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Exhibit 4.2
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
AMONG
METROPOLITAN FINANCIAL CORP., AS DEPOSITOR
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS PROPERTY TRUSTEE
AND
THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES NAMED HEREIN
DATED AS OF MAY 14, 1999
METROPOLITAN CAPITAL TRUST II
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I DEFINED TERMS ..................................................................3
Section 101. Definitions ....................................................................3
ARTICLE II ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRUST .....................................................12
Section 201. Name ...........................................................................12
Section 202. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business ....................12
Section 203. Initial Contribution of Trust Property; Organizational Expenses ................12
Section 204. Issuance of the Preferred Securities ...........................................12
Section 205. Issuance of The Common Securities; Subscription And
Purchase of Debentures .........................................................13
Section 206. Declaration of Trust ...........................................................13
Section 207. Authorization to Enter Into Certain Transactions ...............................13
Section 208. Assets of Trust ................................................................17
Section 209. Title to Trust Property ........................................................17
ARTICLE III PAYMENT ACCOUNT ................................................................17
Section 301. Payment Account ................................................................18
ARTICLE IV DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION ......................................................18
Section 401. Distributions ..................................................................18
Section 402. Redemption .....................................................................19
Section 403. Subordination of Common Securities .............................................21
Section 404. Payment Procedures .............................................................22
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Section 405. Tax Returns And Reports ........................................................22
Section 406. Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc. of The Trust ....................................23
Section 407. Payments Under Indenture .......................................................23
ARTICLE V TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES ..................................................23
Section 501. Initial Ownership ..............................................................23
Section 502. The Trust Securities Certificates ..............................................23
Section 503. Execution And Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates ........................24
Section 503A. Global Preferred Securities ....................................................24
Section 504. Registration of Transfer and Exchange of Preferred
Securities Certificates ........................................................26
Section 505. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Trust Securities
Certificates. ..................................................................28
Section 506. Persons Deemed Securityholders .................................................28
Section 507. Access to List of Securityholders' Names And Addresses .........................28
Section 508. Maintenance of Office or Agency ................................................29
Section 509. Appointment of Paying Agent ....................................................29
Section 510. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor ....................................30
Section 511. Notices to Clearing Agency .....................................................30
Section 511A. Definitive Preferred Securities Certificate And Temporary
Preferred Securities ...........................................................30
Section 512. Rights of Securityholders ......................................................31
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Section 513. CUSIP Numbers ..................................................................32
ARTICLE VI ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING ......................................32
Section 601. Limitations on Voting Rights ...................................................32
Section 602. Notice of Meetings .............................................................33
Section 603. Meetings of Preferred Securityholders ..........................................33
Section 604. Voting Rights ..................................................................34
Section 605. Proxies, Etc. ..................................................................34
Section 606. Securityholder Action by Written Consent .......................................34
Section 607. Record Date For Voting And Other Purposes ......................................35
Section 608. Acts of Securityholders ........................................................35
Section 609. Inspection of Records ..........................................................36
ARTICLE VII REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES .................................................36
Section 701. Representations And Warranties of The Property Trustee .........................36
Section 702. Representations And Warranties of Depositor ....................................37
ARTICLE VIII TRUSTEES .......................................................................38
Section 801. Certain Duties and Responsibilities ............................................38
Section 802. Certain Notices ................................................................39
Section 803. Certain Rights of Property Trustee .............................................40
Section 804. Not Responsible For Recitals or Issuance of Securities .........................42
Section 805. May Hold Securities ............................................................42
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Section 806. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees ..................................................42
Section 807. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees ...................43
Section 808. Conflicting Interests ..........................................................44
Section 809. Co-trustees And Separate Trustee ...............................................44
Section 810. Resignation And Removal; Appointment of Successor ..............................45
Section 811. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor .........................................47
Section 812. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business ....................47
Section 813. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or Trust ...................48
Section 814. Reports by Property Trustee ....................................................48
Section 815. Reports to The Property Trustee ................................................48
Section 816. Evidence of Compliance With Conditions Precedent ...............................49
Section 817. Number of Trustees .............................................................49
Section 818. Delegation of Power ............................................................49
Section 819. Voting .........................................................................50
ARTICLE IX DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER ............................................50
Section 901. Dissolution Upon Expiration Date ...............................................50
Section 902. Early Dissolution ..............................................................50
Section 903. Termination ....................................................................50
Section 904. Liquidation ....................................................................51
Section 905. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements
of The Trust ...................................................................52
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ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS .......................................................53
Section 1001. Limitation of Rights of Securityholders ........................................53
Section 1002. Amendment ......................................................................54
Section 1003. Separability ...................................................................55
Section 1004. Governing Law ..................................................................55
Section 1005. Payments Due on Non-business Day ...............................................55
Section 1006. Successors .....................................................................55
Section 1007. Headings .......................................................................56
Section 1008. Reports, Notices And Demands ...................................................56
Section 1009. Agreement Not to Petition ......................................................56
Section 1010. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict With Trust Indenture Act .........................57
Section 1011. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement, Guarantee
And Indenture ..................................................................57
Exhibit A Certificate of Trust
Exhibit B Form of Certificate Depository Agreement
Exhibit C Form of Common Securities Certificate
Exhibit D Form of Expense Agreement
Exhibit E Form of Preferred Securities Certificate
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
Section of Section of Amended
Trust Indenture Act and Restated
of 1939, as amended Trust Agreement
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310(a)(1) 807
310(a)(2) 807
310(a)(3) 807
310(a)(4) 207(a)(ii)
310(a)(5) Not Applicable
310(b) 808
311(a) 813
311(b) 813
312(a) 507
312(b) 507
312(c) 507
313(a) 814(a)
313(b) 814(a)
313(c) 814(a)
313(d) 814(b)
314(a)(1) 815
314(a)(2) 815
314(a)(3) 815
314(a)(4) 816
314(b) Not Applicable
314(c)(1) 816
314(c)(2) 816
314(c)(3) Not Applicable
314(d) Not Applicable
314(e) 101,816
314(f) Not Applicable
315(a) 801, 803
315(b) 802
315(c) 801
315(d) 801, 803
315(e) Not Applicable
316(a)(1) Not Applicable
316(a)(2) Not Applicable
316(b) 1002(c)
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316(c) 607
317(a)(1) Not Applicable
317(a)(2) Not Applicable
317(b) 509
318(a) 1010
Note: This Cross-Reference Table does not constitute part of this Agreement and
shall not affect any interpretation of any of its terms or provisions.
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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT, dated as of May 14, 1999, among
(i) Metropolitan Financial Corp., an Ohio corporation (including any successors
or assigns, the "Depositor"), (ii) Wilmington Trust Company, a Delaware banking
corporation, as property trustee (in such capacity, the "Property Trustee" and,
in its separate corporate capacity and not in its capacity as Property Trustee,
the "Bank"), (iii) Xxxxxx X. Xxxx, an individual, and Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, an
individual, each of whose address is c/o Metropolitan Financial Corp., 0000
Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000 (each an "Administrative
Trustee" and collectively the "Administrative Trustees") (the Property Trustee
and the Administrative Trustees referred to collectively as the "Trustees"), and
(v) the several Holders (as hereinafter defined).
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Property Trustee have heretofore duly
declared and established a business trust, Metropolitan Capital Trust II,
pursuant to the Delaware Business Trust Act by the entering into of that certain
Trust Agreement, dated as of February 23, 1999 (the "Original Trust Agreement"),
and by the execution and filing by the Property Trustee with the Secretary of
State of the State of Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed on February
23, 1999, the form of which is attached as Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Trustees desire to amend and restate the
Original Trust Agreement in its entirety as set forth herein to provide for,
among other things, (i) the issuance of the Common Securities (as defined
herein) by the Trust (as defined herein) to the Depositor; (ii) the issuance and
sale of the Preferred Securities (as defined herein) by the Trust pursuant to
the Underwriting Agreement (as defined herein); and (iii) the acquisition by the
Trust from the Depositor of all of the right, title and interest in the
Debentures (as defined herein).
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the agreements and obligations set
forth herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each party for the benefit of the
other parties and for the benefit of the Securityholders (as defined herein)
hereby amends and restates the Original Trust Agreement in its entirety and
agrees as follows.
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ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 101. DEFINITIONS .
For all purposes of this Trust Agreement, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article I and include the plural as well as the singular;
(b) all other terms used herein that are defined in the Trust Indenture
Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them
therein;
(c) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an
"Article" or a "Section" refers to an Article or a Section, as the case may be,
of this Trust Agreement; and
(d) the words "herein", "hereof and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Trust Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act" has the meaning specified in Section 608.
"Additional Amount" means, with respect to Trust Securities of a given
Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of additional interest
accrued on interest in arrears and paid by the Depositor on a Like Amount of
Debentures for such period.
"Additional Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of the
Indenture.
"Administrative Trustee" means each of the Persons identified as an
"Administrative Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in such
Person's capacity as Administrative Trustee of the Trust formed and continued
hereunder and not in such Person's individual capacity, or such Administrative
Trustee's successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor trustee
appointed as herein provided.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to a specified Person, (a) any Person
directly or indirectly owning, controlling or holding with power to vote 10% or
more of the outstanding voting securities or other ownership interests of the
specified Person; (b) any Person 10% or more of whose outstanding voting
securities or other ownership interests are directly or indirectly owned,
controlled or held with power to vote by the specified Person; (c) any Person
directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with
the specified Person; (d) a partnership in which the specified person is a
general partner; (e) any officer or director of the specified Person; and (f) if
the
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specified Person is an individual, any entity of which the specified Person is
an executive officer, director or general partner.
"Applicable Procedures" means, with respect to any transfer or
transaction involving a Global Preferred Security or beneficial interest
therein, the rules and procedures of the Depositary for such Preferred Security,
in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in effect from
time to time.
"Bank" has the meaning specified in the Preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Bankruptcy Event" means, with respect to any Person:
(a) the entry of a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in
the premises adjudging such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as
properly filed a petition seeking liquidation or reorganization of or in respect
of such Person under the United States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, or
any other similar applicable federal or state law, and the continuance of any
such decree or order unvacated and unstayed for a period of 90 days; or the
commencement of an involuntary case under the United States Bankruptcy Code of
1978, as amended, in respect of such Person, which shall continue undismissed
for a period of 90 days or entry of an order for relief in such case and such
order shall have remained in force unvacated and unstayed for a period of 90
days; or the entry of a decree or order of a court having jurisdiction in the
premises for the appointment on the ground of insolvency or bankruptcy of a
receiver, custodian, liquidator, trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency
of such Person or of its property, or for the winding up or liquidation of its
affairs, and such decree or order shall have remained in force unvacated and
unstayed for a period of 60 days; or
(b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a
voluntary bankrupt, or the consent by such Person to the filing of a bankruptcy
proceeding against it, or the filing by such Person of a petition or answer or
consent seeking liquidation or reorganization under the United States Bankruptcy
Code of 1978, as amended, or other similar applicable Federal or State law, or
the consent by such Person to the filing of any such petition or to the
appointment on the ground of insolvency or bankruptcy of a receiver or custodian
or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of such Person
or of its property, or the making by such person of a general assignment for the
benefit of creditors.
"Bankruptcy Laws" has the meaning specified in Section 1009.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Depositor to have been duly adopted
by the Depositor's Board of Directors, or such committee of the Board of
Directors or officers of the Depositor to which authority to act on behalf of
the Board of Directors has been delegated, and to be in full force and effect on
the date of such certification, and delivered to the appropriate Trustee.
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"Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a day
on which banking institutions in the City of New York are authorized or required
by law, executive order or regulation to close, or a day on which the principal
Corporate Trust Office of the Property Trustee or of the Debenture Trustee is
closed for business.
"Capital Treatment Event" has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of
the Indenture.
"Certificate Depositary Agreement" means the agreement among the Trust,
the Depositor and DTC, as the initial Clearing Agency, dated as of the Closing
Date, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit B, as the same may be
amended and supplemented from time to time.
"Certificate of Trust" means the certificate of trust filed with the
Secretary of State of the State of Delaware with respect to the Trust, as
amended or restated from time to time.
"Change in 1940 Act Law" shall have the meaning set forth in the
definition of "Investment Company Event."
"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "clearing
agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act. DTC shall be the initial
Clearing Agency.
"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time Clearing Agency
effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Clearing Agency.
"Closing Date" means the date of execution and delivery of this Trust
Agreement.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any successor
statute, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time
to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after
the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing
the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
"Common Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets
of the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $10 and having the rights provided
therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions
and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein. Common Securities rank pari
passu with the Preferred Securities; provided, however, that upon the occurrence
of an Event of Default, the right of holders of Common Securities to payment in
respect of (i) distributions, and (ii) payments upon liquidation, redemption and
otherwise are subordinated to the right of holders of Preferred Securities.
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"Common Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Common Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
"Corporate Trust Office" means (i) when used with respect to the
Property Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Property Trustee
located in Wilmington, Delaware, and (ii) when used with respect to the
Debenture Trustee, the principal corporate trust office of the Debenture Trustee
located in Wilmington, Delaware.
"Debenture Event of Default" means an "Event of Default" as defined in
Section 7.1 of the Indenture.
"Debenture Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Debentures to be
redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption under the Indenture.
"Debenture Tax Event" means a "Tax Event" as specified in Section 1.1
of the Indenture.
"Debenture Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, a banking
corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, and any successor
thereto, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee under the
Indenture.
"Debentures" means the aggregate principal amount of the Depositor's
9.5% Junior Subordinated Deferrable Interest Debentures due 2029, issued
pursuant to the Indenture.
"Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates" means the Preferred
Securities Certificates issued in certificated, fully registered form
(non-global) as provided in Section 503A.
"Delaware Business Trust Act" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the
Delaware Code, 12 Delaware Code Sections 3801 et seq. as it may be amended from
time to time.
