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EXHIBIT 4.20
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CONSECO, INC.
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO,
AS PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT
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FORM OF PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT
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DATED AS OF DECEMBER __, 1997
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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RECITALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 1.1. Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Section 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 1.4. Acts of Holders; Record Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Section 1.5. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 1.7. Effect of Headings and Table of
Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 1.8. Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.9. Separability Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.10. Benefits of Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.11. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.12. Legal Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Section 1.13. Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 1.14. Inspection of Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
ARTICLE II
Certificate Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 2.1. Forms of Certificates Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 2.2. Form of Agent's Certificate of
Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
ARTICLE III
The Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Section 3.1. Title and Terms; Denominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Section 3.2. Rights and Obligations Evidenced by the Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Section 3.4. Temporary Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Section 3.5. Registration; Registration of
Transfer and Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Section 3.6. Book-Entry Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Section 3.7. Notices to Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Section 3.8. Appointment of Successor Clearing Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Section 3.9. Definitive Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Section 3.10. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Section 3.11. Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Section 3.12. Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Section 3.13. Substitution of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Section 3.14. Reestablishment of Income PRIDES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Section 3.15. Transfer of Collateral upon
Occurrence of Termination Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Section 3.16. No Consent to Assumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
ARTICLE IV
The Preferred Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Section 4.1. Payment of Distribution; Rights to Distributions Preserved; Distribution Rate Reset; Notice . . . . 37
Section 4.2. Notice and Voting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Section 4.3. Distribution of Debentures; Tax Event Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
ARTICLE V
The Purchase Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Section 5.1. Purchase of Shares of Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Section 5.2. Contract Adjustment Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Section 5.3. Deferral of Payment Dates For
Contract Adjustment Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Section 5.4. Payment of Purchase Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
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Section 5.5. Issuance of Shares of Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Section 5.6. Adjustment of Settlement Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Section 5.7. Notice of Adjustments and Certain Other Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Section 5.8. Termination Event; Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Section 5.9. Early Settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Section 5.10. No Fractional Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Section 5.11. Charges and Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
ARTICLE VI
Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 6.1. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Contract Adjustment Payments and to Purchase Common
Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 6.2. Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Section 6.3. Rights and Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Section 6.4. Delay or Omission Not Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Section 6.5. Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Section 6.6. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ARTICLE VII
The Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Section 7.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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Section 7.2. Notice of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Section 7.3. Certain Rights of Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Section 7.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 7.5. May Hold Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 7.6. Money Held in Custody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Section 7.7. Compensation and Reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Section 7.8. Corporate Agent Required; Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Section 7.9. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Section 7.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Section 7.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Section 7.12. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Section 7.13. No Obligations of Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Section 7.14. Tax Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
ARTICLE VIII
Supplemental Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Section 8.1. Supplemental Agreements Without
Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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Section 8.2. Supplemental Agreements with Consent of Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Section 8.3. Execution of Supplemental Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Section 8.4. Effect of Supplemental Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Section 8.5. Reference to Supplemental Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
ARTICLE IX
Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Conveyance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Section 9.1. Covenant Not to Merge, Consolidate, Sell or Convey Property Except Under Certain Conditions . . . . 80
Section 9.2. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Section 9.3. Opinion of Counsel to Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
ARTICLE X
Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Section 10.1. Performance Under Purchase Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Section 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Section 10.3. Company to Reserve Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Section 10.4. Covenants as to Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Section 10.5. Statements of Officers of the Company as to Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
EXHIBIT A Form of Income PRIDES Certificate
EXHIBIT B Form of Growth PRIDES Certificate
EXHIBIT C Instruction to Collateral Agent
EXHIBIT D Instruction to Purchase Contract Agent
EXHIBIT E Notice to Settle with Separate Cash
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PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT, dated as of December __, 1997, between
Conseco, Inc., an Indiana corporation (the "Company"), and The First National
Bank of Chicago, a national banking association, acting as purchase contract
agent for the Holders of Securities from time to time (the "Agent").
RECITALS
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the Certificates evidencing the Securities.
All things necessary to make the Purchase Contracts, when the
Certificates are executed by the Company and authenticated, executed on behalf
of the Holders and delivered by the Agent, as provided in this Agreement, the
valid obligations of the Company, and to constitute these presents a valid
agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Applications
Section 1.1. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular; and nouns
and pronouns of the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter genders
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(b) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States;
(c) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision;
(d) the following terms have the meanings given to them in the
Declaration: (i) Applicable Ownership Interest; (ii) Applicable Principal
Amount; (iii) Authorized Newspaper; (iv) Indenture, (v) Investment Company
Event; (vi) Liquidation Distribution; (vii) Preferred Securities Guarantee;
(viii) Primary Treasury Dealer; (ix) Quotation Agent; (x) Redemption Amount;
(xi) Redemption Price; (xii) Reset Agent; (xiii) Reset Announcement Date; (xiv)
Reset Rate; (xv) Reset Spread; (xvi) Tax Event; (xvii) Tax Event Redemption;
(xviii) Tax Event Redemption Date; (xix) Two-Year Benchmark Treasury; (xx)
Treasury Portfolio; and (xxi) Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price; and
(e) the following terms have the meanings given to them in this
Section 1.1(e).
"Act" when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified
in Section 1.4.
"Affiliate"has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 of
the Securities Act or any successor rule thereunder.
"Agent" means the Person named as the "Agent" in the first paragraph
of this instrument until a successor Agent shall have become such pursuant to
the applicable provisions of this Agreement, and thereafter "Agent" shall mean
such Person.
"Agreement" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more agreements
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
"Applicable Market Value" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
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"Bankruptcy Code" means title 11 of the United States Code, or any
other law of the United States that from time to time provides a uniform system
of bankruptcy laws.
"Beneficial Owner" means, with respect to a Book-Entry Interest, a
Person who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Interest as reflected on
the books of the Clearing Agency or on the books of a Person maintaining an
account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency Participant or
as an indirect participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such
Clearing Agency).
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or a
duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means one or more resolutions of the Board of
Directors, a copy of which has been certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors
and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification and
delivered to the Agent.
"Book-Entry Interest" means a beneficial interest in a Global
Certificate, ownership and transfers of which shall be maintained and made
through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 3.6.
"Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any
other day on which banking institutions in Xxx Xxxx Xxxx (xx xxx Xxxxx xx Xxx
Xxxx) are permitted or required by any applicable law to close.
"Cash Settlement" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.4(a)(i).
"Certificate" means an Income PRIDES Certificate or a Growth PRIDES
Certificate.
"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "Clearing
Agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act that is acting as a
depositary for the Securities and in whose name, or in the name of a nominee of
that organization, shall be registered a Global Certificate and which shall
undertake to effect book entry transfers and pledges of the Securities.
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"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time the Clearing
Agency effects book entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with
the Clearing Agency.
"Closing Price" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Collateral" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 of the Pledge
Agreement.
"Collateral Agent" means The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Collateral Agent
under the Pledge Agreement until a successor Collateral Agent shall have become
such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Pledge Agreement, and
thereafter "Collateral Agent" shall mean the Person who is then the Collateral
Agent thereunder.
"Collateral Substitution" has the meaning specified in Section 3.13.
"Common Stock" means the Common Stock, no par value, of the Company.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor shall have become such pursuant
to the applicable provision of this Agreement, and thereafter "Company" shall
mean such successor.
"Contract Adjustment Payments" means the fee payable by the Company in
respect of each Purchase Contract, equal to ____% per annum of the Stated
Amount (provided that if such percentage is 0%, then no such payment shall be
payable by the Company), computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30
day months, plus any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued pursuant to
Section 5.2.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal corporate trust office of
the Agent at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall
be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at Xxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust
Services Division, except that for purposes of Section 10.2, such term shall
mean the office or agency of the Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, the City of
New York, which office at the date hereof is located at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000.
"Coupon Rate" means the percentage rate per annum at which each
Debenture will bear interest initially.
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"Current Market Price" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(8).
"Debentures" means the series of debentures of the Company designated
the ____% Junior Subordinated Debentures due February 16, 2003, to be issued
under the Indenture as of the date hereof.
"Declaration" means the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of
Conseco Financing Trust IV, dated December __, 1997, among the Company, as the
sponsor, the trustees named therein and the holders from time to time of
individual beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.
"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments" has the meaning specified in
Section 5.3.
"Depositary" means, initially, DTC until another Clearing Agency
becomes its successor.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency.
"Early Settlement" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
"Early Settlement Amount" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
"Early Settlement Date" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
"Early Settlement Rate" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(b).
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any
statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
"Expiration Time" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(6).
"Global Certificate" means a Certificate that evidences all or part of
the Securities and is registered in the name of a Depositary or a nominee
thereof.
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"Global Preferred Security Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
the rights and obligations of a holder in respect of the number of Preferred
Securities specified on such certificate and which is registered in the name of
a Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof.
"Growth PRIDES" means, following the substitution of one or more
Treasury Securities for Preferred Securities or the Applicable Ownership
Interest, as the case may be, as collateral to secure a holder's obligations
under a Purchase Contract, the collective rights and obligations of a holder of
a Growth PRIDES Certificate in respect of such Treasury Securities, subject in
each case to the Pledge thereof, and the related Purchase Contract.
"Growth PRIDES Certificate" means a certificate evidencing the rights
and obligations of a Holder in respect of the number of Growth PRIDES specified
on such certificate.
"Growth PRIDES Register" and "Growth PRIDES Registrar" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.
"Holder," when used with respect to a Security, means the Person in
whose name the Security evidenced by an Income PRIDES Certificate and/or a
Growth PRIDES Certificate is registered in the related Income PRIDES Register
and/or the Growth PRIDES Register, as the case may be.
"Income PRIDES" means the collective rights and obligations of a
Holder of an Income PRIDES Certificate in respect of a Preferred Security or an
Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may be, subject in each case to the
Pledge thereof, and the related Purchase Contract.
"Income PRIDES Certificate" means a certificate evidencing the rights
and obligations of a Holder in respect of the number of Income PRIDES specified
on such certificate.
"Income PRIDES Register" and "Income PRIDES Registrar" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.
"Indenture" has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1 of the
Declaration.
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"Indenture Trustee" means The First National Bank of Chicago, a
national banking association, as trustee under the Indenture, or any successor
thereto.
"Institutional Trustee" means The First National Bank of Chicago, as
institutional trustee under the Declaration, or any successor thereto that is a
financial institution unaffiliated with the Company.
"Issuer Order" or "Issuer Request" means a written order or request
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, any Vice
Chairman, its President or a Vice President and by its Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Agent.
"NYSE" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, any Vice Chairman of the Board, the President, any Vice President,
the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant
Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Agent.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by legal
counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or an Affiliate
and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Agent.
"Outstanding Securities," with respect to any Income PRIDES or Growth
PRIDES, means, as of the date of determination, all Income PRIDES or Growth
PRIDES evidenced by Certificates theretofore authenticated, executed and
delivered under this Agreement, except:
(i) If a Termination Event has occurred, (A) Growth PRIDES
and (B) Income PRIDES for which the Stated Amount of the related
Preferred Security or the principal amount of the related Applicable
Ownership Interest, or a Liquidation Distribution in respect of such
Preferred Security, as the case may be, has been theretofore deposited
with the Agent in trust for the Holders of such Income PRIDES;
(ii) Income PRIDES and Growth PRIDES evidenced by
Certificates theretofore cancelled by the Agent or delivered to the
Agent for cancellation or deemed cancelled pursuant to the provisions
of this Agreement; and
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(iii) Income PRIDES and Growth PRIDES evidenced by
Certificates in exchange for or in lieu of which other Certificates
have been authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holder and
delivered pursuant to this Agreement, other than any such Certificate
in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Agent proof
satisfactory to it that such Certificate is held by a bona fide
purchaser in whose hands the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES evidenced
by such Certificate are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
number of the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Income PRIDES or
Growth PRIDES owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Agent shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Income PRIDES or
Growth PRIDES which a Responsible Officer of the Agent knows to be so owned
shall be so disregarded. Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES so owned which have
been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding Securities if the
pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Agent the pledgee's right so to
act with respect to such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES and that the pledgee is
not the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
"Payment Date" means each February 16, May 16, August 16 and November
16, commencing February 16, 1998.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
"Permitted Investments" has the meaning set forth in Section 1 of the
Pledge Agreement.
"Pledge" means the pledge under the Pledge Agreement of the Preferred
Securities, the Treasury Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, in each case
constituting a part of the Securities.
"Pledge Agreement" means the Pledge Agreement, dated as of the date
hereof, by and among the Company, the Collateral Agent and the Agent, on its
own behalf and as attorney-in-fact for the Holders from time to time of the
Securities.
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"Predecessor Certificate" means a Predecessor Income PRIDES
Certificate or a Predecessor Growth PRIDES Certificate.
"Predecessor Growth PRIDES Certificate" of any particular Growth
PRIDES Certificate means every previous Growth PRIDES Certificate evidencing
all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Holder
under the Growth PRIDES evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Growth PRIDES Certificate authenticated and delivered under
Section 3.10 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Growth PRIDES Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights
and obligations of the Company and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Growth PRIDES Certificate.
"Predecessor Income PRIDES Certificate" of any particular Income
PRIDES Certificate means every previous Income PRIDES Certificate evidencing
all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Holder
under the Income PRIDES evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Income PRIDES Certificate authenticated and delivered under
Section 3.10 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Income PRIDES Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights
and obligations of the Company and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Income PRIDES Certificate.
"Preferred Securities" means the ____% Trust Originated Preferred
Securities of the Trust, each having a stated liquidation amount of $50,
representing preferred undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the
Trust.
"Proceeds" has the meaning set forth in Section 1 of the Pledge
Agreement.
"Purchase Contract," when used with respect to any Security, means the
contract forming a part of such Security and obligating the Company to (i) sell
and the Holder of such Security to purchase Common Stock and (ii) pay the
Holder Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in Article Five hereof.
"Purchase Contract Settlement Date" means February 16, 2001.
"Purchase Contract Settlement Fund" has the meaning specified in
Section 5.5.
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"Purchase Price" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Purchased Shares" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(6).
"Record Date" for the distribution and Contract Adjustment Payments
payable on any Payment Date means, as to any Global Certificate, the Business
Day next preceding such Payment Date, and as to any other Certificate, a day
selected by the Company which shall be more than one Business Day but less than
60 Business Days prior to such Payment Date.
"Register" means the Income PRIDES Register and the Growth PRIDES
Register.
"Registrar" means the Income PRIDES Registrar and the Growth PRIDES
Registrar.
"Remarketing Agent" has the meaning specified in Section 5.4.
"Remarketing Agreement" means the Remarketing Agreement dated December
__, 1997 by and between the Company, the Trust, the Remarketing Agent and the
Purchase Contract Agent.
"Remarketing Fee" has the meaning specified in Section 5.4.
"Remarketing Underwriting Agreement" has the meaning specified in the
Remarketing Agreement.
"Reorganization Event" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(b).
"Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Agent, means any
officer of the Agent assigned by the Agent to administer its corporate trust
matters.
"Security" means an Income PRIDES or a Growth PRIDES.
"Settlement Rate" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Stated Amount" means $50.
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"Termination Date" means the date, if any, on which a Termination
Event occurs.
"Termination Event" means the occurrence of any of the following
events: (i) at any time on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, a
judgment, decree or court order shall have been entered granting relief under
the Bankruptcy Code, adjudicating the Company to be insolvent, or approving as
properly filed a petition seeking reorganization or liquidation of the Company
or any other similar applicable Federal or State law, and, unless such
judgment, decree or order shall have been entered within 60 days prior to the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date, such decree or order shall have continued
undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or (ii) a judgment, decree
or court order for the appointment of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or
assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of its property, or for
the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered, and,
unless such judgment, decree or order shall have been entered within 60 days
prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, such judgment, decree or order
shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days, or
(iii) at any time on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date the
Company shall file a petition for relief under the Bankruptcy Code, or shall
consent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall file a
petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or liquidation under the
Bankruptcy Code or any other similar applicable Federal or State law, or shall
consent to the filing of any such petition, or shall consent to the appointment
of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency
of it or of its property, or shall make an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally
as they become due.
"Threshold Appreciation Price" has the meaning specified in Section
5.1.
"TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or any
successor statute.
"Trading Day" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Treasury Security" means zero-coupon U.S. Treasury Securities (Cusip
Number 912820 A20) which are the principal strip of the 7 3/4% U.S. Treasury
Securities which mature on February 15, 2001.
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"Trust" means Conseco Financing Trust IV, a statutory business trust
formed under the laws of the State of Delaware, or any successor thereto by
merger or consolidation.
"Underwriting Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement dated
December __, 1997 between the Company, the Trust, and Xxxxxxx Lynch, Pierce,
Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated, Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation,
PaineWebber Incorporated, SBC Warburg Dillon Read Inc., Xxxxxx Xxxx LLP, and
Sands Brothers & Co., Ltd.
"Vice President" means any vice president, whether or not designated
by a number or a word or words added before or after the title "vice
president."
Section 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Agreement, upon any
application or request by the Company to the Agent to take any action under any
provision of this Agreement, the Company shall furnish to the Agent an
Officer's Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided
for in this Agreement relating to the proposed action have been complied with
and, if requested by the Agent, an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent, if any, have been
complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to
which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any
provision of this Agreement relating to such particular application or request,
no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Agreement shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual,
he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary
to enable such
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individual to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such
covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Agent.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representa- tions with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Agreement, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Section 1.4. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Agreement to be given or taken
by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when
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such instrument or instruments are delivered to the Agent and, where it is
hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and
the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes
referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments.
Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such
agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Agreement and (subject to
Section 7.1) conclusive in favor of the Agent and the Company, if made in the
manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved in any manner which the Agent deems
sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Income
PRIDES Register or the Growth PRIDES Register, as the case may be.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Certificate shall bind every
future Holder of the same Certificate and the Holder of every Certificate
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
Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such
action is made upon such Certificate.
(e) The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose
of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to give, make or
take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided or permitted by this Agreement to be given, made or taken
by Holders of Securities. If any record date is set pursuant to this
paragraph, the Holders of the Outstanding Income PRIDES and the Outstanding
Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, on such record date, and no other Holders,
shall be entitled to take the relevant action with respect to the Income PRIDES
or the Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective
hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders
of the requisite number of Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing
in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting a new
record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set
pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall
automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect),
and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any
action taken by Holders of the requisite number of Outstanding Securities on
the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant
to this paragraph,
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the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the
proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to
the Agent in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth
in Section 1.6.
With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the
Company may designate any date as the "Expiration Date" and from time to time
may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no
such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration
Date is given to the Agent in writing, and to each Holder of Securities in the
manner set forth in Section 1.6, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date.
