FORM OF QUAD CITY HOLDINGS CAPITAL TRUST I
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
among
QUAD CITY HOLDINGS, INC., as Depositor,
FIRST UNION TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Property Trustee,
FIRST UNION TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Delaware Trustee,
and
THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN
Dated as of _________, 1999
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS....................................................................
Section 101. Definitions........................................................
ARTICLE II
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRUST.......................................................
Section 201. Name...............................................................
Section 202. Office of the Delaware Trustee;
Principal Place of Business........................................
Section 203. Initial Contribution of Trust Property;
Organizational Expenses............................................
Section 204. Issuance of the Capital Securities.................................
Section 205. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription
and Purchase of Debentures.........................................
Section 206. Declaration of Trust...............................................
Section 207. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions...................
Section 208. Assets of Trust....................................................
Section 209. Title to Trust Property............................................
ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT..................................................................
Section 301. Payment Account....................................................
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION........................................................
Section 401. Distributions......................................................
Section 402. Redemption.........................................................
Section 403. Subordination of Common Securities.................................
Section 404. Payment Procedures.................................................
Section 405. Tax Returns and Reports............................................
Section 406. Payment of Taxes, Duties, etc.
of the Trust.......................................................
Section 407. Payments Under Indenture...........................................
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES ...................................................
Section 501. Initial Ownership..................................................
Section 502. The Trust Securities Certificates..................................
Section 503. Execution, Authentication and Delivery
of Trust Securities Certificates...................................
Section 503A. Global Capital Security............................................
Section 504. Registration of Transfer and Exchange
of Capital Securities Certificates.................................
Section 505. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or
Stolen Trust Securities Certificates...............................
Section 506. Persons Deemed Securityholders.....................................
Section 507. Access to List of Securityholders' Names and Addresses.............
Section 508. Maintenance of Office or Agency....................................
Section 509. Appointment of Paying Agent........................................
Section 510. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor........................
Section 511. Trust Securities Certificates......................................
Section 512. Notices to Clearing Agency.........................................
Section 513. Rights of Securityholders..........................................
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING........................................
Section 601. Limitations on Voting Rights.......................................
Section 602. Notice of Meetings.................................................
Section 603. Meetings of Capital Securityholders................................
Section 604. Voting Rights......................................................
Section 605. Proxies, etc.......................................................
Section 606. Securityholder Action by Written Consent...........................
Section 607. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes..........................
Section 608. Acts of Securityholders............................................
Section 609. Inspection of Records..............................................
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES...................................................
Section 701. Representations and Warranties of
the Bank and the Property Trustee..................................
Section 702. Representations and Warranties of
the Delaware Bank and the Delaware Trustee.........................
Section 703. Representations and Warranties of Depositor........................
ARTICLE VIII
TRUSTEES.........................................................................
Section 801. Certain Duties and Responsibilities................................
Section 802. Certain Notices....................................................
Section 803. Certain Rights of Property Trustee.................................
Section 804. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.............
Section 805. May Hold Securities................................................
Section 806. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees......................................
Section 807. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees.......
Section 808. Conflicting Interests..............................................
Section 809. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee...................................
Section 810. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor..................
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Section 811. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.............................
Section 812. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business........
Section 813. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Trust.......
Section 814. Reports by Property Trustee........................................
Section 815. Reports to the Property Trustee....................................
Section 816. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent...................
Section 817. Number of Trustees.................................................
Section 818. Delegation of Power................................................
Section 819. Voting ............................................................
ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER..............................................
Section 901. Termination Upon Expiration Date...................................
Section 902. Early Termination..................................................
Section 903. Termination........................................................
Section 904. Liquidation........................................................
Section 905. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations
or Replacements of the Trust.......................................
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.........................................................
Section 1001. Limitation of Rights of Securityholders............................
Section 1002. Amendment..........................................................
Section 1003. Separability.......................................................
Section 1004. Governing law......................................................
Section 1005. Payments Due on Non-Business Day...................................
Section 1006. Successors.........................................................
Section 1007. Headings...........................................................
Section 1008. Reports, Notices and Demands.......................................
Section 1009. Agreement Not to Petition..........................................
Section 1010. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.............
Section 1011. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement,
Guarantee and Indenture.........................................
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Certificate of Trust
Exhibit B Form of Common Securities Certificate
Exhibit C Form of Expense Agreement
Exhibit D Form of Capital Securities Certificate
Exhibit E Form of Capital Securities Certificate of Authentication
Exhibit F Certificate of Depositary Agreement
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
SECTION OF TRUST INDENTURE ACT SECTION OF AMENDED AND RESTATED
OF 1939, AS AMENDED TRUST AGREEMENT
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310(a)(1)...................................................................807
310(a)(2) ..................................................................807
310(a)(3) ..................................................................807
310(a)(4)............................................................207(a)(ii)
310(b) .....................................................................808
311(a) .....................................................................813
311(b) .....................................................................813
312(a) .....................................................................507
312(b) .....................................................................507
312(c) .....................................................................507
313(a) ..................................................................814(a)
313(a)(4) ...............................................................814(b)
313(b) ..................................................................814(b)
313(c).....................................................................1008
313(d) ..................................................................814(c)
314(a) .....................................................................815
314(b).......................................................... Not Applicable
314(c)(1) ..................................................................816
314(c)(2) ..................................................................816
314(c)(3)........................................................Not Applicable
314(d) ..........................................................Not Applicable
314(e) ................................................................101, 816
315(a)...........................................................801(a), 803(a)
315(b)................................................................802, 1008
315(c)...................................................................801(a)
315(d).................................................................801, 803
316(a)(2)....................................................... Not Applicable
316(b) ..........................................................Not Applicable
316(c) .....................................................................607
317(a)(1)........................................................Not Applicable
317(a)(2)........................................................Not Applicable
317(b)......................................................................509
318(a).....................................................................1010
Note: This Cross-Reference Table does not constitute part of this Agreement and
shall not affect the interpretation of any of its terms or provisions.
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of _________ __, 1999,
among (i) QUAD CITY HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation (including any
successors or assigns, the "Depositor"), (ii) FIRST UNION TRUST COMPANY,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association with its principal place
of business in the State of Delaware, as property trustee (the "Property
Trustee" and, in its separate corporate capacity and not in its capacity as
Property Trustee, the "Bank"), (iii) FIRST UNION TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, a national banking association with its principal place of
business in the State of Delaware, as Delaware trustee (the "Delaware
Trustee," and, in its separate corporate capacity and not in its capacity as
Delaware Trustee, the "Delaware Bank") (iv) Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, an
individual, Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, an individual, and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, an
individual, each of whose address is c/o Company (each an "Administrative
Trustee" and collectively the "Administrative Trustees") (the Property
Trustee, the Delaware Trustee and the Administrative Trustees referred to
collectively as the "Trustees"), and (v) the several Holders (as hereinafter
defined).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Depositor, the Delaware Trustee, and Xxxxxxx X.
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, each as an
Administrative Trustee, have heretofore duly declared and established a
business trust pursuant to the Delaware Business Trust Act by the entering
into of that certain Trust Agreement, dated as of April 27, 1999 (the
"Original Trust Agreement"), and by the execution and filing by the Delaware
Trustee and the Administrative Trustees with the Secretary of State of the
State of Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed on April 29, 1999, the
form of which is attached as Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, the Depositor, the Delaware Trustee, the Property Trustee
and the Administrative Trustees desire to amend and restate the Original
Trust Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for, among
other things, (i) the issuance of the Common Securities (as defined herein)
by the Trust (as defined herein) to the Depositor; (ii) the issuance and sale
of the Capital Securities (as defined herein) by the Trust pursuant to the
Underwriting Agreement (as defined herein); (iii) the acquisition by the
Trust from the Depositor of all of the right, title and interest in the
Debentures (as defined herein); and (iv) the appointment of the Trustees;
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations
set forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each party, for the benefit
of the other parties and for the benefit of the Securityholders (as defined
herein), hereby amends and restates the Original Trust Agreement in its
entirety and agrees as follows:
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ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS.
For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article I and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(c) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
"Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may
be, of this Trust Agreement; and
(d) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act" has the meaning specified in Section 608.
"Additional Amount" means, with respect to Trust Securities of a
given Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of additional
interest accrued on interest in arrears and paid by the Depositor on a Like
Amount of Debentures for such period.
"Additional Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of
the Indenture.
"Administrative Trustee" means each of Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, solely in his or her capacity as
Administrative Trustee of the Trust formed and continued hereunder and not in
his or her individual capacity, or such Administrative Trustee's successor in
interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as herein
provided.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to a specified Person, (a) any
Person directly or indirectly owning, controlling or holding with power to
vote 10% or more of the outstanding voting securities or other ownership
interests of the specified Person, any Person 10% or more of whose
outstanding voting securities or other ownership interests are directly or
indirectly owned, controlled or held with power to vote by the specified
Person; (b) any Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or
under common control with the specified Person; (c) a partnership in which
the specified Person is a general partner; (d) any officer or director of the
specified Person; and (e) if the specified Person is an individual, any
entity of which the specified Person is an officer, director or general
partner.
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"Authenticating Agent" means an authenticating agent with respect to
the Capital Securities appointed by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section
503.
"Bank" has the meaning specified in the Preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Bankruptcy Event" means, with respect to any Person:
(a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction
in the premises adjudging such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving
as properly filed a petition seeking liquidation or reorganization of or in
respect of such Person under the United States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as
amended, or any other similar applicable federal or state law, and the
continuance of any such decree or order unvacated and unstayed for a period
of 90 days; or the commencement of an involuntary case under the United
States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, in respect of such Person, which
shall continue undismissed for a period of 90 days or entry of an order for
relief in such case; or the entry of a decree or order of a court having
jurisdiction in the premises for the appointment on the ground of insolvency
or bankruptcy of a receiver, custodian, liquidator, trustee or assignee in
bankruptcy or insolvency of such Person or of its property, or for the
winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and such decree or order shall have
remained in force unvacated and unstayed for a period of 90 days; or
(b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated
a voluntary bankrupt, or the consent by such Person to the filing of a
bankruptcy proceeding against it, or the filing by such Person of a petition
or answer or consent seeking liquidation or reorganization under the United
States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, or other similar applicable
Federal or State law, or the consent by such Person to the filing of any such
petition or to the appointment on the ground of insolvency or bankruptcy of a
receiver or custodian or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or
insolvency of such Person or of its property, or shall make a general
assignment for the benefit of creditors.
"Bankruptcy Laws" has the meaning specified in Section 1009.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary of the Depositor to have been duly adopted by the Depositor's Board of
Directors, or such committee of the Board of Directors or officers of the
Depositor to which authority to act on behalf of the Board of Directors has been
delegated, and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification,
and delivered to the appropriate Trustee.
"Business Day" means a day other than a Saturday or Sunday, a day on
which banking institutions in New York, New York or Wilmington, Delaware are
authorized or required by law, executive order or regulation to remain
closed, or a day on which the Property Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or
the Corporate Trust Office of the Debenture Trustee is closed for business.
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"Capital Security" means a preferred undivided beneficial interest
in the assets of the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $10 and having the
rights provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to
receive Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"Capital Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Capital Securities, substantially in the form attached as
Exhibit D.
"Certificate of Depositary Agreement" means the agreement among
Depositor, Trust and DTC, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the
Closing Date, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit F as the same may
be amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Certificate of Trust" means the certificate of trust filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware with respect to the Trust, as
amended or restated from time to time.
"Change in 1940 Act Law" shall have the meaning set forth in the
definition of "Investment Company Event."
"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "clearing
agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. DTC shall be the initial Clearing Agency.
"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank or other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with
the Clearing Agency.
"Closing Date" means the date of execution and delivery of this
Trust Agreement.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time
after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and
performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then
the body performing such duties at such time.
"Common Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the
assets of the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $10 and having the rights
provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive
Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"Common Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Common Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
C.
"Company" means Quad City Holdings, Inc.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office at which, at any
particular time, the corporate trust business of the Property Trustee or the
Debenture Trustee, as the case may be,
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shall be principally administered, which office at the date hereof, in each
such case, is located at One Xxxxxx Square, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attn: Corporate Trust Administration.
"Debenture Event of Default" means an "Event of Default" as defined
in Section 7.1 of the Indenture.
"Debenture Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Debentures to
be redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption under the
Indenture.
"Debenture Tax Event" means a "Tax Event" as specified in Section
1.1 of the Indenture.
"Debenture Trustee" means First Union Trust Company, National
Association, a national banking association with its principal place of
business in the State of Delaware and any successor thereto, as trustee under
the Indenture.
"Debentures" means the $12,380,000 aggregate principal amount of the
Depositor's ____% Subordinated Debentures due 2029, issued pursuant to the
Indenture.
"Definitive Capital Securities Certificates" means Capital
Securities Certificates issued in certified, fully registered form as
provided in Section 513.
"Delaware Bank" has the meaning specified in the Preamble to this
Trust Agreement.
"Delaware Business Trust Act" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the
Delaware Code, 12 Delaware Code Sections 3801 et seq. as it may be amended
from time to time.
"Delaware Trustee" means the commercial bank or trust company
identified as the "Delaware Trustee" in the Preamble to this Trust Agreement
solely in its capacity as Delaware Trustee of the Trust formed and continued
hereunder and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in
such capacity, or any successor trustee appointed as herein provided.
"Depositary" means DTC or any successor thereto.
"Depositor" has the meaning specified in the Preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Distribution Date" has the meaning specified in Section 401(a).
"Distributions" means amounts payable in respect of the Trust
Securities as provided in Section 401.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company.