"Depositor" has the meaning specified in the Preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Depositary" means with respect any Preferred Securities issuable or
issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Preferred
Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Depositor.
"Distribution Date" has the meaning specified in Section 401(a).
"Distributions" means amounts payable in respect of the Trust
Securities as provided in Section 401(b).
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company.
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"Event of Default" means any one of the following events (whatever the
reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
(a) the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default; or
(b) default by the Trust or the Property Trustee in the payment of any
Distribution when it becomes due and payable, and continuation of such default
for a period of 30 days; or
(c) default by the Trust or the Property Trustee in the payment of any
Redemption Price of any Trust Security when it becomes due and payable; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of
any covenant or warranty of the Trustees in this Trust Agreement (other than a
covenant or warranty a default in the performance of which or the breach of
which is dealt with in clause (b) or (c), above) and continuation of such
default or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the defaulting Trustee or Trustees by the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding
Preferred Securities a written notice specifying such default or breach and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default" hereunder; or
(e) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property
Trustee and the failure by the Depositor to appoint a successor property Trustee
within 60 days thereof.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or any
successor statute, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Expense Agreement" means the Agreement as to Expenses and Liabilities
between the Depositor and the Trust, substantially in the form attached as
Exhibit D, as amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 901.
"Extended Interest Payment Period" has the meaning specified in Section
4.1 of the Indenture.
"Global Preferred Securities Certificate" means a Preferred Securities
Certificate evidencing ownership of Global Preferred Securities.
"Global Preferred Security" means a Preferred Security, the ownership
and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Clearing Agency
as described in Section 503A.
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"Guarantee" means the Preferred Securities Guarantee Agreement executed
and delivered by the Depositor, as guarantor, and Wilmington Trust Company, as
Preferred Guarantee Trustee, contemporaneously with the execution and delivery
of this Trust Agreement, for the benefit of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities, as amended from time to time.
"Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of May 14, 1999 between the
Depositor and the Debenture Trustee, as trustee, as amended or supplemented from
time to time.
"Investment Company Act," means the Investment Company Act of 1940, or
any successor statute, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Investment Company Event" has the meaning specified in Section 1.1 of
the Indenture.
"Lien" means any lien, pledge, charge, encumbrance, mortgage, deed of
trust, adverse ownership interest, hypothecation, assignment, security interest
or preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement
of any kind or nature whatsoever.
"Like Amount" means (a) with respect to a redemption of Trust
Securities, Trust Securities having a Liquidation Amount equal to the principal
amount of Debentures to be contemporaneously redeemed in accordance with the
Indenture and the proceeds of which shall be used to pay the Redemption Price of
such Trust Securities; and (b) with respect to a distribution of Debentures to
Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a termination or liquidation of
the Trust, Debentures having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount
of the Trust Securities of the Holder to whom such Debentures are distributed.
Each Debenture distributed pursuant to clause (b) above shall carry with it
accumulated interest in an amount equal to the accumulated and unpaid interest
then due on such Debentures.
"Liquidation Amount" means the stated amount of $10 per Trust Security.
"Liquidation Date" means the date on which Debentures are to be
distributed to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a dissolution and
liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 904(a).
"Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning specified in Section 904(d).
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, President or a Vice President and by the Chief Financial Officer, the
Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Controller or an Assistant Controller
or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of the Depositor, and delivered to
the appropriate Trustee. One of the officers signing an Officers' Certificate
given pursuant to Section 314(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be the
principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Depositor. Any
Officers' Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall include:
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(a) a statement that each officer signing the Officers' Certificate has
read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;
(b) a brief statement of the nature and scope of the examination or
investigation undertaken by each officer upon which the statements contained in
the certificate are based in rendering the Officers' Certificate;
(c) a statement that each such officer has made such examination or
investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to enable such officer
to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition
has been complied with; and
(d) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such officer,
such condition or covenant has been complied with.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing of legal counsel, who
may be counsel for the Trust, the Property Trustee, or the Depositor, but not an
employee of any thereof, and who shall be reasonably acceptable to the Property
Trustee.
"Original Trust Agreement" has the meaning specified in the Recitals to
this Trust Agreement.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Preferred Securities, means,
as of the date of determination, all Preferred Securities theretofore executed
and delivered under this Trust Agreement, except:
(a) Preferred Securities theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee
or delivered to the Property Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Preferred Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Property Trustee or any
Paying Agent for the Holders of such Preferred Securities; provided that, if
such Preferred Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
duly given pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(c) Preferred Securities which have been paid or in exchange for or in
lieu of which other Preferred Securities have been executed and delivered
pursuant to Sections 504, 505 and 511A; provided, however, that in determining
whether the Holders of the requisite Liquidation Amount of the Outstanding
Preferred Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Preferred Securities owned by the
Depositor, any Trustee or any Affiliate of the Depositor or any Trustee shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that (i) in determining
whether any Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Preferred Securities
that such Trustee actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded and (ii)
the foregoing shall not
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apply at any time when all of the outstanding Preferred Securities are owned by
the Depositor, one or more of the Trustees and/or any such Affiliate. Preferred
Securities so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as
Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Administrative
Trustees the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Preferred Securities
and that the pledgee is not the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.
"Owners" means each Person who is the beneficial owner of a beneficial
interest in a Global Preferred Security as reflected in the records of the
Clearing Agency or, if a Clearing Agency participant is not the Owner, then as
reflected in the records of a Person maintaining an account with such Clearing
Agency (directly or indirectly, in accordance with the rules of such Clearing
Agency).
"Paying Agent" means any paying agent or co-paying agent appointed
pursuant to Section 509 and shall initially be the Property Trustee.
"Payment Account" means a segregated non-interest-bearing corporate
trust account maintained by the Property Trustee with the Bank in its trust
department for the benefit of the Securityholders and established pursuant to
Section 301 in which all amounts paid in respect of the Debentures shall be held
and from which the Property Trustee shall make payments to the Securityholders
in accordance with Sections 401 and 402 or any other applicable provisions
hereof.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
trust, limited liability company or corporation, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Preferred Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the
assets of the Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $10 and having the rights
provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive
Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"Preferred Securities Certificate", means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Preferred Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
E.
"Property Trustee" means the Person identified as the "Property
Trustee," in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in its capacity as
Property Trustee of the Trust and not in its individual capacity, or its
successor in interest in such capacity, or any successor property trustee
appointed as herein provided.
"Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Trust Security to be
redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust
Agreement; provided that each Debenture Redemption Date and the stated maturity
of the Debentures shall be a Redemption Date for a Like Amount of Trust
Securities.
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"Redemption Price" means, with respect to any Trust Security, the
Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, plus accumulated and unpaid
Distributions to the Redemption Date in an amount equal to the interest and
other sums (exclusive of principal) paid by the Depositor upon and in respect of
the concurrent redemption of a Like Amount of Debentures, allocated on a pro
rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts) among the Trust Securities being
redeemed on the Redemption Date.
"Relevant Trustee" shall have the meaning specified in Section 810.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 504.
"Securityholder" or "Holder" means a Person in whose name a Trust
Security or Securities is registered in the Securities Register; any such Person
is a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Business Trust Act.
"Trust" means the Metropolitan Capital Trust II, a Delaware business
trust continued hereby.
"Trust Agreement" means this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, as
the same may be modified, amended or supplemented in accordance with the
applicable provisions hereof, including all exhibits hereto, including, for all
purposes of this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or
supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a
part of and govern this Trust Agreement and any such modification, amendment or
supplement, respectively.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, as in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed;
provided, however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended, is amended after such date, "Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent
required by any such amendment, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"Trust Property" means (a) the Debentures; (b) any cash on deposit in,
or owing to, the Payment Account; and (c) all proceeds and rights in respect of
the foregoing and any other property and assets for the time being held or
deemed to be held by the Property Trustee pursuant to the terms of this Trust
Agreement.
"Trust Security" means any one of the Common Securities or the
Preferred Securities.
"Trust Securities Certificate" means any one of the Common Securities
Certificates or the Preferred Securities Certificates.
"Trustees" means, collectively, the Property Trustee and the
Administrative Trustees.
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"Underwriting Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement, dated as of
May 11, 1999, including exhibits, among the Trust, the Depositor and the
Underwriter named therein.
ARTICLE II
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRUST
SECTION 201. NAME.
The Trust created and continued hereby shall be known as "Metropolitan
Capital Trust II," as such name may be modified from time to time by the
Administrative Trustees following written notice to the Holders of Trust
Securities and the other Trustees, in which name the Trustees may engage in the
transactions contemplated hereby, make and execute contracts and other
instruments on behalf of the Trust and xxx and be sued.
SECTION 202. OFFICE OF THE DELAWARE TRUSTEE; PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS.
The address of the Property Trustee in the State of Delaware is Xxxxxx
Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention:
Corporate Trust Administration, or such other address in the State of Delaware
as the Property Trustee may designate by written notice to the Securityholders
and the Depositor. The principal place of business of the Property Trustee is in
the State of Delaware. The principal executive office of the Trust is c/o
Metropolitan Financial Corp., 0000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxx
00000.
SECTION 203. INITIAL CONTRIBUTION OF TRUST PROPERTY; ORGANIZATIONAL EXPENSES.
The Trustees acknowledge receipt in trust from the Depositor in
connection with the Original Trust Agreement of the sum of $10.00, which
constituted the initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay organizational
expenses of the Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of any Trustee,
promptly reimburse such Trustee for any such expenses paid by such Trustee. The
Depositor shall make no claim upon the Trust Property for the payment of such
expenses.
SECTION 204. ISSUANCE OF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES .
The Depositor on behalf of the Trust and pursuant to the Original Trust
Agreement, executed and delivered the Underwriting Agreement. Contemporaneously
with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement, an Administrative
Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall execute in accordance with Section 502
and deliver in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement, Preferred Securities
Certificates, registered in the name of the Persons entitled thereto, in an
aggregate amount of One Million Six Hundred Thousand Preferred Securities having
an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $16 million against receipt of the aggregate
purchase price of such Preferred Securities of
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$16 million, which amount such Administrative Trustee shall promptly deliver to
the Property Trustee.
SECTION 205. ISSUANCE OF THE COMMON SECURITIES; SUBSCRIPTION AND PURCHASE OF
DEBENTURES.
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this
Trust Agreement, an Administrative Trustee, on behalf of the Trust, shall
execute in accordance with Section 502 and deliver to the Depositor, Common
Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the Depositor in an aggregate
amount of Common Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $666,670
against payment by the Depositor of such amount, which amount such
Administrative Trustee shall promptly deliver to the Property Trustee.
Contemporaneously therewith, an Administrative Trustee on behalf of the Trust,
shall subscribe to and purchase from the Depositor corresponding amounts of
Debentures, registered in the name of the Property Trustee on behalf of the
Trust and having an aggregate principal amount equal to $16,666,670 (being the
sum of the amounts delivered to the Property Trustee pursuant to (i) the second
sentence of Section 204; and (ii) the first sentence of Section 205), and, in
satisfaction of the purchase price for such Debentures, the Property Trustee, on
behalf of the Trust, shall deliver to the Depositor the sum of $16,666,670.
SECTION 206. DECLARATION OF TRUST.
The exclusive purposes and functions of the Trust are (a) to issue and
sell Trust Securities and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the
Debentures; and (b) to engage in those activities necessary, convenient or
incidental thereto. The Depositor hereby appoints the Trustees as trustees of
the Trust, to have all the rights, powers and duties to the extent set forth
herein, and the Trustees hereby accept such appointment. The Property Trustee
hereby declares that it shall hold the Trust Property in trust upon and subject
to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Securityholders. The
Administrative Trustees shall have all rights, powers and duties set forth
herein and in accordance with applicable law with respect to accomplishing the
purposes of the Trust. The Property Trustee shall be one of the Trustees of the
Trust for the purpose of fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of the
Delaware Business Trust Act.
SECTION 207. AUTHORIZATION TO ENTER INTO CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS.
(a) The Trustees shall conduct the affairs of the Trust in accordance
with the terms of this Trust Agreement. Subject to the limitations set forth in
paragraph (b) of this Section 207 and Article VIII, and in accordance with the
following provisions (i) and (ii), the Administrative Trustees shall have the
authority to enter into all transactions and agreements determined by the
Administrative Trustees to be appropriate in exercising the authority, express
or implied, otherwise granted to the Administrative Trustees under this Trust
Agreement, and to perform all acts in furtherance thereof, including without
limitation, the following:
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(i) As among the Trustees, each Administrative Trustee shall
have the power and authority to act on behalf of the Trust
with respect to the following matters:
(A) the issuance and sale of the Trust Securities;
(B) to cause the Trust to enter into, and to execute,
deliver and perform on behalf of the Trust, the
Expense Agreement, Certificate Depositary Agreement
and such other agreements or documents as may be
necessary or desirable in connection with the
purposes and function of the Trust;
(C) assisting in the registration of the Preferred
Securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended, and under state securities or blue sky laws,
and the qualification of this Trust Agreement as a
trust indenture under the Trust Indenture Act;
(D) assisting in the listing of the Preferred
Securities upon The Nasdaq Stock Market's National
Market or such securities exchange or exchanges as
shall be determined by the Depositor and the
registration of the Preferred Securities under the
Exchange Act, and the preparation and filing of all
periodic and other reports and other documents
pursuant to the foregoing;
(E) the sending of notices (other than notices of
default) and other information regarding the Trust
Securities and the Debentures to the Securityholders
in accordance with this Trust Agreement;
(F) the appointment of a Paying Agent, authenticating
agent and Securities Registrar in accordance with
this Trust Agreement;
(G) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement,
the winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of
the Trust and the preparation, execution and filing
of the certificate of cancellation with the Secretary
of State of the State of Delaware;
(H) to take all action that may be necessary or
appropriate for the preservation and the continuation
of the Trust's valid existence, rights, franchises
and privileges as a statutory business trust under
the laws of the State of Delaware and of each other
jurisdiction in which such existence is necessary to
protect the limited liability of the Holders of the
Preferred Securities or to enable the Trust to effect
the purposes for which the Trust was created;
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(I) assisting in the registration or listing of the
Preferred Securities with DTC or upon such other
trading facilities or exchanges as shall be
determined by the Depositor and the preparation and
filing of all periodic and other reports and other
documents pursuant to the foregoing; and
(J) the taking of any action incidental to the
foregoing as the Administrative Trustees may from
time to time determine is necessary or advisable to
give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement for
the benefit of the Securityholders (without
consideration of the effect of any such action on any
particular Securityholder).