If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set
pursuant to this Section, the Company shall be deemed to have initially
designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with
respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided
in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be
later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
Section 1.5. Notices.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Agreement to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Agent by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing
and personally delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
the Agent at One First Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-
0126, Attention: Corporate Trust Services Division, or at any other
address previously furnished in writing by the Agent to the Holders
and the Company; or
(2) the Company by the Agent or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing
and personally delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
the Company at Conseco, Inc., 00000 X. Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Secretary, or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Agent by the Company; or
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(3) the Collateral Agent by the Agent, the Company or any
Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless
otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing and personally delivered or mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, addressed to the Collateral Agent at The Chase
Manhattan Bank, 000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, 00XX, XX, XX 00000, Attention:
Corporate Trust Trustee Administration, or at any other address
previously furnished in writing by the Collateral Agent to the Agent,
the Company and the Holders; or
(4) the Institutional Trustee by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and
personally delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, addressed
to the Institutional Trustee at One First Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx 0000,
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust Services Division,
or at any other address previously furnished in writing by the
Institutional Trustee to the Company; or
(5) the Indenture Trustee by the Company shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless other- wise herein expressly
provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and personally
delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, addressed to the
Indenture Trustee at One First Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, XX
00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust Services Division, or at any
other address previously furnished in writing by the Indenture Trustee
to the Company.
Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Agreement provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event, at its address as it appears in the applicable Register, not
later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed
for the giving of such notice. In any case where notice to Holders is given by
mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so
mailed to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice
with respect to other Holders. Where this Agreement provides for notice in any
manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive
such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be
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filed with the Agent, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to
the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by
mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Agent
shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 1.7. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.8. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Agreement by the Company shall
bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.9. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Agreement or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions hereof and thereof shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
Section 1.10. Benefits of Agreement.
Nothing in this Agreement or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder and, to the extent provided hereby, the Holders, any benefits or any
legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement. The Holders
from time to time shall be beneficiaries of this Agreement and shall be bound
by all of the terms and conditions hereof and of the Securities evidenced by
their Certificates by their acceptance of delivery of such Certificates.
Section 1.11. Governing Law.
This Agreement and the Securities shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
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Section 1.12. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Payment Date shall not be a Business Day, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or the Income PRIDES
Certificates or the Growth PRIDES Certificates) payment of the Contract
Adjustment Payments, if any, shall not be made on such date, but such payments
shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and
effect as if made on such Payment Date, provided that no interest shall accrue
or be payable by the Company or any Holder for the period from and after any
such Payment Date, except that, if such next succeeding Business Day is in the
next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such
Payment Date.
In any case where any Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall not be a
Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the
Income PRIDES Certificates or the Growth PRIDES Certificates), the Purchase
Contracts shall not be performed on such date, but the Purchase Contracts shall
be performed on the immediately preceding Business Day with the same force and
effect as if performed on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
Section 1.13. Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts by the
parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed and
delivered, shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute one and the same instrument.
Section 1.14. Inspection of Agreement.
A copy of this Agreement shall be available at all reasonable times
during normal business hours at the Corporate Trust Office for inspection by
any Holder.
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ARTICLE II
Certificate Forms
Section 2.1. Forms of Certificates Generally.
The Income PRIDES Certificates (including the form of Purchase
Contract forming part of the Income PRIDES evidenced thereby) shall be in
substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, with such letters,
numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or
endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by
the rules of any securities exchange on which the Income PRIDES are listed or
any depositary therefor, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers of the Company executing such Income PRIDES Certificates, as evidenced
by their execution of the Income PRIDES Certificates.
The definitive Income PRIDES Certificates shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing the
Income PRIDES evidenced by such Income PRIDES Certificates, consistent with the
provisions of this Agreement, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
The Growth PRIDES Certificates (including the form of Purchase
Contracts forming part of the Growth PRIDES evidenced thereby) shall be in
substantially the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto, with such letters,
numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or
endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by
the rules of any securities exchange on which the Growth PRIDES may be listed
or any depositary therefor, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by
the officers of the Company executing such Growth PRIDES Certificates, as
evidenced by their execution of the Growth PRIDES Certificates.
The definitive Growth PRIDES Certificates shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing the
Growth PRIDES evidenced by such Growth PRIDES Certificates, consistent with the
provisions of this Agreement, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
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Every Global Certificate authenticated, executed on behalf of the
Holders and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the
following form:
THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT (AS HEREINAFTER DEFINED) AND IS REGISTERED
IN THE NAME OF THE CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS
CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A CERTIFICATE
REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE IN WHOLE OR IN PART
MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH CLEARING
AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES
DESCRIBED IN THE PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT.
Section 2.2. Form of Agent's Certificate of
Authentication.
The form of the Agent's certificate of authentication of the Income
PRIDES shall be in substantially the form set forth on the form of the Income
PRIDES Certificates.
The form of the Agent's certificate of authentication of the Growth
PRIDES shall be in substantially the form set forth on the form of the Growth
PRIDES Certificates.
ARTICLE III
The Securities
Section 3.1. Title and Terms; Denominations.
The aggregate number of Income PRIDES evidenced by Certificates
authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered hereunder is
limited to 11,500,000 except for Certificates authenticated, executed and
delivered upon registration of transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of,
other Certificates pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.10, 3.13, 3.14, 5.9 or 8.5.
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The Certificates shall be issuable only in registered form and only in
denominations of a single Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES and any integral
multiple thereof.
Section 3.2. Rights and Obligations Evidenced by the Certificates.
Each Income PRIDES Certificate shall evidence the number of Income
PRIDES specified therein, with each such Income PRIDES representing the
ownership by the Holder thereof of a beneficial interest in a Preferred
Security with a stated liquidation amount equal to the Stated Amount or an
Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may be, subject to the Pledge of
such Preferred Security or Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may be,
by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and the rights and obligations
of the Holder thereof and the Company under one Purchase Contract. The Agent
as attorney-in-fact for, and on behalf of, each Holder of Income PRIDES shall
pledge, pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Preferred Security or Applicable
Ownership Interest, as the case may be, forming a part of such Holder's Income
PRIDES, to the Collateral Agent and grant to the Collateral Agent a security
interest in the right, title, and interest of such Holder in such Preferred
Security or Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may be, for the benefit
of the Company, to secure the obligation of the Holder under the Purchase
Contracts to purchase the Common Stock of the Company. Prior to the purchase
of shares of Common Stock under the Purchase Contracts, such Purchase Contracts
shall not entitle the Holders of Income PRIDES Certificates to any of the
rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock, including, without limitation,
the right to vote or receive any dividends or other payments or to consent or
to receive notice as stockholders in respect of the meetings of stockholders or
for the election of directors of the Company or for any other matter, or any
other rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company.
Each Growth PRIDES Certificate shall evidence the number of Growth
PRIDES specified therein, with each such Growth PRIDES representing the
ownership by the Holder thereof of a 1/20 undivided beneficial interest in a
Treasury Security with a principal amount equal to $1,000 or Applicable
Ownership Interest, as the case may be, subject to the Pledge of such Treasury
Security or Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may be, by such Holder
pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and the rights and obligations of the Holder
thereof and the Company under one Purchase Contract. Prior to the purchase, if
any, of shares of Common Stock under the Purchase Contracts, such Growth PRIDES
Certificates shall not entitle the Holders of Growth PRIDES Certificates to any
of the rights of a holder of shares of
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Common Stock, including, without limitation, the right to vote or receive any
dividends or other payments or to consent or to receive notice as stockholders
in respect of the meetings of stockholders or for the election of directors of
the Company or for any other matter, or any other rights whatsoever as
stockholders of the Company.
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery
and Dating.
Subject to the provisions of Sections 3.13 and 3.14 hereof, upon the
execution and delivery of this Agreement, and at any time and from time to time
thereafter, the Company may deliver Certificates executed by the Company to the
Agent for authentication, execution on behalf of the Holders and delivery,
together with its Issuer Order for authentication of such Certificates, and the
Agent in accordance with such Issuer Order shall authenticate, execute on
behalf of the Holders and deliver such Certificates.
The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its President or one of
its Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by
its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of
these officers on the Certificates may be manual or facsimile.
Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did
not hold such offices at the date of such Certificates.
No Purchase Contract evidenced by a Certificate shall be valid until
such Certificate has been executed on behalf of the Holder by the manual
signature of an authorized signatory of the Agent, as such Holder's
attorney-in-fact. Such signature by an authorized signatory of the Agent shall
be conclusive evidence that the Holder of such Certificate has entered into the
Purchase Contracts evidenced by such Certificate.
Each Certificate shall be dated the date of its authentication.
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No Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under this Agreement
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such
Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein executed by an authorized signatory of the Agent by manual
signature, and such certificate upon any Certificate shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Certificate has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 3.4. Temporary Certificates.
Pending the preparation of definitive Certificates, the Company shall
execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on
behalf of the Holders, and deliver, in lieu of such definitive Certificates,
temporary Certificates which are in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit
A or Exhibit B hereto, as the case may be, with such letters, numbers or other
marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements
printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by the rules of
any securities exchange on which the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES are listed,
or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers of the Company
executing such Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of the
Certificates.
If temporary Certificates are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Certificates to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the
preparation of definitive Certificates, the temporary Certificates shall be
exchangeable for definitive Certificates upon surrender of the temporary
Certificates at the Corporate Trust Office, at the expense of the Company and
without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or
more temporary Certificates, the Company shall execute and deliver to the
Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and
deliver in exchange therefor, one or more definitive Certificates of like tenor
and denominations and evidencing a like number of Income PRIDES or Growth
PRIDES, as the case may be, as the temporary Certificate or Certificates so
surrendered. Until so exchanged, the temporary Certificates shall in all
respects evidence the same benefits and the same obligations with respect to
the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, evidenced thereby as
definitive Certificates.
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Section 3.5. Registration; Registration of Transfer
and Exchange.
The Agent shall keep at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the
"Income PRIDES Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as
it may prescribe, the Agent shall provide for the registration of Income PRIDES
Certificates and of transfers of Income PRIDES Certificates (the Agent, in such
capacity, the "Income PRIDES Registrar") and a Register (the "Growth PRIDES
Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Agent shall provide for the registration of the Growth PRIDES
Certificates following Collateral Substitutions and transfers of Growth PRIDES
Certificates (the Agent, in such capacity, the "Growth PRIDES Registrar").
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the
Corporate Trust Office, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and
the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the designated transferee or
transferees, and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Certificates of any authorized denominations, like
tenor, and evidencing a like number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the
case may be.
At the option of the Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other
Certificates, of any authorized denominations and evidencing a like number of
Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, upon surrender of the
Certificates to be exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office. Whenever any
Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute and
deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of
the Holder, and deliver the Certificates which the Holder making the exchange
is entitled to receive.
All Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange
of a Certificate shall evidence the ownership of the same number of Income
PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, and be entitled to the same
benefits and subject to the same obligations, under this Agreement as the
Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, evidenced by the
Certificate surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Agent) be duly endorsed,
or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Agent duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney
duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of a Certificate, but the Company and the Agent may require payment
from the
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Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that
may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of
Certificates, other than any exchanges pursuant to Sections 3.6 and 8.5 not
involving any transfer.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to
execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall not be obligated to
authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder and deliver any Certificate
presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange on or
after the Business Day immediately preceding the earlier of the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date or the Termination Date. In lieu of delivery of a new
Certificate, upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions specified above in
this Section and receipt of appropriate registration or transfer instructions
from such Holder, the Agent shall (i) if the Purchase Contract Settlement Date
has occurred, deliver the shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of the
Purchase Contracts forming a part of the Securities evidenced by such
Certificate, (ii) in the case of Income PRIDES, if a Termination Event shall
have occurred prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, transfer the
aggregate Stated Amount of the Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio,
as applicable, evidenced thereby, or (iii) in the case of Growth PRIDES, if a
Termination Event shall have occurred prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date, transfer the Treasury Securities evidenced thereby, in each case subject
to the applicable conditions and in accordance with the applicable provisions
of Article Five hereof.
Section 3.6. Book-Entry Interests.
The Certificates, on original issuance, will be issued in the form of
one or more, fully registered Global Certificates, to be delivered to the
Depositary by, or on behalf of, the Company. Such Global Certificate shall
initially be registered on the books and records of the Company in the name of
Cede & Co., the nominee of the Depositary, and no Beneficial Owner will receive
a definitive Certificate representing such Beneficial Owner's interest in such
Global Certificate, except as provided in Section 3.9. The Agent shall enter
into an agreement with the Depositary if so requested by the Company. Unless
and until definitive, fully registered Certificates have been issued to
Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section 3.9:
(a) the provisions of this Section 3.6 shall be in full
force and effect;
(b) the Company shall be entitled to deal with the
Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Agreement (including the payment of
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Adjustment Payments, if any, and receiving approvals, votes or consents
hereunder) as the Holder of the Securities and the sole holder of the Global
Certificate(s) and shall have no obligation to the Beneficial Owners;
(c) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 3.6
conflict with any other provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this
Section 3.6 shall control; and
(d) the rights of the Beneficial Owners shall be
exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those
established by law and agreements between such Beneficial Owners and the
Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants. The Clearing Agency
will make book entry transfers among Clearing Agency Participants and receive
and transmit payments of Contract Adjustment Payments to such Clearing Agency
Participants.
Section 3.7. Notices to Holders.
Whenever a notice or other communication to the Holders is required to
be given under this Agreement, the Company or the Company's agent shall give
such notices and communications to the Holders and, with respect to any
Securities registered in the name of a Clearing Agency or the nominee of a
Clearing Agency, the Company or the Company's agent shall, except as set forth
herein, have no obligations to the Beneficial Owners.
Section 3.8. Appointment of Successor Clearing Agency.
If any Clearing Agency elects to discontinue its services as
securities depositary with respect to the Securities, the Company may, in its
sole discretion, appoint a successor Clearing Agency with respect to the
Securities.
Section 3.9. Definitive Certificates.
If (i) a Clearing Agency elects to discontinue its services as
securities depositary with respect to the Securities and a successor Clearing
Agency is not appointed within 90 days after such discontinuance pursuant to
Section 3.8, (ii) the Company elects to terminate the book-entry system through
the Clearing Agency with respect to the Securities, or (iii) there shall have
occurred and be continuing a default by the Company in respect of its
obligations under one or more Purchase Contracts, then upon surrender of the
Global Certificates representing the Book-
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Entry Interests with respect to the Securities by the Clearing Agency,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Company shall cause definitive
Certificates to be delivered to Beneficial Owners in accordance with the
instructions of the Clearing Agency. The Company shall not be liable for any
delay in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on and shall
be protected in relying on, such instructions.
Section 3.10. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Certificates.
If any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Agent, the Company
shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate,
execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver in exchange therefor, a new
Certificate, evidencing the same number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as
the case may be, and bearing a Certificate number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Agent (i) evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and
(ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to hold each of them
and any agent of any of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Agent that such Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent
shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver to the Holder,
in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate,
evidencing the same number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may
be, and bearing a Certificate number not contemporaneously outstanding.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to
execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall not be obligated to
authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver to the Holder, a
Certificate on or after the Business Day immediately preceding the earlier of
the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or the Termination Date. In lieu of
delivery of a new Certificate, upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions
specified above in this Section and receipt of appropriate registration or
transfer instructions from such Holder, the Agent shall (i) if the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date has occurred, deliver the shares of Common Stock
issuable in respect of the Purchase Contracts forming a part of the Securities
evidenced by such Certificate, or (ii) if a Termination Event shall have
occurred prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, transfer the Preferred
Securities, the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may
be, evidenced
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thereby, in each case subject to the applicable conditions and in accordance
with the applicable provisions of Article Five hereof.
Upon the issuance of any new Certificate under this Section, the
Company and the Agent may require the payment by the Holder of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto and any other expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Agent)
connected therewith.
Every new Certificate issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company and of the Holder in respect of the
Security evidenced thereby, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen
Certificate (and the Securities evidenced thereby) shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and be subject
to all the obligations of this Agreement equally and proportionately with any
and all other Certificates delivered hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the
replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates.
Section 3.11. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Certificate for registration of
transfer, the Company and the Agent, and any agent of the Company or the Agent,
may treat the Person in whose name such Certificate is registered as the owner
of the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES evidenced thereby, for the purpose of
receiving distributions on the Preferred Securities or on the maturing
quarterly interest strips of the Treasury Portfolio, as applicable, receiving
payments of Contract Adjustment Payments, performance of the Purchase Contracts
and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any distributions on the
Preferred Securities or the Contract Adjustment Payments payable in respect of
the Purchase Contracts constituting a part of the Income PRIDES or Growth
PRIDES evidenced thereby shall be overdue and notwith- standing any notice to
the contrary, and neither the Company nor the Agent, nor any agent of the
Company or the Agent, shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Certificate,
nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Agent or any agent of the Company
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the Agent, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other
authorization furnished by any Clearing Agency (or its nominee), as a Holder,
with respect to such Global Certificate or impair, as between such Clearing
Agency and owners of beneficial interests in such Global Certificate, the
operation of customary practices governing the exercise of rights of such
Clearing Agency (or its nominee) as Holder of such Global Certificate.
Section 3.12. Cancellation.
All Certificates surrendered for delivery of shares of Common Stock on
or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, upon the transfer of Preferred
Securities, the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be,
after the occurrence of a Termination Event or pursuant to an Early Settlement,
or upon the registration of a transfer or exchange of a Security, or a
Collateral Substitution or the re-establishment of an Income PRIDES shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Agent, be delivered to the Agent and,
if not already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may
at any time deliver to the Agent for cancellation any Certificates previously
authenticated, executed and delivered hereunder which the Company may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Certificates so delivered shall,
upon Issuer Order, be promptly cancelled by the Agent. No Certificates shall
be authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holder and delivered in lieu of or
in exchange for any Certificates cancelled as provided in this Section, except
as expressly permitted by this Agreement. All cancelled Certificates held by
the Agent shall be destroyed by the Agent unless otherwise directed by Issuer
Order.
If the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall acquire any
Certificate, such acquisition shall not operate as a cancellation of such
Certificate unless and until such Certificate is delivered to the Agent
cancelled or for cancellation.
Section 3.13. Substitution of Securities.
