifications or supplements thereof or thereto, by or among the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor, and the Collateral Agent.
“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or any successor thereto.
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“Reported Outstanding Share Number” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.13.
“Responsible Officer” means, when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee, including any vice president, assistant vice president, assistant secretary, assistant treasurer, trust officer or any other officer of the Trustee who customarily performs functions similar to those performed by the Persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust matter relating to this Indenture is referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject and, in each case, who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture.
“Restricted Investment” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.16(a)(iv).
“Restricted Payments” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.16(a).
“Restricted Securities” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
“Restrictive Legend” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d).
“Rule 144” means Rule 144 as promulgated under the Securities Act.
“Rule 144A” means Rule 144A as promulgated under the Securities Act.
“Scheduled Trading Day” means a day that is scheduled to be a Trading Day on the principal U.S. national or regional securities exchange or market on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted for trading. If the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, “Scheduled Trading Day” means a Business Day.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Security Agreement” means the Security and Pledge Agreement, dated as of August 18, 2022, by and among the Company, the grantors from time to time party thereto, and the Collateral Agent, as amended, extended, supplemented or modified from time to time.
“Settlement Amount” shall
havehas the meaning specified in
Section 14.02(a).
“Share Exchange Event” shall havehas the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
“Significant Subsidiary”
means a Subsidiary of the Company that meets the definition of “significant subsidiary” in Article 1, Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X under the Exchange Act as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided that, in the case of a
Subsidiary of the Company that meets the criteria of clause (1)(iii) of the definition thereof but not clause (1)(i) or (1)(ii) thereof, in each case, as such rule is in effect on the date of this Indenture, such Subsidiary shall not
be deemed to be a Significant Subsidiary unless the Subsidiary’s income (or loss) from continuing operations before income taxes, extraordinary items and cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles exclusive of amounts attributable
to any non-controlling interests for the last completed fiscal year prior to the date of such determination exceeds $20,000,0005,000,000.
“SOFR” means the 3-month secured overnight financing rate as provided by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator’s Website at the SOFR Determination Time.
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“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of SOFR).
“SOFR Administrator’s Website” means the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, currently at xxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx, or any successor source.
“SOFR Determination Date” means the date two (2) U.S. Government Securities Business Days before the start of the applicable Interest Period.
“SOFR Determination Time” means, with respect to any SOFR Determination Date, 3:00 p.m. (New York time).
“Spin-Off” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Stock Price” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.14(c).
“Subscription Agreement” means, collectively, the Subscription Agreements dated as of the date
hereofJanuary 20, 2021, as amended, each
between the Company and the Subscriber defined therein.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, association, partnership or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership interests) entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers, general partners or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (i) such Person; (ii) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person; or (iii) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person. Unless the context otherwise requires, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” means, collectively, each Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary that executes this Indenture
as a
Guarantorguarantor
on the Issue Date and each other Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary that incurs a Note Guarantee; provided that upon the release or discharge of such Person from its Note Guarantee
in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, such Subsidiary automatically ceases to be a Subsidiary Guarantor.
“Successor Company” shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.01(a).
“Surviving Guarantor” shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.02(b).
“Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “master agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any master agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, none of the Company’s equity securities that are issued or distributed pursuant to any of the Company’s equity incentive plans shall be considered a Swap Contract.
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“Trading Day” means a day on which (i) trading in the Common Stock (or
other security for which a closing sale price must be determined) generally occurs on Thethe New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock (or such other
security) is not then listed on
Thethe
New York Stock Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then listed or, if the Common Stock (or such other
security) is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock (or such other security) is then traded and (ii) a Last Reported Sale Price for the Common Stock (or
closing sale price for such other security) is available on such securities exchange or market; provided that if the Common Stock (or such other security) is not so listed or traded, “Trading Day” means a Business Day; and
provided, further, that for purposes of determining amounts due upon conversion only, “Trading Day” means a day on which (x) there is no Market Disruption Event and (y) trading in the Common Stock generally
occurs on
Thethe
New York Stock Exchange or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on Thethe New York Stock Exchange, on the principal other U.S. national or
regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then listed or, if the Common Stock is not then listed on a U.S. national or regional securities exchange, on the principal other market on which the Common Stock is then listed or admitted
for trading, except that if the Common Stock is not so listed or admitted for trading, “Trading Day” means a Business Day.
“Transaction Support Agreement” means that certain Transaction Support Agreement, dated as of November 16, 2023, by and among Cloudbreak, Forest Buyer, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, the Company, and the Consenting Noteholders (as defined therein).
“transfer” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.05(c).
“Transfer Agent” shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.12.
“Trigger Event” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as it was in force at the date of execution of this Indenture; provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after the date hereof, the term “Trust Indenture Act” shall mean, to the extent required by such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as so amended.
“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee” in the first paragraph of this Indenture until a successor trustee shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter “Trustee” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.
“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided, however, that, at any time, if by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the perfection or priority of the Collateral Agent’s security interest in any item or portion of the Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, the term “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect, at such time, in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection or priority and for purposes of definitions relating to such provisions.
“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the Benchmark Replacement excluding the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
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“unit of Reference Property” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.07(a).
“U.S. GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect on the date of this Indenture, without giving effect, for the avoidance of doubt, ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) or ASC 815—Derivatives and Hedging.
“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in U.S. government securities.
“Valuation Period” shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.04(c).
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect Subsidiary of such Person, except that, solely for purposes of this definition, the reference to “more than 50%” in the definition of “Subsidiary” shall be deemed replaced by a reference to “100%”, the calculation of which shall exclude nominal amounts of the voting power of shares of Capital Stock or other interests in the relevant Subsidiary not held by such person to the extent required to satisfy local minority interest requirements outside of the United States.
Section 1.02 References to Interest. Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note in this Indenture shall be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to any of Section 4.06(d) and Section 6.03. Unless the context otherwise requires, any express mention of Additional Interest in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not made.
ARTICLE 2
ISSUE, DESCRIPTION, EXECUTION, REGISTRATION AND EXCHANGE OF NOTES
Section 2.01 Designation and Amount. The Notes shall be designated as the “Variable Rate Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2025.” The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is initially limited to $67,500,000, subject to Section 2.10 and except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration or transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of other Notes to the extent expressly permitted hereunder.
Section 2.02 Form of Notes. The Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication to be borne by such Notes shall be substantially in the respective forms set forth in Exhibit A, the terms and provisions of which shall constitute, and are hereby expressly incorporated in and made a part of this Indenture. To the extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby. In the case of any conflict between this Indenture and a Note, the provisions of this Indenture shall control and govern to the extent of such conflict.
Any Global Note may be endorsed with or have incorporated in the text thereof such legends or recitals or changes not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture as may be required by the Custodian or the Depositary, or as may be required to comply with any applicable law or any regulation thereunder or with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation system upon which the Notes may be listed or traded or designated for issuance or to conform with any usage with respect thereto, or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.
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Any of the Notes may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such notations, legends or endorsements as the Officer executing the same may approve (execution thereof to be conclusive evidence of such approval) and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, or as may be required to comply with any law or with any rule or regulation made pursuant thereto or with any rule or regulation of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, or to conform to usage or to indicate any special limitations or restrictions to which any particular Notes are subject.
Each Global Note shall represent such principal amount of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to time be increased or reduced to reflect redemptions, repurchases, cancellations, conversions, transfers or exchanges permitted hereby. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the amount of any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, in such manner and upon instructions given by the Holder of such Notes in accordance with this Indenture. Payment of principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, a Global Note shall be made to the Holder of such Note on the date of payment, unless a record date or other means of determining Holders eligible to receive payment is provided for herein.
Section 2.03 Date and Denomination of Notes; Payments of Interest and Defaulted Amounts. (a)The Notes shall be issuable in
registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples in excess thereof. Each Note shallwill be dated the date of its authentication and shallwill bear interest from the date specified on the face of such Note. Accrued interest on the Notes will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days in the Observation Period.
(b) The Person in whose name any Note (or its Predecessor Note) is registered on the Note Register at the close of business on any Regular Record Date with respect to any Interest Payment Date shall be entitled to receive the interest payable on such Interest Payment Date. The principal amount of any Note (x) in the case of any Physical Note, shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained by the Company for such purposes in the contiguous United States, which shall initially be the Corporate Trust Office and (y) in the case of any Global Note, shall be payable by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Company shall pay, or cause the Paying Agent to pay, interest (i) on any Physical Notes (A) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or less, by check mailed to the Holders of these Notes at their address as it appears in the Note Register and (B) to Holders holding Physical Notes having an aggregate principal amount of more than $5,000,000, either by check mailed to each Holder or, upon application by such a Holder to the Note Registrar not later than the relevant Regular Record Date, by wire transfer in immediately available funds to that Xxxxxx’s account within the United States, which application shall remain in effect until the Holder notifies, in writing, the Note Registrar to the contrary or (ii) on any Global Note by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee.
(c) Any Defaulted Amounts shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant payment date but shall accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including, such relevant payment date, and such Defaulted Amounts together with such interest thereon shall be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (i) or (ii) below:
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(i) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Amounts to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of the Defaulted Amounts proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the proposed payment (which shall be not less than 25 days after the receipt by the Trustee of such notice, unless the Trustee shall consent to an earlier date), and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Amounts or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit on or prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Amounts as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Company shall fix a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Amounts which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment, and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of such special record date and the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor to be delivered to each Holder not less than 10 days prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Amounts and the special record date therefor having been so delivered, such Defaulted Amounts shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such special record date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (ii) of this Section 2.03(c). The Trustee shall have no responsibility for the calculation of the Defaulted Amounts.
(ii) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Amounts in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Notes may be listed or designated for issuance, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange or automated quotation system, if, after written notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Section 2.04 Execution, Authentication and Delivery of Notes. The Notes shall be signed in the name and on behalf of the Company by the manual, facsimile or other electronic signature of one of its Officers.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Notes, and the Trustee in accordance with such Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Notes, without any further action by the Company hereunder.
Only such Notes as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially in the form set forth on the Form of Note attached as Exhibit A hereto, executed manually by an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee as provided by Section 19.10), shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee (or such an authenticating agent) upon any Note executed by the Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
In case any Officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the Notes shall cease to be such Officer before the Notes so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, or disposed of by the Company, such Notes nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though
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the person who signed such Notes had not ceased to be such Officer of the Company; and any Note may be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Note, shall be the Officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of this Indenture any such person was not such an Officer.
Section 2.05 Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Notes; Restrictions on Transfer; Depositary.
(a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the register maintained in such office or in any other office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02, the “Note Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Notes and of transfers of Notes. Such register shall be in written form or in any form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable period of time. The Trustee is hereby initially appointed the “Note Registrar” for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided. The Company may appoint one or more co-Note Registrars in accordance with Section 4.02.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note to the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar, and satisfaction of the requirements for such transfer set forth in this Section 2.05, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and bearing such legends as may be required by this Indenture.
Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at any such office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02. Whenever any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Notes that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive, bearing registration numbers not contemporaneously outstanding.
All Notes presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange, repurchase or conversion shall (if so required by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Trustee or Note Registrar and duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney-in-fact duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be imposed on a Holder by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent for any exchange or registration of transfer of Notes, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of new Notes issued upon such exchange or registration of transfer being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for exchange or registration of transfer.
None of the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar or any co-Note Registrar shall be required to exchange or register a transfer of (i) any Notes surrendered for conversion or, if a portion of any Note is surrendered for conversion, such portion thereof surrendered for conversion, (ii) any Notes, or a portion of any Note, surrendered for repurchase (and not withdrawn) in accordance with Article 15, or (iii) any Notes selected for redemption in accordance with Article 16, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed.
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All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes in accordance with this Indenture shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
(b) So long as the Notes are eligible for book-entry settlement with the Depositary, unless otherwise required by law, subject to the fourth
paragraph from the end of
Section
2.05(cd), all Notes shall be represented by one or more Notes in global form (each, a “Global Note”) registered in the name of the Depositary or the nominee of the Depositary. Each Global Note shall bear
the legend required on a Global Note set forth in Exhibit A hereto. The transfer and exchange of beneficial interests in a Global Note that does not involve the issuance of a Physical Note shall be effected through the Depositary (but not the
Trustee or the Custodian) in accordance with this Indenture (including the restrictions on transfer set forth herein) and the Applicable Procedures.
(c) Every Note that bears or is required under this
Section 2.05(c) to bear the Restrictive Legend (together with any Common Stock issued upon conversion of
the Notes that is required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.05(d), collectively, the “Restricted Securities”) shall be subject to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 2.05 (c) (including the legend set forth below), unless such restrictions on transfer shall be eliminated or
otherwise waived by written consent of the Company, and the Holder of each such Restricted Security, by such Xxxxxx’s acceptance thereof, agrees to be bound by all such restrictions on transfer. As used in this Section 2.05(c) and
Section 2.05(d), the term “transfer” encompasses any sale, pledge, transfer or other disposition whatsoever of any Restricted Security.
(d) Each Global Note shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (the “Restrictive Legend”) (or any similar legend, not inconsistent with this Indenture, required by the Depositary for such Global Note) (unless such Notes have been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing, with notice thereof to the Trustee):
THIS SECURITY AND THE RELATED NOTE GUARANTEES AND THE COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF UPHEALTH, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, EXCEPT:
(A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
(B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IS EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER, OR
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(C) TO A PERSON THAT YOU REASONABLY BELIEVE TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(D) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
NO AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY OR PERSON THAT HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY DURING THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THREE MONTHS MAY PURCHASE, OTHERWISE ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN.
No transfer of any Note required to bear the Restrictive Legend will be registered by the Note Registrar unless the applicable box on the Form of Assignment and Transfer has been checked.
The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent any of its controlled Affiliates from acquiring any Note (or any beneficial interest therein) unless such acquired Notes are purchased in a transaction described in and in accordance with Section 2.08 and promptly delivered to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with its customary procedures.
Any Note (or security issued in exchange or substitution therefor) (i) that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become effective or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or (ii) that has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, may, upon surrender of such Note for exchange to the Note Registrar in accordance with the provisions of this Section 2.05, be exchanged for a new Note or Notes, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, which shall not bear the Restrictive Legend required by this Section 2.05(d) and shall not be assigned (or deemed assigned) a restricted CUSIP number.
The Company shall be entitled to instruct the Custodian in writing to so surrender any Global Note as to which any of the conditions set forth in clause (i) or (ii) of the first sentence of the immediately preceding sentence have been satisfied, and, upon such instruction, the Custodian shall so surrender such Global Note for exchange; and any new Global Note so exchanged therefor shall not bear the Restrictive Legend specified in this Section 2.05(d) and shall not be assigned (or deemed assigned) a restricted CUSIP number. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing after a registration statement, if any, with respect to the Notes or any Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Notes has been declared effective under the Securities Act.
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Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture (other than the provisions set forth in this Section 2.05(d)), a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole or in part except (i) 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 and (ii) for exchange of a Global Note or a portion thereof for one or more Physical Notes in accordance with the second immediately succeeding paragraph.
The Depositary shall be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act. The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company to act as Depositary with respect to each Global Note. Initially, each Global Note shall be issued to the Depositary, registered in the name of Cede & Co., as the nominee of the Depositary, and deposited with the Trustee as custodian for Cede & Co.
If (i) the Depositary notifies the Company at any time that the Depositary is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary for the Global Notes and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days, (ii) the Depositary ceases to be registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act and a successor depositary is not appointed within 90 days or (iii) an Event of Default with respect to the Notes has occurred and is continuing and a beneficial owner of any Note requests that its beneficial interest therein be issued as a Physical Note, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officer’s Certificate and a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of Notes, shall authenticate and deliver (x) in the case of clause (iii), a Physical Note to such beneficial owner in a principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Note corresponding to such beneficial owner’s beneficial interest and (y) in the case of clause (i) or (ii), Physical Notes to each beneficial owner of the related Global Notes (or a portion thereof) in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such Global Notes in exchange for such Global Notes, and upon delivery of the Global Notes to the Trustee such Global Notes shall be canceled.
Physical Notes issued in exchange for all or a part of the Global Note pursuant to this Section 2.05(d) shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, or, in the case of clause (iii) of the immediately preceding paragraph, the relevant beneficial owner, shall instruct the Trustee. Upon execution and authentication, the Trustee shall deliver such Physical Notes to the Persons in whose names such Physical Notes are so registered.
At such time as all interests in a Global Note have been converted, canceled, repurchased, redeemed or transferred, such Global Note shall be, upon receipt thereof, canceled by the Trustee in accordance with standing procedures and existing instructions between the Depositary and the Custodian. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Physical Notes, converted, canceled, repurchased, redeemed or transferred to a transferee who receives Physical Notes therefor or any Physical Note is exchanged or transferred for part of such Global Note, the principal amount of such Global Note shall, in accordance with the standing procedures and instructions existing between the Depositary and the Custodian, be appropriately reduced or increased, as the case may be, and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such reduction or increase.
None of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Conversion Agent or any other agent of the Company or the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Note or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any act or omission of the Depositary. All notices and communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders in respect of the Notes shall be given or made only to, or upon the order of, the registered Holder(s) (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in the case of a Global Note).
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The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject to the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners.
(e) Any stock certificate representing Common Stock issued upon conversion of a Note shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (unless such Common Stock has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or such Common Stock has been issued upon conversion of a Note that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer, or pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, or unless otherwise agreed by the Company with written notice thereof to the Trustee and any transfer agent for the Common Stock):
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF UPHEALTH, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, EXCEPT:
(A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
(B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IS EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER, OR
(C) TO A PERSON THAT YOU REASONABLY BELIEVE TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(D) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRANSFER AGENT FOR THE COMPANY’S COMMON STOCK RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
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Any such Common Stock (i) that has been transferred pursuant to a registration statement that has become or been declared effective under the Securities Act and that continues to be effective at the time of such transfer or (ii) that has been sold pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 or any similar provision then in force under the Securities Act, may, upon surrender of the certificates representing such shares of Common Stock for exchange in accordance with the procedures of the transfer agent for the Common Stock, be exchanged for a new certificate or certificates for a like aggregate number of shares of Common Stock, which shall not bear the restrictive legend required by this Section 2.05(e).
(f) Any Note or Common Stock issued upon conversion or exchange of a Note that is repurchased or owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company (or any Person who was an Affiliate of the Company at any time during the three months immediately preceding) may not be resold by the Company or such Affiliate (or such Person, as the case may be) unless registered under the Securities Act or resold pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in a transaction that results in such Note or Common Stock, as the case may be, no longer being a “restricted security” (as defined under Rule 144).
(g) If a Holder of any Note or share of Common Stock issued upon conversion of any Note, or an owner of a beneficial interest in any Global Note, or in a global certificate representing any share of Common Stock issued upon conversion of any Note, transfers such Note or share in compliance with Rule 144 and delivers to the Company a written request, certifying that it is not, and has not been at any time during the preceding three (3) months, an Affiliate of the Company, to reissue such Note or share without the restrictive legends required by Section 2.05(c) or Section 2.05(d), as applicable, then the Company will cause the same to occur (and, if applicable, cause such Note or share to thereafter be represented by an “unrestricted” CUSIP or ISIN number in the facilities of the related depositary), and will use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause such occurrence within two (2) Trading Days of such request.
(h) Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, neither the Trustee nor the Note Registrar shall be responsible for ascertaining whether any transfer complies with the registration provisions of, or exemptions from, the Securities Act, applicable state securities laws or other applicable law.
Section 2.06 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes. In case any Note shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company in its discretion may execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order, the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Note, bearing a registration number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the mutilated Note, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Note so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Note shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless from any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.
The Trustee or such authenticating agent may authenticate any such substituted Note and deliver the same upon the receipt of such security or indemnity as the Trustee, the Company and, if applicable, such authenticating agent may require. No service charge shall be imposed by the Company, the Trustee, the Note Registrar, any co-Note Registrar or the Paying Agent upon the issuance of any substitute Note, but the Company may require a Holder to pay a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax required in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new
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substitute Note being different from the name of the Holder of the old Note that became mutilated or was destroyed, lost or stolen. In case any Note that has matured or is about to mature or has been surrendered for required repurchase or is about to be converted in accordance with Article 14 shall become mutilated or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, in its sole discretion, instead of issuing a substitute Note, pay or authorize the payment of or convert or authorize the conversion of the same (without surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Note), as the case may be, if the applicant for such payment or conversion shall furnish to the Company, to the Trustee and, if applicable, to such authenticating agent such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless for any loss, liability, cost or expense caused by or connected with such substitution, and, in every case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and, if applicable, any Paying Agent or Conversion Agent of the destruction, loss or theft of such Note and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Note issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 2.06 by virtue of the fact that any Note is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations set forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder. To the extent permitted by law, all Notes shall be held and owned upon the express condition that the foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and shall preclude any and all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement, payment, redemption, conversion or repurchase of negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.
Section 2.07 Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of Physical Notes, the Company may execute and the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by the Trustee shall, upon receipt of a Company Order, authenticate and deliver temporary Notes (printed or lithographed). Temporary Notes shall be issuable in any authorized denomination, and substantially in the form of the Physical Notes but with such omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Notes, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Note shall be executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee or such authenticating agent upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same effect, as the Physical Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Trustee or such authenticating agent Physical Notes (other than any Global Note) and thereupon any or all temporary Notes (other than any Global Note) may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at each office or agency maintained by the Company pursuant to Section 4.02 and the Trustee or such authenticating agent shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such temporary Notes an equal aggregate principal amount of Physical Notes upon the written request of the Company. Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any charge therefor. Until so exchanged, the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same limitations under this Indenture as Physical Notes authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 2.08 Cancellation of Notes Paid, Converted, Etc. The Company shall cause all Notes surrendered for the purpose of payment at maturity, repurchase upon a Fundamental Change, redemption, registration of transfer or exchange or conversion (other than any Notes exchanged pursuant to Section 14.12), if surrendered to any Person that the Company controls other than the Trustee, to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation and they will no longer be considered outstanding under this Indenture upon their payment at maturity, registration of transfer or exchange or conversion. All Notes delivered to the Trustee shall be canceled promptly by it. Except for any Notes surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, or as otherwise expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture, no Notes shall be authenticated in exchange for any Notes surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. The Trustee shall dispose of canceled Notes in accordance with its customary procedures. After such cancellation, the Trustee shall deliver a certificate of such cancellation to the Company, at the Company’s written request in a Company Order.
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Section 2.09 CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the Notes may use CUSIP numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use CUSIP numbers in all notices issued to Holders as a convenience to such Holders; provided that the Trustee shall have no liability for any defect in the CUSIP numbers as they appear on any Note, notice or elsewhere and that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or on such notice and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the CUSIP numbers.
Section 2.10 Additional Notes; Repurchases. The Company may, with the consent of the Holders of 70% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, reopen this Indenture and issue additional Notes hereunder with the same terms as the Notes initially issued hereunder (other than differences in the issue date, the issue price and interest accrued prior to the issue date of such additional Notes and, if applicable, restrictions on transfer of such additional Notes) in an unlimited aggregate principal amount; provided that if any such additional Notes are not fungible with the Notes initially issued hereunder for U.S. federal income tax or securities laws purposes, such additional Notes shall have one or more separate CUSIP, ISIN or other identifying numbers. Prior to the issuance of any such additional Notes, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee a Company Order, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, such Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel to cover such matters, in addition to those required by Sections 10.05 and 19.05, as the Trustee shall reasonably request. In addition, the Company may, to the extent permitted by law and without the consent of Holders, and directly or indirectly (regardless of whether such Notes are surrendered to the Company), repurchase Notes in the open market or otherwise, whether by the Company or its Subsidiaries or through a private or public tender or exchange offer or through counterparties to private agreements, including by cash-settled swaps or other derivatives. The Company may, at its option and to the extent permitted by applicable law, reissue, resell, hold or surrender to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08 any Notes that the Company may repurchase, in the case of a reissuance or resale, so long as such Notes do not constitute “restricted securities” (as defined under Rule 144) upon such reissuance or resale; provided that if any such reissued or resold Notes are not fungible with the Notes initially issued hereunder for U.S. federal income tax or securities law purposes, such reissued or resold Notes shall have one or more separate CUSIP numbers. Any Notes that the Company may repurchase shall be considered outstanding for all purposes under this Indenture (other than, at any time when such Notes are held by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or its Affiliates or any Subsidiary of any of such Affiliates, for the purpose of determining whether Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture) unless and until such time the Company surrenders them to the Trustee for cancellation in accordance with Section 2.08 and, upon receipt of a written order from the Company, the Trustee shall cancel all Notes so surrendered.
ARTICLE 3
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section 3.01 Satisfaction and Discharge. This Indenture and the Notes shall upon request of the Company contained in an Officer’s Certificate cease to be of further effect, and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute such proper instruments reasonably requested by the Company acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the Notes, when (a) (i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than Notes which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced, paid or converted as provided in Section 2.06) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or (ii) after the Notes have (x) become due and payable, whether on the Maturity Date, on any Redemption Date, on any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or otherwise and/or (y) been converted
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(and the related consideration due upon conversion has been determined), the Company has deposited with the Trustee cash and/or has delivered to Holders shares of Common Stock, as applicable, (in the case of Common Stock, solely to satisfy the Company’s Conversion Obligation) sufficient, without consideration of reinvestment, to pay all of the outstanding Notes and all other sums due and payable under this Indenture or the Notes by the Company; and (b) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the Notes have been complied with. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent under Section 7.06 shall survive.
ARTICLE 4
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
Section 4.01 Payment of Principal and Interest.
(a) The Company covenants and agrees that it will pay or cause to be paid the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) and premium, if any, of the Settlement Amounts owed upon conversion of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, each of the Notes at the places, at the respective times and in the manner provided herein and in the Notes.
The Company will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal at the then Applicable Interest Rate on the Notes to the extent lawful; it will pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable grace period) at the same rate to the extent lawful.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, the Company or Paying Agent may, to the extent it is required to do so
by law, deduct or withhold income or other similar taxes imposed by the United States of America from principal, premium or Interestinterest or Defaulted Amounts payments hereunder.