(ii) As among the Trustees, the Property Trustee shall have
the power, duty and authority to act on behalf of the Trust
with respect to the following matters:
(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;
(B) the receipt of the Debentures;
(C) the collection of interest, principal and any
other payments made in respect of the Debentures in
the Payment Account;
(D) the distribution of amounts owed to the
Securityholders in respect of the Trust Securities in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(E) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and
privileges of a holder of the Debentures;
(F) the sending of notices of default and other
information regarding the Trust Securities and the
Debentures to the Securityholders in accordance with
this Trust Agreement;
(G) the distribution of the Trust Property in
accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement;
(H) to the extent provided in this Trust Agreement,
the winding up of the affairs of and liquidation of
the Trust and the execution and filing of the
certificate of cancellation with the Secretary of
State of the State of Delaware;
(I) after an Event of Default, the taking of any
action incidental to the foregoing as the Property
Trustee may from time to time determine is necessary
or advisable to give effect to the terms of this
Trust Agreement and
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protect and conserve the Trust Property for the
benefit of the Securityholders (without consideration
of the effect of any such action on any particular
Securityholder);
(J) registering transfers of the Trust Securities in
accordance with this Trust Agreement; and
(K) except as otherwise provided in this Section
207(a)(ii), the Property Trustee shall have none of
the duties, liabilities, powers or the authority of
the Administrative Trustees set forth in Section
207(a)(i).
(b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Trust (or
the Trustees acting on behalf of the Trust) shall not undertake any business,
activities or transaction except as expressly provided herein or contemplated
hereby. In particular, the Trustees shall not (i) acquire any investments or
engage in any activities not authorized by this Trust Agreement; (ii) sell,
assign, transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, setoff or otherwise dispose of any
of the Trust Property or interests therein, including to Securityholders, except
as expressly provided herein; (iii) take any action that would cause the Trust
to fail or cease to qualify as a "grantor trust" for United States federal
income tax purposes; (iv) incur any indebtedness for borrowed money or issue any
other debt; or (v) take or consent to any action that would result in the
placement of a Lien on any of the Trust Property. The Administrative Trustees
shall defend all claims and demands of all Persons at any time claiming any Lien
on any of the Trust Property adverse to the interest of the Trust or the
Securityholders in their capacity as Securityholders.
(c) In connection with the issuance and sale of the Preferred
Securities, the Depositor shall have the right and responsibility to assist the
Trust with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Trust, the following (and any
actions taken by the Depositor in furtherance of the following prior to the date
of this Trust Agreement are hereby ratified and confirmed in all respects):
(i) the preparation and filing by the Trust with the
Commission and the execution on behalf of the Trust of a
registration statement on the appropriate form in relation to
the Preferred Securities and the Debentures, including any
amendments thereto;
(ii) the determination of the states in which to take
appropriate action to qualify or register for sale all or part
of the Preferred Securities and to do any and all such acts,
other than actions which must be taken by or on behalf of the
Trust, and advise the Trustees of actions they must take on
behalf of the Trust, and prepare for execution and filing any
documents to be executed and filed by the Trust or on behalf
of the Trust, as the Depositor deems necessary or advisable in
order to comply with the applicable laws of any such States;
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(iii) the preparation for filing by the Trust and execution on
behalf of the Trust of an application to The Nasdaq Stock
Market's National Market or a national stock exchange or other
organizations for listing of any Preferred Securities and to
file or cause an Administrative Trustee to file thereafter
with such exchange or organization such notifications and
documents as may be necessary from time to time;
(iv) the preparation for filing by the Trust with the
Commission and the execution on behalf of the Trust of a
registration statement on Form 8-A relating to the
registration of the Preferred Securities under Section 12(b)
or 12(g) of the Exchange Act, including any amendments
thereto;
(v) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and
delivery of, the Underwriting Agreement providing for the sale
of, the Preferred Securities; and
(vi) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to
carry out any of the foregoing activities.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrative
Trustees are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of the Trust and to
operate the Trust so that the Trust shall not be deemed to be an "investment
company" required to be registered under the Investment Company Act, shall be
classified as a "grantor trust" and not as an association taxable as a
corporation for United States federal income tax purposes and so that the
Debentures shall be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States
federal income tax purposes. In this connection, subject to Section 1002, the
Depositor and the Administrative Trustees are authorized to take any action, not
inconsistent with applicable law or this Trust Agreement, that each of the
Depositor and the Administrative Trustees determines in their discretion to be
necessary or desirable for such purposes.
SECTION 208. ASSETS OF TRUST.
The assets of the Trust shall consist of the Trust Property.
SECTION 209. TITLE TO TRUST PROPERTY.
Legal title to all Trust Property shall be vested at all times in the
Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) and shall be held and administered by
the Property Trustee for the benefit of the Securityholders in accordance with
this Trust Agreement.
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ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
SECTION 301. PAYMENT ACCOUNT.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall
establish the Payment Account. The Property Trustee and any agent of the
Property Trustee shall have exclusive control and sole right of withdrawal with
respect to the Payment Account for the purpose of making deposits and
withdrawals from the Payment Account in accordance with this Trust Agreement.
All monies and other property deposited or held from time to time in the Payment
Account shall be held by the Property Trustee in the Payment Account for the
exclusive benefit of the Securityholders and for distribution as herein
provided, including (and subject to) any priority of payments provided for
herein.
(b) The Property Trustee shall deposit in the Payment Account, promptly
upon receipt, all payments of principal of or interest on, and any other
payments or proceeds with respect to, the Debentures. Amounts held in the
Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property Trustee pending
distribution thereof.
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
SECTION 401. DISTRIBUTIONS.
The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in the
Trust Property, and Distributions (including Additional Amounts) will be made on
the Trust Securities at the rate and on the dates that payments of interest
(including of Additional Interest, as defined in the Indenture) are made on the
Debentures. Accordingly:
(a) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative, and
shall accumulate whether or not there are funds of the Trust available for the
payment of Distributions. Distributions shall accumulate from the dates of
issuance, and, except during any Extended Interest Payment Period with respect
to the Debentures, shall be payable quarterly in arrears on March 31, June 30,
September 30 and December 31 each year, commencing on June 30, 1999. If any date
on which a Distribution is otherwise payable on the Trust Securities is not a
Business Day, then the payment of such Distribution shall be made on the next
succeeding day that is a Business Day (and without any interest or other payment
in respect of any such delay) except that, if such Business Day is in the next
succeeding calendar year, payment of such Distribution shall be made on the
immediately preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect
as if made on such date (each date on which distributions are payable in
accordance with this Section 401(a), a "Distribution Date").
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(b) Assuming payments of interest on the Debentures are made when due
(and before giving effect to Additional Amounts, if applicable), Distributions
on the Trust Securities shall be payable at a rate of 9.5% per annum of the
Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities. The amount of Distributions payable
for any full period shall be computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve
30-day months. Subject to the last sentence in Section 401(a), the amount of
Distributions for any period shorter than a full quarterly period for which
Distributions are computed shall be computed on the basis of the actual number
of days elapsed in such period. During any Extended Interest Payment Period with
respect to the Debentures, Distributions on the Preferred Securities shall be
deferred for a period equal to the Extended Interest Payment Period and shall be
payable to the Holders in whose names the Trust Securities are registered in the
Securities Register as of the close of business on the 15th day of the month in
which the Extended Interest Payment Period ends. The amount of Distributions
payable for any period shall include the Additional Amounts, if any.
(c) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by the Property
Trustee solely from the Payment Account and shall be payable on each
Distribution Date only to the extent that the Trust has funds then on hand and
immediately available in the Payment Account for the payment of such
Distributions.
(d) Distributions on the Trust Securities with respect to a
Distribution Date shall be payable to the Holders thereof as they appear on the
Securities Register for the Trust Securities on the relevant record date, which
shall be the 15th day of the month in which the Distribution is payable
(determined without giving effect to the last sentence of Section 401(a)).
SECTION 402. REDEMPTION.
(a) On each Debenture Redemption Date and on the stated maturity of the
Debentures the Trust shall be required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust
Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee in the
name of and at the expense of the Trust by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to
each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed, at such Holder's address
appearing in the Securities Register. The Property Trustee shall have no
responsibility for the accuracy of any CUSIP number contained in such notice.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
(iii) the CUSIP number;
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(iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to
be redeemed, the identification and the aggregate Liquidation
Amount of the particular Trust Securities to be redeemed;
(v) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price shall
become due and payable upon each such Trust Security to be
redeemed and that Distributions thereon shall cease to
accumulate on and after said date with respect to each such
Trust Security; and
(vi) the place or places where the Trust Securities are to be
surrendered for the payment of the Redemption Price.
(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be
redeemed at the Redemption Price with the proceeds from the contemporaneous
redemption of Debentures. Redemptions of the Trust Securities shall be made and
the Redemption Price shall be payable on each Redemption Date only to the extent
that the Trust has immediately available funds then on hand and available in the
Payment Account for the payment of such Redemption Price.
(d) If the Property Trustee gives a notice of redemption in respect of
any Preferred Securities, then, by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the
Redemption Date, subject to Section 402(c), the Property Trustee will, so long
as any of the Preferred Securities are in book-entry-only form, irrevocably
deposit with the Clearing Agency for the Preferred Securities funds sufficient
to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give such Clearing Agency
irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the
appropriate beneficial holders thereof. If any of the Preferred Securities are
no longer in book-entry-only form, the Property Trustee, subject to Section
402(c), will provide the Paying Agent with irrevocable instructions and
authority to pay the Redemption Price to the Holders thereof upon surrender of
their Preferred Securities Certificates. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
Distributions payable on or prior to the Redemption Date for any Trust
Securities called for redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Trust
Securities as they appear on the Securities Register for the Trust Securities on
the relevant record dates for the related Distribution Dates. If notice of
redemption shall have been given and funds deposited as required, then upon the
date of such deposit, all rights of Securityholders holding Trust Securities so
called for redemption shall cease, except the right of such Securityholders to
receive the Redemption Price and any Distributions payable on or prior to the
Redemption Date to which such Securityholders may otherwise be entitled, but
without interest, and such Securities shall cease to be Outstanding. In the
event that any date on which any Redemption Price is payable is not a Business
Day, then payment of the Redemption Price payable on such date shall be made on
the next succeeding day that is a Business Day (and without any interest or
other payment in respect of any such delay), except that, if such Business Day
falls in the next calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same force and effect as if made
on such date. In the event that payment of the Redemption Price in respect of
any Trust Securities called for redemption is improperly withheld or refused and
not paid either by the Trust or by the Depositor
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pursuant to the Guarantee, Distributions on such Trust Securities shall continue
to accumulate, at the then applicable rate, from the Redemption Date originally
established by the Trust for such Trust Securities to the date such Redemption
Price is actually paid, in which case the actual payment date shall be the date
fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating the Redemption Price, and for
periods after the Redemption Date originally established the provisions of the
third sentence of this paragraph (d) shall cease to apply.
(e) Payment of the Redemption Price on the Trust Securities shall be
made to the record holders thereof as they appear on the Securities Register for
the Trust Securities on the relevant record date, which shall be one Business
Day prior to the relevant Redemption Date; provided, however, in the event that
not all the Preferred Securities remain in book-entry form, the relevant record
date for all Trust Securities shall be the date 15 days prior to the relevant
Redemption Date.
(f) Subject to Section 403(a), if less than all the Outstanding Trust
Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then the aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Trust Securities to be redeemed shall be allocated on a
pro rata basis (based on Liquidation Amounts) among the Common Securities and
the Preferred Securities. The particular Preferred Securities to be redeemed
shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the
Property Trustee from the Outstanding Preferred Securities not previously called
for redemption, by such method (including, without limitation, by lot) as the
Property Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the
selection for redemption of portions (equal to $10 or an integral multiple of
$10 in excess thereof), of the Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities of a
denomination larger than $10. The Property Trustee shall promptly notify the
Securities Registrar in writing of the Preferred Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Preferred Securities selected for partial
redemption, the Liquidation Amount thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of
this Trust Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires, all provisions
relating to the redemption of Preferred Securities shall relate, in the case of
any Preferred Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.
SECTION 403. SUBORDINATION OF COMMON SECURITIES.
(a) Payment of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if
applicable) on, and the Redemption Price of, the Trust Securities, as
applicable, shall be made, subject to Section 402(f), pro rata among the Common
Securities and the Preferred Securities based on the Liquidation Amount of the
Trust Securities, provided, however, that if on any Distribution Date or
Redemption Date any Event of Default resulting from a Debenture Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, no payment of any Distribution (including
Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, or Redemption Price of, any Common
Security, and no other payment on account of the redemption, liquidation or
other acquisition of Common Securities, shall be made unless payment in full in
cash of all accumulated and unpaid Distributions (including Additional Amounts,
if applicable) on all Outstanding Preferred Securities for all Distribution
periods terminating on or prior thereto, or in the
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case of payment of the Redemption Price the full amount of such Redemption Price
on all Outstanding Preferred Securities then called for redemption, shall have
been made or provided for, and all funds immediately available to the Property
Trustee shall first be applied to the payment in full in cash of all
Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if applicable) on, or the
Redemption Price of, Preferred Securities then due and payable.