A Holder may separate the Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as applicable, from the related Purchase Contracts in respect of an
Income PRIDES by substituting for such Preferred Securities or Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, Treasury Securities in an aggregate principal
amount equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of such Preferred Securities or the
aggregate principal amount of such Treasury Portfolio, as applicable (a
"Collateral Substitution"), at any time from and after the date of this
Agreement and on or prior to the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date in the case of the Preferred
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Securities and on or prior to the second Business Day immediately preceding the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date in the case of the Treasury Portfolio, in
each case by (a) depositing with the Collateral Agent Treasury Securities
having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of
the Preferred Securities comprising part of such Income PRIDES or the aggregate
principal amount of such Treasury Portfolio comprising part of such Income
PRIDES, as the case may be, and (b) transferring the related Income PRIDES to
the Agent accompanied by a notice to the Agent, substantially in the form of
Exhibit D hereto, stating that the Holder has transferred the relevant amount
of Treasury Securities to the Collateral Agent and requesting that the Agent
instruct the Collateral Agent to release the Preferred Securities or the
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying such Income PRIDES,
whereupon the Agent shall promptly give such instruction to the Collateral
Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto. Upon receipt of the
Treasury Securities described in clause (a) above and the instruction described
in clause (b) above, in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the
Collateral Agent will release to the Agent, on behalf of the Holder, Preferred
Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, having a
corresponding aggregate Stated Amount or principal amount, as the case may be,
from the Pledge, free and clear of the Company's security interest therein, and
upon receipt thereof the Agent shall promptly:
(i) cancel the related Income PRIDES;
(ii) transfer the Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, to the Holder; and
(iii) authenticate, execute on behalf of such Holder and
deliver a Growth PRIDES Certificate executed by the Company in
accordance with Section 3.3 evidencing the same number of Purchase
Contracts as were evidenced by the cancelled Income PRIDES.
Holders who elect to separate the Preferred Security or the Applicable
Ownership Interest, as the case may be, from the related Purchase Contract and
to substitute Treasury Securities for such Preferred Securities or Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, shall be responsible for any fees or expenses
payable to the Collateral Agent for its services as Collateral Agent in respect
of the substitution, and the Company shall not be responsible for any such fees
or expenses.
Holders may make Collateral Substitutions (i) only in integral
multiples of 20 Income PRIDES if Preferred Securities are being substituted by
Treasury Securities,
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or (ii) only in integral multiples of 8,000 Income PRIDES if Applicable
Ownership Interests are being substituted by Treasury Securities.
In the event a Holder making a Collateral Substitution pursuant to
this Section 3.13 fails to effect a book- entry transfer of the Income PRIDES
or fails to deliver an Income PRIDES Certificate(s) to the Agent after
depositing Treasury Securities with the Collateral Agent, the Preferred
Security or the Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may be, constituting
a part of such Income PRIDES, and any distributions on such Preferred Security
or the Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may be, shall be held in the
name of the Agent or its nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder, until
such Income PRIDES is so transferred or the Income PRIDES Certificate is so
delivered, as the case may be, or, with respect to an Income PRIDES
Certificate, such Holder provides evidence satisfactory to the Company and the
Agent that such Income PRIDES Certificate has been destroyed, lost or stolen,
together with any indemnity that may be required by the Agent and the Company.
Except as described in this Section 3.13, for so long as the Purchase
Contract underlying an Income PRIDES remains in effect, such Income PRIDES
shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights and
obligations of the Holder in respect of the Preferred Security or the
Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may be, and Purchase Contract
comprising such Income PRIDES may be acquired, and may be transferred and
exchanged, only as an Income PRIDES.
Section 3.14. Reestablishment of Income PRIDES.
A Holder of a Growth PRIDES may recreate Income PRIDES at any time (i)
on or prior to the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, if a Tax Event Redemption has not occurred, and (ii)
on or prior to the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, if a Tax Event Redemption has occurred, in each case
by (a) depositing with the Collateral Agent Preferred Securities or the
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, having an aggregate Stated Amount in
the case of the Preferred Securities or an aggregate principal amount in the
case of the Treasury Portfolio equal to the aggregate principal amount of the
Treasury Securities comprising part of the Growth PRIDES and (b) transferring
the related Growth PRIDES to the Agent accompanied by a notice to the Agent,
substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto, stating that the Holder has
transferred the relevant amount of Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, to the Collateral Agent and requesting that the
Agent
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instruct the Collateral Agent to release the Treasury Securities underlying
such Growth PRIDES, whereupon the Agent shall promptly give such instruction to
the Collateral Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto. Upon
receipt of the Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may
be, described in clause (a) above and the instruction described in clause (b)
above, in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Collateral
Agent will effect the release of the Treasury Securities having a corresponding
aggregate principal amount from the Pledge to the Agent free and clear of the
Company's security interest therein, and upon receipt thereof the Agent shall
promptly:
(i) cancel the related Growth PRIDES;
(ii) transfer the Treasury Securities to the Holder; and
(iii) authenticate, execute on behalf of such Holder and
deliver an Income PRIDES Certificate executed by the Company in
accordance with Section 3.3 evidencing the same number of Purchase
Contracts as were evidenced by the cancelled Growth PRIDES.
Holders of Growth PRIDES may reestablish Income PRIDES in integral
multiples of 20 Growth PRIDES for 20 Income PRIDES if a Tax Event Redemption
has not occurred, and in integral multiples of 8,000 Growth PRIDES for 8,000
Income PRIDES if a Tax Event Redemption has occurred.
Except as provided in this Section 3.14, for so long as the Purchase
Contract underlying a Growth PRIDES remains in effect, such Growth PRIDES shall
not be separable into its constituent parts and the rights and obligations of
the Holder of such Growth PRIDES in respect of the Treasury Security and
Purchase Contract comprising such Growth PRIDES may be acquired, and may be
transferred and exchanged only as a Growth PRIDES.
Section 3.15. Transfer of Collateral upon Occurrence
of Termination Event.
Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event and the transfer to the
Agent of the Preferred Securities, the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury
Securities, as the case may be, underlying the Income PRIDES and the Growth
PRIDES pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent shall request
transfer instructions with respect to such Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as
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the case may be, from each Holder by written request mailed to such Holder at
its address as it appears in the Income PRIDES Register or the Growth PRIDES
Register, as the case may be. Upon book-entry transfer of the Income PRIDES or
Growth PRIDES or delivery of an Income PRIDES Certificate or Growth PRIDES
Certificate to the Agent with such transfer instructions, the Agent shall
transfer the Preferred Securities, the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury
Securities, as the case may be, underlying such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES,
as the case may be, to such Holder by book-entry transfer, or other appropriate
procedures, in accordance with such instructions. In the event a Holder of
Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES fails to effect such transfer or delivery, the
Preferred Securities, the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the
case may be, underlying such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may
be, and any distri- butions thereon, shall be held in the name of the Agent or
its nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder, until such Income PRIDES
or Growth PRIDES are transferred or the Income PRIDES Certificate or Growth
PRIDES Certificate is surrendered or such Holder provides satisfactory evidence
that such Income PRIDES Certificate or Growth PRIDES Certif- icate has been
destroyed, lost or stolen, together with any indemnity that may be required by
the Agent and the Company.
Section 3.16. No Consent to Assumption.
Each Holder of a Security, by acceptance thereof, shall be deemed
expressly to have withheld any consent to the assumption under Section 365 of
the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise, of the Purchase Contract by the Company,
receiver, liquidator or a person or entity performing similar functions, its
trustee in the event that the Company becomes the debtor under the Bankruptcy
Code or subject to other similar state or federal law providing for
reorganization or liquidation.
ARTICLE IV
The Preferred Securities
Section 4.1. Payment of Distribution; Rights to Distributions Preserved;
Distribution Rate Reset; Notice.
A distribution on any Preferred Security or on the Applicable
Ownership Interest, as the case may be, which is paid on any Payment Date
shall, subject to
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receipt thereof by the Agent from the Collateral Agent as provided by the terms
of the Pledge Agreement, be paid to the Person in whose name the Income PRIDES
Certificate (or one or more Predecessor Income PRIDES Certificates) of which
such Preferred Security or the Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may
be, is a part is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for
such Payment Date.
Each Income PRIDES Certificate evidencing Preferred Securities
delivered under this Agreement upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Income PRIDES Certificate shall carry the rights to
distributions accrued and unpaid, and to accrue distributions, which were
carried by the Preferred Securities underlying such other Income PRIDES
Certificate.
In the case of any Income PRIDES with respect to which Cash Settlement
of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on the Business Day immediately
preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date pursuant to prior notice, or
with respect to which Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is
effected on a Early Settlement Date, or with respect to which a Collateral
Substitution is effected, in each case on a date that is after any Record Date
and on or prior to the next succeeding Payment Date, distributions on the
Preferred Securities or on the Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may
be, underlying such Income PRIDES otherwise payable on such Payment Date shall
be payable on such Payment Date notwithstanding such Cash Settlement or Early
Settlement or Collateral Substitution, and such distri- butions shall, subject
to receipt thereof by the Agent, be payable to the Person in whose name the
Income PRIDES Certificate (or one or more Predecessor Income PRIDES
Certificates) was registered at the close of business on the Record Date.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence,
in the case of any Income PRIDES with respect to which Cash Settlement or Early
Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on the Business Day
immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or an Early
Settlement Date, as the case may be, or with respect to which a Collateral
Substitution has been effected, distributions on the related Preferred
Securities or on the Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may be, that
would otherwise be payable after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or Early
Settlement Date shall not be payable hereunder to the Holder of such Income
PRIDES; provided, however, that to the extent that such Holder continues to
hold the separated Preferred Securities that formerly comprised a part of such
Holder's Income PRIDES, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the
distributions on such separated Preferred Securities.
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The applicable Coupon Rate on the Preferred Securities on and after
the Purchase Contract Settlement Date will be reset on the third Business Day
immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date to the Reset Rate
(such Reset Rate to be in effect on and after the purchase Contract Settlement
Date). On the Reset Announcement Date the Reset Spread and the Two-Year
Benchmark Treasury to be used to determine the Reset Rate will be announced by
the Company. On the Business Day immediately following the Reset Announcement
Date, the Preferred Securities Holders will be notified of such Reset Spread
and Two-Year Benchmark Treasury by the Company. Such notice shall be
sufficiently given to Holders of Preferred Securities if published in an
Authorized Newspaper in The City of New York.
Not later than 7 calendar days nor more than 15 calendar days prior to
the Reset Announcement Date, the Company will notify the DTC or its nominee (or
any successor Clearing Agency or its nominee) by first-class mail, postage
prepaid, to notify the Beneficial Owners or Clearing Agency Participants
holding Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, of such Reset Announcement Date and the
procedures to be followed by such Holders of Income PRIDES who intend to settle
their obligation under the Purchase Contract with separate cash on the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date.
Section 4.2. Notice and Voting.
Under the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent will be entitled to
exercise the voting and any other consensual rights pertaining to the Preferred
Securities pledged with the Collateral Agent but only to the extent instructed
by the Holders as described below. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at
which holders of Preferred Securities are entitled to vote or upon any
solicitation of consents, waivers or proxies of holders of Preferred
Securities, the Agent shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, mail to the
Holders of Income PRIDES a notice (a) containing such information as is
contained in the notice or solicitation, (b) stating that each Holder on the
record date set by the Agent therefor (which, to the extent possible, shall be
the same date as the record date for determining the holders of Preferred
Securities entitled to vote) shall be entitled to instruct the Agent as to the
exercise of the voting rights pertaining to the Preferred Securities underlying
their Income PRIDES and (c) stating the manner in which such instructions may
be given. Upon the written request of the Holders of Income PRIDES on such
record date, the Agent shall endeavor insofar as practicable to vote or cause
to be voted, in accordance with the instructions set forth in such requests,
the maximum number of Preferred Securities as to which any particular voting
instructions are received. In the absence of
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specific instructions from the Holder of an Income PRIDES, the Agent shall
abstain from voting the Preferred Security underlying such Income PRIDES. The
Trust shall covenant in the Declaration to take all action which may be deemed
necessary by the Agent in order to enable the Agent to vote such Preferred
Securities or to cause such Preferred Securities to be voted.
Section 4.3. Distribution of Debentures; Tax Event
Redemption
Upon the occurrence of an Investment Company Event or a liquidation of
the Trust in accordance with the Declaration, a principal amount of Debentures
constituting the assets of the Trust and underlying the Preferred Securities
equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of the Pledged Preferred Securities shall
be delivered to the Collateral Agent in exchange for the Pledged Preferred
Securities. Thereafter, the Debentures will be substituted for the Pledged
Preferred Securities, and will be held by the Collateral Agent in accordance
with the terms of the Pledge Agreement to secure the obligations of each Holder
of an Income PRIDES to purchase the Common Stock of the Company under the
Purchase Contracts constituting a part of such Income PRIDES. Following the
occurrence of an Investment Company Event or a liquidation of the Trust, the
Holders and the Collateral Agent shall have such security interests, rights and
obligations with respect to the Debentures as the Holders and the Collateral
Agent had in respect of the Preferred Securities subject to the Pledge thereof
as provided in Articles II, III, IV, V and VI of the Pledge Agreement, and any
reference herein to the Preferred Securities shall be deemed to be a reference
to such Debentures. The Company may cause to be made in any Income PRIDES
Certificates thereafter to be issued such change in phraseology and form (but
not in substance) as may be appropriate to reflect the liquidation of the Trust
and the substitution of Debentures for Preferred Securities as Collateral.
Upon the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, the Redemption Price payable on the Tax Event
Redemption Date with respect to the Applicable Principle Amount of Debentures
shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent in exchange for the Pledged
Preferred Securities. Thereafter, pursuant to the terms of the Pledge
Agreement, the Collateral Agent will apply an amount equal to the Redemption
Amount of such Redemption Price to purchase on behalf of the Holders of Income
PRIDES the Treasury Portfolio and promptly remit the remaining portion of such
Redemption Price to the Agent for payment to the Holders of such Income PRIDES.
The Treasury Portfolio will be substituted for the Pledged Preferred
Securities, and will be held by the Collateral
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Agent in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement to secure the
obligation of each Holder of an Income PRIDES to purchase the Common Stock of
the Company under the Purchase Contract constituting a part of such Income
PRIDES. Following the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date, the Holders of Income PRIDES and the
Collateral Agent shall have such security interests rights and obligations with
respect to the Treasury Portfolio as the Holder of Income PRIDES and the
Collateral Agent had in respect of the Preferred Security or Debentures, as the
case may be, subject to the Pledge thereof as provided in Articles II, III, IV,
V, and VI of the Pledge Agreement, and any reference herein to the Preferred
Security or the Debenture shall be deemed to be reference to such Treasury
Portfolio. The Company may cause to be made in any Income PRIDES Certificates
thereafter to be issued such change in phraseology and form (but not in
substance) as may be appropriate to reflect the liquidation of the Trust and
the substitution of the Treasury Portfolio for Preferred Securities or
Debentures as collateral.
ARTICLE V
The Purchase Contracts
Section 5.1. Purchase of Shares of Common Stock.
Each Purchase Contract shall, unless an Early Settlement has occurred
in accordance with Section 5.9 hereof, obligate the Holder of the related
Security to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date at a price equal to the Stated Amount (the "Purchase Price"), a
number of newly issued shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate
unless, on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, there shall have
occurred a Termination Event with respect to the Security of which such
Purchase Contract is a part. The "Settlement Rate" is equal to (a) if the
Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is equal to or greater than $____
(the "Threshold Appreciation Price"), ____ shares of Common Stock per Purchase
Contract, (b) if the Applicable Market Value is less than the Threshold
Appreciation Price, but is greater than $____, the number of shares of Common
Stock equal to the Stated Amount divided by the Applicable Market Value and (c)
if the Applicable Market Value is less than or equal to $____, ____ shares of
Common Stock per Purchase Contract, in each case subject to adjustment as
provided in Section 5.6 (and in each case rounded upward or downward to the
nearest
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1/10,000th of a share). As provided in Section 5.10, no fractional shares of
Common Stock will be issued upon settlement of Purchase Contracts.
The "Applicable Market Value" means the average of the Closing Price
per share of Common Stock on each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days ending on
the third Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date. The "Closing Price" of the Common Stock on any date of determination
means the closing sale price (or, if no closing price is reported, the last
reported sale price) of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange (the
"NYSE") on such date or, if the Common Stock is not listed for trading on the
NYSE on any such date, as reported in the composite transactions for the
principal United States securities exchange on which the Common Stock is so
listed, or if the Common Stock is not so listed on a United States national or
regional securities exchange, as reported by The Nasdaq Stock Market, or, if
the Common Stock is not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common
Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation
Bureau or similar organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the
market value of the Common Stock on such date as determined by a nationally
recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the
Company. A "Trading Day" means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not
suspended from trading on any national or regional securities exchange or
association or over-the-counter market at the close of business and (B) has
traded at least once on the national or regional securities exchange or
association or over-the-counter market that is the primary market for the
trading of the Common Stock.
Each Holder of an Income PRIDES or a Growth PRIDES, by its acceptance
thereof, irrevocably authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related
Purchase Contract on its behalf as its attorney-in-fact (including the
execution of Certificates on behalf of such Holder), agrees to be bound by the
terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to perform its obligations
under such Purchase Contracts, and consents to the provisions hereof,
irrevocably authorizes the Agent as its attorney-in-fact to enter into and
perform the Pledge Agreement on its behalf as its attorney-in-fact, and
consents to and agrees to be bound by the Pledge of the Preferred Securities,
the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities pursuant to the Pledge
Agreement; provided that upon a Termination Event, the rights of the Holder of
such Security under the Purchase Contract may be enforced without regard to any
other rights or obligations. Each Holder of an Income PRIDES or a Growth
PRIDES, by its acceptance thereof, further covenants and agrees, that, to the
extent and in the manner provided in Section 5.4 and the Pledge Agreement, but
subject to
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the terms thereof, payments in respect of the Stated Amount of the Preferred
Securities or the Proceeds of the Treasury Securities or the Treasury Portfolio
on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall be paid by the Collateral Agent
to the Company in satisfaction of such Holder's obligations under such Purchase
Contract and such Holder shall acquire no right, title or interest in such
payments.
Upon registration of transfer of a Certificate, the transferee shall
be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the part of such
transferee), under the terms of this Agreement, the Purchase Contracts
underlying such Certificate and the Pledge Agreement and the transferor shall
be released from the obligations under this Agreement, the Purchase Contracts
underlying the Certificates so transferred and the Pledge Agreement. The
Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Certificate, by its
acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the
provisions of this paragraph.
Section 5.2. Contract Adjustment Payments.
In the event that the Contract Adjustment Payments constitute a
component of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, subject to Section 5.3 herein, the
Company shall pay, on each Payment Date, the Contract Adjustment Payments
payable in respect of each Purchase Contract to the Person in whose name a
Certificate (or one or more Predecessor Certificates) is registered at the
close of business on the Record Date next preceding such Payment Date. The
Contract Adjustment Payments will be payable at the office of the Agent in The
City of New York maintained for that purpose or, at the option of the Company,
by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such Person's
address as it appears on the Income PRIDES Register or Growth PRIDES Register.
Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, Contract Adjustment
Payments shall cease to accrue in respect of any period from and after the date
of such Termination Event (unless the Company defaults in the payment of
accrued Contract Adjustment Payments). The Company's obligations to pay any
accrued Contract Adjustment Payments shall be deemed to be fulfilled if the
Company deposits with the Agent funds necessary to pay accrued Contract
Adjustment Payments, in trust with irrevocable instructions and authorization
that such funds shall be delivered to the Holders.