"Event of Default" means any one of the following events (whatever
the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by
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operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or
any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default; or
(b) default by the Trust in the payment of any Distribution when it
becomes due and payable, and continuation of such default for a period of 30
days; or
(c) default by the Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of
any Trust Security when it becomes due and payable; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect,
of any covenant or warranty of the Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other
than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance of which or the
breach of which is dealt with in clause (b) or (c), above) and continuation
of such default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given,
by registered or certified mail, to the defaulting Trustee or Trustees by the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate liquidation preference of the
Outstanding Capital Securities a written notice specifying such default or
breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a
"Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(e) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the
Property Trustee and the failure by the Depositor to appoint a successor
Property Trustee within 60 days thereof.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Expense Agreement" means the Agreement as to Expenses and
Liabilities between the Depositor and the Trust, substantially in the form
attached as Exhibit C, as amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 901.
"Extended Interest Payment Period" has the meaning specified in
Section 4.1 of the Indenture.
"Global Capital Securities Certificate" means a Capital Securities
Certificate evidencing ownership of Global Capital Securities.
"Global Capital Security" means a Capital Security, the ownership
and transfer of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency
as described herein.
"Guarantee" means the Capital Securities Guarantee Agreement
executed and delivered by the Depositor and First Union Trust Company,
National Association, as trustee, contemporaneously with the execution and
delivery of this Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the holders of the
Capital Securities, as amended from time to time.
"Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of [ ], 1999, between the
Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, as trustee, as amended or supplemented
from time to time.
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"Investment Company Act," means the Investment Company Act of 1940,
as amended, as in effect at the date of execution of this instrument.
"Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Trust and the
Depositor of an Opinion of Counsel, rendered by a law firm having a
recognized national tax and securities law practice, to the effect that, as a
result of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a change in
interpretation or application of law or regulation by any legislative body,
court, governmental agency or regulatory authority (a "Change in 1940 Act
Law"), the Trust is or shall be considered an "investment company" that is
required to be registered under the Investment Company Act, which Change in
1940 Act Law becomes effective on or after the date of original issuance of
the Capital Securities under this Trust Agreement; provided, however, that
the Depositor or the Trust shall have requested and received such an Opinion
of Counsel with regard to such matters within a reasonable period of time
after the Depositor or the Trust shall have become aware of the possible
occurrence of any such event.
"Lien" means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed
of trust, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security
interest or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential
arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever.
"Like Amount" means (a) with respect to a redemption of Trust
Securities, Trust Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount equal to
the aggregate principal amount of Debentures to be contemporaneously redeemed
in accordance with the Indenture and the proceeds of which shall be used to
pay the Redemption Price of such Trust Securities; and (b) with respect to a
distribution of Debentures to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with
a termination or liquidation of the Trust, Debentures having a principal
amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities of the Holder
to whom such Debentures are distributed. Each Debenture distributed pursuant
to clause (b) above shall carry with it accrued interest in an amount equal
to the accrued and unpaid interest then due on such Debentures.
"Liquidation Amount" means the stated amount of $10 per Trust
Security.
"Liquidation Date" means the date on which Debentures are to be
distributed to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a termination
and liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 904(a).
"Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning specified in Section
904(d).
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the President
or an Executive Vice President and by the Treasurer or the Vice
President--Finance or the Secretary, of the Depositor, and delivered to the
appropriate Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers' Certificate
given pursuant to Section 816 shall be the principal executive, financial or
accounting officer of the Depositor. Any Officers' Certificate delivered with
respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Trust
Agreement shall include:
(a) a statement that each officer signing the Officers' Certificate
has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;
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(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation undertaken by each officer in rendering the Officers'
Certificate;
(c) a statement that each such officer has made such examination or
investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to enable such
officer to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such officer,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing of independent,
outside legal counsel for the Trust, the Property Trustee, the Delaware
Trustee or the Depositor, who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Property
Trustee.
"Original Trust Agreement" has the meaning specified in the Recitals
to this Trust Agreement.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Capital Securities, means,
as of the date of determination, all Capital Securities theretofore executed
and delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:
(a) Capital Securities theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee
or delivered to the Property Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Capital Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or
any Paying Agent for the Holders of such Capital Securities; provided that,
if such Capital Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has
been duly given pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(c) Capital Securities which have been paid or in exchange for or in
lieu of which other Capital Securities have been executed and delivered
pursuant to Sections 504, 505, 511 and 513; provided, however, that in
determining whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the
Outstanding Capital Securities have given any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Capital Securities owned by
the Depositor, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor or any Trustee
shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that (a) in
determining whether any Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Capital Securities that such Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded; and (b) the foregoing shall not apply at any time when all of
the outstanding Capital Securities are owned by the Depositor, one or more of
the Trustees and/or any such Affiliate. Capital Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrative Trustees the pledgee's
right so to the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.
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"Paying Agent" means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed
pursuant to Section 509 and shall initially be the Bank.
"Payment Account" means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate
trust account maintained by the Property Trustee with the Bank in its trust
department for the benefit of the Securityholders in which all amounts paid
in respect of the Debentures shall be held and from which the Property
Trustee shall make payments to the Securityholders in accordance with
Sections 401 and 402.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, trust, limited liability company or corporation, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Property Trustee" means the commercial bank or trust company
identified as the "Property Trustee," in the Preamble to this Trust Agreement
solely in its capacity as Property Trustee of the Trust heretofore formed and
continued hereunder and not in its individual capacity, or its successor in
interest in such capacity, or any successor property trustee appointed as
herein provided.
"Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Trust Security to be
redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust
Agreement; provided that each Debenture Redemption Date and the stated
maturity of the Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of
Trust Securities.
"Redemption Price" means, with respect to any Trust Security, the
Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid
Distributions to the Redemption Date, plus the related amount of the premium,
if any, paid by the Depositor upon the concurrent redemption of a Like Amount
of Debentures, allocated on a pro rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts)
among the Trust Securities.
"Relevant Trustee" shall have the meaning specified in Section 810.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 504.
"Securityholder" or "Holder" means a Person in whose name a Trust
Security or Trust Securities is registered in the Securities Register; any
such Person is a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Business
Trust Act.
"Trust" means the Delaware business trust created and continued
hereby and identified on the cover page to this Trust Agreement.
"Trust Agreement" means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement,
as the same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the
applicable provisions hereof, including all exhibits hereto, including, for
all purposes of this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or
supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
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that are deemed to be a part of and govern this Trust Agreement and any such
modification, amendment or supplement, respectively.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed;
provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, is amended after such date, "Trust Indenture Act" means, to the
extent required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so
amended.
"Trust Property" means (a) the Debentures; (b) the rights of the
Property Trustee under the Guarantee; (c) any cash on deposit in, or owing
to, the Payment Account; and (d) all proceeds and rights in respect of the
foregoing and any other property and assets for the time being held or deemed
to be held by the Property Trustee pursuant to the trusts of this Trust
Agreement.
"Trust Security" means any one of the Common Securities or the
Capital Securities.
"Trust Securities Certificate" means any one of the Common
Securities Certificates or the Capital Securities Certificates.
"Trustees" means, collectively, the Property Trustee, the Delaware
Trustee and the Administrative Trustees.
"Underwriting Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement, dated as
of [ ], 1999, among the Trust, the Depositor and the Underwriters named
therein.
ARTICLE II
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRUST
SECTION 201. NAME.
The Trust continued hereby shall be known as "Quad City Holdings
Capital Trust I," as such name may be modified from time to time by the
Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Holders of Trust
Securities and the other Trustees, in which name the Trustees may engage in
the transactions contemplated hereby, make and execute contracts and other
instruments on behalf of the Trust and xxx and be sued.
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SECTION 202. OFFICE OF THE DELAWARE TRUSTEE; PRINCIPAL PLACE OF
BUSINESS.
The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is c/o
First Union Trust Company, National Association, One Xxxxxx Square, 000 Xxxx
Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attn: Corporate Trust
Administration, or such other address in the State of Delaware as the
Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Securityholders and
the Depositor. The principal executive office of the Trust is c/o Quad City
Holdings, Inc., 0000 0xx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx, 00000.
SECTION 203. INITIAL CONTRIBUTION OF TRUST PROPERTY; ORGANIZATIONAL
EXPENSES.
The Trustees acknowledge receipt in trust from the Depositor in
connection with the Original Trust Agreement of the sum of $10, which
constituted the initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay
organizational expenses of the Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of
any Trustee, promptly reimburse such Trustee for any such expenses paid by
such Trustee. The Depositor shall make no claim upon the Trust Property for
the payment of such expenses.
SECTION 204. ISSUANCE OF THE CAPITAL SECURITIES.
On April [ ], 1999, the Depositor and an Administrative Trustee, on
behalf of the Trust and pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement, executed
and delivered the Underwriting Agreement. Contemporaneously with the
execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, an Administrative Trustee, on
behalf of the Trust, shall execute in accordance with Section 502 and deliver
in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement, Capital Securities
Certificates, registered in the name of Persons entitled thereto in an
aggregate amount of 1,200,000 Capital Securities having an aggregate
Liquidation Amount of $12,000,000 against receipt of the aggregate purchase
price of such Capital Securities of $12,000,000, which amount such
Administrative Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Property Trustee.
SECTION 205. ISSUANCE OF THE COMMON SECURITIES; SUBSCRIPTION AND
PURCHASE OF DEBENTURES.
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust
Agreement, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute
in accordance with Section 502 and deliver to the Depositor, Common
Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the Depositor, in an
aggregate amount of Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount
of $380,000 against payment by the Depositor of such amount.
Contemporaneously therewith, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the
Trust, shall subscribe to and purchase from the Depositor Debentures,
registered in the name of the Property Trustee on behalf of the Trust and
having an aggregate principal amount equal to $12,380,000, and, in
satisfaction of the purchase price for such Debentures, the Property Trustee,
on behalf of the Trust, shall deliver to the Depositor the sum of $12,380,000.
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SECTION 206. DECLARATION OF TRUST.
The exclusive purposes and functions of the Trust are (a) to issue
and sell Trust Securities and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the
Debentures; and (b) to engage in those activities necessary, advisable or
incidental thereto. The Depositor hereby appoints the Trustees as trustees of
the Trust, to have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth
herein, and the Trustees hereby accept such appointment. The Property Trustee
hereby declares that it shall hold the Trust Property in trust upon and
subject to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the
Securityholders. The Administrative Trustees shall have all rights, powers
and duties set forth herein and in accordance with applicable law with
respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Trust. The Delaware Trustee
shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the Delaware Trustee
have any of the duties and responsibilities, of the Property Trustee or the
Administrative Trustees set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be one
of the Trustees of the Trust for the sole and limited purpose of fulfilling
the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Business Trust Act.
SECTION 207. AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS.
(a) The Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations
set forth in paragraph (b) of this Section 207 and Article VIII, and in
accordance with the following provisions (i) and (ii), the Administrative
Trustees shall have the authority to enter into all transactions and
agreements determined by the Administrative Trustees to be appropriate in
exercising the authority, express or implied, otherwise granted to the
Administrative Trustees under this Trust Agreement, and to perform all acts
in furtherance thereof, including without limitation, the acts set forth in
the following provision (i) and the Property Trustee shall have the authority
to act, each as set forth below:
(i) As among the Trustees, each Administrative Trustee, acting
singly or jointly, shall have the power and authority to
act on behalf of the Trust with respect to the following
matters:
(A) the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities and the
compliance with the Underwriting Agreement in
connection therewith;
(B) to cause the Trust to enter into, and to execute,
deliver and perform on behalf of the Trust, the
Expense Agreement and such other agreements or
documents as may be necessary or desirable in
connection with the purposes and function of the
Trust;
(C) assisting in the registration of the Capital
Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and under state securities or blue sky laws,
and the qualification of this Trust Agreement as a
trust indenture under the Trust Indenture Act;
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(D) assisting in the listing of the Capital Securities
upon The Nasdaq National Market or such securities
exchange or exchanges as shall be determined by the
Depositor, the registration of the Capital Securities
under the Exchange Act, the compliance with the
listing requirements of The Nasdaq National Market or
the applicable securities exchange and the
preparation and filing of all periodic and other
reports and other documents pursuant to the foregoing;
(E) the sending of notices (other than notices of
default) and other information regarding the Trust
Securities and the Debentures to the Securityholders
in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(F) the appointment of a Paying Agent, authenticating
agent and Securities Registrar in accordance with
this Trust Agreement;
(G) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the
winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the
Trust and the preparation, execution and filing of
the certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of
State of the State of Delaware;
(H) to take all action that may be necessary or
appropriate for the preservation and the continuation
of the Trust's valid existence, rights, franchises
and privileges as a statutory business trust under
the laws of the State of Delaware and of each other
jurisdiction in which such existence is necessary to
protect the limited liability of the Holders of the
Capital Securities or to enable the Trust to effect
the purposes for which the Trust was created; and
(I) the taking of any action incidental to the foregoing
as the Administrative Trustees may from time to time
determine is necessary or advisable to give effect to
the terms of this Trust Agreement for the benefit of
the Securityholders (without consideration of the
effect of any such action on any particular
Securityholder).
(ii) As among the Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have the
power, duty and authority to act on behalf of the Trust
with respect to the following matters:
(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;
(B) the receipt of the Debentures;
(C) the collection of interest, principal and any other
payments made in respect of the Debentures in the
Payment Account;
(D) the distribution of amounts owed to the
Securityholders in respect of the Trust Securities in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
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(E) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and
privileges of a holder of the Debentures;
(F) the sending of notices of default and other
information regarding the Trust Securities and the
Debentures to the Securityholders in accordance with
this Trust Agreement;
(G) the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance
with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement, the
winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of the
Trust;
(I) after an Event of Default, the taking of any action
incidental to the foregoing as the Property Trustee
may from time to time determine is necessary or
advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust
Agreement and protect and conserve the Trust Property
for the benefit of the Securityholders (without
consideration of the effect of any such action on any
particular Securityholder);
(J) registering transfers of the Trust Securities in
accordance with this Trust Agreement; and
(K) except as otherwise provided in this Section
207(a)(ii), the Property Trustee shall have none of
the duties, liabilities, powers or the authority of
the Administrative Trustees set forth in Section
207(a)(i).