(b) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting
from a Debenture Event of Default, the Holder of Common Securities shall be
deemed to have waived any right to act with respect to any such Event of Default
under this Trust Agreement until the effect of all such Debenture Events of
Default with respect to the Preferred Securities shall have been cured, waived
or otherwise eliminated. Until any such Event of Default under this Trust
Agreement resulting from a Debenture Event of Default shall have been so cured,
waived or otherwise eliminated, the Property Trustee shall act solely on behalf
of the Holders of the Preferred Securities and not the Holder of the Common
Securities, and only the Holders of the Preferred Securities shall have the
right to direct the Property Trustee to act on their behalf.
SECTION 404. PAYMENT PROCEDURES.
Payments of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if applicable)
in respect of the Preferred Securities shall be made by check mailed to the
address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear on the
Securities Register or, if any Preferred Securities are held by a Clearing
Agency, such Distributions shall be made to the Clearing Agency in immediately
available funds, which will credit the relevant accounts on the applicable
Distribution Dates. Payments in respect of the Common Securities shall be made
in such manner as shall be mutually agreed between the Property Trustee and the
Common Securityholder.
SECTION 405. TAX RETURNS AND REPORTS.
The Administrative Trustees shall prepare (or cause to be prepared), at
the Depositor's expense, and file all United States federal, state and local tax
and information returns and reports required to be filed by or in respect of the
Trust. In this regard, the Administrative Trustees shall (a) prepare and file
(or cause to be prepared and filed) the appropriate Internal Revenue Service
Form required to be filed in respect of the Trust in each taxable year of the
Trust; and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to be prepared and furnished) to
each Securityholder the appropriate Internal Revenue Service form required to be
furnished to such Securityholder or the information required to be provided on
such form. The Administrative Trustees shall provide the Depositor with a copy
of all such returns and reports promptly after such filing or furnishing. The
Property Trustee shall comply with United States federal withholding and backup
withholding tax laws and information reporting requirements with respect to any
payments to Securityholders under the Trust Securities.
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SECTION 406. PAYMENT OF TAXES, DUTIES, ETC. OF THE TRUST.
Upon receipt under the Debentures of Additional Interest, the Property
Trustee, at the written direction of an Administrative Trustee or the Depositor,
shall promptly pay any taxes, duties or governmental charges of whatsoever
nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed on the Trust by the United States
or any other taxing authority.
SECTION 407. PAYMENTS UNDER INDENTURE.
Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Preferred Securities
shall be reduced by the amount of any corresponding payment such Holder (or any
related Owner) has directly received under the Indenture pursuant to Section 7.8
thereof and 512(b) hereof and under the Guarantee.
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
SECTION 501. INITIAL OWNERSHIP.
Upon the creation of the Trust and the contribution by the Depositor
pursuant to Section 203 and until the issuance of the Trust Securities, and at
any time during which no Trust Securities are outstanding, the Depositor shall
be the sole beneficial owner of the Trust.
SECTION 502. THE TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES.
(a) The Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in minimum
denominations of $10 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples of $10 in excess
thereof, and the Common Securities Certificates shall be issued in denominations
of $10 Liquidation Amount and integral multiples thereof. The Trust Securities
Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Trust by manual, facsimile or
imprinted signature of at least one Administrative Trustee and the Property
Trustee shall authenticate and register the Preferred Securities Certificates,
except as provided in Section 503. Trust Securities Certificates bearing the
signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such signatures shall have
been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Trust, shall be validly issued
and entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them shall have ceased to be so authorized prior to the
delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates or did not hold such offices at
the date of delivery of such Trust Securities Certificates. A transferee of a
Trust Securities Certificate shall become a Securityholder, and shall be
entitled to the rights and subject to the obligations of a Securityholder
hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust Securities Certificate in such
transferee's name pursuant to Sections 504 and 511A.
(b) Upon their original issuance, Preferred Securities Certificates
shall be issued in the form of one or more fully registered Global Preferred
Securities Certificates which will be deposited
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with or on behalf of the Depositary and registered in the name of the Depositary
or Depositary's nominee. Unless and until it is exchangeable in whole or in part
for the Preferred Securities in definitive form, a global security may not be
transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary
or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the
Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor of such
Depositary or a nominee of such successor.
(c) A single Common Securities Certificate representing the Common
Securities shall be issued to the Depositor in the form of a definitive Common
Securities Certificate.
SECTION 503. EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES.
On the Closing Date and on the date on which the Underwriters exercise
the option to purchase additional Preferred Securities, as applicable (the
"Option Closing Date"), the Administrative Trustees shall cause Trust Securities
Certificates, in an aggregate Liquidation Amount as provided in Sections 204 and
205, to be executed by manual, facsimile or imprinted signature on behalf of the
Trust by at least one of the Administrative Trustees and delivered to the
Property Trustee and upon such delivery, the Property Trustee shall authenticate
and register the Preferred Securities Certificates and make available for
delivery such Preferred Securities Certificates upon the written order of the
Depositor, executed by its Chairman of the Board, or President or any Vice
President and the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer
or Secretary or Assistant Secretary without further corporate action by the
Depositor, in authorized denominations.
SECTION 503A. GLOBAL PREFERRED SECURITIES.
(a) Each Global Preferred Security issued under this Trust Agreement
shall be registered in the name of the Clearing Agency designated by the
Depositor for the related Global Preferred Securities or a nominee thereof and
delivered to such Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust Agreement, no
Global Preferred Securities may be exchanged in whole or in part for Preferred
Securities registered, and no transfer of Global Preferred Securities in whole
or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Clearing
Agency for such Global Preferred Securities or a nominee thereof unless (a) the
Clearing Agency advises the Property Trustee in writing that the Clearing Agency
is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities with
respect to the Global Preferred Securities, and the Administrative Trustees are
unable to locate a qualified successor, (b) the Trust at its option advises the
Clearing Agency in writing that it elects to eliminate the global system through
the Clearing Agency, (c) after the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default in
the circumstances described in Section 511A(a) or (d) pursuant to the following
sentence. All or any portion of a Global Preferred Security may be exchanged for
a Preferred Security that has a like
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aggregate principal amount and is not a Global Preferred Security upon 20 days'
prior written request made by the Clearing Agency or its authorized
representative to the Property Trustee; provided, however that no Definitive
Preferred Security shall be issued in an amount representing less than $100,000
in aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities. Upon the occurrence of
any event specified in clause (a), (b) or (c) above, the Administrative Trustees
shall notify the Clearing Agency and the Clearing Agency shall notify all Owners
of beneficial interests in Global Preferred Securities, the Delaware Trustee,
the Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees of the occurrence of such
event and of the availability of the Definitive Preferred Securities to such
Owners requesting the same; provided, however, that no Definitive Preferred
Securities shall be issued in an amount representing less than $10 in aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities. Upon surrender to the Administrative
Trustees of the typewritten Preferred Securities Certificate or certificates
representing the Global Preferred Securities held by the Clearing Agency,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Administrative Trustees, or any
one of them, shall execute Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates in
accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. Neither the Securities
Registrar nor the Trustees shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such
instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on,
such instructions. Upon the issuance of the Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificate, the Trustees shall recognize the Holder of a Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificate as a Securityholder. Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or may be produced in
any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Trustees, as
evidenced by the execution thereof by the Administrative Trustees or any one of
them.
(c) If any Global Preferred Security is to be exchanged for Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates or cancelled in part, or if Definitive
Preferred Securities Certificates are to be exchanged in whole or in part for a
Global Preferred Security, then either (i) such Global Preferred Security shall
be so surrendered for exchange or cancellation as provided in this Article V or
(ii) the aggregate Liquidation Amount represented by such Global Preferred
Security shall be reduced, subject to Section 502, or increased, by an amount
equal to the Liquidation Amount represented by that portion of the Global
Preferred Security to be so exchanged or cancelled, or equal to the Liquidation
Amount represented by such Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates to be so
exchanged for beneficial interests in the Global Preferred Security represented
thereby, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the
records of the Securities Registrar, whereupon the Property Trustee, in
accordance with the Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Clearing Agency or
its authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records.
Upon surrender to the Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar of the
Global Preferred Security by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration
instructions, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, shall execute the
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates in accordance with the instructions
of the Clearing Agency and Section 502 hereof; provided, however, that no
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates shall be issued in an amount
representing less than $10 in aggregate Liquidation Amount of Preferred
Securities. None of the Securities Registrar, the Trustees or the Administrative
Trustees shall be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may
conclusively rely on, and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions.
Upon the issuance of
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Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates, the Trustees and Administrative
Trustees shall recognize the Holders of the Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates as Securityholders. The Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved or may be produced in
any other manner as is reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Trustees, as
evidenced by the execution thereof by the Administrative Trustees or any one of
them.
(d) Every Preferred Security executed and delivered upon registration
of, transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Preferred Security
or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Article V or Article IV or
otherwise, shall be executed and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a
Global Preferred Security, unless such Preferred Security is registered in the
name of a Person other than the Clearing Agency for such Global Preferred
Security or a nominee thereof.
(e) The Clearing Agency or its nominee, as registered owner of a Global
Preferred Security, shall be the Holder of such Global Preferred Security for
all purposes under this Trust Agreement and the Global Preferred Security, and
Owners with respect to a Global Preferred Security shall hold such interests
pursuant to the Applicable Procedures. The Securities Registrar and the Trustees
shall be entitled to deal with the Clearing Agency for all purposes of this
Trust Agreement relating to the Global Preferred Securities (including the
payment of the Liquidation Amount of and Distributions on the beneficial
interests in Global Preferred Securities represented thereby and the giving of
instructions or directions to Owners of Global Preferred Securities represented
thereby) as the sole Holder of the Global Preferred Securities represented
thereby and shall have no obligations to the Owners thereof. Neither the
Property Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall have any liability in
respect of any transfers effected by the Clearing Agency.
The rights of the Owners of the Global Preferred Securities shall be
exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those
established by law, the Applicable Procedures and agreements between such Owners
and the Clearing Agency and/or the Clearing Agency Participants. Pursuant to the
Certificate Depository Agreement, unless and until Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificates are issued pursuant hereto, the Clearing Agency will
make global transfers among the Clearing Agency Participants and receive and
transmit payments on the Preferred Securities to such Clearing Agency
Participants. Not in limitation of the other provisions herein contained, the
Property Trustee is authorized and empowered hereby to execute the Certificate
Depositary Agreement.
SECTION 504. REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF PREFERRED SECURITIES
CERTIFICATES.
(a) The Property Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept, at the office
or agency maintained pursuant to Section 508, a register or registers for the
purpose of registering Trust Securities Certificates and transfers and exchanges
of Preferred Securities Certificates (herein referred to as the "Securities
Register") in which the registrar and transfer agent (the "Securities
Registrar"), subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall
provide for the registration of Preferred Securities Certificates and Common
Securities Certificates (subject to
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Section 510 in the case of the Common Securities Certificates) and registration
of transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates as herein
provided. The Property Trustee shall be the initial Securities Registrar.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred Securities
Certificate at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section 508, the
Administrative Trustees or any one of them shall execute and the Property
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Preferred Securities
Certificates in authorized denominations of a like aggregate Liquidation Amount
dated the date of execution by such Administrative Trustee or Trustees. The
Securities Registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of any
Preferred Securities that have been called for redemption. At the option of a
Holder, Preferred Securities Certificates may be exchanged for other Preferred
Securities Certificates in authorized denominations of the same class and of a
like aggregate Liquidation Amount upon surrender of the Preferred Securities
Certificates to be exchanged at the office or agency maintained pursuant to
Section 508.
Every Preferred Securities Certificate presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or exchange shall be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Property Trustee and the
Securities Registrar duly executed by the Holder or his attorney duly authorized
in writing. Each Preferred Securities Certificate surrendered for registration
of transfer or exchange shall be canceled and subsequently disposed of by the
Property Trustee in accordance with its customary practice. The Trust shall not
be required to (i) issue, register the transfer of, or exchange any Preferred
Securities during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 calendar days
before the date of mailing of a notice of redemption of any Preferred Securities
called for redemption and ending at the close of business on the day of such
mailing; or (ii) register the transfer of or exchange of any Preferred
Securities so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the
unredeemed portion of any such Preferred Securities being redeemed in part.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Preferred Securities Certificates, but the Securities Registrar may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that
may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Preferred
Securities Certificates.
(b) Trust Securities may only be transferred, in whole or in part, in
accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Trust Agreement. To
the fullest extent permitted by law, any transfer or purported transfer of any
Trust Security not made in accordance with this Trust Agreement shall be null
and void. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement,
transfers and exchanges of Trust Securities and beneficial interests in Global
Securities, shall be made only in accordance with the following:
(i) Subject to Section 503A, a Trust Security that is not a
Global Preferred Security may be transferred, in whole or in
part, to a Person who takes delivery in the
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form of another Trust Security that is not a Global Security
as provided in Section 504(a).
(ii) Subject to Section 503A and this Section 504, Preferred
Securities shall be freely transferable.
(iii) A beneficial interest in Global Preferred Security may
be exchanged for a Preferred Security that is not a Global
Preferred Security as provided in Section 503A.
SECTION 505. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST OR STOLEN TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES.
If (a) any mutilated Trust Securities Certificate shall be surrendered
to the Securities Registrar, or if the Securities Registrar shall receive
evidence to its satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Trust
Securities Certificate, and (b) there shall be delivered to the Securities
Registrar and the Administrative Trustees such security or indemnity as may be
required by them to save each of them harmless, then in the absence of notice
that such Trust Securities Certificate shall have been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Administrative Trustees, or any one of them, on behalf of the
Trust shall execute by manual, facsimile or imprinted signature and the Property
Trustee in the case of a Preferred Securities Certificate shall authenticate and
make available for delivery, in exchange for or in lieu of any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Trust Securities Certificate, a new Trust Securities
Certificate of like class, tenor and denomination. In connection with the
issuance of any new Trust Securities Certificate under this Section 505, the
Administrative Trustees or the Securities Registrar may require the payment of a
sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed
in connection therewith. Any duplicate Trust Securities Certificate issued
pursuant to this Section 505 shall constitute conclusive evidence of an
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust, as if originally
issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or destroyed Trust Securities
Certificate shall be found at any time.