Each Certificate delivered under this Agreement upon registration of
transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of (including as a result of a
Collateral Substitution or
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the re-establishment of an Income PRIDES) any other Certificate shall carry the
rights to Contract Adjustment Payments accrued and unpaid, and to accrue
Contract Adjustment Payments, which were carried by the Purchase Contracts
underlying such other Certificates.
Subject to Section 5.9, in the case of any Security with respect to
which Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on an
Early Settlement Date that is after any Record Date and on or prior to the next
succeeding Payment Date, Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, otherwise
payable on such Payment Date shall be payable on such Payment Date
notwithstanding such Early Settlement, and such Contract Adjustment Payments
shall be paid to the Person in whose name the Certificate evidencing such
Security (or one or more Predecessor Certificates) is registered at the close
of business on such Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the
immediately preceding sentence, in the case of any Security with respect to
which Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on an
Early Settlement Date, Contract Adjustment Payments that would otherwise be
payable after the Early Settlement Date with respect to such Purchase Contract
shall not be payable.
The Company's obligations with respect to Contract Adjustment
Payments, if any, will be subordinated and junior in right of payment to all
liabilities of the Company (other than the Guarantee with which they rank pari
passu).
Section 5.3. Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract
Adjustment Payments.
The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract
Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date, but only if the
Company shall give the Holders and the Agent written notice of its election to
defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred) at least ten Business
Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the
date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date
with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the New York
Stock Exchange or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders
of the Securities, but in any event not less than one Business Day prior to
such Record Date. Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred shall bear
additional Contract Adjustment Payments thereon at the rate of ____% per annum
(computed on the basis of 360 day year of twelve 30 day months), compounding on
each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full
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(such deferred installments of Contract Adjustment Payments together with the
additional Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, being referred to
herein as the "Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments"). Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to
the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to this Section. No Contract
Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date or, with respect to any particular Purchase Contract,
Early Settlement thereof. If the Purchase Contracts are terminated upon the
occurrence of a Termination Event, the Holder's right to receive Contract
Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will terminate.
In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract
Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date in lieu of a cash payment a number of shares of Common Stock (in addition
to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate) equal to
(x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments payable to
such Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value.
In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of
Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on,
make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee
payments with respect to the foregoing (other than (i) purchases or
acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the
satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any employee or agent
benefit plans or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to
any contract or security outstanding on the date of such event requiring the
Company to purchase capital stock of the Company, (ii) as a result of a
reclassification of the Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion
of one class or series of the Company's capital stock for another class or
series of the Company's capital stock, (iii) the purchase of fractional
interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion
or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or
exchanged, (iv) dividends or distributions in capital stock of the Company (or
rights to acquire capital stock) or repurchases or redemptions of capital stock
solely from the issuance or exchange of capital stock or (v) redemptions or
re-purchases of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan).
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No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company
with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise
issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments,
the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section
5.10.
Section 5.4. Payment of Purchase Price.
(a) (i) Unless a Tax Event Redemption has occurred or a Holder
settles the underlying Purchase Contract either through the early delivery of
cash to the Purchase Contract Agent in the manner described in Section 5.9,
each Holder of an Income PRIDES must notify the Agent by use of a notice in
substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto of its intention to pay in cash
("Cash Settlement") the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be
purchased pursuant to a Purchase Contract. Such notice shall be made on or
prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the fifth Business Day immediately
preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. The Agent shall promptly
notify the Collateral Agent of the receipt of such a notice from a Holder
intending to make a Cash Settlement.
(ii) A Holder of an Income PRIDES who has so notified the
Agent of its intention to make a Cash Settlement is required to pay
the Purchase Price to the Collateral Agent prior to 11:00 a.m., New
York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date in lawful money of the United States by
certified or cashiers' check or wire transfer, in each case in
immediately available funds payable to or upon the order of the
Company. Any cash received by the Collateral Agent will be invested
promptly by the Collateral Agent in Permitted Investments and paid to
the Company on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in settlement of
the Purchase Contract in accordance with the terms of this Agreement
and the Pledge Agreement. Any funds received by the Collateral Agent
in respect of the investment earnings from the investment in such
Permitted Investments, will be distributed to the Agent when received
for payment to the Holder.
(iii) If a Holder of an Income PRIDES fails to notify the
Agent of its intention to make a Cash Settlement in accordance with
paragraph (a)(i) above, the Holder shall be deemed to have consented
to the disposition of the pledged Preferred Securities pursuant to the
Remarketing as described in paragraph (b) below. If a Holder of an
Income PRIDES does notify the Agent as provided in paragraph (a)(i)
above of its intention to pay the
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Purchase Price in cash, but fails to make such payment as required by
paragraph (a)(ii) above, the Preferred Securities of such a Holder
will not be remarketed but instead the Collateral Agent, for the
benefit of the Company, will exercise its rights as a secured party
with respect to such Preferred Securities, including those rights
specified in paragraph (c) below.
(b) In order to dispose of the Preferred Securities of Income PRIDES
Holders who have not notified the Agent of their intention to effect a Cash
Settlement as provided in paragraph (a)(i) above, the Company shall engage a
nationally recognized investment bank (the "Remarketing Agent") pursuant to the
Remarketing Agreement to sell such Preferred Securities. In order to
facilitate the remarketing, the Agent shall notify, by 10:00 a.m., New York
City time, on the fourth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, the Remarketing Agent of the aggregate number of
Preferred Securities to be remarketed. Concurrently, the Collateral Agent,
pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, will present for remarketing
such Preferred Securities to the Remarketing Agent. Upon receipt of such
notice from the Agent and such Preferred Securities from the Collateral Agent,
the Remarketing Agent will, on the third Business Day immediately preceding the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date, use its reasonable efforts to remarket such
Preferred Securities on such date at a price of approximately 100.5% (but not
less than 100%) of the aggregate stated liquidation amount of such Preferred
Securities, plus accrued and unpaid distributions (including deferred
distributions), if any, thereon. After deducting as the remarketing fee
("Remarketing Fee") an amount not exceeding 25 basis points (.25%) from any
amount of such proceeds in excess of the aggregate stated liquidation amount of
the remarketed Preferred Securities, if any, the Remarketing Agent will remit
the entire amount of the proceeds from such remarketing to the Collateral
Agent. Such portion of the proceeds, equal to the aggregate stated liquidation
amount of such Preferred Securities, will automatically be applied by the
Collateral Agent, in accordance with the Pledge Agreement to satisfy in full
such Income PRIDES holders' obligations to pay the Purchase Price for the
Common Stock under the related Purchase Contracts on the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date. Any proceeds in excess of those required to pay the Purchase
Price and the Remarketing Fee will be remitted to the Agent for payment to the
Holders of the related Income PRIDES. Income PRIDES Holders whose Preferred
Securities are so remarketed will not otherwise be responsible for the payment
of any Remarketing Fee in connection therewith. If, in spite of using its
reasonable efforts, the Remarketing Agent cannot remarket the related Preferred
Securities of such Holders of Income PRIDES at a price not less then 100% of
the aggregate stated liquidation amount of such Preferred Securities plus
accrued and unpaid distributions
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(including deferred distributions), if any, the remarketing will be deemed to
have failed (a "Failed Remarketing") and in accordance with the terms of the
Pledge Agreement the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Company will
exercise its rights as a secured party with respect to such Preferred
Securities, including those actions specified in paragraph (c) below; provided,
that if upon a Failed Remarketing the Collateral Agent exercises such rights
for the benefit of the Company with respect to such Preferred Securities, any
accrued and unpaid distributions (including any deferred distributions) on such
Preferred Securities will become payable by the Company to the Agent for
payment to the Beneficial Owner of the Income PRIDES to which such Preferred
Securities relates. Such payment will be made by the Company on or prior to 11
a.m. New York City time on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lawful
money of the United States by [certified or cashiers' check or] wire transfer
in immediately available funds payable to or upon the order of the Agent. The
Company will cause a notice of such Failed Remarketing to be published on the
Second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date
in a daily newspaper in the English language of general circulation in The City
of New York, which is expected to be The Wall Street Journal.
(c) With respect to any Preferred Securities beneficially owned by
Holders who have elected Cash Settlement but failed to deliver cash as required
in (a)(ii) above, or with respect to Preferred Securities which are subject to
a Failed Remarketing, the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Company
reserves all of its rights as a secured party with respect thereto and, subject
to applicable law and paragraph (h) below, may, among other things, (i) retain
the Preferred Securities in full satisfaction of the Holders obligations under
the Purchase Contracts or (ii) sell the Preferred Securities in one or more
public or private sales.
(d) (i) Unless a Holder of Growth PRIDES or Income PRIDES (if a Tax
Event Redemption has occurred) settles the underlying Purchase Contract either
through the early delivery of cash to the Purchase Contract Agent in the manner
described in Section 5.9, each Holder of a Growth PRIDES or Income PRIDES (if a
Tax Event Redemption has occurred) must notify the Agent by use of a notice in
substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto of its intention to pay in cash the
Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased pursuant to a
Purchase Contract on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second
Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
(ii) A Holder of a Growth PRIDES or Income PRIDES (if a Tax
Event Redemption has occurred) who has so notified the Agent of its
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intention to make a Cash Settlement in accordance with paragraph
(d)(i) above is required to pay the Purchase Price to the Collateral
Agent prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day
immediately preced- ing the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in
lawful money of the United States by [certified or cashiers' check or]
wire transfer, in each case in immediately available funds payable to
or upon the order of the Company. Any cash received by the Collateral
Agent will be invested promptly by the Collateral Agent in Permitted
Investments and paid to the Company on the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date in settlement of the Purchase Contract in a accordance
with the terms of this Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. Any funds
received by the Collateral Agent in respect of the investment earnings
from the investment in such Permitted Investments will be distributed
to the Agent when received for payment to the Holder.
(iii) If a Holder of a Growth PRIDES fails to notify the
Agent of its intention to make a Cash Settlement in accordance with
paragraph (d)(i) above, or if a Holder of an Income PRIDES (if a Tax
Event Redemption has occurred) does notify the Agent as provided in
paragraph (d)(i) above its intention to pay the Purchase Price in
cash, but fails to make such payment as required by paragraph (d)(ii)
above, then upon the maturity of the Pledged Treasury Securities or
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, held by the Collateral Agent
on the Business Day immediately prior to the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, the principal amount of the Treasury Securities or
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, received by the Collateral
Agent will be invested promptly in overnight Permitted Investments.
On the Purchase Contract Settlement Date an amount equal to the
Purchase Price will be remitted to the Company as payment thereof
without receiving any instructions from the Holder. In the event the
sum of the proceeds from the related Pledged Treasury Securities or
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, and the investment earnings
earned from such investments is in excess of the aggregate Purchase
Price of the Purchase Contracts being settled thereby, the Collateral
Agent will distribute such excess to the Agent for the benefit of the
Holder of the related Growth PRIDES or Income PRIDES when received.
(e) Any distribution to Holders of excess funds and interest
described above, shall be payable at the office of the Agent in The City of New
York maintained for that purpose or, at the option of the Holder, by check
mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such address as it
appears on the Register.
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(f) Unless a Holder settles the underlying Purchase Contract through
the early delivery of cash to the Purchase Contract Agent in the manner
described herein, the Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of
Common Stock in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificate
therefor to the Holder unless it shall have received payment in full of the
Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased thereunder in the
manner herein set forth.
(g) Upon Cash Settlement of any Purchase Contract, (i) the Collateral
Agent will in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement cause the
Pledged Preferred Securities or the Pledged Treasury Portfolio, as the case may
be, or the Pledged Treasury Securities underlying the relevant Security to be
released from the Pledge by the Collateral Agent free and clear of any security
interest of the Company and transferred to the Agent for delivery to the Holder
thereof or its designee as soon as practicable and (ii) subject to the receipt
thereof from the Collateral Agent, the Agent shall, by book-entry transfer, or
other appropriate procedures, in accordance with instructions provided by the
Holder thereof, transfer the Pledged Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, or such Treasury Securities (or, if no such
instructions are given to the Agent by the Holder, the Agent shall hold the
Pledged Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, or
the Pledged Treasury Securities, and any distribution thereon, in the name of
the Agent or its nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder).
(h) The obligations of the Holders to pay the Purchase Price are
non-recourse obligations and are payable solely out of any Cash Settlement or
the proceeds of any Collateral Pledged to secure the obligations of the Holders
and in no event will Holders be liable for any deficiency between the proceeds
of Collateral disposition and the Purchase Price.
Section 5.5. Issuance of Shares of Common Stock.
Unless a Termination Event shall have occurred on or prior to the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date, on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date,
upon its receipt of payment in full of the Purchase Price for the shares of
Common Stock purchased by the Holders pursuant to the foregoing provisions of
this Article and subject to Section 5.6(b), the Company shall issue and deposit
with the Agent, for the benefit of the Holders of the Outstanding Securities,
one or more certificates representing the newly issued shares of Common Stock
registered in the name of the Agent (or its nominee) as custodian for the
Holders (such certificates for shares of Common Stock, together with any
dividends or distributions with respect thereto, being
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hereinafter referred to as the "Purchase Contract Settlement Fund") to which
the Holders are entitled hereunder. Subject to the foregoing, upon surrender
of a Certificate to the Agent on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date, together with settlement instructions thereon duly completed and
executed, the Holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in
exchange therefor a certificate representing that number of whole shares of
Common Stock which such Holder is entitled to receive pursuant to the
provisions of this Article Five (after taking into account all Securities then
held by such Holder) together with cash in lieu of fractional shares as
provided in Section 5.10 and any dividends or distributions with respect to
such shares constituting part of the Purchase Contract Settlement Fund, but
without any interest thereon, and the Certificate so surrendered shall
forthwith be cancelled. Such shares shall be registered in the name of the
Holder or the Holder's designee as specified in the settlement instructions
provided by the Holder to the Agent. If any shares of Common Stock issued in
respect of a Purchase Contract are to be registered to a Person other than the
Person in whose name the Certificate evidencing such Purchase Contract is
registered, no such registration shall be made unless the Person requesting
such registration has paid any transfer and other taxes required by reason of
such registration in a name other than that of the registered Holder of the
Certificate evidencing such Purchase Contract or has established to the
satisfaction of the Company that such tax either has been paid or is not
payable.
Section 5.6. Adjustment of Settlement Rate.
(a) Adjustments for Dividends, Distributions, Stock Splits, Etc.
(1) In case the Company shall pay or make a dividend or other
distribution on the Common Stock in Common Stock, the Settlement Rate in effect
at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or other
distribution shall be increased by dividing such Settlement Rate by a fraction
of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination
and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares and the total
number of shares constituting such dividend or other distribution, such
increase to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the
day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this
paragraph (1), the number of shares of Common Stock at time outstanding shall
not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but shall include any
shares issuable in respect of any scrip certificates issued in lieu of
fractions of shares of Common
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Stock. The Company will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on
shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
(2) In case the Company shall issue rights, options or warrants to all
holders of its Common Stock (not being available on an equivalent basis to
Holders of the Securities upon settlement of the Purchase Contracts underlying
such Securities) entitling them, for a period expiring within 45 days after the
record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
rights, options or warrants, to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common
Stock at a price per share less than the Current Market Price per share of the
Common Stock on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled
to receive such rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant to a dividend
reinvestment plan), the Settlement Rate in effect at the opening of business on
the day following the date fixed for such determination shall be increased by
dividing such Settlement Rate by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the
date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock
which the aggregate of the offering price of the total number of shares of
Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase would purchase at such
Current Market Price and the denominator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock so offered for
subscription or purchase, such increase to become effective immediately after
the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such
determination. For the purposes of this paragraph (2), the number of shares of
Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the trea-
sury of the Company but shall include any shares issuable in respect of any
scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The
Company shall not issue any such rights, options or warrants in respect of
shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
(3) In case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided or
split into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the Settlement Rate in
effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
subdivision or split becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, and,
conversely, in case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall each be combined
into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the Settlement Rate in effect
at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
combination becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, such increase
or reduction, as the case may be, to
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become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following
the day upon which such subdivision, split or combination becomes effective.
(4) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to
all holders of its Common Stock evidences of its indebtedness or assets
(including securities, but excluding any rights or warrants referred to in
paragraph (2) of this Section, any dividend or distribution paid exclusively in
cash and any dividend or distribution referred to in paragraph (1) of this
Section), the Settlement Rate shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal
the rate determined by dividing the Settlement Rate in effect immediately prior
to the close of business on the date fixed for the determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction of which the
numerator shall be the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on
the date fixed for such determination less the then fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive
and described in a Board Resolution filed with the Agent) of the portion of the
assets or evidences of indebtedness so distributed applicable to one share of
Common Stock and the denominator shall be such Current Market Price per share
of the Common Stock, such adjustment to become effective immediately prior to
the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution. In any
case in which this paragraph (4) is applicable, paragraph (2) of this Section
shall not be applicable.
(5) In case the Company shall, (I) by dividend or otherwise,
distribute to all holders of its Common Stock cash (excluding any cash that is
distributed in a Reorganization Event to which Section 5.6(b) applies or as
part of a distribution referred to in paragraph (4) of this Section) in an
aggregate amount that, combined together with (II) the aggregate amount of any
other distributions to all holders of its Common Stock made exclusively in cash
within the 12 months preceding the date of payment of such distribution and in
respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (5) or paragraph (6)
of this Section has been made and (III) the aggregate of any cash plus the fair
market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination
shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) of consideration
payable in respect of any tender or exchange offer by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries for all or any portion of the Common Stock concluded within the 12
months preceding the date of payment of the distribution described in clause
(I) above and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (5)
or paragraph (6) of this Section has been made, exceeds 15% of the product of
the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the date for the
determination of holders of shares of Common Stock entitled to receive such
distribution times
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the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such date, then, and in
each such case, immediately after the close of business on such date for
determination, the Settlement Rate shall be increased so that the same shall
equal the rate determined by dividing the Settlement Rate in effect immediately
prior to the close of business on the date fixed for determination of the
stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction (i) the
numerator of which shall be equal to the Current Market Price per share of the
Common Stock on the date fixed for such determination less an amount equal to
the quotient of (x) the combined amount distributed or payable in the
transactions described in clauses (I), (II) and (III) above and (y) the number
of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such date for determination and (ii)
the denominator of which shall be equal to the Current Market Price per share
of the Common Stock on such date for determination. [Any purchases of Common
Stock by the Company or its subsidiaries conducted through open market
purchases or through privately negotiated purchases shall not be included for
purposes of calculating the amount of cash distributed pursuant to clauses (I),
(II) and (III) above, unless such purchases constituted a tender offer.]