(b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust
(or the Trustees acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any
business, activities or transaction except as expressly provided herein or
contemplated hereby. In particular, the Trustees shall not (i) acquire any
investments or engage in any activities not authorized by this Trust
Agreement; (ii) sell, assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, set-off
or otherwise dispose of any of the Trust Property or interests therein,
including to Securityholders, except as expressly provided herein; (iii) take
any action that would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify as a
"grantor trust" for United States federal income tax purposes; (iv) incur any
indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any other debt; or (v) take or
consent to any action that would result in the placement of a Lien on any of
the Trust Property. The Administrative Trustees shall defend all claims and
demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien on any of the Trust
Property adverse to the interest of the Trust or the Securityholders in their
capacity as Securityholders.
(c) In connection with the issue and sale of the Capital
Securities, the Depositor shall have the right and responsibility to assist
the Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Trust, the following
(and any actions taken by the Depositor in furtherance of the following prior
to the date of this Trust Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all
respects):
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(i) the preparation and filing by the Trust with the
Commission and the execution on behalf of the Trust of a
registration statement on the appropriate form in relation
to the Capital Securities, the Debentures, and the
Guarantee, including any amendments thereto;
(ii) the determination of the states in which to take
appropriate action to qualify or, register for sale all or
part of the Capital Securities and to do any and all such
acts, other than actions which must be taken by or on
behalf of the Trust, and advise the Trustees of actions
they must take on behalf of the Trust, and prepare for
execution and filing any documents to be executed and
filed by the Trust or on behalf of the Trust, as the
Depositor deems necessary or advisable in order to comply
with the applicable laws of any such States;
(iii) the preparation for filing by the Trust and execution on
behalf of the Trust of an application to The Nasdaq
National Market or a national stock exchange or other
organizations for listing upon notice of issuance of any
Capital Securities and to file or cause an Administrative
Trustee to file thereafter with such exchange or
organization such notifications and documents as may be
necessary from time to time;
(iv) the preparation for filing by the Trust with the
Commission and the execution on behalf of the Trust of a
registration statement on Form 8-A relating to the
registration of the Capital Securities under Section 12(b)
or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, including any amendments
thereto;
(v) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution for the
sale of the Capital Securities; and
(vi) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to
carry out any of the foregoing activities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Trustees
are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of the Trust and to
operate the Trust so that the Trust shall not be deemed to be an "investment
company" required to be registered under the Investment Company Act, shall be
classified as a "grantor trust" and not as an association taxable as a
corporation for United States federal income tax purposes and so that the
Debentures shall be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for United
States federal income tax purposes. In this connection, subject to Section
1002, the Depositor and the Trustees are authorized to take any action, not
inconsistent with applicable law or this Trust Agreement, that each of the
Depositor and the Trustees determines in their discretion to be necessary or
desirable for such purposes.
SECTION 208. ASSETS OF TRUST.
The assets of the Trust shall consist of the Trust Property.
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SECTION 209. TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY.
Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in
the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) and shall be held and
administered by the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Securityholders
in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
SECTION 301. PAYMENT ACCOUNT.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall
establish the Payment Account. The Property Trustee and any agent of the
Property Trustee shall have exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal
with respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits and
withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
All monies and other property deposited or held from time to time in the
Payment Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the Payment Account
for the exclusive benefit of the Securityholders and for distribution as
herein provided, including (and subject to) any priority of payments provided
for herein.
(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account,
promptly upon receipt, all payments of principal of or interest on, and any
other payments or proceeds with respect to, the Debentures. Amounts held in
the Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending
distribution thereof.
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
SECTION 401. DISTRIBUTIONS.
(a) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative, and
shall accumulate whether or not there are funds of the Trust available for
the payment of Distributions. Distributions shall accumulate from [ ], 1999,
and, except during any Extended Interest Payment Period with respect to the
Debentures, shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the last calendar day of
March, June, September and December of each year, commencing on September 30,
1999. If any date on which a Distribution is otherwise payable on the Trust
Securities is not a Business Day, then the payment of such Distribution shall
be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and without any
interest or other payment in respect of any such delay) except that, if such
Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be
made on the immediately preceding Business Day (and without any reduction of
interest or any other payment in respect of any such acceleration), in each
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case with the same force and effect as if made on such date (each date on
which distributions are payable in accordance with this Section 401(a), a
"Distribution Date").
(b) The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests
in the Trust Property, and, as a practical matter, the Distributions on the
Trust Securities shall be payable at a rate of [ ]% per annum of the
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities. The amount of Distributions
payable for any full period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months. The amount of Distributions for any partial period
shall be computed on the basis of the number of days elapsed in a 360-day
year of twelve 30-day months. During any Extended Interest Payment Period
with respect to the Debentures, Distributions on the Capital Securities shall
be deferred for a period equal to the Extended Interest Payment Period. The
amount of Distributions payable for any period shall include the Additional
Amounts, if any.
(c) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by the
Property Trustee solely from the Payment Account and shall be payable on each
Distribution Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds on hand and
immediately available by 12:30 p.m. on each Distribution Date in the Payment
Account for the payment of such Distributions.
(d) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a
Distribution Date shall be payable to the record holders thereof as they
appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant
record date, which shall be the Business Day immediately prior to the
relevant Distribution Date.
SECTION 402. REDEMPTION.
(a) On each Debenture Redemption Date and on the maturity of the
Debentures, the Trust shall be required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust
Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60
days prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be
redeemed, at such Holder's address appearing in the Securities Register. The
Property Trustee shall have no responsibility for the accuracy of any CUSIP
number contained in such notice. All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
(iii) the CUSIP number;
(iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to
be redeemed, the identification and the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of the particular Trust Securities to
be redeemed;
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(v) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price shall
become due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be
redeemed and that Distributions thereon shall cease to
accumulate on and after said date, except as provided in
Section 4.2(d); and
(vi) the place or places at which Trust Securities are to be
surrendered for the payment of the Redemption Price; and
(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be
redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous
redemption of Debentures. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made
and the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date only to the
extent that the Trust has immediately available funds then on hand and
available in the Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect
of any Capital Securities, then, by 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the
Redemption Date, subject to Section 402(c), the Property Trustee, subject to
Section 402(c), shall, with respect to Capital Securities held in global
form, deposit with the Clearing Agency for such Capital Securities, to the
extent available therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption
Price and will give such Clearing Agency irrevocable instructions and
authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders of the Capital
Securities. With respect to Trust Securities that are not held in global
form, the Property Trustee, subject to Section 402(c), shall deposit with the
Paying Agent funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and
shall give the Paying Agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the
Redemption Price to the record holders thereof upon surrender of their
Capital Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Distributions
payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust Securities called
for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust Securities as
they appear on the Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record
dates for the related Distribution Dates. If notice of redemption shall have
been given and funds deposited as required, then upon the date of such
deposit, (i) all rights of Securityholders holding Trust Securities so called
for redemption shall cease, except the right of such Securityholders to
receive the Redemption Price, (ii) such Securities shall cease to be
Outstanding, (iii) the Clearing Agency for the Capital Securities or its
nominee, as the registered Holder of the Global Capital Securities
Certificate, shall receive a registered global certificate or certificates
representing the Debentures to be delivered upon such distribution with
respect to Capital Securities held by the Clearing Agency or its nominee, and
(iv) any Trust Securities Certificates not held by the Clearing Agency for
the Capital Securities or its nominee as specified in clause (iii) above will
be deemed to represent Debentures having a principal amount equal to the
stated Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities represented thereby and
bearing accrued and unpaid interest in an amount equal to the accumulated and
unpaid Distributions on such Trust Securities until such certificates are
presented to the Securities Registrar for transfer or reissuance. In the
event that any date on which any Redemption Price is payable is not a
Business Day, then payment of the Redemption Price payable on such date shall
be made on the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and without any
interest or other payment in respect of any such delay) except that, if such
Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment
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shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day (and without any
reduction of interest or any other payment in respect of any such
acceleration), in each case with the same force and effect as if made on such
date. In the event that payment of the Redemption Price in respect of any
Trust Securities called for redemption is improperly withheld or refused and
not paid either by the Trust or by the Depositor pursuant to the Guarantee,
Distributions on such Trust Securities shall continue to accumulate, at the
then applicable rate, from the Redemption Date originally established by the
Trust for such Trust Securities to the date such Redemption Price is actually
paid, in which case the actual payment date shall be the date fixed for
redemption for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price.
(e) Payment of the Redemption Price on the Trust Securities shall
be made to the record holders thereof as they appear on the Securities
Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record date, which shall be
the date 15 days prior to the relevant Redemption Date.
(f) Subject to Section 403(a), if less than all the Outstanding
Trust Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated on a
pro rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts) among the Common Securities and
the Capital Securities. The particular Capital Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the
Property Trustee from the outstanding Capital Securities not previously
called for redemption, by such method (including, without limitation, by lot)
as the Property Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide
for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to $10 or an integral
multiple of $10 in excess thereof) of the Liquidation Amount of Capital
Securities of a denomination larger than $10. The Property Trustee shall
promptly notify the Securities Registrar in writing of the Capital Securities
selected for redemption and, in the case of any Capital Securities selected
for partial redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For
all purposes of this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires,
all provisions relating to the redemption of Capital Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Capital Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in
part, to the portion of the Liquidation Amount of Capital Securities which
has been or is to be redeemed.
SECTION 403. SUBORDINATION OF COMMON SECURITIES.
(a) Payment of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if
applicable) on, and the Redemption Price of, the Trust Securities, as
applicable, shall be made, subject to Section 402(f), pro rata among the
Common Securities and the Capital Securities based on the Liquidation Amount
of the Trust Securities; provided, however, that if on any Distribution Date
or Redemption Date any Event of Default resulting from a Debenture Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, no payment of any Distribution
(including Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, or Redemption Price of, any
Common Security, and no other payment on account of the redemption,
liquidation or other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made unless
payment in full in cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions
(including Additional Amounts, if applicable) on all Outstanding Capital
Securities for all Distribution periods terminating on or prior thereto, or
in the case of payment of the Redemption Price the full amount of such
Redemption Price on all Outstanding Capital
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Securities then called for redemption, shall have been made or provided for,
and all funds immediately available to the Property Trustee shall first be
applied to the payment in full in cash of all Distributions (including
Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, or the Redemption Price of, Capital
Securities then due and payable.
(b) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting
from a Debenture Event of Default, the record holder of Common Securities,
the Depositor, shall be deemed to have waived any right to act with respect
to any such Event of Default under this Trust Agreement until the effect of
all such Events of Default with respect to the Capital Securities shall have
been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated. Until any such Event of Default
under this Trust Agreement with respect to the Capital Securities shall have
been so cured, waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act
solely on behalf of the record holders of the Capital Securities and not the
record holder of the Common Securities, and only the Holders of the Capital
Securities shall have the right to direct the Property Trustee to act on
their behalf.
SECTION 404. PAYMENT PROCEDURES.
Payments of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if
applicable) in respect of the Capital Securities shall be made by check
mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall
appear on the Securities Register or, if the Capital Securities are held by a
Clearing Agency, such Distributions shall be made to the Clearing Agency in
immediately available funds, which will credit the relevant accounts on the
applicable Distribution Dates. Payments in respect of the Common Securities
shall be made in such manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property
Trustee and the Common Securityholder.
SECTION 405. TAX RETURNS AND REPORTS.
The Administrative Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared),
at the Depositor's expense, and file all United States federal, state and
local tax and information returns and reports required to be filed by or in
respect of the Trust. In this regard, the Administrative Trustees shall (a)
prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and filed) the appropriate Internal
Revenue Service forms required to be filed in respect of the Trust in each
taxable year of the Trust; and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to be
prepared and furnished) to each Securityholder the appropriate Internal
Revenue Service forms required to be furnished to such Securityholder or the
information required to be provided on such form. The Administrative Trustees
shall provide the Depositor with a copy of all such returns and reports
promptly after such filing or furnishing. The Property Trustee shall comply
with United States federal withholding and backup withholding tax laws and
information reporting requirements with respect to any payments to
Securityholders under the Trust Securities.
SECTION 406. PAYMENT OF TAXES, DUTIES, ETC. OF THE TRUST.
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Upon receipt under the Debentures of Additional Interest (as defined in
Section 1.1 of the Indenture), the Property Trustee, at the direction of an
Administrative Trustee or the Depositor, shall promptly pay any taxes, duties or
governmental charges of whatsoever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed
on the Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority.
SECTION 407. PAYMENTS UNDER INDENTURE.
Any amount payable hereunder to any record holder of Capital Securities
shall be reduced by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder has
directly received under the Indenture pursuant to Section 513(b) or (c) hereof.
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
SECTION 501. INITIAL OWNERSHIP.
Upon the creation of the Trust and the contribution by the Depositor
pursuant to Section 203 and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and
at any time during which no Trust Securities are outstanding, the Depositor
shall be the sole beneficial owner of the Trust.
SECTION 502. THE TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES.
The Capital Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum
denominations of $10 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $10 in
excess thereof, and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in
denominations of $10 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples thereof. The
Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by
manual or facsimile signature of at least one Administrative Trustee. Trust
Securities Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have been
affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be validly issued
and entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that
such individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior
to the delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates or did not hold such
offices at the date of delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates. A
transferee of a Trust Securities Certificate shall become a Securityholder,
and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a
Securityholder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust Securities
Certificate in such transferee's name pursuant to Sections 504, 511 and 513.