SECTION 506. PERSONS DEEMED SECURITYHOLDERS.
The Trustees, the Paying Agent, the Securities Registrar and Depositor
shall treat any Persons in whose name any Trust Securities are issued as the
owner of such Trust Securities for the purpose of receiving Distributions and
for all other purposes whatsoever, and neither the Trust, the Trustees, the
Administrative Trustees, the Securities Registrar nor the Depositor shall be
bound by any notice to the contrary.
SECTION 507. ACCESS TO LIST OF SECURITYHOLDERS' NAMES AND ADDRESSES.
At any time when the Property Trustee is not also acting as the
Securities Registrar, the Administrative Trustees or the Depositor shall furnish
or cause to be furnished to the Property Trustee a list, in such form as the
Property Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
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addresses of the Securityholders as of April 30 and October 31 of each year and
at such other times as the Property Trustee may request in writing, in each case
to the extent such information is in the possession or control of the
Administrative Trustees or the Depositor or any paying agents of either and is
not identical to a previously supplied list or has not otherwise been received
by the Property Trustee in its capacity as Securities Registrar, and Trustee
shall preserve, in as current a form as reasonably practicable the most recent
list so furnished to or received by it. To the extent applicable, the Depositor
and Property Trustee shall comply with the other provisions of Section 312(a) of
the Trust Indenture Act. The rights of Securityholders to communicate with other
Securityholders with respect to their rights under this Trust Agreement or under
the Trust Securities, and the corresponding rights of the Trustee shall be as
provided in the Trust Indenture Act. Each Holder and each Owner shall be deemed
to have agreed not to hold the Depositor, the Property Trustee or the
Administrative Trustees accountable by reason of the disclosure of its name and
address, regardless of the source from which such information was derived.
SECTION 508. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Property Trustee shall designate, with the consent of the
Administrative Trustees, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, an
office or offices or agency or agencies where Preferred Securities Certificates
may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices
and demands to or upon the Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities
Certificates may be served. The Property Trustee initially designates its
corporate trust office at Xxxxxx Square North, 0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attn: Corporate Trust Administration, as the
principal corporate trust office for such purposes. The Property Trustee shall
give prompt written notice to the Depositor, the Administrative Trustees and to
the Securityholders of any change in the location of the Securities Register or
any such office or agency.
SECTION 509. APPOINTMENT OF PAYING AGENT.
The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Securityholders from the
Payment Account and shall report the amounts of such Distributions to the
Property Trustee and the Administrative Trustees. Any Paying Agent shall have
the revocable power to withdraw funds from the Payment Account for the purpose
of making the Distributions referred to above. The Property Trustee may revoke
such power and remove the Paying Agent if such Trustee determines in its sole
discretion that the Paying Agent shall have failed to perform its obligation
under this Trust Agreement in any material respect. The Paying Agent shall
initially be the Property Trustee, and any co-paying agent chosen by the
Property Trustee, and acceptable to the Administrative Trustees and the
Depositor. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to resign as
Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the Administrative Trustee and the
Property Trustee. In the event that the Property Trustee shall no longer be the
Paying Agent or a successor Paying Agent shall resign or its authority to act be
revoked, the Property Trustee shall appoint a successor that is reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Trustees to act as Paying Agent to execute and
deliver to the Trustees an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or
additional Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustees that
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as Paying Agent, such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent shall
hold all sums, if any, held by it for payment to the Securityholders in trust
for the benefit of the Securityholders entitled thereto until such sums shall be
paid to such Securityholders, and the Paying Agent, if other than the Property
Trustee, shall give such Property Trustee notice of any default in the making of
any payment on the Trust Securities. The Paying Agent shall return all unclaimed
funds to the Property Trustee and, upon removal of a Paying Agent, such Paying
Agent shall also return all funds in its possession to the Property Trustee. The
provisions of Sections 801, 803 and 806 shall apply to the Property Trustee also
in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Property Trustee shall act as
Paying Agent and, to the extent applicable, to any other paying agent appointed
hereunder. Any reference in this Trust Agreement to the Paying Agent shall
include any co-paying agent unless the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 510. OWNERSHIP OF COMMON SECURITIES BY DEPOSITOR.
On the Closing Date, the Depositor shall acquire and retain beneficial
and record ownership of the Common Securities. To the fullest extent permitted
by law, any attempted transfer of the Common Securities (other than a transfer
pursuant to Section 12.1 of the Indenture) shall be void. The Administrative
Trustees shall cause each Common Securities Certificate issued to the Depositor
to contain a legend stating "THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT TO A
SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO METROPOLITAN FINANCIAL CORP. IN COMPLIANCE WITH
APPLICABLE LAW AND SECTION 510 OF THAT CERTAIN AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST
AGREEMENT DATED MAY 14, 1999, AMONG METROPOLITAN FINANCIAL CORP., AS DEPOSITOR,
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS PROPERTY TRUSTEE, AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRUSTEES
NAMED THEREIN."
SECTION 511. NOTICES TO CLEARING AGENCY.
To the extent that a notice or other communication to the Holders is
required under this Trust Agreement, for so long as all Preferred Securities are
represented by a Global Preferred Securities Certificate, the Trustees shall
give all such notices and communications specified herein to be given to the
Clearing Agency, and shall have no obligations to the Owners.
SECTION 511A. DEFINITIVE PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE AND TEMPORARY
PREFERRED SECURITIES.
(a) If (a) the Clearing Agency advises the Trustees in writing that the
Clearing Agency is no longer willing or able to discharge properly its
responsibilities with respect to the Preferred Securities, and the Depositor is
unable to locate a qualified successor, (b) the Trust at its option advises the
Trustees in writing that it elects to terminate the book-entry system through
the Clearing Agency or (c) after the occurrence of a Debenture Event of Default,
Holders of a beneficial interest in Preferred Securities representing beneficial
interests aggregating at least a majority of the Liquidation Amount advise the
Administrative Trustees in writing that the continuation of a book-
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entry system though the Clearing Agency is no longer in the best interest of the
Holders of Preferred Securities, then the Administrative Trustees shall notify
the Clearing Agency and the Clearing Agency shall notify the Holders of
Preferred Securities and the other Trustees of the occurrence of such event and
of the availability of a Definitive Preferred Security to Holders of such class
requesting the same.
(b) Pending the preparation of permanent Definitive Preferred
Securities Certificates, an Administrative Trustee may cause to be executed and
delivered on behalf of the Trust temporary Preferred Securities (the "Temporary
Preferred Securities"), which Temporary Preferred Securities are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized
denomination, substantially of the tenor of the Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates in lieu of which they are issued and with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers
executing such Temporary Preferred Securities may determine, as evidenced by
their execution thereof.
If Temporary Preferred Securities are issued, an Administrative Trustee
will cause Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of the Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates, the Temporary Preferred Securities shall be exchangeable for
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates upon surrender of the Temporary
Preferred Securities at any office or agency of the Depositor designated herein,
without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more
Temporary Preferred Securities, the Depositor shall execute and an
Administrative Trustee shall execute by manual, facsimile or imprinted signature
and the Property Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery in
exchange therefor a like principal amount of Definitive Preferred Securities
Certificates of authorized denominations. Until so exchanged the Temporary
Preferred Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits as
Definitive Preferred Securities Certificates.
SECTION 512. RIGHTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS.
(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the
Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in accordance with Section 209, and
the Securityholders shall not have any right or title therein other than the
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Trust conferred by their
Trust Securities and they shall have no right to call for any partition or
division of property, profits or rights of the Trust except as described below.
The Trust Securities shall be personal property giving only the rights
specifically set forth therein and in this Trust Agreement. The Trust Securities
shall have no preemptive or similar rights. When issued and delivered to Holders
of the Trust Securities against payment of the purchase price therefor, the
Trust Securities shall be fully paid and nonassessable, undivided beneficial
interests in the assets of the Trust. The Holders of the Trust Securities, in
their capacities as such, shall be entitled to the same limitation of personal
liability extended to stockholders of private corporations for profit organized
under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
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(b) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, if,
upon a Debenture Event of Default arising from the failure to pay interest or
principal on the Debentures, any Holders of Preferred Securities then
Outstanding shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the
terms of this Trust Agreement and the Indenture, have the right to institute a
proceeding directly against the Depositor for enforcement of payment to such
Holder of principal of or interest on the Debentures having a principal amount
equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities of such Holder.
SECTION 513. CUSIP NUMBERS.
The Depositor in issuing the Debentures may use "CUSIP" numbers (if
then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in
notices of redemption as a convenience to holders; provided that any such notice
may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers
either as printed on the Debentures or as contained in any notice of a
redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification
numbers printed on the Debentures, and any such redemption shall not be affected
by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Depositor will promptly notify
the Property Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers.
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
SECTION 601. LIMITATIONS ON VOTING RIGHTS.
(a) Except as provided in this Section 601, in Sections 512, 810 and
1002 and in the Indenture and as otherwise required by law, no Holder of
Preferred Securities shall have any right to vote or in any manner otherwise
control the administration, operation and management of the Trust or the
obligations of the parties hereto, nor shall anything herein set forth, or
contained in the terms of the Trust Securities Certificates, be construed so as
to constitute the Securityholders from time to time as partners or members of an
association.
(b) So long as any Debentures are held by the Property Trustee, the
Trustees shall not (i) direct the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Debenture Trustee, or executing any
trust or power conferred on the Debenture Trustee with respect to such
Debentures; (ii) waive any past default which is waivable under Article VII of
the Indenture; (iii) exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration that
the principal of all the Debentures shall be due and payable; or (iv) consent to
any amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Debentures,
where such consent shall be required, without, in each case, obtaining the prior
approval of the Holders of at least a majority in Liquidation Amount of all
Outstanding Preferred Securities; provided, however, that where a consent under
the Indenture would require the consent of each Holder of Outstanding Debentures
affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the
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Property Trustee without the prior written consent of each Holder of Preferred
Securities. The Trustees shall not revoke any action previously authorized or
approved by a vote of the Holders of the Outstanding Preferred Securities,
except by a subsequent vote of the Holders of the Outstanding Preferred
Securities. The Property Trustee shall notify each Holder of Outstanding
Preferred Securities of any notice of default received from the Debenture
Trustee with respect to the Debentures. In addition to obtaining the foregoing
approvals of the Holders of the Preferred Securities, prior to taking any of the
foregoing actions, the Administrative Trustees shall provide to the Property
Trustee, at the expense of the Depositor, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that the Trust shall continue to be classified as a grantor trust and not as an
association taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax
purposes on account of such action.
(c) If any proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for, or
the Trustees otherwise propose to effect, (i) any action that would adversely
affect in any material respect the powers, preferences or special rights of the
Preferred Securities, whether by way of amendment to the Trust Agreement or
otherwise; or (ii) the dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Trust,
other than pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, then the Holders of
Outstanding Preferred Securities as a class shall be entitled to vote on such
amendment or proposal and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective
except with the approval of the Holders of at least a majority in Liquidation
Amount of the Outstanding Preferred Securities. No amendment to this Trust
Agreement may be made if, as a result of such amendment, the Trust would cease
to be classified as a grantor trust or would be classified as an association
taxable as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes.
SECTION 602. NOTICE OF MEETINGS.
Notice of all meetings of the Preferred Securityholders, stating the
time, place and purpose of the meeting, shall be given by the Property Trustee
pursuant to Section 1008 to each Preferred Securityholder of record, at his
registered address, at least 15 days and not more than 90 days before the
meeting. At any such meeting, any business properly before the meeting may be so
considered whether or not stated in the notice of the meeting. Any adjourned
meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice.
SECTION 603. MEETINGS OF PREFERRED SECURITYHOLDERS.
(a) No annual meeting of Securityholders is required to be held. The
Administrative Trustees, however, shall call a meeting of Securityholders to
vote on any matter in respect of which Preferred Securityholders are entitled to
vote upon the written request of the Preferred Securityholders of record of 25%
of the Outstanding Preferred Securities (based upon their aggregate Liquidation
Amount) and the Administrative Trustees or the Property Trustee may, at any time
in their discretion, call a meeting of Preferred Securityholders to vote on any
matters as to which the Preferred Securityholders are entitled to vote.
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(b) Preferred Securityholders of record of 50% of the Outstanding
Preferred Securities (based upon their aggregate Liquidation Amount), present in
person or by proxy shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of Securityholders.
(c) If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the
Preferred Securityholders of record present, in person or by proxy, holding more
than a majority of the Preferred Securities (based upon their aggregate
Liquidation Amount) held by the Preferred Securityholders of record present,
either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the action of the
Securityholders unless this Trust Agreement requires a greater number of
affirmative votes.
SECTION 604. VOTING RIGHTS.
Securityholders shall be entitled to one vote for each $10 of
Liquidation Amount represented by their Trust Securities in respect of any
matter as to which such Securityholders are entitled to vote.
SECTION 605. PROXIES, ETC.
At any meeting of Securityholders, any Securityholder entitled to vote
thereat may vote by proxy, provided that no proxy shall be voted at any meeting
unless it shall have been placed on file with the Administrative Trustees, or
with such other officer or agent of the Trust as the Administrative Trustees may
direct, for verification prior to the time at which such vote shall be taken.
When Trust Securities are held jointly by several Persons, any one of them may
vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in respect of such Trust Securities,
but if more than one of them shall be present at such meeting in person or by
proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so present disagree as to any vote
to be cast, such vote shall not be received in respect of such Trust Securities.
A proxy purporting to be executed by or on behalf of a Securityholder shall be
deemed valid unless challenged at or prior to its exercise, and, the burden of
proving invalidity shall rest on the challenger. No proxy shall be valid more
than three years after its date of execution.
SECTION 606. SECURITYHOLDER ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT.