(6) In case (I) a tender or exchange offer made by the Company or any
subsidiary of the Company for all or any portion of the Common Stock shall
expire and such tender or exchange offer (as amended upon the expiration
thereof) shall require the payment to stockholders (based on the acceptance (up
to any maximum specified in the terms of the tender or exchange offer) of
Purchased Shares) of an aggregate consideration having a fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive
and described in a Board Resolution) that combined together with (II) the
aggregate of the cash plus the fair market value (as determined by the Board of
Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board
Resolution), as of the expiration of such tender or exchange offer, of
consideration payable in respect of any other tender or exchange offer, by the
Company or any subsidiary of the Company for all or any portion of the Common
Stock expiring within the 12 months preceding the expiration of such tender or
exchange offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to paragraph (5)
of this Section or this paragraph (6) has been made and (III) the aggregate
amount of any distributions to all holders of the Company's Common Stock made
exclusively in cash within the 12 months preceding the expiration of such
tender or exchange offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to
paragraph (5) of this Section or this paragraph (6) has been made, exceeds 15%
of the product of the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock as of
the last time (the "Expiration Time") tenders could have been made pursuant to
such tender or exchange offer (as it may be amended) times the number of shares
of Common Stock outstanding
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(including any tendered shares) on the Expiration Time, then, and in each such
case, immediately prior to the opening of business on the day after the date of
the Expiration Time, the Settlement Rate shall be adjusted so that the same
shall equal the rate determined by dividing the Settlement Rate immediately
prior to the close of business on the date of the Expiration Time by a fraction
(i) the numerator of which shall be equal to (A) the product of (I) the Current
Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the date of the Expiration Time
and (II) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any
tendered shares) on the Expiration Time less (B) the amount of cash plus the
fair market value (determined as aforesaid) of the aggregate consideration
payable to stockholders based on the transactions described in clauses (I),
(II) and (III) above (assuming in the case of clause (I) the acceptance, up to
any maximum specified in the terms of the tender or exchange offer, of
Purchased Shares), and (ii) the denominator of which shall be equal to the
product of (A) the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock as of the
Expiration Time and (B) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
(including any tendered shares) as of the Expiration Time less the number of
all shares validly tendered and not withdrawn as of the Expiration Time (the
shares deemed so accepted, up to any such maximum, being referred to as the
"Purchased Shares"). [Any purchases of Common Stock by the Company or its
subsidiaries conducted through open market purchases or through privately
negotiated purchases shall not be included for purposes of calculating the
amount of cash distributed pursuant to clauses (I), (II) and (III) above,
unless such purchases constituted a tender offer.]
(7) The reclassification of Common Stock into securities including
securities other than Common Stock (other than any reclassification upon a
Reorganization Event to which Section 5.6(b) applies) shall be deemed to
involve (a) a distribution of such securities other than Common Stock to all
holders of Common Stock (and the effective date of such reclassification shall
be deemed to be "the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled
to receive such distribution" and the "date fixed for such determination"
within the meaning of paragraph (4) of this Section), and (b) a subdivision,
split or combination, as the case may be, of the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding immediately prior to such reclassification into the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately thereafter (and the effective
date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be "the day upon which such
subdivision or split becomes effective" or "the day upon which such combination
becomes effective", as the case may be, and "the day upon which such
subdivision, split or combination becomes effective" within the meaning of
paragraph (3) of this Section).
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(8) The "Current Market Price" per share of Common Stock on any day
means the average of the daily Closing Prices for the 5 consecutive Trading
Days selected by the Company commencing not more than 30 Trading Days before,
and ending not later than, the earlier of the day in question and the day
before the "ex date" with respect to the issuance or distribution requiring
such computation. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "ex date", when
used with respect to any issuance or distribution, shall mean the first date on
which the Common Stock trades regular way on such exchange or in such market
without the right to receive such issuance or distribution.
(9) All adjustments to the Settlement Rate shall be calculated to the
nearest 1/10,000th of a share of Common Stock (or if there is not a nearest
1/10,000th of a share to the next lower 1/10,000th of a share). No adjustment
in the Settlement Rate shall be required unless such adjustment would require
an increase or decrease of at least one percent therein; provided, however,
that any adjustments which by reason of this subparagraph are not required to
be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent
adjustment. If an adjustment is made to the Settlement Rate pursuant to
paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) or (10) of this Section 5.6(a), an
adjustment shall also be made to the Applicable Market Value solely to
determine which of clauses (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of Settlement Rate
in Section 5.1 will apply on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. Such
adjustment shall be made by multiplying the Applicable Market Value by a
fraction of which the numerator shall be the Settlement Rate immediately after
such adjustment pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) or (10)
of this Section 5.6(a) and the denominator shall be the Settlement Rate
immediately before such adjustment.
(10) The Company may make such increases in the Settlement Rate, in
addition to those required by this Section, as it considers to be advisable in
order to avoid or diminish any income tax to any holders of shares of Common
Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of stock or issuance of
rights or warrants to purchase or subscribe for stock or from any event treated
as such for income tax purposes or for any other reasons.
(b) Adjustment for Consolidation, Merger or Other Reorganization
Event. In the event of (i) any consolidation or merger of the Company with or
into another Person (other than a merger or consolidation in which the Company
is the continuing corporation and in which the Common Stock outstanding
immediately prior to the merger or consolidation is not exchanged for cash,
securities or other property of the Company or another corporation), (ii) any
sale, transfer, lease or conveyance to
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another Person of the property of the Company as an entirety or substantially
as an entirety, (iii) any statutory exchange of securities of the Company with
another Person (other than in connection with a merger or acquisition) or (iv)
any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company other than as a
result of or after the occurrence of a Termination Event (any such event, a
"Reorganization Event"), the Settlement Rate will be adjusted to provide that
each Holder of Securities will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date
with respect to each Purchase Contract forming a part thereof, the kind and
amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such
Reorganization Event (without any interest thereon, and without any right to
dividends or distribution thereon which have a record date that is prior to the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date) by a Holder of the number of shares of
Common Stock issuable on account of each Purchase Contract if the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date had occurred immediately prior to such Reorganization
Event assuming such Holder of Common Stock is not a Person with which the
Company consolidated or into which the Company merged or which merged into the
Company or to which such sale or transfer was made, as the case may be (any
such Person, a "Constituent Person"), or an Affiliate of a Constituent Person
to the extent such Reorganization Event provides for different treatment of
common Stock held by Affiliates of the Company and non-affiliates and such
Holder failed to exercise his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or
amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such
Reorganization Event (provided that if the kind or amount of securities, cash
and other property receivable upon such Reorganization Event is not the same
for each share of Common Stock held immediately prior to such Reorganization
Event by other than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof and in respect
of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised ("non-electing
share"), then for the purpose of this Section the kind and amount of
securities, cash and other property receivable upon such Reorganization Event
by each non-electing share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so
receivable per share by a plurality of the non-electing shares). In the event
of such a Reorganization Event, the Person formed by such consolidation, merger
or exchange or the Person which acquires the assets of the Company or, in the
event of a liquidation or dissolution of the Company, the Company or a
liquidating trust created in connection therewith, shall execute and deliver to
the Agent an agreement supplemental hereto providing that the Holders of each
Outstanding Security shall have the rights provided by this Section 5.6. Such
supplemental agreement shall provide for adjustments which, for events
subsequent to the effective date of such supplemental agreement, shall be as
nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this
Section. The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to
successive Reorganization Events.
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Section 5.7. Notice of Adjustments and Certain Other Events.
(a) Whenever the Settlement Rate is adjusted as herein provided,
the Company shall:
(i) forthwith compute the adjusted Settlement Rate in
accordance with Section 5.6 and prepare and transmit to the Agent an
Officer's Certificate setting forth the Settlement Rate, the method
of calculation thereof in reasonable detail, and the facts requiring
such adjustment and upon which such adjustment is based; and
(ii) within 10 Business Days following the occurrence of an
event that requires an adjustment to the Settlement Rate pursuant to
Section 5.6 (or if the Company is not aware of such occurrence, as
soon as practicable after becoming so aware), provide a written notice
to the Holders of the Securities of the occurrence of such event and a
statement in reasonable detail setting forth the method by which the
adjustment to the Settlement Rate was determined and setting forth the
adjusted Settlement Rate.
(b) The Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or
responsibility to any Holder of Securities to determine whether any facts exist
which may require any adjustment of the Settlement Rate, or with respect to the
nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with
respect to the method employed in making the same. The Agent shall not be
accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of
any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities or property, which may at the
time be issued or delivered with respect to any Purchase Contract; and the
Agent makes no representation with respect thereto. The Agent shall not be
responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any
shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Purchase Contract or to comply with any of
the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this
Article.
Section 5.8. Termination Event; Notice.
The Purchase Contracts and the obligations and rights of the Company
and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of the
Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract
Adjustment Payments or Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if the Company
shall have such obligation, and the rights and obligations of Holders to
purchase Common Stock, shall immediately and automatically terminate, without
the necessity of any notice or
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action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon and
after the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Securities shall thereafter
represent the right to receive the Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, forming a part of such Securities in the case of
Income PRIDES, or Treasury Securities in the case of Growth PRIDES, in
accordance with the provisions of Section 4.3 of the Pledge Agreement. Upon
the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no
event later than two Business Days thereafter give written notice to the Agent,
the Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in
the Register.
Section 5.9. Early Settlement.
(a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this
Section 5.9, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying
Securities, having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof, may be settled early ("Early Settlement") in the case of
Income PRIDES (unless a Tax Event Redemption has occurred) on or prior to the
fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date,
as provided herein; provided however, that if a Tax Event Redemption has
occurred and the Treasury Portfolio has become a component of the Income PRIDES
Purchase Contracts, underlying Income PRIDES may be settled early, on or prior
to the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, but only in an aggregate amount of $400,000 or in an integral
multiple thereof. In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement
with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate
evidencing Securities shall deliver such Certificate to the Agent at the
Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank
with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed
and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available
funds in an amount (the "Early Settlement Amount") equal to (i) the product of
(A) the Stated Amount times (B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect
to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement plus (ii) if such
delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from
the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the
opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the sum of (x) the
Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, payable on such Payment Date with respect
to such Purchase Contracts plus (y) in the case of Income PRIDES Certificate,
the distributions on the related Preferred Securities payable on such Payment
Date. Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence and subject to
the second to last paragraph of Section 5.2, no payment or
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adjustment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on
account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract
or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early
Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to
Purchase Contracts underlying any Securities at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the "Early Settlement Date"
with respect to such Securities and if such requirements are first satisfied
after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not
a Business Day, the "Early Settlement Date" with respect to such Securities
shall be the next succeeding Business Day.
(b) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the
related Securities, the Company shall issue, and the Holder shall be entitled
to receive, ____ shares of Common Stock on account of each Purchase Contract
as to which Early Settlement is effected (the "Early Settlement Rate");
provided, however, that upon the Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts,
the Holder of such related Securities will forfeit the right to receive any
Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments. The Early Settlement Rate shall be
adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Settlement Rate is
adjusted. As promptly as practicable after Early Settlement of Purchase
Contracts in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.9, the Company
shall issue and shall deliver to the Agent at the Corporate Trust Office a
certificate or certificates for the full number of shares of Common Stock
issuable upon such Early Settlement together with payment in lieu of any
fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.10.
(c) No later than the third Business Day after the applicable
Early Settlement Date the Company shall cause (i) the shares of Common Stock
issuable upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts to be issued and
delivered, and (ii) the related Preferred Securities or Treasury Portfolio, in
the case of Income PRIDES, or the related Treasury Securities, in the case of
Growth PRIDES, to be released from the Pledge by the Collateral Agent and
transferred, in each case to the Agent for delivery to the Holder thereof or
its designee.
(d) Upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts, and subject
to receipt of shares of Common Stock from the Company and the Preferred
Securities, Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from
the Collateral Agent, as applicable, the Agent shall, in accordance with the
instructions provided by the Holder thereof on the applicable form of Election
to Settle Early on the reverse of the Certificate evidencing the related
Securities, (i) transfer to the Holder the Preferred Securities, Treasury
Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, forming
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a part of such Securities, and (ii) deliver to the Holder a certificate or
certificates for the full number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such
Early Settlement together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as
provided in Section 5.10.
(e) In the event that Early Settlement is effected with respect to
Purchase Contracts underlying less than all the Securities evidenced by a
Certificate, upon such Early Settlement the Company shall execute and the Agent
shall authenticate, countersign and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the
expense of the Company, a Certificate evidencing the Securities as to which
Early Settlement was not effected.
(f) Holders may settle Securities early only in integral multiples
of 20 Income PRIDES or 20 GROWTH PRIDES; provided, however, that if a Tax Event
Redemption has occurred and the Treasury Portfolio has become a component of
the Income PRIDES, Holders of Income PRIDES may settle such Income PRIDES only
in integral multiples of 8,000 Income PRIDES.
Section 5.10. No Fractional Shares.
No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares of Common
Stock shall be issued or delivered upon settlement on the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date or upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts. If
Certificates evidencing more than one Purchase Contract shall be surrendered
for settlement at one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares of
Common Stock which shall be delivered upon settlement shall be computed on the
basis of the aggregate number of Purchase Contracts evidenced by the
Certificates so surrendered. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock
which would otherwise be deliverable upon settlement of any Purchase Contracts
on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or upon Early Settlement, the Company,
through the Agent, shall make a cash payment in respect of such fractional
interest in an amount equal to the value of such fractional shares times the
Applicable Market Value. The Company shall provide the Agent from time to time
with sufficient funds to permit the Agent to make all cash payments required by
this Section 5.10 in a timely manner.
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Section 5.11. Charges and Taxes.
The Company will pay all stock transfer and similar taxes attributable
to the initial issuance and delivery of the shares of Common Stock pursuant to
the Purchase Contracts and in payment of any Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay any
such tax or taxes which may be payable in respect of any exchange of or
substitution for a Certificate evidencing a Purchase Contract or any issuance
of a share of Common Stock in a name other than that of the registered Holder
of a Certificate surrendered in respect of the Purchase Contracts evidenced
thereby, other than in the name of the Agent, as custodian for such Holder, and
the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver such share certificates
or Certificates unless or until the Person or Persons requesting the transfer
or issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or
shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has
been paid.
ARTICLE VI
Remedies
Section 6.1. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Contract Adjustment
Payments and to Purchase Common Stock.
In the event that Contract Adjustment Payments shall constitute a
component of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, the Holder of any Income PRIDES or
Growth PRIDES shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional
(subject to the right of the Company to defer payment thereof pursuant to
Section 5.3, the prepayment of Contract Adjustment Payments pursuant to Section
5.9(a) and to the forfeiture of any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments upon
Early Settlement pursuant to Section 5.9(b) or upon the occurrence of a
Termination Event), to receive payment of each in- stallment of the Contract
Adjustment Payments with respect to the Purchase Contract constituting a part
of such Security on the respective Payment Date for such Security and to
purchase Common Stock pursuant to such Purchase Contract and, in each such
case, to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment and right to
purchase Common Stock, and such rights shall not be impaired without the
consent of such Holder.
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Section 6.2. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or
remedy under this Agreement and such proceeding has been discontinued or
abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to such Holder, then
and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the
Company and such Holder shall be restored severally and respectively to their
former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of such
Holder shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 6.3. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates in the last
paragraph of Section 3.10, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved
to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and
every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and
in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter
existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any
right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 6.4. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy
upon a default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of
any such right. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the
Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by such Holders.
Section 6.5. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Agreement agree, and each Holder of Income PRIDES
or Growth PRIDES, by its acceptance of such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES
shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require,
in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Agreement, or
in any suit against the Agent for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
as Agent, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to
pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable
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attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to
the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party
litigant; provided that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any
suit instituted by the Company, to any suit instituted by the Agent, to any
suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate
more than 10% of the Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any
Holder for the enforcement of distributions on any Preferred Securities or
Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on any Purchase Contract on or after the
respective Payment Date therefor in respect of any Security held by such
Holder, or for enforcement of the right to purchase shares of Common Stock
under the Purchase Contracts constituting part of any Security held by such
Holder.
Section 6.6. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that
it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever
enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants
or the performance of this Agreement; and the Company (to the extent that it
may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any
such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution
of any power herein granted to the Agent or the Holders, but will suffer and
permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been
enacted.
ARTICLE VII
The Agent
Section 7.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) (1) The Agent undertakes to perform, with respect to the
Securities, such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in
this Agreement and the Pledge Agreement, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the Agent; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith or negligence on its part, the
Agent may, with respect to the Securities, conclusively rely, as to
the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions
expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the
Agent and conforming to the requirements
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of this Agreement, but in the case of any certificates or opinions
which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be
furnished to the Agent, the Agent shall be under a duty to examine the
same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of
this Agreement.
(b) No provision of this Agreement shall be construed to relieve
the Agent from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act, or its own wilful misconduct, except that
(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect
of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Agent shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved
that the Agent was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
and
(3) no provision of this Agreement shall require the Agent to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if adequate indemnity is not
provided to it.
(c) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision
of this Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Agent shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section.
(d) The Agent is authorized to execute and deliver the Pledge
Agreement in its capacity as Agent.
Section 7.2. Notice of Default.
Within 30 days after the occurrence of any default by the Company
hereunder of which a Responsible Officer of the Agent has actual knowledge, the
Agent shall transmit by mail to the Company and the Holders of Securities, as
their names and addresses appear in the Register, notice of such default
hereunder, unless such default shall have been cured or waived.
Section 7.3. Certain Rights of Agent.
Subject to the provisions of Section 7.1:
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(a) the Agent may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it
to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall
be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer's Certificate, Issuer Order or Issuer
Request, and any resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company may be
sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Agreement the Agent
shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Agent (unless other evidence be
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
rely upon an Officer's Certificate of the Company;
(d) the Agent may consult with counsel and the written advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization
and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Agent shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Agent,
in its discretion, may make reasonable further inquiry or investigation into
such facts or matters related to the execution, delivery and performance of the
Purchase Contracts as it may see fit, and, if the Agent shall determine to make
such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be given a reasonable
opportunity to examine the books, records and premises of the Company,
personally or by agent or attorney; and
(f) the Agent may execute any of the powers hereunder or perform
any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys or an
Affiliate and the Agent shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney or an Affiliate appointed with
due care by it hereunder.
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Section 7.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates shall be taken
as the statements of the Company and the Agent assumes no responsibility for
their accuracy. The Agent makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of either this Agreement or of the Securities, or of the Pledge
Agreement or the Pledge. The Agent shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of the proceeds in respect of the Purchase
Contracts.
Section 7.5. May Hold Securities.
Any Registrar or any other agent of the Company, or the Agent and its
Affiliates, in their individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company, the Collateral
Agent or any other Person with the same rights it would have if it were not
Registrar or such other agent, or the Agent.
Section 7.6. Money Held in Custody.
Money held by the Agent in custody hereunder need not be segregated
from the other funds except to the extent required by law or provided herein.
The Agent shall be under no obligation to invest or pay interest on any money
received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the
Company.