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SECTION 503. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY OF TRUST
SECURITIES CERTIFICATES.
(a) On the Closing Date and on any date on which the underwriters
exercise their over-allotment option, as applicable (an "Option Closing
Date"), the Administrative Trustees shall cause Trust Securities
Certificates, in an aggregate Liquidation Amount as provided in Sections 204
and 205, to be executed on behalf of the Trust by at least one of the
Administrative Trustees and delivered to or upon the written order of the
Depositor, signed by its Chief Executive Officer, President, any Vice
President or its Treasurer without further corporate action by the Depositor,
in authorized denominations.
(b) A Capital Securities Certificate shall not be valid until
authenticated by the manual signature of an authorized signatory of the
Property Trustee. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Capital
Securities Certificate has been authenticated under this Trust Agreement.
Each Capital Security Certificate shall be dated the date of its
authentication.
Upon the written order of the Trust signed by one of the
Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee shall authenticate and make
available for delivery the Capital Securities Certificates.
The Property Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent acceptable
to the Trust to authenticate the Capital Securities. An Authenticating Agent
may authenticate the Capital Securities whenever the Property Trustee may do
so. Each reference in this Trust Agreement to authentication by the Property
Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An Authenticating Agent has
the same rights as the Property Trustee to deal with the Company or the Trust.
SECTION 503A. GLOBAL CAPITAL SECURITY.
(a) Any Global Capital Security issued under this Trust Agreement
shall be registered in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency and
delivered to such custodian therefor, and such Global Capital Security shall
constitute a single Capital Security for all purposes of this Trust Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust Agreement, no
Global Capital Security may be exchanged for Capital Securities registered in
the names of persons other than the Depositary or its nominee unless (i) the
Depositary notifies the Debenture Trustee that it is unwilling or unable to
continue as a depositary for such Global Capital Securities and the Depositor
is unable to locate a qualified successor depositary, (ii) the Depositor
executes and delivers to the Trustee a written order stating that it elects
to terminate the book-entry system through the Depositary or (iii) there
shall have occurred and be continuing a Debenture Event of Default.
(c) If a Capital Security is to be exchanged in whole or in part
for a beneficial interest in a Global Capital Security, then either (i) such
Global Capital Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or cancellation
as provided in this Article V or (ii) the Liquidation
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amount thereof shall be reduced or increased by an amount equal to the
portion thereof to be so exchanged or cancelled, or equal to the Liquidation
Amount of such other Capital Securities to be so exchanged for a beneficial
interest therein, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment
made on the records of the Securities Registrar, whereupon the Property
Trustee, in accordance with the rules and procedures of the Depositary for
such Global Capital Security (the "Applicable Procedures"), shall instruct
the Clearing Agency or its authorized representative to make a corresponding
adjustment to its records. Upon any such surrender or adjustment of a Global
Capital Security by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration
instructions, the Administrative Trustees shall execute and the Property
Trustee shall, subject to Section 504(b) and as otherwise provided in this
Article V, authenticate and deliver any Capital Securities issuable in
exchange for such Global Capital Security (or any portion thereof) in
accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. The Property Trustee
shall not be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may
conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in relying on, such
instructions.
(d) Every Capital Security executed, authenticated and delivered
upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global
Capital Security or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Article V
or otherwise, shall be executed, authenticated and delivered in the form of,
and shall be, a Global Capital Security, unless such Global Capital Security
is registered in the name of a Person other than the Clearing Agency for such
Global Capital Security or a nominee thereof.
(e) The Clearing Agency or its nominee, as the registered owner of
a Global Capital Security, shall be considered the Holder of the Capital
Securities represented by such Global Capital Security for all purposes under
this Trust Agreement and the Capital Securities, and owners of beneficial
interests in such Global Capital Security shall hold such interests pursuant
to the Applicable Procedures and, except as otherwise provided herein, shall
not be entitled to receive physical delivery of any such Capital Securities
in definitive form and shall not be considered the Holders thereof under this
Trust Agreement. Accordingly, any such owner's beneficial interest in the
Global Capital Securities shall be shown only on, and the transfer of such
interest shall be effected only through, records maintained by the Clearing
Agency or its nominee. Neither the Property Trustee, the Securities Registrar
nor Depositor shall have any liability in respect of any transfers effected
by the Clearing Agency.
(f) The rights of owners of beneficial interests in a Global
Capital Security shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and
shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such
owners and the Clearing Agency.
SECTION 504. REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF CAPITAL
SECURITIES CERTIFICATES.
(a) The Depositor shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office or
agency maintained pursuant to Section 508, a register or registers for the
purpose of registering Trust Securities Certificates and, subject to the
provisions of Section 503A, transfers and exchanges of Capital Securities
Certificates (herein referred to as the "Securities Register") in which the
registrar
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designated by the Depositor (the "Securities Registrar"), subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall provide for the
registration of Capital Securities Certificates and Common Securities
Certificates (subject to Section 510 in the case of the Common Securities
Certificates) and registration of transfers and exchanges of referred
Securities Certificates as herein provided. The Property Trustee shall be the
initial Securities Registrar.
(b) Subject to the provisions of Section 503A, upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Capital Securities Certificate at the office
or agency maintained pursuant to Section 508, the Administrative Trustees or
any one of them shall execute and deliver, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Capital Securities Certificates in
authorized denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount dated the
date of execution by such Administrative Trustee or Trustees. The Securities
Registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of any Capital
Securities that have been called for redemption. At the option of a record
holder, Capital Securities Certificates may be exchanged for other Capital
Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of the same class and of
a like aggregate Liquidation Amount upon surrender of the Capital Securities
Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 508.
(c) Every Capital Securities Certificate presented or surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange, subject to the provisions of
Section 503A, shall be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Property Trustee and the Securities Registrar duly
executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized in writing. Each
Capital Securities Certificate surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the Property
Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. The Trust shall not be
required to (i) issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any Capital
Securities during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 calendar
days before the date of mailing of a notice of redemption of any Capital
Securities called for redemption and ending at the close of business on the
day of such mailing; or (ii) register the transfer of or exchange any Capital
Securities so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the
unredeemed portion of any such Capital Securities being redeemed in part.
(d) No service charge shall be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Capital Securities Certificates, subject to the
provisions of Section 503A, but the Securities Registrar may require payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Capital Securities
Certificates.
(e) Capital Securities may only be transferred, in whole or in
part, in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Trust
Agreement. Any transfer or purported transfer of any Capital Security not
made in accordance with this Trust Agreement shall be null and void. A
Capital Security that is not a Global Capital Security may be transferred, in
whole or in part, to a Person who takes delivery in the form of another
Capital Security that is not a Global Capital Security as provided in Section
504(a). A beneficial interest in a Global Capital Security may be exchanged
for a Capital Security that is not a Global Capital Security only as provided
in Section 503A.
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SECTION 505. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST OR STOLEN TRUST
SECURITIES CERTIFICATES.
If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities certificate shall be
surrendered to the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall
receive evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any
Trust Securities Certificate; and (b) there shall be delivered to the
Securities Registrar and the Administrative Trustees such security or
indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then in
the absence of notice that such Trust Securities Certificate shall have been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of
them, on behalf of the Trust shall execute and make available for delivery,
in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust Securities Certificate of like
class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the issuance of any new
Trust Securities Certificate under this Section 505, the Administrative
Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued
pursuant to this Section 505 shall constitute conclusive evidence of an
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, as if originally
issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities
Certificate shall be found at any time.
SECTION 506. PERSONS DEEMED SECURITYHOLDERS.
The Trustees, the Paying Agent and the Securities Registrar shall
treat the Person in whose name any Trust Securities Certificate shall be
registered in the Securities Register as the owner of such Trust Securities
Certificate for the purpose of receiving Distributions and for all other
purposes whatsoever, and neither the Trustees nor the Securities Registrar
shall be bound by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION 507. ACCESS TO LIST OF SECURITYHOLDERS' NAMES AND ADDRESSES.
At any time when the Property Trustee is not also acting as the
Securities Registrar, the Administrative Trustees or the Depositor shall
furnish or cause to be furnished to the Property Trustee (a) within five
Business Days of each record date, a list, in such form as the Property
Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the
Securityholders as of the most recent record date; and (b) promptly after
receipt by any Administrative Trustee or the Depositor of a request therefor
from the Property Trustee in order to enable the Property Trustee to
discharge its obligations under this Trust Agreement, in each case to the
extent such information is in the possession or control of the Administrative
Trustees or the Depositor and is not identical to a previously supplied list
or has not otherwise been received by the Property Trustee in its capacity as
Securities Registrar. The rights of Securityholders to communicate with other
Securityholders with respect to their rights under this Trust Agreement or
under the Trust Securities, and the corresponding rights of the Trustee shall
be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act. Each Holder, by receiving and
holding a Trust Securities Certificate, and each owner shall be deemed to
have agreed not to hold the Depositor, the Property Trustee or the
Administrative Trustees accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name
and address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.
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SECTION 508. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Administrative Trustees shall maintain, or cause to be
maintained, in The City of New York, New York or Wilmington, Delaware or
other location designated by the Administrative Trustees, an office or
offices or agency or agencies where Capital Securities Certificates may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and
demands to or upon the Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities
Certificates may be served. The Administrative Trustees initially designate
the Corporate Trust Office of the Property Trustee, First Union Trust
Company, National Association, as the principal corporate trust office for
such purposes. The Administrative Trustees shall give prompt written notice
to the Depositor and to the Securityholders of any change in the location of
the Securities Register or any such office or agency.
SECTION 509. APPOINTMENT OF PAYING AGENT.
The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Securityholders from
the Payment Account and shall report the amounts of such Distributions to the
Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have
the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account for the
purpose of making the Distributions referred to above. The Administrative
Trustees may revoke such power and remove the Paying Agent if such Trustees
determine in their sole discretion that the Paying Agent shall have failed to
perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement in any material respect.
The Paying Agent shall initially be the Property Trustee, and any co-paying
agent chosen by the Property Trustee, and acceptable to the Administrative
Trustees and the Depositor. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be
permitted to resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the
Administrative Trustees, the Property Trustee and the Depositor. In the event
that the Property Trustee shall no longer be the Paying Agent or a successor
Paying Agent shall resign or its authority to act be revoked, the
Administrative Trustees shall appoint a successor that is acceptable to the
Property Trustee and the Depositor to act as Paying Agent (which shall be a
bank or trust company). The Administrative Trustees shall cause such
successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent appointed by the
Administrative Trustees to execute and deliver to the Trustees an instrument
in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall agree
with the Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or
additional Paying Agent shall hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment
to the Securityholders in trust for the benefit of the Securityholders
entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Securityholders. The
Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed funds to the Property Trustee and,
upon removal of a Paying Agent, such Paying Agent shall also return all funds
in its possession to the Property Trustee. The provisions of Sections 801,
803 and 806 shall apply to the Property Trustee also in its role as Paying
Agent, for so long as the Property Trustee shall act as Paying Agent and, to
the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed hereunder. Any
reference in this Agreement to the Paying Agent shall include any co-paying
agent unless the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 510. OWNERSHIP OF COMMON SECURITIES BY DEPOSITOR.
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On the Closing Date, the Depositor shall acquire and retain
beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities. To the fullest
extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities
(other than a transfer in connection with a merger or consolidation of the
Depositor into another corporation pursuant to Section 12.1 of the Indenture)
shall be void. The Administrative Trustees shall cause each Common Securities
Certificate issued to the Depositor to contain a legend stating "THIS
CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE."
SECTION 511. TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES.
(a) Upon their original issuance, Capital Securities Certificates
shall be issued in the form of one or more fully registered Global Capital
Securities Certificates which will be deposited with or on behalf of the
Clearing Agency and registered in the name of the Clearing Agency's nominee.
Unless and until it is exchangeable in whole or in part for the Capital
Securities in definitive form, a global security may not be transferred
except as a whole by the Clearing Agency to a nominee of the Clearing Agency
or by a nominee of the Clearing Agency to the Clearing Agency or another
nominee of the Clearing Agency or by the Clearing Agency or any such nominee
to a successor of such Clearing Agency or a nominee of such successor.
(b) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common
Securities shall be issued to the Depositor in the form of a definitive
Common Securities Certificate.
SECTION 512. NOTICES TO CLEARING AGENCY.
To the extent that a notice or other communication to the Holders is
required under this Trust Agreement, for so long as Capital Securities are
represented by a Global Capital Securities Certificate, the Trustees shall
give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to the
Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations to provide notice to the
owners of the beneficial interest in the Global Capital Securities.
SECTION 513. RIGHTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS.
(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in
the Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in accordance with Section
209, and the Securityholders shall not have any right or title therein other
than the undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust conferred
by their Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for any
partition or division of property, profits or rights of the Trust except as
described below. The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only
the rights specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement. The
Trust Securities shall have no preemptive or similar rights. When issued and
delivered to Holders of the Capital Securities against payment of the
purchase price therefor, the Capital Securities shall be fully paid and
nonassessable interests in the Trust. The Holders of the Capital Securities,
in their capacities as such, shall be entitled to the same limitation of
personal liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for
profit organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
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(b) For so long as any Capital Securities remain Outstanding, if,
upon a Debenture Event of Default, the Debenture Trustee fails or the holders
of not less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Debentures fail
to declare the principal of all of the Debentures to be immediately due and
payable, the Holders of at least 25% in Liquidation Amount of the Capital
Securities then Outstanding shall have such right by a notice in writing to
the Depositor and the Debenture Trustee; and upon any such declaration such
principal amount of and the accrued interest on all of the Debentures shall
become immediately due and payable, provided that the payment of principal
and interest on such Debentures shall remain subordinated to the extent
provided in the Indenture.