Any action which may be taken by Securityholders at a meeting may be
taken without a meeting if Securityholders holding a majority of all Outstanding
Trust Securities (based upon their aggregate Liquidation Amount) entitled to
vote in respect of such action (or such larger proportion thereof as shall be
required by any express provision of this Trust Agreement) shall consent to the
action in writing.
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SECTION 607. RECORD DATE FOR VOTING AND OTHER PURPOSES.
For the purposes of determining the Securityholders who are entitled to
notice of and to vote at any meeting or by written consent, or to participate in
any Distribution on the Trust Securities, in respect of which a record date is
not otherwise provided for in this Trust Agreement, or for the purpose of any
other action, the Administrative Trustees may from time to time fix a date, not
more than 90 days prior to the date of any meeting of Securityholders or the
payment of any Distribution or other action as the case may be, as a record date
for the determination of the identity of the Securityholders of record for such
purposes.
SECTION 608. ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided or permitted by this Trust Agreement to be
given, made or taken by Securityholders may be embodied in and evidenced by one
or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such
Securityholders in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing, and, except
as otherwise expressly provided herein, such action shall become effective when
such instrument or instruments are delivered to an Administrative Trustee. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Securityholders
signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such
instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any
purpose of this Trust Agreement and (subject to Section 801) conclusive in favor
of the Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this Section 608.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which any Trustee receiving the same deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Preferred Securities shall be proved by the
Securities Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Securityholder of any Trust Security shall bind every
future Securityholder of the same Trust Security and the Securityholder of every
Trust Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange
therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to
be done by the Trustees or the Trust in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
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(e) Without limiting the foregoing, a Securityholder entitled hereunder
to take any action hereunder with regard to any particular Trust Security may do
so with regard to all or any part of the Liquidation Amount of such Trust
Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so
pursuant to such appointment with regard to all or any part of such Liquidation
Amount.
SECTION 609. INSPECTION OF RECORDS.
Upon reasonable notice to the Administrative Trustees and the Property
Trustee, the records of the Trust shall be open to inspection and copying by
Securityholders and their authorized representatives during normal business
hours for any purpose reasonably related to such Securityholder's interest as a
Securityholder.
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 701. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE PROPERTY TRUSTEE.
The Property Trustee as of the date hereof hereby represents and
warrants for the benefit of the Depositor and the Securityholders that:
(a) the Property Trustee is a Delaware banking corporation, duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Delaware;
(b) the Property Trustee has full corporate power, authority and legal
right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under this Trust Agreement
and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and
performance by it of this Trust Agreement;
(c) the Property Trustee has its principal place of business in the
State of Delaware;
(d) this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and
delivered by the Property Trustee and constitutes the valid and legally binding
agreement of the Property Trustee enforceable against it in accordance with its
terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or affecting
creditors rights and to general equity principles;
(e) the execution, delivery and performance by the Property Trustee of
this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or
other action on the part of the Property Trustee and does not require any
approval of stockholders of the Property Trustee and such execution delivery and
performance shall not (i) violate the charter or by-laws of the Property
Trustee; (ii) violate any provision of, or constitute, with or without notice or
lapse of time, a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of, any
Lien on any properties included in the Trust
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Property pursuant to the provisions of any indenture, mortgage, credit
agreement, license or other agreement or instrument to which the Property
Trustee is a party or by which it is bound; or (iii) violate any law,
governmental rule or regulation of the State of Delaware governing the banking
or trust powers of the Property Trustee or (as appropriate in context) or any
order, judgment or decree applicable to the Property Trustee;
(f) neither the authorization, execution or delivery by the Property
Trustee of this Trust Agreement nor the consummation of any of the transactions
by the Property Trustee contemplated herein or therein requires the consent or
approval of, the giving of notice to, the registration with or the taking of any
other action with respect to any governmental authority or agency under any
existing Delaware law governing the banking or trust powers of the Property
Trustee, as the case may be;
(g) to the best of the Property Trustee's knowledge, there are no
proceedings pending or, to the best of the Property Trustee's knowledge,
threatened against or affecting the Property Trustee in any court or before any
governmental authority, agency or arbitration board or tribunal which,
individually or in the aggregate, would materially and adversely affect the
Trust or would question the right, power and authority of the Property Trustee
to enter into or perform its obligations as one of the Trustees under this Trust
Agreement; and
(h) The Property Trustee satisfies the requirements of Section 3807 of
the Delaware Business Trust Act.
SECTION 702. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF DEPOSITOR.
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the
Securityholders that:
(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued on the Closing Date or the
Option Closing Date, if applicable, on behalf of the Trust have been duly
authorized and, shall have been, duly and validly executed, issued and delivered
by the Administrative Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in
accordance with the requirements of, this Trust Agreement and the
Securityholders shall be, as of such date, entitled to the benefits of this
Trust Agreement; and
(b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable by
the Trust (or the Trustees on behalf of the Trust) under the laws of the State
of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance by the Bank or the Property Trustee, as the
case may be, of this Trust Agreement.
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ARTICLE VIII
TRUSTEES
SECTION 801. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Trustees shall be as
provided by this Trust Agreement and, in the case of the Property Trustee, by
the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this
Trust Agreement shall require the Trustees to expend or risk their own funds or
otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of any of their
duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of their rights or powers, if they
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured. No
Administrative Trustee shall be liable for its act or omissions hereunder except
as a result of its own gross negligence or bad faith or willful misconduct. The
Property Trustee's liability shall be determined under the Trust Indenture Act.
Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Trust
Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording
protection to the Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of this Section
801. To the extent that, at law or in equity, an Administrative Trustee has
duties (including fiduciary duties) and liabilities relating thereto to the
Trust or to the Securityholders, such Administrative Trustee shall not be liable
to the Trust or to any Securityholder for such Trustee's good faith reliance on
the provisions of this Trust Agreement. The provisions of this Trust Agreement,
to the extent that they restrict the duties and liabilities of the
Administrative Trustees otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by
the Depositor and the Securityholders to replace such other duties and
liabilities of the Administrative Trustees.
(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in
respect of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds
from the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be sufficient
revenue or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a
Paying Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. With respect
to the relationship of each Securityholder and the Trustee, each Securityholder,
by its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that it shall look solely to the
revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally available for
distribution to it as herein provided and that the Trustees are not personally
liable to it for any amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security or
for any other liability in respect of any Trust Security. This Section 801(b)
does not limit the liability of the Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in
this Trust Agreement or, in the case of the Property Trustee, in the Trust
Indenture Act.
(c) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve
the Property Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
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(i) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by an authorized officer of the
Property Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Property
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(ii) the Property Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than
a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities
relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Property Trustee,
or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Property
Trustee under this Trust Agreement;
(iii) the Property Trustee's sole duty with respect to the
custody, safe keeping and physical preservation of the
Debentures and the Payment Account shall be to deal with such
Property in a similar manner as the Property Trustee deals
with similar property for its own account, subject to the
protections and limitations on liability afforded to the
Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement and the Trust
Indenture Act;
(iv) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest
on any money received by it except as it may otherwise agree
in writing with the Depositor and money held by the Property
Trustee need not be segregated from other funds held by it
except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by the
Property Trustee pursuant to Section 301 and except to the
extent otherwise required by law; and
(v) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for
monitoring the compliance by the Administrative Trustees or
the Depositor with their respective duties under this Trust
Agreement, nor shall the Property Trustee be liable for the
negligence, default or misconduct of the Administrative
Trustees or the Depositor.
SECTION 802. CERTAIN NOTICES.
(a) Within 90 days after the occurrence of any Event of Default
actually known to the Property Trustee or, to the extent Section 315(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act applies, within 90 days after the occurrence of any default
hereunder known to the Property Trustee, the Property Trustee shall transmit, in
the manner and to the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture
Act notice of such Event of Default or default to the Securityholders, the
Administrative Trustees and the Depositor, unless such Event of Default shall
have been cured or waived.
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall transmit, to the Securityholders
and the Property Trustee in the manner and to the extent provided in Section
1008 hereof and, to the extent applicable, Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture
Act, notice of the Depositor's election to begin or further extend an Extended
Interest Payment Period on the Debentures (unless such election shall have been
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revoked) within the time specified for transmitting such notice to the holders
of the Debentures pursuant to the Indenture as originally executed.
SECTION 803. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF PROPERTY TRUSTEE.
Subject to the provisions of Section 801:
(a) the Property Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be protected
in acting or refraining from acting in good faith upon any resolution, Opinion
of Counsel, certificate, written representation of a Holder or transferee,
certificate of auditors or any other certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, appraisal, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it
to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties;
(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Trust Agreement the
Property Trustee is required to decide between alternative courses of action; or
(ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Trust Agreement the Property
Trustee finds the same ambiguous or inconsistent with other provisions contained
herein; or (iii) the Property Trustee is unsure of the application of any
provision of this Trust Agreement, then, except as to any matter as to which the
Preferred Securityholders are entitled to vote under the terms of this Trust
Agreement, the Property Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Depositor
requesting written instructions of the Depositor as to the course of action to
be taken and the Property Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from taking
such action, as the Property Trustee shall be instructed in writing to take, or
to refrain from taking, by the Depositor, and shall have no liability for acting
in accordance with such instructions; provided, however, that if the Property
Trustee does not receive such instructions of the Depositor within 10 Business
Days after it has delivered such notice, or such reasonably shorter period of
time set forth in such notice (which to the extent practicable shall not be less
than 2 Business Days), it may, but shall be under no duty to, take or refrain
from taking such action not inconsistent with this Trust Agreement as it shall
deem advisable and in the best interests of the Securityholders, in which event
the Property Trustee shall have no liability except for its own bad faith,
negligence or willful misconduct;
(c) any direction or act of the Depositor or the Administrative
Trustees contemplated by this Trust Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by
an Officers' Certificate;
(d) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement, the
Property Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be established before
undertaking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Property Trustee
(unless other evidence is herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
bad faith on its part, request and conclusively rely upon an Officers'
Certificate which, upon receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered by
the Depositor or the Administrative Trustees;
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(e) the Property Trustee shall have no duty on behalf of the Trust to
see to any recording, filing or registration of any instrument (including any
financing or continuation statement) or any filing under tax or securities laws
or any re-recording, refiling, or reregistration thereof;
(f) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its choice (which
counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any of its Affiliates) and the advice
of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith
and in reliance thereon, and in accordance with such advice, the Property
Trustee shall have the right at any time to seek instructions concerning the
administration of this Trust Agreement from any court of competent jurisdiction;
(g) the Property Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement at the request or
direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, unless
such Securityholders shall have offered to the Property Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(h) the Property Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond,
debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document,
unless requested in writing to do so by one or more Securityholders, but the
Property Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts
or matters as it may see fit;
(i) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through its
agents or attorneys, provided that the Property Trustee shall be responsible for
its own negligence or recklessness with respect to selection of any agent or
attorney appointed by it hereunder;
(j) except as provided in this Article VIII, in accepting the trusts
hereby created the Property Trustee acts solely as such hereunder and not in its
individual capacity;
(k) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property
Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to
enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder the Property
Trustee (i) may request written instructions from the Holders of the Trust
Securities which written instructions may only be followed by Trustee if given
by the Holders of the same proportion in Liquidation Amount of the Trust
Securities as would be entitled to direct the Property Trustee under the terms
of the Trust Securities in respect of such remedy, right or action; (ii) may
refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other action until
such instructions are received; and (iii) shall be protected in acting in
accordance with such written instructions; and
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(l) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Trust Agreement, the
Property Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any action that is
discretionary under the provisions of this Trust Agreement. No provision of this
Trust Agreement shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on the Property
Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise any right, power, duty or
obligation conferred or imposed on it, in any jurisdiction in which it shall be
illegal, or in which the Property Trustee shall be unqualified or incompetent in
accordance with applicable law, to perform any such act or acts, or to exercise
any such right, power, duty or obligation. No permissive power or authority
available to the Property Trustee shall be construed to be a duty.
SECTION 804. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES.
The Recitals contained herein and in the Trust Securities Certificates
shall be taken as the statements of the Trust, and the Trustees do not assume
any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustees shall not be accountable
for the use or application by the Depositor of the proceeds of the Debentures.
SECTION 805. MAY HOLD SECURITIES.
Any Trustee or any other agent of any Trustee or the Trust, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Trust
Securities and, subject to Sections 808 and 813 and except as provided in the
definition of the term "Outstanding" in Article I, may otherwise deal with the
Trust with the same rights it would have if it were not a Trustee or such other
agent.
SECTION 806. COMPENSATION; INDEMNITY; FEES.
The Depositor agrees:
(a) to pay to the Trustees from time to time such compensation as the
Trustees and the Depositor may agree in writing for all services rendered by
them hereunder (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law
in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(b) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustees upon request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Trustees in accordance with any provision of this Trust
Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement
or advance as may be attributable to such Trustee's negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct (or, in the case of the Administrative Trustees, any such
expense, disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its, his or her gross
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct); and
(c) to indemnify each of the Trustees or any predecessor Trustee for,
and to hold the Trustees harmless against, any and all loss, damage, claim,
liability, penalty or expense, including
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taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Trustee) incurred without
negligence or willful misconduct on its part, arising out of or in connection
with the acceptance or administration of this Trust Agreement, including the
costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in
connection with the acceptance, exercise or performance of any of its powers or
duties hereunder, except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be
attributable to such Trustee's negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct (or,
in the case of the Administrative Trustees, any such expense, disbursement or
advance as may be attributable to its, his or her gross negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct).
The provisions of this Section 806 shall survive the termination of
this Trust Agreement or the earlier resignations or removal of any Trustee.
No Trustee may claim any Lien or charge on any Trust Property as a
result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 806.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with
an Event of Default specified in Section 7.1(a)(iv), Section 7.1(a)(v) or
7.1(a)(vi) of the Indenture, the expenses (including reasonable charges and
expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any applicable Bankruptcy Law.