Section 7.7. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder;
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Agent upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Agent in accordance
with any provision of this 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 its negligence or bad faith; and
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(3) to indemnify the Agent and any predecessor Agent for, and
to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred
without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of its duties
hereunder, 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.
Section 7.8. Corporate Agent Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be an Agent hereunder which shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such
laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having (or being a member of a bank
holding company having) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000,
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority and having
a Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, if
there be such a corporation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York,
qualified and eligible under this Article and willing to act on reasonable
terms. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually,
pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation 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 Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
Section 7.9. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Agent and no appointment of a
successor Agent pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Agent in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 7.10.
(b) The Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Company 60 days prior to the effective date of such resignation.
If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Agent required by Section 7.10
shall not have been delivered to the Agent within 30 days after the giving of
such notice of resignation, the resigning Agent may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Agent.
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(c) The Agent may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of
a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities delivered to the Agent and
the Company.
(d) if at any time
(1) the Agent fails to comply with Section 310(b) of the TIA,
as if the Agent were an indenture trustee under an indenture qualified
under the TIA, after written request therefor by the Company or by any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six
months, or
(2) the Agent shall cease to be eligible under Section 7.8
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
or by any such Holder, or
(3) the Agent shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Agent or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Agent or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Agent, or (ii) any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated,
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Agent and
the appointment of a successor Agent.
(e) If the Agent shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Agent for any cause, the
Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Agent and
shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 7.10. If no successor
Agent shall have been so appointed by the Company and accepted appointment in
the manner required by Section 7.10, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder
of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Agent.
(f) The Company shall give, or shall cause such successor Agent to
give, notice of each resignation and each removal of the Agent and each
appointment of a successor Agent by mailing written notice of such event by
first-class mail, postage
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prepaid, to all Holders as their names and addresses appear in the applicable
Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Agent and the
address of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 7.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Agent,
every such successor Agent so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver
to the Company and to the retiring Agent an instrument accepting such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Agent
shall become effective and such successor Agent, without any further act, deed
or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, agencies and
duties of the retiring Agent; but, on the request of the Company or the
successor Agent, such retiring Agent shall, upon payment of its charges,
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Agent all the
rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Agent and shall duly assign, transfer
and deliver to such successor Agent all property and money held by such
retiring Agent hereunder.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Agent, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Agent all such rights, powers and agencies
referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section.
(c) No successor Agent shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Agent shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article.
Section 7.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Agent may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any
merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Agent shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of the Agent, shall be the successor of the Agent hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Certificates shall have been
authenticated and executed on behalf of the Holders, but not delivered, by the
Agent then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation
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to such Agent may adopt such authentication and execution and deliver the
Certificates so authenticated and executed with the same effect as if such
successor Agent had itself authenticated and executed such Securities.
Section 7.12. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Agent shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders received by the
Agent in its capacity as Registrar.
(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as "applicants")
apply in writing to the Agent, and furnish to the Agent reasonable proof that
each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of at least six months
preceding the date of such application, and such application states that the
applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect to their
rights under this Agreement or under the Securities and is accompanied by a
copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose
to transmit, then the Agent shall, within five Business Days after the receipt
of such application, afford such applicants access to the information preserved
at the time by the Agent in accordance with Section 7.12(a).
(c) Every Holder agrees with the Company and the Agent that none
of the Company, the Agent nor any agent of any of them shall be held
accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names
and addresses of the Holders in accordance with Section 7.12(b), regardless of
the source from which such information was derived.
Section 7.13. No Obligations of Agent.
Except to the extent otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Agent
assumes no obligations and shall not be subject to any liability under this
Agreement, the Pledge Agreement or any Purchase Contract in respect of the
obligations of the Holder of any Security thereunder. The Company agrees, and
each Holder of a Certificate, by his acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to
have agreed, that the Agent's execution of the Certificates on behalf of the
Holders shall be solely as agent and attorney-in-fact for the Holders, and that
the Agent shall have no obligation to perform such Purchase Contracts on behalf
of the Holders, except to the extent expressly provided in Article Five hereof.
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Section 7.14. Tax Compliance.
(a) The Agent, on its own behalf and on behalf of the Company,
will comply with all applicable certification, information reporting and
withholding (including "backup" withholding) requirements imposed by applicable
tax laws, regulations or administrative practice with respect to (i) any
payments made with respect to the Securities or (ii) the issuance, delivery,
holding, transfer, redemption or exercise of rights under the Securities. Such
compliance shall include, without limitation, the preparation and timely filing
of required returns and the timely payment of all amounts required to be
withheld to the appropriate taxing authority or its designated agent.
(b) The Agent shall comply with any written direction received
from the Company with respect to the application of such requirements to
particular payments or Holders or in other particular circumstances, and may
for purposes of this Agreement rely on any such direction in accordance with
the provisions of Section 7.1(a)(2) hereof.
(c) The Agent shall maintain all appropriate records documenting
compliance with such requirements, and shall make such records available, on
written request, to the Company or its authorized representative within a
reasonable period of time after receipt of such request.
ARTICLE VIII
Supplemental Agreements
Section 8.1. Supplemental Agreements Without Consent
of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company and the Agent, at any
time and from time to time, may enter into one or more agreements supplemental
hereto, in form satisfactory to the Company and the Agent, for any of the
following purposes:
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(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the
Company, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company herein and in the Certificates; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Company; or
(3) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Agent; or
(4) to make provision with respect to the rights of Holders
pursuant to the requirements of Section 5.6(b); or
(5) except as provided for in Section 5.6, to cure any
ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions herein which may be
inconsistent with any other provisions herein, or to make any other
provisions with respect to such matters or questions arising under
this Agreement, provided such action shall not adversely affect the
interests of the Holders.
Section 8.2. Supplemental Agreements with Consent
of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority of the
outstanding Purchase Contracts voting together as one Class, by Act of said
Holders delivered to the Company and the Agent, the Company, when authorized by
a Board Resolution, and the Agent may enter into an agreement or agreements
supplemental hereto for the purpose of modifying in any manner the terms of the
Purchase Contracts, or the provisions of this Agreement or the rights of the
Holders in respect of the Securities; provided, however, that, except as
contemplated herein, no such supplemental agreement shall, without the consent
of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change any Payment Date;
(2) change the amount or the type of Collateral required to be
Pledged to secure a Holder's Obligations under the Purchase Contract,
impair the right of the Holder of any Purchase Contract to receive
distributions on the related Collateral (except for the rights of
Holders of Income PRIDES to substitute
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the Treasury Securities for the Pledge Preferred Securities or the
rights of holders of Growth PRIDES to substitute Preferred Securities
for the Pledged Treasury Securities) or otherwise adversely affect the
Holder's rights in or to such Collateral or adversely alter the rights
in or to such Collateral;
(3) reduce any Contract Adjustment Payments or any Deferred
Contract Adjustment Payment, or change any place where, or the coin or
currency in which, any Contract Adjustment Payments is payable;
(4) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of
any Purchase Contract;
(5) reduce the number of shares of Common Stock to be
purchased pursuant to any Purchase Contract, increase the price to
purchase shares of Common Stock upon settlement of any Purchase
Contract, change the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or otherwise
adversely affect the Holder's rights under any Purchase Contract; or
(6) reduce the percentage of the outstanding Purchase
Contracts the consent of whose Holders is required for any such
supplemental agreement;
provided, that if any amendment or proposal referred to above would adversely
affect only the Income PRIDES or the Growth PRIDES, then only the affected
class of Holder as of the record date for the Holders entitled to vote thereon
will be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal, and such amendment or
proposal shall not be effective except with the consent of Holders of not less
than a majority of such class.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental agreement, but it
shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 8.3. Execution of Supplemental Agreements.
In executing, or accepting the additional agencies created by, any
supplemental agreement permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby
of the agencies created by this Agreement, the Agent shall be entitled to
receive and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental agreement
is authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Agent may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental
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agreement which affects the Agent's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Agreement or otherwise.
Section 8.4. Effect of Supplemental Agreements.
Upon the execution of any supplemental agreement under this Article,
this Agreement shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
agreement shall form a part of this Agreement for all purposes; and every
Holder of Certificates theretofore or thereafter authenticated, executed on
behalf of the Holders and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 8.5. Reference to Supplemental Agreements.
Certificates authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and
delivered after the execution of any supplemental agreement pursuant to this
Article may, and shall if required by the Agent, bear a notation in form
approved by the Agent as to any matter provided for in such supplemental
agreement. If the Company shall so determine, new Certificates so modified as
to conform, in the opinion of the Agent and the Company, to any such
supplemental agreement may be prepared and executed by the Company and
authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered by the Agent in
exchange for Outstanding Certificates.
ARTICLE IX
Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Conveyance
Section 9.1. Covenant Not to Merge, Consolidate, Sell or Convey Property
Except Under Certain Conditions.
The Company covenants that it will not merge or consolidate with any
other Person or sell, assign, transfer, lease or convey all or substantially
all of its properties and assets to any Person or group of affiliated Persons
in one transaction or a series of related transactions, unless (i) either the
Company shall be the continuing corporation, or the successor (if other than
the Company) shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the United States of America or a State thereof or the District of Columbia and
such corporation shall expressly assume all the obligations of the Company
under the Purchase Contracts, this Agreement and the Pledge Agreement
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by one or more supplemental agreements in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Agent and the Collateral Agent, executed and delivered to the Agent and the
Collateral Agent by such corporation, and (ii) the Company or such successor
corporation, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger or
consolidation, or such sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, be in
default in the performance of any covenant or condition hereunder, under any of
the Securities or under the Pledge Agreement.
Section 9.2. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer,
lease or conveyance and upon any such assumption by a successor corporation in
accordance with Section 9.1, such successor corporation shall succeed to and be
substituted for the Company with the same effect as if it had been named herein
as the Company. Such successor corporation thereupon may cause to be signed,
and may issue either in its own name or in the name of Conseco, Inc., any or
all of the Certificates evidencing Securities issuable hereunder which
theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the
Agent; and, upon the order of such successor corporation, instead of the
Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this
Agreement prescribed, the Agent shall authenticate and execute on behalf of the
Holders and deliver any Certificates which previously shall have been signed
and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Agent for authentication
and execution, and any Certificate evidencing Securities which such successor
corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Agent for
that purpose. All the Certificates so issued shall in all respects have the
same legal rank and benefit under this Agreement as the Certificates
theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Agreement
as though all of such Certificates had been issued at the date of the execution
hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer,
lease or conveyance such change in phraseology and form (but not in substance)
may be made in the Certificates evidencing Securities thereafter to be issued
as may be appropriate.
Section 9.3. Opinion of Counsel Given to Agent.
The Agent, subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.3, shall receive an Opinion
of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale,
assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption, complies
with the
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provisions of this Article and that all conditions precedent to the
consummation of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer,
lease or conveyance have been met.
ARTICLE X
Covenants
Section 10.1. Performance Under Purchase Contracts.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders from
time to time of the Securities that it will duly and punctually perform its
obligations under the Purchase Contracts in accordance with the terms of the
Purchase Contracts and this Agreement.
Section 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York an office or agency where Certificates may be presented or surrendered for
acquisition of shares of Common Stock upon settlement of the Purchase Contracts
on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or Early Settlement and for transfer
of Collateral upon occurrence of a Termination Event, where Certificates may be
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, for a Collateral
Substitution or re-establishment of an Income PRIDES and where notices and
demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Agreement
may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Agent of the
location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any
time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or
shall fail to furnish the Agent with the address thereof, such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust
Office, and the Company hereby appoints the Agent as its agent to receive all
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where Certificates may be presented or surrendered for any
or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations;
provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner
relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of
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New York for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Agent of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location
of any such other office or agency. The Company hereby designates as the place
of payment for the Securities the Corporate Trust Office and appoints the Agent
at its Corporate Trust Office as paying agent in such city.
Section 10.3. Company to Reserve Common Stock.
The Company shall at all times prior to the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of
its authorized but unissued Common Stock the full number of shares of Common
Stock issuable against tender of payment in respect of all Purchase Contracts
constituting a part of the Securities evidenced by Outstanding Certificates.
Section 10.4. Covenants as to Common Stock.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be
issued against tender of payment in respect of any Purchase Contract
constituting a part of the Outstanding Securities will, upon issuance, be duly
authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
Section 10.5. Statements of Officers of the Company as to Default.
The Company will deliver to the Agent, within 120 days after the end
of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officer's
Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers
thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of
the terms, provisions and conditions hereof, and if the Company shall be in
default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of
which they may have knowledge.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
CONSECO, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO,
as Purchase Contract Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT A
THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT (AS HEREINAFTER DEFINED) AND IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF THE CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE
EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A CERTIFICATE REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF
THIS CERTIFICATE IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY
PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE
LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT.
Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company (55 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx) to the
Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any
Certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co., or such other name
as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company,
and any payment hereon is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE
HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL since the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
No. _____ Cusip No. ______
Number of Income PRIDES _______
Form of Face of Income PRIDES Certificate
____% Income PRIDES
This Income PRIDES Certificate certifies that ___________ is the
registered Holder of the number of Income PRIDES set forth above. Each Income
PRIDES represents (i) either (a) beneficial ownership by the Holder of one
_____% Trust Originated Preferred Security (the "Preferred Security") of
Conseco Financing Trust IV, a Delaware statutory business trust (the "Trust"),
having a liquidation amount of $50, subject to the Pledge of such Preferred
Security by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement or (b) upon the
occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date, the Applicable Ownership Interest in
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the Treasury Portfolio, subject to the Pledge of such Applicable Ownership
Interest in the Treasury Portfolio by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge
Agreement, and (ii) the rights and obligations of the Holder under one Purchase
Contract with Conseco, Inc., an Indiana corporation (the "Company"). All
capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Purchase Contract
Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.
Pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Preferred Securities or the
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, constituting part of each Income PRIDES
evidenced hereby have been pledged to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of
the Company, to secure the obligations of the Holder under the Purchase
Contract comprising a portion of such Income PRIDES.
The Pledge Agreement provides that all payments of the Stated Amount
of or principal amount of, as the case may be, or cash distributions on, any
Pledged Preferred Securities (as defined in the Pledge Agreement) or the
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, constituting part of the Income PRIDES
received by the Collateral Agent shall be paid by the Collateral Agent by wire
transfer in same day funds (i) in the case of (A) cash distributions with
respect to Pledged Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case
may be, and (B) any payments of the Stated Amount or principal amount, as the
case may be, with respect to any Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, that have been released from the Pledge pursuant
to the Pledge Agreement, to the Agent to the account designated by the Agent,
no later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day such payment
is received by the Collateral Agent (provided that in the event such payment is
received by the Collateral Agent on a day that is not a Business Day or after
12:30 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, then such payment shall be
made no later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding
Business Day) and (ii) in the case of payments of the Stated Amount or
principal amount, as the case may be, of any Pledged Preferred Securities or
the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, to the Company on the relevant
Payment Date (as defined herein) in accordance with the terms of the Pledge
Agreement, in full satisfaction of the respective obligations of the Holders of
the Income PRIDES of which such Pledged Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, are a part under the Purchase Contracts forming
a part of such Income PRIDES. Distributions on any Preferred Security or the
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, forming part of an Income PRIDES
evidenced hereby which are payable quarterly in arrears on February 16, May 16,
August 16 and November 16 each year, commencing February 16, 1998 (a "Payment
Date"), shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Agent from the Collateral
Agent, be paid to the Person in whose name this Income PRIDES Certificate
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(or a Predecessor Income PRIDES Certificate) is registered at the close of
business on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this
Income PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on February 16,
2001 (the "Purchase Contract Settlement Date"), at a price equal to $50 (the
"Stated Amount"), a number of shares of Common Stock, no par value ("Common
Stock"), of the Company, equal to the Settlement Rate, unless on or prior to
the Purchase Contract Settlement Date there shall have occurred a Termination
Event with respect to the Income PRIDES of which such Purchase Contract is a
part, all as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully
described on the reverse hereof. The purchase price (the "Purchase Price") for
the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract
evidenced hereby, if not paid earlier, shall be paid on the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date by application of payment received in respect of the Stated
Amount or principal amount, as the case may be, of the Pledged Preferred
Securities or Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, pledged to secure the
obligations under such Purchase Contract of the Holder of the Income PRIDES of
which such Purchase Contract is a part.
The Company shall pay, on each Payment Date, in respect of each
Purchase Contract forming part of an Income PRIDES evidenced hereby an amount
(the "Contract Adjustment Payments") equal to _____% per annum of the Stated
Amount, computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30 day months,
subject to deferral at the option of the Company as provided in the Purchase
Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof; provided,
however, that if such percentage is 0%, then no such payment shall be payable
by the Company. Such Contract Adjustment Payments shall be payable to the
Person in whose name this Income PRIDES Certificate (or a Predecessor Income
PRIDES Certificate) is registered at the close of business on the Record Date
for such Payment Date.
Distributions on the Preferred Securities or Treasury Portfolio, as
the case may be, and Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, will be payable at
the office of the Agent in The City of New York or, at the option of the
Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such
address appears on the Income PRIDES Register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions set forth on the
reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same
effect as if set forth at this place.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Agent by manual signature, this Income PRIDES Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Pledge Agreement or the Purchase Contract
Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
CONSECO, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
By:
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Name:
Title:
HOLDER SPECIFIED ABOVE (as to
obligations of such Holder under the
Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby)
By: THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
CHICAGO, not individually but solely as
Attorney-in-Fact of such Holder
By:
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Name:
Title:
Dated:
AGENT'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Income PRIDES Certificates referred to in the
within mentioned Purchase Contract Agreement.
By: THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
CHICAGO, as Purchase Contract Agent
By:
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Authorized Officer
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(Form of Reverse of Income PRIDES Certificate)
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby is governed by a Purchase
Contract Agreement, dated as of December , 1997 (as may be supplemented from
time to time, the "Purchase Contract Agreement"), between the Company and The
First National Bank of Chicago, as Purchase Contract Agent (herein called the
"Agent"), to which Purchase Contract Agreement and supplemental agreements
thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the respective rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the
Agent, the Company, and the Holders and of the terms upon which the Income
PRIDES Certificates are, and are to be, executed and delivered.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this
Income PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date at a price equal to the Stated Amount (the "Purchase
Price"), a number of shares of Common Stock of the Company equal to the
Settlement Rate, unless, on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date,
there shall have occurred a Termination Event with respect to the Security of
which such Purchase Contract is a part. The "Settlement Rate" is equal to (a)
if the Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is equal to or greater than
$_____ (the "Threshold Appreciation Price"), ______ shares of Common Stock per
Purchase Contract, (b) if the Applicable Market Value is less than the
Threshold Appreciation Price but is greater than $_____, the number of shares
of Common Stock per Purchase Contract equal to the Stated Amount divided by the
Applicable Market Value and (c) if the Applicable Market Amount is less than or
equal to $____, ____ shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, in each case
subject to adjustment as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. No
fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon settlement of Purchase
Contracts, as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby, which is settled either
through Early Settlement or Cash Settlement, shall obligate the Holder of the
related Income PRIDES to purchase at the Purchase Price, and the Company to
sell, a number of newly issued shares of Common Stock equal to the Early
Settlement Rate or the Settlement Rate, as applicable.