(b) Interest on the Notes shall be payable quarterly in arrears on each Interest Payment Date and on the Maturity Date. On each such Interest Payment Date, the Company will pay interest to the Holders in whose names the Notes are registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date; provided that interest payable on the Maturity Date, any Redemption Date or any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is not an Interest Payment Date will be payable to the Holder to whom the principal is payable. Interest payable on a Redemption Date or a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is an Interest Payment Date will be payable to the Holders in whose names the Notes are registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date. If any Interest Payment Date is not a Business Day, then the related payment of interest for such Interest Payment Date shall be paid on the next succeeding Business Day, unless such next succeeding Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, in which case (other than the Maturity Date) the Company will make the interest payment on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if made on such Interest Payment Date and no further interest shall accrue as a result of such delay.
(c) On each Interest Payment Determination Date relating to an Interest Payment Date, the Company will calculate the amount of accrued interest payable on the Notes for each Interest Period by multiplying (i) the outstanding principal amount of the Notes by (ii) the product of (a) the Applicable Interest Rate for the relevant Interest Period multiplied by (b) the quotient of the actual number of calendar days in such Interest Period divided by 360. For the Interest Period commencing on, and including, the
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Issue Date, the Benchmark will be SOFR. For each subsequent Interest Period, the Calculation Agent may assume that the Benchmark is SOFR, unless the Company shall deliver written notice to the Calculation Agent (with a copy to the Trustee) by the Benchmark Determination Date stating that a Benchmark Replacement Date has occurred, the Benchmark Replacement, the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment, and any applicable Benchmark Replacement Conforming changes. If the Company does not deliver such notice two (2) Business Days prior to the Benchmark Determination Date in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence, and the Calculation Agent is unable to determine SOFR for such Interest Period, the Applicable Interest Rate for such Interest Period shall be the same as for the immediately preceding Interest Period. The Calculation Agent will calculate the Applicable Interest Rate for each Interest Period in accordance with the terms of this Indenture based on the Benchmark, and shall notify the Company thereof at least one (1) Business Day prior to the commencement of each Interest Period; and thereafter the Company will notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent, and the Holders of the Notes, in writing of the Applicable Interest Rate and the applicable Interest Payment Date for such Interest Period. The Trustee is also authorized to deliver such notice to Holders of the Notes upon request. At least five (5) Business Days prior to an Interest Payment Date, the Company will notify the Calculation Agent, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Holders of the Notes in writing of the Applicable Interest Rate being applied to the Notes and the amount of interest due on the applicable Interest Payment Date. The Applicable Interest Rate on the Notes for each Interest Period will be determined by the designated calculation agent (the “Calculation Agent”). The Trustee will initially serve as the Calculation Agent. All determinations made by the Calculation Agent shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes. So long as any Notes remain outstanding, there will be at all times a Calculation Agent. In the event that any then acting Calculation Agent shall be unable or unwilling to act, or if the Calculation Agent shall fail to establish the Benchmark for any Interest Period, or the Company proposes to remove such Calculation Agent, the Company shall (in consultation with a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company) appoint another Calculation Agent. Neither the Trustee nor the Paying Agent has any duty to serve as, succeed to, assume or otherwise perform the duties of the Calculation Agent, the Company or its designee, or to appoint a successor or replacement in the event of its resignation or removal, or to remove or replace the Calculation Agent, the Company or its designee in the calculation of the interest rate applicable to the Notes in the event of a default, breach or failure of the performance of the Calculation Agent, the Company or its designee with respect to its duties and obligations relating to the determination of the rate of interest. None of the Trustee or Paying Agent shall be responsible for the actions or omissions of the Company or the Calculation Agent.
None of the Trustee, the Paying Agent nor the Calculation Agent shall be under any obligation (i) to monitor, determine or verify the unavailability or cessation of SOFR or other applicable Benchmark Replacement, or whether or when there has occurred, or to give notice to any other transaction party or any Holder of the occurrence of, any Benchmark Transition Event or related Benchmark Replacement Date, (ii) to select, determine or designate any Benchmark Replacement, or other successor or replacement benchmark index, or whether any conditions to the designation of such a rate or index have been satisfied, (iii) to select, determine or designate any Benchmark Replacement Adjustment, or other modifier to any replacement or successor index, or (iv) to determine whether or what Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes are necessary or advisable, if any, in connection with any of the foregoing. The Applicable Interest Rate, as determined by the Calculation Agent, will be applicable for the entirety of the relevant Interest Period.
None of the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Calculation Agent shall be liable for any inability, failure or delay on its part or on the part of any other Persons to perform any of its or their duties set forth in this Indenture or otherwise as a result of or related to the unavailability of SOFR or other applicable Benchmark Replacement, including as a result of or related to any failure, inability, delay, error or inaccuracy on the part of any other Person in providing any direction, instruction, notice or information
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required or contemplated by the terms of this Indenture and reasonably required for the performance of such duties. In performing any of its duties hereunder, the Trustee and the Calculation Agent shall be entitled to seek the concurrence of Holders of not less than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding and shall not be liable to the Company, any Subsidiary Guarantor, any Holder or any other Person for acting or refusing to act in accordance with the direction or concurrence of, and pending such direction or concurrence from, such Holders.
(d) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, if the Company or its designee (in consultation with a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company) determines on or prior to the relevant Reference Time that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to determining SOFR, then the Benchmark Replacement provisions set forth in Section 4.01(g) will thereafter apply to all determinations of the rate of interest payable on the Notes.
(e) For the avoidance of doubt, in accordance with the benchmark replacement provisions, after a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred, the interest rate for each Interest Period on the Notes will be an annual rate equal to the sum of the Benchmark Replacement and the applicable margin.
(f) [Reserved].
(g) Effect of Benchmark Transition Event.
(i) Benchmark Replacement. If the Company or its designee (in consultation with a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company) determines that a Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to the Reference Time in respect of any determination of the Benchmark on any Benchmark Determination Date, (A) the Benchmark Replacement will replace the then-current Benchmark for all purposes relating to the Notes in respect of such determination on such date and all determinations on all subsequent dates; and (B) the Company will notify the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Calculation Agent pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate (upon which Officer’s Certificate the Trustee, Paying Agent and Calculation Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely) and to the Holders of the Notes in writing of such Benchmark Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred and the Benchmark Replacement.
(ii) Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes. In connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Company or its designee (in consultation with a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company) will have the right to make Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes from time to time.
(iii) Decisions and Determinations. Any determination, decision or election that may be made by the Company or its designee pursuant to the benchmark replacement provisions described herein, including any determination with respect to tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or non-occurrence of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection: will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error; if made by the Company, will be made in its sole discretion; if made by the Company’s designee, will be made after consultation with the Company, and such designee will not make any such determination, decision or election to which the Company objects; and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, shall become effective without consent from the Holders of the Notes or any other party. Any determination, decision or election pursuant to the benchmark
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replacement provisions shall be made by the Company or the Company’s designee (which may be an affiliate of the Company but in no event shall be the initial Calculation Agent, the Trustee or the initial Paying Agent) on the basis as described above. The Calculation Agent shall not be liable for refusing or failing to make any such determination, decision or election. The Company shall communicate such determinations, decisions or elections to the Trustee and the Calculation Agent pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate (upon which the Trustee and Calculation Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely) and to the Holders by written notice, and, if necessary, the Company and the Trustee shall enter into a supplemental indenture, without consent from the Holders of the Notes or any other party, necessary to effectuate Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes; provided that, the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such supplemental indenture that the Trustee or the Calculation Agent determines would not be administratively feasible or that the Trustee or the Calculation Agent determines might expose it to liability.
Section 4.02 Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company will maintain in the contiguous United States an office or agency (which may be an office of the Trustee or an affiliate of the Trustee) where the Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or repurchase (“Paying Agent”) or for conversion (“Conversion Agent”) and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be made. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made at the Corporate Trust Office.
The Company may also from time to time designate as co-Note Registrars one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the contiguous United States for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The terms “Paying Agent” and “Conversion Agent” include any such additional or other offices or agencies, as applicable.
The Company hereby initially designates the Trustee as the Paying Agent, Note Registrar, Custodian and Conversion Agent and the Corporate Trust Office as a place where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange or for presentation for payment or repurchase (if applicable) or for conversion and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be made; provided that no office of the Trustee shall be a place for service of legal process on the Company.
Section 4.03 Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee’s Office. The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 7.09, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
Section 4.04 Provisions as to Paying Agent. (a) If the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, the Company will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 4.04:
(i) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes in trust for the benefit of the Holders;
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(ii) that it will give the Trustee prompt written notice of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) and premium, if any of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall be due and payable; and
(iii) that at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, upon request of the Trustee, it will forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust;
provided, that a Paying Agent appointed as contemplated under Section 15.02(f) shall not be required to deliver any such instrument.
The Company shall, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) or such accrued and unpaid interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action; provided that if such deposit is made on the due date, such deposit must be made in immediately available funds and received by the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date.
(b) If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will, on or before each due date of the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes a sum sufficient to pay such principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, so becoming due and will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action and of any failure by the Company to make any payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes when the same shall become due and payable.
(c) Anything in this Section 4.04 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, or for any other reason, pay, cause to be paid or deliver to the Trustee all sums or amounts held in trust by the Company or any Paying Agent hereunder as required by this Section 4.04, such sums or amounts to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained and upon such payment or delivery by the Company or any Paying Agent to the Trustee, the Company or such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability but only with respect to such sums or amounts.
(d) Subject to applicable law, any money deposited with the Trustee, the Conversion Agent or any Paying Agent, or any money and shares of Common Stock then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, accrued and unpaid interest on and the consideration due upon conversion of any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable), interest or consideration due upon conversion has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on request of the Company contained in an Officer’s Certificate, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust
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and the Trustee shall have no further liability with respect to such funds; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee, the Conversion Agent or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee with respect to such trust money and shares of Common Stock, shall thereupon cease.
Section 4.05 Corporate Existence. Subject to Article 11, the Company shall do or cause to be done, at its own cost and expense, all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence in accordance with the organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Company.
Section 4.06 Rule 144A Information Requirement and Annual Reports. (a)At any time the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall, so long as any of the Notes or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion thereof shall, at such time, constitute “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144(a)(3) under the Securities Act, promptly provide without cost to the Trustee and, upon written request, any Holder, beneficial owner or prospective purchaser of such Notes or any shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Notes, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act to facilitate the resale of such Notes or shares of Common Stock pursuant to Rule 144A.
(b) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 15 days after the same are required to be filed with the Commission, copies of any documents or reports that the Company is required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (giving effect to any grace period provided by Rule 12b-25 under the Exchange Act (or any successor thereto)). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall in no event be required to deliver to, or otherwise provide or disclose to, the Trustee or any Holder any information for which the Company is requesting (assuming such request has not been denied), or has received, confidential treatment from the Commission, or any correspondence with the Commission. Any such document or report that the Company files with the Commission via the Commission’s XXXXX system (or any successor thereto) shall be deemed to be delivered to the Trustee for purposes of this Section 4.06(b) at the time such documents are filed via the XXXXX system (or such successor); provided that the Trustee shall have no obligation to determine whether such documents or reports have been filed via the XXXXX system.
(c) Delivery of the reports, information and documents described in subsection (b) above to the Trustee is for informational purposes only, and the information and the Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute actual or constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to conclusively rely on an Officer’s Certificate).
(d) If, on any day occurring on or after the date that is six (6) months after the Last Original Issue Date of any Note, (i) the Company has not satisfied the reporting conditions (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the requirement for current Form 10 information) set forth in Rule 144(c) and (i)(2) under the Securities Act; or (ii) such Note is not otherwise Freely Tradable, then Additional Interest will accrue on such Note for such day. Any Additional Interest that accrues on a Note to the foregoing sentence of this Section 4.06(d) shall be payable on the same dates and in the same manner as the regular stated interest on such Note and will accrue at a rate per annum equal to one half of one percent (0.50%) of the principal amount thereof. The accrual of Additional Interest will be the exclusive remedy available to Holders for the failure of their Notes to become Freely Tradable.
(e) Additional Interest will be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date following accrual in the same manner as regular interest on the Notes.
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(f) If Additional Interest is payable by the Company pursuant to Section 4.06(d), the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate to that effect stating (i) the amount of such Additional Interest that is payable and (ii) the date on which such Additional Interest is payable. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives at the Corporate Trust Office such a certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable. If the Company has paid Additional Interest directly to the Persons entitled to it, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the particulars of such payment.
(g) For the avoidance of doubt, in the event additional Notes are issued under this Indenture pursuant to Section 2.10 and such additional Notes are Restricted Securities, for purposes of determining whether Additional Interest shall be payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d) with respect to any Notes issued under this Indenture, all Notes that were not issued with the same CUSIP number or were not offered by the same offering document shall be considered separately.
Section 4.07 Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the principal or premium of or interest on the Notes as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or that may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not, by resort to any such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
Section 4.08 Compliance Certificate; Statements as to Defaults. The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (beginning with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2022) an Officer’s Certificate stating whether the signers thereof have knowledge of any failure by the Company to comply with all conditions and covenants then required to be performed under this Indenture and, if so, specifying each such failure and the nature thereof.
In
addition, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee within
303 days after an officer of the Company becomes aware of the occurrence of any Event of Default or Default, an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the details of such Event of Default or Default, its status and
the action that the Company is taking or proposing to take in respect thereof; provided that the Company is not required to deliver such notice if such Event of Default or Default has been cured.
Section 4.09 [Reserved].
Section 4.10 Compliance with Laws. The Company shall comply with all applicable statutes, rules, regulations, orders and restrictions of the United States of America, all states and municipalities thereof, and of any governmental department, commission, board, regulatory authority, bureau, agency and instrumentality of the foregoing, in respect of the conduct of its respective businesses and the ownership of its respective properties, except for such non-compliances as could not singly or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the financial condition or results of operations of the Company.
Section 4.11 Payment of Taxes and Other Claims. The Company shall pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (i) all material taxes, assessments and governmental charges (including withholding taxes and any penalties, interest and additions to taxes) levied or imposed upon it or properties of it and (ii) all material lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies that, if unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Company.
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Section 4.12 Further Instruments and Acts. Upon request of the Trustee, Paying Agent or Conversion Agent, the Company will execute and deliver such further instruments and do such further acts, at its sole expense, as may be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Indenture.
Section 4.13 [Reserved].
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Section 4.14 Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness.
(a) The Company shall not, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, issue, assume, enter into a Guarantee of or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to (collectively, “incur”) any Indebtedness, and the Company shall not issue any Redeemable Equity, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to issue any preferred stock or preferred interests. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the foregoing covenant will not prohibit the Company or its Subsidiaries from incurring Permitted Indebtedness.
(b) The accrual of interest, the accrual of dividends, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest on any Indebtedness in the form of additional Indebtedness with the same terms, the reclassification of preferred stock as Indebtedness due to a change in accounting principles, the reclassification of operating leases as Capital Leases due to a change in accounting principles and the payment of dividends on Redeemable Equity or preferred stock or preferred interests in the form of additional shares of the same class of Redeemable Equity will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this covenant. For purposes of determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency shall be utilized, calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred (or, in the case of revolving Indebtedness, on the date such Indebtedness was first committed); provided that if any such Indebtedness is incurred to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable U.S. dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such U.S. dollar-denominated restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced. Notwithstanding any other provision of this covenant, the maximum amount of Indebtedness that the Company or any of its Subsidiaries may incur pursuant to this covenant shall not be deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in exchange rates or currency values.
(c) The amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will be:
(i) the accreted value of the Indebtedness, in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount;
(ii) the amount of Redeemable Equity or preferred stock or preferred interests deemed to be outstanding at any time for purposes of this Indenture will be the maximum amount that the Company or its Subsidiaries may become obligated to pay upon the maturity of, or pursuant to any mandatory redemption provisions of, such Redeemable Equity or preferred stock or preferred interests, exclusive of accrued dividends;
(iii) the principal amount of the Indebtedness, in the case of any other Indebtedness; and
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(iv) in respect of Indebtedness of another Person secured by a Lien on the assets of the specified Person, the lesser of:
(A) the Fair Market Value of such assets at the date of determination; and
(B) the amount of the Indebtedness of the other Person.
(d) The foregoing covenant in this Section 4.14 will cease to apply upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change described in clause
(a) or (b) of the definition thereof or at such time as less than 20% of the initial aggregate principal amount of the Notes remain
outstanding(other than in connection with the Cloudbreak Sale).
Section 4.15 Limitation on Liens.
(a)
(a) The Company shall not, nor will it permit any of its Subsidiaries to create, assume or
suffer to exist any Lien to secure Indebtedness on any asset now owned or hereafter acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries except for Permitted
Liens, without effectively providing that the Notes shall be secured equally and ratably with (or prior to) the obligations so secured.
(b)
(b) The foregoing covenant in this Section 4.15 will cease to apply upon the occurrence
of a Fundamental Change described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition thereof or at such time as less than 20% of the initial aggregate principal
amount of the Notes remain outstanding. Any Lien created for the benefit of the Holders pursuant to the foregoing covenant shall provide by its terms that such Lien shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged upon the earlier
of (x) the termination of such Indebtedness and (y) the termination of the foregoing
covenant.(other than in connection with the Cloudbreak Sale).
Section 4.16 Limitation on Restricted Payments.
(a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
(i) declare or pay any dividend or make any other payment or distribution on or in respect of the Company or any of its Subsidiary’s Capital Stock (excluding any such payment in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the acquisition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of such Person), except dividends or distributions payable solely in Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Equity) of the Company or such Subsidiary and except dividends or distributions payable solely to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (and, if such Subsidiary is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, to its other Capital Stock holders on a pro rata basis with respect to the class of Capital Stock on which such dividend or distribution is made, or on a basis that results in the receipt by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of dividends or distributions of greater value than it would receive on a pro rata basis);
(ii) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value (including, without limitation, in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Company) any of the Company’s Capital Stock;
(iii) make any principal payment on or with respect to, or purchase, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value
any Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor that is (A) contractually subordinated to the Notes or to any Note Guarantee (excluding any intercompany Indebtedness between or among the Company and any of its Subsidiaries) that are Subsidiary
Guarantors) or (B) unsecured, in each case, except a payment of principal at the stated maturity thereof; or
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(iv) make any Investment other than a Permitted Investment (a “Restricted Investment”)
(all such payments and other actions set forth in these clauses (i) through (iv) above being collectively referred to as “Restricted Payments”), unless, at the time of and after giving effect to such Restricted Payment:
(1) no default or event of default has occurred and is continuing or would occur after giving effect to such Restricted Payment; and
(2) such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Subsidiaries since the Issue Date, is less than the sum, without duplication, of:
(A) 50% of the Consolidated Net Income of the Company for the period (taken as one accounting period) from the beginning of the first fiscal quarter commencing after the Issue
Date to the end of the Company’s most recently completed fiscal quarter for which internal financial statements are available at the time of such Restricted Payment (or, if such Consolidated Net Income for such period is a deficit, less 100% of
such deficit); plus[reserved]
(B) 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds received by the Company after the Issue Date as a contribution to its common equity capital or from the issue or sale of Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Equity) of the Company or from the issue or sale of convertible or exchangeable Redeemable Equity of the Company or convertible or exchangeable debt securities of the Company, in each case that have been converted into, settled with or exchanged for Capital Stock of the Company (other than (x) Redeemable Equity or (y) Capital Stock and convertible or exchangeable Redeemable Equity or debt securities sold to a Subsidiary of the Company); plus
(C) to the extent that any Restricted Investment that was made after the Issue Date is sold or otherwise liquidated or repaid, the amount of the cash return of capital with respect to such Restricted Investment (less the cost of disposition, if any), to the extent that such return was not otherwise included in the Consolidated Net Income of the Company for such period; plus
(D) to the extent that any Restricted Investment that was made after the Issue Date is made in an entity that subsequently becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor, the lesser of the initial amount of such Restricted Investment and the Fair Market Value of the Investment of the Company in such entity at the time it becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor.
(b) The foregoing covenant in this Section 4.16 will cease to apply upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change described
in clause (a) or (b) of the definition thereof or at such time as less than 20% of the initial aggregate principal amount of the Notes remain
outstanding(other than in connection with the Cloudbreak Sale).
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary therein, this covenant will not prohibit:
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(i) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the repurchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Capital Stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries held by any current or former officer, director, employee or consultant of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or any permitted transferee of the foregoing pursuant to any equity subscription agreement, stock option agreement, shareholders’ agreement or similar agreement; provided that the aggregate price paid for all such repurchased, redeemed, acquired or retired Capital Stock may not exceed $500,000 in any twelve-month period; provided, further, that such amount in any twelve-month period may be increased by an amount not to exceed:
(A) the cash proceeds from the sale of the Company’s Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Equity) to its officers, directors, employees or consultants, any of the Company’s Subsidiaries or any of their direct or indirect parent companies that occurs after the initial issuance of the Notes to the extent the cash proceeds from the sale of such Capital Stock has not otherwise been applied to the making of Restricted Payments pursuant to this section; plus
(B) the cash proceeds of key man life insurance policies received by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries after the initial issuance of the Notes;
(ii) the purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of Capital Stock (x) deemed to occur upon the exercise or conversion of stock options, warrants, convertible notes or similar rights to acquire Capital Stock to the extent that such Capital Stock represents all or a portion of the exercise, exchange or conversion price of those stock options, warrants, convertible notes or similar rights, or (y) made in lieu of payment of withholding taxes in connection with the vesting of Capital Stock or any exercise or exchange of stock options, warrants, convertible notes or similar rights to acquire such Capital Stock;
(iii) the making of any Restricted Payment in exchange for, or out of or with the net cash proceeds from the substantially concurrent contribution to the Company’s common equity or from the substantially concurrent sale (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) of, the Company’s Capital Stock (other than Redeemable Equity that is not Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness);
(iv) payments of cash, dividends, distributions, advances or other Restricted Payments by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to allow the payment of cash in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares;
(v) the making of cash payments in connection with any conversion, repurchase or redemption of the Existing Notes and the Notes pursuant to the terms of the applicable indenture;
(vi) so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would be caused thereby, other Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$2,000,000 in the aggregate since the initial issuance of the Notes, plus if any such Restricted Payment under this clause (vi) was used to make
an Investment, the cash return of capital with respect to such Investment (less the cost of disposition, if any);
and[reserved]; and
(vii) the payment of any dividend or distribution on account of Capital Stock or the consummation of any redemption within 60 days after the date of declaration of the dividend or distribution on account of Capital Stock or giving of the Redemption Notice, as the case may be, if at the date of declaration or notice, the dividend, distribution or redemption payment would have complied with the provisions of this Section 4.16.
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(d) The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) will be the Fair Market Value on the date of the Restricted Payment of the asset(s) or securities proposed to be transferred or issued by the Company or the relevant Subsidiary of the Company, as the case may be, pursuant to the Restricted Payment. The Fair Market Value of any assets or securities that are required to be valued by this covenant will be determined by the Company.
(e) For purposes of determining
compliance with this Section 4.16, in the event that a proposed Restricted Payment (or portion thereof) meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Restricted Payments described in clauses (i) through (viiivii) of Section 4.16(c) or is entitled to be incurred as one or more categories of Permitted Investments, the Company will be entitled to classify such Restricted Payment or portion thereof in any manner
that complies with this Section 4.16, and such Restricted Payment will be treated as having been made pursuant to only such clause or clauses or categories of Permitted Investments.
Section 4.17 Limitation on Asset
Sales. .
(a) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, consummate an Asset Sale unless:
(i) the Company (or its Subsidiaries, as the case may be) receive consideration at the time of the Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market Value (measured as of the date of the definitive agreement with respect to such Asset Sale) of the assets or Capital Stock issued or sold or otherwise disposed of; and
(ii) at least 75% of the consideration received in the Asset Sale by the Company or its Subsidiaries is in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents. For purposes of this provision, each of the following will be deemed to be cash consideration:
(A) any liabilities (as shown on the Company’s or such Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet or in the footnotes thereto) of the Company or any such Subsidiary (other than liabilities that are by their terms contractually subordinated to the Notes) (1) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets and for which the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, has been released or indemnified against further liability or (2) in respect of which neither the Company nor any Subsidiary following such Asset Sale has any obligation; and
(B) the amount of any securities or notes received from such transferee that are within 180 days repaid, converted into or sold or otherwise disposed of for cash or Cash Equivalents.
(b) If at any time any non-cash consideration received by the Company or its Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Sale is repaid, converted into or sold or otherwise disposed of for cash or Cash Equivalents, then the date of such repayment, conversion, sale or other disposition shall be deemed to constitute the date of an Asset Sale hereunder and the Net Proceeds thereof shall be applied in accordance with this covenant.
(c) Asset Sale Offer.
(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, at any time when the aggregate Net Proceeds to the Company and its Subsidiaries from Asset Sales exceeds $15,000,000 (such initial event and the closing date of each subsequent Asset Sale thereafterreceive Net Proceeds in connection with an Asset Sale (other than in connection with the Cloudbreak Sale)
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(such event,
an “Asset Sale Trigger”), the Company will make an offer (an “Asset Sale Offer”) to all Holders to repurchase Notes for an amount of cash equal to 20100% of such Net Proceeds (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any Net Proceeds previously applied to the repurchase of any Notes pursuant to any preceding Asset Sale Offer) (the “Asset Sale Offer
Consideration Amount”), on the date (the “Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date”) specified by the Company that is not less than 20 Business Days or more than 35 Business Days following the date of such Asset Sale Trigger, at a
repurchase price per Note equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, plus any remaining amounts that would be owed to, but excluding, the Maturity Date (the “Asset Sale Offer Repurchase
Price”), unless the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the Interest Payment Date to which such Regular Record Date relates, in which case the Company shall instead pay the full amount of
accrued and unpaid interest (to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date) to the Holder of record of such Note as of such Regular Record Date, and the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price shall be equal to 100% of the principal amount of such Note to
be repurchased pursuant to this Section 4.17(c). The Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date shall be subject to postponement in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law.