(c) For so long as any Capital Securities remain outstanding, upon
a Debenture Event of Default arising from the failure to pay interest or
principal on the Debentures, the Holders of any Capital Securities then
Outstanding shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, have the right to
directly institute proceedings for enforcement of payment to such Holders of
principal of or interest on the Debentures having a principal amount equal to
the Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities of such Holders.
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
SECTION 601. LIMITATIONS ON VOTING RIGHTS.
(a) Except as provided in this Section 601, in Sections 512, 810
and 1002 and in the Indenture and as otherwise required by law, no record
Holder of Capital Securities shall have any right to vote or in any manner
otherwise control the administration, operation and management of the Trust
or the obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set
forth, or contained in the terms of the Trust Securities Certificates, be
construed so as to constitute the Securityholders from time to time as
partners or members of an association.
(b) So long as any Debentures are held by the Property Trustee on
behalf of the Trust, the Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Debenture
Trustee, or executing any trust or power conferred on the Debenture Trustee
with respect to such Debentures; (ii) waive any past default which is
waivable under Article VII of the Indenture; (iii) exercise any right to
rescind or annul a declaration that the principal of all the Debentures shall
be due and payable; or (iv) consent to any amendment, modification or
termination of the Indenture or the Debentures, where such consent shall be
required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior approval of the Holders
of at least a majority in Liquidation Amount of all Outstanding Capital
Securities; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that where a consent under the Indenture would
require the consent of each Holder of Outstanding Debentures affected
thereby, no such consent shall be given by the Property Trustee without the
prior written consent of each holder of Capital Securities. The Trustees
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shall not revoke any action previously authorized or approved by a vote of
the Holders of the Outstanding Capital Securities, except by a subsequent
vote of the Holders of the Outstanding Capital Securities. The Property
Trustee shall notify each Holder of the Outstanding Capital Securities of any
notice of default received from the Debenture Trustee with respect to the
Debentures. In addition to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders
of the Capital Securities, prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the
Trustees shall, at the expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that the Trust shall continue to be
classified as a grantor trust and not as an association taxable as a
corporation for United States federal income tax purposes on account of such
action.
(c) If any proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for,
or the Trustees otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would
adversely affect in any material respect the powers, preferences or special
rights of the Capital Securities, whether by way of amendment to the Trust
Agreement or otherwise; or (ii) the dissolution, winding-up or termination of
the Trust, other than pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, then the
Holders of Outstanding Capital Securities as a class shall be entitled to
vote on such amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not
be effective except with the approval of the Holders of at least a majority
in Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding Capital Securities. No amendment to
this Trust Agreement may be made if, as a result of such amendment, the Trust
would cease to be classified as a grantor trust or would be classified as an
association taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax
purposes.
SECTION 602. NOTICE OF MEETINGS.
Notice of all meetings of the Capital Securityholders, stating the
time, place and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the Property
Trustee pursuant to Section 1008 to each Capital Securityholder of record, at
his registered address, at least 15 days and not more than 90 days before the
meeting. At any such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be
so considered whether or not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any
adjourned meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 603. MEETINGS OF CAPITAL SECURITYHOLDERS.
(a) No annual meeting of Securityholders is required to be held.
The Administrative Trustees, however, shall call a meeting of Securityholders
to vote on any matter in respect of which Capital Securityholders are
entitled to vote upon the written request of the Capital Securityholders of
25% of the Outstanding Capital Securities (based upon their aggregate
Liquidation Amount) and the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee
may, at any time in their discretion, call a meeting of Capital
Securityholders to vote on any matters as to which the Capital
Securityholders are entitled to vote.
(b) Capital Securityholders of record of 50% of the Outstanding
Capital Securities (based upon their aggregate Liquidation Amount), present
in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of
Securityholders.
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(c) If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the
Capital Securityholders of record present, in person or by proxy, holding
more than a majority of the Capital Securities (based upon their aggregate
Liquidation Amount) held by the Capital Securityholders of record present,
either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the action of
the Securityholders, unless this Trust Agreement requires a greater number of
affirmative votes.
SECTION 604. VOTING RIGHTS.
Securityholders shall be entitled to one vote for each $10 of
Liquidation Amount represented by their Trust Securities (with any fractional
multiple thereof rounded up or down as the case may be to the closest integral
multiple) in respect of any matter as to which such Securityholders are entitled
to vote.
SECTION 605. PROXIES, ETC.
At any meeting of Securityholders, any Securityholder entitled to
vote thereat may vote by proxy, provided that no proxy, shall be voted at any
meeting unless it shall have been placed on file with the Administrative
Trustees, or with such other officer or agent of the Trust as the
Administrative Trustees may direct, for verification prior to the time at
which such vote shall be taken. Only Holders of record shall be entitled to
vote. When Trust Securities are held jointly by several persons, any one of
them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust
Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present at such meeting in
person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so present
disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in
respect of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on
behalf of a Securityholder shall be deemed valid unless challenged at or
prior to its exercise, and, the burden of proving invalidity shall rest on
the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more than three years after its date
of execution.
SECTION 606. SECURITYHOLDER ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT.
Any action which may be taken by Securityholders at a meeting may be
taken without a meeting if Securityholders holding more than a majority of
all outstanding Trust Securities (based upon their aggregate Liquidation
Amount) entitled to vote in respect of such action (or such larger proportion
thereof as shall be required by any express provision of this Trust
Agreement) shall consent to the action in writing (based upon their aggregate
Liquidation Amount).
SECTION 607. RECORD DATE FOR VOTING AND OTHER PURPOSES.
For the purposes of determining the Securityholders who are entitled
to notice of and to vote at any meeting or by written consent, or to
participate in any Distribution on the Trust Securities in respect of which a
record date is not otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the
purpose of any other action, the Administrative Trustees or the Property
Trustee may from time to time fix a date, not more than 90 days prior to the
date of any meeting of Securityholders or the payment of Distribution or
other action, as the case may be,
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as a record date for the determination of the identity of the Securityholders
of record for such purposes.
SECTION 608. ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be
given, made or taken by Securityholders may be embodied in and evidenced by
one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such
Securityholders or owners in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing;
and, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, such action shall become
effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to an
Administrative Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as
the "Act" of the Securityholders signing such instrument or instruments.
Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such
agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and
(subject to Section 801) conclusive in favor of the Trustees, if made in the
manner provided in this Section 608.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized
by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual
signing such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof.
Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his
individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the
same, may also be proved in any other manner which any Trustee receiving the
same deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Capital Securities shall be proved by the
Securities Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Securityholder of any Trust Security shall bind
every future Securityholder of the same Trust Security and the Securityholder
of every Trust Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or
in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted
or suffered to be done by the Trustees or the Trust in reliance thereon,
whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
(e) Without limiting the foregoing, a Securityholder entitled
hereunder to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Trust
Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount
of such Trust Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which
may do so pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such
liquidation amount.
(f) A Securityholder may institute a legal proceeding directly
against the Depositor under the Guarantee to enforce its rights under the
Guarantee without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Guarantee
Trustee (as defined in the Guarantee), the Trust or any Person.
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SECTION 609. INSPECTION OF RECORDS.
Upon reasonable notice to the Administrative Trustees and the
Property Trustee, the records of the Trust shall be open to inspection at the
principal executive office of the Trust (as indicated in Section 202) by
record holders of the Trust Securities during normal business hours for any
purpose reasonably related to such record holder's interest as a record
holder.
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 701. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE BANK AND THE
PROPERTY TRUSTEE.
The Bank and the Property Trustee, each severally on behalf of and
as to itself, as of the date hereof, and each Successor Property Trustee at
the time of the Successor Property Trustee's acceptance of its appointment as
Property Trustee hereunder (in the case of a Successor Property Trustee, the
term "Bank" as used herein shall be deemed to refer to such Successor
Property Trustee in its separate corporate capacity), hereby represents and
warrants (as applicable) for the benefit of the Depositor and the
Securityholders that:
(a) the Bank is a national banking association with its principal
place of business in the State of Delaware or, with respect to a Successor
Property Trustee, a state chartered bank and trust company; duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware;
(b) the Bank has full corporate power, authority and legal right to
execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement and
has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and
performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(c) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Property Trustee and constitutes the valid and legally
binding agreement of the Property Trustee enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors, rights and to general
equity principles;
(d) the execution, delivery and performance by the Property Trustee
of this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate
or other action on the part of the Property Trustee and does not require any
approval of stockholders of the Bank and such execution, delivery and
performance shall not (i) violate the Bank's charter or by-laws; (ii) violate
any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse of time, a
default under, or result in the creation or imposition of, any Lien on any
properties included in the Trust
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Property pursuant to the provisions of, any indenture, mortgage, credit
agreement, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Property
Trustee or the Bank is a party or by which it is bound; or (iii) violate any
law, governmental rule or regulation of the United States or the State of
Delaware, as the case may be, governing the banking or trust powers of the
Bank or the Property Trustee (as appropriate in context) or any order,
judgment or decree applicable to the Property Trustee or the Bank;
(e) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the
Property Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of any of the
transactions by the Property Trustee contemplated herein or therein requires
the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or
the taking of any other action with respect to any governmental authority or
agency under any existing federal law governing the banking or trust powers
of the Bank or the Property Trustee, as the case may be, under the laws of
the United States or the State of Delaware, other than the filing of a
Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware;
(f) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of the
Property Trustee's knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Bank or the
Property Trustee in any court or before any governmental authority, agency or
arbitration board or tribunal which, individually or in the aggregate, would
materially and adversely affect the Trust or would question the right, power
and authority of the Property Trustee to enter into or perform its
obligations as one of the Trustees under this Trust Agreement; and
(g) the Property Trustee is a Person eligible pursuant to the Trust
Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined capital and surplus of at
least $50,000,000.
SECTION 702. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE DELAWARE BANK AND
THE DELAWARE TRUSTEE.
The Delaware Bank and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on behalf
of and as to itself, as of the date hereof, and each Successor Delaware
Trustee at the time of the Successor Delaware Trustee's acceptance of
appointment as Delaware Trustee hereunder (the term "Delaware Bank" being
used to refer to such Successor Delaware Trustee in its separate corporate
capacity), hereby represents and warrants (as applicable) for the benefit of
the Depositor and the Securityholders that:
(a) the Delaware Bank is a national banking association with its
principal place of business in the State of Delaware, or, if a Successor
Delaware Trustee, is a Delaware banking corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware;
(b) the Delaware Bank has full corporate power, authority and legal
right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust
Agreement and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution,
delivery and performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
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(c) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Delaware Trustee and constitutes the valid and legally
binding agreement of the Delaware Trustee enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors, rights and to general
equity principles;
(d) the execution, delivery and performance by the Delaware Trustee
of this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate
or other action on the part of the Delaware Trustee and does not require any
approval of stockholders of the Delaware Bank and such execution, delivery
and performance shall not (i) violate the Delaware Bank's charter or by-laws;
(ii) violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or lapse
of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of, any
Lien on any properties included in the Trust Property pursuant to the
provisions of, any indenture, mortgage, credit agreement, license or other
agreement or instrument to which the Delaware Bank or the Delaware Trustee is
a party or by which it is bound; or (iii) violate any law, governmental rule
or regulation of the United States or the State of Delaware, as the case may
be, governing the banking or trust powers of the Delaware Bank or the
Delaware Trustee (as appropriate in context) or any order, judgment or decree
applicable to the Delaware Bank or the Delaware Trustee;
(e) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the
Delaware Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of any of the
transactions by the Delaware Trustee contemplated herein or therein requires
the consent or approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or
the taking of any other action with respect to any governmental authority or
agency under any existing federal law governing the banking or trust powers
of the Delaware Bank or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, under the
laws of the United States or the State of Delaware, other than the filing of
the Certificate of Trust with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware; and
(f) there are no proceedings pending or, to the best of the
Delaware Trustee's knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Delaware
Bank or the Delaware Trustee in any court or before any governmental
authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal which, individually or in
the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the Trust or would
question the right, power and authority of the Delaware Trustee to enter into
or perform its obligations as one of the Trustees under this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 703. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF DEPOSITOR.
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the
Securityholders that:
(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued on the Closing Date on
behalf of the Trust have been duly authorized and, shall have been, duly and
validly executed, issued and delivered by the Administrative Trustees
pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in accordance with the
requirements of, this Trust Agreement and the Securityholders shall be, as of
such date, entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement; and
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(b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable
by the Trust (or the Trustees on behalf of the Trust) under the laws of the
State of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance by the Bank, the Property Trustee or the
Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, of this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII
TRUSTEES
SECTION 801. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Trustees shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Property Trustee, by
the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this
Trust Agreement shall require the Trustees to expend or risk their own funds
or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of their
duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of their rights or powers, if
they shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds
or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured to it. No Administrative Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be
liable for its act or omissions hereunder except as a result of its own gross
negligence or willful misconduct. The Property Trustee's liability shall be
determined under the Trust Indenture Act. Whether or not therein expressly so
provided, every provision of this Trust Agreement relating to the conduct or
affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Trustees shall be
subject to the provisions of this Section 801. To the extent that, at law or
in equity, the Delaware Trustee or an Administrative Trustee has duties
(including fiduciary duties) and liabilities relating thereto to the Trust or
to the Securityholders, the Delaware Trustee or such Administrative Trustee
shall not be liable to the Trust or to any Securityholder for such Trustee's
good faith reliance on the provisions of this Trust Agreement. The provisions
of this Trust Agreement, to the extent that they restrict the duties and
liabilities of the Delaware Trustee or the Administrative Trustees otherwise
existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Depositor and the
Securityholders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the Delaware
Trustee or the Administrative Trustees, as the case may be.