The "Applicable Market Value" means the average of the Closing Price
per share of Common Stock on each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days ending on
the third Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date. The
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"Closing Price" of the Common Stock on any date of determination means the
closing sale price (or, if no closing price is reported, the last reported sale
price) of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") on such
date or, if the Common Stock is not listed for trading on the NYSE on any such
date, as reported in the composite transactions for the principal United States
securities exchange on which the Common Stock is so listed, or if the Common
Stock is not so listed on a United States national or regional securities
exchange, as reported by The Nasdaq Stock Market, or, if the Common Stock is
not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the
over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau or similar
organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the market value of the
Common Stock on such date as determined by a nationally recognized independent
investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company. A "Trading
Day" means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not suspended from trading on
any national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter
market at the close of business and (B) has traded at least once on the
national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter
market that is the primary market for the trading of the Common Stock.
In accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the
Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate shall pay the Purchase Price for the
shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced
hereby by effecting a Cash Settlement, or an Early Settlement or from the
proceeds of a remarketing of the related Preferred Securities of such holders.
A Holder of Income PRIDES who does not elect, on or prior to 5:00 p.m. New York
City time on the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, to make an effective Cash Settlement or an Early Settlement,
shall pay the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be issued under
the related Purchase Contract from the Proceeds of the sale of the related
Preferred Securities held by the Collateral Agent. Such sale will be made by
the Remarketing Agent pursuant to the terms of the Remarketing Agreement and
the Remarketing Underwriting Agreement on the third Business Day immediately
preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. If, as provided in the
Purchase Contract Agreement, upon the occurrence of a Failed Remarketing the
Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, exercises its rights as a
secured creditor with respect to the Preferred Securities related to this
Income PRIDES certificate, any accrued and unpaid distributions (including
deferred distri- butions) on the Preferred Securities will become payable by
the Company to the holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate in the manner
provided for in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
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The Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of Common Stock
in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificates therefor to the
Holder unless it shall have received payment in full of the aggregate purchase
price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased thereunder in the manner
herein set forth.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby and the obligations and rights
of the Company and the Holder thereunder shall terminate if a Termination Event
shall have occurred. Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company
shall give written notice to the Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses
as they appear in the Income PRIDES Register. Upon and after the occurrence of
a Termination Event, the Collateral Agent shall release the Pledged Preferred
Security (as defined in the Pledge Agreement) or the Treasury Portfolio forming
a part of each Income PRIDES, or the Liquidation Distribution received in
respect of such Pledged Preferred Security, from the Pledge. An Income PRIDES
shall thereafter represent the right to receive the Preferred Security or the
Treasury Portfolio forming a part of such Income PRIDES, or the Liquidation
Distribution received in respect of such Preferred Security, and any accrued
Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract forming a part of such
Income PRIDES in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement
and the Pledge Agreement. Contract Adjustment Payments shall cease to accrue
in respect of any period from and after the date of a Termination Event.
Under the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent will be entitled to
exercise the voting and any other consensual rights pertaining to the Pledged
Preferred Securities. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at which holders
of Preferred Securities are entitled to vote or upon the solicitation of
consents, waivers or proxies of holders of Preferred Securities, the Agent
shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, mail to the Income PRIDES holders a
notice (a) containing such information as is contained in the notice or
solicitation, (b) stating that each Income PRIDES holder on the record date set
by the Agent therefor (which, to the extent possible, shall be the same date as
the record date for determining the holders of Preferred Securities entitled to
vote) shall be entitled to instruct the Agent as to the exercise of the voting
rights pertaining to the Preferred Securities constituting a part of such
holder's Income PRIDES and (c) stating the manner in which such instructions
may be given. Upon the written request of the Income PRIDES Holders on such
record date, the Agent shall endeavor insofar as practicable to vote or cause
to be voted, in accordance with the instructions set forth in such requests,
the maximum number of Preferred Securities as to which any particular voting
instructions are received. In the absence of specific instructions from the
Holder of an Income PRIDES, the Agent shall abstain from voting the Preferred
Security evidenced by such Income PRIDES.
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Upon the occurrence of an Investment Company Event or liquidation of
the Trust, a principal amount of the Debentures constituting the assets of the
Trust and underlying the Preferred Securities equal to the aggregate Stated
Amount of the Pledged Preferred Securities shall be delivered to the Collateral
Agent in exchange for Pledged Preferred Securities. Thereafter, the Debentures
shall be held by the Collateral Agent to secure the obligations of each Holder
of Income PRIDES to purchase shares of Common Stock under the Purchase
Contracts constituting a part of such Income PRIDES. Following the liquidation
of the Trust, the Holders and the Collateral Agent shall have such security
interests, rights and obligations with respect to the Debentures as the
Holders and the Collateral Agent had in respect of the Pledged Preferred
Securities, and any reference in the Purchase Contract Agreement or Pledge
Agreement to the Preferred Securities shall be deemed to be a reference to the
Debentures.
Upon the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, the Redemption Price payable on the Tax Event
Redemption Date with respect to the Applicable Principal Amount of Debentures
shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent in exchange for the Pledged
Preferred Securities. Thereafter, pursuant to the terms of the Pledge
Agreement, the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Company will apply an
amount equal to the Redemption Amount of such Redemption Price to purchase, the
Treasury Portfolio and promptly remit the remaining portion of such Redemption
Price to the Agent for payment to the Holders of such Income PRIDES.
Following the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date, the Holders of Income PRIDES and the
Collateral Agent shall have such security interests rights and obligations with
respect to the Treasury Portfolio as the Holder of Income PRIDES and the
Collateral Agent had in respect of the Preferred Security or Debentures, as the
case may be, subject to the Pledge thereof as provided in Articles II, III, IV,
V and VI, of the Pledge Agreement and any reference herein to the Preferred
Security or the Debenture shall be deemed to be reference to such Treasury
Portfolio.
The Income PRIDES Certificates are issuable only in registered form
and only in denominations of a single Income PRIDES and any integral multiple
thereof. The transfer of any Income PRIDES Certificate will be registered and
Income PRIDES Certificates may be exchanged as provided in the Purchase
Contract Agreement. The Income PRIDES Registrar may require a Holder, among
other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents
permitted by the Purchase Contract
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Agreement. No service charge shall be required for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company and the Agent may require payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in
connection therewith. A holder who elects to substitute a Treasury Security
for Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, thereby creating Growth
PRIDES, shall be responsible for any fees or expenses payable in connection
therewith. Except as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement, for so long
as the Purchase Contract underlying an Income PRIDES remains in effect, such
Income PRIDES shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights
and obligations of the Holder of such Income PRIDES in respect of the Preferred
Security or the Applicable Ownership Interest, as the case may be, and Purchase
Contract constituting such Income PRIDES may be transferred and exchanged only
as an Income PRIDES. The holder of an Income PRIDES may substitute for the
Pledged Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio securing its obligation
under the related Purchase Contract Treasury Securities in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of the Pledged Preferred
Securities or principal amount of the Treasury Portfolio in accordance with the
terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. From and
after such Collateral Substitution, the Security for which such Pledged
Treasury Securities secures the holder's obligation under the Purchase Contract
shall be referred to as a "Growth PRIDES." A Holder may make such Collateral
Substitution only in integral multiples of 20 Income PRIDES for 20 Growth
PRIDES; provided, however, that if a Tax Event Redemption has occurred and the
Treasury Portfolio has become a component of the Income PRIDES, a Holder may
make such Collateral Substitutions only in integral multiples of 8,000 Income
PRIDES for 8,000 Growth PRIDES. Such Collateral Substitution may cause the
aggregate principal amount of this Certificate to be increased or decreased;
provided, however, the aggregate principal amount outstanding under this Income
PRIDES Certificate shall not exceed $_____. All such adjustments to the
aggregate principal amount of this Income PRIDES Certificate shall be duly
recorded by placing an appropriate notation on the Schedule attached hereto.
A Holder of a Growth PRIDES may recreate Income PRIDES by delivering
to the Collateral Agent Preferred Securities or a Treasury Portfolio with a
Stated Amount or principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of
the Pledged Treasury Securities in exchange for the release of such Pledged
Treasury Securities in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Pledge Agreement.
Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, the Company shall pay, on
each Payment Date, the Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, payable in respect
of each Purchase Contract to the Person in whose name the Income PRIDES
Certificate evidencing
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such Purchase Contract is registered at the close of business on the Record
Date for such Payment Date. Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, will be
payable at the office of the Agent in The City of New York or, at the option of
the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at
such address as it appears on the Income PRIDES Register.
The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract
Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date, but only if the
Company shall give the Holders and the Agent written notice of its election to
defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred) as provided in the
Purchase Contract Agreement. Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred
shall bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments thereon at the rate of ___%
per annum (computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30 day months),
compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred
installments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, together with the
additional Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, accrued thereon, are referred
to herein as the "Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments"). Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date
except to the extent that payment is deferred pursuant to the Purchase Contract
Agreement. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is
after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract
Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, the Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate will receive on
the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment, a number of
shares of Common Stock, equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments payable to the Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate
divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value.
In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of
Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on,
make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee
payments with respect to the foregoing (other than (i) purchases or
acquisitions of capital stock of the Company in connection with the
satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any employee or agent
benefit plans or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to
any contract or security outstanding on the date of such event requiring the
Company to
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xxxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxx, (xx) as a result of a reclassification
of the Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or
series of the Company's capital stock for another class or series of the
Company's capital stock, (iii) the purchase of fractional interests in shares
of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange
provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged,
(iv) dividends or distributions in capital stock of the Company (or rights to
acquire capital stock) or repurchases or redemptions of capital stock solely
from the issuance or exchange of capital stock or (v) redemptions or
repurchases of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights plan).
The Purchase Contracts and the obligations and rights of the Company
and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of the
Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract
Adjustment Payments or any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, shall
immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or
action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon the
occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event
later than two Business Days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the
Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the
Income PRIDES Register. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event,
the Collateral Agent shall release the Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, from the Pledge in accordance with the
provisions of the Pledge Agreement.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Purchase
Contract Agreement, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts
underlying Securities having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof may be settled early ("Early Settlement") as provided
in the Purchase Contract Agreement; provided, however, that if a Tax Event
Redemption has occurred and the Treasury Portfolio has become a component of
the Income PRIDES, Holders may early settle Income PRIDES only in integral
multiples of 8,000 Income PRIDES. In order to exercise the right to effect
Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts evidenced by this
Income PRIDES Certificate, the Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate shall
deliver this Income PRIDES Certificate to the Agent at the Corporate Trust
Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of
Election to Settle Early set forth below duly completed and accompanied by
payment in the form of immediately available funds payable to the order of the
Company in an amount (the "Early Settlement Amount") equal to (i) the product
of (A) the Stated Amount times (B) the number of Purchase Contracts with
respect to
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which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, plus (ii) if such
delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from
the close of business on any Record Date for any Payment Date to the opening of
business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the sum of (x) the Contract
Adjustment Payments, if any, payable on such Payment Date with respect to such
Purchase Contracts plus from the period from, but not including the Early
Settlement Date, to the Payment Date (y) the distributions with respect to the
related Pledged Preferred Securities payable on such Payment Date from the
period from, but not including the Early Settlement Date, to the Payment Date.
Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related
Securities, the Pledged Preferred Securities or Treasury Portfolio underlying
such Securities shall be released from the Pledge as provided in the Pledge
Agreement and the Holder shall be entitled to receive a number of shares of
Common Stock on account of each Purchase Contract forming part of a Income
PRIDES as to which Early Settlement is effected equal to the Early Settlement
Rate; provided however, that upon the Early Settlement of the Purchase
Contracts, the Holder thereof will forfeit the right to receive any Deferred
Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on such Purchase Contracts. The Early
Settlement Rate shall initially be equal to _____ shares of Common Stock and
shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Settlement
Rate is adjusted as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
Upon registration of transfer of this Income PRIDES Certificate, the
transferee shall be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the
part of such transferee, except as may be required by the Agent pursuant to the
Purchase Contract Agreement), under the terms of the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby and the transferor shall
be released from the obligations under the Purchase Contracts evidenced by this
Income PRIDES Certificate. The Company covenants and agrees, and the Holder,
by its acceptance hereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the
provisions of this paragraph.
The Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate, by its acceptance
hereof, authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related Purchase
Contracts forming part of the Income PRIDES evidenced hereby on his behalf as
his attorney-in-fact, expressly withholds any consent to the assumption (i.e.,
affirmance) of the Purchase Contracts by the Company or its trustee in the
event that the Company becomes the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code,
agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to
perform his obligations under such Purchase Contracts, consents to the
provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, authorizes the Agent to enter
into and perform the Pledge Agreement on his behalf as
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its attorney-in-fact, and consents to the Pledge of the Preferred Securities or
the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying this Income PRIDES
Certificate pursuant to the Pledge Agreement. The Holder further covenants and
agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner provided in the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Pledge Agreement, but subject to the terms thereof, payments
in respect to the Stated Amount of the Pledged Preferred Securities, or the
principal amount of the Treasury Portfolio, on the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date shall be paid by the Collateral Agent to the Company in satisfaction of
such Holder's obligations under such Purchase Contract and such Holder shall
acquire no right, title or interest in such payments.
Subject to certain exceptions, the provisions of the Purchase Contract
Agreement may be amended with the consent of the Holders of a majority of the
Purchase Contracts.
The Purchase Contracts shall for all purposes be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
The Company, the Agent and its Affiliates and any agent of the Company
or the Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Income PRIDES Certificate
is registered as the owner of the Income PRIDES evidenced hereby for the
purpose of receiving payments of distributions payable quarterly on the
Preferred Securities, receiving payments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if
any, and any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, performance of the Purchase
Contracts and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payments in
respect thereof be overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and
neither the Company, the Agent nor any such agent shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
The Purchase Contracts shall not, prior to the settlement thereof,
entitle the Holder to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock.
A copy of the Purchase Contract Agreement is available for inspection
at the offices of the Agent.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face
of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM - as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ------------Custodian------------
(cust) (minor)
Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
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(State)
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s)
and transfer(s) unto
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Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D. or other Identifying Number of
Assignee
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Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Postal Zip Code
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of Assignee the within Income PRIDES Certificates and all rights
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thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
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attorney to transfer said Income PRIDES Certificates on the books of Conseco,
Inc. with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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Signature
NOTICE: The signature to this
assignment must correspond with
the name as it appears upon the
face of the within Income
PRIDES Certifi- xxxxx in every
particular, without alteration
or enlargement or any change
whatsoever.
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SETTLEMENT INSTRUCTIONS
The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of Common
Stock deliverable upon settlement on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date of the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Income PRIDES evidenced
by this Income PRIDES Certificate be registered in the name of, and delivered,
together with a check in payment for any fractional share, to the undersigned
at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been
indicated below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other
than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable
incident thereto.
Dated:
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Signature
[Signature guarantee
(if assigned to another person)]
If shares are to be registered
in the name of and delivered to REGISTERED HOLDER
a Person other than the Holder,
please (i) print such Person's
name and address and (ii) provide
a guarantee of your signature:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
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Name Name
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Address Address
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Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identification
Number, if any -----------------------------
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ELECTION TO SETTLE EARLY
The undersigned Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate hereby
irrevocably exercises the option to effect Early Settlement in accordance with
the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement with respect to the Purchase
Contracts underlying the number of Income PRIDES evidenced by this Income
PRIDES Certificate specified below. The undersigned Holder directs that a
certificate for shares of Common Stock deliverable upon such Early Settlement
be registered in the name of, and delivered, together with a check in payment
for any fractional share and any Income PRIDES Certificate representing any
Income PRIDES evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of the related
Purchase Contracts is not effected, to the undersigned at the address indicated
below unless a different name and address have been indicated below. Pledged
Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, deliverable
upon such Early Settlement will be transferred in accordance with the transfer
instructions set forth below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a
Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax
payable incident thereto.
Dated:
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Signature
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Number of Securities evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of
the related Purchase Contracts is being elected:
If shares of Common Stock REGISTERED HOLDER
or Income PRIDES Certificates
are to be registered in the name
of and delivered to and Pledged
Preferred Securities, or the
Treasury Portfolio, as the case
may be, are to be transferred to
a Person other than the Holder,
please print such Person's name
and address:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
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Name Name
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Address Address
Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identification
Number, if any ------------------------------
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Transfer Instructions for Pledged Preferred Securities, or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be, Transferable Upon Early Settlement or a
Termination Event:
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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES]
SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OF DECREASED IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE
The following increases or decreases in this Global
Certificate have been made:
Principal Amount of
this Global
Amount of Amount of Certificate Signature of autho-
decrease in Principal increase in Principal following such de- rized officer of
Amount of the Global Amount of the Global crease or Trustee or
Date Certificate Certificate increase Securities Custodian
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EXHIBIT B
THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT (AS HEREINAFTER DEFINED) AND IS REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF A CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE
EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A CERTIFICATE REGISTERED, AND NO TRANSFER OF
THIS CERTIFICATE IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY
PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE
LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT.
Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company (55 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx) to the
Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any
Certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co., or such other name
as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company,
and any payment hereon is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE
HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL since the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
No. ____
Number of Growth PRIDES _____ Cusip No. ________
Form of Face of Growth PRIDES Certificate
This Growth PRIDES Certificate certifies that __________ is the
registered Holder of the number of Growth PRIDES set forth above. Each Growth
PRIDES represents (i) a 1/20 undivided beneficial ownership interest, of a
Treasury Security having a principal amount at maturity equal to $1,000,
subject to the Pledge of such Treasury Security by such Holder pursuant to the
Pledge Agreement, and (ii) the rights and obligations of the Holder under One
Purchase Contract with Conseco, Inc., an Indiana corporation (the "Company").
All capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Purchase Contract
Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.
Pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Treasury Securities constituting
part of each Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby have been pledged to the Collateral
Agent, for the benefit of the Company, to secure the obligations of the Holder
under the Purchase Contract comprising a portion of such Growth PRIDES.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this
Growth PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company, to sell, on February
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Settlement Date"), at a price equal to $50 (the "Stated Amount"), a number of
shares of Common stock, no par value per share ("Common Stock"), of the Company
equal to the Settlement Rate, unless on or prior to the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date there shall have occurred a Termination Event with respect to
the Growth PRIDES of which such Purchase Contract is a part, all as provided in
the Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof.
The purchase price for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each
Purchase Contract evidenced hereby will be paid by application of the Proceeds
from the Treasury Securities pledged to secure the obligations under such
Purchase Contract in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement.