(ii) To the extent that the aggregate Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price of Notes tendered and accepted pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer is less than the Net
Proceeds (such shortfall constituting a “Net Proceeds Deficiency”), Issuerissuer may use the Net Proceeds Deficiency, or a portion thereof, for
general corporate purposes, but only after tendering any declined amounts to the remaining Holders in accordance
with procedures to be agreed.
(iii) Repurchases of Notes under this Section 4.17(c) shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:
(A) delivery to the Paying Agent by a Holder of a duly completed notice (the “Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice”) in the form set forth in Attachment 3 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A, if the Notes are Physical Notes, or in compliance with the Applicable Procedures for surrendering interests in Global Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in each case on or before the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date; and
(B) delivery of the Notes, if the Notes are Physical Notes, to the Paying Agent at any time after delivery of the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice (together with all necessary endorsements for transfer) at the office of the Paying Agent, or book- entry transfer of the Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in compliance with the procedures of the Depositary, in each case such delivery being a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price therefor;
provided, that, with
respect to any Asset Sale Offer, if Holders opt to tender (for repurchase pursuant to this
Section 4.17(c))) Notes, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price of which would in the aggregate exceed
the Asset Sale Offer Consideration Amount, then the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be repurchased shall be limited to an aggregate principal amount of Notes for which the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price does not exceed the Asset Sale Offer
Consideration Amount. If fewer than all tendered Notes are to be repurchased pursuant to the preceding sentence and (x) the Notes to be repurchased are Global Notes, the Notes to be repurchased shall be selected by the Company in accordance
with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary, or (y) the Notes to be repurchased are not Global Notes, the Company shall select the Notes or portions thereof of a Global Note or the Notes in certificated form to be repurchased (in principal
amounts of $1,000 or multiples thereof) on a pro rata basis (subject to adjustment to maintain the authorized denominations of the Notes). If any Note selected for partial repurchase is submitted for conversion in part after such selection, the
portion of the Note submitted for conversion shall be deemed (so far as may be possible) to be the portion selected for repurchase.
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The Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice in respect of any Notes to be repurchased shall state:
(C) in the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be delivered for repurchase;
(D) the portion of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased, which must be in minimum denominations of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and
(E) that the Notes are to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Notes and this Indenture;
provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice must comply with the Applicable Procedures.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder
delivering to the Paying Agent the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice contemplated by this Section 4.17(c) shall have the right to withdraw, in whole or in part, such Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business
on the Business Day immediately preceding the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 4.17(c)(vivii).
The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.
(iv) On or before the 20th Business Day after the occurrence of the effective date of an Asset Sale Trigger, the Company shall provide to all Holders of Notes, the Trustee, the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) and the Paying Agent (in the case of a paying agent other than the Trustee) a written notice (the “Asset Sale Offer Company Notice”) of the occurrence of the effective date of the Asset Sale Trigger and of the repurchase right at the option of the Holders arising as a result thereof. In the case of Physical Notes, such notice shall be by first class mail or, in the case of Global Notes, such notice shall be delivered in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. Each Asset Sale Offer Company Notice shall specify:
(A) a brief description of the Asset Sale Trigger;
(B) the effective date of the Asset Sale Trigger;
(C) the last date on which a Holder may exercise the repurchase right pursuant to this Article 4.17(bc);
(D) the Asset Sale Offer Consideration Amount;
(E) the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price;
(F) the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date;
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(G) the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;
(H) if applicable, the Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate;
(I) that the Notes with respect to which an Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be converted only if the Holder withdraws the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; and
(J) the procedures that Holders must follow to require the Company to repurchase their Notes.
No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit the Holders’ repurchase rights or affect the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to this Section 4.17(c). Simultaneously with providing such notice, the Company will publish such information on its website or through such other public medium as the Company may use at that time.
At the Company’s written request, given at least five days prior to the date the Asset Sale Offer Company Notice is to be sent, the Trustee shall give such notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided, however, that, in all cases, the text of such Asset Sale Offer Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company.
(v) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Notes may be repurchased by the Company on any date at the option of the Holders in connection with an Asset Sale Offer if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to such date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes held by it during the acceleration of the Notes (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes), or any instructions for book-entry transfer of the Notes in compliance with the Applicable Procedures shall be deemed to have been cancelled, and, upon such return or cancellation, as the case may be, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.
(vi) For purposes of this Section 4.17(c), the Paying Agent may be any agent, depositary, tender agent, Paying Agent or other agent appointed by the Company to accomplish the purposes set forth herein.
(vii) An Asset Sale Offer Repurchase
Notice may be withdrawn (in whole or in part) by means of a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the office of the Paying Agent in accordance with this
Section
4.17(c)(vivii
) at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date, specifying:
(A) the principal amount of the Notes with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof,
(B) if Physical Notes have been issued, the certificate number of the Note in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, and
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(C) the principal amount, if any, of such Note that remains subject to the original Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice, which portion must be in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000;
provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the notice of withdrawal must comply with appropriate procedures of the Depositary.
(viii) The Company will deposit with the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company), or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.04 on or prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date (subject to extension in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law) an amount of money sufficient to repurchase all of the Notes to be repurchased at the appropriate Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price. Subject to receipt of funds and/or Notes by the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company), payment for Notes surrendered for repurchase (and not validly withdrawn prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date) will be made on the later of (i) the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date (provided the Holder has satisfied the conditions of this Section 4.17(c)) and (ii) the time of book-entry transfer or the delivery of such Note to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) by the Holder thereof in the manner required by this Section 4.17(c) by mailing checks for the amount payable to the Holders of such Notes entitled thereto as they shall appear in the Note Register; provided, however, that payments to the Depositary shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Trustee shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in excess of the amount necessary to repurchase all of the Notes to be repurchased at the appropriate Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price.
(ix) If by 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date, the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) holds money sufficient to make payment on all the Notes or portions thereof that are to be repurchased on such Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date, or, if extended in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law, such later date, then, with respect to the Notes that have been properly surrendered for repurchase and have not been validly withdrawn in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary, (i) such Notes will cease to be outstanding, (ii) interest will cease to accrue on such Notes on the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date or, if extended in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law, such later date (whether or not book-entry transfer of the Notes has been made or the Notes have been delivered to the Trustee or Paying Agent) and (iii) all other rights of the Holders of such Notes with respect to the Notes will terminate on the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date or, if extended in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law, such later date (other than (x) the right to receive the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price and (y) to the extent not included in the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, accrued and unpaid interest, if applicable).
(x) Upon surrender of a Physical Note that is to be repurchased in part pursuant to this Section 4.17(c), the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder a new Physical Note in an authorized denomination equal in principal amount to the unrepurchased portion of the Physical Note surrendered.
(xi) In connection with any repurchase offer upon an Asset Sale Trigger pursuant to this Section 4.17(c), the Company will, if required:
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(A) comply with the provisions of any tender offer rules under the Exchange Act that may then be applicable;
(B) file a Schedule TO or any other required schedule under the Exchange Act; and
(C) otherwise comply in all material respects with all federal and state securities laws in connection with any offer by the Company to repurchase the Notes;
in each case, so as to permit the rights and obligations under this Section 4.17(c) to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified in this Section 4.17(c) subject to postponement in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Indenture relating to the Company’s obligations to purchase the Notes upon an Asset Sale Trigger, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under such provisions of this Indenture by virtue of such conflict.
(d) The foregoing covenant in this Section 4.17 will cease to apply upon the
occurrence of a Fundamental Change described in clause (a) or (b) of the definition thereof or at such time as less than 20% of the initial aggregate
principal amount of the Notes remain outstanding(other than in connection with the Cloudbreak
Sale).
Section 4.18 Further Assurances.
(e)
(a) Promptly following (and in any event, within the applicable time periods specified by any
Related Collateral Document) the Company’s or any Subsidiary Guarantor’s acquisition of any assets or property (other than Excluded Property (as defined in the Security Agreement)) after the date hereof, which in each case constitutes
Collateral (“After-Acquired Collateral”), the Company or such Subsidiary Guarantor shall execute and deliver such security instruments and financing statements as shall be reasonably necessary to vest in the Collateral Agent a
perfected security interest in such After-Acquired Collateral and to have such After-Acquired Collateral added to the Collateral, in each case to the extent required by and subject to the limitations under this Indenture and the Related Collateral
Documents, and thereupon all provisions of this Indenture relating to the Collateral shall be deemed to relate to such After-Acquired Collateral to the same extent and with the same force and effect.
(f)
(b) The Company shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to, at its own cost and
expense, execute any and all further Related Collateral Documents, financing statements, agreements and instruments and take all further action that may be required under applicable law, or that the Collateral Agent may reasonably request (including
without limitation, the delivery of Officer’s Certificates and Opinions of Counsel), in order to grant, preserve, protect and perfect the validity and priority of the security interests and Liens created or intended to be created by the Related
Collateral Documents, in each case, subject to the limitations set forth in this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents. The Company shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to, take all actions necessary to ensure the recordation of
appropriate evidence of the Liens and security interests granted hereunder and/or under the Related Collateral Documents in the Company’s intellectual property with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright
Office, file financing statements in the appropriate jurisdictions and take such other actions as appropriate to record and perfect the Liens and security interests granted under the Related Collateral Documents, in each case subject to the
limitations on required perfection actions set out in this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents. In addition, from time to time, the Company shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor, to reasonably promptly secure the obligations
under this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees and the Related Collateral Documents by pledging or creating,
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or causing to be pledged or created, perfected security interests in and Liens on the Collateral, in each case, to the extent required under this Indenture and/or the Related Collateral Documents subject to no Liens other than Permitted Liens. Such security interests and Liens will be created under the Related Collateral Documents and other security agreements and other instruments and documents.
Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents to the contrary, none of the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be
required to (i) enter into any security agreements or pledge agreements governed under the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction[reserved]; (ii) take any actions to perfect a security interest in
letters of credit or letter of credit rights other than the filing of a UCC-1 financing statement; (iii) perfect any security interest in (A) any real
property (whether fee owned or
leasehold)[reserved]; or (B) any motor
vehicles, airplanes, vessels and other assets subject to certificates of title; or (iv) obtain any landlord waivers, bailee letters or waivers or the like.
Section 4.19 Additional Subsidiary Guarantors.
(a) On and after the date hereof, the Company will cause each of the Company’s Subsidiaries that is not an Excluded Subsidiary to promptly (but in any event within thirty (30) calendar days of (i) such Subsidiary that was previously deemed an Excluded Subsidiary ceasing to be an Excluded Subsidiary, or (ii) the acquisition or formation of a Subsidiary which is not an Excluded Subsidiary):
(i) execute and deliver a supplemental indenture to this Indenture, pursuant to which such Subsidiary will agree to be a Subsidiary Guarantor under this Indenture and be bound by the terms of this Indenture applicable to Subsidiary Guarantors, including, but not limited to, Article 18; provided that such Subsidiary Guarantor shall deliver to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that: (A) such Note Guarantee has been duly executed and authorized by such Subsidiary Guarantor; and (B) such Note Guarantee and joinders to any applicable Related Collateral Documents pursuant to Section 4.18(b) constitute a valid, binding and enforceable obligation of such Subsidiary Guarantor, except insofar as enforcement thereof may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws (including, without limitation, all laws relating to fraudulent transfers) and except insofar as enforcement thereof is subject to general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law) and other customary exceptions; and
(ii) waive and not in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any rights of reimbursement, indemnity or subrogation or any other rights against the Company or any other Subsidiary as a result of any payment by such Subsidiary under its Note Guarantee.
(b) In addition, the Company shall cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to become a party to the applicable Related Collateral Documents and take such actions required thereby to grant to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of itself, the Trustee and the Holders, a perfected security interest in any Collateral held by such Subsidiary Guarantor, subject to Permitted Liens.
ARTICLE 5
LISTS OF HOLDERS AND REPORTS BY THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
Section 5.01 Lists of Holders. The Company covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee, quarterly, not more than 10 days after each March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15 in each year beginning with September 15, 2022, and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30 days after receipt by the Company of any such request (or such lesser time as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to enable it to timely provide any notice to be provided by it hereunder), a list in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders as of a date not more than 10 days (or such other date as the Trustee may reasonably request in order to so provide any such notices) prior to the time such information is furnished, except that no such list need be furnished so long as the Trustee is acting as Note Registrar.
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Section 5.02 Preservation and Disclosure of Lists. The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 or maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Note Registrar, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 5.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
ARTICLE 6
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
Section 6.01 Events of Default. Each of the following events shall be an “Event of Default” with respect to the Notes:
(a) default in any payment of interest on any Note when due and payable, and the default continues for a period of thirtyseven
(307
) days;
(b) default in the payment of principal or premium, if any, of any Note when due and payable on the Maturity Date, upon Optional Redemption, upon any required repurchase, upon declaration of acceleration or otherwise;
(c) failure by the Company to comply with its obligation to convert the Notes in accordance with this Indenture upon exercise of a Holder’s conversion right, and such failure continues for three (3) Business Days;
(d) failure by the Company to issue a Fundamental Change Company Notice in accordance with Section 15.02(c) or notice of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change in accordance with Section 14.14, in either case, when due, and such failure continues for two (2) Business Days;
(e) failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Section 4.17(c) or Article 11;
(f) failure by the Company for sixtyseven (607) days after receipt by the Company of written notice from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding has been received by the Company to comply
with any of its other agreements contained in the Notes or this Indenture;
(g) default by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary
of the Company with respect to any mortgage, agreement or other instrument under which there may be outstanding, or by which there may be secured or evidenced, any indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $20,000,0005,000,000
(or its foreign currency equivalent) in the aggregate of the Company and/or any such Significant Subsidiary, whether such indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created (i) resulting in such
indebtedness becoming or being declared due and payable prior to its stated maturity or (ii) constituting a failure to pay the principal or interest of any such debt when due and payable at its stated maturity, upon required repurchase, upon
declaration of acceleration or otherwise, in each case, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, if such acceleration shall not have been rescinded or annulled or such failure to pay or default shall not have been cured or waived, or
such indebtedness shall not have been paid or discharged, as the case may be, within thirtyseven (307) days after written notice to the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding in accordance with this
Indenture;
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(h) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary shall commence a voluntary case or other proceeding seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other similar official of the Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, or shall consent to any such relief or to the appointment of or taking possession by any such official in an involuntary case or other proceeding commenced against it, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due;
(i) an involuntary case or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Company or any Significant Subsidiary seeking liquidation,
reorganization or other relief with respect to the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or its debts under any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in effect or seeking the appointment of a trustee, receiver, liquidator,
custodian or other similar official of the Company or such Significant Subsidiary or any substantial part of its property, and such involuntary case or other proceeding shall remain undismissed and unstayed for a period of sixtyseven
(607
) consecutive days;
(j) (i) any Related Collateral Document shall for any
reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof) cease to create a valid security interest in Collateral (individually or in the aggregate, that has a Fair Market Value greater than $2,000,000500,000) purported to be covered thereby, (ii) such security interest shall for any reason (other than pursuant to or as expressly permitted by the terms of this Indenture or of the Related Collateral Documents or
the failure of the Collateral Agent to maintain possession of possessory collateral actually delivered to it) cease to be a perfected (if and to the extent required to be perfected under the applicable Related Collateral Document) and first priority
security interest (subject only to Permitted Liens) or (iii) the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor denies or disaffirms its obligations under any such Related Collateral Document, and, in the cases of clause (i) or (ii), such failure
shall continue for
30seven
(7) days; or
(k) except as permitted by this Indenture, the Note Guarantee of any Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary ceases to be in full
force and effect (except as contemplated pursuant to Article 18 of this Indenture) or is declared null and void in a judicial proceeding or any Subsidiary Guarantor that is a Significant Subsidiary denies or disaffirms in writing its obligations
under this Indenture or its Note
Guarantee.;
(a) failure of the Contemplated Transactions (as defined in the Purchase Agreement (as defined in the Transaction Support Agreement)) to be consummated on or prior to the Outside Date (as defined in the Transaction Support Agreement); or
(b) the termination of the Transaction Support Agreement without the consummation of the Contemplated Transactions (as defined in the Purchase Agreement (as defined in the Transaction Support Agreement)).
Section 6.02 Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment. If one or more Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default 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), then, and in each and every such case (other than an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i) with respect to the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries), unless the principal of all of the Notes shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), may declare 100% of the principal of,
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premium, if any, of and accrued and unpaid interest on, all the Notes to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable, anything contained in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i) with respect to the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries occurs and is continuing, 100% of the principal of, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, all Notes shall become and shall automatically be immediately due and payable.
The immediately preceding paragraph, however, is subject to the conditions that if, at any time after the principal or interest of the Notes shall have been so declared due and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the monies due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay installments of accrued and unpaid interest upon all Notes and the principal of any and all Notes that shall have become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest on overdue installments of accrued and unpaid interest to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, and on such principal at the rate borne by the Notes at such time) and amounts due to the Trustee and Collateral Agent pursuant to Section 7.06, and if (1) rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (2) any and all existing Events of Default under this Indenture, other than the uncured nonpayment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on Notes that shall have become due solely by such acceleration, shall have been cured or waived pursuant to Section 6.09, then and in every such case (except as provided in the immediately succeeding sentence) the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all Defaults or Events of Default with respect to the Notes and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences and such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent Default or Event of Default, or shall impair any right consequent thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any Default or Event of Default resulting from (i) the nonpayment of the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, or accrued and unpaid interest on, any Notes, (ii) a failure to repurchase any Notes when required or (iii) a failure to pay and/or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes.
Section 6.03 Additional Interest.
(a) Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture or in the Notes to the contrary, to the extent the Company elects, the sole remedy for an Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) shall after the occurrence of such an Event of Default consist exclusively of the right to receive Additional Interest on the Notes at a rate equal to: (i) 2.00% per annum of the principal amount of the Notes outstanding for each day during the period beginning on, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs and ending on the earlier of (x) the date on which such Event of Default is cured or validly waived in accordance with this Article 6 and (y) the 180th day immediately following, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs and (ii) if such Event of Default has not been cured or validly waived prior to the 181st day immediately following, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs, 2.50% per annum of the principal amount of Notes outstanding for each day during the period beginning on, and including, the 181st day immediately following, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs and ending on the earlier of (x) the date on which the Event of Default is cured or validly waived in accordance with this Article 6 and (y) the 360th day immediately following, and including, the date on which such Event of Default first occurs. Additional Interest payable pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall be in addition to, not in lieu of, any Additional Interest payable pursuant to Section 4.06(d), subject to the second immediately succeeding paragraph. If the Company so elects, such Additional Interest shall be payable in the same manner and on
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the same dates as the stated interest payable on the Notes and shall accrue on all outstanding Notes from, and including, the date on which the Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) first occurs to, and including, the 360th day thereafter (or such earlier date on which such Event of Default is cured or validly waived in accordance with this Article 6). On the 361st day after such Event of Default (if the Event of Default relating to the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b) is not cured or validly waived in accordance with this Article 6 prior to such 361st day), such Additional Interest shall cease to accrue and the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02. The provisions of this paragraph will not affect the rights of Holders in the event of the occurrence of any Event of Default other than the Company’s failure to comply with its obligations as set forth in Section 4.06(b). In the event the Company does not elect to pay Additional Interest following an Event of Default in accordance with this Section 6.03 or the Company has elected to make such payment but does not pay the Additional Interest when due, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02.
(b) In order to elect to pay Additional Interest as the sole remedy during the first 360 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default described in the immediately preceding paragraph, the Company must notify all Holders of the Notes, the Trustee and the Paying Agent in an Officer’s Certificate of such election on or before the open of business on the Business Day immediately succeeding the date on which such Event of Default first occurs. Upon the failure to timely give such notice, the Notes shall be immediately subject to acceleration as provided in Section 6.02. The Officer’s Certificate under this Section 6.03(b) shall state (i) the amount of such Additional Interest that is payable and (ii) the date on which such Additional Interest is payable. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee receives at the Corporate Trust Office such Officer’s Certificate, the Trustee may assume without inquiry that no such Additional Interest is payable.
Section 6.04 Payments of Notes on Default; Suit Therefor. If an Event of Default described in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.01 shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the Holders of the Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest on any overdue principal and interest, if any, at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover any amounts due to the Trustee and Collateral Agent under Section 7.06. If the Company shall fail to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes, wherever situated.
In the event there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Notes under Title 11 of the United States Code, or any other applicable law, or in case a receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Company or such other obligor, the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the event of any other judicial proceedings relative to the Company or such other obligor, or to the creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 6.04, shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, in respect of the Notes, and, in case of any judicial proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and to take such other actions as it may deem necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee and the Collateral Agent (including any claim for the
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reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, their agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company or any other obligor on the Notes, its or their creditors, or its or their property, and to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute the same after the deduction of any amounts due to the Trustee and Collateral Agent under Section 7.06; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization, liquidator, custodian or similar official is hereby authorized by each of the Holders to make such payments to the Trustee, as administrative expenses, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to each of the Trustee and Collateral Agent any amount due it for reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements, including agents and counsel fees, and including any other amounts due to the Trustee and Collateral Agent under Section 7.06, incurred by it up to the date of such distribution. To the extent that such payment of reasonable compensation, expenses, advances and disbursements out of the estate in any such proceedings shall be denied for any reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, monies, securities and other property that the Holders of the Notes may be entitled to receive in such proceedings, whether in liquidation or under any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting such Holder or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under any of the Notes, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes, or the production thereof at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, their agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes.
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and in any proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the Holders of the Notes, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of the Notes parties to any such proceedings.
In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because of any waiver pursuant to Section 6.09 or any rescission and annulment pursuant to Section 6.02 or for any other reason or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Company, the Holders, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the Holders, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 6.05 Application of Monies Collected by Trustee. Any monies collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article 6 with respect to the Notes shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of such monies, upon presentation of the several Notes, and stamping thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and upon surrender thereof, if fully paid:
First, to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, including their agents and counsel, under Section 7.06;
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Second, in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall not have become due and be unpaid, to the payment of any interest on, and any cash due upon conversion of, the Notes in default in the order of the date due of the payments of such interest and cash due upon conversion, as the case may be, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee) payable upon such overdue payments at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, such payments to be made ratably to the Holders based on the aggregate principal amount of Notes held thereby;
Third, in case the principal of the outstanding Notes shall have become due, by declaration or otherwise, and be unpaid to the payment of the whole amount (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and, if applicable, the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion) then owing and unpaid upon the Notes for principal and interest, if any, with interest on the overdue principal and, to the extent that such interest has been collected by the Trustee, upon overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Notes at such time, and in case such monies shall be insufficient to pay in full the whole amounts so due and unpaid upon the Notes, then to the payment of such principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and, if applicable, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion) and interest without preference or priority of principal over interest, or of interest over principal or of any installment of interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Note over any other Note, ratably to the aggregate of such principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and, if applicable, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and any cash due upon conversion) and accrued and unpaid interest; and
Fourth, to the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company.
Section 6.06 Proceedings by Holders. Except to enforce (x) the right to receive payment of principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable), premium or interest when due, or (y) the right to receive payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion and/or the conversion mechanics, no Holder of any Note shall have any right by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver, trustee, liquidator, custodian or other similar official, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(a) such Holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of Default and of the continuance thereof, as herein provided;
(b) Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holders shall have offered, and, if requested, provided, to the Trustee such security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense to be incurred therein or thereby;
(d) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of such security or indemnity, shall have neglected or refused to institute any such action, suit or proceeding; and
(e) no direction that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such written request shall have been given to the Trustee by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding within such 60-day period pursuant to Section 6.09,
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it being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every Note with every other taker and Holder and the Trustee that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holder (it being understood that the Trustee does not have an affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances are prejudicial to any other Holder), or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders (except as otherwise provided herein). For the protection and enforcement of this Section 6.06, each and every Holder and the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture and any provision of any Note, each Holder shall have the contractual right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of (x) the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, (y) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and (z) the consideration due upon conversion of, such Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in such Note or in this Indenture, and the contractual right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or delivery, as the case may be, on or after such respective dates, shall not be amended without the consent of each Holder.
Section 6.07 Proceedings by Trustee. In case of an Event of Default, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as are necessary to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
Section 6.08 Remedies Cumulative and Continuing. Except as provided in the last paragraph of Section 2.06, all powers and remedies given by this Article 6 to the Trustee or to the Holders shall, to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any thereof or of any other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture, and no delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any of the Notes to exercise any right or power accruing upon any Default or Event of Default shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a waiver of any such Default or Event of Default or any acquiescence therein; and, subject to the provisions of Section 6.06, every power and remedy given by this Article 6 or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders. The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any Notes or does not produce any Notes in the proceeding.
Section 6.09 Direction of Proceedings and Xxxxxx of Defaults by Majority of Holders. The Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04 shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or the Collateral Agent or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee or the Collateral Agent with respect to the Notes; provided, however, that (a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture, and (b) the Trustee and Collateral Agent, as applicable, may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as applicable, that is not inconsistent with such direction. Each of the Trustee and Collateral Agent may refuse to follow any direction that it determines is unduly prejudicial to the rights of any other Holder or that would involve the Trustee or the Collateral Agent in personal liability or for which it has not received indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee and Collateral Agent against loss, liability or expense (it
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being understood that neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent has an affirmative duty to determine whether any direction is prejudicial to any Holder). The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04 may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes (x) waive any past Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except any continuing defaults relating to (i) a default in the payment of accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, or the principal (including any Redemption Price, any Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price and any Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) of, the Notes when due that has not been cured pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.01, (ii) a failure by the Company to pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due upon conversion of the Notes or (iii) a default in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article 10 cannot be modified or amended without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected; and (y) rescind any resulting acceleration of the Notes and its consequences if (i) such rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (ii) all existing Events of Default (other than nonpayment of the principal of, and interest on, the Notes that have become due solely by such acceleration) have been cured or waived. Upon any such waiver the Company, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the Holders of the Notes shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any Default or Event of Default hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section 6.09, said Default or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Notes and this Indenture be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 6.10 Notice of Defaults. The Trustee shall, after the occurrence and continuance of a Default of which a Responsible Officer has actual knowledge, deliver to all Holders notice of such Default within 90 days after such Responsible Officer obtains such knowledge, unless such Defaults shall have been cured or waived before the giving of such notice; provided that, except in the case of a Default in the payment of the principal of (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable), or accrued and unpaid interest on, any of the Notes or a Default in the payment or delivery of the consideration due upon conversion, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders.