SECTION 807. CORPORATE PROPERTY TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY OF TRUSTEES.
(a) There shall at all times be a Property Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Trust Securities. The Property Trustee shall be a Person that is
eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and has a combined
capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If any such Person publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of its supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section
807, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition
so published. If at any time the Property Trustee with respect to the Trust
Securities shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 807, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
hereinafter specified in this Article VIII.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrative Trustees
hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities. Each Administrative Trustee
shall be either a natural person who is at least 21 years of age or a legal
entity that shall act through one or more persons authorized to bind that
entity.
(c) One of the Trustees with respect to the Trust Securities at all
times shall meet the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Business Trust
Act.
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SECTION 808. CONFLICTING INTERESTS.
If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a "conflicting interest"
within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, if applicable,
the Property Trustee and Company shall in all respects comply with the
provisions of Section 310 of the Trust Indenture Act and, to the extent not
inconsistent therewith, this Trust Agreement; provided, however, that for
purposes of the first proviso contained in Section 310 (b) of the Trust
Indenture Act, the Indenture and Preferred Securities Guarantee shall be deemed
to be specifically described in this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 809. CO-TRUSTEES AND SEPARATE TRUSTEE.
(a) Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
at any time or times, for the purpose of meeting the legal requirements of the
Trust Indenture Act or of any jurisdiction in which any part of the Trust
Property may at the time be located, the Depositor shall have power to appoint,
and upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor shall for
such purpose join with the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and
performance of any instruments and agreements necessary or proper to appoint,
one or more Persons approved by the Property Trustee either to act as
co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any part of such Trust
Property, or to the extent required by law to act as separate trustee of any
such property, in either case with such powers as may be provided in the
instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or Persons in the capacity
aforesaid, any property, title, right or power deemed necessary or desirable,
subject to the other provisions of this Section 809. If the Depositor does not
join in such appointment within 15 days after the receipt by it of a request so
to do, or in case a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
the Property Trustee alone shall have power to make such appointment. Any
co-trustee or separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 809 shall
either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a resident of
the United States; or (ii) a legal entity with its principal place of business
in the United States that shall act through one or more persons authorized to
bind such entity.
(b) Should any written instrument from the Depositor be required by any
co-trustee or separate trustee so appointed for more fully confirming to such
co-trustee or separate trustee such property, title, right, or power, any and
all such instruments shall, on request, be executed, acknowledged, and delivered
by the Depositor.
(c) Every co-trustee or separate trustee shall, to the extent permitted
by law, but to such extent only, be appointed subject to the following terms,
namely:
(i) The Trust Securities shall be executed and delivered and
all rights, powers, duties and obligations hereunder in
respect of the custody of securities, cash and other personal
property held by, or required to be deposited or pledged with,
the Trustees specified hereunder, shall be exercised, solely
by such Trustees and not by such co-trustee or separate
trustee.
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(ii) The rights, powers, duties and obligations hereby
conferred or imposed upon the Property Trustee in respect of
any property covered by such appointment shall be conferred or
imposed upon and exercised or performed by the Property
Trustee or by the Property Trustee and such co-trustee or
separate trustee jointly, as shall be provided in the
instrument appointing such co-trustee or separate trustee,
except to the extent that under any law of any jurisdiction in
which any particular act is to be performed, the Property
Trustee shall be incompetent or unqualified to perform such
act, in which event such rights, powers, duties and
obligations shall be exercised and performed by such
co-trustee or separate trustee.
(iii) The Property Trustee at any time, by an instrument in
writing executed by it, with the written concurrence of the
Depositor, may accept the resignation of or remove any
co-trustee or separate trustee appointed under this Section
809, and, in case a Debenture Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, the Property Trustee shall have the power
to accept the resignation of, or remove, any such co-trustee
or separate trustee without the concurrence of the Depositor.
Upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the
Depositor shall join with the Property Trustee in the
execution, delivery and performance of all instruments
necessary or proper to effectuate such resignation or removal.
A successor to any co-trustee or separate trustee so resigned
or removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this
Section 809.
(iv) No co-trustee or separate trustee hereunder shall be
personally liable by reason of any act or omission of the
Property Trustee or any other trustee hereunder.
(v) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any
act of a co-trustee or separate trustee.
(vi) Any Act of Holders delivered to the Property Trustee
shall be deemed to have been delivered to each such co-trustee
and separate trustee.
SECTION 810. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR.
(a) No resignation or removal of any Trustee (the "Relevant Trustee")
and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article VIII shall
become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 811.
(b) Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, the Relevant
Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Trust Securities by giving
written notice thereof to the Securityholders. If the instrument of acceptance
by the successor Trustee required by Section 811 shall not have been delivered
to the Relevant Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the
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Relevant Trustee may petition, at the expense of the Depositor, any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Relevant Trustee with
respect to the Trust Securities.
(c) Unless a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, any Trustee may be removed at any time by act of the Common
Securityholder. If a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Property Trustee may be removed at such time by Act of the
Holders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities,
delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its individual capacity and on behalf of
the Trust). An Administrative Trustee may be removed by the Common
Securityholder at any time. In no event will the Holders of the Preferred
Securities have the right to vote to appoint, remove or replace the
Administrative Trustees, which voting rights are vested exclusively in the
Common Securityholder. If an instrument of acceptance by a Successor Trustee
required by Section 811 shall have not been delivered to the Relevant Trustee
within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the Relevant Trustee
may petition, at the expense of the Depositor, any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a Successor Relevant Trustee with respect to
the Trust Securities.
(d) If any Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting as Trustee, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of any Trustee for
any cause, at a time when no Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, the Common Securityholder, by act of the Common Securityholder
delivered to the retiring Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or
Trustees with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust, and the successor
Trustee shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 811. If the
Property Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of continuing to
act as the Property Trustee at a time when a Debenture Event of Default shall
have occurred and is continuing, the Preferred Securityholders, by Act of the
Securityholders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
then Outstanding delivered to the retiring Relevant Trustee, shall promptly
appoint a successor Relevant Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Trust
Securities and the Trust, and such successor Trustee shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section 811. If an Administrative Trustee shall
resign, be removed or become incapable of acting as Administrative Trustee, at a
time when a Debenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
the Common Securityholder, by Act of the Common Securityholder delivered to an
Administrative Trustee, shall promptly appoint a successor Administrative
Trustee or Administrative Trustees with respect to the Trust Securities and the
Trust, and such successor Administrative Trustee or Administrative Trustees
shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 811. If no successor
Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities shall have been so
appointed by the Common Securityholder or the Preferred Securityholders and
accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 811, any Securityholder
who has been a Securityholder of Trust Securities on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated may petition a court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities.
(e) The Administrative Trustee shall give notice of each resignation
and each removal of a Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all
Securityholders in the manner
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provided in Section 1008 and shall give notice to the Depositor. Each notice
shall include the name of the successor Relevant Trustee and the address of its
Corporate Trust Office if it is the Property Trustee.
(f) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, in the event any Administrative Trustee who is a natural person dies
or becomes, in the opinion of the Depositor, incompetent or incapacitated, the
vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be filled by (a)
the unanimous act of the remaining Administrative Trustees if there are at least
two of them; or (b) otherwise by the Depositor (with the successor in each case
being a Person who satisfies the eligibility requirement for Administrative
Trustees as forth in Section 807).
SECTION 811. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Relevant
Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust, the retiring
Relevant Trustee and each successor Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust
Securities shall execute and deliver an instrument hereto wherein each successor
Relevant Trustee shall accept such appointment and which shall contain such
provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to
vest in, each successor Relevant Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and
the Trust and, upon the execution and delivery of such instrument, the
resignation or removal of the retiring Relevant Trustee shall become effective
to the extent provided therein and each such successor Relevant Trustee, without
any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Relevant Trustee with respect to the
Trust Securities and the Trust, but, on request of the Trust or any successor
Relevant Trustee such retiring Relevant Trustee shall upon payment of its
charges hereunder, duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Relevant
Trustee all Trust Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by such retiring
Relevant Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the Trust.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Relevant Trustee, the Trust
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to such successor Relevant Trustee all such rights, powers and
trusts referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
(c) No successor Relevant Trustee shall accept its appointment unless
at the time of such acceptance such successor Relevant Trustee shall be
qualified and eligible under this Article VIII.
SECTION 812. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS.
Any Person into which the Property Trustee may be merged or converted
or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or
any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the
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corporate trust business of such Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of
such Relevant Trustee hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise
qualified and eligible under this Article VIII, without the execution or filing
of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
SECTION 813. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST DEPOSITOR OR TRUST.
If and when the Property Trustee shall be or become, directly or
indirectly, a creditor of the Depositor or the Trust (or any other obligor upon
the Debentures or the Trust Securities), excluding any creditor relationship
described in Section 311(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee
shall be subject to and shall take all actions necessary in order to comply with
the provisions of Section 311(a) of Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection
of claims against the Depositor or Trust (or any such other obligor), to the
extent applicable.
SECTION 814. REPORTS BY PROPERTY TRUSTEE.
(a) The Property Trustee shall transmit to Securityholders entitled to
receive the same under Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act by mail such
reports concerning the Property Trustee and its actions under this Trust
Agreement as may be required pursuant to Section 313(b) of the Trust Indenture
Act at the times provided pursuant thereto. If required by Section 313(a) of the
Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall, within sixty days after each
May 15 following the date of the Trust Agreement, deliver to Securityholders
entitled to receive the same under Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act by
mail a brief report, dated as of such May 15, which complies with the provisions
of such Section 313(a).
(b) A copy of each such report provided for in this Section 814 shall,
at the time of such transmission to Holders, be filed by the Property Trustee
with The Nasdaq Stock Market's National Market, and each national securities
exchange or other organization upon which the Trust Securities are listed, and
also with the Commission.
SECTION 815. REPORTS TO THE PROPERTY TRUSTEE.
The Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the Trust
shall provide to the Property Trustee such documents, reports and information as
required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act (if any) and the compliance
certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act in the form in
the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act.
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Property
Trustee is for information purposes only and the Property Trustee's receipt of
such shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained
therein or determinable from information contained therein, including the
Depositor's compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the
Property Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers' Certificates).
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The Depositor shall transmit to Securityholders, in the manner and to
the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, such summaries
of the above-referenced materials as may be required by Section 314(a)(3) of the
Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 816. EVIDENCE OF COMPLIANCE WITH CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.
Each of the Depositor and the Administrative Trustees on behalf of the
Trust shall provide to the Property Trustee (i) such evidence of compliance with
any conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement that
relate to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture
Act in accordance with the requirements of said Section and (ii) such
certificates, if any, as may be required by Section 314(a)(4) of the Trust
Indenture Act. Any certificate or opinion required to be given by an officer
pursuant to Section 314(a)(4) or 314(c)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act shall be
given in the form of an Officers' Certificate.
SECTION 817. NUMBER OF TRUSTEES.
(a) The number of Trustees shall be three, provided that the Holder of
all of the Common Securities by written instrument may increase or decrease the
number of Administrative Trustees.
(b) If a Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason and the number of
Administrative Trustees is not reduced pursuant to Section 817(a), or if the
number of Trustees is increased pursuant to Section 817(a), a vacancy shall
occur. The vacancy shall be filled with a Trustee appointed in accordance with
Section 810.
(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy,
incompetence or incapacity to perform the duties of a Trustee shall not operate
to dissolve, terminate or annul the Trust. Whenever a vacancy in the number of
Administrative Trustees shall occur, until such vacancy is filled by the
appointment of an Administrative Trustee in accordance with Section 810, the
Administrative Trustees in office, regardless of their number (and
notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement), shall have all the
powers granted to the Administrative Trustees and shall discharge all the duties
imposed upon the Administrative Trustees by this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 818. DELEGATION OF POWER.
(a) Any Administrative Trustee may, by power of attorney consistent
with applicable law, delegate to any other natural person over the age of 21 his
or her power for the purpose of executing any documents contemplated in Section
207(a); and
(b) The Administrative Trustees shall have power to delegate from time
to time to such of their number or to the Depositor the doing of such things and
the execution of such instruments either in the name of the Trust or the names
of the Administrative Trustees or otherwise as the
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Administrative Trustees may deem expedient, to the extent such delegation is not
prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the provisions of the Trust, as set
forth herein.
SECTION 819. VOTING.
Except as otherwise provided in this Trust Agreement, the consent or
approval of the Administrative Trustees shall require consent or approval by not
less than a majority of the Administrative Trustees, unless there are only two,
in which case both must consent.
ARTICLE IX
DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION 901. DISSOLUTION UPON EXPIRATION DATE.
Unless earlier dissolved, the Trust shall automatically dissolve on
June 30, 2029 (the "Expiration Date") subject to distribution of the Trust
Property in accordance with Section 904.
SECTION 902. EARLY DISSOLUTION.
The first to occur of any of the following events is an "Early
Termination Event" upon the occurrence of which the Trust shall be dissolved:
(a) the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event in respect of, or the
dissolution or liquidation of, the Depositor;
(b) delivery of written direction to the Property Trustee by the
Depositor at any time (which direction is wholly optional and within the
discretion of the Depositor) to dissolve the Trust and distribute the Debentures
to Securityholders in exchange for the Preferred Securities in accordance with
Section 904;
(c) the redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in connection
with the redemption of all of the Debentures; and
(d) an order for dissolution of the Trust shall have been entered by a
court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 903. TERMINATION.
The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Trustees and the
Trust created and continued hereby shall terminate upon the latest to occur of
the following: (a) the distribution by the Property Trustee to Securityholders
upon the liquidation of the Trust pursuant to Section 904,
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or upon the redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 402,
of all amounts required to be distributed hereunder upon the final payment of
the Trust Securities; (b) the payment of any expenses owed by the Trust; (c) the
discharge of all administrative duties of the Administrative Trustees, including
the performance of any tax reporting obligations with respect to the Trust or
the Securityholders; and (d) the filing of a Certificate of Cancellation by the
Administrative Trustees under the Delaware Business Trust Act.