The Company shall pay on each Payment Date in respect of each Purchase
Contract evidenced hereby an amount (the "Contract Adjustment Payments") equal
to ____% per annum of the Stated Amount, computed on the basis of the actual
number of days elapsed in a year of 360 day year of twelve 30 day months, as
the case may be, subject to deferral at the option of the Company as provided
in the Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse
hereof; provided, that, the Company shall not make Contract Adjustment Payments
if Contract Adjustment Payments do not constitute a portion of the Income
PRIDES or Growth PRIDES. Such Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall be
payable to the Person in whose name this Growth PRIDES Certificate (or a
Predecessor Growth PRIDES Certificate) is registered at the close of business
on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, will be payable at the office of
the Agent in The City of New York or, at the option of the Company, by check
mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address appears on
the Growth PRIDES Register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions set forth on the
reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same
effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Agent by manual signature, this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Pledge Agreement or the Purchase Contract
Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
CONSECO, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
By:
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Name:
Title:
HOLDER SPECIFIED ABOVE (as to
obligations of such Holder under the
Purchase Contracts)
By: THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO,
not individually but solely as
Attorney-in-Fact of such Holder
By:
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Name:
Title:
Dated:
AGENT'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Growth PRIDES referred to in the within-mentioned
Purchase Contract Agreement.
By: THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO, as Purchase Contract Agent
By:
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Authorized Officer
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(Form of Reverse of
Growth PRIDES Certificate)
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby is governed by a Purchase
Contract Agreement, dated as of December __, 1997 (as may be supplemented from
time to time, the "Purchase Contract Agreement") between the Company and The
First National Bank of Chicago, as Purchase Contract Agent (including its
successors thereunder, herein called the "Agent"), to which the Purchase
Contract Agreement and supplemental agreements thereto reference is hereby made
for a description of the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations,
duties and immunities thereunder of the Agent, the Company and the Holders and
of the terms upon which the Growth PRIDES Certificates are, and are to be,
executed and delivered.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this
Growth PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date at a price equal to the Stated Amount (the "Purchase
Price") a number of shares of Common Stock of the Company equal to the
Settlement Rate, unless on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date,
there shall have occurred a Termination Event or an Early Settlement with
respect to the Security of which such Purchase Contract is a part. The
"Settlement Rate" is equal to (a) if the Applicable Market Value (as defined
below) is equal to or greater than $____ (the "Threshold Appreciation Price"),
____ shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, (b) if the Applicable Market
Value is less than the Threshold Appreciation Price but is greater than $____,
the number of shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract equal to the Stated
Amount divided by the Applicable Market Value and (c) if the Applicable Market
Amount is less than or equal to $____, _____ shares of Common Stock per
Purchase Contract, in each case subject to adjustment as provided in the
Purchase Contract Agreement. No fractional shares of Common Stock will be
issued upon settlement of Purchase Contracts, as provided in the Purchase
Contract Agreement.
The "Applicable Market Value" means the average of the Closing Prices
per share of Common Stock on each of the twenty consecutive Trading Days ending
on the third Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date. The "Closing Price" of the Common Stock on any date of determination
means the closing sale price (or, if no closing price is reported, the last
reported sale price) of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange (the
"NYSE") on such date or, if the Common Stock is not listed for trading on the
NYSE on any such date, as reported in the composite transactions for the
principal United States securities exchange on which the Common Stock is so
listed, or if the Common Stock is not so listed on a United States national or
regional securities exchange, as reported by The Nasdaq Stock Market, or, if
the Common Stock is not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common
Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation
Bureau or similar organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the
market value of the Common Stock on such date as determined by a nationally
recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the
Company. A "Trading Xxx"
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means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not suspended from trading on any
national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter
market at the close of business and (B) has traded at least once on the
national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter
market that is the primary market for the trading of the Common Stock.
In accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the
Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall pay the Purchase Price for the
shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced
hereby by effecting either an Early Settlement of each such Purchase Contract
or by applying a principal amount of the Pledged Treasury Securities underlying
such Holder's Growth PRIDES equal to the Stated Amount of such Purchase
Contract to the purchase of the Common Stock.
The Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of Common Stock
in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificates therefor to the
Holder unless it shall have received payment in full of the aggregate purchase
price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased thereunder in the manner
herein set forth.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby and the obligations and rights
of the Company and the Holder thereunder shall terminate if a Termination Event
shall have occurred. Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company
shall give written notice to the Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses
as they appear in the Growth PRIDES Register. Upon and after the occurrence of
a Termination Event, the Collateral Agent shall release the Pledged Treasury
Securities (as defined in the Pledge Agreement) forming a part of each Growth
PRIDES. A Growth PRIDES shall thereafter represent the right to receive any
accrued Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract forming a part of
such Growth PRIDES in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. Contract Adjustment Payments, if any,
shall cease to accrue in respect of any period from and after the date of a
Termination Event.
The Growth PRIDES Certificates are issuable only in registered form
and only in denominations of a single Growth PRIDES and any integral multiple
thereof. The transfer of any Growth PRIDES Certificate will be registered and
Growth PRIDES Certificates may be exchanged as provided in the Purchase
Contract Agreement. The Growth PRIDES Registrar may require a Holder, among
other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents
permitted by the Purchase Contract Agreement. No service charge shall be
required for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company and
the Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith. A Holder who elects to
substitute Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,
for a Treasury Security, thereby recreating Income PRIDES, shall be responsible
for any fees or expenses associated therewith. Except as provided in the
Purchase Contract Agreement, for so long as the Purchase Contract underlying a
Growth PRIDES remains in effect, such Growth PRIDES shall not be separable into
its constituent
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parts, and the rights and obligations of the Holder of such Growth PRIDES in
respect of the Treasury Security and the Purchase Contract constituting such
Growth PRIDES may be transferred and exchanged only as a Growth PRIDES. The
Holder of a Growth PRIDES may substitute for the Pledged Treasury Securities
securing its obligations under the related Purchase Contract Preferred
Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, with an aggregate
Stated Amount or principal amount, as the case may be, equal to the aggregate
principal amount of the Pledged Treasury Securities in accordance with the
terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. From and
after such substitution, the Holder's Security shall be referred to as an
"Income PRIDES." Such substitution may cause the aggregate principal amount of
this Certificate to be increased or decreased; provided, however, the aggregate
principal amount outstanding under this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall not
exceed $______. All such adjustments to the aggregate principal amount of this
Growth PRIDES Certificate shall be duly recorded by placing an appropriate
notation on the Schedule attached hereto.
A Holder of an Income PRIDES may recreate a Growth PRIDES by
delivering to the Collateral Agent Treasury Securities in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the aggregate Stated Amount or principal amount, as
the case may be, of the Pledged Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio,
as the case may be, in exchange for the release of such Pledged Preferred
Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, in accordance with
the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. Any
such recreation of a Growth PRIDES may be effected only in multiples of 20
Income PRIDES for 20 Growth PRIDES; provided, however, if a Tax Event
Redemption has occurred and the Treasury Portfolio has become a component of
the Income PRIDES, a Holder may make such Collateral Substitution in integral
multiples of 8,000 Income PRIDES for 8,000 Growth PRIDES.
Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, the Company shall pay, on
each Payment Date, the Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, payable in respect
of each Purchase Contract to the Person in whose name the Growth PRIDES
Certificate evidencing such Purchase Contract is registered at the close of
business on the Record Date for such Payment Date. Contract Adjustment
Payments will be payable at the office of the Agent in The City of New York or,
at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person
entitled thereto at such address as it appears on the Growth PRIDES Register.
The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract
Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date, but only if the
Company shall give the Holders and the Agent written notice of its election to
defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred) as provided in the
Purchase Contract Agreement. Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred
shall bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments thereon at the rate of ____%
per annum (computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30 day months),
compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred
installments
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of Contract Adjustment Payments together with the additional Contract
Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, are referred to herein as the "Deferred
Contract Adjustment Payments"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any,
shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that
payment is deferred pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement. No Contract
Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date.
In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract
Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, the Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate will receive on
the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lieu of a cash payment, a number of
Shares of Common Stock equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments payable to the Holder of the Growth PRIDES Certificate
divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value.
In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of
Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments have been paid, the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on,
make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock or make guarantee
payments with respect to the foregoing (other than (i) purchases or
acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company in connection with the
satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any employee or agent
benefit plans or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to
any contract or security outstanding on the date of such event requiring the
Company to purchase capital stock of the Company, (ii) as a result of a
reclassification of the Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion
of one class or series of the Company's capital stock for another class or
series of the Company's capital stock, (iii) the purchase of fractional
interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion
or exchange provisions of the Company's capital stock or the security being
converted or exchanged, (iv) dividends or distributions in capital stock of the
Company (or rights to acquire capital stock) or repurchases or redemptions of
capital stock solely from the issuance or exchange of capital stock or (v)
redemptions or repurchases of any rights outstanding under a shareholder rights
plan).
The Purchase Contracts and the obligations and rights of the Company
and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of the
Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract
Adjustment Payments or any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, shall
immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or
action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon the
occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event
later than two business days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the
Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the
Growth PRIDES Register. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event,
the Collateral Agent shall release the Treasury Securities from the Pledge in
accordance with the provisions of the Pledge Agreement.
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Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Purchase
Contract Agreement, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts
underlying Securities having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof may be settled early ("Early Settlement") as provided
in the Purchase Contract Agreement. In order to exercise the right to effect
Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts evidenced by this
Growth PRIDES Certificate, the Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall
deliver this Growth PRIDES Certificate to the Agent at the Corporate Trust
Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of
Election to Settle Early set forth below duly completed and accompanied by
payment in the form of immediately available funds payable to the order of the
Company in an amount (the "Early Settlement Amount") equal to (i) the product
of (A) the Stated Amount times (B) the number of Purchase Contracts with
respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, plus (ii)
if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the
period from the close of business on any Record Date for any Payment Date to
the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the Contract
Adjustment Payments, if any, payable, if any, on such Payment Date with respect
to such Purchase Contracts from the period from, but not including the Early
Settlement Date, to the Payment Date. Upon Early Settlement of Purchase
Contracts by a Holder of the related Securities, the Pledged Treasury
Securities underlying such Securities shall be released from the Pledge as
provided in the Pledge Agreement and the Holder shall be entitled to receive, a
number of shares of Common Stock on account of each Purchase Contract forming
part of a Growth PRIDES as to which Early Settlement is effected equal to _____
shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract (the "Early Settlement Rate");
provided however, that upon the Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the
Holder thereof will forfeit the right to receive any Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments on such Purchase Contracts. The Early Settlement Rate
shall initially be equal to _______ shares of Common Stock per Growth PRIDES
and shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Settlement
Rate is adjusted as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
Upon registration of transfer of this Growth PRIDES Certificate, the
transferee shall be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the
part of such transferee, except as may be required by the Agent pursuant to the
Purchase Contract Agreement), under the terms of the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby and the transferor shall
be released from the obligations under the Purchase Contracts evidenced by this
Growth PRIDES Certificate. The Company covenants and agrees, and the Holder,
by his acceptance hereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the
provisions of this paragraph.
The Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate, by his acceptance
hereof, authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related Purchase
Contracts forming part of the Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby on his behalf as
its attorney-in-fact, expressly withholds any consent to the assumption (i.e.,
affirmance) of the Purchase Contracts by the Company or its trustee in the
event that the Company becomes the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy
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Code, agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and
agrees to perform its obligations under such Purchase Contracts, consents to
the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, authorizes the Agent to
enter into and perform the Pledge Agreement on his behalf as his
attorney-in-fact, and consents to the Pledge of the Treasury Securities
underlying this Growth PRIDES Certificate pursuant to the Pledge Agreement.
The Holder further covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner
provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement, but
subject to the terms thereof, payments in respect to the Stated Amount of the
Pledged Treasury Securities on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall be
paid by the Collateral Agent to the Company in satisfaction of such Holder's
obligations under such Purchase Contract and such Holder shall acquire no
right, title or interest in such payments.
Subject to certain exceptions, the provisions of the Purchase Contract
Agreement may be amended with the consent of the Holders of a majority of the
Purchase Contracts.
The Purchase Contracts shall for all purposes be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
The Company, the Agent and its Affiliates and any agent of the Company
or the Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Growth PRIDES Certificate
is registered as the owner of the Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby for the
purpose of receiving payments of interest on the Treasury Securities, receiving
payments of Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, and any Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments, performance of the Purchase Contracts and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payments in respect thereof be overdue
and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and neither the Company, the
Agent nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Purchase Contracts shall not, prior to the settlement thereof,
entitle the Holder to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock.
A copy of the Purchase Contract Agreement is available for inspection
at the offices of the Agent.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face
of this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations:
TEN COM - as tenants in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ------------Custodian------------
(cust) (minor)
Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
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(State)
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s)
and transfer(s) unto
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Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D. or other Identifying Number of
Assignee
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Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Postal Zip Code
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of Assignee the within Growth PRIDES Certificates and all rights
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thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
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attorney to transfer said Growth PRIDES Certificates on the books of Conseco,
Inc. with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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Signature
NOTICE: The signature to this
assignment must correspond
with the name as it appears
upon the face of the within
Growth PRIDES Certificates in
every particular, without
alteration or enlargement or
any change whatsoever.
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XXXXXXXXXX INSTRUCTIONS
The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of Common
Stock deliverable upon settlement on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date of the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Growth PRIDES evidenced
by this Growth PRIDES Certificate be registered in the name of, and delivered,
together with a check in payment for any fractional share, to the undersigned
at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been
indicated below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other
than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable
incident thereto.
Dated:
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Signature
If shares are to be registered
in the name of and delivered to REGISTERED HOLDER
a Person other than the Holder,
please print such Person's name
and address:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
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Name Name
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Address Address
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Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identification
Number, if any ------------------------------
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ELECTION TO SETTLE EARLY
The undersigned Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate hereby
irrevocably exercises the option to effect Early Settlement in accordance with
the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement with respect to the Purchase
Contracts underlying the number of Growth PRIDES evidenced by this Growth
PRIDES Certificate specified below. The option to effect Early Settlement may
be exercised only with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying Growth PRIDES
with an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple
thereof. The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of
Common Stock deliverable upon such Early Settlement be registered in the name
of, and deliv- ered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share
and any Growth PRIDES Certificate representing any Growth PRIDES evidenced
hereby as to which Early Settlement of the related Purchase Contracts is not
effected, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different
name and address have been indicated below. Pledged Treasury Securities
deliverable upon such Early Settlement will be transferred in accordance with
the transfer instructions set forth below. If shares are to be registered in
the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any
transfer tax payable incident thereto.
Dated:
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Signature
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Number of Securities evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of
the related Purchase Contracts is being elected:
If shares of Common Stock REGISTERED HOLDER
or Growth PRIDES Certifi-
xxxxx are to be registered
in the name of and delivered
to and Pledged Treasury
Securities are to be
transferred to a Person
other than the Holder, please
print such Person's name and address:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
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Name Name
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Address Address
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Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identification
Number, if any
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Transfer Instructions for Pledged Treasury Securities Transferable Upon Early
Settlement or a Termination Event:
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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES]
SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE
The following increases or decreases in this Global
Certificate have been made:
Principal Amount of
this Global
Amount of Amount of Certificate Signature of autho-
decrease in Principal increase in Principal following such rized officer of
Amount of the Global Amount of the Global decrease or Trustee or
Date Certificate Certificate increase Securities Custodian
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EXHIBIT C
INSTRUCTION FROM PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT TO
COLLATERAL AGENT
[CHASE ]
Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration Department
Re: FELINE PRIDES of Conseco, Inc. (the "Company"), and
Conseco Financing Trust IV
We hereby notify you in accordance with Section 4.1 of the
Pledge Agreement, dated as of December __, 1997, among the Company, yourselves,
as Collateral Agent, and ourselves, as Purchase Contract Agent and as
attorney-in- fact for the holders of [Income PRIDES] [Growth PRIDES] from time
to time, that the holder of securities listed below (the "Holder") has elected
to substitute [$_____ aggregate [principal amount] of Treasury Securities]
[$_______ Stated Amount of Preferred Securities or principal amount of the
Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] in exchange for the [Pledged Preferred
Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] [Pledged Treasury
Securities] held by you in accordance with the Pledge Agreement and has
delivered to us a notice stating that the Holder has Transferred [Treasury
Securities] [Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may
be,] to you, as Collateral Agent. We hereby instruct you, upon receipt of such
[Pledged Treasury Securities] [Pledged Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be], and upon the payment by such Holder of any
applicable fees, to release the [Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be,] [Treasury Securities] related to such [Income
PRIDES] [Growth PRIDES] to us in accordance with the Holder's instructions.
Date:
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By:
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Name:
Title:
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Please print name and address of Registered Holder electing to substitute
[Treasury Securities] [Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the
case may be,] for the [Pledged Preferred Securities or the Treasury Portfolio,
as the case may be,] [Pledged Treasury Securities]:
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Name Name
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Address Address
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EXHIBIT D
INSTRUCTION TO PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT
[ ]
Attention:
Re: FELINE PRIDES of Conseco, Inc. (the "Company"), and
Conseco Financing Trust IV
The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you that it has
delivered to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Collateral Agent, $_______ aggregate
principal amount of [Treasury Securities] [Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be,] in exchange for the [Pledged Preferred
Securities or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] [Pledged Treasury
Securities] held by the Collateral Agent, in accordance with Section 4.1 of the
Pledge Agreement, dated December __, 1997, between you, the Company and the
Collateral Agent. The undersigned Holder has paid the Collateral Agent all
applicable fees relating to such exchange. The undersigned Holder hereby
instructs you to instruct the Collateral Agent to release to you on behalf of
the undersigned Holder the [Pledged Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Portfolio, as the case may be,] [Pledged Treasury Securities] related to such
[Income PRIDES] [Growth PRIDES].
Dated:
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Signature
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
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Name Name
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Address Address
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EXHIBIT E
NOTICE TO SETTLE BY SEPARATE CASH
The First National Bank of Chicago
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, XX. 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration Department
Re: FELINE PRIDES of Conseco, Inc. (the "Company"), and
Conseco Financing Trust IV
The undersigned Holder hereby irrevocably notifies you in
accordance with Section 5.4 of the Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of
December , 1997 among the Company, yourselves, as Purchase Contract Agent
and as Attorney-in-Fact for the Holders of the Purchase Contracts, that such
Holder has elected to pay to the Collateral Agent, on or prior to 11:00 a.m.
New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, (in lawful money of the United States by [certified
or cashiers check or] wire transfer, in each case in immediately available
funds), $_________ as the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock
issuable to such Holder by the Company under the related Purchase Contract on
the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. The undersigned Holder hereby instructs
you to notify promptly the Collateral Agent of the undersigned Holders election
to make such cash settlement with respect to the Purchase Contracts related to
such Holder's [Income PRIDES] [Growth PRIDES].
Dated:
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Signature
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
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Name Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identification
Number, any
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Address
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