Section 6.11 Undertaking to Pay Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Note by its acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may, in its discretion, require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; provided that the provisions of this Section 6.11 (to the extent permitted by law) shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined in accordance with Section 8.04, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on any Note (including, but not limited to, the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) on or after the due date expressed or provided for in such Note or to any suit for the enforcement of the right to convert any Note, or receive the consideration due upon conversion, in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.
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Section 6.12 Company’s Failure to Timely Convert. If at any time from and
after the issue date of the Notes, the Company shall fail, for any reason or for no reason, on or prior to the second (2nd) Trading Day after receipt of the applicable Conversion Notice
of Conversion (the “Share Delivery
Deadline”), either (I) if the Company’s stock transfer agent (the “Transfer Agent”) is not participating in The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, to
issue and deliver to such Holder (or its designee) a certificate for the number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder is entitled and register such shares of Common Stock on the Company’s share register or, if the Transfer Agent is
participating in the DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, to credit such Holder’s or its designee’s balance account with DTC for such number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder is entitled upon such Holder’s
conversion of such portion of the applicable Note or (II) after the initial effective date of the registration statement filed pursuant to the Subscription Agreement, if the registration statement covering the resale of the shares of Common Stock
that are the subject of the Conversion Notice of Conversion (the “Unavailable Conversion Shares”) is
not available for the resale of such Unavailable Conversion Shares and the Company fails to promptly, but in no event later than as required pursuant to the Subscription Agreement (x) notify such Holder and (y) deliver the shares of Common
Stock electronically without any restrictive legend by crediting such aggregate number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder is entitled pursuant to such exercise to the Holder’s or its designee’s balance account with DTC through
its Deposit/Withdrawal At Custodian system (the event described in the immediately foregoing clause (II) is hereinafter referred as a “Notice Failure” and together with the event described in clause (I) above, a
“Delivery Failure”), then, in addition to all other remedies available to such Holder, (X) the Company shall pay in cash to such Holder on each day after the Share Delivery Deadline that the issuance of such shares of Common
Stock is not timely effected an amount equal to 1% of the product of (A) the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock not issued to such Holder on or prior to the Share Delivery Deadline and to which such Holder is entitled, multiplied by
(B) any trading price of the Common Stock selected by such Holder in writing as in effect at any time during the period beginning on the applicable date of such
Conversion Notice
of Conversion and ending on the applicable Share Delivery
Deadline, and (Y) such Holder, upon written notice to the Company, may void its Conversion Notice
of Conversion with respect to, and retain or have returned,
as the case may be, all, or any portion, of such Notes that has not been converted pursuant to such Conversion Notice of Conversion;
provided that the voiding of a Conversion Notice of Conversion shall not affect the Company’s obligations to make
any payments which have accrued prior to the date of such notice pursuant to this Section 6.12 or otherwise. In addition to the foregoing, from and after the issue date of the Notes, if on or prior to the Share Delivery Deadline either
(A) the Transfer Agent is not participating in the DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, the Company shall fail to issue and deliver to such Holder (or its designee) a certificate and register such shares of Common Stock on the
Company’s share register or, if the Transfer Agent is participating in the DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer Program, the Transfer Agent shall fail to credit the balance account of such Holder or such Holder’s designee, as applicable,
with DTC for the number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder is entitled upon such Xxxxxx’s conversion hereunder or pursuant to the Company’s obligation pursuant to clause (ii) below or (B) a Notice Failure occurs, and
if on or after such Share Delivery Deadline such Holder purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) shares of Common Stock corresponding to all or any portion of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion that such
Holder is entitled to receive from the Company and has not received from the Company in connection with such Delivery Failure or Notice Failure, as applicable (a “Buy-In”), then, in addition to all other remedies available to such
Holder, the Company shall, within two (2) Business Days after receipt of such Holder’s request and in such Xxxxxx’s discretion, either: (I) pay cash to such Holder in an amount equal to such Holder’s total purchase price
(including brokerage commissions and other out-of-pocket expenses, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased (including, without limitation, by any other Person in respect, or on behalf, of such Holder) (the “Buy-In
Price”), at which point the Company’s obligation to so issue and deliver such certificate (and to issue such shares of Common Stock) or credit to the balance account of such Holder or such Holder’s designee, as applicable, with
DTC for the number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder is entitled upon such Holder’s conversion hereunder (as the case may be) (and to issue such shares of Common Stock) shall terminate, or (II) promptly honor its obligation to so
issue and deliver to such Holder a certificate or certificates representing such
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shares of Common Stock or credit the balance account of such Holder or such Holder’s designee, as applicable, with DTC for the number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder is
entitled upon such Xxxxxx’s conversion hereunder (as the case may be) and pay cash to such Holder in an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the Buy-In Price over the product of (x) such number of shares of Common Stock multiplied by
(y) the lowest Closing Sale
Priceclosing sale price of the Common Stock on any
Trading Day during the period commencing on the date of the applicable Conversion Notice of Conversion and ending on the date of such issuance and payment under
this clause (II). Nothing herein shall limit the Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity, including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect
to the Company’s failure to timely deliver certificates representing shares of Common Stock (or to electronically deliver such shares of Common Stock) upon the conversion of this Note as required pursuant to the terms hereof. Neither the
Trustee nor the Conversion Agent has any duty to determine whether a Notice Failure, Delivery Failure or Buy-In has occurred, calculate or verify the calculations of Buy-In Price or notify Holders of any of the foregoing.
ARTICLE 7
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
Section 7.01 Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee. The Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiver of all Events of Default that may have occurred, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture. If an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person’s own affairs; provided that the Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers under this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders unless such Holders have offered, and if requested, provided to the Trustee indemnity or security satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability for its own grossly negligent action, its own grossly negligent failure to act or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default that may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of gross negligence and willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee, the 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 Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but, in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of any mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein);
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(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was grossly negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(c) the 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 not less than a majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding determined as provided in Section 8.04 relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture;
(d) whether or not therein provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of, or affording protection to, the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable in respect of any payment (as to the correctness of amount, entitlement to receive or any other matters relating to payment) or notice effected by the Company or any Paying Agent or any records maintained by any co-Note Registrar with respect to the Notes;
(f) if any party fails to deliver a notice relating to an event the fact of which, pursuant to this Indenture, requires notice to be sent to the Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely on its failure to receive such notice as reason to act as if no such event occurred;
(g) in the absence of written investment direction from the Company, all cash received by the Trustee shall be placed in a non-interest bearing trust account, and in no event shall the Trustee be liable for the selection of investments or for investment losses incurred thereon or for losses incurred as a result of the liquidation of any such investment prior to its maturity date or the failure of the party directing such investments prior to its maturity date or the failure of the party directing such investment to provide timely written investment direction, and the Trustee shall have no obligation to invest or reinvest any amounts held hereunder in the absence of such written investment direction from the Company; and
(h) in the event that the Trustee is also acting as Custodian, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Collateral Agent or transfer agent hereunder, the rights and protections afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this Article 7 shall also be afforded to such Custodian, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Collateral Agent or transfer agent.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the Trustee or Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers.
Section 7.02 Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01:
(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, judgment, order, bond, note, coupon or other paper or document believed by it in good faith to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties.
(b) Any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any Board Resolution may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company. Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of Counsel.
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(c) The Trustee may consult with counsel and require an Opinion of Counsel and any advice of such counsel or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance on such advice or Opinion of Counsel.
(d) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, judgment, bond, debenture or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine in its reasonable judgment to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled, at a reasonable time on any Business Day after reasonable notice, to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney at the expense of the Company and shall incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation.
(e) The Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents, custodians, nominees or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent, custodian, nominee or attorney appointed by it with due care hereunder, and the permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as duties.
(f) The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the execution of the trusts and powers under this Indenture.
(g) The Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officer’s Certificate may be signed by any Person authorized to sign an Officer’s Certificate, including any Person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded.
(h) The Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default (except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of scheduled principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, any Note) unless a Responsible Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice of any event which is in fact such a Default or Event of Default (and stating the occurrence of a Default or Event of Default) is actually received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references the Notes and this Indenture and states that it is a “Notice of Default”.
(i) The Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith which it reasonably believes to be authorized or within its rights or powers.
(j) The Trustee shall not be responsible or liable for any action taken or omitted by it in good faith at the direction of the holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the Notes as to the time, method and place of conducting any proceedings for any remedy available to the Trustee or the exercising of any power conferred by this Indenture.
(k) Neither the Trustee nor any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or affiliates shall be responsible for nor have any duty to monitor the performance or any action of the Company, or any of their respective directors, members, officers, agents, affiliates or employee, nor shall it have any liability in connection with the malfeasance or nonfeasance by such party. The Trustee shall not be responsible for any inaccuracy in the information obtained from the Company or for any inaccuracy or omission in the records which may result from such information or any failure by the Trustee to perform its duties as set forth herein as a result of any inaccuracy or incompleteness.
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(l) In no event shall the Trustee be responsible or liable for punitive, special, indirect, incidental or any consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not limited to lost profits), even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action other than any such loss or damage caused by the Trustee’s willful misconduct or gross negligence as determined by a final order of a court of competent jurisdiction. The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes, unless either (1) a Responsible Officer shall have actual knowledge of such Default or Event of Default or (2) written notice of such Default or Event of Default shall have been actually received by the Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, from the Company or any Holder of the Notes, and such notice references the Notes and this Indenture and states that is a “Notice of Default.”
(m) Neither the Trustee nor any agent shall have any responsibility or liability for any actions taken or not taken by the Depositary.
Section 7.03 No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc. The recitals contained herein and in the Notes (except in the Trustee’s certificate of authentication) shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Notes or other transaction documents relating to the Notes and this Indenture. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of any Notes or the proceeds of any Notes authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture or any money paid to the Company or upon the Company’s direction under any provision of this Indenture.
Section 7.04 Trustee, Paying Agents, Conversion Agents or Note Registrar May Own Notes. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent, Note Registrar or Collateral Agent (in each case, if other than an Affiliate of the Company), in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent, Collateral Agent or Note Registrar.
Section 7.05 Monies and Shares of Common Stock to Be Held in Trust . All monies and shares of Common Stock received by the Trustee shall, until used or applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they were received. Money and shares of Common Stock held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as may be agreed from time to time by the Company and the Trustee.
Section 7.06 Compensation and Expenses of Trustee. The Company covenants and agreesand
each of the Subsidiary Guarantors, jointly and severally, covenant and agree to pay to the Trustee and Collateral Agent from time to time, and the Trustee and Collateral Agent shall be entitled
to, compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in any capacity (which shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust) as mutually agreed to in writing between the Trustee,
Collateral Agent and the Company, and the Company will pay or reimburse the Trustee and Collateral Agent upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee and Collateral Agent in accordance with
any of the provisions of this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents in any capacity hereunder or thereunder (including the compensation and the reasonable expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel and of all Persons not regularly
in its employ) except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall have been caused by its gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final order of a court of competent jurisdiction. The Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors,
jointly and severally, also covenant to indemnify the Trustee and
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Collateral Agent in any capacity under this Indenture, the Related Collateral Documents and any other document or transaction entered into in connection herewith and its agents and any authenticating agent for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, claim, damage, liability or expense (including attorneys’ fees) incurred without gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as the case may be, its officers, directors, agents or employees, or such agent or authenticating agent, as the case may be, as determined by a final order of a court of competent jurisdiction, and arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture, the Related Collateral Documents or in any other capacity hereunder (whether such claims arise by or against the Company or a third person), including the reasonable costs and expenses of defending themselves against any claim of liability in the premises or enforcing the Company’s obligations hereunder (including the obligations under this Section 7.06). The obligations of the Company under this Section 7.06 to compensate or indemnify the Trustee and Collateral Agent and to pay or reimburse the Trustee and Collateral Agent for expenses, disbursements and advances shall be secured by a senior lien to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except, subject to the effect of Section 6.05, funds held in trust herewith for the benefit of the Holders of particular Notes. The Trustee’s and Collateral Agent’s right to receive payment of any amounts due under this Section 7.06 shall not be subordinate to any other liability or indebtedness of the Company. The obligation of the Company under this Section 7.06 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the payment or conversion of the Notes and the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as applicable. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. The indemnification provided in this Section 7.06 shall extend to the officers, directors, agents and employees of the Trustee and Collateral Agent.
Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee and Collateral Agent under applicable law, when the Trustee, Collateral Agent and their agents and any authenticating agent incur expenses or render services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or Section 6.01(i) occurs, the expenses and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws.
Section 7.07 Officer’s Certificate as Evidence. Except as otherwise provided in Section 7.01, whenever in the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee or Collateral Agent shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as applicable, be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by an Officer’s Certificate delivered to the Trustee and Collateral Agent, if applicable, and such Officer’s Certificate, in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall be full warrant to the Trustee and Collateral Agent, if applicable, for any action taken or omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents upon the faith thereof.
Section 7.08 Eligibility of Trustee . There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act (as if the Trust Indenture Act were applicable hereto) to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If such Person publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of any supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
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Section 7.09 Resignation or Removal of Trustee. (a) The Trustee may at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly notify all Holders and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment within 60 days after the giving of such notice of resignation to the Company, the resigning Trustee may, upon ten Business Days’ notice to the Company and the Holders and at the expense of the Company, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture) may, subject to the provisions of Section 6.11, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(a) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.08 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder, or
(ii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in either case, the Company may by a Board Resolution remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide holder of a Note or Notes for at least six months (or since the date of this Indenture) may, on behalf of himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee.
(b ) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, as determined in accordance with Section 8.04, may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee that shall be deemed appointed as successor trustee unless within ten days after notice to the Company of such nomination the Company objects thereto, in which case the Trustee so removed or any Holder, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in Section 7.09(a) provided, may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.
(c) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 7.09 shall become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as provided in Section 7.10.
Section 7.10 Acceptance by Successor Trustee. Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 7.09 shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor trustee shall become effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on the written request
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of the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee ceasing to act shall, upon payment of any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor trustee all the rights and powers of the trustee so ceasing to act. Upon request of any such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall, nevertheless, retain a senior lien to which the Notes are hereby made subordinate on all money or property held or collected by such trustee as such, except for funds held in trust for the benefit of Holders of particular Notes, to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 7.06.
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section 7.10 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.08.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this Section 7.10, each of the Company and the successor trustee, at the written direction and at the expense of the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered notice of the succession of such trustee hereunder to the Holders. If the Company fails to deliver such notice within ten days after acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such notice to be delivered at the expense of the Company.
Section 7.11 Succession by Xxxxxx, Etc. Any corporation or other entity into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee (including the administration of this Indenture), shall be the successor to the Trustee hereunder without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided that in the case of any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of the Trustee such corporation or other entity shall be eligible under the provisions of Section 7.08.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or authenticating agent appointed by such predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee or an authenticating agent appointed by such successor trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any predecessor trustee hereunder or in the name of the successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name of any predecessor trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
Section 7.12 Trustee’s Application for Instructions from the Company. Any application by the Trustee for written instructions from the Company (other than with regard to any action proposed to be taken or omitted to be taken by the Trustee that affects the rights of the Holders of the Notes under this Indenture) may, at the option of the Trustee, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken or omitted by the Trustee under this Indenture and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or such omission shall be effective. The Trustee shall not be liable to the Company for any action taken by, or omission of, the Trustee in accordance with a proposal included in such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than three (3) Business Days after the date any officer that the Company has indicated to the Trustee should receive such application actually receives such application, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to any earlier date), unless, prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of any omission), the Trustee shall have received written instructions in accordance with this Indenture in response to such application specifying the action to be taken or omitted.
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Section 7.13 Limitation on Duty of Trustee in Respect of Collateral. The Trustee and Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for the existence, genuineness or value of any of the Collateral or for the validity, perfection, priority or enforceability of the Liens in any of the Collateral, whether impaired by operation of law or by reason of any action or omission to act on its part hereunder, for the validity or sufficiency of the Collateral or any agreement or assignment contained therein, for the validity of the title of the Company to the Collateral, for insuring the Collateral or for the payment of taxes, charges, assessments or Liens upon the Collateral or otherwise as to the maintenance of the Collateral (except with respect to certificates actually delivered to the Collateral Agent representing securities pledged under the Related Collateral Documents). The Trustee and Collateral Agent shall have no duty to ascertain or inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms of this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor.
ARTICLE 8
CONCERNING THE HOLDERS
Section 8.01 Action by Holders. Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the Holders of a specified percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes may take any action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that at the time of taking any such action, the Holders of such specified percentage have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of similar tenor executed by Holders in person or by agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by the record of the Holders voting in favor thereof at any meeting of Holders duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article 9, or (c) by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of Holders. Whenever the Company, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent solicits the taking of any action by the Holders of the Notes, the Company, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent may, but shall not be required to, fix in advance of such solicitation, a date as the record date for determining Holders entitled to take such action. The record date if one is selected shall be not more than fifteen days prior to the date of commencement of solicitation of such action.
Section 8.02 Proof of Execution by Holders. Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, Section 7.02 and Section 9.05, proof of the execution of any instrument by a Holder or its agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The holding of Notes shall be proved by the Note Register or by a certificate of the Note Registrar. The record of any Holders’ meeting shall be proved in the manner provided in Section 9.06.
Section 8.03 Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners. The Company, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, any authenticating agent, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent and any Note Registrar may deem the Person in whose name a Note shall be registered upon the Note Register to be, and may treat it as, the absolute owner of such Note (whether or not such Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing thereon made by any Person other than the Company or any Note Registrar) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal (including any Redemption Price, any Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price and any Fundamental Change Repurchase Price) of and (subject to Section 2.03) accrued and unpaid interest on such Note, for conversion of such Note and for all other purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent nor any Paying Agent nor any Conversion Agent nor any Note Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. The sole registered holder of a Global Note shall be the Depositary or its nominee. All such payments or deliveries so made to any Holder for the time being, or upon its order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sums or
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shares of Common Stock so paid or delivered, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for monies payable or shares deliverable upon any such Note. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture or the Notes following an Event of Default, any holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note may directly enforce against the Company, without the consent, solicitation, proxy, authorization or any other action of the Depositary or any other Person, such holder’s right to exchange such beneficial interest for a Note in certificated form in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Section 8.04 Company-Owned Notes Disregarded. In determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of Notes have concurred in any direction, consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture, Notes that are owned by the Company, by any Subsidiary thereof or by any Affiliate of the Company or any Subsidiary thereof shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the purpose of any such determination; provided that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent, waiver or other action only Notes that a Responsible Officer actually knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as outstanding for the purposes of this Section 8.04 if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee’s right to so act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not the Company, a Subsidiary thereof or an Affiliate of the Company or a Subsidiary thereof. In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full protection to the Trustee. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officer’s Certificate listing and identifying all Notes, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the account of any of the above described Persons; and, subject to Section 7.01, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officer’s Certificate as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all Notes not listed therein are outstanding for the purpose of any such determination.
Section 8.05 Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound. At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 8.01, of the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes specified in this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Note that is shown by the evidence to be included in the Notes the Holders of which have consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of holding as provided in Section 8.02, revoke such action so far as concerns such Note. Except as aforesaid, any such action taken by the Holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders and owners of such Note and of any Notes issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof, irrespective of whether any notation in regard thereto is made upon such Note or any Note issued in exchange or substitution therefor or upon registration of transfer thereof.
ARTICLE 9
HOLDERS’ MEETINGS
Section 9.01 Purpose of Meetings. A meeting of Holders may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this Article 9 for any of the following purposes:
(a) to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee or to give any directions to the Trustee permitted under this Indenture, or to consent to the waiving of any Default or Event of Default hereunder (in each case, as permitted under this Indenture) and its consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be taken by Holders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article 6;
(b) to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant to the provisions of Article 7;
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(c) to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.02; or
(d) to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf of the Holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of the Notes under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.
Section 9.02 Call of Meetings by Trustee. The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders to take any action specified in Section 9.01, to be held at such time and at such place as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the Holders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting and the establishment of any record date pursuant to Section 8.01, shall be delivered to Holders of such Notes. Such notice shall also be delivered to the Company. Such notices shall be delivered not less than 20 nor more than 90 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
Any meeting of Holders shall be valid without notice if the Holders of all Notes then outstanding are present in person or by proxy or if notice is waived before or after the meeting by the Holders of all Notes then outstanding, and if the Company and the Trustee are either present by duly authorized representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived notice.
Section 9.03 Call of Meetings by Company or Holders. In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or the Holders of at least 10% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting of Holders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have delivered the notice of such meeting within 20 days after receipt of such request, then the Company or such Holders may determine the time and the place for such meeting and may call such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 9.01, by delivering notice thereof as provided in Section 9.02.
Section 9.04 Qualifications for Voting. To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders a Person shall (a) be a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting or (b) be a Person appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy by a Holder of one or more Notes on the record date pertaining to such meeting. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of Holders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any representatives of the Company and its counsel.
Section 9.05 Regulations. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of Holders, in regard to proof of the holding of Notes and of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as it shall think fit.
The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the Company or by Holders as provided in Section 9.03, in which case the Company or the Holders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes represented at the meeting and entitled to vote at the meeting.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.04, at any meeting of Holders each Holder or proxyholder shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes held or represented by him or her; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Note challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than by virtue of Notes held by it or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly designating it as the proxy to vote on behalf of other Holders. Any meeting of Holders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02 or Section 9.03 may be adjourned from time to time by the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented at the meeting, whether or not constituting a quorum, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
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Section 9.06 Voting. The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders shall be by written ballot on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the Holders or of their representatives by proxy and the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the Notes held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was delivered as provided in Section 9.02. The record shall show the aggregate principal amount of the Notes voting in favor of or against any resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted at the meeting.
Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the matters therein stated.
Section 9.07 No Delay of Rights by Meeting . Nothing contained in this Article 9 shall be deemed or construed to authorize or permit, by reason of any call of a meeting of Holders or any rights expressly or impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any hindrance or delay in the exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders under any of the provisions of this Indenture or of the Notes.
ARTICLE 10
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 10.01 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. Without the consent of any Holder, the Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors and the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, at the Company’s sole expense, may from time to time and at any time amend or supplement this Indenture, the Notes or the Related Collateral Documents in writing for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency in this Indenture, the Notes or the Related Collateral Documents;
(b) to provide for the assumption by a Successor Company of the obligations of the Company under this Indenture pursuant to Article 11;
(c) to add a Subsidiary Guarantor or release a Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance with this Indenture, the Notes or the Related Collateral Documents;
(d) to add additional assets as Collateral to secure the
Notes or any Subsidiary
GuarantyGuarantor’s
Guarantee;
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(e) to add to the covenants or Events of Default of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company;
(f) to make any change that, as determined by the Board of Directors in good faith, does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder;
(g) in connection with any Share Exchange Event, to provide that the Notes are convertible into Reference Property, subject to the provisions of Section 14.02, and make such related changes to the terms of the Notes to the extent expressly required by Section 14.07;
(h) to comply with any requirement of the Commission in connection with the qualification of this Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act to the extent this Indenture is qualified thereunder;
(i) [reserved];
(j) to provide for the appointment of a successor Trustee, Note Registrar, Paying Agent, Conversion Agent or Collateral Agent;
(k) to comply with the rules of any applicable securities depositary in a manner that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder;
(l) [reserved];
(m) to increase the Conversion Rate as provided in this Indenture;
(n) to release Collateral in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents;
(o) to make, complete or confirm any grant of Collateral permitted or required under this Indenture, the Notes or any of the Related Collateral Documents or enter into additional or supplemental Related Collateral Documents in accordance with this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents; or
(p) to make any change to comply with rules of the Depositary, so long as such change does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder, as certified in good faith by the Company in an Officer’s Certificate.
Upon the written request of the Company and subject to Section 10.05, the Trustee and, as applicable, the Collateral Agent, are hereby authorized to, and shall, join with the Company in the execution of any such supplemental indenture or amendment, to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained, but the neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be obligated to, but each may in its discretion, enter into any supplemental indenture or amendment that affects such Person’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture or amendment to any Related Collateral Document authorized by the provisions of this Section 10.01 may be executed by the Company, the Trustee and, as applicable, the Collateral Agent, without the consent of the Holders of any of the Notes at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 10.02.
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Section 10.02 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article 8) of the Holders of at least 70% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (determined in accordance with Article 8 and including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection with a repurchase of, or tender or exchange offer for, Notes), the Company, when authorized by the resolutions of the Board of Directors and the Trustee, at the Company’s sole expense, may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto, or to enter into any amendment to any Related Collateral Document, for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture, any supplemental indenture, the Notes or any Related Collateral Document or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders;
provided, however, that, without the consent of each Holder of an outstanding Note affected, no such supplemental indenture shall:
(a) reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment;
(b) reduce the rate of or extend the stated time for payment of interest, including any default interest, on any Note;
(c) reduce the principal amount of any Notes, reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of the Notes, or extend the Maturity Date of any Note;
(d) make any change that adversely affects the conversion rights of any Notes other than as expressly permitted or required by this Indenture;
(e) reduce the Redemption Price, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price or the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price of any Note or amend or modify in any manner adverse to the Holders the Company’s obligation to make such payments, whether through an amendment or waiver of provisions in the covenants, definitions or otherwise;
(f) make any Note payable in a currency, in a form, or at a place of payment, other than that stated in the Note;
(g) change the ranking or priority of the Notes;
(h) impair the right of any Holder to institute suit for the enforcement right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and the consideration due upon conversion of, its Notes, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in the Notes or this Indenture;
(i) make any change in this Article 10 that requires each Holder’s consent or in the waiver provisions in Section 6.02 or Section 6.09;
(j) provide for the issuance of additional Notes as permitted herein;
(k) release any Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Note Guarantee or this Indenture (except as contemplated under Article 18 herein); or
(l) amend or release any Related Collateral Document in any manner that may be adverse to the security interests provided thereunder or adverse to the Holders; and
provided further that, the consent of the Holders of at least 70% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding is required to amend the Related Collateral Documents in any manner materially adverse to the Holders, as determined by the Company and set forth in an Officer’s Certificate.