SECTION 904. LIQUIDATION.
(a) If an Early Termination Event specified in clause (a), (b), or (d)
of Section 902 occurs or upon the Expiration Date, the Trust shall be liquidated
by the Trustees as expeditiously as the Trustees determine to be possible by
distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as
provided by applicable law, to each Securityholder a Like Amount of Debentures,
subject to Section 904(d). Notice of liquidation shall be given by the Property
Trustee by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not later than 30 nor more
than 60 days prior to the Liquidation Date to each Holder of Trust Securities at
such Holder's address appearing in the Securities Register. All notices of
liquidation shall:
(i) state the Liquidation Date;
(ii) state that from and after the Liquidation Date, the Trust
Securities shall no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any
Trust Securities Certificates not surrendered for exchange
shall be deemed to represent a Like Amount of Debentures;
(iii) provide such information with respect to the mechanics
by which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates
for Debentures, or, if Section 904(d) applies, receive a
Liquidation Distribution, as the Administrative Trustees shall
deem appropriate;
(iv) state the CUSIP number; and
(v) state the office or agency of the Trust where Securities
should be surrendered.
(b) Except where Section 902(c) or 904(d) applies, in order to effect
the liquidation of the Trust and distribution of the Debentures to
Securityholders, the Property Trustee shall establish a record date for such
distribution (which shall be not more than 45 days prior to the Liquidation
Date) and, either itself acting as exchange agent or through the appointment of
a separate exchange agent, shall establish such procedures as it shall deem
appropriate to effect the distribution of Debentures in exchange for the
Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.
(c) Except where Section 902(c) or 904(d) applies, after the
Liquidation Date, (i) the Trust Securities shall no longer be deemed to be
Outstanding; (ii) certificates representing a Like
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Amount of Debentures shall be issued to holders of Trust Securities Certificates
upon surrender of such certificates to the Administrative Trustees or their
agent for exchange; (iii) the Depositor shall use its reasonable efforts to have
the Debentures listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market's National Market or SmallCap
Market or on such other securities exchange or other organization as the
Preferred Securities are then listed or traded; (iv) any Trust Securities
Certificates not so surrendered for exchange shall be deemed to represent a Like
Amount of Debentures, accruing interest at the rate and for the period provided
for in the Debentures from the last Distribution Date on which a Distribution
was made on such Trust Securities Certificates until such certificates are so
surrendered (and until such certificates are so surrendered, no payments of
interest or principal shall be made to holders of Trust Securities Certificates
with respect to such Debentures): and (v) all rights of Securityholders holding
Trust Securities shall cease, except the right of such Securityholders to
receive Debentures upon surrender of Trust Securities Certificates.
(d) In the event that, notwithstanding the other provisions of this
Section 904, whether because of an order for dissolution entered by a court of
competent jurisdiction or otherwise, distribution of the Debentures in the
manner provided herein is determined by the Administrative Trustees not to be
practical, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Trust shall be
wound-up or terminated, by the Property Trustee in such manner as the Property
Trustee determines. In such event, Securityholders shall be entitled to receive
out of the assets of the Trust available for distribution to Securityholders,
after satisfaction of liabilities to creditors of the Trust as provided by
applicable law, an amount equal to the Liquidation Amount per Trust Security
plus accumulated and unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such
amount being the "Liquidation Distribution"). If, upon any such winding-up or
termination, the Liquidation Distribution can be paid only in part because the
Trust has insufficient assets available to pay in full the aggregate Liquidation
Distribution, then, subject to the next succeeding sentence, the amounts payable
by the Trust on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based
upon Liquidation Amounts). The Holder of the Common Securities shall be entitled
to receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such winding-up or termination pro
rata (determined as aforesaid) with Holders of Preferred Securities, except
that, if a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Preferred Securities shall have a priority over the Common Securities.
SECTION 905. MERGERS, CONSOLIDATIONS, AMALGAMATIONS OR REPLACEMENTS OF THE
TRUST.
The Trust may not merge with or into, consolidate, amalgamate, or be
replaced by, or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to, any Person, except pursuant to this Section 905
or Section 904. At the request of the Depositor, with the consent of the
Administrative Trustees and without the consent of the Holders of the Preferred
Securities or the Property Trustee, the Trust may merge with or into,
consolidate, amalgamate, be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to a trust organized as such
under the laws of any state; provided, that (i) such successor entity either (a)
expressly assumes all of the obligations of the Trust with respect to the
Preferred Securities; or (b) substitutes for the Preferred Securities other
securities having substantially the same terms as the Preferred Securities
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(the "Successor Securities") so long as the Successor Securities rank the same
as the Preferred Securities rank in priority with respect to distributions and
payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise; (ii) the Depositor
expressly appoints a trustee of such successor entity possessing substantially
the same powers and duties as the Property Trustee as the holder of the
Debentures; (iii) the Successor Securities are registered or listed, or any
Successor Securities shall be registered or listed upon notification of
issuance, on any national securities exchange or other organization on which the
Preferred Securities are then registered or listed (including, if applicable,
the Nasdaq Stock Market's National Market), if any; (iv) such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not
cause the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) to be
downgraded by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, (v)
such merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or
lease does not adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the
holders of the Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any
material respect; (vi) such successor entity has a purpose substantially
identical to that of the Trust, (vii) prior to such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Depositor has
received an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (a) such merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease does not
adversely affect the rights, preferences and privileges of the Holders of the
Preferred Securities (including any Successor Securities) in any material
respect: and (b) following such merger, consolidation, amalgamation,
replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, neither the Trust nor such successor
entity shall be required to register as an "investment company" under the
Investment Company Act, and (viii) the Depositor or any permitted successor or
assignee owns all of the common securities of such successor entity and
guarantees the obligations of such successor entity under the Successor
Securities at least to the extent provided by the Guarantee. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Trust shall not, except with the consent of Holders of 100% in
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities, consolidate, amalgamate, merge
with or into, or be replaced by or convey, transfer or lease its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to any other Person or permit any other
Person to consolidate, amalgamate, merge with or into, or replace it if such
consolidation, amalgamation, merger, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease
would cause the Trust or the successor entity to be classified as other than a
grantor trust for United States federal income tax purposes.
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 1001. LIMITATION OF RIGHTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS.
The death, incapacity, dissolution, bankruptcy or termination of any
Person having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall
not operate to terminate this Trust Agreement, nor dissolve, terminate or annul
the Trust, nor entitle the legal representatives or heirs of such Person or any
Securityholder for such Person, to claim an accounting, take any action or
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bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or winding-up of the
arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the rights, obligations
and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them.
SECTION 1002. AMENDMENT.
(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the
Trustees and the Depositor, without the consent of any Securityholders, (i) as
provided in Section 811 with respect to acceptance of appointment by a successor
Trustee; (ii) to cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein
or therein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or therein,
or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising
under this Trust Agreement, that shall not be inconsistent with the other
provisions of this Trust Agreement; or (iii) to modify, eliminate or add to any
provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary to
ensure that the Trust shall be classified for United States federal income tax
purposes as a grantor trust at all times that any Trust Securities are
outstanding or to ensure that the Trust shall not be required to register as an
"investment company" under the Investment Company Act; provided, however, that
in the case of clause (ii), such action shall not adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of any Securityholder, and any such amendments of
this Trust Agreement shall become effective when notice thereof is given to the
Securityholders.
(b) Except as provided in Section 601(c) or Section 1002(c) hereof, any
provision of this Trust Agreement may be amended by the Trustees and the
Depositor (i) with the consent of Trust Securityholders representing not less
than a majority (based upon Liquidation Amounts) of the Trust Securities then
Outstanding; and (ii) upon receipt by the Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to
the effect that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the
Trustees in accordance with such amendment shall not affect the Trust's status
as a grantor trust for United Status federal income tax purposes or the Trust's
exemption from status of an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act.
(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this
Trust Agreement, without the consent of each affected Securityholder (such
consent being obtained in accordance with Section 603 or 606 hereof), this Trust
Agreement may not be amended to (i) change the amount or timing of any
Distribution on the Trust Securities or otherwise adversely affect the amount of
any Distribution required to be made in respect of the Trust Securities as of a
specified date; or (ii) restrict the right of a Securityholder to institute suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such date. Notwithstanding
any other provision herein, without the unanimous consent of the Securityholders
(such consent being obtained in accordance with Section 603 or 606 hereof), this
paragraph (c) of this Section 1002 may not be amended.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, no
Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust Agreement
which would cause the Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the exemption from
status of an "investment company" under the Investment
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Company Act or to fail or cease to be classified as a grantor trust for United
States federal income tax purposes.
(e) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made,
the Administrative Trustees shall promptly provide to the Depositor a copy of
such amendment.
(f) The Property Trustee shall not be required to enter into any
amendment to this Trust Agreement which adversely affects its own rights, duties
or immunities under this Trust Agreement. The Property Trustee shall be entitled
to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers' Certificate stating that any
amendment to this Trust Agreement is in compliance with this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 1003. SEPARABILITY.
In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Trust
Securities Certificates shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 1004. GOVERNING LAW.
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE
SECURITYHOLDERS, THE TRUST AND THE TRUSTEES WITH RESPECT TO THIS TRUST AGREEMENT
AND THE TRUST SECURITIES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND GOVERNED BY
THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE (WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS
PRINCIPLES).
SECTION 1005. PAYMENTS DUE ON NON-BUSINESS DAY.
If the date fixed for any payment on any Trust Security shall be a day
that is not a Business Day, then such payment need not be made on such date but
may be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (except as
otherwise provided in Sections 401(a) and 402(d)), with the same force and
effect as though made on the date fixed for such payment, and no distribution
shall accumulate thereon for the period after such date.
SECTION 1006. SUCCESSORS.
This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the
benefit of any successor to the Depositor, the Trust or the Relevant Trustee(s),
including any successor by operation of law. The Depositor shall not assign its
obligations hereunder except as contemplated by Article XII of the Indenture and
unless the assignee thereof agrees in writing, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Corporate Trustee, to perform all of Depositor's obligations
hereunder with the same effect as if it had been named herein as Depositor.
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SECTION 1007. HEADINGS.
The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not
affect the construction of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 1008. REPORTS, NOTICES AND DEMANDS.
Any report, notice, demand or other communication which by any
provision of this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served
to or upon any Securityholder or the Depositor may be given or served in writing
by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United States mail, hand
delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case, addressed, (a) in the case of
a Preferred Securityholder, to such Preferred Securityholder as such
Securityholder's name and address may appear on the Securities Register; and (b)
in the case of the Common Securityholder or the Depositor, to Metropolitan
Financial Corp., 0000 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxx 00000,
Attention: President, facsimile no.: 000-000-0000. Such notice, demand or other
communication to or upon a Securityholder shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand delivery, mailing or
transmission.
Any notice, demand or other communication which by any provision of
this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon
the Trust, the Property Trustee or the Administrative Trustees shall be given or
served in writing by deposit thereof, first-class postage prepaid, in the United
States mail, hand delivery or facsimile transmission, in each case addressed
(until another address is published by the Trust) as follows: (a) with respect
to the Property Trustee, to Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx Square North, 0000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration; (b) with respect to the Trust or the Administrative Trustees, to
them at the address above for notices to the Depositor, marked "Attention:
Administrative Trustees of Metropolitan Capital Trust II." Such notice, demand
or other communication to or upon the Trust or the Property Trustee shall be
deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual receipt of the
writing by the Trust or the Property Trustee.
SECTION 1009. AGREEMENT NOT TO PETITION.
Each of the Trustees and the Depositor agree for the benefit of the
Securityholders that, until at least one year and one day after the Trust has
been dissolved in accordance with Article IX, they shall not file, or join in
the filing of, a petition against the Trust under any bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law (including, without limitation, the United
States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended) (collectively, "Bankruptcy Laws") or
otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding against the Trust under any
Bankruptcy Law. In the event the Depositor takes action in violation of this
Section 1009, the Property Trustee agrees, for the benefit of Securityholders,
that at the expense of the Depositor (which expense shall be paid prior to the
filing), it shall file an answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly
contest the filing of
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such petition by the Depositor against the Trust or the commencement of such
action and raise the defense that the Depositor has agreed in writing not to
take such action and should be estopped and precluded therefrom. The provisions
of this Section 1009 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 1010. TRUST INDENTURE ACT; CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.
(a) This Trust Agreement is subject to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act that are required to be part of this Trust Agreement and shall, to
the extent applicable, be governed by such provisions.
(b) The Property Trustee shall be the only Trustee which is a trustee
for the purposes of the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with another
provision hereof which is required to be included in this Trust Agreement by any
of the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision shall
control. If any provision of this Trust Agreement modifies or excludes any
provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or excluded, the
latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Trust Agreement as so modified
or to be excluded, as the case may be.
(d) The application of the Trust Indenture Act to this Trust Agreement
shall not affect the nature of the Securities as equity securities representing
undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.
SECTION 1011. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS OF TRUST AGREEMENT, GUARANTEE AND INDENTURE.
THE RECEIPT AND ACCEPTANCE OF A TRUST SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN
BY OR ON BEHALF OF A SECURITYHOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY
SIGNATURE OR FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL
ACCEPTANCE BY THE SECURITYHOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN
SUCH TRUST SECURITY OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND
AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AND
THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE AGREEMENT OF THE TRUST, SUCH
SECURITYHOLDER AND
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SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL BE
BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE AS AMONG THE TRUST AND SUCH SECURITYHOLDER AND
SUCH OTHERS.
METROPOLITAN FINANCIAL CORP., AS DEPOSITOR
By:
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Name: Xxxxx X. Lodge
Title: President
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY, AS PROPERTY TRUSTEE
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxx
Title: As Administrative Trustee
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Name: Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
Title: As Administrative Trustee
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