(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in
respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and
proceeds from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be
sufficient revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property
Trustee or a Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms
hereof. Each Securityholder, by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees
that it shall look solely to the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property
to the extent legally available for distribution to it as herein provided and
that the Trustees are not personally liable to it for any amount
distributable in respect of any Trust Security or for any other liability in
respect of any Trust Security. This Section 801(b) does not limit the
liability of the Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Trust
Agreement or, in the case of the Property Trustee, in the Trust Indenture Act.
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(c) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to
relieve the Property Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its
own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by an authorized officer of
the Property Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the
Property Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the
pertinent facts;
(ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good
faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of
not less than a majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Trust Securities relating to the time, method and place
of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to
the Property Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Trust
Agreement;
(iii) the Property Trustee's sole duty with respect to the
custody, safe keeping and physical preservation of the
Debentures and the Payment Account shall be to deal with
such Property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee
deals with similar property for its own account, subject
to the protections and limitations on liability afforded
to the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement and
the Trust Indenture Act;
(iv) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest
on any money received by it except as it may otherwise
agree with the Depositor and money held by the Property
Trustee need not be segregated from other funds held by
it except in relation to the Payment Account maintained
by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 301 and
except to the extent otherwise required by law; and
(d) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring
the compliance by the Administrative Trustees or the Depositor with their
respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall the Property Trustee
be liable for the negligence, default or misconduct of the Administrative
Trustees or the Depositor.
SECTION 802. CERTAIN NOTICES.
(a) Within five Business Days after the occurrence of any Event of
Default actually known to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall
transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 1008, notice of
such Event of Default to the Securityholders, the Administrative Trustees and
the Depositor, unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.
For purposes of this Section 802 the term "Event of Default" means any event
that is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of
Default.
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(b) The Administrative Trustees shall transmit, to the
Securityholders in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 1008,
notice of the Depositor's election to begin or further extend an Extended
Interest Payment Period on the Debentures (unless such election shall have
been revoked) within the time specified for transmitting such notice to the
holders of the Debentures pursuant to the Indenture as originally executed.
SECTION 803. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF PROPERTY TRUSTEE.
Subject to the provisions of Section 801:
(a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting
or refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion of
Counsel, certificate, written representation of a Holder or transferee,
certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by
it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties;
(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action;
or (ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with other
provisions contained herein; or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the
application of any provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any
matter as to which the Capital Securityholders are entitled to vote under the
terms of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice to
the Depositor requesting written instructions of the Depositor as to the
course of action to be taken and the Property Trustee shall take such action,
or refrain from taking such action, as the Property Trustee shall be
instructed in writing to take, or to refrain from taking, by the Depositor;
provided, however, that if the Property Trustee does not receive such
instructions of the Depositor within 10 Business Days after it has delivered
such notice, or such reasonably shorter period of time set forth in such
notice (which to the extent practicable shall not be less than 2 Business
Days), it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain from taking
such action not inconsistent with this Trust Agreement as it shall deem
advisable and in the best interests of the Securityholders, in which event
the Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad faith,
negligence or willful misconduct;
(c) any direction or act of the Depositor or the Administrative
Trustees contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced
by an Officers' Certificate;
(d) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement, the
Property Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be established before
undertaking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Property Trustee
(unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence
of bad faith on its part, request and conclusively rely upon an Officer's
Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered
by the Depositor or the Administrative Trustees;
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(e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty to see to any
recording, filing or registration of any instrument (including any financing
or continuation statement, any filing under tax or securities laws or any
filing under tax or securities laws) or any rerecording, refiling or
reregistration thereof;
(f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its choice
(which counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates) and
the advice of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon and, in accordance with such
advice, such counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any of its
Affiliates, and may include any of its employees; the Property Trustee shall
have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the administration
of this Trust Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction;
(g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the
request or direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to this Trust
Agreement, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Property
Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or
direction;
(h) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
consent, order, approval, bond, debenture, note or other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so
by one or more Securityholders, but the Property Trustee may make such
further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit;
(i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through
its agents or attorneys, provided that the Property Trustee shall be
responsible for its own negligence or recklessness with respect to selection
of any agent or attorney appointed by it hereunder;
(j) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect
to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder the
Property Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders of the Trust
Securities which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same
proportion in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities as would be entitled
to direct the Property Trustee under the terms of the Trust Securities in
respect of such remedy, right or action; (ii) may refrain from enforcing such
remedy or right or taking such other action until such instructions are
received; and (iii) shall be protected in acting in accordance with such
instructions; and
(k) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement,
the Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action
that is discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement. No
provision of this Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or
obligation on the Property Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise
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any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any
jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Property Trustee
shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to
perform any such act or acts, or to exercise any such right, power, duty or
obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Property
Trustee shall be construed to be a duty.
SECTION 804. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES.
The Recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities
Certificates shall be taken as the statements of the Trust, and the Trustees
do not assume any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustees shall
not be accountable for the use or application by the Depositor of the
proceeds of the Debentures.
SECTION 805. MAY HOLD SECURITIES.
Any Trustee or any other agent of any Trustee or the Trust, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust
Securities and, subject to Sections 808 and 813 and except as provided in the
definition of the term "Outstanding" in Article I, may otherwise deal with
the Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not a Trustee or such
other agent.
SECTION 806. COMPENSATION; INDEMNITY; FEES.
The Depositor agrees:
(a) to pay to the Trustees from time to time compensation for all
services rendered by them hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited
by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an
express trust), in the case of the Property Trustee, as set forth in a
written agreement between the Depositor and the Property Trustee;
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Trustees in accordance with any provision of this
Trust Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to such Trustee's negligence,
bad faith or willful misconduct (or, in the case of the Administrative
Trustees or the Delaware Trustee, any such expense, disbursement or advance
as may be attributable to its, his or her gross negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct); and
(c) to indemnify each of the Trustees or any predecessor Trustee
for, and to hold the Trustees harmless against, any loss, damage, claims,
liability, penalty or expense of any kind or nature whatsoever, arising out
of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this Trust
Agreement, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of
its powers or duties hereunder, except any such expense, disbursement or
advance as may be attributable to such Trustee's negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct for (or, in the case of
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the Administrative Trustees or the Delaware Trustee, any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its, his or her gross
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct).
Each Trustee may claim a Lien or charge on Trust Property as a
result of any amount due and unpaid pursuant to this Section 806. The
Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee may be the same Person.
SECTION 807. CORPORATE PROPERTY TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY OF
TRUSTEES.
(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that
is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a
combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section 807, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. If at any time the Property Trustee with
respect to the Trust Securities shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section 807, it shall resign immediately in the manner
and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VIII.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee
shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal
entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that
entity.
(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee with respect to
the Trust Securities. The Delaware Trustee shall either be (i) a natural
person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the State of
Delaware; or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business in the
State of Delaware and that otherwise meets the requirements of applicable
Delaware law that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind
such entity.
SECTION 808. CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest
within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall
either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner
provided by, and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and
this Trust Agreement.
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SECTION 809. CO-TRUSTEES AND SEPARATE TRUSTEE.
(a) Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, at any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act or of any jurisdiction in which any
part of the Trust Property may at the time be located, the Depositor shall
have power to appoint, and upon the written request of the Property Trustee,
the Depositor shall for such purpose join with the Property Trustee in the
execution, delivery and performance of all instruments and agreements
necessary or proper to appoint, one or more Persons approved by the Property
Trustee either to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of
all or any part of such Trust Property, or to the extent required by law to
act as separate trustee of any such property, in either case with such powers
as may be provided in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such
Person or Persons in the capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right or
power deemed necessary or desirable, subject to the other provisions of this
Section 809. If the Depositor does not join in such appointment within 15
days after the receipt by it of a request so to do, or in case a Debenture
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee alone
shall have power to make such appointment. Any co-trustee or separate trustee
appointed pursuant to this Section 809 shall either be (i) a natural person
who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of the United States; or (ii)
a legal entity with its principal place of business in the United States that
shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind such entity.
(b) Should any written instrument from the Depositor be required by
any co-trustee or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to
such co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right, or power,
any and all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged,
and delivered by the Depositor.
(c) Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent
permitted by law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the
following terms, namely:
(i) The Trust Securities shall be executed and delivered and
all rights, powers, duties and obligations hereunder in
respect of the custody of securities, cash and other
personal property held by, or required to be deposited or
pledged with, the Trustees specified hereunder, shall be
exercised, solely by such Trustees and not by such
co-trustee or separate trustee.
(ii) The rights, powers, duties and obligations hereby
conferred or imposed upon the Property Trustee in respect
of any property covered by such appointment shall be
conferred or imposed upon and exercised or performed by
the Property Trustee or by the Property Trustee and such
co-trustee or separate trustee jointly, as shall be
provided in the instrument appointing such co-trustee or
separate trustee, except to the extent that under any law
of any jurisdiction in which any particular act is to be
performed, the Property Trustee shall be incompetent or
unqualified to perform such act, in which event such
rights, powers,
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duties and obligations shall be exercised and performed by
such co-trustee or separate trustee.
(iii) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in
writing executed by it, with the written concurrence of
the Depositor, may accept the resignation of or remove any
co-trustee or separate trustee appointed under this
Section 809, and, in case a Debenture Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall
have the power to accept the resignation of, or remove,
any such co-trustee or separate trustee without the
concurrence of the Depositor. Upon the written request of
the Property Trustee, the Depositor shall join with the
Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and
performance of all instruments and agreements necessary or
proper to effectuate such resignation or removal. A
successor to any co-trustee or separate trustee so
resigned or removed may be appointed in the manner
provided in this Section 809.
(iv) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be
personally liable by reason of any act or omission of the
Property Trustee or any other trustee hereunder.
(v) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any
act of a co-trustee or separate trustee.
(vi) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee shall
be deemed to have been delivered to each such co-trustee
and separate trustee.
SECTION 810. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
(a) No resignation or removal of any Trustee (the "Relevant
Trustee") and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article
VIII shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the
successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section
811.
(b) Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant
Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Trust Securities by giving
written notice thereof to the Securityholders. If the instrument of
acceptance by the successor Trustee required by Section 811 shall not have
been delivered to the Relevant Trustee within 30 days after the giving of
such notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition, at the expense
of the Depositor, any court of competent jurisdiction or the appointment of a
successor Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities.
(c) Unless a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, any Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the Common
Securityholder. If a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, or both of them,
may be removed at such time by Act of the Holders of a majority in
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Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities, delivered to the Relevant
Trustee (in its individual capacity and on behalf of the Trust). An
Administrative Trustee may be removed by the Common Securityholder at any
time.
(d) If any Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting as Trustee, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of any Trustee
for any cause, at a time when no Debenture Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, the Common Securityholder, by Act of the Common
Securityholder delivered to the retiring Trustee, shall promptly appoint a
successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Trust Securities and the
Trust, and the successor Trustee shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 811. If the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee
shall resign, be removed or become incapable of continuing to act as the
Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, at a time when
a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing, the
Capital Securityholders, by Act of the Securityholders of a majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities then Outstanding delivered to
the retiring Relevant Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Relevant
Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust, and
such successor Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of
Section 811. If an Administrative Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting as Administrative Trustee, at a time when a Debenture
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Common
Securityholder, by Act of the Common Securityholder delivered to an
Administrative Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Administrative
Trustee or Administrative Trustees with respect to the Trust Securities and
the Trust, and such successor Administrative Trustee or Administrative
Trustees shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 811. If no
successor Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall have
been so appointed by the Common Securityholder or the Capital Securityholders
and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 811, any
Securityholder who has been a Securityholder of Trust Securities on behalf of
himself and all others similarly situated may petition a court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities.
(e) The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and
each removal of a Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all
Securityholders in the manner provided in Section 1008 and shall give notice
to the Depositor. Each notice shall include the name of the successor
Relevant Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust office if it is the
Property Trustee.
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this
Trust Agreement, in the event any Administrative Trustee or a Delaware
Trustee who is a natural person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the
Depositor, incompetent or incapacitated, the vacancy created by such death,
incompetence or incapacity may be filled by (a) the unanimous act of
remaining Administrative Trustees if there are at least two of them; or (b)
otherwise by the Depositor (with the successor in each case being a Person
who satisfies the eligibility requirement for Administrative Trustees set
forth in Section 807).
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SECTION 811. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant
Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust, the retiring
Relevant Trustee and each successor Relevant Trustee with respect to the
Trust Securities shall execute and deliver an instrument hereto wherein each
successor Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which shall
contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and
confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to
the Trust Securities and the Trust and upon the execution and delivery of
such instrument the resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant Trustee
shall become effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor
Relevant Trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become
vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust; but, on
request of the Trust or any successor Relevant Trustee such retiring Relevant
Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Relevant
Trustee all Trust Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by such
retiring Relevant Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and
the Trust.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Relevant Trustee, the Trust
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such successor Relevant Trustee all such rights, powers and
trusts referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
(c) No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment
unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee shall
be qualified and eligible under this Article VIII.
SECTION 812. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO
BUSINESS.
Any Person into which the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee or
any Administrative Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust
business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of such Relevant
Trustee hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise qualified and
eligible under this Article VIII, without the execution or filing of any
paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
SECTION 813. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST DEPOSITOR OR
TRUST.
If and when the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee shall be or
become a creditor of the Depositor or the Trust (or any other obligor upon
the Debentures or the Trust Securities), the Property Trustee or the Delaware
Trustee, as the case may be, shall be subject to and shall take all actions
necessary in order to comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
regarding the collection of claims against the Depositor or Trust (or any
such other obligor).
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SECTION 814. REPORTS BY PROPERTY TRUSTEE.