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Upon the written request of the Company, and upon the delivery to the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Holders as aforesaid and subject to Section 10.05, the Trustee and, if applicable, the Collateral Agent, shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture or amendment unless such supplemental indenture or amendment affects the Trustee’s or the Collateral Agent’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee or the Collateral Agent may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture.
Holders do not need under this Section 10.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture or amendment to any Related Collateral Document. It shall be sufficient if such Holders approve the substance thereof. After any such supplemental indenture or amendment becomes effective, the Company shall deliver to the Holders a notice briefly describing such supplemental indenture or amendment. However, the failure to give such notice to all the Holders, or any defect in the notice, will not impair or affect the validity of the supplemental indenture or amendment.
Section 10.03 Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 10, this Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Company and the Holders shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
Section 10.04 Notation on Notes. Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article 10 may, at the Company’s expense, bear a notation as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company or the Trustee shall so determine, new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may, at the Company’s expense, be prepared and executed by the Company, authenticated, upon receipt of a Company Order, by the Trustee (or an authenticating agent duly appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 19.10) and delivered in exchange for the Notes then outstanding, upon surrender of such Notes then outstanding.
Section 10.05 Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to Be Furnished Trustee and Collateral Agent. In addition to the documents required by Section 19.05, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, if applicable, shall receive an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture or amendment to any Related Collateral Documents executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this Article 10 and is permitted or authorized by this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents and such Opinion of Counsel shall include a customary legal opinion stating that such supplemental indenture is the valid and binding obligation of the Company, subject to customary exceptions and qualifications.
ARTICLE 11
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
Section 11.01 Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms. Subject to the provisions of Section 11.03, except in connection with the Cloudbreak Sale, the Company shall not consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to another Person, unless:
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(a) the resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”), if not the Company, shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and the Successor Company (if not the Company) shall expressly assume, by supplemental indenture all of the obligations of the Company under the Notes, this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents and causes such amendments, supplements or other instruments to be executed, filed and recorded in such jurisdictions as may be required by applicable law (subject to the limitations set forth in this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents) to preserve and protect the Lien on the Collateral owned by or transferred to the surviving Person, together with such financing statements or comparable documents as may be required to perfect any security interests in such Collateral which may be perfected by the filing of a financing statement or a similar document under the UCC or other similar statute or regulation of the relevant states or jurisdictions;
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under this Indenture;
(c) if the Company is not the Successor Company, the Successor Company shall have delivered to the Trustee and Collateral Agent an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease complies with this Indenture and that such supplemental indenture and such other supplements and amendments are authorized or permitted by this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the supplemental indenture is the valid and binding obligation of the Successor Company, subject to customary exceptions and qualifications; and
(d) to the extent the Company is not the
Successor Company, each Subsidiary Guarantor (unless it is a party to the transactions in this Section 11.01, in which case Section 11.02 shall apply) shall have by supplemental indenture confirmed that its Note Guarantee shall apply to
the
Successorsuccessor
Person’s obligations in respect of this Indenture and the Notes and shall have by written agreement confirmed that its obligations under the Related Collateral Documents shall continue to be in
effect and shall cause such amendments, supplements or other instruments to be executed, filed and recorded in such jurisdictions as may be required by applicable law (subject to the limitations set forth in this Indenture and the Related Collateral
Documents) to preserve and protect the Liens on the Collateral owned by such Subsidiary Guarantor, together with such financing statements or comparable documents as may be required to perfect any security interests in such Collateral that may be
perfected by the filing of a financing statement or similar document under the UCC or other similar statute or regulation of the relevant statutes or jurisdictions.
For purposes of this Section 11.01, the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company to another Person, which properties and assets, if held by the Company instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company to another Person.
Section 11.02 Subsidiary Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms. The Company shall not permit any Subsidiary Guarantor to, and no Subsidiary Guarantor shall, consolidate with, merge with or into, or sell, convey, assign, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its properties and assets, in one transaction or any series of related transactions, to another Person, unless:
(a) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture;
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(b) either:
(i) if the provisions of Section 18.06 of this Indenture do not result in the Note Guarantee by such Subsidiary Guarantor falling away in connection with such consolidation, merger or sale conveyance, assignment, transfer, lease or other disposal, the Person acquiring the assets in any such sales, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (any such Person, a “Surviving Guarantor”) expressly assumes, by a supplemental indenture in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to the Trustee and Collateral Agent, all of such Subsidiary Guarantor’s obligations under the Notes, this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents and causes such amendments, supplements, or other instruments to be executed, filed and recorded in such jurisdictions as may be required by applicable law (subject to the limitations set forth in this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents) to preserve and protect the Lien on the Collateral owned by or transferred to the Surviving Guarantor, together with such financing statements or comparable documents as may be required to perfect any security interests in such Collateral which may be perfected by the filing of a financing statement or a similar document under the UCC or other similar statute or regulation of the relevant states or jurisdictions; or
(ii) such sale, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition is permitted
under this
Indenture;.
(c) in such transaction in which there is a Surviving Guarantor, the Surviving Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee and Collateral Agent an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease complies with this Indenture and that such supplemental indenture and other amendments and supplements are authorized or permitted by this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the supplemental indenture is the valid and binding obligation of the surviving Person, subject to customary exceptions.
(d) To the extent that a Fundamental Change described in clauses (a) or (b) of the definition thereof has occurred or will occur concurrently with a transaction described in this Section 11.02 or Section 11.01, the foregoing conditions in this Section 11.02 or Section 11.01 related to the Collateral shall not be applicable solely insofar as they relate to the Collateral.
Section 11.03 Successor Corporation to Be Substituted. In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and upon the assumption by the Successor Company (if other than the Company) or a Surviving Guarantor (if not the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor), as applicable, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the due and punctual payment of the principal of and accrued and unpaid interest on all of the Notes, the due and punctual delivery and/or payment, as the case may be, of any consideration due upon conversion of the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents to be performed by the Company or Surviving Guarantor, as applicable, such Successor Company (if not the Company) or Surviving Guarantor, as applicable, shall succeed to and, except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor, shall be substituted for the Company or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor, as applicable, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the first part, and the Company or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor, as applicable, shall be discharged from its obligations under the Notes, this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents (except in the case of a lease of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries, taken as a whole). Such Successor Company thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the Company any or all of the Notes issuable
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hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such Successor Company instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver, or cause to be authenticated and delivered, any Notes that previously shall have been signed and delivered by the Officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Notes that such Successor Company thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All the Notes so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture as the Notes theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Notes had been issued at the date of the execution hereof. In the event of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or transfer (but not in the case of a lease), upon compliance with this Article 11 the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this Indenture (or any successor that shall thereafter have become such in the manner prescribed in this Article 11) may be dissolved, wound up and liquidated at any time thereafter and, except in the case of a lease, such Person shall be released from its liabilities as obligor and maker of the Notes and from its obligations under this Indenture and the Notes.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, such changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Notes thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
Section 11.04 Opinion of Counsel to Be Given to Trustee. If a supplemental indenture is required pursuant to this Article 11, no such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease shall be effective unless the Trustee shall receive an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease and any such assumption complies with the provisions of this Article 11.
ARTICLE 12
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Section 12.01 Indenture and Notes Solely Corporate Obligations. No recourse for the payment of the principal of or accrued and unpaid interest on, or the payment or delivery of consideration due upon conversion of, any Note, nor for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the Company in this Indenture or in any supplemental indenture or in any Note, nor because of the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, employee, agent, Officer or director or Subsidiary, as such, past, present or future, of the Company or of any successor corporation, either directly or through the Company or any successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of this Indenture and the issue of the Notes.
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ARTICLE 14
CONVERSION OF NOTES
Section 14.01 Conversion Privilege. Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article 14, each Holder of a Note shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to convert all or any portion (if the portion to be converted is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) of such Note at any time prior to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, at an initial conversion rate of 571.4286 shares of Common Stock (subject to adjustment as provided in this Article 14, the “Conversion Rate”) per $1,000 principal amount of Notes (subject to, and in accordance with, the settlement provisions of Section 14.02, the “Conversion Obligation”).
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Section 14.02 Conversion Procedure; Settlement Upon Conversion.
(a) Subject to this Section 14.02, Section 14.07(a) and Section 14.14(b), upon conversion of any Note, the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, to the converting Holder no later than two (2) Business Days following the applicable conversion of the Notes, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted, shares of Common Stock, together with cash, if applicable, in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock in accordance with subsection (j) of this Section 14.02 (“Physical Settlement”) as set forth in this Section 14.02. The Company shall use the Physical Settlement Method for all conversions. The shares of Common Stock and cash the Company shall pay and/or deliver, as the case may be, in respect of any conversion of Notes (the “Settlement Amount”) shall be computed as follows in respect of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes being converted: a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date (plus cash in lieu of any fractional share of Common Stock issuable upon conversion).
(b) Subject to Section 14.02(e), before any Holder of a Note shall be entitled to convert a Note as set forth above, such Holder shall (i) in the case of a Global Note, comply with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary in effect at that time and, if required, pay funds equal to the interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such Holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 14.02(h) and, if required, pay all transfer or similar taxes, if any, pursuant to Section 14.02(e) and (ii) in the case of a Physical Note (1) complete, manually sign and deliver an irrevocable notice to the Conversion Agent as set forth in the Form of Notice of Conversion (or a facsimile thereof) (a “Notice of Conversion”) at the office of the Conversion Agent and state in writing therein the principal amount of Notes to be converted and the name or names (with addresses) in which such Holder wishes the certificate or certificates for any shares of Common Stock to be delivered upon settlement of the Conversion Obligation to be registered, (2) surrender such Notes, duly endorsed to the Company or in blank (and accompanied by appropriate endorsement and transfer documents), at the office of the Conversion Agent, (3) if required, furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents, (4) if required, pay funds equal to interest payable on the next Interest Payment Date to which such Holder is not entitled as set forth in Section 14.02(h) and (5) if required, pay all transfer or similar taxes, if any, pursuant to Section 14.02(e). The Trustee (and if different, the Conversion Agent) shall notify the Company of any conversion pursuant to this Article 14 on the Conversion Date for such conversion. No Notice of Conversion with respect to any Notes may be surrendered by a Holder thereof if such Holder has also delivered an Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice or Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice to the Company in respect of such Notes and has not validly withdrawn such Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Notice or Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with Section 15.03. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, to the extent that an indirect holder of a Global Note held indirectly through a participant submits irrevocable instructions to convert any portion of such Note, such Holder shall be deemed for purposes of Regulation SHO to have converted the applicable portion of such Note at the time of delivery of such instructions, regardless of when shares of Common Stock are delivered to such Holder or its participant.
If more than one Note shall be surrendered for conversion at one time by the same Holder, the Conversion Obligation with respect to such Notes shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes (or specified portions thereof to the extent permitted thereby) so surrendered.
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(c) A Note shall be deemed to have been converted immediately prior to the close of business on the date (the “Conversion Date”) that the Holder has complied with the requirements set forth in subsection (ii) above . Except as set forth in Section 14.07(a) and Section 14.14(b), the Company shall pay or deliver, as the case may be, the consideration due in respect of the Conversion Obligation on the second Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to the Company’s satisfaction of its Conversion Obligation through Physical Settlement for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs after the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date, the settlement shall occur on the Maturity Date. If any shares of Common Stock are due to a converting Holder, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued, and deliver (if applicable) to the Conversion Agent or to such Holder, or such Holder’s nominee or nominees, the full number of shares of Common Stock to which such Holder shall be entitled, in book-entry format through the Depositary, in satisfaction of the Company’s Conversion Obligation.
(d) In case any Note shall be surrendered for partial conversion, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to or upon the written order of the Holder of the Note so surrendered a new Note or Notes in authorized denominations in an aggregate principal amount equal to the unconverted portion of the surrendered Note, without payment of any service charge by the converting Holder but, if required by the Company or Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax or similar governmental charge required by law or that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued upon such conversion being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for such conversion.
(e) If a Holder submits a Note for conversion, the Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer tax due on the issue of any shares of Common Stock upon conversion, unless the tax is due because the Holder requests such shares to be issued in a name other than the Holder’s name, in which case the Holder shall pay that tax. The Conversion Agent may refuse to deliver the certificates representing the shares of Common Stock being issued in a name other than the Holder’s name until the Trustee receives a sum sufficient to pay any tax that is due by such Holder in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence.
(f) Except as provided in Section 14.04, no adjustment shall be made for dividends on any shares of Common Stock issued upon the conversion of any Note as provided in this Article 14.
(g) Upon the conversion of an interest in a Global Note, the Trustee, or the Custodian at the direction of the Trustee, shall make a notation on such Global Note as to the reduction in the principal amount represented thereby. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of any conversion of Notes effected through any Conversion Agent other than the Trustee.
(h) Upon conversion, a Holder shall not receive any separate cash payment for accrued and unpaid interest, if any, except as set forth below . The Company’s settlement of the full Conversion Obligation shall be deemed to satisfy in full its obligation to pay the principal amount of the Note and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the relevant Conversion Date. As a result, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to, but excluding, the relevant Conversion Date shall be deemed to be paid in full rather than cancelled, extinguished or forfeited. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Notes are converted after the close of business on a Regular Record Date but prior to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date, Holders of such Notes as of the close of business on such Regular Record Date will receive the full amount of interest payable on such Notes on such Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the conversion. However, Notes surrendered for conversion during the period from the close of business on any Regular Record Date to the open of business on the immediately following Interest Payment Date must be accompanied by funds equal to the amount of interest payable on the Notes so converted on the corresponding Interest Payment Date (regardless of whether the converting Holder was the Holder of record on the corresponding Regular Record Date); provided that no such payment shall be required (1) for conversions following the close of business on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date; (2) if the Company has specified a Fundamental Change Repurchase Date that is after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the Business Day immediately following the corresponding Interest Payment Date; or (3) to the extent of any Defaulted Amounts, if any Defaulted Amounts exist at the time of conversion with respect to such Note. Therefore, for the avoidance of doubt, all Holders of record on the Regular Record Date immediately preceding the Maturity Date and any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date described in clause (2) above shall receive the full interest payment due on the Maturity Date or other applicable Interest Payment Date in cash regardless of whether their Notes have been converted, redeemed and/or repurchased, as applicable, following such Regular Record Date.
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(i) The Person in whose name the shares of Common Stock shall be issuable upon conversion shall be treated as a stockholder of record as of the close of business on the relevant Conversion Date. Upon a conversion of Notes, such Person shall no longer be a Holder of such Notes surrendered for conversion.
(j) The Company shall not issue any fractional share of Common Stock upon conversion of the Notes and shall instead pay cash in lieu of delivering any fractional share of Common Stock issuable upon conversion based on the Daily VWAP for the relevant Conversion Date.
Section 14.03 [Reserved].
Section 14.04 Adjustment of Conversion Rate. The Conversion Rate shall be adjusted from time to time by the Company if any of the following events occurs, except that the Company shall not make any adjustments to the Conversion Rate if Holders of the Notes participate (other than in the case of (x) a share split or share combination or (y) a tender or exchange offer), at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock and solely as a result of holding the Notes, in any of the transactions described in this Section 14.04, without having to convert their Notes, as if they held a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate, multiplied by the principal amount (expressed in thousands) of Notes held by such Holder.
(a) If the Company exclusively issues shares of Common Stock as a dividend or distribution on shares of the Common Stock, or if the Company effects a share split or share combination, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Record Date of such dividend or distribution, or immediately prior to the open of business on the Effective Date of such share split or share combination, as applicable; | ||
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Record Date or Effective Date, as applicable; | ||
OS0 | = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Record Date or Effective Date, as applicable, before giving effect to such dividend, distribution, share split or share combination; and | ||
OS’ | = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such dividend, distribution, share split or share combination. |
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Any adjustment made under this Section 14.04(a) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Record Date for such dividend or distribution, or immediately after the open of business on the Effective Date for such share split or share combination, as applicable. If any dividend or distribution of the type described in this Section 14.04(a) is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately readjusted, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines in good faith not to pay such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared.
(b) If the Company issues to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock any rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant to a stockholders rights plan) entitling them, for a period of not more than 45 calendar days after the announcement date of such issuance, to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share that is less than the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Record Date for such issuance; | ||
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Record Date; | ||
OS0 | = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Record Date; | ||
X | = | the total number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to such rights, options or warrants; and | ||
Y | = | the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the aggregate price payable to exercise such rights, options or warrants, divided by the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of the issuance of such rights, options or warrants. |
Any increase made under this Section 14.04(b) shall be made successively whenever any such rights, options or warrants are issued and shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Record Date for such issuance. To the extent that shares of the Common Stock are not delivered after the expiration of such rights, options or warrants, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect had the increase with respect to the issuance of such rights, options or warrants been made on the basis of delivery of only the number of shares of Common Stock actually delivered. If such rights, options or warrants are not so issued, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such Record Date for such issuance had not occurred.
For purposes of this Section 14.04(b), in determining whether any rights, options or warrants entitle the holders to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Common Stock at a price per share that is less than such average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock for the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of announcement of such issuance, and in determining the aggregate offering price of such shares of Common Stock, there shall be taken into account any consideration received by the Company for such rights, options or warrants and any amount payable on exercise or conversion thereof, the value of such consideration, if other than cash, to be determined by the Board of Directors in good faith.
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(c) If the Company distributes shares of its Capital Stock, evidences of its indebtedness, other assets or property of the Company or rights, options or warrants to acquire its Capital Stock or other securities, to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock, excluding (i) dividends, distributions or issuances (including share splits) as to which an adjustment was effected pursuant to Section 14.04(a), Section 14.04(b) or Section 14.04(e), (ii) except as otherwise described in Section 14.11, rights issued pursuant to any stockholders rights plan of the Company then in effect, (iii) dividends or distributions paid exclusively in cash as to which the provisions set forth in Section 14.04(d) shall apply, (iv) dividends or distributions of Reference Property in exchange for or upon conversion of the Common Stock in a Share Exchange Event, and (v) Spin-Offs as to which the provisions set forth below in this Section 14.04(c) shall apply (any of such shares of Capital Stock, evidences of indebtedness, other assets or property or rights, options or warrants to acquire Capital Stock or other securities, the “Distributed Property”), then the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Record Date for such distribution; | ||
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on such Record Date; | ||
SP0 | = | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Record Date for such distribution; and | ||
FMV | = | the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors in good faith) of the Distributed Property with respect to each outstanding share of the Common Stock on the Record Date for such distribution. |
Any increase made under the portion of this Section 14.04(c) above shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Record Date for such distribution. If such distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such distribution had not been declared. If the Company issues rights, options or warrants to acquire Capital Stock or other securities that are exercisable only upon the occurrence of certain triggering events, the Company shall not adjust the conversion rate pursuant to the clauses above until the earliest of these triggering events occurs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “FMV” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, in respect of each $1,000 principal amount thereof, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of the Common Stock receive the Distributed Property, the amount and kind of Distributed Property such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Record Date for the distribution. If the Board of Directors determines in good faith the “FMV” (as defined above) of any distribution for purposes of this Section 14.04(c) by reference to the actual or when-issued trading market for any securities, it shall in doing so consider the prices in such market over the same period used in computing the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the Record Date for such distribution.
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With respect to an adjustment pursuant to this Section 14.04(c) where there has been a payment of a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock of shares of Capital Stock of any class or series, or similar equity interest, of or relating to a Subsidiary or other business unit of the Company, that are, or, when issued, will be, listed or admitted for trading on a U.S. national securities exchange (a “Spin-Off”), the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the end of the Valuation Period; | ||
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the end of the Valuation Period; | ||
FMV0 | = | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Capital Stock or similar equity interest distributed to holders of the Common Stock applicable to one share of the Common Stock (determined by reference to the definition of Last Reported Sale Price as set forth in Section 1.01 as if references therein to Common Stock were to such Capital Stock or similar equity interest) over the first 10 consecutive Trading Day period after, and including, the Record Date of the Spin-Off (the “Valuation Period”); and | ||
MP0 | = | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the Valuation Period. |
The increase to the Conversion Rate under the preceding paragraph shall occur at the close of business on the last Trading Day of the Valuation Period; provided that if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the Valuation Period, references to “10” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the Record Date of such Spin-Off and the Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate. If any dividend or distribution that constitutes a Spin-Off is declared but not so paid or made, the Conversion Rate shall be immediately decreased, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines in good faith not to pay or make such dividend or distribution, to the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared or announced.
For purposes of this Section 14.04(c) (and subject in all respect to Section 14.11), rights, options or warrants distributed by the Company to all holders of the Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of the Company’s Capital Stock, including Common Stock (either initially or under certain circumstances), which rights, options or warrants, until the occurrence of a specified event or events (“Trigger Event”): (i) are deemed to be transferred with such shares of the Common Stock; (ii) are not exercisable; and (iii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of the Common Stock, shall be deemed not to have been distributed for purposes of this Section 14.04(c) (and no adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(c) will be required) until the occurrence of the earliest Trigger Event, whereupon such rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to have been distributed and an appropriate adjustment (if any is required) to the Conversion Rate shall be made under this Section 14.04(c). If any such right, option or warrant, including any such existing rights, options or warrants distributed prior to the date of this Indenture, are subject to events, upon the occurrence of which such rights, options or warrants become exercisable to purchase different securities, evidences of indebtedness or other assets, then the date of the occurrence of any and each such event shall be deemed to be the date of distribution and Record Date
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with respect to new rights, options or warrants with such rights (in which case the existing rights, options or warrants shall be deemed to terminate and expire on such date without exercise by any of the holders thereof). In addition, in the event of any distribution (or deemed distribution) of rights, options or warrants, or any Trigger Event or other event (of the type described in the immediately preceding sentence) with respect thereto that was counted for purposes of calculating a distribution amount for which an adjustment to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(c) was made, (1) in the case of any such rights, options or warrants that shall all have been redeemed or purchased without exercise by any holders thereof, upon such final redemption or purchase (x) the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options or warrants had not been issued and the Conversion Rate shall then again be readjusted to give effect to such distribution, deemed distribution or Trigger Event, as the case may be, as though it were a cash distribution, equal to the per share redemption or purchase price received by a holder or holders of Common Stock with respect to such rights, options or warrants (assuming such holder had retained such rights, options or warrants), made to all holders of Common Stock as of the date of such redemption or purchase, and (2) in the case of such rights, options or warrants that shall have expired or been terminated without exercise by any holders thereof, the Conversion Rate shall be readjusted as if such rights, options and warrants had not been issued.
For purposes of Section 14.04(a), Section 14.04(b) and this Section 14.04(c), if any dividend or distribution to which this Section 14.04(c) is applicable also includes one or both of:
(A) a dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock to which Section 14.04(a) is applicable (the “Clause A Distribution”); or
(B) a dividend or distribution of rights, options or warrants to which Section 14.04(b) is applicable (the “Clause B Distribution”),
then, in either case, (1) such dividend or distribution, other than the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution, shall be deemed to be a dividend or distribution to which this Section 14.04(c) is applicable (the “Clause C Distribution”) and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by this Section 14.04(c) with respect to such Clause C Distribution shall then be made, and (2) the Clause A Distribution and Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to immediately follow the Clause C Distribution and any Conversion Rate adjustment required by Section 14.04(a) and Section 14.04(b) with respect thereto shall then be made, except that, if determined by the Company (I) the “Record Date” of the Clause A Distribution and the Clause B Distribution shall be deemed to be the Record Date of the Clause C Distribution and (II) any shares of Common Stock included in the Clause A Distribution or Clause B Distribution shall be deemed not to be “outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Record Date or Effective Date” within the meaning of Section 14.04(a) or “outstanding immediately prior to the open of business on such Record Date” within the meaning of Section 14.04(b).
(d) If the Company pays or makes any cash dividend or distribution to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
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where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the open of business on the Record Date for such dividend or distribution; | ||
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the open of business on the Record Date for such dividend or distribution; | ||
SP0 | = | the Last Reported Sale Price of the Common Stock on the Trading Day immediately preceding the Record Date for such dividend or distribution; and | ||
C | = | the amount in cash per share the Company distributes to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock. |
Any increase pursuant to this Section 14.04(d) shall become effective immediately after the open of business on the Record Date for such dividend or distribution. If such dividend or distribution is not so paid, the Conversion Rate shall be decreased, effective as of the date the Board of Directors determines in good faith not to make or pay such dividend or distribution, to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such dividend or distribution had not been declared. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if “C” (as defined above) is equal to or greater than “SP0” (as defined above), in lieu of the foregoing increase, each Holder of a Note shall receive, for each $1,000 principal amount of Notes, at the same time and upon the same terms as holders of shares of the Common Stock, the amount of cash that such Holder would have received if such Holder owned a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate on the Record Date for such cash dividend or distribution.
(e) If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries make a payment in respect of a tender or exchange offer for the Common Stock that is subject to the then-applicable tender offer rules under the Exchange Act (other than an odd lot tender offer), to the extent that the cash and value of any other consideration included in the payment per share of the Common Stock exceeds the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the last date on which tenders or exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, the Conversion Rate shall be increased based on the following formula:
where,
CR0 | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires (the date such tender offer or exchange offer expires, the “Expiration Date”); | ||
CR’ | = | the Conversion Rate in effect immediately after the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Date; | ||
AC | = | the aggregate value of all cash and any other consideration (as determined by the Board of Directors in good faith) paid or payable for shares of Common Stock purchased in such tender or exchange offer; | ||
OS0 | = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Expiration Date (prior to giving effect to the purchase of all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer); |
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OS’ | = | the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after the Expiration Date (after giving effect to the purchase of all shares of Common Stock accepted for purchase or exchange in such tender or exchange offer); and | ||
SP’ | = | the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the 10 consecutive Trading Day period commencing on, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Date. |
The increase to the Conversion Rate under this Section 14.04(e) shall occur at the close of business on the 10th Trading Day immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires; provided that if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the 10 Trading Days immediately following, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Date of any tender or exchange offer, references to “10” or “10th” in the preceding paragraph shall be deemed replaced with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed between the Expiration Date of such tender or exchange offer and the Conversion Date in determining the Conversion Rate. In addition, if the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires is after the 10th Trading Day immediately preceding, and including, the date immediately preceding the relevant Conversion Date in respect of a conversion of Notes, references to “10” or “10th” in the preceding paragraph and this paragraph shall be deemed to be replaced, solely in respect of that conversion of Notes, with such lesser number of Trading Days as have elapsed from, and including, the Trading Day next succeeding the date such tender or exchange offer expires to, and including, the last Trading Day immediately preceding the relevant Conversion Date.
In the event that the Company or one of its Subsidiaries is obligated to purchase shares of Common Stock pursuant to any such tender offer or exchange offer, but the Company is, or such Subsidiary is, permanently prevented by applicable law from consummating any such purchases, or all such purchases are rescinded, then the Conversion Rate shall be decreased to be the Conversion Rate that would then be in effect if such tender offer or exchange offer had not been made or had been made only in respect of the purchases that have been consummated.
(f) Notwithstanding this Section 14.04 or any other provision of this Indenture or the Notes, if a Conversion Rate adjustment becomes effective on any Record Date, and a Holder that has converted its Notes on or after such Record Date and on or prior to the related Record Date would be treated as the record holder of the shares of Common Stock as of the related Conversion Date as described under Section 14.02(i) based on an adjusted Conversion Rate for such Record Date, then, notwithstanding the Conversion Rate adjustment provisions in this Section 14.04, the Conversion Rate adjustment relating to such Record Date shall not be made for such converting Holder. Instead, such Holder shall be treated as if such Holder were the record owner of the shares of Common Stock on an unadjusted basis and participate in the related dividend, distribution or other event giving rise to such adjustment.
(g) Except as stated herein, the Company shall not adjust the Conversion Rate for the issuance of shares of the Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of the Common Stock or the right to purchase shares of the Common Stock or such convertible or exchangeable securities.
(h) In addition to those adjustments required by clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this Section 14.04, and to the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the applicable rules of The New York Stock Exchange, the Company from time to time may increase the Conversion Rate by any amount for a period of at least 20 Business Days if the Board of Directors determines in good faith that such increase would be in the Company’s best interest. In addition, to the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the applicable rules of The New York Stock Exchange, the Company may (but is not required to) increase the Conversion Rate to avoid or diminish any income tax to holders of Common Stock or rights to purchase
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Common Stock in connection with a dividend or distribution of shares of Common Stock (or rights to acquire shares of Common Stock) or similar event. Whenever the Conversion Rate is increased pursuant to either of the preceding two sentences, the Company shall deliver to the Holder of each Note a notice of the increase at least 15 days prior to the date the increased Conversion Rate takes effect, and such notice shall state the increased Conversion Rate and the period during which it will be in effect.
(i) Except as stated in this Indenture, the Company shall not adjust the Conversion Rate for the issuance of shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Common Stock or the right to purchase shares of Common Stock or such convertible or exchangeable securities. For illustrative purposes only and without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, the Conversion Rate shall not be adjusted:
(i) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to any present or future plan providing for the reinvestment of dividends or interest payable on the Company’s securities and the investment of additional optional amounts in shares of Common Stock under any plan;
(ii) upon the issuance of any shares of Common Stock or options or rights to purchase those shares pursuant to any present or future employee, director or consultant benefit plan or program of or assumed by the Company or any of the Company’s Subsidiaries;
(iii) upon the issuance of any shares of the Common Stock pursuant to any option, warrant, right or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security not described in clause (ii) of this subsection and outstanding as of the date the Notes were first issued;
(iv) upon the repurchase of any shares of Common Stock pursuant to an open market share repurchase program or other buy-back transaction, including structured or derivative transactions, that is not a tender or exchange offer of the nature described in Section 14.04(e);
(v) solely for a change in the par value (or lack of par value) of the Common Stock; or
(vi) for accrued and unpaid interest, if any.
(j) All calculations and other determinations under this Article 14 shall be made by the Company and shall be made to the nearest one-ten thousandth (1/10,000th) of a share.
(k) Whenever the Conversion Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall promptly deliver to the Trustee (and the Conversion Agent if not the Trustee) an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the Conversion Rate after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment. Unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have received such Officer’s Certificate, the Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of any adjustment of the Conversion Rate and may assume without inquiry that the last Conversion Rate of which it has knowledge is still in effect. Promptly after delivery of such certificate, the Company shall prepare a written notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate setting forth the adjusted Conversion Rate and the date on which each adjustment becomes effective and shall deliver such notice of such adjustment of the Conversion Rate to each Holder (with a copy to the Trustee). Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of any such adjustment.
(l) For purposes of this Section 14.04, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company so long as the Company does not pay any dividend or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company, but shall include shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock.
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Section 14.05 Adjustments of Prices. Whenever any provision of this Indenture requires the Company to calculate the Last Reported Sale Prices or the Daily VWAPs over a span of multiple days, the Board of Directors shall make appropriate adjustments (without duplication in respect of any adjustment made pursuant to Section 14.04) to each to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Ex-Dividend Date, Record Date, Effective Date or Expiration Date, as the case may be, of the event occurs, at any time during the period when the Last Reported Sale Prices or the Daily VWAPs are to be calculated.
Section 14.06 Shares to Be Fully Paid. The Company shall reserve, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued shares or shares held in treasury, sufficient shares of Common Stock to provide for conversion of the Notes from time to time as such Notes are presented for conversion (assuming delivery of the maximum number of Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.14).
Section 14.07 Effect of Recapitalizations, Reclassifications and Changes of the Common Stock.
(a) In the case of:
(i) any recapitalization, reclassification or change of the Common Stock (other than changes in par value or resulting from a subdivision or combination),
(ii) any consolidation, merger, combination or similar transaction involving the Company,
(iii) any sale, lease or other transfer to a third party of all or substantially all of the consolidated assets of the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or
(iv) any statutory share exchange,
in each case, as a result of which the Common Stock would be converted into, or exchanged for, stock, other securities, other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) (any such event, a “Share Exchange Event”), then at and after the effective time of such Share Exchange Event, the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be changed into a right to convert such principal amount of Notes into the kind and amount of shares of stock, other securities or other property or assets (including cash or any combination thereof) that a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such Share Exchange Event would have owned or been entitled to receive (the “Reference Property,” with each “unit of Reference Property” meaning the kind and amount of Reference Property that a holder of one share of Common Stock is entitled to receive) upon such Share Exchange Event and, prior to or at the effective time of such Share Exchange Event, the Company or the successor or acquiring Person, as the case may be, shall execute with the Trustee a supplemental indenture permitted under Section 10.01(g) providing for such change in the right to convert each $1,000 principal amount of Notes; provided, however, that at and after the effective time of the Share Exchange Event (I) any amount payable in cash upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section 14.02 shall continue to be payable in cash, (II) any shares of Common Stock that the Company would have been required to deliver upon conversion of the Notes in accordance with Section 14.02 shall instead be deliverable in the amount and type of Reference Property that a holder of that number of shares of Common Stock would have been entitled to receive in such Share Exchange Event and (III) the Daily VWAP shall be calculated based on the value of a unit of Reference Property.
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If the Share Exchange Event causes the Common Stock to be converted into, or exchanged for, the right to receive more than a single type of consideration (determined based in part upon any form of stockholder election), then (i) the Reference Property into which the Notes will be convertible shall be deemed to be the weighted average of the types and amounts of consideration actually received by the holders of Common Stock, and (ii) the unit of Reference Property for purposes of the immediately preceding paragraph shall refer to the consideration referred to in clause (i) attributable to one share of Common Stock. If the holders of the Common Stock receive only cash in such Share Exchange Event, then for all conversions for which the relevant Conversion Date occurs after the effective date of such Share Exchange Event (A) the consideration due upon conversion of each $1,000 principal amount of Notes shall be solely cash in an amount equal to the Conversion Rate in effect on the Conversion Date (as may be increased by any Additional Shares pursuant to Section 14.14), multiplied by the price paid per share of Common Stock in such Share Exchange Event and (B) the Company shall satisfy the Conversion Obligation by paying such cash amount to converting Holders on the second Business Day immediately following the relevant Conversion Date. The Company shall notify in writing Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of such weighted average as soon as reasonably practicable after such determination is made.
If the Reference Property in respect of any Share Exchange Event includes, in whole or in part, shares of common equity, such supplemental indenture described in the second immediately preceding paragraph shall provide for anti-dilution and other adjustments that shall be as nearly equivalent as is possible to the adjustments provided for in this Article 14 with respect to the portion of the Reference Property consisting of such common equity. If, in the case of any Share Exchange Event, the Reference Property includes shares of stock, securities or other property or assets (including any combination thereof), other than cash and/or cash equivalents, of a Person other than the Company or the successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, in such Share Exchange Event, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such other Person, if such other Person is an affiliate of the Company or the successor or acquiring company, and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the interests of the Holders of the Notes as the Board of Directors shall reasonably consider necessary by reason of the foregoing, including the provisions providing for the purchase rights set forth in Article 15.
(b) When the Company executes a supplemental indenture pursuant to subsection (a) of this Section 14.07, the Company shall promptly deliver to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate briefly stating the reasons therefor, the kind or amount of cash, securities or property or asset that will comprise a unit of Reference Property after any such Share Exchange Event, any adjustment to be made with respect thereto and that all conditions precedent have been complied with, and shall promptly deliver notice thereof to all Holders. The Company shall cause notice of the execution of such supplemental indenture to be delivered to each Holder within 20 days after execution thereof. Failure to deliver such notice shall not affect the legality or validity of such supplemental indenture.
(c) The Company shall not become a party to any Share Exchange Event unless its terms are consistent with this Section 14.07 . None of the foregoing provisions shall affect the right of a holder of Notes to convert its Notes into shares of Common Stock, as set forth in Section 14.01 and Section 14.02 prior to the effective date of such Share Exchange Event.
(d) The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive Share Exchange Events.
Section 14.08 Certain Covenants . (a)The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of Notes will be fully paid and non-assessable by the Company and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issue thereof.
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(b) The Company covenants that, if any shares of Common Stock to be provided for the purpose of conversion of Notes hereunder require registration with or approval of any governmental authority under any federal or state law before such shares of Common Stock may be validly issued upon conversion, the Company will, to the extent then permitted by the rules and interpretations of the Commission, secure such registration or approval, as the case may be.
(c) The Company further covenants that if at any time the Common Stock shall be listed on any national securities exchange or automated quotation system the Company will list and use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep listed, so long as the Common Stock shall be so listed on such exchange or automated quotation system, any Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes.
Section 14.09 Responsibility of Trustee. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder to determine the Conversion Rate (or any adjustment thereto) or whether any facts exist that may require any adjustment (including any increase) of the Conversion Rate, or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture provided to be employed, in making the same. The Trustee and any other Conversion Agent shall not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities, property or cash that may at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Note; and the Trustee and any other Conversion Agent make no representations with respect thereto.
Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other securities or property or cash upon the surrender of any Note for the purpose of conversion or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be under any responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any supplemental indenture entered into pursuant to Section 14.07 relating either to the kind or amount of shares of stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders upon the conversion of their Notes after any event referred to in such Section 14.07 or to any adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, may accept (without any independent investigation) as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any such provisions, and shall be protected in conclusively relying upon, the Officer’s Certificate (which the Company shall be obligated to deliver to the Trustee prior to the execution of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto. The Trustee and the Conversion Agent may conclusively rely upon any notice with respect to the commencement or termination of such conversion rights.
Section 14.10 Notice to Holders Prior to Certain Actions. In case of any:
(a) action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries that would require an adjustment in the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04 or Section 14.11;
(b) Share Exchange Event; or
(c) voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company;
then, in each case (unless notice of such event is otherwise required pursuant to another provision of this Indenture) and to the extent applicable, the Company shall cause to be delivered to the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) and to be delivered to each Holder, a notice stating (i) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or, if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record are to be determined for the purposes of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) the date on
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which such dissolution, liquidation or winding-up is expected to become effective or occur, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their Common Stock for securities or other property deliverable upon such dissolution, liquidation or winding-up. Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such action by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, Share Exchange Event, dissolution, liquidation or winding-up.
Section 14.11 Stockholder Rights Plans. If the Company has a stockholder rights plan in effect upon conversion of the Notes, each share of Common Stock, if any, issued upon such conversion shall be entitled to receive the appropriate number of rights, if any, under such stockholder rights plan and the certificates representing the Common Stock issued upon such conversion shall bear such legends, if any, in each case as may be provided by the terms of any such stockholder rights plan, as the same may be amended from time to time. However, if, prior to any conversion of Notes, the rights have separated from the shares of Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of the applicable stockholder rights plan, the Conversion Rate shall be adjusted at the time of separation as if the Company distributed to all or substantially all holders of the Common Stock Distributed Property as provided in Section 14.04(c), subject to readjustment in the event of the expiration, termination or redemption of such rights.
Section 14.12 Exchange in Lieu of Conversion. When a Holder surrenders its Notes for conversion, the Company may, at its election (an “Exchange Election”), direct the Conversion Agent to deliver, on or prior to the first Trading Day following the Conversion Date, such Notes to a financial institution designated by the Company for exchange in lieu of conversion. In order to accept any Notes surrendered for conversion, the designated financial institution must agree to timely pay and/or deliver, in exchange for such Notes, the shares of Common Stock (plus any cash in lieu of fractional shares). If the Company makes an Exchange Election, the Company shall, by the close of business on the first Trading Day following the relevant Conversion Date, notify in writing the Trustee, the Conversion Agent and the Holder surrendering its Notes for conversion that it has made the Exchange Election, and the Company shall promptly notify the designated financial institution of the Physical Settlement Method with respect to such conversion and the relevant deadline for payment and/or delivery of shares of Common Stock and any cash in lieu of fractional shares.
Any Notes exchanged by the designated financial institution shall remain outstanding. If the designated financial institution agrees to accept any Notes for exchange but does not timely pay and/or deliver the required shares of Common Stock or any cash in lieu of fractional shares due upon conversion, or if such designated financial institution does not accept the Notes for exchange, the Company shall notify in writing the Trustee, the Conversion Agent and the Holder surrendering its Notes for conversion, and pay and/or deliver the required shares of Common Stock, together with cash in lieu of any fractional shares due upon conversion to the converting Holder at the time and in the manner required under this Indenture as if the Company had not made an Exchange Election.
The Company’s designation of a financial institution to which the Notes may be submitted for exchange does not require that financial institution to accept any Notes (unless the financial institution has separately made an agreement with the Company). The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into a separate agreement with any designated financial institution that would compensate it for any such transaction.
Section 14.13 Limits Upon Issuance of Shares of Common Stock Upon Conversion. The Company shall not effect the conversion of any of the Notes held by a Holder, and such Holder shall not have the right to convert any of the Notes held by such Holder pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Indenture and any such conversion shall be null and void and treated as if never made, to the extent that after giving effect to such conversion, such Holder together with the other Attribution Parties collectively would beneficially own in excess of 9.99% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the shares of Common Stock
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outstanding immediately after giving effect to such conversion. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such Holder and the
other Attribution Parties shall include the number of shares of Common Stock held by such Holder and all other Attribution Parties plus the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes with respect to which the
determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (A) conversion of the remaining, nonconverted Notes beneficially owned by such Holder or any of the other Attribution Parties
and (B) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or nonconverted portion of any other securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any convertible notes, convertible preferred stock or warrants, including the Notes) beneficially
owned by such Holder or any other Attribution Party subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained in this Section 14.13. For purposes of this Section 14.13, beneficial ownership shall be calculated
in accordance with Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act. For purposes of determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock a Holder may acquire upon the conversion of such Notes without exceeding the Maximum Percentage, such Holder may rely
on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (x) the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, Current Report on Form 8-K or other public filing with the Commission, as the case
may be, (y) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (z) any other written notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent, if any, setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (the “Reported Outstanding
Share Number”). If the Company receives a Conversion Notice of Conversion from a Holder at a time when the actual number of
outstanding shares of Common Stock is less than the Reported Outstanding Share Number, the Company shall notify such Holder in writing of the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding and, to the extent that such Conversion Notice
of Conversion would otherwise cause such Holder’s
beneficial ownership, as determined pursuant to this Section 14.13, to exceed the Maximum Percentage, such Holder must notify the Company of a reduced number of shares of Common Stock to be delivered pursuant to such Conversion
Notice of Conversion. For any reason at any time, upon the written or oral request of any Holder, the Company shall within one (1) Business Day confirm orally and in writing or by electronic mail to such Holder the number of
shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including such Notes, by such Holder and any
other Attribution Party since the date as of which the Reported Outstanding Share Number was reported. In the event that the issuance of shares of Common Stock to a Holder upon conversion of such Notes results in such Holder and the other
Attribution Parties being deemed to beneficially own, in the aggregate, more than the Maximum Percentage of the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock (as determined under Section 13(d) of the 1934 Act), the number of shares so issued by
which such Holder’s and the other Attribution Parties’ aggregate beneficial ownership exceeds the Maximum Percentage (the “Excess Shares”) shall be deemed null and void and shall be cancelled ab initio, and such Holder
shall not have the power to vote or to transfer the Excess Shares. Upon delivery of a written notice to the Company, any Holder may from time to time increase (with such increase not effective until the sixty-first (61st) day after delivery of
such notice) or decrease the Maximum Percentage of such Holder to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99% as specified in such notice; provided that (i) any such increase in the Maximum Percentage will not be effective until the sixty-first
(61st) day after such notice is delivered to the Company and (ii) any such increase or decrease will apply only to such Holder and the other Attribution Parties and not to any other Holder that is not an Attribution Party of such Holder.
For purposes of clarity, the shares of Common Stock issuable to a Holder pursuant to the terms of this Indenture in excess of the Maximum Percentage shall not be deemed to be beneficially owned by such Holder for any purpose including for purposes
of Section 13(d) or Rule 16a-1(a)(1) of the 1934 Act. No prior inability to convert such Notes pursuant to this paragraph shall have any effect on the applicability of the provisions of this paragraph with respect to any subsequent
determination of convertibility. The provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this Section 14.13 to the extent necessary to correct this paragraph (or any
portion of this paragraph) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended beneficial ownership limitation
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contained in this Section 14.13 or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation. The limitation contained in this paragraph may not be waived and shall apply to a successor holder of such Notes. Neither the Trustee nor the Conversion Agent shall have any responsibility to determine the Maximum Percentage or whether the issuance of any shares results in a Holder or Attribution Party having Excess Shares or otherwise determine or monitor compliance with the terms of this Section 14.13.
Section 14.14 Increased Conversion Rate Applicable to Certain Notes Surrendered in Connection with Make-Whole Fundamental Changes.
(a) If the Effective Date of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs prior to the Maturity Date and a Holder elects to convert its Notes in connection with such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the Company shall, under the circumstances described below, increase the Conversion Rate for the Notes so surrendered for conversion by a number of additional shares of Common Stock (the “Additional Shares”), as described below . A conversion of Notes shall be deemed for these purposes to be “in connection with” such Make-Whole Fundamental Change if the relevant Conversion Date occurs during the period from, and including, the Effective Date of the Make-Whole Fundamental Change up to, and including, the Business Day immediately prior to the related Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (or, in the case of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change that would have been a Fundamental Change but for the proviso in clause (b) of the definition thereof, the 35th Trading Day immediately following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change) (such period, the “Make-Whole Fundamental Change Period”).
(b) Upon surrender of Notes for conversion in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the Company shall satisfy the related Conversion Obligation by Physical Settlement in accordance with Section 14.02; provided, however, that if, at the effective time of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Reference Property following such Make-Whole Fundamental Change is composed entirely of cash, for any conversion of Notes following the Effective Date of such Make-Whole Fundamental Change, the Conversion Obligation shall be calculated based solely on the Stock Price for the transaction and shall be deemed to be an amount of cash per $1,000 principal amount of converted Notes equal to the Conversion Rate (including any increase to reflect the Additional Shares), multiplied by such Stock Price. In such event, the Conversion Obligation shall be determined and paid to Holders in cash on the second Business Day following the Conversion Date. The Company shall notify in writing the Holders, the Trustee and the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) of the Effective Date of any Make-Whole Fundamental Change no later than five Business Days after such Effective Date.
(c) The number of Additional Shares, if any, by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased for conversions in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change shall be determined by reference to the table below, based on the date on which the Make-Whole Fundamental Change occurs or becomes effective (in each case, the “Effective Date”) and the price (the “Stock Price”) paid (or deemed to be paid) per share of the Common Stock in the Make-Whole Fundamental Change. If the holders of the Common Stock receive in exchange for their Common Stock only cash in a Make-Whole Fundamental Change described in clause (b) of the definition of Fundamental Change, the Stock Price shall be the cash amount paid per share. Otherwise, the Stock Price shall be the average of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock over the five consecutive Trading Day period ending on, and including, the Trading Day immediately preceding the applicable Effective Date. The Board of Directors shall make appropriate adjustments to the Stock Price, in its good faith determination, to account for any adjustment to the Conversion Rate that becomes effective, or any event requiring an adjustment to the Conversion Rate where the Record Date, Effective Date (as such term is used in Section 14.04) or Expiration Date of the event occurs during such five consecutive Trading Day period.
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(d) The Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table below shall be adjusted as of any date on which the Conversion Rate of the Notes is otherwise adjusted. The adjusted Stock Prices shall equal the Stock Prices applicable immediately prior to such adjustment, multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the Conversion Rate immediately prior to such adjustment giving rise to the Stock Price adjustment and the denominator of which is the Conversion Rate as so adjusted. The number of Additional Shares set forth in the table below shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Conversion Rate as set forth in Section 14.04.
(e) The following table sets forth the number of Additional Shares of Common Stock by which the Conversion Rate shall be increased per $1,000 principal amount of Notes pursuant to this Section 14.14 for each Stock Price and Effective Date set forth below:
Stock Price | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Effective Date |
$0.87 | $0.95 | $1.175 | $1.45 | $1.75 | $2.25 | $2.75 | $3.50 | $4.50 | $5.75 | $7.25 | $9.00 | $12.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 18, 2022 |
578.0000 | 513.4947 | 383.3532 | 285.5241 | 219.2400 | 154.8667 | 118.3164 | 86.6143 | 63.2756 | 46.7948 | 35.0441 | 26.4967 | 17.7142 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 15, 2023 |
578.0000 | 492.2105 | 350.4936 | 247.3586 | 180.6971 | 120.2222 | 88.6436 | 63.2771 | 45.7844 | 33.8487 | 25.4207 | 19.2811 | 12.9492 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 15, 2024 |
578.0000 | 475.0000 | 313.0809 | 198.9172 | 130.3029 | 75.8756 | 52.2873 | 36.2229 | 26.2533 | 19.5791 | 14.7959 | 11.2600 | 7.5900 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
August 15, 2025 |
578.0000 | 475.0000 | 279.2936 | 132.0483 | 50.7486 | 15.3822 | 9.7709 | 7.1743 | 5.4022 | 4.0765 | 3.0883 | 2.3511 | 1.5858 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
December 15, 2025 |
578.0000 | 475.0000 | 279.2936 | 118.2276 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 | 0.0000 |
The exact Stock Price and Effective Date may not be set forth in the table above, in which case:
(i) if the Stock Price is between two Stock Prices in the table above or the Effective Date is between two Effective Dates in the table, the number of Additional Shares by which the conversion rate shall be increased shall be determined by a straight-line interpolation between the number of Additional Shares set forth for the higher and lower Stock Prices and the earlier and later Effective Dates, as applicable, based on a 365-day year;
(ii) if the Stock Price is greater than $12.00 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table above pursuant to subsection (e) above), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate; and
(iii) if the Stock Price is less than $0.87 per share (subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Stock Prices set forth in the column headings of the table above pursuant to subsection (e) above), no Additional Shares shall be added to the Conversion Rate.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Conversion Rate per $1,000 principal amount of Notes exceed 1149.4286 shares of Common Stock, subject to adjustment in the same manner as the Conversion Rate pursuant to Section 14.04.
Nothing in this Section 14.14 shall prevent an adjustment to the Conversion Rate that would otherwise be required pursuant to Section 14.04 in respect of a Make-Whole Fundamental Change.
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ARTICLE 15
REPURCHASE OF NOTES AT OPTION OF HOLDERS
Section 15.01 [Intentionally Omitted].
Section 15.02 Repurchase at Option of Holders Upon a Fundamental Change.
(a) If a Fundamental Change occurs at any time prior to the Maturity Date, each Holder shall have the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holder’s Notes, or any portion of the principal amount thereof properly surrendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to Section 15.03 that is equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000, on the date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Date”) specified by the Company that is not less than 20 Business Days or more than 35 Business Days following the date of the Fundamental Change Company Notice at a repurchase price equal to 105% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, plus any remaining amounts that would be owed to, but excluding, the Maturity Date (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Price”), unless the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date falls after a Regular Record Date but on or prior to the Interest Payment Date to which such Regular Record Date relates, in which case the Company shall instead pay the full amount of accrued and unpaid interest (to, but excluding, such Interest Payment Date) to Holders of record as of such Regular Record Date, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price shall be equal to 105% of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased pursuant to this Article 15. The Fundamental Change Repurchase Date shall be subject to postponement in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law. Repurchases of Notes under this Section 15.02 shall be made, at the option of the Holder thereof, upon:
(i) delivery to the Paying Agent by a Holder of a duly completed notice (the “Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice”) in the form set forth in Attachment 2 to the Form of Note attached hereto as Exhibit A, if the Notes are Physical Notes, or in compliance with the Applicable Procedures for surrendering interests in Global Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in each case on or before the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date; and
(ii) delivery of the Notes, if the Notes are Physical Notes, to the Paying Agent at any time after delivery of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice (together with all necessary endorsements for transfer) at the office of the Paying Agent, or book- entry transfer of the Notes, if the Notes are Global Notes, in compliance with the procedures of the Depositary, in each case such delivery being a condition to receipt by the Holder of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price therefor.
The Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in respect of any Notes to be repurchased shall state:
(i) (i) in the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be delivered for repurchase;
(ii)
(ii) the portion of the principal amount of Notes to be repurchased, which must be in
minimum denominations of $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof; and
(iii)
(iii) that the Notes are to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the applicable
provisions of the Notes and this Indenture;
provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice must comply with the Applicable Procedures.
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Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any Holder delivering to the Paying Agent the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice contemplated by this Section 15.02 shall have the right to withdraw, in whole or in part, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date by delivery of a written notice of withdrawal to the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 15.03.
The Paying Agent shall promptly notify the Company of the receipt by it of any Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice or written notice of withdrawal thereof.
(c) On or before the 20th Business Day after the occurrence of the effective date of a Fundamental Change, the Company shall provide to all Holders of Notes, the Trustee, the Conversion Agent (if other than the Trustee) and the Paying Agent (in the case of a paying agent other than the Trustee) a written notice (the “Fundamental Change Company Notice”) of the occurrence of the effective date of the Fundamental Change and of the repurchase right at the option of the Holders arising as a result thereof. In the case of Physical Notes, such notice shall be by first class mail or, in the case of Global Notes, such notice shall be delivered in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. Each Fundamental Change Company Notice shall specify:
(i) the events causing the Fundamental Change;
(ii) the effective date of the Fundamental Change;
(iii) the last date on which a Holder may exercise the repurchase right pursuant to this Article 15;
(iv) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price;
(v) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date;
(vi) the name and address of the Paying Agent and the Conversion Agent, if applicable;
(vii) if applicable, the Conversion Rate and any adjustments to the Conversion Rate;
(viii) that the Notes with respect to which a Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice has been delivered by a Holder may be converted only if the Holder withdraws the Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; and
(ix) the procedures that Holders must follow to require the Company to repurchase their Notes.
In connection with any Fundamental Change resulting from the Cloudbreak Sale, in addition to the Fundamental Change Company Notice to be delivered following the closing of the Cloudbreak Sale in order to facilitate the repurchase of the Notes described in Section 1.8 of the Cloudbreak Purchase Agreement, the Company shall also deliver any subsequent Fundamental Change Company Notices in order to facilitate the repurchase of the Notes described in Sections 1.5 and 1.7 of the Cloudbreak Purchase Agreement, as applicable; provided, that (I) for each such subsequent Fundamental Change Company Notice to be delivered, the applicable Fundamental Change Company Notice must be delivered on or before the 5th Business Day (rather than the 20th Business Day) after the occurrence of the underlying repurchase event and (II) the corresponding Fundamental Change Repurchase Date must occur not less than 5 Business Days or more than 20 Business Days (rather than 20 Business Days and 35 Business Days, respectively) following the date of the applicable Fundamental Change Company Notice.
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No failure of the Company to give the foregoing notices and no defect therein shall limit the Holders’ repurchase rights or affect the validity of the proceedings for the repurchase of the Notes pursuant to this Section 15.02. Simultaneously with providing such notice, the Company will publish such information on its website or through such other public medium as the Company may use at that time.
At the Company’s written request, given at least five days prior to the date the Fundamental Change Company Notice is to be sent, the Trustee shall give such notice in the Company’s name and at the Company’s expense; provided, however, that, in all cases, the text of such Fundamental Change Company Notice shall be prepared by the Company.
(d)
Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Notes may be repurchased by the Company on any date at the option of the Holders in connection with a Fundamental Change if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated, and such acceleration has not been
rescinded, on or prior to such date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to such Notes). The Paying Agent will promptly return to the
respective Holders thereof any Physical Notes held by it during the acceleration of the Notes (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price with respect to
such Notes), or any instructions for book-entry transfer of the Notes in compliance with the Applicable Procedures shall be deemed to have been cancelled, and, upon such return or cancellation, as the case may be, the Fundamental Change Repurchase
Notice with respect thereto shall be deemed to have been withdrawn.
(d) [Reserved].
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, the Company shall not be required to repurchase, or to make an offer to repurchase, the Notes upon a Fundamental Change if a third party makes such an offer in the same manner, at the same time and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company as set forth in this Article 15 (including, without limitation, the requirement to comply with applicable securities laws), and such third party purchases all Notes properly surrendered and not validly withdrawn under its offer in the same manner, at the same time and otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an offer made by the Company as set forth in this Article 15 (including the requirement to pay the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price on the later of the applicable Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and the time of book-entry transfer or delivery of the relevant Notes); provided that the Company shall continue to be obligated to (x) deliver the applicable Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice to the Holders (which Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice shall state that such third party shall make such an offer to purchase the Notes) and to simultaneously with such Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice publish a notice containing such information in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of New York or publish the information on the Company’s website or through such other public medium as the Company may use at that time, (y) comply with applicable securities laws as set forth in this Indenture in connection with any such purchase and (z) pay the applicable Fundamental Change Repurchase Price on the later of the applicable Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and the time of book-entry transfer or delivery of the relevant Notes in the event such third party fails to make such payment in such amount at such time.
(f) For purposes of this Article 15, the Paying Agent may be any agent, depositary, tender agent, Paying Agent or other agent appointed by the Company to accomplish the purposes set forth herein.
Section 15.03 Withdrawal of Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice. (a) A Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice may be withdrawn (in whole or in part) by means of a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the office of the Paying Agent in accordance with this Section 15.03 at any time prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, specifying:
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(i) the principal amount of the Notes with respect to which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, which must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof,
(ii) if Physical Notes have been issued, the certificate number of the Note in respect of which such notice of withdrawal is being submitted, and
(iii) the principal amount, if any, of such Note that remains subject to the original Fundamental Change Repurchase Notice, which portion must be in principal amounts of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000;
provided, however, that if the Notes are Global Notes, the notice of withdrawal must comply with appropriate procedures of the Depositary.
Section 15.04 Deposit of Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.
(a) The Company will deposit with the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company), or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.04 on or prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (subject to extension in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law) an amount of money sufficient to repurchase all of the Notes to be repurchased at the appropriate Fundamental Change Repurchase Price. Subject to receipt of funds and/or Notes by the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company), payment for Notes surrendered for repurchase (and not validly withdrawn prior to the close of business on the Business Day immediately preceding the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date) will be made on the later of (i) the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date (provided the Holder has satisfied the conditions in Section 15.02) and (ii) the time of book-entry transfer or the delivery of such Note to the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) by the Holder thereof in the manner required by Section 15.02 by mailing checks for the amount payable to the Holders of such Notes entitled thereto as they shall appear in the Note Register; provided, however, that payments to the Depositary shall be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the account of the Depositary or its nominee. The Trustee shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in excess of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.
(b) If by 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Trustee (or other Paying Agent appointed by the Company) holds money sufficient to make payment on all the Notes or portions thereof that are to be repurchased on such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, or, if extended in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law, such later date, then, with respect to the Notes that have been properly surrendered for repurchase and have not been validly withdrawn in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary, (i) such Notes will cease to be outstanding, (ii) interest will cease to accrue on such Notes on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or, if extended in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law, such later date (whether or not book-entry transfer of the Notes has been made or the Notes have been delivered to the Trustee or Paying Agent) and (iii) all other rights of the Holders of such Notes with respect to the Notes will terminate on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or, if extended in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law, such later date (other than (x) the right to receive the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price and (y) to the extent not included in the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, accrued and unpaid interest, if applicable).
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(c) Upon surrender of a Physical Note that is to be repurchased in part pursuant to Section 15.02, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder a new Physical Note in an authorized denomination equal in principal amount to the unrepurchased portion of the Physical Note surrendered.
Section 15.05 Covenant to Comply with Applicable Laws Upon Repurchase of Notes. In connection with any repurchase offer upon a Fundamental Change pursuant to this Article 15, the Company will, if required:
(a) comply with the provisions of any tender offer rules under the Exchange Act that may then be applicable;
(b) file a Schedule TO or any other required schedule under the Exchange Act; and
(c) otherwise comply in all material respects with all federal and state securities laws in connection with any offer by the Company to repurchase the Notes;
in each case, so as to permit the rights and obligations under this Article 15 to be exercised in the time and in the manner specified in this Article 15 subject to postponement in order to allow the Company to comply with applicable law. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Indenture relating to the Company’s obligations to purchase the Notes upon a Fundamental Change, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under such provisions of this Indenture by virtue of such conflict.
ARTICLE 16
OPTIONAL REDEMPTION
Section 16.01 Optional Redemption. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes. The Notes shall not be redeemable by the Company prior to June 16, 2024. On or after June 16, 2024, the Company may redeem (an “Optional Redemption”) for cash all or any portion of the Notes (subject to the first sentence of Section 16.02(d)), at the applicable Redemption Price.
Section 16.02 Notice of Optional Redemption; Selection of Notes . (a)In case the Company exercises its Optional Redemption right to redeem all or, as the case may be, any part of the Notes pursuant to Section 16.01, it shall fix a date for redemption (each, a “Redemption Date”) and it or, at its written request received by the Trustee not less than 45 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Redemption Date (or such shorter period of time as may be acceptable to the Trustee), the Trustee, in the name of and at the expense of the Company, shall mail or cause to be delivered a notice of such Optional Redemption (a “Redemption Notice”) not less than 20 nor more than 35 Scheduled Trading Days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Notes so to be redeemed as a whole or in part at its last address as the same appears on the Note Register; provided, however, that, if the Company shall give such notice, it shall also give written notice of the Redemption Date to the Trustee. The Redemption Date must be a Business Day.
(b) The Redemption Notice, if delivered in the manner herein provided, shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such Redemption Notice by mail or any defect in the Redemption Notice to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Note.
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(c) Each Redemption Notice shall specify:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
(iii) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon each Note to be redeemed, and that interest thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date;
(iv) the place or places where such Notes are to be surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;
(v) that Holders may surrender their Notes for conversion at any time prior to the close of business on the Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Redemption Date;
(vi) the procedures a converting Holder must follow to convert its Notes;
(vii) the Conversion Rate;
(viii) the CUSIP, ISIN or other similar numbers, if any, assigned to such Notes; and
(ix) in case any Note is to be redeemed in part only, the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Note, a new Note in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof shall be issued.
A Redemption Notice shall be irrevocable.
(d) If the Company elects to redeem fewer than all of the outstanding Notes, the Company must, in the case of each Optional Redemption, elect to redeem a minimum $5,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes. If fewer than all of the outstanding Notes are to be redeemed and the Notes to be redeemed are Global Notes, the Notes to be redeemed shall be selected by the Depositary in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary. If fewer than all of the outstanding Notes are to be redeemed and the Notes to be redeemed are not Global Notes, the Trustee shall select the Notes or portions thereof of a Global Note or the Notes in certificated form to be redeemed (in principal amounts of $1,000 or multiples thereof) by lot, on a pro rata basis or by another method the Trustee considers to be fair and appropriate. If any Note selected for partial redemption is submitted for conversion in part after such selection, the portion of the Note submitted for conversion shall be deemed (so far as may be possible) to be the portion selected for redemption.
Section 16.03 Payment of Notes Called for Redemption.
(a) If any Redemption Notice has been given in respect of the Notes in accordance with Section 16.02, the Notes shall become due and payable on the Redemption Date at the place or places stated in the Redemption Notice and at the applicable Redemption Price. On presentation and surrender of the Notes at the place or places stated in the Redemption Notice, the Notes shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable Redemption Price.
(b) Prior to the open of business on the Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent or, if the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company is acting as the Paying Agent, shall segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 7.05 an amount of cash (in immediately available funds if deposited on the Redemption Date), sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of all of the Notes to be redeemed on such Redemption Date . Subject to receipt of funds by the Paying Agent, payment for the Notes to be redeemed shall be made on the Redemption Date.
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The Paying Agent shall, promptly after such payment and upon written demand by the Company, return to the Company any funds in excess of the Redemption Price.
Section 16.04 Restrictions on Redemption. The Company may not redeem any Notes on any date if the principal amount of the Notes has been accelerated in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, and such acceleration has not been rescinded, on or prior to the Redemption Date (except in the case of an acceleration resulting from a Default by the Company in the payment of the Redemption Price with respect to such Notes).
ARTICLE 17
COLLATERAL AND SECURITY
Section 17.01 Security Interest; Collateral Agent. The due and punctual payment of the principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price or Redemption Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, and Conversion Obligation with respect to, the Notes when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether on an Interest Payment Date, at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption, prepayment, demand or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal (including the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price or Redemption Price, if applicable) of, and accrued and unpaid interest on, the Notes and performance of all other obligations of the Company to the Holders, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent under this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees, according to the terms hereunder or thereunder, are secured as provided in the Related Collateral Documents.
(a) Each Holder of Notes, by its acceptance thereof, and the Trustee hereby appoints Wilmington Trust, National Association as Collateral Agent, and consents and agrees to the terms of the Related Collateral Documents (including, without limitation, the provisions providing for foreclosure and release of Collateral and authorizing the Collateral Agent to enter into any Related Collateral Document on its behalf) as the same may be in effect or may be amended or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with their terms and this Indenture and authorizes and appoints Wilmington Trust, National Association as the Collateral Agent, and authorizes and directs the Collateral Agent to enter into the Related Collateral Documents and to perform its obligations and exercise its rights thereunder in accordance therewith. The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to all rights, privileges, immunities and protections of the Trustee set forth in this Indenture, including but not limited to the right to be compensated, reimbursed and indemnified under Section 7.06, in the acceptance, execution, delivery and performance of its role as Collateral Agent hereunder and under the Related Collateral Documents as though fully set forth therein. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere in this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents, the Collateral Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities hereunder nor shall the Collateral Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with the Trustee, any Holder or the Company, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents or otherwise exist against the Collateral Agent. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term “agent” in this Indenture with reference to the Collateral Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties.
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(b) The Company consents and agrees to be bound, and, subject to Section 17.05, to cause the Subsidiary Guarantors to consent and agree to be bound by the terms of the Related Collateral Documents, as the same may be in effect from time to time, and agrees to perform its, and to cause the Subsidiary Guarantors to perform their, obligations thereunder in accordance therewith. The Company will deliver to the Trustee copies of all documents delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Related Collateral Documents, and the Company will, and, subject to Section 17.05, the Company will cause each Subsidiary Guarantor to, do or cause to be done all such acts and things as may be required by the provisions of the Related Collateral Documents to assure and confirm to the Trustee that the Collateral Agent holds for the benefit of the Trustee and the Holders duly created, enforceable and perfected Liens as contemplated by the Related Collateral Documents or any part thereof, as from time to time constituted.
(c) Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall (i) be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it under or in connection with this Indenture or the transactions contemplated hereby (except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final order of a court of competent jurisdiction) or under or in connection with any Related Collateral Document or the transactions contemplated thereby (except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final order of a court of competent jurisdiction), or (ii) be responsible in any manner to any of the Trustee or any Holder for any recital, statement, representation, warranty, covenant or agreement made by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company, or any officer or Affiliate thereof, contained in this Indenture, any Related Collateral Document or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Collateral Agent under or in connection with, this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents, or the validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents, or for any failure of any other party to this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. The Collateral Agent shall not be under any obligation to the Trustee or any Holder to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents or to inspect the properties, books, or records of the Company or any of its Affiliates.
(d) No provision of this Indenture or any Related Collateral Document shall require the Collateral Agent to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or thereunder or to take or omit to take any action hereunder or thereunder or take any action at the request or direction of Holders or the Trustee if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds is not assured to it. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents, in the event the Collateral Agent is entitled or required to commence an action to foreclose or otherwise exercise its remedies to acquire control or possession of the Collateral, the Collateral Agent shall not be required to commence any such action or exercise any remedy or take any such other action if the Collateral Agent has determined that the Collateral Agent may incur personal liability as a result of the presence at, or release on or from, the Collateral or such property, of any hazardous substances unless the Collateral Agent has received security or indemnity from the Holders in an amount and in a form satisfactory to the Collateral Agent in its sole discretion, protecting the Collateral Agent from all such liability. The Collateral Agent shall at any time be entitled to cease taking any action described in this clause if it no longer reasonably deems any indemnity, security or undertaking from the Company or the Holders to be sufficient.
(e) Subject to Section 17.05 hereof, in each case that the Collateral Agent may or is required hereunder to take any action (an “Action”), including without limitation to make any determination, to give consents, to exercise rights, powers or remedies, to release or sell Collateral or otherwise to act hereunder or under any Related Collateral Document, the Collateral Agent may seek direction from the Trustee or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes . Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be liable with respect to any Action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the direction from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes. If the Trustee or the Collateral Agent shall request direction from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes with respect to any Action, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to refrain from such Action unless and until the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall have received direction from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, and neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall incur liability to any Person by reason of so refraining.
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(f) The Collateral Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, unless the Collateral Agent shall have received written notice from the Trustee or the Company referring to this Indenture, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default.” The Collateral Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as may be requested by the Trustee in accordance with Article 6 or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes subject to this Article 17.
(g) Beyond the exercise of reasonable care in the custody thereof, neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall have any duty as to any Collateral in its possession or control or in the possession or control of any agent or bailee or any income thereon or as to preservation of rights against prior parties or any other rights pertaining thereto and neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be responsible for filing any financing or continuation statements or recording any documents or instruments in any public office at any time or times or otherwise perfecting or maintaining the perfection of any security interest in the Collateral . Each of the Trustee and the Collateral Agent shall be deemed to have exercised reasonable care in the custody of the Collateral in its possession if the Collateral is accorded treatment substantially equal to that which it accords its own property and shall not be liable or responsible for any loss or diminution in the value of any of the Collateral, by reason of the act or omission of any carrier, forwarding agency or other agent or bailee selected by the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, in good faith.
(h) Each successor Trustee may become the successor Collateral Agent as and when the successor Trustee becomes the Trustee.
Section 17.02 Recording and Opinion. The Company shall furnish to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent (if other than the Trustee), on or within one month of December 15 of each year, commencing December 15, 2022, (a) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that no further action was necessary to maintain the perfection of the security interest in the Collateral described in both the applicable UCC-1 financing statement and the Security Agreement and for which perfection under the UCC of the Company’s or applicable Subsidiary Guarantor’s jurisdiction of organization may occur by the filing of a UCC-1 financing statement with the appropriate filing office of the applicable party’s jurisdiction of organization, and (b) an Officer’s Certificate stating that all action required by the Related Collateral Documents to maintain and perfect or continue the perfection of the security interests created by the Related Collateral Documents have been taken, and reciting the details of such action or referring to prior Officer’s Certificates in which such details are given.
Section 17.03 Authorization of Actions to Be Taken by the Trustee or the Collateral Agent Under the Related Collateral Documents.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01 and the terms of the Related Collateral Documents, the Trustee may (but shall have no obligation to), in its sole discretion and without the consent of the Holders, direct, on behalf of the Holders of Notes, the Collateral Agent to take all actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to:
(i) enforce any of the terms of the Related Collateral Document; and
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(ii) collect and receive any and all amounts payable in respect of the obligations of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors under this Indenture, the Notes and the Related Collateral Documents.
(b) Subject to the provisions of this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents, the Trustee and/or the Collateral Agent will have power to institute and maintain such suits and proceedings as it may deem expedient to prevent any impairment of the Collateral by any acts that may be unlawful or in violation of this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents, and such suits and proceedings as may be necessary to preserve or protect the interests of the Trustee, the Collateral Agent and the interests of the Holders of Notes in the Collateral (including the power to institute and maintain suits or proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order would impair the security interest under the Related Collateral Documents or be prejudicial to the interests of the Holders or of the Trustee and/or the Collateral Agent).
Section 17.04 Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee under the Related Collateral Documents. The Trustee and/or the Collateral Agent is authorized to receive any funds for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and the Holders distributed under the Related Collateral Documents, and to make further distributions of such funds to the Holders according to the provisions of this Indenture with respect to the Collateral.
Section 17.05 Termination of Security
Interest; Release of
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(a) Collateral will be released automatically from the Liens securing the Note Obligations of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors under this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees and the Related Collateral Documents without the consent or further action of any Person:
(i) in whole or in part, as applicable, upon the sale, transfer, exclusive license, agreement or other disposition of such property or assets (including a disposition resulting from eminent domain, condemnation or similar circumstances) by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor to the extent permitted pursuant to this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents; provided that, solely to the extent that such transaction constitutes the sale, conveyance, assignment, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s property and assets, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, such transaction complies with Article 11; and that the Company has delivered to the Trustee and the Collateral Agent an Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel stating that such transaction complies with the provisions of this Section 17.05;
(ii) with the consent of the Holders of at least 66 2/3% of the aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes;
(iii) with respect to any Collateral securing the Note Guarantee of any Subsidiary Guarantor, when such Subsidiary Guarantor is released in accordance with the terms of Section 18.06;
(iv) upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change described in clauses (a) or (b) of the definition thereof; or
(v) in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Related Collateral Documents.
(b) Neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall have any duty or liability for determining the Company’s compliance with this Section 17.05, but instead may rely on the Officer’s Certificates issued by the Company under this Section 17.05.
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(c) The security interests granted under this Indenture and all Related Collateral Documents will terminate upon the full and final payment and performance of all Note Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations for which no claim has been made) of the Company and any other obligors, if any and as applicable, under this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees and the Related Collateral Documents.
(d) The release of any Collateral from the terms of the Related Collateral Documents shall not be deemed to impair the security under this Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof or affect the Lien of this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents if and to the extent the Collateral is released pursuant to this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents or upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture. For the avoidance of doubt, the requirements of Section 314(d) of the Trust Indenture Act shall not apply to any release of the Collateral.
(e) Upon such release or any release of Collateral or any part thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents, upon the request and at the sole cost and expense of the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors, the Trustee shall direct the Collateral Agent to and upon such request and direction, the Collateral Agent shall:
(i) assign, transfer and deliver to the Company or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, against receipt and without recourse to or warranty by the Collateral Agent except as to the fact that the Collateral Agent has not encumbered the released assets, such of the Collateral or any part thereof to be released as may be in possession of the Collateral Agent and as shall not have been sold or otherwise applied pursuant to the terms of the Related Collateral Documents;
(ii) execute and deliver UCC financing statement amendments or releases (which shall be prepared by the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor) to the extent necessary to delete such Collateral or any part thereof to be released from the description of assets in any previously filed financing statements; and
(iii) execute and deliver such documents, instruments or statements (which shall be prepared by the Company) and take such other action as the Company may request to cause to be released and reconveyed to the Company, or the applicable Subsidiary Guarantor, as the case may be, such Collateral or any part thereof to be released and to evidence or confirm that such Collateral or any part thereof to be released has been released from the Liens of each of this Indenture and each of the Related Collateral Documents.
Section 17.06 Maintenance of Collateral. The Company shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to keep and maintain all properties material to the conduct of its business or the business of any of its Subsidiaries in good working order and condition (ordinary wear and tear excepted), except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries’ businesses, taken as a whole; provided that nothing in this Section 17.06 shall prevent the Company or any Subsidiary from discontinuing the maintenance of any of such property if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable to the conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
Section 17.07 Concerning the Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to all of the rights, privileges, immunities and indemnities afforded to the Trustee under Article 7. The Collateral Agent may resign or be removed in accordance with Sections 7.09, 7.10 and 7.11, with references to Trustee therein deemed to be references to Collateral Agent.
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ARTICLE 18
GUARANTEES
Section 18.01
Note Guarantee. Subject to this Article 18, each of the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees, on a senior basis, to each Holder, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent and
each of their successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes or the obligations of the Company hereunder or thereunder, that: (i) the principal (including the Fundamental Charge PurchaseChange
Repurchase Price or Redemption Price, if applicable) of and accrued and unpaid interest on each of the Notes shall be promptly paid in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration,
redemption or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of and interest on the Notes, if any, if lawful, and all other obligations of the Company to the Holders, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent hereunder or thereunder shall be promptly
paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (ii) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other obligations, that same shall be promptly paid in full when due or
performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. Each Subsidiary Guarantor agrees that this is a guarantee of payment and not a guarantee of collection.
(a) TheEach Subsidiary GuarantorsGuarantor
hereby
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obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver, amendment
or consent by any Holder with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or
defense of a guarantor. Each Subsidiary Guarantor hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the
Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that this Note Guarantee shall not be discharged except by complete performance of the obligations contained in the Notes, the Related Collateral Documents and this Indenture, or
pursuant to Section 18.06.
(b) If any Holder, the Trustee or the Collateral Agent is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to the Company or the Subsidiary Guarantors, any amount paid either to the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or such Holder, this Note Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect.
(c) Each Subsidiary Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any Note Obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all Note Obligations (other than contingent indemnity obligations) guaranteed hereby. Each Subsidiary Guarantor further agrees that, as between the Subsidiary Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, on the other hand, (i) the maturity of the Note Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 for the purposes of this Note Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Note Obligations guaranteed hereby, and (ii) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such Note Obligations as provided in Article 6, such Note Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Subsidiary Guarantors for the purpose of this Note Guarantee. The Subsidiary Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from any non-paying Subsidiary Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders under the Note Guarantees.
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(d) Each Note Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective should any petition be filed by or against the Company for liquidation or reorganization, should the Company become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of creditors or should a receiver or trustee be appointed for all or any significant part of the Company’s assets, and shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Notes are, pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee on the Notes or the Note Guarantees, whether as a “voidable preference,” “fraudulent transfer” or otherwise, all as though such payment or performance had not been made. In the event that any payment or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned, the Notes shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.
(e) In case any provision of any Note Guarantee 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.
(f) Each payment to be made by a Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of its Note Guarantee shall be made without set-off, counterclaim, reduction or diminution of any kind or nature.
(g) Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary Guarantor shall be required to make a notation on the Notes to reflect any such Note Guarantee or any such release, termination or discharge.
(h) Each Subsidiary Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee, the Collateral Agent or any Holder in enforcing any rights under this Section 18.01.