(a) Not later than July 15 of each year commencing with July 15,
2000, the Property Trustee shall transmit to all Securityholders in
accordance with Section 1008, and to the Depositor, a brief report dated as
of May 15 with respect to:
(i) its eligibility under Section 807 or, in lieu thereof, if
to the best of its knowledge it has continued to be
eligible under said Section, a written statement to such
effect; and
(ii) any change in the property and funds in its possession as
Property Trustee since the date of its last report and any
action taken by the Property Trustee in the performance of
its duties hereunder which it has not previously reported
and which in its opinion materially affects the Trust
Securities.
(b) In addition the Property Trustee shall transmit to
Securityholders such reports concerning the Property Trustee and its actions
under this Trust Agreement as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture
Act at the times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Property Trustee with American Stock
Exchange, and each national securities exchange or other organization upon
which the Trust Securities are listed, and also with the Commission and the
Depositor.
SECTION 815. REPORTS TO THE PROPERTY TRUSTEE.
The Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust
shall provide to the Property Trustee such documents, reports and information
as required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act (if any) and the
compliance certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act
in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the
Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 816. EVIDENCE OF COMPLIANCE WITH CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.
Each of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of
the Trust shall provide to the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance
with any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement
that relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust
Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer
pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be given in
the form of an Officers' Certificate.
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SECTION 817. NUMBER OF TRUSTEES.
(a) The number of Trustees shall be five, provided that the Holder
of all of the Common Securities by written instrument may increase or
decrease the number of Administrative Trustees. The Property Trustee and the
Delaware Trustee may be the same Person.
(b) If a Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason and the
number of Administrative Trustees is not reduced pursuant to Section 817(a),
or if the number of Trustees is increased pursuant to Section 817(a), a
vacancy shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with a Trustee appointed in
accordance with Section 810.
(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy,
incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of a Trustee shall not
operate to annul the Trust. Whenever a vacancy in the number of
Administrative Trustees shall occur, until such vacancy is filled by the
appointment of an Administrative Trustee in accordance with Section 810, the
Administrative Trustees in office, regardless of their number (and
notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement), shall have all the
powers granted to the Administrative Trustees and shall discharge all the
duties imposed upon the Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 818. DELEGATION OF POWER.
(a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent
with applicable law, delegate to any other natural person over the age of 21
his or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in
Section 207(a); and
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from
time to time to such of their number or to the Depositor the doing of such
things and the execution of such instruments either in the name of the Trust
or the names of the Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the
Administrative Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is
not prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the provisions of the Trust,
as set forth herein.
SECTION 819. VOTING.
Except as otherwise provided in this Trust Agreement, the consent or
approval of the Administrative Trustees shall require consent or approval by
not less than a majority of the Administrative Trustees, unless there are
only two, in which case both must consent.
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ARTICLE IX
TERMINATION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION 901. TERMINATION UPON EXPIRATION DATE.
Unless earlier dissolved, the Trust shall automatically dissolve on,
June 30, 2034 (the "Expiration Date") subject to distribution of the Trust
Property in accordance with Section 904.
SECTION 902. EARLY TERMINATION.
The first to occur of any of the following events is an "Early
Termination Event:"
(a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the
dissolution or liquidation of, the Depositor;
(b) delivery of written direction to the Property Trustee by the
Depositor at any time (which direction is wholly optional and within the
discretion of the Depositor, subject to Depositor having received prior
approval of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System if so
required under applicable guidelines, policies or regulations thereof) to
dissolve the Trust and distribute the Debentures to Securityholders in
exchange for the Capital Securities in accordance with Section 904;
(c) the redemption of all of the Capital Securities in connection
with the redemption of all of the Debentures (whether upon a Debenture
Redemption Date or the maturity of the Debenture); or
(d) an order for dissolution of the Trust shall have been entered
by a court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 903. TERMINATION.
The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Trustees and
the Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to
occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee to
Securityholders upon the liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 904, or
upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 402,
of all amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the final payment of
the Trust Securities; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the Trust; (c)
the discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrative Trustees,
including the performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to
the Trust or the Securityholders; and (d) the filing of a Certificate of
Cancellation by the Administrative Trustee under the Business Trust Act.
SECTION 904. LIQUIDATION.
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(a) If an Early Termination Event specified in clause (a), (b), or
(d) of Section 902 occurs or upon the Expiration Date, the Trust shall be
liquidated by the Trustees as expeditiously as the Trustees determine to be
possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of
the Trust as provided by applicable law, to each Securityholder a Like Amount
of Debentures, subject to Section 904(d). Notice of liquidation shall be
given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed
not later than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each
Holder of Trust Securities at such Holder's address appearing in the
Securities Register. All notices of liquidation shall:
(i) state the Liquidation Date;
(ii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust
Securities shall no longer be deemed to be Outstanding
and any Trust Securities Certificates not surrendered for
exchange shall be deemed to represent a Like Amount of
Debentures; and
(iii) provide such information with respect to the mechanics by
which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates
for Debentures, or, if Section 904(d) applies, receive a
Liquidation Distribution, as the Administrative Trustees
or the Property Trustee shall deem appropriate.
(b) Except where Section 902(c) or 904(d) applies, in order to
effect the liquidation of the Trust and distribution of the Debentures to
Securityholders, the Property Trustee shall establish a record date for such
distribution (which shall be not more than 45 days prior to the Liquidation
Date) and, either itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment
of a separate exchange agent, shall establish such procedures as it shall
deem appropriate to effect the distribution of Debentures in exchange for the
Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.
(c) Except where Section 902(c) or 904(d) applies, after the
Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities shall no longer be deemed to be
outstanding; (ii) certificates representing a Like Amount of Debentures shall
be issued to holders of Trust Securities Certificates upon surrender of such
certificates to the Administrative Trustees or their agent for exchange;
(iii) the Depositor shall use its reasonable efforts to have the Debentures
listed on the Nasdaq National Market or on such other securities exchange or
other organization as the Capital Securities are then listed or traded; (iv)
any Trust Securities Certificates not so surrendered for exchange shall be
deemed to represent a Like Amount of Debentures, accruing interest at the
rate provided for in the Debentures from the last Distribution Date on which
a Distribution was made on such Trust Securities Certificates until such
certificates are so surrendered (and until such certificates are so
surrendered, no payments of interest or principal shall be made to holders of
Trust Securities Certificates with respect to such Debentures); and (v) all
rights of Securityholders holding Trust Securities shall cease, except the
right of such Securityholders to receive Debentures upon surrender of Trust
Securities Certificates.
(d) In the event that, notwithstanding the other provisions of this
Section 904, whether because of an order for dissolution entered by a court
of competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Debentures in the
manner provided herein is determined by the
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Property Trustee not to be practical, the Trust Property shall be liquidated,
and the Trust shall be dissolved, wound-up or terminated, by the Property
Trustee in such manner as the Property Trustee determines. In such event, on
the date of the dissolution, winding-up or other termination of the Trust,
Securityholders shall be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Trust
available for distribution to Securityholders, after satisfaction of
liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by applicable law, an
amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated
and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount being
the "Liquidation Distribution"). If, upon any such dissolution, winding-up or
termination, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because
the Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate
Liquidation Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the
amounts payable by the Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro
rata basis (based upon Liquidation Amounts). The holder of the Common
Securities shall be entitled to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any
such dissolution, winding-up or termination pro rata (determined as
aforesaid) with Holders of Capital Securities, except that, if a Debenture
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Capital Securities shall
have a priority over the Common Securities.
SECTION 905. MERGERS, CONSOLIDATIONS, AMALGAMATIONS OR REPLACEMENTS
OF THE TRUST.
The Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be
replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any corporation or other Person, except
pursuant to this Section 905. At the request of the Depositor, with the
consent of the Administrative Trustees and without the consent of the holders
of the Capital Securities, the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee, the
Trust may merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, be replaced by or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to a trust organized as such under the laws of any state; provided,
that (i) such successor entity either (a) expressly assumes all of the
obligations of the Trust with respect to the Capital Securities; or (b)
substitutes for the Capital Securities other securities having substantially
the same terms as the Capital Securities (the "Successor Securities") so long
as the Successor Securities rank the same as the Capital Securities rank in
priority with respect to distributions and payments upon liquidation,
redemption and otherwise; (ii) the Depositor expressly appoints a trustee of
such successor entity possessing substantially the same powers and duties as
the Property Trustee as the holder of the Debentures; (iii) the Successor
Securities are listed or traded, or any Successor Securities shall be listed
or traded upon notification of issuance, on any national securities exchange
or other organization on which the Capital Securities are then listed, if
any; (iv) such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance,
transfer or lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and
privileges of the holders of the Capital Securities (including any Successor
Securities) in any material respect; (v) such successor entity has a purpose
substantially identical to that of the Trust; (vi) prior to such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the
Depositor has received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (a) such
merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or
lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the
holders of the Capital Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any
material respect; and (b)
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following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance,
transfer or lease, neither the Trust nor such successor entity shall be
required to register as an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act; and (vii) the Depositor owns all of the Common Securities of such
successor entity and guarantees the obligations of such successor entity
under the Successor Securities at least to the extent provided by the
Guarantee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Trust shall not, except with
the consent of holders of 100% in Liquidation Amount of the Capital
Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or be replaced by or
convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any other Person or permit any other Person to consolidate,
amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it if such consolidation,
amalgamation, merger or replacement would cause the Trust or the successor
entity to be classified as other than a grantor trust for United States
federal income tax purposes.
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 1001. LIMITATION OF RIGHTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS.
The death or incapacity of any Person having an interest, beneficial
or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not operate to terminate this Trust
Agreement, nor entitle the legal representatives or heirs of such Person or
any Securityholder for such Person, to claim an accounting, take any action
or bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding-up of the
arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights,
obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.
SECTION 1002. AMENDMENT.
(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the
Trustees and the Depositor, without the consent of any Securityholders, (i)
as provided in Section 811 with respect to acceptance of appointment by a
successor Trustee; (ii) to cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any
provision herein or therein which may be inconsistent with any other
provision herein or therein, or to make any other provisions with respect to
matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement, that shall not be
inconsistent with the other provisions of this Trust Agreement; or (iii) to
modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such
extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Trust shall be classified for
United States federal income tax purposes as a grantor trust at all times
that any Trust Securities are outstanding or to ensure that the Trust shall
not be required to register as an "investment company" under the Investment
Company Act; provided, however, that in the case of clause (ii), such action
shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any
Securityholder, and any amendments of this Trust Agreement shall become
effective when notice thereof is given to the Securityholders.
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(b) Except as provided in Section 601(c) or Section 1002(c) hereof,
any provision of this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Trustees and the
Depositor (i) with the consent of Trust Securityholders representing not less
than a majority (based upon Liquidation Amounts) of the Trust Securities then
Outstanding; and (ii) upon receipt by the Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the
Trustees in accordance with such amendment shall not affect the Trust's
status as a grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes or
the Trust's exemption from status of an "investment company" under the
Investment Company Act.
(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this
Trust Agreement, without the consent of each affected Securityholder (such
consent being obtained in accordance with Section 603 or 606 hereof), this
Trust Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any
Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount
of any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as
of a specified date; or (ii) restrict the right of a Securityholder to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date;
notwithstanding any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of
the Securityholders (such consent being obtained in accordance with Section
603 or 606 hereof), this paragraph (c) of this Section 1002 may not be
amended.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement,
no Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust
Agreement which would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the
exemption from status of an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act or to fail or cease to be classified as a grantor trust for United States
federal income tax purposes.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the
contrary, without the consent of the Depositor, this Trust Agreement may not
be amended in a manner which imposes any additional obligation on the
Depositor.
(f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is
made, the Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the Depositor a
copy of such amendment.
(g) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be
required to enter into any amendment to this Trust Agreement which affects
its own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement. The Property
Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers'
Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in
compliance with this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 1003. SEPARABILITY.
In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Trust
Securities Certificates shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not
in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
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SECTION 1004. GOVERNING LAW.
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE
SECURITYHOLDERS, THE TRUST AND THE TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST
AGREEMENT AND THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND
GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE (WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF
LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF).
SECTION 1005. PAYMENTS DUE ON NON-BUSINESS DAY.
If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a
day that is not a Business Day, then such payment need not be made on such
date but may be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day,
except that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year,
such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day (and
without any reduction of interest or any other payment in respect of any such
acceleration), in each case with the same force and effect as though made on
the date fixed for such payment, and no distribution shall accumulate thereon
for the period after such date.
SECTION 1006. SUCCESSORS.
This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the
benefit of any successor to the Depositor, the Trust or the Relevant
Trustee(s), including any successor by operation of law. Except in connection
with a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Depositor that is
permitted under Article XII of the Indenture and pursuant to which the
assignee agrees in writing to perform the Depositor's obligations hereunder,
the Depositor shall not assign its obligations hereunder.
SECTION 1007. HEADINGS.
The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall
not affect the construction of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 1008. REPORTS, NOTICES AND DEMANDS.
Any report, notice, demand or other communication which by any
provision of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or
served to or upon any Securityholder or the Depositor may be given or served
in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United
States mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case,
addressed, (a) in the case of a Capital Securityholder, to such Capital
Securityholder as such Securityholder's name and address may appear on the
Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the Common Securityholder or the
Depositor, to Quad City Holdings, Inc., 0000 0xx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx, 00000, Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, facsimile no.: (309)
736-3581. Any notice to Capital Securityholders shall also be given to such
owners as have, within two years preceding the giving of such notice, filed
their names and addresses with the Property Trustee for that purpose. Such
notice, demand or other communication to or upon a
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Securityholder shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for
all purposes, upon hand delivery, mailing or transmission.