Section 18.02 Limitation on Guarantor Liability. Each Subsidiary Guarantor, and by its acceptance of Notes, each Holder, hereby
confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that the Note Guarantee of such Subsidiary Guarantor not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform
Fraudulent Transfer Act, the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act, or
any similar U.S. federal or state law to the extent applicable to any Note Guarantee. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Trustee, the Collateral Agent, the Holders and the Subsidiary Guarantors hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations
of each Subsidiary Guarantor shall be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to such maximum amount and all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such Subsidiary Guarantor that are relevant under such laws and after giving
effect to any collections from, rights to receive contribution from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Subsidiary Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Subsidiary Guarantor under this Article 18, result in the obligations
of such Subsidiary Guarantor under its Note Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or, fraudulent transfer, or voidable transaction under applicable law. Each Subsidiary
Guarantor that makes a payment under its Note Guarantee shall be entitled upon payment in full of all Note Guaranteed obligations under this Indenture to a contribution from each other Subsidiary Guarantor in an amount equal to such other Subsidiary
Guarantor’s pro rata portion of such payment based on the respective net assets of all the Subsidiary Guarantors at the time of such payment determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
Section 18.03 Execution and Delivery. To evidence a Note Guarantee set forth in Section 18.01, each Subsidiary Guarantor shall execute this Indenture or, if after the date hereof, a supplemental indenture pursuant to which it will agree to be a Subsidiary Guarantor and become bound by the terms of this Indenture applicable to Subsidiary Guarantors, including without limitation, this Article 18.
(a) Pursuant to any such supplemental indenture, each Subsidiary Guarantor shall agree that its Note Guarantee set forth in Section 18.01 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the absence of the endorsement of any notation of such Note Guarantee on the Notes.
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(b) The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of any Note Guarantee set forth in this Indenture on behalf of the Subsidiary Guarantors.
(c) If required by Section 4.19, the Company shall cause any newly created or acquired Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary, or any Subsidiary previously deemed to be an Excluded Subsidiary that ceases to be an Excluded Subsidiary, to comply with the provisions of Section 4.19 and this Article 18, to the extent applicable, within 30 calendar days on which such Subsidiary that is not an Excluded Subsidiary is created or acquired or ceases to be an Excluded Subsidiary.
Section 18.04 SubrogationSubrogation. Each Subsidiary Guarantor shall be subrogated
to all rights of Holders against the Company in respect of any amounts paid by any Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to the provisions of Section 18.01; provided that, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, no
Subsidiary Guarantor shall be entitled to enforce or receive any payments arising out of, or based upon, such right of subrogation until all amounts then due and payable by the Company under this Indenture or the Notes shall have been paid in full.
Section 18.05 Benefits
AcknowledgedBenefits
Acknowledged. Each Subsidiary Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by this Indenture and that the
guarantee and waivers made by it pursuant to its Note Guarantee are knowingly made in contemplation of such benefits.
Section 18.06 Release of Note Guarantees. A Note Guarantee by a Subsidiary Guarantor shall be automatically and unconditionally released and discharged, and such Note Guarantee shall thereupon terminate and be discharged and of no further force and effect, and no further action by such Subsidiary Guarantor, the Company or the Trustee shall be required for the release of such Subsidiary Guarantor’s Note Guarantee: (i) concurrently with any sale, exchange, disposition or transfer (by merger or otherwise) of (x) any Capital Stock of such Subsidiary Guarantor following which such Subsidiary Guarantor is no longer a Subsidiary of the Company or (y) all or substantially all assets of such Subsidiary Guarantor to a Person other than the Company or one of its Subsidiaries;
(1) upon the merger or consolidation of such Subsidiary Guarantor with and into either the Company or any other Subsidiary Guarantor wherein the Company or such other Subsidiary Guarantor, as applicable, is the surviving Person in such merger or consolidation;
(2) upon the dissolution or liquidation of such Subsidiary Guarantor following the transfer of all or substantially all of its assets to either the Company or another Subsidiary Guarantor;
(3) concurrently with such Subsidiary becoming an Excluded Subsidiary (subject to the proviso thereof) (provided that, in the case of a Subsidiary becoming an Excluded Subsidiary by virtue of ceasing to be a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, such release shall only apply if such transaction is entered into for a bona fide business purpose and not to circumvent the requirement to provide a Note Guarantee or grant security); or
(4) upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change described in clauses (a) or (b) of the definition thereof.
(ii) Upon such Subsidiary Guarantor delivering to the Trustee an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Section 18.06 relating to such release have been complied with.
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At the written request, and sole cost and expense, of the Company, the Trustee (or the Collateral Agent, if applicable) shall execute and deliver any documents reasonably requested by the Company in order to evidence such release, discharge and termination in respect of the applicable Note Guarantee.
ARTICLE 19
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Section 19.01 Provisions Binding on Company’s Successors. All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements of the Company contained in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns whether so expressed or not.
Section 19.02 Official Acts by Successor Corporation. Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or Officer of the Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the like board, committee or officer of any corporation or other entity that shall at the time be the lawful sole successor of the Company.
Section 19.03 Addresses for Notices, Etc. Any notice or demand that by any provision of this Indenture is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee, Collateral Agent or by the Holders on the Company shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes if given or served by being deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed (until another address is delivered by the Company to the Trustee and Collateral Agent) to UpHealth, Inc., 00000 X Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, 00000, Attention: General Counsel, with a copy sent to DLA Piper LLP (US), 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000, Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Esq. Any notice, direction, request or demand hereunder to or upon the Trustee or the Collateral Agent shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if it is in writing and actually received by the Trustee or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, at the Corporate Trust Office. In no event shall the Trustee, Collateral Agent or the Conversion Agent be obligated to monitor any website maintained by the Company or any press releases issued by the Company. The Trustee and Collateral Agent, by notice to the Company, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
Any notice or communication delivered or to be delivered to a Holder of Physical Notes shall be mailed to it by first class mail, postage prepaid, at its address as it appears on the Note Register and shall be sufficiently given to it if so mailed within the time prescribed. Any notice or communication delivered or to be delivered to a Holder of Global Notes shall be delivered in accordance with the Applicable Procedures of the Depositary and shall be sufficiently given to it if so delivered within the time prescribed.
Failure to mail or deliver a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a notice or communication is mailed or delivered, as the case may be, in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice to Holders by mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 19.04 Governing Law; Jurisdiction. THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, AND ANY CLAIM, CONTROVERSY OR DISPUTE ARISING UNDER OR RELATED TO THIS INDENTURE AND EACH NOTE, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
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The Company irrevocably consents and agrees, for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Notes, the Trustee and the Collateral Agent, that any legal action, suit or proceeding against it with respect to obligations, liabilities or any other matter arising out of or in connection with this Indenture or the Notes may be brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and, until amounts due and to become due in respect of the Notes have been paid, hereby irrevocably consents and submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of each such court in personam, generally and unconditionally with respect to any action, suit or proceeding for itself in respect of its properties, assets and revenues.
The Company irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any of the aforesaid actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Indenture brought in the courts of the State of New York or the courts of the United States located in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City, New York and hereby further irrevocably and unconditionally waives and agrees not to plead or claim in any such court that any such action, suit or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum.
Section 19.05 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent; Certificates and Opinions of Counsel to Trustee and Collateral Agent. Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee or Collateral Agent to take any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture or the Related Collateral Documents, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee and Collateral Agent, if applicable, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, stating that such action is permitted by the terms of this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents, if applicable, and that all conditions precedent to such action have been complied with. With respect to matters of fact, an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an Officer’s Certificate or certificates of public officials.
Each Officer’s Certificate and Opinion of Counsel provided for, by or on behalf of the Company in this Indenture and delivered to the Trustee or Collateral Agent, as applicable, with respect to compliance with this Indenture (other than the Officer’s Certificates provided for in Section 4.08) shall include (a) a statement that the person signing such certificate is familiar with the requested action and this Indenture; (b) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statement contained in such certificate is based; (c) a statement that, in the judgment of such person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an informed judgment as to whether or not such action is permitted by this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents, if applicable; and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the judgment of such person, such action is permitted by this Indenture and the Related Collateral Documents, if applicable, and that all conditions precedent to such action have been complied with.
Section 19.06 Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment Date, any Redemption Date, any Fundamental Change Repurchase Date or the Maturity Date is not a Business Day, then any action to be taken on such date need not be taken on such date, but may be taken on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if taken on such date, and no interest shall accrue on any such payment in respect of the delay.
Section 19.07 [Reserved].
Section 19.08 Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, expressed or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the Holders, the parties hereto, any Paying Agent, any Conversion Agent, any Custodian, any authenticating agent, any Note Registrar and their successors hereunder, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
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Section 19.09 Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The table of contents and the titles and headings of the articles and sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
Section 19.10 Authenticating Agent. The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent that shall be authorized to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the authentication and delivery of Notes in connection with the original issuance thereof and transfers and exchanges of Notes hereunder, including under Section 2.04, Section 2.05, Section 2.06, Section 2.07, Section 10.04 and Section 15.04 as fully to all intents and purposes as though the authenticating agent had been expressly authorized by this Indenture and those Sections to authenticate and deliver Notes. For all purposes of this Indenture, the authentication and delivery of Notes by the authenticating agent shall be deemed to be authentication and delivery of such Notes “by the Trustee” and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an authenticating agent shall be deemed to satisfy any requirement hereunder or in the Notes for the Trustee’s certificate of authentication. Such authenticating agent shall at all times be a Person eligible to serve as trustee hereunder pursuant to Section 7.08.
Any corporation or other entity into which any authenticating agent may be merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation or other entity resulting from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any authenticating agent shall be a party, or any corporation or other entity succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust business of any authenticating agent, shall be the successor of the authenticating agent hereunder, if such successor corporation or other entity is otherwise eligible under this Section 19.10, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or the authenticating agent or such successor corporation or other entity.
Any authenticating agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of any authenticating agent by giving written notice of termination to such authenticating agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time any authenticating agent shall cease to be eligible under this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor authenticating agent (which may be the Trustee), shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company and shall deliver notice of such appointment to all Holders.
The Company agrees to pay to the authenticating agent from time to time reasonable compensation for its services although the Company may terminate the authenticating agent, if it determines such agent’s fees to be unreasonable.
The provisions of Section 7.02, Section 7.03, Section 7.04, Section 8.03 and this Section 19.10 shall be applicable to any authenticating agent.
If an authenticating agent is appointed pursuant to this Section 19.10, the Notes may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
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as Authenticating Agent, certifies that this is one of the Notes described
in the within-named Indenture.
By:
Authorized Signatory
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Section 19.11 Execution in Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument. The exchange of copies of this Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile, PDF or other electronic transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery of this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile, PDF or other electronic means shall be deemed to be their original signatures for all purposes. Unless otherwise provided in this Indenture or in any Note, the words “execute,” “execution,” “signed” and “signature” and words of similar import used in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Indenture, any Note or any of the transactions contemplated hereby (including amendments, waivers, consents and other modifications) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures and the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature in ink or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as applicable, to the fullest extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act and any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, neither the Trustee nor the Collateral Agent is under any obligation to agree to accept electronic signatures in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Trustee and Collateral Agent, if applicable, pursuant to procedures approved by the Trustee and Collateral Agent, if applicable.
Section 19.12 Severability. In the event any provision of this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, then (to the extent permitted by law) the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired.
Section 19.13 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE COMPANY, THE TRUSTEE AND THE COLLATERAL AGENT HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY.
Section 19.14 Force Majeure. In no event shall the Trustee or Collateral Agent be responsible or liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control, including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents, acts of war or terrorism, pandemics, epidemics, civil or military disturbances, nuclear or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and hardware) services or the unavailability of the Federal Reserve Bank wire or telex write or communication facility; it being understood that the Trustee and Collateral Agent shall use reasonable efforts that are consistent with accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as soon as practicable under the circumstances.
Section 19.15 Calculations. The Company shall be responsible for making all calculations called for under the Notes. These calculations include, but are not limited to, determinations of the Last Reported Sale Prices of the Common Stock, the Redemption Price, the Daily VWAPs, accrued interest payable on the Notes, any Additional Interest on the Notes, the Conversion Rate of the Notes, Buy-In Price, Maximum Percentage, and Excess Shares. The Company shall make all these calculations in good faith and, absent manifest error, the Company’s calculations shall be final and binding on Holders of Notes. The Company shall provide a schedule of its calculations to each of the Trustee and the Conversion Agent, and each of the Trustee, Conversion Agent and Collateral Agent is entitled to rely conclusively upon the accuracy of the Company’s calculations without independent verification. The Trustee will forward the Company’s calculations to any registered Holder of Notes upon the written request of that Holder at the sole cost and expense of the Company. None of the Trustee, the Conversion Agent or the Collateral Agent will have any responsibility to make calculations under this Indenture, nor will any of them have any responsibility to monitor the Company’s stock or trading price, determine whether the conditions to convertibility of the Notes have been met or determine whether the circumstances requiring changes to the Conversion Rate have occurred.
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Section 19.16 USA PATRIOT Act. The parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Trustee and Collateral Agent, like all financial institutions and in order to help fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering, is required to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the Trustee. The parties to this Indenture agree that they will provide the Trustee and Collateral Agent with such information as it may request in order for the Trustee to satisfy the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act.
Section 19.17 Tax Withholding.
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. The Company or the Trustee, as the case may be, shall be entitled to make a deduction or
withholding from any payment which it makes under this Indenture for or on account of any present or future taxes, duties or charges if and to the extent so required by any applicable law and any current or future regulations or agreements
thereunder or official interpretations thereof or any law implementing an intergovernmental approach thereto, in each case, that a Holder is subject to pursuant to the Indenture (“Applicable Tax Law”), or by virtue of the relevant Holder
failing to satisfy any certification or other requirements under Applicable Tax Law in respect of the Notes, in which event the Company or the Trustee, as the case may be, shall make such payment after such withholding or deduction has been made and
shall account to the relevant authorities for the amount so withheld or deducted and shall have no obligation to gross up any payment hereunder or pay any additional amount as a result of such withholding tax.
(b) The Company hereby covenants with the Trustee that it will provide the Trustee with sufficient information so as to enable the Trustee to determine whether or not the Trustee is obliged, in respect of any payments to be made by it pursuant to this Indenture, to make any deduction or withholding under this Section 19.17.
(c) The Company shall indemnify the Trustee for, and hold it harmless for, from, and against, any loss, liability, damage, cost, claim, or expense reasonably incurred without gross negligence, bad faith, or willful misconduct, arising out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted pursuant to this Section or the failure of the Trustee for any reason to receive on a timely basis any such information or documentation requested by it or otherwise required by applicable law or regulations to be obtained, furnished or filed in respect of such withholding taxes under this Section 19.17.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, if the Company, the Trustee, or other applicable withholding agent pays withholding taxes or backup withholding on behalf of the Holder as a result of an adjustment or the nonoccurrence of an adjustment to the Conversion Rate, the Company, the Trustee, or other applicable withholding agent may, at its option, withhold from or set off such payments against payments of cash and shares of Common Stock on the Note (or any payments on the Common Stock) or sales proceeds received by or other funds or assets of the Holder.
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]
[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A GLOBAL NOTE]
[UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE, OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREUNDER 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.]
[INCLUDE FOLLOWING LEGEND IF A RESTRICTED SECURITY]
[THIS SECURITY AND THE RELATED NOTE GUARANTEES AND THE COMMON STOCK, IF ANY, ISSUABLE UPON CONVERSION OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE ACQUIRER:
(1) REPRESENTS THAT IT AND ANY ACCOUNT FOR WHICH IT IS ACTING IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND THAT IT EXERCISES SOLE INVESTMENT DISCRETION WITH RESPECT TO EACH SUCH ACCOUNT, AND
(2) AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF UPHEALTH, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) THAT IT WILL NOT OFFER, SELL, PLEDGE OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS SECURITY OR ANY BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, EXCEPT:
(A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, OR
(B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BECOME EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND IS EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME OF SUCH TRANSFER, OR
(C) TO A PERSON THAT YOU REASONABLY BELIEVE TO BE A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR
(D) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR ANY OTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
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PRIOR TO THE REGISTRATION OF ANY TRANSFER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE (2)(D) ABOVE, THE COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF SUCH LEGAL OPINIONS, CERTIFICATIONS OR OTHER EVIDENCE AS MAY REASONABLY BE REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR THE COMPANY TO DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NO REPRESENTATION IS MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF ANY EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT.
NO AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY OR PERSON THAT HAS BEEN AN AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY DURING THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THREE MONTHS MAY PURCHASE, OTHERWISE ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN.]1
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Variable Rate Convertible Senior Secured Note due 2025
No. [ ]
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CUSIP No. [•]
UpHealth, Inc., a corporation duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company,” which term includes any successor corporation or other entity under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for value received hereby promises to pay to [CEDE & CO.]3 [ ]4, or registered assigns, the principal sum [as set forth in the “Schedule of Exchanges of Notes” attached hereto]5 [of $[ ]]6, which amount, taken together with the principal amounts of all other outstanding Notes, shall not, unless permitted by the Indenture, exceed $67,500,000 in aggregate at any time, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary, on December 15, 2025, and interest thereon as set forth below.
This Note shall bear interest at the Applicable Interest Rate from August 18, 2022, or from the most recent date to which interest had been paid or provided for to, but excluding, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date until December 15, 2025. Interest is payable quarterly in arrears on each March 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15 of each year (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, unless such next succeeding Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar month, in which case (other than the Maturity Date) the Company will make the interest payment on the immediately preceding Business Day), commencing on September 15, 2022, to Holders of record at the close of business on the preceding March 1, June 1, September 1 and December 1 (whether or not such day is a Business Day), respectively. Additional Interest will be payable as set forth in Section 6.03 of the within-mentioned Indenture, and any reference to interest on, or in respect of, any Note therein shall be deemed to include Additional Interest if, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable pursuant to Sections 6.03, and any express mention of the payment of Additional Interest in any provision therein shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions thereof where such express mention is not made.
Any Defaulted Amounts shall accrue interest per annum at the rate borne by the Notes, subject to the enforceability thereof under applicable law, from, and including, the relevant payment date to, but excluding, the date on which such Defaulted Amounts shall have been paid by the Company, at its election, in accordance with Section 2.03(c) of the Indenture.
The Company shall pay the principal of and interest on this Note, if and so long as such Note is a Global Note, in immediately available funds to the Depositary or its nominee, as the case may be, as the registered Holder of such Note. As provided in and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Company shall pay the principal of any Notes (other than Notes that are Global Notes) at the office or
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agency designated by the Company for that purpose. The Company has initially designated the Trustee as its Paying Agent and Note Registrar in respect of the Notes and the Corporate Trust Office located in the United States of America as a place where Notes may be presented for payment or for registration of transfer and exchange.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note set forth on the reverse hereof, including, without limitation, provisions giving the Holder of this Note the right to convert this Note into shares of Common Stock on the terms and subject to the limitations set forth in the Indenture. Such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.
This Note, and any claim, controversy or dispute arising under or related to this Note, shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York (without regard to the conflicts of laws provisions thereof).
In the case of any conflict between this Note and the Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall control and govern.
This Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed manually by the Trustee or a duly authorized authenticating agent under the Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Note to be duly executed.
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TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee, certifies that this is one of the Notes described in the within-named Indenture.
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
UpHealth, Inc.
Variable Rate Convertible Senior Secured Note due 2025
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company, designated as its Variable Rate Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”), limited to the aggregate principal amount of $67,500,000 all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of August 18, 2022 (the “Indenture”), among the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors from time to time party thereto and Wilmington Trust, National Association, as trustee (the “Trustee”) and as collateral agent (the “Collateral Agent”), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Notes. Additional Notes may be issued in an unlimited aggregate principal amount, subject to certain conditions specified in the Indenture. Capitalized terms used in this Note and not defined in this Note shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture.
In case certain Events of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of, and interest on, all Notes may be declared, by either the Trustee or Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of Notes then outstanding, and upon said declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions and certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture, the Company will make all payments and deliveries in respect of the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date, the Redemption Price on any Redemption Date and the principal amount on the Maturity Date, as the case may be, to the Holder who surrenders a Note to a Paying Agent to collect such payments in respect of the Note. The Company will pay cash amounts in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee in certain circumstances, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes, and in certain other circumstances, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding, evidenced as in the Indenture provided, to execute supplemental indentures modifying the terms of the Indenture and the Notes as described therein. It is also provided in the Indenture that, subject to certain exceptions, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time outstanding may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Notes waive any past Default or Event of Default under the Indenture and its consequences.
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Indenture or any provision of this Note, each Holder shall have the contractual right to receive payment or delivery, as the case may be, of (x) the principal (including the Redemption Price, if applicable, the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Price, if applicable, and the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price, if applicable) of, (y) accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on, and (z) the consideration due upon conversion of, this Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided for in this Note or in the Indenture, and the contractual right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or delivery, as the case may be, on or after such respective dates, shall not be amended without the consent of each Holder.
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The Notes are issuable in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations of $1,000 principal amount and integral multiples in excess thereof. At the office or agency of the Company referred to on the face hereof, and in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Indenture, Notes may be exchanged for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations, without payment of any service charge but, if required by the Company or Trustee, with payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer or similar tax that may be imposed in connection therewith as a result of the name of the Holder of the new Notes issued upon such exchange of Notes being different from the name of the Holder of the old Notes surrendered for such exchange.
The Notes shall be redeemable at the Company’s option on or after June 16, 2024 in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions specified in the Indenture. No sinking fund is provided for the Notes.
The Notes are guaranteed by the Company’s Subsidiaries other than Excluded Subsidiaries and secured by a first-priority Lien on the Collateral.
Upon the occurrence of a Fundamental Change, the Holder has the right, at such Holder’s option, to require the Company to repurchase for cash all of such Holder’s Notes or any portion thereof (in principal amounts of $1,000 or integral multiples thereof) on the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date at a price equal to the Fundamental Change Repurchase Price.
Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holder hereof has the right, at its option, during certain periods and upon the occurrence of certain conditions specified in the Indenture, prior to the close of business on the second Scheduled Trading Day immediately preceding the Maturity Date, to convert any Notes or portion thereof that is $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, into shares of Common Stock at the Conversion Rate specified in the Indenture, as adjusted from time to time as provided in the Indenture.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription of the face of this Note, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM = as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT = Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
CUST = Custodian
TEN ENT = as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN = joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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SCHEDULE A7
SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF NOTES
UpHealth, Inc.
Variable Rate Convertible Senior Secured Notes due 2025
The initial principal amount of this Global Note is [ ] DOLLARS ($[ ]). The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made:
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ATTACHMENT 1
[FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION]
To: | Wilmington Trust, National Association |
Global Capital Markets
00 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Attention: UpHealth Notes Administrator
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby exercises the option to convert this Note, or the portion hereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, into shares of Common Stock in accordance with the terms of the Indenture referred to in this Note, and directs that any cash payable and any shares of Common Stock issuable and deliverable upon such conversion, together with any cash for any fractional share, and any Notes representing any unconverted principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered Holder hereof unless a different name has been indicated below. If any shares of Common Stock or any portion of this Note not converted are to be issued in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay all documentary, stamp or similar issue or transfer taxes, if any in accordance with Section 14.02(d) and Section 14.02(e) of the Indenture. Any amount required to be paid to the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Note. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
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Signature(s) must be guaranteed by
an eligible Guarantor Institution
(banks, stock brokers, savings and
loan associations and credit unions)
with membership in an approved
signature guarantee medallion program
pursuant to Securities and Exchange
Commission Rule 17Ad-15 if shares of Common Stock are to
be issued, or
Notes are to be delivered, other than
to and in the name of the registered holder.
Fill in for registration of shares if to be issued,
and Notes if to be delivered, other than to and in the name
of the registered holder:
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NOTICE: The above signature(s) of the Holder(s) hereof must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever. | ||
Social Security or Other Taxpayer Identification Number |
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ATTACHMENT 2
[FORM OF FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE REPURCHASE NOTICE]
To: Paying Agent
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a notice from UpHealth, Inc. (the “Company”) as to the occurrence of a Fundamental Change with respect to the Company and specifying the Fundamental Change Repurchase Date and requests and instructs the Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in accordance with Section 15.02 of the Indenture referred to in this Note (1) the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, and (2) if such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date does not fall during the period after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, such Fundamental Change Repurchase Date. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
In the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be repurchased are as set forth below:
Dated:
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Social Security or Other Taxpayer Identification Number | ||
Principal amount to be repaid (if less than all): | ||
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NOTICE: The above signature(s) of the Holder(s) hereof must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever. |
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ATTACHMENT 3
[FORM OF ASSET SALE OFFER REPURCHASE NOTICE]
To: Paying Agent
The undersigned registered owner of this Note hereby acknowledges receipt of a notice from UpHealth, Inc. (the “Company”) as to the occurrence of an Asset Sale Offer with respect to the Company and specifying the Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date and requests and instructs the Company to pay to the registered holder hereof in accordance with Section 14.07(c) of the Indenture referred to in this Note (1) the entire principal amount of this Note, or the portion thereof (that is $1,000 principal amount or an integral multiple thereof) below designated, and (2) if such Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date does not fall during the period after a Regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest Payment Date, accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to, but excluding, such Asset Sale Offer Repurchase Date. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
In the case of Physical Notes, the certificate numbers of the Notes to be repurchased are as set forth below:
Dated:
Signature(s) | ||
Social Security or Other Taxpayer Identification Number | ||
Principal amount to be repaid (if less than all): | ||
$__________,000 | ||
NOTICE: The above signature(s) of the Holder(s) hereof must correspond with the name as written upon the face of the Note in every particular without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever. |
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ATTACHMENT 4
[FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER]
For value received hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto (Please insert social security or Taxpayer Identification Number of assignee) the within Note, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints attorney to transfer the said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.
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Dated: | ||
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Signature(s) |
Signature Guarantee Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an eligible
Guarantor Institution (banks, stockbrokers, savings
and loan associations and credit unions) with
membership in an approved signature guarantee
medallion program pursuant to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 17Ad-15 if Notes are to
be delivered, other than to and in the name of the registered holder.
NOTICE: The signature on the assignment must
correspond with the name as written upon the face of
the Note in every particular without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatever.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF SECURITY AGREEMENT
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