Any notice, demand or other communication which by any provision of
this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or
upon the Trust, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall be
given in writing addressed (until another address is published by the Trust)
as follows: (a) with respect to the Property Trustee to First Union Trust
Company, National Association, One Xxxxxx Square, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration]; (b)
with respect to the Delaware Trustee, to First Union Trust Company, National
Association at the above address; and (c) with respect to the Administrative
Trustees, to them at the address above for notices to the Depositor, marked
"Attention: Administrative Trustees of Capital Trust." Such notice, demand or
other communication to or upon the Trust or the Property Trustee shall be
deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of
the writing by the Trust or the Property Trustee.
SECTION 1009. AGREEMENT NOT TO PETITION.
Each of the Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the
Securityholders that, until at least one year and one day after the Trust has
been terminated in accordance with Article IX, they shall not file, or join
in the filing of, a petition against the Trust under any bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law (including, without
limitation, the United States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended)
(collectively, "Bankruptcy Laws") or otherwise join in the commencement of
any proceeding against the Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. In the event the
Depositor or any of the Trustees takes action in violation of this Section
1009, the Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Securityholders, that
at the expense of the Depositor (which expense shall be paid prior to the
filing), it shall file an answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise
properly contest the filing of such petition by the Depositor or such Trustee
against the Trust or the commencement of such action and raise the defense
that the Depositor or such Trustee has agreed in writing not to take such
action and should be stopped and precluded therefrom. The provisions of this
Section 1009 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 1010. TRUST INDENTURE ACT; CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
(a) This Trust Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Trust Agreement and shall,
to the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Trustee which is a
trustee for the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with
another provision hereof which is required to be included in this Trust
Agreement by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required
provision shall control. If any provision of this Trust Agreement modifies or
excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so
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modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this
Trust Agreement as so modified or to be excluded, as the case may be. The
application of the Trust Indenture Act to this Trust Agreement shall not
affect the nature of the Securities as equity securities representing
undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.
SECTION 1011. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS OF TRUST AGREEMENT, GUARANTEE AND
INDENTURE.
THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST
THEREIN BY OR ON BEHALF OF A SECURITYHOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT
ANY SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE
UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE BY THE SECURITYHOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A
BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER
TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AND THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT
OF THE TRUST, SUCH SECURITYHOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND
PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE
AS BETWEEN THE TRUST AND SUCH SECURITYHOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.
SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS
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QUAD CITY HOLDINGS, INC.
By:_____________________________________________
Name:___________________________________________
Title:__________________________________________
FIRST UNION TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Property Trustee
By:_____________________________________________
Name:___________________________________________
Title:__________________________________________
FIRST UNION TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Delaware Trustee
By:_____________________________________________
Name:___________________________________________
Title:__________________________________________
________________________________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, As Administrative Trustee
________________________________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, As Administrative Trustee
________________________________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, As Administrative Trustee
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EXHIBIT A
CERTIFICATE OF TRUST
OF
QUAD CITY HOLDINGS CAPITAL TRUST I
THIS CERTIFICATE OF TRUST OF Quad City Holdings Capital Trust I (the
"Trust"), dated April __, 1999, is being duly executed and filed by First
Union Trust Company, National Association, a national banking association,
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx and Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, each an
individual, as trustees, to form a business trust under the Delaware Business
Trust Act (12 DEL. C. Section 3801 ET SEQ.)(the "Act").
1. NAME. The name of the business trust formed hereby is Quad City
Holdings Capital Trust I.
2. DELAWARE TRUSTEE. The name and business address of the trustee
of the Trust in the State of Delaware is First Union Trust Company, National
Association, One Xxxxxx Square, 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration.
3. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Certificate of Trust will be effective
upon filing.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Certificate
of Trust in accordance with Section 3811(a)(1) of the Act.
FIRST UNION TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Delaware trustee
By:_____________________________________________
Name:
Title:
________________________________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, as Administrative Trustee
________________________________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, as Administrative Trustee
________________________________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, as Administrative Trustee
EXHIBIT B
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE
Certificate Number 1 Number of Common Securities _________
Certificate Evidencing Common Securities
of
Quad City Holdings Capital Trust I
Common Securities
(liquidation amount $10 per Common Security)
QUAD CITY HOLDINGS CAPITAL TRUST I, a statutory business trust
created under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Trust"), hereby
certifies that QUAD CITY HOLDINGS, INC. (the "Holder") is the registered
owner of _______________ (_______) common securities of the Trust
representing undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust and
designated the ____% Common Securities (liquidation amount $10 per Common
Security) (the "Common Securities"). In accordance with Section 510 of the
Trust Agreement (as defined below), the Common Securities are not
transferable and any attempted transfer hereof shall be void. The
designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences, and other terms
and provisions of the Common Securities are set forth in, and this
certificate and the Common Securities represented hereby are issued and shall
in all respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and
Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of, [ ]1999, as the same may
be amended from time to time (the "Trust Agreement"), including the
designation of the terms of the Common Securities as set forth therein. The
Trust shall furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the Holder without
charge upon written request to the Trust at its principal place of business
or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrative Trustees of the Trust
has executed this certificate this ____ day of _________, 1999.
Quad City Holdings Capital Trust I
By:_____________________________________
Name:___________________________________
Title:__________________________________
EXHIBIT C
AGREEMENT AS TO EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES
AGREEMENT AS TO EXPENSES AND LIABILITIES (this "Agreement") dated as
of _________________ __, 1999, between QUAD CITY HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), and QUAD CITY HOLDINGS CAPITAL TRUST I, a
Delaware business trust (the "Trust").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Trust intends to issue its common securities (the "Common
Securities") to, and receive ____% Subordinated Debentures (the "Debentures")
from, the Company and to issue and sell Quad City Holdings Capital Trust I ___%
Cumulative Trust Capital Securities (the "Capital Securities") with such powers,
preferences and special rights and restrictions as are set forth in the Amended
and Restated Trust Agreement of the Trust dated as of ________ __, 1999, as the
same may be amended from time to time (the "Trust Agreement");
WHEREAS, the Company shall directly or indirectly own all of the Common
Securities of the Trust and shall issue the Debentures;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by each holder of the
Capital Securities, which purchase the Company hereby agrees shall benefit the
Company and which purchase the Company acknowledges shall be made in reliance
upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company, including in its
capacity as holder of the Common Securities, and the Trust hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
SECTION 1.1. GUARANTEE BY THE COMPANY.
Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Company, including
in its capacity as holder of the Common Securities, hereby irrevocably and
unconditionally guarantees to each person or entity to whom the Trust is now
or hereafter becomes indebted or liable (the
"Beneficiaries") the full payment when and as due, of any and all Obligations
(as hereinafter defined) to such Beneficiaries. As used herein, "Obligations"
means any costs, expenses or liabilities of the Trust other than obligations
of the Trust to pay to holders of any Capital Securities or other similar
interests in the Trust the amounts due such holders pursuant to the terms of
the Capital Securities or such other similar interests, as the case may be.
This Agreement is intended to be for the benefit of, and to be enforceable
by, all such Beneficiaries, whether or not such Beneficiaries have received
notice hereof.
SECTION 1.2. TERM OF AGREEMENT.
This Agreement shall terminate and be of no further force and effect
upon the later of (a) the date on which full payment has been made of all
amounts payable to all holders of all the Capital Securities (whether upon
redemption, liquidation, exchange or otherwise); and (b) the date on which
there are no Beneficiaries remaining; provided, however, that this Agreement
shall continue to be effective or shall be reinstated, as the case may be, if
at any time any holder of Capital Securities or any Beneficiary must restore
payment of any sums paid under the Capital Securities, under any obligation,
under the Capital Securities Guarantee Agreement dated the date hereof by the
Company and First Union Trust Company, National Association, as guarantee
trustee or under this Agreement for any reason whatsoever. This Agreement is
continuing, irrevocable, unconditional and absolute.
SECTION 1.3. WAIVER OF NOTICE.
The Company hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Agreement and
of any obligation to which it applies or may apply, and the Company hereby
waives presentment, demand for payment, protest, notice of nonpayment, notice
of dishonor, notice of redemption and all other notices and demands.
SECTION 1.4. NO IMPAIRMENT.
The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Company
under this Agreement shall in no way be affected or impaired by reason of the
happening from time to time of any of the following:
(a) the extension of time for the payment by the Trust of all or
any portion of the obligations or for the performance of any other obligation
under, arising out of, or in connection with, the obligations;
(b) any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part
of the Beneficiaries to enforce, assert or exercise any right, privilege,
power or remedy conferred on the Beneficiaries with respect to the
obligations or any action on the part of the Trust granting indulgence or
extension of any kind; or
(c) the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of
any collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the
benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement composition or readjustment
of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the
Trust or any of the assets of the Trust. There shall be no obligation of the
Beneficiaries to give notice to, or obtain the consent of, the Company with
respect to the happening of any of the foregoing.
SECTION 1.5. ENFORCEMENT.
A Beneficiary may enforce this Agreement directly against the
Company, and the Company waives any right or remedy to require that any
action be brought against the Trust or any other person or entity before
proceeding against the Company.
ARTICLE II
SECTION 2.1. BINDING EFFECT.
All guarantees and agreements contained in this Agreement shall bind
the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of the
Company and shall inure to the benefit of the Beneficiaries.
SECTION 2.2. AMENDMENT.
So long as there remains any Beneficiary or any Capital Securities
of any series are outstanding, this Agreement shall not be modified or
amended in any manner adverse to such Beneficiary or to any of the holders of
the Capital Securities.
SECTION 2.3. NOTICES.
Any notice, request or other communication required or permitted to
be given hereunder shall be given in writing by delivering the same by
facsimile transmission (confirmed by mail), telex, or by registered or
certified mail, addressed as follows (and if so given, shall be deemed given
when mailed or upon receipt of an answer back, if sent by telex):
Quad City Holdings Capital Trust I
c/o Quad City Holdings, Inc.
0000 0xx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Facsimile No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, Administrative Trustee
Quad City Holdings, Inc.
0000 0xx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Facsimile No.: (000) 000-0000
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, President
SECTION 2.4 This agreement shall be governed by and construed and
interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware (without
regard to conflict of laws principles).
THIS AGREEMENT is executed as of the day and year first above written.
QUAD CITY HOLDINGS, INC.
By:_____________________________________
Name:___________________________________
Title:__________________________________
QUAD CITY HOLDINGS CAPITAL TRUST I
By:_____________________________________
Name:___________________________________
Title: Administrative Trustee
EXHIBIT D
Certificate Number ____________ Number of Capital Securities ____________
Certificate Evidencing Capital Securities
of
Quad City Holdings Capital Trust I
____% Cumulative Trust Capital Securities
(liquidation amount $10 per Capital Security)
CUSIP ____________
Quad City Holdings Capital Trust I, a statutory business trust created
under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Trust"), hereby certifies that
_________________ (the "Holder") is the registered owner of _________ Capital
securities of the Trust representing undivided beneficial interests in the
assets of the Trust and designated the _____% Cumulative Trust Capital
Securities (liquidation amount $10 per Capital Security) (the "Capital
Securities"). The Capital Securities are transferable on the books and records
of the Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this
certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer as provided in Section
504 of the Trust Agreement (as defined herein). The designations, rights,
privileges, restrictions, preferences, and other terms and provisions of the
Capital Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and the Capital
Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be subject to
the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement of the
Trust dated as of _______ __, 1999, as the same may be amended from time to time
(the "Trust Agreement"), including the designation of the terms of Capital
Securities as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the
Capital Securities Guarantee Agreement entered into by Quad City Holdings, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation, and First Union Trust Company, National Association, as
guarantee trustee, dated as of [ ], 1999, as the same may be amended from time
to time (the "Guarantee"), to the extent provided therein. The Trust shall
furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement and the
Guarantee to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Trust at
its principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
Unless the Certificate of Authentication has been manually executed
by the Authentication Agent, this certificate is not valid or effective.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Administrative Trustees of the Trust have
executed this Certificate this ____ day of _________.
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION: QUAD CITY HOLDINGS CAPITAL
TRUST I
This is one of the ____% Cumulative
Trust Capital Securities
Referred to in the within mentioned By: ________________________________
Amended and Restated Trust Agreement. Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, as
Administrative Trustee
By: ________________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, as
Administrative Trustee
FIRST UNION TRUST COMPANY,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Authentication Agent and Registrar
By: ________________________________
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx, as
Administrative Trustee
By:__________________________________
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE
FORM OF REVERSE OF CERTIFICATE
The Trust will furnish without charge to any registered owner of
Capital Securities who so requests, a copy of the Trust Agreement and the
Guarantee. Any such request should be in writing and addressed to Quad City
Holdings Capital Trust I, c/o Quad City Holdings, Inc., 0000 0xx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000 or to the Registrar named on the face of
this Certificate.
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the
face of this Certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out
in full according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN CON - as tenants in common
TEN ENT - as tenants in the entireties
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survival
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - under Uniform Gift to Minors Act and not as tenants
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sells, assigns and
transfers unto:
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
(Please insert social security or other identifying number of assignee)
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
(insert address and zip code of assignee)
the within Certificate and all rights and interests represented by the
Capital Securities evidenced thereby, and hereby irrevocably constitutes and
appoints attorney to transfer the said Capital Securities on the books of the
within-named Trust with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:_______________________________ Signature: _________________________
Note: The signature(s) to this
assignment must correspond with
the name(s) as written upon the
face of this Certificate in
every particular, without
alteration or enlargement, or
any change whatever.
Signature(s) Guaranteed:
NOTICE: Signature(s) must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution"
that is a member or participant in a "signature guarantee program" (i.e., the
Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program, the Stock Exchange Medallion
Program or the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. Medallion Signature Program).
EXHIBIT E
FORM OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the ____% Cumulative Trust Capital Securities referred
to in the within-mentioned Amended and Restated Trust Agreement.
FIRST UNION TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Authentication Agent and
Registrar
By: ______________________________________
AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE
